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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 24, 2023

Registration No. 333-264717

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 (No. 333-264717)

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

EVO Payments, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)


Delaware		82-1304484
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

EVO Payments, Inc.

Ten Glenlake Parkway

South Tower, Suite 950

Atlanta, Georgia 30328

(770) 336-8463

(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

David L. Green

Secretary

EVO Payments, Inc.

Ten Glenlake Parkway

South Tower, Suite 950

Atlanta, Georgia 30328

(770) 336-8463

(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

Copies To:

Jacob A. Kling

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

51 West 52nd Street

New York, New York 10019

(212) 403-1000

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable.

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DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES

EVO Payments, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant”), is filing this Post-Effective Amendment (this “Post-Effective Amendment”) to Registration Statement No. 333-264717 on Form S-3ASR (the “Registration Statement”), which was previously filed by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on May 5, 2022, pertaining to the registration of an indeterminate number of shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”), of the Registrant to deregister any and all securities registered but unsold or otherwise unissued as of the date hereof under the Registration Statement.

On March 24, 2023, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of August 1, 2022 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among Global Payments Inc. (“Global Payments”), Falcon Merger Sub Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Global Payments (“Merger Sub”), and the Registrant, Merger Sub merged with and into the Registrant (the “merger”), with the Registrant continuing as the surviving corporation of the merger and as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Global Payments.

The foregoing description of the merger, the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by the Merger Agreement, which is attached as Exhibit 2.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on August 2, 2022.

In connection with the completion of the merger, the offerings pursuant to the Registration Statement have been terminated. In accordance with the undertakings made by the Registrant in Part II of the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities that had been registered for issuance but remain unsold at the termination of the offerings, the Registrant hereby removes from registration any and all Common Stock and any other securities of the Registrant registered but unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof. The Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities, and the Registrant hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused the Post-Effective Amendment to the above-referenced Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Atlanta, State of Georgia, on this 24th day of March, 2023.


EVO Payments, Inc.

By:		/s/ David L. Green
Name:		David L. Green
Title:		Secretary

Note: No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment to the above-referenced Registration Statement in reliance on Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

SEC Form POS AM filed by EVO Payments Inc.