ZoomInfo Agreed on October 16, 2026 to Pay $44 Million to End the 2024 Investor Class Action — but There Is No Claim Form, No Settlement Website and No Court Approval Yet

If you bought ZoomInfo stock between November 10, 2020 and August 5, 2024, a zoominfo settlement is on the way — but only on paper so far. ZoomInfo’s Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on October 19, 2026, says that “on October 16, 2026, the parties executed a memorandum of understanding setting forth the terms of a proposed settlement” and that it “provides for a payment by ZoomInfo to the putative class in the amount of $44 million, a portion of which is expected to be covered by remaining insurance funds, in exchange for the dismissal of the Securities Litigation and a release of claims against the Defendants.”

A memorandum of understanding is the step before the full settlement agreement. The filing is explicit that “the Proposed Settlement is subject to preliminary and final approval by the Washington District Court and certain other conditions.” Until Judge Tiffany M. Cartwright grants preliminary approval, there is no notice, no claim form, no claims administrator and no deadline. As of October 20, 2026 we found no settlement website for this case and no per-share figure anywhere in the public record we could read. ZoomInfo also says the deal “is not an admission of fault or wrongdoing by ZoomInfo or any other Defendant” and that it settled “given the costs, uncertainty, and distraction of continued litigation.”

The case was filed on September 4, 2024 in the Western District of Washington; ZoomInfo is based in Vancouver, Washington. According to ZoomInfo’s quarterly report for the period ended June 30, 2026, the investors allege that the company and certain current and former officers “made false and/or misleading statements related to the Company’s business, operations, and prospects, including in respect of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company’s performance,” in violation of Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5. Those are allegations; the court never ruled on whether they are true.

On December 12, 2024 the judge appointed the “Ohio Funds” — the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System and the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio — as lead plaintiffs, denying the competing lead-plaintiff motions. They filed an amended complaint on March 11, 2025. On October 28, 2025 Judge Cartwright granted the defendants’ motions to dismiss in part and denied them in part: claims against DO Holdings, TA Associates and Carlyle were dismissed, while claims against ZoomInfo and three executives survived at least in part, and the company answered on December 5, 2025. The Ohio Funds moved to certify a class on June 26, 2026. As of October 20, 2026 that motion has not been decided: under the July 15, 2026 schedule, ZoomInfo’s opposition was due December 23, 2026, and substantial completion of document production was due October 21, 2026 — five days after the deal was signed. Because no class was certified, the 8-K speaks of a “putative class”; a settlement class would be defined in the settlement papers the court has to approve.

Who: the 8-K describes the case as brought on behalf of “individuals who purchased Company common stock between November 10, 2020, and August 5, 2024.” Under federal securities law the eventual payment usually depends on when you bought and sold and what you paid, and having bought in the window does not by itself guarantee a recoverable loss. The exact class definition, exclusions and formula will be in the settlement papers.

How much will I get from a class action lawsuit like this? Nobody can say for this one as of October 20, 2026. The $44 million is a gross figure: in investor settlements, court-approved attorneys’ fees, litigation expenses and administration costs come out first, and the rest is divided under a plan of allocation by each claimant’s calculated loss. ZoomInfo’s filing gives no per-share estimate, no fee figure and no count of affected shares, and we have not seen a plan of allocation. Any per-share number you see before the notice is published is a guess. You can test a range with our payout calculator, but treat it as a rough illustration.

When: there is no timetable in the filing. The sequence is fixed by the approval process: a full settlement agreement and a motion for preliminary approval, then notice to investors (usually through brokers) with a claim deadline and a deadline to opt out or object, then a final approval hearing, and only after that, payments. No date for any of these steps has been set as of October 20, 2026.

There is nothing to file at this stage. What helps later: keep or download your brokerage statements and trade confirmations for ZoomInfo shares bought or sold from November 2020 through August 2024, including shares held in retirement accounts. Claim forms in securities settlements ask for each purchase, sale and holding with dates, share counts and prices. If your shares are held by a broker, the notice will usually come through the broker, so make sure your contact details there are current.

The deal is narrow. ZoomInfo’s 8-K says it “would not resolve or otherwise impact” three other sets of cases. First, shareholder derivative suits: two filed in Washington federal court (December 2, 2024 and February 4, 2025), consolidated and stayed, and two in the Delaware Court of Chancery (March 25 and June 15, 2026). Those are brought on the company’s behalf, and any recovery would go to ZoomInfo, not to individual investors. Second, a direct action by investors “who have indicated their intent to opt out” — Advanced Series Trust v. ZoomInfo Technologies Inc., No. 3:26-cv-05882, filed August 5, 2026 by Advanced Series Trust, Prudential Investment Portfolios 2 and other plaintiffs, also before Judge Cartwright; ZoomInfo filed its answer there on October 19, 2026. Third, a new class action, Tejada v. ZoomInfo Technologies Inc., No. 3:26-cv-05696, filed June 25, 2026, for purchasers between November 3, 2025 and May 11, 2026, which alleges that executives overstated their confidence in the revenue outlook, AI-driven products and net revenue retention. ZoomInfo calls that case “unrelated” and says it will “vigorously defend” against the remaining lawsuits. Buying in 2025 or 2026 does not make you part of the $44 million deal.

The deal is real: it comes from ZoomInfo’s own SEC filing. What does not exist on October 20, 2026 is any way to claim from it. A message saying you are “owed” a share of the ZoomInfo $44 million and asking for a fee, your brokerage password or your Social Security number before the court has approved notice did not come from the court. When the claims process opens, the court-approved notice will name the administrator and its website, and you can check that name against the court docket for case 3:24-cv-05739. Search results for this topic also show sites for cases against Zoom, the video-meeting company. Those are different cases against a different company.

Is ZoomInfo still public? Yes. The October 2026 8-K lists ZoomInfo Technologies Inc. common stock as trading on The Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol GTM. If you hold shares now, the settlement does not affect your current holding; it only concerns purchases in the 2020–2024 window.

Searches for a zoominfo settlement often turn up a different, older case: Ramos et al. v. ZoomInfo Technologies, LLC, No. 21-cv-02032, in the Northern District of Illinois before Judge Charles P. Kocoras. It concerned people, not investors: residents of California, Illinois, Indiana and Nevada whose names appeared on ZoomInfo.com preview pages. The suit claimed ZoomInfo used “full names, business addresses, work history, job title, partial business phone number and work email address, and other identifying information to advertise or promote subscriptions”; ZoomInfo denied it. The official FAQ lists state funds of at least $14,228,617.50 (California), $11,695,860.00 (Illinois), $2,302,080 (Indiana) and $1,331,055 (Nevada) — $29,557,612.50 together, by our addition — each subject to upward adjustment, with estimated payments of $108.43 to $216.86 in California, $145.93 to $291.85 in Illinois, $740.77 to $1,481.54 in Indiana and $971.24 to $1,942.47 in Nevada.

That case does not help you now: its claim deadline was November 4, 2024, and its final approval hearing was set for November 21, 2024. If you filed a claim there and have a payment question, contact that administrator at (866) 602-7871 or info@zoominforightofpublicitysettlement.com, or write to P.O. Box 25188, Santa Ana, CA 92799. A Ramos claim has nothing to do with the $44 million investor settlement, and an investor claim later will not reopen Ramos.