Company: CCIXW
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-309933
Chunk: 227

Company: Churchill Capital Corp IX/Cayman
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 227
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 applicable time-period required under the CCIX’s certificate of incorporation, CCIX will be required to wind up, redeem and liquidate. If CCIX is required to wind up, redeem and liquidate, CCIX shareholders will miss the opportunity to benefit from an investment in a target company and the appreciation in value of such investment through a business combination.

Legal proceedings in connection with the business combination, the outcomes of which are uncertain, could delay or prevent the completion of the business combination.

Lawsuits may be filed against CCIX or its directors and officers in connection with the Transactions. Defending such additional lawsuits could require CCIX to incur significant costs and draw the attention of CCIX’s management team away from the Transactions. Further, the defense or settlement of any lawsuit or claim that remains unresolved at the time the Transactions are consummated may adversely affect the Post-Closing Company’s business, financial

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condition, results of operations and cash flows. Such legal proceedings could delay or prevent the business combination from becoming effective within the agreed upon timeframe.

Currently, there is no material litigation, arbitration or governmental proceeding currently pending against CCIX or any members of CCIX’s management team in their capacity as such, and CCIX and the members of CCIX’s management team have not been subject to any such proceeding in the 12 months preceding the date hereof.

If third parties bring claims against us, the proceeds held in the trust account could be reduced and the per-share redemption amount received by shareholders may be less than $10.00 per share.

Our placing of funds in the trust account may not protect those funds from third-party claims against us. Although we will seek to have all vendors, service providers (other than our independent registered public accounting firm), prospective target businesses and other entities with which we do business execute agreements with us waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies held in the trust account for the benefit of our public shareholders, such parties may not execute such agreements, or even if they execute such agreements, they may not be prevented from bringing claims against the trust account, including, but not limited to, fraudulent inducement, breach of fiduciary responsibility or other similar claims, as well as claims challenging the enforceability of the waiver, in each case in order to gain an advantage with respect to a claim against our assets, including the funds held in the trust account. If any third party refuses to execute an agreement waiving such claims to