Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-05-16
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001193125-25-121234
Chunk: 297

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-16
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 297
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’s proposal or nominee will be ineligible and will not be voted on by our stockholders. Limitation of liability of directors and officers Our certificate of incorporation provides that no director or officer will be personally liable to us or our stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director or officer, except as required by applicable law, as in effect from time to time. Currently, the Delaware General Corporation Law requires that liability be imposed for the following:

| • |     | a director’s or officer’s breach of the director’s or officer’s duty of loyalty to our company or our 
 stockholders;                                                                                         |

| • |     | a director’s or officer’s act or omission not in good faith or which involved intentional misconduct or a knowing 
 violation of law;                                                                                                 |

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| • |     | a director’s unlawful payments of dividends or unlawful stock repurchases or redemptions as provided in 
 Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law;                                                    |

| • |     | a director or officer for any transaction from which the director or officer derived an improper personal benefit; and |

| • |     | an officer in any action by or in the right of our company. |

As a result, neither we nor our stockholders have the right, through stockholders’ derivative suits on our behalf, to recover monetary damages against a director or officer for breach of fiduciary duty as a director or officer, including breaches resulting from grossly negligent behavior, except in the situations described above. Our certificate of incorporation provides that, to the fullest extent permitted by law, we will indemnify any director or officer of our company against all damages, claims, and liabilities arising out of the fact that the person is or was our director or officer, or served any other enterprise at our request as a director, officer, employee, agent, or fiduciary. We will reimburse the expenses, including attorneys’ fees, incurred by a person indemnified by this provision when we receive an undertaking to repay such amounts if it is ultimately determined that the person is not entitled to be indemnified by us. Amending this provision will not reduce our indemnification obligations relating to actions taken before an amendment. Delaware business combination statute We are subject to Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which regulates corporate acquisitions. Section 203 prevents an “interested stockholder,” which is defined generally as a person owning 15% or more of a corporation’s voting stock, or any affiliate or associate of that person, from engaging in