Corporate and Securities Transactions

• Public and private offerings of debt and equity securities valued in excess of $2 billion for a NYSE-listed provider of telecommunications services, as well as its related corporate and securities matters.
• Private placements of senior subordinated notes under Rule 144A for a NASDAQ National Market telecommunications company, as well as a subsequent registered exchange offer for freely tradable notes.
• Counseling a nationwide cellular services provider in its spin-off from a major ILEC, its $515 million acquisition of a cellular network, and its $6 billion acquisition by a major wireless carrier, including corporate, tax, employment benefits, and environmental advice.
• The initial public offering of a top ten U.S. cable television company.
• The initial public offering and subsequent private financings of an AMEX-listed, independent Internet broadcaster. 
• The acquisition of a network affiliated television station and a 51% interest in a cable television station by a NASDAQ National Market broadcast television company.
• Advising an advertising and streaming media content company in connection with the formation of a joint venture and the transfer of its assets related to the interactive channel business to the joint venture.
• Counseling a consortium of national and regional wireless carriers in the launch of new wireless directory assistance services for wireless subscribers.
• An exchange of cable television systems for systems of another cable operator by a cable television company.
• The acquisition of an equity interest in a start-up company involved in the development of new photonic technology by the fiber optics division of an electronic manufacturer and associated joint marketing, development, and sales activities.
• Counseling dozens of the original “non-wireline” cellular telephone companies in their purchase of the first U.S. cellular systems (switches, cell sites, operating systems) from Ericsson, Siemens, and AT&T.
• Creation of an $800 million syndicated senior credit facility for a telecommunications company.