3.Business Acquisitions, Goodwill and Intangible Assets

On October 17, 2014, the Company completed the acquisition of the U.S. headquartered URS Corporation (URS), an international provider of engineering, construction, and technical services, by purchasing 100% of the outstanding shares of URS common stock. The purpose of the acquisition was to further diversify the Company’s market presence and accelerate the Company’s strategy to create an integrated delivery platform for customers. The Company paid total consideration of approximately $2.3 billion in cash and issued approximately $1.6 billion of AECOM common stock to the former stockholders and certain equity award holders of URS. In connection with the acquisition, the Company also assumed URS’s senior notes totaling $1.0 billion, and upon the occurrence of a change in control of URS, the URS senior noteholders had the right to redeem their notes at a cash price equal to 101% of the principal amount of the notes. Accordingly, on October 24, 2014, the Company purchased $0.6 billion of URS’s senior notes from the noteholders. See also Note 7, Debt. Additionally, the Company repaid in full URS’s $0.6 billion 2011 term loan and $0.1 billion of URS’s revolving line of credit.

The following summarizes the estimated fair values of URS assets acquired and liabilities assumed (in millions), as of the acquisition date:

Cash and cash equivalents	$	284.9
Accounts receivable	2,512.8
Prepaid expenses and other current assets	421.0
Property and equipment	570.9
Identifiable intangible assets:
Customer relationships, contracts and backlog	969.2
Tradename	7.8

Total identifiable intangible assets	977.0
Goodwill	3,992.0
Other non-current assets	329.8
Accounts payable	(656.7		)
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities	(1,344.8		)
Billings in excess of costs on uncompleted contracts	(397.8		)
Current portion of long-term debt	(47.4		)
Other long-term liabilities	(393.6		)
Pension benefit obligations	(406.3		)
Long-term debt	(520.2		)
Noncontrolling interests	(201.0		)

Net assets acquired	$	5,120.6

Backlog and customer relationships represent the fair value of existing contracts and the underlying customer relationships, and have lives ranging from 1 to 11 years (weighted average lives of approximately 3 years). Other intangible assets primarily consist of the fair value of office leases. Goodwill recognized largely results from a substantial assembled workforce, which does not qualify for separate recognition, as well as expected future synergies from combining operations. Accrued expenses and other current liabilities above include URS project liabilities and approximately $240 million as of the acquisition date, related to estimated URS legal settlements and uninsured legal damages; see Note 14, Commitments and Contingencies, which includes legal matters related to former URS affiliates.

The following presents summarized unaudited pro forma operating results assuming that the Company had acquired URS at October 1, 2013. These pro forma operating results are presented for illustrative purposes only and are not indicative of the operating results that would have been achieved had the related events occurred.

	Three Months Ended Dec 31, 2014
	(in millions)
Revenue	$	4,546
Income from continuing operations	163
Net income	44
Net income attributable to AECOM	21

Net income attributable to AECOM per share:
Basic	$	0.14
Diluted	$	0.14

Amortization of intangible assets relating to URS was $59.0 million and $99.0 million during the three months ended December 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively. Additionally, included in equity in earnings of joint ventures and noncontrolling interests was intangible amortization expense of $9.7 million and ($5.7) million, respectively, during the three months ended December 31, 2015 and $8.1 million and ($9.5) million, respectively, during the three months ended December 31, 2014 related to joint venture fair value adjustments.

Billings in excess of costs on uncompleted contracts includes a margin fair value liability associated with long-term contracts acquired in connection with the acquisition of URS on October 17, 2014. This margin fair value liability was $148.1 million at the acquisition date and its carrying value was $36.0 million at December 31, 2015, and is recognized as revenue on a percentage-of-completion basis as the applicable projects progress. The Company anticipates the remaining liability will be recognized as revenue over five years, with the majority over the first two years. Revenue and the related income from operations related to the margin fair value liability recognized during the three months ended December 31, 2015 and 2014 was $15.1 million and $24.4 million, respectively.

Acquisition and integration expenses in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations comprised of the following (in millions):

	Three months ended Dec 31,
	2015		2014

Severance and personnel costs	$	6.6	$	109.3
Professional service, real estate-related, and other expenses	34.4		29.2

Total	$	41.0	$	138.5

Included in severance and personnel costs for the three months ended December 31, 2015 and 2014 was $6.6 million and $36.6 million of severance expense, respectively, of which $4.3 million and $4.6 million was paid as of December 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively. All acquisition and integration expenses are classified within corporate, as presented in Note 15.

Interest expense in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations for the three months ended December 31, 2015 included acquisition related financing expenses of $4.1 million. Interest expense in the consolidated statements of operations for the three months ended December 31, 2014 included acquisition related financing expenses of $68.0 million, which primarily consisted of a $55.6 million penalty from the prepayment of the Company’s unsecured senior notes.

Loss on disposal activities of $41.0 million in the accompanying Statements of Operations includes losses on the disposition of non-core energy related businesses, equipment and other assets acquired with URS and reported within the Construction Services segment. Net assets related to the loss on disposal activities were $99.6 million. Income from operations includes losses incurred by non-core businesses of $7.1 million during the three months ended December 31, 2015.

Net favorable adjustments from acquisition related project and legal matters resulted in $19.7 million of income during the three months ended December 31, 2015 ($15.4 million, net of noncontrolling interests).

The changes in the carrying value of goodwill by reportable segment for the three months ended December 31, 2015 and 2014 were as follows:

	September 30, 2015		Post- Acquisition Adjustments			Foreign Exchange Impact			Disposed			December 31, 2015
	(in millions)
Design and Consulting Services	$	3,163.3	$	(10.4	)	$	(9.5	)	$	—		$	3,143.4
Construction Services	918.5		(19.8		)	(10.7		)	(11.3		)	876.7
Management Services	1,738.9		—			(5.8		)	—			1,733.1

Total	$	5,820.7	$	(30.2	)	$	(26.0	)	$	(11.3	)	$	5,753.2

The gross amounts and accumulated amortization of the Company’s acquired identifiable intangible assets with finite useful lives as of December 31, 2015 and September 30, 2015, included in intangible assets—net, in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets, were as follows:

	December 31, 2015							September 30, 2015
	Gross Amount		Accumulated Amortization			Intangible Assets, Net		Gross Amount		Accumulated Amortization			Intangible Assets, Net		Amortization Period
	(in millions)														(years)
Backlog and customer relationships	$	1,222.0	$	(630.4	)	$	591.6	$	1,224.7	$	(565.3	)	$	659.4	1 – 11
Trademark / tradename	16.4		(16.4		)	—		16.4		(16.4		)	—		0.3 - 2

Total	$	1,238.4	$	(646.8	)	$	591.6	$	1,241.1	$	(581.7	)	$	659.4

Amortization expense of acquired intangible assets included within cost of revenue was $65.1 million and $105.9 million for the three months ended December 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively. The following table presents estimated amortization expense of intangible assets for the remainder of fiscal 2016 and for the succeeding years:

Fiscal Year	(in millions)
2016 (nine months remaining)	$	128.4
2017	93.5
2018	79.3
2019	73.9
2020	61.8
Thereafter	154.7

Total	$	591.6