Deals
Stephenson Returns AT&T to Big-Deal Era With $39 Billion Buy
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Randall Stephenson, AT&T Inc.’s chief executive officer, was asked last year whether his predecessor, Ed Whitacre, got to have all the fun because he cut so many deals before stepping down in 2007.
“So you noticed!” Stephenson said with a laugh in an interview with Bloomberg News in November.