0001193125-09-240879 Sample Contracts

AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER BY AND AMONG WINDSTREAM CORPORATION, BUFFALO MERGER SUB, INC. AND IOWA TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES, INC. Dated as of November 23, 2009

Merger Agreement • November 24th, 2009 • Iowa Telecommunications Services Inc • Telephone communications (no radiotelephone) • Delaware

• Contract Type
  Merger Agreement
• Filed
  November 24th, 2009
• Company
  Iowa Telecommunications Services Inc
• Industry
  Telephone communications (no radiotelephone)
• Jurisdiction
  Delaware

THIS AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER (this “Agreement”), dated as of November 23, 2009, is entered into by and among Windstream Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), Buffalo Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly-owned Subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), and Iowa Telecommunications Services, Inc., an Iowa corporation (the “Company”). Certain capitalized terms used in this Agreement are defined in Section 9.1.