Charter Communications $78.7 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable

Overview:

• Charter Communications has completed its $78.7 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable
• The deal was first announced May 2015
• The acquisition makes Charter the second-largest broadband provider and third-largest pay television provider in the US
• Kirkland & Ellis (Jason Kanner, Christian Nagler, Nicholas Schwartz) and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz advised Charter.
• Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, Latham & Watkins, and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom advised Time Warner.

Kurt Stumpo - Journalist - North America and the Caribbean