-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, RLXYafddVrsi9uqsGaX8py7uXEX3AB3ZtfvRb6MgmnU+pNNfbdOCYW12trnFUKYb SKd0uv1vHo6VUxVGzaabeQ== 0000950123-10-117844.txt : 20101230 0000950123-10-117844.hdr.sgml : 20101230 20101230172919 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950123-10-117844 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: F-4/A PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 61 FILED AS OF DATE: 20101230 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20101230 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Navios Maritime Acquisition CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001437260 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: DEEP SEA FOREIGN TRANSPORTATION OF FREIGHT [4412] IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: 1T FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394 FILM NUMBER: 101282026 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: 011-30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Navios Acquisition Finance (US) Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508273 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-26 FILM NUMBER: 101282049 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Shinyo Dream Ltd CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508274 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-25 FILM NUMBER: 101282048 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Shinyo Kannika Ltd CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508275 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-24 FILM NUMBER: 101282047 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Shinyo Loyalty Ltd CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508276 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-23 FILM NUMBER: 101282046 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Shinyo Navigator Ltd CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508277 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-22 FILM NUMBER: 101282045 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Shinyo Ocean Ltd CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508278 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-21 FILM NUMBER: 101282044 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Shinyo Saowalak Ltd CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508279 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-20 FILM NUMBER: 101282043 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Thera Shipping Corp CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508281 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-19 FILM NUMBER: 101282042 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Tinos Shipping Corp CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508282 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-18 FILM NUMBER: 101282041 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Aegean Sea Maritime Holdings, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508283 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-17 FILM NUMBER: 101282040 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Amorgos Shipping Corp CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508288 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-16 FILM NUMBER: 101282039 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Ios Shipping Corp CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508289 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-11 FILM NUMBER: 101282025 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Kos Shipping Corp CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508290 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-10 FILM NUMBER: 101282024 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Mytilene Shipping Corp CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508291 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-09 FILM NUMBER: 101282023 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Andros Shipping Corp CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508528 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-15 FILM NUMBER: 101282022 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Antiparos Shipping Corp CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508529 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-14 FILM NUMBER: 101282038 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Crete Shipping Corp CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508530 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-13 FILM NUMBER: 101282037 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Ikaria Shipping Corp CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508531 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-12 FILM NUMBER: 101282036 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Rhodes Shipping Corp CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508532 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-08 FILM NUMBER: 101282035 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Sifnos Shipping Corp CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508533 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-07 FILM NUMBER: 101282034 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Skiathos Shipping Corp CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508534 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-06 FILM NUMBER: 101282033 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Skopelos Shipping Corp CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508535 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-05 FILM NUMBER: 101282032 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Syros Shipping Corp CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508536 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-04 FILM NUMBER: 101282031 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Shinyo Kieran Ltd CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508537 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-03 FILM NUMBER: 101282030 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Folegandros Shipping Corp CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508538 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-02 FILM NUMBER: 101282029 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Serifos Shipping Corp CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001508539 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: F-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171394-01 FILM NUMBER: 101282027 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 BUSINESS PHONE: (011)30-210-459500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 85 AKTI MIAOULI STREET CITY: PIRAEUS STATE: J3 ZIP: 185 38 F-4/A 1 y04313a1fv4za.htm FORM F-4/A fv4za
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 30, 2010
Registration No. 333-171394
 
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
 
 
 
Amendment
No. 1
to
Form F-4
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
 
 
 
 
NAVIOS MARITIME ACQUISITION CORPORATION
NAVIOS ACQUISITION FINANCE (US) INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
         
Republic of Marshall Islands
Delaware
 
6770
  98-0676318
99-0361513
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  (Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number)
  (I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)
 
SEE TABLE OF ADDITIONAL REGISTRANT GUARANTORS
 
Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation
85 Akti Miaouli Street\Piraeus, Greece 185 38
(011) +30-210-4595000
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including
area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
 
Angeliki Frangou
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
85 Akti Miaouli Street
Piraeus, Greece 185 38
(011) +30-210-4595000
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of agent for service)
 
Copies to:

Stuart Gelfond, Esq.
Vasiliki Tsaganos, Esq.
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
One New York Plaza
New York, New York 10004-1980
(212) 859-8000
 
Vasiliki (Villy) Papaefthymiou
85 Akti Miaouli Street
Piraeus 185 38, Greece
 
Approximate date of commencement of proposed exchange offer:  As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Registration Statement.
 
If this form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  o
 
If this form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  o
 
If applicable, place an X in the box to designate the appropriate rule provision relied upon in conducting this transaction:
 
Exchange Act Rule 13e-4(i)(Cross-Border Issuer Tender Offer) o
 
Exchange Act rule 14d-1(d)(Cross-Border Third-Party Tender Offer) o


 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
 
                         
            Proposed
    Proposed
     
            Maximum Offering
    Maximum
     
Title of Each Class of
    Amount to be
    Price
    Aggregate Offering
    Amount of
Securities to be Registered     Registered     Per Note(1)     Price     Registration Fee
85/8% First Priority Ship Mortgage Notes due 2017
    $400,000,000     100%     $400,000,000     $28,520
Guarantees of 85/8% First Priority Ship Mortgage Notes due 2017
    $400,000,000     (3)     (3)     (3)
Total Registration Fee
                $28,520(2)
                         
 
(1) Estimated solely for purposes of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(f) under the Securities Act.
 
(2) Previously paid.
 
(3) No separate filing fee is required pursuant to Rule 457(n) under the Securities Act.
 
 
 
 
The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or until the Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.
 
 
 
 
TABLE OF ADDITIONAL REGISTRANT GUARANTORS
 
             
    State or Other
   
    Jurisdiction of
   
Exact Name of Registrant as
  Incorporation or
  I.R.S. Employer
Specified in its Charter(1)
 
Organization
  Identification Number
 
Shinyo Dream Limited
  Hong Kong     98-0672656  
Shinyo Kannika Limited
  Hong Kong     98-0672119  
Shinyo Loyalty Limited
  Hong Kong     98-0672116  
Shinyo Navigator Limited
  Hong Kong     98-0672118  
Shinyo Ocean Limited
  Hong Kong     33-1218882  
Shinyo Saowalak Limited
  British Virgin Islands     99-0360969  
Thera Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands     98-0660091  
Tinos Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands     98-0660090  
Aegean Sea Maritime Holdings Inc. 
  Marshall Islands     42-1771242  
Amorgos Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands     98-0660064  
Andros Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands     98-0660061  
Antiparos Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands     98-0660065  
Crete Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands     98-0660093  
Ikaria Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands     98-0660066  
Ios Shipping Corporation
  Cayman Islands     98-0660055  
Kos Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands     98-0660073  
Mytilene Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands     98-0660072  
Rhodes Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands     42-1771249  
Sifnos Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands     98-0660070  
Skiathos Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands     98-0660082  
Skopelos Shipping Corporation
  Cayman Islands     98-0660054  
Syros Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands     98-0660087  
Shinyo Kieran Limited
  British Virgin Islands     39-2077317  
Folegandros Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands     42-1771250  
Serifos Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands     42-1771251  
 
 
(1) The address for each of the additional registrant guarantors is 85 Akti Miaouli Street, Piraeus, Greece 185 38.
 


 

 
EXPLANATORY NOTE
 
This Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form F-4 (File No. 333-171394) of Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation and Navios Acquisition Finance (US) Inc. is being filed solely to file the exhibits indicated in “Part II — Item 21(a) — Exhibits.” Other than the addition of exhibits and corresponding changes to the exhibit index and signature page, the remainder of the Form F-4 is unchanged.


 

PART II
 
INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS
 
Item 20.   Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
 
Under our Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation, our By-laws and under Section 60 of the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act (“BCA”), we may indemnify anyone who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding (other than an action by or in the right of the corporation) whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that they are or were a director or officer of the corporation, or are or were serving at the request of the corporation as a director or officer of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise.
 
A limitation on the foregoing is the statutory proviso (also found in our By-laws) that, in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if they acted in good faith and in a manner they reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe that their conduct was unlawful.
 
Further, under Section 60 of the BCA and our By-laws, the termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of no contest, or its equivalent, does not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner that they reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that their conduct was unlawful.
 
In addition, under Section 60 of the BCA and under our By-laws, a corporation may indemnify any person who was or is a party, or is threatened to be made a party, to any threatened, pending, or completed action or suit by or in the right of the corporation to procure judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that they are or were a director or officer of the corporation, or are or were serving at the request of the corporation as a director or officer of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise. Such indemnification may be made against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if they acted in good faith and in a manner they reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation. Again, this is provided that no indemnification may be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses that the court shall deem proper.
 
Our By-laws further provide that any indemnification pursuant to the foregoing (unless ordered by a court) may be made by the corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the director or officer is proper in the circumstances because they have met the applicable standard of conduct set forth above. Such determination may be made by the Board of Directors of the corporation by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors who were not parties to any action, suit or proceeding referred to in the foregoing instances, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion or by the shareholders of the corporation.
 
Further, and as provided by both our By-laws and Section 60 of the BCA, when a director or officer of a corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in the foregoing instances, or in the defense of a related claim, issue or matter, they will be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by them in connection with such matter.
 
Likewise, pursuant to our By-laws and Section 60 of the BCA, expenses (our By-laws specifically includes attorneys’ fees in expenses) incurred in defending a civil or criminal action, suit or proceeding by an officer or director may be paid in advance of the final disposition of the action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the director or officer to repay such amount if it is ultimately determined


II-1


 

that they are not entitled to indemnification. The By-laws further provide that with respect to other employees, such expenses may be paid on the terms and conditions, if any, as the Board may deem appropriate.
 
Both Section 60 of the BCA and our By-laws further provide that the foregoing indemnification and advancement of expenses are not exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any bylaw, agreement, vote of shareholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in their official capacity and/or as to action in another capacity while holding office.
 
Under both Section 60 of the BCA and our By-laws, we also have the power to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director or officer of the corporation or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director or officer of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against them and incurred by them in such capacity, or arising out of their status as such, regardless of whether the corporation would have the power to indemnify them against such liability under the foregoing.
 
Under Section 60 of the BCA (and as provided in our By-laws), the indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted under the foregoing continue with regard to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and inure to the benefit of their heirs, executors and administrators unless otherwise provided when authorized or ratified. Additionally, our By-Laws provide that no director or officer of the corporation will be personally liable to the corporation or any shareholder of the corporation for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director or officer, provided that a director or officer’s liability will not be limited for any breach of the director’s or the officer’s duty of loyalty to the corporation or its shareholders, for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law or for any transaction from which the director or officer derived an improper personal benefit.
 
In addition to the above, our By-laws provide that references to us includes constituent corporations, and defines “other enterprises” to include employee benefit plans, “fines” to include excise taxes imposed on a person with respect to an employee benefit plan, and further defines the term “serving at the request of the corporation.”
 
Our Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation set out a much abbreviated version of the foregoing.
 
Such limitation of liability and indemnification does not affect the availability of equitable remedies. In addition, we have been advised that in the opinion of the SEC, indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.
 
Item 21.   Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules.
 
(a)   Exhibits
 
         
Exhibit Number  
Description
 
  3 .1   Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation. (2)
  3 .2   By-laws of Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation. (1)
  3 .3   Certificate of Incorporation of Navios Acquisition Finance (US) Inc.*
  3 .4   Bylaws of Navios Acquisition Finance (US) Inc.*
  3 .5   Memorandum and Articles of Association of Shinyo Dream Limited.*
  3 .6   Memorandum and Articles of Association of Shinyo Kannika Limited.*
  3 .7   Memorandum and Articles of Association of Shinyo Loyalty Limited.*
  3 .8   Memorandum and Articles of Association of Shinyo Navigator Limited.*
  3 .9   Memorandum and Articles of Association of Shinyo Ocean Limited.*
  3 .10   Memorandum and Articles of Association of Shinyo Saowalak Limited.*
  3 .11   Articles of Incorporation of Thera Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .12   Bylaws of Thera Shipping Corporation.*


II-2


 

         
Exhibit Number  
Description
 
  3 .13   Articles of Incorporation of Tinos Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .14   Bylaws of Tinos Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .15   Articles of Incorporation of Amorgos Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .16   Bylaws of Amorgos Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .17   Articles of Incorporation of Andros Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .18   Bylaws of Andros Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .19   Articles of Incorporation of Antiparos Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .20   Bylaws of Antiparos Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .21   Articles of Incorporation of Crete Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .22   Bylaws of Crete Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .23   Articles of Incorporation of Ikaria Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .24   Bylaws of Ikaria Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .25   Memorandum and Articles of Association of Ios Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .26   Articles of Incorporation of Kos Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .27   Bylaws of Kos Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .28   Articles of Incorporation of Mytilene Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .29   Bylaws of Mytilene Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .30   Articles of Incorporation of Rhodes Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .31   Bylaws of Rhodes Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .32   Articles of Incorporation of Sifnos Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .33   Bylaws of Sifnos Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .34   Articles of Incorporation of Skiathos Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .35   Bylaws of Skiathos Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .36   Memorandum and Articles of Association of Skopelos Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .37   Articles of Incorporation of Syros Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .38   Bylaws of Syros Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .39   Memorandum and Articles of Association of Shinyo Kieran Limited.*
  3 .40   Articles of Incorporation of Folegandros Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .41   Bylaws of Folegandros Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .42   Articles of Incorporation of Serifos Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .43   Bylaws of Serifos Shipping Corporation.*
  3 .44   Articles of Incorporation of Aegean Sea Maritime Holdings Inc.*
  3 .45   Bylaws of Aegean Sea Maritime Holdings Inc.*
  4 .1   Credit Agreement, dated April 7, 2010 between certain vessel-owning subsidiaries and Deutsche Schiffsbank AG, Alpha Bank A.E. and Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank. (2)
  4 .2   Credit Agreement, dated April 8, 2010 between certain vessel-owning subsidiaries and DVB Bank SE and Fortis Bank. (2)
  4 .3   Form of Revolving Credit Facility with Marfin Egnatia Bank. (2)
  4 .4   Facility Agreement, dated May 28, 2010 certain vessel-owning subsidiaries and DVB Bank SE and Fortis Bank (Nederland) N.V. (2)
  4 .5   Facility Agreement, dated October 26, 2010, of up to $52.2 million. (4)
  4 .6   Facility Agreement dated December 6, 2010. (5)
  4 .7   Indenture dated October 21, 2010. (3)
  4 .8   First Supplemental Indenture dated November 9, 2010. (6)

II-3


 

         
Exhibit Number  
Description
 
  5 .1   Opinion of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP.*
  5 .2   Opinion of Reeder & Simpson P.C.*
  5 .3   Opinion of Holman Fenwick Willan LLP.*
  5 .4   Opinion of Nelson & Company.*
  5 .5   Opinion of Maples and Calder.*
  10 .1   Acquisition Agreement, dated April 8, 2010 between Navios Acquisition and Navios Holdings. (2)
  10 .2   Management Agreement dated May 28, 2010 between Navios Acquisition and Navios Ship Management Inc. (2)
  10 .3   Administrative Services Agreement dated May 28, 2010 between Navios Acquisition and Navios Ship Management Inc. (2)
  10 .4   Acquisition Omnibus Agreement dated May 28, 2010 among Navios Acquisition, Navios Holdings and Navios Partners. (2)
  10 .5   Registration Rights Agreement dated October 21, 2010. (3)
  12 .1   Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges.**
  21 .1   List of Subsidiaries.**
  23 .1   Consent of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP (included as part of its opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1).*
  23 .2   Consent of Reeder & Simpson P.C. (included as part of its opinion filed as Exhibit 5.2).*
  23 .3   Consent of Holman Fenwick Willan LLP (included as part of its opinion filed as Exhibit 5.3).*
  23 .4   Consent of Nelson & Company (included as part of its opinion filed as Exhibit 5.4).*
  23 .5   Consent of Maples and Calder (included as part of its opinion filed as Exhibit 5.5).*
  23 .6   Consent of Rothstein Kass & Company, P.C.**
  23 .7   Consent of KPMG.**
  24 .1   Power of Attorney (included on the signature page to the Registration Statement).**
  25 .1   Statement of Eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 on Form T-1 of Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Trustee under the 2017 Indenture.**
  99 .1   Form of Letter of Transmittal.**
  99 .2   Form of Notice of Guaranteed Delivery.**
  99 .3   Form of Letter to Registered Holders and/or Participants of the Book-Entry Transfer Facility.**
  99 .4   Form of Letter to Brokers, Dealers, Commercial Banks, Trust Companies and Other Nominees.**
  99 .5   Form of Letter to Clients.**
 
 
(1) Previously filed as an exhibit to the Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation Registration Statement on Form F-1, as amended (File No 333-151707).
 
(2) Previously filed as an exhibit to the Form 6-K filed by Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation on June 4, 2010.
 
(3) Previously filed as an exhibit to the Form 6-K filed by Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation on October 26, 2010.
 
(4) Previously filed as an exhibit to the Form 6-K filed by Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation on November 9, 2010.
 
(5) Previously filed as an exhibit to the Form 6-K filed by Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation on December 15, 2010.

II-4


 

 
(6) Previously filed as an exhibit to the Form 6-K filed by Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation on December 22, 2010.
 
** Previously filed.
 
* Filed herewith.
 
Item 22.   Undertakings.
 
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
 
(1) to file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
 
(i) to include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;
 
(ii) to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in effective registration statement; and
 
(iii) to include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement;
 
(2) that, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof;
 
(3) to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering;
 
(4) to file a post-effective amendment to the registration statement to include any financial statements required by Item 8.A. of Form 20-F at the start of any delayed offering or throughout a continuous offering. Financial statements and information otherwise required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Act need not be furnished, provided, that the registrant includes in the prospectus, by means of a post-effective amendment, financial statements required pursuant to this paragraph (a)(4) and other information necessary to ensure that all other information in the prospectus is at least as current as the date of those financial statements;
 
(5) That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser, each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than registration statements relying on Rule 430B or other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A, shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such date of first use;
 
(6) that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to section 15(d)


II-5


 

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof;
 
(7) to supply by means of a post-effective amendment all information concerning a transaction, and the company being acquired involved therein, that was not the subject of and included in the registration statement when it became effective; and
 
(8) to respond to requests for information that is incorporated by reference into the prospectus pursuant to Items 4, 10(b), 11, or 13 of this form, within one business day of receipt of such request, and to send the incorporated documents by first class mail or other equally prompt means, and (ii) to arrange or provide for a facility in the United States for the purpose of responding to such requests. The undertaking in subparagraph (i) above includes information contained in documents filed subsequent to the effective date of the Registration Statement through the date of responding to the request.
 
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been informed that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer, or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.


II-6


 

SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in Piraeus, Greece on December 30, 2010.
 
NAVIOS MARITIME ACQUISITION CORPORATION
 
  By: 
/s/  Angeliki Frangou
Name:     Angeliki Frangou
  Title:  Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer
 
  By: 
/s/  Leonidas Korres
Name:     Leonidas Korres
  Title:  Chief Financial Officer
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by each of the following persons in the capacities indicated on December 30, 2010.
 
             
Signature
 
Title(s)
 
Date
 
         
/s/  Angeliki Frangou

Angeliki Frangou
  Chief Executive Officer
(principal executive officer)
  December 30, 2010
         
/s/  Leonidas Korres

Leonidas Korres
  Chief Financial Officer
(principal financial and
accounting officer)
  December 30, 2010
         
/s/  Angeliki Frangou

Angeliki Frangou
  Chairman of the Board   December 30, 2010
         
*

Ted C. Petrone
  Director   December 30, 2010
         
*

Anna Kalathaki
  Director   December 30, 2010
         
*

George Galatis
  Director   December 30, 2010
         
*

John Koilalous
  Director   December 30, 2010
         
*

Brigitte Noury
  Director   December 30, 2010
         
*

Nikolaos Veraros
  Director   December 30, 2010
             
* By:  
/s/  Vasiliki Papaefthymiou

Vasiliki Papaefthymiou
As Attorney-in-Fact
       


II-7


 

SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in Piraeus, Greece on December 30, 2010.
 
NAVIOS ACQUISITION FINANCE (US) INC.
 
  By: 
/s/  Vasiliki Papaefthymiou
Name:     Vasiliki Papaefthymiou
  Title:  President/Secretary/Director
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by each of the following persons in the capacities indicated on December 30, 2010.
 
             
Signature
 
Title(s)
 
Date
 
         
/s/  Angeliki Frangou

Angeliki Frangou
  Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer)   December 30, 2010
         
/s/  Leonidas Korres

Leonidas Korres
  Chief Financial Officer (principal financial and accounting officer)   December 30, 2010
         
/s/  Vasiliki Papaefthymiou

Vasiliki Papaefthymiou
  Director   December 30, 2010


II-8


 

SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in Piraeus, Greece on December 30, 2010.
 
SHINYO OCEAN LIMITED
SHINYO LOYALTY LIMITED
SHINYO KANNIKA LIMITED
SHINYO NAVIGATOR LIMITED
SHINYO DREAM LIMITED
SHINYO SAOWALAK LIMITED
SHINYO KIERAN LIMITED
SERIFOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
FOLEGANDROS SHIPPING CORPORATION
 
  By: 
/s/  Angeliki Frangou
Name:     Angeliki Frangou
  Title:  Chief Executive Officer
 
  By: 
/s/  Leonidas Korres
Name:     Leonidas Korres
  Title:  Chief Financial Officer
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by each of the following persons in the capacities indicated on December 30, 2010.
 
             
Signature
 
Title(s)
 
Date
 
         
/s/  Angeliki Frangou

Angeliki Frangou
  Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer)   December 30, 2010
         
/s/  Leonidas Korres

Leonidas Korres
  Chief Financial Officer (principal financial and accounting officer and director)   December 30, 2010
         
*

Anna Kalathaki
  Director   December 30, 2010
         
*

Alexandros Laios
  Director   December 30, 2010
             
* By:  
/s/  Vasiliki Papaefthymiou

Vasiliki Papaefthymiou
As Attorney-in-Fact
       


II-9


 

SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in Piraeus, Greece on December 30, 2010.
 
AEGEAN SEA MARITIME HOLDINGS INC.
 
  By: 
/s/  Angeliki Frangou
Name:     Angeliki Frangou
  Title:  Chief Executive Officer
 
  By: 
/s/  Leonidas Korres
Name:     Leonidas Korres
  Title:  Chief Financial Officer
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by each of the following persons in the capacities indicated on December 30, 2010.
 
             
Signature
 
Title(s)
 
Date
 
         
/s/  Angeliki Frangou

Angeliki Frangou
  Chief Executive Officer and Chairman (principal executive officer)   December 30, 2010
         
/s/  Leonidas Korres

Leonidas Korres
  Chief Financial Officer (principal financial and accounting officer)   December 30, 2010
         
*

George Akhniotis
  Director   December 30, 2010
         
Vasiliki Papaefthymiou

Vasiliki Papaefthymiou
  Director   December 30, 2010
             
* By:  
/s/  Vasiliki Papaefthymiou

Vasiliki Papaefthymiou
As Attorney-in-Fact
       


II-10


 

SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in Piraeus, Greece on December 30, 2010.
 
THERA SHIPPING CORPORATION
TINOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
AMORGOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
ANDROS SHIPPING CORPORATION
ANTIPAROS SHIPPING CORPORATION
CRETE SHIPPING CORPORATION
IKARIA SHIPPING CORPORATION
IOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
KOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
MYTILENE SHIPPING CORPORATION
RHODES SHIPPING CORPORATION
SIFNOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
SKIATHOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
SKOPELOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
SYROS SHIPPING CORPORATION
 
  By: 
/s/  Angeliki Frangou
Name:     Angeliki Frangou
  Title:  Chief Executive Officer
 
  By: 
/s/  Leonidas Korres
Name:     Leonidas Korres
  Title:  Chief Financial Officer


II-11


 

 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by each of the following persons in the capacities indicated on December 30, 2010.
 
             
Signature
 
Title(s)
 
Date
 
         
/s/  Angeliki Frangou

Angeliki Frangou
  Chief Executive Officer and Chairman (principal executive officer)   December 30, 2010
         
/s/  Leonidas Korres

Leonidas Korres
  Chief Financial Officer (principal financial and accounting officer)   December 30, 2010
         
*

George Akhniotis
  Director   December 30, 2010
         
/s/  Vasiliki Papaefthymiou

Vasiliki Papaefthymiou
  Director   December 30, 2010
         
*

Anna Kalathaki
  Director   December 30, 2010
             
* By:  
/s/  Vasiliki Papaefthymiou

Vasiliki Papaefthymiou
As Attorney-in-Fact
       
 
Authorized Representative
 
Pursuant to the requirement of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned, the duly undersigned representative in the United States, has signed this registration statement in the City of Newark, State of Delaware, on December 30, 2010.
 
PUGLISI & ASSOCIATES
 
By: 
/s/  Donald J. Puglisi
Name:     Donald J. Puglisi
  Title:  Managing Director


II-12

EX-3.3 2 y04313a1exv3w3.htm EX-3.3 exv3w3
Exhibit 3.3
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
NAVIOS ACQUISITION FINANCE (US) INC.
Pursuant to § 102 of the General Corporation Law
of the State of Delaware
     The undersigned, in order to form a corporation pursuant to Section 102 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware, does hereby certify:
     FIRST: The name of the Corporation is Navios Acquisition Finance (US) Inc.
     SECOND: The address of the Corporation’s registered office in the State of Delaware is Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, Delaware 19801. The name of its registered agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.
     THIRD: The purpose of the Corporation is to serve as the co-issuer of certain First Priority Ship Mortgage Notes due 2017 to be issued by Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation.
     FOURTH: The total number of shares which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is 100 shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share.
     FIFTH: The name and mailing address of the Incorporator is as follows:
     
Name   Mailing Address
Richard B. Goldstein
  Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
 
  One New York Plaza
 
  New York, New York 10004-1980

 


 

     SIXTH: The Board of Directors is expressly authorized to adopt, amend, or repeal the by-laws of the Corporation.
     SEVENTH: Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless the bylaws of the Corporation shall otherwise provide.
     EIGHTH: A director of the Corporation shall not be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not eliminate or limit the liability of a director (i) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. If the General Corporation Law of Delaware is hereafter amended to permit further elimination or limitation of the personal liability of directors, then the liability of a director of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the General Corporation Law of Delaware as so amended. Any repeal or modification of this Article EIGHTH by the stockholders of the Corporation or otherwise shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a director of the Corporation existing at the time of such repeal or modification.
     NINTH: The Corporation 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 stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation.

- 2 -


 

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this [           ]th day of September, 2010, and I affirm that the foregoing certificate is my act and deed and that the facts stated therein are true.
         
     
  /s/ Richard B. Goldstein    
  Richard B. Goldstein, Incorporator   
     
 

- 3 -

EX-3.4 3 y04313a1exv3w4.htm EX-3.4 exv3w4
Exhibit 3.4
BY-LAWS OF
NAVIOS ACQUISITION FINANCE (US) INC.
(A Delaware Corporation)
ARTICLE I
Offices
          SECTION 1. Registered Office. The registered office of the Corporation within the State of Delaware shall be in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle.
          SECTION 2. Other Offices. The Corporation may also have an office or offices other than said registered office at such place or places, either within or without the State of Delaware, as the Board of Directors shall from time to time determine or the business of the Corporation may require.
ARTICLE II
Meetings of Stockholders
          SECTION 1. Place of Meetings. All meetings of the stockholders for the election of directors or for any other purpose shall be held at any such place, either within or without the State of Delaware, as shall be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors and stated in the notice of meeting or in a duly executed waiver thereof.
          SECTION 2. Annual Meeting. The annual meeting of stockholders, shall be held at such date and time as shall be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors and stated in the notice of meeting or in a duly executed waiver thereof. At such annual meeting, the stockholders shall elect, by a plurality vote, a Board of Directors and transact such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.
          SECTION 3. Special Meetings. Special meetings of stockholders, unless otherwise prescribed by statute, may be called at any time by the Board of Directors or the Chairman of the Board, if one shall have been elected, or the President and shall be called by the Secretary upon the request in writing of a stockholder or stockholders holding of record at least 50 percent of the voting power of the issued and outstanding shares of stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at such meeting.
          SECTION 4. Notice of Meetings. Except as otherwise expressly required by statute, written notice of each annual and special meeting of stockholders stating the date, place and hour of the meeting, and, in the case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called, shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to vote thereat not less than ten nor more than sixty days before the date of the meeting. Business transacted at any special meeting of stockholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice. Notice shall

 


 

be given personally or by mail and, if by mail, shall be sent in a postage-prepaid envelope, addressed to the stockholder at his address as it appears on the records of the Corporation. Notice by mail shall be deemed given at the time when the same shall be deposited in the United States mail, postage prepaid. Notice of any meeting shall not be required to be given to any person who attends such meeting, except when such person attends the meeting in person or by proxy for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened, or who, either before or after the meeting, shall submit a signed written waiver of notice, in person or by proxy. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, an annual or special meeting of stockholders need be specified in any written waiver of notice.
          SECTION 5. List of Stockholders. The officer who has charge of the stock ledger of the Corporation shall prepare and make, at least ten days before each meeting of stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, arranged in alphabetical order, showing the address of and the number 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, during ordinary business hours, for a period of at least ten days prior to the meeting, either at a place within the city, town or village where the meeting is to be held, which place shall be specified in the notice of meeting, or, if not specified, at the place where the meeting is to be held. The list shall 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.
          SECTION 6. Quorum, Adjournments. The holders of a majority of the voting power of the issued and outstanding stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereat, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at all meetings of stockholders, except as otherwise provided by statute or by the Certificate of Incorporation. If, however, such quorum shall not be present or represented by proxy at any meeting of stockholders, the stockholders entitled to vote thereat, present in person or represented by proxy, shall have the power to adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum shall be present or represented by proxy. At such adjourned meeting at which a quorum shall be present or represented by proxy, any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as originally called. If the adjournment is for more than thirty days, or, if after adjournment a new record date is set, a notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting.
          SECTION 7. Organization. At each meeting of stockholders, the Chairman of the Board, if one shall have been elected, or, in his absence or if one shall not have been elected, the President shall act as chairman of the meeting. The Secretary or, in his absence or inability to act, the person whom the chairman of the meeting shall appoint secretary of the meeting shall act as secretary of the meeting and keep the minutes thereof.
          SECTION 8. Order of Business. The order of business at all meetings of the stockholders shall be as determined by the chairman of the meeting.

- 2 -


 

          SECTION 9. Voting. Except as otherwise provided by statute or the Certificate of Incorporation, each stockholder of the Corporation shall be entitled at each meeting of stockholders to one vote for each share of capital stock of the Corporation standing in his name on the record of stockholders of the Corporation:
     (a) on the date fixed pursuant to the provisions of Section 7 of Article V of these By-Laws as the record date for the determination of the stockholders who shall be entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting; or
     (b) if no such record date shall have been so fixed, then at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice thereof shall be given, or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the date next preceding the day on which the meeting is held.
Each stockholder entitled to vote at any meeting of stockholders may authorize another person or persons to act for him by a proxy signed by such stockholder or his attorney-in-fact, but no proxy shall be voted after three years from its date, unless the proxy provides for a longer period. Any such proxy shall be delivered to the secretary of the meeting at or prior to the time designated in the order of business for so delivering such proxies. When a quorum is present at any meeting, the vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power of the issued and outstanding stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon, present in person or represented by proxy, shall decide any question brought before such meeting, unless the question is one upon which by express provision of statute or of the Certificate of Incorporation or of these By-Laws, a different vote is required, in which case such express provision shall govern and control the decision of such question. Unless required by statute, or determined by the chairman of the meeting to be advisable, the vote on any question need not be by ballot. On a vote by ballot, each ballot shall be signed by the stockholder voting, or by his proxy, if there by such proxy, and shall state the number of shares voted.
          SECTION 10. Inspectors. The Board of Directors may, in advance of any meeting of stockholders, appoint one or more inspectors to act at such meeting or any adjournment thereof. If any of the inspectors so appointed shall fail to appear or act, the chairman of the meeting shall, or if inspectors shall not have been appointed, the chairman of the meeting may, appoint one or more inspectors. Each inspector, before entering upon the discharge of his 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 ability. The inspectors shall determine the number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation outstanding and the voting power of each, the number of shares represented at the meeting, the existence of a quorum, 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 results, and do such acts as are proper to conduct the election or vote with fairness to all stockholders. On request of the chairman of the meeting, the inspectors shall make a report in writing of any challenge, request or matter determined by them and shall execute a certificate of any fact found by them. No director or candidate for the office of director shall act as an inspector of an election of directors. Inspectors need not be stockholders.

- 3 -


 

          SECTION 11. Action by Consent. Whenever the vote of stockholders at a meeting thereof is required or permitted to be taken for or in connection with any corporate action, by any provision of statute or of the Certificate of Incorporation or of these By-Laws, the meeting and vote of stockholders may be dispensed with, and the action taken without such meeting and vote, if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by the holders of outstanding stock having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all shares of stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon were present and voted.
ARTICLE III
Board of Directors
          SECTION 1. General Powers. The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may exercise all such authority and powers of the Corporation and do all such lawful acts and things as are not by statute or the Certificate of Incorporation directed or required to be exercised or done by the stockholders.
          SECTION 2. Number, Qualifications, Election and Term of Office. The Board of Directors shall consist of not less than one (1) nor more than eight (8) directors, the exact number of which shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors. Thereafter, the number of directors may be fixed, from time to time, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire Board of Directors or by action of the stockholders of the Corporation. Any decrease in the number of directors shall be effective at the time of the next succeeding annual meeting of stockholders unless there shall be vacancies in the Board of Directors, in which case such decrease may become effective at any time prior to the next succeeding annual meeting to the extent of the number of such vacancies. Directors need not be stockholders. Except as otherwise provided by statute or these By-Laws, the directors (other than members of the initial Board of Directors) shall be elected at the annual meeting of stockholders. Each director shall hold office until his successor shall have been elected and qualified, or until his death, or until he shall have resigned, or have been removed, as hereinafter provided in these By-Laws.
          SECTION 3. Place of Meetings. Meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held at such place or places, within or without the State of Delaware, as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine or as shall be specified in the notice of any such meeting.
          SECTION 4. Annual Meeting. The Board of Directors shall meet for the purpose of organization, the election of officers and the transaction of other business, as soon as practicable after each annual meeting of stockholders, on the same day and at the same place where such annual meeting shall be held. Notice of such meeting need not be given. In the event such annual meeting is not so held, the annual meeting of the Board of Directors may be held at such other time or place (within or without the State of Delaware) as shall be specified in a notice thereof given as hereinafter provided in Section 7 of this Article III.

- 4 -


 

          SECTION 5. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held at such time and place as the Board of Directors may fix. If any day fixed for a regular meeting shall be a legal holiday at the place where the meeting is to be held, then the meeting which would otherwise be held on that day shall be held at the same hour on the next succeeding business day. Notice of regular meetings of the Board of Directors need not be given except as otherwise required by statute or these By-Laws.
          SECTION 6. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called by the Chairman of the Board, if one shall have been elected, or by two or more directors of the Corporation or by the President.
          SECTION 7. Notice of Meetings. Notice of each special meeting of the Board of Directors (and of each regular meeting for which notice shall be required) shall be given by the Secretary as hereinafter provided in this Section 7, in which notice shall be stated the time and place of the meeting. Except as otherwise required by these By-Laws, such notice need not state the purposes of such meeting. Notice of each such meeting shall be mailed, postage prepaid, to each director, addressed to him at his residence or usual place of business, by first class mail, at least two days before the day on which such meeting is to be held, or shall be sent addressed to him at such place by telegraph, cable, telex, telecopier or other similar means, or be delivered to him personally or be given to him by telephone or other similar means, at least twenty-four hours before the time at which such meeting is to be held. Notice of any such meeting need not be given to any director who shall, either before or after the meeting, submit a signed waiver of notice or who shall attend such meeting, except when he shall attend for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened.
          SECTION 8. Quorum and Manner of Acting. A majority of the entire Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of the Board of Directors, and, except as otherwise expressly required by statute or the Certificate of Incorporation or these By-Laws, the act of a majority of the directors present at any meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the Board of Directors. In the absence of a quorum at any meeting of the Board of Directors, a majority of the directors present thereat may adjourn such meeting to another time and place. Notice of the time and place of any such adjourned meeting shall be given to all of the directors unless such time and place were announced at the meeting at which the adjournment was taken, in which case such notice shall only be given to the directors who were not present thereat. At any adjourned meeting at which a quorum is present, any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as originally called. The directors shall act only as a Board and the individual directors shall have no power as such.
          SECTION 9. Organization. At each meeting of the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, if one shall have been elected, or, in the absence of the Chairman of the Board or if one shall not have been elected, the President (or, in his absence, another director chosen by a majority of the directors present) shall act as chairman of the meeting and preside thereat. The Secretary or, in his absence, any person appointed by the chairman shall act as secretary of the meeting and keep the minutes thereof.

- 5 -


 

          SECTION 10. Resignations. Any director of the Corporation may resign at any time by giving written notice of his resignation to the Corporation. Any such resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein or, if the time when it shall become effective shall not be specified therein, immediately upon its receipt. Unless otherwise specified therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective.
          SECTION 11. Vacancies. Any vacancy in the Board of Directors, whether arising from death, resignation, removal (with or without cause), an increase in the number of directors or any other cause, may be filled by the vote of a majority of the directors then in office, though less than a quorum, or by the sole remaining director or by the stockholders at the next annual meeting thereof or at a special meeting thereof. Each director so elected shall hold office until his successor shall have been elected and qualified.
          SECTION 12. Removal of Directors. Any director may be removed, either with or without cause, at any time, by the holders of a majority of the voting power of the issued and outstanding capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at an election of directors.
          SECTION 13. Compensation. The Board of Directors shall have authority to fix the compensation, including fees and reimbursement of expenses, of directors for services to the Corporation in any capacity.
          SECTION 14. Committees. The Board of Directors may, by resolution passed by a majority of the entire Board of Directors, designate one or more committees, including an executive committee, each 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 the committee. Except to the extent restricted by statute or the Certificate of Incorporation, each such committee, to the extent provided in the resolution creating it, shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the Board of Directors and may authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which require it. Each such committee shall serve at the pleasure of the Board of Directors and have such name as may be determined from time to time by resolution adopted by the Board of Directors. Each committee shall keep regular minutes of its meetings and report the same to the Board of Directors.
          SECTION 15. Action by Consent. Unless restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation, any action required or permitted to be taken by the Board of Directors or any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting if all members of the Board of Directors or such committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing, and the writing or writings are filed with the minutes of the proceedings of the Board of Directors or such committee, as the case may be.
          SECTION 16. Telephonic Meeting. Unless restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation, any one or more members of the Board of Directors or any committee thereof may participate in a meeting of the Board of Directors or such committee by means of a conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in

- 6 -


 

the meeting can hear each other. Participation by such means shall constitute presence in person at a meeting.
ARTICLE IV
Officers
          SECTION 1. Number and Qualifications. The officers of the Corporation shall be elected by the Board of Directors and shall include the President and the Secretary. If the Board of Directors wishes, it either may also elect as an officer of the Corporation a Chairman of the Board and may elect other officers (including one or more Vice Presidents, a Treasurer, one or more Assistant Treasurers and one or more Assistant Secretaries) as may be necessary or desirable for the business of the Corporation. Any two or more offices may be held by the same person, and no officer except the Chairman of the Board need be a director. Each officer shall hold office until his successor shall have been duly elected and shall have qualified, or until his death, or until he shall have resigned or have been removed, as hereinafter provided in these By-Laws.
          SECTION 2. Resignations. Any officer of the Corporation may resign at any time by giving written notice of his resignation to the Corporation. Any such resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein or, if the time when it shall become effective shall not be specified therein, immediately upon receipt. Unless otherwise specified therein, the acceptance of any such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective.
          SECTION 3. Removal. Any officer of the Corporation may be removed, either with or without cause, at any time, by the Board of Directors at any meeting thereof.
          SECTION 4. Chairman of the Board. The Chairman of the Board, if one shall have been elected, shall be a member of the Board, an officer of the Corporation and, if present, shall preside at each meeting of the Board of Directors or the stockholders. He shall advise and counsel with the President, and in his absence with other executives of the Corporation, and shall perform such other duties as may from time to time be assigned to him by the Board of Directors.
          SECTION 5. The President. The President shall be the chief executive officer of the Corporation. He shall, in the absence of the Chairman of the Board or if a Chairman of the Board shall not have been elected, preside at each meeting of the Board of Directors or the stockholders. He shall perform all duties incident to the office of President and chief executive officer and such other duties as may from time to time be assigned to him by the Board of Directors.
          SECTION 6. Vice-President. Each Vice-President, if any, shall perform all such duties as from time to time may be assigned to him by the Board of Directors or the President. At the request of the President or in his absence or in the event of his inability or refusal to act, the Vice-President, or if there shall be more than one, the Vice-Presidents in the order determined by the Board of Directors (or if there be no such determination, then the Vice-Presidents in the order of their election), shall perform the duties of the President, and, when so acting, shall have

- 7 -


 

the powers of and be subject to the restrictions placed upon the President in respect of the performance of such duties.
          SECTION 7. Treasurer. The Treasurer, if any, shall
     (a) have charge and custody of, and be responsible for, all the funds and securities of the Corporation;
     (b) keep full and accurate accounts of receipts and disbursements in books belonging to the Corporation;
     (c) deposit all moneys and other valuables to the credit of the Corporation in such depositories as may be designated by the Board of Directors or pursuant to its direction;
     (d) receive, and give receipts for, moneys due and payable to the Corporation from any source whatsoever;
     (e) disburse the funds of the Corporation and supervise the investments of its funds, taking proper vouchers therefore;
     (f) render to the Board of Directors, whenever the Board of Directors may require, an account of the financial condition of the Corporation; and
     (g) in general, perform all duties incident to the office of Treasurer and such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to him by the Board of Directors.
          SECTION 8. Secretary. The Secretary shall
     (a) keep or cause to be kept in one or more books provided for the purpose, the minutes of all meetings of the Board of Directors, the committees of the Board of Directors and the stockholders;
     (b) see that all notices are duly given in accordance with the provisions of these By-Laws and as required by law;
     (c) be custodian of the records and the seal of the Corporation and affix and attest the seal to all certificates for shares of the Corporation (unless the seal of the Corporation on such certificates shall be a facsimile, as hereinafter provided) and affix and attest the seal to all other documents to be executed on behalf of the Corporation under its seal;
     (d) see that the books, reports, statements, certificates and other documents and records required by law to be kept and filed are properly kept and filed; and
     (e) in general, perform all duties incident to the office of Secretary and such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to him by the Board of Directors.

