Avistar Communications Announces Filing of Form 15 to Suspend SEC Reporting Obligations
July 26 2012 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Avistar Communications Corporation (www.avistar.com), a leader
in unified visual communications solutions, today announced that it
has voluntarily filed a Form 15 with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC). Upon such filing, the Company’s obligation to
file certain reports with the SEC, including annual, quarterly, and
current reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and Form 8-K, respectively,
will be immediately suspended.
After thoughtful and deliberate consideration, the Company’s
Board of Directors made this unanimous decision based upon a
thorough review of the associated costs and benefits of being an
SEC-registered company and the underlying regulatory reporting
obligations. The Company believes that the incremental cost of
compliance with SEC public reporting requirements does not provide
a discernible benefit to the Company and its shareholders.
The Board believes that this step will enable the company to
further refine Avistar’s focus and execution to:
- Demonstrate continued revenue growth
including developing recurring revenue streams.
- Explore new and expanded strategic
business opportunities that add to Avistar’s list of industry
leading OEM/licensing partners.
- Develop new strategic business
investment partners to accelerate Avistar’s growth into adjacent
market segments.
- Enhance the Company’s long-term value
by highlighting revenue growth, product value, the pipeline of
opportunities and growth with respect to any future strategic
decisions.
Bob Kirk, CEO of Avistar, said, “We have deliberately chosen to
file a Form 15 with the SEC to allow Avistar to focus on expanding
our business without the associated costs of regulatory reporting
and filing. Although the cost savings associated with this decision
provide Avistar the opportunity to invest more deeply in our
business execution strategy, there are larger benefits to the
company, such as being more flexible in our communications
strategy, like many of the competitors in our space, while building
the long-term valuation of the company that better reflects our
technologies, revenue growth, pipeline and market potential.”
Kirk concluded, “As I’ve stated previously, our constant goal is
to expand our revenues in what we believe to be a rapidly growing
market, with a product portfolio that is world class. We’re
confident that today’s step will help us fulfill this commitment
and afford us more strategic options going forward.”
About Avistar Communications Corporation
Avistar delivers advanced and proven personal videoconferencing
capabilities to technology partners and end users worldwide. Many
leading technology firms such as Citrix, IBM, LifeSize, and
Logitech choose Avistar’s modular software technology to power
their unified communications solutions because it is a more
flexible, efficient and smarter alternative. Avistar’s innovative
software-only, fully virtualized and bandwidth managed technology
solves major infrastructure and user challenges associated with
enabling video communications between individual employees and/or
teams throughout an organization. Companies across a wide variety
of industries depend on Avistar’s desktop videoconferencing
solutions for everyday business communications with deployments
ranging in size from 30 to 35,000 users. To learn more about
Avistar’s industrial, scalable and economical desktop
videoconferencing technology, please visit www.avistar.com.
Forward Looking Statements
Matters discussed in this press release contain forward-looking
statements under the federal securities laws. When used in this
press release, the words “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,”
“may,” “intend,” “expect” and similar expressions identify such
forward-looking statements. Actual results, performance or
achievements could differ materially from those contemplated,
expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements contained
herein, and there is no guarantee that we will attain the
anticipated benefits, goals and objectives. These forward-looking
statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. Such
factors include, without limitation, Avistar’s lengthy sales cycle,
volatility associated with Avistar’s sales and licensing
activities, market acceptance of Avistar’s products, increased
competition in the market for unified communications, technical
challenges associated with product development and completion of
Avistar’s deliverables to customers, ongoing technological
developments and changing industry standards, the ability of
Avistar’s distributors to sell Avistar’s products to end users, the
capital markets for both debt and equity, and challenges associated
with protecting and licensing Avistar’s intellectual property.
These important factors and other factors that potentially could
cause actual future results to differ materially from current
expectations are described in Avistar’s prior filings with the SEC.
Readers are referred to such filings.
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