Visa Inc. (NYSE:V)completed the acquisition of Pismo Soluções Tecnologicas Ltda. from Headline, SoftBank Latin America Fund, managed by SoftBank Investment Advisers (UK) Limited, Amazon.com, Inc., Redpoint eventures Gestão de Recursos e Consultoria Ltda., Accel Partners and others.
January 15, 2024
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Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) signed a definitive agreement to acquire Pismo Soluções Tecnologicas Ltda. from Headline, SoftBank Latin America Fund, managed by SoftBank Investment Advisers (UK) Limited, Amazon.com, Inc. (NasdaqGS:AMZN), Redpoint eventures Gestão de Recursos e Consultoria Ltda., Accel Partners and others for $1 billion on June 28, 2023. As per the transaction, Pismo will retain its current management team. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions and is expected to close by the end of 2023.
Sonia K. Nijjar, Nathan W Giesselman, Ken D Kumayama, Ingrid Vandenborre, Anne E Villanueva and Joseph M Yaffe of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP acted as legal advisor to Visa Inc. Ashwath Rau, Vipul Jain, Aditya Alok and Rina Goyal of AZB & Partners acted as legal advisors to Visa Inc. Alistair Russell, Dylan Wiltermuth and attorney Nich Vasic, Carey Olsen acted as legal advisor to Visa Inc. (NYSE:V). Rupinder Malik and Gaurav Wahie J. Sagar Associates advised and assisted Pismo Holdings on the India leg of Pismo Holdings acquisition by Visa Inc. Chris Daniel, Heena Merchant, Paul Yu and Zach Silvers of Paul Hastings LLP acted as legal advisor to Visa. Matt Squires, Vanessa Jacob Heck, Laura Cossi, Robert T. Ishii, Brendan R. Mahan, Adam Shevell, Myra A. Sutanto Shen, Scott T. McCall, Michael J. Montfort, Jason M. Storck, Jess Cheng, Matt Staples, Scott A. Sher, Ben Labow, Kimberley Biagioli, Joshua F. Gruenspecht, Anne E. Seymour and Seth Cowell of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. acted as legal advisor to Pismo. Tim Cone and Gustavo Dalcolmo Ogier Group L.P. acted as legal advisor to Pismo.
Visa Inc. (NYSE:V)completed the acquisition of Pismo Soluções Tecnologicas Ltda. from Headline, SoftBank Latin America Fund, managed by SoftBank Investment Advisers (UK) Limited, Amazon.com, Inc. (NasdaqGS:AMZN), Redpoint eventures Gestão de Recursos e Consultoria Ltda., Accel Partners and others on January 16, 2024. With the transaction complete, the combination of Visa and Pismo will provide clients with core banking and card-issuer processing capabilities across all product types via cloud native APIs. Pismo?s platform will also enable Visa to provide support and connectivity for emerging payment schemes and RTP networks for financial institution clients. Pismo will retain its current management team led by Ricardo Josua.
B3 SA Brasil Bolsa Balcao, formerly BM&F Bovespa SA Bolsa de Valores Mercadorias e Futuros, is a Brazil-based financial market infrastructure provider. The Company's service offerings range from exchange trading, clearing and other post-trading services to registration of over-the-counter (OTC) transactions. The Company also provides a listing service and acts as central securities depository (CSD). It develops software solutions and offers index licensing services. Its business is divided into four segments: Bovespa, which covers trading, clearing and settlement of equities and equity derivatives; BM&F, which covers trading, clearing and settlement of financial and commodities derivatives; Cetip Securities (Cetip UTVM), covering registration, clearing, settlement and custody systems for fixed-income securities and OTC derivatives, and Cetip Financing (Cetip UFIN), which provides an integrated private electronic system for registration of vehicle and real estate loans.
Visa Inc. (NYSE: V)completed the acquisition of Pismo Soluções Tecnologicas Ltda. from Headline, SoftBank Latin America Fund, managed by SoftBank Investment Advisers (UK) Limited, Amazon.com, Inc., Redpoint eventures Gestão de Recursos e Consultoria Ltda., Accel Partners and others.