M&A Deal Summary

Stonepeak Acquires Lumen Technologies - Latin American Business

On July 26, 2021, infrastructure investor Stonepeak acquired communications company Lumen Technologies - Latin American Business from Lumen for 2.7B USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Stonepeak’s 6th transaction in the Communications sector.
  • This is Stonepeak’s 7th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Stonepeak’s 1st transaction in Brazil.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2021-07-26
Target Lumen Technologies - Latin American Business
Sector Communications
Buyer(s) Stonepeak
Sellers(s) Lumen
Deal Type Divestiture
Deal Value 2.7B USD

Target

Lumen Technologies - Latin American Business

Brazil
Lumen Technologies' Latin American Business is a provider of communications services to Latin American customers.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Stonepeak

Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Infrastructure
Founded 2011
PE ASSETS 57.1B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

Stonepeak is a private equity firm focused on North American infrastructure investing. Specific areas of interest include energy assets, power/renewables, transportation, utilities, water, and communications. Stonepeak was formed in 2011 and is headquartered in New York City.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 26 of 41
Sector (Communications) 6 of 6
Type (Divestiture) 1 of 3
Country (Brazil) 1 of 1
Year (2021) 2 of 5
Size (of disclosed) 7 of 11
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-06-25 Akumin

Plantation, Florida, United States

Akumin is a provider of comprehensive outpatient radiology and oncology solutions and a partner to U.S. hospitals, health systems and physician groups. Akumin was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Plantation, Florida.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-08-10 Vertical Bridge

Boca Raton, Florida, United States

Vertical Bridge is an owner and manager of wireless communications infrastructure. Vertical Bridge owns, operates and master leases over 266,000 towers, rooftop, billboard, utility attachment, and other site locations in support of wireless network deployments.

Sell -

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Lumen

Monroe, Louisiana, United States

Category Company
Founded 1968
Sector Communications
Employees25,000
Revenue 13.1B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
CenturyLink office location in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota.
CenturyLink office location in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota.

Lumen is an integrated communications company engaged in providing an array of communications services to residential, business, governmental and wholesale customers. CenturyLink's communications services include local and long-distance, network access, private line (including special access), public access, broadband, data, managed hosting (including cloud hosting), colocation, wireless and video services. In certain local and regional markets, the Company also provides local access and fiber transport services to competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) and security monitoring. Lumen was established in 1968 and is based in Monroe, Louisiana.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 5
Sector (Communications) 1 of 4
Type (Divestiture) 2 of 5
Country (Brazil) 1 of 1
Year (2021) 1 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 2 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-09-10 Streamroot

New York, New York, United States

Streamroot, Inc. is a provider of disruptive technology, to improve video and static content delivery within bandwidth constrained areas. Streamroot, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in New York City.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-08-03 Lumen Technologies-ILEC Business

Monroe, Louisiana, United States

Lumens' ILEC (incumbent local exchange carrier) business, includes its consumer, small business, wholesale and mostly copper-served enterprise customers and assets. Lumen Technologies-ILEC Business is based in Monroe, Louisiana.

Sell $7.5B