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The Company will have the option of paying up to 50% of the earn-out payments in the form of Class A Non-Voting Common Stock.</span></div><div style="margin-top:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Purchase Agreement contains customary representations and warranties.  Most of those representations and warranties survive for a period of one year following the Closing Date, but certain fundamental representations and tax representations survive for a period of five years.  The Sellers have agreed to indemnify the Buyers for breaches of such representations and warranties, and the Company withheld $2.0 million of the initial purchase price as a contingency fund to secure the Seller&#8217;s indemnification obligations.  Absent breaches of representations and warranties that trigger such indemnification obligations, the contingency fund will be released to the Sellers primarily over a period of one year following the Closing Date, with a smaller portion being held for up to five years.</span></div><div style="margin-top:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Sellers have agreed that, for a period of three years following the Closing Date, neither they nor any of their affiliates will (a) engage in any competitive business within 10 kilometers of any of the Company&#8217;s existing locations or (b) solicit or hire any of the Company&#8217;s existing employees.</span></div><div style="margin-top:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The transaction was approved by the Mexican Comisi&#243;n Federal de Competencia Econ&#243;mica (Federal Economic Competition Commission) prior to the Closing Date.</span></div><div id="i5522fd5068204f4aa9f418bd12bd1bdb_16"></div><div style="margin-top:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Item 7.01 &#8212; Regulation FD Disclosure</span></div><div style="margin-top:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">On June 9, 2021, the Company issued a press release announcing the completion of the Cash Apoyo Efectivo acquisition.  A copy of that press release is included as Exhibit 99.1 to this report.</span></div><div id="i5522fd5068204f4aa9f418bd12bd1bdb_19"></div><div style="-sec-extract:summary;margin-top:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Item&#160;9.01 &#8212; Financial Statements and Exhibits</span></div><div style="margin-top:9pt;padding-left:18pt;text-indent:-18pt"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:94.152%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:3.403%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:94.397%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">(d)</span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 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ezpw-20210609
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
_______________________________________________________
FORM
8-K
_______________________________________________________
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):
June 9, 2021
_______________________________________________
EZCORP, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
_______________________________________________________
Delaware
0-19424
74-2540145
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)
(Commission
File Number)
(IRS Employer
Identification No.)
2500 Bee Cave Road
,
Bldg One
,
Suite 200
,
Rollingwood
,
Texas
78746
(Address of principal executive offices) (zip code)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (
512
)
314-3400
_______________________________________________________
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each class
Trading Symbol(s)
Name of each exchange on which registered
Class A Non-voting Common Stock, par value $.01 per share
EZPW
NASDAQ Stock Market
(NASDAQ Global Select Market)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
☐
Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
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Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
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Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
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Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).
Emerging growth company
☐
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.
☐
Item 1.01 — Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
On June 9, 2021 (the "Closing Date"), EZCORP, Inc. (the "Company") completed the acquisition of 128 pawn stores in Mexico operating under the name "Cash Apoyo Efectivo."  The acquisition was completed pursuant to an Equity Interest Purchase Agreement (the "Purchase Agreement"), which was executed and delivered on the Closing Date.  The parties to the Purchase Agreement are EZPAWN Management Mexico, S. de R.L. de C.V. and EZPAWN Services Mexico, S. de R.L. de C.V., two indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Company (the "Buyers"); Gabriel Rafael Mondragón Mondragón and Ana Dolores Negrete Culbert (the "Sellers"); and PLO del Bajio, S. de R.L. de C.V. (the "Acquired Company").
Under the terms of the Purchase Agreement, the Sellers agreed to sell, and the Buyers agreed to purchase, 100% of the equity interests in the Acquired Company for an initial purchase price of $33.8 million.  The initial purchase price included:
•
$17.3 million in cash;
•
212,879 shares of the Company's Class A Non-Voting Common Stock, valued at $1.6 million, consisting of registered shares from the Company's shelf registration statement on Form S-4; and
•
Repayment of $14.9 million of the Acquired Company's existing debt.
The Sellers will be entitled to receive additional "earn-out" payments of up to $4.6 million over the first two years following the Closing Date so long as the aggregate pawn portfolio balance of the acquired stores reaches specified levels.  The Company will have the option of paying up to 50% of the earn-out payments in the form of Class A Non-Voting Common Stock.
The Purchase Agreement contains customary representations and warranties.  Most of those representations and warranties survive for a period of one year following the Closing Date, but certain fundamental representations and tax representations survive for a period of five years.  The Sellers have agreed to indemnify the Buyers for breaches of such representations and warranties, and the Company withheld $2.0 million of the initial purchase price as a contingency fund to secure the Seller's indemnification obligations.  Absent breaches of representations and warranties that trigger such indemnification obligations, the contingency fund will be released to the Sellers primarily over a period of one year following the Closing Date, with a smaller portion being held for up to five years.
The Sellers have agreed that, for a period of three years following the Closing Date, neither they nor any of their affiliates will (a) engage in any competitive business within 10 kilometers of any of the Company's existing locations or (b) solicit or hire any of the Company's existing employees.
The transaction was approved by the Mexican Comisión Federal de Competencia Económica (Federal Economic Competition Commission) prior to the Closing Date.
Item 7.01 — Regulation FD Disclosure
On June 9, 2021, the Company issued a press release announcing the completion of the Cash Apoyo Efectivo acquisition.  A copy of that press release is included as Exhibit 99.1 to this report.
Item 9.01 — Financial Statements and Exhibits
(d)
Exhibits.
99.1
Press release, dated June 9, 2021, announcing the acquisition of 128 Cash Apoyo Efectivo stores in Mexico
.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
EZCORP, INC.
Date:
June 15, 2021
By:
/s/Thomas H. Welch, Jr.
Thomas H. Welch, Jr.
Chief Legal Officer and Secretary