Brown and his team provided vital legal advice following the Time Warner Cable and Bright House transactions and have helped keep innovation rolling at the MSO. The most important issues in the communications field for Brown have to do with accelerated facilities deployment and the execution of reasonable network practices for broadband. His rule for negotiating? “Identify and address both the separate and shared goals and concerns of parties to the underlying transaction to resolve issue-specific impasse with an eye toward appropriately balanced risk responsibility.” Brown is an Eagle Scout volunteer and helped in the Philmount Mountain trek in New Mexico.
What have been the most important legal issues in communications for you in the past year?
The most important issues in the communications field for me in the past year have to do with (1) the rights, obligations, time constraints, and risk exposure associated with efficient, accelerated communications facilities deployment and (2) the extent, nature of, and impediments to execution of reasonable network management practices necessary for delivery our broadband communications services throughout our service areas.
What is your golden rule for negotiating?
Identify and address both the separate and shared goals and concerns of parties to the underlying transaction to resolve issue-specific impasse with an eye toward appropriately balanced risk responsibility.
If you could be any legal thriller writer, who would you want to be and why?
John Grisham, because he has a particular skill in bringing just the right amount legal context to his stories to create an air of authenticity and yet to involve the lawyer and non-lawyer reader alike in such legal story.
