As more and more companies and individuals rely upon instantaneous connections across global markets, their dependence upon wire-line and wireless networks has reached the point of critical necessity. At Foley Hoag, we provide advice to our clients at every level of the telecommunications business. This includes helping technology start-ups design business plans, and assisting BOCs, CLECs and CAPs in a wide range of agreements and transactions. These arrangements include negotiating telecommunications equipment collocations, wireless cell-tower sites, and all aspects of fiber-cable network development and construction, including IRUs and right-of-way permitting with public and private parties. learn more

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  • Foley Hoag Welcomes Raj Vallabh, Intellectual Property Counsel  [Read More]
  • On the Agenda: Law and the Environment, Financing Growth, and Non-Competes—Foley Hoag Launches Three New Blogs  [Read More]
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    Foley Hoag Forms Economic Crisis Team  [Read More]
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  • USCIS Requires Federal Contractors to Use New E-Verify System [Read More]
  • State Extends Deadline for Compliance With Data Security Regulations Until May 1, 2009 [Read More]
  • Tips for Planning Reductions in Force [Read More]
  • EEC Perspectives - October 2008 [Read More]
  • Massachusetts Issues Comprehensive Data Security Regulations [Read More]

Events more

December 2, 2008 Life Sciences Presentation: A Call to Arms - Data Standards in Collaborative Research [Read More] Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag
Waltham, MA
December 3, 2008 December 2008 Forum: Expert Panels, Advisory Boards and User Groups - Using Key Opinion Leaders to Help Achieve Business Goals [Read More] Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag
Waltham, MA
December 10, 2008 Understanding the New Data Security Law [Read More] Foley Hoag LLP (Boston Office)
Boston, MA

Client Successes more

  • Driving Telecommunications Forward
    We were counsel in a billion-dollar merger that created a Luxembourg-based, multinational cellular telephone company, and one of the cellular industry’s first international data and financial clearinghouses. We also helped a Luxembourg-chartered, satellite-based broadband Internet and interactive digital television company with a successful private placement involving high-profile U.S. and European investors. [Read More]
  • PrimeTime 24 Joint Venture
    We represented PrimeTime 24 Joint Venture, a satellite carrier, in lawsuits around the country against the major broadcast networks and their affiliates, as well as against the National Football League, DirecTV, Inc., EchoStar Satellite Corp., and others. Our work with this client extended to proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission and the United States Copyright Office concerning the Satellite Home Viewer Act, eventually leading to the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999. [Read More]