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American Tower, CoreSite Forge $10B Acquisition Deal

American Tower Corporation and CoreSite Realty Corporation said Monday that they had reached an agreement for American Tower to acquire CoreSite for $170 per share in cash in a deal valued at $10.1 billion. The transaction is expected to create a differentiated, comprehensive and interconnected communications real estate platform, combining Boston-based American Tower’s wireless connectivity and Denver-based CoreSite’s data center facilities. 

Tom Bartlett, American Tower’s CEO, said, “We are in the early stages of a cloud-based, connected and globally distributed digital transformation that will evolve over the next decade and beyond. We expect the combination of our leading global distributed real estate portfolio and CoreSite’s high quality, interconnection-focused data center business to help position American Tower to lead in the 5G world.” 

JPMorgan is serving as lead financial advisor to American Tower, which is also being advised by CDX Advisors. Evercore is serving as sole financial advisor to CoreSite. 

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