Paul Phillips is an experienced regulatory lawyer who helps highly regulated entities navigate through complex jurisdictional and administrative thickets to reach successful results. Paul gives particular focus to the telecommunications industry, which has faced rapid regulatory swings in recent years with the FCC’s deregulation and re-regulation of broadband Internet services.

Paul has extensive experience with licensing, compliance and enforcement issues, business formations and dissolutions, mergers and acquisitions, consumer protection and customer service issues, and commercial contract negotiations. He has successfully litigated a variety of utility cases before state agencies and courts.

Paul is also an active member of Primmer’s Government Relations team and has crafted legislative solutions for his utility clients in matters of alternative regulation and deregulation, state broadband and universal service funding programs, and the reform and restructuring of state regulatory agencies.

Paul served as outside General Counsel to the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative (2021-2024). He previously served as Chair of the New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights (2015-2018).