Spectrum Auction Guru Gary Epstein Exiting FCC

With the close of the Federal Communications Commission broadcast incentive auction the week of April 10, FCC Incentive Auction Task Force chairman Gary Epstein will be exiting at the end of April. Epstein, a prominent telecommunications attorney, joined the FCC in April 2012 as co-lead on the incentive auction. Epstein retired from private practice in 2009 as a partner in Latham & Watkins and head of its communications group before being wooed to the FCC by then-FCC chairman Julius Genachowski to tackle the incentive auction.