UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): May 31, 2018
Henry Schein, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware | 0-27078 | 11-3136595 | ||
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) |
(Commission File Number) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
135 Duryea Road, Melville, New York | 11747 | |
(Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) |
Registrants telephone number, including area code: (631) 843-5500
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)
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Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.
On May 31, 2018, Henry Schein, Inc. (the Company) held its Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the Annual Meeting). At the Annual Meeting, the Companys stockholders approved, among other things, proposals to amend the Companys Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended (the Certificate of Incorporation), to (collectively, the Charter Amendments) (i) increase the number of authorized shares of common stock from 240,000,000 to 480,000,000, (ii) add a new Article Eleventh to the Certificate of Incorporation designating the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, to the fullest extent permitted by law, as the sole and exclusive forum for specified legal actions unless otherwise consented to by the Company, and (iii) amend and restate the Certificate of Incorporation to incorporate the following technical, administrative and updating changes:
| update the address of the registered office of the Company; |
| delete the provision that precluded a merger from being a deemed liquidation within the meaning of the Certificate of Incorporation; |
| eliminate the provision that provided that after any preferred stock is paid its preferential amount in any dissolution or liquidation, the common stock would be entitled to all remaining assets; |
| conform the provision in the Certificate of Incorporation regarding special meetings called by the Companys board of directors (the Board) to the Companys Amended and Restated By-laws (the By-laws); |
| provide that the default majority voting standard in certain cases refers to a majority in voting power rather than a majority of voting shares; and |
| move the advance notice provision from the Certificate of Incorporation to the Second Amended and Restated By-laws (as defined below). |
Following approval by the Companys stockholders at the Annual Meeting, the Company filed a second amended and restated certificate of incorporation, which included each of the approved Charter Amendments (the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation) with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and it became effective on May 31, 2018.
Effective simultaneously with the effectiveness of the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the Board approved the amendment and restatement of the By-laws (the Second Amended and Restated By-laws) which implement the following changes, among others, to the By-laws intended to clarify certain administrative matters, update provisions to reflect new communication technologies and modify provisions in a manner consistent with market practice, or to more closely conform to Delaware law (collectively, the By-law Amendments): (i) provide that the minimum voting standard imposed by the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, stock exchange or other rules will apply to the extent it differs from the default minimum voting standard in the Second Amended and Restated By-laws; (ii) reflect that the Board has determined to opt into Section 141(c)(2) of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which governs the appointment and administration of committees of the Board; (iii) add customary mechanisms outlining the timeline and procedures for stockholders to exercise their right to call special meetings of stockholders pursuant to the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation; (iv) expressly permit electronic communications and notices and provide additional detail on the mechanisms for setting record dates and actions by written consent; (v) add customary procedural details regarding the conduct of stockholder meetings; (vi) delete language that states that a vacancy on the Board is deemed to occur if a director nominee fails to receive enough votes to be elected; and (vii) move the advance notice provisions for stockholder meetings, without change, from the Certificate of Incorporation to the Second Amended and Restated By-laws.
The foregoing description of (i) the Charter Amendments and the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, and (ii) the By-law Amendments and Second Amended and Restated By-laws is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation attached hereto as Exhibit 3.1 and the Second Amended and Restated By-laws attached hereto as Exhibit 3.2, respectively, each of which is incorporated herein by reference.
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Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
At the Annual Meeting, the Companys stockholders considered: (1) the election of fifteen directors of the Company for terms expiring in 2019; (2) a proposal to amend the Certificate of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock from 240,000,000 to 480,000,000; (3) a proposal to amend the Certificate of Incorporation to add a forum selection clause; (4) a proposal to amend and restate the Certificate of Incorporation to incorporate certain technical, administrative and updating changes as set forth in the proxy statement; (5) a proposal to consider approval, by non-binding vote, of the 2017 compensation paid to the Companys Named Executive Officers (as defined in the proxy statement) (commonly known as a say-on-pay proposal); and (6) the ratification of the selection of BDO USA, LLP as the Companys independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 29, 2018. The voting results at the Annual Meeting, with respect to each of the matters described above, were as follows:
1. | The fifteen directors were elected based upon the following votes: |
For | Against | Abstain | Broker Non-Votes |
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Barry J. Alperin |
120,523,885 | 12,957,636 | 60,375 | 8,964,014 | ||||||||||||
Gerald A. Benjamin |
130,973,278 | 2,521,981 | 46,637 | 8,964,014 | ||||||||||||
Stanley M. Bergman |
127,394,816 | 5,943,473 | 203,607 | 8,964,014 | ||||||||||||
James P. Breslawski |
129,203,122 | 4,292,577 | 46,197 | 8,964,014 | ||||||||||||
Paul Brons |
130,091,524 | 3,389,973 | 60,499 | 8,964,014 | ||||||||||||
Shira Goodman |
133,323,697 | 159,283 | 58,916 | 8,964,014 | ||||||||||||
Joseph L. Herring |
133,324,591 | 157,250 | 60,055 | 8,964,014 | ||||||||||||
Kurt P. Kuehn |
133,210,105 | 271,910 | 59,881 | 8,964,014 | ||||||||||||
Philip A. Laskawy |
120,758,752 | 12,715,453 | 67,691 | 8,964,014 | ||||||||||||
Anne H. Margulies |
133,331,384 | 155,143 | 55,369 | 8,964,014 | ||||||||||||
Mark E. Mlotek |
129,024,718 | 4,465,981 | 51,197 | 8,964,014 | ||||||||||||
Steven Paladino |
119,125,856 | 14,359,369 | 56,671 | 8,964,014 | ||||||||||||
Carol Raphael |
133,180,447 | 306,634 | 54,815 | 8,964,014 | ||||||||||||
E. Dianne Rekow, DDS, Ph.D. |
133,309,635 | 180,687 | 51,574 | 8,964,014 | ||||||||||||
Bradley T. Sheares, Ph.D. |
132,208,963 | 1,275,764 | 57,169 | 8,964,014 |
2. | The proposal to amend the Certificate of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock from 240,000,000 to 480,000,000 was approved based upon the following votes: |
For |
Against | Abstain | ||
136,097,300 |
6,074,180 | 334,430 |
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3. | The proposal to amend the Certificate of Incorporation to add a forum selection clause was approved based upon the following votes: |
For |
Against | Abstain | Broker Non-Votes | |||
97,789,176 |
35,536,960 | 215,760 | 8,964,014 |
4. | The proposal to amend and restate the Certificate of Incorporation to incorporate certain technical, administrative and updating changes as set forth in the proxy statement was approved based upon the following votes: |
For |
Against | Abstain | Broker Non-Votes | |||
129,258,366 |
4,080,116 | 203,414 | 8,964,014 |
5. | The 2017 compensation paid to the Companys Named Executive Officers, commonly known as the say-on-pay proposal, was approved, by non-binding vote, based upon the following votes: |
For |
Against | Abstain | Broker Non-Votes | |||
126,596,385 |
6,433,719 | 511,792 | 8,964,014 |
6. | The selection of BDO USA, LLP as the Companys independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 29, 2018 was ratified based upon the following votes: |
For |
Against | Abstain | ||
139,468,352 |
2,145,149 | 892,409 |
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits
3.1 | Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Henry Schein, Inc. | |
3.2 | Second Amended and Restated By-Laws of Henry Schein, Inc. |
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
HENRY SCHEIN, INC. (Registrant) | ||||
Date: June 1, 2018 | By: | /s/ Walter Siegel | ||
Name: Walter Siegel | ||||
Title: Senior Vice President and General Counsel |
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Exhibit 3.1
SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
HENRY SCHEIN, INC.
