---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001683168-24-000399"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DPLS"
cik: "0000866439"
company_name: "DarkPulse, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-01-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T19:41:50.633544+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Darkpulse terminates planned business combination with Global Systems Dynamics

## Summary
- Mutual termination of Business Combination Agreement with GSD and Zilla Acquisition Corp on January 23, 2024.
- Termination effective immediately; no termination fee mentioned.
- Darkpulse and GSD had agreed to combine, with Darkpulse becoming wholly-owned subsidiary of GSD under name 'Global System Dynamics'.
- The deadline to close had been extended to Feb 9, 2024, but parties mutually decided to terminate.
- No immediate plans for alternative transaction disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001683168-24-000399
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DPLS
- cik: 0000866439
- company_name: DarkPulse, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-01-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866439/000168316824000399/0001683168-24-000399-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866439/000168316824000399/darkpulse_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  DarkPulse, Inc. terminated Business Combination Agreement with Global Systems Dynamics, Inc. and Zilla Acquisition Corp. (effective 2024-01-23).
  - Action: termination
  - Agreement: merger
  - Counterparty: Global Systems Dynamics, Inc. and Zilla Acquisition Corp.
  - Effective: 2024-01-23
  source text: On January 23, 2024, Darkpulse, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“we” or “our” or “us”) and Global Systems Dynamics, Inc. (“GSD”), by mutual written consent, terminated the Business Combination Agreement, as amended, between us, GSD, and Zilla Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Business Combination Agreement”), pursuant to Section 7.1(a) therein.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866439/000168316824000399/0001683168-24-000399-index.htm

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