Bio

Alan Fishel is a member of the firm’s Communications & Technology, Corporate & Securities, and Privacy, Cybersecurity & Data Protection groups. Alan handles transactional matters relating to technology and telecommunications agreements, including cloud service agreements, professional service agreements, hardware agreements, colocation agreements, service level agreements, manufacturing agreements, dark fiber agreements, and in-building wireless agreements. He also drafts and negotiates a wide variety of agreements in other areas as well. In addition, Alan helps clients in many industries improve their template agreements. Alan also has a strong success rate representing clients in FCC proceedings and other advocacy matters. Alan frequently provides interactive workshops and presentations, as well as webinars, to in-house counsel regarding topics such as (1) how to most effectively draft many types of provisions and agreements; (2) how to find the material flaws in contracts; (3) how to become an excellent negotiator, avoid negotiating mistakes, respond to common negotiating lines, and handle difficult negotiators; and (4) how to most effectively work with your business teams. Alan also launched the Find the Flaws™ program in 2018 under which he provides regularly-scheduled webinars designed to help attorneys, contract specialists, and others with their contract drafting and issue-spotting skills.