Industries
Telecommunications and Wireless
Counsel emerging and established telecommunications and wireless companies on their legal, business and regulatory concerns
Practices
5,000+
high-growth clients, including wireless, broadband and cloud communications companies
1,000+
M&A transactions for an aggregate value of $345+ billion since 2016
Represent telecommunications and wireless clients in commercial transactions with local and long distance telephone service providers, equipment and other technology providers, data partners and joint venture partners
#1
law firm in the US and Globally for representing companies in VC Financing deals in Q3 (PitchBook)
1,700+
VC deals annually, representing both companies and investors across a range of technology-related market segments
Extensive contacts with emerging telecommunications companies and potential strategic partners and investors
2020 Tech Firm of the Year (Law360)
500+
securities cases in the last 10 years for companies like Brocade, CenturyLink, Copper Mountain Networks, Lantronix, Qualcomm and Synopsys – one of the most active practices for the defense of issuers in shareholder litigation in the US
One of the most active corporate restructuring and bankruptcy practices in the country, handling 100+ cases in court over the past 5 years for unsecured creditors’ committees such as RadioShack, Great Lakes Comnet, CompUSA, Wave2Wave Communications, Yipes Communications, Beyond Oblivion and KIT Digita
Represent clients in a broad range of disputes relating to transactions, corporate governance, communications standards, open access, wireless license rights, spectrum auctions and spectrum allocations
Significant complex commercial and consumer class action litigation for companies such as CenturyLink, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, HTC and XO Communications
Team has litigated a series of cases relating to the application of privacy laws to the alleged interception of internet communications through “deep packet inspection”
Obtained the first court decision affirming that transit is subject to the local competition provisions of the Communications Act, representing a competitive carrier in an appeal of an arbitration decision in the US District Court for the District of Nebraska
Represented industry pioneers in one of the first successful contested applications for CLEC status in a rural area, the first interconnection arbitration at the FCC and some of the first successful petitions to revoke rural exemptions from the competition requirements of the Telecommunications Act of 1996
Actively involved in all varieties of Federal Communications Commission rulemaking proceedings and other policy initiatives important to the sector
Represent clients in enforcement proceedings ranging from individual complaints, notices of inquiry and notices of apparent liability to broad, industry-wide inquiries
Consult on regulatory and corporate governance issues related to the Securities Exchange Act, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Dodd-Frank Act, JOBS Act, equity and other compensation matters, stockholder rights plans, stockholder proposals and proxy contests, and NASDAQ, NYSE Mkt and NYSE listing requirements
Counsel US and foreign companies on compliance with US laws and regulations governing the cross-border movement of goods, services and technology and affecting the way US companies conduct business overseas
Provide regulatory compliance advice on international, federal, state and local employment and labor laws, including affirmative action, discrimination, wage and hour, health and safety, unions and collective bargaining, compensation and benefits
Serve as IP counsel to some of the largest telecommunications, wireless and related companies in the world such as HTC, Motorola Mobility, NVIDIA and Qualcomm
100+
PTAB proceedings
100+
trademark and copyright cases since 2010
30+
Section 337 ITC investigations
24,000+
patents under our management across 120+ jurisdictions worldwide
22,500+
trademarks under our management across 180+ jurisdictions worldwide
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