Company: CCIXW
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-309933
Chunk: 864

Company: Churchill Capital Corp IX/Cayman
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 864
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 allocation of rights, benefits, obligations and liabilities contemplated by this Agreement and the Transactions.

Section 9.07.Stockholder Litigation. SPAC shall notify the Company, and the Company shall notify SPAC, promptly in connection with any threat to file, or filing of, an Action related to this Agreement or the Transaction by any of its stockholders against any of the SPAC Parties, the Company or against any of their respective directors or officers (any such action, a “Stockholder Action”). SPAC shall keep the Company, and the Company shall keep SPAC, as applicable, reasonably apprised of the defense, settlement, prosecution or other developments with respect to any such Stockholder Action. SPAC shall give the Company, and the Company shall give SPAC, as applicable, the opportunity to participate in, subject to a customary joint defense agreement, the defense of any such litigation, to give due consideration to the Company’s or the SPAC’s advice, as applicable, with respect to such

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litigation and to not settle any such litigation without the prior written consent of the Company or SPAC, as applicable, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed;providedthat, for the avoidance of doubt, SPAC shall bear all costs of investigation and all defense and attorneys’ and other professionals’ fees and all settlement payments related to any such Stockholder Action initiated by or on behalf of any stockholders of SPAC, in their capacity as such, and the Company shall bear all costs of investigation and all defense and attorneys’ and other professionals’ fees and all settlement payments related to any such Stockholder Action initiated by or on behalf of any stockholders of the Company, in their capacity as such (“Stockholder Action Expenses”).

Section 9.08.Post-Closing RSU Pool. Following the effectiveness of the Equity Incentive Plan, an amount of shares of SPAC Class A Common Stock set forth on Schedule 9.08 of the Company Disclosure Letter (the “Post-Closing RSUPool”) shall be used for the grant of restricted stock units thereunder to those Service Providers (as defined in the Equity Incentive Plan) selected by the Company from among the individuals who had been Company Service Providers as of immediately prior to the First Effective Time (and who continue to be a Service Provider through the date of grant of such restricted stock units). The restricted stock units granted from the Post-Closing RSU Pool shall vest upon the occurrence