Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001193125-25-126208
Chunk: 248

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 248
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Our directors will be divided into three classes serving
staggered three-year terms. Class I directors (being Jeremy Allaire, Craig Broderick, and P. Sean Neville), Class II directors (being M. Michele Burns, Rajeev Date, and Danita Ostling), and Class III directors (being Bradley Horowitz
and David Orfao) will serve until our annual meetings of stockholders in 2026, 2027, and 2028, respectively. At each annual meeting of stockholders, directors will be elected to succeed the class of directors whose terms have expired. This
classification of our board of directors could have the effect of increasing the length of time necessary to change the composition of a majority of the board of directors. In general, at least two annual meetings of stockholders will be necessary
for stockholders to effect a change in a majority of the members of the board of directors.

Board committees

Our board of directors will have an audit committee, a compensation committee, a nominating and corporate governance committee, a risk committee, and a strategy
committee. The composition and responsibilities of

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each committee are described below. Members will serve on these committees until their resignation or until as otherwise determined by our board of directors. Audit committee The members of our audit committee will be Danita Ostling (chair), Craig Broderick, M. Michele Burns, and Rajeev Date. The composition of our audit committee meets the requirements for independence under the NYSE listing standards and SEC rules and regulations. Our board of directors has determined that each member of our audit committee is (i) financially literate and (ii) an “audit committee financial expert” as defined in Item 407(d)(5)(ii) of Regulation S-Kpromulgated under the Securities Act. This designation does not impose any duties, obligations, or liabilities that are greater than are generally imposed on members of our audit committee and our board of directors. Our audit committee is directly responsible for, among other things:

| • |     | overseeing our accounting and financial reporting processes and internal controls, as well as the audit and integrity of                                                                                                                               
 our financial statements, including: appointing, overseeing the work of, and approving the compensation of our independent registered public accounting firm; reviewing and approving the scope and timing of the audit; reviewing and discussing with 
 our independent registered public accounting firm the results of the audit; and evaluating the qualifications, performance, and independence of our independent registered public accounting firm;                                                     |