Paul J. Phillips

Paul Phillips represents highly regulated entities in the financial and utility sectors. A skilled navigator, Paul guides clients through complex jurisdictional and regulatory thickets to reach efficient and satisfactory results. Paul has achieved solutions for his clients in a wide range of agency adjudications and rulemaking proceedings, as well as in state legislatures. Paul has given particular focus to the ever-changing communications industry, whose regulatory needs have experienced major swings in recent years as issues of “net neutrality” and broadband regulation have been debated. Paul has represented providers of voice, data and video services since the enactment of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

In addition, Paul advises Vermont and New Hampshire businesses in all aspects of their commercial operations. Paul has extensive experience with licensing, compliance and enforcement issues, as well as with business formations and dissolutions, mergers and acquisitions, consumer protection and customer service issues, and public and private financing transactions. He has negotiated dozens of business-to-business contracts and has successfully litigated a variety of utility and insurance cases before state agencies and courts. Paul has also drafted and negotiated legislative solutions for his clients involving alternative regulation and deregulation, the establishment and implementation of state broadband and universal service funding programs, and reform of state regulatory agencies.

Paul is committed to public service. He served as Chair of the New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights from November 2015 to January 2018. He previously chaired the Town of Plymouth (NH) Energy Commission and served on the New Hampshire Better Buildings Task Force.