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Stephen E. Coran Partner Direct: 202-463-4310 Fax: 202.296-2014 scoran@rinicoran.com |
Overview
Mr. Coran's practice focuses on the representation of fixed wireless, mobile wireless and satellite clients, serving their transactional, strategic, licensing and operating needs. He also represents financial institutions in connection with public and private investment offerings. In addition, Mr. Coran has extensive experience in negotiating complex, multi-party transactions for the purchase, sale and financing of established and start-up communications businesses.
Mr. Coran is a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences on a wide variety of regulatory, legislative and communications industry issues.
Education
The American University, Washington College of Law, J.D., 1986. Miami University, B.S., B.A., 1983.
Professional Memberships and Activities
Admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Virginia.
Admitted to the U.S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Member, District of Columbia Bar, Virginia State Bar, American Bar Association and Federal Communications Bar Association.
Specific Experience
- Represented multi-national telecommunications company and other public and private companies in numerous acquisitions of MMDS and ITFS wireless systems for the deployment of competitive video and broadband services.
- Represented rural telecommunications cooperative before federal and state agencies and Congress in successfully opposing major satellite merger.
- Represented investment banking syndicates in public equity and debt offerings for fixed wireless companies, drafting registration statements and providing risk assessment.
- Represented start-up web hosting company in the negotiation of multi-year agreement to acquire fiber, bandwidth and other transmission services from international telecommunications carrier.
- Represented startup company in the preparation of offering documents and the negotiation and acquisition of numerous FCC licenses for deployment of new wireless telemetry service.
- Devised and implemented plan to expedite and convert wireless video systems for digital and two-way services.
- Negotiated numerous spectrum lease and management agreements for multi-channel video, cellular, paging and satellite companies.
Representative Publications
"Broadband Policy in the Bush Administration, More or Less," by Stephen E. Coran, Private & Wireless Broadband, April/May 2001.
"What I Did on My Summer Vacation," by Stephen E. Coran, Private & Wireless Broadband, July 2000.
"All the World's a Stage," by Stephen E. Coran, Telephony, July 3, 2000.
"Spectrum Showdowns: I Want What You Got," by Stephen E. Coran, Telephony, March 13, 2000.
"The Spectrum Conundrum: Policies and Practices," by Stephen E. Coran, RCR Wireless, September 13, 1999.
"The FCC's New Deal for Wireless," by Robert J. Rini and Stephen E. Coran, Wireless Voice Video Data, November 30, 1998.
"Federal Preemption of State Obscenity Law Applied to Broadcasting," by William E. Hanks and Stephen E. Coran, 5 COMM/ENT 21 (1982).