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Declaration of Meagan K. Bellshaw — United States v. Visa Inc. and Plaid Inc. (Dkt. 43.1)

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Filed2020-11-20

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California · No. 4:20-cv-07810-JSW · Doc. 43-1 · 2020-11-20 · Docket on CourtListener

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BELLSHAW DECL. ISO UNITED STATES’ STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF ADMINISTRATIVE RELIEF 
Case No. 4:20-cv-07810-JSW 
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JOHN R. READ (DC Bar #419373) 
john.read@usdoj.gov  
MEAGAN BELLSHAW (CA Bar #257875) 
meagan.bellshaw@usdoj.gov 
CORY BRADER LEUCHTEN (NY Bar # 5118732) 
cory.leuchten@usdoj.gov 
SARAH H. LICHT (DC Bar #1021541) 
sarah.licht@usdoj.gov 
United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division 
450 Fifth Street, NW, Suite 4000 
Washington, DC  20530 
Telephone: (202) 598-2307 
Facsimile: (202) 514-7308 
Attorneys for Plaintiff United States of America 
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 
OAKLAND DIVISION 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 
Plaintiff 
v. 
VISA INC. and PLAID INC., 
  Defendants. 
Case No.: 4:20-cv-07810-JSW 
DECLARATION OF MEAGAN K. 
BELLSHAW IN SUPPORT OF 
PLAINTIFF UNITED STATES’ 
STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF 
ADMINISTRATIVE RELIEF FOR 
AN EXPEDITED CASE 
MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE  
Judge: Hon. Jeffrey S. White 
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UNITED STATES’ STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF ADMINISTRATIVE REFLIEF FOR AN EXPEDITED CASE 
MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE  
 
 
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I, Meagan K. Bellshaw, hereby declare as follows: 
A. 
I am a member of the bar of the state of California and an attorney employed by 
the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, counsel to Plaintiff United States.  I make this 
declaration in support of the United States’ Statement in Support of Administrative Relief for an 
Expedited Case Management Conference.  I make this declaration of personal, firsthand 
knowledge and could and would testify competently thereto. 
B. 
On November 10, 2020, counsel for the United States met and conferred 
telephonically with counsel for Defendants Visa Inc. (“Visa”) and Plaid Inc. (“Plaid”).  During 
the call, counsel for Plaid proposed a trial start date of late February or early March, 2021. 
C. 
Attached hereto as Exhibit A is a true and correct copy of the Timing Agreement, 
dated May 15, 2020, executed by counsel for each the United States, Visa, and Plaid, in 
connection with the Antitrust Division’s pre-complaint investigation of Visa’s proposed 
acquisition of Plaid.  The cited portion of the document has been highlighted and is located in 
Section IV(C) on page 8.   
I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the 
foregoing is true and correct to the best of my knowledge.   
Executed on the 20th day of November, 2020, in Washington, D.C. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Meagan K. Bellshaw   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Meagan K. Bellshaw 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Trial Attorney 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Department of Justice 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Antitrust Division 
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EXHIBIT A 
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U.S. Department of Justice 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Antitrust Division 
 
 
 
Mark R. Meador, Esq. 
450 5th St., NW, Suite 8000 
Washington, DC 20530 
mark.meador@usdoj.gov 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
May 15, 2020 
 
Steven C. Sunshine, Esq. 
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP 
1440 New York Avenue, NW 
Washington, DC 20005 
steve.sunshine@skadden.com 
 
Ben Labow, Esq. 
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 
One Market Plaza 
Spear Tower, Suite 3300 
San Francisco, CA 94105 
blabow@wsgr.com 
 
 
Re: 
Proposed Acquisition of Plaid Inc. by Visa Inc., DOJ File No. 60-522190-0006 
 
Dear Messrs. Sunshine and Labow: 
 
