Barlow Keener is a member of Womble Bond Dickinson’s GCSolutions and Communications, Technology & Media teams, where he brings more than 20 years of regulatory, transactional and corporate law experience in the tech sector, with significant telecom, spectrum, Internet, and privacy law experience.

Barlow provides in-depth FCC regulatory analysis and transactional counsel for clients involved in investments in innovative FCC-related spectrum issues, satellite spectrum matters, terrestrial radio technologies, small cell technologies, long-haul fiber networks, and data centers. He has actively handled state regulatory proceedings and provided expert witness services and support in telecommunications administrative matters involving FCC classifications of telecom facilities, service quality failures, and 911 failures.

More generally, as part of the GCSolutions team, drawing on his years of experience advising both startups and established companies, Barlow handles transactional matters, trademark prosecutions, mediations, employment matters, mobile app issues, and privacy and cybersecurity compliance.

Prior to joining the firm, Barlow was an in-house attorney with a major incumbent telecommunications provider, general counsel for a mid-size media firm, and Co-Founder and CEO of an Internet Service Provider startup.  He also has provided expert financial and valuation services in the telecom space, particularly involving wireless and spectrum matters, serving as a principal in a consulting firm focusing on the telecom, media, and satellite sectors. 

Barlow is a CIPP/US (Certified Information Privacy Professional) in the IAPP, Certified Member, American Society of Appraisers (ASA), and a Lecturer at Boston College Carroll School of Management, teaching Privacy and Internet Law.