Having practiced before the FCC for 40+ years, I support our team in evaluating and expanding resolutions to clients’ issues in the acquisition, financing, ownership and operation of federally regulated communications properties.
About John
John’s practice spans Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulation of new and emerging technology and traditional broadcast and telecommunications. He has counseled service providers and equipment manufacturers in spectrum usage and represents them before the FCC in rulemaking proceedings, enforcement proceedings, and applications for equipment authorizations and experimental authority for new technologies.
John assists emerging and established broadcast and telecommunications companies and their investors and lenders in structuring transactions and investments to comply with FCC ownership regulations and foreign ownership limitations. He also helps clients develop and execute strategies to obtain timely FCC approvals in connection with sales, mergers, acquisitions, receiverships, bankruptcies and reorganizations.
While at the University of Virginia School of Law, John was a notes editor and member of the editorial board of the University of Virginia Law Review. From 1977 to 1978, he served as a law clerk for Judge Charles Clark of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Education
University of Virginia School of Law
JD, 1977, Order of the Coif
Vanderbilt University
BA, 1974, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Court admissions
US District Court for the District of Columbia
Rankings and accolades
Best Lawyers in America: Communications Law
ALM Media and Martindale-Hubbell: Washington, DC Legal Leader
Memberships and affiliations
Federal Communications Bar Association, Co-Chair of the Committee on Relationships