Joe Valenti
Managing Director, Co-Head of Americas Media & Telecom Investment Banking, BofA Securities
Speaker Profile
Joe is a leading telecommunications investment banker with nearly 25 years of experience across various products and subsectors. He focuses primarily on digital infrastructure and advises clients on mergers, acquisitions, sales, divestitures and public and private capital alternatives.
Before joining Bank of America, Joe was most recently a Partner and Head of Solomon Partners’ Technology, Media & Telecommunications Group, where he established the digital infrastructure practice and advised on multiple transactions including the acquisition of a majority stake in Teraco by Digital Realty; the acquisition of KIO Networks by I Squared Capital; the sale of Digital Crossroads data center campus; the sale of Hawaiki Submarine Cable to BW Group; the strategic growth capital investment by Carlyle into Wyyerd; the strategic growth capital investment by Ariet Capital into Vero Networks, and several others . Prior to joining Solomon Partners, he served as Head of Americas Telecom at Barclays. There, he was responsible for covering many of the firm’s key wireless and wireline telecom service providers and developed a particular expertise advising communications infrastructure and cloud service providers. Before Barclays, he spent 10 years at Lehman Brothers, most recently serving as the Head of TMT within Global Finance.
Over the course of his career, Joe has been actively involved with more than $300 billion of transactions and has advised on a number of notable deals, including the strategic growth capital investment by Mubadala into Cologix; the strategic growth capital investment by Cox and Juniper into StackPath; the sale of Netrality to Macquarie Infrastructure Partners in partnership with management; the sale of Datapipe to Rackspace; the sale of KIO Networks’ fiber assets to American Tower; the acquisition of Vodafone’s 45% stake in Verizon Wireless by Verizon; the sale of Cologix to Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners; the sale of Telx to Digital Realty; the acquisition of Earthlink by Windstream; the sale of Telecity to Equinix; and the acquisition of AboveNet by Zayo.