On December 2, 2020, Vodafone Business and RingCentral, a leading provider of global enterprise cloud communications, collaboration, and contact center solutions, announced a strategic partnership that seeks to transform business communications and collaboration. Together, the companies will create a new co-branded, cloud-based service that will be the lead Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) solution for Vodafone Business, and also offer Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) to Vodafone Business customers. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati represented RingCentral in the transaction.
The partnership will offer Vodafone Business’ global customer base quick-to-deploy, scalable cloud-based communications services based on RingCentral’s leading Message Video Phone™ (MVP™) platform. As part of the agreement, Vodafone Business will offer RingCentral's integrated UCaaS and CCaaS solutions, including RingCentral’s Engage Voice and Engage Digital products. Vodafone Business will provide value-added services in migration, adoption, and integration to ensure customers are realizing the full benefit of the platform. Vodafone Business and RingCentral will initially introduce new services to customers located in the United Kingdom and for Vodafone Business’ multinational customers in Europe in 2021. Multiple additional countries will follow, including Spain, Germany, and Italy, with the platform tailored to local delivery in each.
The Wilson Sonsini team that advised RingCentral in the transaction includes:
M&A
Rich Mullen
Technology Transactions
Chris Paniewski
Sean Withall
For more information, please see the companies' joint press release.