- 8 -


 

          SECTION 9. The Assistant Treasurer. The Assistant Treasurer, if any, or if there shall be more than one, the Assistant Treasurers in the order determined by the Board of Directors (or if there be no such determination, then in the order of their election), shall, in the absence of the Treasurer or in the event of his inability or refusal to act, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the Treasurer and shall perform such other duties as from time to time may be assigned by the Board of Directors.
          SECTION 10. The Assistant Secretary. The Assistant Secretary, if any, or if there be more than one, the Assistant Secretaries in the order determined by the Board of Directors (or if there be no such determination, then in the order of their election), shall, in the absence of the Secretary or in the event of his inability or refusal to act, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the Secretary and shall perform such other duties as from time to time may be assigned by the Board of Directors.
          SECTION 11. Officers’ Bonds or Other Security. If required by the Board of Directors, any officer of the Corporation shall give a bond or other security for the faithful performance of his duties, in such amount and with such surety as the Board of Directors may require.
          SECTION 12. Compensation. The compensation of the officers of the Corporation for their services as such officers shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors. An officer of the Corporation shall not be prevented from receiving compensation by reason of the fact that he is also a director of the Corporation.
ARTICLE V
Stock Certificates and Their Transfer
          SECTION 1. Stock Certificates. Every holder of stock in the Corporation shall be entitled to have a certificate, signed by, or in the name of the Corporation by, the Chairman of the Board or the President or a Vice-President and by the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer or the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Corporation, certifying the number of shares owned by him in the Corporation. If the Corporation shall be authorized to issue more than one class of stock or more than one series of any class, the designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restriction of such preferences and/or rights shall be set forth in full or summarized on the face or back of the certificate which the Corporation shall issue to represent such class or series of stock, provided that, except as otherwise provided in Section 202 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, in lieu of the foregoing requirements, there may be set forth on the face or back of the certificate which the Corporation shall issue to represent such class or series of stock, a statement that the Corporation will furnish without charge to each stockholder who so requests the designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights.

- 9 -


 

          SECTION 2. Facsimile Signatures. Any or all of the signatures on a certificate may be a facsimile. 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 were such officer, transfer agent or registrar at the date of issue.
          SECTION 3. Lost Certificates. The Board of Directors may direct a new certificate or certificates to be issued in place of any certificate or certificates theretofore issued by the Corporation alleged to have been lost, stolen, or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of a new certificate or certificates, the Board of Directors may, in its discretion and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost, stolen, or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his legal representative, to give the Corporation a bond in such sum as it may direct sufficient to indemnify it against any claim that may be made against the Corporation on account of the alleged loss, theft or destruction of any such certificate or the issuance of such new certificate.
          SECTION 4. Transfers of Stock. Upon surrender to the Corporation or the transfer agent of the Corporation of a certificate for shares duly endorsed or accompanied by proper evidence of succession, assignment or authority to transfer, it shall be the duty of the Corporation to issue a new certificate to the person entitled thereto, cancel the old certificate and record the transaction upon its records; provided, however, that the Corporation shall be entitled to recognize and enforce any lawful restriction on transfer. Whenever any transfer of stock shall be made for collateral security, and not absolutely, it shall be so expressed in the entry of transfer if, when the certificates are presented to the Corporation for transfer, both the transferor and the transferee request the Corporation to do so.
          SECTION 5. Transfer Agents and Registrars. The Board of Directors may appoint, or authorize any officer or officers to appoint, one or more transfer agents and one or more registrars.
          SECTION 6. Regulations. The Board of Directors may make such additional rules and regulations, not inconsistent with these By-Laws, as it may deem expedient concerning the issue, transfer and registration of certificates for shares of stock of the Corporation.
          SECTION 7. Fixing the 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 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 sixty nor less than ten days before the date of such meeting, nor more than sixty 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.

- 10 -


 

          SECTION 8. Registered Stockholders. The Corporation shall be entitled to recognize the exclusive right of a person registered on its records as the owner of shares of stock to receive dividends and to vote as such owner, shall be entitled to hold liable for calls and assessments a person registered on its records as the owner of shares of stock, and shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such share or shares of stock on the part of any other person, whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, except as otherwise provided by the laws of Delaware.
ARTICLE VI
Indemnification of Directors and Officers
          SECTION 1. General. The Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the Corporation) by reason of the fact that he 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, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful.
          SECTION 2. Derivative Actions. The Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the Corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that he 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 against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, provided that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the Corporation unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the Court of Chancery or such other court shall deem proper.

- 11 -


 

          SECTION 3. Indemnification in Certain Cases. To the extent that a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in Sections 1 and 2 of this Article VI, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, he shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection therewith.
          SECTION 4. Procedure. Any indemnification under Sections 1 and 2 of this Article VI (unless ordered by a court) shall be made by the Corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the director, officer, employee or agent is proper in the circumstances because he has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in such Sections 1 and 2. Such determination shall be made (a) by the Board of Directors by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors who were not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, or (b) if such a quorum is not obtainable, or, even if obtainable a quorum of disinterested directors so directs, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or (c) by the stockholders.
          SECTION 5. Advances for Expenses. Expenses incurred in defending a civil or criminal action, suit or proceeding may 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 the director, officer, employee or agent to repay such amount if it shall be ultimately determined that he is not entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation as authorized in this Article VI.
          SECTION 6. Rights Not Exclusive. The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, the other subsections of this Article VI shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any law, by-law, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in his official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office.
          SECTION 7. Insurance. The Corporation shall have power to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who 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 against any liability asserted against him and incurred by him in any such capacity, or arising out of his status as such, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify him against such liability under the provisions of this Article VI.
          SECTION 8. Definition of Corporation. For the purposes of this Article VI, references to “the Corporation” include all constituent corporations absorbed in a consolidation or merger as well as the resulting or surviving corporation so that any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of such a constituent corporation or is or was serving at the request of such constituent corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise shall stand in the same position under the provisions of this Article VI with respect to the resulting or surviving corporation as he would if he had served the resulting or surviving corporation in the same capacity.

- 12 -


 

          SECTION 9. Survival of Rights. The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to this Article VI shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.
ARTICLE VII
General Provisions
          SECTION 1. Dividends. Subject to the provisions of statute and the Certificate of Incorporation, dividends upon the shares of capital stock of the Corporation may be declared by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting. Dividends may be paid in cash, in property or in shares of stock of the Corporation, unless otherwise provided by statute or the Certificate of Incorporation.
          SECTION 2. Reserves. 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 may, from time to time, in its absolute discretion, think 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 such other purpose as the Board of Directors may think conducive to the interests of the Corporation. The Board of Directors may modify or abolish any such reserves in the manner in which it was created.
          SECTION 3. Seal. The seal of the Corporation shall be in such form as shall be approved by the Board of Directors.
          SECTION 4. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be fixed, and once fixed, may thereafter be changed, by resolution of the Board of Directors.
          SECTION 5. Checks, Notes, Drafts, Etc. All checks, notes, drafts or other orders for the payment of money of the Corporation shall be signed, endorsed or accepted in the name of the Corporation by such officer, officers, person or persons as from time to time may be designated by the Board of Directors or by an officer or officers authorized by the Board of Directors to make such designation.
          SECTION 6. Execution of Contracts, Deeds, Etc. The Board of Directors may authorize any officer or officers, agent or agents, 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 7. Voting of Stock in Other Corporations. Unless otherwise provided by resolution of the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board or the President, from time to time, may (or may appoint one or more attorneys or agents to) cast the votes which the Corporation may be entitled to cast as a shareholder or otherwise in any other corporation, any of whose shares or securities may be held by the Corporation, at meetings of the holders of the shares or other securities of such other corporation. In the event one or more attorneys or agents are appointed, the Chairman of the Board or the President may instruct the person or persons so

- 13 -


 

appointed as to the manner of casting such votes or giving such consent. The Chairman of the Board or the President may, or may instruct the attorneys or agents appointed to, execute or cause to be executed in the name and on behalf of the Corporation and under its seal or otherwise, such written proxies, consents, waivers or other instruments as may be necessary or proper in the circumstances.
ARTICLE VIII
Amendments
          These By-Laws may be amended or repealed or new by-laws adopted (a) by action of the stockholders entitled to vote thereon at any annual or special meeting of stockholders or (b) if the Certificate of Incorporation so provides, by action of the Board of Directors at a regular or special meeting thereof. Any by-law made by the Board of Directors may be amended or repealed by action of the stockholders at any annual or special meeting of stockholders.

- 14 -

EX-3.5 4 y04313a1exv3w5.htm EX-3.5 exv3w5
Exhibit 3.5

MEMORANDUM
AND
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
SHINYO DREAM LIMITED
 
Incorporated the 20th day of July, 2007.
 
HONG KONG

No. 1151531
[COPY]
COMPANIES ORDINANCE (CHAPTER 32)
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
 
I hereby certify that
SHINYO DREAM LIMITED
is this day incorporated in Hong Kong under the Companies Ordinance, and that this company is limited.
     Issued by the undersigned on 20 July 2007.
         
     
  Miss Nancy O. S. YAU    
  for Registrar of Companies   
  Hong Kong   
 

 


 

THE COMPANIES ORDINANCE (Chapter 32)
 
Private Company Limited by Shares
 
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
OF
SHINYO DREAM LIMITED
 
First:- The name of the Company is “SHINYO DREAM LIMITED”.

Second:- The Registered Office of the Company will be situated in Hong Kong.

Third:- The liability of the members is limited.
Fourth:- The Share Capital of the Company is HK $10,000.00 divided into 10,000 shares of HK$1.00 each and the Company shall have power to divide the original or any increased capital into several classes, and to attach thereto any preferential, deferred, qualified, or other special rights, privileges, restrictions or conditions.

- 1 -


 

     I/We, the undersigned, whose name(s), address(es) and description(s) is/are hereto subscribed, am/are desirous of being formed into a Company in pursuance of this Memorandum of Association, and I/we respectively agree to take the number of share(s) in the capital of the Company set opposite to my/our respective name(s):-
         
    Number of Share(s)  
    taken by each  
Name(s), Address(es) and Description(s) of Subscriber(s)   subscriber  
 
Vanship Holdings Limited
80 Broad Street,
Monrovia, Liberia.
     (Corporation)
    1  
 
       
Total Number of Share(s) Taken
    1  
     Dated the 16th day of July, 2007.
WITNESS to the above signatures:
Chan Pui Sze
Secretary
Room 2210, C C Wu Bldg.,
302-308 Hennessy Road,
Wanchai,
Hong Kong.

- 2 -


 

THE COMPANIES ORDINANCE (Chapter 32)
 
Private Company Limited by Shares
 
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
SHlNYO DREAM LIMITED
 
PRELIMINARY
1. The regulations in Table A in the First Schedule to the Companies Ordinance (Chapter 32) shall apply to the Company save in so far as they are hereby specifically excluded or are inconsistent with the Articles herein contained. In particular, but without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, clauses 11, 24, 25, 49, 55, 81, 86, 91 to 99 inclusive, 101, 108, 114 and 136 of Table A shall not apply or are modified as hereinafter appearing.
PRIVATE COMPANY
2.   The Company is a private company, and accordingly:-
(a)   no invitation shall be issued to the public to subscribe for any shares or debentures of the Company;
 
(b)   the number of the members of the Company (not including persons who are in the employment of the Company, and persons who, having been formerly in the employment of the Company were, while in that employment, and have continued after the determination of that employment to be, members of the Company) shall be limited to fifty, provided that where two or more persons hold one or more shares in the Company jointly they shall, for the purposes of this Article, be treated as a single member; and
 
(c)   the right to transfer the shares of the Company shall be restricted in manner hereinafter appearing.
SHARES
3. The Shares shall be under the control of the Directors who may subject to section 57B of the Ordinance allot or otherwise dispose of the same to such person or persons on such terms and conditions and either at a premium or at par and with such rights and privileges annexed thereto and at such times as the Directors may think fit and with full power to give to any person the call of any shares either at par or at a premium during such time and for such consideration as the Directors think fit, and in particular such shares or any of them may be issued by the Directors with a preferential, deferred or qualified right to dividends, and with a special or qualified right of voting or without a right of voting. Any preference share may be issued on the terms that it is, or at the option of the Company is, liable to be redeemed.
4. The Company shall have the first and paramount lien upon all the shares registered in the name of each Member and upon the proceeds of sale thereof, for his debts, liabilities and engagements, solely or jointly with any other person, to or with the Company, whether the period for the payment, fulfillment or discharge thereof shall have actually arrived or not, and such lien shall extend to all dividends from time to time declared in respect of such shares.
5. Save as herein otherwise provided, the Company shall be entitled to treat the registered holder of any shares as the absolute owner thereof, and accordingly shall not, except as ordered by a Court of competent jurisdiction or as by Ordinance required, be bound to recognise any equitable or other claim to, or interest in, such shares on the part of any other person.
6. Subject to the Ordinance and the sanction of the Court, the Company may by special resolution issue shares at a discount.

- 3 -


 

TRANSFER OF SHARES
7. The Directors may in their absolute discretion and without assigning any reason therefor, refuse to register a transfer of any share. If the Directors refuse to register a transfer they shall within two months after the date on which the transfer was lodged with the Company, send to the transferee notice of the refusal as required by Section 69 of the Ordinance.
REDEMPTION OR PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES
8. Subject to the Ordinance, the Company may by Special Resolution redeem or purchase its own shares out of its capital.
GENERAL MEETINGS
9. A General Meeting shall be held once in every year at such time (not being more than fifteen months after the holding of the last preceding General Meeting) and place as may be prescribed by the Company in General Meeting and if no other time or place is prescribed a General Meeting shall be held at such time and place as the Directors may from time to time determine. General Meetings held under this Article shall be called Annual General Meetings. General Meetings other than the Annual General Meetings shall be called Extraordinary General Meetings. Provided that so long as the Company holds its First Annual General Meeting within 18 months of its incorporation, it need not hold it in the year of its incorporation or in the following year.
10. (a) The quorum for the transaction of business at any General Meeting shall be two members present in person or by proxy. Notwithstanding any provision herein, if the Company has only one member, that member presents in person or by proxy shall be the quorum of a General Meeting of the Company.
     (b) Meetings may be held in Hong Kong or at such other place or places in the world as the majority of the shareholders in value shall from time to time by resolution determine.
     (c) A resolution in writing signed by all the shareholders and annexed or attached to the General Meetings Minute Book shall be as valid and effective as a resolution passed at a meeting duly convened. The signature of any shareholder may be given by his Attorney or Proxy. Any such resolution may be contained in one document or separate copies prepared and/or circulated for the purpose and signed by one or more shareholders.
     (d) Where the Company has only one member and that member takes any decision that may be taken by the Company in General Meeting and that has effect as if agreed by the Company in General Meeting, he shall (unless that decision is taken by way of a resolution in writing duly signed by him) provide the Company with a written record of that decision within 7 days after the decision is made.
DIRECTORS
11. Unless and until otherwise determined by an Ordinary Resolution of the Company, the minimum number of Director(s) shall be one and there shall be no maximum number of Directors.
12. The first Director(s) shall be appointed in writing by the subscriber(s) to the Memorandum of Association of the Company or by the Company in General Meeting.
13. A Director need not hold any shares in the Company and is not subject to rotation or retirement at the Annual General Meetings. A Director who is not a member of the Company shall nevertheless be entitled to attend and speak at General Meetings.
DIRECTORS’ REMUNERATION
14. (a) The Directors shall be paid out of the funds of the Company remuneration for their services such sum (if any) as the Company may by Ordinary Resolution from time to time determine.
     (b) The Directors shall also be entitled to be paid their reasonable expenses incurred in consequence of their attendance at meetings of Directors, committee meetings or General Meetings or otherwise in or about the business of the Company.
15. The Directors may award extra remuneration out of the funds of the Company (by way of salary, commission or otherwise as the Directors may determine) to any Director who performs services which in the opinion of the Directors are outside the scope of the ordinary duties of a Director.
POWERS OF DIRECTORS
16. The business of the Company shall be managed by the Directors, who shall pay all expenses incurred in the formation and registration of the Company, and who may exercise all such powers of the Company as are not by the Ordinance or by these Articles required to be exercised by the Company in General Meeting, subject to any provision in these Articles or the Ordinance

- 4 -


 

and to any resolution, not being inconsistent with any such provision, as may be passed by the Company in General Meeting; but no such resolution shall invalidate any prior act of the Directors. The general powers given to the Directors by this Article shall be in addition to, and not limited or restricted by, any special authority or power given to the Directors by any other Article.
17. The Directors may establish any local boards or agencies for managing any of the affairs of the Company, either in Hong Kong or elsewhere, and may appoint any persons to be members of such local boards, or any managers or agents for the Company, and may fix their remuneration, and may delegate (with or without power to sub-delegate as the Directors shall determine) to any local board, manager or agent any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in the Directors, and may authorise the members of any local boards, or any of them, to fill any vacancies therein, and to act notwithstanding vacancies, and any such appointment or delegation may be made upon such terms and subject to such conditions as the Directors may think fit, and the Directors may remove any person so appointed, and may annul or vary any such delegation, but no person dealing in good faith and without notice of any such annulment or variation shall be affected thereby.
18. The Directors may from time to time and at any time by power of attorney or other instrument appoint any person or body of persons to be the attorney or attorneys of the Company for such purposes and with such powers, authorities and discretions (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by the Directors under these Articles) and for such period and subject to such conditions as they may think fit, and any such power of attorney or other instrument may contain such provisions for the protection and convenience of persons dealing with any such attorney as the Directors may think fit, and may also authorise any such attorney to sub-delegate all or any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in him.
19. Subject to and to the extent permitted by the Ordinance, the Company, or the Directors on behalf of the Company, may cause to be kept in any territory a Branch Register of members resident in such territory, and the Directors may make and vary such regulations as they may think fit respecting the keeping of any such Branch Register.
20. All cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, and other negotiable or transferable instruments, and all receipts for moneys paid to the Company, shall be signed, drawn, accepted, endorsed, or otherwise executed, as the case may be, in such manner as the Directors shall from time to time by resolution determine.
21. (a) The Directors may exercise all the powers of the Company to borrow money and to mortgage or charge all or any part of the undertaking, property and assets (present and future) and uncalled capital of the Company and to issue debentures, debenture stocks, bonds and other securities, whether outright or as collateral security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or of any third party. Debentures, debenture stocks, bonds and other securities of the Company may be made assignable free from any equities between the Company and the person to whom the same may be issued, and may be issued at a discount, premium or otherwise and with any special privileges as to redemption, surrender, drawings, allotment of shares, attending and voting at General Meetings of the Company, appointment of Directors and otherwise.
     (b) The Directors shall cause a proper register to be kept, in accordance with the provisions of the Ordinance, of all mortgages and charges affecting the property of the Company and shall duly comply with the requirements of the Ordinance in regard to the registration of mortgages and charges therein specified and otherwise. Where any uncalled capital of the Company is charged, all persons taking any subsequent charge thereon shall take the same subject to such prior charge, and shall not be entitled, by notice to the members or otherwise, to obtain priority over such prior charge.
APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS
22. The Company may, from time to time, by Ordinary Resolution appoint new Directors.
23. The Company may also by Ordinary Resolution remove any Director notwithstanding anything in these Articles or in any agreement between him and the Company and may, appoint another person in his stead.
24. The Directors shall have power, exercisable at any time and from time to time, to appoint any other person as a Director, either to fill a casual vacancy or as an addition to the Board.
25. In the event that the quorum and minimum number of directors are fixed at two or more directors, the continuing Directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body, but if and so long as the number of Directors is reduced below the number fixed by or pursuant to these Articles as the necessary quorum of Directors, the continuing Directors may act for the purpose of increasing the number of Directors to that number, or of summoning a General Meeting of the Company, but for no other purpose. If there shall be no Directors able or willing to act, then any member may summon a General Meeting for the purpose of appointing Directors.
RESERVE AND ALTERNATE DIRECTORS
26. (a) If the Company has only one member and that member is also the sole director, the Company may in General Meeting, notwithstanding anything in these Articles, nominate a person (other than a body corporate) who has attained the age of 18 years as a Reserve Director of the Company to act in the place of the sole director in the event of his death. Any duly

- 5 -


 

authorized officer of the Company is empowered to send the particulars of the nomination of the Reserve Director to the Registrar of Companies, pursuant to section 158 of the Ordinance.
     (b) Each Director may by written notification to the Company nominate any other person to act as Alternate Director in his place and at his discretion in similar manner remove such Alternate Director. The Alternate Director shall (except as regards the power to appoint an alternate) be subject in all respects to the terms and conditions existing with reference to the other Directors of the Company; and each Alternate Director, whilst acting as such, shall exercise and discharge all the functions, powers and duties of the Director he represents, but shall look to such Director solely for his remuneration as Alternate Director. Every person acting as an Alternate Director shall have one vote for each Director for whom he acts as alternate (in addition to his own vote if he is also a Director). The signature of an Alternate Director to any resolution in writing of the Board or a committee of the Board shall, unless the notice of his appointment provides to the contrary, be as effective as the signature of his appointor. Any Director of the Company who is appointed an Alternate Director shall be considered as two Directors for the purpose of making a quorum of Directors. Any person appointed as an Alternate Director shall vacate his office as such Alternate Director if and when the Director by whom he has been appointed removes him or vacates office as Director. A Director shall not be liable for the acts or defaults of any Alternate Director appointed by him.
DIRECTORS’ INTERESTS
27. A Director who is in any way, whether directly or indirectly, interested in a contract or proposed contract with the Company shall declare the nature of his interest in accordance with the provisions of the Ordinance. A general notice given to the Directors by a Director to the effect that he is a member or a director of a specified company or firm, and is to be regarded as interested in any contract, arrangement or dealing which may, after the date of the notice, be entered into or made with that company or firm, shall, for the purpose of this Article, be deemed to be a sufficient disclosure of interest in relation to any contract, arrangement or dealing so entered into or made. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, a Director shall give notice to the Company of such matters relating to himself as may be necessary for the purposes of Sections 155B, 158, 161 and 161B of the Ordinance.
28. A Director may hold any other office or place of profit under the Company (other than the office of Auditor), and he or any firm of which he is a member may act in a professional capacity for the Company in conjunction with his office of Director, for such period and on such terms (as to remuneration and otherwise) as the Directors may determine. No Director or intended Director shall be disqualified by his office from contracting with the Company, nor shall any contract or arrangement entered into by or on behalf of the Company with any Director or any firm or company in which any Director is in any way interested be liable to be avoided, nor shall any Director so contracting or being so interested be liable to account to the Company for any profit, remuneration or other benefits realised by any such contract or arrangement by reason only of such Director holding that office, or of any fiduciary relationship thereby established.
29. A Director shall be entitled to vote as a Director in respect of any contract or arrangement in which he is interested or upon any matter arising thereout, and if he shall so vote his vote shall be counted, and he shall be taken into account in determining the quorum for the meeting at which any such contract or arrangement is to be considered.
30. A Director may hold office as a director in or manager of any other company in which the Company is a shareholder or is otherwise interested, and (subject to any agreement with the Company to the contrary) shall not be liable to account to the Company for any remuneration or other benefits receivable by him from such other company. The Board may exercise the voting powers conferred by the shares in any other company held or owned by the Company in such manner in all respects as the Board thinks fit (including the exercise thereof in favour of any resolution appointing the Directors or any of them directors or other officers of such company or voting or providing for the payment of remuneration to the directors of such company) and any Director of the Company may vote in favour of the exercise of such voting rights in manner aforesaid notwithstanding that he may be, or be about to be, appointed a director or other officer of such other company and as such is or may become interested in the exercise of such voting rights in manner aforesaid.
DIRECTORS’ MEETINGS
31. (a) Meetings of the Directors may be held in Hong Kong or in any other part of the world as may be convenient for the majority.
     (b) Unless otherwise determined by the Company by Ordinary Resolution, the quorum for meeting of the Directors shall be two. Notwithstanding any provision herein, if the Company has only one Director, the quorum for Board Meeting shall be one.
     (c) The Directors may participate in any Board Meeting by means of conference telephone or other communications equipment through which all other directors present at the Meeting can hear each other and such participation shall constitute attendance at Board Meeting as if those participating were present in person, provided always that the quorum was already present at the meeting. The Directors may also, in urgent cases, pass a resolution by way of telephonic conference, provided always that a written resolution is subsequently signed by all the directors in accordance with (d) below.

- 6 -


 

     (d) A resolution in writing, signed by all the Directors for the time being entitled to receive notice of a meeting of the Directors, shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Directors duly convened and held, without the need for any agenda or notice. The signature of any Director may be given by his alternate. Any such resolution may be contained in one document or separate copies prepared and/or circulated for the purpose and signed by one or more of the Directors. A cable, telex, fax message or other written electronic communication sent by a Director or his alternate shall be deemed to be a document signed by him for the purposes of this Article.
     (e) Where the Company has only one Director and that Director takes any decision that may be taken in a meeting of the Directors and that has effect as if agreed in a meeting of the Directors, he shall (unless that decision is taken by way of a resolution in writing duly signed by him) provide the Company with a written record of that decision within 7 days after the decision is made.
THE SEAL
32. The Directors shall procure a common seal to be made for the Company, and shall provide for the safe custody thereof. The Seal shall not be affixed to any instrument except by the authority of the Directors or a committee authorised by the Board in that behalf, and every instrument to which the Seal shall be affixed shall be signed by one Director or some other person nominated by the Directors for the purpose.
33. The Company may exercise all the powers of having official seals conferred by the Ordinance and such powers shall be vested in the Directors.
SECRETARY
34. (a) The Directors shall appoint a Secretary of the Company for such period, at such remuneration and upon such conditions as they may think fit, and any Secretary so appointed may be removed by them. In the event that the secretary appointed is a corporation or other body, it may act and sign by the hand of any one or more of its directors or officers duly authorised. The First Secretary of the Company shall be Kinetic Corporate Services Limited.
     (b) Where the Company has only one Director, that Director shall not also be the Secretary of the Company.
     (c) Where the Company has only one Director, the Company shall not have as Secretary of the Company a body corporate the sole Director of which is the sole Director of the Company.
WINDING UP
35. If the Company shall be wound up and the assets available for distribution among the members as such shall be insufficient to repay the whole of the paid up Capital, such assets shall be distributed so that as near as may be the losses shall be borne by the members in proportion to the capital paid up or which ought to have been paid up at the commencement of the winding up on the shares held by them respectively and if in a winding up the assets available for distribution among the members shall be more than sufficient to repay the whole of the capital paid up at the commencement of the winding up the excess shall be distributed among the members in proportion to the capital at the commencement of the winding up paid up or which ought to have been paid up on the shares held by them respectively. But this Article is to be without prejudice to the rights of the holders of any shares issued upon special terms and conditions.
36. (a) If the Company shall be wound up whether voluntarily or otherwise the liquidators may with the sanction of a Special Resolution divide among the contributories in specie or kind any part of the assets of the Company and may with the like sanction vest any part of the assets of the Company in trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of the contributories or any of them as the liquidators with the like sanction think fit.
     (b) If thought expedient any such division may be otherwise than in accordance with the legal rights of the contributories and in particular any class may be given preferential or special rights or may be excluded altogether or in part; but in case any division otherwise than in accordance with the legal rights of the contributories shall be determined on any contributory who would be prejudiced thereby shall have a right to dissent and ancillary rights as if such determination were a Special Resolution passed pursuant to Section 237 of the Ordinance.
     (c) In case any of the shares to be divided as aforesaid consist of shares which involve a liability to calls or otherwise, any person entitled under such division to any of the said shares may, within ten days after the passing of the Special Resolution by notice in writing, direct the Liquidator to sell his proportion and pay him the net proceeds, and the liquidator shall, if practicable, act accordingly.

- 7 -


 

Name(s), Address(es) and Description(s) of Subscriber(s)
Vanship Holdings Limited
80 Broad Street,
Monrovia, Liberia.
(Corporation)
     Dated the 16th day of July, 2007.
WITNESS to the above signatures:
Chan Pui Sze
Secretary
Room 2210, CC Wu Bldg.,
302-308 Hennessy Road,
Wanchai,
Hong Kong.

- 8 -

EX-3.6 5 y04313a1exv3w6.htm EX-3.6 exv3w6
Exhibit 3.6

MEMORANDUM
AND
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
SHINYO OASIS LIMITED
 
Incorporated the 27th day of September, 2004.
 
HONG KONG

     No. 924771
[COPY]
COMPANIES ORDINANCE (CHAPTER 32)
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
 
I hereby certify that
SHINYO OASIS LIMITED
     is this day incorporated in Hong Kong under the Companies Ordinance, and that this company is limited.
          Issued by the undersigned on 27 September 2004.
MISS R. CHEUNG
                                                            
for Registrar of Companies
Hong Kong

 


 

Company No. 924771
THE COMPANIES ORDINANCE
(CHAPTER 32)
SPECIAL RESOLUTION
OF
SHINYO OASIS LIMITED
 
Passed on 19 October 2004
 
     At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company duly convened and held at Suite 801, 8/F., Asian House, 1 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong on 19 October, 2004 at 11:00 a.m. the following Resolution was passed as a Special Resolution: -
CHANGE OF NAME
     “THAT the name of the Company be changed to SHINYO KANNIKA LIMITED.”
(Sd.) Lo Yu Ching
Amity Corporte Services Limited
(CHINESE CHARACTER)
Amity Corporte Services Limited
Chairman
Dated this, 19 October 2004

 


 

THE COMPANIES ORDINANCE (Chapter 32)
 
Private Company Limited by Shares
 
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
OF
SHINYO OASIS LIMITED
 
First:- The name of the Company is “SHINYO OASIS LIMITED”.
Second:-The Registered Office of the Company will be situated in Hong Kong.
Third:- The liability of the members is limited.
Fourth:- The Share Capital of the Company is HK$10,000.00 divided into 10,000 shares of HK$1.00 each and the Company shall have power to divide the original or any increased capital into several classes, and to attach thereto any preferential, deferred, qualified, or other special rights, privileges, restrictions or conditions.

- 1 -


 

     I/We, the undersigned, whose name(s), address(es) and description(s) is/are hereto subscribed, am/are desirous of being formed into a Company in pursuance of this Memorandum of Association, and I/we respectively agree to take the number of share(s) in the capital of the Company set opposite to my/our respective name(s):-
     
    Number of Share(s)
    taken by each
Name(s), Address(es) and Description(s) of Subscriber(s)   subscriber
Amity Corporate Services Limited
  One
(CHINESE CHARACTER)
   
Room 2210, C C Wu Building,
   
302 Hennessy Road,
   
Wanchai,
   
Hong Kong.
   
Corporation
   
 
   
 
   
Total Number of Share(s) Taken
  One
 
   
 
Dated the 20th day of September, 2004.
WITNESS to the above signatures:
Lo Yu Ching
Secretary
Room 2210, C C Wu Bldg.,
302-308 Hennessy Road,
Hong Kong.

- 2 -


 

THE COMPANIES ORDINANCE (Chapter 32)
 
Private Company Limited by Shares
 
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
SHINYO OASIS LIMITED
 
PRELIMINARY
1. The regulations in Table A in the First Schedule to the Companies Ordinance (Chapter 32) shall apply to the Company save in so far as they are hereby specifically excluded or are inconsistent with the Articles herein contained. In particular, but without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, clauses 11, 24, 25, 49, 55, 81, 86, 91 to 99 inclusive, 101, 108, 114 and 136 of Table A shall not apply or are modified as hereinafter appearing.
PRIVATE COMPANY
2.   The Company is a private company, and accordingly:-
 
(a)   no invitation shall be issued to the public to subscribe for any shares or debentures of the Company;
 
(b)   the number of the members of the Company (not including persons who are in the employment of the Company, and persons who, having been formerly in the employment of the Company were, while in that employment, and have continued after the determination of that employment to be, members of the Company) shall be limited to fifty, provided that where two or more persons hold one or more shares in the Company jointly they shall, for the purposes of this Article, be treated as a single member; and
 
(c)   the right to transfer the shares of the Company shall be restricted in manner hereinafter appearing.
SHARES
3. The Shares shall be under the control of the Directors who may subject to section 57B of the Ordinance allot or otherwise dispose of the same to such person or persons on such terms and conditions and either at a premium or at par and with such rights and privileges annexed thereto and at such times as the Directors may think fit and with full power to give to any person the call of any shares either at par or at a premium during such time and for such consideration as the Directors think fit, and in particular such shares or any of them may be issued by the Directors with a preferential, deferred or qualified right to dividends, and with a special or qualified right of voting or without a right of voting. Any preference share may be issued on the terms that it is, or at the option of the Company is, liable to be redeemed.
4. The Company shall have the first and paramount lien upon all the shares registered in the name of each Member and upon the proceeds of sale thereof, for his debts, liabilities and engagements, solely or jointly with any other person, to or with the Company, whether the period for the payment, fulfillment or discharge thereof shall have actually arrived or not, and such lien shall extend to all dividends from time to time declared in respect of such shares.
5. Save as herein otherwise provided, the Company shall be entitled to treat the registered holder of any shares as the absolute owner thereof, and accordingly shall not, except as ordered by a Court of competent jurisdiction or as by Ordinance required, be bound to recognise any equitable or other claim to, or interest in, such shares on the part of any other person.
6. Subject to the Ordinance and the sanction of the Court, the Company may by special resolution issue shares at a discount.

- 3 -


 

TRANSFER OF SHARES
7. The Directors may in their absolute discretion and without assigning any reason therefor, refuse to register a transfer of any share. If the Directors refuse to register a transfer they shall within two months after the date on which the transfer was lodged with the Company, send to the transferee notice of the refusal as required by Section 69 of the Ordinance.
REDEMPTION OR PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES
8. Subject to the Ordinance, the Company may by Special Resolution redeem or purchase its own shares out of its capital.
GENERAL MEETINGS
9. A General Meeting shall be held once in every year at such time (not being more than fifteen months after the holding of the last preceding General Meeting) and place as may be prescribed by the Company in General Meeting and if no other time or place is prescribed a General Meeting shall be held at such time and place as the Directors may from time to time determine. General Meetings held under this Article shall be called Annual General Meetings. General Meetings other than the Annual General Meetings shall be called Extraordinary General Meetings. Provided that so long as the Company holds its First Annual General Meeting within 18 months of its incorporation, it need not hold it in the year of its incorporation or in the following year.
10. (a) The quorum for the transaction of business at any General Meeting shall be two members present in person or by proxy. Notwithstanding any provision herein, if the Company has only one member, that member presents in person or by proxy shall be the quorum of a General Meeting of the Company.
     (b) Meetings may be held in Hong Kong or at such other place or places in the world as the majority of the shareholders in value shall from time to time by resolution determine.
     (c) A resolution in writing signed by all the shareholders and annexed or attached to the General Meetings Minute Book shall be as valid and effective as a resolution passed at a meeting duly convened. The signature of any shareholder may be given by his Attorney or Proxy. Any such resolution may be contained in one document or separate copies prepared and/or circulated for the purpose and signed by one or more shareholders.
     (d) Where the Company has only one member and that member takes any decision that may be taken by the Company in General Meeting and that has effect as if agreed by the Company in General Meeting, he shall (unless that decision is taken by way of a resolution in writing duly signed by him) provide the Company with a written record of that decision within 7 days after the decision is made.
DIRECTORS
11. Unless and until otherwise determined by an Ordinary Resolution of the Company, the minimum number of Director(s) shall be one and there shall be no maximum number of Directors.
12. The first Director(s) shall be appointed in writing by the subscriber(s) to the Memorandum of Association of the Company or by the Company in General Meeting.
13. A Director need not hold any shares in the Company and is not subject to rotation or retirement at the Annual General Meetings. A Director who is not a member of the Company shall nevertheless be entitled to attend and speak at General Meetings.
DIRECTORS’ REMUNERATION
14. (a) The Directors shall be paid out of the funds of the Company remuneration for their services such sum (if any) as the Company may by Ordinary Resolution from time to time determine.
     (b) The Directors shall also be entitled to be paid their reasonable expenses incurred in consequence of their attendance at meetings of Directors, committee meetings or General Meetings or otherwise in or about the business of the Company.
15. The Directors may award extra remuneration out of the funds of the Company (by way of salary, commission or otherwise as the Directors may determine) to any Director who performs services which in the opinion of the Directors are outside the scope of the ordinary duties of a Director.
POWERS OF DIRECTORS
16. The business of the Company shall be managed by the Directors, who shall pay all expenses incurred in the formation and registration of the Company, and who may exercise all such powers of the Company as are not by the Ordinance or by these

- 4 -


 

Articles required to be exercised by the Company in General Meeting, subject to any provision in these Articles or the Ordinance and to any resolution, not being inconsistent with any such provision, as may be passed by the Company in General Meeting; but no such resolution shall invalidate any prior act of the Directors. The general powers given to the Directors by this Article shall be in addition to, and not limited or restricted by, any special authority or power given to the Directors by any other Article.
17. The Directors may establish any local boards or agencies for managing any of the affairs of the Company, either in Hong Kong or elsewhere, and may appoint any persons to be members of such local boards, or any managers or agents for the Company, and may fix their remuneration, and may delegate (with or without power to sub-delegate as the Directors shall determine) to any local board, manager or agent any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in the Directors, and may authorise the members of any local board, or any of them, to fill any vacancies therein, and to act notwithstanding vacancies, and any such appointment or delegation may be made upon such terms and subject to such conditions as the Directors may think fit, and the Directors may remove any person so appointed, and may annul or vary any such delegation, but no person dealing in good faith and without notice of any such annulment or variation shall be affected thereby.
18. The Directors may from time to time and at any time by power of attorney or other instrument appoint any person or body of persons to be the attorney or attorneys of the Company for such purposes and with such powers, authorities and discretions (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by the Directors under these Articles) and for such period and subject to such conditions as they may think fit, and any such power of attorney or other instrument may contain such provisions for the protection and convenience of persons dealing with any such attorney as the Directors may think fit, and may also authorise any such attorney to sub-delegate all or any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in him.
19. Subject to and to the extent permitted by the Ordinance, the Company, or the Directors on behalf of the Company, may cause to be kept in any territory a Branch Register of members resident in such territory, and the Directors may make and vary such regulations as they may think fit respecting the keeping of any such Branch Register.
20. All cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, and other negotiable or transferable instruments, and all receipts for moneys paid to the Company, shall be signed, drawn, accepted, endorsed, or otherwise executed, as the case may be, in such manner as the Directors shall from time to time by resolution determine.
21. (a) The Directors may exercise all the powers of the Company to borrow money and to mortgage or charge all or any part of the undertaking, property and assets (present and future) and uncalled capital of the Company and to issue debentures, debenture stocks, bonds and other securities, whether outright or as collateral security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or of any third party. Debentures, debenture stocks, bonds and other securities of the Company may be made assignable free from any equities between the Company and the person to whom the same may be issued, and may be issued at a discount, premium or otherwise and with any special privileges as to redemption, surrender, drawings, allotment of shares, attending and voting at General Meetings of the Company, appointment of Directors and otherwise.
     (b) The Directors shall cause a proper register to be kept, in accordance with the provisions of the Ordinance, of all mortgages and charges affecting the property of the Company and shall duly comply with the requirements of the Ordinance in regard to the registration of mortgages and charges therein specified and otherwise. Where any uncalled capital of the Company is charged, all persons taking any subsequent charge thereon shall take the same subject to such prior charge, and shall not be entitled, by notice to the members or otherwise, to obtain priority over such prior charge.
APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS
22. The Company may, from time to time, by Ordinary Resolution appoint new Directors.
23. The Company may also by Ordinary Resolution remove any Director notwithstanding anything in these Articles or in any agreement between him and the Company and may, appoint another person in his stead.
24. The Directors shall have power, exercisable at any time and from time to time, to appoint any other person as a Director, either to fill a casual vacancy or as an addition to the Board.
25. In the event that the quorum and minimum number of directors are fixed at two or more directors, the continuing Directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body, but if and so long as the number of Directors is reduced below the number fixed by or pursuant to these Articles as the necessary quorum of Directors, the continuing Directors may act for the purpose of increasing the number of Directors to that number, or of summoning a General Meeting of the Company, but for no other purpose. If there shall be no Directors able or willing to act, then any member may summon a General Meeting for the purpose of appointing Directors.
RESERVE AND ALTERNATE DIRECTORS
26. (a) If the Company has only one member and that member is also the sole director, the Company may in General Meeting, notwithstanding anything in these Articles, nominate a person (other than a body corporate) who has attained the age

- 5 -


 

of 18 years as a Reserve Director of the Company to act in the place of the sole director in the event of his death. Any duly authorized officer of the Company is empowered to send the particulars of the nomination of the Reserve Director to the Registrar of Companies, pursuant to section 158 of the Ordinance.
     (b) Each Director may by written notification to the Company nominate any other person to act as Alternate Director in his place and at his discretion in similar manner remove such Alternate Director. The Alternate Director shall (except as regards the power to appoint an alternate) be subject in all respects to the terms and conditions existing with reference to the other Directors of the Company; and each Alternate Director, whilst acting as such, shall exercise and discharge all the functions, powers and duties of the Director he represents, but shall look to such Director solely for his remuneration as Alternate Director. Every person acting as an Alternate Director shall have one vote for each Director for whom he acts as alternate (in addition to his own vote if he is also a Director). The signature of an Alternate Director to any resolution in writing of the Board or a committee of the Board shall, unless the notice of his appointment provides to the contrary, be as effective as the signature of his appointor. Any Director of the Company who is appointed an Alternate Director shall be considered as two Directors for the purpose of making a quorum of Directors. Any person appointed as an Alternate Director shall vacate his office as such Alternate Director if and when the Director by whom he has been appointed removes him or vacates office as Director. A Director shall not be liable for the acts or defaults of any Alternate Director appointed by him.
DIRECTORS’ INTERESTS
27. A Director who is in any way, whether directly or indirectly, interested in a contract or proposed contract with the Company shall declare the nature of his interest in accordance with the provisions of the Ordinance. A general notice given to the Directors by a Director to the effect that he is a member or a director of a specified company or firm, and is to be regarded as interested in any contract, arrangement or dealing which may, after the date of the notice, be entered into or made with that company or firm, shall, for the purpose of this Article, be deemed to be a sufficient disclosure of interest in relation to any contract, arrangement or dealing so entered into or made. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, a Director shall give notice to the Company of such matters relating to himself as may be necessary for the purposes of Sections 155B, 158, 161 and 161B of the Ordinance.
28. A Director may hold any other office or place of profit under the Company (other than the office of Auditor), and he or any firm of which he is a member may act in a professional capacity for the Company in conjunction with his office of Director, for such period and on such terms (as to remuneration and otherwise) as the Directors may determine. No Director or intended Director shall be disqualified by his office from contracting with the Company, nor shall any contract or arrangement entered into by or on behalf of the Company with any Director or any firm or company in which any Director is in any way interested be liable to be avoided, nor shall any Director so contracting or being so interested be liable to account to the Company for any profit, remuneration or other benefits realised by any such contract or arrangement by reason only of such Director holding that office, or of any fiduciary relationship thereby established.
29. A Director shall be entitled to vote as a Director in respect of any contract or arrangement in which he is interested or upon any matter arising thereout, and if he shall so vote his vote shall be counted, and he shall be taken into account in determining the quorum for the meeting at which any such contract or arrangement is to be considered.
30. A Director may hold office as a director in or manager of any other company in which the Company is a shareholder or is otherwise interested, and (subject to any agreement with the Company to the contrary) shall not be liable to account to the Company for any remuneration or other benefits receivable by him from such other company. The Board may exercise the voting powers conferred by the shares in any other company held or owned by the Company in such manner in all respects as the Board thinks fit (including the exercise thereof in favour of any resolution appointing the Directors or any of them directors or other officers of such company or voting or providing for the payment of remuneration to the directors of such company) and any Director of the Company may vote in favour of the exercise of such voting rights in manner aforesaid notwithstanding that he may be, or be about to be, appointed a director or other officer of such other company and as such is or may become interested in the exercise of such voting rights in manner aforesaid.
DIRECTORS’ MEETINGS
31. (a) Meetings of the Directors may be held in Hong Kong or in any other part of the world as may be convenient for the majority.
     (b) Unless otherwise determined by the Company by Ordinary Resolution, the quorum for meeting of the Directors shall be two. Notwithstanding any provision herein, if the Company has only one Director, the quorum for Board Meeting shall be one.
     (c) The Directors may participate in any Board Meeting by means of conference telephone or other communications equipment through which all other directors present at the Meeting can hear each other and such participation shall constitute attendance at Board Meeting as if those participating were present in person, provided always that the quorum was already present at the meeting. The Directors may also, in urgent cases, pass a resolution by way of telephonic conference, provided always that a written resolution is subsequently signed by all the directors in accordance with (d) below.

