Laura Buckland is Senior Vice President, Chief Litigation and IP Counsel for T-Mobile USA, Inc. She has spent her career handling complex commercial litigation matters, and for the last 16 years has overseen all major litigation affecting T-Mobile, including consumer class action lawsuits, patent and trademark litigation, tax litigation, antitrust and business tort litigation, and complex commercial litigation. She and her team have successfully handled a number of major, business-critical trials – including a win at the US Supreme Court, multiple defense verdicts in major patent lawsuits, and most recently leading defense of the case brought in 2019 by a number of state Attorneys General in an effort to stop the T-Mobile / Sprint merger.

At T-Mobile, she is the Executive Sponsor for the Legal Department Diversity and Inclusion Task Force. She is actively involved in community service, serving on the Board of Directors of the Seattle Children’s Theatre and as a member of the American Red Cross Tiffany Circle.

George S. Cary is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Cleary Gottlieb. He has decades of experience in sophisticated antitrust matters and regularly guides clients through global mergers and acquisitions involving the most challenging issues and jurisdictions.

George was lead trial counsel for T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom in the federal court trial brought by a coalition of state attorneys general challenging the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, which resulted in a combined company with an enterprise value of $146 billion. Chambers has credited George with an “unmatched record of closing multibillion-dollar deals,” including having represented Dow Chemical in its $130 billion merger of equals with DuPont, among the most challenging multinational merger clearances; 21st Century Fox in The Walt Disney Company’s $71.3 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox; and GlaxoSmithKline in its multibillion-dollar, three-part transaction with Novartis.

Daniel P. Culley is a Cleary Gottlieb partner who splits his time between the Washington, D.C. and Brussels offices. His practice focuses on antitrust counseling and antitrust litigation. His work includes counseling, merger control, antitrust litigation, and civil and criminal government investigations, particularly for high-tech industries and two-sided markets. He has represented clients in federal and state courts and advised clients in both criminal and civil investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice, the FTC, state agencies, and the European Commission.

Throughout the advocacy and federal trial in the landmark T-Mobile/Sprint matter, Daniel headed the T-Mobile engineering and economic workstreams and managed the relevant witnesses.

He received a J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, from Georgetown University Law Center and a B.S., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University.

Dave Gelfand is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Cleary Gottlieb. His practice spans merger review, civil litigation, and criminal investigations.

Dave has handled matters across a wide range of industries, and his clients value his breadth of knowledge, his focus on getting results that align with business objectives, and his practical advice on difficult issues. He was one of the lead trial lawyers representing T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom in the challenge brought by a coalition of state attorneys general to the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, resulting in landmark victory for T-Mobile.

Dave started his career in 1987 at one of Washington, D.C.’s premier litigation boutique firms. He joined Cleary in 1991. He became a partner of the firm in 1997 and was resident in Cleary’s Brussels office from 2001 to 2004.

He received a J.D., summa cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center and a B.S., magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business.

Mark W. Nelson is a partner based in Cleary Gottlieb’s Washington, D.C. office. His practice focuses on global antitrust matters, with an emphasis on merger cases and U.S. civil litigation, including class actions.

Mark was named a “Litigator of the Week” and a “Dealmaker of the Year” by The American Lawyer for advising on T-Mobile US’s merger with Sprint, and he is ranked as a leading antitrust lawyer by Chambers Global, Chambers USA, and The Legal 500 U.S.

Mark joined the firm in 1993 and became a partner in 2002. He received a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.S. from Cornell University.

Melissa Scanlan is a Vice President on the T-Mobile Legal Affairs team, responsible for managing antitrust, intellectual property (transactional and litigation), and related complex commercial litigation. She oversees teams working corporate transactions that implicate compliance with the antitrust laws, advocating before federal and state agencies. In addition, she advises on antitrust compliance relating to all aspects of wireless telecommunications business initiatives. She directs strategy and tactics for intellectual property issues, advising on IP assets and liabilities, as well as litigation and risk management.

She is the Co-Founder and Chapter Leader for ChIPs Pacific Northwest, which is an organization that advances and connects women in technology, law and policy.

Melissa began her legal career as an associate at Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C., practicing litigation and antitrust law. She earned her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1991, where she served as an editor on the Yale Law Journal.