Company: CCIXW
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-309933
Chunk: 793

Company: Churchill Capital Corp IX/Cayman
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 793
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 Company Benefit Plan; (vi) the most recent written results of all compliance testing required by applicable Laws; and (vii) copies of any material written correspondence with the IRS, Department of Labor or other Governmental Authority. There has been no amendment to any Company Benefit Plan made, or communicated by the Company or its Subsidiaries to participants therein, which would increase materially the expense of maintaining such plan above the level of the expense incurred therefor for the most recent fiscal year. The Company and its Subsidiaries may amend or terminate any Company Benefit Plan (other than any Company Benefit Plan that is an individual agreement or arrangement with a Company Service Provider (including an individual award or similar participation agreement under a Company Benefit Plan) that requires the Company Service Provider’s consent of such amendment or termination) at any time without incurring any material liability thereunder other than in respect of claims incurred prior to such amendment or termination and the customary costs of implementing such amendment or termination.

(c) Except where the failure to so comply would not reasonably be expected to, result in material liability to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole (i) each Company Benefit Plan (and each related trust, insurance contract or fund) is and has been established, administered and funded in accordance with its express terms, and in compliance in all respects with all applicable Laws, including ERISA and the Code; (ii) there are no pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened Actions against or relating to the Company Benefit Plans, the assets of any of the trusts under such Company Benefit Plans or the plan sponsor or the plan administrator, or against any fiduciary of the Company Benefit Plans with respect to the operation of such Company Benefit Plans (other than routine benefits claims); (iii) neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any “party in interest” or “disqualified person” with respect to a Company Benefit Plan has engaged in a non-exempt

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“prohibited transaction” within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code or Section 406 of ERISA; (iv) to the knowledge of the Company, no fiduciary (within the meaning of Section 3(21) of ERISA) has breached any fiduciary duty with respect to a Company Benefit Plan or otherwise has any liability in connection with acts taken (or the failure to act) with respect to the administration or investment of the assets