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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 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)

December 21, 2016


UPLAND SOFTWARE, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


Delaware
 
001-36720
 
27-2992077
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)
 
(Commission File Number)
 
(IRS Employer
Identification No.)

401 Congress Avenue, Suite 1850
Austin, Texas 78701
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

(512) 960-1010
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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Item 7.01    Regulation FD Disclosure.

On December 19, 2016, Upland entered into an agreement to acquire a company to join our Workflow Automation family of software applications.  The agreement provides for a purchase price of $22.2 million in cash, which is within our target purchase price range of 5-8x pro forma Adjusted EBITDA. The closing of the acquisition is scheduled to occur on or before January 10, 2017, and is contingent on the approval of the holders of a majority of the target company’s outstanding shares and the satisfaction of certain other closing conditions. The holders of a majority of the target company’s outstanding shares have entered into voting agreements pursuant to which they have agreed to vote their shares in favor of the acquisition at the target company’s stockholder meeting. Upland expects the acquisition to generate approximately $11 million in revenue in 2017, subject to reductions for a deferred revenue discount as a result of GAAP purchase accounting, and to be immediately accretive to Upland’s Adjusted EBITDA per share. Upland anticipates issuing a press release regarding the acquisition at closing. 

Forward-looking Statements
This Report on Form 8-K contains forward-looking statements which are subject to substantial risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Accordingly, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include any statement that does not directly relate to any historical or current fact and often include words such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "estimate," "seek," "will," "may" or similar expressions. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including: our financial performance and our ability to achieve, sustain or increase profitability or predict financial results; our ability to attract and retain customers; our ability to deliver high-quality customer service; lack of demand growth for enterprise work management applications; our ability to effectively manage our growth; our ability to consummate and integrate acquisitions and mergers; maintaining our senior management and key personnel; our ability to maintain and expand our direct sales organization; the performance of our resellers; our ability to adapt to changing market conditions and competition; our ability to successfully enter new markets and manage our international expansion; fluctuations in currency exchange rates; the operation and reliability of our third-party data centers and other service providers; and factors that could affect our business and financial results identified in Upland's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), including Upland's most recent 10-K and our recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC. Additional information will also be set forth in Upland's future quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, annual reports on Form 10-K and other filings that Upland makes with the SEC. The forward-looking statements herein represent Upland's views as of the date of this Report on Form 8-K and these views could change. However, while Upland may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, Upland specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the views of Upland as of any date subsequent to the date hereof.







Non-GAAP Financial Measures
To supplement our consolidated financial statements, which are prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP, we use the following non-GAAP financial measures: Adjusted EBITDA, non-GAAP net income (loss) and non-GAAP net income (loss) per share, and constant currency revenue.



We use these non-GAAP financial measures for financial and operational decision-making and as a means to evaluate period-to-period comparisons. Our management believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide meaningful supplemental information regarding our performance and liquidity by excluding certain expenses and expenditures that may not be indicative of our recurring core business operating results, such as our revenues excluding the impact for foreign currency fluctuations or our operating performance excluding not only non-cash charges, but also discrete cash charges that are infrequent in nature. We believe that both management and investors benefit from referring to these non-GAAP financial measures in assessing our performance and when planning, forecasting, and analyzing future periods. These non-GAAP financial measures also facilitate management's internal comparisons to our historical performance and liquidity as well as comparisons to our competitors' operating results. We believe these non-GAAP financial measures are useful to investors both because they allow for greater transparency with respect to key metrics used by management in its financial and operational decision-making and they are used by our institutional investors and the analyst community to help them analyze the health of our business. For a reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures, see the tables provided in our press release dated November 10, 2016.

Upland defines Adjusted EBITDA as net income (loss), calculated in accordance with GAAP, plus net income (loss) from discontinued operations, depreciation and amortization expense, interest expense, net, other expense (income), net, provision for income taxes, stock-based compensation expense, acquisition-related expenses, non-recurring litigation costs, and purchase accounting adjustments for deferred revenue.






SIGNATURE

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.

 
 
UPLAND SOFTWARE, INC.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
By: /s/ John T. McDonald
 
 
 
John T. McDonald
Chief Executive Officer
 
 
 
 
 

Date: December 21, 2016