This official website is maintained by the Claims Administrator under the supervision of Lead Counsel for the members of the Settlement Class in Shafer, et al. v. Global Payments Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 1:23-cv-00577-LMM which is pending in the United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia Atlanta Division.
PROOF OF CLAIM AND RELEASE FORM
To be eligible to receive a share of the Net Settlement Fund in connection with the Settlement of this Action, you must complete and sign this
Claim Form no later than January 11, 2025.
Failure to submit your Claim Form by January 11, 2025 will subject your claim to rejection and may preclude you from being eligible to receive any money in connection with the Settlement.
Failure to submit your Claim Form by January 11, 2025 will subject your claim to rejection and may preclude you from being eligible to receive any money in connection with the Settlement.
PART I – GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
1. It is important that you completely read and understand the Notice of (I) Pendency of Class Action and Proposed Settlement; (II) Settlement Fairness
Hearing; and (III) Motion for Attorneys’ Fees and Litigation Expenses (the “Notice”), including the Plan of Allocation of the Net Settlement Fund set
forth in the Notice. The Notice describes the proposed Settlement, how Settlement Class Members are affected by the Settlement, and the manner in which
the Net Settlement Fund will be distributed if the Settlement and Plan of Allocation are approved by the Court. The Notice also contains the definitions
of many of the defined terms (which are indicated by initial capital letters) used in this Claim Form. By electronically signing and submitting this Claim
Form, you will be certifying that you have read and that you understand the Notice, including the terms of the releases described therein and provided for
herein.
2. By submitting this Claim Form, you will be making a request to share in the proceeds of the Settlement described in the Notice. IF YOU ARE NOT A SETTLEMENT CLASS MEMBER (see definition of the Settlement Class on page 6 of the Notice, which sets forth who is included in and who is excluded from the Settlement Class), OR IF YOU, OR SOMEONE ACTING ON YOUR BEHALF, SUBMITTED A REQUEST FOR EXCLUSION FROM THE SETTLEMENT CLASS, DO NOT SUBMIT A CLAIM FORM. YOU MAY NOT, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY PARTICIPATE IN THE SETTLEMENT IF YOU ARE NOT A SETTLEMENT CLASS MEMBER. THUS, IF YOU ARE EXCLUDED FROM THE SETTLEMENT CLASS, ANY CLAIM FORM THAT YOU SUBMIT, OR THAT MAY BE SUBMITTED ON YOUR BEHALF, WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
3. Submission of this Claim Form does not guarantee that you will share in the proceeds of the Settlement. The distribution of the Net Settlement Fund will be governed by the Plan of Allocation set forth in the Notice, if it is approved by the Court, or by such other plan of allocation as the Court approves.
4. Use Part III of this form entitled “Schedule of Transactions in Global Payments Common Stock” to supply all required details of your transaction(s) in and holdings of, Global Payments common stock. On this schedule, provide all of the requested information with respect to your holdings, purchases, acquisitions, and sales of Global Payments common stock (including free transfers and deliveries), whether such transactions resulted in a profit or a loss. Failure to report all transaction and holding information during the requested time period may result in the rejection of your claim.
5. Please note: Only publicly traded Global Payments common stock purchased or otherwise acquired during the Class Period (i.e., October 31, 2019 through October 18, 2022, inclusive) is eligible under the Settlement. Therefore, in order for the Claims Administrator to be able to balance your claim, the requested purchase/acquisition information during this period must also be provided.
6. You are required to submit genuine and sufficient documentation for all of your transactions in and holdings of Global Payments common stock set forth in the ”Schedule of Transactions in Global Payments Common Stock” in Part III of this Claim Form. Documentation may consist of copies of brokerage confirmation slips or monthly brokerage account statements, or an authorized statement from your broker containing the transactional and holding information found in a broker confirmation slip or account statement. The Parties and the Claims Administrator do not independently have information about your investments in Global Payments common stock. IF SUCH DOCUMENTS ARE NOT IN YOUR POSSESSION, PLEASE OBTAIN COPIES OF THE DOCUMENTS OR EQUIVALENT DOCUMENTS FROM YOUR BROKER. FAILURE TO SUPPLY THIS DOCUMENTATION MAY RESULT IN THE REJECTION OF YOUR CLAIM. DO NOT SEND ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS. Please keep a copy of all documents that you send to the Claims Administrator. Also, do not highlight any portion of the supporting documents .
