Company: AIP
Filing Date: 2025-12-11
Form Type: S-3
Source: 0001193125-25-316098
Chunk: 16

Company: Arteris, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-11
Form: S-3
Chunk 16
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 board of directors or by the affirmative vote of two-thirdsof the votes which all of our stockholders would be eligible to cast in an election of directors. The affirmative vote of a majority of our board of directors and two-thirdsin voting power of the outstanding shares entitled to vote thereon will be required to amend our amended and restated certificate of incorporation. Section 203 of the DGCL We are governed by the provisions of Section 203 of the DGCL. In general, Section 203 prohibits a public Delaware corporation from engaging in a “business combination” with an “interested stockholder” for a period of three years after the time of the transaction in which the person became an interested stockholder, unless:

| • |     | the business combination or transaction which resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested                            
 stockholder was approved by the board of directors prior to the time that the stockholder became an interested stockholder; |

| • |     | upon consummation of the transaction which 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 shares owned by directors who are also officers of the corporation and shares owned by employee stock 
 plans in which employee 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                                                                       |

| • |     | at or subsequent to the time the stockholder became an interested stockholder, the business combination                                                                                              
 was approved by the board of directors and authorized at an annual or special meeting of the stockholders, and not by written consent, by the affirmative vote of at least 662/3% of the outstanding 
 voting stock which is not owned by the interested stockholder.                                                                                                                                       |

In general, Section 203 defines a “business combination” to include mergers, asset sales and other transactions resulting in financial benefit to a stockholder and an “interested stockholder” as a person who, together with affiliates and associates, owns, or, if such person is an affiliate or associate of the corporation, within three years did own, 15% or more of the corporation’s outstanding voting stock. These provisions may have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing changes in control of our company. 11

Limitations of Liability and Indemnification Matters

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws provide indemnification and advancement