Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001193125-25-084832
Chunk: 234

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 234
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 committee is directly responsible for, among other things:

| • |     | overseeing our accounting and financial reporting processes and internal controls, as well as the audit and integrity of                                                                                                                               
 our financial statements, including: appointing, overseeing the work of, and approving the compensation of our independent registered public accounting firm; reviewing and approving the scope and timing of the audit; reviewing and discussing with 
 our independent registered public accounting firm the results of the audit; and evaluating the qualifications, performance, and independence of our independent registered public accounting firm;                                                     |

| • |     | overseeing and reviewing our internal audit function; |

| • |     | overseeing our financial statements and certain other external disclosures, including reviewing and discussing with                     
 management and our independent registered public accounting firm our annual and quarterly financial statements and related disclosures; |

| • |     | overseeing and reviewing our control and risk management systems; |

| • |     | establishing procedures for, reviewing, and overseeing our investigation of reported concerns related to accounting,                                                           
 internal controls, and internal or financial auditing matters and the anonymous submission by employees of concerns regarding questionable accounting or auditing matters; and |

| • |     | reviewing, and if appropriate, approving related-party transactions. |

Compensation committee The members of our compensation committee will be Rajeev Date (chair), Bradley Horowitz, David Orfao, and Danita Ostling. Each member of this committee is a non-employeedirector, as defined by Rule 16b-3promulgated under the Exchange Act, and meets the requirements for independence under the NYSE listing standards and SEC rules and regulations. Our compensation committee is responsible for, among other things:

| • |     | reviewing and approving the compensation of our executive officers (other than our chief executive officer for whom the 
 compensation committee reviews and recommends said compensation to the board of directors);                             |

| • |     | reviewing, approving, and administering our incentive compensation plans; |

| • |     | evaluating and recommending to our board of directors the compensation of our directors; |

| • |     | reviewing our overall compensation philosophy; |

| • |     | reviewing and discussing with management compensation-related risks; and |

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| • |     | overseeing practices and strategies relating to human capital management. |

Nominating and corporate governance committee The members of our nominating and corporate governance committee will be M. Michele Burns (chair), Rajeev Date, and P. Sean Neville. Each member of our nominating and corporate governance committee is an independent