Complemented by the firm’s dedicated technology and IP transactions practice, the telecoms and broadcast transactional team at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP draws on interdisciplinary expertise to advise clients involved in all aspects of the telecoms industry. The group advises telecoms companies and investors on M&A, spin-offs and restructurings, working closely with the firm’s M&A and private equity, banking and finance and capital markets teams. Michael Aiello heads the firm’s corporate department from New York, offering advice on high-value transactions to broadcasters, media companies and a range of other telecoms clients. Also based in New York, co-head of the US real assets practice Brian Gingold applies his corporate expertise, including experience in M&A, joint ventures, investments and recapitalizations, to the telecoms and broadcast sector.
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Key clients
- Advent International
- Antin Infrastructure Partners
- Apollo Global Management
- Bain Capital
- Earthlink
- Endurance Parent, Inc.
- JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
- The Kantar Group Limited
- Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.
- Nielsen Consumer LLC (d/b/a NielsenIQ)
- Parallel Infrastructure LLC
- Trive Capital Management LLC
- Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.
Work highlights
- Advised Advent International on its acquisition of Maxar Technologies Inc. and Nielsen Consumer LLC, in an approximately $1.65bn senior secured term and revolving facility to finance the acquisition of GfK SE and in a $475m senior secured term and in an $120m incremental secured revolving facility.
- Advising Apollo Global Management and its portfolio company Parallel Infrastructure LLC on Parallel Infrastructure’s sale to Harmoni Towers.
- Advised Morgan Stanley on its $500m senior secured revolving facility for Outfront Media Capital LLC.
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Michael Aiello