The Team

Stephen Coran, Outside Counsel

Stephen Coran is Outside Counsel to Great American Broadband, Inc. Mr. Coran’s practice focuses on the representation of fixed wireless, mobile wireless and satellite clients, serving their transactional, strategic, licensing and operating needs. He also represents financial institutions in connection with public and private investment offerings.

In addition, Mr. Coran has extensive experience in negotiating complex, multiparty transactions for the purchase, sale and financing of established and startup communications businesses. He has represented multinational telecommunications companies and other public and private companies in numerous acquisitions of wireless systems for the deployment of competitive video and broadband services and has represented a rural telecommunications cooperative before federal and state agencies and Congress in successfully opposing a major satellite merger; investment banking syndicates in public equity and debt offerings for fixed wireless companies, drafting registration statements and providing risk assessment; startup web hosting company in the negotiation of multiyear agreement to acquire fiber, bandwidth and other transmission services from international telecommunications carrier; startup company in the preparation of offering documents and the negotiation and acquisition of numerous FCC licenses for deployment of new wireless telemetry service; devised and implemented plan to expedite and convert wireless video systems for digital and two-way services; negotiated numerous spectrum lease and management agreements for multi-channel video, cellular, paging and satellite companies.

Mr. Coran is a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences on a wide variety of regulatory, legislative and communications industry issues.

Mr. Coran holds a J.D. from The American University, Washington College of Law and a B.S., B.A. from Miami University. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Virginia; admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia; member, District of Columbia Bar, Virginia State Bar, American Bar Association and Federal Communications Bar Association.