Boutique investment bank TAP Advisors has recruited former AT&T dealmaker James Kahan as a senior advisor.
He will sit on the board and counsel TAP’s team on strategy for their telecoms work alongside other related sectors.
At AT&T Kahan was…
Boutique investment bank TAP Advisors has recruited former AT&T dealmaker James Kahan as a senior advisor.
He will sit on the board and counsel TAP’s team on strategy for their telecoms work alongside other related sectors.
At AT&T Kahan was responsible for all domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and venture capital investments in his role as senior executive VP of corporate development.
Kahan joined SBC Communications (Southwestern Bell) in 1992 and oversaw its acquisition of the former AT&T in 2005. Kahan also oversaw transactions for SBC in Mexico, Israel, France, South Africa, Switzerland and Canada.
He left AT&T in 2007 and now sits on the boards of telco Frontier Communications, events company Live Nation, and AMDOCS, which offers software services to telcos.
“Jim is one of the most savvy and experienced deal makers in the telecommunications industry and we are delighted to welcome him to our board of advisors,” said TAP founding partner Karim Tabet.
Recently TAP Advisors worked on T-Mobile USA’s US$2.4bn sale of towers to Crown Castle. In the sale and leaseback deal T-Mobile offloaded more than 7,000 towers. Earlier in March RBC Capital Markets analyst Jonathan Atkin said he believed AT&T was “actively considering” a similar deal.
TAP, founded in 2009, is an independent advisory firm specialising in M&A, private financing and cross-border transactions.
