0001193125-12-297769.txt : 20120709 0001193125-12-297769.hdr.sgml : 20120709 20120709172501 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-12-297769 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 3 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20120702 ITEM INFORMATION: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement ITEM INFORMATION: Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant ITEM INFORMATION: Notice of Delisting or Failure to Satisfy a Continued Listing Rule or Standard; Transfer of Listing ITEM INFORMATION: Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities ITEM INFORMATION: Material Modifications to Rights of Security Holders ITEM INFORMATION: Changes in Control of Registrant ITEM INFORMATION: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers ITEM INFORMATION: Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20120709 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20120709 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: P F CHANGS CHINA BISTRO INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001039889 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: RETAIL-EATING PLACES [5812] IRS NUMBER: 860815086 FISCAL YEAR END: 0103 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-25123 FILM NUMBER: 12954021 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 7676 E. PINNACLE PEAK RD. CITY: SCOTTSDALE STATE: AZ ZIP: 85255 BUSINESS PHONE: 480-888-3000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 7676 E. PINNACLE PEAK RD. CITY: SCOTTSDALE STATE: AZ ZIP: 85255 8-K 1 d378817d8k.htm FORM 8-K Form 8-K

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF

THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): July 2, 2012

 

 

P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware    0-25123    86-0815086

 

  

 

  

 

(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)
   (Commission File Number)    (IRS Employer Identification No.)

 

7676 E. Pinnacle Peak Road, Scottsdale, Arizona    85255

 

  

 

(Address of principal executive offices)    (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (480) 888-3000

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

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Introduction

As previously reported, on May 1, 2012, P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger, as amended by Amendment No. 1 to Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of June 22, 2012 (as so amended, the “Merger Agreement”) with Wok Parent LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Parent”), and Wok Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (“Purchaser”). Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, upon the terms and subject to the conditions thereof, on July 2, 2012, Purchaser commenced a tender offer (the “Offer”) on May 15, 2012 to acquire all outstanding shares of common stock, $0.001 par value per share, of the Company (the “Shares”) at a purchase price of $51.50 per Share, net to the seller in cash, without interest thereon and less any applicable withholding taxes.

On July 2, 2012, Purchaser and certain of its affiliates announced the completion of the Offer. Also on July 2, 2012, because Parent then owned more than 90% of the outstanding Shares, in accordance with the Merger Agreement and as permitted by applicable law, Purchaser merged with and into the Company (the “Merger”). At the effective time of the Merger (the “Effective Time”), (i) the Company was the surviving corporation in the Merger and now is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent, and (ii) each outstanding Share not validly tendered, accepted for payment and paid for pursuant to the Offer, other than Shares owned by the Company as treasury stock, by Parent or Purchaser, or by stockholders of the Company who validly exercise their appraisal rights in accordance with Section 262 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, as amended (the “DGCL”), was converted into the right to receive $51.50 per Share, net in cash, without interest thereon and less any required withholding taxes. Following the Effective Time, the Shares were delisted from the NASDAQ Global Select Market, and will be deregistered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and the Company will no longer file periodic reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on account of the Shares.

 

Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

 

 

1. Senior Secured Credit Facilities

On July 2, 2012, in connection with the Merger, the Company entered into a credit agreement and related security and other agreements for (a) a $305.0 million senior secured term loan facility (the “Term Loan Facility”) and (b) a $75.0 million senior secured revolving loan facility (the “Revolving Facility” and, together with the Term Loan Facility, the “Senior Credit Facilities”) with certain lenders, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as administrative agent, and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Barclays Bank PLC as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners.

In addition to borrowings upon prior notice, the Revolving Facility includes borrowing capacity in the form of letters of credit of up to $35.0 million at any time outstanding and borrowings on same-day notice, referred to as swing line loans, of up to $10.0 million at any time outstanding. The credit agreement governing the Senior Credit Facilities also permits the Company to request additional tranches of term loans and/or revolving commitments and/or increase commitments under the Revolving Facility and/or the Term Loan Facility in an aggregate amount not to exceed the sum of (a) $75.0 million plus (b) in the case of any such tranche or commitment increase that serves to effectively extend the maturity of the Term Loan Facility and/or the Revolving Facility, an amount equal to the reductions in the Term Loan Facility and/or the Revolving Facility to be replaced thereby plus (c) an unlimited amount at any time, subject to compliance on a pro forma basis with a net senior secured lease-adjusted leverage ratio of 4.00:1.00. The availability of such additional capacity is subject to, among other things, the absence of any default under the credit agreement governing the Senior Credit Facilities and receipt of commitments from existing lenders or other financial institutions.

Interest Rate and Fees. Borrowings under the Senior Credit Facilities bear interest at a rate per annum equal to an applicable margin plus, at the Company’s option, either (a) a base rate determined by reference to the highest of (i) the prime rate of Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, (ii) the federal funds effective rate plus 0.50% and (iii) a LIBOR rate determined by reference to the cost of funds for Eurodollar deposits for an interest period of one-month (which, in the case of the Term Loan Facility only, will be no less than 1.25%) adjusted for certain reserve requirements, plus 1.00% or (b) a LIBOR rate determined by reference to the costs of funds for Eurodollar deposits for the interest period relevant to such borrowing adjusted for certain reserve requirements, which, in the case of the Term Loan Facility only, will be no less than 1.25%. The applicable margin for borrowings under the Term Loan Facility is initially 4.00% with respect to base rate borrowings and 5.00% with respect to LIBOR borrowings. The applicable margin for borrowings under the Revolving Facility is initially 3.75% with respect to base rate borrowings and 4.75% with respect to LIBOR borrowings. The applicable margins for borrowings under the Revolving Facility and the Term Loan Facility are subject to one 0.25% step-down based upon the Company’s net senior secured lease-adjusted leverage ratio at the end of each fiscal quarter, commencing with the first fiscal quarter ending after the closing date.

In addition to paying interest on outstanding principal under the Senior Credit Facilities, the Company is required to pay customary agency fees, a commitment fee in respect of the unutilized commitments under the Revolving Facility of 0.50% per annum and certain fees in respect of letters of credit issued under the Revolving Facility.

