Mark O'Connor Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC

I represent clients in the telecommunications industry on a broad range of transactional and regulatory matters before the FCC, state PUCs, and federal courts. With over 25 years of telecommunications legal and business experience, I've earned the trust of management teams to achieve their most critical business objectives. In addition, I have significant.

El Dorado County, CA

Cal.net is a leading Wireless ISP serving rural residential and business customers in central California.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Experienced professional offering deep expertise in telecom business and regulatory matters. Business skills include strategic planning, fund raising and investor relations, management, marketing and sales management. Legal and regulatory skills include seizing regulatory opportunities, ensuring legal and regulatory compliance, contract negotiations, and.

• Led all business development activities and strategic planning for leading manufacturer of broadband wireless equipment.
• Led all legal and regulatory matters including investor relations, contract negotiations, legal and regulatory compliance, supervising outside law firms, and government lobbying.
• Supervised investor fund raising (debt, convertible debt, warrants, options, equity and crowdfunding) including presentations to investors, diligence materials, and all investor contracts and legal instruments.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Represented and counselled clients on all aspects of telecommunications legal, regulatory, and public policy matters before the FCC, state and international regulators.
• Represented telecommunications/Internet clients in federal and state courts and in agency litigation, and investigations.
• Represented telecommunications/Internet clients in business transactions, including debt and equity financings, mergers and acquisitions, and joint partnerships.
• Managed teams of lawyers, staff and consultants. Co-managed all aspects of firm business and office operations.
• Representative Clients: Google; America Online; EarthLink; Global Conference Partners; American Capital; Omnipoint; British Telecom–America; New Edge Networks.

Washington, DC

• Represented Internet industry before the FCC and Congress to establish federal law and policies in the early stages of the commercial Internet.
• Represented pioneering wireless telecommunications service provider before the FCC, Congress and U.S. Courts for one of the most valuable FCC wireless spectrum licenses in the U.S.
• Led wireless clients through FCC auctions for wireless spectrum licenses.
• Counselled telecommunications and Internet clients on many successful transactions, including IPO’s, debt offerings, private equity investments, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures.
• Representative clients: MCI; Time Warner; Omnipoint; McKinsey & Company; PSiNet; UUNet; PCS Action; and the Commercial Internet Exchange.

Washington, D.C.

• Represented the cable television industry in FCC rule-making proceedings to implement the 1992 Cable Act.
• Counselled clients on a variety of financial transactions for cable television operators.
• Representative clients: National Cable Television Association; Time Warner; Hauser Communications; and Adelphia Communications.

Juris Doctor (J.D.), Law

Activities and Societies: Editor of Federal Communications Law Journal. Law clerk, Continental Cablevision (largest cable TV operator in.

Bachelor’S Degree With Honors, Communications With Minor In Economics

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum LaudeFront page reporter for Daily Pennsylvanian Producer of "It's the Law," WMMR.