Senior Managing Associate General Counsel
Peter Saharko leads Verizon state regulatory and policy team. In that role, he successfully ledVerizon’s efforts to secure regulatory approvals for the Frontier transaction across the country. Peter and his team support both regulatory and legislative policy priorities for Verizon in the states. Prior to taking on that role, he headed Verizon’s public sector partner and vendor negotiation team and served as Verizon’s public sector deal attorney, where he spearheaded Verizon’s negotiations with public sector entities like New York City, New York State, and Massachusetts. Peter joined Verizon after five years in a number of different roles at the Federal Communications Commission, most recently as an assistant divsion chief in the Competition Policy Division of the Wireline Competition Bureau. Before that, he was a litigator at Covington & Burling. Prior to his legal career, Peter worked as a New Jersey Statehouse journalist and in several government roles at the local, state, and federal levels. Peter is a graduate of Georgetown University, Columbia University School of Journalism, and George Washington Law School.