 
This letter sets forth the understandings between the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust 
Division (“Division”), Visa Inc. (“Visa”), and Plaid Inc. (“Plaid”) (Visa and Plaid are hereinafter 
referred to separately as “Party” and collectively as the “Parties), in connection with the 
proposed acquisition of Plaid by Visa (“Proposed Acquisition”), which is the subject of the 
Requests for Additional Information and Documents issued to the Parties on March 27, 2020 
(“Second Requests”). This letter contains the entire agreement of the Division and the Parties 
with respect to the subject matter of this letter, and supersedes any prior agreements, 
understandings, or negotiations, whether written or oral. This letter may only be amended in 
writing by agreement of the Division and the Parties. The Division and the Parties further agree 
as follows:  
 
I. 
Timing 
 
Each Party will certify compliance with its Second Request no earlier than June 30, 2020. 
The date of the last received certification of compliance will be the “Compliance Date.”  The 
Parties will not consummate the Proposed Acquisition before 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time ninety 
(90) days following the Compliance Date (the “Closing Date”), unless they have received from 
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the Division prior written notice that the Division has closed its investigation. It may become 
appropriate to revisit this agreement, and to amend, shorten, extend, or cancel it, in light of 
developments in the unfolding COVID-19 situation. The Parties and the Division agree to 
engage with one another in good faith to that end. The Parties agree to provide the Division with 
ten (10) days written notice before closing the Proposed Acquisition, unless they have the 
Division’s written concurrence to close within a shorter period. 
 
 
Rule 6(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure will apply to computing any period of 
time specified in this letter. The Closing Date, however, may occur on a Saturday, Sunday, or 
legal holiday. Any material received by the Division after 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time will be 
deemed received on the next business day. 
 
II. 
Second Request Compliance 
 
A. 
Limited Document Custodians 
 
In order to comply with the Second Requests, each Party must, inter alia, produce to the 
Division all documents that are responsive to its Second Request and that are in that Party’s 
possession, custody, or control. It is agreed, however, that Visa may limit its search to 25 
individuals for documents and electronically stored information that may be responsive to the 
Second Requests, and Plaid may limit its search to 16 individuals. Those individuals are 
identified in Attachment A (“Custodian List”). 
 
 
In addition to the individuals on the Custodian List, each Party must also search (1) the 
files of any predecessors or successors of the individuals identified on the Custodian List to the 
extent that such files may include documents or electronically stored information that fall within 
the relevant date range specified in the Second Requests; (2) the files of secretaries and other 
administrative personnel who support any of the individuals identified on the Custodian List; and 
(3) any centralized hard-copy or electronic files, databases, data sets, or other shared repositories 
of potentially responsive information. 
 
 
In addition, the Division reserves the right to add up to a total of five (5) custodians 
(“Additional Custodians”) to the Custodian List of each Party at any time prior to the filing of a 
complaint. The Parties agree that they will submit responsive documents found in the files of any 
Additional Custodians within twenty (20) days of receipt from the Division of the names of the 
Additional Custodians. The addition of custodians will not delay a Party’s certification of 
compliance with the Second Request. Failure by any Party to meet the twenty (20) day 
production schedule, however, will cause all subsequent deadlines or dates specified in this letter 
to be extended day-for-day, until that Party has submitted all requested materials.  
 
These custodian limitations apply only to the Parties’ production of documents in 
response to the Second Requests. Except to the extent the Division and the Parties agree to the 
contrary in writing, each Party must produce data and other non-custodial documents and 
information responsive to the Second Requests regardless of where such data, documents, and 
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information are located.   
 
B. 
Rolling Production of Documents 
 
The Parties must make rolling productions of documents responsive to the Second 
Requests according to the following schedule:   
 
 
For Plaid, which will use a technology assisted review (“TAR”) process: 
 
With the exception of non-privileged documents pulled in good faith due to a preliminary 
determination of privilege and documents to be redacted for privilege, the Parties must produce 
all responsive, non-privileged documents no later than thirty (30) days before the Compliance 
Date. 
 
Documents withheld in good faith for privilege review but determined not to be 
privileged and documents redacted for privilege must be produced no later than ten (10) days 
before the Compliance Date. If any such production of documents initially withheld for privilege 
review or redaction includes more than a de minimis1 volume of documents for any single 
custodian, the producing Party may not certify compliance until thirty (30) days after completion 
of this production. 
 
