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Gary Epstein was Chair of the FCC’s Incentive Auction Task Force from April 2012 until April 2017. The auction successfully concluded on April 13, 2017. He led the Task Force and the Commission’s implementation of the world’s first ever broadcast incentive spectrum auction under the Spectrum Act passed by Congress in February of 2012. The auction repurposed 84 MHz of UHF spectrum and raised almost $20 billion dollars.

Gary Epstein was the Managing Director and General Counsel of the Aspen Institute International Digital Economy Accords (IDEA) Project. The Aspen Institute IDEA Project was a year-long internationally inclusive project designed to identify ways to promote innovation and market access opportunities, foster the freedom to connect, preserve open end-to-end networks and facilitate the free flow of communications across borders on an open Internet.

SkyTerra developed an integrated satellite-terrestrial communications network, based on its patented ancillary terrestrial component (ATC) technology. Gary Epstein was responsible for the legal, legislative and regulatory strategy at SkyTerra. He supervised and was actively involved in all aspects of the company’s governmental filings and with all transactional matters. SkyTerra was acquired and the transaction successfully closed on March 29, 2010.

Gary Epstein was appointed to serve at the FCC to provide leadership for the then-ongoing digital television transition.

Gary Epstein served as a team leader on the Economics and International Trade Team in the Obama-Biden Transition Team.

Gary Epstein was the Global Chair of the Communications Practice Group and founded and lead the firm's Telecommunications Law Practice. He also served as the Co-Chair of Latham’s DC Corporate Department. His practice focused primarily on advising companies on United States regulations of telecommunications, satellite and broadcast providers. He also advised non-US governments and investors on privatizations and restructurings of telecom sectors and advised companies on such policies as US ownership restrictions and authorizations for international services.

Gary Epstein was Chief of the Common Carrier Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission from 1981 to 1983. During his tenure as Common Carrier Bureau Chief, he directed the development and implementation of key policies adopted by the FCC in such areas as market competition, access charges, cellular radio, satellite spacing and FCC international policies.

Gary Epstein began his legal career as an associate at Arent, Fox and became a partner in the Communications Group before leaving to go to the FCC in 1981.