Milbank LLP Transportation and Space special counsel Alexis Sáinz will moderate the “Global Fixed Satellite Services: Media Broadcasting & Enterprise Networks” panel on September 7, 2021 at the SATELLITE 2021 conference in Maryland. The panel is part of the conference’s Executive Forum. Ms. Sáinz will lead the discussion of panelists from Intelsat, Hispasat, EchoStar, Yahsat, Telespazio S.p.A and SES Video as they explore how fixed satellite service providers are balancing resources to meet various demands for HD, 4K, and 8K video and industrial IoT. Panelists will also discuss how the industry plans to protect spectrum resources for fixed services.
The annual SATELLITE 2021 conference will take place September 7-10, 2021, with Sir Richard Branson confirmed as the keynote speaker. The conference is a gathering place for the global satellite community to share ideas and discuss the path forward for the space and satellite industry. The program will also be live-streamed via a digital platform, allowing attendees, exhibitors and speakers to interact. Following the event, the content will be available on-demand to attendees.
Ms. Sáinz’s experience includes representing financial institutions, project sponsors, private equity firms, hedge funds, satellite operators, communications companies, export credit and multilateral development agencies and other project participants in a wide range of structured financings and investment transactions, involving public offerings, high yield debt, investment-grade bonds, project financings, mergers & acquisitions, financial restructuring and reorganizations and in negotiating project contracts. Ms. Sáinz co-chairs the American Bar Association’s Committee on Space Law. She co-authored the chapter on Commercial Satellite Programs in the 2017 Routledge Handbook of Space Law and is a regular speaker at industry conferences discussing satellite finance, commercial satellite matters and space law. Ms. Sáinz holds a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College, a master’s degree in Computer Science from American University, and a juris doctor from the George Washington University Law School.
