Report of Foreign Issuer (6-k)

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 6-K

Report of Foreign Private Issuer

Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16

under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

For the quarter ended September 30, 2017

Commission File Number 001-37651

Atlassian Corporation Plc

(Translation of registrant’s name into English)

Exchange House

Primrose Street

London EC2A 2EG

c/o Herbert Smith Freehills LLP

(Address of principal executive office)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F: Form 20-F x Form 40-F ¨

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1): ¨

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7): ¨

QUARTERLY REPORT

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Consolidated Financial Statements		2
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations		22
Risk Factors		35

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ATLASSIAN CORPORATION PLC

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(U.S. $ and shares in thousands, except per share data)

(unaudited)



		Three Months Ended September 30,
	Notes	2017			2016
Revenues:
Subscription		$	84,378		$	49,931
Maintenance		76,315			61,741
Perpetual license		19,930			17,501
Other		13,195			7,614
Total revenues	11	193,818			136,787
Cost of revenues (1) (2)		40,090			22,562
Gross profit		153,728			114,225
Operating expenses:
Research and development (1)		94,862			67,458
Marketing and sales (1) (2)		45,466			24,980
General and administrative (1)		35,725			26,915
Total operating expenses		176,053			119,353
Operating loss		(22,325		)	(5,128		)
Other non-operating expense, net		(665		)	(63		)
Finance income		1,255			1,322
Finance costs		(9		)	(7		)
Loss before income tax benefit		(21,744		)	(3,876		)
Income tax benefit	5	7,750			1,239
Net loss		$	(13,994	)	$	(2,637	)
Net loss attributable to:
Owners of Atlassian Corporation Plc		$	(13,994	)	$	(2,637	)
Net loss per share attributable to ordinary shareholders:
Basic	10	$	(0.06	)	$	(0.01	)
Diluted	10	$	(0.06	)	$	(0.01	)
Weighted-average shares outstanding used to compute net loss per share attributable to ordinary shareholders:
Basic	10	228,156			218,504
Diluted	10	228,156			218,504

(1) Amounts include share-based payment expense, as follows:



Cost of revenues	$	2,992	$	1,339
Research and development	25,971		16,999
Marketing and sales	6,209		3,515
General and administrative	8,953		8,670

(2) Amounts include amortization of acquired intangible assets, as follows:



Cost of revenues	$	5,293	$	2,202
Marketing and sales	9,022		196

The above consolidated statements of operations should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

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ATLASSIAN CORPORATION PLC

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE LOSS

(U.S. $ in thousands)

(unaudited)



	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2017			2016
Net loss	$	(13,994	)	$	(2,637	)
Other comprehensive income (loss):
Foreign currency translation adjustment	422			40
Net change in unrealized gain (loss) on investments classified at fair value through other comprehensive income	66			(462		)
Net gain on derivative instruments	179			1,540
Income tax effect	(54		)	(369		)
Other comprehensive income after tax that will be reclassified to profit or loss in subsequent periods	613			749
Total comprehensive loss	$	(13,381	)	$	(1,888	)
Total comprehensive loss attributable to:
Owners of Atlassian Corporation Plc	$	(13,381	)	$	(1,888	)

The above consolidated statements of comprehensive loss should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

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ATLASSIAN CORPORATION PLC

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITION

(U.S. $ in thousands)



		September 30, 2017			June 30, 2017
	Notes	September 30, 2017			June 30, 2017
		(unaudited)
Assets
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	9	$	305,871		$	244,420
Short-term investments	3	307,669			305,499
Trade receivables	6	30,509			26,807
Current tax receivables		12,627			12,445
Prepaid expenses and other current assets		20,184			23,317
Total current assets		676,860			612,488
Non-current assets:
Property and equipment, net	7	38,944			41,173
Deferred tax assets		200,026			188,239
Goodwill	8	311,967			311,900
Intangible assets, net	8	106,547			120,789
Other non-current assets		9,202			9,269
Total non-current assets		666,686			671,370
Total assets		$	1,343,546		$	1,283,858
Liabilities
Current liabilities:
Trade and other payables	9	$	75,494		$	73,192
Current tax liabilities		1,382			2,207
Provisions		6,156			6,162
Deferred revenue		264,329			245,306
Total current liabilities		347,361			326,867
Non-current liabilities:
Deferred tax liabilities		43,920			43,950
Provisions		3,631			3,333
Deferred revenue		13,873			10,691
Other non-current liabilities		5,392			4,969
Total non-current liabilities		66,816			62,943
Total liabilities		$	414,177		$	389,810
Equity
Share capital		$	22,905		$	22,726
Share premium		451,810			450,959
Other capital reserves		485,018			437,346
Other components of equity		6,859			6,246
Accumulated deficit		(37,223		)	(23,229		)
Total equity		$	929,369		$	894,048
Total liabilities and equity		$	1,343,546		$	1,283,858

The above consolidated statements of financial position should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

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ATLASSIAN CORPORATION PLC

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY

(U.S. $ in thousands)

(unaudited)



									Other components of equity
	Notes	Share capital		Share premium		Other capital reserves			Cash flow hedge reserve		Foreign currency translation reserve		Investments at fair value through other comprehensive income reserve			Accumulated deficit			Total equity
Balance as of June 30, 2017		$	22,726	$	450,959	$	437,346		$	2,215	$	4,289	$	(258	)	$	(23,229	)	$	894,048
Net loss		—		—		—			—		—		—			(13,994		)	(13,994		)
Other comprehensive income, net of tax		—		—		—			125		422		66			—			613
Total comprehensive income (loss)		—		—		—			125		422		66			(13,994		)	(13,381		)
Issuance of ordinary shares upon exercise of share options	12	55		822		—			—		—		—			—			877
Vesting of early exercised shares	12	16		29		—			—		—		—			—			45
Issuance of ordinary shares for settlement of restricted share units (RSUs)	12	108		—		(108		)	—		—		—			—			—
Share-based payment		—		—		44,135			—		—		—			—			44,135
Tax benefit from share plans		—		—		3,645			—		—		—			—			3,645
		179		851		47,672			—		—		—			—			48,702
Balance as of September 30, 2017		$	22,905	$	451,810	$	485,018		$	2,340	$	4,711	$	(192	)	$	(37,223	)	$	929,369

The above consolidated statement of changes in equity should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

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ATLASSIAN CORPORATION PLC

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY (Continued)

(U.S. $ in thousands)

(unaudited)



								Other components of equity
	Share capital		Share premium		Other capital reserves			Cash flow hedge reserve		Foreign currency translation reserve		Investments at fair value through other comprehensive income reserve			Retained earnings			Total equity
Balance as of June 30, 2016	$	21,620	$	441,734	$	244,335		$	—	$	4,149	$	550		$	19,275		$	731,663
Net loss	—		—		—			—		—		—			(2,637		)	(2,637		)
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax	—		—		—			1,078		40		(369		)	—			749
Total comprehensive income (loss)	—		—		—			1,078		40		(369		)	(2,637		)	(1,888		)
Issuance of ordinary shares upon exercise of share options	311		4,296		—			—		—		—			—			4,607
Vesting of early exercised shares	4		104		—			—		—		—			—			108
Issuance of ordinary shares for settlement of RSUs	65		—		(65		)	—		—		—			—			—
Share-based payment	—		—		30,523			—		—		—			—			30,523
Tax benefit from share plans	—		—		15,757			—		—		—			—			15,757
	380		4,400		46,215			—		—		—			—			50,995
Balance as of September 30, 2016	$	22,000	$	446,134	$	290,550		$	1,078	$	4,189	$	181		$	16,638		$	780,770

The above consolidated statement of changes in equity should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

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ATLASSIAN CORPORATION PLC

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(U.S. $ in thousands)

(unaudited)



	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2017			2016
Operating activities
Loss before income tax	$	(21,744	)	$	(3,876	)
Adjustments to reconcile loss before income tax to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization	20,580			8,042
Gain on sale of investments and other assets	(16		)	(342		)
Net unrealized foreign currency gain	(20		)	(93		)
Share-based payment expense	44,125			30,523
Interest income	(1,255		)	(1,322		)
Changes in assets and liabilities:
Trade receivables	(3,719		)	627
Prepaid expenses and other assets	3,767			(5,186		)
Trade and other payables, provisions and other non-current liabilities	1,153			(8,534		)
Deferred revenue	22,205			7,688
Interest received	1,430			2,296
Income tax paid, net of refunds	(1,257		)	(1,361		)
Net cash provided by operating activities	65,249			28,462
Investing activities
Business combinations, net of cash acquired	—			(18,295		)
Purchases of property and equipment	(2,564		)	(2,391		)
Proceeds from sale of other assets	—			342
Purchases of investments	(102,341		)	(151,736		)
Proceeds from maturities of investments	50,768			34,850
Proceeds from sales of investments	49,384			111,882
Increase in restricted cash	(132		)	—
Payment of deferred consideration	—			(185		)
Net cash used in investing activities	(4,885		)	(25,533		)
Financing activities
Proceeds from exercise of share options	877			3,717
Net cash provided by financing activities	877			3,717
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents	210			390
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents	61,451			7,036
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period	244,420			259,709
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period	$	305,871		$	266,745

The above consolidated statements of cash flows should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

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ATLASSIAN CORPORATION PLC

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(unaudited)

1. Corporate Information

Atlassian Corporation Plc (the “Company”) is a public company limited by shares, incorporated and registered in the United Kingdom. The registered office of the Company and its subsidiaries (collectively, “Atlassian,” the “Group,” “our,” or “we”) is located at Exchange House, Primrose Street, London EC2A 2EG, c/o Herbert Smith Freehills LLP.

We design, develop, license and maintain software and provision software hosting services to help teams organize, discuss and complete their work. Our products include Jira for team planning and project management, Confluence for team content creation and sharing, Stride for team messaging and communications, Trello for capturing and adding structure to fluid, fast-forming work for teams, Bitbucket for team code sharing and management and Jira Service Desk for team service and support applications.

2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Basis of Preparation

The accompanying unaudited interim consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”), and in compliance with International Accounting Standard 34. This includes all standards issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”) and related interpretations issued by the IFRS Interpretations Committee. The consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a historical cost basis, except for financial assets and liabilities that have been measured at fair value through profit or loss.

Certain information and disclosures normally included in the notes to annual financial statements have been condensed or omitted. The Group believes that the condensed information and disclosures made are adequate and that the information gives a true and fair view. The information included in this quarterly report on Form 6-K should be read in conjunction with the Group’s audited consolidated IFRS financial statements and accompanying notes included in the Group’s Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended June 30, 2017, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 1, 2017.

All amounts included in the unaudited interim consolidated financial statements are reported in thousands of U.S. dollars (U.S. $ in thousands) except where otherwise stated. Due to rounding, numbers presented throughout this document may not add up precisely to the totals provided and percentages may not precisely reflect the absolute figures.

The accompanying consolidated statements of financial position as of September 30, 2017 , the consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive loss and cash flows for the three months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016 , and the consolidated statement of changes in equity for the three months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016 , and related footnote information are unaudited. The consolidated statement of financial position as of June 30, 2017 was derived from the audited consolidated financial statements included in the Group’s annual report on Form 20-F. The unaudited interim consolidated financial statements have been prepared on the same basis as the annual consolidated financial statements and, in the opinion of management, reflect all adjustments, which include only normal recurring adjustments, necessary to present fairly the Group’s financial position as of September 30, 2017 , and the results of operations and cash flows for the three months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016 . The results of the three months ended September 30, 2017 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for any subsequent quarter or for the fiscal year.

The accompanying unaudited interim consolidated financial statements were prepared based on the same accounting policies as those applied and described in the Group’s consolidated financial statements as of June 30, 2017 . There have been no changes to the Group’s significant accounting policies described in the Group’s annual report on Form 20-F that have had a material impact on the unaudited interim consolidated financial statements and related notes.

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Use of Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with IFRS requires management to make judgments, estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts in the financial statements. Management continually evaluates its judgments and estimates in relation to assets, liabilities, contingent liabilities, revenues and expenses. Management bases its judgments and estimates on historical experience and on other various factors it believes to be reasonable under the circumstances, the result of which forms the basis of the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions and conditions and may materially affect the financial results or the financial position reported in future periods.

New accounting standards not yet adopted

In May 2014, the IASB issued IFRS 15, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, which supersedes current revenue recognition requirements. The standard establishes a principle for recognizing revenue upon the transfer of promised goods or services to customers, in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled to in exchange for those goods or services. The standard also requires new disclosures about the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from contracts with customers. The standard is effective for our fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, and while early application is permitted under IFRS, we plan to adopt the new standard as of July 1, 2018. The standard may be applied retrospectively to each prior period presented (full retrospective method), or with the cumulative effect recognized in beginning retained earnings (accumulated deficit) as of the date of initial adoption (modified retrospective method). The Company currently anticipates adopting the standard using the full retrospective method. The Company's ability to adopt this standard using the full retrospective method is dependent upon system readiness for revenue and the completion of the analysis of information necessary to restate prior period financial statements.

As a result of adoption, we expect the primary impact to be related to our term-based licenses of our on-premises products, as we anticipate a portion of revenue for these contracts will be recognized earlier. Currently, we recognize revenue for our term-based licenses ratably over the service period. Our analysis of the impact of this change is ongoing. Thus, the impact of this change on our consolidated financial statements is not currently known nor estimable. We have assigned internal resources, engaged third-party service providers and have a preliminary project plan in order to guide us in this implementation.

3. Financial Instruments

Investments

As of September 30, 2017 , the Group’s investments consisted of the following:



	Amortized Cost		Unrealized Gains		Unrealized Losses			Fair Value
	(U.S. $ in thousands)
Investments
U.S. treasury securities	$	69,341	$	—	$	(76	)	$	69,265
Agency securities	21,720		—		(78		)	21,642
Certificates of deposit and time deposits	49,875		7		—			49,882
Commercial paper	26,354		—		—			26,354
Corporate debt securities	143,689		68		(107		)	143,650
Municipal securities	1,077		—		—			1,077
Total investments	$	312,056	$	75	$	(261	)	$	311,870

As of September 30, 2017 , the Group had $ 307.7 million of investments which were classified as short-term investments on the Group’s statement of financial position. Additionally, the Group had certificates of deposit and time deposits totaling $4.2 million which were classified as long-term and were included in other non-current assets on the Group’s statement of financial position.

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As of June 30, 2017 , the Group’s investments consisted of the following:



	Amortized Cost		Unrealized Gains		Unrealized Losses			Fair Value
	(U.S. $ in thousands)
Investments
U.S. treasury securities	$	61,760	$	—	$	(84	)	$	61,676
Agency securities	16,740		—		(86		)	16,654
Certificates of deposit and time deposits	44,101		—		—			44,101
Commercial paper	33,928		—		—			33,928
Corporate debt securities	148,634		52		(140		)	148,546
Municipal securities	4,789		—		(1		)	4,788
Total investments	$	309,952	$	52	$	(311	)	$	309,693

The Group classifies its financial assets in the following categories: amortized cost, fair value through other comprehensive income and fair value through profit or loss. The Group determines the classification of its financial assets at initial recognition with the classification dependent on the business model for managing the financial assets and the contractual cash flow characteristics of the assets. Management evaluates the business model for managing its financial assets at the end of each reporting period.

As of September 30, 2017 and June 30, 2017, the Group’s short-term investments were classified as debt instruments at fair value through other comprehensive income.

The table below summarizes the Group’s investments by remaining contractual maturity:



	As of September 30, 2017		As of June 30, 2017
	(U.S. $ in thousands)
Recorded as follows:
Due in one year or less	$	245,529	$	223,562
Due after one year	66,341		86,131
Total investments	$	311,870	$	309,693

Fair value measurements

The fair value of financial assets and financial liabilities must be estimated for recognition and measurement or for disclosure purposes.

IFRS 13, Fair value measurement defines fair value as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. The fair value measurement is based on the presumption that the transaction to sell the asset or transfer the liability takes place either, in the principle market for the asset or liability, or in the absence of a principal market, in the most advantageous market for the asset or liability.

IFRS 13 requires disclosure of fair value measurements by level of the following fair value measurement hierarchy:

• Level 1 - Quoted (unadjusted) market prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities


•	Level 2 - Valuation techniques for which the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement is directly or indirectly observable


•	Level 3 - Valuation techniques for which the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement is unobservable

The fair value of financial instruments traded in active markets is included in Level 1.

The fair value of financial instruments that are not traded in an active market is determined using valuation techniques. These valuation techniques maximize the use of observable market data where it is available and rely

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as little as possible on entity-specific estimates. If all significant inputs required to measure the fair value an instrument are observable, the instrument is included in Level 2.

If one or more of the significant inputs is not based on observable market data, the instrument is included in Level 3.

Assets and liabilities measured at fair value are classified in their entirety based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The Group's assessment of the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement in its entirety requires management to make judgments and considers factors specific to the asset or liability. There were no transfers between levels during the three months ended September 30, 2017.

