Martin L. Stern

Mr. Stern provides strategic and policy advice to telecommunications, information technology and media firms in the United States, Asia and elsewhere in the world. Mr. Stern assists telecom and broadband providers on all aspects of network build-out and operations. He has served as lead telecom regulatory and land use counsel in connection with numerous domestic and international undersea and terrestrial fiber-optic cable projects, as well as on permitting issues associated with the siting and deployment of wireless facilities.

Mr. Stern also handles complex regulatory issues in connection with mergers, acquisitions, financings and restructuring activities of telecom, broadband and media companies, including foreign investment in U.S. telecom providers and security-related issues with U.S. Executive Branch Agencies. He also represents clients on policy matters before the administration, Congress, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and handles the full range of FCC spectrum licensing and equipment authorization issues.

Mr. Stern has provided commercial, strategic and regulatory advice in connection with the roll-out of next-generation networks involving both wireless and wireline technologies. On the content side, he has represented both satellite programmers and distributors on regulatory, policy and commercial matters. He was recently named a “Lawdragon 500: New Stars, New Worlds,” for his great depth and experience in the telecommunication area, as well as the complexity of his work.