
Kemal Hawa
Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig
Speaker Profile
Kemal Hawa focuses his practice on corporate and securities law and transactions, with an emphasis on the telecommunications, media and technology industries, domestically and internationally. Kemal assists clients with the negotiation of transactions in the cloud computing space, including the negotiation of data center and colocation leases, globally. Kemal also has extensive experience in the negotiation of network infrastructure transactions, including submarine cable system consortium and private subsea cable deals, terrestrial fiber optic network transactions, and transactions involving antenna towers.
Kemal regularly advises public and private companies, private equity firms, investment banks, and creditors’ committees on a variety of matters, including mergers and acquisitions, investments, financing arrangements, licensing agreements, commercial transactions, market entry strategies, and bankruptcies and restructurings. His company clients include data center operators, global content providers, fintech companies, telecommunications and media companies, wireless and international carriers, Internet service providers, satellite companies, equipment manufacturers, electric utilities, and numerous technology companies.
Before private practice, Kemal worked for MCI and WinStar Communications.
Concentrations
· Cloud transactions
· Mergers and acquisitions
· Telecommunications
· Private equity law
· Leveraged buyouts
· Regulatory law
· Foreign and cross ownership
· Securities
Education
· J.D., American University Washington College of Law, 1996
· Member, American University Law Review
· B.A., Georgetown University, 1992
Admissions
· District of Columbia
· Maryland
· New York
· Virginia
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