Communications: Areas of Practice

Corporate and emerging company representation

  • Company formation and financing
  • Corporate governance and board of directors representation
  • Employment, compensation and benefits and immigration

Financing, securities, and investments

  • Venture capital financing
  • Public offerings and PIPEs
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Vendor financing

Licensing and business matters

  • Strategic business advice and guidance on commercial and regulatory matters
  • Network development arrangements—including spectrum allocation, capacity purchase and leasing, interconnection, peering and transit and IRUs
  • Multinational and strategic alliances
  • Technology transfers and licensing agreements
  • Programming and content development arrangements
  • Joint ventures
  • Interconnection agreements
  • Data center, carrier hotel development and co-location arrangements
  • Telecommunications network project financing
  • Inter-carrier agreements
  • Equipment and software development, procurement and distribution arrangements
  • Outsourcing agreements

Litigation and strategic counseling

  • Antitrust and trade regulation
  • Intellectual property litigation

Standards and policy

  • Standards and policy-setting counseling and guidance
  • Counsel to industry organizations
  • Intellectual property portfolio protection
  • Strategic patent and trademark counseling and portfolio development
  • Intellectual property litigation support
  • Freedom-to-operate analysis and assistance with infringement avoidance and design-around efforts
  • Structuring intellectual property aspects for joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and financing and related transactions
  • Intellectual property audits

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