EX-3.2 7 ex3-2.htm CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF COCRYSTAL HOLDINGS, INC. ex3-2.htm
Exhibit 3.2
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
COCRYSTAL HOLDINGS, INC.


1.           The name of the corporation is Cocrystal Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”).

2.           The address of its registered office in the State of Delaware, County of New Castle, is 3411 Silverside Road, Rodney Building #104, Wilmington, Delaware 19810.  The name of its registered agent at such address is Corporate Creations Network, Inc.

3.           The nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or promoted are to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the Delaware General Corporation Law.

4.           The total number of shares of stock of all classes and series the Company shall have authority to issue is 205,000,000 shares consisting of (i) 200,000,000 shares of common stock, par value of $0.001 per share and (ii) 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.001 with such rights, preferences and limitations as may be set from time to time by resolution of the board of directors and the filing of a certificate of designation as required by the Delaware General Corporation Law. Of the shares of preferred stock, a series of preferred stock is hereby designated as Series B Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Series B Preferred Stock”).

(a)           Number of Shares. The number of shares constituting Series B Preferred Stock is fixed at 1,000,000 shares, par value $0.001 per share (the “Stated Value”), and such amount may not be increased or decreased except with the written consent of the holders of at least a majority of the issued and outstanding Series B Preferred Stock.

(b)           Liquidation.

(1)  Upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the business of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary, each holder of Series B Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, for each share thereof, out of assets of the Company legally available therefor, a preferential amount in cash equal to (and not more than) the Stated Value.  All preferential amounts to be paid to the holders of Series B Preferred Stock in connection with such liquidation, dissolution or winding up shall be paid before the payment or setting apart for payment of any amount for, or the distribution of any assets of the Company to the holders of (i) any other class or series of capital stock whose terms expressly provide that the holders of Series B Preferred Stock should receive preferential payment with respect to such distribution (to the extent of such preference) and (ii) the Company's common stock.  If upon any such distribution the assets of the Company shall be insufficient to pay the holders of the outstanding shares of Series B Preferred Stock (or the holders of any class or series of capital stock ranking on a parity with the Series B Preferred Stock as to distributions in the event of a liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company) the full amounts to which they shall be entitled, such holders shall share ratably in any distribution of assets in accordance with the sums which would be payable on such distribution if all sums payable thereon were paid in full.

(2)           Any distribution in connection with the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, or any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, shall be made in cash to the extent possible.  Whenever any such distribution shall be paid in property other than cash, the value of such distribution shall be the fair market value of such property as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company.

(c)           Voting.  Except as otherwise expressly required by law or expressly provided herein, the holders of Series B Preferred Stock shall be entitled to vote on all matters submitted to shareholders of the Company and each share of Series B Preferred Stock held shall be entitled to the number of votes per share that it will have on an as converted basis.  Except as otherwise required by law or expressly provided herein, the holders of shares of Series B Preferred Stock shall vote together with the holders of common stock on all matters and shall not vote as a separate class.

 
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(d)           Automatic Conversion.  Each share of Series B Preferred Stock shall automatically, and without any further action on the part of the holder, convert into 205.08308640 shares of common stock, $0.001 par value per share, (with the total number of shares issued to each holder rounded up to the nearest share) of the Company upon action by the Company to increase its authorized common stock or combine its shares of common stock to permit full conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock.

(e)           Other Provisions:

(1)                      Best Efforts.  The Company shall use its best efforts to increase its authorized common stock to permit automatic conversion as provided in Section 4(d).

(2)                      Record Holders.  The Company and its transfer agent, if any, for the Series B Preferred Stock may deem and treat the record holder of any shares of Series B Preferred Stock as reflected on the books and records of the Company as the sole true and lawful owner thereof for all purposes, and neither the Company nor any such transfer agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.

(f)           Restriction and Limitations.  Except as required by law so long as any shares of Series B Preferred Stock remain outstanding, the Company shall not, without the vote or written consent of the holders of at least a majority of the then outstanding shares of the Series B Preferred Stock, take any action which would adversely and materially affect any of the preferences, limitations or relative rights of the Series B Preferred Stock.

(g)           Stock Dividends and Stock Splits.  If the Company, at any time while the Series B Preferred Stock is outstanding: (i) pays a stock dividend or otherwise make a distribution or distributions payable in shares of common stock or common stock equivalents, (ii) subdivides outstanding shares of common stock into a larger number of shares, or (iii) combines (including by way of reverse stock split) outstanding shares of common stock into a smaller number of shares, then the number of shares of common stock issuable upon conversion in Section 4(d) shall be modified by multiplying such number (as it originally existed or has been subsequently modified by this Section 4(g) by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of common stock (excluding any treasury shares of the Company) outstanding immediately after such event, and of which the denominator shall be the number of shares of common stock (excluding any treasury shares of the Company) outstanding immediately before such event. Any adjustment made pursuant to this Section 4(g) shall become effective immediately after the record date for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive such dividend or distribution and shall become effective immediately after the effective date in the case of a subdivision, combination or re-classification.

