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

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

• Contract Type
  Agreement and Plan of Merger
• 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.