Company: CCIXW
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-309933
Chunk: 1071

Company: Churchill Capital Corp IX/Cayman
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 1071
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up Holder and such Permitted Transferee(s) in any such Transfer shall agree on an allocation of such Lockup Holder’s Lockup Eligible Shares available for Transfer pursuant to clause (xiv) of Section 6.8(b) among such parties, which allocation shall be subject the Company’s prior consent in its sole discretion.

In order to enforce this Section 6.8, the Company may impose stop transfer instructions with respect to the Lockup Shares until the end of the Lockup Period or the Reduced Lockup Period, as applicable.

Notwithstanding the other provisions set forth in this Section 6.8, the Board of Directors (including, for the avoidance of doubt and to the fullest extent permitted by law, a duly authorized committee thereof) may, in its sole discretion, determine to waive, amend, or repeal the Lockup obligations set forth herein.

For purpose of this Section 6.8:

the term “ Lockup Period ” means the period beginning on the closing date of the Merger Agreement and ending on the date that is three hundred sixty (360) days thereafter;

the term “ Permitted Transferee ” means, prior to the expiration of the Lockup Period, any person or entity to whom such Lockup Holder is permitted to Transfer shares of Common Stock prior to the expiration of the Lockup Period pursuant to Section 6.8(b)(i)-(xiii);

the term “ Plus Founder Shares ” means with respect to each of David Liu and Hao Zheng, 90% of the Equity Securities of PubCo held (directly or indirectly) or otherwise beneficially owned by such Holder;

the term “ Reduced Lockup Period ” means the period beginning on the closing date of the Merger Agreement and ending on the date that is one hundred eighty (180) days thereafter;

the term “ Trading Day ” means any day on which shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock are actually traded on the principal securities exchange or securities market on which shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock are then traded;

the term “ Transfer ” means to (A) exchange, transfer, assign, lend, sell, offer to sell, contract or agree to sell, hypothecate, pledge, grant any option to purchase or otherwise dispose of or agree to dispose of, directly or indirectly, or establish or increase a put equivalent position or liquidate or decrease a call equivalent position within the meaning of Section 16 of the 1934 Act with respect to, any security, or any right or interest therein, (B