Frontier Lawyer Joins Day Pitney, Brings Elite Experience

0:00It's March 30th. This is Hartford News today, your AI-powered local news. Martin Eelsen, Frontier Communications top lawyer for nearly 12 years, just landed a new gig as of Council at Hartford's Day Pitney Law firm. This comes right after Verizon snapped up Frontier for $22 billion in a deal that closed back in January. He'll work out of their Stanford office in the corporate and business law group, drawing on close to two decades of in-house legal muscle from big. Sanders-like, Raytheon, and Praxair. At Frontier, he steered through four massive mergers, a $17 billion bankruptcy overhaul, activist fights, three CEO swaps, and plenty of. Court room battles. Eelsen's got deep roots in public service too, served as chief legal counsel and chief of staff to Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney, from two. Born forward to 2007, plus earlier stints as a Connecticut state rep starting in 1992, and two terms in the Senate for. The Denver area.

1:01Frontier was America's biggest fiber internet provider at the time of the sale, with its headquarters shifting from Norwatt to Dallas in 2000, 23. Eelsen brings Harvard College and Law School degrees, adjunct teaching at Columbia Law, and bar missions in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New. York. A rich field local now channeling that elite experience into day Pitney, Eelsen's move keeps the corporate legal world buzzing with fresh firepower.