Mark Stachiw

Mark Stachiw, Of Counsel, has over 30 years of corporate, securities, governance, regulatory and transactional experience – serving as the General Counsel for publicly traded, and divisions of publicly traded companies and a private equity firm. Mark is the former Vice Chairman, General Counsel and Secretary for MetroPCS Communications, Inc. (NYSE:PCS), the fifth largest wireless company in the United States and a Fortune 500 company with revenues of over $5 billion. Prior to MetroPCS, Mark served as General Counsel of Verizon Wireless Messaging (a division of Verizon Wireless) and Allegiance Telecom Company Worldwide (a division of Allegiance Telecom.

During his tenure at MetroPCS, Mark took the company public, negotiating and consummating the largest domestic M&A transaction announced in 2012 with T-Mobile, USA, valued in excess of $30 billion. In addition, Marc has also negotiated and consummated a number of smaller M&A transactions, raised and refinanced $28 billion in leveraged and high yield, registered and 144A financings, secured loans, bridge loans, consent solicitations and other financial transactions totaling over $28 billion, and closed a $750 million private placement and tender offer. Mark also has extensive experience in federal telecommunications regulation having represented a number of companies before, and lobbied on their behalf, the Federal Communications Commission for over 25 years.