Company: CCIXW
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-309933
Chunk: 1068

Company: Churchill Capital Corp IX/Cayman
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 1068
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 Company of any one or more classes or series owned by such stockholders in any manner not prohibited by the DGCL.

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REGISTERED S TOCKHOLDERS

The Company:

shall be entitled to recognize the exclusive right of a person registered on its books as the owner of shares to receive dividends and notices and to vote as such owner; and

shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such share or shares on the part of another person, whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, except as otherwise provided by the laws of Delaware.

LOCK -UP

Subject to Section 6.8(b), the holders (the “ Lockup Holders ”) of shares of any series of Common Stock of the Company (i) issued as consideration pursuant to that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization, dated on or about June 5, 2025, by and among the Company, AL Merger Sub I, Inc., a Delaware corporation, AL Merger Sub II, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and Plus Automation, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Merger Agreement ”), (ii) issued upon the exercise of warrants to purchase capital stock of Plus Automation, Inc. assumed by the Company pursuant to the Merger Agreement, (iii) issued upon the settlement or exercise of stock options, restricted stock units, or other equity awards assumed by the Company pursuant to the Merger Agreement or (iv) otherwise held by Churchill Sponsor IX LLC (“ Sponsor ”), the officers and directors of Sponsor or the Company, or its and their respective affiliates as of the date hereof (such shares referred to in this Section 6.8(a)(i)-(iv), the “ Lockup Shares ” and, any Lockup Shares that are Earnout Shares (as defined in the Merger Agreement), being “ Lockup Earnout Shares ”)), may not Transfer any Lockup Shares, during the Lockup Period (the “ Lockup ”).

Notwithstanding the provisions set forth in Section 6.8(a), the Lockup Holders or their respective Permitted Transferees may Transfer the Lockup Shares during the Lockup Period (i) as a bona fide gift or charitable contribution; (ii) to a trust, or other entity formed for estate planning purposes for the primary benefit of the spouse, domestic partner, parent, sibling, child or grandchild of such Lockup Holder or any other natural person