Match Group, Inc.

Overview

We are, and from time to time may become, involved in various legal proceedings arising in the normal

course of our business activities, such as trademark and patent infringement claims, trademark oppositions, and

consumer or advertising complaints, as well as stockholder derivative actions, class action lawsuits, mass

arbitrations, and other matters. The amounts that may be recovered in such matters may be subject to

insurance coverage. The litigation matters described below involve issues or claims that may be of particular

interest to our stockholders, regardless of whether any of these matters may be material to our financial

position or operations based upon the standard set forth in the SEC’s rules.

Consumer Class Action Litigation Challenging Tinder’s Age-Tiered Pricing

On May 28, 2015, a putative state-wide class action was filed against Tinder in state court in California. See

Allan Candelore v. Tinder, Inc., No. BC583162 (Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles). The complaint

principally alleges that Tinder violated California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act by offering and charging users over a

certain age a higher price than younger users for subscriptions to its premium Tinder Plus service. Plaintiff seeks

damages in an unspecified amount. On July 15, 2024, the court granted Plaintiff’s motion to certify a class based

upon California Tinder Plus and Tinder Gold subscribers age 29 and over. On January 17, 2025, the court denied

our motion to compel the class and the plaintiff to arbitration. We filed a Notice of Appeal on January 24, 2025,

and on April 18, 2025, the court stayed the case pending our appeal. On September 10, 2025, the parties agreed

to settle the case on a class-wide basis for a payment of $60.5 million, and on January 13, 2026, the court

preliminarily approved the settlement agreement. The settlement amount was placed into escrow in January

2026, pending the final court approval.

Irish Data Protection Commission Inquiry Regarding Tinder’s Practices

On February 3, 2020, we received a letter from the Irish Data Protection Commission (the “DPC”) notifying

us that the DPC had commenced an inquiry examining Tinder’s compliance with GDPR, focusing on Tinder’s

processes for handling access and deletion requests and Tinder’s user data retention policies. On January 8,

2024, the DPC provided us with a preliminary draft decision alleging that certain of Tinder’s access and retention

policies, largely relating to protecting the safety and privacy of Tinder’s users, violate GDPR requirements. We

filed our response to the preliminary draft decision on March 15, 2024. We believe we have strong defenses to

these claims and will defend vigorously against them.

FTC Investigation of Certain Subsidiary Data Privacy Representations

On March 19, 2020, the FTC issued an initial Civil Investigative Demand (“CID”) to the Company requiring us

to produce certain documents and information regarding the allegedly wrongful conduct of OkCupid in 2014 and

our public statements in 2019 regarding such conduct and whether such conduct and statements were unfair or

deceptive under the FTC Act. On May 26, 2022, the FTC filed a Petition to Enforce Match Civil Investigative

Demand, and on June 20, 2025, the Court ordered that the FTC’s Petition be granted in part and denied in part.

See FTC v. Match Group, Inc., No. 1:22-mc-00054 (District of Columbia). We believe we have strong defenses to

any allegations of wrongdoing and intend to defend vigorously against them.

Meslage Securities Class Action And Related Derivative Actions

On November 25, 2024, a Match Group stockholder filed a complaint in the Central District of California

against Match Group, Inc., its Chief Executive Officer, and its President and Chief Financial Officer seeking to

recover unspecified monetary damages on behalf of a putative class of acquirers of Match Group securities

between May 2, 2023 and November 6, 2024. See Sébastian Meslage v. Match Group, Inc. et al., No: 2:24-

cv-10153-MEMF-PVC (Central District of California). The complaint alleges that Match Group materially

understated the challenges affecting its Tinder business and, as a result, understated the risk that Tinder's

monthly active user count would not recover by the time the Company reported its financial results for the third

fiscal quarter of 2024. On July 24, 2025, the court appointed Evan Weisz as the lead plaintiff. On September 22,

2025, the plaintiff voluntarily dismissed without prejudice the Meslage putative class action as to all defendants.

In addition, in December 2024, purported Match Group stockholders filed two derivative complaints in the

Central District of California (nominally on behalf of the Company) against certain of Match Group, Inc.’s current

and former executive officers and members of its board of directors, alleging violations of the federal securities

laws and breach of fiduciary duty stemming from the same or similar purported misrepresentations as the

securities class action. See Hollin v. Kim, et al., No. 2:24-CV-10776 (Central District of California), and Roy v Kim,

et al., No. 2:24-cv-11007 (Central District of California). In August 2025, a third derivative complaint was filed in

the Central District of California alleging similar causes of action. See Habedus v. Kim, et al., No. 2:25-cv-07171

(Central District of California). On September 9, 2025, the court dismissed the Habedus derivative action with

prejudice as to all defendants. As to the remaining derivative actions, we believe that we have strong defenses

to the allegations and will defend vigorously against them.

Netherlands Privacy Class Action

On December 17, 2024, a writ of summons was filed against MTCH Technologies Services Limited, an

indirect subsidiary of the Company, and Match Group, Inc. in the District Court of Amsterdam. Among other

things, the lawsuit alleges that defendants unlawfully collected, processed, and shared Dutch Tinder users’

personal data without proper consent in violation of GDPR and Dutch consumer protection laws. See Stichting

Take Back Your Privacy v. MTCH Technologies Services Limited et al. (Amsterdam). The lawsuit purports to

represent a class of Dutch Tinder users from May 25, 2018 until the court’s final judgment and seeks monetary

damages and injunctive relief. On May 7, 2025, we filed a motion contesting jurisdiction, and the plaintiff filed an

opposition on June 18, 2025. We believe that we have strong defenses to the allegations and will defend

vigorously against them.