7. Use Part II of this Claim Form entitled “CLAIMANT INFORMATION” to identify the beneficial owner(s) of Global Payments common stock. The complete name(s) of the beneficial owner(s) must be entered. If you held the eligible Global Payments common stock in your own name, you were the beneficial owner as well as the record owner. If, however, your shares of eligible Global Payments common stock were registered in the name of a third party, such as a nominee or brokerage firm, you were the beneficial owner of these shares, but the third party was the record owner. The beneficial owner, not the record owner, must sign this Claim Form to be eligible to participate in the Settlement. If there were joint beneficial owners each must sign this Claim Form and their names must appear as “Claimants” in Part II of this Claim Form.
8. One Claim should be submitted for each separate legal entity. Separate Claim Forms should be submitted for each separate legal entity (e.g., a claim from joint owners should not include separate transactions of just one of the joint owners, and an individual should not combine his or her IRA transactions with transactions made solely in the individual’s name). Conversely, a single Claim Form should be submitted on behalf of one legal entity including all transactions made by that entity on one Claim Form, no matter how many separate accounts that entity has (e.g., a corporation with multiple brokerage accounts should include all transactions made in all accounts on one Claim Form).
9. Agents, executors, administrators, guardians, and trustees must complete and electronically sign the Claim Form on behalf of persons represented by them, and they must:
a. expressly state the capacity in which they are acting;
b. identify the name, account number, Social Security (or taxpayer identification number), address, and telephone number of the beneficial owner of (or other person or entity on whose behalf they are acting with respect to) the Global Payments common stock; and
c. furnish herewith evidence of their authority to bind to the Claim Form the person or entity on whose behalf they are acting. (Authority to complete and electronically sign a Claim Form cannot be established by stockbrokers demonstrating only that they have discretionary authority to trade securities in another person’s accounts.)
10. By submitting this electronically signed Claim Form, you will be swearing that you:
a. own(ed) the Global Payments common stock you have listed in the Claim Form; or
b. are expressly authorized to act on behalf of the owner thereof.
11. By submitting this electronically signed Claim Form, you will be swearing to the truth of the statements contained therein and the genuineness of the documents attached thereto, subject to penalties of perjury under the laws of the United States of America. The making of false statements, or the submission of forged or fraudulent documentation, will result in the rejection of your claim and may subject you to civil liability or criminal prosecution.
12. If the Court approves the Settlement, payments to eligible Authorized Claimants pursuant to the Plan of Allocation (or such other plan of allocation as the Court approves) will be made after any appeals are resolved, and after the completion of all claims processing. The claims process will take substantial time to complete fully and fairly. Please be patient.
13. PLEASE NOTE: As set forth in the Plan of Allocation, each Authorized Claimant shall receive his, her or its pro rata share of the Net Settlement Fund. If the prorated payment to any Authorized Claimant calculates to less than $10.00, it will not be included in the calculation and no distribution will be made to that Authorized Claimant.
14. If you have questions concerning the Claim Form, you may contact the Claims Administrator, by mailing A.B. Data, Ltd., at Global Payments Securities Litigation, c/o A.B. Data, Ltd. P.O. Box 173002, Milwaukee, WI 53217, by email at info@globalpaymentssecuritieslitigation.com, or by toll-free phone at (877) 411-4706.
2. By submitting this Claim Form, you will be making a request to share in the proceeds of the Settlement described in the Notice. IF YOU ARE NOT A SETTLEMENT CLASS MEMBER (see definition of the Settlement Class on page 6 of the Notice, which sets forth who is included in and who is excluded from the Settlement Class), OR IF YOU, OR SOMEONE ACTING ON YOUR BEHALF, SUBMITTED A REQUEST FOR EXCLUSION FROM THE SETTLEMENT CLASS, DO NOT SUBMIT A CLAIM FORM. YOU MAY NOT, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY PARTICIPATE IN THE SETTLEMENT IF YOU ARE NOT A SETTLEMENT CLASS MEMBER. THUS, IF YOU ARE EXCLUDED FROM THE SETTLEMENT CLASS, ANY CLAIM FORM THAT YOU SUBMIT, OR THAT MAY BE SUBMITTED ON YOUR BEHALF, WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
3. Submission of this Claim Form does not guarantee that you will share in the proceeds of the Settlement. The distribution of the Net Settlement Fund will be governed by the Plan of Allocation set forth in the Notice, if it is approved by the Court, or by such other plan of allocation as the Court approves.
4. Use Part III of this form entitled “Schedule of Transactions in Global Payments Common Stock” to supply all required details of your transaction(s) in and holdings of, Global Payments common stock. On this schedule, provide all of the requested information with respect to your holdings, purchases, acquisitions, and sales of Global Payments common stock (including free transfers and deliveries), whether such transactions resulted in a profit or a loss. Failure to report all transaction and holding information during the requested time period may result in the rejection of your claim.
