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Notes to consolidated financial statements
AR Topco, LLC (the “Company”, “we”, “our” and “us”) was incorporated in the state of Delaware on September 7, 2017 to receive, acquire and own 100% of the membership interests in AppRiver LLC (“AppRiver”), an operating company incorporated in the state of Florida.
AR Topco, LLC is owned by AppRiver Marlin Topco, L.P. (87.26%), a limited partnership incorporated in the state of Delaware, and AppRiver Holdings LLC (12.74%), anS-corporation incorporated in the state of Florida. AppRiver Marlin Topco, L.P. is wholly-owned by affiliates of Marlin Equity Partners (“Marlin”), a private equity firm based in the United States. All references to Marlin throughout these notes refer collectively to Marlin Equity Partners and those affiliates.
AppRiver Holdings LLC (“Holdings”) is owned by the former members of AppRiver, who contributed 100% of their membership interests in AppRiver to Holdings. On September 14, 2017, Holdings entered into a Membership Interests Purchase Agreement by which it effectively sold 100% of its membership interests in AppRiver to AppRiver Marlin Topco, L.P. (see Note 3). This purchase and sale, hereinafter referred to as the “AppRiver Acquisition”, closed on October 5, 2017, which is when we commenced operations. We did not engage in any significant operating activities between the date of our incorporation and the closing of the AppRiver Acquisition on October 5, 2017. Concurrent with the AppRiver Acquisition, Holdings acquired from AppRiver Marlin Topco, L.P. a 12.74% interest in the Company.
AppRiver is based in Gulf Breeze, Florida and provides email security solutions to businesses, including protection from spam, viruses, and internet malware. In order to provide these services, AppRiver maintains a significant vendor relationship. AppRiver expects to maintain this relationship.
AppRiver operates in Europe through its wholly-owned subsidiaries AppRiver AG, a Swiss company (hereinafter referred to as “AG”) and AppRiver AG Spain SL, a Spanish company (hereinafter referred to as “SLU”).
In addition, AppRiver owns 50% of ARM Research Labs, Inc. ARM is a privately funded research and development group created to develop solutions through advanced technologies. The investment in ARM is recorded using the equity method of accounting, which requires the Company to record its pro rata share of ARM’s profits and losses by adjusting the carrying value of its investment in ARM, which is included in other income/(expense) in the consolidated statement of comprehensive loss.
AppRiver is based in Gulf Breeze, Florida and provides email security solutions to businesses, including protection from spam, viruses, and internet malware. In order to provide these services, AppRiver maintains a significant vendor relationship. AppRiver expects to maintain this relationship.
AppRiver operates in Europe through its wholly-owned subsidiaries AppRiver AG, a Swiss company (hereinafter referred to as “AG”) and AppRiver AG Spain SL, a Spanish company (hereinafter referred to as “SLU”). In addition, AppRiver owns 50% of ARM Research Labs, Inc.
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Basis of Presentation
The consolidated financial statements are prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles of the United States of America (US GAAP). The consolidated financial statements include accounts of AR Topco, LLC’s subsidiaries. All inter-company accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
Predecessor and Successor Reporting
Prior to October 5, 2017, the consolidated financial statements that represented AppRiver’s business includes the accounts of AppRiver, LLC (AppRiver), AppRiver AG (AG) and AppRiver AG Spain, SL (SLU). Upon completion of the AppRiver Acquisition on October 5, 2017 (“AppRiver Acquisition Date”), Marlin acquired 100% of the issued and outstanding voting interests of the AR Topco, LLC and its subsidiaries, including AppRiver, LLC. The transaction was accounted for under the acquisition method of accounting in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standard Codification (“ASC”) 805, Business Combinations. Operations and financial reporting continue to be maintained at the AppRiver, LLC level. The push down accounting was applied in which assets and liabilities of AR Topco, LLC and its subsidiaries were recorded at their perspective fair value as of the AppRiver Acquisition Date. Please see Note 3 for further discussion.
AR Topco, LLC’s consolidated statement of comprehensive loss subsequent to the AppRiver Acquisition includes amortization and depreciation expense based on the fair value of AR Topco, LLC’s intangible assets and property and equipment. In addition, effective with the AppRiver Acquisition, the consolidated financial statements of the AppRiver business was prepared for AR Topco, LLC and its subsidiaries instead of AppRiver LLC and subsidiaries prior to the AppRiver Acquisition. Therefore, AppRiver’s financial information prior to the AppRiver Acquisition is not comparable to its financial information subsequent to the AppRiver Acquisition.
Due to the impact of push down accounting, the financial statements and certain note presentations were separated by a “black line” division into two distinct periods, the period before the consummation of the AppRiver Acquisition (labeled Predecessor) and the period after that date (labeled Successor), to indicate the application of different basis of accounting between the periods presented.