Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-06-02
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001193125-25-132755
Chunk: 262

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-02
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 262
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 31 of each year, noting the 5-year phase in requirement where ownership has not been met. For purposes of measuring compliance with these guidelines,
vested and unvested time-based RSUs (on a net basis) and Company stock directly or indirectly owned or beneficially owned by the NEO or non-employee director or the executive officer or non-employee director’s immediate family members residing in the same household, will count toward the executive officer or non-employee director’s stock holdings.
Performance-based restricted stock, RSUs that are unearned (i.e., performance-based awards for which the applicable performance conditions have not been satisfied), and unexercised stock options, including vested in-the-money options, are not counted for purposes of compliance. Until the stock ownership requirements are achieved, each applicable individual is expected to retain at
least 50% of the total number of shares acquired by them following the grant, exercise, or settlement of any equity award, as applicable, on a net basis, and excluding any shares held subject to a 10b5-1 sales
plan in existence as of the date of the registration statement.

Clawback policy

Effective on the consummation of our initial public offering, we will adopt an executive compensation recoupment policy intended to comply with the requirements of
Section 10D of the Exchange Act and the rules of the stock exchange on which our securities are listed (our “Clawback Policy”), under which the Compensation Committee must recover certain excess incentive-based compensation paid to
executives in the event of a restatement of our financial statements due to our material noncompliance with any financial reporting required under U.S. federal securities laws. A copy of the Clawback Policy is filed with this prospectus.

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Hedging & pledging policies Transactions in derivative securities may reflect a short-term and speculative interest in our securities and may create the appearance of impropriety. Trading in derivatives may also focus attention on short-term performance at the expense of our long-term objectives. Therefore, our Insider Trading Policy prohibits our directors, officers, and employees from engaging in any derivative transactions that are designed to hedge or speculate on any change in the market value of our securities. Options and other securities issued pursuant to our compensation plans or other compensatory arrangements with us are not subject to this prohibition. In addition, our Insider Trading Policy also prohibits our directors, officers, and employees from pledging our securities, including purchasing our securities on margin or holding our securities in a margin account. Compensation and