The following table presents the Group’s financial assets and liabilities measured and recognized at fair value as of September 30, 2017 , by level within the fair value hierarchy:



	Level 1		Level 2			Level 3		Total
	(U.S. $ in thousands)
Description
Assets
Cash and cash equivalents:
Money market funds	$	112,225	$	—		$	—	$	112,225
Commercial paper	—		7,687			—		7,687
Total cash and cash equivalents	112,225		7,687			—		119,912
Investments:
U.S. treasury securities	—		69,265			—		69,265
Agency securities	—		21,641			—		21,641
Certificates of deposit and time deposits	—		49,882			—		49,882
Commercial paper	—		26,354			—		26,354
Corporate debt securities	—		143,651			—		143,651
Municipal securities	—		1,077			—		1,077
Total investments	—		311,870			—		311,870
Derivative instruments	—		3,707			—		3,707
Total assets	$	112,225	$	323,264		$	—	$	435,489
Liabilities
Derivative instruments	$	—	$	(406	)	$	—	$	(406	)
Total liabilities	$	—	$	(406	)	$	—	$	(406	)

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The following table presents the Group’s financial assets measured and recognized at fair value as of June 30, 2017, by level within the fair value hierarchy:



	Level 1		Level 2		Level 3		Total
	(U.S. $ in thousands)
Description
Cash and cash equivalents:
Money market funds	$	78,564	$	—	$	—	$	78,564
Commercial paper	—		2,749		—		2,749
Total cash and cash equivalents	78,564		2,749		—		81,313
Investments:
U.S. treasury securities	—		61,676		—		61,676
Agency securities	—		16,654		—		16,654
Certificates of deposit and time deposits	—		44,101		—		44,101
Commercial paper	—		33,928		—		33,928
Corporate debt securities	—		148,546		—		148,546
Municipal securities	—		4,788		—		4,788
Total investments	—		309,693		—		309,693
Derivative instruments	—		3,252		—		3,252
Total assets	$	78,564	$	315,694	$	—	$	394,258

Derivative financial instruments

We enter into derivative transactions to manage certain foreign currency exchange risks that arise in the Group’s ordinary business operations. We recognize all derivative instruments as either assets or liabilities on our consolidated statement of financial position and measure them at fair value. Gains and losses resulting from changes in fair value are accounted for depending on the use of the derivative and whether it is designated and qualifies for hedge accounting.

We enter into master netting agreements with select financial institutions to reduce our credit risk and contract with several counterparties to reduce our concentration risk with any single counterparty. We do not have significant exposure to counterparty credit risk at this time. We do not require nor are we required to post collateral of any kind related to our foreign currency derivatives.

Cash flow hedging

We enter into foreign exchange forward contracts with the objective to mitigate certain currency risks associated with cost of revenues and operating expenses denominated in Australian dollars. These foreign exchange forward contracts are designated as cash flow hedges.

To receive hedge accounting treatment, all hedging relationships are formally documented at the inception of the hedge, and the hedges must be highly effective in offsetting changes to future cash flows on hedged transactions. We include the forward element of these hedging instruments in the hedge relationship and on a quarterly basis qualitatively assess whether the hedges are expected to provide offsetting changes against the hedged items. The effect of the cash flow hedges determined to be effective is recognized in other comprehensive income and impact profit or loss in the same period or periods as the hedged items are recognized in profit or loss. Amounts reclassified from cash flow hedge reserve to profit or loss are recorded to the same functional expense as hedged item or items. Gains or losses related to the ineffective portion of cash flow hedges, if any, are recognized immediately in the same functional expense as the hedged item or items. We measure ineffectiveness in a cash flow hedge relationship using the hypothetical derivative method. Ineffectiveness occurs only if the present value of the cumulative gain or loss on the derivative instrument exceeds the present value of the cumulative gain or loss on the hypothetical derivative, which is used to measure changes of expected future cash flow.

It is our policy to enter into cash flow hedges to hedge cost of revenues and operating expenses up to 18 months.

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Balance sheet hedging

We also enter into foreign exchange forward contracts to hedge a portion of certain foreign currency denominated as monetary assets and liabilities to reduce the risk that such foreign currency will be adversely affected by changes in exchange rates. These contracts hedge monetary assets and liabilities that are denominated in non-functional currencies and are carried at fair value with changes in the fair value recorded to other non-operating income (expense), net on our consolidated statement of operations. These contracts do not subject us to material balance sheet risk due to exchange rate movements because gains and losses on these derivatives are intended to offset gains and losses on the monetary assets and liabilities being hedged.

The fair value of the derivative instruments were as follows:



		Fair Value
	Statement of Financial Position Location	As of September 30, 2017			As of June 30, 2017
		(U.S. $ in thousands)
Derivative assets
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments:
Foreign exchange forward contracts	Prepaid expenses and other current assets	$	3,696		$	2,915
Foreign exchange forward contracts	Other non-current assets	—			249
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:
Foreign exchange forward contracts	Prepaid expenses and other current assets	11			88
Total derivative assets		$	3,707		$	3,252
Derivative liabilities
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments:
Foreign exchange forward contracts	Trade and other payables	$	(255	)	$	—
Foreign exchange forward contracts	Other non-current liabilities	(110		)	—
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:
Foreign exchange forward contracts	Trade and other payables	(41		)	—
Total derivative liabilities		$	(406	)	$	—

The following table sets forth the notional amounts of our derivative instruments at September 30, 2017 (in thousands):



	Notional Amounts of Derivative Instruments
	Notional Amount by Term to Maturity			Classification by Notional Amount
	Under 12 months	Over 12 months	Total	Cash Flow Hedge	Non Hedge	Total
Australian dollar forward contracts	A$130,885	A$11,940	A$142,825	A$136,525	A$6,300	A$142,825

The following table sets forth the notional amounts of our derivative instruments at June 30, 2017 (in thousands):



	Notional Amounts of Derivative Instruments
	Notional Amount by Term to Maturity			Classification by Notional Amount
	Under 12 months	Over 12 months	Total	Cash Flow Hedge	Non Hedge	Total
Australian dollar forward contracts	A$134,980	A$11,720	A$146,700	A$134,200	A$12,500	A$146,700

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The effects of derivatives designated as hedging instruments on our consolidated financial statements were as follows (amounts presented are prior to any income tax effects):



	Foreign Exchange Forward Contracts
	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2017			2016
	(U.S. $ in thousands)
Gross unrealized gain recognized in other comprehensive income	$	5,020		$	1,889
Net gain reclassified from cash flow hedge reserve into profit or loss - effective portion	$	1,689		$	349
Loss recognized into profit or loss - ineffective portion	$	(12	)	$	—

4. Expenses

Loss before income tax benefit included the following expenses:



	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2017		2016
	(U.S. $ in thousands)
Depreciation:
Equipment	$	276	$	211
Computer hardware and software	3,939		3,965
Furniture and fittings	304		226
Leasehold improvements	1,745		1,242
Total depreciation	6,264		5,644
Amortization:
Patents and trademarks	1,747		39
Customer relationships	7,276		157
Acquired developed technology	5,293		2,202
Total amortization	14,316		2,398
Total depreciation and amortization	$	20,580	$	8,042
Employee benefits expense:
Salaries and wages	$	61,807	$	45,283
Variable compensation	7,037		4,324
Payroll taxes	5,191		4,532
Share-based payment expense	44,125		30,523
Defined contribution plan expense	3,835		2,923
Contractor expense	5,022		3,405
Other	9,759		7,529
Total employee benefits expense	$	136,776	$	98,519

5. Income Tax

The Group reported a tax benefit of $7.8 million on a pretax loss of $21.7 million and a tax benefit of $1.2 million on pretax loss of $3.9 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively. The Group’s effective tax rate substantially differed from the United Kingdom’s income tax rate of 19% primarily due to the recognition of significant permanent differences during the three months ended September 30, 2017. Significant permanent differences included non-deductible share-based payment expense, research and development incentives and taxes in foreign jurisdictions with a tax rate different than the United Kingdom statutory rate, primarily Australia and the United States.

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6. Trade Receivables

The Group’s trade receivables consisted of the following:



	As of
	September 30, 2017			June 30, 2017
	(U.S. $ in thousands)
Trade receivables	$	30,776		$	26,923
Provision for impairment of receivables	(267		)	(116		)
	$	30,509		$	26,807

As of September 30, 2017 and June 30, 2017, one customer, a channel partner, represented 10% and 11%, respectively, of the total trade receivables balance.

7. Property and Equipment

Property and equipment, net consisted of the following:



	Equipment			Computer Hardware and Software			Furniture and Fittings			Leasehold Improvements			Total
	(U.S. $ in thousands)
As of September 30, 2017
Opening cost	$	3,895		$	53,448		$	7,083		$	33,840		$	98,266
Additions	439			(34		)	1,052			2,474			3,931
Disposals	(1		)	(31		)	—			—			(32		)
Effect of change in exchange rates on cost	11			7			21			102			141
Closing cost	4,344			53,390			8,156			36,416			102,306

Opening accumulated depreciation	(2,121		)	(38,336		)	(2,449		)	(14,187		)	(57,093		)
Depreciation expense	(276		)	(3,939		)	(304		)	(1,745		)	(6,264		)
Effect of change in exchange rates	(5		)	(4		)	(6		)	(21		)	(36		)
Disposals	1			30			—			—			31
Closing accumulated depreciation	(2,401		)	(42,249		)	(2,759		)	(15,953		)	(63,362		)
Net book amount	$	1,943		$	11,141		$	5,397		$	20,463		$	38,944

8. Goodwill and Intangible Assets

Goodwill

Goodwill represents the excess of the purchase price in a business combination over the fair value of net tangible and intangible assets acquired. Goodwill amounts are not amortized, but rather tested for impairment at least annually during the fourth quarter.

Goodwill consisted of the following:



	Goodwill
	(U.S. $ in thousands)
Balance as of June 30, 2017	$	311,900
Effect of change in exchange rates	67
Balance as of September 30, 2017	$	311,967

There was no impairment of goodwill during the three months ended September 30, 2017 . Through September 30, 2017, there were no indicators of impairment.

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Intangible assets

Intangible assets consisted of the following:



	Patents, Trademarks and Other Rights			Acquired Developed Technology			Employee Contracts			Customer Relationships			Total
	(U.S. $ in thousands)
As of September 30, 2017
Opening cost balance	$	21,745		$	133,329		$	3,631		$	58,684		$	217,389
Additions	—			—			—			—			—
Effect of change in exchange rates	—			137			—			—			137
Closing cost amount	21,745			133,466			3,631			58,684			217,526

Opening accumulated amortization	(3,042		)	(77,128		)	(3,631		)	(12,799		)	(96,600		)
Amortization charge	(1,747		)	(5,293		)	—			(7,276		)	(14,316		)
Effect of change in exchange rates	—			(63		)	—			—			(63		)
Closing accumulated amortization	(4,789		)	(82,484		)	(3,631		)	(20,075		)	(110,979		)
Net book amount	$	16,956		$	50,982		$	—		$	38,609		$	106,547

As of September 30, 2017 , no development costs have qualified for capitalization, and all development costs have been expensed as incurred. As of September 30, 2017 , the remaining amortization period for acquired developed technology ranged from approximately two years to four years.

9. Other Balance Sheet Accounts

Cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents consisted of the following:



	As of
	September 30, 2017		June 30, 2017
	(U.S. $ in thousands)
Cash and bank deposits	$	185,959	$	163,107
Commercial paper	7,687		2,749
Money market funds	112,225		78,564
Total cash and cash equivalents	$	305,871	$	244,420

Other non-current assets

Included in the Group’s other non-current assets balance as of September 30, 2017 was $3.5 million of restricted cash used for commitments of standby letters of credit related to facility leases and were not available for the Group’s use in its operations.

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Trade and other payables

Trade and other payables consisted of the following:



	As of
	September 30, 2017		June 30, 2017
	(U.S. $ in thousands)
Trade payables	$	15,812	$	12,464
Accrued expenses	35,489		24,761
Accrued compensation and employee benefits	6,069		16,687
Retention bonus	1,181		1,906
Sales and indirect taxes	6,160		6,114
Operating lease payable	1,311		688
Deferred acquisition-related consideration	3,300		3,300
Other payables	6,172		7,272
	$	75,494	$	73,192

10. Earnings Per Share

Basic earnings per share is computed by dividing the net income (loss) attributable to ordinary shareholders by the weighted-average number of ordinary shares outstanding during the period. Diluted earnings per share is computed by giving effect to all potential weighted-average dilutive shares. The dilutive effect of outstanding awards is reflected in diluted earnings per share by application of the treasury stock method.

A reconciliation of the calculation of basic and diluted loss per share is as follows:



	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2017			2016
	(U.S. $ in thousands, except per share data)
Numerator:
Net loss	$	(13,994	)	$	(2,637	)
Denominator:
Weighted-average ordinary shares outstanding—basic	228,156			218,504
Effect of potentially dilutive shares:
Share options and RSUs	—			—
Weighted-average ordinary shares outstanding—diluted	228,156			218,504
Net loss per share attributable to ordinary shareholders:
Basic net loss per share	$	(0.06	)	$	(0.01	)
Diluted net loss per share	$	(0.06	)	$	(0.01	)

For the three months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, potentially anti-dilutive shares excluded from the computation of net loss per share were 12.6 million and 15.6 million, respectively.

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11. Revenues by Geographic Region

The Group’s revenues by geographic region are as follows:



	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2017		2016
	(U.S. $ in thousands)
Americas	$	98,176	$	69,645
EMEA	75,286		52,809
Asia Pacific	20,356		14,333
	$	193,818	$	136,787

Revenues from the United States totaled approximately $87 million and $62 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016 , respectively.

12. Share-based Payments

The Group maintains four share-based employee compensation plans: the 2015 Share Incentive Plan (“2015 Plan”); the 2014 Restricted Share Unit Plan (“2014 Plan”); the Atlassian Corporation Plc 2013 U.S. Share Option Plan (“2013 U.S. Option Plan”); and the Atlassian UK Employee Share Option Plan (together with the 2013 U.S. Option Plan, the “Option Plans”). In October 2015, the Board of Directors approved the 2015 Plan, and in November 2015, our shareholders adopted the 2015 Plan, effective on our initial public offering, which serves as the successor to the 2014 Plan and the Option Plans and provides for the issuance of incentive and nonstatutory share options, share appreciation rights, restricted share awards, RSUs, unrestricted share awards, cash-based awards, performance share awards, performance-based awards to covered employees, and dividend equivalent rights to qualified employees, directors and consultants.

RSU grants generally vest 25% on the one year anniversary and 1/12 th vest over the remaining three years, on a quarterly basis thereafter.

Under the Option Plans, share options have a contractual life of seven to ten years and typically follow a standard vesting schedule over a 4 year period: 25% vest after one year and 1/48th monthly vesting for the 36 months thereafter. Individuals must continue to provide services to a Group entity in order to vest. Upon termination, all unvested options are forfeited and vested options must generally be exercised within three months.

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RSU and share option activity was as follows:



			Share Options
	Shares Available for Grant		Share Options Outstanding		Weighted- Average Exercise Price		RSUs Outstanding
Balance as of June 30, 2017	21,597,913		4,642,661		$	2.21	12,417,473
Increase in 2015 Plan shares	11,423,916		—		—		—
RSUs granted	(2,809,123	)	—		—		2,809,123
RSUs canceled	501,614		—		—		(501,614	)
RSUs settled	—		—		—		(1,079,516	)
Share options granted	—		—		—		—
Share options exercised	—		(455,312	)	1.80		—
Share options canceled	5,087		(5,087	)	2.29		—
Balance as of September 30, 2017	30,719,407		4,182,262		$	2.26	13,645,466
Share options vested and exercisable as of September 30, 2017			2,863,181		$	2.37
Share options vested and exercisable as of June 30, 2017			3,074,737		$	2.31

The weighted-average remaining contractual life for options outstanding as of September 30, 2017 and June 30, 2017 was 4.5 years and 4.7 years, respectively.

Options exercisable as of September 30, 2017 and June 30, 2017 , had a weighted-average remaining contractual life of approximately 3.4 years and 3.5 years, respectively.

Class B ordinary share option activity was as follows:



	Shares Available for Grant	Outstanding Share Options		Weighted- Average Exercise Price
Balance as of June 30, 2017	—	520,271		$	0.63
Exercised	—	(91,000	)	0.64
Balance as of September 30, 2017	—	429,271		$	0.64

Class B ordinary share options exercisable as of September 30, 2017 and June 30, 2017 had a weighted-average remaining contractual life of approximately 0.7 years and 0.9 years, respectively. Class B ordinary share options are denominated in Australian dollars.

All share-based payments are measured based on the grant date fair value of the awards and recognized in the consolidated statements of operations over the period during which the employee is required to perform services in exchange for the award (generally the four-year vesting period of the award).

The weighted-average grant date fair value of the RSUs issued during the three months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016 was $34.97 per share and $29.98 per share, respectively.

As of September 30, 2017 , the Group had an aggregate of $191.5 million of future period share-based payment expense related to all equity awards outstanding, net of estimated forfeitures, to be amortized over a weighted-average period of 1.3 years.

Share subject to repurchase

As of September 30, 2017 and June 30,2017, outstanding shares included 1,058,639 and 1,214,689 shares, respectively, that are subject to repurchase as they were early exercised and unvested. The Company retains the right to repurchase, at the original exercise price, any unvested (but issued) shares during the repurchase period following employee termination. These amounts have been recorded on the consolidated statements of financial position as a liability as of September 30, 2017 and June 30, 2017 .

