Company: CF
Filing Date: 2025-11-19
Form Type: 424B2
Source: 0001104659-25-113972
Chunk: 95

Company: CF Industries Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-19
Form: 424B2
Chunk 95
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 annual meeting of stockholders.

#### Delaware Law
We are subject to the provisions of Section 203 of the DGCL regulating corporate takeovers. In general, those provisions prohibit a Delaware corporation from engaging in any business combination with any interested stockholder for a period of three years following the time that the stockholder became an interested stockholder, unless:

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prior to that time, the board of directors approved either the business combination or the transaction that resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder;

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upon consummation of the transaction that resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder, the interested stockholder owned at least 85% of the voting stock of the corporation outstanding at the time the transaction commenced, excluding for purposes of determining the voting stock outstanding (but not the outstanding voting stock owned by the interested stockholder) those shares owned by persons who are directors and also officers of the corporation and by employee stock plans in which participants do not have the right to determine confidentially whether shares held subject to the plan will be tendered in a tender or exchange offer; or

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at or after that time, the business combination is approved by the board of directors and authorized at a meeting of stockholders by at least two-thirds of the outstanding voting stock that is not owned by the interested stockholder.

As defined in Section 203 of the DGCL, “business combination” generally includes the following:

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mergers or consolidations involving the corporation and the interested stockholder;

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sales, leases, exchanges, mortgages, pledges, transfers and other dispositions of 10% or more of the assets of the corporation involving the interested stockholder;

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subject to certain exceptions, any transaction that results in the issuance or transfer by the corporation of any stock of the corporation to the interested stockholder;

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transactions involving the corporation that have the effect of increasing the proportionate share of the stock of any class or series of the corporation which is owned by the interested stockholder; and

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receipt by the interested stockholder of the benefit of any loans, advances, guarantees, pledges or other financial benefits provided by or through the corporation.

In general, Section 203 defines an interested stockholder as any person that, together with its affiliates and associates, is the owner of 15% or more of the outstanding voting stock of the corporation or is an affiliate or associate of the corporation and, together with such person’s affiliates and associates, was the owner of 15% or more of the outstanding voting stock of the corporation within the three-year period