M&A Deal Summary

Windstream Acquires Q-Comm

On December 2, 2010, Windstream acquired communications company Q-Comm for 818M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Windstream’s 8th transaction in the Communications sector.
  • This is Windstream’s 4th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Windstream’s 9th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Windstream’s 1st transaction in Indiana.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2010-12-02
Target Q-Comm
Sector Communications
Buyer(s) Windstream
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 818M USD
Advisor(s) Waller Capital Partners LLC (Financial)
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP (Legal)

Target

Q-Comm

Evansville, Indiana, United States
Q-Comm Corp. is a provider of long haul and metro lit fiber services to a diverse base of bandwidth intensive customers, including wireline carriers, wireless carriers, and the large enterprise, government, education and medical markets.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Windstream

Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Category Company
Founded 2006
Sector Communications
Employees11,080
Revenue 5.1B USD (2019)
DESCRIPTION
Windstream office in downtown Greenville, South Carolina.
Windstream office in downtown Greenville, South Carolina.

Windstream is a provider of advanced network communications, including cloud computing and managed services, to businesses nationwide. The company also offers broadband, phone and digital TV services to consumers primarily in rural areas. Windstream was founded in 2006 and is based in Little Rock, Arkansas.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 9 of 14
Sector (Communications) 8 of 13
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 9 of 13
State (Indiana) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 9 of 14
Year (2010) 3 of 3
Size (of disclosed) 4 of 11
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DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
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Hosted Solutions, LLC provides infrastructure as a service solutions to companies and enterprises in the United States.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
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Fairport, New York, United States

PAETEC Holdings is an integrated communications provider offering local, domestic and international long distance services, high speed Internet access, eCommerce and other data services to medium and large sized businesses, colleges and universities, hospitals, governmental organizations and affinity groups throughout the United States.

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