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Exhibit 3.1

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED

 

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

 

of

 

PRESS GANEY HOLDINGS, INC.

 

FIRST.                                                         The name of the Corporation is Press Ganey Holdings, Inc.

 

SECOND.                                          The registered office and registered agent of the Corporation in the State of Delaware is Corporation Service Company, 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, 19808.

 

THIRD.                                                    The purpose of 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 (the “DGCL”) or any successor statute.

 

FOURTH.                                         The total number of shares of capital stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is 1,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”).

 

FIFTH.                                                        In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by the laws of the State of Delaware, the Board of Directors, acting by majority vote, is expressly authorized to make, alter, amend or repeal the Bylaws of the Corporation.

 

SIXTH.                                                      Unless and except to the extent that the Bylaws of the Corporation shall so require, election of directors of the Corporation need not be by written ballot.

 

SEVENTH.                                  To the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL as it now exists or may hereafter be amended, a director of the Corporation shall not be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty owed to the Corporation or its stockholders.  Neither the amendment nor repeal of this Article SEVENTH, nor the adoption of any provision of this Certificate of Incorporation, nor, to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, any modification of law shall eliminate, reduce or otherwise adversely affect any right or protection of a current or former director of the Corporation existing at the time of such amendment, repeal, adoption or modification.

 

EIGHTH.                                           The Corporation hereby expressly elects not to be governed by Section 203 of the DGCL, and the restrictions contained in Section 203 of the DCGL shall not apply to the Corporation.

 

NINTH.                                                    (a) The Corporation shall indemnify, advance expenses, and hold harmless, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law as it presently exists or may hereafter be amended, any person (a “Covered Person”) who was or is made or is threatened to be made a party or is otherwise involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative in nature, including any appeal (a “Proceeding”), by reason of the fact that he or she, or a person for whom he or she is the legal representative, is or was a director or officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or, while a director, officer, employee or agent

 



 

of the Corporation, is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, trustee, partner, member, other fiduciary or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, limited liability company, trust, enterprise or nonprofit entity, including service with respect to employee benefit plans or public service or charitable organizations, whether the basis of such claim or proceeding is alleged actions or omissions in any such capacity or in any other capacity while serving as a director, officer, trustee, partner, member, employee, other fiduciary or agent thereof, against all expense and liability and loss suffered and expenses reasonably incurred by such Covered Person in enforcing the provisions of this paragraph (a) of Article NINTH (including attorney’s fees, and disbursements, court costs, damages, fines, amounts paid or to be paid in settlement, and excise taxes or penalties).  Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, except for claims for indemnification (during the pendency of the disposition of such Proceeding) or advancement of expenses not paid in full, the Corporation shall be required to indemnify and hold harmless a Covered Person in connection with a Proceeding (or part thereof) commenced by such Covered Person only if the commencement of such Proceeding (or part thereof) by the Covered Person was authorized in the specific case by the board of directors of the Corporation.  Any amendment, repeal or modification of this paragraph (a) of Article NINTH shall not adversely affect any right or protection hereunder of any person in respect of any act or omission occurring prior to the time of such repeal or modification.

 

(b) The rights to indemnification and advancement of expenses conferred by paragraph (a) of this Article NINTH shall not be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute (including the DGCL), any other provision of this Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, the Bylaws of the Corporation, any agreement, any vote of stockholders or the disinterested directors or otherwise.

 

TENTH.                                                  If any provision or provisions of this Certificate of Incorporation shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable as applied to any circumstance for any reason whatsoever: (i) the validity, legality and enforceability of such provisions in any other circumstance and of the remaining provisions of this Certificate of Incorporation (including, without limitation, each portion of any Article of this Certificate of Incorporation containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable that is not itself held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby and (ii) to the fullest extent possible, the provisions of this Certificate of Incorporation (including, without limitation, each such portion of any Article of this Certificate of Incorporation containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall be construed so as to permit the Corporation to protect its directors, officers, employees and agents from personal liability in respect of their good faith service or for the benefit of the Corporation to the fullest extent permitted by law.