Appgate, Inc. emerged from chapter 11 on July 2, 2024, roughly eight weeks after filing, having confirmed a prepackaged recapitalization plan that converted the cybersecurity company's heavily layered prepetition debt into new private equity and ended its public reporting. The plan was confirmed by the Delaware bankruptcy court on June 18, 2024 under a combined order approving the disclosure statement and confirming the Second Amended Joint Prepackaged PlanDkt. 159, with control of the reorganized debtors passing to Magnetar Capital and existing lead investors.
The voluntary petitionDkt. 1 on May 6, 2024 followed an extended and ultimately unsuccessful strategic-alternatives process. According to the first-day declaration of CFO Rene RodriguezDkt. 25, Appgate engaged Guggenheim Securities and Jefferies in December 2021 and later ran a broader marketing process through Cantor Fitzgerald beginning in October 2023, reaching out to approximately 130 potential investors and financing sources without securing a sustainable out-of-court capital solution. The Coral Gables-based provider of Zero Trust network access software — spun out of Cyxtera in 2019 and taken public through a SPAC merger in 2021 — carried roughly $160 million of funded debt split across a first-lien convertible notes tranche of about $101 million, a much smaller second-lien convertible notes tranche, and a third-lien revolving credit facility, all maturing in 2026. The declaration attributed the deterioration to liquidity and covenant pressure, post-COVID inflation and rate headwinds, and earlier ineffective sales execution, even as annual recurring revenue grew modestly and the customer base held above 660 enterprises and government agencies across roughly 70 countries.
The restructuring was negotiated before filing under a restructuring support agreement signed May 3, 2024 and executed as a prepackaged plan. Working-capital support during the abbreviated in-court period came through a combined DIP financing and cash collateral motionDkt. 17 that paired a new senior secured superpriority facility with adequate protection for the existing secured lenders. The Second Amended Joint Prepackaged PlanDkt. 150 established multiple classes of claims and interests, with the convertible note classes taking the principal impairment through debt-for-equity conversion. The confirmation order reflects unanimous acceptance by the voting classes, including the first-lien and second-lien convertible note classes, and carries the plan's release and exculpation framework, new-board governance provisions, and deemed assumption of executory contracts as of the effective date.
With the plan effective, Appgate now operates as a privately held company under new governance documents and a newly constituted board, with equity concentrated among the former secured lenders and sponsor investors and SEC registration discontinued. The case has moved past the contested-work phase; remaining activity is limited to post-confirmation plan administration, distributions, and professional-fee reconciliation under the supervision of the reorganized debtors.
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