It is hereby certified that:
1. The present name of the corporation (the Corporation) is Henry Schein, Inc. The name under which the Corporation was originally incorporated was Henry Schein USA, Inc., and the date of filing the original certificate of incorporation of the Corporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware was December 23, 1992.
2. The amendment and the restatement of the certificate of incorporation herein certified have been duly adopted by the board of directors and the stockholders in accordance with the provisions of Sections 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
3. The certificate of incorporation of the Corporation, as amended and restated herein, shall from and after the time of the filing of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, read in its entirety as follows:
FIRST: The name of the corporation is HENRY SCHEIN, INC. (the Corporation).
SECOND: The registered office of the Corporation in the State of Delaware is located at 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware 19808. The name of its registered agent at that address is Corporation Service Company.
THIRD: The nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or promoted by the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
FOURTH: The total number of shares of stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is four hundred and eighty one million (481,000,000) shares, consisting of four hundred and eighty million (480,000,000) shares of common stock having a par value of one cent ($0.01) per share (Common Stock) and one million (1,000,000) shares of preferred stock having a par value of one cent ($0.01) per share (Preferred Stock).
A. Preferred Stock:
1. The Board of Directors may authorize the issuance from time to time of the Preferred Stock in one or more series with such designations and such powers, preferences and rights, and such qualifications, limitations or restrictions (which may differ with respect to each series) as the Board of Directors may fix by resolution. The consent, by class or series vote or otherwise, of the holders of such of the series of Preferred Stock as are from time to time outstanding shall not be required for the issuance by the Board of Directors of any other series of Preferred Stock whether or not the powers, preferences and rights of such other series shall be fixed by the Board of Directors as senior to, or on a parity with, the powers, preferences and rights of such outstanding series, or any of them; provided, however, that the Board of Directors
may provide in the resolution or resolutions as to any series of Preferred Stock adopted pursuant to Paragraph A of this Article FOURTH that the consent of the holders of a majority (or such greater or lesser proportion as shall be therein fixed) in voting power of the outstanding shares of such series voting thereon shall be required for the issuance of any or all other series of Preferred Stock.
2. Subject to the provisions of Subparagraph 1 of this Paragraph A, shares of any series of Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time as the Board of Directors of the Corporation shall determine for such consideration as shall be determined by the Board of Directors in accordance with applicable law.
3. No dividend shall be declared and set apart for payment on any series of Preferred Stock in respect of any dividend period unless there shall likewise be or have been paid, or declared and set apart for payment, on all shares of Preferred Stock of each other series entitled to cumulative dividends at the time outstanding which rank senior to or equally as to dividends with the series in question, dividends ratably in accordance with the sums which would be payable on the said shares through the end of the last preceding dividend period if all dividends were declared and paid in full.
4. If, upon the dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Corporation, the assets of the Corporation distributable among the holders of any one or more series of Preferred Stock which (A) are entitled to a preference over the holders of the Common Stock upon such dissolution, liquidation or winding up, and (B) rank equally in connection with any such distribution, shall be insufficient to pay in full the preferential amount to which the holders of such shares shall be entitled, then such assets, or the proceeds thereof, shall be distributed among the holders of each such series of the Preferred Stock ratably in accordance with the sums which would be payable on such distribution if all sums payable were discharged in full.
5. In the event that the Preferred Stock of any series shall be redeemable, then, at the option of the Board of Directors, the Corporation may, at such time or times as fixed by a resolution or resolutions of the Board of Directors as provided in Subparagraph 1 of this Paragraph A of this Article FOURTH, redeem all, or any number less than all, of the outstanding shares of such series at the redemption price thereof and on the other terms fixed by a resolution or resolutions of the Board of Directors as provided in said Subparagraph 1.
6. Subject to any applicable provisions of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, shares of Preferred Stock that have been issued and reacquired in any manner by the Corporation (excluding, until the Corporation elects to retire them, shares that are held as treasury shares but including shares redeemed and shares purchased and retired, whether through the operation of a retirement or sinking fund, or otherwise) may have the status of authorized and unissued shares of Preferred Stock, and may be reissued as a part of the series of which they were originally a part or be retired and reissued as part of a new series of Preferred Stock to be created by resolution or resolutions of the Board of Directors or as part of any other series of Preferred Stock, all subject to the conditions or restrictions on issuance set forth in any resolution or resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors as provided in Subparagraph 1 of this Paragraph A of this Article FOURTH providing for the issuance of any series of Preferred Stock.
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B. Common Stock:
1. After the requirements with respect to preferential dividends on the Preferred Stock (fixed in accordance with the provisions of Paragraph A of this Article FOURTH), if any, shall have been met and after the Corporation shall have complied with all the requirements, if any, with respect to the setting aside of sums as sinking funds or redemption or purchase accounts (fixed in accordance with the provisions of Paragraph A of this Article FOURTH), and subject further to any other conditions which may be fixed in accordance with the provisions of Paragraph A of this Article FOURTH, then and not otherwise the holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive such dividends as may be declared thereon from time to time by the Board of Directors in its discretion from any assets legally available for the payment of dividends.
2. [RESERVED.]
3. Each holder of Common Stock shall have one vote in respect of each share of Common Stock held by him or her on all matters voted upon by the stockholders. The affirmative vote of 80% or more of all outstanding stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon shall be required for the amendment of this subparagraph 3.
