Telecom: Transactions
Overview
Carlton Fields represents telecommunications companies in complex corporate finance transactions (both equity and debt); corporate acquisitions and divestitures; complex joint venture arrangements (including those related to asset sharing and network build-out); and contract matters, including those related to intellectual property licensing and outsourcing.
Our knowledge of consolidation’s impact on the cable industry and wireless market is firsthand — we acted as counsel in the transaction that created T-Mobile in the United States. In addition, we have represented telecommunications clients in billions of dollars' worth of corporate transactions, real estate purchase, sale, and leasing.
Our knowledge of consolidation’s impact on the cable industry and wireless market is firsthand — we acted as counsel in the transaction that created T-Mobile in the United States. In addition, we have represented telecommunications clients in billions of dollars' worth of corporate transactions, real estate purchase, sale, and leasing.
Representative Matters
- Represented a mobile network operator in private equity financing by large private equity groups.
- Represented wireless telecommunications company in $200 million acquisition financing.
- Represented a mobile network operator in $300 million syndicated credit facility.
- Negotiated $7.2 billion merger of a mobile network operator and a wireless PCS with a foreign telecommunications company to form a holding company.
- Negotiated acquisition by a cable company of multiple cable service providers across the county.
Representative Matters
- Represented a mobile network operator in sale/leaseback transactions involving telecommunications towers and other assets.
