Date Closed

December 3, 2024

Lead Office

Toronto

Value

650.00 Million USD

On December 3, 2024, Gogo Inc. ("Gogo") completed its acquisition of Satcom Direct, Inc. ("Satcom"). This acquisition will create the only in-flight connectivity provider able to satisfy the performance and cost needs of every segment of the global business aviation and military/government mobility markets, and will accelerate Gogo’s growth strategies and offering of integrated GEO-LEO satellite solutions and world-class customer support. 

Gogo is a leading provider of in-flight broadband Internet service and other connectivity services headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado.

Satcom provides global satellite communications & connectivity solutions to a myriad of service environments, and is headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, with manufacturing and R&D operations in Kanata, Ontario.

McCarthy Tétrault advised Gogo with a team led by Jennifer Longhurst (M&A/Corporate) and Raj Juneja (Tax) that included Mitchell Lui, Vivian Sy, Adil Akbar and Rachel Cristofoli (M&A/Corporate), Jason Gudofsky and Alykhan Rahim (Competition/Antitrust), John Boscariol and Gajan Sathananthan (International Trade/WTO), Kerri Lui (Defence/Procurement), Vincent Yip (Intellectual Property), Michael Scherman, Marissa Caldwell and Francois Langlois (Data/Privacy), Keith Rose (IT/Telecommunications), Daniel Glover and Gabriel Boulianne Gobeil (Cyber/Data), Tim Lawson, Andrew Weizman and Ziad Shanab (Labour & Employment), Susan Nickerson and Julia Miller (Pensions & Benefits), Laura Weingarden (Environmental), Isabel Henkelman and Nicholas Scuik (Real Estate), Brian Lipson (Transportation/Logistics), Yassine Khadir and Camille Belanger (Tax), and Christopher Langdon and Victoria Everett (Banking & Finance).