- 6 -


 

     (d) A resolution in writing, signed by all the Directors for the time being entitled to receive notice of a meeting of the Directors, shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Directors duly convened and held, without the need for any agenda or notice. The signature of any Director may be given by his alternate. Any such resolution may be contained in one document or separate copies prepared and/or circulated for the purpose and signed by one or more of the Directors. A cable, telex, fax message or other written electronic communication sent by a Director or his alternate shall be deemed to be a document signed by him for the purposes of this Article.
     (e) Where the Company has only one Director and that Director takes any decision that may be taken in a meeting of the Directors and that has effect as if agreed in a meeting of the Directors, he shall (unless that decision is taken by way of a resolution in writing duly signed by him) provide the Company with a written record of that decision within 7 days after the decision is made.
THE SEAL
32. The Directors shall procure a common seal to be made for the Company, and shall provide for the safe custody thereof. The Seal shall not be affixed to any instrument except by the authority of the Directors or a committee authorised by the Board in that behalf, and every instrument to which the Seal shall be affixed shall be signed by one Director or some other person nominated by the Directors for the purpose.
33. The Company may exercise all the powers of having official seals conferred by the Ordinance and such powers shall be vested in the Directors.
SECRETARY
34. (a) The Directors shall appoint a Secretary of the Company for such period, at such remuneration and upon such conditions as they may think fit, and any Secretary so appointed may be removed by them. In the event that the secretary appointed is a corporation or other body, it may act and sign by the hand of any one or more of its directors or officers duly authorised. The First Secretary of the Company shall be Kinetic Corporate Services Limited (CHINESE CHARACTER)
     (b) Where the Company has only one Director, that Director shall not also be the Secretary of the Company.
     (c) Where the Company has only one Director, the Company shall not have as Secretary of the Company a body corporate the sole Director of which is the sole Director of the Company.
WINDING UP
35. If the Company shall be wound up and the assets available for distribution among the members as such shall be insufficient to repay the whole of the paid up Capital, such assets shall be distributed so that as near as may be the losses shall be borne by the members in proportion to the capital paid up or which ought to have been paid up at the commencement of the winding up on the shares held by them respectively and if in a winding up the assets available for distribution among the members shall be more than sufficient to repay the whole of the capital paid up at the commencement of the winding up the excess shall be distributed among the members in proportion to the capital at the commencement of the winding up paid up or which ought to have been paid up on the shares held by them respectively. But this Article is to be without prejudice to the rights of the holders of any shares issued upon special terms and conditions.
36. (a) If the Company shall be wound up whether voluntarily or otherwise the liquidators may with the sanction of a Special Resolution divide among the contributories in specie or kind any part of the assets of the Company and may with the like sanction vest any part of the assets of the Company in trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of the contributories or any of them as the liquidators with the like sanction think fit.
     (b) If thought expedient any such division may be otherwise than in accordance with the legal rights of the contributories and in particular any class may be given preferential or special rights or may be excluded altogether or in part; but in case any division otherwise than in accordance with the legal rights of the contributories shall be determined on any contributory who would be prejudiced thereby shall have a right to dissent and ancillary rights as if such determination were a Special Resolution passed pursuant to Section 237 of the Ordinance.
     (c) In case any of the shares to be divided as aforesaid consist of shares which involve a liability to calls or otherwise, any person entitled under such division to any of the said shares may, within ten days after the passing of the Special Resolution by notice in writing, direct the Liquidator to sell his proportion and pay him the net proceeds, and the liquidator shall, if practicable, act accordingly.

- 7 -


 

                 
Name(s), Address(es) and Description(s) of Subscriber(s)                
Amity Corporate Services Limited
               
(CHINESE CHARACTER)
               
Room 2210, C C Wu Building,
               
302 Hennessy Road,
               
Wanchai,
               
Hong Kong. Corporation
               
 
Dated the 20th day of September, 2004.
WITNESS to the above signatures:
Lo Yu Ching
Secretary
Room 2210,C C Wu Bldg.,
302-308 Hennessy Road,
Hong Kong.

- 8 -


 

(FULL PAGE GRAPHICS)
COMPANIES ORDINANCE (CHAPTER 32) CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION I hereby certify that SHINYO OASIS LIMITED is this day incorporated in Hong Kong under the Companies Ordinance, and that this company is limited. Issued by the undersigned on 27 September 2004. MI SS.R.;. .CHEUNG for Registrar of Companies Hong Kong

 


 

(FULL PAGE GRAPHICS)
COMPANIES ORDINANCE (CHAPTER 32) CERTIFICATE OF CHANGE OF NAME ‘>3£&;£^^lF * * * I hereby certify that fr A n jt i$: W SHINYO OASIS LIMITED having by special resolution changed its name, is now incorporated under M it ig. 4^ ft\ * ^ — e, 4f * ^ 14 ^_ at & ‘> 3 tf i£ fli- ;£the name of ^ ^ A SHINYO KANNIKA LIMITED Issued by the undersigned on 2 9 October 2 0 04 .$/6-tA^v^v* cA^^*-j/^ MISS R. CHEUNG ‘ for Registrar of Companies Hong Kong ^^^^1 ?i^f^^^ (^ii*±te 3§ IS/CMlK^)

 


 

Company No. 924771
THE COMPANIES ORDINANCE
(CHAPTER 32)
SPECIAL RESOLUTION
OF
SHINYO OASIS LIMITED
 
Passed on 19 October 2004
 
     At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company duly convened and held at Suite 801, 8/F., Asian House, 1 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong on 19 October, 2004 at 11:00 a.m. the following Resolution was passed as a Special Resolution: -
CHANGE OF NAME
     “THAT the name of the Company be changed to SHINYO KANNIKA LIMITED.”
(Sd.) Lo Yu Ching
Amity Corporte Services Limited
(CHINESE CHARACTER)
Amity Corporte Services Limited
Chairman
Dated this, 19 October 2004

 

EX-3.7 6 y04313a1exv3w7.htm EX-3.7 exv3w7
Exhibit 3.7

MEMORANDUM
AND
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
SHINYO LOYALTY LIMITED
 
Incorporated the 8th day of September, 2003.
 
HONG KONG

No. 860694
[COPY]
COMPANIES ORDINANCE (CHAPTER 32)
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
 
I hereby certify that
SHINYO LOYALTY LIMITED
    is this day incorporated in Hong Kong under the Companies Ordinance, and that this company is limited.
     Issued by the undersigned on 8 September 2003.
         
 
  MISS R. CHEUNG
 
for Registrar of Companies
   
 
  Hong Kong    

 


 

THE COMPANIES ORDINANCE (Chapter 32)
 
Private Company Limited by Shares
 
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
OF
SHINYO LOYALTY LIMITED
 
First:- The name of the Company is “SHINYO LOYALTY LIMITED”.
Second:- The Registered Office of the Company will be situated in Hong Kong.
Third:- The liability of the members is limited.
Fourth:- The Share Capital of the Company is HK$10,000.00 divided into 10,000 shares of HK$1.00 each and the Company shall have power to divide the original or any increased capital into several classes, and to attach thereto any preferential, deferred, qualified, or other special rights, privileges, restrictions or conditions.

- 1 -


 

     We, the several persons, whose names, addresses and descriptions are hereto subscribed, are desirous of being formed into a Company in pursuance of this Memorandum of Association, and we respectively agree to take the number of shares in the capital of the Company set opposite to our respective names:-
     
    Number of Shares
    taken by each
Names, Addresses and Descriptions of Subscribers   subscriber
Kinetic Corporate Services Limited
  One
Room 2210, C C Wu Building,
   
302-308 Hennessy Road,
   
Wanchai,
   
Hong Kong.
   
     Corporation
   
 
   
Amity Corporate Services Limited
  One
Room 2210, C C Wu Building,
   
302-308 Hennessy Road,
   
Wanchai,
   
Hong Kong
   
     Corporation
   
 
   
Total Number of Shares Taken
  Two
     Dated the 30th day of August, 2003.
WITNESS to the above signatures:
     
 
  Joyce Hui
 
  Secretary
 
  Room 2210, C C Wu Bldg.,
 
  302-308 Hennessy Road,
 
  Wanchai,
 
  Hong Kong.

- 2 -


 

THE COMPANIES ORDINANCE (Chapter 32)
 
Private Company Limited by Shares
 
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
SHINYO LOYALTY LIMITED
 
PRELIMINARY
1. The regulations in Table A in the First Schedule to the Companies Ordinance (Chapter 32) shall apply to the Company save in so far as they are hereby specifically excluded or are inconsistent with the Articles herein contained. In particular, but without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, clauses 11, 24, 25, 49, 55, 81, 86, 91 to 99 inclusive, 101, 108, 114 and 136 of Table A shall not apply or are modified as hereinafter appearing.
PRIVATE COMPANY
2. The Company is a private company, and accordingly:-
(a)   no invitation shall be issued to the public to subscribe for any shares or debentures of the Company;
 
(b)   the number of the members of the Company (not including persons who are in the employment of the Company, and persons who, having been formerly in the employment of the Company were, while in that employment, and have continued after the determination of that employment to be, members of the Company) shall be limited to fifty, provided that where two or more persons hold one or more shares in the Company jointly they shall, for the purposes of this Article, be treated as a single member; and
 
(c)   the right to transfer the shares of the Company shall be restricted in manner hereinafter appearing.
SHARES
3. The Shares shall be under the control of the Directors who may subject to section 57B of the Ordinance allot or otherwise dispose of the same to such person or persons on such terms and conditions and either at a premium or at par and with such rights and privileges annexed thereto and at such times as the Directors may think fit and with full power to give to any person the call of any shares either at par or at a premium during such time and for such consideration as the Directors think fit, and in particular such shares or any of them may be issued by the Directors with a preferential, deferred or qualified right to dividends, and with a special or qualified right of voting or without a right of voting. Any preference share may be issued on the terms that it is, or at the option of the Company is, liable to be redeemed.
4. The Company shall have the first and paramount lien upon all the shares registered in the name of each Member and upon the proceeds of sale thereof, for his debts, liabilities and engagements, solely or jointly with any other person, to or with the Company, whether the period for the payment, fulfillment or discharge thereof shall have actually arrived or not, and such lien shall extend to all dividends from time to time declared in respect of such shares.
5. Save as herein otherwise provided, the Company shall be entitled to treat the registered holder of any shares as the absolute owner thereof, and accordingly shall not, except as ordered by a Court of competent jurisdiction or as by Ordinance required, be bound to recognise any equitable or other claim to, or interest in, such shares on the part of any other person.
6. Subject to the Ordinance and the sanction of the Court, the Company may by special resolution issue shares at a discount.

- 3 -


 

TRANSFER OF SHARES
7. The Directors may in their absolute discretion and without assigning any reason therefor, refuse to register a transfer of any share. If the Directors refuse to register a transfer they shall within two months after the date on which the transfer was lodged with the Company, send to the transferee notice of the refusal as required by Section 69 of the Ordinance.
REDEMPTION OR PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES
8. Subject to the Ordinance, the Company may by special resolution redeem or purchase its own shares out of its capital.
GENERAL MEETINGS
9. A General Meeting shall be held once in every year at such time (not being more than fifteen months after the holding of the last preceding General Meeting) and place as may be prescribed by the Company in General Meeting and if no other time or place is prescribed a General Meeting shall be held at such time and place as the Directors may from time to time determine. General Meetings held under this Article shall be called Annual General Meetings. General Meetings other than the Annual Meetings shall be called Extraordinary General Meetings. Provided that so long as the Company holds its First Annual General Meeting within 18 months of its incorporation, it need not hold it in the year of its incorporation or in the following year.
10. (a) The quorum for the transaction of business at any General Meeting shall be two members present in person or by proxy.
      (b) Meetings may be held in Hong Kong or at such other place or places in the world as the majority of the shareholders in value shall from time to time by resolution determine.
      (c) A resolution in writing signed by 100% of the shareholders and annexed or attached to the General Meetings Minute Book shall be as valid and effective as a resolution passed at a meeting duly convened. The signature of any shareholder may be given by his Attorney or Proxy. Any such resolution may be contained in one document or separate copies prepared and/or circulated for the purpose and signed by one or more shareholders.
DIRECTORS
11. Unless and until otherwise determined by an ordinary resolution of the Company, the Directors shall be not fewer than two in number, and there shall be no maximum number of Directors.
12. The first Directors shall be appointed in writing by the subscribers to the Memorandum of Association of the Company or by the Company in general meeting.
13. A Director need not hold any shares in the Company and is not subject to rotation or retirement at the annual general meetings. A Director who is not a member of the Company shall nevertheless be entitled to attend and speak at general meetings.
DIRECTORS’ REMUNERATION
14. (a) The Directors shall be paid out of the funds of the Company remuneration for their services such sum (if any) as the Company may by ordinary resolution from time to time determine.
      (b) The Directors shall also be entitled to be paid their reasonable expenses incurred in consequence of their attendance at meetings of Directors, committee meetings or general meetings or otherwise in or about the business of the Company.
15. The Directors may award extra remuneration out of the funds of the Company (by way of salary, commission or otherwise as the Directors may determine) to any Director who performs services which in the opinion of the Directors are outside the scope of the ordinary duties of a Director.
POWERS OF DIRECTORS
16. The business of the Company shall be managed by the Directors, who shall pay all expenses incurred in the formation and registration of the Company, and who may exercise all such powers of the Company as are not by the Ordinance or by these Articles required to be exercised by the Company in general meeting, subject to any provision in these Articles or the Ordinance and to any resolution, not being inconsistent with any such provision, as may be passed by the Company in general meeting; but

- 4 -


 

no such resolution shall invalidate any prior act of the Directors. The general powers given to the Directors by this Article shall be in addition to, and not limited or restricted by, any special authority or power given to the Directors by any other Article.
17. The Directors may establish any local boards or agencies for managing any of the affairs of the Company, either in Hong Kong or elsewhere, and may appoint any persons to be members of such local boards, or any managers or agents for the Company, and may fix their remuneration, and may delegate (with or without power to sub-delegate as the Directors shall determine) to any local board, manager or agent any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in the Directors, and may authorise the members of any local boards, or any of them, to fill any vacancies therein, and to act notwithstanding vacancies, and any such appointment or delegation may be made upon such terms and subject to such conditions as the Directors may think fit, and the Directors may remove any person so appointed, and may annul or vary any such delegation, but no person dealing in good faith and without notice of any such annulment or variation shall be affected thereby.
18. The Directors may from time to time and at any time by power of attorney or other instrument appoint any person or body of persons to be the attorney or attorneys of the Company for such purposes and with such powers, authorities and discretions (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by the Directors under these Articles) and for such period and subject to such conditions as they may think fit, and any such power of attorney or other instrument may contain such provisions for the protection and convenience of persons dealing with any such attorney as the Directors may think fit, and may also authorise any such attorney to sub-delegate all or any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in him.
19. Subject to and to the extent permitted by the Ordinance, the Company, or the Directors on behalf of the Company, may cause to be kept in any territory a Branch Register of members resident in such territory, and the Directors may make and vary such regulations as they may think fit respecting the keeping of any such Branch Register.
20. All cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, and other negotiable or transferable instruments, and all receipts for moneys paid to the Company, shall be signed, drawn, accepted, endorsed, or otherwise executed, as the case may be, in such manner as the Directors shall from time to time by resolution determine.
21. (a) The Directors may exercise all the powers of the Company to borrow money and to mortgage or charge all or any part of the undertaking, property and assets (present and future) and uncalled capital of the Company and to issue debentures, debenture stocks, bonds and other securities, whether outright or as collateral security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or of any third party. Debentures, debenture stocks, bonds and other securities of the Company may be made assignable free from any equities between the Company and the person to whom the same may be issued, and may be issued at a discount, premium or otherwise and with any special privileges as to redemption, surrender, drawings, allotment of shares, attending and voting at general meetings of the Company, appointment of Directors and otherwise.
     (b) The Directors shall cause a proper register to be kept, in accordance with the provisions of the Ordinance, of all mortgages and charges affecting the property of the Company and shall duly comply with the requirements of the Ordinance in regard to the registration of mortgages and charges therein specified and otherwise. Where any uncalled capital of the Company is charged, all persons taking any subsequent charge thereon shall take the same subject to such prior charge, and shall not be entitled, by notice to the members or otherwise, to obtain priority over such prior charge.
APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS
22. The Company may, from time to time, by ordinary resolution appoint new Directors.
23. The Company may by special resolution remove any Director notwithstanding anything in these Articles or in any agreement between him and the Company and may, by ordinary resolution, appoint another person in his stead.
24. The Directors shall have power, exercisable at any time and from time to time, to appoint any other person as a Director, either to fill a casual vacancy or as an addition to the Board.
25. The continuing Directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body, but if and so long as the number of Directors is reduced below the number fixed by or pursuant to these Articles as the necessary quorum of Directors, the continuing Directors may act for the purpose of increasing the number of Directors to that number, or of summoning a general meeting of the Company, but for no other purpose. If there shall be no Directors able or willing to act, then any two members may summon a general meeting for the purpose of appointing Directors.
ALTERNATE DIRECTORS
26. Each Director may by written notification to the Company nominate any other person to act as alternate Director in his place and at his discretion in similar manner remove such alternate Director. The alternate Director shall (except as regards the power to appoint an alternate) be subject in all respects to the terms and conditions existing with reference to the other Directors

- 5 -


 

of the Company; and each alternate Director, whilst acting as such, shall exercise and discharge all the functions, powers and duties of the Director he represents, but shall look to such Director solely for his remuneration as alternate Director. Every person acting as an alternate Director shall have one vote for each Director for whom he acts as alternate (in addition to his own vote if he is also a Director). The signature of an alternate Director to any resolution in writing of the Board or a committee of the Board shall, unless the notice of his appointment provides to the contrary, be as effective as the signature of his appointor. Any Director of the Company who is appointed an alternate director shall be considered as two Directors for the purpose of making a quorum of Directors. Any person appointed as an alternate Director shall vacate his office as such alternate Director if and when the Director by whom he has been appointed removes him or vacates office as Director. A Director shall not be liable for the acts or defaults of any alternate Director appointed by him.
DIRECTORS’ INTERESTS
27. A Director who is in any way, whether directly or indirectly, interested in a contract or proposed contract with the Company shall declare the nature of his interest in accordance with the provisions of the Ordinance. A general notice given to the Directors by a Director to the effect that he is a member or a director of a specified company or firm, and is to be regarded as interested in any contract, arrangement or dealing which may, after the date of the notice, be entered into or made with that company or firm, shall, for the purpose of this Article, be deemed to be a sufficient disclosure of interest in relation to any contract, arrangement or dealing so entered into or made. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, a Director shall give notice to the Company of such matters relating to himself as may be necessary for the purposes of Sections 155B, 158, 161 and 161B of the Ordinance.
28. A Director may hold any other office or place of profit under the Company (other than the office of Auditor), and he or any firm of which he is a member may act in a professional capacity for the Company in conjunction with his office of Director, for such period and on such terms (as to remuneration and otherwise) as the Directors may determine. No Director or intended Director shall be disqualified by his office from contracting with the Company, nor shall any contract or arrangement entered into by or on behalf of the Company with any Director or any firm or company in which any Director is in any way interested by liable to be avoided, nor shall any Director so contracting or being so interested be liable to account to the Company for any profit, remuneration or other benefits realised by any such contract or arrangement by reason only of such Director holding that office, or of any fiduciary relationship thereby established.
29. A Director shall be entitled to vote as a Director in respect of any contract or arrangement in which he is interested or upon any matter arising thereout, and if he shall so vote his vote shall be counted, and he shall be taken into account in determining the quorum for the meeting at which any such contract or arrangement is to be considered.
30. A Director may hold office as a director in or manager of any other company in which the Company is a shareholder or is otherwise interested, and (subject to any agreement with the Company to the contrary) shall not be liable to account to the Company for any remuneration or other benefits receivable by him from such other company. The Board may exercise the voting powers conferred by the shares in any other company held or owned by the Company in such manner in all respects as the Board thinks fit (including the exercise thereof in favour of any resolution appointing the Directors or any of them directors or other officers of such company or voting or providing for the payment of remuneration to the directors of such company) and any Director of the Company may vote in favour of the exercise of such voting rights in manner aforesaid notwithstanding that he may be, or be about to be, appointed a director or other officer of such other company and as such is or may become interested in the exercise of such voting rights in manner aforesaid.
DIRECTORS’ MEETING
31. (a) Meetings of the Directors may be held in Hong Kong or in any other part of the world as may be convenient for the majority.
      (b) Unless otherwise determined by the Company by Ordinary Resolution, the quorum for meeting of the Directors shall be two.
      (c) A resolution in writing signed by all the Directors (so long as they constitute a quorum as provided in Article 31.(b) hereof) and annexed or attached to the Directors’ Minute Book shall be as valid and effective as a resolution passed at a meeting duly convened. The signature of any Director may be given by his Alternate. Any such resolution may be contained in one document or separate copies prepared and/or circulated for the purpose and signed by one or more of the Directors. A cable, telex or fax message sent by a Director or his Alternate shall be deemed to be a document signed by him for the purposes of this Article.

- 6 -


 

THE SEAL
32. The Directors shall procure a common seal to be made for the Company, and shall provide for the safe custody thereof. The Seal shall not be affixed to any instrument except by the authority of the Directors or a committee authorised by the Board in that behalf, and every instrument to which the Seal shall be affixed shall be signed by one Director or some other person nominated by the Directors for the purpose.
33. The Company may exercise all the powers of having official seals conferred by the Ordinance and such powers shall be vested in the Directors.
SECRETARY
34. The Directors shall appoint a Secretary of the Company for such period, at such remuneration and upon such conditions as they may think fit, and any Secretary so appointed may be removed by them. In the event that the secretary appointed is a corporation or other body, it may act and sign by the hand of any one or more of its directors or officers duly authorised. The First Secretary of the Company shall be Kinetic Corporate Services Limited.
WINDING UP
35. If the Company shall be wound up and the assets available for distribution among the members as such shall be insufficient to repay the whole of the paid up Capital, such assets shall be distributed so that as near as may be the losses shall be borne by the members in proportion to the capital paid up or which ought to have been paid up at the commencement of the winding up on the shares held by them respectively and if in a winding up the assets available for distribution among the members shall be more than sufficient to repay the whole of the capital paid up at the commencement of the winding up the excess shall be distributed among the members in proportion to the capital at the commencement of the winding up paid up or which ought to have been paid up on the shares held by them respectively. But this Article is to be without prejudice to the rights of the holders of any shares issued upon special terms and conditions.
36. (a) If the Company shall be wound up whether voluntarily or otherwise the liquidators may with the sanction of a special resolution divide among the contributories in specie or kind any part of the assets of the Company and may with the like sanction vest any part of the assets of the Company in trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of the contributories or any of them as the liquidators with the like sanction think fit.
      (b) If thought expedient any such division may be otherwise than in accordance with the legal rights of the contributories and in particular any class may be given preferential or special rights or may be excluded altogether or in part; but in case any division otherwise than in accordance with the legal rights of the contributories shall be determined on any contributory who would be prejudiced thereby shall have a right to dissent and ancillary rights as if such determination were a Special Resolution passed pursuant to Section 237 of the Ordinance.
      (c) In case any of the shares to be divided as aforesaid consist of shares which involve a liability to calls or otherwise, any person entitled under such division to any of the said shares may, within ten days after the passing of the special resolution by notice in writing, direct the Liquidator to sell his proportion and pay him the net proceeds, and the liquidator shall, if practicable, act accordingly.

- 7 -


 

Names, Addresses and Descriptions of Subscribers
Kinetic Corporate Services Limited
Room 2210, C C Wu Building,
302-308 Hennessy Road,
Wanchai,
Hong Kong.
     Corporation
Amity Corporate Services Limited
Room 2210, C C Wu Building,
302-308 Hennessy Road,
Wanchai,
Hong Kong
     Corporation
     Dated the 30th day of August, 2003.
WITNESS to the above signatures:
     
 
  Joyce Hui
 
  Secretary
 
  Room 2210, C C Wu Bldg.,
 
  302-308 Hennessy Road,
 
  Wanchai,
 
  Hong Kong.

- 8 -

EX-3.8 7 y04313a1exv3w8.htm EX-3.8 exv3w8
Exhibit 3.8
MEMORANDUM
AND
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
SHINYO NAVIGATOR LIMITED
 
Incorporated the 21st day of September, 2006.
 
HONG KONG
No. 1075559
[COPY]
COMPANIES ORDINANCE (CHAPTER 32)
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
 
I hereby certify that
SHINYO NAVIGATOR LIMITED
is this day incorporated in Hong Kong under the Companies Ordinance, and that this company is limited.
          Issued by the undersigned on 21 September 2006.
         
  Miss Nancy O. S. YAU    
  for Registrar of Companies    
  Hong Kong    
 

 


 

THE COMPANIES ORDINANCE (Chapter 32)
 
Private Company Limited by Shares
 
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
OF
SHINYO NAVIGATOR LIMITED
 
First:- The name of the Company is “SHINYO NAVIGATOR LIMITED”.
Second:- The Registered Office of the Company will be situated in Hong Kong.
Third:- The liability of the members is limited.
Fourth:- The Share Capital of the Company is HK$10,000.00 divided into 10,000 shares of HK$1.00 each and the Company shall have power to divide the original or any increased capital into several classes, and to attach thereto any preferential, deferred, qualified, or other special rights, privileges, restrictions or conditions.

- 1 -


 

     I/We, the undersigned, whose name(s), address(es) and description(s) is/are hereto subscribed, am/are desirous of being formed into a Company in pursuance of this Memorandum of Association, and I/we respectively agree to take the number of share(s) in the capital of the Company set opposite to my/our respective name(s):-
         
    Number of Share(s)  
    taken by each  
Name(s), Address(es) and Description(s) of Subscriber(s)   subscriber  
Amity Corporate Services Limited

Room 2210, C C Wu Building,
302 Hennessy Road,
Wanchai, Hong Kong.
    (Corporation)
    1  
 
     
     Total Number of Share(s) Taken
    1  
          Dated the 14th day of September, 2006.
WITNESS to the above signatures:
Chan Pui Sze
Secretary
Room 2210, C C Wu Building,
302 Hennessy Road,
Wanchai,
Hong Kong.

- 2 -


 

THE COMPANIES ORDINANCE (Chapter 32)
 
Private Company Limited by Shares
 
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
SHINYO NAVIGATOR LIMITED
 
PRELIMINARY
1. The regulations in Table A in the First Schedule to the Companies Ordinance (Chapter 32) shall apply to the Company save in so far as they are hereby specifically excluded or are inconsistent with the Articles herein contained. In particular, but without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, clauses 11, 24, 25, 49, 55, 81, 86, 91 to 99 inclusive, 101, 108, 114 and 136 of Table A shall not apply or are modified as hereinafter appearing.
PRIVATE COMPANY
2. The Company is a private company, and accordingly:-
(a)   no invitation shall be issued to the public to subscribe for any shares or debentures of the Company;
 
(b)   the number of the members of the Company (not including persons who are in the employment of the Company, and persons who, having been formerly in the employment of the Company were, while in that employment, and have continued after the determination of that employment to be, members of the Company) shall be limited to fifty, provided that where two or more persons hold one or more shares in the Company jointly they shall, for the purposes of this Article, be treated as a single member; and
 
(c)   the right to transfer the shares of the Company shall be restricted in manner hereinafter appearing.
SHARES
3. The Shares shall be under the control of the Directors who may subject to section 57B of the Ordinance allot or otherwise dispose of the same to such person or persons on such terms and conditions and either at a premium or at par and with such rights and privileges annexed thereto and at such times as the Directors may think fit and with full power to give to any person the call of any shares either at par or at a premium during such time and for such consideration as the Directors think fit, and in particular such shares or any of them may be issued by the Directors with a preferential, deferred or qualified right to dividends, and with a special or qualified right of voting or without a right of voting. Any preference share may be issued on the terms that it is, or at the option of the Company is, liable to be redeemed.
4. The Company shall have the first and paramount lien upon all the shares registered in the name of each Member and upon the proceeds of sale thereof, for his debts, liabilities and engagements, solely or jointly with any other person, to or with the Company, whether the period for the payment, fulfillment or discharge thereof shall have actually arrived or not, and such lien shall extend to all dividends from time to time declared in respect of such shares.
5. Save as herein otherwise provided, the Company shall be entitled to treat the registered holder of any shares as the absolute owner thereof, and accordingly shall not, except as ordered by a Court of competent jurisdiction or as by Ordinance required, be bound to recognise any equitable or other claim to, or interest in, such shares on the part of any other person.
6. Subject to the Ordinance and the sanction of the Court, the Company may by special resolution issue shares at a discount.

- 3 -


 

TRANSFER OF SHARES
7. The Directors may in their absolute discretion and without assigning any reason therefor, refuse to register a transfer of any share. If the Directors refuse to register a transfer they shall within two months after the date on which the transfer was lodged with the Company, send to the transferee notice of the refusal as required by Section 69 of the Ordinance.
REDEMPTION OR PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES
8. Subject to the Ordinance, the Company may by Special Resolution redeem or purchase its own shares out of its capital.
GENERAL MEETINGS
9. A General Meeting shall be held once in every year at such time (not being more than fifteen months after the holding of the last preceding General Meeting) and place as may be prescribed by the Company in General Meeting and if no other time or place is prescribed a General Meeting shall be held at such time and place as the Directors may from time to time determine. General Meetings held under this Article shall be called Annual General Meetings. General Meetings other than the Annual General Meetings shall be called Extraordinary General Meetings. Provided that so long as the Company holds its First Annual General Meeting within 18 months of its incorporation, it need not hold it in the year of its incorporation or in the following year.
10. (a) The quorum for the transaction of business at any General Meeting shall be two members present in person or by proxy. Notwithstanding any provision herein, if the Company has only one member, that member presents in person or by proxy shall be the quorum of a General Meeting of the Company.
      (b) Meetings may be held in Hong Kong or at such other place or places in the world as the majority of the shareholders in value shall from time to time by resolution determine.
      (c) A resolution in writing signed by all the shareholders and annexed or attached to the General Meetings Minute Book shall be as valid and effective as a resolution passed at a meeting duly convened. The signature of any shareholder may be given by his Attorney or Proxy. Any such resolution may be contained in one document or separate copies prepared and/or circulated for the purpose and signed by one or more shareholders.
      (d) Where the Company has only one member and that member takes any decision that may be taken by the Company in General Meeting and that has effect as if agreed by the Company in General Meeting, he shall (unless that decision is taken by way of a resolution in writing duly signed by him) provide the Company with a written record of that decision within 7 days after the decision is made.
DIRECTORS
11. Unless and until otherwise determined by an Ordinary Resolution of the Company, the minimum number of Director(s) shall be one and there shall be no maximum number of Directors.
12. The first Director(s) shall be appointed in writing by the subscriber(s) to the Memorandum of Association of the Company or by the Company in General Meeting.
13. A Director need not hold any shares in the Company and is not subject to rotation or retirement at the Annual General Meetings. A Director who is not a member of the Company shall nevertheless be entitled to attend and speak at General Meetings.
DIRECTORS’ REMUNERATION
14. (a) The Directors shall be paid out of the funds of the Company remuneration for their services such sum (if any) as the Company may by Ordinary Resolution from time to time determine.
      (b) The Directors shall also be entitled to be paid their reasonable expenses incurred in consequence of their attendance at meetings of Directors, committee meetings or General Meetings or otherwise in or about the business of the Company.
15. The Directors may award extra remuneration out of the funds of the Company (by way of salary, commission or otherwise as the Directors may determine) to any Director who performs services which in the opinion of the Directors are outside the scope of the ordinary duties of a Director.
POWERS OF DIRECTORS
16. The business of the Company shall be managed by the Directors, who shall pay all expenses incurred in the formation and registration of the Company, and who may exercise all such powers of the Company as are not by the Ordinance or by these Articles required to be exercised by the Company in General Meeting, subject to any provision in these Articles or the Ordinance

- 4 -


 

and to any resolution, not being inconsistent with any such provision, as may be passed by the Company in General Meeting; but no such resolution shall invalidate any prior act of the Directors. The general powers given to the Directors by this Article shall be in addition to, and not limited or restricted by, any special authority or power given to the Directors by any other Article.
17. The Directors may establish any local boards or agencies for managing any of the affairs of the Company, either in Hong Kong or elsewhere, and may appoint any persons to be members of such local boards, or any managers or agents for the Company, and may fix their remuneration, and may delegate (with or without power to sub-delegate as the Directors shall determine) to any local board, manager or agent any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in the Directors, and may authorise the members of any local boards, or any of them, to fill any vacancies therein, and to act notwithstanding vacancies, and any such appointment or delegation may be made upon such terms and subject to such conditions as the Directors may think fit, and the Directors may remove any person so appointed, and may annul or vary any such delegation, but no person dealing in good faith and without notice of any such annulment or variation shall be affected thereby.
18. The Directors may from time to time and at any time by power of attorney or other instrument appoint any person or body of persons to be the attorney or attorneys of the Company for such purposes and with such powers, authorities and discretions (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by the Directors under these Articles) and for such period and subject to such conditions as they may think fit, and any such power of attorney or other instrument may contain such provisions for the protection and convenience of persons dealing with any such attorney as the Directors may think fit, and may also authorise any such attorney to sub-delegate all or any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in him.
19. Subject to and to the extent permitted by the Ordinance, the Company, or the Directors on behalf of the Company, may cause to be kept in any territory a Branch Register of members resident in such territory, and the Directors may make and vary such regulations as they may think fit respecting the keeping of any such Branch Register.
20. All cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, and other negotiable or transferable instruments, and all receipts for moneys paid to the Company, shall be signed, drawn, accepted, endorsed, or otherwise executed, as the case may be, in such manner as the Directors shall from time to time by resolution determine.
21. (a) The Directors may exercise all the powers of the Company to borrow money and to mortgage or charge all or any part of the undertaking, property and assets (present and future) and uncalled capital of the Company and to issue debentures, debenture stocks, bonds and other securities, whether outright or as collateral security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or of any third party. Debentures, debenture stocks, bonds and other securities of the Company may be made assignable free from any equities between the Company and the person to whom the same may be issued, and may be issued at a discount, premium or otherwise and with any special privileges as to redemption, surrender, drawings, allotment of shares, attending and voting at General Meetings of the Company, appointment of Directors and otherwise.
      (b) The Directors shall cause a proper register to be kept, in accordance with the provisions of the Ordinance, of all mortgages and charges affecting the property of the Company and shall duly comply with the requirements of the Ordinance in regard to the registration of mortgages and charges therein specified and otherwise. Where any uncalled capital of the Company is charged, all persons taking any subsequent charge thereon shall take the same subject to such prior charge, and shall not be entitled, by notice to the members or otherwise, to obtain priority over such prior charge.
APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS
22. The Company may, from time to time, by Ordinary Resolution appoint new Directors.
23. The Company may also by Ordinary Resolution remove any Director notwithstanding anything in these Articles or in any agreement between him and the Company and may, appoint another person in his stead.
24. The Directors shall have power, exercisable at any time and from time to time, to appoint any other person as a Director, either to fill a casual vacancy or as an addition to the Board.
25. In the event that the quorum and minimum number of directors are fixed at two or more directors, the continuing Directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body, but if and so long as the number of Directors is reduced below the number fixed by or pursuant to these Articles as the necessary quorum of Directors, the continuing Directors may act for the purpose of increasing the number of Directors to that number, or of summoning a General Meeting of the Company, but for no other purpose. If there shall be no Directors able or willing to act, then any member may summon a General Meeting for the purpose of appointing Directors.
RESERVE AND ALTERNATE DIRECTORS
26. (a) If the Company has only one member and that member is also the sole director, the Company may in General Meeting, notwithstanding anything in these Articles, nominate a person (other than a body corporate) who has attained the age of 18 years as a Reserve Director of the Company to act in the place of the sole director in the event of his death. Any duly

- 5 -


 

authorized officer of the Company is empowered to send the particulars of the nomination of the Reserve Director to the Registrar of Companies, pursuant to section 158 of the Ordinance.
      (b) Each Director may by written notification to the Company nominate any other person to act as Alternate Director in his place and at his discretion in similar manner remove such Alternate Director. The Alternate Director shall (except as regards the power to appoint an alternate) be subject in all respects to the terms and conditions existing with reference to the other Directors of the Company; and each Alternate Director, whilst acting as such, shall exercise and discharge all the functions, powers and duties of the Director he represents, but shall look to such Director solely for his remuneration as Alternate Director. Every person acting as an Alternate Director shall have one vote for each Director for whom he acts as alternate (in addition to his own vote if he is also a Director). The signature of an Alternate Director to any resolution in writing of the Board or a committee of the Board shall, unless the notice of his appointment provides to the contrary, be as effective as the signature of his appointor. Any Director of the Company who is appointed an Alternate Director shall be considered as two Directors for the purpose of making a quorum of Directors. Any person appointed as an Alternate Director shall vacate his office as such Alternate Director if and when the Director by whom he has been appointed removes him or vacates office as Director. A Director shall not be liable for the acts or defaults of any Alternate Director appointed by him.
DIRECTORS’ INTERESTS
27. A Director who is in any way, whether directly or indirectly, interested in a contract or proposed contract with the Company shall declare the nature of his interest in accordance with the provisions of the Ordinance. A general notice given to the Directors by a Director to the effect that he is a member or a director of a specified company or firm, and is to be regarded as interested in any contract, arrangement or dealing which may, after the date of the notice, be entered into or made with that company or firm, shall, for the purpose of this Article, be deemed to be a sufficient disclosure of interest in relation to any contract, arrangement or dealing so entered into or made. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, a Director shall give notice to the Company of such matters relating to himself as may be necessary for the purposes of Sections 155B, 158,161 and 161B of the Ordinance.
28. A Director may hold any other office or place of profit under the Company (other than the office of Auditor), and he or any firm of which he is a member may act in a professional capacity for the Company in conjunction with his office of Director, for such period and on such terms (as to remuneration and otherwise) as the Directors may determine. No Director or intended Director shall be disqualified by his office from contracting with the Company, nor shall any contract or arrangement entered into by or on behalf of the Company with any Director or any firm or company in which any Director is in any way interested be liable to be avoided, nor shall any Director so contracting or being so interested be liable to account to the Company for any profit, remuneration or other benefits realised by any such contract or arrangement by reason only of such Director holding that office, or of any fiduciary relationship thereby established.
29. A Director shall be entitled to vote as a Director in respect of any contract or arrangement in which he is interested or upon any matter arising thereout, and if he shall so vote his vote shall be counted, and he shall be taken into account in determining the quorum for the meeting at which any such contract or arrangement is to be considered.
30. A Director may hold office as a director in or manager of any other company in which the Company is a shareholder or is otherwise interested, and (subject to any agreement with the Company to the contrary) shall not be liable to account to the Company for any remuneration or other benefits receivable by him from such other company. The Board may exercise the voting powers conferred by the shares in any other company held or owned by the Company in such manner in all respects as the Board thinks fit (including the exercise thereof in favour of any resolution appointing the Directors or any of them directors or other officers of such company or voting or providing for the payment of remuneration to the directors of such company) and any Director of the Company may vote in favour of the exercise of such voting rights in manner aforesaid notwithstanding that he may be, or be about to be, appointed a director or other officer of such other company and as such is or may become interested in the exercise of such voting rights in manner aforesaid.
DIRECTORS’ MEETINGS
31. (a) Meetings of the Directors may be held in Hong Kong or in any other part of the world as may be convenient for the majority.
      (b) Unless otherwise determined by the Company by Ordinary Resolution, the quorum for meeting of the Directors shall be two. Notwithstanding any provision herein, if the Company has only one Director, the quorum for Board Meeting shall be one.
      (c) The Directors may participate in any Board Meeting by means of conference telephone or other communications equipment through which all other directors present at the Meeting can hear each other and such participation shall constitute attendance at Board Meeting as if those participating were present in person, provided always that the quorum was already present at the meeting. The Directors may also, in urgent cases, pass a resolution by way of telephonic conference, provided always that a written resolution is subsequently signed by all the directors in accordance with (d) below.

- 6 -


 

     (d) A resolution in writing, signed by all the Directors for the time being entitled to receive notice of a meeting of the Directors, shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Directors duly convened and held, without the need for any agenda or notice. The signature of any Director may be given by his alternate. Any such resolution may be contained in one document or separate copies prepared and/or circulated for the purpose and signed by one or more of the Directors. A cable, telex, fax message or other written electronic communication sent by a Director or his alternate shall be deemed to be a document signed by him for the purposes of this Article.
     (e) Where the Company has only one Director and that Director takes any decision that may be taken in a meeting of the Directors and that has effect as if agreed in a meeting of the Directors, he shall (unless that decision is taken by way of a resolution in writing duly signed by him) provide the Company with a written record of that decision within 7 days after the decision is made.
THE SEAL
32. The Directors shall procure a common seal to be made for the Company, and shall provide for the safe custody thereof. The Seal shall not be affixed to any instrument except by the authority of the Directors or a committee authorised by the Board in that behalf, and every instrument to which the Seal shall be affixed shall be signed by one Director or some other person nominated by the Directors for the purpose.
33. The Company may exercise all the powers of having official seals conferred by the Ordinance and such powers shall be vested in the Directors.
SECRETARY
34. (a) The Directors shall appoint a Secretary of the Company for such period, at such remuneration and upon such conditions as they may think fit, and any Secretary so appointed may be removed by them. In the event that the secretary appointed is a corporation or other body, it may act and sign by the hand of any one or more of its directors or officers duly authorised. The First Secretary of the Company shall be Kinetic Corporate Services Limited.
      (b) Where the Company has only one Director, that Director shall not also be the Secretary of the Company.
      (c) Where the Company has only one Director, the Company shall not have as Secretary of the Company a body corporate the sole Director of which is the sole Director of the Company.
WINDING UP
35. If the Company shall be wound up and the assets available for distribution among the members as such shall be insufficient to repay the whole of the paid up Capital, such assets shall be distributed so that as near as may be the losses shall be borne by the members in proportion to the capital paid up or which ought to have been paid up at the commencement of the winding up on the shares held by them respectively and if in a winding up the assets available for distribution among the members shall be more than sufficient to repay the whole of the capital paid up at the commencement of the winding up the excess shall be distributed among the members in proportion to the capital at the commencement of the winding up paid up or which ought to have been paid up on the shares held by them respectively. But this Article is to be without prejudice to the rights of the holders of any shares issued upon special terms and conditions.
36. (a) If the Company shall be wound up whether voluntarily or otherwise the liquidators may with the sanction of a Special Resolution divide among the contributories in specie or kind any part of the assets of the Company and may with the like sanction vest any part of the assets of the Company in trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of the contributories or any of them as the liquidators with the like sanction think fit.
      (b) If thought expedient any such division may be otherwise than in accordance with the legal rights of the contributories and in particular any class may be given preferential or special rights or may be excluded altogether or in part; but in case any division otherwise than in accordance with the legal rights of the contributories shall be determined on any contributory who would be prejudiced thereby shall have a right to dissent and ancillary rights as if such determination were a Special Resolution passed pursuant to Section 237 of the Ordinance.
      (c) In case any of the shares to be divided as aforesaid consist of shares which involve a liability to calls or otherwise, any person entitled under such division to any of the said shares may, within ten days after the passing of the Special Resolution by notice in writing, direct the Liquidator to sell his proportion and pay him the net proceeds, and the liquidator shall, if practicable, act accordingly.

