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Financial

E.4

Consolidated financial statements

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Preliminary goodwill allocated to the Unify continuing operations

Goodwill on continuing operations was recognized as follows:

(in € million)

December

2016

Preliminary allocation of the consideration paid to continuing operations

242.3

Fair value of identifiable net assets

45.1

Preliminary goodwill

197.2

amounts, then the acquisition accounting will be revised at that

time.

acquisition date about facts and circumstances that existed at

the acquisition date that would lead to adjustments to the above

If new information is obtained within one year from the

The goodwill arising from this acquisition is not tax deductible.

Acquisition-related costs

The Group incurred in 2016 € 4.1 million of legal fees and due

Group’s consolidated income statement.

diligence costs related to this acquisition. These costs have been

recognized in “Other operating income and expenses” in the

on January 1, 2016

2016 revenue and result as though acquisition had occured

twelve-month revenue for 2016 would have been € 606 million

If the acquisition had occured on January 1, 2016, the

and the twelve-month net income would have been € 55.5

million.

Equens and Paysquare acquisition

After the completion of the regulatory processes in the

Netherlands and in Belgium, the acquisition of Equens and

Paysquare were finalized on September 30, 2016.

The business combination was made up of two components:

equensWorldline

shareholders. equensWorldline is held at 44.6% by Atos.

Equens resulted in the creation of equensWorldline held at

63.6% by Worldline and 36.4% by Equens’ previous

The merger of the Financial Services business of Worldline with

In accordance with IFRS 3, this operation has been treated as a

Financial Services Business.

non-controlling interest in the Financial Services Business. The

entity has been fully consolidated from October 1

st

, 2016 within

business combination with the takeover of equensWorldline by

Worldline and the sale to the former shareholders of Equens of a

the Worldline of 63.6% of the fair value of Equens estimated at

€ 400.3 million. The fair values at the acquisition date were

36.4% of the fair value of the Financial Services business

(estimated at € 700 million and to the counterpart received by

As the transaction is non cash, the consideration transferred by

Worldline to the former shareholders of Equens corresponds to

determined by an independent expert.

booked at fair value in the Atos consolidated financial statements

at the date of acquisition. Assets and liabilities of the Financial

The net assets and liabilities acquired from Equens have been

business combination as well as the part transferred to the

former Equens’ shareholders for € 5.5 million.

Services business are kept at their net book value before

The effects of the business combination on Atos Shareholder's equity are as follows:

(in € million)

controlling

interests

Financial Services business

transferred to non

Consideration

transferred for

the

takeover of Equens

Total

Group share

-5.5

178.5

173.0

Non controlling interests

5.5

221.8

227.3

TOTAL SHAREHOLDER’S EQUITY

0.0

400.3

400.3