Corporate and Transactional

Wilkinson Barker provides its telecommunications, media, and Internet clients with a full array of corporate and transactional legal services.  The various sectors of the communications field are in a state of constant transition, as companies consolidate, merge, divest and restructure to meet changing business and financial objectives and to respond to legal and regulatory changes.  The firm has continued to supplement and expand its transactional capabilities in response to the demands of its clients.  Accordingly, the firm provides counsel in corporate activities such as strategic alliances, mergers, acquisitions, the formation of start-up companies, asset and stock sales, financing transactions, public and private debt and equity offerings, and the formation of joint ventures and related matters.  The firm also assists clients in obtaining necessary federal and local governmental approvals for these transactions.

Wilkinson Barker provides clients with assistance at all stages of a transaction, including due diligence, letters of intent, advice regarding legal and regulatory restrictions, structuring the transaction, corporate formation, agreements, regulatory approvals, and closing documents.  Our attorneys routinely work closely with investment bankers, lenders, securities advisors, in-house counsel, and SEC counsel in connection with various transactions.

The firm provides representation that combines commercial transactional expertise with specialized communications law subject matter expertise, which assists clients in identifying and addressing regulatory issues as well as more general commercial and contractual matters.  This expertise also enables the firm to assist high tech start-up companies in their formation.  Wilkinson Barker attorneys also negotiate the terms of alliances, joint ventures, consortia, and contracts for supply, interconnection, and transport with domestic and international service providers and equipment manufacturers.

Wilkinson Barker has played an integral role in many of the largest mergers and asset sale transactions to occur in the wireless, paging and broadcast industries in recent years. In addition, the firm regularly assists clients with strategic acquisitions and disposition of core regulated assets.  Firm attorneys also have been involved in negotiating and drafting documents related to infrastructure sharing and spectrum leasing and shepherding lease participants through the FCC’s approval and notification processes.