A complete privilege log must be produced no later than five (5) days before the 
Compliance Date. If a Party must produce documents from Additional Custodians, a privilege 
log covering documents withheld from the production of documents for those Additional 
Custodians must be produced no later than five (5) days after production from the Additional 
Custodians. 
 
For Visa, which is not using a TAR process: 
 
With the exception of non-privileged documents pulled in good faith due to a preliminary 
determination of privilege and documents to be redacted for privilege, the Parties must produce 
all responsive, non-privileged documents from the files of Group A Custodians no later than 
forty-five (45) days before the Compliance Date. The Parties must produce all responsive, non-
privileged documents from the files of Group B Custodians no later than thirty (30) days before 
the Compliance Date. 
 
Documents withheld in good faith for privilege review but determined not to be 
privileged and documents redacted for privilege must be produced no later than twenty (20) days 
after the relevant document production deadline for each custodian group. If any such production 
of documents initially withheld for privilege review or redaction includes more than a de 
minimis2 volume of documents for any single custodian, the producing Party may not certify 
                                                 
1 A production will be deemed de minimis if it constitutes less than five percent (5%) of the 
number of records in that Party’s total production for that custodian. 
2 A production will be deemed de minimis if it constitutes less than five percent (5%) of the 
number of records in that Party’s total production for that custodian. 
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compliance until, for Group A Custodians, forty-five (45) days after completion of this 
production, and for Group B Custodians, thirty (30) days after completion of this production. 
 
A complete privilege log must be provided to the Division no later than five (5) days 
before the Compliance Date. If a Party must produce documents from Additional Custodians, a 
privilege log covering documents withheld from the production of documents for those 
Additional Custodians must be produced no later than five (5) days after production from the 
Additional Custodians. 
 
C. 
Data Production 
 
In order to comply with the Second Requests, each Party must, inter alia, produce to the 
Division all data that are responsive to its Second Request and that are in that Party’s possession, 
custody, or control on or before the Compliance Date. It is agreed, however, that certain data will 
be produced on a rolling basis before the Compliance Date according to the schedule set forth 
below. 
 
As early as practicable, but in no event less than sixty (60) days prior to the Compliance 
Date, each Party will produce a complete response to Specification 1(f) in the Visa Second 
Request and Specification 1(g) in the Plaid Second Request. The Parties acknowledge that the 
Division must be in receipt of the Specification 1(f) response before negotiating the scope of the 
remainder of the Parties’ data productions, and that a Party’s delay in responding to Specification 
1(f) may delay a Party’s entire data production and the timing of its certification of compliance 
with the Second Request as set forth in this Timing Agreement.  
 
 
No Party will certify compliance until forty-five (45) days after producing a copy, at the 
most granular3 level available, of all profit-and-loss reports generated in the normal course of 
business since January 1, 2016 for Visa and since January 1, 2017 for Plaid, including any line 
items for revenues, costs, and profit margins. 
 
No Party will certify compliance until thirty (30) days after the Party has produced, for 
any database or data set used by the Party from January 1, 2016 to the present for Visa and 
January 1, 2017 to the present for Plaid: 
 
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transaction-level data (e.g., sales, invoices) for each Relevant Product,4 
including the dates, customer, customer location, products, revenues, 
and quantities relevant to each transaction; 
 
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any data maintained in the normal course of business that describe the 
customers (e.g., customer types), products (e.g., product 
characteristics), or geographies (e.g., sales territories) referenced in the 
transaction-level data; 
 
                                                 
3 “Granular” refers to the narrowest product, geography, and time frame available.  
4 The definition of Relevant Product will be as defined in each Party’s Second Request. 
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(3) 
any data maintained in the normal course of business that identifies 
particular competitors and associates those competitors with specific 
business decisions made or market outcomes experienced by the 
company (e.g., wins, losses, bids, price discounts); and 
 
(4) 
a definition for each variable provided in response to parts (1)-(3) 
above, including text descriptions of any codes used in any tables. 
 
Data must be produced as ASCII delimited text files with variable names in the first row, using a 
delimiter that preserves the column alignment of the table. 
 
All remaining responsive data must be produced on or before the Compliance Date.   
 
