M&A Deal Summary

Worldpay Acquires Element Payment Services

On July 25, 2013, Worldpay acquired financial services company Element Payment Services

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Worldpay’s 4th transaction in the Financial Services sector.
  • This is Worldpay’s 4th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Worldpay’s 1st transaction in Arizona.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2013-07-25
Target Element Payment Services
Sector Financial Services
Buyer(s) Worldpay
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Element Payment Services

Chandler, Arizona, United States
Element Payment Services, Inc. provides integrated PCI DSS compliant payment processing solutions for merchants and business management software providers.

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Buyer

Worldpay

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Category Company
Founded 1993
Sector Financial Services
Revenue 3.9B USD (2018)
DESCRIPTION

Worldpay is a provider of payment acceptance services that offers a broad suite of payment processing services that enable its clients to meet their payment processing needs through a single provider, including in omnichannel environments that span point-of-sale, e-commerce, and mobile devices. Worldpay was established in 2009 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 4 of 8
Sector: Financial Services M&A 4 of 6
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 4 of 6
State: Arizona M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 4 of 7
Year: 2013 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-12-03 Litle & Co.

Lowell, Massachusetts, United States

Litle is a developer of e-commerce payment processing solutions that are used by companies selling merchandise online and via direct-response marketing.

Buy $361M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-05-12 Mercury Payment Systems

Denver, Colorado, United States

Mercury Payment Systems LLC is a provider of payments technology and services in the US and Canada, and empowers merchants to accept a broad range of traditional and emerging electronic payments. Mercury embeds its payments technology into third-party software applications used by SMB merchants, enabling them to benefit from the combination of payments and business management functionality. Mercury Payment Systems LLC was formed in 2001 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Buy $1.7B