Sidley is representing Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. (NYSE: TDS) in the US$4.4 billion sale of United States Cellular Corporation’s (NYSE: USM) wireless operations and select spectrum assets to T-Mobile US, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS), including a combination of cash and up to approximately US$2 billion of assumed debt. The agreement includes T-Mobile entering into a new master license agreement on more than 2,000 of UScellular’s owned cell phone towers.
The Sidley team is being led by John P. Kelsh (Corporate Governance) and Scott R. Williams, Christopher R. Hale, and Danielle M. Haikal (M&A); and includes Mitchel A. Mick, Cameron S. Stanton, Spencer A. Lee, Emily M. Olivera, Helen Jazzar, Peter M. Riley, Elizabeth A. Buescher, Reed M. Kreger, Brendan McCartney, Kathryn E. Banks, Alex Theodosakis, and Kyle Padden (M&A); Sonia Gupta Barros, David Ni, Robert Mandell, and Sara M. von Althann (Capital Markets); Paul E. Veith, Maseeh Moradi, and Lauren M. Stapleton (Commercial Litigation and Disputes); Matthew E. Johnson, Melissa K. McGrory, P.C. Wang, Richard Schneider III, and Alexandra B. Green (Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation); John W. Stribling (Energy and Infrastructure); Heather M. Palmer and Sarah A. Jehl (Environmental); James Mendenhall, Howard J. Stanislawski, and Carys Golesworthy (Global Arbitration, Trade and Advocacy); Robert Lewis, Megan H. Roberts, Andrew C. Adair, Christian Wyse, Angela B. Gallagher, and Max R. Lupin (Global Finance); Scott J.F. Goldstein (Insurance); Nathan J. Greene, Carla G. Teodoro, Douglas E. McCormack, and Bernie Zamichow (Investment Funds); Natalie C. Chan, Teresa L. Reuter, and Carolyn L. Ayaub (Labor, Employment and Immigration); Colleen Theresa Brown and Sasha Hondagneu-Messner (Privacy and Cybersecurity); Elizabeth K. McCloy, Ryan A. Lee, Will Otter, Brandon Bryer, and Margaret Whalen (Real Estate); Elizabeth Y. Austin, Jim Ducayet, Katie Klaben, and Yunzhou Wang (Securities Enforcement and Regulatory); Suresh T. Advani, Nathan Enfield, and Jennifer Waclawik (Tax); Mark L. Kaufmann, Dusan Clark, Robert J. Kelly, E. Kyle Barnett, and Imani Lee (Technology and Life Sciences Transactions); and Leslie A. Shubert and Marcus S. Bauer (White Collar: Government Litigation and Investigations).
