Mark Nielsen (attorney)
Mark Nielsen (born August 25, 1964) is an attorney who has worked in the public and private sectors.
Nielsen's current position is Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Frontier Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: FTR), at the company's headquarters in Norwalk, Connecticut.[1] Frontier is the fourth largest ILEC telephone company in the United States. It provides wireline voice, data and video services to 3.2 million residential customers and 0.3 million business customers. Nielsen helped negotiate Frontier's $10.5 billion acquisition of Verizon's wireline properties in California, Texas and Florida, a transaction that was announced on February 5, 2015.
In the 1990s, Nielsen worked as a lawyer at the Hartford law firm of Murtha, Cullina, Richter & Pinney, while simultaneously serving in the Connecticut Legislature.
Nielsen served as Mitt Romney's chief legal counsel, and later Chief of Staff, when Romney was Governor of Massachusetts (2003-2007). One aspect of his work for Gov. Romney that attracted considerable media attention was Nielsen's successful legal effort to oust Matthew Amorello as Chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority for his managerial failures in overseeing the $14B "Big Dig."
Nielsen served as an advisor to Romney’s presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012. In both campaigns, he took on a variety of sensitive special projects. In their book, Double Down: Game Change 2012, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin discuss Nielsen's role in "vetting" Romney's potential running mates including Gov. Chris Christie, Sen. Marco Rubio, and his eventual choice, Rep. Paul Ryan.
Nielsen has argued appeals in the supreme courts of Massachusetts and Connecticut, and he is frequently quoted on the topics of corporate governance and compliance. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. His brother Steven Nielsen is CEO of Dycom Industries, Inc. (NYSE: DY).
References
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- http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/1998/states/CT/H/05/mark.nielsen.html
- http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=95565
- http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-08-02/politics/35271489_1_romney-campaign-mitt-romney-homeland-security
- http://www.metrocorpcounsel.com/articles/19910/striving-first-class-corporate-compliance-changing-world
- http://www.metrocorpcounsel.com/articles/24426/insider-advice-building-effective-board-processes
- http://modern-counsel.com/frontier/
| Connecticut House of Representatives | ||
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| Preceded by | Connecticut state representative for the One Hundred and Thirty-Eighth District 1993–1995 |
Succeeded by David Cappiello |
| Connecticut Senate | ||
| Preceded by | Connecticut Senator from the Twenty-Fourth District 1995–1999 |
Succeeded by David Cappiello |
| Party political offices | ||
| Preceded by | Republican Party Nominee for the 5th Congressional District of Connecticut 1998 (lost), 2000 (lost) |
Succeeded by Nancy L. Johnson |