13. Related Party Transactions

During the reporting period, we had no related party transactions that had a material effect on our business, financial position or results in the reporting period.

14. Subsequent Events

On October 25, 2017, we entered into an office lease for approximately 133,000 square feet located in Mountain View, California. This lease term is expected to commence in the third quarter of fiscal 2018 for a term of 10 years. We have one seven-year option to extend the term of the Lease . Our total obligation for the base rent will be approximately $107.9 million.

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SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This quarterly report contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, which statements involve substantial risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements generally relate to future events or our future financial or operating performance. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements because they contain words such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “expects,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “could,” “intends,” “target,” “projects,” “contemplates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential” or “continue” or the negative of these words or other similar terms or expressions that articulate our expectations, strategy, plans or intentions. Forward-looking statements contained in this quarterly report include, but are not limited to, statements about:


•	our future financial performance, including our revenues, cost of revenues, gross profit or gross margin and operating expenses;


•	the sufficiency of our cash and cash equivalents to meet our liquidity needs;


•	our ability to increase the number of customers using our software;


•	our ability to attract and retain customers to use our products and solutions;


•	our ability to successfully expand in our existing markets and into new markets;


•	our ability to effectively manage our growth and future expenses;


•	our ability to maintain, protect and enhance our intellectual property;


•	our future profitability;


•	our ability to comply with modified or new laws and regulations applying to our business, including privacy and data security regulations;


•	our ability to attract and retain qualified employees and key personnel;


•	our ability to extend our teamwork platform by successfully integrating Trello’s collaboration service to our existing project management, content creation and communication products; and


•	future acquisitions of, or investments in, complementary companies, products, services or technologies.

We caution you that the foregoing list may not contain all of the forward-looking statements made in this quarterly report.

You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. We have based the forward-looking statements contained in this quarterly report primarily on our current expectations and projections about future events and trends that we believe may affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects. The outcome of the events described in these forward-looking statements is subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors described in “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this quarterly report. Moreover, we operate in a very competitive and rapidly changing environment. New risks and uncertainties emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for us to predict all risks and uncertainties that could have an impact on the forward-looking statements contained in this quarterly report. The results, events and circumstances reflected in the forward-looking statements may not be achieved or occur, and actual results, events or circumstances could differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements.

The forward-looking statements made in this quarterly report relate only to events as of the date on which the statements are made. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements made in this report to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this quarterly report or to reflect new information or the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law. We may not actually achieve the plans, intentions or expectations disclosed in our forward-looking statements and you should not place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements. Our forward-looking statements do not reflect the potential impact of any future acquisitions, mergers, dispositions, or investments.

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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this quarterly report and our annual report on Form 20-F filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 1, 2017. As discussed in the section titled “Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements,” the following discussion and analysis contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they never materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those identified below, and those discussed in the section titled “Risk Factors” in this quarterly report.

Overview

Our mission is to unleash the potential of every team.

Our products help teams organize, discuss and complete shared work — delivering superior outcomes for their organizations.

Our products serve teams of all shapes and sizes, in virtually every industry. Our primary products include Jira for planning and project management, Confluence for content creation and sharing, Stride for messaging and communications, Trello for capturing and adding structure to fluid, fast-forming work for teams, Bitbucket for code sharing and management, and Jira Service Desk for service and support applications.

We begin with a deep investment in product development to create and refine high-quality and versatile products that users love. By making our products affordable for organizations of all sizes and transparently sharing our pricing online, we do not follow the common practice of opaque pricing and discounting that is typical in the enterprise software industry. We pursue customer volume, targeting every organization, regardless of size, industry or geography.

To reach this expansive market, we distribute and sell our products online without traditional sales infrastructure where our customers can get started in minutes without the need for assistance. We focus on enabling a self-service, low-friction model that makes it easy for customers to try, adopt and use our products. By making our products simple, powerful, affordable and easy to adopt, we generate demand from word-of-mouth and viral expansion within organizations.

Our culture of innovation, transparency and dedication to customer service drives our success in implementing and refining this unique approach. We believe this approach creates a self-reinforcing effect that fosters innovation, quality, customer satisfaction, scale and profitability. As a result of this strategy, we invest significantly more in research and development activities than in traditional sales activities relative to other enterprise software companies.

A substantial majority of our sales are automated through our website, including sales of our products through solution partners and resellers. Our solution partners and resellers primarily focus on customers in regions that require local language support. We plan to continue to invest in our partner programs to help us enter and grow in new markets, complementing our automated, low-touch approach.

We generate revenues primarily in the form of perpetual license, maintenance, subscriptions and other sources. Customers typically pay us 100% of the initial perpetual license fee as maintenance revenue annually, beginning in the first year. Maintenance provides our customers with access to new product features and customer support. Maintenance revenue combined with a growing subscription revenue business, through our Cloud and Data Center products, results in a large recurring revenue base. We recognize revenue on the license portion of perpetual license arrangements on the date of product delivery in substantially all situations, but for maintenance and subscription, revenue is recognized ratably over the term of the contract. Any invoice amounts or payments received in advance of revenue recognition from subscriptions or maintenance are included in our deferred revenue balance. The deferred revenue balance is influenced by several factors, including customer decisions around timing of renewals, length of contracts and invoice timing within the period.

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We have made and will continue to make significant investments in our business to support future growth, including a sizeable increase in our global employee base. For example, as of September 30, 2017 and 2016 we had 2,292, and 1,833 employees, respectively.

Key Metrics

We review the following key metrics to evaluate our business, measure our performance, identify trends affecting our business, formulate business plans and make strategic decisions.

Customers

We have successfully demonstrated a history of growing both our customer base and spend per customer through growth in users, purchase of new licenses and adoption of new products. We believe that our ability to attract new customers and grow our customer base drives our success as a business.

As of September 30, 2017 , we had 107,747 customers. With these customers using our software today, we are able to reach a vast number of users, gather insights to refine our offerings and generate growing revenue by expanding within our customer base. No single customer contributed more than 1% of our total revenues during the three months ended September 30, 2017.

We define the number of customers at the end of any particular period as the number of organizations with unique domains that have at least one active and paid license or subscription of our products for which they paid approximately $10 or more per month. While a single customer may have distinct departments, operating segments or subsidiaries with multiple active licenses or subscriptions of our products, if the product deployments share a unique domain name, we only include the customer once for purposes of calculating this metric. We define active licenses as those licenses that are under an active maintenance or subscription contract as of period end.

Our customers, as defined in this metric, have generated substantially all of our revenue in each of the periods presented. Including organizations who have only adopted our free or starter products, the active use of our products extends well beyond our 107,746 customers.

The following table sets forth our number of customers:

As of

September 30, 2016

December 31,
2016

March 31,
2017

June 30,
2017

September 30,
2017

Customers

65,673

68,837

85,031 *

89,237

107,746**

* Includes an increase in customers of 12,789 in February 2017 as a result of our acquisition of Trello.

** Includes an increase in customers of 14,263 due primarily to Bitbucket Cloud pricing changes as we moved from a tiered pricing model to a per-user pricing model. As a result, certain organizations using Bitbucket Cloud who had not previously met our definition of a “customer” (an organization with a unique domain that has at least one active and paid license or subscription of our products for which they paid approximately $10 or more per month) now qualify as customers.

Free cash flow

Free cash flow is a non-IFRS financial measure that we calculate as net cash provided by operating activities less net cash used in investing activities for capital expenditures.



	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2017			2016
	(U.S. $ in thousands)
Net cash provided by operating activities	$	65,249		$	28,462
Less: Capital expenditures	(2,564		)	(2,391		)
Free cash flow	$	62,685		$	26,071

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Free cash flow increased by $36.6 million during the three months ended September 30, 2017 as net cash provided by operating activities increased to $65.2 million during the three months ended September 30, 2017 from $28.5 million during the three months ended September 30, 2016 . While we incurred a loss before income tax of $21.7 million during the three months ended September 30, 2017 , as compared to a loss before income tax of $3.9 million for the three months ended September 30, 2016 , the increase in free cash flow was primarily attributable to an increase in adjustments for non-cash charges including an increase in share-based payment expense of $13.6 million , an increase of depreciation and amortization of $12.5 million , and a net increase of $28.8 million from changes in operating assets and liabilities.

Capital expenditures increased by $0.2 million during the three months ended September 30, 2017 as compared to the three months ended September 30, 2016 . We anticipate additional capital expenditures in future periods as a result of investments in new office facilities. The timing of purchases of property and equipment may vary with business needs from period to period.

For more information about free cash flow see “Non-IFRS Financial Results.”

Components of Results of Operations

Sources of Revenues

We primarily derive our revenues from subscription, perpetual license, maintenance and other sources.

Subscription revenues

Subscription revenues consist of fees earned from subscription-based arrangements for providing customers the right to use our software in a cloud-based-infrastructure that we provide. We also sell on-premises term license agreements for software licensed for a specified period, which includes support and maintenance service that is bundled with the license for the term of the license period. Subscription revenues are driven primarily by the number and size of active licenses, the type of product and the price of the licenses. Our subscription-based arrangements generally have a contractual term of one to twelve months, with a majority being one month. Subscription fees are generally non-refundable regardless of the actual use of the service. We recognize subscription revenue ratably as the services are delivered over the term of the contract, commencing with the date the service is made available to customers and all other revenue recognition criteria are met.

Perpetual license revenues

Perpetual license revenues represent fees earned from the license of software to customers for use on the customer’s premises. Software is licensed on a perpetual basis, subject to a standard licensing agreement. Perpetual license revenues consist of the revenues recognized from sales of licenses to new customers, increases in the number of users within an existing customer and additional licenses to existing customers. We recognize revenue on the license portion of perpetual license arrangements on the date of product delivery in substantially all situations.

In the first year of a perpetual license, we receive maintenance revenues that are equal to the upfront cost of the license. For example, if a customer purchases a new Confluence Server license for 25 users, it would cost $700 for the license plus $700 for the first year of maintenance. After the first year, the customer may renew the software maintenance for an additional 12 months for $700.

Maintenance revenues

Maintenance revenues represent fees earned from providing customers unspecified future updates, upgrades and enhancements and technical product support for perpetual license products on an if and when available basis. The first year of maintenance is purchased concurrently with the purchase of our perpetual licenses, and subsequent renewals extend for an additional year in most cases. Maintenance services are priced as a percentage of the total product sale, and a substantial majority of customers elect to renew software support contracts annually at our standard list maintenance renewal pricing for their software products. Maintenance revenue is recognized ratably over the term of the support period.

Other revenues

Other revenues include fees received for sales of third-party add-ons and extensions in the Atlassian Marketplace and for training services. Revenue from the sale of third-party vendor products via Atlassian Marketplace is recognized net of the vendor liability portion, as we function as the agent in the relationship. Our

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portion of revenue on third-party sales is typically 25% and is recognized at the date of product delivery given that all of our obligations have been met at that time. Revenue from training is recognized as delivered or as the rights to receive training expire.

Cost of Revenues

Cost of revenues primarily consists of employee-related costs, including share-based payment expense, associated with our customer support organization and data center operations, expenses related to hosting our cloud infrastructure, which includes third-party hosting fees and depreciation associated with computer equipment and software, payment processing fees, amortization of product technologies and facilities and related overhead costs. To support our cloud-based infrastructure, we utilize third-party managed hosting facilities and self-managed data centers in which we manage our own network equipment and systems. We allocate share-based payment expense to personnel costs based on the expense category in which the employee works. We allocate overhead such as information technology infrastructure, rent and occupancy charges in each expense category based on headcount in that category. As such, general overhead expenses are reflected in cost of revenues and operating expense categories.

Our cost of revenues also includes amortization of acquired intangible assets, such as the amortization of the cost associated with an acquired company’s developed technology.

Gross Profit and Gross Margin

Gross profit is total revenues less total cost of revenues. Gross margin is gross profit expressed as a percentage of total revenues. Gross margin can fluctuate from period to period as a result of changes in product and services mix.

Operating Expenses

Our operating expenses are classified as research and development, marketing and sales, and general and administrative. For each functional category, the largest component is employee and labor-related expenses, which include salaries and bonuses, share-based payment expense, employee benefit costs and contractor costs. We allocate overhead such as information technology infrastructure, certain IT program expenses, and rent and occupancy charges in each expense category based on headcount in that category.

Research and development

Research and development expenses consist primarily of salaries and related expenses, including share-based payment expense, contract software development costs, certain IT program expenses, and facilities and related overhead costs. We continue to focus our research and development efforts on building new products, adding new features and services, integrating acquired technologies, increasing functionality, enhancing our cloud infrastructure and developing our mobile capabilities.

Marketing and sales

Marketing and sales expenses consist primarily of salaries and related expenses, including share-based payment expense, for our marketing and sales employees, marketing and sales programs, certain IT program expenses, and facilities and related overhead costs. Marketing programs consist of advertising, promotional events, corporate communications, brand building and product marketing activities such as online lead generation. Sales programs consist of activities and teams focused on supporting our partners and value-added resellers, tracking channel sales activity, supporting and servicing our largest customers by helping optimize their experience across our product portfolio, helping customers expand their use of our products across their organizations and helping product evaluators learn how they can use our tools most effectively.

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General and administrative

General and administrative expenses consist of salaries and related expenses, including share-based payment expense, for finance, legal, human resources and information technology personnel, as well as external legal, accounting and other, professional fees, certain IT program expenses, other corporate expenses and facilities and related overhead costs.

Share-based payment expense

We allocate share-based payment expense to personnel costs based on the functional category in which the employee works. We recognize our share-based payments as an expense in the statement of operations based on their fair values and vesting periods.

We adhere to the accelerated method of expense recognition for share-based awards subject to graded vesting (i.e., when portions of the award vest at different dates throughout the vesting period). For example, for a grant vesting over four years, we treat the grant as multiple awards (sometimes referred to as “tranches”) and recognize the cost on a straight-line basis separately for each tranche. This results in the majority of the grant’s share-based payment expense being recognized in the first year of the grant rather than equally per year under a straight-line expense methodology.

During the three months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, we recognized share-based payment expense of $44.1 million and $30.5 million , respectively. As of September 30, 2017 , the aggregate share-based payment expense remaining to be amortized to cost of revenues and operating expenses, over a weighted-average period of 1.3 years, was $191.5 million. We expect this share-based payment expense balance to be amortized as follows: $106.3 million during the remaining nine months of fiscal 2018; $61.0 million during fiscal 2019; $20.0 million during fiscal 2020, and $4.2 million during fiscal 2021. The expected amortization reflects only outstanding share awards as of September 30, 2017 . We expect to continue to issue share-based awards to our employees in future periods.

Income taxes

Income taxes primarily consist of income taxes in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States, as well as income taxes in certain other foreign jurisdictions.

We generally conduct our international operations through wholly-owned subsidiaries and report our taxable income in various jurisdictions.

Net loss

We incurred a net loss during the three months ended September 30, 2017 as we continued to make significant investments in research and development and technology infrastructure for our cloud-based offerings, expand our operations globally and develop new products and features for, and enhancements of, our existing products.

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Results of Operations

The following table sets forth our results of operations for the periods indicated:



	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2017			2016
	(U.S. $ in thousands)
Revenues:
Subscription	$	84,378		$	49,931
Maintenance	76,315			61,741
Perpetual license	19,930			17,501
Other	13,195			7,614
Total revenues	193,818			136,787
Cost of revenues (1) (2)	40,090			22,562
Gross profit	153,728			114,225
Operating expenses:
Research and development (1)	94,862			67,458
Marketing and sales (1) (2)	45,466			24,980
General and administrative (1)	35,725			26,915
Total operating expenses	176,053			119,353
Operating loss	(22,325		)	(5,128		)
Other non-operating expense, net	(665		)	(63		)
Finance income	1,255			1,322
Finance costs	(9		)	(7		)
Loss before income tax benefit	(21,744		)	(3,876		)
Income tax benefit	7,750			1,239
Net loss	$	(13,994	)	$	(2,637	)

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(1) Amounts include share-based payment expense, as follows:



Cost of revenues	$	2,992	$	1,339
Research and development	25,971		16,999
Marketing and sales	6,209		3,515
General and administrative	8,953		8,670

(2) Amounts include amortization of acquired intangible assets, as follows:



Cost of revenues	$	5,293	$	2,202
Marketing and sales	9,022		196

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The following table sets forth our results of operations data for each of the periods indicated as a percentage of total revenues:



	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2017		2016
Revenues:
Subscription	44	%	37	%
Maintenance	39		45
Perpetual license	10		13
Other	7		5
Total revenues	100		100
Cost of revenues	21		16
Gross profit	79		84
Operating expenses:
Research and development	49		49
Marketing and sales	23		18
General and administrative	18		20
Total operating expenses	90		87
Operating loss	(11	)	(3	)
Other non-operating expense, net	—		—
Finance income	—		—
Finance costs	—		—
Loss before income tax benefit	(11	)	(3	)
Income tax benefit	4		1
Net loss	(7	)%	(2	)%

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Revenues



	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2017		2016		$ Change		% Change
	(U.S. $ in thousands)
Subscription	$	84,378	$	49,931	$	34,447	69	%
Maintenance	76,315		61,741		14,574		24
Perpetual license	19,930		17,501		2,429		14
Other	13,195		7,614		5,581		73
Total revenues	$	193,818	$	136,787	$	57,031	42

Total revenues increased $ 57.0 million , or 42% , in the three months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2016 . Growth in total revenues was attributable to increased demand for our products from both new and existing customers. Our number of total customers increased from 65,673 at September 30, 2016 to 107,746 at September 30, 2017 . Our total customer count benefited in the quarter ending September 30, 2017 from a one-time increase of 14,263 customers due primarily to Bitbucket Cloud pricing changes as we moved from a tiered pricing model to a per-user pricing model. We also experienced an increase of 12,789 customers in February 2017 following our acquisition of Trello.

