EX-3.1 2 dex31.htm SECOND AMENDED & RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF THE COMPANY SECOND AMENDED & RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF THE COMPANY

EXHIBIT 3.1

SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

MEMSIC, INC.

MEMSIC, Inc. a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, does hereby certify as follows:

1. It was incorporated pursuant to an original Certificate of Incorporation filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on February 26, 1999. Certificates of Amendment were filed in the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on October 4, 1999, March 29, 2000, May 8, 2001, August 13, 2002, and April 13, 2004. An Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation was filed in the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on December 22, 2006; a Certificate of Amendment was filed in the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on November 20, 2007.

2. At a meeting duly called and held on August 29, 2007, its Board of Directors (the “Board”) duly adopted a resolution pursuant to Sections 141(f) and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, setting forth a proposed amendment and restatement of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (and any and all prior amendments thereto), and declaring the proposed amendment and restatement advisable. Its stockholders duly approved and adopted the proposed amendment and restatement of the Certificate of Incorporation by written consent in accordance with Sections 228, 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

3. The Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as so amended and restated, is entitled the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of MEMSIC, Inc. and reads in its entirety as follows:

FIRST: The name of this corporation is MEMSIC, Inc.

SECOND: The address of the registered office of this corporation in the State of Delaware is 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, Delaware, County of New Castle. The name of its registered agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.

THIRD: The nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or promoted by this corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of Delaware.

FOURTH: The total number of shares of all classes of capital stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is 110,000,000, consisting of (i) 100,000,000 shares of Common Stock, $0.00001 par value per share (“Common Stock”), and (ii) 10,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, $0.00001 par value per share (“Preferred Stock”).


The following is a statement of the designations and the powers, privileges and rights, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, in respect of each class of capital stock of the Corporation:

 

A. Common Stock

1. General. The voting, dividend and liquidation rights of the holders of the Common Stock are subject to and qualified by the rights of the holders of the Preferred Stock of any series as may be designated by the Board of Directors upon any issuance of the Preferred Stock of any series.

2. Voting. The holders of Common Stock will be entitled to one vote per share on all matters to be voted on by the stockholders of the Corporation. There shall be no cumulative voting.

3. Dividends. Dividends may be declared and paid on the Common Stock from funds lawfully available therefor as and when determined by the Board of Directors and subject to any preferential dividend rights of any then outstanding Preferred Stock.

4. Liquidation. Upon the dissolution or liquidation of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, holders of Common Stock will be entitled to receive all assets of the Corporation available for distribution to its stockholders, subject to any preferential liquidation rights of any then outstanding Preferred Stock.

 

B. Preferred Stock

Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more series, each of such series to have such terms as stated or expressed herein and in the resolution or resolutions providing for the issue of such series adopted by the Board of Directors of the Corporation as hereinafter provided. No share of Preferred Stock that is redeemed, purchased or acquired by the Corporation may be reissued except as otherwise provided herein or by law. Different series of Preferred Stock shall not be construed to constitute different classes of shares for the purposes of voting by classes unless expressly provided herein, in any such resolution or resolutions, or by law.

Authority is hereby expressly granted to the Board of Directors from time to time to issue the Preferred Stock in one or more series, and in connection with the creation of any such series, by resolution or resolutions providing for the issue of the shares thereof, to determine and fix such voting powers, full or limited, or no voting powers, and such designations, preferences and relative participating, optional or other special rights, and qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, including without limitation thereof, dividend rights, conversion rights, redemption privileges and liquidation preferences, as shall be stated and expressed in such resolutions, all to the full extent now or hereafter permitted by the General Corporation Law of Delaware. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the resolutions providing for issuance of any series of Preferred Stock may provide that such series shall be superior or rank equally or be junior to the Preferred Stock of any other series to the extent permitted by law. Except as otherwise provided by law or by this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of


Incorporation, no vote of the holders of the Preferred Stock or Common Stock shall be a prerequisite to the issuance of any shares of any series of the Preferred Stock authorized by and complying with the conditions of the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, any right to have such vote being expressly waived by all present and future holders of the capital stock of the Corporation.

FIFTH: In furtherance of and not in limitation of powers conferred by statute, it is further provided that:

(a) Subject to the limitations and exceptions, if any, contained in the by-laws of the Corporation and to the powers of the stockholders to alter or repeal any by-law, whether adopted by them or otherwise, the by-laws of the Corporation may be adopted, amended or repealed by the Board of Directors of the Corporation.

(b) Elections of directors need not be by written ballot.

(c) Subject to any applicable requirements of law, the books of the Corporation may be kept outside the State of Delaware at such location as may be designated by the Board of Directors or in the by-laws of the Corporation.

SIXTH: The Corporation is to have perpetual existence.

SEVENTH: The Corporation shall indemnify each person who at any time is, or shall have been a director or officer of the Corporation, and is threatened to be or is made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that he is, or was, a director or officer of the Corporation, or served at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee, trustee, or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement incurred in connection with any such action, suit or proceeding to the maximum extent permitted by the General Corporation Law of Delaware. The foregoing right of indemnification shall in no way be exclusive of any other rights of indemnification to which any such director or officer may be entitled, under any by-law, agreement, vote of directors or stockholders or otherwise. No amendment to or repeal of the provisions of this paragraph shall deprive a person of the benefit of this paragraph with respect to any act or failure to act of such person occurring prior to such amendment or repeal.

EIGHTH: Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between this Corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between this Corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary way of this Corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof, or on the application of any receiver or receivers appointed for this Corporation under the provisions of Section 291 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code or on the application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed for this Corporation under the provisions of Section 279 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code, order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such manner as the said court directs. If a majority in number representing three-fourths in value


of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of this Corporation as a consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by the court to which the said application has been made, be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, and also on this Corporation.

NINTH: To the maximum extent permitted by the General Corporation Law of Delaware as the same exists or may hereafter be amended, no director of the Corporation shall be personally liable to the Corporation or to any of its stockholders for monetary damages arising out of such director’s breach of fiduciary duty as a director of the Corporation. No amendment to or repeal of the provisions of this paragraph shall apply to or have any effect on the liability or the alleged liability of any director of the Corporation with respect to any act or failure to act of such director occurring prior to such amendment or repeal.

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

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being the duly elected and acting Secretary of MEMSIC, Inc., does hereby declare that this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation has been duly adopted by the Board of Directors and the stockholders of this Corporation in accordance with the provisions of Sections 228, 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware. The undersigned does hereby affirm, under the penalties of perjury, that this instrument is the act and deed of the Corporation and the facts herein set forth are true and correct. I have accordingly hereunto set my hand this 19th day of December, 2007.

 

MEMSIC, INC.

/s/ Robert L. Birnbaum

Robert L. Birnbaum
Secretary