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Exhibit 3.2
BYLAWS
OF
TRONOX INCORPORATED
ARTICLE I
OFFICE AND RECORDS
OFFICE AND RECORDS
1.1 The registered office of Tronox Incorporated (the Corporation) in the State of Delaware shall
be located at Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street, in the city of Wilmington, County of
New Castle, and the name of its registered agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.
1.2 The Corporation may have such other offices, either within or without the State of Delaware, as
the Board of Directors of the Corporation (the Board of Directors) may designate or as the
business of the Corporation may from time to time require.
1.3 The books and records of the Corporation may be kept at the Corporations principal executive
office in 3301 N.W. 150th Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73134 or at such other
locations outside the State of Delaware as may from time to time be designated by the Board of
Directors.
ARTICLE II
MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS
MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS
2.1 All annual meetings of the stockholders for the election of directors shall be held at such
date, time and place, if any, either within or without the State of Delaware as may be designated
from time to time by the Board of Directors and stated in the notice of the meeting or in a duly
executed waiver of notice thereof. Special meetings of stockholders for any other purpose may be
held at such date, time and place, within or without the State of Delaware, as may be designated by
the Board of Directors and stated in the notice of the meeting or in a duly executed waiver of
notice thereof.
2.2 Whenever stockholders are required or permitted to take any action at a meeting, unless notice
is waived as provided in Section 4.1, notice of the meeting stating the date, time and
place of the meeting, the means of remote communications, if any, by which stockholders and proxy
holders may be deemed to be present in person and vote at such meeting, the record date for
determining the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting (if such date is different from the
record date for stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting) and, in the case of a special
meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called, shall be given to each
stockholder entitled to vote at such meeting either personally or by mail, not fewer than ten (10)
nor more than sixty (60) days before the date of the meeting, unless otherwise provided by law. If
mailed, notice shall be deemed given when deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, directed to the
stockholder at his or her address as it appears on the records of the Corporation. Any previously
scheduled meeting of the stockholders may be postponed by resolution of the Board
of Directors upon public notice given prior to the time previously scheduled for such meeting of
stockholders.
2.3 The officer who has charge of the stock ledger of the Corporation shall prepare and make, at
least ten (10) days before every meeting of stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders
entitled to vote at the meeting (provided, however, if the record date for determining the
stockholders entitled to vote is less than ten (10) days before the date of the meeting, the list
shall reflect the stockholders entitled to vote as of the tenth day before the meeting date),
arranged in alphabetical order, and showing the address of each stockholder and the number of
shares registered in the name of each stockholder. Such list shall be open to the examination of
any stockholder, for any purpose germane to the meeting (i) on a reasonably accessible electronic
network, provided that the information required to gain access to such list is provided with the
notice of meeting or (ii) during ordinary business hours at the principal place of business of the
Corporation. If the meeting is to be held at a place, then 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. If the meeting is to be held solely by means of remote
communication, then the list shall also be open to the examination of any stockholder during the
whole time of the meeting on a reasonably accessible electronic network, and the information
required to access such list shall be provided with the notice of the meeting. Except as otherwise
provided by law, the stock ledger shall be the only evidence as to who are the stockholders
entitled to examine the list of stockholders required by this Section 2.3 or to vote in
person or by proxy at any meeting of stockholders.
2.4 A special meeting of the stockholders, for any purpose or purposes, may be called only by the
Chairman of the Board of Directors, by the President or by the Board of Directors. Business
transacted at any special meeting of stockholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the
notice.
2.5 The holders of a majority in voting power of the stock issued and outstanding and entitled to
vote thereat, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at all meetings
of the stockholders for the transaction of business except as otherwise provided by the Delaware
General Corporation Law (DGCL), the Corporations Amended and Restated Certificate of
Incorporation, as amended, modified, supplemented and amended and restated from time to time (the
Certificate of Incorporation), or these Bylaws. If, however, such quorum shall not be present or
represented at any meeting of the stockholders, the Chairman of the Board of Directors or other
person acting as the Chairman of the meeting, or the Board of Directors, shall have the power to
adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting of the
time and place of the adjourned meeting, until a quorum shall be present or represented. At such
adjourned meeting at which a quorum shall be present or represented, any business may be transacted
that might have been transacted at the meeting as originally notified. If the adjournment is for
more than thirty (30) days a notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder of
record entitled to vote at the meeting. If after the adjournment a new record date for
determination of stockholders entitled to vote is fixed for the adjourned meeting, the Board of
Directors shall fix as the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of such
adjourned meeting the same or an earlier date as that fixed for determination of stockholders
entitled to vote at the adjourned meeting, and shall
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give notice of the adjourned meeting to each stockholder of record as of the record date so fixed
for notice of such adjourned meeting.
2.6 Unless otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation, each stockholder shall at every
meeting of the stockholders be entitled to one vote in person or by proxy for each share of the
capital stock having voting power held by such stockholder, but no proxy shall be voted on after
three years from its date, unless the proxy provides for a longer period. Every proxy shall be
signed by the stockholder or by his duly authorized attorney. Such proxy must be filed with the
Secretary of the Corporation or his or her representative at or before the time of the meeting. A
proxy shall be irrevocable if it states that it is irrevocable and if, and only as long as, it is
coupled with an interest sufficient in law to support an irrevocable power. A stockholder may
revoke any proxy which is not irrevocable by attending the meeting and voting in person or by
delivering to the Secretary of the Corporation a revocation of the proxy or a new proxy bearing a
later date. At all meetings of stockholders for the election of directors at which a quorum is
present a plurality of the votes cast shall be sufficient to elect. All other elections and
questions presented to the stockholders at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall, unless
otherwise provided by the Certificate of Incorporation, these Bylaws, the rules or regulations of
any stock exchange applicable to the Corporation, or applicable law or pursuant to any regulation
applicable to the Corporation or its securities, be decided by the affirmative vote of the holders
of a majority in voting power of the shares of stock of the Corporation which are present in person
or by proxy and entitled to vote thereon.