 

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Mandatory Prepayments. The credit agreement governing the Senior Credit Facilities requires the Company to pay, subject to certain exceptions, outstanding term loans with:

 

   

50% (subject to step-downs to 25% and 0% based upon the Company’s net senior secured lease-adjusted leverage ratio) of annual excess cash flow;

 

   

100% of the net cash proceeds of certain non-ordinary course asset sales and casualty and condemnation events, subject to reinvestment rights and certain other exceptions; and

 

   

100% of the net cash proceeds of the incurrence or issuance of certain debt, other than the net cash proceeds of certain debt permitted under the Senior Credit Facilities.

Voluntary Prepayments. The Term Loan Facility includes “call protection” pursuant to which any voluntary prepayment of, or amendment to, the Term Loan Facility in connection with a “repricing transaction” (other than in connection with a change of control) on or prior to the date that is 12 months after the closing date will be subject to a call premium of 1.00%. Otherwise, the Company is permitted to voluntarily prepay any outstanding loans under the Senior Credit Facilities at any time without premium or penalty, other than customary “breakage” costs with respect to LIBOR loans.

Amortization and Final Maturity. The Term Loan Facility requires the Company to make scheduled quarterly payments of 0.25% of the original principal amount of the Term Loan Facility, with the balance due on the seventh anniversary of the closing date. The Revolving Facility does not require any scheduled amortization. Any principal amount outstanding under the Revolving Facility will be due and payable on the fifth anniversary of the closing date.

Guarantees and Security. All obligations under the Senior Credit Facilities are unconditionally guaranteed by Wok Holdings Inc., the Company’s direct parent (“Holdings”), Parent and certain of Parent’s direct and indirect domestic subsidiaries. All obligations under the Senior Credit Facilities, and the guarantees thereof, are secured, subject to certain exceptions, by substantially all of the assets of the Company and each of the guarantors, including:

 

   

a first-priority pledge of all of the capital stock of each subsidiary of the Company or any guarantor (which pledge, in the case of the capital stock of certain foreign subsidiaries, is limited to 65% of such capital stock); and

 

   

a first-priority security interest in substantially all of the Company’s and the guarantors’ tangible and intangible assets.

In connection with the foregoing arrangements, the guarantors entered into a Guaranty, dated July 2, 2012, and the Company and the guarantors entered into a Security Agreement, dated July 2, 2012.

Certain Other Provisions. The credit agreement governing the Senior Credit Facilities contains a number of covenants that, among other things (and subject to certain exceptions), restrict the ability of Parent and its restricted subsidiaries, including the Company, to:

 

   

incur additional indebtedness;

 

   

pay dividends on the capital stock of Parent or redeem, repurchase or retire the capital stock of Parent;

 

   

make investments, acquisitions, loans and advances;

 

   

create restrictions on the ability of the non-guarantor restricted subsidiaries of Parent to pay dividends to the Company or any guarantor or on the ability of the Company or any guarantor to grant liens to secure the Senior Credit Facilities;

 

   

make capital expenditures;

 

   

engage in transactions with affiliates;

 

   

sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of assets, including capital stock of subsidiaries;

 

   

materially alter the business they conduct;

 

   

in the case of Parent, change its fiscal year;

 

   

consolidate, merge, liquidate or dissolve;

 

   

grant liens;

 

   

effect certain amendments to organizational documents;

 

   

make prepayments in cash on the Notes (as defined below) and certain material subordinated debt; and

 

   

dispose of or issue less than all of the capital stock of a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent to third parties.

 

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Parent is subject to a passive holding company covenant that limits its ability to engage in certain activities.

The Senior Credit Facilities also include a financial maintenance covenant, which requires the Company to maintain not more than a specified maximum net senior secured lease-adjusted leverage ratio at the end of each quarter.

In addition to the foregoing negative and financial covenants, the credit agreement governing the Senior Credit Facilities also contains certain customary representations and warranties, affirmative covenants and events of default (including upon a change of control).

 

2. Indenture and 10.25% Senior Notes Due 2020

On June 29, 2012, Purchaser issued $300 million aggregate principal amount of its 10.25% senior notes due 2020 (the “Notes”) under an indenture, dated as of June 29, 2012 (the “Original Indenture”), among Purchaser and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”). On July 2, 2012, following the Merger, the Company and certain guarantors (the “Guarantors”), entered into a supplemental indenture with the Trustee (the “Supplemental Indenture,” and together with the Original Indenture, the “Indenture”) pursuant to which the Company assumed the obligations of Purchaser under the Indenture and the Notes and the Guarantors guaranteed the Notes.

The Notes will mature on June 30, 2020. The Company will pay interest on the Notes on June 30 and December 31 of each year, commencing on December 31, 2012. Interest on the Notes will accrue at a rate of 10.25% per annum.

Guarantees. The Notes are guaranteed on an unsecured senior basis by Holdings, Parent and Parent’s wholly-owned domestic subsidiaries that guarantee the Senior Credit Facilities.

Ranking. The Notes and related guarantees (the “Guarantees”) will rank senior in right of payment to all of the Company’s and the Guarantors’ existing and future subordinated indebtedness and will rank equally in right of payment with all of the Company’s and the Guarantors’ existing and future senior indebtedness, including the Senior Credit Facilities. The Notes and the Guarantees will be effectively subordinated to all of the Company’s and Guarantors’ existing and future secured debt, including the Senior Credit Facilities, to the extent of the value of the assets securing such debt. The Notes and the Guarantees will be structurally subordinated to all debt and other liabilities, including trade payables, of any of the Company’s subsidiaries that do not guarantee the Notes.

Mandatory Redemption; Offers to Purchase; Open Market Purchases. The Company is not required to make any mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the Notes. However, under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to offer to purchase Notes as described under “Change of Control” and “Asset Sale Proceeds” below. The Company may at any time and from time to time purchase Notes in the open market or otherwise.

