ACQUISITIONS

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2020

MarianaIQ

On April 12, 2018, the Company entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement with MarianaIQ Inc. ("MarianaIQ") for the purchase of certain assets of MarianaIQ to strengthen the artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities of the Company's X Series product suite.

The Company recorded the acquired developed technology as an identifiable intangible asset with an estimated useful life of two years. The fair value of the technology was based on estimates and assumptions made by management using a cost approach method. The intangible asset is amortized on a straight-line basis over two years.

The excess of the consideration transferred over the aggregate fair value of the asset acquired was recorded as goodwill. The amount of goodwill recognized was primarily attributable to the expected contributions of the acquired assets to the overall corporate strategy in addition to the acquired workforce.

MarianaIQ did not contribute materially to revenue or net loss for the period of acquisition to March 31, 2020. Goodwill recognized upon acquisition is deductible for income tax purposes.

Jitsi

On October 29, 2018, the Company entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement with Atlassian Corporation PLC (Atlassian) through which the Company purchased certain assets from Atlassian relating to the Jitsi open source video communications technology ("Jitsi"). The Company intends to integrate Jitsi's video collaboration capabilities into the Company's technology platform to further enhance the Company's video and X Series platform offerings.

The excess of the consideration transferred over the aggregate fair value of the asset acquired was recorded as goodwill. The amount of goodwill recognized was primarily attributable to the expected contributions of the entity to the overall corporate strategy in addition to the acquired workforce.

Jitsi did not contribute materially to revenue or net loss for the period of acquisition to March 31, 2020. Goodwill recognized upon acquisition is deductible for income tax purposes.

Wavecell

On July 17, 2019, the Company entered into a Share Purchase Agreement (the “Share Purchase Agreement”) with Wavecell Pte. Ltd., a corporation incorporated under the laws of the Republic of Singapore (“Wavecell”), the equity holders of Wavecell (collectively, the “Sellers”), and Qualgro Partners Pte. Ltd., in its capacity as the representative of the equity holders of Wavecell. Pursuant to the Share Purchase Agreement, the Company acquired all of the outstanding shares and other equity interests of Wavecell (the “Transaction”). This Transaction extends 8x8’s technology advantage as a fully-owned, cloud technology platform with UCaaS, CCaaS, VCaaS, and CPaaS solutions able to natively offer pre-packaged communications, contact center and video solutions and open APIs to embed these and other communications into an organization’s core business processes.

The total fair value of the purchase consideration of approximately $117.1 million was comprised of approximately $72.8 million in cash and $44.3 million in shares of common stock of the Company, of which approximately $10.4 million in cash and $8.5 million in equity have been held back to cover potential indemnity claims made by the Company after the closing date. One-third of these holdback amounts are eligible to be released in 12 months from the date of the Transaction and the remainder in 18 months from the date of the Transaction. The holdback cash of $10.4 million is recorded in restricted cash, current and other accrued liabilities, respectively, in the Company's consolidated balance sheet. The holdback of $8.5 million in equity is recorded in other accrued liabilities in the Company's consolidated balance sheet. Additionally, in connection with the Transaction, the Company issued $13.2 million in time-based restricted stock awards and $6.6 million in performance-based restricted stock awards, all of which vest over three years from the Transaction. As of March 31, 2020, the total unrecognized compensation cost related to these awards was approximately $15.1 million, which is expected to be recognized over the next 2.3 years.

The major classes of assets and liabilities to which the Company has preliminarily allocated the fair value of purchase consideration were as follows (in thousands):



	July 17, 2019
Cash	$	4,473
Accounts receivable	9,438
Intangible assets	21,010
Other assets	787
Goodwill	91,060
Accounts payable	(9,548		)
Deferred revenue	(90		)
Total consideration	$	117,130

The acquisition has been accounted for as a business combination under the acquisition method and, accordingly, the total purchase price is allocated to the tangible and intangible assets acquired and the liabilities assumed based on their estimated fair value on the acquisition date. The fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed from the acquisition of Wavecell is based on a preliminary valuation and, as such, the Company's estimates and allocations to certain assets, liabilities, and tax estimates are subject to change within the measurement period as additional information becomes available. The goodwill recognized was primarily attributed to increased synergies that are expected to be achieved from the integration of Wavecell and is not expected to be deductible for income tax purposes.

The preliminary value of the acquired intangible assets acquired are as follows (in thousands):



	Fair Value		Useful life (in Years)
Trade and domain names	$	990	0.8
Developed technology	13,830		7
Customer relationships	6,190		7
Total intangible assets	$	21,010

The Company incurred costs related to this acquisition of approximately $1.8 million during the year ended March 31, 2020. All acquisition related costs were expensed as incurred and have been recorded in general and administrative expenses in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.

The revenue and earnings of the acquired business have been included in the Company’s results since the acquisition date and are not material to the Company’s consolidated financial results. Pro forma results of operations for this acquisition have not been presented, as the financial impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements is not material.