Company: CCIXW
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-309933
Chunk: 441

Company: Churchill Capital Corp IX/Cayman
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 441
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, Murphy and Sherman is independent. As there is no standing nominating committee, we do not have a nominating committee charter in place.

We have not formally established any specific, minimum qualifications that must be met or skills that are necessary for directors to possess. In general, in identifying and evaluating nominees for director, our Board considers educational background, diversity of professional experience, knowledge of our business, integrity, professional reputation, independence, wisdom, and the ability to represent the best interests of our shareholders. Prior to our initial business combination, holders of our CCIX public shares will not have the right to recommend director candidates for nomination to our Board.

Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation

None of our officers currently serves, and in the past year none of our officers have served, as a member of the board of directors or compensation committee of any entity that has one or more officers serving on the CCIX Board.

Code of Ethics

We have adopted a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics applicable to our directors, officers and employees. We have previously filed a copy of our form of Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, audit committee charter and compensation committee charter as exhibits to the registration statement in connection with the CCIX IPO. You can review these documents by accessing our public filings at the SEC’s website atwww.sec.gov.In addition, a copy of the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics and the charters of the committees of the CCIX Board will be provided without charge upon request from us. If we make any amendments to our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics other than technical, administrative or other non-substantive amendments, or grant any waiver, including any implicit waiver, from a provision of the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics applicable to our principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller or persons performing similar functions requiring disclosure under applicable SEC rules or the Nasdaq rules, we will disclose

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the nature of such amendment or waiver to our website athttps://churchillcapital9.com/rather than by filing a Current Report on Form 8-K. Please see the section entitled “Where You Can Find More Information.”

Additionally, we are a “smaller reporting company” as defined in Item 10(f)(1) of Regulation S-K. Smaller reporting companies may take advantage of certain reduced disclosure obligations, including, among other things, providing only two years of audited financial statements. We will remain a smaller reporting company for so long as either (1) the market value of