Deal Description: Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WM) and Stericycle (NASDAQ: SRCL) announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which WM will acquire all outstanding shares of Stericycle for an enterprise value of approximately $7.2 billion. The transaction is not subject to a financing condition. WM intends to finance the transaction using a combination of bank debt and senior notes and is expected to close as early as the fourth quarter of 2024.

Stericycle is a premier provider of regulated medical waste and compliance services as well as secure information destruction services.

Waste Management’s release can be found: here.

Baker Botts represented Waste Management in connection with antitrust and foreign direct investment matters.

Baker Botts Lawyers/Offices Involved:

Partners James Kress, Jeffrey Oliver and Special Counsel Christina Ryu-Naya in the U.S.; and Partners David Cardwell, Matthew Levitt and Counsel Sofia Doudountsaki in Europe.

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