Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: DRS/A
Source: 0000950123-25-001965
Chunk: 111

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: DRS/A
Chunk 111
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CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED BY CIRCLE INTERNET GROUP, INC. PURSUANT TO 17 C.F.R. § 200.83 the lock-upagreements described in the “Underwriting” section of this prospectus. If a substantial number of shares become available for sale and are sold in a short period of time, the market price of our common stock could decline. Insiders will continue to have substantial control over us after this offering and could limit your ability to influence the outcome of key transactions, including a change of control. Our principal stockholders, directors, and executive officers and entities affiliated with them will hold stock with approximately % voting power over us after this offering (or % voting power over us after this offering if the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional shares in full). As a result, these stockholders, if acting together, would be able to influence or control matters requiring approval by our stockholders, including the election of directors and the approval of mergers or other extraordinary transactions. They may also have interests that differ from yours and may vote in a way with which you disagree and which may be adverse to your interests. The concentration of voting power may have the effect of delaying, preventing, or deterring a change of control of our company, could deprive our stockholders of an opportunity to receive a premium for their common stock as part of a sale of our company, and might ultimately affect the market price of our common stock. Some provisions of Delaware law and our certificate of incorporation and bylaws may deter third parties from acquiring us. Our certificate of incorporation and bylaws provide for, among other things:

| • |     | a staggered board and restrictions on the ability of our stockholders to fill a vacancy on the board of directors; |

| • |     | the authorization of undesignated preferred stock, the terms of which may be established and shares of which may be issued 
 without stockholder approval;                                                                                              |

| • |     | a prohibition on stockholder action by written consent, thereby requiring all actions to be taken at a duly called meeting 
 of the stockholders;                                                                                                       |

| • |     | supermajority approval to amend our bylaws and certain provisions of our certificate of incorporation; and |

| • |     | advance notice requirements for stockholder proposals. |

Moreover, because we are incorporated in Delaware, we are governed by Section 203 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, which