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ARTICLE · 05 FEBRUARY 2025

Media Law Insights: Returning To Australia's Evolving Media Landscape

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After more than a decade in the UK media law sector, my return to Sydney to head up Spencer West's expansion into Australia has given me an opportunity to reflect on the transformative changes in our media landscape.

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Andrew Ailwood
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After more than a decade in the UK media law sector, my return to Sydney to head up Spencer West's expansion into Australia has given me an opportunity to reflect on the transformative changes in our media landscape. While outside Australia, I worked on transactions across Russia, Germany, France, New York, and Uganda while part of global law firm's corporate TMT team, before joining Sky TV's channel acquisition and joint ventures legal team, and finally at the BBC, where I held various leadership positions in legal and business affairs – supporting BBC iPlayer, BBC News, the BBC's commercial interests and the Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool in 2023.

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