D. 
Reliance on Documents, Information, or Data Not Produced 
 
If in discussions with the Division, including in oral or written presentations, economic 
analyses, and white papers, any Party cites or relies upon information that was not produced to 
the Division, the Division will have fifteen (15) days to request production of that information 
from the Party. The Party must make a supplemental production of the responsive documents 
and information within seven (7) days of receipt of such a request from the Division. If the 
information cited by or relied upon by the Party was found in a central file or database that was 
not searched in response to the Second Request or was found in the files of an individual who is 
not among those identified on the Custodian List or who is an Additional Custodian, the Party 
must also conduct a thorough search of the central file, database, or individual’s files for other 
responsive documents and information and include those in the supplemental production. If this 
supplemental production is not completed within seven (7) days of receipt of the request by the 
Division, all subsequent deadlines or dates specified in this letter will be extended day-for-day 
from the date that the supplemental production was due until the ultimate date of production of 
such responsive documents and information. 
 
E. 
Form of Production 
 
Unless otherwise agreed to in writing by the Division, all documents and data produced 
in response to the Second Requests must be produced in a format that conforms to the 
instructions contained in the letter regarding Form of Production of ESI Documents in Response 
to the Second Request and the letter’s attachments (“ESI Letter”). If electronic media is 
produced that does not conform to the specifications, or is otherwise infected or corrupted, the 
Division will promptly notify the relevant Party, and the Party must produce a replacement as 
expeditiously as possible. 
 
If a replacement production is necessary, all subsequent deadlines or dates specified in 
this letter will be extended day-for-day for the amount of time between the date of the original 
production and the receipt by the Division of a replacement production that is not infected or 
corrupted and conforms to the instructions contained in the ESI Letter. 
 
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F. 
Deficiencies 
 
As soon as practicable upon discovery of any deficiencies in a Party’s response to the 
Second Request, but in any event no later than twenty-five (25) days after the Party has certified 
compliance with the Second Request, Division staff will notify the Party in writing of any 
deficiency. The Party, within ten (10) days of receiving any such notice, either will (a) remedy 
the alleged deficiency or (b) inform Division staff in writing that it believes there is no 
deficiency. The Division will then have ten (10) days in which to issue a formal deficiency letter 
(“Non-Compliance Notice”). Failure by the Division formally to issue a Non-Compliance Notice 
within that time period will constitute a waiver of the claimed deficiency such that the deficiency 
will not prevent the Party from having complied with the Second Request. A Party may appeal a 
Non-Compliance Notice in accord with DOJ’s standard appeals procedure for Second Request 
compliance matters, set forth at http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/8430.htm. 
 
If a Party must make a supplemental production after it has been notified in a Non-
Compliance Notice of an alleged deficiency, all subsequent deadlines or dates specified in this 
letter will be extended day-for-day until the date of completion of the supplemental production. 
In particular, if a Party makes a supplemental production after the Party has certified compliance, 
the Compliance Date will be reset to the date of the supplemental production, including for 
purposes of establishing the Closing Date. 
 
If the Division notifies a Party in writing of a deficiency later than twenty-five (25) days 
after the Party has certified compliance, the Party must remedy the deficiency within twenty (20) 
days of receiving such notice. Under these circumstances, however, no other deadlines or dates 
specified in this letter, including the Compliance Date, will be extended. 
 
III. 
Conduct of Investigation 
 
A. 
Depositions 
 
 
Visa agrees to make executives and employees available to the Division for up to ten (10) 
Civil Investigative Demand (“CID”) depositions. Plaid agrees to make executives and employees 
available to the Division for up to seven (7) CID depositions. No later than fourteen (14) days 
after the Compliance Date, the Division will: (1) provide a tentative list of Party executives or 
employees to be deposed; and (2) tentatively identify in writing the topic(s) that the Division 
proposes to cover in any 30(b)(6)-style deposition. Nothing precludes the Division, however, 
from taking depositions of Party executives or employees prior to the Compliance Date. 
 
