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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001123360-23-000012"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GPN"
cik: "0001123360"
company_name: "GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC"
filed_at: "2023-02-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-19T06:25:59.200162+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Global Payments amends bylaws to raise special meeting threshold to 15% ownership for at least one year

## Summary
- Board approved bylaw amendments on February 16, 2023.
- Special meeting request now requires at least 15% voting power held for at least one year.
- Amendments also include ministerial clarifications and updates.
- Twelfth Amended and Restated Bylaws filed as Exhibit 3.1.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001123360-23-000012
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GPN
- cik: 0001123360
- company_name: GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC
- filed_at: 2023-02-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123360/000112336023000012/0001123360-23-000012-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123360/000112336023000012/gpn-20230216.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC: Amended bylaws to require shareholders owning at least 15% of voting power for at least one year to request a special meeting (effective 2023-02-16).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-02-16
  source text: On February 16, 2023, the Board of Directors of Global Payments Inc. (the “Company”) approved amendments to the Company’s bylaws (the “Bylaws”). The amendments to the Bylaws revise the requirements for shareholders to request a special meeting by providing that a special meeting of the shareholders may be called by the Secretary of the Company upon the proper request of one or more shareholders owning at least 15% of the voting power of all shares of stock of the Company issued and outstanding for at least one year as of the date of the request, subject to compliance with the other requirements set forth in the amendments.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123360/000112336023000012/0001123360-23-000012-index.htm

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