Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Allen & Overy (A&O) are advising on the €1.3bn (£1.1bn) acquisition of the Orange mobile phone network in Austria by Hong Kong’s Hutchison Whampoa, reports The Asian Lawyer.

Freshfields Vienna partners Bertram Burtscher and Konrad Groeller are advising Hutchison, with antitrust counsel from Axel Reidlinger in Vienna and Thomas Wessely in Brussels.