Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001193125-25-070481
Chunk: 285

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form: S-1
Chunk 285
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 nomination of candidates for election as directors, other than nominations made by or at the direction of the board of directors or a committee of the board of directors. In order for any matter to be “properly brought” before a meeting, a stockholder will have to comply with advance notice requirements and provide us with certain information. Generally, to be timely, a stockholder’s notice must be received at our principal executive offices not less than 90 days nor more than 120 days prior to the first anniversary date of the immediately preceding annual meeting of stockholders. Our bylaws also specify requirements as to the form and content of a stockholder’s notice. In order to submit a nomination for our board of directors, a stockholder must submit any information with respect to the nominee that we would be required to include in a proxy statement, as well as some other information. If a stockholder fails to follow the required procedures, the stockholder’s proposal or nominee will be ineligible and will not be voted on by our stockholders. Limitation of liability of directors and officers Our certificate of incorporation provides that no director or officer will be personally liable to us or our stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director or officer, except as required by applicable law, as in effect from time to time. Currently, the Delaware General Corporation Law requires that liability be imposed for the following:

| • |     | a director’s or officer’s breach of the director’s or officer’s duty of loyalty to our company or our 
 stockholders;                                                                                         |

| • |     | a director’s or officer’s act or omission not in good faith or which involved intentional misconduct or a knowing 
 violation of law;                                                                                                 |

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| • |     | a director’s unlawful payments of dividends or unlawful stock repurchases or redemptions as provided in 
 Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law;                                                    |

| • |     | a director or officer for any transaction from which the director or officer derived an improper personal benefit; and |

| • |     | an officer in any action by or in the right of our company. |

As a result, neither we nor our stockholders have the right, through stockholders’ derivative suits on our behalf, to recover monetary damages against a director or officer for breach of fiduciary duty as a director or officer, including breaches resulting from grossly negligent behavior, except in the situations described above. Our certificate of incorporation provides that, to the fullest extent permitted by law, we