M&A Deal Summary

Birch Communications Acquires Primus Telecommunications Canada

On April 4, 2016, Birch Communications acquired communications company Primus Telecommunications Canada

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Birch Communications’ 6th transaction in the Communications sector.
  • This is Birch Communications’ 1st transaction in Canada.
  • This is Birch Communications’ 1st transaction in Ontario.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2016-04-04
Target Primus Telecommunications Canada
Sector Communications
Buyer(s) Birch Communications
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Primus Telecommunications Canada

Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada
Primus Telecommunications Canada, Inc. is an independent full-service telecommunications and cloud service provider serves more than 250,000 businesses and consumers throughout Canada.

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Buyer

Birch Communications

Macon, Georgia, United States

Category Company
Founded 1996
Sector Communications
DESCRIPTION

Birch Communications (Formerly Birch Telecom, Inc) competitive local exchange carrier serving the southern and central United States, deploying a next-generation network to provide broadband communication services to small and medium-sized businesses with over 450,000 access lines.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 8 of 8
Sector: Communications M&A 6 of 6
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 5 of 5
State: Ontario M&A 1 of 1
Country: Canada M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2016 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-10-05 Sage Telecom - Customer Assets

United States

Sage Telecom - Customer Assets comprises wireline services, asset acquisition is comprised of a less-than substantial amount of Sage’s total assets and it will continue to operate as a local exchange carrier in other geographic areas.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-08-28 Birch Communications - Cloud and Business Services Business

Macon, Georgia, United States

Birch Communications, Inc. - Cloud and Business Services Business is a provider of cloud services for North America, with more than 150,000 business customers and a 100% Internet Protocol-based network, including 30 data centers, 31,000 fiber route-miles of network, and metro fiber assets in 11 major markets.

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