IPO filings are interesting documents to rummage through, as we found out this week when wholesale services specialist Zayo announced it had filed papers with the SEC for a public listing of its stock. (See Zayo Files for IPO.)
Zayo Group Inc. (NYSE: ZAYO) has become famous in the industry for its appetite for acquisitions, having completed 30 in the period between July 2007 and May 2014, with prices ranging from just $15,000 (Northwest Telephone California, May 2009) to $2.21 billion (AboveNet, July 2012).
Check out this table for the full list and then get the background on some of the more significant deals through our story links below.
Since May, Zayo has struck further deals, closing the €58 million ($78.9 million) acquisition of French operator Neo Telecoms on July 1, and announcing the purchase of the AtlantaNAP data center on July 3 for $52.5 million. (See Zayo Group Acquires AtlantaNAP Data Center.)
For more on some of these deals, see:
— Ray Le Maistre,

, Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading