Education
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Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2003
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American University, Kogod School of Business, M.B.A., 1998
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Boston University, B.A., cum laude, 1995
Bar Admissions
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District of Columbia
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Maryland
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Carly Didden focuses her practice on regulatory, policy, bankruptcy, general corporate, transactional and federal funding opportunities, including broadband stimulus funding, in the areas of communications and technology. She advises and represents educators, equipment vendors, tower, radio, television, cable/MVPD, satellite, wireless and wireline companies before federal and state regulatory agencies and organizations, including the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Universal Service Administrative Company – Schools and Libraries Division, National Telecommunications and Information Administration and state public utility commissions. Ms. Didden also advises private equity, venture capital, investment firms and commercial banks in communications and technology related matters.
Ms. Didden has extensive knowledge of state and federal regulations and her experience includes licensing, regulatory compliance, spectrum auctions, spectrum leasing, spectrum acquisition, rulemaking, enforcement matters, monitoring developments in communications legislation and regulation, and universal service. Her transactional practice includes advising companies on mergers and acquisitions; corporate financing activities; and negotiating communications and technology agreements, including local marketing, spectrum acquisition, spectrum leasing, interconnection and customer agreements. Ms. Didden also counsels companies regarding the FCC’s multiple ownership and foreign ownership rules.
Prior to and during law school, Ms. Didden was a senior regulatory analyst at a Competitive Local Exchange Company and a communications paralegal specializing in licensing, regulatory compliance and commercial transactions for radio, television, wireless, wireline and satellite companies.
Professional Affiliations:
Federal Communications Bar Association
Alliance for Women in Media
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