Business and Asset Acquisitions

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2021

2021 Business Acquisition

On March 2, 2021, the Company announced that it had entered into a securities purchase agreement, to acquire Century Gaming Inc. (“Century”). Century is Montana’s largest gaming operator and a leader in the Nevada gaming market with over 900 licensed establishments and more than 8,500 gaming terminals across both states. Pursuant to the purchase agreement, the Company will acquire all of the outstanding equity interests of Century in a cash and stock transaction valued at $140 million. The transaction was approved by the board of directors of each of the Company and Century, and is expected to close by the end of 2021, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals from applicable gaming authorities. The transaction will be funded through a combination of the Company’s cash on hand and capacity under its existing credit facility, in addition to the issuance of approximately 450,000 Accel shares.

2020 Business Acquisition

American Video Gaming

On December 30, 2020, the Company acquired American Video Gaming, LLC, and Erickson Amusements, Inc. (collectively referred to as "AVG"), a terminal operator licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board. AVG had 267 VGTs in 49 licensed establishments. The Company completed this transaction in order to expand its presence within the State of Illinois.

The acquisition aggregate purchase consideration transferred totaled $32.0 million, which included i) cash paid at closing of $30.5 million and ii) contingent purchase consideration with an estimated fair value of $1.5 million. The contingent consideration potentially represents two installment payments, as follows i.) $0.9 million if the acquired locations meet certain base performance criteria and ii.) an additional $1.4 million if the acquired locations meet additional performance criteria. The estimated fair value of the contingent consideration was determined based on the Company’s expected probability of future payment, discounted using AVG’s weighted average cost of capital. The fair value of the contingent consideration is included within consideration payable on the condensed consolidated balance sheets.

The acquisition was accounted for as a business combination using the acquisition method of accounting in accordance with ASC Topic 805, Business Combinations ("Topic 805"). The purchase price has been allocated to the tangible assets and identifiable intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed based upon their estimated fair values. The excess of the purchase price over the tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed was recorded as goodwill. The Company's purchase price allocation was finalized at the end of 2020 and the AVG acquisition resulted in goodwill of $11.2 million.

The condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income include $3.2 million of revenue and $0.2 million of net income attributable to AVG for the three months ended March 31, 2021.

Tom's Amusements

On July 22, 2020 (the “Closing Date”), the Company acquired Tom’s Amusement Company, Inc., (“Tom's Amusements”) a southeastern U.S. gaming and amusement operator and Master Licensee in the state of Georgia. The total purchase price was $3.6 million, of which the Company paid $2.1 million in cash at closing. The remaining $1.5 million of contingent consideration payables are to be paid in cash on the 18-month and 24-month anniversaries of the Closing Date. The amount of each payment is $750,000 multiplied by a performance ratio. The fair value of the contingent consideration was $1.5 million as of March 31, 2021 and is included within consideration payable on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. In addition, the Georgia Lottery Corporation approved Accel's operating subsidiary, Bulldog Gaming, LLC, as a Master Licensee, which allows the Company to install and operate coin operated amusement machines for commercial use by the public for play throughout the State of Georgia.

The acquisition was accounted for as a business combination using the acquisition method of accounting in accordance with Topic 805. The purchase price of $3.6 million has been preliminarily allocated to the following assets: i) video game terminals and equipment totaling $1.6 million; ii) location contracts totaling $0.8 million; iii) indefinite-lived gaming license intangible asset of $1.0 million and; iv) cash of $0.2 million. The areas of the purchase price allocation that are not yet finalized are primarily related to the valuation of location contracts and the indefinite-lived gaming license intangible asset.

The condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income include $0.9 million of revenue and $0.6 million of net loss attributable to Tom's Amusements for the three months ended March 31, 2021.

2020 Asset Acquisition

On August 6, 2020, pursuant to the terms of an asset purchase agreement, the Company purchased from Illinois Operators, Inc. terminal use agreements and equipment representing the operations of 13 licensed establishments. The Company has accounted for this transaction as an asset acquisition. The purchase consideration of $4.0 million consisted of: i) cash payment of $3.7 million paid at closing and; ii) deferred payment of $0.3 million which was payable 90-days from the closing date. The asset acquisition costs were allocated to the following assets: i) video game terminals and equipment totaling $0.6 million and; ii) location contracts totaling $3.4 million.

Pro Forma Results

The following unaudited pro forma consolidated financial information reflects the results of operations of the Company for the three months ended March 31, 2020 as if the acquisitions of AVG and Tom's Amusements had occurred as of January 1, 2019, after giving effect to certain purchase accounting adjustments. These amounts are based on available financial information of the acquiree prior to the acquisition date and are not necessarily indicative of what Company’s operating results would have been had the acquisition actually taken place as of January 1, 2019. This unaudited pro forma information does not project revenues and net income post acquisition (in thousands).


	Three months ended
	March 31, 2020
Revenues	$	110,423
Net income	49,046

Consideration Payable

The Company has a contingent consideration payable related to certain locations, as defined, in the respective acquisition agreement which are placed into operation during a specified period after the acquisition date. The fair value of contingent consideration is included in the consideration payable on the condensed consolidated balance sheets as of March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020. The contingent consideration accrued is measured at fair value on a recurring basis.

Current and long-term portions of consideration payable consist of the following at March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020 (in thousands):


	March 31, 2021				December 31, 2020
	Current		Long-Term		Current		Long-Term
TAV	$	490	$	3,078	$	490	$	3,206
Fair Share Gaming	1,232		566		1,096		523
Family Amusement	394		2,536		391		2,609
Skyhigh	722		5,873		601		5,789
G3	387		62		355		100
Grand River	—		5,922		—		5,755
IGS	80		—		80		—
Tom's Amusements	736		727		—		1,455
AVG	—		1,506		—		1,506
Total	$	4,041	$	20,270	$	3,013	$	20,943