Christine M. Crowe, Partner

Long Bio  I  Christine M. Crowe has almost 20 years of experience counseling clients in the communications industry on a broad array of transactional, policy and regulatory matters.  She has advised communications companies on numerous diverse transactions including mergers and acquisitions, asset sales, spectrum leasing, and financing transactions involving public and private debt and equity offerings, traditional financing arrangements, and private investments.  She has worked extensively on inter-carrier agreements such as roaming, resale/MVNO, site lease, construction, management, and customer agreements.  She also has negotiated several interconnection, UNE and collocation agreements on behalf of wireless carriers and competitive local exchange carriers, and has participated in state-run arbitrations and federal court litigation relating to such agreements.

Ms. Crowe advises clients on a variety of policy and regulatory matters affecting the telecommunications industry, including those relating to spectrum allocation and use, spectrum assignment through competitive bidding, secondary markets, limitations on foreign ownership in FCC licenses, and various FCC reporting and compliance requirements.  She has extensive experience related to FCC spectrum auctions, auction procedures, compliance with the FCC’s anti-collusion rule, and the complex designated entity (DE) rules, including formation of DE structures and secondary market transactions involving spectrum subject to the DE rules.

Member, Federal Communications Bar Association
    •    Trustee, FCBA Foundation
    •    Co-Chair, Continuing Legal Education Committee
    •    Co-Chair, Transactional Practice Committee
    •    Co-Chair, Access to Records Committee

Member, Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia

Recipient, Martindale Hubbell AV® Preeminent Peer Review Rating