Company: CCIXW
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-309933
Chunk: 945

Company: Churchill Capital Corp IX/Cayman
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 945
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iliates or any Affiliates of the Sponsor; (B) in the case of an individual, transfers by gift to members of the individual’s immediate family or to a trust, the beneficiary of which is a member of one of the individual’s immediate

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family, an Affiliate of such person or to a charitable organization; (C) in the case of an individual, transfers by virtue of laws of descent and distribution upon death of the individual; (D) in the case of an individual, transfers pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order; (E) by virtue of the laws of or the Sponsor’s operating agreement upon dissolution of the Sponsor; (F) by private sales or transfers made in connection with the consummation of a Business Combination at prices no greater than the price at which the securities were originally purchased; (G) transfers in the event of SPAC’s liquidation prior to the completion of an initial Business Combination; (H) in the event of SPAC’s completion of a liquidation, merger, stock exchange, reorganization or other similar transaction which results in all of SPAC’s public stockholders having the right to exchange their SPAC Common Shares for cash, securities or other property, subsequent to the completion of an initial Business Combination; (I) to a nominee or custodian of a person or entity to whom a disposition or transfer would be permissible under clauses (A) through (H) above; provided , however , that, in the case of clauses (A) through (F) and (I), these permitted transferees must enter into a written agreement with SPAC agreeing to be bound by these transfer restrictions herein and the other restrictions contained in this Sponsor Agreement (including provisions relating to voting, the Trust Account and liquidating distributions).

Vesting Provisions . The Sponsor agrees that, as of the Closing, 1,078,125 of the Founder Shares or SPAC Common Shares issued or issuable upon the exercise or conversion of the Founder Shares as identified on Annex A as “Vesting Founder Shares” shall be unvested and shall be subject to the vesting and forfeiture provisions set forth in this paragraph ‎7(c) . The Sponsor agrees that it shall not (and will cause its Affiliates not to) Transfer any unvested Founder Shares or SPAC Common Shares issued or issuable upon the conversion of the unvested Founder Shares prior to the later of (x) the expiration of the applicable lock-up described in paragraph ‎