Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0000950123-25-006942
Chunk: 292

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form: DRS
Chunk 292
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 such appointment, received an award of RSUs with a grant date value of $400,000.                  |

| (6) | Ms. Sands resigned from the board of directors on October 3, 2024. In consideration of                                                                                                                       
 Ms. Sands’ service to the board of directors, her outstanding RSUs became vested as of the date of her resignation as though Ms. Sands continued to serve on the board of directors through January 1, 2025. |

| (7) | Mr. Zhou resigned from the board of directors on February 11, 2024. |

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CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED BY CIRCLE INTERNET GROUP, INC. PURSUANT TO 17 C.F.R. § 200.83 CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED-PARTY TRANSACTIONS We describe below transactions and series of similar transactions, during our last three fiscal years or currently proposed, to which we were a party or will be a party, in which:

| • |     | the amounts involved exceeded or will exceed $120,000; and |

| • |     | any of our directors, executive officers, or beneficial holders of more than 5% of any class of our capital stock 
 (whom we refer to as our related parties) had or will have a direct or indirect material interest.                |

Other than as described below, there have not been, nor are there any currently proposed, transactions or series of similar transactions meeting these criteria to which we have been or will be a party other than compensation arrangements, which are described where required under “Compensation discussion and analysis.” Registration rights On July 1, 2024, in connection with the consummation of the scheme of arrangement described elsewhere in this prospectus, we entered into an Investors’ Rights Agreement (as amended from time to time, the “Investors’ Rights Agreement”), providing for, among other things, certain pre-emptive rights, information rights, and registration rights. The rights granted under the Investors’ Rights Agreement (other than the registration rights thereunder) terminated upon the completion of our initial public offering. Other transactions On September 21, 2023, one of our subsidiaries entered into an agreement to purchase 240,000 of our common shares at $25.09 per share from M. Michele Burns, a member of our board of directors, to cover the tax liability arising from the exercise of her stock options. On November 7, 2022, we entered