Company: CCIXW
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-309933
Chunk: 834

Company: Churchill Capital Corp IX/Cayman
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 834
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ens) on, or otherwise dispose of, any material Owned Intellectual Property or material assets, rights, Technology or properties of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, other than the sale or non-exclusive license of Software, goods, products and services to customers in the ordinary course of business, licenses to service providers in connection with provision of services to the Company and its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business, or the sale, non-exclusive license or other disposition of Technology or equipment deemed by the Company in its reasonable business judgement to be obsolete or not material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, in each case, in the ordinary course of business;

## (f)	(i) cancel or compromise any claim or Indebtedness owed to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) settle any pending or threatened Action, (A) if such settlement would require payment by the Company in an amount greater than $500,000, (B) to the extent such settlement includes an agreement to accept or concede injunctive relief, or (C) to the extent such settlement involves a Governmental Authority (unless such settlement would not
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reasonably be expected to be materially adverse to the Company) or alleged criminal wrongdoing, or (iii) agree to modify in any respect materially adverse to the Company and its Subsidiaries any confidentiality or similar Contract to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries are a party;

(g) directly or indirectly acquire by merging or consolidating with, or by purchasing a substantial portion of the assets of, or by purchasing all of or a substantial equity interest in, or by any other manner, any business or any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, association or other entity or Person or division thereof in a transaction that would be material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;

(h) make any loans or advance any money or other property to any Person, except for (i) advances in the ordinary course of business to employees or officers of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries for expenses not to exceed $500,000 in the aggregate and (ii) prepayments made to suppliers of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;

(i) enter into, assume, assign, or amend any material term of, modify any material term of or terminate (excluding any expiration in accordance with its terms)