Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001193125-25-084832
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Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: S-1/A
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 than Jeremy Allaire, our chief executive officer—is independent under NYSE listing standards. As Jeremy Allaire, our chief executive officer, serves as the chairman of our board of directors, the board of directors has appointed Rajeev
Date as the lead independent director. The lead independent director, among other responsibilities, presides over executive sessions of non-employee directors and independent directors, liaises and facilitates communications between the independent
directors and the chairman and chief executive officer and management, and leads the independent directors to assess the performance of the chairman.

Board composition

Our directors will be divided into three classes serving staggered three-year terms. Class I directors (being Jeremy Allaire, Craig Broderick,
and P. Sean Neville), Class II directors (being M. Michele Burns, Rajeev Date, and Danita Ostling), and Class III directors (being Bradley Horowitz and David Orfao) will serve until our annual meetings of stockholders in 2026, 2027, and
2028, respectively. At each annual meeting of stockholders, directors will be elected to succeed the class of directors whose terms have expired. This classification of our board of directors could have the effect of increasing the length of time
necessary to change the composition of a majority of the board of directors. In general, at least two annual meetings of stockholders will be necessary for stockholders to effect a change in a majority of the members of the board of directors.

Board committees

Our board of directors will have an audit committee, a
compensation committee, a nominating and corporate governance committee, a risk committee, and a strategy committee. The composition and responsibilities of

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each committee are described below. Members will serve on these committees until their resignation or until as otherwise determined by our board of directors. Audit committee The members of our audit committee will be Danita Ostling (chair), Craig Broderick, M. Michele Burns, and Rajeev Date. The composition of our audit committee meets the requirements for independence under the NYSE listing standards and SEC rules and regulations. Our board of directors has determined that each member of our audit committee is (i) financially literate and (ii) an “audit committee financial expert” as defined in Item 407(d)(5)(ii) of Regulation S-Kpromulgated under the Securities Act. This designation does not impose any duties, obligations, or liabilities that are greater than are generally imposed on members of our audit committee and our board of directors. Our audit