Silver Lake playing for Avaya?

I wrote last week about the talk that Nortel might buy Avaya [1]. There are also reports that Avaya would simply be brought private through a buyout led by the Sand Hill Road private equity firm Silver Lake Partners. Silver Lake is sizable: it owns or owns stakes in companies including NASDAQ, Sabre (parent company of Travelocity), Flextronics, Seagate, and Gartner; among its former holdings are Ameritrade, Instinet, and MCI. It would be an interesting buy. Silver Lake plainly has access to cash and a deep background in international technology companies. And keeping Avaya independent may make more sense than tying it to one of its major competitors.

For more about Silver Lake Partner and Avaya:
- read this Network World article [2]

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