Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-05-16
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001193125-25-121234
Chunk: 115

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-16
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 115
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certificate of incorporation or as required by applicable law. Our directors and executive officers and entities affiliated with them will hold stock with approximately % voting power over us after this offering (or % voting power over us
after this offering if the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional shares in full). As a result, these stockholders, if acting together, would be able to significantly influence matters requiring approval by our stockholders,
including the election of directors and the approval of mergers or other extraordinary transactions. They may also have interests that differ from yours and may vote in a way with which you disagree and which may be adverse to your interests. The
concentration of voting power may have the effect of delaying, preventing, or deterring a change of control of our company, could deprive our stockholders of an opportunity to receive a premium for their Class A common stock as part of a sale of our
company, and might ultimately affect the market price of our Class A common stock.

We will incur significantly increased costs and devote substantial management time as a result of operating as a public company.

As a public company, we will incur significant legal, accounting, and other expenses that we
do not incur as a private company. For example, we will be subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act and will have to comply with the applicable requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, as well as SEC rules and regulations and
NYSE listing standards, including the establishment and maintenance of effective disclosure and financial controls, changes in corporate governance practices, and required filing of annual, quarterly, and current reports with respect to our business
and results of operations. We expect that compliance with these requirements will increase our legal and financial compliance costs and will make some activities more time-consuming and costly. In addition, we expect that our management and other
personnel will need to divert attention from operational and other business matters to devote substantial time to these public company requirements.

We also expect
that operating as a public company will make it more expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance, and we may be required to accept reduced coverage or incur substantially higher costs to obtain coverage. This could also make
it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified people to serve on our board of directors, on our board committees, or as executive officers.

There may not be an active, liquid trading market for our Class A common stock.

Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for shares of our Class A
common stock. We cannot predict the