Company: CCIXW
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-309933
Chunk: 853

Company: Churchill Capital Corp IX/Cayman
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 853
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 to the terms of any employment or offer letters to be agreed prior to the Closing.

Section 8.11.Equity Plans. Prior to the Closing Date, SPAC shall approve, and subject to approval of the stockholders of SPAC, adopt, (i) an equity incentive plan (the “Equity Incentive Plan”), in substantially the form attached hereto asExhibit J, and (ii) an employee stock purchase plan, in substantially the form attached hereto asExhibit K((i) and (ii), together, the “Equity Plans”).

Section 8.12.Qualification as an Emerging Growth Company. SPAC shall, at all times during the period from the date hereof until the Closing: (a) take all actions necessary to continue to qualify as an “emerging growth company” within the meaning of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (“JOBS Act”); and (b) not take any action that would cause SPAC to not qualify as an “emerging growth company” within the meaning of the JOBS Act.

Section 8.13.Domestication. At least one day prior to the Closing and in accordance with applicable Law, any applicable rules and regulations of the SEC, the Nasdaq or the Stock Exchange, as applicable, and the SPAC Organizational Documents, SPAC shall cause the Sponsor Share Conversion and the Domestication to become effective on such date (or such other date that is at least one day prior to the Closing), including by: (a) filing with the Delaware Secretary of State a Certificate of Domestication with respect to the Domestication, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to SPAC and the Company, together with the SPAC Charter Upon Domestication, in each case, in accordance with the provisions of the Certificate of Domestication with respect to the Domestication and the SPAC Charter Upon Domestication and applicable Law; (b) adopting the SPAC Bylaws Upon Domestication; and (c)

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completing, making and procuring all filings required to be made with the Cayman Registrar of Companies in connection with the Domestication. Following the consummation of the Domestication and prior to the Closing, the board of directors of SPAC will resolve to ratify and approve such matters as may be required to effect the Transactions as contemplated by this Agreement and any such other matters as the Company and SPAC may mutually agree.

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