---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-021392"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FIS"
cik: "0001136893"
company_name: "Fidelity National Information Services, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-02-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T10:41:31.089824+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.95
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.95
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# FIS completes sale of 55% stake in Worldpay to GTCR for $18.5B enterprise value

## Summary
- Net cash proceeds >$12B; FIS retains 45% non-controlling equity stake in Worldpay.
- Transaction values Worldpay at $18.5B enterprise value, including $1B contingent consideration.
- FIS intends to use proceeds to pay down debt and repurchase at least $3B of shares in 2024.
- Directors Vijay D'Silva and Louise Parent will not stand for re-election at FIS 2024 annual meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-021392
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FIS
- cik: 0001136893
- company_name: Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-02-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.95
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.95
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.01, 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1136893/000119312524021392/0001193125-24-021392-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1136893/000119312524021392/d761353d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-021392.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Louise Parent departed as Director at Fidelity National Information Services, Inc..
  - Action: declined to stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: Vijay D’Silva and Louise Parent informed FIS on January 31, 2024 that they will decline to stand for re-election at FIS’s 2024 annual meeting of shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1136893/000119312524021392/0001193125-24-021392-index.htm
- Executive change
  Vijay D’Silva departed as Director at Fidelity National Information Services, Inc..
  - Action: declined to stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: Vijay D’Silva and Louise Parent informed FIS on January 31, 2024 that they will decline to stand for re-election at FIS’s 2024 annual meeting of shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1136893/000119312524021392/0001193125-24-021392-index.htm
- M&A Transactions
  Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. completed a disposition involving private equity funds managed by GTCR for enterprise value of $18.5 billion (closed 2024-01-31).
  - Action: disposition
  - Counterparty: private equity funds managed by GTCR
  - Consideration: enterprise value of $18.5 billion
  - Closing: 2024-01-31
  source text: On January 31, 2024, the Company completed the previously announced sale of a 55% equity interest in its Merchant Solutions business (the “ Business ” or “ Worldpay ”) to private equity funds managed by GTCR (collectively, “ GTCR ”) for cash consideration, in a transaction valuing the Business at an enterprise value of $18.5 billion
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1136893/000119312524021392/0001193125-24-021392-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. amended Amendment No. 1 to the Purchase and Sale Agreement with New Boost Holdco, LLC, GTCR W Aggregator LP, GTCR W Merger Sub LLC, GTCR W-2 Merger Sub LLC (effective 2024-01-30).
  - Action: amendment
  - Agreement: asset purchase
  - Counterparty: New Boost Holdco, LLC, GTCR W Aggregator LP, GTCR W Merger Sub LLC, GTCR W-2 Merger Sub LLC
  - Effective: 2024-01-30
  source text: On January 30, 2024, Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (“ FIS ” or the “ Company ”) entered into Amendment No. 1 to the Purchase and Sale Agreement (the “ Amendment ”), by and among the Company, New Boost Holdco, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “ Purchased Entity ”), GTCR W Aggregator LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“ Purchaser ”), GTCR W Merger Sub LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and wholly owned subsidiary of Purchaser (“ Bank Debt Merger Sub ”), and GTCR W-2 Merger Sub LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and an affiliate of Purchaser (“ Bond Debt Merger Sub ”
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1136893/000119312524021392/0001193125-24-021392-index.htm

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