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US: EQT and Digital Colony Agree to Buy Zayo for US$14.3B

 |  May 9, 2019

Fiber network owner Zayo Group Holdings has agreed to be acquired by Digital Colony Partners and EQT Partners for US$14.3 billion including debt in a deal that will take the fiber-network owner private.

The deal values Zayo at US$35 per share in cash and includes US$5.9 billion in debt, Zayo said in a statement May 8, confirming an earlier Bloomberg report. The offer represents a 14.3% premium to the Boulder, Colo.-based firm’s closing price on May 7.

Full Content: Bloomberg

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