Simpson Thacher represented the underwriters, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Jefferies LLC, in connection with a secondary offering by a fund affiliated with The Carlyle Group (“Carlyle”) of 19,716,970 shares of common stock of CommScope Holding Company, Inc. (NASDAQ: COMM) (“CommScope”), representing the remaining shares of CommScope’s common stock held by Carlyle, resulting in net proceeds of approximately $654.5 million.
In 2013, Simpson Thacher represented the underwriters on CommScope’s $576.9 million initial public offering. Since the IPO, Simpson Thacher has represented the underwriters on secondary offerings by Carlyle for CommScope aggregating more than $3.9 billion.
CommScope is a leading global provider of essential infrastructure solutions for communication networks.
The Simpson Thacher team included Art Robinson, Jonathan Ozner, Sung Bum Cho, Alexander Coedo and Dennis De Almeida (Capital Markets); Jonathan Cantor and Jasmine Hay (Tax); Larry Moss and Caitlin Lucey (Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits); Linda Nyberg (Intellectual Property); Andrew Pagliughi (FINRA and Blue Sky); and Mike Isby and Timothy Mulvihill (Environmental).