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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:
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. |