Professional Biography
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Marc S. Martin Partner

Firmwide Chair, Communications Industry Group

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Overview

Marc Martin structures, negotiates, and provides strategic counseling for telecom, media, and technology transactions. These include licensing and distribution agreements, joint ventures, technology procurement agreements, and other matters involving information technology assets, telecommunications facilities and spectrum licenses, and programming and digital media.

Marc advises clients on legislative and regulatory developments concerning artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI technology. He advises, drafts, and negotiates transactions involving mobile wireless, broadcast, cable, satellite, and online network platform assets and businesses. Marc represents companies, entrepreneurs, and investors before the Federal Communications Commission, Executive Branch, Congress, and the courts in matters involving telecom, media, and technology transactions, policy issues, and enforcement proceedings. He also advises manufacturers of new consumer products on the regulation of extended warranties, service contracts, and device insurance.

Marc is ranked as a leading communications lawyer by Chambers USA and Best Lawyers in America. His firmwide leadership includes chairing the firmwide Communications industry group, co-chairing the Strategic Growth Working Group, and membership in the Audit Committee and the Washington, D.C., office hiring committee.

Ranked by Chambers USA 13 Years in a Row

Telecom, Broadcast & Satellite

Professional Recognition

  • Received a 2018 Readers’ Choice Award from JD Supra for articles tracking the rise and fall of net neutrality and broadband privacy

  • Listed in Best Lawyers in America: Communications Law, 2017 – 2024

  • Ranked by Chambers USA as “America’s Leading Lawyer" for Telecom, Broadcast & Satellite, 2011 – 2023

  • Listed in Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers for Communications, 2014 – 2020

Professional Leadership

  • Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, Board of Trustees, Member, 2011 – 2015
  • Federal Communications Bar Association

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