Doane Kiechel is a partner in the firm’s Telecommunications group. He represents nationwide, regional and niche market voice and data wireless service providers before the Federal Communications Commission, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies and the courts. He has advised clients on a broad range of adjudicatory and rulemaking matters. Mr. Kiechel has played an active role in guiding clients in nearly all of the major federal spectrum auctions, starting in 1994, and helped to shape the auction rules. Other representative areas of expertise include foreign ownership, competition analysis, designated entity requirements, license transfer and assignment, spectrum leasing, and roaming arrangements.
In addition to his regulatory practice, Mr. Kiechel has two and a half decades of experience negotiating and drafting commercial contracts, with a focus on asset and stock transfers and combinations, debt and equity financings and real estate matters. He represents telecom clients in license and network acquisition, spectrum clearing, and market deployment including build-to-suit and master lease programs, facilities collocation and infrastructure sharing. He has negotiated numerous leases and subleases for office, warehouse and other space. Mr. Kiechel also has extensive experience preparing Hart-Scott-Rodino filings and interacting with the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice on related issues.
Prior to joining Fleischman and Harding, Mr. Kiechel spent nine years as a partner at Morrison & Foerster in the communications and real estate practice groups. He was also a partner at Gurman, Blask & Freedman.
Mr. Kiechel is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Massachusetts.
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