Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0000950123-25-006942
Chunk: 303

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form: DRS
Chunk 303
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 holders of our common stock have no
preemptive or other subscription rights. There are no redemption or sinking fund provisions applicable to our common stock.

Preferred stock

Our board of directors has the authority to issue the preferred stock in one or more series and to fix the designations, powers, preferences, and relative,
participating, optional, or other rights, if any, and the qualifications, limitations, or restrictions thereof, if any, with respect to each such series and the number of shares constituting each such series, without further vote or action by the
stockholders.

The issuance of preferred stock may have the effect of delaying, deferring, or preventing a change in control without further action by the
stockholders and may adversely affect the voting and other rights of the holders of common stock. At present, we have no plans to issue any of the preferred stock.

Election and removal of directors

Our board of directors
may consist of between three and twelve directors. The exact number of directors will be fixed from time to time by resolution of the board and is currently fixed at nine directors. No director may be removed except for cause, and directors may be
removed for cause by an affirmative vote of shares representing a majority of the shares then entitled to vote at an election of directors. Any vacancy occurring on the board of directors and any newly created directorship may be filled only by a
majority of the remaining directors in office.

Board composition

Our board of directors is divided into three classes serving staggered three-year terms. Class I, Class II, and Class III directors will serve
until our annual meetings of stockholders in 2026, 2027, and 2028, respectively. At each annual meeting of stockholders, directors will be elected to succeed the class of directors whose terms have expired. This classification of our board of
directors could have the effect of increasing the length of time necessary to change the composition of a majority of the board of directors. In general, at least two annual meetings of stockholders will be necessary for stockholders to effect a
change in a majority of the members of the board of directors.

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CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED BY CIRCLE INTERNET GROUP, INC. PURSUANT TO 17 C.F.R. § 200.83

Limits on written consents

Our certificate of incorporation and our bylaws provide that holders of our common stock will not be able to act by written consent without a meeting.

Stockholder meetings

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