David Lawrence to Lead T-Mobile/Sprint Transaction Task Force

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced that David Lawrence will lead the FCC task force coordinating the agency’s review of the transaction proposed by T-Mobile US and Sprint. The parties filed their applications with the Commission on June 18, 2018.

Lawrence comes to the FCC from the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, where he served as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General, most recently for AAG Makan Delrahim. Lawrence joined the Front Office of the Antitrust Division in 2016, assisted the management of the Division through the transition between Administrations, and has focused on issues in the telecommunications and transportation sectors. Lawrence started his career at the Antitrust Division as an Honors Program attorney in the Telecommunications and Broadband Section. While there, he served as lead attorney for several complex investigations. He also won three Antitrust Division Awards of Distinction, including for his work on a number of high-profile transactions before the Department. Before joining the Department of Justice, Lawrence clerked for Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Richard J. Holwell of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Lawrence is a graduate of New York University School of Law and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he majored in Physics.