Unified Communications to lead new wave of M&A in Enterprise and SME space

March 2, 2015 - PRLog -- February 25, 2015:  A new wave of mergers and acquisitions is being predicted in the “Unified Communications” space, a rapidly developing part of the telecoms market, according to Industry experts meeting at the annual TMT M&A Forum 2015 (http://www.tmtfinance.com/merger)in London on March 19 (www.tmtfinance.com/merger).

Nick George, Strategy Partner and Head of TMT for Transaction Services, PwC and Ben Matthews, Associate Director, PwC will be presenting a keynote on Creating Value in Unified Communications as well as chairing a related round table session on Internet Infrastructure Investment at the annual conference, which gathers senior executives from telecom, media and technology companies, investment banks, investors and advisers globally.

The Internet Infrastructure Investment session also includes Alastair Mills, CEO of converged technology infrastructure provider Six Degrees Group; Greg Mesch, CEO of fiber network operator CityFibre and leading telecoms and technology M&A adviser Tom Wells, Partner, Arma Partners, with more speakers to be announced.

Unified Communications, which refers to the provision of integrated real-time, enterprise, communication services such as instant messaging, voice, mobility and video conferencing, is accelerating due to the convergence of voice and data services and fixed and mobile infrastructure.

The PwC Keynote Presentation will assess the market opportunity drawing on recent research and market analysis, and discuss:
- How, where and why the market opportunity has been created?
- Who can address the Unified Communications opportunity
- Where are the opportunities for investment?
- Who could lead the next wave of deals and how will they change the market?

TMT M&A Forum 2015 (http://www.tmtfinance.com/merger), which is now in its fourth year, features a series of Leadership Panels, Visionary Keynotes and Peer to Peer Round Table Debates assessing how transactions are driving change across the sector.

Other session themes include TMT Strategy; Regulation; Mobile Infrastructure; Media and Convergence; Datacentres and Cloud; Emerging Markets Risk; Financing TMT; Investing in Innovation; Opportunities in M2M and the CFO Round Table.

Over 50 speakers have been announced including senior executives from BSkyB, CityFibre, Cisco, Etisalat, Microsoft, Telefonica, Six Degrees Group, Telekom Austria, Ooredoo Group, Vimpelcom, Virgin Media, ABRY Partners, Antin Infrastructure, Arcus Infrastructure, Black Green Capital, Digital World Capital, Eaton Towers, AlixPartners, Arma Partners, Citigroup, CIB, Credit Agricole, FTI Consulting, JP Morgan, Lazard Frères, Linklaters, Macquarie Capital, Index Ventures, ING Commercial Banking, PwC, Standard & Poor’s, Huawei and Silicon Valley Bank.

Find out more at http://www.tmtfinance.com/merger

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