C. Other Provisions:
No holder of stock of any class of the Corporation shall be entitled to any preemptive right to subscribe for or purchase any shares of stock of any class or series, whether now or hereafter authorized, or any bonds, debentures or other securities or evidences of indebtedness, whether or not convertible into or exchangeable for stock, but shares of stock of any class, or bonds, debentures or other securities or evidences of indebtedness may be issued, sold or otherwise disposed of by the Board of Directors on such terms and for such consideration, so far as may be permitted by law, and to such person or persons as the Board of Directors in its absolute discretion may deem advisable.
FIFTH:
A. The number of directors which shall constitute the entire Board of Directors shall be as fixed from time to time by resolution of the Board of Directors, but shall not be fewer than five nor more than nineteen.
B. In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute, the Board of Directors is expressly authorized:
1. To adopt, amend or repeal any By-Law (provided, however, that (a) any By-Law made, amended or repealed by the Board of Directors may be amended or repealed, and that any By-Laws may be adopted, by the stockholders of the Corporation and (b) the Board of Directors may not amend or repeal any By-Law adopted by the stockholders of the Corporation from and after the 1997 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of the Corporation);
2. To authorize and cause to be executed mortgages and liens upon the real and personal property of the Corporation;
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3. To set apart out of any of the funds of the Corporation available for dividends a reserve or reserves for any proper purpose and to abolish any such reserve in the manner in which it was created; and
4. By resolution passed by a majority of the whole Board, to designate one or more committees, each committee to consist of two or more of the directors of the Corporation, which, to the extent provided in such resolution or in the By-Laws of the Corporation, shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it. Such committee or committees shall have such name or names as may be stated in the By-Laws of the Corporation or as may be determined from time to time by resolution adopted by the Board of Directors.
C. The affirmative vote of the holders of 66-2/3% or more of the shares entitled to vote in the election of directors shall be required to amend or repeal, or adopt any provisions inconsistent with, this Article FIFTH.
SIXTH: The annual meeting of stockholders of the Corporation for the election of directors and the transaction of such other business as may be properly brought before such meeting in accordance with this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation shall be held at such hour and on such business day in each year as may be determined by resolution adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of the Board of Directors. Subject to the rights of any series of Preferred Stock, special meetings of stockholders may be called at any time only at the direction of the Chairman of the Board of Directors or by resolution adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of the Board of Directors, and shall be called at the request of stockholders holding more than 10% of the outstanding voting power of the shares entitled to vote in the election of directors. Annual and special meetings of stockholders shall not be called or held otherwise than as herein provided. Except as otherwise provided by law or by this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, at any meeting of stockholders of the Corporation, the presence in person or by proxy of the holders of a majority in voting power of the outstanding stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at the meeting shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business brought before the meeting in accordance with this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and, a quorum being present, the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority in voting power of the shares of stock of the Corporation present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the subject matter shall be required to effect action by stockholders unless a different or minimum vote is required by this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the By-laws of the Corporation, the rules or regulations of any stock exchange applicable to the Corporation, or any law or regulation applicable to the Corporation or its securities, in which case such different or minimum vote shall be the applicable vote on the matter; provided, however, that the By-laws of the Corporation may establish alternative procedures and voting standards for the election of directors, as permitted by law. Election of directors need not be by written ballot. At every meeting of stockholders, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, or, in the absence of such officer, the President, and in the absence of the Chairman of the Board of Directors and the President, such officer or other person as shall be designated in accordance with the By-laws of the Corporation, shall act as Chairman of the meeting. The Chairman of the meeting shall have sole authority to prescribe the agenda and rules of order for the conduct of each meeting of stockholders and to determine all questions arising thereat relating to the order of business and the conduct of the meeting, except as otherwise required by law.
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SEVENTH: If stockholder approval is required:
(a) for the adoption of any agreement for the merger of the Corporation with or into any other corporation or for the consolidation of the Corporation with any other corporation, or
(b) to authorize any sale, lease, transfer or exchange of all or substantially all of the assets of the Corporation to any other person (as hereinafter defined),
then the affirmative vote of 60% or more of the outstanding stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon shall be required to approve such action.
For the purpose of this Article SEVENTH, the term person shall mean any corporation, partnership, association, trust, estate, firm, individual, or other entity.
The affirmative vote of 60% or more of all outstanding stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon shall be required for the amendment of all or any part of this Article SEVENTH.
EIGHTH: Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between the Corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between the Corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary way of the Corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof or on the application of any receiver or receivers appointed for the Corporation under the provisions of Section 291 of Title 8 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware or on the application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed for the Corporation under the provisions of Section 279 of Title 8 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of the Corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such manner as the said court directs. If a majority in number representing three fourths in value of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of the Corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of the Corporation as a consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by the court to which the said application has been made, be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the stockholders or class of stockholders, of the Corporation, as the case may be, and also on the Corporation.
NINTH: No director shall be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty by such director as a director, provided that this Article NINTH shall not eliminate or limit the liability of a director (a) for any breach of such directors duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (b) for acts or omissions of such director not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (c) under Section 174 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, or (d) for any transaction from which such director derived an improper personal benefit; nor shall this Article NINTH eliminate or limit the liability of a director for any act or omission occurring prior to the date this Article NINTH originally became effective. If the General Corporation Law of the
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State of Delaware is amended after approval by the stockholders of this Article NINTH to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors, then the liability of a director of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as so amended from time to time.
TENTH:
A. Each person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is involved in any pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (hereinafter a proceeding), by reason of the fact that he or she, or a person of whom he or she is the legal representative, (1) is or was a director or officer of the Corporation or (2) is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to employee benefit plans (whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer, employee or agent or in any other capacity while serving as a director, officer, employee or agent), shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent authorized by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended, against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties and amounts paid or to be paid in settlement) actually and reasonably incurred or suffered by such person in connection therewith and such indemnification shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of his or her heirs, executors and administrators; provided, however, that, except as provided in Paragraph B hereof, the Corporation shall indemnify any such person seeking indemnification in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such person only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors of the Corporation. The right to indemnification conferred in this Article TENTH shall be a contract right and shall include the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses incurred in defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition; provided, however, that, if the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware requires, the payment of such expenses incurred by a director or officer in his capacity as such (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by such person while a director or officer, including, without limitation, service with respect to an employee benefit plan) in advance of the final disposition of a proceeding, shall be made only upon delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking, by or on behalf of such director or officer, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined that such director or officer is not entitled to be indemnified under this Article TENTH or otherwise. The Corporation may, by action of its Board of Directors, provide indemnification to employees and agents of the Corporation with the same scope and effect as the foregoing indemnification of directors and officers.