 
 
Within five (5) days of receiving a 30(b)(6)-style deposition CID, and for each topic that 
is identified, the Party receiving such a CID must designate one or more officers, directors, 
managing agents, or other persons to testify on behalf of the Party regarding the topic(s) 
identified in the CID. Testimony from all deponents taken pursuant to a single 30(b)(6)-style 
deposition CID will count as only one (1) CID deposition against the Division’s limit of twelve 
(12) CID depositions per Party, and the Division will issue no more than two (2) 30(b)(6)-style 
deposition CIDs to each Party. 
 
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The Parties will make each witness available for seven (7) testifying hours, except that: 
(1) upon request by the Division, the Parties must make up to two (2) witnesses available for 
fourteen (14) testifying hours; and (2) any individual made available for a 30(b)(6)-style 
deposition may be noticed for an additional non-30(b)(6)-style deposition, in which case the 
Parties will make such witnesses available for an additional day of testimony.  
 
 
Deposition dates will comport, to the extent practicable, to the order in which the 
Division wishes to take the depositions. Depositions will take place at the Division’s offices 
located at 450 Fifth Street NW, Washington, DC, or, if necessary in light of developments in the 
unfolding COVID-19 situation, at another location or by video conference as determined by the 
Division in its sole discretion. Depositions may proceed simultaneously, in the Division’s 
discretion. The Parties agree to make witnesses available such that depositions may be completed 
no later than fourteen (14) days before the Closing Date or ten (10) days after the deposition CID 
is served, whichever is later. In the event one or more of the depositions cannot be scheduled 
within the time frame noted in this paragraph, the Closing Date will be extended on a day-for-
day basis until all depositions have been completed.  
 
B. 
Knowledgeable Personnel  
 
 
Upon reasonable request of Division staff, the Parties will use reasonable efforts to make 
available, within five (5) days of any Division request, representatives who can explain each 
Party’s data and representatives who can explain each Party’s interrogatory responses to the 
Second Request. This will enable Division staff to make reasonable use of this material in its 
evaluation of the Proposed Acquisition.  
 
C. 
Communication/Exchange of Information 
 
 
During the course of the investigation, Division staff, including representatives of the 
Economic Analysis Group, will meet with the Parties, either in person or by phone, as reasonably 
requested by the Division or either Party, to promote a continuing dialogue regarding the facts 
and the relevant legal and economic issues and to discuss progress in meeting the agreed-upon 
schedule discussed in this letter. The Division and the Parties intend that the ongoing dialogue 
include an exchange of information regarding any substantive issues, theories, or questions that 
the Division may have regarding the Proposed Acquisition. The Parties are encouraged to 
provide the results of their own economic and econometric analyses, and any underlying 
documents, data, or workpapers, to Division staff. Division staff will make reasonable efforts to 
reciprocate within applicable confidentiality constraints. 
 
D. 
White Papers and Economic Studies 
 
 
If the Parties submit any white papers or economic or econometric studies, they 
simultaneously will identify all data and documents upon which those papers or studies are based 
and provide all related work papers and underlying raw data not previously produced. 
 
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E. 
Front Office Meetings 
 
 
 If the Division has continuing concerns about the Proposed Acquisition, the Parties will 
be given an opportunity to meet with the appropriate Division Front Office personnel, including 
the relevant Deputy Assistant Attorney General and/or the Assistant Attorney General. In the 
event the Parties intend to produce white papers or economic data or analyses in any presentation 
to Division Front Office personnel, the Parties must submit to Division staff the written 
presentation or economic analysis at least five (5) days prior to the Front Office meeting. 
 
IV. 
Court Proceedings 
 
A. 
No Declaratory Judgment 
 
The Parties will not initiate a declaratory judgment action against the Division relating to 
the Proposed Acquisition. 
 
B. 
Completion of Proposed Acquisition 
 
If the Division files a complaint seeking to enjoin the Proposed Acquisition that is not 
filed at the same time as a proposed final judgment, the Parties agree that they will not close, 
consummate, or otherwise complete the Proposed Acquisition until 12:01 a.m. on the tenth 
(10th) day following the entry of a judgment by a court, and will close only if a court enters an 
appealable order that does not prohibit consummation of the transaction. The Parties agree that 
the Division need not seek a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction. 
 
