Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0000950123-25-006942
Chunk: 320

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form: DRS
Chunk 320
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 acquisition, development collaboration, or other strategic transaction (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any such pledge or issuance to the Circle Foundation), provided that the
issuance of any such securities pursuant to this clause will not exceed 10% of the total number of shares of our common stock outstanding immediately following the closing of this offering, including any shares issued pursuant to the
underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares, provided that each recipient shall execute a lock-up agreement for the remainder of the lock-up period; (iv) our filing of any registration statement on Form S-8 relating to
securities granted or to be granted pursuant to any plan in effect on the date of the underwriting agreement and described in this prospectus or any assumed benefit plan pursuant to an acquisition or similar strategic transaction; or (v) the
conversion, reclassification, or exchange of all outstanding shares of our preferred stock into shares of our Class A common stock, certain shares of our Class A common stock into shares of our Class B common stock, our Class B common
stock into shares of our Class A common stock, or our Class A common stock into shares of our Class C common stock, in each case, as set forth in our certificate of incorporation.

Our directors and executive officers, the selling stockholders in our initial public offering, and holders of substantially all of our capital stock at the
time of our initial public offering, entered into lock-up agreements with the underwriters prior to the commencement of our initial public offering (such persons, the “lock-up parties) and/or are subject to market standoff provisions in the
stockholder agreements with us, pursuant to which each lock-up party, with limited exceptions, for a period ending on the earlier of (i) the date that is the second trading day after we publicly announce our earnings for the quarter ending
September 30, 2025 and (ii) the date that is 180 days after our initial public offering (such period, the “restricted period”), may not, without the prior written consent of J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, (1) offer, pledge,
sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, lend or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any lock-up securities or
(2) enter into any hedging, swap,

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CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED BY CIRCLE INTERNET GROUP, INC. PURSUANT