American Conference Institute National Forum on Team Telecom

March 17, 2021 • Webinar

Starts: 8:45 AM (EDT)
Ends: 5:45 PM (EDT)

Crowell & Moring Partner Caroline Brown will be presenting at the American Conference Institute’s first-annual National Forum on Team Telecom on Wednesday, March 17, 2021.

Former President Trump issued an Executive Order on April 4, 2020, formalizing and revising the national security reviews conducted by the interagency group “Team Telecom” and expanding authority of the new Committee on the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Services Sector. With this expanded authority, certain FCC license applications, including telecom, satellite, and subsea cable landing licenses, M&A activity, and other telecom-sector deals with foreign entities will face increased governmental scrutiny. This webinar will help participants better understand the implications of recent actions by the U.S. government and “Team Telecom” that are likely to significantly impact many telecom providers, equipment manufacturers and companies developing artificial intelligence and IoT projects.

Informed by her firsthand experience working on Team Telecom during her tenure at DOJ, Caroline’s presentation, “Team Telecom 2.0: Examining the New Team Telecom Environment in the Aftermath of Executive Order 13913 and A Deep Dive into the FCC’s Recent Implementation Guidelines,” will be held at 9:00 AM on March 17. Her panel will discuss the following:

  • Gaining an understanding of the new Team Telecom structure, timelines, scope of authority/jurisdiction, and review process
  • What foreign ownership and control thresholds must be met for a telecom license application to be subject to review by the new Team Telecom committee?
  • Addressing ambiguities in EO 13913 that leave room for further clarification
  • Analyzing Team Telecom’s:
    -Mitigation agreements designed to protect sensitive personal data related to licenses
    -Approach to submarine cables connecting US-China and/or involving Chinese ownership
    -Interplay with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
  • Examining the FCC’s implementation guidelines for how the new process will work

For more information, click here for the brochure. If you would like to receive a 10% discount off of the attendance fee, please email Nicole Benevento and she will send you a discount code.

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Caroline E. Brown
Partner – Washington, D.C.
Phone: +1 202.624.2509
Email: cbrown@crowell.com

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Caroline E. Brown is a partner in Crowell & Moring’s Washington, D.C. office and a member of the firm’s White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement and International Trade groups and the steering committee of the firm’s National Security Practice. She provides strategic advice to…

Caroline E. Brown is a partner in Crowell & Moring’s Washington, D.C. office and a member of the firm’s White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement and International Trade groups and the steering committee of the firm’s National Security Practice. She provides strategic advice to clients on national security matters, including anti-money laundering (AML) and economic sanctions compliance and enforcement challenges, investigations, and cross border transactions, including review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. Telecommunications Services Sector (Team Telecom).

Caroline brings over a decade of experience as a national security attorney at the U.S. Departments of Justice and the Treasury. At the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Security Division, she worked on counterespionage, cybersecurity, and counterterrorism matters and investigations, and gained unique insight into issues surrounding data privacy and cybersecurity. In that role, she also sat on both CFIUS and Team Telecom and made recommendations to DOJ senior leadership regarding whether to mitigate, block, or allow transactions under review by those interagency committees. She also negotiated, drafted, and reviewed mitigation agreements, monitored companies’ compliance with those agreements, and coordinated and supervised investigations of breaches of those agreements.

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