Avaya Successfully Completes Financial Restructuring and Emerges from Chapter 11

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Avaya Successfully Completes Financial Restructuring and Emerges from Chapter 11

Avaya Holdings Corp. (Avaya or the Company) introduced that it has actually effectively completed its financial obligation restructuring and emerged from phase 11.

Senior executives from Avaya International celebrated the announcement with key channel partners from the UAE and Oman at an Avaya Side World Trip event hosted today in Dubai. Nidal Abou-Ltaif, President, Avaya International, thanked the partners for their dedication and assistance throughout the Chapter 11 process.

This is the beginning of an important new chapter for Avaya, said Jim Chirico, Avaya's president and CEO. "In less than a year considering that the commencement of our phase 11 restructuring, Avaya has become an openly traded company with a significantly strengthened balance sheet. Generally, we minimized our prior financial debt lots by about $3 billion, and we exit today with greater than $300 million in cash on our annual report. The decrease of our debt and certain various other long-lasting obligations will certainly also enhance yearly cash flow by around $300 million as compared to fiscal 2016."

" We have the flexibility we have to purchase the large and growing contact center and merged interactions markets as we finish our transformation to a software application, services and cloud solutions provider, Chirico added. "With a new Board and management group strongly in position, Avaya is currently well-positioned to carry out on its growth plan and provide the returns and worth expected by our stakeholders."

During the Dubai leg of the Avaya Edge World Tour, company executives are exploring how Avaya and its environment of partners are creating remedies that surpass the digital experience via arising innovations such as artificial intelligence, analytics, blockchain and the Internet of Things. The event is likewise describing Avaya's roadmap for 2018 in supplying customer experience solutions for sectors such as economic services, health care, hospitality, retail, and government.

Avaya is taking the steps necessary to checklist on the New York Stock Exchange. The company expects to have roughly 110 million shares outstanding upon introduction.

Centerview Partners LLC and Zolfo Cooper LLC are Avaya's monetary and restructuring advisors and Kirkland & Ellis LLP is the company's restructuring advise.