B. If a claim under Paragraph A of this Article TENTH is not paid in full by the Corporation within thirty days after a written claim has been received by the Corporation, the claimant may at any time thereafter bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim and, if successful, the claimant shall be entitled to be paid also the expense of prosecuting such claim. It shall be a defense to any such action (other than an action brought to enforce a claim for expenses incurred in defending any proceeding in advance of its final
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disposition where the required undertaking, if any is required, has been tendered to the Corporation) that the claimant has not met the standards of conduct which make it permissible under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware for the Corporation to indemnify the claimant for the amount claimed, but the burden of proving such defense shall be on the Corporation. Neither the failure of the Corporation (including its Board of Directors, independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such action that indemnification of the claimant is proper in the circumstances because he has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, nor an actual determination by the Corporation (including its Board of Directors, a committee thereof, independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) that the claimant has not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall be a defense to the action or create a presumption that the claimant has not met the applicable standard of conduct.
C. The right to indemnification and the payment of expenses incurred in defending a proceeding in advance of its final disposition conferred in this Article TENTH shall not be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of the certificate of incorporation, by-law, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.
D. The Corporation may purchase and maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect itself and any director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, against any such expense, liability or loss, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
ELEVENTH: Unless the Corporation consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be the sole and exclusive forum for (1) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Corporation, (2) any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any current or former director, officer, other employee or stockholder of the Corporation to the Corporation or the Corporations stockholders, (3) any action asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, this Certificate of Incorporation or the By-laws of the Corporation or as to which the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware confers jurisdiction on the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, or (4) any action asserting a claim governed by the internal affairs doctrine. Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring or holding any interest in shares of capital stock of the Corporation shall be deemed to have notice of and consented to the provisions of this Article ELEVENTH.
TWELFTH: The Corporation reserves the right to amend, modify or repeal any provisions contained in this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by law, subject to the express provisions hereof and all rights and powers conferred herein on stockholders, directors, officers or others are granted subject to this reservation.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation has been signed and attested to on this 31st day of May 2018.
/s/ Walter Siegel |
Name: Walter Siegel |
Title: Senior Vice President and General Counsel |
Exhibit 3.2
SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED BY-LAWS
OF
HENRY SCHEIN, INC.
ARTICLE I.
OFFICES
A registered office shall be established and maintained in the State of Delaware as required by law. The Corporation may have an office or offices, either within or without the State of Delaware, at such other place or places as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine or as the business of the Corporation may from time to time require.
ARTICLE II.
MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS
Section 1. Annual Meetings. Annual meetings of stockholders of the Corporation for the election of directors and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting shall be held at such place, if any, either within or without the State of Delaware, and at such time and date as the Board of Directors from time to time by resolution shall determine.
Section 2. Voting. Except as otherwise required by the Corporations Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the Restated Certificate of Incorporation), each stockholder entitled to vote at a meeting shall be entitled to one vote for each share of stock held by such stockholder. A stockholder may vote in person or by proxy; provided, however, that no proxy shall be voted after three (3) years from its date unless such proxy provides for a longer period. Directors shall be elected in accordance with Article III Section 1 of these By-Laws. All other action shall be authorized by the affirmative vote of the majority in voting power of the shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote on the subject matter, unless a different or minimum vote is required by the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, these By-Laws, the rules or regulations of any stock exchange applicable to the Corporation, or any law or regulation applicable to the Corporation or its securities, in which case such different or minimum vote shall be the applicable vote on the matter.
Section 3. List of Stockholders. A complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at each meeting, arranged in alphabetical order, with the address of each, and the number of shares held by each, shall be open to the examination of any stockholder, for any purpose germane to the meeting, during ordinary business hours for a period of at least ten (10) days prior to the meeting, at the principal place of business of the Corporation. The list shall also be produced and kept at the time and place of the meeting during the whole time thereof, and may be inspected by any stockholder who is present.
Section 4. Quorum. Except as otherwise required by law or by the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, a majority in voting power of the shares of the Corporation entitled to vote at the meeting, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at all meetings of the stockholders. Except as otherwise required by law, in case a quorum shall not be present at any meeting, a majority in interest of the stockholders entitled to vote thereat, present in person or represented by proxy, shall have the power to adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than an announcement of the time and place of the adjourned meeting at the meeting at which an adjournment is taken, until the requisite amount of stock entitled to vote shall be present. At any such adjourned meeting at which the requisite amount of stock entitled to vote shall be represented, any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the original meeting; provided, however, that only those stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting as originally noticed shall be entitled to vote at any adjournment or adjournments thereof unless a new record date is set for the meeting.
Section 5. Special Meetings. Except as otherwise provided by the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, special meetings of the stockholders for any purpose or purposes may be called by the Chairman of the Board, or by resolution adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of the Board of Directors.
(a) A special meeting of stockholders shall be called by the Board of Directors upon written request to the Secretary by the record holder or holders of at least 10% of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Corporation (the Requisite Percentage) who have complied in full with the requirements set forth in these By-laws (such request, a Stockholder Meeting Request). A special meeting of stockholders may be held at such date, time and place, if any, within or without the State of Delaware as may be designated by the Board of Directors; provided, however, that the date of any such special meeting called upon the receipt of a Stockholder Meeting Request shall be not more than ninety (90) days after the Special Meeting Request is received by the Secretary. In fixing a date, time and place, if any, for any special meeting of stockholders, the Board of Directors may consider such factors as it deems relevant, including without limitation, the nature of the matters to be considered, the facts and circumstances related to any request for a meeting and any plan of the Board of Directors to call an annual meeting or special meeting. The Corporation may postpone, reschedule or cancel any previously scheduled special meeting of stockholders.
(b) A Stockholder Meeting Request shall be delivered to the Secretary and shall be signed by each stockholder, or a duly authorized agent of such stockholder, requesting the special meeting and shall be accompanied by a written notice setting forth the information required by Section 6(b) of this Article II as to the business proposed to be conducted at the special meeting and as to the stockholder(s) proposing such business, and/or as to any nominations proposed to be presented at the special meeting and as to the stockholder(s) proposing such nominations. In addition to the foregoing, a Stockholder Meeting Request must include (x) an acknowledgment of the requesting stockholder(s) that any disposition by such stockholder(s) after the date of the Stockholder Meeting Request of any shares of the Corporations common stock shall be deemed a revocation of the Stockholder Meeting Request with respect to such shares and that such shares will no longer be included in determining whether the Requisite Percentage has been satisfied, and (y) a commitment by such
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stockholder(s) to continue to satisfy the Requisite Percentage through the date of the requested special meeting of stockholders and to notify the Corporation upon any disposition of any shares of the Corporations common stock. The requesting stockholder(s) shall certify in writing on the day prior to the requested special meeting of stockholders as to whether the requesting stockholder(s) continue to satisfy the Requisite Percentage. In addition to the foregoing, the requesting stockholder(s) shall promptly provide any other information reasonably requested by the Corporation.