Subscription revenues increased $34.4 million , or 69% , in the three months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2016 . The increase in subscription revenues was primarily attributable to additional subscriptions from our existing customer base. As customers increasingly adopt cloud-

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based subscription services and term-based licenses for our on-premises products for their business needs, we expect our subscription revenues to continue to increase at a rate higher than the rate of increase of our perpetual license revenues in future periods.

Maintenance revenues increased $14.6 million , or 24% , in the three months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2016 . The increase in maintenance revenues was attributable to a growing customer base renewing software maintenance contracts related to our perpetual license software offerings.

Perpetual license revenues increased $2.4 million , or 14% , in the three months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2016 . A majority of the increase in perpetual license revenues was attributable to additional licenses to existing customers.

Other revenues increased $5.6 million , or 73% , in the three months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2016 . The increase in other revenues was primarily attributable to a $4.4 million increase in revenue from sales of third-party apps through Atlassian Marketplace.

Total revenues by geography were as follows:



	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2017		2016		$ Change		% Change
	(U.S. $ in thousands)
Americas	$	98,176	$	69,645	$	28,531	41	%
EMEA	75,286		52,809		22,477		43
Asia Pacific	20,356		14,333		6,023		42
	$	193,818	$	136,787	$	57,031	42

Cost of Revenues



	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2017			2016			$ Change		% Change
	(U.S. $ in thousands)
Cost of revenues	$	40,090		$	22,562		$	17,528	78	%
Gross margin	79		%	84		%

Cost of revenues increased $17.5 million , or 78% , in the three months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2016 . The overall increase was primarily due to an increase in compensation expense for employees and contractors of $6.2 million, which included an increase of $1.7 million in share-based payment expense, an increase in third-party hosting costs of $4.9 million, an increase in amortization of acquired intangible assets of $3.1 million, an increase of $1.1 million in software expense, an increase in credit card processing fees of $0.9 million and an increase of $0.8 million in facilities and related overhead costs to support our employees.

We increased our headcount during the period to meet the higher demand for services from our customers. We expect to continue to invest in additional personnel as we scale. Over time, we expect the revenue from our cloud subscription business to grow as a percentage of total revenues. As a result, we intend to continue to invest in our cloud infrastructure, which we expect to lead to an increase in cost of revenues in absolute dollars and may lead to an increase in cost of revenues as a percentage of revenue during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018. Additionally, amortization of acquired intangible assets will increase if we acquire additional businesses and technologies.

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Operating Expenses

Research and development



	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2017		2016		$ Change		% Change
	(U.S. $ in thousands)
Research and development	$	94,862	$	67,458	$	27,404	41	%

Research and development expenses increased $27.4 million , or 41% , in the three months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2016 . The overall increase was primarily a result of an increase in compensation expense for employees and contractors of $20.5 million, which included an increase of $9.0 million in share-based payment expense, an increase of $2.4 million in professional and outside services, an increase of $2.2 million in facilities and related overhead costs to support our employees, and an increase of $1.1 million in internal hosting costs for development. We increased our research and development headcount during the period in order to enhance and extend our service offerings and develop new technologies. We expect that research and development expenses will increase in absolute dollars and may increase as a percentage of revenues in future periods as we continue to invest in additional personnel and technology to support the development, improvement and integration of technologies.

Marketing and sales



	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2017		2016		$ Change		% Change
	(U.S. $ in thousands)
Marketing and sales	$	45,466	$	24,980	$	20,486	82	%

Marketing and sales expenses increased $20.5 million , or 82% , for the three months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2016 . Marketing and sales expenses increased primarily due to an increase of $8.8 million in amortization of acquired intangible assets, an increase of $7.5 million in compensation expense for employees and contractors, which included an increase of $2.7 million in share-based payment expense, an increase of $2.9 million in marketing expenses, primarily related to our U.S. Summit user conference which took place in September 2017, and an increase of $0.8 million in facilities and related overhead costs to support our employees. Our marketing and sales headcount increased during the period as a result of hiring additional personnel to expand our relationship with our existing customers and to attract new customers. We expect marketing and sales expenses to increase in absolute dollars as we continue to invest in marketing and sales personnel, expand our global promotional activities, build brand awareness, expand our relationship with existing customers, attract new customers and sponsor additional marketing events.

General and administrative



	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2017		2016		$ Change		% Change
	(U.S. $ in thousands)
General and administrative	$	35,725	$	26,915	$	8,810	33	%

General and administrative expenses increased $8.8 million , or 33% , in the three months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2016 . The increase was primarily due to an increase of $2.9 million in compensation expense for employees, which included an increase of $0.3 million in share-based payment expense, and an increase of $3.9 million in professional and outside services. Our general and administrative headcount increased during the period as we added personnel to support our growth. We expect that general and administrative expenses will increase in absolute dollars as we continue to invest in additional personnel and our infrastructure and we incur additional professional fees related to the growth of our business.

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Income tax benefit



	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2017		2016		$ Change		% Change
	(U.S. $ in thousands)
Income tax benefit	$	7,750	$	1,239	$	6,511	526	%
Effective tax rate	*		*

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* Not meaningful

We reported a tax benefit of $7.8 million on pretax loss of $21.7 million and a tax benefit of $1.2 million on pretax loss of $3.9 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively. The Group’s effective tax rate substantially differed from the United Kingdom income tax rate of 19% primarily due to the recognition of significant permanent differences during the three months ended September 30, 2017. Significant permanent differences included non-deductible share-based payment expense, research and development incentives and taxes in foreign jurisdictions with a tax rate different than the United Kingdom statutory rate, primarily Australia and the United States.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Since our inception, we have financed our operations primarily through cash flows generated by operations. At September 30, 2017 , we had cash and cash equivalents totaling $305.9 million , short-term investments totaling $307.7 million and trade and other receivables totaling $30.5 million .

Our cash flows from operating activities, investing activities and financing activities for the three months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016 were as follows:



	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2017			2016
	(U.S. $ in thousands)
Net cash provided by operating activities	$	65,249		$	28,462
Net cash used in investing activities	(4,885		)	(25,533		)
Net cash provided by financing activities	877			3,717
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents	210			390
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents	$	61,451		$	7,036

At September 30, 2017 , our cash and cash equivalents were held for working capital purposes, a majority of which was held in money market funds and cash deposits. We expect to increase our capital expenditures during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018 to support the growth in our business and operations, such as investment in leasehold improvements. We believe that our existing cash and cash equivalents, together with cash generated from operations, will be sufficient to meet our anticipated cash needs for at least the next 12 months. Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors including our growth rate, the timing and extent of spend on research and development efforts, employee headcount, marketing and sales activities, acquisitions of additional businesses and technologies, the introduction of new software and services offerings, enhancements to our existing software and services offerings and the continued market acceptance of our products.

Cash provided by operating activities has historically been affected by the amount of net income (loss) adjusted for non-cash expense items such as depreciation and amortization and expense associated with share-based awards, the timing of employee-related costs such as bonus payments, collections from our customers, which is our largest source of operating cash flows, and changes in other working capital accounts.

Accounts impacting working capital consist of trade receivables, prepaid expenses and other current assets, trade and other payables, provisions, and other non-current liabilities. Our working capital may be impacted by various factors in future periods, such as billings to customers for subscriptions, licenses and maintenance services and the subsequent collection of those billings or the amount and timing of certain expenditures.

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Net cash provided by operating activities was $65.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017 , as a result of loss before income tax of $21.7 million adjusted by non-cash charges including depreciation and amortization of $20.6 million and share-based payment expense of $44.1 million . The net increase of $23.4 million from our operating assets and liabilities was primarily attributable to a $22.2 million increase in our deferred revenue as a result of increased sales of subscriptions and renewals of maintenance contracts and a $1.2 million increase in trade and other payables, provisions and other non-current liabilities, offset by a $3.7 million increase in trade receivables and a $3.8 million decrease in prepaid expenses and other assets. Net cash provided by operating activities was also impacted by interest received of $1.4 million and income tax paid, net of refunds, of $1.3 million .

Net cash provided by operating activities was $28.5 million for the three months ended September 30, 2016 , as a result of income before income tax of $3.9 million adjusted by non-cash charges including depreciation and amortization of $8.0 million and share-based payment expense of $30.5 million . The decrease in our operating assets and liabilities was primarily attributable to a $8.5 million decrease in trade and other payables, provisions and other non-current liabilities and a $5.2 million increase in prepaid expenses and other assets, offset by a $7.7 million increase in our deferred revenue as a result of increased sales of subscriptions and renewals of maintenance contracts. Net cash provided by operating activities was also impacted by interest received of $2.3 million and income tax paid, net of refunds, of $1.4 million .

Net cash used in investing activities for the three months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016 were $4.9 million and $25.5 million , respectively. Net cash used in investing activities during the three months ended September 30, 2017 was primarily related to purchases of investments totaling $102.3 million , and capital expenditures totaling $2.6 million to support the growth of our business primarily, investments in office facilities, offset by proceeds from sales of investments of $49.4 million and cash received from the maturing of investments which totaled $50.8 million . Net cash used in investing activities during the three months ended September 30, 2016 was primarily related to purchases of investments totaling $151.7 million , cash paid for the acquisition of StatusPage, net of cash acquired of $18.3 million and capital expenditures totaling $2.4 million to support the growth of our business, including hardware, software, equipment and leasehold improvements, offset by proceeds from sales of investments of $111.9 million and cash received from the maturing of investments which totaled $34.9 million .

Net cash provided by financing activities for three months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, was $0.9 million and $3.7 million , respectively, which consisted of proceeds from exercises of employee share options.

Non-IFRS Financial Results

Management believes that the use of certain non-IFRS financial measures, including non-IFRS gross profit, non-IFRS operating income, non-IFRS net income, non-IFRS net income per diluted share and free cash flow, provides consistency and comparability with our past financial performance, facilitates period-to-period comparisons of our results of operations, and also facilitates comparisons with peer companies, many of which use similar non-IFRS or non-GAAP financial measures to supplement their IFRS or GAAP results. Non-IFRS results are presented for supplemental informational purposes only to aid in understanding our operating results. The non-IFRS results should not be considered a substitute for financial information presented in accordance with IFRS, and may be different from non-IFRS or non-GAAP measures used by other companies.

Our non-IFRS financial measures reflect adjustments based on the items below:


•	Non-IFRS gross profit. Excludes expenses related to share-based compensation and amortization of acquired intangible assets.


•	Non-IFRS operating income. Excludes expenses related to share-based compensation and amortization of acquired intangible assets.


•	Non-IFRS net income and non-IFRS net income per diluted share. Excludes expenses related to share-based compensation, amortization of acquired intangible assets and related income tax effects on these items.


•	Free cash flow. Free cash flow is defined as net cash provided by operating activities less capital expenditures, which consists of purchases of property and equipment and acquired intangible assets.

We exclude expenses related to share-based compensation, amortization of acquired intangible assets and the related income tax effects on these items from certain of our non-IFRS financial measures as we believe this

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helps investors understand our operational performance. In addition, share-based compensation expense can be difficult to predict and varies from period to period and company to company due to differing valuation methodologies, subjective assumptions and the variety of equity instruments, as well as changes in stock price. Management believes that providing non-IFRS financial measures that exclude share-based compensation expense, amortization of acquired intangible assets and the related income tax effects on these items allow for more meaningful comparisons between our operating results from period to period.

Management considers free cash flow to be a liquidity measure that provides useful information to management and investors about the amount of cash generated by our business that can be used for strategic opportunities, including investing in our business, making strategic acquisitions and strengthening our statement of financial position.

Management uses non-IFRS gross profit, non-IFRS operating income, non-IFRS net income, non-IFRS net income per diluted share and free cash flow:


•	as measures of operating performance, because these financial measures do not include the impact of items not directly resulting from our core operations;


•	for planning purposes, including the preparation of our annual operating budget;


•	to allocate resources to enhance the financial performance of our business;


•	to evaluate the effectiveness of our business strategies; and


•	in communications with our board of directors concerning our financial performance.

We understand that although non-IFRS gross profit, non-IFRS operating income, non-IFRS net income, non-IFRS net income per diluted share and free cash flow are frequently used by investors and securities analysts in their evaluation of companies, these measures have limitations as analytical tools, and you should not consider them in isolation or as substitutes for analysis of our results of operations as reported under IFRS.

The following tables provide reconciliations of non-IFRS financial measures to the most directly comparable financial measures calculated and presented in accordance with IFRS for the three months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016 (U.S. $ and shares in thousands, except for per share numbers).



	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2017			2016
Gross profit
IFRS gross profit	$	153,728		$	114,225
Plus: Share-based payment expense	2,992			1,339
Plus: Amortization of acquired intangible assets	5,293			2,202
Non-IFRS gross profit	$	162,013		$	117,766

Operating income
IFRS operating loss	$	(22,325	)	$	(5,128	)
Plus: Share-based payment expense	44,125			30,523
Plus: Amortization of acquired intangible assets	14,315			2,398
Non-IFRS operating income	$	36,115		$	27,793

Net income
IFRS net loss	$	(13,994	)	$	(2,637	)
Plus: Share-based payment expense	44,125			30,523
Plus: Amortization of acquired intangible assets	14,315			2,398
Less: Income tax effects and adjustments	(14,502		)	(7,564		)
Non-IFRS net income	$	29,944		$	22,720

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	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2017			2016
Net income per share
IFRS net loss per share - basic	$	(0.06	)	$	(0.01	)
Plus: Share-based payment expense	0.19			0.13
Plus: Amortization of acquired intangible assets	0.06			0.01
Less: Income tax effects and adjustments	(0.06		)	(0.03		)
Non-IFRS net income per share - basic	$	0.13		$	0.10
Weighted-average shares used in computing basic non-IFRS net income per share:	228,156			218,504

IFRS net loss per share - diluted	$	(0.06	)	$	(0.01	)
Plus: Share-based payment expense	0.18			0.13
Plus: Amortization of acquired intangible assets	0.06			0.01
Less: Income tax effects and adjustments	(0.06		)	(0.03		)
Non-IFRS net income per share - diluted	$	0.12		$	0.10
Weighted-average shares used in computing diluted non-IFRS net income per share:	240,773			234,113



	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2017	2016
Weighted-average diluted shares outstanding
Weighted-average shares used in computing diluted IFRS net loss per share	228,156	218,504
Plus: Dilution from share options and RSUs (1)	12,617	15,609
Weighted-average shares used in computing diluted non-IFRS net income per share	240,773	234,113

(1) The effects of these dilutive securities were not included in the IFRS calculation of diluted net loss per share for the three months ended September 30, 2017 because the effect would have been anti-dilutive.



	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2017			2016
Free cash flow
IFRS net cash provided by operating activities	$	65,249		$	28,462
Less: Capital expenditures	(2,564		)	(2,391		)
Free cash flow	$	62,685		$	26,071

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Risks Related to Our Business and Industry

A description of the risks and uncertainties associated with our business is set forth below. You should carefully consider such risks and uncertainties, together with the other information contained in this quarterly report, and in our other public filings. If any of such risks and uncertainties actually occurs, our business, financial condition or operating results could differ materially from the plans, projections and other forward-looking statements included elsewhere in this quarterly report and in our other public filings. In addition, if any of the following risks and uncertainties, or if any other risks and uncertainties, actually occurs, our business, financial condition or operating results could be harmed substantially.

Our rapid growth makes it difficult to evaluate our future prospects and may increase the risk that we will not continue to grow at or near historical rates.

We have been growing rapidly over the last several years, and as a result, our ability to forecast our future results of operations is subject to a number of uncertainties, including our ability to effectively plan for and model future growth. Our recent and historical growth should not be considered indicative of our future performance. We have encountered in the past, and will encounter in the future, risks and uncertainties frequently experienced by growing companies in rapidly changing industries. If our assumptions regarding these risks and uncertainties, which we use to plan and operate our business, are incorrect or change, or if we do not address these risks successfully, our operating and financial results could differ materially from our expectations, our growth rates may slow and our business would suffer.

We may not be able to sustain our revenue growth rate or achieve profitability in the future.

Our historical growth rate should not be considered indicative of our future performance and may decline in the future. In future periods, our revenue could grow more slowly than in recent periods or decline for a number of reasons, including any reduction in demand for our products, increase in competition, limited ability to, or our decision not to, increase pricing, contraction of our overall market or our failure to capitalize on growth opportunities. In addition, we expect expenses to increase substantially in the near term, particularly as we continue to make significant investments in research and development and technology infrastructure for our cloud offerings, expand our operations globally and develop new products and features for, and enhancements of, our existing products. As a result of these significant investments, and in particular share-based compensation associated with our growth, we do not expect to achieve IFRS profitability in the near term and may not be able to achieve IFRS profitability in future periods. In addition, the additional expenses we will incur may not lead to sufficient additional revenue to maintain historical revenue growth rates and profitability.

