Telecommunications, Internet & Media

Experience Highlights

• AT&T, as regulatory counsel, in matters related to FCC conditions on its acquisition of DIRECTV in 2015, including the preparation of semi-annual compliance reports to the FCC.

• Private equity firm in monitoring and advising on the federal regulatory issues related to Ligado Networks' spectrum license to use L-band spectrum to build a terrestrial wireless network.

• L3 Technologies Inc., as FCC regulatory counsel, in its merger with Harris Corporation. 

• AT&T, as antitrust and regulatory counsel, in leading the effort to obtain U.S. Department of Justice clearance for the US$85 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger; successful defense of the Department of Justice's lawsuit to block the transaction; and the coordination of work with local antitrust and regulatory counsel to secure approvals in nearly 30 other countries, including the negotiation of conditional approvals in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico.

• KCETLink Media Group, as lead FCC counsel in a merger between KCETLink Media Group and PBS SoCal, the two primary PBS stations in the Central and Southern California markets.

• AT&T, as antitrust and regulatory counsel, in leading the effort to obtain U.S. Department of Justice clearance and Federal Communications Commission approval for the sale of its Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Island assets to an international telecommunications company.

• Educational nonprofit organization (public television station) in negotiating the sale of its 2.5 GHz BRS EBS spectrum licenses to T-Mobile Sprint and obtaining FCC approval for the sale.

• Ad hoc group of term lenders to iHeartMedia Inc. in the restructuring of approximately US$20 billion of debt issued by iHeartMedia and its affiliates.

• Ad hoc group of first lien lenders to Cumulus Media Inc. in the restructuring of the radio, media, and special event company.

• Technology company in advising on 5G wireless standard matters.