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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q/A
(Amendment No. 1)
QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2021
or

TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from__________ to ___________.
Commission file number 001-38908
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DRAFTKINGS INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Nevada84-4052441
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
222 Berkeley Street, 5th Floor
Boston, MA 02116
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
(617) 986-6744
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Not Applicable
(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report).
Securities Registered Pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each class    Trading symbol    Name of each exchange on which registered
Class A Common Stock, $0.0001 par valueDKNGThe Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes No
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes No
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer”, “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer
Accelerated filer
Non-accelerated filerSmaller reporting company
Emerging growth company 
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes No
As of May 5, 2021, there were 400,980,887 shares of the registrant’s Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, and 393,013,951 shares of the registrant’s Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, outstanding.



Explanatory Note
 
This Amendment No. 1 ( “Amendment No. 1”) amends the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of DraftKings Inc. (the “Company,” “we,” “us” or “our”) for the quarter ended March 31, 2021 (the “Original Filing”), filed on May 7, 2021 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). This Amendment No. 1 is being filed solely to (i) restate Part I, Item 4. Controls and Procedures to reflect the conclusion of the Company’s Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of March 31, 2021 and (ii) file new certifications of the Company’s Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer pursuant to Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as exhibits under Part II, Item 6.

Notwithstanding this Amendment No.1, management has concluded that the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements included in the Original Filing present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company at March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020 and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the periods presented, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”).

Except as discussed above, the Company has not modified or updated disclosures presented in the Original Filing. Accordingly, this Amendment No. 1 does not reflect events occurring after the Original Filing, nor does it modify or update those disclosures affected by subsequent events or discoveries. It also does not affect information contained in the Original Filing which was not impacted by the restatements in Amendment No. 1. Events occurring after the filing of the Original Filing or other disclosures necessary to reflect subsequent events have been or will be addressed in the Company's reports filed subsequent to the Original Filing.

This Amendment No. 1 should be read in conjunction with the Company's filings made with the SEC subsequent to the Original Filing, including any amendments to those filings.


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PART I

Item 4. Controls and Procedures.

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Prior to the Original Filing, as required by Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of March 31, 2021 and deemed them to be effective.

Subsequent to, and as a result of the restatement set forth in Amendment No. 1 on Form 10-K/A that was filed with the SEC on May 3, 2021, the Company has concluded that there was a material weakness in its operation of controls over the classification and accounting for its private placement warrants and public warrants (collectively, the “warrants”) in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification 815-40, and solely as a result of the material weakness, its Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of March 31, 2021.

Notwithstanding this material weakness described above, we have concluded that the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements included in the Original Filing present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the periods presented, in conformity with U.S. GAAP.

Remediation of Material Weakness

To remediate the material weakness, we studied and clarified our understanding of the accounting for contracts that may be settled in the Company’s own stock, such as warrants, as highlighted in the Staff Statement on Accounting and Reporting Considerations for Warrants Issued by Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (“SPACs”), issued on April 12, 2021 (the “SEC Statement”) and enhanced the accounting policy, controls and procedures related to the accounting for such contracts to determine proper accounting in accordance with U.S. GAAP as clarified by the SEC Statement. We accounted for our warrants as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2021 in accordance with U.S. GAAP as clarified by the SEC Statement. While these actions are subject to ongoing management evaluation, including the validation and testing of internal controls over a sustained period of financial reporting cycles, we are committed to remediating internal controls deficiencies as they are identified and committed to the continuous improvement of our overall control environment.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

Other than as described above under “Remediation of Material Weakness”, there has been no change in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during our most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls and Procedures

Our disclosure controls and procedures are designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives, as specified above. Our management recognizes that any control system, no matter how well designed and operated, is based upon certain judgments and assumptions and cannot provide absolute assurance that its objectives will be met.
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PART II
Item 6. Exhibits.

The following exhibits are filed as part of, or incorporated by reference into, this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
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Exhibit Index
Exhibit No. Description
 
 
 
 
101.INS** Inline XBRL Instance Document - the instance document does not appear in the Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document.
101.SCH** Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document.
101.CAL** Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document.
101.DEF** Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document.
101.LAB** Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Labels Linkbase Document.
101.PRE** Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document.
104.1Cover Page Interactive Data File (Embedded within the Inline XBRL document and included in Exhibit).

*Filed herewith.
**Previously filed or furnished, as applicable, with the Original Filing.

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Signatures

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
 DRAFTKINGS INC.
Date: November 5, 2021 
 By:/s/ Jason K. Park
 Name: Jason K. Park
 Title: Chief Financial Officer
 (Principal Financial Officer)
 By:/s/ Erik Bradbury
 Name: Erik Bradbury
 Title: Chief Accounting Officer
 (Principal Accounting Officer)

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Document

Exhibit 31.1
Certification of Principal Executive Officer Pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a)
as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
I, Jason D. Robins, certify that:
1.I have reviewed this Amendment No. 1 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of DraftKings Inc.;
2.Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
3.The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:
a.Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
b.Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
c.Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
d.Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and
4.The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
a.All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
b.Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.
Date: November 5, 2021
 /s/ Jason D. Robins
 Jason D. Robins
 Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
 (Principal Executive Officer)


Document

Exhibit 31.2
Certification of Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a)
as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
I, Jason K. Park, certify that:
1.I have reviewed this Amendment No. 1 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of DraftKings Inc.;
2.Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
3.The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:
a.Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
b.Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
c.Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
d.Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and
4.The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
a.All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
b.Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.
Date: November 5, 2021

 /s/ Jason K. Park
 Jason K. Park
 Chief Financial Officer
 (Principal Financial Officer)