The markets in which we participate are intensely competitive, and if we do not compete effectively, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be harmed.

The markets for our solutions are fragmented, rapidly evolving and highly competitive, and have relatively low barriers to entry. We face competition from both traditional, larger software vendors offering full collaboration and productivity suites and smaller companies offering point products for features and use cases. Our principal competitors vary depending on the product category and include Microsoft, IBM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Google, ServiceNow, salesforce.com, Zendesk and several smaller software vendors like Slack and Github. In addition, some of our competitors have made acquisitions to offer a more comprehensive product or service offering, which may allow them to compete more effectively with our products. We expect this trend to continue as companies attempt to strengthen or maintain their market positions in an evolving industry. Following such potential consolidations, companies may create more compelling product offerings and be able to offer more attractive pricing options, making it more difficult for us to compete effectively.

Our competitors, particularly our competitors with greater financial and operating resources, may be able to respond more quickly and effectively than we can to new or changing opportunities, technologies, standards or customer requirements. With the introduction of new technologies, the evolution of our products, and new market entrants, we expect competition to intensify in the future. For example, as we expand our focus into new use cases or other product offerings beyond software development teams, we expect competition to increase. Pricing pressures and increased competition generally could result in reduced sales, reduced margins, losses or the failure of our products to achieve or maintain more widespread market acceptance, any of which could harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Many of our current and potential competitors have greater resources than we do with established marketing relationships, large enterprise salesforces, access to larger customer bases, pre-existing customer relationships,

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and major distribution agreements with consultants, system integrators and resellers. Additionally, some current and potential customers, particularly large organizations, have elected, and may in the future elect, to develop or acquire their own internal collaboration and productivity software tools that would reduce or eliminate the demand for our solutions.

Our products seek to serve multiple markets, and we are subject to competition from a wide and varied field of competitors. Some competitors, particularly new and emerging companies, could focus all their energy and resources on one product line or use case and, as a result, any one competitor could develop a more successful product or service in a particular market which could decrease our market share and harm our brand recognition and results of operations. For all of these reasons and others we cannot anticipate today, we may not be able to compete successfully against our current and future competitors, which could harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Our distribution model of offering and deploying our products via both the cloud and on premises increases our expenses, may impact revenue recognition timing and may pose other challenges to our business.

We offer and sell our products via both the cloud and on-premises using the customer’s own infrastructure. Our cloud offering enables quick setup and subscription pricing, while our on-premises offering permits more customization, a perpetual or term license fee structure and complete application control. Historically, our products were developed in the context of the on-premises offering, and we have less operating experience offering and selling our products via our cloud offering. Although a substantial majority of our revenue has historically been generated from customers using our on-premises products, we believe that over time more customers will move to our cloud offering, and our cloud offering will become more central to our distribution model. As more of our customers transition to the cloud, we may be subject to additional competitive pressures, which may harm our business. Further, as more customers elect our cloud offering as opposed to our on-premises offerings, revenues from such customers is typically lower in the initial year, which may impact our near-term revenue growth rates. If our cloud offering does not develop as quickly as we expect, or if we are unable to continue to scale our systems to meet the requirements of a successful large, cloud offering, our business may be harmed. We are directing a significant portion of our financial and operating resources to implement a robust cloud offering for our products, but even if we continue to make these investments, we may be unsuccessful in growing or implementing our cloud offering that competes successfully against our current and future competitors and our business, results of operations and financial condition could be harmed.

Our business depends on our customers renewing their subscriptions and maintenance plans and purchasing additional licenses or subscriptions from us. Any decline in our customer retention or expansion would harm our future results of operations.

In order for us to maintain or improve our results of operations, it is important that our customers renew their subscriptions and maintenance plans when existing contract terms expire and that we expand our commercial relationships with our existing customers. Our customers have no obligation to renew their subscriptions or maintenance plans, and our customers may not renew subscriptions or maintenance plans with a similar contract period or with the same or greater number of users. Our customers do not enter into long-term contracts, rather they primarily have monthly or annual terms. Some of our customers have elected not to renew their agreements with us and it is difficult to accurately predict long-term customer retention.

Our customer retention and expansion may decline or fluctuate as a result of a number of factors, including our customers’ satisfaction with our products, new market entrants, our product support, our prices and pricing plans, the prices of competing software products, reductions in our customers’ spending levels, new product releases and changes to packaging of our product offerings, mergers and acquisitions affecting our customer base or the effects of global economic conditions. Although it is important to our business that our customers renew their subscriptions and maintenance plans when existing contract terms expire and that we expand our commercial relationships with our existing customers, given the volume of our customers, we do not track the retention rates of our individual customers. As a result, we may be unable to timely address any retention issues with specific customers, which could harm our results of operations. If our customers do not purchase additional licenses or subscriptions or renew their subscriptions or maintenance plans, renew on less favorable terms or fail to add more users, our revenue may decline or grow less quickly, which would harm our future results of operations and prospects.

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If we are not able to develop new products and enhancements to our existing products that achieve market acceptance and that keep pace with technological developments, our business and results of operations would be harmed.

Our ability to attract new customers and increase revenue from existing customers depends in large part on our ability to enhance and improve our existing products and to introduce compelling new products that reflect the changing nature of our markets. The success of any enhancement to our products depends on several factors, including timely completion and delivery, competitive pricing, adequate quality testing, integration with existing technologies and our platform and overall market acceptance. Any new product that we develop may not be introduced in a timely or cost-effective manner, may contain bugs, or may not achieve the market acceptance necessary to generate significant revenue. If we are unable to successfully develop new products, enhance our existing products to meet customer requirements, or otherwise gain market acceptance, our business, results of operations and financial condition would be harmed.

If we cannot continue to expand the use of our products beyond our initial focus on software developers, our ability to grow our business may be harmed.

Our ability to grow our business depends in part on our ability to persuade current and future customers to expand their use of our products to additional use cases beyond software developers. If we fail to predict customer demands or achieve further market acceptance of our products within these additional areas and teams, or if a competitor establishes a more widely adopted product for these applications, our ability to grow our business may be harmed.

We invest significantly in research and development, and to the extent our research and development investments do not translate into new products or material enhancements to our current products, or if we do not use those investments efficiently, our business and results of operations would be harmed.

A key element of our strategy is to invest significantly in our research and development efforts to develop new products and enhance our existing products to address additional applications and markets. In fiscal 2017 and 2016 , our research and development expenses were 50% and 46% of our revenue, respectively. If we do not spend our research and development budget efficiently or effectively on compelling innovation and technologies, our business may be harmed and we may not realize the expected benefits of our strategy. Moreover, research and development projects can be technically challenging and expensive. The nature of these research and development cycles may cause us to experience delays between the time we incur expenses associated with research and development and the time we are able to offer compelling products and generate revenue, if any, from such investment. Additionally, anticipated customer demand for a product we are developing could decrease after the development cycle has commenced, and we would nonetheless be unable to avoid substantial costs associated with the development of any such product. If we expend a significant amount of resources on research and development and our efforts do not lead to the successful introduction or improvement of products that are competitive in our current or future markets, it would harm our business and results of operations.

If we fail to effectively manage our growth, our business and results of operations could be harmed.

We have experienced and expect to continue to experience rapid growth, which has placed, and may continue to place, significant demands on our management, operational and financial resources. In addition, we operate globally, sell our products to customers in more than 185 countries, and have employees in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Japan, Germany and France. We plan to continue to expand our operations into other countries in the future, which will place additional demands on our resources and operations. We have also experienced significant growth in the number of customers, users, transactions and data that our products and our associated infrastructure support. If we fail to successfully manage our anticipated growth and change, the quality of our products may suffer, which could negatively affect our brand and reputation and harm our ability to retain and attract customers. Finally, our organizational structure is becoming more complex and if we fail to scale and adapt our operational, financial and management controls and systems, as well as our reporting systems and procedures to manage this complexity, our business, results of operations and financial condition would be harmed. We will require significant capital expenditures and the allocation of management resources to grow and change in these areas.

If our current marketing model is not effective in attracting new customers, we may need to incur additional expenses to attract new customers and our business and results of operations could be harmed.

Unlike traditional enterprise software vendors, who rely on direct sales methodologies and face long sales cycles, complex customer requirements and substantial upfront sales costs, we utilize a viral marketing model to

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target new customers. Through this word-of-mouth marketing, we have been able to build our brand with relatively low marketing and sales costs. We also build our customer base through various online marketing activities as well as targeted web-based content and online communications. This strategy has allowed us to build a substantial customer base and community of users who use our products and act as advocates for our brand and solutions, often within their own corporate organizations. Attracting new customers and retaining existing customers requires that we continue to provide high-quality products at an affordable price and convince customers of our value proposition. If we do not attract new customers through word-of-mouth referrals, our revenue may grow more slowly than expected or decline. In addition, high levels of customer satisfaction and market adoption are central to our marketing model. Any decrease in our customers’ satisfaction with our products, including as a result of actions outside of our control, could harm word-of-mouth referrals and our brand. If our customer base does not continue to grow through word-of-mouth marketing and viral adoption, we may be required to incur significantly higher marketing and sales expenses in order to acquire new subscribers, which could harm our business and results of operations.

If our security measures are breached or unauthorized access to customer data is otherwise obtained, our products may be perceived as insecure, we may lose existing customers or fail to attract new customers, and we may incur significant liabilities.

Use of our solutions involve the storage, transmission and processing of our customers’ proprietary data, including potentially personal or identifying information. Unauthorized access to, or security breaches of, our products could result in the loss, compromise or corruption of data, loss of business, severe reputational damage adversely affecting customer or investor confidence, regulatory investigations and orders, litigation, indemnity obligations, damages for contract breach, penalties for violation of applicable laws or regulations, significant costs for remediation and other liabilities. We have incurred and expect to incur significant expenses to prevent security breaches, including deploying additional personnel and protection technologies, training employees, and engaging third-party solution partners and consultants. Our errors and omissions insurance coverage covering certain security and privacy damages and claim expenses may not be sufficient to compensate for all liabilities we may incur.

Although we expend significant resources to create security protections that shield our customer data against potential theft and security breaches, such measures cannot provide absolute security. We have in the past experienced breaches of our security measures and our products are at risk for future breaches as a result of third-party action, or employee, vendor or contractor error or malfeasance. As we further transition selling our products via our cloud offering, continue to collect more personal and sensitive information, and operate in more countries, the risk that real or perceived vulnerabilities of our systems could seriously harm our business by tarnishing our reputation and brand and limiting the adoption of our products is likely to increase.

Because the techniques used to obtain unauthorized access or to sabotage systems change frequently and generally are not identified until they are launched against a target, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or to implement adequate preventative measures. We may also experience security breaches that may remain undetected for an extended period and, therefore, have a greater impact on the products we offer, the proprietary data contained therein, and ultimately on our business.

One of our marketing strategies is to offer free trials or a limited free version or affordable starter license for certain products, and we may not be able to realize the benefits of this strategy.

We offer free trials, a limited free version or an affordable starter license for certain products in order to promote additional usage, brand and product awareness and adoption. Historically, a majority of users never convert to a paid version of our products from these free trials or limited free versions or upgrade beyond the starter license. Our marketing strategy also depends in part on persuading users who use the free trials, free versions or starter licenses of our products to convince others within their organization to purchase and deploy our products. To the extent that these users do not become, or lead others to become, customers, we will not realize the intended benefits of this marketing strategy, and our ability to grow our business may be harmed.

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Our business model relies on a high volume of transactions and affordable pricing. As lower cost or free competitive products are introduced into the marketplace, our ability to generate new customers could be harmed.

Our business model is based in part on selling our products at prices lower than competing products from other commercial vendors. For example, we offer entry-level pricing for certain products for small teams at a price that typically does not require capital budget approval and is orders-of-magnitude less than the price of traditional enterprise software. As a result, our software is frequently purchased by first-time customers to solve specific problems and not as part of a strategic technology purchasing decision. As competitors enter the market with low cost or free alternatives to our products, it may be increasingly more difficult for us to compete effectively and our ability to garner new customers could be harmed. We have historically, and will continue to increase prices from time to time. Additionally, some customers may consider our products to be discretionary purchases, which may contribute to reduced demand for our offerings in times of economic uncertainty. If we are unable to sell our software in high volume, across new and existing customers, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be harmed.

We derive, and expect to continue to derive, a substantial majority of our revenue from a limited number of software products.

We derive, and expect to continue to derive, a substantial majority of our revenue from our Jira and Confluence products. Revenue generated from our Jira and Confluence products comprised over two-thirds of our total revenues for each of the prior three fiscal years. As such, the market acceptance of these products is critical to our success. Demand for these products and our other products is affected by a number of factors, many of which are beyond our control, such as continued market acceptance of our products by customers for existing and new use cases, the timing of development and release of new products, features and functionality that are lower cost alternatives introduced by us or our competitors, technological changes and developments within the markets we serve and growth or contraction in our addressable markets. If we are unable to continue to meet customer demands or to achieve more widespread market acceptance of our products, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be harmed.

If the Atlassian Marketplace does not continue to be successful, our business and results of operations could be harmed.

We operate Atlassian Marketplace, an online marketplace, for selling third-party, as well as Atlassian-built, add-ons and extensions. We rely on the Atlassian Marketplace to supplement our promotional efforts and build awareness of our products, and believe that third-party add-ons and extensions from the Atlassian Marketplace facilitate greater usage and customization of our products. If these vendors and developers stop developing or supporting these add-ons and extensions that they sell on Atlassian Marketplace, our business could be harmed.

Interruptions or performance problems associated with our technology and infrastructure may harm our business and results of operations.

Our continued growth depends in part on the ability of our existing and potential customers to access our solutions at any time and within an acceptable amount of time. In addition, we rely almost exclusively on our websites for the downloading and payment of all our products. We have experienced, and may in the future experience, disruptions, data loss, outages and other performance problems with our infrastructure and websites due to a variety of factors, including infrastructure changes, introductions of new functionality, human or software errors, capacity constraints, denial of service attacks or other security-related incidents. In some instances, we may not be able to identify the cause or causes of these performance problems within an acceptable period of time. It may become increasingly difficult to maintain and improve our performance, especially during peak usage times and as our products and websites become more complex and our user traffic increases. If our products and websites are unavailable or if our users are unable to access our products within a reasonable amount of time, or at all, our business would be harmed. Moreover, we depend on services from various third parties, including Amazon Web Services and NTT Communications, to maintain our infrastructure and distribute our products via the Internet. Any disruptions in these services, including as a result of actions outside of our control, would significantly impact the continued performance of our products. In the future, these services may not be available to us on commercially reasonable terms, or at all. Any loss of the right to use any of these services could result in decreased functionality of our products until equivalent technology is either developed by us or, if available from another provider, is identified, obtained and integrated into our infrastructure. To the extent that we do not effectively address capacity constraints, upgrade our systems as needed, and continually develop our technology and network architecture to

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accommodate actual and anticipated changes in technology, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be harmed.

Real or perceived errors, failures, vulnerabilities or bugs in our products or in the products on Atlassian Marketplace could harm our business and results of operations.

Errors, failures, vulnerabilities or bugs may occur in our products, especially when updates are deployed or new products are rolled out. Our solutions are often used in connection with large-scale computing environments with different operating systems, system management software, equipment and networking configurations, which may cause errors, failures of products, or other negative consequences in the computing environment into which they are deployed. In addition, deployment of our products into complicated, large-scale computing environments may expose errors, failures, vulnerabilities or bugs in our products. Any such errors, failures, vulnerabilities or bugs may not be found until after they are deployed to our customers. Real or perceived errors, failures, vulnerabilities or bugs in our products could result in negative publicity, loss of customer data, loss of or delay in market acceptance of our products, loss of competitive position, or claims by customers for losses sustained by them, all of which could harm our business and results of operations.

In addition, third-party add-ons and extensions on Atlassian Marketplace may not meet the same quality standards that we apply to our own development efforts and, to the extent they contain bugs, vulnerabilities or defects, they may create disruptions in our customers’ use of our products, lead to data loss, damage our brand and reputation and affect the continued use of our products, any of which could harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Any failure to offer high-quality product support may harm our relationships with our customers and our financial results.

In deploying and using our products, our customers depend on our product support teams to resolve complex technical and operational issues. We may be unable to respond quickly enough to accommodate short-term increases in customer demand for product support. We also may be unable to modify the nature, scope and delivery of our product support to compete with changes in product support services provided by our competitors. Increased customer demand for product support, without corresponding revenue, could increase costs and harm our results of operations. In addition, as we continue to grow our operations and reach a global and vast customer base, we need to be able to provide efficient product support that meets our customers’ needs globally at scale. The number of our customers has grown significantly and that will put additional pressure on our support organization. In order to meet these needs, we have relied in the past and will continue to rely on third-party contractors and self-service product support to resolve common or frequently asked questions, which supplement our customer support teams. If we are unable to provide efficient product support globally at scale, including through the use of third-party contractors and self-service support, our ability to grow our operations may be harmed and we may need to hire additional support personnel, which could harm our results of operations. Our sales are highly dependent on our business reputation and on positive recommendations from our existing customers. Any failure to maintain high-quality product support, or a market perception that we do not maintain high-quality product support, could harm our reputation, our ability to sell our products to existing and prospective customers, and our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Our lack of a direct salesforce may impede the growth of our business.

