Our Litigators of the Week are Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr’s Hallie Levin; Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton’s Mark Nelson and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Richard Parker, who led a small army of lawyers in persuading U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero in the Southern District of New York to approve the $26 billion merger of T-Mobile and Sprint.

Representing acquiring party T-Mobile and its parent company Deutsche Telekom,  they convinced Marrero to approve the union, which will affect 100 million customers.