Optional Redemption. Prior to June 30, 2016, the Company may redeem the Notes at its option, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but not including, the applicable redemption date and an Applicable Premium (as defined below) as of the date of redemption, subject to the rights of holders on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date. The “Applicable Premium” means, with respect to any Note on any redemption date, the greater of: (a) 1.0% of the principal amount of such Note; and (b) the excess, if any, of (i) the present value at such redemption date of (A) the redemption price of such Note at June 30, 2016 (such redemption price being set forth in the table below), plus (B) all required interest payments due on such Note through June 30, 2016 (excluding accrued but unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date), computed using a discount rate equal to the applicable treasury rate as of such redemption date plus 50 basis points; over (ii) the then outstanding principal amount of the Note.

On and after June 30, 2016, the Company may redeem the Notes at its option, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ notice, at the following redemption prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount), plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but not including, the applicable redemption date (subject to the right of holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date), if redeemed during the twelve-month period beginning on June 30 of the years indicated below:

 

Redemption Period

     Price   

2016

     105.125

2017

     102.563

2018 and thereafter

     100.000

In addition, at any time and from time to time on or prior to June 30, 2015, the Company may redeem in the aggregate up to 35% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Notes (calculated after giving effect to any issuance of any additional Notes) with the

 

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net cash proceeds of one or more equity offerings by the Company at a redemption price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) of 110.250%, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but not including, the redemption date (subject to the right of holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date); provided that at least 65% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Notes (calculated after giving effect to any issuance of any additional Notes) must remain outstanding after each such redemption; provided further that such redemption occurs within 90 days after the closing of such equity offering.

Change of Control. If a change of control occurs, unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem all the Notes as described above under “Optional Redemption,” each holder will have the right to require the Company to repurchase all or any part (equal to $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof) of such holder’s Notes at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount of the Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the date of repurchase, subject to the right of holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date.

Asset Sale Proceeds. If Parent or any of its restricted subsidiaries causes or makes certain asset sales, Parent or its restricted subsidiary generally must, within specific periods of time, either prepay, repay or repurchase certain of its or its restricted subsidiaries’ indebtedness or make an offer to purchase a principal amount of the Notes and certain other debt equal to the excess net cash proceeds, or invest the net cash proceeds from such sales in additional assets. The purchase price of the Notes will be 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of purchase.

Covenants. The Indenture contains covenants limiting the ability of Parent’s or any of its restricted subsidiaries to, among other things:

 

   

incur additional indebtedness or issue preferred stock;

 

   

pay dividends on or make other distributions on or repurchase Parent’s capital stock or make other restricted payments;

 

   

create restrictions on the payment of dividends or other amounts from Parent’s restricted subsidiaries to Parent’s other restricted subsidiaries;

 

   

make loans or investments;

 

   

enter into certain transactions with affiliates;

 

   

create liens;

 

   

designate Parent’s subsidiaries as unrestricted subsidiaries; and

 

   

sell certain assets or merge with or into other companies or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of Parent’s, the Company’s or any Guarantor’s assets.

Events of Default. The Indenture also provides for customary events of default, including, without limitation, payment defaults, covenant defaults, cross acceleration defaults to certain other indebtedness in excess of specified amounts, certain events of bankruptcy and insolvency and judgment defaults in excess of specified amounts. If any such event of default occurs and is continuing under the Indenture, the Trustee or the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the total outstanding Notes may declare the principal, premium, if any, interest and any other monetary obligations on all the then outstanding Notes issued under the Indenture to be due and payable immediately.

 

Item 2.03. Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.

The information set forth under Item 1.01 is incorporated by reference herein.

 

Item 3.01. Notice of Delisting or Failure to Satisfy a Continued Listing Rule or Standard; Transfer of Listing.

On July 2, 2012, in connection with the Merger, the Company notified the NASDAQ Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) of its intent to remove its Shares from listing on the NASDAQ Global Select Market and requested that Nasdaq file a Notification of Removal from Listing and/or Registration on Form 25 with the SEC to delist and deregister the Shares, which Nasdaq filed on such date. The Company intends to file with the SEC Form 15 under the Exchange Act, requesting the deregistration of the Shares and the suspension of the Company’s reporting obligations under Sections 13 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act. Trading of the Shares on the NASDAQ Global Select Market was suspended as of the opening of trading on July 2, 2012.

 

Item 3.02. Unregistered Sale of Equity Securities.

In order to complete the Merger, on July 2, 2012, pursuant to Section 1.4 of the Merger Agreement, Purchaser exercised its top-up option (the “Top-Up Option”) to purchase additional Shares, and the Company issued 17,000,000 Shares (the “Top-Up Shares”) to Purchaser, at a price of $51.50 per Share. Purchaser paid for the Top-Up Shares by delivery of cash equal to the aggregate par value of the Top-Up Shares and a promissory note having a principal amount equal to the

 

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aggregate purchase price pursuant to the Top-Up Option less the amount paid in cash. The Top-Up Shares, when added to the number of Shares directly or indirectly owned by Parent and Purchaser at the time of exercise of the Top-Up Option, represented more than 90% of the Shares outstanding immediately after the issuance of the Top-Up Shares, which ensured that Purchaser and the Company could effect the Merger under applicable Delaware law. The Top-Up Shares were issued without registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), in reliance upon an exemption from registration pursuant to Section 4(2) of the Securities Act, as a transaction by an issuer not involving a public offering.

 

Item 3.03. Material Modification to Rights of Security Holders.

At the Effective Time, each outstanding Share (other than Shares held by the Company, Parent, Purchaser or any subsidiary of the Company or Parent, or by stockholders of the Company who validly exercise their appraisal rights in accordance with Section 262 of the DGCL) was converted into the right to receive $51.50 per Share, net to the seller in cash, without interest thereon and less any applicable withholding taxes.

 

Item 5.01. Changes in Control of Registrant.

