Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: DRS/A
Source: 0000950123-25-001965
Chunk: 249

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: DRS/A
Chunk 249
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Pension Benefits None of our NEOs are entitled to any payments or other benefits following or in connection with retirement. Nonqualified Deferred Compensation None of our NEOs participate in any plan that provides for the deferral of compensation on a basis that is not tax-qualified. Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control Executive Severance Guidelines We maintain Executive Severance Guidelines, most recently updated as of January 1, 2025, which provide for certain payments and benefits in the event of a termination of employment, including an involuntary termination of employment in connection with a change in control of Circle. As a condition to receiving any severance pay or benefits under the Executive Severance Guidelines, the NEO must execute a release of claims in favor of Circle. Generally, the following definitions would apply under the Executive Severance Guidelines: “Cause” generally means (i) the employee’s dishonest statements or acts with respect to Circle, or any current or prospective customers, suppliers, vendors, or other third parties with which Circle does business; (ii) the employee’s commission of (a) a felony or (b) any misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, deceit, dishonesty or fraud; (iii) the employee’s willful failure to perform his or her assigned duties and responsibilities which failure continues after written notice given to the employee by Circle; (iv) the employee’s gross negligence, willful misconduct, or insubordination with respect to Circle or any affiliate of Circle; or (v) the employee’s material violation of any provision of any agreement(s) between the employee and Circle relating to non-solicitation,nondisclosure, and/or assignment of inventions. “Good Reason” generally means any of the following unless such event is agreed to, in writing or as set forth below, by the employee: (i) a material reduction in the employee’s salary or benefits, other than as a result of a reduction in compensation affecting all similarly leveled employees of Circle, or its successor entity, generally; (ii) a material diminution of the employee’s duties or responsibilities or, in the event of a Change in Control, a 174

CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED BY CIRCLE INTERNET GROUP, INC. PURSUANT TO 17 C.F.R. §