- 7 -


 

Name(s), Address(es) and Description(s) of Subscriber(s)
Amity Corporate Services Limited
Room 2210, C C Wu Building,
302 Hennessy Road,
Wanchai, Hong Kong.
          (Corporation)
          Dated the 14th day of September, 2006.
WITNESS to the above signatures:
Chan Pui Sze
Secretary
Room 2210, C C Wu Building,
302 Hennessy Road,
Wanchai,
Hong Kong.

- 8 -

EX-3.9 8 y04313a1exv3w9.htm EX-3.9 exv3w9
Exhibit 3.9

MEMORANDUM
AND
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
SHINYO OCEAN LIMITED
 
Incorporated the 28th day of December, 2006.
 
HONG KONG

No. 1097859
[COPY]
COMPANIES ORDINANCE (CHAPTER 32)
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
 
I hereby certify that
SHINYO OCEAN LIMITED
is this day incorporated in Hong Kong under the Companies Ordinance, and that this company is limited.
     Issued by the undersigned on 28 December 2006.
         
 
  Miss Nancy O. S. YAU
 
for Registrar of Companies
   
 
  Hong Kong    

 


 

THE COMPANIES ORDINANCE (Chapter 32)
 
Private Company Limited by Shares
 
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
OF
SHINYO OCEAN LIMITED
 
    First:- The name of the Company is “SHINYO OCEAN LIMITED”.
 
    Second:-The Registered Office of the Company will be situated in Hong Kong.
 
    Third:- The liability of the members is limited.
Fourth:-The Share Capital of the Company is HK$10,000.00 divided into 10,000 shares of HK$1.00 each and the Company shall have power to divide the original or any increased capital into several classes, and to attach thereto any preferential, deferred, qualified, or other special rights, privileges, restrictions or conditions.

- 1 -


 

     I/We, the undersigned, whose name(s), address(es) and description(s) is/are hereto subscribed, am/are desirous of being formed into a Company in pursuance of this Memorandum of Association, and I/we respectively agree to take the number of share(s) in the capital of the Company set opposite to my/our respective name(s):-
     
    Number of Share(s)
    taken by each
Name(s), Address(es) and Description(s) of Subscriber(s)   subscriber
Kinetic Corporate Services Limited
Room 2210, C C Wu Bldg.,
302-308 Hennessy Road,
Wanchai, Hong Kong.
    Corporation
  One
Total Number of Share(s) Taken
  One
     Dated the 19th day of December, 2006.
WITNESS to the above signatures:
     
 
  Chan Pui Sze
 
  Secretary
 
  Room 2210, C C Wu Bldg.,
 
  302-308 Hennessy Road,
 
  Wanchai,
 
  Hong Kong.

- 2 -


 

THE COMPANIES ORDINANCE (Chapter 32)
 
Private Company Limited by Shares
 
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

OF
SHINYO OCEAN LIMITED
 
PRELIMINARY
1. The regulations in Table A in the First Schedule to the Companies Ordinance (Chapter 32) shall apply to the Company save in so far as they are hereby specifically excluded or are inconsistent with the Articles herein contained. In particular, but without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, clauses 11, 24, 25, 49, 55, 81, 86, 91 to 99 inclusive, 101, 108, 114 and 136 of Table A shall not apply or are modified as hereinafter appearing.
PRIVATE COMPANY
2. The Company is a private company, and accordingly:-
(a)   no invitation shall be issued to the public to subscribe for any shares or debentures of the Company;
(b)   the number of the members of the Company (not including persons who are in the employment of the Company, and persons who, having been formerly in the employment of the Company were, while in that employment, and have continued after the determination of that employment to be, members of the Company) shall be limited to fifty, provided that where two or more persons hold one or more shares in the Company jointly they shall, for the purposes of this Article, be treated as a single member; and
(c)   the right to transfer the shares of the Company shall be restricted in manner hereinafter appearing.
SHARES
3. The Shares shall be under the control of the Directors who may subject to section 57B of the Ordinance allot or otherwise dispose of the same to such person or persons on such terms and conditions and either at a premium or at par and with such rights and privileges annexed thereto and at such times as the Directors may think fit and with full power to give to any person the call of any shares either at par or at a premium during such time and for such consideration as the Directors think fit, and in particular such shares or any of them may be issued by the Directors with a preferential, deferred or qualified right to dividends, and with a special or qualified right of voting or without a right of voting. Any preference share may be issued on the terms that it is, or at the option of the Company is, liable to be redeemed.
4. The Company shall have the first and paramount lien upon all the shares registered in the name of each Member and upon the proceeds of sale thereof, for his debts, liabilities and engagements, solely or jointly with any other person, to or with the Company, whether the period for the payment, fulfillment or discharge thereof shall have actually arrived or not, and such lien shall extend to all dividends from time to time declared in respect of such shares.
5. Save as herein otherwise provided, the Company shall be entitled to treat the registered holder of any shares as the absolute owner thereof, and accordingly shall not, except as ordered by a Court of competent jurisdiction or as by Ordinance required, be bound to recognise any equitable or other claim to, or interest in, such shares on the part of any other person.
6. Subject to the Ordinance and the sanction of the Court, the Company may by special resolution issue shares at a discount.

- 3 -


 

TRANSFER OF SHARES
7. The Directors may in their absolute discretion and without assigning any reason therefor, refuse to register a transfer of any share. If the Directors refuse to register a transfer they shall within two months after the date on which the transfer was lodged with the Company, send to the transferee notice of the refusal as required by Section 69 of the Ordinance.
REDEMPTION OR PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES
8.   Subject to the Ordinance, the Company may by Special Resolution redeem or purchase its own shares out of its capital.
GENERAL MEETINGS
9. A General Meeting shall be held once in every year at such time (not being more than fifteen months after the holding of the last preceding General Meeting) and place as may be prescribed by the Company in General Meeting and if no other time or place is prescribed a General Meeting shall be held at such time and place as the Directors may from time to time determine. General Meetings held under this Article shall be called Annual General Meetings. General Meetings other than the Annual General Meetings shall be called Extraordinary General Meetings. Provided that so long as the Company holds its First Annual General Meeting within 18 months of its incorporation, it need not hold it in the year of its incorporation or in the following year.
10. (a) The quorum for the transaction of business at any General Meeting shall be two members present in person or by proxy. Notwithstanding any provision herein, if the Company has only one member, that member presents in person or by proxy shall be the quorum of a General Meeting of the Company.
     (b) Meetings may be held in Hong Kong or at such other place or places in the world as the majority of the shareholders in value shall from time to time by resolution determine.
     (c) A resolution in writing signed by all the shareholders and annexed or attached to the General Meetings Minute Book shall be as valid and effective as a resolution passed at a meeting duly convened. The signature of any shareholder may be given by his Attorney or Proxy. Any such resolution may be contained in one document or separate copies prepared and/or circulated for the purpose and signed by one or more shareholders.
     (d) Where the Company has only one member and that member takes any decision that may be taken by the Company in General Meeting and that has effect as if agreed by the Company in General Meeting, he shall (unless that decision is taken by way of a resolution in writing duly signed by him) provide the Company with a written record of that decision within 7 days after the decision is made.
DIRECTORS
11. Unless and until otherwise determined by an Ordinary Resolution of the Company, the minimum number of Director(s) shall be one and there shall be no maximum number of Directors.
12. The first Director(s) shall be appointed in writing by the subscriber(s) to the Memorandum of Association of the Company or by the Company in General Meeting.
13. A Director need not hold any shares in the Company and is not subject to rotation or retirement at the Annual General Meetings. A Director who is not a member of the Company shall nevertheless be entitled to attend and speak at General Meetings.
DIRECTORS’ REMUNERATION
14. (a) The Directors shall be paid out of the funds of the Company remuneration for their services such sum (if any) as the Company may by Ordinary Resolution from time to time determine.
     (b) The Directors shall also be entitled to be paid their reasonable expenses incurred in consequence of their attendance at meetings of Directors, committee meetings or General Meetings or otherwise in or about the business of the Company.
15. The Directors may award extra remuneration out of the funds of the Company (by way of salary, commission or otherwise as the Directors may determine) to any Director who performs services which in the opinion of the Directors are outside the scope of the ordinary duties of a Director.
POWERS OF DIRECTORS
16. The business of the Company shall be managed by the Directors, who shall pay all expenses incurred in the formation and registration of the Company, and who may exercise all such powers of the Company as are not by the Ordinance or by these Articles required to be exercised by the Company in General Meeting, subject to any provision in these Articles or the Ordinance

- 4 -


 

and to any resolution, not being inconsistent with any such provision, as may be passed by the Company in General Meeting; but no such resolution shall invalidate any prior act of the Directors. The general powers given to the Directors by this Article shall be in addition to, and not limited or restricted by, any special authority or power given to the Directors by any other Article.
17. The Directors may establish any local boards or agencies for managing any of the affairs of the Company, either in Hong Kong or elsewhere, and may appoint any persons to be members of such local boards, or any managers or agents for the Company, and may fix their remuneration, and may delegate (with or without power to sub-delegate as the Directors shall determine) to any local board, manager or agent any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in the Directors, and may authorise the members of any local boards, or any of them, to fill any vacancies therein, and to act notwithstanding vacancies, and any such appointment or delegation may be made upon such terms and subject to such conditions as the Directors may think fit, and the Directors may remove any person so appointed, and may annul or vary any such delegation, but no person dealing in good faith and without notice of any such annulment or variation shall be affected thereby.
18. The Directors may from time to time and at any time by power of attorney or other instrument appoint any person or body of persons to be the attorney or attorneys of the Company for such purposes and with such powers, authorities and discretions, (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by the Directors under these Articles) and for such period and subject to such conditions as they may think fit, and any such power of attorney or other instrument may contain such provisions for the protection and convenience of persons dealing with any such attorney as the Directors may think fit, and may also authorise any such attorney to sub-delegate all or any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in him.
19. Subject to and to the extent permitted by the Ordinance, the Company, or the Directors on behalf of the Company, may cause to be kept in any territory a Branch Register of members resident in such territory, and the Directors may make and vary such regulations as they may think fit respecting the keeping of any such Branch Register.
20. All cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, and other negotiable or transferable instruments, and all receipts for moneys paid to the Company, shall he signed, drawn, accepted, endorsed, or otherwise executed, as the case may be, in such manner as the Directors shall from time to time by resolution determine.
21. (a) The Directors may exercise all the powers of the Company to borrow money and to mortgage or charge all or any part of the undertaking, property and assets (present and future) and uncalled capital of the Company and to issue debentures, debenture stocks, bonds and other securities, whether outright or as collateral security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or of any third party. Debentures, debenture stocks, bonds and other securities of the Company may be made assignable free from any equities between the Company and the person to whom the same may be issued, and may be issued at a discount, premium or otherwise and with any special privileges as to redemption, surrender, drawings, allotment of shares, attending and voting at General Meetings of the Company, appointment of Directors and otherwise.
     (b) The Directors shall cause a proper register to be kept, in accordance with the provisions of the Ordinance, of all mortgages and charges affecting the property of the Company and shall duly comply with the requirements of the Ordinance in regard to the registration of mortgages and charges therein specified and otherwise. Where any uncalled capital of the Company is charged, all persons taking any subsequent charge thereon shall take the same subject to such prior charge, and shall not be entitled, by notice to the members or otherwise, to obtain priority over such prior charge,
APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS
22. The Company may, from time to time, by Ordinary Resolution appoint new Directors.
23. The Company may also by Ordinary Resolution remove any Director notwithstanding anything in these Articles or in any agreement between him and the Company and may, appoint another person in his stead.
24. The Directors shall have power, exercisable at any time and from time to time, to appoint any other person as a Director, either to fill a casual vacancy or as an addition to the Board.
25. In the event that the quorum and minimum number of directors are fixed at two or more directors, the continuing Directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body, but if and so long as the number of Directors is reduced below the number fixed by or pursuant to these Articles as the necessary quorum of Directors, the continuing Directors may act for the purpose of increasing the number of Directors to that number, or of summoning a General Meeting of the Company, but for no other purpose. If there shall be no Directors able or willing to act, then any member may summon a General Meeting for the purpose of appointing Directors.
RESERVE AND ALTERNATE DIRECTORS
26. (a) If the Company has only one member and that member is also the sole director, the Company may in General Meeting, notwithstanding anything in these Articles, nominate a person (other than a body corporate) who has attained the age of 18 years as a Reserve Director of the Company to act in the place of the sole director in the event of his death. Any duly

- 5 -


 

authorized officer of the Company is empowered to send the particulars of the nomination of the Reserve Director to the Registrar of Companies, pursuant to section 158 of the Ordinance.
     (b) Each Director may by written notification to the Company nominate any other person to act as Alternate Director in his place and at his discretion in similar manner remove such Alternate Director. The Alternate Director shall (except as regards the power to appoint an alternate) be subject in all respects to the terms and conditions existing with reference to the other Directors of the Company; and each Alternate Director, whilst acting as such, shall exercise and discharge all the functions, powers and duties of the Director he represents, but shall look to such Director solely for his remuneration as Alternate Director. Every person acting as an Alternate Director shall have one vote for each Director for whom he acts as alternate (in addition to his own vote if he is also a Director). The signature of an Alternate Director to any resolution in writing of the Board or a committee of the Board shall, unless the notice of his appointment provides to the contrary, be as effective as the signature of his appointor. Any Director of the Company who is appointed an Alternate Director shall be considered as two Directors for the purpose of making a quorum of Directors. Any person appointed as an Alternate Director shall vacate his office as such Alternate Director if and when the Director by whom he has been appointed removes him or vacates office as Director. A Director shall not be liable for the acts or defaults of any Alternate Director appointed by him.
DIRECTORS’ INTERESTS
27. A Director who is in any way, whether directly or indirectly, interested in a contract or proposed contract with the Company shall declare the nature of his interest in accordance with the provisions of the Ordinance. A general notice given to the Directors by a Director to the effect that he is a member or a director of a specified company or firm, and is to be regarded as interested in any contract, arrangement or dealing which may, after the date of the notice, be entered into or made with that company or firm, shall, for the purpose of this Article, be deemed to be a sufficient disclosure of interest in relation to any contract, arrangement or dealing so entered into or made. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, a Director shall give notice to the Company of such matters relating to himself as may be necessary for the purposes of Sections 155B, 158,161 and 161B of the Ordinance.
28. A Director may hold any other office or place of profit under the Company (other than the office of Auditor), and he or any firm of which he is a member may act in a professional capacity for the Company in conjunction with his office of Director, for such period and on such terms (as to remuneration and otherwise) as the Directors may determine. No Director or intended Director shall be disqualified by his office from contracting with the Company, nor shall any contract or arrangement entered into by or on behalf of the Company with any Director or any firm or company in which any Director is in any way interested be liable to be avoided, nor shall any Director so contracting or being so interested be liable to account to the Company for any profit, remuneration or other benefits realised by any such contract or arrangement by reason only of such Director holding that office, or of any fiduciary relationship thereby established.
29. A Director shall be entitled to vote as a Director in respect of any contract or arrangement in which he is interested or upon any matter arising thereout, and if he shall so vote his vote shall be counted, and he shall be taken into account in determining the quorum for the meeting at which any such contract or arrangement is to be considered.
30. A Director may hold office as a director in or manager of any other company in which the Company is a shareholder or is otherwise interested, and (subject to any agreement with the Company to the contrary) shall not be liable to account to the Company for any remuneration or other benefits receivable by him from such other company. The Board may exercise the voting powers conferred by the shares in any other company held or owned by the Company in such manner in all respects as the Board thinks fit (including the exercise thereof in favour of any resolution appointing the Directors or any of them directors or other officers of such company or voting or providing for the payment of remuneration to the directors of such company) and any Director of the Company may vote in favour of the exercise of such voting rights in manner aforesaid notwithstanding that he may be, or be about to be, appointed a director or other officer of such other company and as such is or may become interested in the exercise of such voting rights in manner aforesaid.
DIRECTORS’ MEETINGS
31. (a) Meetings of the Directors may be held in Hong Kong or in any other part of the world as may be convenient for the majority.
     (b) Unless otherwise determined by the Company by Ordinary Resolution, the quorum for meeting of the Directors shall be two. Notwithstanding any provision herein, if the Company has only one Director, the quorum for Board Meeting shall be one.
     (c) The Directors may participate in any Board Meeting by means of conference telephone or other communications equipment through which all other directors present at the Meeting can hear each other and such participation shall constitute attendance at Board Meeting as if those participating were present in person, provided always that the quorum was already present at the meeting. The Directors may also, in urgent cases, pass a resolution by way of telephonic conference, provided always that a written resolution is subsequently signed by all the directors in accordance with (d) below.

- 6 -


 

     (d) A resolution in writing, signed by all the Directors for the time being entitled to receive notice of a meeting of the Directors, shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Directors duly convened and held, without the need for any agenda or notice. The signature of any Director may be given by his alternate. Any such resolution may be contained in one document or separate copies prepared and/or circulated for the purpose and signed by one or more of the Directors. A cable, telex, fax message or other written electronic communication sent by a Director or his alternate shall be deemed to be a document signed by him for the purposes of this Article.
     (e) Where the Company has only one Director and that Director takes any decision that may be taken in a meeting of the Directors and that has effect as if agreed in a meeting of the Directors, he shall (unless that decision is taken by way of a resolution in writing duly signed by him) provide the Company with a written record of that decision within 7 days after the decision is made.
THE SEAL
32. The Directors shall procure a common seal to be made for the Company, and shall provide for the safe custody thereof. The Seal shall not be affixed to any instrument except by the authority of the Directors or a committee authorised by the Board in that behalf, and every instrument to which the Seal shall be affixed shall be signed by one Director or some other person nominated by the Directors for the purpose.
33. The Company may exercise all the powers of having official seals conferred by the Ordinance and such powers shall be vested in the Directors.
SECRETARY
34. (a) The Directors shall appoint a Secretary of the Company for such period, at such remuneration and upon such conditions as they may think fit, and any Secretary so appointed may be removed by them. In the event that the secretary appointed is a corporation or other body, it may act and sign by the hand of any one or more of its directors or officers duly authorised. The First Secretary of the Company shall be Amity Corporate Services Limited.
     (b) Where the Company has only one Director, that Directors shall not also be the Secretary of the Company.
     (c) Where the Company has only one Director, the Company shall not have as Secretary of the Company a body corporate the sole Director of which is the sole Director of the Company.
WINDING UP
35. If the Company shall be wound up and the assets available for distribution among the members as such shall be insufficient to repay the whole of the paid up Capital, such assets shall be distributed so that as near as may be the losses shall be borne by the members in proportion to the capital paid up or which ought to have been paid up at the commencement of the winding up on the shares held by them respectively and if in a winding up the assets available for distribution among the members shall be more than sufficient to repay the whole of the capital paid up at the commencement of the winding up the excess shall be distributed among the members in proportion to the capital at the commencement of the winding up paid up or which ought to have been paid up on the shares held by them respectively. But this Article is to be without prejudice to the rights of the holders of any shares issued upon special terms and conditions.
36. (a) If the Company shall be wound up whether voluntarily or otherwise the liquidators may with the sanction of a Special Resolution divide among the contributories in specie or kind any part of the assets of the Company and may with the like sanction vest any part of the assets of the Company in trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of the contributories or any of them as the liquidators with the like sanction think fit.
     (b) If thought expedient any such division may be otherwise than in accordance with the legal rights of the contributories and in particular any class may be given preferential or special rights or may be excluded altogether or in part; but in case any division otherwise than in accordance with the legal rights of the contributories shall be determined on any contributory who would be prejudiced thereby shall have a right to dissent and ancillary rights as if such determination were a Special Resolution passed pursuant to Section 237 of me Ordinance.
     (c) In case any of the shares to be divided as aforesaid consist of shares which involve a liability to calls or otherwise, any person entitled under such division to any of the said shares may, within ten days after the passing of the Special Resolution by notice in writing, direct the Liquidator to sell his proportion and pay him the net proceeds, and the liquidator shall, if practicable, act accordingly.

- 7 -


 

Name(s), Address(es) and Description(s) of Subscriber(s)
Kinetic Corporate Services Limited
Room 2210, C C Wu Bldg.,
302-308 Hennessy Road,
Wanchai, Hong Kong.
Corporation
      Dated the 19th day of December, 2006.
WITNESS to the above signatures:
     
 
  Chan Pui Sze
 
  Secretary
 
  Room 2210, CC Wu Bldg.,
 
  302-308 Hennessy Road,
 
  Wanchai,
 
  Hong Kong.

- 8 -

EX-3.10 9 y04313a1exv3w10.htm EX-3.10 exv3w10
Exhibit 3.10
BVI COMPANY NUMBER: 1473884
TERRITORY OF THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
THE BVI BUSINESS COMPANIES ACT, 2004
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES
OF ASSOCIATION
OF
Shinyo Saowalak Limited
A COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
Incorporated on the 3rd day of April, 2008
INCORPORATED IN THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS

 


 

TERRITORY OF THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
THE BVI BUSINESS COMPANIES ACT, 2004
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
OF
Shinyo Saowalak Limited
A COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
1.   DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
 
1.1.   In this Memorandum of Association and the attached Articles of Association, if not inconsistent with the subject or context:
 
    Act” means the BVI Business Companies Act, 2004 (No 16 of 2004) and includes the regulations made under the Act;
 
    “Articles” means the attached Articles of Association of the company;
 
    “Chairman of the Board” has the meaning specified in Regulation 12;
 
    “Distribution” in relation to a distribution by the Company to a Shareholder means the direct or indirect transfer of an asset, other than Shares, to or for the benefit of the Shareholder, or the incurring of a debt to or for the benefit of a Shareholder, in relation to Shares, held by a Shareholder, and whether by means of the purchase of an asset, the purchase, redemption or other acquisition of Shares, a transfer of indebtedness or otherwise, and includes a dividend;
 
    “Eligible Person” means individuals, corporations, trusts, the estates of deceased individuals, partnerships and unincorporated associations of persons;
 
    “Memorandum” means this Memorandum of Association of the Company;
 
    “Registrar” means the Registrar of Corporate Affairs appointed under section 229 of the Act;
 
    “Resolution of Directors” means either:
  (a)   a resolution approved at a duly convened and constituted meeting of directors of the Company or of a committee of directors of the Company by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors present at the meeting who voted except that where a director is given more than one vote, he shall be counted by the number of votes he casts for the purpose of establishing a majority; or
 
  (b)   a resolution consented to in writing by all directors or by all members of a committee of directors of the Company, as the case may be;

- 1 -


 

    “Resolution of Shareholders” means either:
  (a)   a resolution approved at a duly convened and constituted meeting of the Shareholders of the Company by the affirmative vote of a majority of in excess of 50 percent of the votes of the Shares entitled to vote thereon which were present at the meeting and were voted; or
 
  (b)   a resolution consented to in writing by a majority of in excess of 50 percent of the votes of Shares entitled to vote thereon;
    “Seal” means any seal which has been duly adopted as the common seal of the Company;
 
    “Securities” means Shares and debt obligations of every kind of the Company, and including without limitation options, warrants and rights to acquire Shares or debt obligations;
 
    “Share” means a share issued or to be issued by the Company;
 
    “Shareholder” means an Eligible Person whose name is entered in the register of members of the Company as the holder of one or more Shares or fractional Shares;
 
    “Treasury Share” means a Share that was previously issued but was repurchased, redeemed or otherwise acquired by the Company and not cancelled; and
 
    “Written” or any term of like import includes information generated, sent, received or stored by electronic, electrical, digital, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, biometric or photonic means, including electronic data interchange, electronic mail, telegram, telex, or telecopy, and “in writing” shall be construed accordingly.
 
1.2.   In the Memorandum and the Articles, unless the context otherwise requires a reference to:
  (a)   a “Regulation” is a reference to a regulation of the Articles;
 
  (b)   a “Clause” is a reference to a clause of the Memorandum;
 
  (c)   voting by Shareholders is a reference to the casting of the votes attached to the Shares held by the Shareholder voting;
 
  (d)   the Act, the Memorandum or the Articles is a reference to the Act or those documents as amended or, in the case of the Act, any re-enactment thereof; and
 
  (e)   the singular includes the plural and vice versa.
1.3.   Any words or expressions defined in the Act unless the context otherwise requires bear the same meaning in the Memorandum and the Articles unless otherwise defined herein.
 
1.4.   Headings are inserted for convenience only and shall be disregarded in interpreting the Memorandum and the Articles.
 
2.   NAME
 
    The name of the Company is Shinyo Saowalak Limited.
 
3.   STATUS
 
    The Company is a company limited by Shares.

- 2 -


 

4.   REGISTERED OFFICE AND REGISTERED AGENT
 
4.1.   The first registered office of the Company is at P.O. Box 957, Offshore Incorporations Centre, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, the office of the first registered agent.
 
4.2.   The first registered agent of the Company is Offshore Incorporations Limited of P.O. Box 957, Offshore Incorporations Centre, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands.
 
4.3.   The Company may by Resolution of Shareholders or by Resolution of Directors change the location of its registered office or change its registered agent.
 
4.4.   Any change of registered office or registered agent will take effect on the registration by the Registrar of a notice of the change filed by the existing registered agent or a legal practitioner in the British Virgin Islands acting on behalf of the Company.
 
5.   CAPACITY AND POWERS
 
5.1.   Subject to the Act and any other British Virgin Islands legislation, the Company has, irrespective of corporate benefit:
  (a)   full capacity to carry on or undertake any business or activity, do any act or enter into any transaction; and
 
  (b)   for the purposes of paragraph (a) full rights, powers and privileges.
5.2.   For the purposes of section 9(4) of the Act, there are no limitations on the business that the Company may carry on.
 
6.   NUMBER AND CLASSES OF SHARES
 
6.1.   Shares in the company shall be issued in the currency of the United States of America.
 
6.2.   The Company is authorised to issue a maximum of 50,000 Shares of a single class each with a par value of US$1.00.
 
6.3.   The Company may issue fractional Shares and a Fractional Share Shall have the corresponding fractional rights, obligations and liabilities of a whole Share of the same class or series of Shares.
 
6.4.   Shares may be issued in one or more series of shares as the directors may by Resolution of Directors determine from time to time.
 
7.   RIGHTS OF SHARES
 
7.1.   Each Share in the Company confers upon the Shareholder:
  (a)   the right to one vote at a meeting of the Shareholders of the Company or on any Resolution of Shareholders;
 
  (b)   the right to an equal share in any dividend paid by the Company; and
 
  (c)   the right to an equal share in the distribution of the surplus assets of the Company on its liquidation.
7.2.   The Company may by Resolution of Directors redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire all or any of the Shares in the Company subject to Regulation 3 of the Articles.

- 3 -


 

8.   VARIATION OF RIGHTS
 
    If at any time the Shares are divided into different classes, the rights attached to any class may only be varied, whether or not the Company is in liquidation, with the consent in writing of or by a resolution passed at a meeting by the holders of not less than 50 percent of the issued Shares in that class.
 
9.   RIGHTS NOT VARIED BY THE ISSUE OF SHARES PARI PASSU
 
    The rights conferred upon the holders of the Shares of any class shall not, unless otherwise expressly provided by the terms of issue of the Shares of that class, be deemed to be varied by the creation or issue of further Shares ranking pari passu therewith.
 
10.   REGISTERED SHARES
 
10.1.   The Company shall issue Registered Shares only.
 
10.2.   The Company is not authorised to issue Bearer Shares, convert Registered Shares to Bearer Shares or exchange Registered Shares for Bearer Shares.
 
11.   TRANSFER OF SHARES
 
11.1.   Subject to Clause 13, the Company shall, on receipt of an instrument of transfer complying with Sub-Regulation 6.1 of the Articles, enter the name of the transferee of a Share in the register of members unless the directors resolve to refuse or delay the registration of the transfer for reasons that shall be specified in a Resolution of Directors.
 
11.2.   The directors may not resolve to refuse or delay the transfer of a Share unless the Shareholder has failed to pay an amount due in respect of the Share.
 
12.   AMENDMENT OF THE MEMORANDUM AND THE ARTICLES
 
12.1.   Subject to Clause 8, The Company may amend the Memorandum or the Articles by Resolution of Shareholders or by Resolution of Directors, save that no amendment may be made by Resolution of Directors:
  (a)   to restrict the rights or powers of the Shareholders to Amend the Memorandum or the Articles;
 
  (b)   to change the percentage of shareholders required to pass a Resolution of Shareholders to amend the Memorandum or the Articles;
 
  (c)   in circumstances where the Memorandum or the Articles cannot be amended by the Shareholders; or
 
  (d)   to Clauses 7, 8, 9 or this Clause 12.
12.2.   Any amendment of the Memorandum or the Articles will take effect on the registration by the Registrar of a notice of amendment, or restated Memorandum and Articles, filed by the registered agent.
 
13.   PRIVATE COMPANY
 
    The Company is a private company, and accordingly:
  (a)   any invitation to the public to subscribe for any Shares or debentures of the Company is prohibited;
 
  (b)   the number of the members of the Company (not including persons who are in the employment of the Company, and persons who, having been formerly in the employment of the Company, were, while in such employment, and have continued after the determination of such employment to be, members of the Company) shall be limited to fifty PROVIDED that where two or more persons hold one or more Shares in the Company jointly they shall, for the purposes of this Clause 13, be treated as a single member;

- 4 -


 

  (c)   the right to transfer the Shares of the Company shall be restricted in manner herein prescribed; and
 
  (d)   the Company shall not have power to issue Share Warrants to Bearer.
We, OFFSHORE INCORPORATIONS LIMITED of P.O. Box 957, Offshore Incorporations Centre, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands for the purpose of incorporating a BVI Business Company under the laws of the British Virgin Islands hereby sign this Memorandum of Association the 3rd day of April, 2008.
     
Incorporator
   
 
   
/s/ Rexella D. Hodge
   
 
(Sd.) Rexella D. Hodge
   
Authorised Signatory
   
OFFSHORE INCORPORATIONS LIMITED
   

- 5 -


 

TERRITORY OF THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
THE BVI BUSINESS COMPANIES ACT, 2004
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
Shinyo Saowalak Limited
A COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
1.   REGISTERED SHARES
 
1.1.   Every Shareholder is entitled to a certificate signed by a director or officer of the Company, or any other person authorised by Resolution of Directors, or under the Seal specifying the number of Shares held by him and the signature of the director, officer or authorised person and the Seal may be facsimiles.
 
1.2.   Any Shareholder receiving a certificate shall indemnify and hold the Company and its directors and officers harmless from any loss or liability which it or they may incur by reason of any wrongful or fraudulent use or representation made by any person by virtue of the possession thereof. If a certificate for Shares is worn out or lost it may be renewed on production of the worn out certificate or on satisfactory proof of its loss together with such indemnity as may be required by Resolution of Directors.
 
1.3.   If several Eligible Persons are registered as joint holders of any share, any one of such Eligible Persons may give an effectual receipt for any Distribution.
 
2.   SHARES
 
2.1.   Shares and other Securities may be issued at such times, to such Eligible Persons, for such consideration and on such terms as the directors may by Resolution of Directors determine.
 
2.2.   Section 46 of the Act (Pre-emptive rights) does not apply to the Company.
 
2.3.   A Share may be issued for consideration in any form, including money, a promissory note, or other written obligation to contribute money or property, real property, personal property (including goodwill and know-how), services rendered or a contract for future services.
 
2.4.   The consideration for a Share with par value shall not be less than the par value of the Share. If a Share with par value is issued for consideration less than the par value, the person to whom the Share is issued is liable to pay to the Company an amount equal to the difference between the issue price and the par value.
 
2.5.   No Shares may be issued for a consideration other than money, unless a Resolution of Directors has been passed stating:
  (a)   the amount to be credited for the issue of the Shares;

- 6 -


 

  (b)   the determination of the directors of the reasonable present cash value of the non-money consideration for the issue; and
 
  (c)   that, in the opinion of the directors, the present cash value of the non-money consideration for the issue is not less than the amount to be credited for the issue of the Shares.
2.6.   The consideration paid for any Share, whether a par value Share or a no par value Share, shall not be treated as a liability or debt of the Company for the purposes of
  (a)   the solvency test in Regulations 3 and 18; and
 
  (b)   sections 197 and 209 of the Act.
2.7.   The Company shall keep a register (the “register of members”) containing:
  (a)   the names and addresses of the Eligible Persons who hold Shares;
 
  (b)   the number of each class and series of Shares held by each Shareholder;
 
  (c)   the date on which the name of each Shareholder was entered in the register of members; and
 
  (d)   the date on which any Eligible Person ceased to be a Shareholder.
2.8.   The register of members may be in any such form as the directors may approve, but if it is in magnetic, electronic or other data storage form, the Company must be able to produce legible evidence of its contents. Until the directors otherwise determine, the magnetic, electronic or other data storage form shall be the original register of members.
 
2.9.   A Share is deemed to be issued when the name of the Shareholder is entered in the register of members.
 
3.   REDEMPTION OF SHARES AND TREASURY SHARES
 
3.1.   The Company may purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire and hold its own Shares save that the Company may not purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire its own Shares without the consent of Shareholders whose Shares are to be purchased, redeemed or otherwise acquired unless the Company is permitted by the Act or any other provision in the Memorandum or Articles to purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire the Shares without their consent.
 
3.2.   The Company may only offer to purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire Shares if the Resolution of Directors authorising the purchase, redemption or other acquisition contains a statement that the directors are satisfied, on reasonable grounds, that immediately after the acquisition the value of the Company’s assets will exceed its liabilities and the Company will be able to pay its debts as they fall due.
 
3.3.   Sections 60 (Process for acquisition of own Shares), 61 (Offer to one or more shareholders) and 62 (Shares redeemed otherwise than at the option of company) of the Act shall not apply to the Company.
 
3.4.   Shares that the Company purchases, redeems or otherwise acquires pursuant to this Regulation may be cancelled or held as Treasury Shares except to the extent that such Shares are in excess of 50 percent of the issued Shares in which case they shall be cancelled but they shall be available for reissue.
 
3.5.   All rights and obligations attaching to a Treasury Share are suspended and shall not be exercised by the Company while it holds the Share as a Treasury Share.
 
3.6.   Treasury Shares may be transferred by the Company on such terms and conditions (not otherwise inconsistent with the Memorandum and the Articles) as the Company may by Resolution of Directors determine.

- 7 -


 

3.7.   Where Shares are held by another body corporate of which the Company holds, directly or indirectly, Shares having more than 50 percent of the votes in the election of directors of the other body corporate, all rights and obligations attaching to the Shares held by the other body corporate are suspended and shall not be exercised by the other body corporate.
 
4.   MORTGAGES AND CHARGES OF SHARES
 
4.1.   Shareholders may mortgage or charge their Shares.
 
4.2.   There shall be entered in the register of members at the written request of the Shareholder:
  (a)   a statement that the Shares held by him are mortgaged or charged;
 
  (b)   the name of the mortgagee or chargee; and
 
  (c)   the date on which the particulars specified in subparagraphs (a) and (b) are entered in the register of members.
4.3.   Where particulars of a mortgage or charge are entered in the register of members, such particulars may be cancelled:
  (a)   with the written consent of the named mortgagee or chargee or anyone authorised to act on his behalf; or
 
  (b)   upon evidence satisfactory to the directors of the discharge of the liability secured by the mortgage or charge and the issue of such indemnities as the directors shall consider necessary or desirable.
4.4.   Whilst particulars of a mortgage or charge over Shares are entered in the register of members pursuant to this Regulation:
  (a)   no transfer of any share the subject of those particulars shall be effected;
 
  (b)   the Company may not purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any such Share; and
 
  (c)   no replacement certificate shall be issued in respect of such Shares,
    without the written consent of the named mortgagee or chargee.
 
5.   FORFEITURE
 
5.1.   Shares that are not fully paid on issue are subject to the forfeiture provisions set forth in this Regulation and for this purpose Shares issued for a promissory note, other written obligation to contribute money or property or a contract for future services are deemed to be not fully paid.
 
5.2.   A written notice of call specifying the date for payment to be made shall be served on the Shareholder who defaults in making payment in respect of the Shares.
 
5.3.   The written notice of call referred to in Sub-Regulation 5.2 shall name a further date not earlier than the expiration of 14 days from the date of service of the notice on or before which the payment required by the notice is to be made and shall contain a statement that in the event of non-payment at or before the time named in the notice the Shares, or any of them, in respect of which payment is not made will be liable to be forfeited.
 
5.4.   Where a written notice of call has been issued pursuant to Sub-Regulation 5.3 and the requirements of the notice have not been complied with, the directors may, at any time before tender of payment, forfeit and cancel the Shares to which the notice relates.
 
5.5.   The Company is under no obligation to refund any moneys to the Shareholder whose Shares have been cancelled pursuant to Sub-Regulation 5.4 and that Shareholder shall be discharged from any further obligation to the Company.

- 8 -


 

6.   TRANSFER OF SHARES
 
6.1.   Subject to the Memorandum, Shares may be transferred by a written instrument of transfer signed by the transferor and containing the name and address of the transferee, which shall be sent to the Company for registration.
 
6.2.   The transfer of a Share is effective when the name of the transferee is entered on the register of members.
 
6.3.   If the directors of the Company are satisfied that an instrument of transfer relating to Shares has been signed but that the instrument has been lost or destroyed, they may resolve by Resolution of Directors:
  (a)   to accept such evidence of the transfer of Shares as they consider appropriate; and
 
  (b)   that the transferee’s name should be entered in the register of members notwithstanding the absence of the instrument of transfer.
6.4.   Subject to the Memorandum, the personal representative of a deceased Shareholder may transfer a Share even though the personal representative is not a Shareholder at the time of the transfer.
 
7.   MEETINGS AND CONSENTS OF SHAREHOLDERS
 
7.1.   Any director of the Company may convene meetings of the Shareholders at such times and in such manner and places within or outside the British Virgin Islands as the director considers necessary or desirable.
 
7.2.   Upon the written request of Shareholders entitled to exercise 30 percent or more of the voting rights in respect of the matter for which, the meeting is requested the directors shall convene a meeting of Shareholders.
 
7.3.   The director convening a meeting shall give not less than 7 days’ notice of a meeting of Shareholders to:
  (a)   those Shareholders whose names on the date the notice is given appear as Shareholders in the register of members of the Company and are entitled to vote at the meeting; and
 
  (b)   the other directors.
7.4.   The director convening a meeting of shareholders may fix as the record date for determining those Shareholders that are entitled to vote at the meeting the date notice is given of the meeting, or such other date as may be specified in the notice, being a date not earlier than the date of the notice.
 
7.5.   A meeting of Shareholders held in contravention of the requirement to give notice is valid if Shareholders holding at least 90 percent of the total voting rights on all the matters to be considered at the meeting have waived notice of the meeting and, for this purpose, the presence of a Shareholder at the meeting shall constitute waiver in relation to all the Shares which that Shareholder holds.
 
7.6.   The inadvertent failure of a director who convenes a meeting to give notice of a meeting to a Shareholder or another director, or the fact that a Shareholder or another director has not received notice, does not invalidate the meeting.
 
7.7.   A Shareholder may be represented at a meeting of Shareholders by a proxy who may speak and vote on behalf of the Shareholder.
 
7.8.   The instrument appointing a proxy shall be produced at the place designated for the meeting before the time for holding the meeting at which the person named in such instrument proposes to vote. The notice of the meeting may specify an alternative or additional place or time at which the proxy shall be presented.

- 9 -


 

7.9.   The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in substantially the following form or such other form as the chairman of the meeting shall accept as properly evidencing the wishes of the Shareholder appointing the proxy.
[COMPANY NAME]
I/We being a Shareholder of the above Company HEREBY APPOINT                                            of                                            or failing him                       of                       to be my/our proxy to vote for me/us at the meeting of Shareholders to be held on the                       day of                      , 20                      and at any adjournment thereof.
     
(Any restrictions on voting to be inserted here.)
   
 
   
Signed this                       day of                      , 20                     
   
 
   
 
Shareholder
   
7.10.   The following applies where Shares are jointly owned:
  (a)   if two or more persons hold Shares jointly each of them may be present in person or by proxy at a meeting of Shareholders and may speak as a Shareholder;
 
  (b)   if only one of the joint owners is present in person or by proxy he may vote on behalf of all joint owners; and
 
  (c)   if two or more of the joint owners are present in person or by proxy they must vote as one.
7.11.   A Shareholder shall be deemed to be present at a meeting of Shareholders if he participates by telephone or other electronic means and all Shareholders participating in the meeting are able to hear each other.
 
7.12.   A meeting of Shareholders is duly constituted if at the commencement of the meeting, there are present in person or by proxy not less than 50 percent of the votes of the Shares entitled to vote on Resolutions of Shareholders to be considered at the meeting. A quorum may comprise a single Shareholder or proxy and then such person may pass a Resolution of Shareholders and a certificate signed by such person accompanied where such person be a proxy by a copy of the proxy instrument shall constitute a valid Resolution of Shareholders.
 
7.13.   If within two hours from the time appointed for the meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened upon the requisition of Shareholders, shall be dissolved; in any other case it shall stand adjourned to the next business day in the jurisdiction in which the meeting was to have been held at the same time and place or to such other time and place as the directors may determine, and if at the adjourned meeting there are present within one hour from the time appointed for the meeting in person or by proxy not less than one third of the votes of the Shares or each class or series of Shares entitled to vote on the matters to be considered by the meeting, those present shall constitute a quorum but otherwise the meeting shall be dissolved.
 
7.14.   At every meeting of Shareholders, the Chairman of the Board shall preside as chairman of the meeting. If there is no Chairman of the Board or if the Chairman of the Board is not present at the meeting, the Shareholders present shall choose one of their number to be the chairman. If the Shareholders are unable to choose a chairman for any reason, then the person representing the greatest number of voting Shares present in person or by proxy at the meeting shall preside as chairman failing which the oldest individual Shareholder or representative of a Shareholder present shall take the chair.
 
7.15.   The chairman may, with the consent of the meeting, adjourn any meeting from time to time, and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place.