5. Please note: Only publicly traded Global Payments common stock purchased or otherwise acquired during the Class Period (i.e., October 31, 2019 through October 18, 2022, inclusive) is eligible under the Settlement. Therefore, in order for the Claims Administrator to be able to balance your claim, the requested purchase/acquisition information during this period must also be provided.
6. You are required to submit genuine and sufficient documentation for all of your transactions in and holdings of Global Payments common stock set forth in the ”Schedule of Transactions in Global Payments Common Stock” in Part III of this Claim Form. Documentation may consist of copies of brokerage confirmation slips or monthly brokerage account statements, or an authorized statement from your broker containing the transactional and holding information found in a broker confirmation slip or account statement. The Parties and the Claims Administrator do not independently have information about your investments in Global Payments common stock. IF SUCH DOCUMENTS ARE NOT IN YOUR POSSESSION, PLEASE OBTAIN COPIES OF THE DOCUMENTS OR EQUIVALENT DOCUMENTS FROM YOUR BROKER. FAILURE TO SUPPLY THIS DOCUMENTATION MAY RESULT IN THE REJECTION OF YOUR CLAIM. DO NOT SEND ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS. Please keep a copy of all documents that you send to the Claims Administrator. Also, do not highlight any portion of the supporting documents .
7. Use Part II of this Claim Form entitled “CLAIMANT INFORMATION” to identify the beneficial owner(s) of Global Payments common stock. The complete name(s) of the beneficial owner(s) must be entered. If you held the eligible Global Payments common stock in your own name, you were the beneficial owner as well as the record owner. If, however, your shares of eligible Global Payments common stock were registered in the name of a third party, such as a nominee or brokerage firm, you were the beneficial owner of these shares, but the third party was the record owner. The beneficial owner, not the record owner, must sign this Claim Form to be eligible to participate in the Settlement. If there were joint beneficial owners each must sign this Claim Form and their names must appear as “Claimants” in Part II of this Claim Form.
8. One Claim should be submitted for each separate legal entity. Separate Claim Forms should be submitted for each separate legal entity (e.g., a claim from joint owners should not include separate transactions of just one of the joint owners, and an individual should not combine his or her IRA transactions with transactions made solely in the individual’s name). Conversely, a single Claim Form should be submitted on behalf of one legal entity including all transactions made by that entity on one Claim Form, no matter how many separate accounts that entity has (e.g., a corporation with multiple brokerage accounts should include all transactions made in all accounts on one Claim Form).
9. Agents, executors, administrators, guardians, and trustees must complete and electronically sign the Claim Form on behalf of persons represented by them, and they must:
a. expressly state the capacity in which they are acting;
b. identify the name, account number, Social Security (or taxpayer identification number), address, and telephone number of the beneficial owner of (or other person or entity on whose behalf they are acting with respect to) the Global Payments common stock; and
c. furnish herewith evidence of their authority to bind to the Claim Form the person or entity on whose behalf they are acting. (Authority to complete and electronically sign a Claim Form cannot be established by stockbrokers demonstrating only that they have discretionary authority to trade securities in another person’s accounts.)
10. By submitting this electronically signed Claim Form, you will be swearing that you:
a. own(ed) the Global Payments common stock you have listed in the Claim Form; or
b. are expressly authorized to act on behalf of the owner thereof.
11. By submitting this electronically signed Claim Form, you will be swearing to the truth of the statements contained therein and the genuineness of the documents attached thereto, subject to penalties of perjury under the laws of the United States of America. The making of false statements, or the submission of forged or fraudulent documentation, will result in the rejection of your claim and may subject you to civil liability or criminal prosecution.
12. If the Court approves the Settlement, payments to eligible Authorized Claimants pursuant to the Plan of Allocation (or such other plan of allocation as the Court approves) will be made after any appeals are resolved, and after the completion of all claims processing. The claims process will take substantial time to complete fully and fairly. Please be patient.
13. PLEASE NOTE: As set forth in the Plan of Allocation, each Authorized Claimant shall receive his, her or its pro rata share of the Net Settlement Fund. If the prorated payment to any Authorized Claimant calculates to less than $10.00, it will not be included in the calculation and no distribution will be made to that Authorized Claimant.
14. If you have questions concerning the Claim Form, you may contact the Claims Administrator, by mailing A.B. Data, Ltd., at Global Payments Securities Litigation, c/o A.B. Data, Ltd. P.O. Box 173002, Milwaukee, WI 53217, by email at info@globalpaymentssecuritieslitigation.com, or by toll-free phone at (877) 411-4706.