Company: CCIXW
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-309933
Chunk: 1026

Company: Churchill Capital Corp IX/Cayman
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 1026
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| AL MERGER SUB I, INC. |                         |
| By:                   | /s/ Jay Taragin         |
| Name:                 | Jay Taragin             |
| Title:                | Secretary and Treasurer |

| AL MERGER SUB II, LLC |                         |
| By:                   | /s/ Jay Taragin         |
| Name:                 | Jay Taragin             |
| Title:                | Secretary and Treasurer |

<div align='center'>[Signature Page to First Amendment to the Agreement and Plan of Merger]</div>

| plus automation, inc. |                         |
| By:                   | /s/ David Liu           |
| Name:                 | David Liu               |
| Title:                | Chief Executive Officer |

<div align='center'>[Signature Page to Amendment No. 1 to the Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization]

AMENDMENT NO. 2 TOTHEAGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER AND REORGANIZATION</div>

This AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO THE AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER AND REORGANIZATION (this “Amendment”), dated as of September 18, 2025, is made by and among Churchill Capital Corp IX, a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “SPAC”), AL Merger Sub I, Inc., a Delaware corporation and direct, wholly owned subsidiary of SPAC (“Merger Sub I”), AL Merger Sub II, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of SPAC (“Merger Sub II”), and Plus Automation, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”).

WHEREAS, the SPAC, the Company, Merger Sub I and Merger Sub II entered into that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization, dated as of June 5, 2025, as amended by Amendment No. 1 dated as of September 8, 2025 (as it may be further amended, modified, supplemented or waived from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”);

WHEREAS, the SPAC, the Company, Merger Sub I and Merger Sub II wish to amend the Merger Agreement pursuant to Section 12.10 of the Merger Agreement in the manner set forth herein;

WHEREAS, the respective Boards of Directors of the SPAC, the Company, Merger Sub I and Merger Sub II have each approved and declared advisable this Amendment.

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the