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May 19, 2010 Jen Howard, (202) 418-0506 
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JOHN FLYNN NAMED SENIOR COUNSEL TO THE 
CHAIRMAN FOR TRANSACTIONS
Washington, D.C. -- Today, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius 
Genachowski announced the appointment of John Flynn as Senior Counsel to the Chairman for 
Transactions. Mr. Flynn will head the working team that is conducting the review of the 
proposed Comcast/NBC Universal merger, under the guidance of the inter-bureau steering 
committee established by the Chairman shortly after the merger application was filed.
“I am delighted that John has joined our team to help drive the agency’s review of this major 
proposed transaction,” said Chairman Genachowski. “The FCC staff has been working hard to 
analyze all issues presented by the proposed merger, and John’s legal expertise and broad 
experience will help to ensure that the Commission’s review is thorough, fair, and efficient.”
Mr. Flynn was most recently Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate 
Secretary of ICO Global Communications, where he led teams that took the company public, 
secured the company’s spectrum licenses, and won the largest jury verdict of 2008. He has also 
served as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Commerce One, Inc., a pioneering 
business-to-business software company, and General Counsel and Vice President of rStar 
Broadband Networks, Inc., an early provider of wireless broadband. Mr. Flynn was in private 
practice at WilmerHale and Munger, Tolles & Olson, where he focused primarily on 
communications and intellectual property law. He began his legal career as a law clerk to Judge 
Edward R. Becker on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and then to Justices Byron 
R. White and John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Flynn received his B.A., with 
distinction, and an M.A. from Stanford, and holds his J.D., magna cum laude, from the 
Georgetown University Law Center.
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