Company: CALX
Filing Date: 2025-07-22
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001406666-25-000036
Chunk: 5

Company: CALIX, INC
Filing Date: 2025-07-22
Form: S-8
Chunk 5
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 specifically provided by the current law.

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation contains provisions that limit the liability of our directors for monetary damages to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law. Consequently, our directors will not be personally liable to us or our stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duties as directors, except liability for:

• any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to us or to our stockholders;

• any act or omission not in good faith or that involves intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law;

• unlawful payments of dividends or unlawful stock repurchases or redemptions as provided in Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law; or

• any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws provide that we are required to indemnify our directors and officers, in each case to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law. Our amended and restated bylaws also provide that we are obligated to advance expenses incurred by a director or officer in advance of the final disposition of any action or proceeding, and permit us to secure insurance on behalf of any officer, director, employee or other agent for any liability arising out of his or her actions in that capacity regardless of whether we would otherwise be permitted to indemnify him or her under the provisions of Delaware law.

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We have entered and expect to continue to enter into agreements to indemnify our directors, executive officers and other employees as determined by our board of directors. With specified exceptions, these agreements provide for indemnification for related expenses including, among other things, attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines and settlement amounts incurred by any of these individuals in any action or proceeding. We believe that these bylaw provisions and indemnification agreements are necessary to attract and retain qualified persons as directors and officers.

We also maintain directors’ and officers’ liability insurance.

| Item 7. |     | Exemption From Registration Claimed. |

Not applicable.

| Item 8. |     | Exhibits. |

| Exhibit |      |       |     | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
|         |  4.1 |       |     | Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Calix, Inc. (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 3.3 to the Registrant’s registration statement on Form S-1, as amended, filed with the SEC on March 23, 2010 (File No. 333-163