T-Mobile USA Inc.’s $26.5 billion acquisition of Sprint Corp. seemed close to getting final U.S. approval when states attorney general sued to block the deal in June 2019.
T-Mobile didn’t just enlist an all-star team from six different law firms to defend the deal; the telecom giant’s defense strategy included leasing an entire floor of office space in midtown Manhattan where all the lawyers could work together just blocks from the courthouse where the case was to be heard.
“We ate our meals together. We had deep face-to-face conferences together,” Steven Sunshine, a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & ...
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