Company: CCIXW
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-309933
Chunk: 738

Company: Churchill Capital Corp IX/Cayman
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 738
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AC and the shareholders of SPAC, and declared it advisable, to enter into this Agreement providing for the Domestication and the Mergers in accordance with the DGCL and DLLCA, (ii) approved this Agreement and the Transactions, including the Domestication and the Mergers in accordance with the DGCL, the DLLCA, and the Cayman Companies Act on the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, and (iii) adopted a resolution recommending the SPAC Stockholder Matters be approved and adopted by the shareholders of SPAC (the “SPAC Board Recommendation”);

## WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, Sponsor and SPAC have entered into the Sponsor Agreement, a copy of which is attached asExhibit Chereto;

## WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, certain Holders holding shares of Company Stock sufficient to constitute the Company Stockholder Approval have entered into one or more Voting and Support Agreements substantially in the form ofExhibit Dattached hereto (each, a “Company Voting and Support Agreement”)with SPAC pursuant to which,inter alia, such Holders have agreed to vote their respective shares of Company Stock in favor of this Agreement, the Mergers and the Transactions; and

## WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, SPAC, Sponsor, and certain stockholders of the Company have entered into an Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement (the “A&RRegistration Rights Agreement”) substantially in the form attached hereto asExhibit E, pursuant to which, effective as of the Closing, among other things certain stockholders of the Company have agreed, subject to certain exceptions, to not transfer the Merger Consideration received by them in connection with the Mergers for certain specified periods of time following the Closing Date.

## NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the respective representations, warranties, covenants and agreements set forth in this Agreement, and intending to be legally bound, the Parties hereby agree as follows:

## Article 1

## Certain Definitions

## Section 1.01.Definitions. For purposes of this Agreement, the following capitalized terms have the following meanings:

## “2017 Plan” means the 2017 Share Plan of the Company, as amended from time to time.

## “2021 Plan” means the 2021 Share Incentive Plan of the Company, as amended from time to time.

## “A&RRegistration Rights Agreement” has the