05/06/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 05/06/2025 14:24
Item 1.01. |
Entry Into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
On May 1 2025, Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (the "Company"), Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as administrative agent, and certain other financial institutions party thereto as lenders, entered into a Term Loan Credit Agreement (the "Term Loan Agreement"). Under the Term Loan Agreement, the Company can draw up to an aggregate principal amount of $8,000,000,000 of senior unsecured term loans (the "Term Loans"). The Term Loans mature 364 days after they are borrowed. The proceeds of any Term Loans will be used to (i) fund the consideration for the Company's previously announced acquisition of the Issuer Solutions Business and (ii) to pay fees, costs and expenses related to the foregoing transaction (collectively, the "Issuer Solutions Business Financing Purposes").
If funded, the Term Loans will accrue interest, at the option of the Company, at a rate equal to the Term SOFR Rate (as defined in the Term Loan Agreement) plus 0.10% plus a margin ranging from 1.00% to 1.625% depending on the Company's debt rating, or the Base Rate (as defined in the Term Loan Agreement) plus a margin ranging from 0.00% to 0.625% depending on the Company's debt rating. The margin will increase by 0.25% each quarter the Term Loans remain outstanding.
The commitments under the Term Loan Agreement or any outstanding Term Loans are subject to mandatory reductions or prepayment from the issuance of certain additional equity and debt and sales of certain assets. Voluntary prepayments of the Term Loans are permitted at any time without fee upon proper notice and subject to minimum dollar requirements and payment of any SOFR breakage charges if applicable.
The Term Loan Agreement contains affirmative, negative, and financial covenants customary for financings of this type and which are substantially similar to those covenants set forth in the Company's existing Eighth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of September 27, 2024, including, among other things, limits on the creation of liens, limits on the incurrence of indebtedness by the Company's subsidiaries, restrictions on the disposition of all or substantially all the assets of the Company, limits on certain mergers or fundamental changes and limits on the ability to pay dividends and other restricted payments. The Company is also required to maintain a maximum leverage ratio of 3.75 to 1.00, which may be increased following the consummation of certain acquisitions.
The Company previously entered into a commitment letter, dated as of April 17, 2025, with Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, pursuant to which such commitment parties committed to provide a 364-daysenior unsecured bridge term loan facility in an aggregate principal amount of up to $8,000,000,000 (the "Bridge Facility") to fund the Issuer Solutions Business Financing Purposes. As a result of the Company entering into the Term Loan Agreement, the Bridge Facility commitments were reduced to $0 and the bridge commitment letter was terminated in accordance with its terms.
The above description is only a summary of certain provisions of the Term Loan Agreement and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the provisions of the Term Loan Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.2 and incorporated herein by reference.
Item 2.03 |
Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-BalanceSheet Arrangement. |
The information set forth in Item 1.01 above is hereby incorporated by reference into this Item 2.03.