Kirkland & Ellis advised Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (“Shentel”) (NASDAQ: SHEN) on the sale of Shentel’s wireless assets and related rights to T-Mobile USA, Inc. for $1.95 billion in cash. Shentel provides a broad range of diversified communications services through its high speed, state-of-the-art wireless, cable, fiber optic and fixed wireless networks to customers in the Mid-Atlantic United States. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2021 and is subject to customary closing conditions.
The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Jonathan Davis and Daniel Wolf and associates Eduardo Leal and Isilay Piskin, tax partner Dean Shulman, and antitrust partner Matt Reilly.
