18 May 2026
Holland & Knight Adds Shiva Goel as Partner to Chair Telecommunications, Media and Technology Team in Washington, D.C.
"Shiva Goel joins Holland & Knight in Washington, D.C. as a partner to chair its Telecommunications, Media and Technology team, focusing on regulatory, national security and strategic issues in telecom, emerging tech and space/satellite."
Mr. Goel joins Holland & Knight from Wiley Rein LLP, where he served as a partner and co-chair of its wireless practice. He is a respected leader on regulatory, national security and strategic issues affecting the telecommunications, emerging technology, and space and satellite sectors.
His practice focuses on the intersection of law, policy and innovation. He provides strategic counsel on rules, regulations and judicial decisions affecting emerging technologies and supports technology and commercial transactions for telecommunications and investment firms, including FCC-regulated mergers and acquisitions. He represents wireless, satellite, technology, media and wireline companies in FCC rulemakings, license adjudications, transaction reviews, investigations and complex regulatory challenges before the federal courts.
Prior to Wiley Rein, Mr. Goel served as a senior advisor at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), leading strategic development of national policies related to spectrum, satellite and space. He also previously served as a legal advisor at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and was a communications and appellate partner at a leading technology and telecommunications firm in Washington, D.C.
Outside his practice, Mr. Goel is an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Strategic Technologies Program, a member of the Federal Communications Bar Association and a barrister at the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court. He earned a B.A. from Cornell University and a J.D., Order of the Coif, from the University of Virginia School of Law, and began his career with clerkships for the Honorable Louis L. Stanton (U.S. District Court, S.D.N.Y.) and the Honorable Maryanne Trump Barry (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit).