Elys Game Technology, Corp. Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

Subsequent events

Subsequent events

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2018

18. Subsequent Events

On January 30, 2019 Newgioco Group, Inc, acquired all of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares of Virtual Generation Limited, a company organized under the laws of Republic of Malta (“VG”) that owns and has developed a virtual gaming software platform (“VGS”), together with all the ordinary shares of Naos Holding Limited, a company organized under the laws of Republic of Malta (“Naos”) that owns 3,999 of the 4,000 issued and outstanding ordinary shares of VG. The sellers include Mr. Luca Pasquini, the Company’s Vice President of Technology and a member of the Company’s board of directors, and Mr. Gabriele Peroni, the Company’s Vice President of Business Development, each of whom owns 800 ordinary shares of Naos (20% of the issued and outstanding shares of Naos).

Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, on the closing date, the Company paid the sellers Four Million Euro (€4,000,000) (approximately U.S. $4,580,000) in consideration for all the ordinary shares of VG and Naos, which was paid as follows:

(i)

a cash payment of One Hundred and Eight Thousand Euro (€108,000) (approximately U.S. $124,000);

(ii)

the issuance of shares of our common stock valued at Eighty-Nine Thousand Euro (€89,000) (approximately U.S. $102,000); and

(iii)

the delivery of a non-interest bearing promissory note providing for the payment of (a) an aggregate of €2,392,000 (approximately U.S. $2,737,000) in cash in 23 equal and consecutive monthly installments of €104,000 (approximately U.S. $119,000) with the first such payment due and payable on the date that is one (1) month after the closing date; and (b) an aggregate of €1,411,000 (approximately U.S. $1,615,000) in shares of our common stock in seventeen (17) equal and consecutive monthly installments of €83,000 (approximately U.S. $95,000) as determined by the average of the closing prices of such shares on the last ten (10) trading days immediately preceding the determination date of each monthly issuance, commencing on March 1, 2019.

In addition, pursuant to the terms of the Purchase Agreement, the Company agreed to pay the sellers as an earn-out payment in shares of our common stock within one month from the end of the business year 2019 equal to an aggregate amount of €500,000 (approximately U.S. $570,000), if the amounts of bets made by the users through the VGS platform related to our 2019 fiscal year are at least 5% higher than the amounts of bets made by the users through the VGS platform related to our 2018 fiscal year.