M&A Deal Summary

Zayo Acquires Litecast/Balticore

On December 31, 2012, Zayo acquired communications company Litecast/Balticore

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Zayo’s 14th transaction in the Communications sector.
  • This is Zayo’s 14th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Zayo’s 1st transaction in Maryland.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2012-12-31
Target Litecast/Balticore
Sector Communications
Buyer(s) Zayo
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Litecast/Balticore

Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Litecast/Balticore LLC is a provider of metropolitan fiber infrastructure offers Litecast Network and metro Ethernet solutions to various segments.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Zayo

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Category Company
Founded 2007
Sector Communications
Employees3,700
Revenue 2.6B USD (2018)
DESCRIPTION
Zayo's corporate headquarters in Boulder, Colorado.
Zayo's corporate headquarters in Boulder, Colorado.

Zayo is a provider of bandwidth infrastructure and network neutral colocation and interconnection services. Zayo's services allow its customers, which include telecom carriers, wireless service providers, media and content companies, and other bandwidth-intensive businesses, to transport data, voice, video, and internet traffic, as well as to interconnect their networks. Zayo was founded in 2007 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 15 of 36
Sector: Communications M&A 14 of 26
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 15 of 33
State: Maryland M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 14 of 29
Year: 2012 M&A 6 of 6
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-12-17 First Telecom

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

First Telecom GmbH is a provider of telecommunication services.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-01-01 CoreLink Data Centers

Mount Prospect, Illinois, United States

M/C partnered with management to form CoreLink Data Centers in late 2007 to pursue the long-term trend of outsourcing information technology to managed services data centers. Corelink focuses on identifying and acquiring colocation opportunities in geographical markets that have high growth potential and are currently underserved. To date, CDC acquired datacenter assets in Seattle and Phoenix. CoreLink Data Centers is based in Mount Prospect, Illinois.

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