Alston & Bird, Latham Aid Amphenol’s $10.5 Billion CommScope Buy

Aug. 4, 2025, 8:15 PM UTC

Alston & Bird guided CommScope Holding Co. in a deal to sell its broadband and cable equipment arm to Amphenol Corp. for $10.5 billion in cash.

Alston & Bird’s team of lawyers was led by partners Mark Kelly, Scott Kummer and Peter Fritz.

Latham & Watkins advised Amphenol, with the firm’s corporate deal team led by partners Charles Ruck, Andrew Elken and Brian Umanoff.

The transaction, which is expected to close in the first half of 2026, is the second deal CommScope has done with Amphenol as a piece of a series of divestitures to pay off debt. Alston & ...

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