Following notice of its intention to acquire German sportsbook software provider Digitote in May (see previous report), Contagious Gaming has entered into a definitive agreement for all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Digitote Limited and Digitote Software GmbH Deutschland.
Contagious Gaming will purchase all of the shares of Digitote for a purchase price of C$7.15 million (Euro 5 million) by way of a share consideration of approximately C$4 million (Euro 2.8 million) to be satisfied by the issuance of new Contagious Gaming shares at a price per share of $0.50 for a total of 8,008,000 shares.
Further terms include an earn-out consideration of 1x EBITDA for each of the four years following the closing of the Acquisition up to a cumulative total of Euro 2.2 million (C$3,146,000).
“We are delighted to announce that we have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Digitote which expands and enhances our sports betting offering,” commented Peter Glancy, chief executive officer and director of Contagious Gaming.
“The Acquisition enables us to provide our existing and new customers with a fixed odd sports betting platform alongside Goal Time. Digitote’s software has a 30-year history as an extremely robust sports betting platform with a proven track record of handling over $10 billion of web, mobile and land-based wagers throughout Europe.”