On June 17, 2021, the Company completed the acquisition of Redflex, an Australian public company limited by shares and formerly listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. At the closing of the Redflex acquisition, VM Consolidated, Inc., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, purchased one hundred percent of the outstanding equity of Redflex at A$0.96 per share at consideration of A$152.5 million, or approximately US$117.9 million. Transaction costs for Redflex were $9.7 million which primarily related to professional fees and other expenses related to the acquisition. Redflex is a provider of intelligent traffic management products and services that are sold and managed in the Asia Pacific, North America, Europe, and Middle East regions. Redflex designs, manufactures, and operates a wide range of platform-based solutions, utilizing advanced sensor and image capture technologies that enable active management of state and local motorways. The Company has included the financial results of Redflex in the financial statements from the date of acquisition.

The final allocation of the purchase consideration is summarized as follows:


($ in thousands)
Assets acquired
Cash and cash equivalents	$	8,760
Restricted cash		2,163
Accounts receivable		6,870
Unbilled receivables		5,283
Property and equipment		29,809
Deferred tax assets		10,315
Other assets		19,247
Trademark		900
Customer relationships		25,900
Developed technology		18,200
Total assets acquired		127,447

Liabilities assumed
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities		31,936
Deferred revenue		8,048
Long-term debt		14,014
Other long-term liabilities		11,736
Total liabilities assumed		65,734
Goodwill		56,214
Total purchase consideration	$	117,927

The Company finalized the evaluation of historical Redflex tax positions and the impact on assumed uncertain tax positions and other tax attributes during the three months ended March 31, 2022 which did not result in any changes to the previously disclosed amounts at December 31, 2021.

Goodwill consists largely of the expected cash flows and future growth anticipated for the Company and was assigned to the Company’s Government Solutions segment. Management has determined that the Redflex international operations represent a new reporting unit for the purposes of assessing potential impairment of goodwill, and as a result of the acquisition, the Government Solutions segment has two reporting units. The goodwill is not expected to be deductible for tax purposes. The customer relationships value was based on the multi-period excess earnings methodology utilizing projected cash flows. The significant assumptions used to value customer relationships included, among others, customer churn rates, forecasted revenue growth rates attributable to existing customers, forecasted EBITDA margins and the discount rate. The values for the trademark and the developed technology related assets were based on a relief-from-royalty method. The significant assumptions used to value these intangible assets included, among others, forecasted revenue growth rates, royalty rates and the expected obsolescence curve. The trademark, customer relationships and the developed technology related assets were assigned useful lives of 5.0 years, 10.0 years, and 8.7 years, respectively.

On December 7, 2021, the Company acquired all of the outstanding shares of T2 Systems Parent Corporation (“T2 Systems”), which offers an integrated suite of parking software and hardware solutions to its customers. This acquisition supports the Company's strategy to expand and diversify into new markets within the mobility sector. The Company has included the financial results of T2 Systems in the financial statements from the date of acquisition, and reported within the newly created Parking Solutions segment.

The Company paid a purchase price of $353.2 million. Transaction costs for T2 Systems were $2.9 million which primarily related to professional fees and other expenses related to the acquisition.

The allocation of the preliminary purchase consideration is summarized as follows:


($ in thousands)
Assets acquired
Cash and cash equivalents	$	13,866
Restricted cash		228
Accounts receivable		9,673
Unbilled receivables		2,153
Inventory		7,467
Property and equipment		3,336
Prepaid and other assets		7,477
Trademark		3,200
Customer relationships		164,300
Developed technology		19,300
Total assets acquired		231,000

Liabilities assumed
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities		10,379
Deferred revenue		21,253
Deferred tax liability		37,129
Other liabilities		4,228
Total liabilities assumed		72,989
Goodwill		195,226
Total assets acquired and liabilities assumed	$	353,237

Goodwill consists largely of the expected cash flows and future growth anticipated for the Company and was assigned to the Company’s Parking Solutions segment. The goodwill is not expected to be deductible for tax purposes. The preliminary customer relationships value was based on the multi-period excess earnings methodology utilizing projected cash flows. The significant assumptions used to value customer relationships included, among others, customer upsell and churn rates,

forecasted revenue growth rates attributable to existing customers, forecasted EBITDA margins and the discount rate. The preliminary values for the trademark and the developed technology related assets were based on a relief-from-royalty method. The significant assumptions used to value these intangible assets included, among others, forecasted revenue growth rates, royalty rates and the expected obsolescence curve. The trademark, customer relationships and the developed technology related assets were assigned preliminary useful lives of 10.0 years, 10.0 years, and 6.1 years, respectively.

As of March 31, 2022, the valuation of assets acquired and liabilities assumed is preliminary. The primary areas that remain preliminary relate to the fair values of unbilled receivables, intangible assets acquired, deferred revenue, legal and other contingencies as of the acquisition date, income and non-income based taxes and residual goodwill. The Company expects to finalize the valuation as soon as practicable, but not later than one year from the acquisition date.

On December 13, 2021, the Company completed the acquisition of NuPark (“NuPark”), a provider of parking services and permit management product platform from Passport Labs, Inc., which expanded the Company's presence in the United States in the Parking Solutions segment. The acquisition date fair value of the consideration transferred to Passport Labs, Inc. was approximately $7.0 million, which consisted primarily of $5.0 million of cash paid at closing and $1.5 million of contingent consideration payable. The Company recorded $0.3 million of tangible assets, $4.9 million of customer relationships intangible assets valued using a multi-period excess earnings methodology, with a preliminary estimated useful life of 10.0 years, and $1.3 million of assumed liabilities which was primarily deferred revenue. Goodwill recorded was $3.2 million for future growth anticipated for the Company and is expected to be deductible for tax purposes. The fair values assigned to tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed were preliminary estimates and the Company expects to finalize the valuation as soon as practicable, but not later than one year from the acquisition date. The Company has included the financial results of NuPark in the financial statements from the date of acquisition, which were not material. The transaction costs for the acquisition were not material.