As a result of the acceptance of Shares in the Offer on July 2, 2012, a change of control of the Company occurred. Upon the effectiveness of the Merger, the Company became an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent. The disclosure under Item 3.01 is incorporated herein by reference. The total amount of the consideration payable in connection with the change of control transaction was approximately $1.1 billion. The funds used to consummate the Offer and the Merger were from equity contributions by Centerbridge Capital Partners II, L.P. and Centerbridge Capital Partners SBS II, L.P., proceeds received in connection with the Senior Credit Facilities and the issuance of the Notes, as described in Item 1.01 above, and available cash from the Company’s balance sheet.

 

Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

In connection with the Merger and as contemplated by the Merger Agreement, each member of the Company’s board of directors prior to the Merger voluntarily resigned from the Company’s board of directors effective as of the Effective Time. Pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement, on July 2, 2012, each of Jason Mozingo, Amar Doshi and Jeffrey Long became a member of the Company’s board of directors following the Effective Time. Richard L. Federico, one of the directors of the Company prior to the Merger, was re-appointed to the Company’s board of directors.

 

Item 5.03. Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change of Fiscal Year.

Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, following the Effective Time, the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time was amended and restated (the “Amended and Restated Charter”) to be in the form of the certificate of incorporation set forth as Exhibit B to the Merger Agreement. In addition, following the Effective Time, the Company’s amended and restated bylaws in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time were amended and restated (the “Amended and Restated Bylaws”) to be in the form of the bylaws set forth as Exhibit C to the Merger Agreement.

Copies of the Amended and Restated Charter and the Amended and Restated Bylaws are filed as Exhibits 3.1 and 3.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits

 

Exhibit No.

  

Exhibit

3.1    Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Inc.
3.2    Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Inc.

 

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

Date: July 9, 2012

  P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Inc.
 

/s/ Mark D. Mumford

 

Mark D. Mumford

Chief Financial Officer


Exhibit Index

 

Exhibit No.

  

Exhibit

3.1    Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Inc.
3.2    Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Inc.
EX-3.1 2 d378817dex31.htm SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation

Exhibit 3.1

SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

P.F. CHANG’S CHINA BISTRO, INC.

FIRST: The name of the corporation formed hereby is P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Inc. (the “Corporation”).

SECOND: The address of the registered office of the Corporation in the State of Delaware is Corporation Service Company, 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, State of Delaware 19808. The name of the registered agent at such address is Corporation Service Company.

THIRD: The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any and all lawful acts or activities for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”), as from time to time amended.

FOURTH: The total number of shares of capital stock that the Corporation shall have authority to issue is 100 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”). The number of authorized shares of Common Stock may be increased or decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding) from time to time by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the voting power of the Corporation’s then outstanding shares of stock entitled to vote thereon, voting together as a single class, irrespective of the provisions of Section 242(b)(2) of the DGCL (or any successor provision thereto), and no vote of the holders of any of the Common Stock voting separately as a class shall be required therefor.

FIFTH: In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by law, subject to any limitations contained elsewhere in this Certificate of Incorporation, bylaws of the Corporation may be adopted, amended or repealed by a majority of the Board of Directors of the Corporation (the “Board of Directors”), but any bylaws adopted by the Board of Directors may be amended or repealed by the stockholders entitled to vote thereon. Election of directors need not be by written ballot.

SIXTH: In addition to the powers and authority herein before or by statute expressly conferred upon them, the Board of Directors is hereby empowered to exercise all such powers and do all such acts and things as may be exercised or done by the Corporation, subject to the provisions of the DGCL, this Certificate of Incorporation and the bylaws of the Corporation.

SEVENTH: The number of directors of the Corporation shall be fixed from time to time in the manner provided in the bylaws or any amendment thereof adopted by the Board of Directors.

EIGHTH: (a) A director of the Corporation shall not be personally liable either to the Corporation or to any stockholder thereof for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except (i) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions that are not in good faith or that involve intentional


misconduct or knowing violation of the law, (iii) for any matter in respect of which such director shall be liable under Section 174 of Title 8 of the DGCL or any amendment thereto or successor provision thereto or (iv) for any transaction from which the director shall have derived an improper personal benefit. Neither amendment nor repeal of this paragraph (a) nor the adoption of any provision of this Certificate of Incorporation inconsistent with this paragraph (a) shall eliminate or reduce the effect of this paragraph (a) in respect of any matter occurring, or any cause of action, suit or claim that, but for this paragraph (a) of this Article Eighth, would accrue or arise, prior to such amendment, repeal or adoption of an inconsistent provision.

(b) The Corporation shall indemnify any director or officer of the Corporation who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to, or testifies in, any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative in nature, by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, employee benefit plan, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding to the full extent permitted by law, and the Corporation may adopt bylaws or enter into agreements with any such person for the purpose of providing for such indemnification.

(c) The Corporation may indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to, or testifies in, any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative in nature, by reason of the fact that such person is or was an employee or agent of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, employee benefit plan, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding to the full extent permitted by law, and the Corporation may adopt bylaws or enter into agreements with any such person for the purpose of providing for such indemnification.

(d) The Corporation hereby acknowledges that the directors (the “Directors”) that are employees of Centerbridge Capital Partners II, L.P. or one of its affiliates (together, “Centerbridge”) have certain rights to indemnification, advancement of expenses and/or insurance provided by Centerbridge and certain affiliates that, directly or indirectly, (i) are controlled by, (ii) control or (iii) are under common control with, Centerbridge (collectively, the “Fund Indemnitors”). The Corporation hereby agrees (i) that it is the indemnitor of first resort (i.e., its obligations to the Directors are primary and any obligation of the Fund Indemnitors to advance expenses or to provide indemnification for the same expenses or liabilities incurred by the Directors are secondary), (ii) that it shall be required to advance the full amount of expenses incurred by the Directors and shall be liable for the full amount of all expenses, judgments, penalties, fines and amounts paid in settlement to the extent legally permitted and as required by the terms of this paragraph and the bylaws of the Corporation from time to time (or any other agreement between the Corporation and the Directors), without regard to any rights the Directors may have against the Fund Indemnitors, and (iii) that it irrevocably waives, relinquishes and releases the Fund Indemnitors from any and all claims against the Fund Indemnitors for contribution, subrogation or any other recovery of any kind in respect thereof. The Corporation further agrees that no advancement or payment by the Fund Indemnitors on behalf of the


Directors with respect to any claim for which the Directors have sought indemnification from the Corporation shall affect the foregoing and the Fund Indemnitors shall have a right of contribution and/or be subrogated to the extent of such advancement or payment to all of the rights of recovery of the Directors against the Corporation. The Corporation and the Directors agree that the Fund Indemnitors are express third party beneficiaries of the terms of this paragraph (d).

