Crown Castle’s $5 Billion Public Offerings of Common Stock and Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock

On July 21, 2017, Crown Castle International Corp. (“Crown Castle”) announced that it has priced its concurrent offerings of 36,500,000 shares of its common stock at $96.00 per share and 1,500,000 shares of its 6.875% Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock, Series A, at $1,000.00 per share. The net proceeds from the common stock offering and the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock offering will be approximately $3.414 billion and $1.460 billion, respectively. The offerings are expected to close on July 26, 2017. Cravath is representing Crown Castle in connection with the transaction.

The Cravath team is led by partners Stephen L. Burns and Andrew J. Pitts and includes associates Benjamin S. Persina, Erim E. Tuc and Zachary J. Savrick and summer associate Shannon R. Kahlden on corporate matters, and partners Andrew W. Needham and Christopher K. Fargo and associates Ashley N. Elnicki and Joyce Y. Kim on tax matters.