Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-08-12
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001193125-25-178989
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Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-12
Form: S-1
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 logo, and also held 357 registered trademarks in foreign jurisdictions. We also had 21 pending trademark applications in the United States, as well as 111 pending trademark applications in foreign jurisdictions. We intend to file additional trademark applications with respect to our brands.

Intellectual property laws, procedures, and restrictions provide only limited protection and any of our intellectual property rights may be challenged, invalidated, circumvented, infringed, or misappropriated. Further, intellectual property protection may not be available to us in every country in which our products are available and the laws of certain countries do not protect proprietary rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States, and, therefore, in certain jurisdictions, we may be unable to protect our intellectual property.

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There can be no assurance that our intellectual property rights will be sufficient to protect against others offering products or technologies that are substantially similar to ours and that compete with our business. See “Risk factors—Risks related to intellectual property—Our intellectual property rights are valuable. Any inability to protect and enforce such intellectual property rights could adversely impact our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects” for a more comprehensive description of risks related to our intellectual property and proprietary rights.

#### Legal proceedings
From time to time, we may be subject to various legal proceedings and claims that arise in the ordinary course of our business activities. The results of litigation and claims cannot be predicted with certainty. Refer to “Risk factors—Risks related to our business and industry—We are and may continue to be subject to litigation, including individual and class action lawsuits, as well as regulatory audits, disputes, inquiries, investigations, and enforcement actions by regulators and governmental authorities” and Note 23 to our audited consolidated financial statements and Note 22 to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus for a summary of legal proceedings to which we are a party.

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MANAGEMENT Biographical information of our executive officers and directors The following table provides information regarding our executive officers and our board of directors as of June 30, 2025:

| Name             |     | Age |    |     | Position(s)                          |
| Jeremy Allaire   |     |     | 54 |     | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer |
| Jeremy Fox-Geen  |     |     | 51 |     | Chief Financial Officer              |
| Heath Tarbert    |     |     | 48 |     | President