Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0000950123-25-006942
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Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form: DRS
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 P. Sean Neville, David Orfao, Danita Ostling, and Adam Selipsky—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 are 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, David Orfao, and Adam Selipsky) 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 has an
audit committee, a compensation committee, a nominating and corporate governance committee, a risk committee, and a strategy committee. The composition and responsibilities of each

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CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED BY CIRCLE INTERNET GROUP, INC. PURSUANT TO 17 C.F.R. § 200.83 committee are described below. Members 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 are Danita Ostling (chair), Craig Broderick, M. Michele Burns, Adam Selipsky and Rajeev Date. The composition of our audit committee meets the requirements for independence under the NYSE listing standards and SEC rules and regulations. Our board of directors has determined that (i) each member of our audit committee is financially literate and (