Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001193125-25-084832
Chunk: 284

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 284
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 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 will indemnify any director or officer of our company against all damages, claims, and liabilities arising out of the fact that the person is or was our director or officer, or served any other enterprise at our request as a director, officer, employee, agent, or fiduciary. We will reimburse the expenses, including attorneys’ fees, incurred by a person indemnified by this provision when we receive an undertaking to repay such amounts if it is ultimately determined that the person is not entitled to be indemnified by us. Amending this provision will not reduce our indemnification obligations relating to actions taken before an amendment. Delaware business combination statute We are subject to Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which regulates corporate acquisitions. Section 203 prevents an “interested stockholder,” which is defined generally as a person owning 15% or more of a corporation’s voting stock, or any affiliate or associate of that person, from engaging in a broad range of “business combinations” with the corporation for three years after becoming an interested stockholder unless:

| • |     | the board of directors of the corporation had previously approved either the business combination or the transaction that 
 resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder;                                                           |

| • |     | upon completion of the transaction that resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder, that person owned                         
 at least 85% of the voting stock of the corporation outstanding at the time the transaction commenced, other than statutorily excluded shares; or |

| • |     | following the transaction in which that person became an interested stockholder, the business combination is approved by                              
 the board of directors of the corporation and holders of at least two-thirds of the outstanding voting stock not owned by the interested stockholder. |

Under Section 203, the restrictions described above also do not apply to specific business combinations proposed