Company: CI
Filing Date: 2025-09-04
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001140361-25-033868
Chunk: 68

Company: Cigna Group
Filing Date: 2025-09-04
Form: 424B5
Chunk 68
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 election of directors can elect 100% of the directors and the holders of the remaining shares are not able to elect any directors. The Company has adopted a majority voting standard for the election of directors in uncontested elections. Under this standard, each director must receive a majority of the votes cast with respect to that director. This means that the number of votes cast “for” a director nominee must exceed the number of votes cast “against” that nominee for the director to be elected. In general, each director agrees to tender, and not withdraw, his or her resignation if he or she does not receive a majority of the votes cast at an annual meeting of shareholders at which such director is a nominee for election. The Company’s Corporate Governance Committee will make a recommendation to the Company’s board of directors on whether to accept the resignation. The Company’s board of directors has discretion to accept or reject the resignation. In contested elections, the voting standard is a plurality of votes cast.

Subject to the rights of creditors and the liquidation preferences of holders of preferred stock, the holders of common stock are entitled to share ratably in the remaining assets of the Company in the event of its voluntary or involuntary liquidation or dissolution. Holders of common stock have no preemptive rights. All shares of common stock presently outstanding are, and all such shares to be issued pursuant to this prospectus will be, fully paid and nonassessable. Shares of the Company’s common stock are not convertible into shares of any other class of capital stock.

The Certificate of Incorporation grants the Company the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision in the Certificate of Incorporation in the manner prescribed by statute. Under Section 242 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, unless the Certificate of Incorporation requires a greater vote, a proposed amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation must be approved by the affirmative vote of a majority of the voting power of the outstanding stock entitled to vote thereon and a majority of the outstanding stock of each class entitled to vote as a class. The Company’s By-Laws may be adopted, amended or repealed by majority vote of the capital stock of the Company outstanding and entitled to vote thereon, or by the Company’s board of directors without any vote of the stockholders. Such provisions could inhibit a change in control in situations that the board of directors determines are not adequate or in the best interests of shareholders, or that do not meet specified fair price criteria and procedural conditions. In some circumstances, some or all shareholders could be denied the opportunity