Jonathan B. Mirsky is a partner concentrating on providing corporate, commercial, and regulatory advice to telecommunications and media companies.

Corporate and Commercial.  Mr. Mirsky provides general corporate and commercial advice.  Because many of Mr. Mirsky’s clients are in the communications and media industries, he has extensive experience advising regulated entities on corporate and commercial matters.

Mergers and Acquisitions. Mr. Mirsky structures and negotiates mergers and acquisitions and other business combinations.  As corporate counsel, he has represented buyers and sellers of businesses in transactions as large as $80 million, including companies providing cable and satellite programming, directory assistance, broadcast television and radio, information technology, and consulting.

Commercial Contracts.  Mr. Mirsky prepares and negotiates general commercial contracts, including supply contracts, customer contracts, and employment agreements.  Mr. Mirsky has significant experience preparing and negotiating agreements specific to the communications and media industries, including wireless resale/MVNO agreements, wireline intercarrier agreements, and spectrum lease agreements. 

Start-Up Companies.  For new ventures, Mr. Mirsky provides counseling on formation and governance, securities and financing, and protecting intellectual property. 

Intellectual Property Licensing.  Mr. Mirsky prepares and negotiates intellectual property licensing agreements.  While many of his clients license communications technology, Mr. Mirsky also has extensive trademark licensing experience.

Communications Regulation and Licensing.  Mr. Mirsky’s communications regulatory practice emphasizes counseling clients on Federal Communications Commission and state public service commission matters in connection with structuring corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, and financings.  He advises clients on the FCC’s rules addressing auction designated entities, media ownership attribution, foreign ownership, investor protection, and transfers of control.  He has experience addressing FCC and PSC issues arising from bankruptcy and corporate restructuring.  Mr. Mirsky has provided FCC advice to banks and other financial institutions in connection with arranging loans and credit facilities for communications and media companies.   

Mr. Mirsky has represented mobile and fixed terrestrial wireless, broadcasting, wireline, satellite, and equipment manufacturing companies in licensing, rulemaking, complaint, and other proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission.

Mr. Mirsky received his law degree from Yale Law School and clerked for Judge Ralph K. Winter on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  Mr. Mirsky graduated summa cum laude from Union College and completed the General Course at the London School of Economics.  He is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and Maryland.