CyrusOne Inc. Commences Initial Public Offering of Common Stock
Cincinnati Bell Inc. (NYSE:CBB) announced today that CyrusOne Inc., its
wholly owned subsidiary that owns and operates Cincinnati Bell’s data
center business, has commenced the initial public offering of 16,500,000
shares of its common stock. All of the shares of common stock are being
offered by CyrusOne. The estimated price range for the initial public
offering is $16.00 to $18.00 per share. The underwriters will be granted
an option to purchase up to 2,475,000 additional shares of common stock
from CyrusOne at the initial public offering price, less underwriting
discounts and commissions. CyrusOne has applied to list its common stock
on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “CONE.”
Upon completion of this offering, Cincinnati Bell expects to effectively
own approximately 71.6% of CyrusOne through its interests in the
outstanding shares of common stock of CyrusOne and its interests in the
common units of limited partnership interest of CyrusOne’s operating
partnership, CyrusOne LP, which are exchangable into shares of common
stock of CyrusOne.
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and BofA Merrill Lynch are acting as
joint-bookrunners for the offering. The offering will be made only by
means of a prospectus. A copy of the preliminary prospectus may be
obtained from Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Attention: Prospectus
Department, 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10014, by
telephone at +1 (866) 718-1649 or by email at prospectus@morganstanley.com;
or from BofA Merrill Lynch, Attention: Prospectus Department, 222
Broadway, New York, New York 10038 or by email at dg.prospectus_requests@baml.com.
A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed
with the SEC but has not yet become effective. These securities may not
be sold, nor may offers to buy be accepted, prior to the time the
registration statement becomes effective. This news release shall not
constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy,
these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any
state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be
unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities
laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
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Bell’s Form 10-K report, Form 10-Q reports and Form 8-K reports. Actual
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About Cincinnati Bell Inc.
With headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Bell Inc. (NYSE:CBB)
provides integrated communications solutions – including local, long
distance, data, Internet, entertainment and wireless services – that
keep residential and business customers in Greater Cincinnati and Dayton
connected with each other and with the world. In addition, Cincinnati
Bell provides best-in-class data center colocation services to its
enterprise customers through its facilities with fully redundant power
and cooling solutions that are currently located in the Midwest, Texas,
London and Singapore. Complementing the colocation products, Cincinnati
Bell also offers complex information technology solutions like managed
services and technology staffing.