Transaction Experience

Technology, Media & Telecom

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Client: Brazilian Pension Funds
Size: $925 million

Advised the leading Brazilian pension funds in the sale of their 55% participations in Americel ($452 million) and Telet ($463 million), two Brazilian cellular telephone companies to Telecom Americas

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Client: Grupo Abril
Size: NA

Advised Grupo Abril in the sale of a strategic stake in Tevecap, Brazil 's second largest cable operator, to Falcon Cable TV, a US corporation

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Client: IBM Corporation
Size: NA

Advised International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) in the sale of its subsidiary in the Dominican Republic to a private investor group

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Client: IBM Corporation
Size: NA

Advised International Business Machines Corp (NYSE: IBM) in the sale of its Central American subsidiaries, including its operations in Panama, Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala, to a private investor group

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Client: Megacable SA de CV
Size: NA

Advised Megacable, Mexico's second largest cable company, in the sale of a strategic stake to C-Tec, a US corporation, for an undisclosed amount

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Client: Telcel
Size: $617 million

Advised Telcel and provided a fairness opinion in the sale of the remaining 22% interest held by a private investor group to BellSouth Corp. (NYSE:BLS)

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Client: Telefutura Telemarketing S.A.
Size: NA

Advised Telefutura Telemarketing S.A. on its ownership restructuring and the sale of Bank of America’s (NYSE:BAC) stake to Votorantim Novos Negocios and other shareholders

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Client: Verizon Communications
Size: $1.8 billion

Advised a GTE-led consortium (today Verizon Communications, NYSE: VZ) that included AT&T and Telefonica de Espana, in its $1.8 billion acquisition of a controlling stake in CANTV, Venezuela's national telephone company, in a privatization