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American Tower acquisitions, on the record

The businesses American Tower bought and sold, as its annual reports describe them, with the cash it reported paying for acquisitions each year and every deal filing since 2016.

Deals its annual reports describe

BusinessDealWhenValue
ATC TIPL (India operations), sold to Data Infrastructure Trust
Word for word“On January 4, 2024, through our subsidiaries, ATC Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. and ATC Telecom Infrastructure Private Limited (“ATC TIPL”), which holds our operations in India, we entered into an agreement with Data Infrastructure Trust (“DIT”), an infrastructure investment trust sponsored by an affiliate of Brookfield Asset Management, pursuant to which DIT will acquire a 100% ownership interest in ATC TIPL (the “Pending ATC TIPL Transaction”).” 10-K for 2023
agreed divestitureJanuary 4, 2024—
Mexico Fiber (subsidiary in Mexico that held fiber assets)
Word for word“This assessment may result in our decision to divest a portion, or all, of certain assets, including our Mexico fiber and Poland businesses in 2023, and our signed agreement in January 2024 with DIT for the Pending ATC TIPL Transaction, and repurpose proceeds, and potential future capital, to other capital priorities.” 10-K for 2023
divestiture2023—
Subsidiary in Poland
Word for word“During the year ended December 31, 2023, we completed the sale of our subsidiary in Poland.” 10-K for 2023
divestitureDuring the year ended December 31, 2023—
Mexico Fiber (one of our subsidiaries in Mexico that held fiber assets)
Word for word“Partially offset by a decrease of $74.0 million in other revenue, primarily attributable to the sale of one of our subsidiaries in Mexico that held fiber assets (“Mexico Fiber”) and a decrease in tenant settlements in Mexico.” 10-K for 2023
divestiture——
CoreSite Realty Corporation
Word for word“More recently, we have invested in strategic data center assets, including through our acquisition of CoreSite Realty Corporation (“CoreSite,” and the acquisition, the “CoreSite Acquisition”) in late 2021, which we believe can drive strong, recurring growth and also meaningfully enhance the value of our existing communications tower real estate through emerging edge compute opportunities in the future.” 10-K for 2023
agreed acquisitionlate 2021—
Spain fiber business
Word for word“• An increase of $9.9 million in other revenue, which includes an increase attributable to our Spain fiber business acquired in the second quarter of 2022;” 10-K for 2023
acquisitionsecond quarter of 2022—
ATC TIPL
Word for word“We recorded a loss on the sale of ATC TIPL of $1.2 billion, which primarily included the reclassification of our cumulative translation adjustment in India upon exiting the market of $1.1 billion.” 10-K for 2024
divestiture——
ATC Australia and ATC New Zealand
Word for word“We recorded a gain on the sales of ATC Australia and ATC New Zealand of $8.5 million, which is included in Other operating expenses in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.” 10-K for 2024
divestiture——
Mexico Fiber (subsidiary holding fiber assets in Mexico)
Word for word“The decrease in other operating expenses for the year ended December 31, 2024 was primarily attributable to a decrease in impairment charges, excluding goodwill impairments, of $131.4 million, a decrease in losses on sales or disposals of assets of $113.4 million, primarily attributable to the loss on the sale of Mexico Fiber of $80.0 million in the prior year period, and a decrease in integration and acquisition related costs, including benefits related to pre-acquisition contingencies and settlements.” 10-K for 2024
divestiture——
VIL Shares and VIL OCDs
Word for word“On June 5, 2024, we completed the sale of the remaining aggregate face value of 1.6 billion INR (approximately $19.2 million) of the VIL OCDs.” 10-K for 2024
divestitureJune 5, 2024—
South Africa Fiber
Word for word“During the year ended December 31, 2025, we completed the sale of our fiber assets in South Africa (“South Africa Fiber”).” 10-K for 2025
divestitureDuring the year ended December 31, 2025—
multi-tenant data center facility in Denver, Colorado (DE1)
Word for word“CoreSite DE1 Note— On April 1, 2025, in connection with our acquisition of a multi-tenant data center facility in Denver, Colorado, in which we previously leased space (“DE1”), we entered into an agreement to pay $5.0 million of purchase price to the seller in monthly installments through March 31, 2028 (the “CoreSite DE1 Note”).” 10-K for 2025
acquisitionOn April 1, 2025$5.0 million
As filedReported in the company's financial data (XBRL), each linked to its filing
Fiscal year endedCash paid for acquisitions (net of cash acquired)Cash received from selling businessesGoodwill from acquisitions
2016-12-31$1.41 billion—$975.7 million
2017-12-31$2.01 billion—$486.1 million
2018-12-31$1.88 billion—$48.2 million
2019-12-31$2.96 billion—$702.8 million
2020-12-31$3.8 billion—$1.2 billion
2021-12-31$19.3 billion——
2022-12-31$549 million$0—
2023-12-31$168 million$0—
2024-12-31$123 million$2.16 billion—
2025-12-31$454.2 million$0—

Deal filings since 2016

Read from American Tower’s annual reports (10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-02-24. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.