2.7 Upon demand of any stockholder entitled to vote at a meeting, the vote for directors or for any
other matter at such meeting shall be by written ballot, but otherwise the method of voting and the
manner in which votes are counted shall be discretionary with the presiding officer at the meeting.
2.8(a) | At a meeting of the stockholders, only such nominations of persons for the election of directors and such other business shall be conducted as shall have been properly brought before the meeting. To be properly brought before an annual meeting, nominations or such other business must be: (i) specified in the notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) given by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or any committee thereof, (ii) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or any committee thereof, or (iii) otherwise properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder who is a stockholder of record of the Corporation at the time such notice of meeting is delivered, who is entitled to vote at the meeting and who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.8. In addition, any proposal of business (other than the nomination of persons for election to the Board of Directors) must be a proper matter for stockholder action. For business proposals or director nominations to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder, the stockholder or stockholders of record intending to propose the business or make the nomination (the Proposing Stockholder) must have given timely notice thereof pursuant to this Section 2.8(a) in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation even if such matter is already the subject of any notice to the stockholders or Public Disclosure (as defined below) from the Board of Directors. To be timely, a Proposing Stockholders notice must be delivered to or mailed and received at the principal executive offices of the Corporation: not |
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later than the close of business on the 75th day, nor earlier than the close of business on the 120th day in advance of the anniversary of the previous years annual meeting; provided, however, that in the event that such annual meeting is to be held on a day which is more than 30 days preceding the anniversary of the previous years annual meeting or more than 70 days after the anniversary of the previous years annual meeting notice by the stockholder must be so delivered not earlier than the close of business on the 120th day prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the 75th day prior to such annual meeting or the tenth day following the date of Public Disclosure of the date of such meeting is first made by the Corporation. In no event shall the Public Disclosure of an adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting commence a new notice time period (or extend any notice time period) for the giving of a stockholders notice as described above. |
(b) | For the nomination of any person or persons for election to the board of directors, a Proposing Stockholders notice to the Secretary of the Corporation shall set forth (i) the name, age, business address and residence address of each nominee proposed in such notice, (ii) the principal occupation or employment of each such nominee, (iii) the number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation which are owned of record and beneficially by each such nominee (if any), (iv) such other information concerning each such nominee as would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement soliciting proxies for the election of such nominee as a director in an election contest (even if an election contest is not involved), or that is otherwise required to be disclosed, under the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, regardless of whether the Company is subject to such rules or not, (v) the consent of the nominee to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected, and (vi) as to the Proposing Stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made: (A) the name and address of the Proposing Stockholder as they appear on the Corporations books and of the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is being made, (B) the class and number of shares of the Corporation which are owned by the Proposing Stockholder (beneficially and of record) and owned by the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is being made, as of the date of the Proposing Stockholders notice, and a representation that the Proposing Stockholder will notify the Corporation in writing of the class and number of such shares owned of record and beneficially as of the record date for the meeting promptly following the later of the record date or the date notice of the record date is first publicly disclosed, (C) the identity of any control person and any information that would be required in Items 2, 3 and 4 of Schedule 13D, regardless of whether such Schedule 13D is required to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission or not, (D) a description of any agreement, arrangement or understanding with respect to such nomination between or among the Proposing Stockholder and any of its affiliates or associates, and any others (including their names) acting in concert with any of the foregoing, including the nominee, and a representation that the Proposing Stockholder will notify the Corporation in writing of any such agreement, arrangement or understanding in effect as of the record date for the meeting promptly following the later of the record date or the date notice of the record date is first publicly disclosed, (E) a description of any agreement, arrangement or understanding (including any derivative or short positions, |
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profit interests, options, hedging transactions, and borrowed or loaned shares) that has been entered into as of the date of the Proposing Stockholders notice by, or on behalf of, the Proposing Stockholder or any of its affiliates or associates, whether or not such instrument or right shall be subject to settlement in underlying shares of capital stock of the Corporation, the effect or intent of which is to mitigate loss to, manage risk or benefit of share price changes for, or increase or decrease the voting power of the Proposing Stockholder or any of its affiliates or associates with respect to shares of stock of the Corporation, and a representation that the Proposing Stockholder will notify the Corporation in writing of any such agreement, arrangement or understanding in effect as of the record date for the meeting promptly following the later of the record date or the date notice of the record date is first publicly disclosed, (F) a representation that the Proposing Stockholder is a holder of record of shares of the Corporation entitled to vote at the meeting and intends to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to nominate the person or persons specified in the notice, (G) a representation whether the Proposing Stockholder or the beneficial owner, if any, intends or is part of a group which intends (i) to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporations outstanding capital stock required to approve the nomination and/or (ii) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of the nomination, and (H) any other information relating to such Proposing Stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the election of directors in an election contest pursuant to and in accordance with Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act (as defined below) and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. The Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as it may reasonably require to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as an independent director of the Corporation or that could be material to a reasonable stockholders understanding of the independence, or lack thereof, of such nominee. | |||
(c) | For all business other than director nominations, a Proposing Stockholders notice to the Secretary of the Corporation shall set forth as to each matter the Proposing Stockholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting: (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the annual meeting, the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws, the language of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the annual meeting and any material interest in such business of such Proposing Stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made, (ii) any other information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is being made, required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for the proposal and pursuant to and in accordance with Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act (as defined below) and (iii) the information required by Section 2.8(b)(vi) above (with all references to nominations in Section 2.8(b)(vi) to be deemed to be references to business proposals). The foregoing notice requirements of this Section 2.8(a) and (c) shall be deemed satisfied by a Proposing Stockholder with respect to business other than a nomination if the Proposing Stockholder has notified the Corporation of |
