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Senior Associate

Nicholas Puschman

London, United Kingdom
Languages
  • English
  • French

Nicholas Puschman is a Senior Associate in the Antitrust, Competition and Trade Team, based in London. He advises on telecoms and satellite regulation. His experience includes advising on a range of electronic communications regulatory matters, space law, technology transactions and a range of commercial contracts. 

Nicholas brings a diverse range of experiences to his work advising organisations in the space, telecoms and wider technology sectors. Immediately prior to joining CMS, Nicholas worked in the TMT practice at Linklaters and, before that, trained and qualified as a solicitor at Bird & Bird. He has spent time on client secondments to Inmarsat, working in their aviation practice, and to BT Plc, as part of the specialist investigatory powers legal team.

He spent two years in the legal department of the European Space Agency (ESA), in Paris, working on space law and public international law. He also managed the European Centre for Space Law while in this role and was part of the legal team advising ESA’s member states on international relations matters and as part of the delegation to the Legal Subcommittee of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS). 

Outside of private practice, Nicholas regularly attends and participates in space and satellite conferences. He has been an elected member of the Board to the European Centre for Space Law since 2019. He has been consistently ranked in the space and satellite category of Lexology’s Index for the past few years, and was included as one of twenty young professionals in the 2020 international rankings of the Space and Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) “20 under 35” in 2020.  

Awards & Recognitions
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    Thought Leader in Space & Satellites (Transport).
    Lexology Index, 2026

Relevant experience

  • A sovereign wealth fund on its contractual arrangements relating to the provision of satellite-based broadband services.
  • A Gulf country on the establishment and drafting of its national space law framework, including creating a licensing framework and regulations.
  • A global insurance underwriter on managing export control compliance in relation to its receipt of US export-controlled technical information for the purposes of providing satellite insurance coverage.
  • A private equity firm to prepare a bid in relation to the carve-out of a satellite operator’s ground station network, including reviewing and drafting the underpinning services agreement and considering key relevant satellite regulatory matters.
  • A large US multinational heating, ventilation and air conditioning company on data privacy and drafting TSAs as part of a series of four major divestments and acquisitions.
  • A European financial institution on its investment into a large European critical communications satellite network, including advising on European space law matters and reviewing draft agreements.
  • Preparing telecoms regulatory and licensing advice as part of the sale of a managed network provider, and assisting the provider in preparing a compliance strategy.
  • Various US private equity firms on the negotiation of commercial contracts and management of hyperscale due diligence related to their investments in data centres across the EMEA region.   

Memberships & Roles

  • Member, Space & Satellite Professionals International.
  • Elected Board Member, European Centre for Space Law.

Education

  • 2018 – LPC, BPP Law School, London.
  • 2017 – GDL (English law conversion), BPP Law School, London.
  • 2015 – Master II in Space Law and Telecommunications Law, Université Paris-Saclay, Paris.
  • 2013 – LLB in Scots Law and French, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
  • 2012 – Postgraduate Diploma in EU Studies, Université Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse.
Practice Areas
Antitrust, Competition & Trade Sectoral regulation Trade Law and Sanctions
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