EX-3.55 54 lkq-ex355_20230901.htm EXHIBIT 3.55 Document
Exhibit 3.55
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Delaware

The First State

I, JEFFREY W. BULLOCK, SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, DO HEREBY CERTIFY THE ATTACHED ARE TRUE AND CORRECT COPIES OF ALL DOCUMENTS ON FILE OF “LKQ TRADING COMPANY” AS RECEIVED AND FILED IN THIS OFFICE.
THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN CERTIFIED:
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION, FILED THE SIXTEENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, A.D. 2010, AT 12:59 O'CLOCK P.M.
CERTIFICATE OF CHANGE OF REGISTERED AGENT, FILED THE TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY OF MARCH, A.D. 2016, AT 8:30 O'CLOCK A.M.
AND I DO HEREBY FURTHER CERTIFY THAT THE AFORESAID CERTIFICATES ARE THE ONLY CERTIFICATES ON RECORD OF THE AFORESAID CORPORATION, “LKQ TRADING COMPANY”.


    /s/ Jeffrey W. Bullock    
Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secretary of State
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4788873 8100H
SR# 20224073378



Authentication: 204909452
Date: 11-21-22
You may verify this certificate online at corp.delaware.gov/authver.shtml




CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF

LKQ Trading Company
The undersigned, for the purposes of forming a corporation under the laws of the State of Delaware, do make, file and record this Certificate, and do certify that:
FIRST:    The name of this corporation is LKQ Trading Company
SECOND:    Its Registered Office in the State of Delaware is to be located at
160 Greentree Drive, Suite 101, in the City of Dover, County of Kent, 19904. The Registered Agent in charge thereof is National Registered Agents, Inc.
THIRD:    The purpose of the corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which a corporation may be organized under the General Corporation Law of Delaware.
FOURTH:    The amount of the total authorized capital stock of the corporation is 1000, all of which are of a par value of $0.0l dollars each and classified as Common stock.
DENY PREEMPTIVE RIGHTS
FIFTH:    No holder of any of the shares of the corporation shall, as such holder, have any right to purchase or subscribe for any shares of any class which the corporation may issue or sell, whether or not such shares are exchangeable for any shares of the corporation of any other class or classes, and whether such shares are issued out of the number of shares authorized by the Certificate of Incorporation of the corporation as originally filed, or by any amendment thereof, or out of shares of the corporation acquired by it after the issue thereof; nor shall any holder of any of the shares of the corporation, as such holder, have any right to purchase or subscribe for any obligations which the corporation may issue or sell that shall be convertible into, or exchangeable for, any shares of the corporation of any class or classes, or to which shall be attached or shall appertain to any warrant or warrants or other instrument or instruments that shall confer upon the holder thereof the right to subscribe for, or purchase from the corporation any shares of any class or classes.
SIXTH:    The name and mailing address of the incorporator are as follows:

NAME
Walter P. Hanley
MAILING ADDRESS
120 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 3300
Chicago, IL 60602

SEVENTH:    The duration of the corporation shall be perpetual.
EIGHTH:    When a compromise or arrangement is proposed between the corporation and its creditors or any class of them or between the corporation and its shareholders or any class of them, a court of equity jurisdiction within the state, on application of the corporation or of a creditor or shareholder thereof, or on application of a receiver appointed for the corporation



pursuant to the provisions of Section 291 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code or on application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed for the corporation pursuant to provisions of Section 279 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code may order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors or of the shareholders or class of shareholders to be affected by the proposed compromise or arrangement or reorganization, to be summoned in such manner as the court directs. If a majority in number representing 3/4 in value of the creditors or class of creditors, or of the shareholders or class of shareholders to be affected by the proposed compromise or arrangement or a reorganization, agree to a compromise or arrangement or a reorganization of the corporation as a consequence of the compromise or arrangement, the compromise or arrangement and the reorganization, if sanctioned by the court to which the application has been made, shall be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, or on all the shareholders or class of shareholders and also on the corporation.
NINTH:    The personal liability of all of the directors of the corporation is hereby eliminated to the fullest extent allowed as provided by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as the same may be supplemented and amended.
TENTH:    The corporation shall, to the fullest extent legally permissible under the provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law, as the same may be amended and supplemented, indemnify and hold harmless any and all persons whom it shall have power to indemnify under said provisions from and against any and all liabilities (including expenses) imposed upon or reasonably incurred by him in connection with any action, suit or other proceeding in which he may be involved or with which he may be threatened, or other matters referred to in or covered by said provisions both as to action in his official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director or officer of the corporation. Such indemnification provided shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those indemnified may be entitled under any Bylaw, Agreement or Resolution adopted by the shareholders entitled to vote thereon after notice.

Dated on this 16th day of February, 2010.

    /s/ Walter P. Hanley        
Walter P. Hanley, Incorporator    







STATE OF DELAWARE
CERTIFICATE OF CHANGE OF REGISTERED AGENT
AND
/OR REGISTERED OFFICE
The corporation organized and existing under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, hereby certifies as follows:
l.    The name of the corporation is LKQ Trading Company    
        
2.    The Registered Office of the corporation in the State of Delaware is changed to
3411 Silverside Road Rodney Building #104         
         (street), in the City of Wilmington        ,
County of New Castle    Zip Code 19810    . The name of the Registered Agent at such address upon whom process against this Corporation may be served is Corporate Creations Network Inc.        
3.    The foregoing change to the registered office/agent was adopted by a resolution of the Board of Directors of the corporation.

By:        /s/ Jessica Morales        
Authorized Officer        
Name:    Jessica Morales, Special Secretary    
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