Edgar Filing: SUNGARD DATA SYSTEMS INC

SUNGARD DATA SYSTEMS INC.

Date: September 22, 2008

/s/ Victoria E. Silbey

Victoria E. Silbey

Senior Vice President-Legal and General Counsel

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Form 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

DATE OF REPORT (DATE OF EARLIEST EVENT REPORTED): September 16, 2008

SUNGARD^® DATA SYSTEMS INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

DELAWARE

1-12989

51-0267091

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

(Commission File Number)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)


680 EAST SWEDESFORD ROAD, WAYNE, PENNSYLVANIA		19087
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)		(Zip Code)

REGISTRANT’S TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE: 484-582-2000

Not Applicable

(Former Name and Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

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Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On September 16, 2008, Euronext Paris S.A., Gagnières, Messrs. Pierre Gatignol, Louis-Christophe Laurent and Frédéric Morin (together, the “Sellers”) exercised a put option dated July 31, 2008 (“Put Option”) with SunGard Data Systems Inc. (the “Company”), pursuant to which the Sellers accepted the Company’s offer to acquire their shares of GL TRADE SA, a company organized under the laws of France (“GL TRADE”) for €41.70 per share (the “Block”). GL TRADE’s shares are admitted to trade on the Eurolist of Euronext Paris S.A. The Block consists of 900,030 GL TRADE shares, and 100% of the share capital of Financière Montmartre, a French limited liability company holding 5,300,000 GL TRADE shares, representing together a direct and indirect interest of 64.52% in the issued share capital of GL TRADE.

On September 19, 2008, the Company and the Sellers entered into a share purchase agreement, executed in the form substantially attached to the Put Option filed as Exhibit 2.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 31, 2008 and filed on August 6, 2008, containing the terms and conditions upon which the Company will purchase the Block (the “Transaction”). The Company anticipates closing the Transaction by early October 2008.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.