Company: CCIXW
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-309933
Chunk: 1009

Company: Churchill Capital Corp IX/Cayman
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 1009
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 PubCo stock-based awards; (xiii) in payment on a “net exercise” or “cashless” basis of the exercise or purchase price with respect to the exercise of options to purchase shares of any series of Common Stock of PubCo; (xiv) other than Lock-Up Earnout Shares and Plus Founder Shares, upon the earlier of (A) the expiration of the Reduced Lock-Up Period or (B) the occurrence of Triggering Event I (such earlier occurrence of (A) or (B), the “First Release Date”), provided that the aggregate number of Lock-Up Shares that a Holder may Transfer pursuant to clause (xiv) shall not exceed fifty percent (50%) of such Holder’s Lock-Up Eligible Shares (which number shall be reduced by any Lock-Up Shares Transferred pursuant to clauses (xii) and (xiii) above); or (xv) other than Lock-Up Earnout Shares and Plus Founder Shares, from and after the occurrence of Triggering Event II.

(c) Each Holder’s “Lock-Up Eligible Shares” shall mean the number of Lock-Up Shares held by that Holder that are outstanding as of the First Release Date, plus the number of shares of any series of Common Stock of PubCo that would be Lock-Up Shares if issued upon the exercise of stock options, restricted stock units, warrants or other equity awards that are held by such Holder and vested (as determined by PubCo) as of the first day of the month in which the First Release Date occurs (in each case, which number of shares shall be equitably adjusted for stock splits, reverse stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations, reclassifications, combination, exchange of shares or other like change or transaction with respect to PubCo’s Common Stock occurring on or after the Closing Date). If a Holder and one or more of its Permitted Transferees propose to Transfer any Lock-Up Shares pursuant to clause (xiv) of Section 3.1(b) after the First Release Date, the Holder and such Permitted Transferee(s) in any such Transfer shall agree on an allocation of such Holder’s Lock-Up Eligible Shares available for Transfer pursuant to clause (xiv) of Section 3.1(b) among such parties, which allocation shall be subject to PubCo’s prior consent in its sole discretion.

(d) In order to enforce this Section 3.1, PubCo may impose stop transfer instructions with respect to the Lock-Up Shares until the end of the Lock-Up Period or the Reduced