Simpson Thacher represented affiliates of Silver Lake in connection with the purchase of $1.5 billion of 1% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029 of Global Payments Inc. (“Global Payments”).
Global Payments is a leading worldwide provider of payments technology and software solutions through its payment processing services, merchant acceptance solutions and related information and other value-added services.
The Simpson Thacher team included Ken Wallach, Hui Lin, Sunny Cheong and Ben Massey (Capital Markets); Jennifer Levitt and Mimi Cheng (Credit); Jonathan Lindabury (Derivatives); Jennifer Nadborny (Public Company Advisory Practice); Jordan Cross and Demetrius Baefsky (Private Funds); Russell Light and Edward Grais (Tax); Mark Myott and Atif Azher (M&A); Bobbie Burrows and Rachelle Broida (Intellectual Property and Data Privacy); and Peter Guryan and Max Fischer-Zernin (Antitrust).