Aspasia Paroutsas focuses her practice on telecommunications matters including issues involving US and international regulation of wireline, wireless and satellite telecommunications providers. Aspasia has represented competitive local exchange carriers in federal and state regulatory proceedings involving local market entry issues and in negotiations of interconnection agreements. She has also participated in Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rulemakings and Enforcement Bureau actions concerning common and private carriers.

Aspasia has significant experience handling complex commercial litigation. For example, she drafted legal memoranda regarding potential claims to be brought by the trustee in the bankruptcy of Enron and participated with the examiner in sworn statements/depositions as counsel to Enron’s Unsecured Creditors Committee. Aspasia drafted pleadings in a multidistrict ancillary proceeding regarding the enforcement of nonparty subpoenas duces tecum and participated in investor-state arbitrations under the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Stockholm. She has also addressed legal issues regarding the interaction of US bankruptcy laws with an ongoing international arbitration.

Aspasia co-authored “Navigating Through Investor-State Arbitrations–An Overview of Bilateral Investment Treaty Claims,” published in the February/April 2004 edition of the American Arbitration Association’s Dispute Resolution Journal.

She is a member of the International Law and Practice Section and Antitrust Law Section of the American Bar Association as well as the International Telecommunications Committee of the Federal Communications Bar Association.

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• Representing one of the largest US emergency service providers in licensing issues before the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau.
• Advising a major Europe-based telecommunications company on US regulatory issues arising from a merger with another major Europe-based telecom company.
• Drafting sections of proposed telecommunications legislation for a non-US country.
• Conducting regulatory due diligence as part of an acquisition in a transaction involving MMDS/ITFS.