Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001193125-25-070481
Chunk: 288

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form: S-1
Chunk 288
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 holders will be entitled to notice of the registration and will have the right to include their registrable securities in the registration, subject to certain limitations. Shelf registration. These holders may request that we file and keep effective a shelf registration statement pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act with respect to all or any portion of their shares subject to registration rights, subject to certain limitations. We are not obligated to effect more than one such shelf registration in any 12-monthperiod. Expenses; indemnification. We must pay all registration expenses (including certain expenses of counsel for selling holders) in connection with effecting any demand registration, piggyback registration, or shelf registration. The Investors’ Rights Agreement contains customary indemnification and contribution provisions. Term. The registration rights will remain in effect until the earlier of (i) five years after this offering, (ii) with respect to a holder, during such time during which all registrable shares held by such holder may immediately be sold under Rule 144 during any three-month period and (iii) the closing of a liquidation event. 205

Listing

We have applied to
list our Class A common stock on the NYSE under the symbol “CRCL”.

Transfer agent and registrar

The transfer agent and registrar for our Class A common stock is Computershare Trust Company, N.A.

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Material U.S. federal tax considerations for non-U.S.holders of Class A common stock The following are the material U.S. federal income and estate tax consequences of the ownership and disposition of our Class A common stock acquired in this offering by a “Non-U.S.Holder” that does not own, and has not owned, actually or constructively, more than 5% of our common stock. You are a Non-U.S.Holder if for U.S. federal income tax purposes you are a beneficial owner of our Class A common stock that is (or is treated as):

| • |     | a nonresident alien individual; |

| • |     | a foreign corporation; or |

| • |     | a foreign estate or trust. |

You are not a Non-U.S.Holder if you are a nonresident alien individual present in the United States for 183 days or more in the taxable year of disposition, or if you are a former citizen or former resident of the United States for U.S. federal income tax purposes. If you are such a person, you should consult your tax adviser regarding the U.S. federal income tax consequences of the ownership and disposition of our Class A common