Attached files

file filename
EX-99 - EXHIBIT 99 (PRESS RELEASE) - CABELAS INCexhibit99.htm
EX-10 - EXHIBIT 10 (EXECUTIVE EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT) - CABELAS INCexhibit10.htm
EX-3.2 - EXHIBIT 3.2 (AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS) - CABELAS INCexhibit32.htm
8-K - FORM 8-K (RESULTS OF ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS, AMENDMENTS TO CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION AND BYLAWS, AND EXECUTIVE EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT) - CABELAS INCform8k.htm
 

Exhibit 3.1
 
AMENDED AND RESTATED
 
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
 
OF
 
CABELA’S INCORPORATED
 
Cabela’s Incorporated, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, does hereby certify:
 
 
FIRST: The certificate of incorporation of said corporation was originally filed in the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on December 17, 2003 under the name Cabela’s Incorporated.
 
 
SECOND: This amended and restated certificate of incorporation amends, restates and integrates the provisions of the certificate of incorporation of said corporation and has been duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of Sections 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware by the favorable vote of the requisite number of holders of the outstanding stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon.  The text of the certificate of incorporation is hereby amended and restated to read herein as set forth in full:

ARTICLE I
 
The name of this corporation is Cabela’s Incorporated (the “Corporation”).

ARTICLE II
 
The address of the Corporation’s registered office in the State of Delaware is 160 Greentree Drive, Suite 101, City of Dover, County of Kent, Delaware.  The name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is National Registered Agents, Inc.

ARTICLE III
 
The nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or promoted 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 (the “GCL”).

ARTICLE IV
 
A.           Authorized Shares.  The total number of shares of capital stock which the Corporation is authorized to issue is 255,000,000 shares, consisting of (i) 245,000,000 shares of  Class A Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, (the “Class A Common Stock”) and (ii) 10,000,000 shares are designated as Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Preferred Stock”).
 
All shares of Common Stock will be identical and will entitle the holders thereof to the same rights and privileges, except as otherwise provided herein. The designations, powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional and other special rights, and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof with respect to the Common Stock are as set forth in this Article IV.
 
 
 
 

 
 
The Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more series, without further stockholder approval. The Board of Directors of the Corporation is hereby authorized to provide for the issuance of shares of Preferred Stock in series and to determine or alter the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions granted to or imposed upon each series of Preferred Stock, and to fix the number of shares constituting any such series and the designation thereof, or of any of them. The rights, privileges, preferences and restrictions of any such additional series may be subordinated to, pari passu with (including, without limitation, inclusion in provisions with respect to liquidation and acquisition preferences, redemption and/or approval of matters by vote), or senior to any of those of any present or future class or series of Preferred Stock or Common Stock. The Board of Directors is also authorized to increase or decrease the number of shares of any series prior or subsequent to the issue of that series, but not below the number of shares of such series then outstanding. In case the number of shares of any series shall be so decreased, the shares constituting such decrease shall resume the status which they had prior to the adoption of the resolution originally fixing the number of shares of such series.
 
No stockholder of the Corporation shall have preemptive rights to purchase any Securities proposed to be issued by the Corporation. Cumulative voting for the election of directors shall not be permitted.
 
B.           Definitions.  As used in this Certificate, the following capitalized terms have the following meanings:
 
Bylaws” means the Bylaws of the Corporation, as amended and in effect from time to time.
 
Board” and “Board of Directors” mean the Board of Directors of the Corporation.
 
Certificate” means this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended from time to time.
 
Class A Common Stock” has the meaning ascribed to it in Section A of this Article IV.
 
 “Common Stock” means, collectively, the common stock, par value $0.01 per share of the Corporation, including the Class A Common Stock and any other class of capital stock of the Corporation hereafter authorized that is not preferred with respect to the rights of the holders thereof to participate in dividends or in the distribution of assets upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation over any other class of capital stock.
 
 “Corporation” has the meaning ascribed to it in Article I.
 
 “Preferred Stock” has the meaning ascribed to it in Section A of this Article IV.
 
Securities” means “securities” as defined in Section 2(a)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933 as amended, or any similar federal law then in force, and includes capital stock or other equity interests or any options, warrants or other Securities that are directly or indirectly convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, capital stock or other equity or equity-linked interests, including phantom stock and stock appreciation rights.
 
 
 
2

 
 
C.           Common Stock.  Except as otherwise provided herein or as may otherwise be provided by applicable law, the holders of Common Stock shall have exclusively all rights of stockholders, including (i) the right to receive ratably and equally (based upon the number of shares of Common Stock held by such holders) dividends, when and as declared by the Board of Directors out of assets legally available therefor, (ii) in the event of any voluntary or involuntary distribution of assets upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the affairs of the Corporation or otherwise, the right to receive ratably and equally (based upon the number of shares of Common Stock held by such holders) all the assets and funds of the Corporation after payment or provision for payment of the debts and other liabilities of the Corporation, and (iii) the right to vote on each matter on which the stockholders of the Corporation shall be entitled to vote, and each holder of Common Stock shall be entitled to one vote for each share of Common Stock held by such holder.  The Common Stock shall possess full and complete voting power for the election of directors.
 
