Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-06-02
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001193125-25-132755
Chunk: 436

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-02
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 436
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 or officer’s duty of loyalty to our company or our stockholders, (ii) a director’s or officer’s act or omission not in good faith or which involved intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) a director’s unlawful payments of dividends or unlawful stock repurchases or redemptions as provided in Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, (iv) a director or officer for any transaction from which the director or officer derived an improper personal benefit, and (v) an officer in any action by or in the right of our company. Our certificate of incorporation provides for exculpation of our directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law. II-1

We maintain standard policies of insurance under which coverage is provided (a) to our directors and officers against loss arising from claims made by reason of breach of duty or other wrongful act, and (b) to us with respect to payments which may be made by the registrant to such officers and directors pursuant to the above indemnification provision or otherwise as a matter of law. The proposed form of underwriting agreement filed as Exhibit 1.1 to this registration statement provides for indemnification of directors and officers of the registrant by the underwriters against certain liabilities. Item 15. Recent sales of unregistered securities During the past three years, we have issued and sold the securities described below without registering the securities under the Securities Act:

| • |     | In May 2022, we sold 9,515,886 shares of Series F redeemable convertible preferred stock for $401.0 million. The                                                                                                                                  
 securities were sold to certain investment funds, institutional investors, and other persons. No underwriters were involved in this transaction. The transaction was exempt from registration under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act in that 
 the transaction was between an issuer and sophisticated investors or members of its senior executive management and did not involve any public offering.                                                                                          |

| • |     | In April 2023, we issued warrants to purchase 4,506,264 common shares of a consolidated subsidiary, which will be                                                                                                                                  
 automatically converted one for one to our Class A common stock, to a commercial counterparty. No underwriters were involved in this transaction. The transaction was exempt from registration under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act in that 
 the transaction was between an issuer and a sophisticated investor and did not involve any public offering.                                                                                                                                        |

| • |     | In August