Company: DLO
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000950170-25-058197
Chunk: 64

Company: dLocal Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 8
Chunk 64
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 could be seriously harmed.

Techniques employed by short sellers may drive down the market price of our common shares, negatively impact our business operations and/or generate non-meritorious litigation.

Short selling is the practice of selling securities that a seller does not own but rather has borrowed from a third party with the intention of buying identical securities back at a later date to return to the lender. Short sellers seek to profit from a decline in the value of the securities between the sale of the borrowed securities and the purchase of the replacement securities, as short sellers hope to pay less in that purchase than they received in the sale. As it is in short sellers’ interest for the price of the securities to decline, certain short sellers publish, or arrange for the publication of, negative research reports and allegations regarding the relevant issuer and its business prospects in order to create negative market momentum and generate profits for themselves after selling a security short. These short attacks have, in the past, created downward pressure on the price of the relevant securities.

We have been the subject of negative publicity by short sellers. It is not clear what long-term effect such negative publicity could have on us and/or whether we will continue to be subject to short seller attacks from time to time in the future. If we were to become the subject of any additional unfavorable allegations, even when such allegations are untrue, we may have to expend a significant amount of resources to investigate such allegations and/or defend ourselves. While we would prefer to strongly defend against any such short seller attacks, we may be constrained in the manner in which we can respond to any allegations due to applicable state or federal law, or issues of commercial confidentiality. Any future response to negative publicity from short sellers could be costly and time-consuming, and could divert management’s attention from our day-to-day operations.

Even if short seller allegations are ultimately proven to be groundless, allegations against us could severely impact the market price of our Class A common shares and our business operations. Because of the nature of our business in processing payments, we depend significantly on our brand and on customer confidence in our services. As a result, such allegations may impact our revenues by damaging our reputation, confidence in our services and relationships with our existing customers and potential new customers. For example, we may need to offer more favorable terms to new or existing customers, such as shorter settlement cycles, or we may be required to deliver letters of credit as a condition to doing business with certain customers, or we could lose certain lines of credit (in each case either temporarily or permanently), which would