Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-06-02
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001193125-25-132755
Chunk: 285

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-02
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 285
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 compensation arrangements, which are described where required under “Compensation discussion and analysis.” Stockholder agreements On July 1, 2024, in connection with the consummation of the scheme of arrangement described elsewhere in this prospectus, we entered into the following agreements with certain of our stockholders:

| • |     | An Investors’ Rights Agreement (as amended from time to time, the “Investors’ Rights Agreement”), which                                                                                                 
 provides for, among other things, certain pre-emptive rights, information rights, and registration rights. The rights granted under the Investors’ Rights Agreement (other than the registration rights 
 thereunder) will terminate upon the completion of this offering;                                                                                                                                        |

| • |     | A Voting Agreement (as amended from time to time, the “Voting Agreement”), which provides for, among other                                                                          
 things, the right of certain stockholders to designate a number of members of our board of directors. The Voting Agreement will terminate upon the completion of this offering; and |

| • |     | A Share Sale Agreement (as amended from time to time, the “Share Sale Agreement”), which provides for, among                                                                                                                                      
 other things, our right to purchase shares of our capital stock that certain holders propose to sell to other parties and the right of first refusal of certain holders to purchase such shares. The Share Sale Agreement will terminate upon the 
 completion of this offering.                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |

Other transactions On September 21, 2023, one of our subsidiaries entered into an agreement to purchase 240,000 of our common shares at $25.09 per share from M. Michele Burns, a member of our board of directors, to cover the tax liability arising from the exercise of her stock options. On November 7, 2022, we entered into an agreement to invest $0.3 million into a startup focused on consumer interaction with the digital economy, in return for equity under a simple agreement for future equity and token warrants. On February 19, 2025, the startup closed a preferred equity financing round, in connection with which our simple agreement for future equity converted into shares of preferred stock in the startup. P. Sean Neville, a member of our board of directors, is the founder and chief executive officer and owns 40% of this company. Additionally, Bradley Horowitz, a current member of our board of directors, is a minority investor in the company, and Anita Sands, a member of our board of directors at the time of our initial investment, is a