- 10 -


 

7.16.   At any meeting of the Shareholders the chairman is responsible for deciding in such manner as he considers appropriate whether any resolution proposed has been carried or not and the result of his decision shall be announced to the meeting and recorded in the minutes of the meeting. If the chairman has any doubt as to the outcome of the vote on a proposed resolution, he shall cause a poll to be taken of all votes cast upon such resolution. If the chairman fails to take a poll then any Shareholder present in person or by proxy who disputes the announcement by the chairman of the result of any vote may immediately following such announcement demand that a poll be taken and the chairman shall cause a poll to be taken. If a poll is taken at any meeting, the result shall be announced to the meeting and recorded in the minutes of the meeting.
7.17.   Subject to the specific provisions contained in this Regulation for the appointment of representatives of Eligible Persons other than individuals the right of any individual to speak for or represent a Shareholder shall be determined by the law of the jurisdiction where, and by the documents by which, the Eligible Person is constituted or derives its existence. In case of doubt, the directors may in good faith seek legal advice from any qualified person and unless and until a court of competent jurisdiction shall otherwise rule, the directors may rely and act upon such advice without incurring any liability to any Shareholder or the Company.
7.18.   Any Eligible Person other than an individual which is a Shareholder may by resolution of its directors or other governing body authorise such individual as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any meeting of Shareholders or of any class of Shareholders, and the individual so authorised shall be entitled to exercise the same rights on behalf of the Shareholder which he represents as that Shareholder could exercise if it were an individual.
7.19.   The chairman of any meeting at which a vote is cast by proxy or on behalf of any Eligible Person other than an individual may call for a notarially certified copy of such proxy or authority which shall be produced within 7 days of being so requested or the votes cast by such proxy or on behalf of such Eligible Person shall be disregarded.
7.20.   Directors of the Company may attend and speak at any meeting of Shareholders and at any separate meeting of the holders of any class or series of Shares.
7.21.   An action that may be taken by the Shareholders at a meeting may also be taken by a resolution consented to in writing, without the need for any notice, but if any Resolution of Shareholders is adopted otherwise than by the unanimous written consent of all Shareholders, a copy of such resolution shall forthwith be sent to all Shareholders not consenting to such resolution. The consent may be in the form of counterparts, each counterpart being signed by one or more Shareholders. If the consent is in one or more counterparts, and the counterparts bear different dates, then the resolution shall take effect on the earliest date upon which Shareholders holding a sufficient number of votes of Shares to constitute a Resolution of Shareholders have consented to the resolution by signed counterparts.
8. DIRECTORS
8.1.   The first directors of the Company shall be appointed by the first registered agent within 6 months of the date of incorporation of the Company; and thereafter, the directors shall be elected by Resolution of Shareholders or by Resolution of Directors.
 
8.2.   No person shall be appointed as a director, or nominated as a reserve director, of the Company unless he has consented in writing to be a director or to be nominated as a reserve director.
8.3.   Subject to Sub-Regulation 8.1, the minimum number of directors shall be one and there shall be no maximum number.
8.4.   Each director holds office for the term, if any, fixed by the Resolution of Shareholders or the Resolution of Directors appointing him, or until his earlier death, resignation or removal. If no term is fixed on the appointment of a director, the director serves indefinitely until his earlier death, resignation or removal.
8.5.   A director may be removed from office,

- 11 -


 

  (a)   with or without cause, by Resolution of Shareholders passed at a meeting of Shareholders called for the purposes of removing the director or for purposes including the removal of the director or by a written resolution passed by at least 75 percent of the Shareholders of the Company entitled to vote; or
 
  (b)   with cause, by Resolution of Directors passed at a meeting of directors called for the purpose of removing the director or for purposes including the removal of the director.
8.6.   A director may resign his office by giving written notice of his resignation to the Company and the resignation has effect from the date the notice is received by the Company or from such later date as may be specified in the notice. A director shall resign forthwith as a director if he is, or becomes, disqualified from acting as a director under the Act.
8.7.   The directors may at any time appoint any person to be a director either to fill a vacancy or as an addition to the existing directors. Where the directors appoint a person as director to fill a vacancy, the term shall not exceed the term that remained when the person who has ceased to be a director ceased to hold office.
8.8.   A vacancy in relation to directors occurs if a director dies or otherwise ceases to hold office prior to the expiration of his term of office.
 
8.9.   Where the Company only has one Shareholder who is an individual and that Shareholder is also the sole director of the Company, the sole Shareholder/director may, by instrument in writing, nominate a person who is not disqualified from being a director of the Company as a reserve director of the Company to act in the place of the sole director in the event of his death.
 
8.10.   The nomination of a person as reserve director of the company ceases to have effect if:
  (a)   before the death of the sole Shareholder/director who nominated him,
  (i)   he resigns as reserve director, or
 
  (ii)   the sole Shareholder/director revokes the nomination in writing; or
  (b)   the sole Shareholder/director who nominated him ceases to be able to be the sole Shareholder/director of the Company for any reason other than his death.
8.11.   The Company shall keep a register of directors containing:
  (a)   the names and addresses of the persons who are directors of the Company or who have been nominated as reserve directors of the Company;
 
  (b)   the date on which each person whose name is entered in the register was appointed as a director, or nominated as a reserve director, of the Company;
 
  (c)   the date on which each person named as a director ceased to be a director of the Company;
  (d)   the date on which the nomination of any person nominated as a reserve director ceased to have effect; and
 
  (e)   such other information as may be prescribed by the Act.
8.12.   The register of directors may be kept in any such form as the directors may approve, but if it is in magnetic, electronic or other data storage form, the Company must be able to produce legible evidence of its contents. Until a Resolution of Directors determining otherwise is passed, the magnetic, electronic or other data storage shall be the original register of directors.
8.13.   The directors may, by Resolution of Directors, fix the emoluments of directors with respect to services to be rendered in any capacity to the Company.
 
8.14.   A director is not required to hold a Share as a qualification to office.

- 12 -


 

9. POWERS OF DIRECTORS
9.1.   The business and affairs of the Company shall be managed by, or under the direction or supervision of, the directors of the Company. The directors of the Company have all the powers necessary for managing, and for directing and supervising, the business and affairs of the Company. The directors may pay all expenses incurred preliminary to and in connection with the incorporation of the Company and may exercise all such powers of the Company as are not by the Act or by the Memorandum or the Articles required to be exercised by the Shareholders.
9.2.   Each director shall exercise his powers for a proper purpose and shall not act or agree to the Company acting in a manner that contravenes the Memorandum, the Articles or the Act. Each director, in exercising his powers or performing his duties, shall act honestly and in good faith in what the director believes to be the best interests of the Company.
9.3.   If the Company is the wholly owned subsidiary of a holding company, a director of the Company may, when exercising powers or performing duties as a director, act in a manner which he believes is in the best interests of the holding company even though it may not be in the best interests of the Company.
9.4.   Any director which is a body corporate may appoint any individual as its duly authorised representative for the purpose of representing it at meetings of the directors, with respect to the signing of consents or otherwise.
9.5.   The continuing directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body.
 
9.6.   The directors may by Resolution of Directors exercise all the powers of the Company to incur indebtedness, liabilities or obligations and to secure indebtedness, liabilities or obligations whether of the Company or of any third party.
9.7.   All cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange and other negotiable instruments and all receipts for moneys paid to the Company shall be signed, drawn, accepted, endorsed or otherwise executed, as the case may be, in such manner as shall from time to time be determined by Resolution of Directors.
9.8.   For the purposes of Section 175 (Disposition of assets) of the Act, the directors may by Resolution of Directors determine that any sale, transfer, lease, exchange or other disposition is in the usual or regular course of the business carried on by the Company and such determination is in the absence of fraud, conclusive.
10. PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS
10.1   Any one director of the Company may call a meeting of the directors by sending a written notice to each other director.
 
10.2.   The directors of the Company or any committee thereof may meet at such times and in such manner and places within or outside the British Virgin Islands as the directors may determine to be necessary or desirable.
 
10.3.   A director is deemed to be present at a meeting of directors if he participates by telephone or other electronic means and all directors participating in the meeting are able to hear each other.
10.4.   A director shall be given not less than 3 days’ notice of meetings of directors, but a meeting of directors held without 3 days’ notice having been given to all directors shall be valid if all the directors entitled to vote at the meeting who do not attend waive notice of the meeting, and for this purpose the presence of a director at a meeting shall constitute waiver by that director. The inadvertent failure to give notice of a meeting to a director, or the fact that a director has not received the notice, does not invalidate the meeting.
10.5.   A director may by a written instrument appoint an alternate who need not be a director and the alternate shall be entitled to attend meetings in the absence of the director who appointed him and to vote in place of the director until the appointment lapses or is terminated.

- 13 -


 

10.6.   A meeting of directors is duly constituted for all purposes if at the commencement of the meeting there are present in person or by alternate not less than one-half of the total number of directors, unless there are only 2 directors in which case the quorum is 2.
10.7.   If the Company has only one director the provisions herein contained for meetings of directors do not apply and such sole director has full power to represent and act for the Company in all matters as are not by the Act, the Memorandum or the Articles required to be exercised by the Shareholders. In lieu of minutes of a meeting the sole director shall record in writing and sign a note or memorandum of all matters requiring a Resolution of Directors. Such a note or memorandum constitutes sufficient evidence of such resolution for all purposes.
10.8.   At meetings of directors at which the Chairman of the Board is present, he shall preside as chairman of the meeting. If there is no Chairman of the Board or if the Chairman of the Board is not present, the directors present shall choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.
10.9.   An action that may be taken by the directors or a committee of directors at a meeting may also be taken by a Resolution of Directors or a resolution of a committee of directors consented to in writing by all directors or by all members of the committee, as the case may be, without the need for any notice. The consent may be in the form of counterparts each counterpart being signed by one or more directors. If the consent is in one or more counterparts, and the counterparts bear different dates, then the resolution shall take effect on the date upon which the last director has consented to the resolution by signed counterparts.
11. COMMITTEES
11.1.   The directors may, by Resolution of Directors, designate one or more committees, each consisting of one or more directors, and delegate one or more of their powers including the power to affix the Seal, to the committee.
11.2   The directors have no power to delegate to a committee of directors any of the following powers:
  (a)   to amend the Memorandum or the Articles;
 
  (b)   to designate committees of directors;
 
  (c)   to delegate powers to committee of directors;
 
  (d)   to appoint or remove directors;
 
  (e)   to appoint or remove an agent;
 
  (f)   to approve a plan of merger, consolidation or arrangement;
 
  (g)   to make a declaration of solvency or to approve a liquidation plan; or
 
  (h)   to make a determination that immediately after a proposed Distribution the value of the Company’s assets will exceed its liabilities and the Company will be able to pay its debts as they fall due.
11.3.   Sub-Regulation 11.2(b) and (c) do not prevent a committee of directors, where authorised by the Resolution of Directors appointing such committee or by a subsequent Resolution of Directors, from appointing a sub-committee and delegating powers exercisable by the committee to the sub-committee.
11.4.   The meetings and proceedings of each committee of directors consisting of 2 or more directors shall be governed mutatis mutandis by the provisions of the Articles regulating the proceedings of directors so far as the same are not superseded by any provisions in the Resolution of Directors establishing the committee.

- 14 -


 

11.5.   Where the directors delegate their powers to a committee of directors they remain responsible for the exercise of that power by the committee, unless they believed on reasonable grounds at all times before the exercise of the power that the committee would exercise the power in conformity with the duties imposed on directors of the Company under the Act.
12. OFFICERS AND AGENTS
12.1.   The Company may by Resolution of Directors appoint officers of the Company at such times as may be considered necessary or expedient. Such officers may consist of a Chairman of the Board of Directors, a president and one or more vice-presidents, secretaries and treasurers and such other officers as may from time to time be considered necessary or expedient. Any number of offices may be held by the same person.
 
12.2.   The officers shall perform such duties as are prescribed at the time of their appointment subject to any modification in such duties as may be prescribed thereafter by Resolution of Directors. In the absence of any specific prescription of duties it shall be the responsibility of the Chairman of the Board to preside at meetings of directors and Shareholders, the president to manage the day to day affairs of the Company, the vice-presidents to act in order of seniority in the absence of the president but otherwise to perform such duties as may be delegated to them by the president, the secretaries to maintain the register of members, minute books and records (other than financial records) of the Company and to ensure compliance with all procedural requirements imposed on the Company by applicable law, and the treasurer to be responsible for the financial affairs of the Company.
 
12.3.   The emoluments of all officers shall be fixed by Resolution of Directors.
12.4.   The officers of the Company shall hold office until their successors are duly appointed, but any officer elected or appointed by the directors may be removed at any time, with or without cause, by Resolution of Directors. Any vacancy occurring in any office of the Company may be filled by Resolution of Directors.
 
12.5.   The directors may, by Resolution of Directors, appoint any person including a person who is a director, to be an agent of the Company.
 
12.6.   An agent of the Company shall have such powers and authority of the directors, including the power and authority to affix the Seal, as are set forth in the Articles or in the Resolution of Directors appointing the agent, except that no agent has any power or authority with respect to the following:
  (a)   to amend the Memorandum or the Articles;
 
  (b)   to change the registered office or agent;
 
  (c)   to designate committees of directors;
 
  (d)   to delegate powers to a committee of directors;
 
  (e)   to appoint or remove directors;
 
  (f)   to appoint or remove an agent;
 
  (g)   to fix emoluments of directors;
 
  (h)   to approve a plan of merger, consolidation or arrangement;
 
  (i)   to make a declaration of solvency or to approve a liquidation plan;
 
  (j)   to make a determination that immediately after a proposed Distribution the value of the Company’s assets will exceed its liabilities and the Company will be able to pay its debts as they fall due; or
 
  (k)   to authorise the Company to continue as a company incorporated under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the British Virgin Islands.

- 15 -


 

12.7.   The Resolution of Directors appointing an agent may authorise the agent to appoint one or more substitutes or delegates to exercise some or all of the powers conferred on the agent by the Company.
 
12.8.   The directors may remove an agent appointed by the Company and may revoke or vary a power conferred on him.
13. CONFLICT OF INTERESTS
13.1.   A director of the Company shall, forthwith after becoming aware of the fact that he is interested in a transaction entered into or to be entered into by the Company, disclose the interest to all other directors of the Company.
 
13.2.   For the purposes of Sub-Regulation 13.1, a disclosure to all other directors to the effect that a director is a member, director or officer of another named entity or has a fiduciary relationship with respect to the entity or a named individual and is to be regarded as interested in any transaction which may, after the date of the entry into the transaction or disclosure of the interest, be entered into with that entity or individual, is a sufficient disclosure of interest in relation to that transaction.
 
13.3.   A director of the Company who is interested in a transaction entered into or to be entered into by the Company may:
  (a)   vote on a matter relating to the transaction;
 
  (b)   attend a meeting of directors at which a matter relating to the transaction arises and be included among the directors present at the meeting for the purposes of a quorum; and
 
  (c)   sign a document on behalf of the Company, or do any other thing in his capacity as a director, that relates to the transaction;
 
  and, subject to compliance with Act shall not by reason of his office be accountable to the Company for any benefit which he derives from such transaction and no such transaction shall be liable to be avoided on the grounds of any such interest or benefit.
14. INDEMNIFICATION
14.1.   Subject to the limitations hereinafter provided the Company shall indemnify against all expenses, including legal fees, and against all judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement and reasonably incurred in connection with legal, administrative or investigative proceedings any person who:
  (a)   is or was a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed proceedings, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director of the Company; or
 
  (b)   is or was, at the request of the Company, serving as a director of, or in any other capacity is or was acting for, another body corporate or a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise.
14.2.   The indemnity in Sub-Regulation 14.1 only applies if the person acted honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of the Company and, in the case of criminal proceedings, the person had no reasonable cause to believe that their conduct was unlawful.
 
14.3.   For the purposes of Sub-Regulation 14.2, a director acts in the best interests of the Company if he acts in the best interests of
  (a)   the Company’s holding company; or
 
  (b)   a Shareholder or Shareholders of the Company;
  in either case, in the circumstances specified in Sub-Regulation 9.3 or the Act, as the case may be.

- 16 -


 

14.4.   The decision of the directors as to whether the person acted honestly and in good faith and with a view to the best interests of the Company and as to whether the person had no reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful is, in the absence of fraud, sufficient for the purposes of the Articles, unless a question of law is involved.
 
14.5.   The termination of any proceedings by any judgment, order, settlement, conviction or the entering of a nolle prosequi does not, by itself, create a presumption that the person did not act honestly and in good faith and with a view to the best interests of the Company or that the person had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful.
 
14.6.   Expenses, including legal fees, incurred by a director in defending any legal, administrative or investigative proceedings may be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of such proceedings upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the director to repay the amount if it shall ultimately be determined that the director is not entitled to be indemnified by the Company in accordance with Sub-Regulation 14.1.
 
14.7.   Expenses, including legal fees, incurred by a former director in defending any legal, administrative or investigative proceedings may be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of such proceedings upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the former director to repay the amount if it shall ultimately be determined that the former director is not entitled to be indemnified by the Company in accordance with Sub-Regulation 14.1 and upon such terms and conditions, if any, as the Company deems appropriate.
 
14.8.   The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this section is not exclusive of any, other rights to which the person seeking idemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any agreement, Resolution of Shareholders, resolution of disinterested directors or otherwise, both as acting in the person’s official capacity and as to acting in another capacity while serving as a director of the Company.
 
14.9.   If a person referred to in Sub Regulation 14.1 has been successful in defence of any proceedings referred to in Sub-Regulation 14.1 the person is entitled to be indemnified against all expenses, including legal fees, and against all judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with the proceedings.
 
14.10.   The Company may purchase and maintains in insurance in relation to any person who is or was a director, officer or liquidator of the Company, or who at the request of the Company is or was serving as a director, officer or liquidator of, or in any other capacity is or was acting for, another company or a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against any liability asserted against the person and incurred by the person in that capacity, whether or not the company has or would have had the power to indemnify the person against the liability as provided in the Articles.
15.     RECORDS
15.1.   The Company shall keep the following documents at the office of its registered agent:
  (a)   the Memorandum and the Articles;
 
  (b)   the register of members, or a copy of the register of members;
 
  (c)   the register of directors, or a copy of the register of directors; and
 
  (d)   copies of all notices and other documents filed by the Company with the Registrar of Corporate Affairs in the previous 10 years.
15.2.   Until the directors determine otherwise by Resolution of Directors the Company shall keep the original register of members and original register of directors at the office of its registered agent.
 
15.3.   If the Company maintains only a copy of the register of members or a copy of the register of directors at the office of its registered agent, it shall:

- 17 -


 

  (a)   within 15 days of any change in either register, notify the registered agent in writing of the change; and
 
  (b)   provide the registered agent with a written record of the physical address of the place or places at which the original register of members or the original register of directors is kept.
15.4.   The Company shall keep the following records at the office of its registered agent or at such other place or places, within or outside the British Virgin Islands, as the directors may determine:
  (a)   minutes of meetings and Resolutions of Shareholders and classes of Shareholders;
 
  (b)   minutes of meetings and Resolutions of Directors and committees of directors; and
 
  (c)   an impression of the Seal.
15.5.   Where any original records referred to in this Regulation are maintained other than at the office of the registered agent of the Company, and the place at which the original records is changed, the Company shall provide the registered agent with the physical address of the new location of the records of the Company within 14 days of the change of location.
 
15.6.   The records kept by the Company under this Regulation shall be in written form or either wholly or partly as electronic records complying with the requirements of the Electronic Transactions Act, 2001 (No. 5 of 2001) as from time to time amended or re-enacted.
16.   REGISTER OF CHARGES
    The Company shall maintain at the office of its registered agent a register of charges in which there shall be entered the following particulars regarding each mortgage charge and other encumbrance created by the Company:
  (a)   the date of creation of the charge;
 
  (b)   a short description of liability secured by the charge;
 
  (c)   a short description of the property charged;
 
  (d)   the name and address of the trustee for the security or if there is no such trustee, the name and address of the chargee;
 
  (e)   unless the charge is a security to bearer, the name and address of the holder of the charge; and
 
  (f)   details of any prohibition or restriction contained in the instrument creating the charge on the power of the Company to create any future charge ranking in priority to or equally with the charge.
17.  SEAL
    The Company shall have a Seal and may have more than one Seal and references herein to the Seal shall be references to every Seal which shall have been duly adopted by Resolution of Directors. The directors shall provide for the safe custody of the Seal and for an imprint thereof to be kept at the registered office. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein the Seal when affixed to any written instrument shall be witnessed and attested to by the signature of any one director or other person so authorised from time to time by Resolution of Directors. Such authorisation may be before or after the Seal is affixed, may be general or specific and may refer to any number of sealings. The directors may provide for a facsimile of the Seal and of the signature of any director or authorised person which may be reproduced by printing or other means on any instrument and it shall have the same force and validity as if the Seal had been affixed to such instrument and the same had been attested to as hereinbefore described.

- 18 -


 

18. DISTRIBUTIONS BY WAY OF DIVIDEND
18.1.   The directors of the Company may, by Resolution of Directors, authorise a Distribution by way of dividend at a time and of an amount they think fit if they are satisfied, on reasonable grounds, that, immediately after the Distribution, the value of the Company’s assets will exceed its liabilities and the Company will be able to pay its debts as they fall due.
 
18.2.   Dividends may be paid in money, Shares, or other property.
 
18.3.   Notice of any dividend that may have been declared shall be given to each Shareholder as specified in Sub-Regulation 20.1 and all dividends unclaimed for 3 years after having been declared may be forfeited by Resolution of Directors for the benefit of the Company.
 
18.4.   No dividend shall bear interest as against the Company and no dividend shall be paid on Treasury Shares.
19. ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT
19.1.   The Company shall keep records that are sufficient to show and explain the Company’s transactions and that will, at any time, enable the financial position of the Company to be determined with reasonable accuracy.
 
19.2.   The Company may by Resolution of Shareholders call for the directors to prepare periodically and make available a profit and loss account and a balance sheet. The profit and loss account and balance sheet shall be drawn up so as to give respectively a true and fair view of the profit and loss of the Company for a financial period and a true and fair view of the assets and liabilities of the Company as at the end of a financial period.
 
19.3.   The Company may by Resolution of Shareholders call for the accounts to be examined by auditors.
 
19.4.   The first auditors shall be appointed by Resolution of Directors subsequent auditors shall be appointed by Resolution of Shareholders by Resolution of Directors.
 
19.5.   The auditors may be Shareholders, but no director or other officer shall be eligible to be an auditor of the Company during their continuance in office.
19.6.   The remuneration of the auditors of the Company may be fixed by Resolution of Directors.
 
19.7.   The auditors shall examine each profit and loss account and balance sheet required to be laid before a meeting of the Shareholders or otherwise given to Shareholders and shall state in a written report whether or not:
  (a)   in their opinion the profit and loss account and balance sheet give a true and fair view respectively of the profit and loss for the period covered by the accounts, and of the assets and liabilities of the Company at the end of that period; and
 
  (b)   all the information and explanations required by the auditors have been obtained.
19.8.   The report of the auditors shall be annexed to the accounts and shall be read at the meeting of Shareholders at which the accounts are laid before the Company or shall be otherwise given to the Shareholders.
19.9.   Every auditor of the Company shall have a right of access at all times to the books of account and vouchers of the Company, and shall be entitled to require from the directors and officers of the Company such information and explanations as he thinks necessary for the performance of the duties of the auditors.
 
19.10.   The auditors of the Company shall be entitled to receive notice of, and to attend any meetings of Shareholders at which the Company’s profit and loss account and balance sheet are to be presented.

- 19 -


 

20.     NOTICES
20.1.   Any notice, information or written statement to be given by the Company to Shareholders may be given by personal service or by mail addressed to each Shareholder at the address shown in the register of members.
 
20.2.   Any summons, notice, order, document, process, information or written statement to be served on the Company may be served by leaving it, or by sending it by registered mail addressed to the Company, at its registered office, or by leaving it with, or by sending it by registered mail to, the registered agent of the Company.
 
20.3.   Service of any summons, notice, order, document, process, information or written statement to be served on the Company may be proved by showing that the summons, notice, order, document, process, information or written statement was delivered to the registered office or the registered agent of the Company or that it was mailed in such time as to admit to its being delivered to the registered office or the registered agent of the Company in the normal course of delivery within the period prescribed for service and was correctly addressed and the postage was prepaid.
21.    VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION
    The Company may by Resolution of Shareholders or by Resolution of Directors appoint a voluntary liquidator.
22.    CONTINUATION
    The Company may by Resolution of Shareholders or by a resolution passed unanimously by all directors of the Company continue as a company incorporated under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the British Virgin Islands in the manner provided under those laws.
We, OFFSHORE INCORPORATIONS LIMITED of P.O. Box 957, Offshore Incorporations Centre, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands for the purpose of incorporating a BVI Business Company under the laws of the British Virgin Islands hereby sign these Articles of Association in the 3rd day of April, 2008.
Incorporator
     
/s/ Rexella D. Hodge
 
(Sd.) Rexella D. Hodge
   
Authorised Signatory
   
OFFSHORE INCORPORATIONS LIMITED
   

- 20 -

EX-3.11 10 y04313a1exv3w11.htm EX-3.11 exv3w11
Exhibit 3.11
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
THERA SHIPPING CORPORATION
PURSUANT TO THE MARSHALL ISLANDS BUSINESS CORPORATIONS ACT
     The undersigned, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the provisions of the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act, does hereby make, subscribe, acknowledge and file with the Registrar of Corporations this instrument for that purpose, as follows:
A.   The name of the Corporation shall be:
THERA SHIPPING CORPORATION
B.   The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may now on hereafter be organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act and without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, the corporation shall have the power:
  (1)   To Purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, pledge, hypothecate, mortgage, lease, charter, sub-charter, sell, build, and repair steamships, motorships, tankers, vessels, sailing vessels, tugs, lighters, barges, and all other vessels and craft of any and all motive power whatsoever, including landcraft, and any and all means of conveyance and transportation by land or water, together with engines, boilers, machinery equipment and appurtenances of all kinds, including masts, sails, boats, anchors, cables, tackle, furniture and all other necessities thereunto appertaining and belonging, together with all materials, articles, tools, equipment and appliances necessary, suitable or convenient for the construction, equipment, use and operation thereof; and to equip, furnish, and outfit such vessels and ships.

 


 

  (2)   To engage in ocean, coastwise and inland commerce, and generally in the carriage of freight, goods, cargo in bulk, passengers, mail and personal effects by water between the various ports of the world and to engage generally in waterborne commerce.
 
  (3)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, lease, build, repair, sell or in any manner dispose of docks, piers, quays, wharves, dry docks, warehouses and storage facilities of all kinds, and any property, real, personal and mixed, in connection therewith.
 
  (4)   To act as ship’s husband, shipbrokers, customhouse brokers, ship’s agents, manager of shipping property, freight contractors, forwarding agents, warehousemen, wharfingers, ship chandlers, and general traders.
C.   The registered address of the Corporation in the Marshall Islands is Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH 96960. The name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is The Trust Company of the Marshall Islands, Inc.
 
D.   The aggregate number of shares of stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is Five Hundred (500) registered and/or bearer shares with a par value of One US Dollar (US$1.00) per share.
 
    The Corporation shall mail notices and information to holders of bearer shares to the address provided to the Corporation by the shareholder for that purpose.
 
    The holder of a stock certificate issued to bearer may cause such certificate to be exchanged for another certificate in his name for a like number of shares, and the holder of shares issued in the name of the owner may cause his certificate to be exchanged for another certificate to bearer for a like number of shares.

 


 

E.   The Corporation shall have every power which a corporation now or hereafter organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act may have.
 
F.   The name and address of the incorporator is:
         
    Name   Post Office Address
 
       
 
  Majuro Nominees Ltd.   P.O Box 1405
 
      Majuro
 
      Marshall Islands
G.   The Board of Directors as well as the shareholders of the Corporation shall have the authority to adopt, amend or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation.
 
H.   Corporate existence shall begin upon filing these Articles of Incorporation with the Registrar of Corporations as of the filing date stated on these Articles.
          IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have executed this instrument on March 18, 2010.
         
  Majuro Nominees Ltd.
          Incorporator
 
 
  by:   /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]  
       
       
 

 


 

          On March 18, 2010 before me personally came S. Gioula known to me to be the individual described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and she duly acknowledged to me that the execution thereof was her act and deed.
         
    /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]  

 

EX-3.12 11 y04313a1exv3w12.htm EX-3.12 exv3w12
Exhibit 3.12
BYLAWS
THERA SHIPPING CORPORATION
A Marshall Islands Corporation
ARTICLE I
OFFICES
The principal place of business of the Corporation shall be at such place or places as the Directors shall from time to time determine. The Corporation may also have an office at such other places within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may from time to time appoint or the business of the Corporation may require.
ARTICLE II
MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Section 1. Annual Meetings. The annual meeting of shareholders of the Corporation shall be held on such day and at such time and place within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may determine for the purpose of electing Directors and of transacting such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.
Section 2. Special Meeting. Special meetings of the shareholders, unless otherwise prescribed by law, may be called for any purpose or purposes at any time by resolution of the Board of Directors or by the President and shall be called by the President or Secretary of the Corporation whenever required in writing to do so by shareholders owning a majority in amount of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote which is issued and outstanding. Such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed special meeting. Such meetings shall be held at such place and on a date and at such time as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer of the Corporation calling any such meeting. Business transacted at any special meeting of shareholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice.
Section 3. Notice of Meetings. Notice of every annual and special meeting of shareholders, other than any meeting the giving of notice of which is prescribed by law, stating the date, time, place and purpose thereof, and in the case of special meetings, the name of the person or persons at whose direction the notice is being issued, shall be given personally or sent by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter at least fifteen but not more than sixty days before such meeting, to each shareholder of record entitled to vote thereat and to each shareholder of record who, by reason of any action proposed at such meeting would be entitled to have his/her shares appraised if such action were taken, and the notice shall include a statement of that purpose and to that effect. If mailed, notice shall be deemed to have been given when deposited in the mail, directed to the shareholder at his/her address as the same appears on the record of shareholders of the Corporation or at such address as to which the shareholder has given notice to the Secretary. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any shareholder who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting or who attends the meeting without protesting prior to the conclusion thereof the lack of notice to him. If the Corporation shall issue any class of bearer shares, notice for all meetings shall be given in the manner provided in the Articles of Incorporation.
Section 4. Quorum. At all meetings of the shareholders, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, there must be present, either in person or by proxy, shareholders holding at least a majority of the shares issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at such meetings in order to constitute a quorum, but if less than a quorum is present, a majority of those shares present either in person or by proxy shall have power to adjourn any meeting until a quorum shall be present.

1


 

Section 5. Voting. If a quorum is present, and except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of stock represented at the meeting shall be the act of the shareholders. At any meeting of shareholders, each shareholder entitled to vote any shares on any manner to be voted upon at such meeting shall be entitled to one vote on such matter for each such share, and may exercise such voting right either in person or by proxy. Any action which may be taken at a meeting of shareholders, may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken or to be taken, is signed by all of the shareholders entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof.
Section 6. Fixing of Record Dates. The Board of Directors may fix a time not more than sixty nor less than fifteen days prior to the date of any meeting of the shareholders, or more than sixty (60) days prior to the last day on which the consent or dissent of shareholders may be expressed for any purpose without a meeting, as the time as of which shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or whose consent or dissent is required or may be expressed for any purpose, as the case may be, shall be determined, and all persons who were holders of record of voting shares at such time and not others shall be entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or to express their consent or dissent, as the case may be. The Board of Directors may fix a time not exceeding sixty days preceding the date fixed for the payment of any dividend, distribution, or allotment or for the purpose of such other action.
ARTICLE III
DIRECTORS
Section 1. Number. The affairs, business and property of the Corporation shall be managed by a Board of Directors to consist of at least one director. Within the limits fixed by these Bylaws, the number of directors may be determined either by a vote of a majority of the entire Board or by vote of shareholders. The directors need not be residents of the Marshall Islands nor shareholders of the Corporation.
Section 2. How Elected. Except as otherwise provided by law or Section 4 of this Article, the directors of the Corporation (other than the first Board of Directors designated by the Incorporator) shall be elected at the annual meeting of shareholders. Each director shall be elected to serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until his/her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified, except in the event of his/her death, resignation, removal or the earlier termination of his/her term of office.
Section 3. Removal. Any or all of the directors may be removed, with or without cause, by a vote of the shareholders. Any director may be removed for cause by action of the Board of Directors.
Section 4. Vacancies. Vacancies in the Board of Directors occurring by death, resignation, the creation of new directorships, the failure of the shareholders to elect the whole Board at any annual election of directors, or, except as herein provided, for any other reason, including removal of directors for cause, may be filled either by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors then in office, although less than a quorum, at any special meeting called for that purpose or at any regular meeting of the Board, except as otherwise prescribed by law or unless the Articles of Incorporation provide that such vacancies or newly created directorships shall be filled by vote of the shareholders. Vacancies occurring by removal of directors without cause may be filled only by vote of the shareholders.
Section 5. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held at such time and place as may be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors and no notice shall be required for any regular meeting. Except as otherwise provided by law, any business may be transacted at any regular meeting.

2


 

Section 6. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board may, unless otherwise prescribed by law, be called by the President or any other officer of the Corporation who is also a director. The President or the Secretary shall call a special meeting of the Board upon written request directed to either of them by any two directors stating the time, place and purpose of such special meeting. Special meetings of the Board shall be held on a date and at such time and at such place as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer calling the meeting.
Section 7. Notice of Special Meeting. Notice of the date, time and place of each special meeting of the Board of Directors shall be given to each director at least forty-eight hours prior to such meeting, unless the notice is given orally or delivered in person, in which case it shall be given at least twenty-four hours prior to such meeting. For the purpose of this section, notice shall be deemed to be duly given to a director if given personally (including by telephone) or if such notice be delivered to such director by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter to his/her last known address. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any director who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting, or who attends the meeting without protesting, prior to the conclusion thereof, the lack of notice to him/her.
Section 8. Quorum. A majority of the entire board, present in person or by proxy or by communicating equipment, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
Section 9. Voting. The vote of the majority of the directors, present in person or by proxy, in communication by telefax or conference telephone, at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the directors. Any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if all the members of the Board consent in writing thereto.
Section 10. Compensation of Directors and Members of Committees. The Board may from time to time, in its discretion, fix the amounts which shall be payable to members of the Board of Directors and to members of any committee, for attendance at the meetings of the Board or of such committee and for services rendered to the Corporation.
ARTICLE IV
COMMITTEES
Section 1. Executive Committee and Other Committees. The Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members an Executive Committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation, which, to the extent provided in said resolution or resolutions, or in these Bylaws, shall have and may exercise, to the extent permitted by law, the powers of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may have power to authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it. In addition, the Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members other committees to consist of one or more directors of the Corporation, each of which shall perform such function and have such authority and powers as shall be delegated to it by said resolution or resolutions or as provided for in these Bylaws, except that only the Executive Committee may have and exercise the powers of the Board of Directors. Members of the Executive Committee and any other committee shall hold office for such periods as may be prescribed by the vote of the majority of the entire Board of Directors, subject, however, to removal at any time by the vote of the Board of Directors. Vacancies in the membership of such committees shall be filled by vote of the Board of Directors. Committees may adopt their own rules of procedure and may meet at stated times or on such notice as they may determine. Each committee shall keep a record of its proceedings and report the same to the Board when requested.

3


 

ARTICLE V
OFFICERS
Section 1. Number and Designation. The Board of Directors shall appoint a Secretary and a Treasurer, and may appoint a President as well as such other officers as it may deem necessary. Officers may be of any nationality, need not be residents of the Marshall Islands and may be, but are not required to be, directors. Officers of the Corporation shall be natural persons except the Secretary may be a corporate entity. Any two or more offices may be held by the same natural person.
The officers shall be appointed annually by the Board of Directors at its first meeting following the annual election of directors, but in the event of the failure of the Board to so appoint any officer, such officer may be appointed at any subsequent meeting of the Board of Directors. The salaries of the officers and any other compensation paid to them shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may at any meeting appoint additional officers. Each officer shall hold office until the first meeting of the Board of Directors following the next annual election of directors and until his/her successor shall have been duly appointed and qualified, except in the event of the earlier termination of his/her term of office through death, resignation, removal or otherwise. Any officer may be removed by the Board at any time with or without cause. Any vacancy in an office may be filled for the unexpired portion of the term of such office by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting.
Section 2. President. The President shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation and shall have the general management of the affairs of the Corporation, together with the powers and duties usually incident to the office of President, except as specifically limited by appropriate written resolution of the Board of Directors and shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors. The President shall preside at all meetings of shareholders at which he/she is present and if, in the case of the President, he/she is a director, at all meetings of the directors.
Section 3. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have general supervision over the care and custody of the funds, securities and other valuable effects of the Corporation and shall deposit the same or cause the same to be deposited in the name of the Corporation in such depositories as the Board of Directors may designate, shall disburse the funds of the Corporation as may be ordered by the Board of Directors, shall have supervision over the accounts of all receipts and disbursements of the Corporation, shall, whenever required by the Board, render or cause to be rendered financial statements of the Corporation, shall have the power and perform the duties usually incident to the office of Treasurer; and shall have the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors, or President.
Section 4. Secretary. The Secretary shall act as Secretary of all meetings of the shareholders and of the Board of Directors at which he/she is present, shall have supervision over the giving and serving of notices of the Corporation; shall be the custodian of the corporate records and of the corporate seal of the Corporation; shall be empowered to affix the corporate seal to those documents, the execution of which, on behalf of the Corporation under its seal, is duly authorized and when so affixed may attest the same, and shall exercise the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors or the President. If the Secretary is a Corporation, the duties of the Secretary may be carried out by any duly authorized representative of such corporation acting in its name.
Section 5. Other Officers: Officers other than those treated in section 2 through 4 of this Article shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the Board of Directors or by the President.
Section 6. Bond. The Board of Directors shall have the power to the extent permitted by

4


 

law, to require any officer, agent or employee of the Corporation to give bond for the faithful discharge of his/her duties in such form and with such surety or sureties as the Board of Directors may deem advisable.
ARTICLE VI
CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES
Section 1. Form and Issuance. The shares of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates in a form meeting the requirements of law and approved by the Board of Directors. Certificates shall be signed by the President or a Vice President, and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer. These signatures may be facsimiles if the certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent or registered by a registrar other than the Corporation itself or its employee.
Section 2. Transfer. The Board of Directors shall have the power and authority to make such rules and regulations as they may deem expedient concerning the issuance, registration and transfer of certificates representing shares of the Corporation’s stock, and may appoint, transfer agents and registrars thereof.
Section 3. Loss of Stock Certificates. The Board of Directors may direct a new certificate or certificates of stock to be issued in place of any certificate or certificates thereof issued by the Corporation alleged to have been lost or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of a new certificate or certificates, the Board of Directors may, in its discretion, and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his/her representative, to advertise the same in such manner as it shall require and/or give the Corporation a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the Corporation with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost or destroyed.
ARTICLE VII
DIVIDENDS
Section 1. Declaration and Form. Dividends may be declared in conformity with law by, and at the discretion of, the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting. Dividends may be declared and paid in cash, stock, or other property of the Corporation.
ARTICLE VIII
CORPORATE SEAL
Section 1. Corporate Seal. The seal of the Corporation, if any, shall be circular in form, with the name of the Corporation in the circumference and such other appropriate legend as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine.
ARTICLE IX
FISCAL YEAR
Section 1. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be such period of twelve consecutive months as the Board of Directors may by resolution designate.

5


 

ARTICLE X
AMENDMENTS
Section 1. By the Shareholders. These Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any meeting of the shareholders of the Corporation by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the stock present and voting at such meeting provided notice that an amendment is to be considered and acted upon is inserted in the notice or waiver of notice of said meeting.
Section 2. By the Directors. If the Articles of Incorporation so provide, these Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors by the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire Board, subject, however, to the power of the shareholders to alter, amend or repeal any Bylaws as adopted.

6

EX-3.13 12 y04313a1exv3w13.htm EX-3.13 exv3w13
Exhibit 3.13
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
TINOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
PURSUANT TO THE MARSHALL ISLANDS BUSINESS CORPORATIONS ACT
     The undersigned, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the provisions of the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act, does hereby make, subscribe, acknowledge and file with the Registrar of Corporations this instrument for that purpose, as follows:
A.   The name of the Corporation shall be:
TINOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
B.   The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may now or hereafter be organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act and without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, the corporation shall have the power:
  (1)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, pledge, hypothecate, mortgage, lease, charter, sub-charter, sell, build, and repair steamships, motorships, tankers, vessels, sailing vessels, tugs, lighters, barges, and all other vessels and craft of any and all motive power whatsoever, including landcraft, and any and all means of conveyance and transportation by land or water, together with engines, boilers, machinery equipment and appurtenances of all kinds, including masts, sails, boats, anchors, cables, tackle, furniture and all other necessities thereunto appertaining and belonging, together with all materials, articles, tools, equipment and appliances necessary, suitable or convenient for the construction, equipment, use and operation thereof; and to equip, furnish, and outfit such vessels and ships.

 


 

  (2)   To engage in ocean, coastwise and inland commerce, and generally in the carriage of freight, goods, cargo in bulk, passengers, mail and personal effects by water between the various ports of the world and to engage generally in waterborne commerce.
 
  (3)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, lease, build, repair, sell or in any manner dispose of docks, piers, quays, wharves, dry docks, warehouses and storage facilities of all kinds, and any property, real, personal and mixed, in connection therewith.
 
  (4)   To act as ship’s husband, shipbrokers, customhouse brokers, ship’s agents, manager of shipping property, freight contractors, forwarding agents, warehousemen, wharfingers, ship chandlers, and general traders.
C.   The registered address of the Corporation in the Marshall Islands is Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH 96960. The name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is The Trust Company of the Marshall Islands, Inc.
 
D.   The aggregate number of shares of stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is Five Hundred (500) registered and/ or bearer shares with a par value of One US Dollar (US$1.00) per share.
 
    The Corporation shall mail notices and information to holders of bearer shares to the address provided to the Corporation by the shareholder for that purpose.
 
    The holder of a stock certificate issued to bearer may cause such certificate to be exchanged for another certificate in his name for a like number of shares, and the holder of shares issued in the name of the owner may cause his certificate to be exchanged for another certificate to bearer for a like number of shares.

 


 

E.   The Corporation shall have every power which a corporation now or hereafter organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act may have.
 
F.   The name and address of the incorporator is:
     
Name   Post Office Address
Majuro Nominees Ltd.
  P.O Box 1405
 
  Majuro
 
  Marshall Islands
G.   The Board of Directors as well as the shareholders of the Corporation shall have the authority to adopt, amend or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation.
 
H.   Corporate existence shall begin upon filing these Articles of Incorporation with the Registrar of Corporations as of the filing date stated on these Articles.
          IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have executed this instrument on March 18, 2010.
Majuro Nominees Ltd.
Incorporator
by: /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]                

 


 

     On March 18, 2010 before me personally came S. Gioula known to me to be the individual described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and she duly acknowledged to me that the execution thereof was her act and deed.
/s/ [ILLEGIBLE]                

 

EX-3.14 13 y04313a1exv3w14.htm EX-3.14 exv3w14
Exhibit 3.14
BYLAWS
TINOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
A Marshall Islands Corporation
ARTICLE I
OFFICES
The principal place of business of the Corporation shall be at such place or places as the Directors shall from time to time determine. The Corporation may also have an office at such other places within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may from time to time appoint or the business of the Corporation may require.
ARTICLE II
MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Section 1. Annual Meetings. The annual meeting of shareholders of the Corporation shall be held on such day and at such time and place within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may determine for the purpose of electing Directors and of transacting such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.
Section 2. Special Meeting. Special meetings of the shareholders, unless otherwise prescribed by law, may be called for any purpose or purposes at any time by resolution of the Board of Directors or by the President and shall be called by the President or Secretary of the Corporation whenever required in writing to do so by shareholders owning a majority in amount of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote which is issued and outstanding. Such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed special meeting. Such meetings shall be held at such place and on a date and at such time as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer of the Corporation calling any such meeting. Business transacted at any special meeting of shareholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice.
Section 3. Notice of Meetings. Notice of every annual and special meeting of shareholders, other than any meeting the giving of notice of which is prescribed by law, stating the date, time, place and purpose thereof, and in the case of special meetings, the name of the person or persons at whose direction the notice is being issued, shall be given personally or sent by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter at least fifteen but not more than sixty days before such meeting, to each shareholder of record entitled to vote thereat and to each shareholder of record who, by reason of any action proposed at such meeting would be entitled to have his/her shares appraised if such action were taken, and the notice shall include a statement of that purpose and to that effect. If mailed, notice shall be deemed to have been given when deposited in the mail, directed to the shareholder at his/her address as the same appears on the record of shareholders of the Corporation or at such address as to which the shareholder has given notice to the Secretary. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any shareholder who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting or who attends the meeting without protesting prior to the conclusion thereof the lack of notice to him. If the Corporation shall issue any class of bearer shares, notice for all meetings shall be given in the manner provided in the Articles of Incorporation.
Section 4. Quorum. At all meetings of the shareholders, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, there must be present, either in person or by proxy, shareholders holding at least a majority of the shares issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at such meetings in order to constitute a quorum, but if less than a quorum is present, a majority of those shares present either in person or by proxy shall have power to adjourn any meeting until a quorum shall be present.