(c) In determining whether a special meeting of stockholders has been requested by the record holders of shares representing in the aggregate at least the Requisite Percentage, multiple Special Meeting Requests delivered to the Secretary will be considered together only if (i) each Special Meeting Request identifies substantially the same purpose or purposes of the special meeting and substantially the same matters proposed to be acted on at the special meeting, in each case as determined by the Board of Directors (which, if such purpose is the nominating of a person or persons for election to the Board of Directors, will mean that the exact same person or persons are nominated in each relevant Stockholder Meeting Request), and (ii) such Special Meeting Requests have been dated and delivered to the Secretary within sixty (60) days of the earliest dated Special Meeting Request. A stockholder may revoke a Special Meeting Request at any time by written revocation delivered to the Secretary. If, following such revocation, there are unrevoked requests from stockholders holding in the aggregate less than the Requisite Percentage, the Board of Directors, in its discretion, may cancel the special meeting. If none of the requesting stockholder(s) who submitted the Special Meeting Request appears or sends a qualified representative to present the matters to be presented for consideration that were specified in the Stockholder Meeting Request, the Corporation need not present such matters for a vote at such meeting, notwithstanding that proxies in respect of such matter may have been received by the Corporation.
(d) At any special meeting requested by stockholders, the business transacted shall be limited to the purpose(s) stated in the Stockholder Meeting Request; provided, however, that the Board of Directors shall have the authority in its discretion to submit additional matters to the stockholders and to cause other business to be transacted.
Section 6. Notice of Meetings; Waivers.
(a) Written notice, stating the place, if any, date and time of any meeting of stockholders, and, in the case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes for which such meeting is called, shall be given to each stockholder entitled to vote thereat, not less than then (10) nor more than sixty (60) days before the date of the meeting, except as otherwise required by law, the Restated Certificate of Incorporation or these By-Laws. Whenever any notice is required by these By-Laws to be given, personal notice is not meant unless expressly so stated, and any notice so required shall be deemed to be sufficient if given by depositing the same in the United States mail, postage prepaid, addressed to the person entitled thereto at his or her address as it appears on the records of the Corporation, and such notice shall be deemed to have been given on the day of such mailing. Stockholders not entitled to vote shall not be entitled to receive notice of any meetings except as otherwise provided by law.
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(b) Except as otherwise provided by law, at any annual or special meeting of stockholders only such business shall be conducted as shall have been properly brought before the meeting in accordance with the provisions of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation and these By-Laws. In order to be properly brought before the meeting, such business must have either been (i) specified in the written notice of the meeting (or any supplement thereto) given to stockholders of record on the record date for such meeting by or at the direction of the Board of Directors, (ii) brought before the meeting at the direction of the Board of Directors or the Chairman of the meeting, or (iii) specified in a written notice given by or on behalf of a stockholder of record on the record date for such meeting entitled to vote thereat or a duly authorized proxy for such stockholder, in accordance with all of the following requirements. A notice referred to in clause (iii) of this Section 6(b) must be delivered personally to, or mailed to and received at, the principal executive office of the Corporation, addressed to the attention of the Secretary of the Corporation, in the case of business to be brought before a special meeting of stockholders, not more than ten (10) days after the date of the initial notice referred to in clause (i) of this Section 6(b), and, in the case of business to be brought before an annual meeting of stockholders, not less than ten (10) days prior to the first anniversary date of the initial notice referred to in clause (i) of this Section 6(b) of the previous years annual meeting; provided, however, that such notice shall not be required to be given more than seventy-five (75) days prior to an annual meeting of stockholders. Such notice referred to in clause (iii) of this Section 6(b) shall set forth (A) a full description of each such item of business proposed to be brought before the meeting, (B) the name and address of the person proposing to bring such business before the meeting, (C) the class and number of shares held of record, held beneficially and represented by proxy by such person as of the record date for the meeting (if such date has then been made publicly available) and as of the date of such notice, (D) if any item of such business involves a nomination for director(s), all information regarding each such nominee that would be required to be set forth in a definitive proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act), or any successor thereto, and the written consent of each such nominee to serve if elected, and (E) if applicable, all other information that would be required to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission if, with respect to the business proposed to be brought before the meeting, the person proposing such business were a participant in a solicitation subject to Section 14 of the Exchange Act, or any successor thereto. No business shall be brought before any annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Corporation otherwise than as provided in this Section 6(b).
(c) Whenever any notice whatsoever is required to be given to stockholders under the provisions of any law, or pursuant to the Restated Certificate of Incorporation or these By-Laws, a waiver thereof, given by the stockholder or stockholders entitled to said notice in writing or by electronic transmission, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent to notice. Attendance of a person at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when the person attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting at the beginning of the meeting to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of any regular or special meeting of stockholders need be specified in any waiver of notice.
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Section 7. Action Without Meeting. Unless otherwise provided by the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, any action required to be taken at any annual or special meeting of stockholders, or any action which may be taken at any annual or special meeting, may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by the holders of outstanding stock having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all shares entitled to vote thereon were present and voted and shall be delivered to the Corporation by delivery to its registered office in the State of Delaware, its principal place of business, or an officer or agent of the Corporation having custody of the book in which minutes of proceedings of stockholders are recorded. Delivery made to the Corporations registered office shall be by hand or by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested. Prompt notice of the taking of the corporate action without a meeting by less than unanimous written consent shall, to the extent required by law, be given to those stockholders who have not consented in writing and who, if the action had been taken at a meeting, would have been entitled to notice of the meeting if the record date for notice of such meeting had been the date that written consents signed by a sufficient number of holders to take the action were delivered to the Corporation.
Section 8. Organization. The Chairman of the Board of Directors shall preside at all meetings of stockholders. In the absence of, or in case of a vacancy in the office of, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the President, or in his or her absence, such officer as the Board of Directors shall from time to time determine, shall preside. The Secretary of the Corporation shall act as secretary at all meetings of the stockholders and in the Secretarys absence, the presiding officer may appoint a secretary.