C. 
Post-Complaint Discovery 
 
In consideration of the limitations imposed on the Division by this letter and to ensure 
that the Division has adequate time to prepare a full presentation of its case for a court in the 
event of the need for a litigated challenge to the Proposed Acquisition, the Parties will not object 
to a reasonable post-complaint discovery period prior to any trial on the merits. The Parties 
further agree not to argue to a court that pre-complaint discovery by the Division should forestall 
or otherwise limit post-complaint discovery. In particular, the Parties acknowledge that 
compliance with the Second Requests—with the substantial limitations on numbers of Second 
Request document custodians and numbers of CID depositions agreed to by the Division 
pursuant to this letter—is not sufficient to prepare the Division for a trial on the merits and does 
not constitute the production of all documents that are responsive or relevant to the Division’s 
claims under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. 
 
D. 
Expert Disclosures 
 
The Division and the Parties agree that expert disclosures, including the Division’s or 
each Party’s expert reports, in any litigation will be conducted in accordance with Federal Rule 
of Civil Procedure 26(a)(2) and 26(b)(4) except that neither the Division nor the Parties must 
preserve or disclose, including in expert deposition testimony, the following documents or 
information: 
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(1) 
any form of oral or written communications, correspondence, or work 
product not relied upon by the expert in forming any opinions in his or 
her final report shared (a) between the Division or any Party’s counsel 
and the Division’s or the Party’s own testifying or non-testifying 
expert(s), (b) between any agent or employee of the Division or 
Party’s counsel and the Division or the Party’s own testifying or non-
testifying expert(s), (c) between testifying and non-testifying experts, 
(d) between non-testifying experts, or (e) between testifying experts; 
 
(2) 
any form of oral or written communications, correspondence, or work 
product not relied upon by the expert in forming any opinions in his or 
her final report shared between experts and any persons assisting the 
expert;  
 
(3) 
the expert’s notes, except for notes of interviews participated in or 
conducted by the expert, if the expert relied upon such notes in 
forming any opinions in his or her final report; 
 
(4) 
drafts of expert reports, affidavits, or declarations; and 
 
(5) 
data formulations, data runs, data analyses, or any database-related 
operations not relied upon by the expert in forming any opinions in his 
or her final report. 
 
The Division and the Parties agree that the following materials will be disclosed: 
 
(1) 
all final reports; 
 
(2) 
a list by bates number of all documents relied upon by the testifying 
expert(s) in forming any opinions in his or her final reports;  
 
(3) 
copies of any materials relied upon by the expert not previously 
produced that are not readily available publicly;  
 
(4) 
a list of all publications authored by the expert in the previous ten (10) 
years and copies of all publications authored by the expert in the 
previous ten (10) years that are not readily available publicly;  
 
(5) 
a list of all other cases in which, during the previous four (4) years, the 
expert testified at trial or by deposition, including tribunal and case 
number; and  
 
(6) 
for all calculations appearing in the final reports, all data and programs 
underlying the calculations (including all programs and codes 
necessary to replicate the calculations from the initial (“raw”) data 
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files and the intermediate working-data files that are generated from 
the raw data files and used in performing the calculations appearing in 
the final report) and a written explanation of why any observations in 
the raw data were either excluded from the calculations or modified 
when used in the calculations.  
 
E. 
Retention of Attorney Communications  
 
 
The Division and the Parties agree that neither the Parties nor the Division must preserve 
or produce in discovery the following categories of documents: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(1) 
documents sent solely between outside counsel for the Parties (or 
persons employed by or acting on behalf of such counsel) or solely 
between counsel of the United States (or persons employed by the 
United States Department of Justice); and 
 
(2) 
documents that were not directly or indirectly furnished to any non-
Party, such as internal memoranda, authored by the Parties’ outside 
counsel (or persons employed by or acting on behalf of such counsel) 
or by counsel for the United States (or persons employed by the United 
States Department of Justice).  
 