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his, her or its intention to present a proposal at an annual meeting in compliance with the applicable rules and regulations promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (the Exchange Act) and such stockholders proposal has been included in a proxy statement that has been prepared by the Corporation to solicit proxies for such annual meeting. | |||
(d) | Notwithstanding anything in the penultimate sentence of paragraph (a) of this Section 2.8 to the contrary, in the event that the number of directors to be elected to the Board of Directors of the Corporation at the annual meeting is increased effective after the time period for which nominations would otherwise be due under paragraph (a) of this Section 2.8 and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming the nominees for the additional directorships at least 70 days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding years annual meeting, a stockholders notice required by this Section 2.8 shall also be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for the additional directorships, if it shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth day following the day on which such Public Disclosure is first made by the Corporation. | ||
(e) | Only such business shall be conducted at a special meeting of stockholders as shall have been brought before the meeting pursuant to the Corporations notice of meeting. Nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors may be made at a special meeting of stockholders at which directors are to be elected pursuant to the Corporations notice of meeting (x) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or any committee thereof or (y) provided that the Board of Directors has determined that directors shall be elected at such meeting, by any stockholder of the Corporation who is a stockholder of record at the time the notice provided for in this Section 2.8 is delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation, who is entitled to vote at the meeting and upon such election and who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.8. In the event the Corporation calls a special meeting of stockholders for the purpose of electing one or more directors to the Board of Directors, any such stockholder entitled to vote in such election of directors may nominate a person or persons (as the case may be) for election to such position(s) as specified in the Corporations notice of meeting, if the stockholders notice required by this Section 2.8 shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the 60th day prior to such special meeting and not earlier than the close of business on the later of the 90th day prior to such special meeting or the tenth day following the day on which Public Disclosure is first made of the date of the special meeting and of the nominees proposed by the board of directors to be elected at such meeting. In no event shall the Public Disclosure of an adjournment or postponement of a special meeting commence a new time period (or extend any notice time period) for the giving of a stockholders notice as described above. | ||
(f) | Except as otherwise expressly provided in any applicable rule or regulation promulgated under the Exchange Act, only such persons who are nominated in |
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accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 2.8 shall be eligible to be elected at an annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Corporation to serve as directors and only such business shall be conducted at a meeting of stockholders as shall have been brought before the meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 2.8. Except as otherwise provided by law, the chairman of the meeting shall have the power and duty (i) to determine whether a nomination or any business proposed to be brought before the meeting was made or proposed, as the case may be, in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 2.8 (including whether the Proposing Stockholder or beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made solicited (or is part of a group which solicited) or did not so solicit, as the case may be, proxies or votes in support of such stockholders nominee or proposal in compliance with such Proposing Stockholders representation as required by paragraph (b)(vi)(G) of this Section 2.8), (ii) to determine if any proposed nomination or business was not made or proposed in compliance with this Section 2.8, and (iii) in the event the Proposing Stockholder fails to promptly update any information required to be provided to the Corporation, to declare that such nomination shall be disregarded or that such proposed business shall not be transacted. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.8, unless otherwise required by law, if the Proposing Stockholder (or a qualified representative of the Proposing Stockholder) does not appear at the annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Corporation to present a nomination or proposed business, such nomination shall be disregarded and such proposed business shall not be transacted, notwithstanding that proxies in respect of such vote may have been received by the Corporation. For purposes of this Section 2.8, to be considered a qualified representative of the Proposing Stockholder, a person must be a duly authorized officer, manager or partner of such Proposing Stockholder or must be authorized by a writing executed by such Proposing Stockholder or an electronic transmission delivered by such Proposing Stockholder to act for such Proposing Stockholder as proxy at the meeting of stockholders and such person must produce such writing or electronic transmission, or a reliable reproduction of the writing or electronic transmission, at the meeting of stockholders. | |||
(g) | For the purposes of this Article, Public Disclosure shall mean a disclosure made in a press release reported by the Dow Jones News Services, The Associated Press or a comparable national news service or in a document publicly filed by the Corporation with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. | ||
(h) | Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.8, a stockholder shall also comply with all applicable requirements of the Exchange Act with respect to the matters set forth in this Section 2.8; provided however, that any references in these Bylaws to the Exchange Act are not intended to and shall not limit any requirements applicable to nominations or proposals as to any other business to be considered pursuant to this Section 2.8 (including paragraphs (a)(iii) and (e) hereof), and compliance with paragraphs (a)(iii) and (e) of this Section 2.8 shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make nominations or submit other business (other than, as |
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provided in the last sentence of paragraph (c) of this Section 2.8, business other than nominations brought properly under and in compliance with Rule 14a-8 of the Exchange Act, as may be amended from time to time). Nothing in this Section 2.8 shall be deemed to affect any rights (i) of stockholders to request inclusion of proposals or nominations in the Corporations proxy statement pursuant to applicable rules and regulations promulgated under the Exchange Act or (ii) of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock to elect directors pursuant to any applicable provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation. |
2.9 Meetings of stockholders shall be presided over by the Chairman of the Board of Directors or,
in his or her absence, by the Chief Executive Officer or, in his or her absence, by the President
or, in his or her absence, by a Vice President or, in the absence of the foregoing persons, by a
chairman designated by the Board of Directors or, in the absence of such designation, by a chairman
chosen at the meeting. The Secretary shall act as secretary of the meeting, but in his or her
absence the chairman of the meeting may appoint any person to act as secretary of the meeting.