We do not have a direct salesforce and our sales model does not rely on traditional, quota-carrying sales personnel. Although we believe our business model can continue to scale without a large enterprise salesforce, our viral marketing model may not continue to be as successful as we anticipate and the absence of a direct sales function may impede our future growth. As we continue to scale our business, a more traditional sales infrastructure could assist in reaching larger enterprise customers and growing our revenue. Identifying and recruiting qualified sales personnel and training them would require significant time, expense and attention and would significantly impact our business model. In addition, adding sales personnel would considerably change our cost structure and results of operations, and we may have to reduce other expenses, such as our research and development expenses, in order to accommodate a corresponding increase in marketing and sales expenses and maintain positive free cash flow. If our lack of a direct, traditional salesforce limits us from reaching larger enterprise customers and growing our revenue and we are unable to hire, develop and retain talented sales personnel in the future, our revenue growth and results of operations may be harmed.

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Our quarterly results may fluctuate significantly and may not fully reflect the underlying performance of our business.

Our quarterly financial results may fluctuate as a result of a variety of factors, many of which are outside of our control. If our quarterly financial results fall below the expectations of investors or any securities analysts who follow us, the price of our Class A ordinary shares could decline substantially. Factors that may cause our revenue, results of operations and cash flows to fluctuate from quarter to quarter include, but are not limited to:


•	our ability to attract new customers, retain and increase sales to existing customers, and satisfy our customers’ requirements;


•	the timing of customer renewals;


•	changes in our or our competitors’ pricing policies and offerings;


•	new products, features, enhancements or functionalities introduced by our competitors;


•	the amount and timing of operating costs and capital expenditures related to the operations and expansion of our business;


•	significant security breaches, technical difficulties or interruptions to our products;


•	the number of new employees added;


•	changes in foreign currency exchange rates or adding additional currencies in which our sales are denominated;


•	the amount and timing of acquisitions or other strategic transactions;


•	extraordinary expenses such as litigation or other dispute-related settlement payments;


•	general economic conditions that may adversely affect either our customers’ ability or willingness to purchase additional licenses, subscriptions and maintenance plans, delay a prospective customer’s purchasing decision, reduce the value of new license, subscription or maintenance plans or affect customer retention;


•	seasonality in our operations;


•	the impact of new accounting pronouncements and associated system implementations; and


•	the timing of the grant or vesting of equity awards to employees, contractors, or directors.

Many of these factors are outside of our control, and the occurrence of one or more of them might cause our revenue, results of operations and cash flows to vary widely. As such, we believe that quarter-to-quarter comparisons of our revenue, results of operations and cash flows may not be meaningful and should not be relied upon as an indication of future performance.

If we are unable to develop and maintain successful relationships with solution partners, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be harmed.

We have established relationships with certain solution partners to distribute our products. We believe that continued growth in our business is dependent upon identifying, developing and maintaining strategic relationships with our existing and potential solution partners that can drive substantial revenue and provide additional valued-added services to our customers. Our agreements with our existing solution partners are non-exclusive, meaning our solution partners may offer customers the products of several different companies, including products that compete with ours. They may also cease marketing our products with limited or no notice and with little or no penalty. We expect that any additional solution partners we identify and develop will be similarly non-exclusive and not bound by any requirement to continue to market our products. If we fail to identify additional solution partners, in a timely and cost-effective manner, or at all, or are unable to assist our current and future solution partners in independently distributing and deploying our products, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be harmed. If resellers do not effectively market and sell our products, or fail to meet the needs of our customers, our reputation and ability to grow our business may also be harmed.

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Acquisitions of other businesses, products or technologies could disrupt our business, and we may be unable to integrate acquired businesses and technologies successfully or achieve the expected benefits of such acquisitions.

We have completed a number of acquisitions, including our recent acquisition of Trello, and plan to evaluate and consider additional strategic transactions, including acquisitions of, or investments in, businesses, technologies, services, products, and other assets in the future. We also may enter into relationships with other businesses to expand our products, which could involve preferred or exclusive licenses, additional channels of distribution, discount pricing or investments in other companies.

Any acquisition, investment or business relationship may result in unforeseen operating difficulties and expenditures. In particular, we may encounter difficulties assimilating or integrating the businesses, technologies, products, personnel or operations of the acquired companies, particularly if the key personnel of the acquired companies choose not to work for us, their software and services are not easily adapted to work with our products, or we have difficulty retaining the customers of any acquired business due to changes in ownership, management or otherwise. Acquisitions may also disrupt our business, divert our resources and require significant management attention that would otherwise be available for development of our existing business. We may not successfully evaluate or utilize the acquired technology or personnel, or accurately forecast the financial impact of an acquisition transaction, including accounting charges. Moreover, the anticipated benefits of any acquisition, investment or business relationship may not be realized or we may be exposed to unknown risks or liabilities.

In the future, we may not be able to find suitable acquisition candidates, and we may not be able to complete acquisitions on favorable terms, if at all. Our previous and future acquisitions may not achieve our goals, and any future acquisitions we complete could be viewed negatively by users, customers, developers or investors.

Negotiating these transactions can be time consuming, difficult and expensive, and our ability to complete these transactions may often be subject to approvals that are beyond our control. Consequently, these transactions, even if announced, may not be completed. For one or more of those transactions, we may:


•	issue additional equity securities that would dilute our existing shareholders;


•	use cash that we may need in the future to operate our business;


•	incur large charges, expenses or substantial liabilities;


•	incur debt on terms unfavorable to us or that we are unable to repay;


•	encounter difficulties retaining key employees of the acquired company or integrating diverse software codes or business cultures; and


•	become subject to adverse tax consequences, substantial depreciation, impairment or deferred compensation charges.

If we are not able to maintain and enhance our brand, our business, results of operations and financial condition may be harmed.

We believe that maintaining and enhancing our reputation as a differentiated and category-defining company is critical to our relationships with our existing customers and to our ability to attract new customers. The successful promotion of our brand attributes will depend on a number of factors, including our solution partners’ marketing efforts, our ability to continue to develop high-quality products and our ability to successfully differentiate our products from competitive products. In addition, independent industry analysts often provide reviews of our products, as well as the products offered by our competitors, and perception of the relative value of our products in the marketplace may be significantly influenced by these reviews. If these reviews are negative, or less positive as compared to those of our competitors’ products, our brand may be harmed.

The promotion of our brand requires us to make substantial expenditures, and we anticipate that the expenditures will increase as our market becomes more competitive, as we expand into new markets, and as more sales are generated through our solution partners. To the extent that these activities yield increased revenue, this revenue may not offset the increased expenses we incur. If we do not successfully maintain and enhance our brand, our business may not grow, we may have reduced pricing power relative to competitors, and we could lose customers or fail to attract potential customers, any of which would harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.

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Because our products rely on the movement of data across national boundaries, global privacy and data security concerns could result in additional costs and liabilities to us or inhibit sales of our products globally.

Privacy and data security have become significant issues in the United States, Europe and in many other jurisdictions where we offer our products. The regulatory framework for the collection, use, safeguarding, sharing and transfer of information worldwide is rapidly evolving and is likely to remain uncertain for the foreseeable future.

Globally, virtually every jurisdiction in which we operate has established its own data security and privacy frameworks with which we, or our customers, must comply, including, for example, the Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, the Data Protection Directive established in the European Union, and the data protection legislation of individual EU member states subject to the Data Protection Directive. The Data Protection Directive will be replaced with the European General Data Protection Regulation in May 2018, which will impose additional obligations and risk upon our business. In addition, the number of enforcement actions and severity of consequences for non-compliance are also increasing.

In the past, we have relied on adherence to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles and compliance with the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework, which established the legal basis for data transfers from Europe. As a result of the October 6, 2015 European Union Court of Justice opinion in Case C-362/14 (Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner), the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework is no longer a valid legal basis for data transfers from Europe. In February 2016, Europe and the United States reached agreement on a successor to the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework, the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. As of August 1, 2016, interested companies have been permitted to register for the program. There continue to be concerns about whether the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and other transfer mechanisms will face additional challenges. Until the remaining legal uncertainties regarding the future of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and other data transfer mechanisms are settled, we will continue to explore options to find an appropriate legal basis for data transfers from Europe, including without limitation adopting model contractual clauses with certain suppliers and customers, and are considering suppliers that house data in Europe, which may involve substantial expense and distraction from other aspects of our business. We may, however, be unsuccessful in establishing a legal basis for data transfer, and will be at risk of enforcement actions taken by an EU data protection authority until such point in time that we ensure a legal basis for European data transfers, which could damage our reputation, inhibit sales and harm our business. Despite actions we have taken or will be taking to address the changes brought on by the European Union Court of Justice opinion, we may be unsuccessful in establishing a conforming means of transferring data due to ongoing legislative activity that could vary the current data transfer landscape. As we expand into new markets and grow our customer base, we will need to comply with these and other new requirements. If we cannot comply with, or if we incur a violation of one or more of these requirements, some customers may be limited in their ability to purchase our products, particularly our cloud products. Growth could be harmed and we could incur significant liabilities.

In addition to government regulation, privacy advocates and industry groups may propose new and different self-regulatory standards that either legally or contractually apply to us. Further, our customers may require us to comply with more stringent privacy and data security contractual requirements or obtain certifications that we do not currently have, and any failure to obtain these certifications could reduce the demand for our products and our business may be harmed. If we were required to obtain additional industry certifications, we may incur significant additional expenses and have to divert resources, which could slow the release of new products, all of which could harm our ability to effectively compete.

The interpretation and application of many privacy and data protection laws are, and will likely remain, uncertain, and it is possible that these laws may be interpreted and applied in a manner that is inconsistent with our existing data management practices or product features. If so, in addition to the possibility of fines, lawsuits and other claims and penalties, we could be required to fundamentally change our business activities and practices or modify our products, which could harm our business. Any inability to adequately address privacy and data security concerns or comply with applicable privacy or data security laws, regulations and policies could result in additional cost and liability to us, damage our reputation, inhibit sales and harm our business.

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Our global operations subject us to risks that can harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.

A key element of our strategy is to operate globally and sell our products to customers around the world. Operating globally requires significant resources and management attention and subjects us to regulatory, economic, geographic and political risks. In particular, our global operations subject us to a variety of additional risks and challenges, including:


•	increased management, travel, infrastructure and legal compliance costs associated with having operations in many countries;


•	difficulties in enforcing contracts, including so-called “clickwrap” contracts that are entered into online, on which we have historically relied as part of our product licensing strategy, but which may be subject to additional legal uncertainty in some foreign jurisdictions;


•	increased financial accounting and reporting burdens and complexities;


•	requirements or preferences within other regions for domestic products, and difficulties in replacing products offered by more established or known regional competitors;


•	differing technical standards, existing or future regulatory and certification requirements and required features and functionality;


•	communication and integration problems related to entering and serving new markets with different languages, cultures and political systems;


•	compliance with foreign privacy and security laws and regulations and the risks and costs of non-compliance;

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compliance with laws and regulations for foreign operations, including anti-bribery laws (such as the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the U.S. Travel Act, and the U.K. Bribery Act), import and export control laws, tariffs, trade barriers, economic sanctions, and other regulatory or contractual limitations on our ability to sell our products in certain foreign markets, and the risks and costs of non-compliance;


•	heightened risks of unfair or corrupt business practices in certain geographies that may impact our financial results and result in restatements of our consolidated financial statements;


•	fluctuations in currency exchange rates and related effects on our results of operations;


•	difficulties in repatriating or transferring funds from or converting currencies in certain countries;


•	weak economic conditions which could arise in each country or region in which we operate or sell our products, or general economic uncertainty around the world, including political and economic instability created by the United Kingdom’s recent vote to leave the European Union;


•	differing labor standards, including restrictions related to, and the increased cost of, terminating employees in some countries;


•	difficulties in recruiting and hiring employees in certain countries;


•	the preference for localized software and licensing programs and localized language support;


•	reduced protection for intellectual property rights in some countries and practical difficulties associated with enforcing our legal rights abroad; and


•	compliance with the laws of numerous foreign taxing jurisdictions, including withholding obligations, and overlapping of different tax regimes.

Compliance with laws and regulations applicable to our global operations substantially increases our cost of doing business in foreign jurisdictions. We may be unable to keep current with changes in government requirements as they change from time to time. Failure to comply with these regulations could harm our business. In many countries, it is common for others to engage in business practices that are prohibited by our internal policies and procedures or other regulations applicable to us. Although we have implemented policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance with these laws and policies, there can be no assurance that all of our employees, contractors, partners and agents will comply with these laws and policies. Violations of laws or key control policies by our employees, contractors, partners or agents could result in delays in revenue recognition, financial reporting misstatements, enforcement actions, reputational harm, disgorgement of profits, fines, civil and criminal penalties,

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damages, injunctions, other collateral consequences or the prohibition of the importation or exportation of our products and could harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.

We depend on our executive officers and other key employees and the loss of one or more of these employees or an inability to attract and retain highly skilled employees could harm our business.

Our success depends largely upon the continued services of our executive officers and key employees. We rely on our leadership team and other key employees in the areas of research and development, products, strategy, operations, security, marketing, IT, support and general and administrative functions. From time to time, there may be changes in our executive management team resulting from the hiring or departure of executives, which could disrupt our business. In addition, we do not have employment agreements with our executive officers or other key personnel that require them to continue to work for us for any specified period and, therefore, they could terminate their employment with us at any time. The loss of one or more of our executive officers, especially our Co-Chief Executive Officers, or key employees could harm our business.

In addition, in order to execute our growth plan, we must attract and retain highly qualified personnel. Competition for these personnel in Sydney, Australia, the San Francisco Bay Area, and in other locations where we maintain offices, is intense, especially for engineers experienced in designing and developing software and cloud-based services. We have from time to time experienced, and we expect to continue to experience, difficulty hiring and retaining employees with appropriate qualifications. In particular, recruiting and hiring senior product engineering personnel has been, and we expect to continue to be, challenging. If we are unable to hire talented product engineering personnel, we may be unable to scale our operations or release new products in a timely fashion and, as a result, customer satisfaction with our products may decline.

Many of the companies with which we compete for experienced personnel have greater resources than we have. If we hire employees from competitors or other companies, these employers may attempt to assert that the employees or we have breached certain legal obligations, resulting in a diversion of our time and resources. In addition, job candidates and existing employees often consider the value of the equity awards they receive in connection with their employment. If the value or perceived value of our equity awards declines, it may harm our ability to recruit and retain highly skilled employees. If we fail to attract new personnel or fail to retain and motivate our current personnel, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be harmed.

Our corporate values have contributed to our success, and if we cannot maintain these values as we grow, we could lose the innovative approach, creativity and teamwork fostered by our values and our business could be harmed.

We believe that a critical contributor to our success has been our corporate values, which we believe foster innovation, teamwork and an emphasis on customer-focused results. In addition, we believe that our values create an environment that drives and perpetuates our product strategy and low-cost distribution approach. As we grow and develop the infrastructure of a public company, we may find it difficult to maintain our corporate values. Any failure to preserve our values could harm our future success, including our ability to retain and recruit personnel, innovate and operate effectively and execute on our business strategy.

We face exposure to foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations.

While we sell our products exclusively in U.S. dollars, we incur expenses in currencies other than the U.S. dollar, which exposes us to foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations. A large percentage of our expenses are denominated in the Australian dollar, and fluctuations could have a material negative impact on our results of operations. Moreover, our subsidiaries, other than our U.S. subsidiaries, maintain net assets that are denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar. In addition, in the future, we may transact in non-U.S. dollar currencies for our products, and, accordingly, future changes in the value of non-U.S. dollar currencies relative to the U.S. dollar could affect our revenue and results of operations due to transactional and translational remeasurements that are reflected in our results of operations.

We have a foreign exchange hedging program to hedge a portion of certain exposures to fluctuations in non-U.S. dollar currency exchange rates. We use derivative instruments, such as foreign currency forward contracts, to hedge the exposures. The use of such hedging instruments may not fully offset the adverse financial effects of unfavorable movements in foreign currency exchange rates over the limited time the hedges are in place. Moreover, the use of hedging instruments may introduce additional risks if we are unable to structure effective hedges with such instruments or if we are unable to forecast hedged exposures accurately.

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We are subject to government regulation, including import, export, economic sanctions and anti-corruption laws and regulations, that may expose us to liability and increase our costs.

