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May 17, 2011 Neil Grace (202) 418-0506 
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RENATA HESSE NAMED SENIOR COUNSEL TO THE 
CHAIRMAN FOR TRANSACTIONS 
Washington, D.C. -- Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski 
announced today the appointment of Renata Hesse as Senior Counsel to the Chairman for 
Transactions.  Ms. Hesse (no relation to Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint) will head the working team 
that is conducting the review of the proposed AT&T/T-Mobile transaction, and will oversee the 
inter-bureau steering committee established to coordinate the agency’s review of the merger 
application.  
FCC Chairman Genachowski said, “Renata’s wealth of legal expertise and experience is a 
welcome addition to the review team and I am thrilled that she will soon be joining us.  Her 
leadership will help ensure that our review of this important transaction is fair, thorough and 
efficient.”  
Renata Hesse is currently a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich 
& Rosati, where her practice focuses on antitrust litigation and counseling. Considered one of the 
country's preeminent technology antitrust attorneys, Ms. Hesse advises clients in complex 
merger and non-merger investigations before both the Department of Justice and the Federal 
Trade Commission, as well as in civil litigation in the federal courts. 
Ms. Hesse previously served as the chief of the Networks and Technology Enforcement Section 
of the Department of Justice Antitrust Division. During her tenure at the Antitrust Division, she 
was responsible for some of the most significant antitrust litigation brought by the Department of 
Justice in the last decade, including the DOJ litigation with Oracle Corporation in connection 
with its proposed acquisition of PeopleSoft and with First Data Corporation in connection with 
its proposed acquisition of Concord EFS. In addition, Ms. Hesse worked extensively on the DOJ 
litigation against American Airlines for predatory conduct and Microsoft Corporation for illegal 
maintenance of its monopoly in Intel-compatible PC operating systems.
Prior to joining the Department of Justice, Ms. Hesse practiced at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison
LLP in San Francisco, California, where her work primarily focused on complex litigation 
involving intellectual property and antitrust issues in technology industries.
Ms. Hesse received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Wellesley College.  She earned a J.D. from 
the University of California, Berkeley. 
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