2.10 The Corporation shall, in advance of any meeting of stockholders, appoint one or more
inspectors of election, who may be employees of the Corporation, to act at the meeting or any
adjournment thereof and to make a written report thereof. The Corporation may designate one or
more persons as alternate inspectors to replace any inspector who fails to act. In the event that
no inspector so appointed or designated is able to act at a meeting of stockholders, the person
presiding at the meeting shall appoint one or more inspectors to act at the meeting. Each
inspector, before entering upon the discharge of his or her duties, shall take and sign an oath to
execute faithfully the duties of inspector with strict impartiality and according to the best of
his or her ability. The inspector or inspectors so appointed or designated shall (i) ascertain the
number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation outstanding and the voting power of each such
share, (ii) determine the shares of capital stock of the Corporation represented at the meeting and
the validity of proxies and ballots, (iii) count all votes and ballots, (iv) determine and retain
for a reasonable period a record of the disposition of any challenges made to any determination by
the inspectors, and (v) certify their determination of the number of shares of capital stock of the
Corporation represented at the meeting and such inspectors count of all votes and ballots. Such
certification and report shall specify such other information as may be required by law. In
determining the validity and counting of proxies and ballots cast at any meeting of stockholders of
the Corporation, the inspectors may consider such information as is permitted by applicable law.
No person who is a candidate for an office at an election may serve as an inspector at such
election.
2.11 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 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
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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.
2.12 (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 2.12(a)). If no record date has been fixed by the Board of Directors pursuant to
the first sentence of this Section 2.12(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 2.12(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 2.12 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 2.12 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 2.12(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 2.12, 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 2.12 and applicable law, and not revoked.
ARTICLE III
DIRECTORS
DIRECTORS
3.1 The business, property and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the
direction of the Board of Directors. The number of directors constituting the entire Board of
Directors shall initially be seven (7) and may be increased or decreased from time to time by vote
of a majority of the entire Board of Directors, except as provided in Section 3.2 of this
Article III; provided, however, that no decrease in the number of directors may shorten the
term of any incumbent director. Directors need not be stockholders. The directors shall be
elected to hold office for a term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders held in the year
following the year of their election, and until their successors are elected and qualified, unless
sooner displaced.
3.2 Vacancies and newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized number
of directors may be filled by a majority of the directors then in office, though less than a
quorum, or by a sole remaining director, and the directors so chosen shall hold office until the
next annual election and until their successors are duly elected and shall qualify, unless sooner
displaced. If there are no directors in office, then an election of directors may be held in the
manner provided by the DGCL. If, at the time of filling any vacancy or any newly created
directorship, the directors then in office shall constitute less than a majority of the whole Board
of Directors (as constituted immediately prior to any such increase), the Court of Chancery of the
State of Delaware may, upon application of any stockholder or stockholders holding at least ten
percent (10%) of the total number of the shares at the time outstanding having the right to vote
for such directors, summarily order an election to be held to fill any such vacancies or newly
created directorships, or to replace the directors chosen by the directors then in office.
3.3 The business of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of
Directors, which may exercise all such powers of the Corporation and do all such lawful acts
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and things as are not by law or by the Certificate of Incorporation or by these Bylaws directed or
required to be exercised or done by the stockholders.
MEETINGS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
3.4 The Board of Directors may hold meetings, both regular and special, either within or without
the State of Delaware.
3.5 The first meeting of each newly elected Board of Directors shall be held at the same place and
immediately following each annual meeting of stockholders, and no further notice thereof need be
given other than these Bylaws.
3.6 Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held without notice at such time and at such
place as shall from time to time be determined by the Board of Directors.
3.7 Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called by the Chairman of the Board of
Directors or by directors constituting a majority of the Board of Directors, at such time and place
as shall be specified in the notice or waiver thereof. The person or persons authorized to call
special meetings of the Board of Directors may fix the place and time of the meetings. Notice of
any special meeting shall be given to each director at his or her business or residence. If
mailed, such notice shall be deemed adequately delivered: (a) when personally delivered to the
director to be notified; (b) when sent by confirmed facsimile to the director to be notified at a
number previously identified by the director and currently on record with the Corporation; (c) when
sent by email to the director to be notified at an email address previously identified by the
director and currently on record with the Corporation; (d) three (3) business days after deposit in
the United States mail, postage prepaid, by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested,
and addressed to the director to be notified at an address previously identified by the director
and currently on record with the Corporation; or (e) one (1) business day after deposit with a
national overnight delivery service, postage prepaid, addressed to the director to be notified at
an address previously identified by the director and currently on record with the Corporation.
Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special meeting of the
Board of Directors need be specified in the notice of such meeting, except for amendments to these
Bylaws as provided under Section 8.1 of these Bylaws.
