RingCentral Announce Strategic Partnership

RingCentral and Mitel have announced a strategic partnership to provide Mitel’s global customer base with a seamless migration path to RingCentral’s Message Video Phone” (MVP) cloud communications platform.

Partnership Highlights:

• RingCentral becomes the exclusive UCaaS partner for Mitel
• Integration of RingCentral MVP with Mitel’s unique CloudLink technology will provide Mitel’s user base of over 35 million an easy migration path to RingCentral’s industry leading MVP cloud communications platform
• Mitel continues focus on delivering leading UC solutions and innovation for its global customers

Mitel will continue to support customers on its MiCloud Connect platform and, working with RingCentral, provide a seamless path to RingCentral’s best-in-class cloud-based MVP for all its customers in a manner and pace that best fits each customer’s needs.

CloudLink, an innovative cloud platform enabling customers to integrate their on-premises infrastructure with modern cloud applications, will enable Mitel customers to leverage their existing on-premises PBX capabilities via the RingCentral application. This use case provides a seamless, highly differentiated transition path to full cloud adoption.

Financial Terms:

RingCentral will pay Mitel $650 million to acquire intellectual property rights and patents covering network and call management, security, and infrastructure. Demonstrating its commitment, Mitel’s existing investor group led by affiliates of Searchlight will invest $200 million in equity in RingCentral as part of the transaction.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation served as legal advisor to RingCentral and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz is serving as legal advisor to Searchlight and MLN TopCo Limited, the parent of Mitel.

Product and Go-To-Market

Product will continue to be branded RingCentral MVP, accelerating availability to Mitel’s entire customer base through RingCentral’s and Mitel’s combined channels. Additional product enhancements leveraging joint technologies beginning with Mitel phone and device support for RingCentral MVP is planned for the first half of 2022.

“We are excited to bring the market-leading UCaaS solution to our customers and channel partners with RingCentral as our exclusive UCaaS partner,” said Tarun Loomba, newly appointed president and chief executive officer at Mitel.

“The unique depth of this partnership furthers our strategy of delivering world-class communications to our customers and providing them a clear and flexible path for the future.”

“We are bringing together the best of Mitel and RingCentral to give customers the right communications and collaboration solutions for their needs,” said Vlad Shmunis, RingCentral’s founder, chairman and chief executive officer.

“Given our maniacal customer-centric focus, we’re delighted to now be able to offer customers a flexible and differentiated digital transformation path.”

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