As previously disclosed, on May 27, 2019, Global Payments Inc., a Georgia corporation (Global Payments), entered into an
Agreement and Plan of Merger (as amended from time to time, the merger agreement) with Total System Services, Inc., a Georgia corporation (TSYS). The merger agreement provides that, upon the terms and subject to the
conditions set forth therein, TSYS will merge with and into Global Payments (the merger), with Global Payments as the surviving entity in the merger. The merger agreement was unanimously approved by the board of directors of each of
Global Payments and TSYS.
In connection with the proposed merger, Global Payments filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a
registration statement on
Form S-4/A
to register the shares of Global Payments common stock to be issued in connection with the merger on July 23, 2019. The registration statement includes a
joint proxy statement/prospectus (the Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus) which was dated as of July 23, 2019 and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on July 25, 2019. Global Payments and TSYS
commenced mailing the Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus to their respective shareholders on or about July 25, 2019.
Following the
announcement of the merger agreement, as of the date of this Current Report on Form
8-K,
six lawsuits challenging the merger have been filed. Two of these lawsuits, captioned
Peters v. Total System
Services, Inc. et al.
(Case No.
4:19-cv-00114)
and
Wolf v. Total System Services, Inc., et al.
(Case No.
4:19-cv-00115),
were filed in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia on July 18, 2019. The third lawsuit, captioned
Drulias v. Global Payments Inc., et. al
(Case
No. 60774/2019) was filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Westchester on July 19, 2019. The fourth lawsuit, captioned
Hickey v. Total System Services, Inc., et al.
(Civil Action No.
1:19-cv-03337-LMM)
was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, on
July 23, 2019. The fifth lawsuit, captioned,
Cason v. Total System Services, Inc., et al.
(Case No.
1:19-cv-07471)
was filed in the United States District
Court for the Southern District of New York on August 9, 2019. The sixth lawsuit, captioned,
Cheng v. Total System Services, et al.
(Case No:
1:19-cv-01513-UNA)
was filed in the United States
District Court for the District of Delaware on August 13, 2019. The complaints filed in the lawsuits assert, among other matters, claims for filing a materially incomplete registration statement with the SEC. We refer to the six lawsuits
collectively as the Merger Litigation.
TSYS and Global Payments believe that the claims asserted in the Merger Litigation are
without merit and supplemental disclosures are not required or necessary under applicable laws. However, in order to avoid the risk of the Merger Litigation delaying or otherwise adversely affecting the transactions and to minimize the costs, risks
and uncertainties inherent in defending the lawsuits, and without admitting any liability or wrongdoing, TSYS and Global Payments are voluntarily supplementing the Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus as described in this Current Report on Form
8-K.
TSYS, Global Payments and the other named defendants deny that they have violated any laws or breached any duties to TSYS shareholders or Global Payments shareholders, as applicable. Nothing in this
Current Report on Form
8-K
shall be deemed an admission of the legal necessity or materiality under applicable laws of any of the disclosures set forth herein. To the contrary, TSYS and Global Payments
specifically deny all allegations in the Merger Litigation that any additional disclosure was or is required.
These supplemental
disclosures will not affect the merger consideration to be received by shareholders of TSYS in connection with the merger or the timing of the special meeting of the shareholders of TSYS scheduled for August 29, 2019, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern
Daylight Time, at TSYS Riverfront Campus Auditorium, One TSYS Way, Columbus, Georgia 31901 or the special meeting of the shareholders of Global Payments scheduled for August 29, 2019, at 3:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, at 3550 Lenox
Road, Atlanta Georgia 30326. The TSYS board of directors continues to recommend that TSYS shareholders vote FOR the proposal to approve the merger agreement and FOR the other proposals being considered at the special meeting
of TSYS shareholders. The Global Payments board of directors continues to recommend that Global Payments shareholders vote FOR the proposal to approve the merger agreement and FOR the other proposals being considered at the
special meeting of Global Payments shareholders.
Supplemental Disclosures to Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus in Connection with the Merger Litigation
The additional disclosures (the supplemental disclosures) in this Current Report on Form
8-K
supplement the disclosures contained in the Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus and should be read in conjunction with the disclosures contained in the proxy statement/prospectus, which in turn should be read
in its entirety. To the extent that information