Danielle is a go-to advisor for communications and technology companies on a broad spectrum of complex domestic and international regulatory compliance, licensing, policy, and transactional matters, particularly entities providing broadband internet access and voice services in novel ways.

Clients seek out Danielle’s strategic counsel on matters at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and regulatory constraints. She advises on connectivity for products such as autonomous vehicles and wearables, and FCC device certification rules. She also has extensive experience advising on transactions (including obtaining transfer approvals) and compliance for companies providing broadband internet (data), voice (TDM, VoIP), and texting, including through apps, and high-speed data transmission. Her work also includes guidance on 911 obligations, TCPA compliance, customer terms, outage reporting, regulatory fees, and counsels agents, resellers (including MVNOs), and wholesale providers on structuring and managing relationships.

Danielle is nationally recognized for her decades of experience in public funding programs to end the digital divide, such as the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD), Universal Service Fund and similar programs. She has counseled clients in this area from program inception to wind-down, and has significant audit defense and enforcement experience.

Prior to joining Mintz, Danielle was the Global Lead of Communications Compliance at Amazon Leo (formerly Project Kuiper), where she created a telecom compliance legal and operational program and team from scratch. The scope of her team’s responsibilities spanned 180+ countries and included: terrestrial network compliance (e.g., data localization, permissible/required gateway and fiber locations, intercept and law enforcement response); provision of service (e.g., customer disclosures, billing, and know-your-customer requirements); regulatory reporting and fee obligations; regulatory implications of enterprise and government customer deals; and guarding against outsized risk to other Amazon entities (structural separation). She led Amazon Leo’s successful applications for BEAD funding.

Danielle was previously a partner for more than a decade at a national Am Law 100 firm, where she held key leadership roles, including Chair of the Communications Practice Group, Chair of the Products Counseling Team, and Member of the Executive Committee. She also served as Co-Chair of the Wireline Committee of the Federal Communications Bar Association.