Company: CCIXW
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-309933
Chunk: 977

Company: Churchill Capital Corp IX/Cayman
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 977
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 other political subdivision thereof, any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government, including any court, arbitrator (public or private) or other body or administrative, regulatory or quasi-judicial authority, agency, department, board, commission or instrumentality of any federal, state, local or foreign jurisdiction.

“Holder” means any holder of Registrable Securities who is a Party to, or who succeeds to rights under, this A&R Registration Rights Agreement pursuant to Section 4.1.

“Insiders” means each undersigned party identified as an “Insider” on the signature pages attached hereto.

“Laws” means all laws, acts, statutes, constitutions, treaties, ordinances, codes, rules, regulations, and rulings of a Governmental Entity, including common law. All references to “Laws” shall be deemed to include any amendments thereto, and any successor Law, unless the context otherwise requires.

“Lock-Up Earnout Shares” means the Equity Securities of PubCo held by the Holders that constitute Earnout Shares (as defined in the Merger Agreement).

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“Lock-Up Period” means the period beginning on the Closing Date and ending on the date that is three hundred sixty (360) days thereafter.

“Lock-Up Shares” means the Closing Date Lock-Up Shares and Lock-Up Earnout Shares.

“Marketed” means an Underwritten Shelf Take-Down or other Underwritten Offering, as applicable, that involves the use or involvement of a customary “road show” (including an “electronic road show”) or other substantial marketing effort by Underwriters over a period of at least 48 hours.

“Merger Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.

“Merger Sub I” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.

“Merger Sub II” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.

“Merger Subs” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.

“Mergers” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.

“Misstatement” shall mean an untrue statement of a material fact or an omission to state a material fact required to be stated in a Registration Statement or Prospectus, or necessary to make the statements in a Registration Statement or Prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

“Non-Marketed” means an Underwritten Shelf Take-Down that is not a Marketed Underwritten Shelf