Cooley

Telecommunications & Wireless

Counsel emerging and established telecommunications and wireless companies on their legal, business and regulatory concerns

5,000+ high-growth clients, including wireless, broadband and cloud communications companies

1,000+ M&A transactions with an aggregate value of $340+ billion since 2012, including multiple buy-side transactions for AOL, Cisco, NetScout and Qualcomm

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 for venture capital financings in 2016 – 4,000+ strategic or venture investment transactions since 2010, 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

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 Digital

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

Michael Basile Partner, Washington, DC

Robert M. McDowell Partner, Washington, DC

Christy Burrow Special Counsel, Washington, DC

Chris Coulter Partner, London

John Feore Senior Counsel, Washington, DC

J.G. Harrington Special Counsel, Washington, DC

John Logan Special Counsel, Washington, DC

Jason Rademacher Special Counsel, Washington, DC

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