Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-06-02
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001193125-25-132755
Chunk: 317

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-02
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 317
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 as described above, do not apply to certain transactions, including (i) the issuance of shares of Class A common stock or securities convertible into or exercisable for shares of our Class A common stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange of convertible or exchangeable securities or the exercise of warrants or options (including net exercise) or the settlement of RSUs (including net settlement), in each case outstanding on the date of the underwriting agreement and described in this prospectus; (ii) grants of stock options, stock awards, restricted stock, RSUs, or other equity awards and the issuance of shares of our 223

Class A common stock or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of our Class A common stock (whether upon the exercise of stock options or otherwise) to our
employees, officers, directors, advisors, or consultants pursuant to the terms of an equity compensation plan in effect as of the closing of this offering and described in this prospectus; (iii) the entry into any agreement providing for the
issuance of shares of our common stock or any security convertible into or exercisable for shares of our common stock in connection with any bona fide licensing, commercialization, joint venture, technology transfer, acquisition, development
collaboration, or other strategic transaction (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any such pledge or issuance to the Circle Foundation), provided that the issuance of any such securities pursuant to this clause will not exceed 10% of the
total number of shares of our common stock outstanding immediately following the closing of this offering, including any shares issued pursuant to the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares, provided that each recipient shall
execute a lock-up agreement for the remainder of the lock-up period; (iv) our filing of any registration statement on Form S-8 relating to securities granted or to be granted pursuant to any plan in
effect on the date of the underwriting agreement and described in this prospectus or any assumed benefit plan pursuant to an acquisition or similar strategic transaction; or (v) the conversion, reclassification, or exchange of all outstanding shares
of our preferred stock into shares of our Class A common stock, certain shares of our Class A common stock into shares of our Class B common stock, our Class B common stock into shares of our Class A common stock, or our Class A common stock into
shares of our Class C common stock, in each case, as set forth in our certificate of incorporation.

Our directors and executive officers, the selling stockholders,
and