Various of our products are subject to U.S. export controls, including the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Export Administration Regulations and economic and trade sanctions regulations administered by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Controls. These regulations may limit the export of our products and provision of our services outside of the United States, or may require export authorizations, including by license, a license exception or other appropriate government authorizations, including annual or semi-annual reporting and the filing of an encryption registration. Export control and economic sanctions laws may also include prohibitions on the sale or supply of certain of our products to embargoed or sanctioned countries, regions, governments, persons and entities. In addition, various countries regulate the importation of certain products, through import permitting and licensing requirements, and have enacted laws that could limit our ability to distribute our products. The exportation, reexportation, and importation of our products and the provision of services, including by our partners, must comply with these laws or else we may be adversely affected, through reputational harm, government investigations, penalties, and a denial or curtailment of our ability to export our products or provide services. Complying with export control and sanctions laws can be time consuming and complex and may result in the delay or loss of sales opportunities. Although we take precautions to prevent our products from being provided in violation of such laws, we are aware of previous exports of certain of our products to a small number of persons and organizations that are the subject of U.S. sanctions or located in countries or regions subject to U.S. sanctions. If we are found to be in violation of U.S. sanctions or export control laws, it could result in substantial fines and penalties for us and for the individuals working for us. Changes in export or import laws or corresponding sanctions, may delay the introduction and sale of our products in international markets, or, in some cases, prevent the export or import of our products to certain countries, regions, governments, persons or entities altogether, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We are also subject to various domestic and international anti-corruption laws, such as the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the U.K. Bribery Act, as well as other similar anti-bribery and anti-kickback laws and regulations. These laws and regulations generally prohibit companies and their employees and intermediaries from authorizing, offering or providing improper payments or benefits to officials and other recipients for improper purposes. We rely on certain third parties to support our sales and regulatory compliance efforts and can be held liable for their corrupt or other illegal activities, even if we do not explicitly authorize or have actual knowledge of such activities. Although we take precautions to prevent violations of these laws, our exposure for violating these laws increases as our international presence expands and as we increase sales and operations in foreign jurisdictions.

We recognize certain revenue streams over the term of our subscription and maintenance contracts. Consequently, downturns in new sales may not be immediately reflected in our results of operations and may be difficult to discern.

We generally recognize subscription and maintenance revenue from customers ratably over the terms of their contracts. As a result, a significant portion of the revenue we report in each quarter is derived from the recognition of deferred revenue relating to subscription and maintenance plans entered into during previous quarters. Consequently, a decline in new or renewed licenses, subscriptions and maintenance plans in any single quarter may only have a small impact on our revenue results for that quarter. However, such a decline will negatively affect our revenue in future quarters. Accordingly, the effect of significant downturns in sales and market acceptance of our products, and potential changes in our pricing policies or rate of expansion or retention, may not be fully reflected in our results of operations until future periods. We may also be unable to reduce our cost structure in line with a significant deterioration in sales. In addition, a significant majority of our costs are expensed as incurred, while a significant portion of our revenue is recognized over the life of the agreement with our customer. As a result, increased growth in the number of our customers could continue to result in our recognition of more costs than revenue in the earlier periods of the terms of certain of our customer agreements. Our subscription and maintenance revenue also makes it more difficult for us to rapidly increase our revenue through additional sales in any period, as revenue from certain new customers must be recognized over the applicable term.

If we fail to integrate our products with a variety of operating systems, software applications, platforms and hardware that are developed by others, our products may become less marketable, less competitive, or obsolete and our results of operations would be harmed.

Our products must integrate with a variety of network, hardware, and software platforms, and we need to continuously modify and enhance our products to adapt to changes in hardware, software, networking, browser and database technologies. In particular, we have developed our products to be able to easily integrate with third-party

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applications, including the applications of software providers that compete with us, through the interaction of application programming interfaces, or APIs. In general, we rely on the fact that the providers of such software systems continue to allow us access to their APIs to enable these customer integrations. To date, we have not relied on long-term written contracts to govern our relationship with these providers. Instead, we are subject to the standard terms and conditions for application developers of such providers, which govern the distribution, operation and fees of such software systems, and which are subject to change by such providers from time to time. Our business may be harmed if any provider of such software systems:


•	discontinues or limits our access to its APIs;


•	modifies its terms of service or other policies, including fees charged to, or other restrictions on us or other application developers;


•	changes how customer information is accessed by us or our customers;


•	establishes more favorable relationships with one or more of our competitors; or


•	develops or otherwise favors its own competitive offerings over ours.

We believe a significant component of our value proposition to customers is the ability to optimize and configure our products with these third-party applications through our respective APIs. If we are not permitted or able to integrate with these and other third-party applications in the future, demand for our products could decline and our business and results of operations would be harmed.

In addition, an increasing number of organizations and individuals within organizations are utilizing mobile devices to access the Internet and corporate resources and to conduct business. We have designed and continue to design mobile applications to provide access to our products through these devices. If we cannot provide effective functionality through these mobile applications as required by organizations and individuals that widely use mobile devices, we may experience difficulty attracting and retaining customers. Failure of our products to operate effectively with future infrastructure platforms and technologies could also reduce the demand for our products, resulting in customer dissatisfaction and harm to our business. If we are unable to respond to changes in a cost-effective manner, our products may become less marketable, less competitive or obsolete and our results of operations may be harmed.

We may be sued by third parties for alleged infringement or misappropriation of their proprietary rights.

There is considerable patent and other intellectual property development activity in our industry. Our future success depends in part on not infringing upon or misappropriating the intellectual property rights of others. From time to time, our competitors or other third parties have claimed or may claim that we are infringing upon or misappropriating their intellectual property rights, and we may be found to be infringing upon or misappropriating such rights. We may be unaware of the intellectual property rights of others that may cover some or all of our technology, or technology that we obtain from third parties. Any claims or litigation could cause us to incur significant expenses and, if successfully asserted against us, could require that we pay substantial damages or ongoing royalty payments, prevent us from offering our products or using certain technologies, require us to implement expensive work-arounds or require that we comply with other unfavorable terms. In the case of infringement or misappropriation caused by technology that we obtain from third parties, any indemnification or other contractual protections we obtain from such third parties, if any, may be insufficient to cover the liabilities we incur as a result of such infringement or misappropriation. We may also be obligated to indemnify our customers or business partners in connection with any such claims or litigation and to obtain licenses, modify our products or refund fees, which could further exhaust our resources. In addition, we may incur substantial costs to resolve claims or litigation, whether or not successfully asserted against us, which could include payment of significant settlement, royalty or license fees, modification of our products or refunds to customers of fees. Even if we were to prevail in the event of claims or litigation against us, any claim or litigation regarding our intellectual property could be costly and time-consuming and divert the attention of our management and other employees from our business operations and disrupt our business.

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Indemnity provisions in various agreements potentially expose us to substantial liability for intellectual property infringement and other losses.

Our agreements with customers and other third parties may include indemnification or other provisions under which we agree to indemnify or otherwise be liable to them for losses suffered or incurred as a result of claims of intellectual property infringement, damages caused by us to property or persons, or other liabilities relating to or arising from our products or other acts or omissions. The term of these contractual provisions often survives termination or expiration of the applicable agreement. Large indemnity payments or damage claims from contractual breach could harm our business, results of operations and financial condition. Although we normally contractually limit our liability with respect to such obligations, we may still incur substantial liability related to them. Any dispute with a customer with respect to such obligations could have adverse effects on our relationship with that customer and other current and prospective customers, reduce demand for our products, damage our reputation and harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.

We use open source software in our products that may subject our products to general release or require us to re-engineer our products, which may harm our business.

We use open source software in our products and expect to continue to use open source software in the future. There are uncertainties regarding the proper interpretation of and compliance with open source software licenses. Consequently, there is a risk that the owners of the copyrights in such open source software may claim that the open source licenses governing their use impose certain conditions or restrictions on our ability to use the software that we did not anticipate. Such owners may seek to enforce the terms of the applicable open source license, including by demanding release of the source code for the open source software, derivative works of such software, or, in some cases, our proprietary source code that uses or was developed using such open source software. These claims could also result in litigation, require us to purchase a costly license or require us to devote additional research and development resources to change our products, any of which could result in additional cost and liability to us, reputational damage and harm to our business and results of operations. In addition, if the license terms for the open source software we utilize change, we may be forced to re-engineer our products or incur additional costs to comply with the changed license terms or to replace the affected open source software. Although we have implemented policies and tools to regulate the use and incorporation of open source software into our products, we cannot be certain that we have not incorporated open source software in our products in a manner that is inconsistent with such policies.

Any failure to protect our intellectual property rights could impair our ability to protect our proprietary technology and our brand.

Our success and ability to compete depend in part upon our intellectual property. We primarily rely on a combination of patent, copyright, trade secret and trademark laws, trade secret protection and confidentiality or license agreements with our employees, customers, partners and others to protect our intellectual property rights. However, the steps we take to protect our intellectual property rights may be inadequate. We make business decisions about when to seek patent protection for a particular technology and when to rely upon trade secret protection, and the approach we select may ultimately prove to be inadequate. Even in cases where we seek patent protection, there is no assurance that the resulting patents will effectively protect every significant feature of our products. In addition, we believe that the protection of our trademark rights is an important factor in product recognition, protecting our brand and maintaining goodwill. If we do not adequately protect our rights in our trademarks from infringement, any goodwill that we have developed in those trademarks could be lost or impaired, which could harm our brand and our business. In any event, in order to protect our intellectual property rights, we may be required to spend significant resources to monitor and protect these rights.

For example, in order to promote the transparency and adoption of our downloadable software, we provide our customers with the ability to request a copy of the source code of those products, which they may customize for their internal use under limited license terms, subject to confidentiality and use restrictions. If any of our customers misuses or distributes our source code in violation of our agreements with them, or anyone else obtains access to our source code, it could cost us significant time and resources to enforce our rights and remediate any resulting competitive harms.

Litigation brought to protect and enforce our intellectual property rights could be costly, time consuming and distracting to management. Furthermore, our efforts to enforce our intellectual property rights may be met with defenses, counterclaims and countersuits attacking the validity and enforceability of our intellectual property rights, which could result in the impairment or loss of portions of our intellectual property rights. Our failure to secure, protect and enforce our intellectual property rights could harm our brand and our business.

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We may require additional capital to support our operations or the growth of our business and we cannot be certain that we will be able to secure this capital on favorable terms, or at all.

We may require additional capital to respond to business opportunities, challenges, acquisitions, a decline in the level of license, subscription or maintenance revenue for our products, or other unforeseen circumstances. We may not be able to timely secure debt or equity financing on favorable terms, or at all. Any debt financing obtained by us could involve restrictive covenants relating to financial and operational matters, which may make it more difficult for us to obtain additional capital and to pursue business opportunities, including potential acquisitions. If we raise additional funds through further issuances of equity, convertible debt securities or other securities convertible into equity, our existing shareholders could suffer significant dilution in their percentage ownership of Atlassian, and any new equity securities we issue could have rights, preferences and privileges senior to those of holders of our Class A ordinary shares. If we are unable to obtain adequate financing or financing on terms satisfactory to us, when we require it, our ability to continue to grow or support our business and to respond to business challenges could be significantly limited.

Taxing authorities may successfully assert that we should have collected or in the future should collect sales and use, value-added or similar taxes, and we could be subject to liability with respect to past or future sales, which could harm our results of operations.

We do not collect sales and use, value-added and similar taxes in all jurisdictions in which we have sales, based on our understanding that such taxes are not applicable. Sales and use, value-added and similar tax laws and rates vary greatly by jurisdiction. Certain jurisdictions in which we do not collect such taxes may assert that such taxes are applicable, which could result in tax assessments, penalties, and interest, and we may be required to collect such taxes in the future. Such tax assessments, penalties and interest, or future requirements may harm our results of operations.

Our global operations and structure subject us to potentially adverse tax consequences.

We generally conduct our global operations through subsidiaries and report our taxable income in various jurisdictions worldwide based upon our business operations in those jurisdictions. A change in our global operations could result in higher effective tax rates, reduced cash flows and lower overall profitability. In particular, our intercompany relationships are subject to complex transfer pricing regulations administered by taxing authorities in various jurisdictions. The relevant revenue and taxing authorities may disagree with positions we have taken generally, or our determinations as to the value of assets sold or acquired or income and expenses attributable to specific jurisdictions. In addition, in the ordinary course of our business we are subject to tax audits from various taxing authorities. If such a disagreement were to occur, and our position was not sustained, or if a tax audit resulted in an adverse finding, we could be required to pay additional taxes, interest and penalties, which could result in one-time tax charges, higher effective tax rates, reduced cash flows and lower overall profitability of our operations.

Certain government agencies in jurisdictions where we do business have had an extended focus on issues related to the taxation of multinational companies. In addition, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has completed the base erosion and profit shifting project which seeks to establish certain international standards for taxing the worldwide income of multinational companies. The measures have been endorsed by the leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies. As a result of these developments, the tax laws of certain countries in which we do business could change on a prospective or retroactive basis, and any such changes could increase our liabilities for taxes, interest and penalties, and therefore could harm our cash flows, results of operations and financial position.

Changes in laws and regulations related to the Internet or changes in the Internet infrastructure itself may diminish the demand for our products, and could harm our business.

The future success of our business depends upon the continued use of the Internet as a primary medium for commerce, communication, and business applications. Federal, state, or foreign government bodies or agencies have in the past adopted, and may in the future adopt, laws or regulations affecting the use of the Internet as a commercial medium. Changes in these laws or regulations could require us to modify our products in order to comply with these changes. In addition, government agencies or private organizations have imposed and may impose additional taxes, fees, or other charges for accessing the Internet or commerce conducted via the Internet. These laws or charges could limit the growth of Internet-related commerce or communications generally, or result in reductions in the demand for Internet-based products such as ours. In addition, the use of the Internet as a business tool could be harmed due to delays in the development or adoption of new standards and protocols to

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handle increased demands of Internet activity, security, reliability, cost, ease-of-use, accessibility, and quality of service. The performance of the Internet and its acceptance as a business tool has been harmed by phising attacks, cyber-attacks, viruses, worms, and similar malicious programs and the Internet has experienced a variety of outages and other delays as a result of damage to portions of its infrastructure. If the use of the Internet is adversely affected by these issues, demand for our products could decline.

We are exposed to credit risk and fluctuations in the market values of our investment portfolio.

Given the global nature of our business, we have diversified U.S. and non-U.S. investments. Credit ratings and pricing of our investments can be negatively affected by liquidity, credit deterioration, financial results, economic risk, political risk, sovereign risk or other factors. As a result, the value and liquidity of our investments may fluctuate substantially. Therefore, although we have not realized any significant losses on our investments, future fluctuations in their value could result in a significant realized loss.

Catastrophic events may disrupt our business.

Natural disasters or other catastrophic events may cause damage or disruption to our operations, international commerce and the global economy, and thus could harm our business. We have a large employee presence in the San Francisco Bay Area, California and we operate or utilize data centers that are located in northern California and Virginia. The west coast of the United States contains active earthquake zones. In the event of a major earthquake, hurricane or catastrophic event such as fire, power loss, telecommunications failure, cyber-attack, war or terrorist attack, we may be unable to continue our operations and may endure system interruptions, reputational harm, delays in our application development, lengthy interruptions in our products, breaches of data security and loss of critical data, all of which could harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Additionally, we rely on our network and third-party infrastructure and applications, internal technology systems, and our websites for our development, marketing, operational support, hosted services and sales activities. If these systems were to fail or be negatively impacted as a result of a natural disaster or other event, our ability to deliver products to our customers would be impaired.

As we grow our business, the need for business continuity planning and disaster recovery plans will grow in significance. If we are unable to develop adequate plans to ensure that our business functions continue to operate during and after a disaster, and successfully execute on those plans in the event of a disaster or emergency, our business and reputation would be harmed.

If we are deemed to be an investment company under the Investment Company Act, our results of operations could be harmed.

We are not registered as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (“Investment Company Act”) as we believe that we the meet all the requirements for exemption provided under Rule 3a-8 under the Investment Company Act. If we were obligated to register as an investment company, we would have to comply with a variety of substantive requirements under the Investment Company Act that impose, among other things, limitations on capital structure, restrictions on specified investments, prohibitions on transactions with affiliates, and compliance with reporting, record keeping, voting, proxy disclosure and other rules and regulations that would increase our operating expenses and may harm our results of operations.

Adverse economic conditions could negatively impact our business.

Our results of operations may vary based on the impact of changes in our industry or the global economy on us or our customers. Our business depends on demand for business software applications generally and for collaboration software solutions in particular. In addition, the market adoption of our products and our revenue is dependent on the number of users of our products. To the extent that weak economic conditions reduce the number of personnel providing development or engineering services or that limit the available budgets within organizations for software products, demand for our products may be harmed. If economic conditions deteriorate, our customers and prospective customers may elect to decrease their information technology budgets, which would limit our ability to grow our business and harm our results of operations.

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Risks Related to Ownership of Our Class A Ordinary Shares

The dual class structure of our ordinary shares has the effect of concentrating voting control with certain shareholders, in particular, our Co-Chief Executive Officers and their affiliates, which will limit your ability to influence the outcome of important transactions, including a change in control.

Our Class B ordinary shares have ten votes per share and our Class A ordinary shares have one vote per share. As of September 30, 2017, shareholders who hold our Class B ordinary shares collectively hold approximately 93% of the voting power of our outstanding share capital and in particular, our Co-Chief Executive Officers, Messrs. Cannon-Brookes and Farquhar, collectively hold approximately 92% of the voting power of our outstanding share capital. The holders of our Class B ordinary shares will collectively continue to control a majority of the combined voting power of our share capital and therefore be able to control substantially all matters submitted to our shareholders for approval so long as our Class B ordinary shares represent at least 10% of all of our outstanding Class A ordinary shares and Class B ordinary shares in the aggregate. These holders of our Class B ordinary shares may also have interests that differ from holders of our Class A ordinary shares and may vote in a way which may be adverse to such interests. This concentrated control may have the effect of delaying, preventing or deterring a change in control of Atlassian, could deprive our shareholders of an opportunity to receive a premium for their shares as part of a sale of Atlassian and might ultimately affect the market price of our Class A ordinary shares.

