Under the pact, approved by the boards of both companies, Five9 stockholders will receive 0.5533 shares of Class A common stock of Zoom for each share of the cloud software provider
To target more business clients looking to boost customer engagement, Zoom Video Communications Inc. has agreed to buy cloud software provider Five9 Inc. in an all-stock deal worth about $14.7 billion.
As businesses and schools adopted its services to hold virtual classes, office meets and socialise, the teleconferencing services provider has become a household name and investor favourite in the year since the coronavirus pandemic.
It is now shifting focus to its two-year-old cloud-calling product Zoom Phone and conference-hosting product Zoom Rooms as bigger players Facebook and Alphabet’s Google amp up their video products.
“The acquisition is expected to help enhance Zoom’s presence with enterprise customers and allow it to accelerate its long-term growth opportunity by adding the $24-billion contact centre market”, Zoom said in a statement.
To optimize customer interactions across channels, the acquisition will complement Zoom Phone service, an alternative to legacy phone offerings, by adding the cloud software provider – Five9’s business customers and combining its contact centre software, it added.
The cloud software provider will become an operating unit of Zoom and its chief executive, Rowan Trollope, will become a president of the company, staying on as chief of the unit after the deal, which is expected to close in the first half of 2022, it said.
Under the pact, approved by the boards of both companies, Five9 stockholders will receive 0.5533 shares of Class A common stock of Zoom for each share of the cloud software provider, it added.
Based on the July 16 closing share price of Zoom Class A common stock, this represents a price of $200.28 for each share of the cloud software provider – Five9 common stock, and an implied deal value of about $14.7 billion.
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