1


 

Section 5. Voting. If a quorum is present, and except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of stock represented at the meeting shall be the act of the shareholders. At any meeting of shareholders, each shareholder entitled to vote any shares on any manner to be voted upon at such meeting shall be entitled to one vote on such matter for each such share, and may exercise such voting right either in person or by proxy. Any action which may be taken at a meeting of shareholders, may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken or to be taken, is signed by all of the shareholders entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof.
Section 6. Fixing of Record Dates. The Board of Directors may fix a time not more than sixty nor less than fifteen days prior to the date of any meeting of the shareholders, or more than sixty (60) days prior to the last day on which the consent or dissent of shareholders may be expressed for any purpose without a meeting, as the time as of which shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or whose consent or dissent is required or may be expressed for any purpose, as the case may be, shall be determined, and all persons who were holders of record of voting shares at such time and not others shall be entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or to express their consent or dissent, as the case may be. The Board of Directors may fix a time not exceeding sixty days preceding the date fixed for the payment of any dividend, distribution, or allotment or for the purpose of such other action.
ARTICLE III
DIRECTORS
Section 1. Number. The affairs, business and property of the Corporation shall be managed by a Board of Directors to consist of at least one director. Within the limits fixed by these Bylaws, the number of directors may be determined either by a vote of a majority of the entire Board or by vote of shareholders. The directors need not be residents of the Marshall Islands nor shareholders of the Corporation.
Section 2. How Elected. Except as otherwise provided by law or Section 4 of this Article, the directors of the Corporation (other than the first Board of Directors designated by the Incorporator) shall be elected at the annual meeting of shareholders. Each director shall be elected to serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until his/her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified, except in the event of his/her death, resignation, removal or the earlier termination of his/her term of office.
Section 3. Removal. Any or all of the directors may be removed, with or without cause, by a vote of the shareholders. Any director may be removed for cause by action of the Board of Directors.
Section 4. Vacancies. Vacancies in the Board of Directors occurring by death, resignation, the creation of new directorships, the failure of the shareholders to elect the whole Board at any annual election of directors, or, except as herein provided, for any other reason, including removal of directors for cause, may be filled either by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors then in office, although less than a quorum, at any special meeting called for that purpose or at any regular meeting of the Board, except as otherwise prescribed by law or unless the Articles of Incorporation provide that such vacancies or newly created directorships shall be filled by vote of the shareholders. Vacancies occurring by removal of directors without cause may be filled only by vote of the shareholders.
Section 5. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held at such time and place as may be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors and no notice shall be required for any regular meeting. Except as otherwise provided by law, any business may be transacted at any regular meeting.

2


 

Section 6. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board may, unless otherwise prescribed by law, be called by the President or any other officer of the Corporation who is also a director. The President or the Secretary shall call a special meeting of the Board upon written request directed to either of them by any two directors stating the time, place and purpose of such special meeting. Special meetings of the Board shall be held on a date and at such time and at such place as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer calling the meeting.
Section 7. Notice of Special Meeting. Notice of the date, time and place of each special meeting of the Board of Directors shall be given to each director at least forty-eight hours prior to such meeting, unless the notice is given orally or delivered in person, in which case it shall be given at least twenty-four hours prior to such meeting. For the purpose of this section, notice shall be deemed to be duly given to a director if given personally (including by telephone) or if such notice be delivered to such director by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter to his/her last known address. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any director who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting, or who attends the meeting without protesting, prior to the conclusion thereof, the lack of notice to him/her.
Section 8. Quorum. A majority of the entire board, present in person or by proxy or by communicating equipment, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
Section 9. Voting. The vote of the majority of the directors, present in person or by proxy, in communication by telefax or conference telephone, at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the directors. Any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if all the members of the Board consent in writing thereto.
Section 10. Compensation of Directors and Members of Committees. The Board may from time to time, in its discretion, fix the amounts which shall be payable to members of the Board of Directors and to members of any committee, for attendance at the meetings of the Board or of such committee and for services rendered to the Corporation.
ARTICLE IV
COMMITTEES
Section 1. Executive Committee and Other Committees. The Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members an Executive Committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation, which, to the extent provided in said resolution or resolutions, or in these Bylaws, shall have and may exercise, to the extent permitted by law, the powers of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may have power to authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it. In addition, the Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members other committees to consist of one or more directors of the Corporation, each of which shall perform such function and have such authority and powers as shall be delegated to it by said resolution or resolutions or as provided for in these Bylaws, except that only the Executive Committee may have and exercise the powers of the Board of Directors. Members of the Executive Committee and any other committee shall hold office for such periods as may be prescribed by the vote of the majority of the entire Board of Directors, subject, however, to removal at any time by the vote of the Board of Directors. Vacancies in the membership of such committees shall be filled by vote of the Board of Directors. Committees may adopt their own rules of procedure and may meet at stated times or on such notice as they may determine. Each committee shall keep a record of its proceedings and report the same to the Board when requested.

3


 

ARTICLE V
OFFICERS
Section 1. Number and Designation. The Board of Directors shall appoint a Secretary and a Treasurer, and may appoint a President as well as such other officers as it may deem necessary. Officers may be of any nationality, need not be residents of the Marshall Islands and may be, but are not required to be, directors. Officers of the Corporation shall be natural persons except the Secretary may be a corporate entity. Any two or more offices may be held by the same natural person.
The officers shall be appointed annually by the Board of Directors at its first meeting following the annual election of directors, but in the event of the failure of the Board to so appoint any officer, such officer may be appointed at any subsequent meeting of the Board of Directors. The salaries of the officers and any other compensation paid to them shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may at any meeting appoint additional officers. Each officer shall hold office until the first meeting of the Board of Directors following the next annual election of directors and until his/her successor shall have been duly appointed and qualified, except in the event of the earlier termination of his/her term of office through death, resignation, removal or otherwise. Any officer may be removed by the Board at any time with or without cause. Any vacancy in an office may be filled for the unexpired portion of the term of such office by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting.
Section 2. President. The President shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation and shall have the general management of the affairs of the Corporation, together with the powers and duties usually incident to the office of President, except as specifically limited by appropriate written resolution of the Board of Directors and shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors. The President shall preside at all meetings of shareholders at which he/she is present and if, in the case of the President, he/she is a director, at all meetings of the directors.
Section 3. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have general supervision over the care and custody of the funds, securities and other valuable effects of the Corporation and shall deposit the same or cause the same to be deposited in the name of the Corporation in such depositories as the Board of Directors may designate, shall disburse the funds of the Corporation as may be ordered by the Board of Directors, shall have supervision over the accounts of all receipts and disbursements of the Corporation, shall, whenever required by the Board, render or cause to be rendered financial statements of the Corporation, shall have the power and perform the duties usually incident to the office of Treasurer; and shall have the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors, or President.
Section 4. Secretary. The Secretary shall act as Secretary of all meetings of the shareholders and of the Board of Directors at which he/she is present, shall have supervision over the giving and serving of notices of the Corporation; shall be the custodian of the corporate records and of the corporate seal of the Corporation; shall be empowered to affix the corporate seal to those documents, the execution of which, on behalf of the Corporation under its seal, is duly authorized and when so affixed may attest the same, and shall exercise the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors or the President. If the Secretary is a Corporation, the duties of the Secretary may be carried out by any duly authorized representative of such corporation acting in its name.
Section 5. Other Officers: Officers other than those treated in section 2 through 4 of this Article shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the Board of Directors or by the President.
Section 6. Bond. The Board of Directors shall have the power to the extent permitted by

4


 

law, to require any officer, agent or employee of the Corporation to give bond for the faithful discharge of his/her duties in such form and with such surety or sureties as the Board of Directors may deem advisable.
ARTICLE VI
CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES
Section 1. Form and Issuance. The shares of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates in a form meeting the requirements of law and approved by the Board of Directors. Certificates shall be signed by the President or a Vice President, and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer. These signatures may be facsimiles if the certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent or registered by a registrar other than the Corporation itself or its employee.
Section 2. Transfer. The Board of Directors shall have the power and authority to make such rules and regulations as they may deem expedient concerning the issuance, registration and transfer of certificates representing shares of the Corporation’s stock, and may appoint, transfer agents and registrars thereof.
Section 3. Loss of Stock Certificates. The Board of Directors may direct a new certificate or certificates of stock to be issued in place of any certificate or certificates thereof issued by the Corporation alleged to have been lost or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of a new certificate or certificates, the Board of Directors may, in its discretion, and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his/her representative, to advertise the same in such manner as it shall require and/or give the Corporation a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the Corporation with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost or destroyed.
ARTICLE VII
DIVIDENDS
Section 1. Declaration and Form. Dividends may be declared in conformity with law by, and at the discretion of, the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting. Dividends may be declared and paid in cash, stock, or other property of the Corporation.
ARTICLE VIII
CORPORATE SEAL
Section 1. Corporate Seal. The seal of the Corporation, if any, shall be circular in form, with the name of the Corporation in the circumference and such other appropriate legend as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine.
ARTICLE IX
FISCAL YEAR
Section 1. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be such period of twelve consecutive months as the Board of Directors may by resolution designate.

5


 

ARTICLE X
AMENDMENTS
Section 1. By the Shareholders. These Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any meeting of the shareholders of the Corporation by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the stock present and voting at such meeting provided notice that an amendment is to be considered and acted upon is inserted in the notice or waiver of notice of said meeting.
Section 2. By the Directors. If the Articles of Incorporation so provide, these Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors by the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire Board, subject, however, to the power of the shareholders to alter, amend or repeal any Bylaws as adopted.

6

EX-3.15 14 y04313a1exv3w15.htm EX-3.15 exv3w15
Exhibit 3.15
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
AMORGOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
PURSUANT TO THE MARSHALL ISLANDS BUSINESS CORPORATIONS ACT
          The undersigned, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the provisions of the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act, does hereby make, subscribe, acknowledge and file with the Registrar of Corporations this instrument for that purpose, as follows:
A.   The name of the Corporation shall be:
AMORGOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
B.   The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may now or hereafter be organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act and without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, the corporation shall have the power:
  (1)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, pledge, hypothecate, mortgage, lease, charter, sub-charter, sell, build, and repair steamships, motorships, tankers, vessels, sailing vessels, tugs, lighters, barges, and all other vessels and craft of any and all motive power whatsoever, including landcraft, and any and all means of conveyance and transportation by land or water, together with engines, boilers, machinery equipment and appurtenances of all kinds, including masts, sails, boats, anchors, cables, tackle, furniture and all other necessities thereunto appertaining and belonging, together with all materials, articles, tools, equipment and appliances necessary, suitable or convenient for the construction, equipment, use and operation thereof; and to equip, furnish, and outfit such vessels and ships.

 


 

  (2)   To engage in ocean, coastwise and inland commerce, and generally in the carriage of freight, goods, cargo in bulk, passengers, mail and personal effects by water between the various ports of the world and to engage generally in waterborne commerce.
 
  (3)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, lease, build, repair, sell or in any manner dispose of docks, piers, quays, wharves, dry docks, warehouses and storage facilities of all kinds, and any property, real, personal and mixed, in connection therewith.
 
  (4)   To act, as ship’s husband, shipbrokers, customhouse brokers, ship’s agents, manager of shipping property, freight contractors, forwarding agents, warehousemen, wharfingers, ship chandlers, and general traders.
C.   The registered address of the Corporation in the Marshall Islands is Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH96960. The name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is The Trust Company of the Marshall Islands, Inc.
 
D.   The aggregate number of shares of stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is Five Hundred (500) registered and/or bearer shares with a par value of One US Dollar (US$1.00) per share.
 
    The Corporation shall mail notices and information to holders of bearer shares to the address provided to the Corporation by the shareholder for that purpose.
 
    The holder of a stock certificate issued to bearer may cause such certificate to be exchanged for another certificate in his name for a like number of shares, and the holder of shares issued in the name of the owner may cause his certificate to be exchanged for another certificate to bearer for a like number of shares.

 


 

E.   The Corporation shall have every power which a corporation now or hereafter organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act may have.
 
F.   The name and address of the incorporator is:
     
Name   Post Office Address
Majuro Nominees Ltd.
  P.O Box 1405
 
  Majuro
 
  Marshall Islands
G.   The Board of Directors as well as the shareholders of the Corporation shall have the authority to adopt, amend or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation.
 
H.   Corporate existence shall begin upon filing these Articles of Incorporation with the Registrar of Corporations as of the filing date stated on these Articles.
          IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have executed this instrument on March 18, 2010.
             
    Majuro Nominees Ltd.
    Incorporator
 
           
 
  by:   /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]
 
   

 


 

          On March 18, 2010 before me personally came S. Gioula known to me to be the individual described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and she duly acknowledged to me that the execution thereof was her act and deed.
             
 
  by:   /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]
 
   

 

EX-3.16 15 y04313a1exv3w16.htm EX-3.16 exv3w16
Exhibit 3.16
BYLAWS
AMORGOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
A Marshall Islands Corporation
ARTICLE I
OFFICES
The principal place of business of the Corporation shall be at such place or places as the Directors shall from time to time determine. The Corporation may also have an office at such other places within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may from time to time appoint or the business of the Corporation may require.
ARTICLE II
MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Section 1. Annual Meetings. The annual meeting of shareholders of the Corporation shall be held on such day and at such time and place within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may determine for the purpose of electing Directors and of transacting such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.
Section 2. Special Meeting. Special meetings of the shareholders, unless otherwise prescribed by law, may be called for any purpose or purposes at any time by resolution of the Board of Directors or by the President and shall be called by the President or Secretary of the Corporation whenever required in writing to do so by shareholders owning a majority in amount of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote which is issued and outstanding. Such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed special meeting. Such meetings shall be held at such place and on a date and at such time as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer of the Corporation calling any such meeting. Business transacted at any special meeting of shareholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice.
Section 3. Notice of Meetings. Notice of every annual and special meeting of shareholders, other than any meeting the giving of notice of which is prescribed by law, stating the date, time, place and purpose thereof, and in the case of special meetings, the name of the person or persons at whose direction the notice is being issued, shall be given personally or sent by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter at least fifteen but not more than sixty days before such meeting, to each shareholder of record entitled to vote thereat and to each shareholder of record who, by reason of any action proposed at such meeting would be entitled to have his/her shares appraised if such action were taken, and the notice shall include a statement of that purpose and to that effect. If mailed, notice shall be deemed to have been given when deposited in the mail, directed to the shareholder at his/her address as the same appears on the record of shareholders of the Corporation or at such address as to which the shareholder has given notice to the Secretary. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any shareholder who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting or who attends the meeting without protesting prior to the conclusion thereof the lack of notice to him. If the Corporation shall issue any class of bearer shares, notice for all meetings shall be given in the manner provided in the Articles of Incorporation.
Section 4. Quorum. At all meetings of the shareholders, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, there must be present, either in person or by proxy, shareholders holding at least a majority of the shares issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at such meetings in order to constitute a quorum, but if less than a quorum is present, a majority of those shares present either in person or by proxy shall have power to adjourn any meeting until a quorum shall be present.

1


 

Section 5. Voting. If a quorum is present, and except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of stock represented at the meeting shall be the act of the shareholders. At any meeting of shareholders, each shareholder entitled to vote any shares on any manner to be voted upon at such meeting shall be entitled to one vote on such matter for each such share, and may exercise such voting right either in person or by proxy. Any action which may be taken at a meeting of shareholders, may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken or to be taken, is signed by all of the shareholders entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof.
Section 6. Fixing of Record Dates. The Board of Directors may fix a time not more than sixty nor less than fifteen days prior to the date of any meeting of the shareholders, or more than sixty (60) days prior to the last day on which the consent or dissent of shareholders may be expressed for any purpose without a meeting, as the time as of which shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or whose consent or dissent is required or may be expressed for any purpose, as the case may be, shall be determined, and all persons who were holders of record of voting shares at such time and not others shall be entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or to express their consent or dissent, as the case may be. The Board of Directors may fix a time not exceeding sixty days preceding the date fixed for the payment of any dividend, distribution, or allotment or for the purpose of such other action.
ARTICLE III
DIRECTORS
Section 1. Number. The affairs, business and property of the Corporation shall be managed by a Board of Directors to consist of at least one director. Within the limits fixed by these Bylaws, the number of directors may be determined either by a vote of a majority of the entire Board or by vote of shareholders. The directors need not be residents of the Marshall Islands nor shareholders of the Corporation.
Section 2. How Elected. Except as otherwise provided by law or Section 4 of this Article, the directors of the Corporation (other than the first Board of Directors designated by the Incorporator) shall be elected at the annual meeting of shareholders. Each director shall be elected to serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until his/her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified, except in the event of his/her death, resignation, removal or the earlier termination of his/her term of office.
Section 3. Removal. Any or all of the directors may be removed, with or without cause, by a vote of the shareholders. Any director may be removed for cause by action of the Board of Directors.
Section 4. Vacancies. Vacancies in the Board of Directors occurring by death, resignation, the creation of new directorships, the failure of the shareholders to elect the whole Board at any annual election of directors, or, except as herein provided, for any other reason, including removal of directors for cause, may be filled either by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors then in office, although less than a quorum, at any special meeting called for that purpose or at any regular meeting of the Board, except as otherwise prescribed by law or unless the Articles of Incorporation provide that such vacancies or newly created directorships shall be filled by vote of the shareholders. Vacancies occurring by removal of directors without cause may be filled only by vote of the shareholders.
Section 5. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held at such time and place as may be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors and no notice shall be required for any regular meeting. Except as otherwise provided by law, any business may be transacted at any regular meeting.

2


 

Section 6. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board may, unless otherwise prescribed by law, be called by the President or any other officer of the Corporation who is also a director. The President or the Secretary shall call a special meeting of the Board upon written request directed to either of them by any two directors stating the time, place and purpose of such special meeting. Special meetings of the Board shall be held on a date and at such time and at such place as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer calling the meeting.
Section 7. Notice of Special Meeting. Notice of the date, time and place of each special meeting of the Board of Directors shall be given to each director at least forty-eight hours prior to such meeting, unless the notice is given orally or delivered in person, in which case it shall be given at least twenty-four hours prior to such meeting. For the purpose of this section, notice shall be deemed to be duly given to a director if given personally (including by telephone) or if such notice be delivered to such director by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter to his/her last known address. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any director who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting, or who attends the meeting without protesting, prior to the conclusion thereof, the lack of notice to him/her.
Section 8. Quorum. A majority of the entire board, present in person or by proxy or by communicating equipment, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
Section 9. Voting. The vote of the majority of the directors, present in person or by proxy, in communication by telefax or conference telephone, at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the directors. Any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if all the members of the Board consent in writing thereto.
Section 10. Compensation of Directors and Members of Committees. The Board may from time to time, in its discretion, fix the amounts which shall be payable to members of the Board of Directors and to members of any committee, for attendance at the meetings of the Board or of such committee and for services rendered to the Corporation.
ARTICLE IV
COMMITTEES
Section 1. Executive Committee and Other Committees. The Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members an Executive Committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation, which, to the extent provided in said resolution or resolutions, or in these Bylaws, shall have and may exercise, to the extent permitted by law, the powers of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may have power to authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it. In addition, the Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members other committees to consist of one or more directors of the Corporation, each of which shall perform such function and have such authority and powers as shall be delegated to it by said resolution or resolutions or as provided for in these Bylaws, except that only the Executive Committee may have and exercise the powers of the Board of Directors. Members of the Executive Committee and any other committee shall hold office for such periods as may be prescribed by the vote of the majority of the entire Board of Directors, subject, however, to removal at any time by the vote of the Board of Directors. Vacancies in the membership of such committees shall be filled by vote of the Board of Directors. Committees may adopt their own rules of procedure and may meet at stated times or on such notice as they may determine. Each committee shall keep a record of its proceedings and report the same to the Board when requested.

3


 

ARTICLE V
OFFICERS
Section 1. Number and Designation. The Board of Directors shall appoint a Secretary and a Treasurer, and may appoint a President as well as such other officers as it may deem necessary. Officers may be of any nationality, need not be residents of the Marshall Islands and may be, but are not required to be, directors. Officers of the Corporation shall be natural persons except the Secretary may be a corporate entity. Any two or more offices may be held by the same natural person.
The officers shall be appointed annually by the Board of Directors at its first meeting following the annual election of directors, but in the event of the failure of the Board to so appoint any officer, such officer may be appointed at any subsequent meeting of the Board of Directors. The salaries of the officers and any other compensation paid to them shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may at any meeting appoint additional officers. Each officer shall hold office until the first meeting of the Board of Directors following the next annual election of directors and until his/her successor shall have been duly appointed and qualified, except in the event of the earlier termination of his/her term of office through death, resignation, removal or otherwise. Any officer may be removed by the Board at any time with or without cause. Any vacancy in an office may be filled for the unexpired portion of the term of such office by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting.
Section 2. President. The President shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation and shall have the general management of the affairs of the Corporation, together with the powers and duties usually incident to the office of President, except as specifically limited by appropriate written resolution of the Board of Directors and shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors. The President shall preside at all meetings of shareholders at which he/she is present and if, in the case of the President, he/she is a director, at all meetings of the directors.
Section 3. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have general supervision over the care and custody of the funds, securities and other valuable effects of the Corporation and shall deposit the same or cause the same to be deposited in the name of the Corporation in such depositories as the Board of Directors may designate, shall disburse the funds of the Corporation as may be ordered by the Board of Directors, shall have supervision over the accounts of all receipts and disbursements of the Corporation, shall, whenever required by the Board, render or cause to be rendered financial statements of the Corporation, shall have the power and perform the duties usually incident to the office of Treasurer; and shall have the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors, or President.
Section 4. Secretary. The Secretary shall act as Secretary of all meetings of the shareholders and of the Board of Directors at which he/she is present, shall have supervision over the giving and serving of notices of the Corporation; shall be the custodian of the corporate records and of the corporate seal of the Corporation; shall be empowered to affix the corporate seal to those documents, the execution of which, on behalf of the Corporation under its seal, is duly authorized and when so affixed may attest the same, and shall exercise the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors or the President. If the Secretary is a Corporation, the duties of the Secretary may be carried out by any duly authorized representative of such corporation acting in its name.
Section 5. Other Officers: Officers other than those treated in section 2 through 4 of this Article shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the Board of Directors or by the President.
Section 6. Bond. The Board of Directors shall have the power to the extent permitted by

4


 

law, to require any officer, agent or employee of the Corporation to give bond for the faithful discharge of his/her duties in such form and with such surety or sureties as the Board of Directors may deem advisable.
ARTICLE VI
CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES
Section 1. Form and Issuance. The shares of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates in a form meeting the requirements of law and approved by the Board of Directors. Certificates shall be signed by the President or a Vice President, and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer. These signatures may be facsimiles if the certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent or registered by a registrar other than the Corporation itself or its employee.
Section 2. Transfer. The Board of Directors shall have the power and authority to make such rules and regulations as they may deem expedient concerning the issuance, registration and transfer of certificates representing shares of the Corporation’s stock, and may appoint, transfer agents and registrars thereof.
Section 3. Loss of Stock Certificates. The Board of Directors may direct a new certificate or certificates of stock to be issued in place of any certificate or certificates thereof issued by the Corporation alleged to have been lost or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of a new certificate or certificates, the Board of Directors may, in its discretion, and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his/her representative, to advertise the same in such manner as it shall require and/or give the Corporation a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the Corporation with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost or destroyed.
ARTICLE VII
DIVIDENDS
Section 1. Declaration and Form. Dividends may be declared in conformity with law by, and at the discretion of, the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting. Dividends may be declared and paid in cash, stock, or other property of the Corporation.
ARTICLE VIII
CORPORATE SEAL
Section 1. Corporate Seal. The seal of the Corporation, if any, shall be circular in form, with the name of the Corporation in the circumference and such other appropriate legend as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine.
ARTICLE IX
FISCAL YEAR
Section 1. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be such period of twelve consecutive months as the Board of Directors may by resolution designate.

5


 

ARTICLE X
AMENDMENTS
Section 1. By the Shareholders. These Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any meeting of the shareholders of the Corporation by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the stock present and voting at such meeting provided notice that an amendment is to be considered and acted upon is inserted in the notice or waiver of notice of said meeting.
Section 2. By the Directors. If the Articles of Incorporation so provide, these Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors by the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire Board, subject, however, to the power of the shareholders to alter, amend or repeal any Bylaws as adopted.

6

EX-3.17 16 y04313a1exv3w17.htm EX-3.17 exv3w17
Exhibit 3.17
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
ANDROS SHIPPING CORPORATION
PURSUANT TO THE MARSHALL ISLANDS BUSINESS CORPORATIONS ACT
     The undersigned, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the provisions of the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act, does hereby make, subscribe, acknowledge and file with the Registrar of Corporations this instrument for that purpose, as follows:
A.   The name of the Corporation shall be:
ANDROS SHIPPING CORPORATION
B.   The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may now or hereafter be organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act and without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, the corporation shall have the power:
  (1)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, pledge, hypothecate, mortgage, lease, charter, sub-charter, sell, build, and repair steamships, motorships, tankers, vessels, sailing vessels, tugs, lighters, barges, and all other vessels and craft of any and all motive power whatsoever, including landcraft, and any and all means of conveyance and transportation by land or water, together with engines, boilers, machinery equipment and appurtenances of all kinds, including masts, sails, boats, anchors, cables, tackle, furniture and all other necessities thereunto appertaining and belonging, together with all materials, articles, tools, equipment and appliances necessary, suitable or convenient for the construction, equipment, use and operation thereof; and to equip, furnish, and outfit such vessels and ships.

 


 

  (2)   To engage in ocean, coastwise and inland commerce, and generally in the carriage of freight, goods, cargo in bulk, passengers, mail and personal effects by water between the various ports of the world and to engage generally in waterborne commerce.
 
  (3)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, lease, build, repair, sell or in any manner dispose of docks, piers, quays, wharves, dry docks, warehouses and storage facilities of all kinds, and any property, real, personal and mixed, in connection therewith.
 
  (4)   To act as ship’s husband, shipbrokers, customhouse brokers, ship’s agents, manager of shipping property, freight contractors, forwarding agents, warehousemen, wharfingers, ship chandlers, and general traders.
C.   The registered address of the Corporation in the Marshall Islands is Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH96960. The name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is The Trust Company of the Marshall Islands, Inc.
D.   The aggregate number of shares of stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is Five Hundred (500) registered and/or bearer shares with a par value of One US Dollar (US$1.00) per share.
 
    The Corporation shall mail notices and information to holders of bearer shares to the address provided to the Corporation by the shareholder for that purpose.
 
    The holder of a stock certificate issued to bearer may cause such certificate to be exchanged for another certificate in his name for a like number of shares, and the holder of shares issued in the name of the owner may cause his certificate to be exchanged for another certificate to bearer for a like number of shares.

 


 

E.   The Corporation shall have every power which a corporation now or hereafter organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act may have.
F.   The name and address of the incorporator is:
     
Name   Post Office Address
Majuro Nominees Ltd.
  P.O Box 1405
Majuro
Marshall Islands
G.   The Board of Directors as well as the shareholders of the Corporation shall have the authority to adopt, amend or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation.
H.   Corporate existence shall begin upon filing these Articles of Incorporation with the Registrar of Corporations as of the filing date stated on these Articles.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have executed this instrument on March 18, 2010.
         
  Majuro Nominees Ltd.
        Incorporator
 
 
  by:   /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]    
       
       
 

 


 

     On March 18, 2010 before me personally came S. Gioula known to me to be the individual described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and she duly acknowledged to me that the execution thereof was her act and deed.
         
    /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]  
     
     
     
 

 

EX-3.18 17 y04313a1exv3w18.htm EX-3.18 exv3w18
Exhibit 3.18
BYLAWS
ANDROS SHIPPING CORPORATION
A Marshall Islands Corporation
ARTICLE I
OFFICES
The principal place of business of the Corporation shall be at such place or places as the Directors shall from time to time determine. The Corporation may also have an office at such other places within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may from time to time appoint or the business of the Corporation may require.
ARTICLE II
MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Section 1. Annual Meetings. The annual meeting of shareholders of the Corporation shall be held on such day and at such time and place within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may determine for the purpose of electing Directors and of transacting such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.
Section 2. Special Meeting. Special meetings of the shareholders, unless otherwise prescribed by law, may be called for any purpose or purposes at any time by resolution of the Board of Directors or by the President and shall be called by the President or Secretary of the Corporation whenever required in writing to do so by shareholders owning a majority in amount of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote which is issued and outstanding. Such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed special meeting. Such meetings shall be held at such place and on a date and at such time as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer of the Corporation calling any such meeting. Business transacted at any special meeting of shareholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice.
Section 3. Notice of Meetings. Notice of every annual and special meeting of shareholders, other than any meeting the giving of notice of which is prescribed by law, stating the date, time, place and purpose thereof, and in the case of special meetings, the name of the person or persons at whose direction the notice is being issued, shall be given personally or sent by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter at least fifteen but not more than sixty days before such meeting, to each shareholder of record entitled to vote thereat and to each shareholder of record who, by reason of any action proposed at such meeting would be entitled to have his/her shares appraised if such action were taken, and the notice shall include a statement of that purpose and to that effect. If mailed, notice shall be deemed to have been given when deposited in the mail, directed to the shareholder at his/her address as the same appears on the record of shareholders of the Corporation or at such address as to which the shareholder has given notice to the Secretary. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any shareholder who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting or who attends the meeting without protesting prior to the conclusion thereof the lack of notice to him. If the Corporation shall issue any class of bearer shares, notice for all meetings shall be given in the manner provided in the Articles of Incorporation.
Section 4. Quorum. At all meetings of the shareholders, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, there must be present, either in person or by proxy, shareholders holding at least a majority of the shares issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at such meetings in order to constitute a quorum, but if less than a quorum is present, a majority of those shares present either in person or by proxy shall have power to adjourn any meeting until a quorum shall be present.

1


 

Section 5. Voting. If a quorum is present, and except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of stock represented at the meeting shall be the act of the shareholders. At any meeting of shareholders, each shareholder entitled to vote any shares on any manner to be voted upon at such meeting shall be entitled to one vote on such matter for each such share, and may exercise such voting right either in person or by proxy. Any action which may be taken at a meeting of shareholders, may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken or to be taken, is signed by all of the shareholders entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof.
Section 6. Fixing of Record Dates. The Board of Directors may fix a time not more than sixty nor less than fifteen days prior to the date of any meeting of the shareholders, or more than sixty (60) days prior to the last day on which the consent or dissent of shareholders may be expressed for any purpose without a meeting, as the time as of which shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or whose consent or dissent is required or may be expressed for any purpose, as the case may be, shall be determined, and all persons who were holders of record of voting shares at such time and not others shall be entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or to express their consent or dissent, as the case may be. The Board of Directors may fix a time not exceeding sixty days preceding the date fixed for the payment of any dividend, distribution, or allotment or for the purpose of such other action.
ARTICLE III
DIRECTORS
Section 1. Number. The affairs, business and property of the Corporation shall be managed by a Board of Directors to consist of at least one director. Within the limits fixed by these Bylaws, the number of directors may be determined either by a vote of a majority of the entire Board or by vote of shareholders. The directors need not be residents of the Marshall Islands nor shareholders of the Corporation.
Section 2. How Elected. Except as otherwise provided by law or Section 4 of this Article, the directors of the Corporation (other than the first Board of Directors designated by the Incorporator) shall be elected at the annual meeting of shareholders. Each director shall be elected to serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until his/her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified, except in the event of his/her death, resignation, removal or the earlier termination of his/her term of office.
Section 3. Removal. Any or all of the directors may be removed, with or without cause, by a vote of the shareholders. Any director may be removed for cause by action of the Board of Directors.
Section 4. Vacancies. Vacancies in the Board of Directors occurring by death, resignation, the creation of new directorships, the failure of the shareholders to elect the whole Board at any annual election of directors, or, except as herein provided, for any other reason, including removal of directors for cause, may be filled either by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors then in office, although less than a quorum, at any special meeting called for that purpose or at any regular meeting of the Board, except as otherwise prescribed by law or unless the Articles of Incorporation provide that such vacancies or newly created directorships shall be filled by vote of the shareholders. Vacancies occurring by removal of directors without cause may be filled only by vote of the shareholders.
Section 5. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held at such time and place as may be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors and no notice shall be required for any regular meeting. Except as otherwise provided by law, any business may be transacted at any regular meeting.

2


 

Section 6. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board may, unless otherwise prescribed by law, be called by the President or any other officer of the Corporation who is also a director. The President or the Secretary shall call a special meeting of the Board upon written request directed to either of them by any two directors stating the time, place and purpose of such special meeting. Special meetings of the Board shall be held on a date and at such time and at such place as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer calling the meeting.
Section 7. Notice of Special Meeting. Notice of the date, time and place of each special meeting of the Board of Directors shall be given to each director at least forty-eight hours prior to such meeting, unless the notice is given orally or delivered in person, in which case it shall be given at least twenty-four hours prior to such meeting. For the purpose of this section, notice shall be deemed to be duly given to a director if given personally (including by telephone) or if such notice be delivered to such director by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter to his/her last known address. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any director who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting, or who attends the meeting without protesting, prior to the conclusion thereof, the lack of notice to him/her.
Section 8. Quorum. A majority of the entire board, present in person or by proxy or by communicating equipment, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
Section 9. Voting. The vote of the majority of the directors, present in person or by proxy, in communication by telefax or conference telephone, at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the directors. Any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if all the members of the Board consent in writing thereto.
Section 10. Compensation of Directors and Members of Committees. The Board may from time to time, in its discretion, fix the amounts which shall be payable to members of the Board of Directors and to members of any committee, for attendance at the meetings of the Board or of such committee and for services rendered to the Corporation.
ARTICLE IV
COMMITTEES
Section 1. Executive Committee and Other Committees. The Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members an Executive Committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation, which, to the extent provided in said resolution or resolutions, or in these Bylaws, shall have and may exercise, to the extent permitted by law, the powers of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may have power to authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it. In addition, the Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members other committees to consist of one or more directors of the Corporation, each of which shall perform such function and have such authority and powers as shall be delegated to it by said resolution or resolutions or as provided for in these Bylaws, except that only the Executive Committee may have and exercise the powers of the Board of Directors. Members of the Executive Committee and any other committee shall hold office for such periods as may be prescribed by the vote of the majority of the entire Board of Directors, subject, however, to removal at any time by the vote of the Board of Directors. Vacancies in the membership of such committees shall be filled by vote of the Board of Directors. Committees may adopt their own rules of procedure and may meet at stated times or on such notice as they may determine. Each committee shall keep a record of its proceedings and report the same to the Board when requested.

3


 

ARTICLE V
OFFICERS
Section 1. Number and Designation. The Board of Directors shall appoint a Secretary and a Treasurer, and may appoint a President as well as such other officers as it may deem necessary. Officers may be of any nationality, need not be residents of the Marshall Islands and may be, but are not required to be, directors. Officers of the Corporation shall be natural persons except the Secretary may be a corporate entity. Any two or more offices may be held by the same natural person.
The officers shall be appointed annually by the Board of Directors at its first meeting following the annual election of directors, but in the event of the failure of the Board to so appoint any officer, such officer may be appointed at any subsequent meeting of the Board of Directors. The salaries of the officers and any other compensation paid to them shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may at any meeting appoint additional officers. Each officer shall hold office until the first meeting of the Board of Directors following the next annual election of directors and until his/her successor shall have been duly appointed and qualified, except in the event of the earlier termination of his/her term of office through death, resignation, removal or otherwise. Any officer may be removed by the Board at any time with or without cause. Any vacancy in an office may be filled for the unexpired portion of the term of such office by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting.
Section 2. President. The President shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation and shall have the general management of the affairs of the Corporation, together with the powers and duties usually incident to the office of President, except as specifically limited by appropriate written resolution of the Board of Directors and shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors. The President shall preside at all meetings of shareholders at which he/she is present and if, in the case of the President, he/she is a director, at all meetings of the directors.
Section 3. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have general supervision over the care and custody of the funds, securities and other valuable effects of the Corporation and shall deposit the same or cause the same to be deposited in the name of the Corporation in such depositories as the Board of Directors may designate, shall disburse the funds of the Corporation as may be ordered by the Board of Directors, shall have supervision over the accounts of all receipts and disbursements of the Corporation, shall, whenever required by the Board, render or cause to be rendered financial statements of the Corporation, shall have the power and perform the duties usually incident to the office of Treasurer; and shall have the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors, or President.
Section 4. Secretary. The Secretary shall act as Secretary of all meetings of the shareholders and of the Board of Directors at which he/she is present, shall have supervision over the giving and serving of notices of the Corporation; shall be the custodian of the corporate records and of the corporate seal of the Corporation; shall be empowered to affix the corporate seal to those documents, the execution of which, on behalf of the Corporation under its seal, is duly authorized and when so affixed may attest the same, and shall exercise the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors or the President. If the Secretary is a Corporation, the duties of the Secretary may be carried out by any duly authorized representative of such corporation acting in its name.
Section 5. Other Officers: Officers other than those treated in section 2 through 4 of this Article shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the Board of Directors or by the President.
Section 6. Bond. The Board of Directors shall have the power to the extent permitted by

4


 

law, to require any officer, agent or employee of the Corporation to give bond for the faithful discharge of his/her duties in such form and with such surety or sureties as the Board of Directors may deem advisable.
ARTICLE VI
CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES
Section 1. Form and Issuance. The shares of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates in a form meeting the requirements of law and approved by the Board of Directors. Certificates shall be signed by the President or a Vice President, and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer. These signatures may be facsimiles if the certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent or registered by a registrar other than the Corporation itself or its employee.
Section 2. Transfer. The Board of Directors shall have the power and authority to make such rules and regulations as they may deem expedient concerning the issuance, registration and transfer of certificates representing shares of the Corporation’s stock, and may appoint, transfer agents and registrars thereof.
Section 3. Loss of Stock Certificates. The Board of Directors may direct a new certificate or certificates of stock to be issued in place of any certificate or certificates thereof issued by the Corporation alleged to have been lost or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of a new certificate or certificates, the Board of Directors may, in its discretion, and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his/her representative, to advertise the same in such manner as it shall require and/or give the Corporation a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the Corporation with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost or destroyed.
ARTICLE VII
DIVIDENDS
Section 1. Declaration and Form. Dividends may be declared in conformity with law by, and at the discretion of, the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting. Dividends may be declared and paid in cash, stock, or other property of the Corporation.
ARTICLE VIII
CORPORATE SEAL
Section 1. Corporate Seal. The seal of the Corporation, if any, shall be circular in form, with the name of the Corporation in the circumference and such other appropriate legend as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine.
ARTICLE IX
FISCAL YEAR
Section 1. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be such period of twelve consecutive months as the Board of Directors may by resolution designate.

5


 

ARTICLE X
AMENDMENTS
Section 1. By the Shareholders. These Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any meeting of the shareholders of the Corporation by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the stock present and voting at such meeting provided notice that an amendment is to be considered and acted upon is inserted in the notice or waiver of notice of said meeting.
Section 2. By the Directors. If the Articles of Incorporation so provide, these Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors by the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire Board, subject, however, to the power of the shareholders to alter, amend or repeal any Bylaws as adopted.

6

EX-3.19 18 y04313a1exv3w19.htm EX-3.19 exv3w19
Exhibit 3.19
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
ANTIPAROS SHIPPING CORPORATION
PURSUANT TO THE MARSHALL ISLANDS BUSINESS CORPORATIONS ACT
     The undersigned, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the provisions of the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act, does hereby make, subscribe, acknowledge and file with the Registrar of Corporations this instrument for that purpose, as follows:
A.   The name of the Corporation shall be:
ANTIPAROS SHIPPING CORPORATION
B.   The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may now on hereafter be organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act and without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, the corporation shall have the power:
  (1)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, pledge, hypothecate, mortgage, lease, charter, sub-charter, sell, build, and repair steamships, motorships, tankers, vessels, sailing vessels, tugs, lighters, barges, and all other vessels and craft of any and all motive power whatsoever, including landcraft, and any and all means of conveyance and transportation by land or water, together with engines, boilers, machinery equipment and appurtenances of all kinds, including masts, sails, boats, anchors, cables, tackle, furniture and all other necessities thereunto appertaining and belonging, together with all materials, articles, tools, equipment and appliances necessary, suitable or convenient for the construction, equipment, use and operation thereof; and to equip, furnish, and outfit such vessels and ships.

 


 

  (2)   To engage in ocean, coastwise and inland commerce, and generally in the carriage of freight, goods, cargo in bulk, passengers, mail and personal effects by water between the various ports of the world and to engage generally in waterborne commerce.
 
  (3)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, lease, build, repair, sell or in any manner dispose of docks, piers, quays, wharves, dry docks, warehouses and storage facilities of all kinds, and any property, real, personal and mixed, in connection therewith.
 
  (4)   To act as ship’s husband, shipbrokers, customhouse brokers, ship’s agents, manager of shipping property, freight contractors, forwarding agents, warehousemen, wharfingers, ship chandlers, and general traders.
C.   The registered address of the Corporation in the Marshall Islands is Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH96960. The name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is The Trust Company of the Marshall Islands, Inc.
 
D.   The aggregate number of shares of stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is Five Hundred (500) registered and/or bearer shares with a par value of One US Dollar (US$1.00) per share.
 
    The Corporation shall mail notices and information to holders or bearer shares to the address provided to the Corporation by the shareholder for that purpose.
 
    The holder of a stock certificate issued to bearer may cause such certificate to be exchanged for another certificate in his name for a like number of shares, and the holder of shares issued in the name of the owner may cause his certificate to be exchanged for another certificate to bearer for a like number of shares.

 


 

E.   The Corporation shall have every power which a corporation now or hereafter organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act may have.
 
F.   The name and address of the incorporator is:
     
Name   Post Office Address
Majuro Nominees Ltd.
  P.O Box 1405
 
  Majuro
 
  Marshall Islands
G.   The Board of Directors as well as the shareholders of the Corporation shall have the authority to adopt, amend or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation.
 
