Kristine Devine represents clients in communications-related transactions and negotiations as well as private company mergers and acquisitions.

Communications Agreements and Transactions

Kristine has extensive experience preparing and negotiating commercial agreements for communications, broadband, and subsea cable companies, and assisting clients in obtaining federal, state, and local regulatory approvals for transactions. She has represented clients negotiating utility pole attachment agreements, subsea cable landing and IRU agreements, joint trench agreements, dark fiber leases, wireless tower leases, and transition services agreements related to mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. Kristine also represents private companies engaged in mergers, acquisitions, and other business combinations in the cable and satellite programming, television and radio, information technology, and public relations and advertising industries.

Regulatory Advocacy and Compliance

Kristine counsels and advises clients on a variety of regulatory issues before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), other federal agencies, and state regulatory bodies. She also assists clients in developing and implementing regulatory compliance strategies.

Kristine has represented wireless carriers, interconnected VoIP providers, broadband providers, and other clients in FCC rulemaking proceedings related to emergency communications, network resiliency, broadband deployment, universal service, disabilities access, numbering rights, and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. She has extensive experience assisting clients in meeting their compliance obligations related to emergency communications, STIR/SHAKEN and robocall mitigation, Universal Service Fund contributions, the Communications and Video Accessibility Act, privacy regulations, and Internet-related consumer protection regulations.

Kristine currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Federal Communications Bar Association’s Texas Chapter.