Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On August 31, 2021, Paylocity Corporation (the "Purchaser"), an Illinois corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of Paylocity Holding Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), entered into an Equity Purchase Agreement (the "Purchase Agreement") with Blue Marble Payroll, LLC, an Illinois limited liability company ("Blue Marble") and the equityholders of Blue Marble (the "Blue Marble Equityholders"), and completed the acquisition (the "Acquisition") from the Blue Marble Equityholders of all of the issued and outstanding equity interests of Blue Marble pursuant to the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Purchase Agreement, resulting in Blue Marble becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. An entity affiliated with Steven I. Sarowitz, the Chairman of the Board of Directors (and the largest stockholder) of the Company, is the largest Blue Marble Equityholder.

The purchase price payable by the Purchaser under the Purchase Agreement is $60.0 million in cash payable at the closing, subject to working capital and certain other customary purchase price adjustments contemplated by the Purchase Agreement. The Purchase Agreement contains various representations and warranties and covenants by the parties to such agreement and related indemnification obligations customary for transactions of this type.

The Board of Directors of the Company appointed the Audit Committee and delegated the power, authority and discretion of the Board of Directors to evaluate, assess and negotiate on its behalf the transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement. The Audit Committee is comprised solely of directors who are independent of the management of Blue Marble, the Blue Marble Equity holders and the Company. Houlihan Lokey Capital, Inc. provided the Audit Committee with a fairness opinion in connection with the Acquisition. The Audit Committee and the disinterested directors of the Board have unanimously approved the Purchase Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby.

The foregoing description of the Purchase Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Purchase Agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.

The Purchase Agreement is not intended to provide any other factual information about the Acquisition. The representations, warranties, and covenants contained in the Purchase Agreement were made solely for purposes of such agreement and as of specific dates, were solely for the benefit of the parties to the Purchase Agreement, and may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the parties, including being qualified by confidential disclosures made by each party to the other for the purposes of allocating contractual risk between them that differ from those applicable to investors. In addition, certain representations and warranties may be subject to a contractual standard of materiality different from those generally applicable to investors and may have been used for the purpose of allocating risk between the parties rather than establishing matters as facts. Information concerning the subject matter of the representations, warranties and covenants may change after the date of the Purchase Agreement, which subsequent information may or may not be fully reflected in public disclosures by the Company. Investors should not rely on the representations, warranties and covenants or any description thereof as characterizations of the actual state of facts or condition of the Company, Blue Marble or any of their respective subsidiaries, affiliates or businesses.




Item 8.01. Other Events

On September 1, 2021, Paylocity Holding Corporation issued a press release announcing the acquisition of Blue Marble, a longtime partner providing international payroll solutions. A copy of the press release is being furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference herein.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.





(d) Exhibits.



Exhibit No.   Description
  10.1          Equity Purchase Agreement, dated as of August 31, 2021, among
              Paylocity Corporation, Blue Marble Payroll, LLC and the
              Equityholders party thereto.*
                Press Release issued by Paylocity Holding Corporation on September
  99.1        1, 2021.
104           Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL)

*Certain exhibits and schedules have been omitted in accordance with Regulation S-K Item 601(a)(5). The Company agrees to furnish to the SEC a copy of any omitted exhibits or schedules upon request of the SEC.

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