April French of Who’s Who Legal spoke to Robyn Durie, regulatory director at Everything Everywhere, the UK's only 4G mobile network operator, concerning the company’s recent activities, the challenges of adapting to changing regulations and the skills she looks for in external counsel.

Diane Mullenex and Anne-Sophie Mouren of Ichay & Mullenex Associés explain the evolution of the mobile payment market across Africa and the need for better regulation and harmonisation of rules to strengthen its growth.

Feyo Sickinghe of Bird & Bird explains the new EU telecoms package and its impact on net neutrality, unsolicited communication, cookies, data usuage and the competition law relating to regulatory communications within Europe.

Who’s Who Legal spoke to Sarah Herbert, head of legal and regulatory at Commercial Radio Australia concerning her role within the industry body and legislative changes within Australia. Herbert has now been working at CRA for five years; previously she practised at Covington & Burling in the London and Washington, DC, offices.

The International Who’s Who of Regulatory Communications Lawyers has brought together four of the leading practitioners in the world to discuss issues concerning the cross-over between law and practice, the relationship between the law and regulatory authorities, technological dominance in the market and the changing face of regulatory law practices.

In this section we analyse the findings of our research in greater depth to identify the firms and practitioners who stand out worldwide. Bird & Bird LLP and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP top the research with nine listings each, from around the world but with a particularly strong showing in Europe.

With the benefit of over 15 years of research and tens of thousands of votes from clients and private practitioners, Who’s Who Legal takes a closer look at developing trends in the regulatory communications legal marketplace worldwide. We identify the growing trend in convergence between technology sectors, data privacy developments and a changing client base.

With the benefit of over 14 years of research and tens of thousands of votes from clients and private practitioners, Who’s Who Legal takes a closer look at developing trends in the regulatory communications legal marketplace worldwide.

In this section we analyse the findings of our research in greater depth to identify the firms and practitioners who stand out worldwide.

With the benefit of over 10 years of research and thousands of votes from clients and private practitioners, Who’s Who Legal takes a closer look at developing trends in the regulatory communications legal marketplace worldwide.

We analyse the findings of our research in greater depth to identify the firms and practitioners who performed most strongly overall. In 2010, Bird & Bird was recognised for the fourth consecutive year as the world’s leading regulatory communications law firm by The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, and, true to form, the firm once again achieves more listings than any other in this edition.

Our research has revealed 268 legal experts in 47 jurisdictions practicing in the field of regulatory communications, some of whom are profiled here.

A closer look at recent issues facing regulatory communications lawyers finds the sector to be bearing up remarkably well, despite recent turmoil in the financial markets.

In recent times the Argentine government has worked to deregulate the telecommunications network, a move that has increased investment and competition in the sector. The National Communications Commission was created in 1996 to monitor the industry, to penalise anti-competitive conduct and to represent communications companies internationally.

The research for the sixth edition of The International Who's Who of Regulatory Communications Lawyers lists 243 professionals in 45 countries.