3.8 At all meetings of the Board of Directors a majority of the directors shall constitute a quorum
for the transaction of business and the act of a majority of the directors present at any meeting
at which there is a quorum shall be the act of the Board of Directors, except as may be otherwise
specifically provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws. If a quorum shall
not be present at any meeting of the Board of Directors, the directors present thereat may adjourn
the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a
quorum shall be present.
3.9 Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, 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 all members of the Board of Directors or committee, as
the case may be, consent thereto in writing, and the writing or writings are filed with the minutes
of proceedings of the Board of Directors or committee.
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3.10 Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, 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 similar
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.
3.11 Meetings of the Board of Directors shall be presided over by the Chairman of the Board of
Directors or, in his or her absence, by a chairman chosen at the meeting. The Secretary shall act
as secretary of the meeting, but in his or her absence, the chairman of the meeting may appoint any
person to act as secretary of the meeting.
COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
3.11 The Board of Directors may designate one or more committees, each committee to consist of one
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.
3.12 In the absence or disqualification of a member of a committee, the member or members thereof
present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not he or she or they
constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the Board of Directors to act at the
meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member.
3.13 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, except as
otherwise may be provided by law. Unless the resolution of the Board of Directors expressly so
provides, no such committee shall have the power or authority to declare a dividend or authorize
the issuance of stock.
3.14 Each committee shall keep regular minutes of its meetings and report the same to the Board of
Directors when required.
3.15 Any such committee may adopt rules governing the method of calling and date, time and place of
holding its meetings. 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 Bylaws. Unless otherwise provided by the Board of Directors, a majority of any such
committee (or the member thereof, if only one) shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of
business, and the vote of a majority of the members of such committee present at a meeting at which
a quorum is present shall be the act of such committee. Any or all members of any such committee
may be removed, with or without cause, by resolution of the Board of Directors.
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COMPENSATION OF DIRECTORS
3.16 Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the Board of
Directors shall have the authority to fix the compensation of directors. The directors may be
paid their expenses, if any, of attendance at each meeting of the Board of Directors and may be
paid a fixed sum for attendance at each meeting of the Board of Directors or a stated salary as
director. No such payment shall preclude any director from serving the Corporation in any other
capacity and receiving compensation therefor. Members of special or standing committees may be
allowed like compensation for attending committee meetings.
RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS
3.17 Any director, whether elected or appointed, may resign at any time upon notice to the
Corporation. Any such resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein or, if the time
not be specified, upon receipt thereof, and the acceptance of such resignation, unless required by
the terms thereof, shall not be necessary to make such resignation effective. No formal action
shall be required of the Board of Directors or the stockholders to make any such resignation
effective.
3.18 Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, any director
or the entire Board of Directors may be removed, with or without cause, by the holders of a
majority of shares entitled to vote at an election of directors.
ARTICLE IV
WAIVER OF NOTICE
WAIVER OF NOTICE
4.1 Whenever any notice is required to be given to any stockholder or director of the Corporation
under any provision of the DGCL or the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, a waiver
thereof, signed by the person or persons entitled to said notice, whether before or after the time
stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent thereto. In the case of a stockholder, such waiver of
notice may be signed by such stockholders attorney or proxy duly appointed in writing. 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 the
stockholders, directors or members of a committee of directors needs to be specified in any written
waiver of notice.
ARTICLE V
OFFICERS
OFFICERS
5.1 The officers of the Corporation shall be chosen by the Board of Directors and may include a
Chairman of the Board, a Chief Executive Officer, a President, a Treasurer and a Secretary. The
Board of Directors may also choose one or more Vice Presidents, one or more Assistant Secretaries
and one or more Assistant Treasurers. Any number of offices may be held by the same person, unless
the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws otherwise provide. All officers chosen by the
Board of Directors shall each have such powers and duties as generally pertain to their respective
offices subject to the specific provisions of this Article V
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together with such other
powers and duties as from time to time may be conferred by the Board of Directors or Committee
thereof.
5.2 The Board of Directors may appoint such other officers and agents as it shall deem necessary
who shall hold their offices for such terms and shall exercise such powers and perform such duties
as shall be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors.
5.3 The salaries of all officers of the Corporation shall be subject to the approval of the Board
of Directors or Committee thereof.
5.4 The officers of the Corporation shall hold office until their successors are chosen and
qualified or until his or her death, resignation or earlier removal. Any officer elected or
appointed by the Board of Directors may be removed at any time by the affirmative vote of a
majority of the Board of Directors. Such removal shall be without prejudice to the contractual
rights, if any, of the person so removed. Any vacancy occurring in any office of the Corporation
shall be filled by the Board of Directors.
THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
5.5 The Chairman of the Board shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors and of the
stockholders at which he or she shall be present. He or she shall have and may exercise such
powers as are, from time to time, assigned to him or her by the Board of Directors and as may be
provided by law. The Chairman of the Board shall be responsible for the general management of the
affairs of the Corporation, shall make reports to the Board of Directors and the stockholders and
shall perform all duties incidental to such office which may be required by law and all such other
duties as are properly required by the Board of Directors. Unless another person is chosen by the
Board of Directors, so long as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company is a member
of the Board of Directors, he or she shall serve as the Chairman of the Board. Except where by law
the signature of the President is required, the Chairman of the Board shall possess the same power
as the President to sign all certificates, contracts and other instruments of the Corporation which
may be authorized by the Board of Directors. The Chairman of the Board shall see that all orders
and resolutions of the Board of Directors and of any committee thereof are carried into effect.