NINTH: The Corporation expressly elects not to be governed by Section 203 of the DGCL.

TENTH: To the fullest extent permitted by Section 122(17) of the DGCL, the Corporation hereby renounces any interest or expectancy of the Corporation in, or in being offered an opportunity to participate in, any business opportunities that are presented to one or more of its officers, directors or stockholders, other than those officers, directors or stockholders who are employees of the Corporation or its subsidiaries. No amendment or repeal of this Article Tenth shall apply to or have any effect on the liability or alleged liability of any officer, director or stockholder of the Corporation for or with respect to any opportunities of which such officer, director or stockholder becomes aware prior to such amendment or repeal.

EX-3.2 3 d378817dex32.htm SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS Second Amended and Restated Bylaws

Exhibit 3.2

SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS

OF

P.F. CHANG’S CHINA BISTRO, INC.

(a Delaware corporation)

ARTICLE I

Stockholders

SECTION 1. Annual Meetings. The annual meeting of the stockholders of P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Inc. (the “Corporation”) for the election of directors and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting shall be held each year at such date and time, within or without the State of Delaware, as the board of directors of the Corporation (the “Board of Directors”) shall determine.

SECTION 2. Special Meetings. Special meetings of stockholders for the transaction of such business as may properly come before the meeting may be called by order of the Board of Directors or by stockholders holding together at least a majority of all the shares of the Corporation entitled to vote at the meeting, and shall be held at such date and time, within or without the State of Delaware, as may be specified by such order. Whenever the directors shall fail to fix such place, the meeting shall be held at the principal executive office of the Corporation.

SECTION 3. Notice of Meetings. Written notice of all meetings of the stockholders, stating the place, date and hour 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, and the place within the city or other municipality or community at which the list of stockholders may be examined, shall be mailed or delivered to each stockholder entitled to vote at such meeting not less than 10 nor more than 60 days prior to the meeting. Notice of any special meeting shall state in general terms the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is to be held.

SECTION 4. Stockholder Lists. The officer who has charge of the stock ledger of the Corporation shall prepare and make, at least 10 days before every meeting of stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, arranged in alphabetical order, and showing the address of each stockholder and the number and class 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, either at a place within the city where the meeting is to be held, which place shall be specified in the notice of the meeting, or, if not so specified, at the place where the meeting is to be held. 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.

The stock ledger shall be the only evidence as to who are the stockholders entitled to examine the stock ledger, the list required by this section or the books of the Corporation, or to vote in person or by proxy at any meeting of stockholders.


SECTION 5. Quorum. Except as otherwise provided by law or the Corporation’s Certificate of Incorporation, a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of stockholders shall consist of the holders of record of a majority of the issued and outstanding shares of the capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at the meeting, present in person or by proxy. At all meetings of the stockholders at which a quorum is present, all matters, except as otherwise provided by law or the Certificate of Incorporation, shall be decided by the vote of the holders of a majority of the shares entitled to vote thereat present in person or by proxy. If there be no such quorum, the holders of a majority of such shares so present or represented may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without further notice, until a quorum shall have been obtained. When a quorum is once present it is not broken by the subsequent withdrawal of any stockholder.

SECTION 6. Organization. Meetings of stockholders shall be presided over by the Chairman, if any, or if none or in the Chairman’s absence the Vice-Chairman, if any, or if none or in the Vice-Chairman’s absence, the Chief Executive Officer, if any or if none or in the Chief Executive Officer’s absence, the President, if any, or if none or in the President’s absence a Vice-President, or, if none of the foregoing is present, by a chairman to be chosen by the stockholders entitled to vote who are present in person or by proxy at the meeting. The Secretary of the Corporation, or in the Secretary’s absence an Assistant Secretary, shall act as secretary of every meeting, but if neither the Secretary nor an Assistant Secretary is present, the presiding officer of the meeting shall appoint any person present to act as secretary of the meeting.

SECTION 7. Voting; Proxies; Required Vote.

(a) At each meeting of stockholders, every stockholder entitled to vote at such meeting shall be entitled to vote in person or by proxy appointed by instrument in writing, subscribed by such stockholder or by such stockholder’s duly authorized attorney-in-fact (but no such proxy shall be voted or acted upon after three years from its date, unless the proxy provides for a longer period), and, unless the Certificate of Incorporation provides otherwise, shall have one vote for each share of stock entitled to vote registered in the name of such stockholder on the books of the Corporation on the applicable record date fixed pursuant to these Bylaws. At all elections of directors the voting may be, but need not be, by ballot and a plurality of the votes cast there shall elect such directors. Except as otherwise required by law or the Certificate of Incorporation, any other action shall be authorized by a majority of the votes cast.

(b) Any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of stockholders may, except as otherwise required by law or the Certificate of Incorporation, be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by the holders of record of the issued and outstanding capital stock of the Corporation having a majority of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all shares entitled to vote thereon were present and voted, and the writing or writings are filed with the permanent records of the Corporation. Prompt notice of the taking of corporate action without a meeting by less than unanimous written consent shall be given to those stockholders who have not consented in writing.

