On January 15, 2016, Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. (MTS) (TSX: MBT) completed the sale of its Allstream division to Zayo Group, LLC (Zayo), a leading provider of communications infrastructure and network-neutral colocation and connectivity, in an all cash transaction for $465 million.
MTS was represented internally by Paul Beauregard, Chief Corporate and Strategy Officer and Corporate Secretary, as well as Alexis Cloutier, Senior Legal Counsel, with assistance from Stikeman Elliott LLP in Canada with a team that included Ed Waitzer, Sean Vanderpol, Wesley Ng, Paul Rakowski and Bessie Qu (M&A), Mike Kilby (regulatory), Andrea Boctor (pensions) and John O'Connor (tax) and Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP in the United States with a team that included Lawrence Movshin and Jennifer Kostyu (regulatory).
Zayo was represented in the United States by Steven Talley and Branden Berns and Manuel Lorenzo (M&A) of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Andy Lipman, Russ Blau, Brett Ferenchak and Stephany Fan (regulatory) of Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius LLP. In Canada, Zayo was represented by Borden Ladner Gervais LLP with a team that included Jay Lefton, Gordon Raman and Laura Costen (M&A), Andrew Harrison and Sonia Mak (pensions), Michelle Henry and James Fu (employment), Subrata Bhattacharjee and Greg McLean (regulatory), Danny Lang (tax), Gabrielle Kramer (environmental) and Eloïse Gratton (privacy).