THE PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENTS
5.6 The President shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation and, if not serving as
the Chairman of the Board, in the absence or inability to act of the Chairman of the Board he or
she shall preside at all meetings of the stockholders and the Board of Directors and perform all
duties of the Chairman of the Board. He or she shall act in a general executive capacity in the
administration and operation of the Corporations business and general supervision of its policies
and affairs.
5.7 The President may sign, alone or with the Secretary or any other proper officer of the
Corporation authorized by the Board of Directors, certificates, contracts and other instruments of
the Corporation as authorized by the Board of Directors.
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5.8 In the absence of the President or in the event of his or her inability or refusal to act, the
Vice President, if any, (or in the event there be more than one Vice President, the Vice Presidents
in the order designated by the directors, or in the absence of any designation, then in the order
of their election) shall perform the duties of the President, and when so acting, shall have all
the
powers of and be subject to all the restrictions upon the President. The Vice President(s) shall
perform such other duties and have such other powers as the Board of Directors may from time to
time prescribe.
THE SECRETARY AND ASSISTANT SECRETARY
5.9 The Secretary shall attend all meetings of the Board of Directors and all meetings of the
stockholders and record all the proceedings of the meetings of the Corporation and of the Board of
Directors in a book to be kept for that purpose, shall also record therein all action taken by
written consent of directors in lieu of a meeting, and shall perform like duties for the standing
committees when required. He or she shall give, or cause to be given, notice of all meetings of
the stockholders and special meetings of the Board of Directors, and shall perform such other
duties as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors or President, under whose supervision he or
she shall be. He or she shall have custody of the corporate seal of the Corporation and he or she,
or an Assistant Secretary, shall have authority to affix the same to any instrument requiring it
and when so affixed, it may be attested by his or her signature or by the signature of such
Assistant Secretary. The Board of Directors may give general authority to any other officer to
affix the seal of the Corporation and to attest the affixing by his or her signature. He or she
shall have charge of the stock ledger and such other books and papers as the Board of Directors may
direct, but he or she may delegate responsibility for maintaining the stock ledger to any transfer
agent appointed by the Board of Directors. He or she may have all such further powers and duties
as generally are incident to the position of Secretary or as may be assigned to him or her by the
President or the Board of Directors.
5.10 The Assistant Secretary, or if there be more than one, the Assistant Secretaries in the order
determined by the Board of Directors (or if there be no such determination, then in the order of
their election) shall, in the absence of the Secretary or in the event of his or her inability or
refusal to act, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the Secretary and shall perform such
other duties and have such other powers as the Board of Directors may from time to time prescribe.
THE TREASURER AND ASSISTANT TREASURERS
5.11 The Treasurer shall have the custody of the corporate funds and securities and shall keep full
and accurate accounts of receipts and disbursements in books belonging to the Corporation and shall
deposit all moneys and other valuable effects in the name and to the credit of the Corporation in
such depositories as may be designated by the Board of Directors. He or she may endorse all
commercial documents requiring endorsements for or on behalf of the Corporation and may sign all
receipts and vouchers for payments made to the Corporation.
5.12 He or she shall disburse the funds of the Corporation as may be ordered by the Board of
Directors, taking proper vouchers for such disbursements, and shall render to the President and the
Board of Directors, at its regular meetings, or when the Board of Directors so requires, an
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account
of all his or her transactions as Treasurer and of the financial condition of the Corporation. He
or she may have all such further powers and duties as generally are incident to the position of the
Treasurer or as may be assigned to him or her by the Chairman of the Board, the President or the
Board of Directors.
5.13 The Assistant Treasurer, or if there shall be more than one, the Assistant Treasurers in the
order determined by the Board of Directors (or if there be no such determination, then in the order
of their election) shall, in the absence of the Treasurer or in the event of his or her inability
or refusal to act, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the Treasurer and shall perform
such other duties and have such other powers as the Board of Directors may from time to time
prescribe.
5.14 In case of the absence of any officer of the Corporation, or for any other reason that the
Board of Directors may deem sufficient, the Board of Directors may confer for the time being the
powers of such officer, or any of them, upon any other officer or upon any director.
ARTICLE VI
CERTIFICATES OF STOCK
CERTIFICATES OF STOCK
6.1 The shares of stock of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates; provided that the
Board of Directors may provide by resolution or resolutions that some or all of any class or series
shall be uncertificated shares that may be evidenced by a book-entry system maintained by the
registrar of such stock. Any such resolution shall not apply to shares represented by a
certificate until such certificate is surrendered to the Corporation. If shares are represented by
certificates such certificates shall be in the form approved by the Board of Directors. The
certificates representing shares of stock of each class shall be signed by, or in the name of, the
Corporation by the Chairman, the President or any Vice President, and by the Secretary, any
Assistant Secretary, the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer. Any or all such signatures may be
facsimiles. Although any officer, transfer agent or registrar whose manual or facsimile signature
is affixed to such a certificate ceases to be such officer, transfer agent or registrar before such
certificate has been issued, it may nevertheless be issued by the Corporation with the same effect
as if such officer, transfer agent or registrar were still such at the date of its issue.
LOST CERTIFICATES
6.2 The Board of Directors may direct a new certificate or certificates (or uncertificated shares)
to be issued in place of any certificate or certificates theretofore issued by the Corporation
alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the
person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost, stolen or destroyed. When authorizing such
issue of a new certificate or certificates (or uncertificated shares), the Board of Directors may,
in its discretion and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such
lost, stolen or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his or her legal representative, to
advertise the same in such manner as it shall require and/or to give the Corporation a bond in such
sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the Corporation with
respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed.