SECTION 8. Inspectors. The Board of Directors, in advance of any meeting, may, but need not, appoint one or more inspectors of election to act at the meeting or any adjournment thereof. If an inspector or inspectors are not so appointed, the person presiding at the meeting may, but need not, appoint one or more inspectors. In case any person who may be

 

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appointed as an inspector fails to appear or act, the vacancy may be filled by appointment made by the directors in advance of the meeting or at the meeting by the person presiding thereat. Each inspector, if any, before entering upon the discharge of his or her duties, shall take and sign an oath faithfully to execute the duties of inspector at such meeting with strict impartiality and according to the best of his or her ability. The inspectors, if any, shall determine the number of shares of stock outstanding and the voting power of each, the shares of stock represented at the meeting, the existence of a quorum, and the validity and effect of proxies, and shall receive votes, ballots or consents, hear and determine all challenges and questions arising in connection with the right to vote, count and tabulate all votes, ballots or consents, determine the result, and do such acts as are proper to conduct the election or vote with fairness to all stockholders. On request of the person presiding at the meeting, the inspector or inspectors, if any, shall make a report in writing of any challenge, question or matter determined by such inspector or inspectors and execute a certificate of any fact found by such inspector or inspectors.

ARTICLE II

Board of Directors

SECTION 1. General Powers. The business, property and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by, or under the direction of, the Board of Directors.

SECTION 2. Qualification; Number; Term; Compensation.

(a) Each director shall be at least 18 years of age. A director need not be a stockholder, a citizen of the United States or a resident of the State of Delaware. The number of directors constituting the entire Board of Directors shall be one, or such larger number as may be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors, one of whom may be selected by the Board of Directors to be its Chairman. The use of the phrase “entire Board of Directors” herein refers to the total number of directors which the Corporation would have if there were no vacancies.

(b) Directors who are elected at an annual meeting of stockholders, and directors who are elected in the interim to fill vacancies and newly created directorships, shall hold office until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are elected and qualified or until their earlier resignation or removal.

(c) 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.

SECTION 3. Quorum and Manner of Voting. Except as otherwise provided by law, a majority of the entire Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum. A majority of the directors present, whether or not a quorum is present, may adjourn a meeting from time to time to another time and place without notice. The vote of the majority of the directors present at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the Board of Directors.

 

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SECTION 4. Places of Meetings. Meetings of the Board of Directors may be held at any place within or without the State of Delaware, as may from time to time be fixed by resolution of the Board of Directors, or as may be specified in the notice of meeting.

SECTION 5. Annual Meeting. Following the annual meeting of stockholders, the newly elected Board of Directors shall meet for the purpose of the election of officers and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting. Such meeting may be held without notice immediately after the annual meeting of stockholders at the same place at which such stockholders’ meeting is held.

SECTION 6. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held at such times and places as the Board of Directors shall from time to time determine by resolution. Notice need not be given of regular meetings of the Board of Directors held at times and places fixed by resolution of the Board of Directors.

SECTION 7. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held whenever called by the Chairman of the Board, the President or by any director then in office. Notice of the place, date and time and the purpose or purposes of each special meeting of the Board of Directors shall be given to each director by e-mail to an e-mail address previously provided to the Corporation not later than 48 hours before the date of the meeting.

SECTION 8. Meetings by Means of Conference Telephone. Unless otherwise provided 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 such committee by means of a conference telephone or similar communication equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and such participation in a meeting pursuant to this Section 8 shall constitute presence at such meeting.

SECTION 9. Chairman of the Board. The Chairman of the Board of Directors, if there be one, shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors and shall have such other powers and duties as may from time to time be assigned by the Board of Directors.

SECTION 10. Resignation; Removal. Any director may resign at any time upon written notice to the Corporation and such resignation shall take effect upon receipt thereof by the President or Secretary, unless otherwise specified in the resignation. Any or all of the directors may be removed, with or without cause, by the holders of a majority of the shares of stock outstanding and entitled to vote for the election of directors.

SECTION 11. Vacancies. Unless otherwise provided in these Bylaws, vacancies on the Board of Directors, whether caused by resignation, death, disqualification, removal, an increase in the authorized number of directors or otherwise, may be filled by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors, although less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director, or at a special meeting of the stockholders, by the holders of shares entitled to vote for the election of directors.

SECTION 12. Action by Written Consent. Any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board of Directors may be taken without a meeting if all the directors consent thereto in writing, and the writing or writings are filed with the minutes of proceedings of the Board of Directors.

 

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SECTION 13. Committees. The Board of Directors may, by resolution passed by a majority of the entire Board of Directors, designate one or more committees, each such 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 any such committee. In the absence or disqualification of a member of a committee, and in the absence of a designation by the Board of Directors of an alternate member to replace the absent or disqualified member, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not he, 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 absent or disqualified member. Any committee, to the extent allowed by law and provided in the resolution establishing such committee, 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 that may require it; but no such committee shall have the power or authority in reference to amending the Certificate of Incorporation, adopting an agreement of merger or consolidation, recommending to the stockholders the sale, lease or exchange of all or substantially all of the Corporation’s property and assets, recommending to the stockholders a dissolution of the Corporation or a revocation of a dissolution, or amending these Bylaws. Unless the resolution or the Certificate of Incorporation expressly so provides, no such committee shall have the power or authority to declare a dividend or to authorize the issuance of stock. Each committee shall keep regular minutes of its meetings and report the same to the Board of Directors when required.

ARTICLE III

Officers

SECTION 1. Election and Qualifications. The Board of Directors shall elect the officers of the Corporation, which shall include a President and a Secretary, and may include, by election or appointment, a Chief Executive Officer, one or more Vice-Presidents (any one or more of whom may be given an additional designation of rank or function), a Treasurer and such Assistant Secretaries, such Assistant Treasurers and such other officers as the Board of Directors may from time to time deem proper. Each officer shall have such powers and duties as may be prescribed by these Bylaws and as may be assigned by the Board of Directors or the President. Any two or more offices may be held by the same person.

SECTION 2. Term of Office and Remuneration. The term of office of all officers shall be one year and until their respective successors have been elected and qualified. Any vacancy in any office arising from any cause may be filled for the unexpired portion of the term by the Board of Directors. The remuneration of all officers of the Corporation may be fixed by the Board of Directors or in such manner as the Board of Directors shall provide.

SECTION 3. Resignation; Removal. Any officer may resign at any time upon written notice to the Corporation and such resignation shall take effect upon receipt thereof by the President or Secretary, unless otherwise specified in the resignation. Any officer shall be subject to removal, with or without cause, at any time by vote of a majority of the entire Board of Directors.