Section 9. Stockholders Record Date for Meetings and Entitlement to Rights.
(a) In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, the Board of Directors may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board of Directors, and which record date shall, unless otherwise required by law, not be more than sixty (60) nor less than ten (10) days before the date of such meeting. If the Board of Directors so fixes a date, such date shall also be the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote at such meeting unless the Board of Directors determines, at the time it fixes such record date, that a later date on or before the date of the meeting shall be the date for making such determination. If no record date is fixed by the Board of Directors, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall be at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held. A determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the Board of Directors may fix a new record date for determination of stockholders entitled to vote at the adjourned meeting, and in such case shall also fix as the record date for stockholders entitled to notice of such adjourned meeting the same or an earlier date as that fixed for determination of stockholders entitled to vote in accordance herewith at the adjourned meeting.
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(b) In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights, or entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the Board of Directors may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted, and which record date shall not be more than sixty (60) days prior to such action. If no such record date is fixed, the record date for determining stockholders for any such purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board of Directors adopts the resolution relating thereto.
Section 10. Action by Written Consent.
(a) In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, the Board of Directors may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board of Directors, and which date shall not be more than ten (10) days after the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board of Directors. Any stockholder of record seeking to have the stockholders authorize or take corporate action by written consent shall, by written notice to the Secretary, request that the Board of Directors fix a record date. The Board of Directors shall promptly, but in all events within ten (10) days after the date on which such written notice is received, adopt a resolution fixing the record date (unless a record date has previously been fixed by the Board of Directors pursuant to the first sentence of this Section 10(a)). If no record date has been fixed by the Board of Directors pursuant to the first sentence of this Section 10(a) or otherwise within ten (10) days after the date on which such written notice is received, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, when no prior action by the Board of Directors is required by applicable law, shall be the first date after the expiration of such ten (10) day time period on which a signed written consent setting forth the action taken or proposed to be taken is delivered to the Corporation by delivery to its registered office in Delaware, its principal place of business, or to any officer or agent of the Corporation having custody of the book in which proceedings of meetings of stockholders are recorded. If no record date has been fixed by the Board of Directors pursuant to the first sentence of this Section 10(a), the record date for determining stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting if prior action by the Board of Directors is required by applicable law shall be at the close of business on the date on which the Board of Directors adopts the resolution taking such prior action.
(b) In the event of the delivery, in the manner provided by this Section 10 and applicable law, to the Corporation of written consent or consents to take corporate action and/or any related revocation or revocations, the Corporation shall engage independent inspectors of elections for the purpose of performing promptly a ministerial review of the validity of the consents and revocations. For the purpose of permitting the inspectors to perform such review, no action by written consent and without a meeting shall be effective until such inspectors have
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completed their review, determined that the requisite number of valid and unrevoked consents delivered to the Corporation in accordance with this Section 10 and applicable law have been obtained to authorize or take the action specified in the consents, and certified such determination for entry in the records of the Corporation kept for the purpose of recording the proceedings of meetings of stockholders. Nothing contained in this Section 10(b) shall in any way be construed to suggest or imply that the Board of Directors or any stockholder shall not be entitled to contest the validity of any consent or revocation thereof, whether before or after such certification by the independent inspectors, or to take any other action (including, without limitation, the commencement, prosecution or defense of any litigation with respect thereto, and the seeking of injunctive relief in such litigation).
(c) Every written consent shall bear the date of signature of each stockholder who signs the consent and no written consent shall be effective to take the corporate action referred to therein unless, within sixty (60) days after the earliest dated written consent received in accordance with this Section 10 a valid written consent or valid written consents signed by a sufficient number of stockholders to take such action are delivered to the Corporation in the manner prescribed in this Section 10 and applicable law, and not revoked.
Section 11. Conduct of Meeting. The date and time of the opening and the closing of the polls for each matter upon which the stockholders will vote at a meeting shall be announced at the meeting by the person presiding over the meeting. The Board of Directors may adopt by resolution such rules and regulations for the conduct of the meeting of stockholders as it shall deem appropriate. Except to the extent inconsistent with such rules and regulations as adopted by the Board of Directors, the person presiding over any meeting of stockholders shall have the right and authority to convene and (for any or no reason) to recess and/or adjourn the meeting, to prescribe such rules, regulations and procedures and to do all such acts as, in the judgment of such presiding person, are appropriate for the proper conduct of the meeting. Such rules, regulations or procedures, whether adopted by the Board of Directors or prescribed by the presiding person of the meeting, may include, without limitation, the following: (i) the establishment of an agenda or order of business for the meeting; (ii) rules and procedures for maintaining order at the meeting and the safety of those present; (iii) limitations on attendance at or participation in the meeting to stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, their duly authorized and constituted proxies or such other persons as the presiding person of the meeting shall determine; (iv) restrictions on entry to the meeting after the time fixed for the commencement thereof; and (v) limitations on the time allotted to questions or comments by participants. The presiding person at any meeting of stockholders, in addition to making any other determinations that may be appropriate to the conduct of the meeting, shall, if the facts warrant, determine and declare to the meeting that a matter or business was not properly brought before the meeting and if such presiding person should so determine, such presiding person shall so declare to the meeting and any such matter or business not properly brought before the meeting shall not be transacted or considered. Unless and to the extent determined by the Board of Directors or the person presiding over the meeting, meetings of stockholders shall not be required to be held in accordance with the rules of parliamentary procedure.
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ARTICLE III.
DIRECTORS
Section 1. Number and Term.
(a) The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of its Board of Directors. Subject to the provisions of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the number of directors constituting the Board of Directors shall be determined from time to time by resolution of the Board of Directors. Except as provided in Section 3 of this Article, each director shall be elected by the vote of the majority of the votes cast with respect to that directors election at any meeting for the election of directors at which a quorum is present, provided that if the number of nominees exceeds the number of directors to be elected, the directors shall be elected by the vote of a plurality of the votes cast. For purposes of this Section, a majority of the votes cast means that the number of shares voted for a director must exceed the number of votes cast against that director. For purposes of this Section, abstentions and broker non-votes shall not be votes cast. If a nominee for director is not elected and the nominee is an incumbent director, that director shall promptly tender his or her resignation to the Board of Directors, subject to acceptance by the Board of Directors. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee will make a recommendation to the Board of Directors as to whether to accept or reject the tendered resignation, or whether other action should be taken. The Board of Directors will act on the tendered resignation, taking into account the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees recommendation, and publicly disclose (by a press release, a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission or other broadly disseminated means of communication) its decision regarding the tendered resignation and the rationale behind the decision within 90 days from the date of the certification of the election results. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee in making its recommendation and the Board of Directors in making its decision may each consider any factors or other information that they consider appropriate and relevant. The director who tenders his or her resignation will not participate in the recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee or the decision of the Board of Directors with respect to his or her resignation.