F. 
Retention of Electronic Information 
 
 
The Division and the Parties agree that neither the Parties nor the Division must preserve 
or produce in discovery the following categories of electronically stored information for this 
matter: 
 
(1) 
voicemail messages, except in the case where they are contained 
within the Parties’ or Division’s e-mail systems; 
 
(2) 
e-mail or other electronic messages sent to or from a personal digital 
assistant or smartphone (e.g., Blackberry handheld), provided that a 
copy of such e-mail or message is routinely saved and preserved 
elsewhere for potential production in discovery; 
 
(3) 
other electronic data stored on a personal digital assistant or 
smartphone, such as calendar or contact data or notes, provided that a 
copy of such information is routinely saved and preserved elsewhere 
for potential production in discovery; 
 
(4) 
temporary or cache files, including Internet history, web browser 
cache, and cookie files, wherever located; and 
 
(5) 
server, system, or network logs. 
 
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V. Te r m  of Agreement
Unless otherwise amended in writing by agreement of the Division and the Parties, this
agreement and all of its terms will remain in effect until the Division has closed its investigation
or the Parties have closed or abandoned the Proposed Acquisition.
*  *  *  *  *  *  *
Please indicate your agreement with the above terms by signing and returning a copy of
this letter.
Sincerely,
Mark R. Meador
Trial Attorney
U.S. Department of Justice
Antitrust Division
SO AGREED:
Ben Labow 
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Attachment A – Custodian List 
 
Visa Inc. 
 
Group A 
 
1. 
Al Kelly, Chairman and CEO 
2. 
Vasant Prabhu, Vice Chairman & Chief Financial Officer 
3. 
William Sheedy, Senior Advisor to Visa's Chairman and CEO 
4. 
Jack Forestell, EVP, Chief Product Officer 
5. 
Oliver Jenkyn, Regional President North America 
6. 
Robert Hedges, SVP, Strategic Initiatives 
7. 
Andrew Westergren, SVP, Corporate Strategy & Development 
8. 
Jonathan Kissane, SVP, Corporate Development and M&A 
9. 
Michael Milotich, SVP, Corporate Finance & IR 
10. 
Brian Cole, SVP, Head of Regional Product Solutions – North America 
11. 
Matthew Dill, SVP, Global Head – Strategic Partnerships & Ventures 
12. 
William Sheley, SVP, Global Head of Visa Direct 
13. 
Kirk Stuart, SVP, Head of Merchant, NA, Merchant Sales & Solutions – Americas 
14. 
J. Michael Niczyporuk, Contractor 
Group B 
15. 
Ryan McInerney, President 
16. 
William Knupp, SVP, Global Interchange & Pricing 
17. 
Kevin Jacques, Vice President 
18. 
Chris Baker, SVP, NA Retail & Grocery, Merchant Sales & Solutions - Americas 
19. 
Veronica Fernandez, VP, eCommerce & Marketplace - MSS 
20. 
Sharon Haines, SVP, Everyday Spend, Merchants Sales & Solutions - Americas 
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21. 
Tom Brooks, Head of Regional Accounts, North America 
22. 
David Cramer, Head of Super Regional Accounts, US Financial Institution Sales 
23. 
David Rolf, VP Corporate Development and Head of Strategic Opportunites 
24. 
Benjamin Gigot, Vice President 
25. 
Rubail Birwadker, VP, Business Development, Global Partnerships 
 
Plaid Inc. 
1. Zach Perret, CEO and Co-Founder  
2. William Hockey, Co-Founder and Board Member  
3. Sima Gandhi, Head of Business Development  
4. Pouya Fatemi, Head of Finance  
5. Jason Pate, Head of Corporate Strategy and Development  
6. Baker Shogry, Head of Product  
7. Eric Sager, COO  
8. Paul Williamson, Head of Sales  
9. Carl Tremblay, Head of Growth  
10. Lowell Putnam, Head of Partnerships (Quovo Co-Founder and former Quovo CEO)  
11. Josh Kovler, Head of Business Operations  
12. Eric Morse, Product Manager  
13. Nicholas Karvounis, Product Manager (Quovo Co-Founder and former Chief Product 
Officer)  
14. Hayden Pirkle, Product Marketing Manager  
15. Daniel Kenerson, Business Operations (limited to August 1, 2019 through October 31, 2019) 
16. Sales Account Executives (limited to emails to or from customers or potential customers 
stored in Salesforce)  
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