Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP handles the full spectrum of transactional issues relating to global telecoms including M&A, cross-border transactions, IPOs and debt and equity offerings. The team is based in New York and is headed up by corporate specialist Michael Aiello who has extensive experience advising high-profile clients on complex M&A within the telecoms sector. Brian Gingold and Luke Laumann represent clients in M&A, joint ventures and investments; Gingold works with clients in the industrial, TMT, business services, consumer and healthcare industries while Laumann has expertise in infrastructure-related transactions. Arnie Fridhandler specializes in buyouts, investments, joint ventures and M&A cases, as well as in corporate governance and strategic matters.
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Key clients
- Abracon Group Holding, LLC
- Anuvu Operations LLC
- Bell Canada
- Core Scientific, Inc.
- Earthlink, LLC
- Everstream Solutions
- Genstar Capital
- Greater Sum Ventures
- Hut 8 Corp.
- Infrabridge
Work highlights
- Advised Bell Canada, a provider of a full range of communication services to residential and business customers in Canada, in its pending C$5 billion acquisition of Ziply Fiber, a provider of fiber internet in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
- Advising clients in its acquisition of Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc., a provider of integrated communication services including voice, data, and broadband, in a transaction that implies a Consolidated Communications enterprise value of approximately $3.1bn (including the assumption of debt).
- Advised Infrabridge and its portfolio company Everstream Solutions LLC in an amendment and waiver to credit agreement for Midwest Fiber Acquisition TopCo LLC.
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Practice head
Michael Aiello
Other key lawyers
Brian Gingold; Luke Laumann; Arnie Fridhandler