Practice Areas
For decades, the attorneys of TLG have dedicated their professional careers to the regulatory, legal, and business issues facing the evolving telecommunications, information services, and power industries.
The telecommunications industry’s evolution from a traditional regulated utility structure to an increasingly competitive one has coincided with the rapid evolution of the Internet and information services that converge with traditionally regulated offerings.
At the intersection of these trends, laws, policies, and rules of regulators have often not kept up with the pace of change, creating undefined and gray areas affecting the interests of both providers and customers.
Similar changes are now occurring in the power industry, which also present both regulatory uncertainty and opportunity.
The following representative projects illustrate how the TLG attorneys have participated in key aspects of this evolution, and the long term perspective they bring when advising clients about issues and opportunities now and in the future:
The telecommunications industry’s evolution from a traditional regulated utility structure to an increasingly competitive one has coincided with the rapid evolution of the Internet and information services that converge with traditionally regulated offerings.
At the intersection of these trends, laws, policies, and rules of regulators have often not kept up with the pace of change, creating undefined and gray areas affecting the interests of both providers and customers.
Similar changes are now occurring in the power industry, which also present both regulatory uncertainty and opportunity.
The following representative projects illustrate how the TLG attorneys have participated in key aspects of this evolution, and the long term perspective they bring when advising clients about issues and opportunities now and in the future:
Communications and Power Infrastructure Projects
- Representation of real estate developers in negotiations with network providers of telephone, CATV, and Internet services to large planned communities.
- Negotiation of construction agreements for a nationwide fiber optic network, related right-of-way agreements, equipment agreements, network capacity agreements.
- Representation in regulatory proceeding of an applicant for California authority to construct a natural gas pipeline from Canada to California.
- Representation of an electric utility company in regulatory proceedings concerning nuclear power plant design, engineering and construction cost recovery cases.
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Telecommunications Regulatory Projects
- Representation of a cellular carrier in regulatory proceedings to establish the form of rate regulation applied to cellular carriers in California.
- Representation of various CLECs and Interexchange carriers in negotiation and arbitration of Interconnection Agreements with Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers and disputes regarding compliance with these agreements.
- Advice to the Secretary of Communications and Transportation of Mexico in connection with drafting and implementation of Mexico’s 1995 Telecommunications Act.
- Advice to the Secretary of Communications of Argentina regarding implementation of telecommunications competition in Argentina.
- Representation of several CLECs and IXCs in the acquisition of required state and federal regulatory authorizations to provide intrastate and interstate telecommunications services in numerous states.
- Representation of CLECs in complex administrative and judicial tariff and contract enforcement proceedings in which our clients have recovered millions of dollars in awards through both litigation and settlements.
- Regulatory compliance advice to new industry participants such as Information Service Providers and software solution providers concerning the structuring of transactions and product to comply with, or remain exempt from, regulatory requirements.
Technology Transaction Projects
- Representation of numerous large users of communications and information services, including banks, insurance companies, local governments, and other commercial enterprises in negotiations with various service providers, including telephone companies, cable companies, wireless carriers, and internet and other unregulated service providers.
- Representation of a satellite service provider in connection with the first launch services agreement between a United States satellite system operator and Arianespace, the European launch vehicle consortium.
- Negotiation of a joint venture agreement between a regulated telephone company and a provider of unregulated information services for the provision of wholesale network infrastructure and data processing services to retail providers of information and telecommunications services.