T-Mobile Paid Top Lawyer Nelson Nearly $12.5 Million Last Year

T-Mobile US Inc. paid its top lawyer Mark Nelson almost $12.5 million last year as the company battled telecommunications industry competitors for customers and wireless spectrum.

Nelson received $8.4 million in stock awards and roughly $4 million in cash, including $950,000 in base salary, according to a T-Mobile proxy statement.

T-Mobile recruited Nelson to succeed its former legal chief David Miller, who retired last year from the company. Nelson is a former outside counsel to T-Mobile who specialized in antitrust litigation across nearly three decades at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in Washington.

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