Christine E. Enemark

Partner

cenemark@cov.com
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Covington & Burling LLP
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004-2401
Tel: 202.662.5136


 

Practices

Industries

Education

  • Columbia Law School, J.D., 1997
    • Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
    • Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems
  • University of Pennsylvania, B.A., 1991
    • magna cum laude

Judicial Clerkship

  • Hon. Paul R. Michel, U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, 1997-1998

Bar Admissions

  • District of Columbia
  • Maryland


Christine Enemark is a partner in the corporate group.  She focuses on transactions in the communications, media, and entertainment industries and represents a variety of new media, broadcast, cable, telecommunications, and information technology companies.  She advises clients in the negotiation of joint ventures, cable and broadcast affiliation, licensing, distribution, and content production agreements and related matters.  Ms. Enemark has extensive experience in content licensing and advises clients on transactions and general business strategies related to the distribution and exploitation of content in a variety of traditional and new media.  In addition, she provides advice in connection with financings, acquisitions, company organization and other general corporate matters, and transaction-related advice to certain broadcast and communications companies regulated by the Federal Communications Commission. 

Ms. Enemark currently serves as one of the Co-Chairs of the DC office summer associate program.  She also is a member of the Steering Committee of Covington’s Women’s Forum in DC and is a co-chair of the Work-Family Balance Group.

Representative Matters

  • Represented a publishing company in a multi-party partnership to form and launch a multicast program service comprised of educational and informational programming targeted to children.
  • Represented PBS in the formation of a joint venture to launch a linear and on-demand cable television service targeted to preschool children.
  • Represented the NBC Affiliates in the formation of two joint ventures with NBC – the first to operate Weather Plus, a 24-hour digital multicast weather network, the second to launch the National Broadband Company, a venture to aggregate and distribute content on digital broadband platforms.
  • Represented Radio One, Inc. in a joint venture to create and launch a full-time cable channel known as TV One.
  • Represented National Geographic Society in the formation and launch of the domestic and international versions of the National Geographic Channel in partnership with NBC and Fox.

Previous Experience

  • AT&T, Inc., Regulatory Consultant (1996-1997)
  • Federal Communications Commission, Office of Commissioner Susan Ness, Legal Intern (Summer 1995)
  • McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc., Regulatory Analyst (1992-1994)
  • U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance (Fall 1991)

Honors and Rankings

  • The Lawdragon 500: New Stars, New Worlds (2006)

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Federal Communications Bar Association, Member

Publications and Speeches

  • "Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena: Forcing the Federal Communications Commission into a New Constitutional Regime," COLUM.J.L. & SOC. PROBS. 215 (1997), Co-Author
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