Company: CCIXW
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-309933
Chunk: 525

Company: Churchill Capital Corp IX/Cayman
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 525
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 for communications with the non-management members of our board of directors.

Our nominating and corporate governance committee will operate under a written charter, to be effective upon the Closing, that satisfies the applicable listing standards of Nasdaq.

Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation

Upon the Closing, the members of our compensation committee will be , and , with serving as chairperson. None of the members of our compensation committee is or has been an officer or employee of our company. None of our executive officers currently serves, or in the past year has served, as a member of the board of directors or compensation committee (or other board committee performing equivalent functions or, in the absence of any such committee, the entire board of directors) of any entity that has one or more executive officers serving on our board of directors or compensation committee.

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Limitation on Liability and Indemnification of Directors and Officers

The DGCL authorizes corporations to limit or eliminate the personal liability of directors and officers to corporations and their stockholders for monetary damages for breaches of directors’ and officers’ fiduciary duties, subject to certain exceptions. The Proposed Certificate of Incorporation includes a provision that eliminates the personal liability of directors and officers for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duty as a director or officer to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, except to the extent such exemption from liability or limitation thereof is not permitted under the DGCL. The DGCL prohibits the Proposed Certificate of Incorporation from limiting the liability of directors or officers for the following:

any breach of the director’s or officer’s duty of loyalty to the Post-Closing Company or the Post-Closing Company’s stockholders;

acts or omissions of a director or officer not in good faith or that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law;

with respect to a director, unlawful payment of dividends or unlawful stock repurchases or redemptions;

any transaction from which the director or officer derived an improper personal benefit; and

with respect to an officer, any action by or in the right of the Post-Closing Company.

If the DGCL is amended to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of a director or officer, then the liability of a director or officer of the Post-Closing Company will be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, as so amended. The Proposed Certificate of Incorporation does not eliminate a director’s or officer’s duty of care and, in appropriate circumstances, equitable remedies, such as inj