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Joele Frank counsels CommScope, network infrastructure firm, as it acquires ARRIS International, telecom equipment maker, in an all-cash transaction worth $7.4B to forge an $11.3B entity.
The partners “bring together a unique set of complementary assets and capabilities that enable end-to-end wired and wireless communications infrastructure solutions that neither company could otherwise achieve on its own,” said Eddie Edwards, CommScope CEO, in a statement.
The Carlyle Group is re-investing $1B in CommScope for a 16 percent stake to help bankroll the transaction.
The private equity firm bought CommScope in 2011, took it public in 2013 and sold it in 2016.
Cam Dyer, global co-head of TCG’s technology, media and telecom practice, said his firm is delighted to resume collaboration with CommScope because of its “long-term strategy, customer-centric culture and ability to deliver results.”
Joele Frank, Wilkinson, Brimmer, Katcher’s Jim Golden and Joe Sala represent CommScope.
Hut 8, energy infrastructure platform, has named NextEra Energy's Mark Eidelman head of IR and SVP of strategic finance.
Teneo handles easyJet as Minneapolis investment firm Castlelake mulls a possible takeover of the British budget airline.
Brunswick Group represents Universal Music Group as it rejects the unsolicited $65B takeover offer by billionaire Ed Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management because it “fundamentally and materially undervalues” the world’s largest music company.
Prosek Partners brings on Danielle O’Brien as a managing director in its investor relations practice, based in the firm’s New York office.
Houston’s Dancie Perugini Ware PR represents Fertitta Entertainment as it takes Caesars Entertainment private in a $17.6B cash deal. 
