We have extensive experience working with communications infrastructure, especially relating to tower and rooftop leases. During law school, Rob worked at a publicly traded communications company’s wireless site acquisition division (AT&T Wireless Services in Seattle), and following law school as a consultant with a landlord (property owner) focused tower lease consulting firm.
Our wireless leasing experience concentrates on matters from the property owner’s (or property manager’s) perspective. It includes cell towers and rooftop leases and includes new lease agreements: negotiated multiple lease agreements with the four largest communications carriers (AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile), multiple new tower lease agreements with the two largest tower operator companies (American Tower and Crown Castle) and multiple regional tower operators, helping clients work through tenant defaults (e.g., failure to reimburse for taxes), negotiating buyout proposals for property owners’ leases, and helping the owners create perpetual easements on their properties for the benefit of the tower companies (in exchange for a lump sum payment).
In the rapidly evolving field of EV charging stations, we have consulted both with property owners in evaluating proposed site lease/license agreements and consulted with several early-stage charging companies on the deployment of their networks. With the Infrastructure Act’s funds now flowing to the states, those dollars are in turn fostering deployment of a number of EV charging networks – here our significant communications infrastructure experience is certainly helpful.