H.   Corporate existence shall begin upon filing these Articles of Incorporation with the Registrar of Corporations as of the filing date stated on these Articles.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have executed this instrument on March 18, 2010.
             
    Majuro Nominees Ltd.    
 
      Incorporator    
 
           
 
  by:   /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]    
 
     
 
   

 


 

     On March 18, 2010 before me personally came S. Gioula known to me to be the individual described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and she duly acknowledged to me that the execution thereof was her act and deed.
         
 
  /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]    
 
 
 
   

 

EX-3.20 19 y04313a1exv3w20.htm EX-3.20 exv3w20
Exhibit 3.20
BYLAWS
ANTIPAROS SHIPPING CORPORATION
A Marshall Islands Corporation
ARTICLE I
OFFICES
The principal place of business of the Corporation shall be at such place or places as the Directors shall from time to time determine. The Corporation may also have an office at such other places within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may from time to time appoint or the business of the Corporation may require.
ARTICLE II
MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Section 1. Annual Meetings. The annual meeting of shareholders of the Corporation shall be held on such day and at such time and place within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may determine for the purpose of electing Directors and of transacting such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.
Section 2. Special Meeting. Special meetings of the shareholders, unless otherwise prescribed by law, may be called for any purpose or purposes at any time by resolution of the Board of Directors or by the President and shall be called by the President or Secretary of the Corporation whenever required in writing to do so by shareholders owning a majority in amount of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote which is issued and outstanding. Such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed special meeting. Such meetings shall be held at such place and on a date and at such time as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer of the Corporation calling any such meeting. Business transacted at any special meeting of shareholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice.
Section 3. Notice of Meetings. Notice of every annual and special meeting of shareholders, other than any meeting the giving of notice of which is prescribed by law, stating the date, time, place and purpose thereof, and in the case of special meetings, the name of the person or persons at whose direction the notice is being issued, shall be given personally or sent by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter at least fifteen but not more than sixty days before such meeting, to each shareholder of record entitled to vote thereat and to each shareholder of record who, by reason of any action proposed at such meeting would be entitled to have his/her shares appraised if such action were taken, and the notice shall include a statement of that purpose and to that effect. If mailed, notice shall be deemed to have been given when deposited in the mail, directed to the shareholder at his/her address as the same appears on the record of shareholders of the Corporation or at such address as to which the shareholder has given notice to the Secretary. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any shareholder who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting or who attends the meeting without protesting prior to the conclusion thereof the lack of notice to him. If the Corporation shall issue any class of bearer shares, notice for all meetings shall be given in the manner provided in the Articles of Incorporation.
Section 4. Quorum. At all meetings of the shareholders, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, there must be present, either in person or by proxy, shareholders holding at least a majority of the shares issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at such meetings in order to constitute a quorum, but if less than a quorum is present, a majority of those shares present either in person or by proxy shall have power to adjourn any meeting until a quorum shall be present.

1


 

Section 5. Voting. If a quorum is present, and except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of stock represented at the meeting shall be the act of the shareholders. At any meeting of shareholders, each shareholder entitled to vote any shares on any manner to be voted upon at such meeting shall be entitled to one vote on such matter for each such share, and may exercise such voting right either in person or by proxy. Any action which may be taken at a meeting of shareholders, may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken or to be taken, is signed by all of the shareholders entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof.
Section 6. Fixing of Record Dates. The Board of Directors may fix a time not more than sixty nor less than fifteen days prior to the date of any meeting of the shareholders, or more than sixty (60) days prior to the last day on which the consent or dissent of shareholders may be expressed for any purpose without a meeting, as the time as of which shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or whose consent or dissent is required or may be expressed for any purpose, as the case may be, shall be determined, and all persons who were holders of record of voting shares at such time and not others shall be entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or to express their consent or dissent, as the case may be. The Board of Directors may fix a time not exceeding sixty days preceding the date fixed for the payment of any dividend, distribution, or allotment or for the purpose of such other action.
ARTICLE III
DIRECTORS
Section 1. Number. The affairs, business and property of the Corporation shall be managed by a Board of Directors to consist of at least one director. Within the limits fixed by these Bylaws, the number of directors may be determined either by a vote of a majority of the entire Board or by vote of shareholders. The directors need not be residents of the Marshall Islands nor shareholders of the Corporation.
Section 2. How Elected. Except as otherwise provided by law or Section 4 of this Article, the directors of the Corporation (other than the first Board of Directors designated by the Incorporator) shall be elected at the annual meeting of shareholders. Each director shall be elected to serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until his/her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified, except in the event of his/her death, resignation, removal or the earlier termination of his/her term of office.
Section 3. Removal. Any or all of the directors may be removed, with or without cause, by a vote of the shareholders. Any director may be removed for cause by action of the Board of Directors.
Section 4. Vacancies. Vacancies in the Board of Directors occurring by death, resignation, the creation of new directorships, the failure of the shareholders to elect the whole Board at any annual election of directors, or, except as herein provided, for any other reason, including removal of directors for cause, may be filled either by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors then in office, although less than a quorum, at any special meeting called for that purpose or at any regular meeting of the Board, except as otherwise prescribed by law or unless the Articles of Incorporation provide that such vacancies or newly created directorships shall be filled by vote of the shareholders. Vacancies occurring by removal of directors without cause may be filled only by vote of the shareholders.
Section 5. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held at such time and place as may be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors and no notice shall be required for any regular meeting. Except as otherwise provided by law, any business may be transacted at any regular meeting.

2


 

Section 6. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board may, unless otherwise prescribed by law, be called by the President or any other officer of the Corporation who is also a director. The President or the Secretary shall call a special meeting of the Board upon written request directed to either of them by any two directors stating the time, place and purpose of such special meeting. Special meetings of the Board shall be held on a date and at such time and at such place as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer calling the meeting.
Section 7. Notice of Special Meeting. Notice of the date, time and place of each special meeting of the Board of Directors shall be given to each director at least forty-eight hours prior to such meeting, unless the notice is given orally or delivered in person, in which case it shall be given at least twenty-four hours prior to such meeting. For the purpose of this section, notice shall be deemed to be duly given to a director if given personally (including by telephone) or if such notice be delivered to such director by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter to his/her last known address. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any director who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting, or who attends the meeting without protesting, prior to the conclusion thereof, the lack of notice to him/her.
Section 8. Quorum. A majority of the entire board, present in person or by proxy or by communicating equipment, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
Section 9. Voting. The vote of the majority of the directors, present in person or by proxy, in communication by telefax or conference telephone, at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the directors. Any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if all the members of the Board consent in writing thereto.
Section 10. Compensation of Directors and Members of Committees. The Board may from time to time, in its discretion, fix the amounts which shall be payable to members of the Board of Directors and to members of any committee, for attendance at the meetings of the Board or of such committee and for services rendered to the Corporation.
ARTICLE IV
COMMITTEES
Section 1. Executive Committee and Other Committees. The Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members an Executive Committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation, which, to the extent provided in said resolution or resolutions, or in these Bylaws, shall have and may exercise, to the extent permitted by law, the powers of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may have power to authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it. In addition, the Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members other committees to consist of one or more directors of the Corporation, each of which shall perform such function and have such authority and powers as shall be delegated to it by said resolution or resolutions or as provided for in these Bylaws, except that only the Executive Committee may have and exercise the powers of the Board of Directors. Members of the Executive Committee and any other committee shall hold office for such periods as may be prescribed by the vote of the majority of the entire Board of Directors, subject, however, to removal at any time by the vote of the Board of Directors. Vacancies in the membership of such committees shall be filled by vote of the Board of Directors. Committees may adopt their own rules of procedure and may meet at stated times or on such notice as they may determine. Each committee shall keep a record of its proceedings and report the same to the Board when requested.

3


 

ARTICLE V
OFFICERS
Section 1. Number and Designation. The Board of Directors shall appoint a Secretary and a Treasurer, and may appoint a President as well as such other officers as it may deem necessary. Officers may be of any nationality, need not be residents of the Marshall Islands and may be, but are not required to be, directors. Officers of the Corporation shall be natural persons except the Secretary may be a corporate entity. Any two or more offices may be held by the same natural person.
The officers shall be appointed annually by the Board of Directors at its first meeting following the annual election of directors, but in the event of the failure of the Board to so appoint any officer, such officer may be appointed at any subsequent meeting of the Board of Directors. The salaries of the officers and any other compensation paid to them shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may at any meeting appoint additional officers. Each officer shall hold office until the first meeting of the Board of Directors following the next annual election of directors and until his/her successor shall have been duly appointed and qualified, except in the event of the earlier termination of his/her term of office through death, resignation, removal or otherwise. Any officer may be removed by the Board at any time with or without cause. Any vacancy in an office may be filled for the unexpired portion of the term of such office by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting.
Section 2. President. The President shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation and shall have the general management of the affairs of the Corporation, together with the powers and duties usually incident to the office of President, except as specifically limited by appropriate written resolution of the Board of Directors and shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors. The President shall preside at all meetings of shareholders at which he/she is present and if, in the case of the President, he/she is a director, at all meetings of the directors.
Section 3. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have general supervision over the care and custody of the funds, securities and other valuable effects of the Corporation and shall deposit the same or cause the same to be deposited in the name of the Corporation in such depositories as the Board of Directors may designate, shall disburse the funds of the Corporation as may be ordered by the Board of Directors, shall have supervision over the accounts of all receipts and disbursements of the Corporation, shall, whenever required by the Board, render or cause to be rendered financial statements of the Corporation, shall have the power and perform the duties usually incident to the office of Treasurer; and shall have the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors, or President.
Section 4. Secretary. The Secretary shall act as Secretary of all meetings of the shareholders and of the Board of Directors at which he/she is present, shall have supervision over the giving and serving of notices of the Corporation; shall be the custodian of the corporate records and of the corporate seal of the Corporation; shall be empowered to affix the corporate seal to those documents, the execution of which, on behalf of the Corporation under its seal, is duly authorized and when so affixed may attest the same, and shall exercise the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors or the President. If the Secretary is a Corporation, the duties of the Secretary may be carried out by any duly authorized representative of such corporation acting in its name.
Section 5. Other Officers: Officers other than those treated in section 2 through 4 of this Article shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the Board of Directors or by the President.
Section 6. Bond. The Board of Directors shall have the power to the extent permitted by

4


 

law, to require any officer, agent or employee of the Corporation to give bond for the faithful discharge of his/her duties in such form and with such surety or sureties as the Board of Directors may deem advisable.
ARTICLE VI
CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES
Section 1. Form and Issuance. The shares of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates in a form meeting the requirements of law and approved by the Board of Directors. Certificates shall be signed by the President or a Vice President, and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer. These signatures may be facsimiles if the certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent or registered by a registrar other than the Corporation itself or its employee.
Section 2. Transfer. The Board of Directors shall have the power and authority to make such rules and regulations as they may deem expedient concerning the issuance, registration and transfer of certificates representing shares of the Corporation’s stock, and may appoint, transfer agents and registrars thereof.
Section 3. Loss of Stock Certificates. The Board of Directors may direct a new certificate or certificates of stock to be issued in place of any certificate or certificates thereof issued by the Corporation alleged to have been lost or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of a new certificate or certificates, the Board of Directors may, in its discretion, and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his/her representative, to advertise the same in such manner as it shall require and/or give the Corporation a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the Corporation with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost or destroyed.
ARTICLE VII
DIVIDENDS
Section 1. Declaration and Form. Dividends may be declared in conformity with law by, and at the discretion of, the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting. Dividends may be declared and paid in cash, stock, or other property of the Corporation.
ARTICLE VIII
CORPORATE SEAL
Section 1. Corporate Seal. The seal of the Corporation, if any, shall be circular in form, with the name of the Corporation in the circumference and such other appropriate legend as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine.
ARTICLE IX
FISCAL YEAR
Section 1. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be such period of twelve consecutive months as the Board of Directors may by resolution designate.

5


 

ARTICLE X
AMENDMENTS
Section 1. By the Shareholders. These Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any meeting of the shareholders of the Corporation by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the stock present and voting at such meeting provided notice that an amendment is to be considered and acted upon is inserted in the notice or waiver of notice of said meeting.
Section 2. By the Directors. If the Articles of Incorporation so provide, these Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors by the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire Board, subject, however, to the power of the shareholders to alter, amend or repeal any Bylaws as adopted.

6

EX-3.21 20 y04313a1exv3w21.htm EX-3.21 exv3w21
Exhibit 3.21
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
CRETE SHIPPING CORPORATION
PURSUANT TO THE MARSHALL ISLANDS BUSINESS CORPORATIONS ACT
          The undersigned, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the provisions of the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act, does hereby make, subscribe, acknowledge and file with the Registrar of Corporations this instrument for that purpose, as follows:
A.   The name of the Corporation shall be:
CRETE SHIPPING CORPORATION
B.   The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may now or hereafter be organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations, Act and without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, the corporation shall have the power:
  (1)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, pledge, hypothecate, mortgage, lease, charter, sub-charter, sell, build, and repair steamships, motorships, tankers, vessels, sailing vessels, tugs, lighters, barges, and all other vessels and craft of any and all motive power whatsoever, including landcraft, and any and all means of conveyance and transportation by land or water, together with engines, boilers, machinery equipment and appurtenances of all kinds, including masts, sails, boats, anchors, cables, tackle, furniture and all other necessities thereunto appertaining and belonging, together with all materials, articles, tools, equipment and appliances necessary, suitable or convenient for the construction, equipment, use and operation thereof; and to equip, furnish, and outfit such vessels and ships.

 


 

  (2)   To engage in ocean, coastwise and inland commerce, and generally in the carriage of freight, goods, cargo in bulk, passengers, mail and personal effects by water between the various ports of the world and to engage generally in waterborne commerce.
 
  (3)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, lease, build, repair, sell or any manner dispose of docks, piers, quays, wharves, dry docks, warehouses and storage facilities of all kinds, and any property, real, personal and mixed, in connection therewith.
 
  (4)   To act as ships’s husband, shipbrokers, customhouse brokers, ship’s agents, manager of shipping property, freight contractors, forwarding agents, warehousemen, wharfingers, ship chandlers, and general traders.
C.   The registered address of the Corporation in the Marshall Islands is Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH96960. The name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is The Trust Company of the Marshall Islands, Inc.
 
D.   The aggregate number of shares of stocks that the Corporation is authorized to issue is Five Hundred (500) registered shares with a par value of One US Dollar (US$1.00) per share.
 
E.   The Corporation shall have every power which a corporation now or hereafter organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act may have.
 
F.   The name and address of the incorporator is:
         
    Name   Post Office Address
 
  Majuro Nominees Ltd.   P.O Box 1405
 
      Majuro
 
      Marshall Islands

 


 

G.   The Board of Directors as well as the shareholders of the Corporation shall have the authority to adopt, amend or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation.
 
H.   Corporate existence shall begin upon filing these Articles of Incorporation with the Registrar of Corporations as of the filing date stated on these Articles.
          IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have executed this instrument on March 29, 2010.
             
    Majuro Nominees Ltd.
       Incorporator
   
 
           
 
  by:   /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]
 
   

 


 

          On March 29, 2010 before me personally came S. Vatista know to me to be the individual described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and she duly acknowledged to me that the execution thereof was her act and deed.
         
 
  /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]
 
   

 

EX-3.22 21 y04313a1exv3w22.htm EX-3.22 exv3w22
Exhibit 3.22
BYLAWS
CRETE SHIPPING CORPORATION
A Marshall Islands Corporation
ARTICLE I
OFFICES
The principal place of business of the Corporation shall be at such place or places as the Directors shall from time to time determine. The Corporation may also have an office at such other places within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may from time to time appoint or the business of the Corporation may require.
ARTICLE II
MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Section 1. Annual Meetings. The annual meeting of shareholders of the Corporation shall be held on such day and at such time and place within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may determine for the purpose of electing Directors and of transacting such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.
Section 2. Special Meeting. Special meetings of the shareholders, unless otherwise prescribed by law, may be called for any purpose or purposes at any time by resolution of the Board of Directors or by the President and shall be called by the President or Secretary of the Corporation whenever required in writing to do so by shareholders owning a majority in amount of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote which is issued and outstanding. Such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed special meeting. Such meetings shall be held at such place and on a date and at such time as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer of the Corporation calling any such meeting. Business transacted at any special meeting of shareholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice.
Section 3. Notice of Meetings. Notice of every annual and special meeting of shareholders, other than any meeting the giving of notice of which is prescribed by law, stating the date, time, place and purpose thereof, and in the case of special meetings, the name of the person or persons at whose direction the notice is being issued, shall be given personally or sent by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter at least fifteen but not more than sixty days before such meeting, to each shareholder of record entitled to vote thereat and to each shareholder of record who, by reason of any action proposed at such meeting would be entitled to have his/her shares appraised if such action were taken, and the notice shall include a statement of that purpose and to that effect. If mailed, notice shall be deemed to have been given when deposited in the mail, directed to the shareholder at his/her address as the same appears on the record of shareholders of the Corporation or at such address as to which the shareholder has given notice to the Secretary. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any shareholder who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting or who attends the meeting without protesting prior to the conclusion thereof the lack of notice to him. If the Corporation shall issue any class of bearer shares, notice for all meetings shall be given in the manner provided in the Articles of Incorporation.
Section 4. Quorum. At all meetings of the shareholders, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, there must be present, either in person or by proxy, shareholders holding at least a majority of the shares issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at such meetings in order to constitute a quorum, but if less than a quorum is present, a majority of those shares present either in person or by proxy shall have power to adjourn any meeting until a quorum shall be present.

1


 

Section 5. Voting. If a quorum is present, and except as otherwise expressly provided by law or by the Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation, the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of stock represented at the meeting shall be the act of the shareholders. At any meeting of shareholders, each shareholder entitled to vote any shares on any manner to be voted upon at such meeting shall be entitled to one vote on such matter for each such share, and may exercise such voting right either in person or by proxy. Any action which may be taken at a meeting of shareholders, may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken or to be taken, is signed by all of the shareholders entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof.
Section 6. Fixing of Record Dates. The Board of Directors may fix a time not more than sixty nor less than fifteen days prior to the date of any meeting of the shareholders, or more than sixty (60) days prior to the last day on which the consent or dissent of shareholders may be expressed for any purpose without a meeting, as the time as of which shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or whose consent or dissent is required or may be expressed for any purpose, as the case may be, shall be determined, and all persons who were holders of record of voting shares at such time and not others shall be entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or to express their consent or dissent, as the case may be. For the purpose of determining shareholders entitled in connection with the following, the Board of Directors may fix a date not exceeding sixty days preceding the date fixed for the payment of any dividend, distribution, or allotment or for the purpose of any other action.
ARTICLE III
DIRECTORS
Section 1. Number. The affairs, business and property of the Corporation shall be managed by a Board of Directors to consist of at least one director. Within the limits fixed by these Bylaws, the number of directors may be determined either by a vote of a majority of the entire Board or by vote of shareholders. The directors need not be residents of the Marshall Islands nor shareholders of the Corporation.
Section 2. How Elected. Except as otherwise provided by law or Section 4 of this Article, the directors of the Corporation (other than the first Board of Directors designated by the Incorporator) shall be elected at the annual meeting of shareholders. Each director shall be elected to serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until his/her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified, except in the event of his/her death, resignation, removal or the earlier termination of his/her term of office.
Section 3. Removal. Any or all of the directors may be removed, with or without cause, by a vote of the shareholders. Any director may be removed for cause by action of the Board of Directors.
Section 4. Vacancies. Vacancies in the Board of Directors occurring by death, resignation, the creation of new directorships, the failure of the shareholders to elect the whole Board at any annual election of directors, or, except as herein provided, for any other reason, including removal of directors for cause, may be filled either by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors then in office, although less than a quorum, at any special meeting called for that purpose or at any regular meeting of the Board, except as otherwise prescribed by law or unless the Articles of Incorporation provide that such vacancies or newly created directorships shall be filled by vote of the shareholders. Vacancies occurring by removal of directors without cause may be filled only by vote of the shareholders.
Section 5. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held at such time and place as may be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors and no notice shall be required for any regular meeting. Except as otherwise provided by law, any business may

2


 

be transacted at any regular meeting.
Section 6. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board may, unless otherwise prescribed by law, be called by the President or any other officer of the Corporation who is also a director. The President or the Secretary shall call a special meeting of the Board upon written request directed to either of them by any two directors stating the time, place and purpose of such special meeting. Special meetings of the Board shall be held on a date and at such time and at such place as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer calling the meeting.
Section 7. Notice of Special Meeting. Notice of the date, time and place of each special meeting of the Board of Directors shall be given to each director at least forty-eight hours prior to such meeting, unless the notice is given orally or delivered in person, in which case it shall be given at least twenty-four hours prior to such meeting. For the purpose of this section, notice shall be deemed to be duly given to a director if given personally (including by telephone) or if such notice be delivered to such director by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter to his/her last known address. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any director who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting, or who attends the meeting without protesting, prior to the conclusion thereof, the lack of notice to him/her.
Section 8. Quorum. A majority of the entire board, present in person or by proxy or by communicating equipment, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
Section 9. Voting. The vote of the majority of the directors, present in person or by proxy, in communication by telefax or conference telephone, at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the directors. Any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if all the members of the Board consent in writing thereto.
Section 10. Compensation of Directors and Members of Committees. The Board may from time to time, in its discretion, fix the amounts which shall be payable to members of the Board of Directors and to members of any committee, for attendance at the meetings of the Board or of such committee and for services rendered to the Corporation.
ARTICLE IV
COMMITTEES
Section 1. Executive Committee and Other Committees. The Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members an Executive Committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation, which, to the extent provided in said resolution or resolutions, or in these Bylaws, shall have and may exercise, to the extent permitted by law, the powers of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may have power to authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it. In addition, the Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members other committees to consist of one or more directors of the Corporation, each of which shall perform such function and have such authority and powers as shall be delegated to it by said resolution or resolutions or as provided for in these Bylaws, except that, subject to the limitations of law, only the Executive Committee may have and exercise the powers of the Board of Directors. Members of the Executive Committee and any other committee shall hold office for such periods as may be prescribed by the vote of the majority of the entire Board of Directors, subject, however, to removal at any time by the vote of the Board of Directors. Vacancies in the membership of such committees shall be filled by vote of the Board of Directors. Committees may adopt their own rules of procedure and may meet at stated times or on such notice as they may determine. Each committee shall keep a record of its proceedings and report the same to the Board when requested.

3


 

ARTICLE V
OFFICERS
Section 1. Number and Designation. The Board of Directors shall appoint a Secretary and a Treasurer, and may appoint a President as well as such other officers as it may deem necessary. Officers may be of any nationality, need not be residents of the Marshall Islands and may be, but are not required to be, directors. Officers of the Corporation shall be natural persons except the Secretary may be a corporate entity. Any two or more offices may be held by the same natural person.
The officers shall be appointed annually by the Board of Directors at its first meeting following the annual election of directors, but in the event of the failure of the Board to so appoint any officer, such officer may be appointed at any subsequent meeting of the Board of Directors. The salaries of the officers and any other compensation paid to them shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may at any meeting appoint additional officers. Each officer shall hold office until the first meeting of the Board of Directors following the next annual election of directors and until his/her successor shall have been duly appointed and qualified, except in the event of the earlier termination of his/her term of office through death, resignation, removal or otherwise. Any officer may be removed by the Board at any time with or without cause. Any vacancy in an office may be filled for the unexpired portion of the term of such office by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting.
Section 2. President. The President shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation and shall have the general management of the affairs of the Corporation, together with the powers and duties usually incident to the office of President, except as specifically limited by appropriate written resolution of the Board of Directors and shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors. The President shall preside at all meetings of shareholders at which he/she is present and if, in the case of the President, he/she is a director, at all meetings of the directors.
Section 3. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have general supervision over the care and custody of the funds, securities and other valuable effects of the Corporation and shall deposit the same or cause the same to be deposited in the name of the Corporation in such depositories as the Board of Directors may designate, shall disburse the funds of the Corporation as may be ordered by the Board of Directors, shall have supervision over the accounts of all receipts and disbursements of the Corporation, shall, whenever required by the Board, render or cause to be rendered financial statements of the Corporation, shall have the power and perform the duties usually incident to the office of Treasurer; and shall have the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors, or President.
Section 4. Secretary. The Secretary shall act as Secretary of all meetings of the shareholders and of the Board of Directors at which he/she is present, shall have supervision over the giving and serving of notices of the Corporation; shall be the custodian of the corporate records and of the corporate seal of the Corporation; shall be empowered to affix the corporate seal to those documents, the execution of which, on behalf of the Corporation under its seal, is duly authorized and when so affixed may attest the same, and shall exercise the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors or the President. If the Secretary is a Corporation, the duties of the Secretary may be carried out by any duly authorized representative of such corporation acting in its name.
Section 5. Other Officers: Officers other than those treated in section 2 through 4 of this Article shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the

4


 

Board of Directors or by the President.
Section 6. Bond. The Board of Directors shall have the power to the extent permitted by law, to require any officer, agent or employee of the Corporation to give bond for the faithful discharge of his/her duties in such form and with such surety or sureties as the Board of Directors may deem advisable.
ARTICLE VI
CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES
Section 1. Form and Issuance. The shares of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates in a form meeting the requirements of law and approved by the Board of Directors. Certificates shall be signed by the President or a Vice President, and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer. These signatures may be facsimiles if the certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent or registered by a registrar other than the Corporation itself or its employee.
Section 2. Transfer. The Board of Directors shall have the power and authority to make such rules and regulations as they may deem expedient concerning the issuance, registration and transfer of certificates representing shares of the Corporation’s stock, and may appoint, transfer agents and registrars thereof.
Section 3. Loss of Stock Certificates. The Board of Directors may direct a new certificate or certificates of stock to be issued in place of any certificate or certificates thereof issued by the Corporation alleged to have been lost or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of a new certificate or certificates, the Board of Directors may, in its discretion, and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his/her representative, to advertise the same in such manner as it shall require and/or give the Corporation a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the Corporation with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost or destroyed.
ARTICLE VII
DIVIDENDS
Section 1. Declaration and Form. Dividends may be declared in conformity with law by, and at the discretion of, the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting. Dividends may be declared and paid in cash, stock, or other property of the Corporation.
ARTICLE VIII
CORPORATE SEAL
Section 1. Corporate Seal. The seal of the Corporation, if any, shall be circular in form, with the name of the Corporation in the circumference and such other appropriate legend as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine.
ARTICLE IX
FISCAL YEAR
Section 1. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be such period of twelve consecutive months as the Board of Directors may by resolution designate.

5


 

ARTICLE X
AMENDMENTS
Section 1. By the Shareholders. These Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any meeting of the shareholders of the Corporation by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the stock present and voting at such meeting provided notice that an amendment is to be considered and acted upon is inserted in the notice or waiver of notice of said meeting.
Section 2. By the Directors. If the Articles of Incorporation so provide, these Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors by the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire Board, subject, however, to the power of the shareholders to alter, amend or repeal any Bylaws as adopted.

6

EX-3.23 22 y04313a1exv3w23.htm EX-3.23 exv3w23
Exhibit 3.23
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
IKARIA SHIPPING CORPORATION
PURSUANT TO THE MARSHALL ISLANDS BUSINESS CORPORATIONS ACT
     The undersigned, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the provisions of the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act, does hereby make, subscribe, acknowledge and file with the Registrar of Corporations this instrument for that purpose, as follows:
A.   The name of the Corporation shall be:
IKARIA SHIPPING CORPORATION
B.   The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may now or hereafter be organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act and without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, the corporation shall have the power:
  (1)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, pledge, hypothecate, mortgage, lease, charter, sub-charter, sell, build, and repair steamships, motorships, tankers, vessels, sailing vessels, tugs, lighters, barges, and all other vessels and craft of any and all motive power whatsoever, including landcraft, and any and all means of conveyance and transportation by land or water, together with engines, boilers, machinery equipment and appurtenances of all kinds, including masts, sails, boats, anchors, cables, tackle, furniture and all other necessities thereunto appertaining and belonging, together with all materials, articles, tools, equipment and appliances necessary, suitable or convenient for the construction, equipment, use and operation thereof; and to equip, furnish, and outfit such vessels and ships.

 


 

  (2)   To engage in ocean, coastwise and inland commerce, and generally in the carriage of freight, goods, cargo in bulk, passengers, mail and personal effects by water between the various ports of the world and to engage generally in waterborne commerce.
 
  (3)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, lease, build, repair, sell or in any manner dispose of docks, piers, quays, wharves, dry docks, warehouses and storage facilities of all kinds, and any property, real, personal and mixed, in connection therewith.
 
  (4)   To act as ship’s husband, shipbrokers, customhouse brokers, ship’s agents, manager of shipping property, freight contractors, forwarding agents, warehousemen, wharfingers, ship chandlers, and general traders.
C.   The registered address of the Corporation in the Marshall Islands is Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH96960. The name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is The Trust Company of the Marshall Islands, Inc.
 
D.   The aggregate number of shares of stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is Five Hundred (500) registered and/or bearer shares with a par value of One US Dollar (US$1.00) per share.
 
    The Corporation shall mail notices and information to holders of bearer shares to the address provided to the Corporation by the shareholder for that purpose.
 
    The holder of a stock certificate issued to bearer may cause such certificate to be exchanged for another certificate in his name for a like number of shares, and the holder of shares issued in the name of the owner may cause his certificate to be exchanged for another certificate to bearer for a like number of shares.

 


 

E.   The Corporation shall have every power which a corporation now or hereafter organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act may have.
 
F.   The name and address of the incorporator is:
     
Name
  Post Office Address
 
   
Majuro Nominees Ltd.
  P.O Box 1405
 
  Majuro
 
  Marshall Islands
G.   The Board of Directors as well as the shareholders of the Corporation shall have the authority to adopt, amend or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation.
 
H.   Corporate existence shall begin upon filing these Articles of Incorporation with the Registrar of Corporations as of the filing date stated on these Articles.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have executed this instrument on March 18, 2010.
       
Majuro Nominees Ltd.
Incorporator
 
     
by:
  /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]  
 
     

 


 

     On March 18, 2010 before me personally came S. Gioula known to me to be the individual described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and she duly acknowledged to me that the execution thereof was her act and deed.
         
     
  /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]  
     
     
 

 

EX-3.24 23 y04313a1exv3w24.htm EX-3.24 exv3w24
Exhibit 3.24
BYLAWS
IKARIA SHIPPING CORPORATION
A Marshall Islands Corporation
ARTICLE I
OFFICES
The principal place of business of the Corporation shall be at such place or places as the Directors shall from time to time determine. The Corporation may also have an office at such other places within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may from time to time appoint or the business of the Corporation may require.
ARTICLE II
MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Section 1. Annual Meetings. The annual meeting of shareholders of the Corporation shall be held on such day and at such time and place within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may determine for the purpose of electing Directors and of transacting such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.
Section 2. Special Meeting. Special meetings of the shareholders, unless otherwise prescribed by law, may be called for any purpose or purposes at any time by resolution of the Board of Directors or by the President and shall be called by the President or Secretary of the Corporation whenever required in writing to do so by shareholders owning a majority in amount of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote which is issued and outstanding. Such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed special meeting. Such meetings shall be held at such place and on a date and at such time as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer of the Corporation calling any such meeting. Business transacted at any special meeting of shareholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice.
Section 3. Notice of Meetings. Notice of every annual and special meeting of shareholders, other than any meeting the giving of notice of which is prescribed by law, stating the date, time, place and purpose thereof, and in the case of special meetings, the name of the person or persons at whose direction the notice is being issued, shall be given personally or sent by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter at least fifteen but not more than sixty days before such meeting, to each shareholder of record entitled to vote thereat and to each shareholder of record who, by reason of any action proposed at such meeting would be entitled to have his/her shares appraised if such action were taken, and the notice shall include a statement of that purpose and to that effect. If mailed, notice shall be deemed to have been given when deposited in the mail, directed to the shareholder at his/her address as the same appears on the record of shareholders of the Corporation or at such address as to which the shareholder has given notice to the Secretary. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any shareholder who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting or who attends the meeting without protesting prior to the conclusion thereof the lack of notice to him. If the Corporation shall issue any class of bearer shares, notice for all meetings shall be given in the manner provided in the Articles of Incorporation.
Section 4. Quorum. At all meetings of the shareholders, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, there must be present, either in person or by proxy, shareholders holding at least a majority of the shares issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at such meetings in order to constitute a quorum, but if less than a quorum is present, a majority of those shares present either in person or by proxy shall have power to adjourn any meeting until a quorum shall be present.

1


 

Section 5. Voting. If a quorum is present, and except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of stock represented at the meeting shall be the act of the shareholders. At any meeting of shareholders, each shareholder entitled to vote any shares on any manner to be voted upon at such meeting shall be entitled to one vote on such matter for each such share, and may exercise such voting right either in person or by proxy. Any action which may be taken at a meeting of shareholders, may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken or to be taken, is signed by all of the shareholders entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof.
Section 6. Fixing of Record Dates. The Board of Directors may fix a time not more than sixty nor less than fifteen days prior to the date of any meeting of the shareholders, or more than sixty (60) days prior to the last day on which the consent or dissent of shareholders may be expressed for any purpose without a meeting, as the time as of which shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or whose consent or dissent is required or may be expressed for any purpose, as the case may be, shall be determined, and all persons who were holders of record of voting shares at such time and not others shall be entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or to express their consent or dissent, as the case may be. The Board of Directors may fix a time not exceeding sixty days preceding the date fixed for the payment of any dividend, distribution, or allotment or for the purpose of such other action.
ARTICLE III
DIRECTORS
Section 1. Number. The affairs, business and property of the Corporation shall be managed by a Board of Directors to consist of at least one director. Within the limits fixed by these Bylaws, the number of directors may be determined either by a vote of a majority of the entire Board or by vote of shareholders. The directors need not be residents of the Marshall Islands nor shareholders of the Corporation.
Section 2. How Elected. Except as otherwise provided by law or Section 4 of this Article, the directors of the Corporation (other than the first Board of Directors designated by the Incorporator) shall be elected at the annual meeting of shareholders. Each director shall be elected to serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until his/her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified, except in the event of his/her death, resignation, removal or the earlier termination of his/her term of office.
Section 3. Removal. Any or all of the directors may be removed, with or without cause, by a vote of the shareholders. Any director may be removed for cause by action of the Board of Directors.
Section 4. Vacancies. Vacancies in the Board of Directors occurring by death, resignation, the creation of new directorships, the failure of the shareholders to elect the whole Board at any annual election of directors, or, except as herein provided, for any other reason, including removal of directors for cause, may be filled either by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors then in office, although less than a quorum, at any special meeting called for that purpose or at any regular meeting of the Board, except as otherwise prescribed by law or unless the Articles of Incorporation provide that such vacancies or newly created directorships shall be filled by vote of the shareholders. Vacancies occurring by removal of directors without cause may be filled only by vote of the shareholders.
Section 5. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held at such time and place as may be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors and no notice shall be required for any regular meeting. Except as otherwise provided by law, any business may be transacted at any regular meeting.

2


 

Section 6. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board may, unless otherwise prescribed by law, be called by the President or any other officer of the Corporation who is also a director. The President or the Secretary shall call a special meeting of the Board upon written request directed to either of them by any two directors stating the time, place and purpose of such special meeting. Special meetings of the Board shall be held on a date and at such time and at such place as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer calling the meeting.
Section 7. Notice of Special Meeting. Notice of the date, time and place of each special meeting of the Board of Directors shall be given to each director at least forty-eight hours prior to such meeting, unless the notice is given orally or delivered in person, in which case it shall be given at least twenty-four hours prior to such meeting. For the purpose of this section, notice shall be deemed to be duly given to a director if given personally (including by telephone) or if such notice be delivered to such director by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter to his/her last known address. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any director who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting, or who attends the meeting without protesting, prior to the conclusion thereof, the lack of notice to him/her.
Section 8. Quorum. A majority of the entire board, present in person or by proxy or by communicating equipment, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
Section 9. Voting. The vote of the majority of the directors, present in person or by proxy, in communication by telefax or conference telephone, at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the directors. Any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if all the members of the Board consent in writing thereto.
Section 10. Compensation of Directors and Members of Committees. The Board may from time to time, in its discretion, fix the amounts which shall be payable to members of the Board of Directors and to members of any committee, for attendance at the meetings of the Board or of such committee and for services rendered to the Corporation.
ARTICLE IV
COMMITTEES
Section 1. Executive Committee and Other Committees. The Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members an Executive Committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation, which, to the extent provided in said resolution or resolutions, or in these Bylaws, shall have and may exercise, to the extent permitted by law, the powers of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may have power to authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it. In addition, the Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members other committees to consist of one or more directors of the Corporation, each of which shall perform such function and have such authority and powers as shall be delegated to it by said resolution or resolutions or as provided for in these Bylaws, except that only the Executive Committee may have and exercise the powers of the Board of Directors. Members of the Executive Committee and any other committee shall hold office for such periods as may be prescribed by the vote of the majority of the entire Board of Directors, subject, however, to removal at any time by the vote of the Board of Directors. Vacancies in the membership of such committees shall be filled by vote of the Board of Directors. Committees may adopt their own rules of procedure and may meet at stated times or on such notice as they may determine. Each committee shall keep a record of its proceedings and report the same to the Board when requested.

3


 

ARTICLE V
OFFICERS
Section 1. Number and Designation. The Board of Directors shall appoint a Secretary and a Treasurer, and may appoint a President as well as such other officers as it may deem necessary. Officers may be of any nationality, need not be residents of the Marshall Islands and may be, but are not required to be, directors. Officers of the Corporation shall be natural persons except the Secretary may be a corporate entity. Any two or more offices may be held by the same natural person.
The officers shall be appointed annually by the Board of Directors at its first meeting following the annual election of directors, but in the event of the failure of the Board to so appoint any officer, such officer may be appointed at any subsequent meeting of the Board of Directors. The salaries of the officers and any other compensation paid to them shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may at any meeting appoint additional officers. Each officer shall hold office until the first meeting of the Board of Directors following the next annual election of directors and until his/her successor shall have been duly appointed and qualified, except in the event of the earlier termination of his/her term of office through death, resignation, removal or otherwise. Any officer may be removed by the Board at any time with or without cause. Any vacancy in an office may be filled for the unexpired portion of the term of such office by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting.
Section 2. President. The President shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation and shall have the general management of the affairs of the Corporation, together with the powers and duties usually incident to the office of President, except as specifically limited by appropriate written resolution of the Board of Directors and shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors. The President shall preside at all meetings of shareholders at which he/she is present and if, in the case of the President, he/she is a director, at all meetings of the directors.
Section 3. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have general supervision over the care and custody of the funds, securities and other valuable effects of the Corporation and shall deposit the same or cause the same to be deposited in the name of the Corporation in such depositories as the Board of Directors may designate, shall disburse the funds of the Corporation as may be ordered by the Board of Directors, shall have supervision over the accounts of all receipts and disbursements of the Corporation, shall, whenever required by the Board, render or cause to be rendered financial statements of the Corporation, shall have the power and perform the duties usually incident to the office of Treasurer; and shall have the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors, or President.
Section 4. Secretary. The Secretary shall act as Secretary of all meetings of the shareholders and of the Board of Directors at which he/she is present, shall have supervision over the giving and serving of notices of the Corporation; shall be the custodian of the corporate records and of the corporate seal of the Corporation; shall be empowered to affix the corporate seal to those documents, the execution of which, on behalf of the Corporation under its seal, is duly authorized and when so affixed may attest the same, and shall exercise the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors or the President. If the Secretary is a Corporation, the duties of the Secretary may be carried out by any duly authorized representative of such corporation acting in its name.
Section 5. Other Officers: Officers other than those treated in section 2 through 4 of this Article shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the Board of Directors or by the President.
Section 6. Bond. The Board of Directors shall have the power to the extent permitted by

4


 

law, to require any officer, agent or employee of the Corporation to give bond for the faithful discharge of his/her duties in such form and with such surety or sureties as the Board of Directors may deem advisable.
ARTICLE VI
CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES
Section 1. Form and Issuance. The shares of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates in a form meeting the requirements of law and approved by the Board of Directors. Certificates shall be signed by the President or a Vice President, and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer. These signatures may be facsimiles if the certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent or registered by a registrar other than the Corporation itself or its employee.
Section 2. Transfer. The Board of Directors shall have the power and authority to make such rules and regulations as they may deem expedient concerning the issuance, registration and transfer of certificates representing shares of the Corporation’s stock, and may appoint, transfer agents and registrars thereof.
Section 3. Loss of Stock Certificates. The Board of Directors may direct a new certificate or certificates of stock to be issued in place of any certificate or certificates thereof issued by the Corporation alleged to have been lost or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of a new certificate or certificates, the Board of Directors may, in its discretion, and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his/her representative, to advertise the same in such manner as it shall require and/or give the Corporation a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the Corporation with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost or destroyed.
ARTICLE VII
DIVIDENDS
Section 1. Declaration and Form. Dividends may be declared in conformity with law by, and at the discretion of, the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting. Dividends may be declared and paid in cash, stock, or other property of the Corporation.
ARTICLE VIII
CORPORATE SEAL
Section 1. Corporate Seal. The seal of the Corporation, if any, shall be circular in form, with the name of the Corporation in the circumference and such other appropriate legend as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine.
ARTICLE IX
FISCAL YEAR
Section 1. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be such period of twelve consecutive months as the Board of Directors may by resolution designate.

5


 

ARTICLE X
AMENDMENTS
Section 1. By the Shareholders. These Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any meeting of the shareholders of the Corporation by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the stock present and voting at such meeting provided notice that an amendment is to be considered and acted upon is inserted in the notice or waiver of notice of said meeting.
Section 2. By the Directors. If the Articles of Incorporation so provide, these Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors by the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire Board, subject, however, to the power of the shareholders to alter, amend or repeal any Bylaws as adopted.

6

EX-3.25 24 y04313a1exv3w25.htm EX-3.25 exv3w25
Exhibit 3.25
THE COMPANIES LAW (2009 Revision)
EXEMPTED COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
OF
IOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
(the “Company”)
1.   The NAME of the Company is Ios Shipping Corporation
 
2.   The REGISTERED OFFICE of the Company is situate at the offices of Maricorp Services Ltd., P.O. Box 2075, George Town, Grand Cayman KY1-1105, Cayman Islands, British West Indies or at such other place as the Directors may determine.
 
3.   The OBJECTS for which the Company is established are NOT restricted but, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company shall have full power and authority to do and carry out any and all acts exercisable by a natural person or body corporate or any other legal entity in any part of the world in any capacity whatsoever including whether as principal, agent, contractor, broker, representative, attorney or otherwise and whether alone or jointly with others and the Company shall have full power and authority to carry out any object not prohibited by the Companies Law (2009 Revision) or any other law of the Cayman Islands or any modifications or re-enactments thereof.
 
4.   Pursuant to the Companies Law (2009 Revision), the Company shall have, and be capable of exercising, all of the functions of a natural person of full capacity irrespective of any question of corporate benefit.
 
