Michael C. Sloan

Mike Sloan is a business lawyer with more than 15 years experience. He represents companies in regulated and unregulated industries, with a focus on the communications sector. He also represents consulting firms, political action committees, real estate developers, software developers, and others.

Mike provides strategic counsel to help clients achieve their business objectives. He negotiates and drafts contracts of all kinds, including network interconnection agreements, Internet peering agreements, software license and development agreements, procurement agreements, outsourcing agreements, master services agreements, consulting agreements, distribution agreements, among others. Mike currently serves as national counsel for state regulatory and network interconnection matters to the fourth largest telephone company in the United States.

He is always focused on risk minimization, a product of his extensive litigation experience. Mike is experienced in arbitrations before state administrative and private arbitrations panels, and has appeared in federal court many times. In the past three years, Mike has represented a national client in more than two dozen cases around the country, and has had an extraordinary run of success, including victories in arbitrations and contested case proceedings at the FCC and in the following states: Washington, Texas, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Michigan, Vermont, Georgia, Florida, and Indiana. In the same period, Mike has settled numerous other cases favorably, without a reported decision, in states including Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Ohio, New Jersey, West Virginia and Minnesota. Mike has also litigated commercial disputes in industries ranging from communications, to plastics, to real estate.

Mike’s advice is also sought by private and venture-backed startups, to whom he provides general counsel services, including assistance on financing, corporate structuring, employment, business strategy, contract negotiation and drafting, general litigation, and other matters.

Mike is the former Chair of the American Bar Association’s Communications Law Committee, Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice.

Prior to his legal career, Mike worked in Congress and the White House Office of Management and Budget. He clerked for United States District Court Judge Juan M. Perez-Gimenez, in the District of Puerto Rico, immediately after law school.