M&A Deal Summary

Global Payments Acquires Pay and Shop Limited

On March 25, 2015, Global Payments acquired financial services company Pay and Shop Limited for 115M EUR

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Global Payments’ 2nd transaction in the Financial Services sector.
  • This is Global Payments’ 14th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Global Payments’ 1st transaction in Ireland.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2015-03-25
Target Pay and Shop Limited
Sector Financial Services
Buyer(s) Global Payments
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 115M EUR

Target

Pay and Shop Limited

Dublin, Ireland
Realex Payments is an online payment gateway, providing a range of payment technology services for businesses selling online.

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Buyer

Global Payments

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Category Company
Founded 1967
Sector Financial Services
Employees27,000
Revenue 10.1B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
View of Global Payments' corporate headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.
View of Global Payments' corporate headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.

Global Payments is a worldwide provider of payment technology services. The Company's payment solutions enables merchant customers to accept card, electronic, check and digital-based payments at the point of sale. Global Payments' primary business model provides payment services directly to merchants as customers. Global Payments was founded in 1967 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 10 of 21
Sector: Financial Services M&A 2 of 4
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 10 of 19
Country: Ireland M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2015 M&A 1 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 14 of 16
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-10-10 Ezi Holdings Pty.

Brisbane, Australia

Ezi Holdings Pty. Ltd., an integrated payments company focused on recurring payments verticals.

Buy $268M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-12-15 Heartland Payment Systems

Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. is a payments processor. It delivers credit/debit/prepaid card processing, mobile commerce, e-commerce, marketing solutions, security technology, payroll solutions, and related business solutions and services to more than 300,000 business and educational locations nationwide.

Buy $4.3B