Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-05-16
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001193125-25-121234
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Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-16
Form: S-1/A
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 global organizations on complex issues makes her a valuable member of our board of
directors.

Relationships

There are no familial relationships between
any of our executive officers and directors.

Director independence

Upon
completion of the offering, our board of directors will consist of eight members. Our board has determined that each of Craig Broderick, M. Michele Burns, Rajeev Date, Bradley Horowitz, P. Sean Neville, David Orfao, and Danita Ostling—being all
directors other than Jeremy Allaire, our chief executive officer—is independent under NYSE listing standards. As Jeremy Allaire, our chief executive officer, serves as the chairman of our board of directors, the board of directors has appointed
Rajeev Date as the lead independent director. The lead independent director, among other responsibilities, presides over executive sessions of non-employee directors and independent directors, liaises and facilitates communications between the
independent directors and the chairman and chief executive officer and management, and leads the independent directors to assess the performance of the chairman.

Board composition

Our directors will be divided into three classes serving
staggered three-year terms. Class I directors (being Jeremy Allaire, Craig Broderick, and P. Sean Neville), Class II directors (being M. Michele Burns, Rajeev Date, and Danita Ostling), and Class III directors (being Bradley Horowitz
and David Orfao) 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.

Board committees

Our board of directors will have an audit committee, a compensation committee, a nominating and corporate governance committee, a risk committee, and a strategy
committee. The composition and responsibilities of

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each committee are described below. Members will serve on these committees until their resignation or until as otherwise determined by our board of directors. Audit committee The members of our audit committee will be Danita Ostling (chair), Craig Broderick, M. Michele Burns, and Rajeev Date. The composition of