Leibowitz Lands at Davis Polk

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Law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell has hired former Federal
Trade Commission chairman Jon Leibowitz as a partner in its D.C. office.

He will counsel on mergers and acquisitions and privacy law.

Davis Polk did work for Comcast on a number of deals,
including NBCUniversal merger, the sale of SpectrumCo wireless licenses to
Verizon and Comcast's purchase of AT&T's broadband assets.

Leibowitz's
resume includes chief counsel to the Senate Antitrust and Technology
Subcommittee and government relations for the Motion Picture Association of
America.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.