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TRANSFER OF STOCK
6.3 Transfers of stock shall be made on the books of the Corporation only by the person named as
the holder thereof on the stock records of the Corporation, by such persons attorney lawfully
constituted in writing, and in the case of shares represented by a certificate upon the
surrender of the certificate thereof, which shall be cancelled before a new certificate or
uncertificated shares shall be issued. No transfer of stock shall be valid as against the
Corporation for any purpose until it shall have been entered in the stock records of the
Corporation by an entry showing from and to whom transferred. To the extent designated by the
President or any Vice President or the Treasurer of the Corporation, the Corporation may recognize
the transfer of fractional uncertificated shares, but shall not otherwise be required to recognize
the transfer of fractional shares. The Board of Directors may appoint, or authorize any officer or
officers to appoint, one or more transfer agents or registrars of transfers, or both, and may
require all stock certificates to bear the signature of either or both.
STOCKHOLDER RECORD DATE
6.4 In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote
at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, the Board of Directors may fix, in
advance, 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
date 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, 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. 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 the adjourned meeting.
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 shall not be more than sixty (60) days
prior to such other 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.
6.5 Only such stockholders as shall be stockholders of record on the date so fixed shall be
entitled to notice of, and to vote at, such meeting and any adjournment thereof, or to receive
payment of such dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights, or to exercise such
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rights in respect of any such change, conversion or exchange of stock, or to participate in such
action, as the case may be, notwithstanding any transfer of any stock on the books of the
Corporation after any record date so fixed.
ARTICLE VII
GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHECKS
CHECKS
7.1 All checks or demands for money and notes of the Corporation shall be signed by such officer or
officers or such other person or persons as the Board of Directors may from time to time designate.
FISCAL YEAR
7.2 The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be the calendar year unless otherwise fixed by
resolution of the Board of Directors.
SEAL
7.3 The Board of Directors may adopt a corporate seal having inscribed thereon the name of the
Corporation, the year of its organization and the words Corporate Seal, Delaware. The seal may be
used by causing it or a facsimile thereof to be impressed or affixed or reproduced or otherwise.
INDEMNIFICATION
7.4 Each person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is otherwise
involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or
investigative (Proceeding), by reason of the fact that he or she or a person of whom he or she is
the legal representative is or was a director or an officer of the Corporation or, while an officer
of director of the Corporation is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director,
officer, employee or agent of any other Corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or
other enterprise, including, without limitation, service with respect to any employee benefit plan
(Indemnitee), whether the basis of such Proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a
director, officer, employee, fiduciary or agent or in any other capacity while serving as a
director, officer, employee, fiduciary or agent, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the
Corporation to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, as the same exists or may hereafter be
amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that such amendment permits the
Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights than said law permitted the Corporation to
provide prior to such amendment), against all cost, expense, liability and loss (including, without
limitation, reasonable attorneys fees, judgments, fines, excise taxes or penalties under the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and amounts paid or to be paid in
settlement) actually and reasonably incurred by such Indemnitee in connection therewith;
provided, however, that except as provided in Section 7.6 with respect to
Proceedings seeking to enforce rights to indemnification or advancement of expenses, the
Corporation shall indemnify any such Indemnitee seeking indemnification in connection with a
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Proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such Indemnitee only if such Proceeding (or part thereof)
was authorized in the specific case by the Board of Directors.
7.5 The right to indemnification conferred in Section 7.4 shall, to the fullest extent
permitted by applicable law, include the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses
(including reasonable attorneys fees) incurred in defending any such Proceeding in advance of its
final
disposition (Advancement of Expenses); provided, however, that, if the DGCL
requires, an Advancement of Expenses incurred by an Indemnitee in his or her capacity as a director
or officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by such Indemnitee,
including, without limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) shall be made only upon
delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking (Undertaking), by or on behalf of such Indemnitee,
to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision
from which there is no further right to appeal (Final Adjudication) that such Indemnitee is not
entitled to be indemnified for such expenses under Section 7.4, this Section 7.5 or
otherwise. No director or officer shall be required to post any bond or provide any other security
for any such repayment Undertaking.
7.6 If a claim under Section 7.4 (following the final disposition of such proceeding) or
Section 7.5 is not paid in full by the Corporation within thirty (30) days after a written
claim has been received by the Corporation, except in the case of a claim for an Advancement of
Expenses, in which case the applicable period shall be twenty (20) days, the Indemnitee may at any
time thereafter bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim. If
successful in whole or in part in any such suit, or in a suit brought by the Corporation to recover
an Advancement of Expenses pursuant to the terms of an Undertaking, the Indemnitee shall be
entitled to be paid also the expense of prosecuting or defending such suit to the fullest extent
permitted by law. In (i) any suit brought by the Indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification
hereunder (but not in a suit brought by the Indemnitee to enforce a right of an Advancement of
Expenses) it shall be a defense that, and (ii) in any suit brought by the Corporation to recover an
Advancement of Expenses pursuant to the terms of an Undertaking, the Corporation shall be entitled
to recover such expenses upon a Final Adjudication that the Indemnitee has not met any applicable
standard for indemnification set forth in the DGCL. Neither the failure of the Corporation
(including its Board of Directors, independent legal counsel or stockholders) to have made a
determination prior to the commencement of such action that indemnification of the Indemnitee is
proper in the circumstances because the Indemnitee has met the applicable standard of conduct set
forth in the DGCL, nor an actual determination by the Corporation (including its Board of
Directors, independent legal counsel or stockholders) that the Indemnitee has not met such
applicable standard of conduct, shall create a presumption that the Indemnitee has not met the
applicable standard of conduct or, in the case of such a suit brought by the Indemnitee, be a
defense to such suit. In any suit brought by the Indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification
or to an Advancement of Expenses hereunder, or brought by the Corporation to recover an Advancement
of Expenses pursuant to the terms of an Undertaking, the burden of proving that the Indemnitee is
not entitled to be indemnified, or to such Advancement of Expenses, under this Article VII
or otherwise shall be on the Corporation.