SECTION 4. Chief Executive Officer. The Chief Executive Officer, if any, shall be the chief executive officer of the Corporation, and shall have such duties as customarily

 

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pertain to that office. The Chief Executive Officer shall, subject to the control of the Board of Directors, have general supervision, direction and control of the business and officers of the Corporation and shall see that all orders and resolutions of the Board of Directors are carried into effect. The Chief Executive Officer shall execute all bonds, mortgages, contracts and other instruments of the Corporation requiring a seal, under the seal of the Corporation, except where required or permitted by law to be otherwise signed and executed and except that the other officers of the Corporation may sign and execute documents when so authorized by these Bylaws, the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer. In the absence or disability of the Chairman of the Board, or if there be none, the Chief Executive Officer shall preside at all meetings of the stockholders and the Board of Directors. The Chief Executive Officer shall also perform such other duties and may exercise such other powers as from time to time may be assigned to him or her by these Bylaws or by the Board of Directors.

SECTION 5. President. The President shall be the chief operating officer of the Corporation, and shall have such duties as customarily pertain to that office, subject to the control of the Chief Executive Officer and Board of Directors. The President may execute and deliver in the name of the Corporation contracts and other obligations and instruments pertaining to the regular course of the duties of said office, and shall have such other authority as from time to time may be assigned by the Chief Executive Officer or the Board of Directors. In the absence or disability of the Chief Executive Officer, or if there be none, the President shall also have the duties and authority designated to the Chief Executive Officer herein.

SECTION 6. Vice-President. A Vice-President may execute and deliver in the name of the Corporation contracts and other obligations and instruments pertaining to the regular course of the duties of said office, and shall have such other authority as from time to time may be assigned by the Board of Directors or the President.

SECTION 7. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall in general have all duties incident to the position of Treasurer and such other duties as may be assigned by the Board of Directors or the President.

SECTION 8. Secretary. The Secretary of the Corporation shall act as secretary at all meetings of the stockholders and the Board of Directors when present, and, in the Secretary’s absence, the presiding officer may appoint any person to act as secretary. The Secretary 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 the President, under whose supervision he or she shall be. If the Secretary shall be unable or shall refuse to cause to be given notice of all meetings of the stockholders and special meetings of the Board of Directors, and if there be no Assistant Secretary, then either the Board of Directors or the President may choose another officer to cause such notice to be given. The Secretary shall have custody of the seal of the Corporation and the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary, if there be one, shall have authority to affix the same to any instrument requiring it and when so affixed, it may be attested by the signature of the Secretary or by the signature of any 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 signature. The Secretary shall see that all books, reports, statements, certificates and other documents and records required by law to be kept or filed are properly kept or filed, as the case may be. In the absence or disability of the Treasurer, or if there be none, the Secretary shall also have the duties and authority designated to the Treasurer herein.

 

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SECTION 9. Assistant Officers. Any assistant officer shall have such powers and duties of the officer such assistant officer assists as such officer or the Board of Directors shall from time to time prescribe.

ARTICLE IV

Books and Records

SECTION 1. Location. The books and records of the Corporation may be kept at such place or places within or outside the State of Delaware as the Board of Directors or the respective officers in charge thereof may from time to time determine. The record books containing the names and addresses of all stockholders, the number and class of shares of stock held by each and the dates when they respectively became the owners of record thereof shall be kept by the Secretary as prescribed in these Bylaws.

SECTION 2. Addresses of Stockholders. Notices of meetings and all other corporate notices may be delivered personally or mailed to each stockholder at the stockholder’s address as it appears on the records of the Corporation.

SECTION 3. Record Date. 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, or entitled to express consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, or 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, in advance, a record date, which shall not be more than 60 nor less than 10 days before the date of such meeting, and no more than 60 days prior to any other action. 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.

ARTICLE V

Certificates Representing Stock

SECTION 1. Certificates; Signatures. The shares of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates, provided that the Board of Directors of the Corporation may provide by resolution or resolutions that some or all of any or all classes or series of its stock shall be uncertificated shares. Any such resolution shall not apply to shares represented by a certificate until such certificate is surrendered to the Corporation. Notwithstanding the adoption of such a resolution by the Board of Directors, every holder of stock represented by certificates and upon request every holder of uncertificated shares shall be entitled to have a certificate, signed by or in the name of the Corporation by the Chairman or Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors, or the President or Vice-President, and by the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer, or the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Corporation, representing the number of shares registered in certificate form. Any and all signatures on any such certificate may be facsimiles. In case any officer, transfer agent or registrar who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a certificate shall have ceased to be such officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the Corporation with the same effect as if he or she were such officer, transfer agent or registrar at the date of issue. The name of the holder of record of the shares

 

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represented thereby, with the number of such shares and the date of issue, shall be entered on the books of the Corporation.

SECTION 2. Transfers of Stock. Upon compliance with provisions restricting the transfer or registration of transfer of shares of stock, if any, shares of capital stock shall be transferable on the books of the Corporation only by the holder of record thereof in person, or by a duly authorized attorney, upon surrender and cancellation of certificates for a like number of shares, properly endorsed, and the payment of all taxes due thereon.

SECTION 3. Fractional Shares. The Corporation may, but shall not be required to, issue certificates for fractions of a share where necessary to effect authorized transactions, or the Corporation may pay in cash the fair value of fractions of a share as of the time when those entitled to receive such fractions are determined, or it may issue scrip in registered or bearer form over the manual or facsimile signature of an officer of the Corporation or of its agent, exchangeable as therein provided for full shares, but such scrip shall not entitle the holder to any rights of a stockholder except as therein provided.

SECTION 4. Rules and Regulations. The Board of Directors shall have power and authority to make all such rules and regulations as it may deem expedient concerning the issue, transfer and registration of certificates representing shares of the Corporation.

SECTION 5. Lost, Stolen or Destroyed Certificates. The Corporation may issue a new certificate of stock in place of any certificate, theretofore issued by it, alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed, and the Board of Directors may require the owner of any lost, stolen or destroyed certificate, or his legal representative, to give the Corporation a bond sufficient to indemnify the Corporation against any claim that may be made against it on account of the alleged loss, theft or destruction of any such certificate or the issuance of any such new certificate.