(b) If a directors resignation is accepted by the Board of Directors pursuant to this By-Law, or if a nominee for director is not elected and the nominee is not an incumbent director, then the Board of Directors may fill the resulting vacancy pursuant to the provisions of Section 3 of this Article or may decrease the size of the Board of Directors pursuant to the provisions of this Section and the Restated Certificate of Incorporation.
(c) Subject to the provisions of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the directors shall be elected at the annual meeting of the stockholders and each director shall be elected to serve until his or her successor shall be elected and qualified. Directors need not be stockholders of the Corporation.
Section 2. Resignations. Any director may resign at any time by delivering his or her resignation in writing or by electronic transmission which shall specify whether it will be effective at a particular time, upon receipt by the President or the Secretary of the Corporation or at the pleasure of the Board of Directors, and if no time be specified at the time of its receipt by the President or the Secretary of the Corporation. The acceptance of a resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective unless such resignation provides otherwise.
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Section 3. Vacancies. Newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the number of directors and any other vacancies on the Board of Directors, whether resulting from death, disability, resignation, disqualification, removal or any other circumstances, shall be filled by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors then in office, although less than a quorum of the Board of Directors. Any director elected in accordance with the preceding sentence shall hold office until such directors successor shall have been elected and qualified.
Section 4. Removal.
(a) Except as hereinafter provided, any director or directors may be removed with or without cause at any time by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the voting power of the shares entitled to vote on the matter and the vacancies thus created may be filled, at the meeting held for the purpose of removal or by the consent effecting such removal, by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 66-2/3% of the voting power of the shares entitled to vote on such matter.
(b) If the holders of any class or series are entitled to elect one or more directors pursuant to the provisions of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the provisions of the foregoing paragraph shall apply, in respect of the removal without cause of a director or directors so elected, to the vote of the holders of the outstanding shares of that class or series and not to the vote of the outstanding shares as a whole.
Section 5. Powers. The Board of Directors shall exercise all of the powers of the Corporation except such as are by law or by the Restated Certificate of Incorporation or by these By-Laws conferred upon or reserved to the stockholders.
Section 6. Committees. The Corporation elects to be governed by Section 141(c)(2) of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. The Board of Directors may designate one or more committees, each committee to consist of two or more of the directors of the Corporation. The Board of Directors may designate one or more directors as alternate members of any committee, who may replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of the committee. In the absence or disqualification of a member of the committee, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not he, she or they constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the Board of Directors to act at the meeting in place of any such absent or disqualified member. Any such committee, to the extent permitted by law and to the extent provided in the resolution of the Board of Directors, shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it. Unless the Board of Directors otherwise provides, each committee designated by the Board of Directors may make, alter and repeal rules for the conduct of its business. In the absence of such rules each committee shall conduct its business in the same manner as the Board of Directors conducts its business pursuant to Article III of these By-Laws.
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Section 7. Meetings.
(a) Regular meetings of the Board shall be held at such times and places as the Board of Directors shall from time to time by resolution determine. Notice of regular meetings of the Board or of any adjourned meeting thereof need not be given.
(b) Special meetings of the Board shall be held whenever called by the Chairman of the Board or by the Secretary on the written request of any director. Notice of each special meeting of the Board shall be given by overnight delivery service or mailed to each director, in either case addressed to such director at such directors residence or usual place of business, at least two days before the day on which the meeting is to be held or shall be sent to such director at such place by email, telecopy or other form of electronic transmission, or be given personally or by telephone, not later than the day before the meeting is to be held. Every such notice shall state the time and place but need not state the purpose of the meeting. A waiver, given by the director in writing or by electronic transmission, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent to notice. Attendance of a director at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when the director attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting at the beginning of the meeting to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any special meeting of the directors need be specified in any waiver of notice.
(c) Unless otherwise restricted by the Restated Certificate of Incorporation or these By-Laws, members of the Board of Directors, or any committee designated by the Board of Directors, may participate in a meeting of the Board of Directors, or any committee, by means of conference telephone or other communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and such participation in a meeting shall constitute presence in person at the meeting.
Section 8. Quorum and Voting. Except as otherwise provided in these By-Laws, a majority of the total number of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. If at any meeting of the Board there shall be less than a quorum present, a majority of those present may adjourn the meeting from time to time until a quorum is obtained, and no further notice thereof need be given other than by announcement at the meeting at which an adjournment is taken. Except as otherwise required by law, by the Restated Certificate of Incorporation or by these By-Laws, any action required to be taken by the Board shall be authorized by a vote of a majority of the directors present at any meeting at which a quorum is present.
Section 9. Action Without Meeting. Any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board of Directors, or of any committee thereof, may be taken without a meeting, if a consent in writing or by electronic transmission thereto is signed or given by all members of the Board or of such committee, as the case may be, and such written consent or consents and such electronic transmissions are filed with the minutes of proceedings of the Board or committee.
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Section 10. Compensation of Directors. Each director, in consideration of such person serving as a director, shall be entitled to receive from the Corporation such amount per annum and such fees for attendance at meetings of the Board or of the committees of the Board, or both, as the Board shall from time to time by resolution determine. In addition, each director shall be entitled to receive from the Corporation reimbursement for the reasonable expenses incurred by such person in connection with the performance of such persons duties as a director. Noting contained in this Section shall preclude any director from serving the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries in any other capacity and receiving proper compensation therefor.
ARTICLE IV.
OFFICERS
Section 1. Officers. The officers of the Corporation shall include the President, the Secretary, and the Treasurer and such other officers, including a Chairman, one or more Vice Presidents and Assistant Secretaries and Assistant Treasurers as the Board of Directors may from time to time deem necessary, each of whom shall have such duties, powers and functions as provided in these By-laws and as may be determined from time to time by resolution of the Board of Directors. More than one office may be held by the same person. None of the officers of the Corporation need be directors.
Section 2. Election and Term of Office. Each officer shall be elected by the Board of Directors to hold office until the next annual meeting of the Board of Directors and until his or her successor shall be elected and qualified, or until such earlier date as shall be prescribed by the Board of Directors at the time of his or her election or until an earlier resignation or removal from office. Any officer elected by the Board of Directors may be removed at any time, with or without cause, by vote of a majority of the Board of Directors.
