Company: FLYW
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-027078
Chunk: 397

Company: Flywire Corp
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 5
Chunk 397
---
LinkOn November 3, 2023, Flywire, through one of its Australian subsidiaries Flywire Pacific Pty Ltd., acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares of StudyLink, an Australian-based SaaS education company that provides platforms to education providers to support their student admissions systems and processes, including features such as eligibility assessment, offer generation, recruitment agent and commission management and acceptance processing. The acquisition of StudyLink was intended to accelerate the Company's growth in the Australian higher education market and enhance the Company's value proposition to payers, universities and agents in the higher education ecosystem. The acquisition of StudyLink has been accounted for as a business combination.During the first quarter of 2024, the Company completed its purchase accounting and recorded an immaterial net working capital adjustment.Pursuant to the terms of the business combination agreement, the Company acquired StudyLink for estimated total purchase consideration of approximately $37.6 million or $35.5 million, net of cash acquired, which consisted of (in thousands):

        Cash consideration, net of cash acquired
         
        $
        32,764

        Estimated fair value of contingent consideration

        2,701

        Total purchase consideration, net of cash acquired
         
        $
        35,465

      The business combination agreement provides for contingent consideration up to $3.9 million, with an estimated fair value of $2.7 million on the date of acquisition, and represents additional payments that Flywire may be required to make in the future which are dependent upon StudyLink's successful achievement of revenue, volume, cross-selling and engineering implementation milestones and is subject to exchange rate fluctuation adjustment between the U.S. Dollar and Australian Dollar. A portion of contingent consideration can be paid in the form of cash or shares of common stock, at the Company's option. Additional payments in the form of shares of common stock will be made based on the continuing employment of a key employee; accordingly, the fair value of $2.4 million, or approximately 84,000 shares of common stock, have been excluded from the purchase consideration. These shares were fixed on the date of acquisition and payable only in common stock, therefore are equity-classified. During the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company expensed $1.2 million and $0.2 million, respectively, in stock-based compensation associated with retention of the key employee. The stock-based compensation expense is included in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss and additional paid