ARTICLE VI

Dividends

Dividends upon the capital stock of the Corporation, subject to the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation, if any, may be declared by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting, and may be paid in cash, in property or in shares of the capital stock. Before payment of any dividend, there may be set aside out of any funds of the Corporation available for dividends such sum or sums as the Board of Directors from time to time, in its absolute discretion, deems proper as a reserve or reserves to meet contingencies, or for equalizing dividends, or for repairing or maintaining any property of the Corporation, or for any other purpose, and the Board of Directors may modify or abolish any such reserve.

ARTICLE VII

Ratification

Any transaction, questioned in any lawsuit on the ground of lack of authority, defective or irregular execution, adverse interest of director, officer or stockholder, non-disclosure, miscomputation, or the application of improper principles or practices of accounting, may be ratified before or after judgment, by the Board of Directors or by the

 

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stockholders, and if so ratified shall have the same force and effect as if the questioned transaction had been originally duly authorized. Such ratification shall be binding upon the Corporation and its stockholders and shall constitute a bar to any claim or execution of any judgment in respect of such questioned transaction.

ARTICLE VIII

Fiscal Year

The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be fixed, and shall be subject to change, by the Board of Directors. Unless otherwise fixed by the Board of Directors, the fiscal year of the Corporation shall be the calendar year.

ARTICLE IX

Waiver of Notice

Whenever notice is required to be given by these Bylaws or by the Certificate of Incorporation or by law, a written waiver thereof, signed by the person or persons entitled to such notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent to notice.

ARTICLE X

Bank Accounts, Drafts, Contracts, Etc.

SECTION 1. Bank Accounts and Drafts. In addition to such bank accounts as may be authorized by the Board of Directors, the primary financial officer or any person designated by said primary financial officer, whether or not an employee of the Corporation, may authorize such bank accounts to be opened or maintained in the name and on behalf of the Corporation as he may deem necessary or appropriate, payments from such bank accounts to be made upon and according to the check of the Corporation in accordance with the written instructions of said primary financial officer, or other person so designated by the Treasurer.

SECTION 2. Contracts. The Board of Directors may authorize any person or persons, in the name and on behalf of the Corporation, to enter into or execute and deliver any and all deeds, bonds, mortgages, contracts and other obligations or instruments, and such authority may be general or confined to specific instances.

SECTION 3. Proxies; Powers of Attorney; Other Instruments. The Chairman, the President or any other person designated by either of them shall have the power and authority to execute and deliver proxies, powers of attorney and other instruments on behalf of the Corporation in connection with the rights and powers incident to the ownership of stock by the Corporation. The Chairman, the President or any other person authorized by proxy or power of attorney executed and delivered by either of them on behalf of the Corporation may attend and vote at any meeting of stockholders of any company in which the Corporation may hold stock, and may exercise on behalf of the Corporation any and all of the rights and powers incident to the ownership of such stock at any such meeting, or otherwise as specified in the proxy or power of attorney so authorizing any such person. The Board of Directors, from time to time, may confer like powers upon any other person.

 

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SECTION 4. Financial Reports. The Board of Directors may appoint the primary financial officer or other fiscal officer or any other officer to cause to be prepared and furnished to stockholders entitled thereto any special financial notice and/or financial statement, as the case may be, which may be required by any provision of law.

ARTICLE XI

Indemnification

SECTION 1. Scope. The Corporation shall, to the fullest extent permitted by Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, as such section may be amended and supplemented from time to time, indemnify any director or officer of the Corporation against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines, amounts paid in settlement and/or other matters referred to in or covered by such section, by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise. In addition, the Corporation may, to the fullest extent permitted by Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, as such section may be amended and supplemented from time to time, indemnify any employee or agent of the Corporation against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines, amounts paid in settlement and/or other matters referred to in or covered by such section, by reason of the fact that such person is or was am employee or agent of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise.

SECTION 2. Advancing Expenses. Expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by a present or former director or officer of the Corporation in defending a civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation (or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise) shall be paid by the Corporation in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such director or officer to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that such person is not entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation as authorized by relevant provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law; provided, however, the Corporation shall not be required to advance such expenses to a director who commences any action, suit or proceeding as a plaintiff unless such advance is specifically approved by a majority of the Board of Directors.

SECTION 3. Liability Offset. The Corporation’s obligation to provide indemnification under this Article XI shall be offset to the extent the indemnified party is indemnified by any other source including, but not limited to, any applicable insurance coverage under a policy maintained by the Corporation, the indemnified party or any other person.

SECTION 4. Continuing Obligation. The provisions of this Article XI shall be deemed to be a contract between the Corporation and each director of the Corporation who serves in such capacity at any time while this bylaw is in effect, and any repeal or modification thereof shall not affect any rights or obligations then existing with respect to any state of facts then or theretofore existing or any action, suit or proceeding theretofore or thereafter brought based in whole or in part upon any such state of facts.

 

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SECTION 5. Nonexclusive. The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided for under this Article XI shall (i) not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those indemnified may be entitled under any bylaw, agreement or vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in their official capacities and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, (ii) continue unto a person who has ceased to be a director and (iii) inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.

SECTION 6. Other Persons. In addition to the indemnification rights of directors, officers, employees or agents of the Corporation, the Board of Directors in its discretion shall have the power, on behalf of the Corporation, to indemnify any other person made a party to any action, suit or proceeding who the Corporation may indemnify under Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law.

SECTION 7. Definitions. The phrases and terms set forth in this Article XI shall be given the same meaning as the identical terms and phrases are given in Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, as such section may be amended and supplemented from time to time.

ARTICLE XII

Amendments

The Board of Directors shall have the power to adopt, amend or repeal these Bylaws. Bylaws adopted by the Board of Directors may be repealed or changed, and new Bylaws made, by the stockholders, and the stockholders may prescribe that any Bylaw made by them shall not be altered, amended or repealed by the Board of Directors.

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