T-Mobile Paid Top Lawyers $23.6 Million After Sprint Deal (1)

T-Mobile US Inc. paid $23.6 million last year to new general counsel Mark Nelson and his predecessor, David Miller, who retired this month.

Nelson received more than $13.8 million in total compensation during 2021, while Miller’s package was valued at nearly $9.8 million, an annual proxy statement filed by T-Mobile shows.

The pair of Harvard Law School graduates helped T-Mobile orchestrate the company’s $26.5 billion acquisition of Sprint Corp., which closed in early 2020.

T-Mobile announced last year that Nelson—a longtime legal adviser to the Bellevue, Wash.-based company—would take over its general counsel role from Miller as of Oct. 11. ...