Amphenol Corporation (NYSE: APH) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire CommScope’s (NASDAQ: COMM) mobile networks businesses for US$2.1 billion in cash, subject to customary post-closing adjustments. The deal includes the purchase of CommScope’s Outdoor Wireless Networks (OWN) segment, which provides wireless infrastructure for mobile networks, including macro and small cell site solutions, as well as CommScope’s Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) business, which provides solutions for cellular infrastructure inside venues, campuses, and enterprises. Amphenol is one of the world’s largest designers, manufacturers, and marketers of electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors and interconnect systems, antennas, sensors and sensor-based products, and coaxial and high-speed specialty cable.
Latham & Watkins LLP represents Amphenol in the transaction with a corporate deal team led by New York partner Andrew Elken and New York/Orange County partner Charles Ruck, with associates Brian Umanoff, Tiana Baghdikian, Amy Lutfi, Ashley Campfield, and Adrianna Robakowski. Advice was also provided on antitrust matters by Washington, D.C. partners Jason Cruise and Lindsey Champlin, Hamburg partner Jana Dammann de Chapto, London partner Gregory Bonné, Frankfurt partner Max Hauser, Washington, D.C. counsel Francesca Pisano, and London counsel Ludmilla Le Grand, with associates Doug Tifft, Nicolas Jung, Sarah Miller, Markus Welzenbach, Molly Sprick, and Allen Xu; on finance matters by Chicago partner Cindy Caillavet Sinclair, with associate Andrew Miller; on capital markets matters by Boston/New York partner Wesley Holmes and Washington, D.C./New York partner Charles Cassidy; on data privacy matters by Bay Area partner Heather Deixler and London counsel Danielle van der Merwe, with associates Kate Burrell and Mitch Bennett; on environmental matters by Orange County partner Christopher Norton, with associate Kevin Homrighausen; on compensation and benefits matters by Boston partner Josh Friedman and London counsel Shaun Thompson, with associates Kevin Matheny, Joseph Goddard, and Harriet Gray; on intellectual property matters by Washington, D.C. partner Morgan Brubaker, with associates Ryan Clore, Lyle Stewart, Tyra Richmond, and Caroline Toman Lammon; on real estate matters by New York counsel Shira Bressler, with associates Caroline Taylor and Nick Steele; on insurance matters by Los Angeles partner Drew Levin and San Diego/Los Angeles counsel Hannah Cary, with associate Joy Chen; on tax matters by New York partner Jocelyn Noll, with associate Nicholas Sun; on trade controls matters by Washington, D.C. counsel Ruchi Gill, with associate Joelle Hageboutros; and on Italian corporate and real estate matters by associate Matteo Gellera.