5.           The name and mailing address of the incorporator is as follows:

Michael D. Harris
1645 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd.
Suite 1200
West Palm Beach, FL 33401

6.           The name and mailing address of each person who is to serve as a director until the first annual meeting of the shareholders or until a successor is elected and qualified, is as follows:

Name
Mailing Address
   
Dr.  Gary Wilcox
 
4018 Via Laguna
Santa Barbara, CA 93110
 
   
 
 
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7.           The Company is to have perpetual existence.  In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute, the board of directors is expressly authorized to make, amend, alter or repeal the bylaws of the Company.

8.           Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless the bylaws of the Company shall so provide.

Meetings of shareholders may be held within or without the State of Delaware as the bylaws may provide.  The books of the Company 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 of the Company.

9.           The Company reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this certificate of incorporation, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by statute, and all rights conferred upon shareholders herein are granted subject to this reservation.

10.           No director of this Company shall be personally liable to the Company or its shareholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director. Nothing in this paragraph shall serve to eliminate or limit the liability of a director (a) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to this Company or its shareholders, (b) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involves intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (c) under Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or (d) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.  If the Delaware General Corporation Law is amended after approval by the shareholders of this article to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors, then the liability of a director of the Company shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as so amended.

Any repeal or modification of the foregoing paragraph by the shareholders of the Company shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a director of the Company existing at the time of such repeal or modification.

11.           (a)           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 (except as provided in Section 11 (f)) whether civil, criminal or administrative, (a “Proceeding”), or is contacted by any governmental or regulatory body in connection with any investigation or inquiry (an “Investigation”), by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director or executive officer (as such term is utilized pursuant to interpretations under Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) of the Company or is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to employee benefit plans (an “Indemnitee”), whether the basis of such Proceeding or Investigation is alleged action in an official capacity or in any other capacity as set forth above shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Company to the fullest extent authorized by the Delaware General Corporation Law, 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 Company to provide broader indemnification rights than such law permitted the Company to provide prior to such amendment), against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties and amounts paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by such Indemnitee in connection therewith and such indemnification shall continue as to an Indemnitee who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the Indemnitee’s heirs, executors and administrators. The right to indemnification conferred in this Section shall be a contract right and shall include the right to be paid by the Company the expenses incurred in defending any such Proceeding in advance of its final disposition (an “Advancement of Expenses”); provided, however, that an Advancement of Expenses shall be made only upon delivery to the Company of an 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 that such Indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified for such expenses under this Section or otherwise (an “Undertaking”).
 
 
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(b)           If a claim under paragraph (a) of this Section is not paid in full by the Company within 60 days after a written claim has been received by the Company, except in the case of a claim for an Advancement of Expenses, in which case the applicable period shall be 20 days, the Indemnitee may at any time thereafter bring suit against the Company 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 Company 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.  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 to an Advancement of Expenses) it shall be a defense that, and

(ii)           any suit by the Company to recover an Advancement of Expenses pursuant to the terms of an Undertaking the Company shall be entitled to recover such expenses upon a final adjudication that,

the Indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in the Delaware General Corporation Law.  Neither the failure of the Company (including its board of directors, independent legal counsel, or its shareholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such suit that indemnification of the Indemnitee is proper in the circumstances because the Indemnitee has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in the Delaware General Corporation Law, nor an actual determination by the Company (including its board of directors, independent legal counsel, or its shareholders) that the Indemnitee has not met such 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 hereunder, or by the Company 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 Section or otherwise shall be on the Company.

(c)           The rights to indemnification and to the Advancement of Expenses conferred in this Section shall not be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, this certificate of incorporation, bylaw, agreement, vote of shareholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.

(d)           The Company may maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect itself and any director, officer, employee or agent of the Company or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss, whether or not the Company would have the power to indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the Delaware General Corporation Law.

(e)           The Company may, to the extent authorized from time to time by the board of directors, grant rights to indemnification and to the Advancement of Expenses, to any employee or agent of the Company to the fullest extent of the provisions of this Section with respect to the indemnification and Advancement of Expenses of directors, and executive officers of the Company.

(f)           Notwithstanding the indemnification provided for by this Section 11, the Company’s bylaws, or any written agreement, such indemnity shall not include any Advancement of Expenses incurred by such Indemnitees relating to or arising from any Proceeding in which the Company asserts a direct claim against an Indemnitee, or an Indemnitee asserts a direct claim against the Company, whether such claim is termed a complaint, counterclaim, crossclaim, third-party complaint or otherwise. Following the termination of any Proceeding referred to in this Section 11(f), the Company may provide indemnification in accordance with this Section 11, the Company’s bylaws,  any written agreement or the Delaware General Corporation Law.
 
 
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12.           This Certificate of Incorporation and the internal affairs of the Company shall be governed by and interpreted under the laws of the State of Delaware, excluding its conflict of laws principles.  Unless the Company consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware shall be the sole and exclusive forum for (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Company, (ii) any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any director or officer (or affiliate of any of the foregoing) of the Company to the Company or the Company’s shareholders, (iii) any action asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the Delaware General Corporation Law or the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws, or (iv) any other action asserting a claim arising under, in connection with, and governed by the internal affairs doctrine.

I, THE UNDERSIGNED, being the incorporator hereinbefore named, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the Delaware General Corporation Law, do make this certificate, hereby declaring and certifying that this is my act and deed and the facts herein stated are true, and accordingly have hereunto set my hand this 21st day of November, 2014.


/s/Michael Harris                                                                
Michael D. Harris
 
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