Edlira Kuka

Edlira Kuka is a telecommunications attorney who advises space, satellite, broadband, and cable companies on regulatory obligations, high-stakes transactions, including public company and private equity mergers and acquisitions (M&A), licensing, and network deployment rights. She helps clients navigate regulatory issues, disputes, public proceedings and comment cycles before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), state public utility commissions, and regulators across the U.S., EU, and global markets. Edlira also advocates for internet service providers, direct-to-device (D2D), private investment firms, emerging technology, and fiber infrastructure companies navigating all aspects of regulatory and legal issues.

Edlira has guided multibillion-dollar buy-side and sell-side transactions, from satellite, fiber broadband, and network as a service (NaaS) acquisitions to restructurings and pro forma reorganizations, handling global regulatory diligence, antitrust review, transfer-of-control filings, and integration planning. She has represented clients in administrative proceedings before utility commissions, navigating administrative law issues to successfully secure regulatory licenses and approvals.

A seasoned negotiator with deep regulatory insight and relationships, Edlira has secured favorable terms with counterparties, municipalities, and regulators while protecting her clients' long-term business interests. She counsels broadband internet companies, including middle and long-haul dark fiber optic providers on network expansion and deployment strategy, access to rights-of-way and permitting, and securing competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) certification. Her focus covers non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) satellite networks, drone and counter-drone operations, subsea cable landing licenses and transactions, and international Section 214 authorizations. Edlira's broader regulatory practice spans a wide range of telecom regulations, assisting cloud infrastructure companies, including Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) and Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) providers, advising on robocall mitigation and caller ID authentication under the Secure Telephone Identity Revisited (STIR) and Signature-based Handling of Asserted Information Using toKENs (SHAKEN) framework, Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) issues, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) obligations, the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). She has advised on broader state, local, and tribal permitting, taxation, and compliance issues for communications providers.