(c) | Address of Issuer's Principal Executive Offices:
10 FINSBURY SQUARE, THIRD FLOOR, LONDON,
UNITED KINGDOM
, EC2A 1AF. |
Item 1 Comment:
This Amendment No. 9 (this "Amendment No. 9") to Schedule 13D amends and supplements the statement on Schedule 13D relating to the ordinary shares, nominal value $0.10 (the "ordinary shares"), of International Game Technology PLC (d/b/a Brightstar Lottery) ("IGT PLC" or the "Issuer") filed by De Agostini S.p.A. ("De Agostini") and DeA Partecipazioni S.p.A. ("DeA Partecipazioni" and, together with De Agostini, the "Reporting Entities") on April 15, 2015 (the "Initial Schedule 13D"), as amended by Amendment No. 1, Amendment No. 2, Amendment No. 3, Amendment No. 4, Amendment No. 5, Amendment No. 6, Amendment No. 7 and Amendment No. 8 (as so amended, the "Prior Schedule 13D," and as amended by this Amendment No. 9, this "Schedule 13D"). Except as amended hereby, the Prior Schedule 13D remains in full force and effect and shall be read together with this Amendment No. 9. Capitalized terms used in this Amendment No. 9 but not otherwise defined herein have the meanings ascribed to them in the Prior Schedule 13D. |
| Item No. 4 of the Prior Schedule 13D is amended by adding the following after the last paragraph thereof:
On July 1, 2025, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the previously disclosed definitive agreements executed on July 26, 2024 by and among Everi Holdings Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Everi"), the Issuer, Ignite Rotate LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of the Issuer ("Spinco"), Voyager Parent, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company owned by funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc. ("Buyer"), and Voyager Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Buyer ("Buyer Sub," and together with Everi, the Issuer, Spinco, and Buyer, the "Merger Parties"), the Merger Parties completed certain transactions (collectively, the "Transaction"), as a result of which, among other matters, Everi and the Issuer's Gaming & Digital business were simultaneously acquired by Buyer, as described in further detail in the Issuer's Current Report on Form 6-K filed with the SEC on July 1, 2025. |