# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001123360
**File Stem:** 0001193125-23-073927
**Filing Date:** 2023-3
**Character Count:** 5370
**Document Hash:** 38b12e5a44409710911ef33a38e0f68c
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001193125-23-073927.hdr.sgml**: 20230317

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001193125-23-073927

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-A12B

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 2

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20230317

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20230317

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001123360
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** SERVICES-BUSINESS SERVICES, NEC [7389]
- **IRS NUMBER:** 582567903
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** GA
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-A12B
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-16111
- **FILM NUMBER:** 23742961

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 3550 LENOX ROAD
- **CITY:** ATLANTA
- **STATE:** GA
- **ZIP:** 30326
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 7708298030

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 3550 LENOX ROAD
- **CITY:** ATLANTA
- **STATE:** GA
- **ZIP:** 30326

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**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION** 

**WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549** 

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**FORM 8-A** 

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**FOR REGISTRATION OF CERTAIN CLASSES OF SECURITIES** 

**PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OR (g) OF** 

**THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934** 

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![LOGO](g410235g0317005441549.jpg)

## Global Payments Inc.
**(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)** 

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| **Georgia** | **58-2567903** |
| **(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)** | **(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)** |
| **3550 Lenox Road, Atlanta, Georgia** | **30326** |
| **(Address of principal executive offices)** | **(Zip Code)** |

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**Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:** 

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| **Title of each class** | **Name of exchange on which registered** |
| **4.875% Senior Notes due 2031** | **New York Stock Exchange** |

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If this Form relates to the registration of a class of securities pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and is effective pursuant to General Instruction A.(c), please check the following box. ☒

If this Form relates to the registration of a class of securities pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act and is effective pursuant to General Instruction A.(d), please check the following box. ☐

If this form relates to the registration of a class of securities concurrently with a Regulation A offering, check the following box. ☐

**Securities Act registration statement file number to which this form relates:** 

**333-266621** 

**Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:** 

**None** 

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**EXPLANATORY NOTE** 

Global Payments Inc. (the "Company") is filing this Form 8-A in connection with the listing of €800,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company's 4.875% Senior Notes due 2031 (the "Notes") on the New York Stock Exchange.

**ITEM 1. DESCRIPTION OF REGISTRANT'S SECURITIES TO BE REGISTERED** 

The title of the securities to be registered hereunder is "4.875% Senior Notes due 2031." For a description of the securities to be registered hereunder, reference is made to the information under the heading "Description of Notes" in the Company's prospectus supplement, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") on March 10, 2023, pursuant to Rule 424(b)(5) of Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), which relates to the offer and sale of the Notes and supplements the Company's prospectus, as filed with the Commission on August 8, 2022, contained in the Company's registration statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-266621), filed with the Commission on August 8, 2022, and which information is incorporated herein by reference and made part of this registration statement in its entirety.

**ITEM 2. EXHIBITS** 

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| Exhibit 4.1 | Indenture, dated as of August 14, 2019, between Global Payments Inc. and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor to U.S. Bank National Association), as trustee, incorporated by reference to [Exhibit 4.1](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123360/000119312519221255/d764126dex41.htm) to Global Payments Inc.'s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 14, 2019. |
| Exhibit 4.2 | Supplemental Indenture No. 6, dated as of March 17, 2023, among Global Payments Inc. and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee, registrar and transfer agent, and Elavon Financial Services DAC, as paying agent, incorporated by reference to [Exhibit 4.2](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123360/000119312523073873/d493194dex42.htm) to Global Payments Inc.'s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 17, 2023. |
| Exhibit 4.3 | Form of Global Note representing the Notes incorporated by reference to [Exhibit 4.3](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123360/000119312523073873/d493194dex42.htm) to Global Payments Inc.'s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 17, 2023. |

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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 hereunto duly authorized.

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|  |  | **Global Payments Inc.** |
|  | By: | /s/ David L. Green |
|  |  | David L. Green |
| Date: March 17, 2023 |  | Senior Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary |

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