Kemal Hawa focuses his practice on corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on the telecommunications, media and technology industries, domestically and internationally. Kemal regularly advises public and private companies, private equity firms, investment banks, and creditors’ committees on a variety of matters, including mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies and restructurings, investments, financing arrangements, licensing agreements and commercial transactions.
Kemal specializes in the negotiation of transactions in the cloud computing space, including the negotiation of data center and colocation leases globally. Kemal also specializes in the negotiation of network infrastructure transactions, including submarine cable systems (builds, financings, and capacity procurement), as well as terrestrial fiber optic network transactions.
His company clients include telecommunications and media companies, wireless and international carriers, Internet and Voice-Over-IP service providers, content providers, satellite companies, equipment manufacturers, electric utilities, and numerous technology companies.
