Technology and Communications Transactions

With broad experience in complex financing transactions and corporate business support, and with exceptional capabilities in the technology and communications industries, Patton Boggs offers a sophisticated interdisciplinary team knowledgeable in every facet of transactions involving communications and technology businesses. Our team also includes former leaders of the FCC that have direct experience with the federal approval processes for major mergers and acquisitions in the communications industry.  We can effectively advise both parties to transactions, and parties that oppose transactions, about how to impact federal approvals that are needed from the FCC, the DOJ, the SEC and Congress before parties can consummate major transactions.

Our attorneys have extensive hands-on experience in accessing capital markets and executing varied corporate finance and commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions and technology transactions. The TechComm group takes both leading and supporting roles in transactions and is highly skilled in spectrum acquisitions, spectrum leases, tower and site leases, collocation agreements, interconnection agreements, microwave relocation agreements, roaming agreements, backhaul agreements, partnering agreements, joint build and construction agreements, wholesale access agreements and customer agreements.

Patton Boggs TechComm attorneys work with our Business Department on every type of corporate transaction involving communications companies, including leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, spin-offs, venture capital financings, going-private transactions, recapitalizations and dispositions. We serve as fund counsel to numerous investment funds and have closed a significant number of new private equity funds. We also provide valuable advice on debt and equity financing, deal and tax structure, merger and acquisition negotiation, due diligence, regulatory compliance, management arrangements, antitrust compliance and refinancings.

We regularly provide due diligence support for communications and technology deals. We provide the industry knowledge needed to undertake critical due diligence, make wise private equity investment decisions and efficiently close transactions, including obtaining regulatory approvals.