Cravath represented Crown Castle International Corp. in connection with its US$3.063 billion offering of 41,400,000 shares of its common stock and its US$977.5 million offering of 9,775,000 shares of its Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock. Crown Castle expects to use the net proceeds from these offerings to finance a portion of the consideration to be paid to AT&T Inc. and its affiliates in connection with the recently announced tower transaction between Crown Castle and AT&T. The offerings closed on October 28, 2013. Crown Castle owns, operates and leases towers and other infrastructure for wireless communications.

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Brown Rudnick LLP is pleased to announce that Alejandro Fiuza has joined the Firm’s Boston and New York offices as a partner in the Corporate Practice Group.

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International law firm Clifford Chance has advised AMC Networks on its definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of Chellomedia, the international content division of Liberty Global, for EUR 750 million (approximately USD 1.035 billion). The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2014.

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Simpson Thacher represented the underwriters, led by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, in the initial public offering by CommScope Holding Company, Inc. (“CommScope”), a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group (“Carlyle”), of an aggregate of 38,461,537 shares of its common stock. A total of approximately $576.9 million in proceeds was raised in the offering. CommScope received approximately $461.5 million in gross proceeds from the offering and the remaining $115.4 million in gross proceeds were received by an affiliate of Carlyle as selling stockholder. CommScope intends to use the net proceeds of the offering, together with cash on hand, to repay outstanding indebtedness.  CommScope shares are now listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “COMM”.

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