Zayo (ZAYO, $26.70) Jumps +5% in Pre-Market, On Reports of Alphabet (GOOGL, $1,101.51 ) and CenturyLink (CTL, $14.99) Interested in Acquisition

Alphabet and CenturyLink Inc. might be eyeing bandwidth infrastructure and cloud services firm Zayo. A Bloomberg report on Friday suggested that preliminary talks were on, although it is still uncertain whether or not the initial interest would develop into a bidding process.

Private-equity firms including Blackstone, Stonepeak, KKR, I Squared, GTCR and Charlesbank have also reportedly shown interest in Zayo. Their buyout offers were reportedly in the range of low to mid $30 per share.

In pre-market trading on Monday, Zayo shares jumped around +5%.

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