7.7 The right to indemnification and the Advancement of Expenses conferred in this Article
VII shall not be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter
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under any statute, provision of the Certificate of Incorporation, provision of these Bylaws,
agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.
7.8 The Corporation may maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect itself and any director,
officer, employee, fiduciary or agent of the Corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint
venture, trust or other enterprise against any cost, 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 DGCL.
7.9 The Corporation may, to the extent and in the manner permitted by applicable law and to the
extent authorized from time to time by the Board of Directors (as deemed appropriate and desirable
by the Board of Directors in its sole discretion), grant rights to indemnification, and rights to
the Advancement of Expenses, to any employee or agent of the Corporation to the fullest extent of
the provisions of this Article VII with respect to the indemnification and Advancement of
Expenses of directors and officers of the Corporation.
7.10 The rights to indemnification and to the Advancement of Expenses conferred in Section
7.4 and Section 7.5 shall be contract rights and such rights shall continue as to an
Indemnitee who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee, fiduciary or agent and shall inure
to the benefit of the Indemnitees heirs, executors and administrators.
7.11 The Corporation acknowledges that (i) certain persons employed by, otherwise affiliated with,
or appointed by, a stockholder of the Corporation or any of its affiliates or any funds managed or
advised by such stockholder or its affiliates may serve on the Board of Directors, or, at the
request of the Corporation, on the board of directors or other governing body of another entity,
and (ii) such directors may be entitled to, or may be provided, indemnification by such stockholder
or its affiliates for certain cost, expenses, liabilities and losses for which such directors may
also be entitled to seek indemnification from the Corporation pursuant to these Bylaws, pursuant to
Section 145 of the DGCL or pursuant to indemnification agreements or other agreements between the
Corporation and such directors (the Company Indemnified Expenses). The Corporation acknowledges
and agrees that, as between the Corporation and its subsidiaries, on the one hand, and such
stockholder and its affiliates (other than the Corporation and its subsidiaries), on the other
hand, the Corporation shall be primarily liable to such directors with respect to any Company
Indemnified Expenses and any liability of such stockholder or its affiliates to such directors
shall be secondary liability. In recognition of the primary liability of the Corporation, the
Corporation agrees that, in the event that such stockholder or any of its affiliates pays any
Company Indemnified Expenses to or on behalf of any such director, reimburses any such director for
any Company Indemnified Expenses paid by such director or advances amounts to any such director
(including by way of any loan) for the payment of Company Indemnified Expenses, then (i) the
Corporation shall pay to such stockholder any amounts so paid, reimbursed or advanced, to the
extent that any such director would have been entitled to indemnification of such Company
Indemnified Expenses and (ii) such stockholder shall be subrogated to all of the rights of such
director with respect to any claim that the such director could have brought against the
Corporation or any subsidiary with respect to any Company Indemnified Expenses that have been paid,
reimbursed or advanced to or on behalf of such director. All such payments to such stockholder
shall be made within five (5) business days of the receipt by the Corporation of written notice
from such stockholder of such payment,
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reimbursement or advance, accompanied by documentation
showing, in reasonable detail, the Company Indemnified Expenses so paid, reimbursed or advanced by
such stockholder or any of its affiliates. The Company shall also reimburse such stockholder and
its affiliates for all expenses, including reasonable legal expenses, incurred in enforcing this
Section 7.11 to the extent it shall ultimately be determined by Final Adjudication that
such stockholder and such affiliates were entitled to payments under this Section 7.11.
RELIANCE UPON BOOKS, REPORTS AND RECORDS
7.12 Each director, each member of any committee designated by the Board of Directors and each
officer of the Corporation shall, in the performance of his/her duties, be fully protected in
relying in good faith upon the books of account or other records of the Corporation and upon such
information, opinions, reports or documents presented to the Corporation by any of its officers or
employees, or committees of the Board of Directors so designated, or by any other person as to
matters which such director or committee member reasonably believes are within such other persons
professional or expert competence and who has been selected with reasonable care by or on behalf of
the Corporation.
AUDITS
7.13 The accounts, books and records of the Corporation shall be audited upon the conclusion of
each fiscal year by an independent certified public accountant selected by the Board of Directors,
and it shall be the duty of the Board of Directors to cause such audit to be done annually.
ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION
7.14 As used throughout these Bylaws, the term electronic transmission includes any communication
that complies with the terms of Section 232 of the DGCL.
ARTICLE VIII
AMENDMENTS
AMENDMENTS
8.1 These Bylaws may be altered, amended or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted by the
stockholders or by the Board of Directors, at any regular meeting of the stockholders or of the
Board of Directors or at any special meeting of the stockholders or of the Board of Directors if
notice of such alteration, amendment, repeal or adoption of new Bylaws be contained in the notice
of such special meeting.
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