Section 3. Resignations. Any officer may resign at any time. Such resignation shall be made in writing, and shall take effect at the time specified therein, and if no time be specified, at the time of its receipt by the Board of Directors of the Corporation. The acceptance of a resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective unless such resignation provides otherwise.
Section 4. Vacancies. In the event of the resignation, removal or other displacement from office of an officer elected by the Board of Directors, the Board, in its sole discretion, may elect a successor to fill the unexpired term.
Section 5. Chairman. The Chairman, if one be elected, shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors when present, and preside as Chairman at all meetings of the stockholders. The Chairman shall, in the absence or incapacity of the President, perform all duties and functions and exercise all the powers of the President. The Chairman shall also have such other powers and perform such other duties required by law or by these By-Laws or as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine.
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Section 6. President. The President shall have general direction over the day-to-day business of the Corporation, subject to the control and direction of the Board of Directors. In the absence of the Chairman, the President shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors and of the stockholders. The President shall, in the absence or incapacity of the Chairman, perform all duties and functions and exercise all the powers of the Chairman. The President shall also have such other powers and perform such other duties required by law or by these By-Laws or as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine.
Section 7. Other Officers. Each of the Corporations other officers shall have such powers and perform such duties pertaining to his or her office as from time to time may be assigned to him or her by the Board of Directors or be delegated to him or her by the Chairman or by the President or as may be required by law, by these By-Laws or by the Corporations Restated Certificate of Incorporation.
Section 8. Designated Officers.
(a) Either the Chairman or the President, or both, as the Board of Directors may designate, shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation. The officer so designated shall have, in addition to the powers and duties applicable to his or her office set forth in this Article IV, general and active supervision and direction over the business and affairs of the Corporation and over its several officers, agents and employees, subject, however, to the control of the Board of Directors. The Chief Executive Officer shall also have such other powers and duties incident to the designated position of Chief Executive Officer as the Board of Directors may from time to time by resolution determine. Any reference to the Chief Executive Officer in these By-Laws shall be deemed to mean, if there is a Co-Chief Executive Officer, either Co-Chief Executive Officer, each of whom may exercise the full powers and authorities of the designated position of Chief Executive Officer.
(b) The Board of Directors may from time to time designate officers to serve as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer and other such designated positions and to fulfill the responsibilities of such designated positions in addition to the powers and duties applicable to his or her office as set forth in this Article IV. Such designated officers shall also have such other powers and duties incident to his or her designated position as the Board of Directors may from time to time by resolution determine.
ARTICLE V.
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 1. Certificate of Stock.
(a) The certificates of shares of the stock of the Corporation shall be in such form as shall be approved by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors, by resolution, may provide that some or all of any or all classes or series of stock shall be uncertificated shares. The
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certificates shall be signed by any two authorized officers of the Corporation, including, without limitation, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, if they be elected, the President, any Vice President, the Secretary, the Assistant Secretary, the Treasurer and any Assistant Treasurer. Each certificate of stock shall certify the number of shares owned by the stockholder in the Corporation.
(b) A facsimile of the seal of the Corporation and of the signatures of the officers named in this Section may be used in connection with the certificates of shares of stock of the Corporation. In the event any officer who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a certificate shall cease to be such officer before the certificate is issued, the certificate may be issued with the same effect as if such person was an officer at the date of issue.
Section 2. Lost Certificates. A new certificate of stock may be issued in the place of any certificate theretofore issued by the Corporation, alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed, and the Corporation may, in its discretion, require the owner of the lost, stolen or destroyed certificate, or his or her legal representatives, to give the Corporation a bond, in such sum as they may direct, not exceeding double the value of the stock, to indemnify the Corporation against any claim that may be made against it on account of the alleged loss of any such certificate, or the issuance of any such new certificate.
Section 3. Transfer of Shares. The shares of stock of the Corporation shall be transferable only upon its books by the holders thereof in person or by their duly authorized attorneys or legal representatives, and upon such transfer the old certificates, if any, shall be surrendered to the Corporation by the delivery thereof to the person in charge of the stock and transfer books and ledgers, or to such other person as the directors may designate, by whom they shall be cancelled, and new certificates, if any, shall thereupon be issued. Any transfer of stock shall require that the stock certificate, if any, be duly executed for transfer or shall require the delivery of a stock power or other instrument or direction of transfer with respect to either certificated or uncertificated shares. A record shall be made of each transfer and whenever a transfer shall be made for collateral security, and not absolutely, it shall be so expressed in the entry of the transfer if, when the certificates are presented to the Corporation for transfer, both the transferor and the transferee request the Corporation to do so.
Section 4. Dividends. Subject to the provisions of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the Board of Directors may, out of funds legally available therefor at any regular or special meeting, declare dividends upon the shares of the Corporation as and when they deem expedient. Before declaring any dividend, there may be set apart out of any funds of the Corporation available for dividends, such sum or sums as the directors from time to time in their discretion deem proper for working capital or as a reserve fund to meet contingencies or for equalizing dividends or for such other purposes as the directors shall deem conducive to the interests of the Corporation.
Section 5. Seal. The corporate seal shall be circular in form and shall contain the name of the Corporation, the year of its creation and the words CORPORATE SEAL DELAWARE. Said seal may be used by causing it or a facsimile thereof to be impressed or affixed or reproduced or otherwise.
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Section 6. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors.
Section 7. Checks. All checks, drafts or other orders for the payment of money, notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued in the name of the Corporation shall be signed by such officer or officers, agent or agents of the Corporation, and in such manner as shall be determined from time to time by resolution of the Board of Directors.
Section 8. Transfer Agents and Registrars. The Board by resolution may appoint, or authorize any officer or officers to appoint, one or more transfer agents and one or more registrars.
ARTICLE VI.
AMENDMENTS
These By-Laws may be amended or repealed and any By-Laws may be adopted at any annual meeting of the stockholders or at any special meeting thereof if notice of the proposed amendment or repeal, or By-Law or By-Laws to be adopted, be contained in that notice of such special meeting, by the affirmative vote of holders of at least two-thirds in voting power of the shares of the stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote thereat, or at any regular meeting of the Board of Directors, or at any special meeting of the Board of Directors, if notice of the proposed amendment or repeal, or By-Law or By-Laws to be adopted, be contained in the notice of such special meeting, by the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the Board of Directors.
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