Company: CI
Filing Date: 2025-09-02
Form Type: S-3ASR
Source: 0001140361-25-033568
Chunk: 24

Company: Cigna Group
Filing Date: 2025-09-02
Form: S-3ASR
Chunk 24
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if any), designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, and qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, for each series of preferred stock that may be issued, and to fix the number of shares of each such series. We will include the specific terms of each series of the preferred stock being offered in a supplement to this prospectus. Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law prohibits a defined set of transactions between a Delaware corporation, such as us, and an interested stockholder. An interested stockholder is defined as a person who, together with any affiliates or associates of such person, beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, 15% or more of the outstanding voting shares of a Delaware corporation. This provision may prohibit business combinations between an interested stockholder and a corporation for a period of three years after the date the interested stockholder becomes an interested stockholder. The term business combination is broadly defined to include mergers, consolidations, sales or other dispositions of assets having a total value in excess of 10% of the consolidated assets of the corporation, and some other transactions that would increase the interested stockholder’s proportionate share ownership in the corporation. This prohibition is effective unless:

| • | the business combination is approved by the corporation’s board of directors prior to the time the interested stockholder becomes an interested stockholder; |

| • | the interested stockholder acquired at least 85% of the voting stock of the corporation, other than stock held by directors who are also officers or by qualified employee stock plans, in the transaction in which it becomes an interested stockholder; or |

| • | the business combination is approved by a majority of the board of directors and by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the outstanding voting stock that is not owned by the interested stockholder. |

In general, the prohibitions do not apply to business combinations with persons who were shareholders before we became subject to Section 203. In addition, our Certificate of Incorporation provides that, subject to certain limited exceptions, a business combination with or upon a proposal by a related person (as defined therein) requires the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the voting power of all outstanding shares of our common stock and preferred stock entitled to vote, voting together as a single class. Such affirmative votes shall be required notwithstanding the fact that no vote may be required, or that a lesser percentage may be specified, by law or our board of directors. Special By-L