Craig Gilley provides a broad range of services for regulated communications entities, as well as information technology, education technology, investment, and private equity companies. Craig's primary practice involves counseling cable operators, broadband providers, internet service providers, video programmers, satellite providers, and wireless/wireline telecommunications providers on a broad range of legal, regulatory, operational, and transactional issues. He also regularly provides transactional, operational, compliance, and strategic advice to information and educational technology firms. Craig also represents investment and private equity companies, providing transactional and compliance support to ensure that both their acquisitions and ongoing investments fully comply with regulatory requirements.
Craig provides counsel to regulated communications entities on matters that include:
- Handling of enforcement, rulemaking, adjudicatory, and transactional proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission, state public utility commissions, and federal and state courts;
- Negotiating video programming content agreements and broadcaster retransmission consent agreements;
- Responding to broadcaster carriage and channel placement complaints;
- Interactions with state and local governments, including local franchising, state authorizations, compliance audits, and enforcement proceedings;
- Negotiating and drafting utility pole attachments and right-of-way agreements;
- Negotiating fiber lease and IRU agreements;
- Negotiating and drafting complex technology, licensing, service, and partner agreements and other sophisticated contractual arrangements; and
- Advising on regulatory aspects of financings, and mergers and acquisitions
For technology firms and investors, he advises on:
- Negotiating and drafting complex information technology service, licensing, content, co-marketing, cloud services, and partnership agreements;
- Providing transactional and operations support;
- Managing IP and licensing portfolios; and
- Managing corporate compliance programs