Randy Segal
With 20 years of in-house general counsel experience, Randy Segal brings an individual perspective to every matter she handles, both as your outside counsel and as someone who has walked in your shoes. With a focus on satellite, wireless, drone, and technology transactions, Randy provides commercially practical solutions in industries where technological change is ever-present. Randy’s practice often involves multi-level chess games, where every move needs to be considered from a multitude of angles to be successful.
As a result, Randy’s practice is reflected in three segments. First, as co-leader of the Space and Satellite practice, Randy has handled many types of transactions, from day-to-day matters to the most complex international transactions for industry operators, investors, and technology providers. She has been involved in taking companies public, advising on acquisitions, divestitures, and complex cross-border joint ventures, as well as large satellite system development, deployments and funding.
Second, as an advisor to technology investors and their portfolio companies, Randy has advised on transactions focused on big data analytics, IT, wireless systems, spectrum licenses, environmental analytics, wireless proximity analysis, drone technology, terrestrial positioning, and other innovative technologies.
Third, Randy provides “strand of pearls” advice to global clients, working seamlessly with our international offices to develop familiar, comfortable and “right-sized” solutions. Randy’s extensive cross-border experience has resulted in an extensive tool-kit of resolutions for the most complex of legal regimes. Randy’s transactional and advisory experience is both deep and broad, working throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East and on the most complex of international programs and legal issues.
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Sam Wilson
Sam Wilson is the director for strategy and national security for the Center for Space Policy and Strategy at The Aerospace Corporation. Wilson has authored papers on a breadth of defense and space topics, including missile debates, defense space budgets, comparative and international partnership opportunities, and the nexus of commercial and national security space. His work has appeared or been covered in The Journal of Strategic Studies, Asia Policy, Korea Policy, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Politico, Defense News, SpaceNews, Breaking Defense, Defense News, Kyodo News, Japan Today, The Diplomat, MilsatMagazine, and SatMagazine, among other outlets.
Wilson is an adjunct fellow with the U.S. German Marshall Fund, a defense fellow with the Truman National Security Project, and a term member with the Council on Foreign Relations.
Wilson received his bachelor’s degree in political theory from the University of Virginia, where he graduated with distinction. He received his master’s degree from the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.