If Messrs. Cannon-Brookes and Farquhar retain a significant portion of their holdings of our Class B ordinary shares for an extended period of time, they will control a significant portion of the voting power of our share capital for the foreseeable future. As members of our board of directors, Messrs. Cannon-Brookes and Farquhar each owe statutory and fiduciary duties to Atlassian and must act in good faith and in a manner they consider would be most likely to promote the success of Atlassian for the benefit of shareholders as a whole. As shareholders, Messrs. Cannon-Brookes and Farquhar are entitled to vote their shares in their own interests, which may not always be in the interests of our shareholders generally.

The market price of our Class A ordinary shares may be volatile or may decline regardless of our operating performance resulting in substantial losses for our Class A ordinary shareholders.

The trading price of our Class A ordinary shares is volatile and could continue to fluctuate significantly regardless of our operating performance. The market price of our Class A ordinary shares may fluctuate significantly in response to numerous factors, many of which are beyond our control, including:


•	actual or anticipated fluctuations in our results of operations;


•	the financial projections we may provide to the public, any changes in these projections or our failure to meet these projections;


•	failure of securities analysts to initiate or maintain coverage of Atlassian, publication of inaccurate or unfavorable research about our business, changes in financial estimates or ratings changes by any securities analysts who follow Atlassian or our failure to meet these estimates or the expectations of investors;


•	announcements by us or our competitors of significant technical innovations, new products, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures or capital commitments;


•	changes in operating performance and stock market valuations of other technology companies generally, or those in our industry in particular;


•	price and volume fluctuations in the overall stock market from time to time, including as a result of trends in the economy as a whole;


•	actual or anticipated developments in our business or our competitors’ businesses or the competitive landscape generally;


•	developments or disputes concerning our intellectual property or our products, or third-party proprietary rights;


•	changes in accounting standards, policies, guidelines, interpretations or principles;


•	new laws or regulations, new interpretations of existing laws, or the new application of existing regulations to our business;


•	any major change in our board of directors or management;

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•	additional Class A ordinary shares being sold into the market by us or our existing shareholders or the anticipation of such sales;


•	cyber-security breaches;


•	lawsuits threatened or filed against us; and


•	other events or factors, including those resulting from war, incidents of terrorism, or responses to these events.

In addition, the stock markets, and in particular the market on which our Class A ordinary shares are listed, have experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have affected and continue to affect the market prices of equity securities of many technology companies. Stock prices of many technology companies have fluctuated in a manner unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of those companies. In the past, shareholders have instituted securities class action litigation following periods of market volatility. If we were to become involved in securities litigation, it could subject us to substantial costs, divert resources and the attention of management from operating our business, and harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Substantial future sales of our Class A ordinary shares could cause the market price of our Class A ordinary shares to decline.

The market price of our Class A ordinary shares could decline as a result of substantial sales of our Class A ordinary shares, particularly sales by our directors, executive officers and significant shareholders, or the perception in the market that holders of a large number of shares intend to sell their shares. As of September 30, 2017, we had 96,141,815 outstanding Class A ordinary shares and 133,962,328 outstanding Class B ordinary shares.

We have also registered Class A ordinary shares that we issue under our employee equity incentive plans. These shares may be sold freely in the public market upon issuance.

Certain holders of our Class A ordinary shares and our Class B ordinary shares, including our founders, have rights, subject to certain conditions, to require us to file registration statements covering their shares or to include their shares in registration statements that we may file for ourselves or our shareholders. Sales of our Class A ordinary shares pursuant to these registration rights may make it more difficult for us to sell equity securities in the future at a time and at a price that we deem appropriate. These sales also could cause the market price of our Class A ordinary shares to fall and make it more difficult for our investors to sell our Class A ordinary shares at a price that they deem appropriate.

The requirements of being a public company may strain our resources, divert management’s attention, and affect our ability to attract and retain executive officers and qualified board members.

We are subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ Exchange Act ” ), the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, the listing requirements of NASDAQ Global Select Market and other applicable securities rules and regulations. Compliance with these rules and regulations has increased our legal and financial compliance costs, making some activities more difficult, time-consuming, and costly, and has increased demand on our systems and resources. Such demands would likely continue to increase, particularly if we were to lose our status as a “ foreign private issuer ” as discussed below. The Exchange Act requires, among other things, that we file annual reports with respect to our business and results of operations. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires, among other things, that we maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting. In order to maintain and, if required, improve our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting to meet this standard, significant resources and management oversight is required. As a result of the complexity involved in complying with the rules and regulations applicable to public companies, our management’s attention may be diverted from other business concerns, which could harm our business, results of operations and financial condition. In addition, the pressures of operating a public company may divert management’s attention to delivering short-term results, instead of focusing on long-term strategy.

As a public company it is more expensive for us to maintain adequate director and officer liability insurance, and we may be required to accept reduced coverage or incur substantially higher costs to obtain coverage. These factors could also make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified members of our board of directors, particularly to serve on our audit committee and compensation and leadership development committee, and qualified executive officers.

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If we are unable to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting in the future, investors may lose confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports and the market price of our Class A ordinary shares may be harmed.

As a public company, we are required to maintain internal controls over financial reporting and to report any material weaknesses in such internal controls. We are required to furnish a report by management on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. If we identify material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, if we are unable to comply with the requirements of Section 404 in a timely manner or assert that our internal control over financial reporting is effective, or if our independent registered public accounting firm is unable to express an opinion as to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, investors may lose confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports and the market price of Class A ordinary shares could be negatively affected, and we could become subject to investigations by the stock exchange on which our securities are listed, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) or other regulatory authorities, which could require additional financial and management resources.

We do not expect to declare dividends in the foreseeable future.

We currently anticipate that we will retain future earnings for the development, operation and expansion of our business, and do not anticipate declaring or paying any cash dividends for the foreseeable future. Any return to shareholders will therefore be limited to the increase, if any, of our share price, which may never occur.

Risks Related to being a Foreign Private Issuer or an English Company

As a foreign private issuer, we are permitted to report our financial results under IFRS, are exempt from certain rules under the U.S. securities laws and are permitted to file less information with the SEC than a U.S. company and our Class A ordinary shares are not listed, and we do not intend to list our shares, on any market in the United Kingdom, our country of incorporation. This may limit the information available to holders of our Class A ordinary shares.

We are a “ foreign private issuer, ” as defined in the SEC’s rules and regulations and, consequently, we are not subject to all of the disclosure requirements applicable to public companies organized within the United States. For example, we are exempt from certain rules under the Exchange Act that regulate disclosure obligations and procedural requirements related to the solicitation of proxies, consents or authorizations applicable to a security registered under the Exchange Act, including the U.S. proxy rules under Section 14 of the Exchange Act. In addition, our officers and directors are exempt from the reporting and “ short-swing ” profit recovery provisions of Section 16 of the Exchange Act and related rules with respect to their purchases and sales of our securities. Moreover, while we have been, and expect to continue to, voluntarily submit quarterly interim consolidated financial data to the SEC under cover of the SEC’s Form 6-K, we will not be required to file periodic reports and financial statements with the SEC as frequently or as promptly as U.S. public companies and will not be required to file quarterly reports on Form 10-Q or current reports on Form 8-K under the Exchange Act. If some investors find our Class A ordinary shares less attractive because of these exemptions, there may be a less active trading market for our Class A ordinary shares and our share price may be more volatile.

Furthermore, our shares are not listed and we do not currently intend to list our shares on any market in the United Kingdom, our country of incorporation. As a result, we are not subject to the reporting and other requirements of companies listed in the United Kingdom. Accordingly, there will be less publicly available information concerning Atlassian than there would be if we were a public company organized in the United States.

In addition, we report our financial statements under IFRS. There have been and there may in the future be certain significant differences between IFRS and GAAP, including differences related to revenue recognition, share-based compensation expense, income tax and earnings per share. As a result, our financial information and reported earnings for historical or future periods could be significantly different if they were prepared in accordance with GAAP. As a result, you may not be able to meaningfully compare our financial statements under IFRS with those companies that prepare financial statements under GAAP.

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As a foreign private issuer, we are permitted to follow certain home country corporate governance practices in lieu of certain requirements under the NASDAQ listing standards. This may afford less protection to holders of our Class A ordinary shares than U.S. regulations.

As a foreign private issuer whose shares are listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, we are permitted to follow English corporate law and the Companies Act 2006 ( “ Companies Act ” ) with regard to certain aspects of corporate governance in lieu of certain requirements under the NASDAQ listing standards.

A foreign private issuer must disclose in its annual reports filed with the SEC each requirement under the NASDAQ listing standards with which it does not comply, followed by a description of its applicable home country practice. Our home country practices differ in significant respects from the corporate governance requirements applicable to U.S. domestic issuers listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market and may, therefore, afford less protection to holders of our Class A ordinary shares.

We may rely on exemptions available under the NASDAQ listing standards to a foreign private issuer and follow our home country practices in the future, and as a result, you may not be provided with the benefits of certain corporate governance requirements of the NASDAQ listing standards.

We may lose our foreign private issuer status in the future, which could result in significant additional cost and expense.

In order to maintain our current status as a foreign private issuer, either (1) a majority of voting power of our shares must be either directly or indirectly owned of record by non-residents of the United States or (2) (a) a majority of our executive officers or directors must not be U.S. citizens or residents, (b) more than 50% of our assets cannot be located in the United States, and (c) our business must be administered principally outside the United States. If we lost this status, we would be required to comply with the Exchange Act reporting and other requirements applicable to U.S. domestic issuers, which are more detailed and extensive than the requirements for foreign private issuers. We would also be required under current SEC rules to prepare our financial statements in accordance with GAAP and modify certain of our corporate governance practices in accordance with various SEC rules and the NASDAQ listing standards. The regulatory and compliance costs to us under U.S. securities laws if we are required to comply with the reporting requirements applicable to a U.S. domestic issuer will likely be higher than the cost we would incur as a foreign private issuer. As a result, we expect that a loss of foreign private issuer status would increase our legal and financial compliance costs. We also expect that if we were required to comply with the rules and regulations applicable to U.S. domestic issuers, it would make it more difficult and expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance. These rules and regulations could also make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified members of our board of directors.

Provisions contained in our articles of association and under the laws of England may frustrate or prevent an attempt to obtain control of us.

Provisions in our articles of association, as amended and restated, may have the effect of delaying or preventing a change of control or changes in our management. Our amended and restated articles of association include provisions that:


•	specify that general meetings of our shareholders can be called only by our board of directors, the chair of our board of directors, or one of our Co-Chief Executive Officers (or otherwise by shareholders in accordance with the Companies Act); and


•	provide that vacancies on our board of directors may be filled only by a majority of directors then in office, even though less than a quorum.

Provisions of the laws of England may also have the effect of delaying or preventing a change of control or changes in our management. The Companies Act includes provisions that:


•	require that any action to be taken by our shareholders be effected at a duly called general meeting (including the annual general meeting) and not by written consent; and


•	require the approval of the holders of at least 75% of the voting power of our outstanding shares to amend the provisions of our articles of association.

These provisions may frustrate or prevent any attempts by our shareholders to replace or remove our current management by making it more difficult for shareholders to replace members of our board of directors, which is responsible for appointing the members of our management.

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In addition, because we are a public limited company whose registered office is in the United Kingdom, we may become subject to the U.K. City Code on Takeovers and Mergers (“Takeover Code ” ), which is issued and administered by the U.K. Panel on Takeovers and Mergers (“Takeover Panel ” ). The Takeover Code applies, among other things, to an offer for a public company whose registered office is in the United Kingdom and whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market or multilateral trading facility in the United Kingdom (and for these purposes NASDAQ does not fall within the definition of regulated market or multilateral trading facility), or to an offer for a public company whose registered office is in the United Kingdom if Atlassian is considered by the Takeover Panel to have its place of central management and control in the United Kingdom. Although we believe that the Takeover Code does not apply to us, the Takeover Panel will be responsible for determining whether we have our place of central management and control in the United Kingdom by looking at various factors, including the structure of our board of directors and where they are resident.

If at the time of a takeover offer the Takeover Panel determines that we have our place of central management and control in the United Kingdom, or if at that time we have our shares admitted to trading on a regulated market or multilateral trading facility in the United Kingdom (or a regulated market in one or more member states of the European Economic Area), we would be subject to a number of rules and restrictions, including but not limited to the following: (1) our ability to enter into deal protection arrangements with a bidder would be extremely limited; (2) we may not, without the approval of our shareholders, be able to perform certain actions that could have the effect of frustrating an offer, such as issuing shares or carrying out acquisitions or disposals; and (3) we would be obliged to provide equality of information to all bona-fide competing bidders.

The rights of our shareholders may differ from the rights typically offered to shareholders of a U.S. corporation.

We are incorporated under English law. The rights of holders of Class A ordinary shares are governed by English law, including the provisions of the Companies Act, and by our articles of association. These rights differ in certain respects from the rights of shareholders in typical U.S. corporations organized under Delaware law.

Shareholders in certain jurisdictions may not be able to exercise their pre-emptive rights if we increase our share capital.

Under the Companies Act, our shareholders generally have the right to subscribe and pay for a sufficient number of our shares to maintain their relative ownership percentages prior to the issuance of any new shares in exchange for cash consideration. Shareholders in certain jurisdictions may not be able to exercise their pre-emptive rights unless securities laws have been complied with in such jurisdictions with respect to such rights and the related shares, or an exemption from the requirements of the securities laws of these jurisdictions is available. We currently do not intend to register the Class A ordinary shares under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United States, and no assurance can be given that an exemption from the securities laws requirements of other jurisdictions will be available to shareholders in these jurisdictions. To the extent that such shareholders are not able to exercise their pre-emptive rights, the pre-emptive rights would lapse and the proportional interests of such shareholders would be reduced.

Further, the Companies Act provides that in certain circumstances the pre-emptive rights available to shareholders can be overridden, including where there is an issue of shares for non-cash consideration or the disapplication of the pre-emptive rights is approved by the holders of at least 75% of our outstanding shares. Our shareholders have approved the disapplication of these pre-emptive rights for a period of five years from our fiscal 2016 annual shareholder meeting.

U.S. holders of our shares could be subject to material adverse tax consequences if we are considered a “passive foreign investment company” for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

We do not believe that we are a passive foreign investment company, and we do not expect to become a passive foreign investment company. However, our status in any taxable year will depend on our assets, income and activities in each year, and because this is a factual determination made annually after the end of each taxable year, there can be no assurance that we will not be considered a passive foreign investment company for the current taxable year or any future taxable years. If we were a passive foreign investment company for any taxable year while a taxable U.S. holder held our shares, such U.S. holder would generally be taxed at ordinary income rates on any sale of our shares and on any dividends treated as “excess distributions.” An interest charge also generally would apply based on any taxation deferred during such U.S. holder’s holding period in the shares.

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U.S. investors may have difficulty enforcing civil liabilities against us, our directors or executive officers.

Under English law, a director owes various statutory and fiduciary duties to us, and not, except in certain limited circumstances, to shareholders. This means that under English law generally we, rather than the shareholders, are the proper claimant in an action in respect of a wrong done to us by a director. Notwithstanding this general position, the Companies Act provides that a court may allow a shareholder to bring a derivative claim, which is an action in respect of and on behalf of us, in respect of a cause of action arising from a director’s negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust. The ability to bring a derivative claim is, however, subject to compliance with a number of procedural requirements, which may in practice be difficult for shareholders to comply with.

We are a public limited company incorporated under the laws of England. Certain of our directors and executive officers reside outside the United States. In addition, a substantial portion of our assets and a substantial portion of the assets of such directors and executive officers, are located outside the United States. As a result, it may be difficult for an investor to serve legal process on us or our directors and executive officers or have any of them appear in a U.S. court.

It may not be possible to bring proceedings or enforce a judgment of a U.S. court in respect of civil liabilities predicated on the U.S. federal securities laws in England. The English courts will not enforce, either directly or indirectly, a penal, revenue or other public law of a foreign state. In addition, awards of punitive damages in actions brought in the United States or elsewhere may be unenforceable in England. An award of damages is usually considered to be punitive if it does not seek to compensate the claimant for loss or damage suffered and is instead intended to punish the defendant. In addition to public policy aspects of enforcement, the enforceability of any judgment in England will depend on the particular facts of the case such as the nature of the judgment and whether the English court considered the U.S. court to have had jurisdiction. It will also depend on the laws and treaties in effect at that time. The United States and the United Kingdom do not currently have a treaty or convention providing for the reciprocal recognition and enforcement of judgments, other than arbitration awards, in civil and commercial matters. Therefore, to enforce a judgment of a U.S. court, the party seeking to enforce the judgment must bring an action at common law in respect of the amount due under the judgment.

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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.