Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising Verizon Communications (NYSE, NASDAQ: VZ) in its $20 billion acquisition of Frontier Communications Parent (NASDAQ: FYBR), the largest pure-play fiber internet provider in the U.S. For more information, please see the company’s press release.
The Debevoise team is led by M&A partners Michael Diz, William Regner and Katherine Durnan Taylor and includes partner Jonathan Levitsky and associates Sigan Chen, Marisa Demko, Jasmine Fong, Satyen Gupta, Susie Kim, Xiuna Lin, Nur Sultan, Dominique Trudelle and Justice Walters, finance partner Ryan Rafferty, counsel Christopher Rosekrans and associate Timothy Shin, employee benefits and executive compensation partner Jonathan Lewis, counsel Sarah Burke and associate Christopher Johnson, capital markets partner Steven Slutzky and associates Victoria Li and Maayan Stein, tax partners Erin Cleary and Lena Smith and associates Sophie Mirzaian and Robert Nelson-Sullivan, intellectual property partner Henry Lebowitz and associates Matthew Anekstein and Melody Godbolt, real estate counsel Micah Arbisser and associates Alison Cooney and Malina Welman, antitrust partners Tim Cornell and Ted Hassi and associates Maryam Kanna and Adam Saunders and environmental counsel Stuart Hammer.