ARTICLE V
 
In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute, the Board of Directors is expressly authorized to make, repeal, alter, amend and rescind any or all of the Bylaws. In addition, the Bylaws may be amended by the affirmative vote of holders of at least a majority of the outstanding shares of voting stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at an election of directors.

ARTICLE VI
 
The number of directors of the Corporation shall be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors. Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless the Bylaws shall so provide. Advance notice of stockholder nominations for the election of directors and of any other business to be brought by stockholders before any meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation shall be given in the manner provided in the Bylaws. At each annual meeting of stockholders, directors of the Corporation shall be elected to hold office until the expiration of the term for which they are elected and until their successors have been duly elected and qualified; except that if any such election shall not be so held, such election shall take place at a stockholders’ meeting called and held in accordance with the GCL. All directors shall be of one class and shall serve for a term ending at the annual meeting following the annual meeting at which the director was elected.

Vacancies occurring on the Board of Directors for any reason may be filled only by vote of a majority of the remaining members of the Board of Directors, even if less than a quorum, at any meeting of the Board of Directors, or by a sole remaining director. Any director elected in accordance with the preceding sentence shall hold office for a term that shall end at the first annual meeting following his or her election and until such director’s successor shall have been duly elected and qualified. A director may be removed from office with or without cause by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the outstanding voting stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at an election of directors.

ARTICLE VII
 
Stockholders of the Corporation shall take action by meetings held pursuant to this Certificate and the Bylaws and shall have no right to take any action by written consent without a meeting. Meetings of stockholders may be held within or without the State of Delaware, as the Bylaws may provide. Special meetings of the stockholders, for any purpose or purposes, may only be called by the Board of Directors of the Corporation and the President of the Corporation. The books of the Corporation may be kept (subject to any provision contained in the statutes) outside the State of Delaware at such place or places as may be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors or in the Bylaws.
 

 
3

 
 
 
ARTICLE VIII
 
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, this Corporation is authorized to provide indemnification of (and advancement of expenses to) directors, officers, employees and agents (and any other persons to which Delaware law permits this Corporation to provide indemnification) through Bylaw provisions, agreements with such agents or other persons, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, in excess of the indemnification and advancement otherwise permitted by Section 145 of the GCL, subject only to limits created by applicable Delaware law (statutory or non-statutory), with respect to action for breach of duty to the Corporation, its stockholders, and others.
 
No director of the Corporation shall be personally liable to the Corporation or any stockholder for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for any matter in respect of which such director shall be liable under Section 174 of the GCL or any amendment thereto or shall be liable by reason that, in addition to any and all other requirements for such liability, such director (1) shall have breached the director’s duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (2) shall have acted in manner involving intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law or, in failing to act, shall have acted in a manner involving intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, or (3) shall have derived an improper personal benefit. If the GCL is hereafter amended to authorize the further elimination or limitation of the liability of a director, the liability of a director of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the GCL, as so amended.
 
Each person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is in any way involved in any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (hereinafter a “proceeding”), including any appeal therefrom, 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 officer of the Corporation or a direct or indirect subsidiary of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director or officer of another entity or enterprise, or was a director or officer of a foreign or domestic corporation which was a predecessor corporation of the Corporation or of another entity or enterprise at the request of such predecessor corporation, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation, and the Corporation shall advance all expenses incurred by any such person in defense of any such proceeding prior to its final determination, to the fullest extent authorized by the GCL. In any proceeding against the Corporation to enforce these rights, such person shall be presumed to be entitled to indemnification and the Corporation shall have the burden of proving that such person has not met the standards of conduct for permissible indemnification set forth in the GCL. The rights to indemnification and advancement of expenses conferred by this Article VIII shall be presumed to have been relied upon by the directors and officers of the Corporation in serving or continuing to serve the Corporation and shall be enforceable as contract rights. Said rights shall not be exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification may otherwise be entitled. The Corporation may, upon written demand presented by a director or officer of the Corporation or of a direct or indirect subsidiary of the Corporation, or by a person serving at the request of the Corporation as a director or officer of another entity or enterprise, enter into contracts to provide such persons with specified rights to indemnification, which contracts may confer rights and protections to the maximum extent permitted by the GCL, as amended and in effect from time to time.
 
 
 
4

 
 
If a claim under this Article VIII is not paid in full by the Corporation within sixty (60) 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 in whole or in part, the claimant shall be entitled to be paid also the expenses of prosecuting such claim. It shall be a defense to any such action (other than an action brought to enforce the right to be advanced expenses incurred in defending any proceeding prior to its final disposition where the required undertaking, if any, has been tendered to the Corporation) that the claimant has not met the standards of conduct which make it permissible under the GCL for the Corporation to indemnify the claimant for the amount claimed, but the claimant shall be presumed to be entitled to indemnification and the Corporation shall have the burden of proving that the claimant has not met the standards of conduct for permissible indemnification set forth in the GCL.
 
If the GCL is hereafter amended to permit the Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights than said law permitted the Corporation to provide prior to such amendment, the indemnification rights conferred by this Article VIII shall be broadened to the fullest extent permitted by the GCL, as so amended.

ARTICLE IX
 
The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this Certificate, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by statute, and all rights conferred upon stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Certificate to be signed and attested by its duly authorized officer on this 14th day of June, 2011.


 /s/ Thomas L. Millner
Thomas L. Millner, President and Chief Executive Officer

 
 
5