Company: CF
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form Type: S-3ASR
Source: 0001104659-25-107810
Chunk: 16

Company: CF Industries Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form: S-3ASR
Chunk 16
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 Under the proxy access provisions of our bylaws, an eligible stockholder or group of stockholders seeking to include a nominee for director in our proxy materials for an annual meeting of stockholders must, among other things, provide notice as specified in the proxy access provisions of our bylaws to our Secretary no earlier than 150 days and no later than 120 days before the anniversary of the date we issued our proxy statement for the previous year’s annual meeting of stockholders.

#### Delaware Law
We are subject to the provisions of Section 203 of the DGCL regulating corporate takeovers. In general, those provisions prohibit a Delaware corporation from engaging in any business combination with any interested stockholder for a period of three years following the time that the stockholder became an interested stockholder, unless:

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prior to that time, the board of directors approved either the business combination or the transaction that resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder;

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upon consummation of the transaction that resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder, the interested stockholder owned at least 85% of the voting stock of the corporation outstanding at the time the transaction commenced, excluding for purposes of determining the voting stock outstanding (but not the outstanding voting stock owned by the interested stockholder) those shares owned by persons who are directors and also officers of the corporation and by employee stock plans in which participants do not have the right to determine confidentially whether shares held subject to the plan will be tendered in a tender or exchange offer; or

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at or after that time, the business combination is approved by the board of directors and authorized at a meeting of stockholders by at least two-thirds of the outstanding voting stock that is not owned by the interested stockholder.

As defined in Section 203 of the DGCL, “business combination” generally includes the following:

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mergers or consolidations involving the corporation and the interested stockholder;

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sales, leases, exchanges, mortgages, pledges, transfers and other dispositions of 10% or more of the assets of the corporation involving the interested stockholder;

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subject to certain exceptions, any transaction that results in the issuance or transfer by the corporation of any stock of the corporation to the interested stockholder;

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transactions involving the corporation that have the effect of increasing the proportionate share of the stock of any class or series of the corporation which is owned by the interested stockholder; and

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receipt by the interested stockholder of the benefit of any loans, advances, guarantees, pledges or other financial benefits provided