5.   If the Company is registered as an exempted company:
  5.1   it shall have the power to apply to the Registrar of Companies to be registered by way of continuation as a body corporate limited by shares under the laws of any jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands and to be de-registered in the Cayman Islands with full power to carry out all or any matters required by section 206 of the Companies Law (2009 Revision) or any statutory modifications or re-enactments thereof; and
 
  5.2   it shall not trade in the Cayman Islands with any person, firm or corporation except in furtherance of the business of the Company carried on outside the Cayman Islands provided that nothing in this clause shall be construed so as to prevent the Company effecting and concluding contracts in the Cayman Islands and exercising in the

1


 

      Cayman Islands all of its powers necessary for the carrying on of its business outside the Cayman Islands.
6.   Nothing in the preceding clauses shall be deemed to permit the Company to carry on such business as requires a licence under applicable Cayman Islands law including, without limitation:
  6.1   the business of a bank or trust company unless licensed therefor under The Banks and Trust Companies Law (2009 Revision);
 
  6.2   the business of an insurance company, manager, agent, sub-agent or broker unless licensed therefor under the Insurance Law (2008 Revision); or
 
  6.3   the business of company management unless licensed therefor under The Companies Management Law (2003 Revision)
    or any statutory modification or re-enactment of any of the same for the time being in force.
 
7.   THE LIABILITY of the members is limited.
 
8.   THE AUTHORISED SHARE CAPITAL of the Company is fifty thousand United States dollars (US$50,000) divided into fifty thousand (50,000) shares each with a nominal or par value of one United States dollar (US$1.00) with the power for the Company, insofar as is permitted by law, to redeem any of its shares, increase or reduce such capital and to issue all or any part of its capital (whether original, redeemed, increased or reduced) with or without any preference, priority or special privilege, or subject to any postponement of rights, or to any conditions or restrictions whatsoever and so that, unless the conditions of issue shall otherwise expressly provide, every issue of shares, whether stated to be preference or otherwise, shall be subject to the powers on the part of the Company hereinbefore contained.
I/We, the person or persons who have subscribed our names and addresses, are desirous of being formed into a company, in pursuance of this Memorandum of Association, and I/We respectively agree to take the number of shares in the capital of the Company set opposite my/our respective name/s.

2


 

     
NAME, ADDRESS & DESCRIPTION OF SUBSCRIBER/S
  NUMBER OF SHARES TAKEN BY EACH SUBSCRIBER
 
   
MARICORP SERVICES LTD.
  One (1)
P.O. BOX 2075
   
GRAND CAYMAN KY1-1105
   
CAYMAN ISLANDS
   
COMPANY MANAGEMENT COMPANY
/s/ [ILLEGIBLE]
Duly authorised signatory for and
on behalf of Maricorp Services Ltd.
TOTAL NO. OF SHARES TAKEN: One (1)
Dated this 1st day of April, 2010
Witness to the above signature:
/s/ Christine Thomson                          
P.O. BOX 2075
GRAND CAYMAN KY1-1105
CAYMAN ISLANDS
CERTIFIED TO BE A TRUE AND CORRECT COPY
     
SIG.
  /s/ Joy A. Rankine
 
   
 
  JOY A. RANKINE
 
  Assistant Registrar
Date. 1st APRIL, 2010

3


 

INDEX TO ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
PRELIMINARY – Article 1
INTERPRETATION – Article 2
SHARES – Article 3
VARIATION OF SHARE RIGHTS – Articles 4 – 5
NON-RECOGNITION OF TRUSTS – Article 6
ISSUE OF SHARES – Article 7
REGISTER OF MEMBERS – Articles 8 – 9
LIEN – Articles 10 to 13
CALLS ON SHARES – Articles 14 to 21
TRANSFER AND TRANSMISSION OF SHARES – Articles 22 to 27
FORFEITURE OF SHARES – Articles 28 to 34
CONVERSION OF SHARES INTO STOCK – Articles 35 to 38
PRE-EMPTIVE AND SHARE RIGHTS – Article 39
ALTERATION OF SHARE CAPITAL – Articles 40 to 43
STATUTORY MEETINGS – Articles 44 to 45
GENERAL MEETINGS – Articles 46 to 51
PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS – Articles 52 to 59
VOTES OF MEMBERS – Articles 60 to 66
PROXIES – Articles 67 – 70
RESOLUTIONS IN WRITING – Article 71
CORPORATIONS ACTING BY REPRESENTATIVES AT MEETINGS – Article 72
DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS – Articles 73 to 83
MANAGING DIRECTOR/OTHER OFFICERS – Article 84

4


 

ALTERNATE DIRECTORS – Articles 85 to 86
POWERS AND DUTIES OF DIRECTORS – Articles 87 to 91
DISQUALIFICATION AND PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS – Articles 92 to 100
TENURE OF OFFICE OF DIRECTORS – Articles 101 to 103
PRESUMPTION OF ASSENT – Article 104
SEAL – Articles 105 to 106
DIVIDENDS AND RESERVES – Articles 107 to 113
CAPITALISATION OF PROFITS – Articles 114 to 115
BOOKS OF ACCOUNT – Articles 116 to 120
NOTICES – Articles 121 to 124
LIQUIDATION OF THE COMPANY – Articles 125 to 126
INDEMNITY – Article 127
AMENDMENT OF MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES – Article 128
TRANSFER BY WAY OF CONTINUATION – Article 129

5


 

THE COMPANIES LAW (2009 Revision)
EXEMPTED COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
IOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
PRELIMINARY
1.   The regulations in Table “A” in the First Schedule to the Law (as defined below) shall not apply to the Company except insofar as they are repeated or contained in these Articles.
INTERPRETATION
2.   In these Articles, if not inconsistent with the subject or context, the following expressions shall have the following meanings:
                 
 
    2.1     “Articles”   means the articles of association of the Company for the time being in force.
 
               
 
          “Company”   means the above named company.
 
               
 
          “Directors”   means the directors for the time being of the Company.
 
               
 
          “Law”   means the Companies Law (2009 Revision) of the Cayman Islands and every statutory modification or re-enactment thereof for the time being in force.
 
               
 
          “member”   has the meaning assigned to it in the Law.
 
               
 
         
“Memorandum of Association”
  means the memorandum of association of the Company for the time being in force.
 
               
 
          “Ordinary Resolution”   means any resolution of the members, not being a Special Resolution, which is either: (i) approved at a duly convened and constituted meeting of the members by the affirmative vote of a simple majority of the votes of the shares entitled to vote thereon which were present at the meeting and were voted and not abstained; or (ii) consented to in writing by all of the members entitled to vote thereon.

6


 

                 
 
          “Secretary”   means any person appointed to perform the duties of secretary of the Company and shall include an assistant secretary.
 
               
 
          “share”   includes a fraction of a share.
 
               
 
          “Special Resolution”   has the meaning assigned to it in the Law.
  2.2   Expressions defined in the Law, or any statutory modification or re-enactment thereof in force at the date on which these Articles become binding on the Company, shall have the meanings so defined.
 
  2.3   Words importing the singular number shall include the plural number and vice versa.
 
  2.4   Words importing the masculine gender shall include the feminine and neuter genders.
 
  2.5   Persons shall include corporations.
 
  2.6   The headings are intended for convenience and shall not affect the construction of these Articles.
SHARES
3.   Subject to the provisions, if any, in that behalf in the Memorandum of Association, and without prejudice to any special rights previously conferred on the holders of existing shares, any share may be issued with such preferred, deferred or other special rights, or such restrictions, whether in regard to dividend, voting, return of share capital or otherwise, as the Company may from time to time by Special Resolution determine and, subject to the provisions of the Law, any preference share may, with the sanction of a Special Resolution, be issued on the terms that it is, or at the option of the Company is liable, to be redeemed.
VARIATION OF SHARE RIGHTS
4.   If at any time the share capital is divided into different classes of shares the rights attached to any class (unless otherwise provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class) may be varied with the consent in writing of the holders of three-fourths of the issued shares of that class or with the sanction of a Special Resolution passed at a separate general meeting of the holders of the shares of the class. To every such separate general meeting the provisions of these Articles relating to general meetings shall apply, but so that the necessary quorum shall be one person holding or representing by proxy at least one-third of the issued shares of the class (but so that if, at any adjourned meeting of such holders, a quorum as defined above is not present, those members who are present shall be a quorum) and that any holder of shares of the class present in person or by proxy may demand a poll and, on a poll, shall have one vote for each share of the class of which he is the holder.
5.   The rights conferred upon the holders of the shares of any class issued with preferred or other rights shall, unless otherwise expressly provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that

7


 

    class, be deemed not to be varied by the creation or issue of further shares ranking pari passu therewith.
NON-RECOGNITION OF TRUSTS
6.   Except as required by law, no person shall be recognised by the Company as holding any share upon any trust, and the Company shall not be bound by or be compelled in any way to recognise (even when having notice thereof) any equitable, contingent, future or partial interest in any share or any interest in any fractional part of a share (except only as is otherwise provided by these Articles, by law or under an order of a court of competent jurisdiction) or any other rights in respect of any share except an absolute right to the entirety thereof in the registered holder.
ISSUE OF SHARES
7.   Subject to Article 39 and to the provisions of these Articles relating to shares, the shares shall be at the disposal of the Directors and they may (subject to the provisions of the Law) allot, grant options over, or otherwise dispose of them to such persons, on such terms and conditions and at such times as they think fit but so that no share shall be issued at a discount, except in accordance with the provisions of the Law, and so that in the case of shares offered to the public for subscription the amount payable on application on each share shall not be less than such percentage of the nominal amount of the share as shall be determined by the Directors.
REGISTER OF MEMBERS
8.1   Shares in the Company may only be issued as registered shares and may not be exchanged for shares issued to bearer.
8.2   The Directors shall keep or cause to be kept at the Registered Office or such other place determined by the Directors the register of members containing such particulars relating to each member as they may deem appropriate provided that the following particulars are recorded:
  8.2.1   the name and address of each member, a statement of the shares of each class held by him and of the amount paid, or agreed to be considered as paid, on such shares;
 
  8.2.2   the date on which the name of each person was entered in the register of members as a member;
 
  8.2.3   the date on which any person ceased to be a member.
8.3   Every person whose name is entered as a member in the register of members shall, without payment, be entitled to a certificate under the seal of the Company specifying the share or shares held by him and the amount paid up thereon provided that, in respect of a share or shares held jointly by several persons, the Company shall not be bound to issue more than

8


 

    one certificate and delivery of a certificate for a share to one of several joint holders shall be sufficient delivery to all.
9.   If a share certificate is worn out, defaced, lost or destroyed, it may be renewed on payment of such fee, if any, not exceeding one United States dollar and on such terms, if any, as to evidence and indemnity as the Directors may prescribe.
LIEN
10.   The Company shall have a first and paramount lien on every share (not being a fully paid share) for all moneys (whether presently payable or not) called or payable at a fixed time in respect of that share and the Company shall also have a lien on all shares (other than fully paid-up shares) standing registered in the name of a single person for all moneys presently payable by him or his estate to the Company but the Directors may at any time declare any share to be wholly or partly exempt from the provisions of this Article. The Company’s lien, if any, on a share shall extend to all dividends payable thereon.
11.   The Company may sell, in such manner as the Directors think fit, any shares on which the Company has a lien, but no sale shall be made unless some sum in respect of which the lien exists is presently payable nor until the expiration of fourteen days after a notice in writing, stating and demanding payment of such part of the amount in respect of which the lien exists as is presently payable, has been given to the registered holder for the time being of the share, or the persons entitled thereto by reason of his death or bankruptcy.
12.   For giving effect to any such sale, the Directors may authorise some person to transfer the shares sold to the purchaser thereof. The purchaser shall be registered as the holder of the shares comprised in any such transfer and he shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, nor shall his title to the shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in relation to the sale.
13.   The proceeds of the sale shall be received by the Company and applied in payment of such part of the amount in respect of which the lien exists as is presently payable and the residue shall (subject to a like lien for sums not presently payable as existed upon the shares prior to the sale) be paid to the person entitled to the shares at the date of the sale.
CALLS ON SHARES
14.   The Directors may from time to time make calls upon the members in respect of any moneys unpaid on their shares (whether on account of the nominal value of the shares or by way of premium or otherwise) and not by the conditions of allotment thereof made payable at fixed times provided that no call shall exceed one-half of the nominal value of the share or be payable earlier than one month from the date fixed for the payment of the previous call and each member shall (subject to receiving at least fourteen days’ notice specifying the time or times and place of payment) pay to the Company at the time or times and place so specified the amount called on his shares. A call may be revoked or postponed at the determination of the Directors.

9


 

15.   A call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the resolution of the Directors authorising the call was passed and may be required to be paid by instalments.
16.   The joint holders of a share shall be jointly and severally liable to pay all calls in respect thereof.
17.   If a sum called in respect of a share is not paid before or on the day appointed for payment thereof, the person from whom the sum is due shall pay interest on the sum from such day appointed for payment to the time of actual payment at such rate not exceeding six per cent. per annum as the Directors may determine but the Directors shall be at liberty to waive payment of such interest either wholly or partly.
18.   Any sum which by the terms of issue of a share becomes payable on allotment or on any fixed date (whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium or otherwise) shall for the purposes of these Articles be deemed to be a call duly made, notified and payable on the date on which, by the terms of issue, the same becomes payable and, in case of non-payment, all the relevant provisions of these Articles as to payment of interest and expenses, forfeiture or otherwise shall apply as if such sum had become payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.
19.   The provisions of these Articles as to the liability of joint holders and as to payment of interest shall apply in the case of non-payment of any sum which, by the terms of issue of a share, becomes payable at a fixed time (whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium or otherwise) as if the same had become payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.
20.   The Directors may make arrangements on the issue of shares for a difference between the holders in the amount of calls to be paid and in the times of payment.
21.   The Directors may, if they think fit, receive from any member willing to advance the same all or any part of the moneys uncalled and unpaid upon any shares held by him and upon all or any of the moneys so advanced may (until the same would, but for such advance, become presently payable) pay interest at such rate, not exceeding (without the sanction of the Company in general meeting) six per cent, per annum, as may be agreed upon between the member paying the sum in advance and the Directors.
TRANSFER AND TRANSMISSION OF SHARES
22.   The instrument of transfer of any share shall be executed by or on behalf of the transferor and transferee and the transferor shall be deemed to remain a holder of the share until the name of the transferee is entered in the register of members in respect thereof provided that the Directors may waive execution by the transferee of the instrument of transfer but shall, as soon as possible thereafter, inform the transferee of such waiver of execution.
23.   Subject to such of the restrictions of these Articles (if any) as may be applicable, shares shall be transferred by instrument in writing in the following form or in any usual or common form approved by the Directors:-

10


 

SHARE TRANSFER
    I                                            of                                             (the “Transferor”) in consideration of the sum of                       paid to me by                                            of                                           (the “Transferee”) do HEREBY TRANSFER to the Transferee the share or shares numbered                       in the Company to hold unto the Transferee, his executors, heirs and assigns subject to the conditions on which I hold the same and I, the Transferee, do hereby agree to take the said share(s) subject to such conditions.
 
    Dated the                      day of                                         
 
    Signed by the Transferor:                                         
 
    WITNESS to the signature of the Transferor:
 
    Signed by the Transferee:                                         
 
    WITNESS to the signature of the Transferee:                                         
 
24.   The Directors may, in their absolute discretion and without assigning any reason therefor, decline to register any transfer of any share, whether or not it is a fully paid share. The registration of transfers may be suspended at such times and for such periods as the Directors may from time to time determine provided always that such registration shall not be suspended for more than thirty days in any year.
 
    The Directors may also decline to recognise any instrument of transfer unless:
  24.1   a fee not exceeding one United States dollar is paid to the Company in respect thereof; and
 
  24.2   the instrument of transfer is accompanied by any share certificate to which it relates and such other evidence as the Directors may reasonably require to show the right of the transferor to make the transfer.
    If the Directors refuse to register a transfer of any shares they shall, within two months after the date on which the transfer was lodged with the Company, send to the transferee notice of the refusal.
 
25.   In the case of the death of a member, the legal personal representative of a deceased sole shareholder shall be the only person recognised by the Company as having any title to the share. In the case of a share registered in the names of two or more holders, the survivors or survivor, or the legal personal representatives of the deceased shareholder, shall be the only persons recognised by the Company as having any title to the share.
26.   Any person becoming entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a member shall, upon such evidence being produced as may from time to time be properly required by the Directors, have the right either to be registered as a member in respect of the

11


 

    share or, instead of being registered himself, to make such transfer of the share as the deceased or bankrupt person could have made but the Directors shall, in either case, have the same right to decline or suspend registration as they would have had in the case of a transfer of the share by the deceased or bankrupt member before his death or bankruptcy (as the case may be).
 
27.   A person becoming entitled to a share by reason of the death or bankruptcy of the holder shall be entitled to the same dividends and other advantages to which he would be entitled if he were the registered holder of the share except that he shall not, before being registered as a member in respect of the share, be entitled in respect of it to exercise any right conferred by membership in relation to meetings of the Company. The Directors may at any time give notice requiring any such person to elect either to be registered himself or to transfer the share and, if the notice is not complied with within ninety days, the Directors may, if such shares are redeemable at the option of the Company, redeem such shares but, in the meantime, the Directors may elect to withhold payment of all dividends, bonus or other moneys payable in respect of the share until the requirements of the notice have been complied with.
FORFEITURE OF SHARES
28.   If a member fails to pay any call or instalment of a call on the day appointed for payment thereof, the Directors may, at any time thereafter during such time as any part of such call or instalment remains unpaid, serve a notice on him requiring payment of so much of the call or instalment as is unpaid, together with any interest which may have accrued and all expenses incurred by the Company by reason of such non-payment.
29.   The notice shall name a day (not earlier than the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the notice) on or before which the payment required by the notice is to be made and shall state that, in the event of non-payment at or before the time appointed, the shares in respect of which the call was made will be liable to be forfeited.
30.   If the requirements of any such notice as aforesaid are not complied with, any share in respect of which the notice has been given may, at any time thereafter before the payment required by the notice has been made, be forfeited by a resolution of the Directors to that effect.
31.   A forfeited share may be sold or otherwise disposed of on such terms and in such manner as the Directors think fit and, at any time before a sale or disposition, the forfeiture may be cancelled on such terms as the Directors think fit.
32.   A person whose shares have been forfeited shall cease to be a member in respect of the forfeited shares but shall, notwithstanding, remain liable to pay the Company all moneys which, at the date of forfeiture, were payable by him to the Company in respect of the shares, but his liability shall cease if and when the Company receives payment in full of the nominal amount of the shares.

12


 

33.   A voluntary declaration in writing that the declarant is a Director or the Secretary and that a share in the Company has been duly sold, forfeited or otherwise disposed of on a date stated in the declaration shall be conclusive evidence of the facts therein stated as against all persons claiming to be entitled to the share. The Company may receive the consideration, if any, given for the share on any sale, forfeiture or disposition thereof and may execute a transfer of the share in favour of the person to whom the share is sold, forfeited or otherwise disposed and he shall thereupon be registered as the holder of the share and shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, if any, nor shall his title to the share be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in relation to the sale, forfeiture or disposal of the share.
34.   The provisions of these Articles as to forfeiture shall apply in the case of non-payment of any sum which, by the terms of issue of a share, becomes payable at a fixed time (whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium or otherwise) as if the same had been payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.
CONVERSION OF SHARES INTO STOCK
35.   The Company may by Ordinary Resolution convert any paid-up shares into stock, and reconvert any stock into paid-up shares of any denomination.
36.   The holders of stock may transfer the same, or any part thereof, in the same manner, and subject to the same Articles as and subject to which the shares from which the stock arose might prior to conversion have been transferred, or as near thereto as circumstances admit but the Directors may from time to time fix the minimum amount of stock transferable and restrict or forbid the transfer of fractions of that minimum but the minimum shall not exceed the nominal amount of the shares from which the stock arose.
37.   The holders of stock shall, according to the amount of the stock held by them, have the same rights, privileges and advantages as regards dividends, voting at meetings of the Company and other matters as if they held the shares from which the stock arose but no such privilege or advantage (except participation in the dividends and profits of the Company) shall be conferred by any such aliquot part of stock as would not, if existing shares, have conferred that privilege or advantage.
38.   Such of the Articles as are applicable to paid-up shares shall apply to stock and the words “share” and “shareholder” therein shall include “stock” and “stockholder”.
PRE-EMPTIVE AND SHARE RIGHTS
39.   The Company may by Ordinary Resolution, before the issue of any shares (whether such shares be of the original, increased or altered capital), determine that the same, or any of them, shall be offered in the first instance, and either at par or at a premium, to all existing holders of any class of shares, in proportion as nearly as may be to the number of shares of such class held by them respectively, or make any other provisions as to the issue of such shares.

13


 

ALTERATION OF SHARE CAPITAL
40.   The Company may from time to time by Ordinary Resolution increase its share capital by such sum, to be divided into shares of such amount or, if an exempted company, without nominal or par value, as the resolution shall prescribe and with such rights, priorities and privileges annexed thereto as the Company in general meeting may determine provided that the Company, if an exempted company, shall not divide its share capital into both shares of a fixed amount and shares without nominal or par value.
41.   Except so far as otherwise provided by the conditions of issue, or by these Articles, any capital raised by the creation of new shares shall be considered part of the original capital and shall be subject to the provisions herein contained with reference to the payment of calls and instalments, transfer and transmission, forfeiture, lien, surrender and otherwise.
42. The Company may by Ordinary Resolution:
  42.1   consolidate and divide all or any of its share capital into shares of larger amount than its existing shares;
 
  42.2   sub-divide its existing shares, or any of them, into shares of smaller amount than is fixed by the Memorandum of Association subject nevertheless to the provisions of the Law; and
 
  42.3   cancel any shares which, at the date of the passing of the Ordinary Resolution, have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any person and diminish the amount of its share capital by the amount of the shares so cancelled.
43. The Company may:
  43.1   by Special Resolution, and subject to and in accordance with the provisions of the Law, reduce its share capital and any capital redemption reserve fund in any manner whatsoever;
 
  43.2   by resolution of its Directors purchase its own shares (including any redeemable shares and fractions of a share) in any manner whatsoever; and
 
  43.3   make a payment in respect of the redemption or purchase of its own shares otherwise than out of profits or the proceeds of a fresh issue of shares.
STATUTORY MEETINGS
44.   The Company, if registered as an ordinary non-resident company or an ordinary company under the Law, shall hold a general meeting once in every calendar year at such time and place as may be resolved by the Company in general meeting or, in default, at such time and place as the Directors may determine or, in default, at such time in the third month following that in which the anniversary of the Company’s incorporation occurs, and at such place as the Directors shall appoint. In default of a general meeting being so held, a general meeting shall

14


 

    be held in the month next following and may be convened by any two members in the same manner as nearly as possible as that in which meetings are to be convened by the Directors. The above mentioned general meetings shall be called ordinary general meetings; all other general meetings shall be called extraordinary general meetings.
 
45.   The Company may, but shall not be obliged to, hold one or more Directors’ meetings in the Cayman Islands in each calendar year.
GENERAL MEETINGS
46.   The Directors may, whenever they think fit, convene an extraordinary general meeting. If, at any time, there are not sufficient Directors capable of acting to form a quorum, any Director or any one member of the Company may convene an extraordinary general meeting in the same manner as nearly as possible as that in which meetings may be convened by the Directors. The Directors shall, upon the requisition in writing of one or more members holding in the aggregate not less than one-tenth of such paid-up capital of the Company as at the date of the requisition carries the right of voting at general meetings, convene an extraordinary general meeting. Any such requisition shall express the object of the meeting proposed to be called and shall be left at the registered office of the Company. If the Directors do not proceed to convene a general meeting within twenty-one days from the date of such requisition being left as aforesaid, the requisitionists or any or either of them or any other member or members holding in the aggregate not less than one-tenth of such paid-up capital of the Company as at the date of the requisition carries the right of voting at general meetings, may convene an extraordinary general meeting to be held at the registered office of the Company or at some convenient place within the Cayman Islands at such time, subject to the Company’s Articles as to notice, as the persons convening the meeting fix.
47.   Subject to the provisions of the Law relating to Special Resolutions, seven days notice at the least (exclusive of the day on which the notice is served or deemed to be served but inclusive of the day for which the notice is given) specifying the place, the day and the hour of the general meeting and, in case of special business, the general nature of that business shall be given in the manner hereinafter provided, or in such other manner (if any) as may be prescribed by the Company in general meeting, to such persons as are, under the Articles, entitled to receive such notices from the Company but with the consent of all the members entitled to receive notice of some particular meeting, that meeting may be convened by such shorter notice and in such manner as those members may think fit.
48.   For the purpose of determining members entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of members or any adjournment thereof, or members entitled to receive payment of any dividend, or in order to make a determination of members for any other proper purpose, the Directors may provide that the register of members shall be closed for transfers for a stated period but not to exceed in any case forty days. If the register of members shall be so closed for the purpose of determining members entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of members, such register shall be so closed for at least ten days immediately preceding such meeting and the record date (the “Record Date”) for such determination shall be the date of the closure of the register of members.

15


 

49.   In lieu of or apart from closing the register of members, the Directors may fix in advance a date as the Record Date for any such determination of members entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of members and for the purpose of determining the members entitled to receive payment of any dividend the Directors may, at or within ninety days prior to the date of declaration of such dividend, fix a subsequent date no later than the date of declaration as the Record Date for such determination.
50.   If the register of members is not so closed and no Record Date is fixed for the determination of members entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of members or members entitled to receive payment of a dividend, the date on which notice of the meeting is mailed or the date on which the resolution of the Directors declaring such dividend is adopted, as the case may be, shall be the Record Date for such determination of members. When a determination of members entitled to vote at any meeting of members has been made as provided in this section, such determination shall apply to any adjournment thereof.
51.   The accidental omission to give notice of a meeting to, or the non-receipt of a notice of a meeting by, any member entitled to receive notice shall not invalidate the proceedings at any meeting.
PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS
52.   All business that is transacted at an extraordinary general meeting, and all that is transacted at an ordinary general meeting (with the exception of sanctioning a dividend, the consideration of the accounts, balance sheets, and the ordinary report of the Directors and auditors, the election of Directors and other officers in place of those retiring and the fixing of the remuneration of the auditors) shall be deemed special business.
53.   No business shall be transacted at any general meeting unless a quorum of members is present at the time when the meeting proceeds to business; two members present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote shall be a quorum provided always that, if there is only one member of record entitled to attend and vote at general meetings, that one member present in person or by proxy shall be a quorum and such member may transact business by written resolution as if a meeting were being held under the provisions of these Articles.
54.   If, within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting, a quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened upon the requisition of members, shall be dissolved. In any other case, it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week, at the same time and place and if, at the adjourned meeting, a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting the members present shall be a quorum and may transact the business for which the meeting was called.
55.   The Chairman, if any, of the board of Directors shall preside as Chairman at every general meeting of the Company. If there is no such Chairman, or if at any meeting he is not present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting or is unwilling to act as Chairman, the members present shall choose one of their number to be Chairman of the meeting.

16


 

56.   The Chairman may, with the consent of any meeting at which a quorum is present (and shall if so directed by the meeting), adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place. When a meeting is adjourned for ten days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given as in the case of an original meeting. Save as aforesaid, it shall not be necessary to give any notice of an adjournment or of the business to be transacted at an adjourned meeting.
57.   At any general meeting, a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a show of hands unless a poll is (before or on the declaration of the result of the show of hands) demanded by the Chairman of the meeting or any member present in person or by proxy entitled to vote and, unless a poll is so demanded, a declaration by the Chairman of the meeting that a resolution has, on a show of hands, been carried, or carried unanimously, or by a particular majority, or lost, and an entry to that effect in the book of the proceedings of the Company shall be conclusive evidence of the fact without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of, or against, that resolution.
58.   If a poll is duly demanded it shall be taken in such manner as the Chairman of the meeting directs and the result of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting at which the poll was demanded. A poll demanded on the election of the Chairman of the meeting or on a question of adjournment shall be taken forthwith. A poll demanded on any other question shall be taken at such time as the Chairman of the meeting directs and any business other than that upon which a poll has been demanded may be proceeded with pending the taking of the poll. The demand for a poll may be withdrawn.
59.   In the case of an equality of votes, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, the Chairman of the meeting at which the show of hands takes place or at which the poll is demanded shall be entitled to a second or casting vote.
VOTES OF MEMBERS
60.   Subject to any rights or restrictions for the time being attached to any class or classes of shares, on a show of hands every member present in person, and entitled to vote, shall have one vote. On a poll every member entitled to vote shall have one vote for each share of which he is the holder. On a poll a member entitled to more than one vote need not, if he votes, use all his votes or cast all the votes he uses in the same way.
61.   In the case of joint holders, the vote of the senior holder who tenders a vote, whether in person or by proxy, shall be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holders and, for this purpose, seniority shall be determined by the order in which the names stand in the register of members.
62.   A member of unsound mind, or in respect of whom an order has been made by any court having jurisdiction in lunacy, may vote, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, by his committee, receiver, or other person in the nature of a committee appointed by that court and any such committee, receiver or other person may, on a poll, vote by proxy.

17


 

63.   Subject to the Law, the Company in general meeting may determine (and may revoke, alter or amend such determination) that no member shall be entitled to vote at any general meeting unless all calls or other sums presently payable by him in respect of shares in the Company have been paid.
 
64.   No member shall be entitled to vote at any general meeting unless he is registered as a holder of a voting share of the Company on the Record Date for such meeting.
 
65.   No objection shall be raised to the qualification of any voter except at the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote objected to is given or tendered, and every vote not disallowed at such meeting shall be valid for all purposes. Any such objection made in due time shall be referred to the Chairman of the meeting whose decision shall be final and conclusive.
 
66.   On a poll or on a show of hands, votes may be given either personally or by proxy.
PROXIES
67.   The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing under the hand of the appointor or his attorney duly authorised in writing or, if the appointor is a corporation, either under seal or under the hand of an officer or attorney duly authorised. A proxy need not be a member of the Company.
 
68.   The instrument appointing a proxy and the power of attorney or other authority (if any) under which it is signed, or a notarially certified copy of that power of attorney or other authority, shall be deposited at the registered office of the Company or at such other place as is specified for that purpose in the notice convening the meeting at such time (if any) as the notice may specify before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the person named in the instrument proposed to vote and, in default, the instrument of proxy may, at the option of the Company, not be treated as valid. The instrument appointing a proxy shall be deemed to confer authority to demand or join in demanding a poll.
 
69.   An instrument appointing a proxy may afford members an opportunity of voting for or against a resolution and may be in the following form or a form as near thereto as circumstances admit or any other form approved by the Directors:-
 
    I,                       of                       being a member of the Company, hereby appoint                       of                       as my proxy, to vote for me and on my behalf at the (ordinary or extraordinary, as the case may be) general meeting of the Company to be held on the                       day of                       and at any adjournment thereof.
 
    Signed by:                       this                       day of                                           
 
70.   A vote given in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy shall be valid notwithstanding the previous death or insanity of the principal or revocation of the proxy or of the authority under which the proxy was executed, or the transfer of the share in respect of which the proxy is given, provided that no intimation in writing of such death, insanity,

18


 

revocation or transfer as aforesaid shall have been received by the Company at its registered office before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the proxy is used.
RESOLUTIONS IN WRITING
71.   A resolution in writing (whether ordinary or special and whether in one or more counterparts) signed by all the members for the time being entitled to receive notice of and to attend and vote at general meetings (or, being corporations, by their duly authorised representatives) shall be as valid and effective as if the same had been passed at a general meeting of the Company duly convened and held.
CORPORATIONS ACTING BY REPRESENTATIVES AT MEETINGS
72.   Any corporation which is a member of the Company may, in accordance with its articles of association or, in the absence of such provision, by resolution of its directors or other governing body, authorise such person as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any meeting of the Company or of any class of members of the Company and the person so authorised shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the corporation which he represents as that corporation could exercise if it were an individual member of the Company.
DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS
73.   Until otherwise determined by the Company in general meeting, the number of Directors shall not be less than one nor more than ten and the names of the first Directors shall be determined in writing by a majority of the subscribers to the Memorandum of Association.
 
74.   Thereafter, and subject as otherwise provided in these Articles, Directors shall be appointed by a resolution of the Company. At a general meeting, a motion for the appointment of two or more persons as Directors may be made by a single resolution.
 
75.   The remuneration of the Directors shall, from time to time, be determined by the Company in general meeting. The Directors may also be paid all travelling, hotel and other expenses properly incurred by them in connection with the business of the Company. Any Director who serves on any committee or who devotes special attention to the business of the Company, or who otherwise performs services which, in the opinion of the Directors, are outside the scope of the ordinary duties of a Director, may be paid such extra remuneration by way of salary, percentage of profits or otherwise as the Directors may determine.
 
76.   The Directors may, on behalf of the Company, pay a gratuity or pension or allowance on retirement to any Director who has held any other salaried office or place of profit with the Company or to his widow or dependents and may make contributions to any fund and pay premiums for the purchase or provision of any such gratuity, pension or allowance.
 
77.   A Director or officer of the Company may be or become a director or other officer of, or otherwise interested in, any company promoted by the Company or in which the Company

19


 

may be interested as shareholder or otherwise and no such Director or officer shall be accountable to the Company for any remuneration or other benefits received by him as a director or officer of, or from his interest in, such other company.
78.   A Director or officer of the Company may hold any other office or place of profit under the Company (other than the office of auditor) in conjunction with his office of Director or officer of the Company for such period and on such terms (as to remuneration and otherwise) as the Directors may determine.
 
79.   No Director or officer of the Company shall be disqualified by his office from holding any office or place of profit under the Company or under any company in which the Company shall be a member or otherwise interested, or from contracting or dealing with the Company either as vendor, purchaser or otherwise, nor shall any such contract, or any contract or arrangement entered into by or on behalf of the Company in which any Director or officer shall be in any way interested, be avoided, nor shall any Director or officer be liable to account to the Company for any profit arising from any such office or place of profit or realised by any such contract or arrangement by reason only of such Director or officer holding that office or of the fiduciary relations thereby established, but it is declared that the nature of his interest must be disclosed by him at the meeting of the Directors at which the contract or arrangement is taken into consideration if his interest then exists, or in any other case at the first meeting of the Directors after the acquisition of his interest. A general notice that a Director or officer is a member of any specified firm or company, and is to be regarded as interested in all transactions with that firm or company, shall be a sufficient disclosure under this Article as regards such Director or officer and the said transactions, and after such general notice it shall not be necessary for such Director or officer to give a special notice relating to any particular transaction with that firm or company.
 
80.   A Director or officer of the Company may, notwithstanding his interest, be counted in the quorum present at any meeting at which he or any other Director or officer is appointed to hold any such office or place of profit under the Company or at which the terms of any such appointment are arranged and he may vote on any such appointment or arrangement other than his own appointment or the arrangement of the terms thereof.
 
81.   Any Director or officer of the Company may act by himself or his firm in a professional capacity for the Company and he or his firm shall be entitled to remuneration for professional services as if he were not a Director or officer provided that nothing herein contained shall authorise a Director or officer or his firm to act as auditor of the Company.
 
82.   The share qualification for a Director may be fixed by the Company in general meeting and, unless and until so fixed, no qualification shall be required.
 
83.   The Directors may entrust to and confer upon a Managing Director, President, Vice-President, Manager, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Treasurer or any other officer of the Company any of the powers exercisable by them upon such terms and conditions and with such restrictions as they may think fit, and either collaterally with or to the exclusion of their own powers, and may from time to time revoke, withdraw, alter or vary all or any of such powers.

20


 

MANAGING DIRECTOR/OTHER OFFICERS
84.   The members or the Directors may from time to time appoint one or more of their body to the office of Managing Director, or any other office, on such terms and at such remuneration (whether by way of salary or commission or participation in profits or partly in one way and partly in another) as they may think fit but his appointment shall be subject to determination ipso facto if he ceases from any cause to be Director, or if the members or the Directors resolve that his tenure of the office of Managing Director or such other office be determined.
ALTERNATE DIRECTORS
85.   Any Director may in writing appoint any person, of whom a majority of the Directors do not object, to be his alternate to act in his place at any meeting of the Directors at which he is unable to be present. Every such alternate shall be entitled to notice of meetings of the Directors and to attend and vote at such meetings as a Director when the person appointing him is not personally present and, where he is a Director, to have a separate vote on behalf of the Director he is representing in addition to his own vote. A Director may at any time in writing revoke the appointment of an alternate appointed by him. Every such alternate shall be an officer of the Company and shall not be deemed to be the agent of the Director appointing him. The remuneration of such an alternate shall be payable out of the remuneration payable to the Director appointing him and the proportion thereof shall be agreed between them. An alternate need not hold any share qualification.
 
86.   A Director may appoint any person to act as his proxy at meetings of the Directors. Such appointment must be made in writing under the hand of the appointor and may at any time be revoked in like manner, and may be general or for a specified period, or for specified meetings, or for specified resolutions, and may authorise and direct the appointee to be Chairman of such meetings if the appointor would, if present, be entitled to preside, and notice of every such appointment or revocation must be given to the Company, and the appointee need not be a Director or member of the Company, but he must furnish the Company with his address.
POWERS AND DUTIES OF DIRECTORS
87.   The business of the Company shall be managed by the Directors, who may pay all expenses incurred in setting-up and registering the Company and may exercise all such powers of the Company as are not, by the Law or these Articles, required to be exercised by the Company in general meeting subject, nevertheless, to any regulations of these Articles, to the provisions of the Law, and to such regulations, being not inconsistent with the aforesaid regulations or provisions, as may be prescribed by the Company in general meeting but no regulations made by the Company in general meeting shall invalidate any prior act of the Directors which would have been valid if that regulation had not been made.

21


 

88.   The Directors may exercise all the powers of the Company to borrow money and to mortgage or charge its undertaking, property and uncalled capital, or any part thereof, and to issue debentures, debenture stock, bonds and other securities whether outright or as security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or of any third party. Debentures, debenture stock, bonds and other securities may be made assignable free from any equities between the Company and the person to whom the same may be issued.
 
89.   The Directors may from time to time and at any time by power of attorney appoint any company, firm or person or body of persons, whether nominated directly or indirectly by the Directors, to be the attorney or attorneys of the Company for such purposes and with such powers, authorities and discretions (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by the Directors under these Articles) and for such period and subject to such conditions as they may think fit and any such powers of attorney may contain such provisions for the protection and convenience of persons dealing with any such attorney as the Directors may think fit and may also authorise any such attorney to delegate all or any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in him.
 
90.   All cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange and other negotiable instruments, and all receipts for moneys paid to the Company, shall be signed, drawn, accepted, endorsed or otherwise executed, as the case may be, in such manner as the Directors shall from time to time by resolution determine.
 
91.   The Directors shall cause minutes to be made in books provided for the purpose:
  91.1   of all appointments of officers of the Company made by the Directors;
 
  91.2   of the names of the Directors present at each meeting of the Directors and of any committee of the Directors; and
 
  91.3   of all resolutions and proceedings at each meeting of the Company and of the Directors and of any committee of the Directors.
DISQUALIFICATION AND PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS
92.   The office of Director shall, ipso facto, be vacated if the Director:
  92.1   dies; or
 
  92.2   becomes bankrupt or makes any arrangement or composition with his creditors generally; or
 
  92.3   is found to be or becomes of unsound mind; or
 
  92.4   resigns his office by notice in writing to the Company; or
 
  92.5   is removed from office by a resolution of the Company.

22


 

93.   The Directors may meet together either within or without the Cayman Islands for the dispatch of business, adjourn, and otherwise regulate their meetings and proceedings, as they think fit. Except as otherwise determined by the Directors, it shall not be necessary to give written notice of a meeting of Directors. The Directors or any committee thereof may participate in a meeting of the board of Directors or of such committee by means of conference telephone, or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating can hear each other, and participation in a meeting pursuant to this provision shall constitute presence in person at such meeting. Questions arising at any meeting shall be decided by a majority of votes. In case of an equality of votes, the Chairman shall have a second or casting vote. A Director may, and the Secretary on the requisition of a Director shall, at any time summon a meeting of the Directors.
 
94.   Unless otherwise determined by the Company in general meeting, the quorum necessary for the transaction of the business of the Directors may be fixed by the Directors and, unless so fixed, shall be two provided always that, if there is only a sole Director, that Director shall be a quorum and such Director may transact business by written resolution as if a meeting were being held under the provisions of these Articles.
 
95.   A meeting of the Directors at which a quorum is present shall be competent to exercise all or any of the authorities, powers and discretions by or under these Articles for the time being vested in or exercisable by the Directors generally.
 
96.   A resolution in writing signed by all the Directors in office (including any duly appointed alternate Director) shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Directors duly convened and held.
 
97.   The continuing Directors or sole continuing Director may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body, but, if and so long as their number is reduced below the number fixed by or pursuant to these Articles as the necessary quorum of Directors, the continuing Directors or Director may act for the purpose of increasing the number of Directors to that number, or of summoning a general meeting of the Company, but for no other purpose.
 
98.   The Directors may elect a Chairman of their meetings and determine the period for which he is to hold office but if no such Chairman is elected, or if at any meeting the Chairman is not present within five minutes after the time appointed for holding the same, the Directors present may choose one of their number to be Chairman of the meeting.
 
99.   The Directors may delegate any of their powers to committees consisting of such member or members of their body as they think fit. Any committee so formed shall, in the exercise of the powers so delegated, conform to any regulations that may be imposed on it by the Directors. Save as aforesaid, the meetings and proceedings of a committee consisting of more than one member shall be governed by the provisions of these Articles regulating the proceedings and meetings of Directors.
 
100.   All acts done by any meeting of the Directors or of a committee of Directors or by any person acting as a Director shall, notwithstanding that it be afterwards discovered that there was

23


 

some defect in the appointment or continuance in office of any such Director or person acting as aforesaid, or that they or any of them were disqualified or had vacated office, or were not entitled to vote, be as valid as if every such person had been duly appointed or had duly continued on in office and was qualified or had continued to be a Director and had been entitled to be a Director.
TENURE OF OFFICE OF DIRECTORS
101.   The Directors shall hold and continue in office until they are removed from office under the terms of these Articles or until they resign.
 
102.   The Company may, by Ordinary Resolution, appoint any person to be a Director, remove any Director and/or appoint another person in his stead.
 
103.   The Directors shall have the power at any time, and from time to time, to appoint any person to be a Director, either to fill a casual vacancy or as an addition to the existing Directors, but so that the total number of Directors (exclusive of alternate Directors) shall not at any time exceed the number fixed in accordance with these Articles.
PRESUMPTION OF ASSENT
104.   A Director who is present at a meeting of the board of Directors at which action on any Company matter is taken shall be presumed to have assented to the action taken unless his dissent shall be entered in the minutes of the meeting or unless he shall file his written dissent from such action with the person acting as the Secretary of the meeting before the adjournment thereof or shall forward such dissent by registered mail to the Secretary immediately after the adjournment of the meeting. Such right of dissent shall not apply to a Director who voted in favour of such action.
SEAL
105.   Any seal shall only be used by the authority of the Directors or of a committee of the Directors authorised by the Directors in that behalf and every instrument to which the seal has been affixed shall be signed by one person who shall be either a Director or the Secretary or Secretary-Treasurer, Assistant Secretary or some person appointed by the Directors for the purpose provided that a Director, Secretary or other officer of the Company or representative or attorney may, without further authority of the Directors, affix any seal of the Company over his signature alone to any document of the Company required to be authenticated by him under seal or to be filed with the Registrar of Companies in the Cayman Islands or elsewhere wheresoever and provided further that share certificates representing shares in the capital of the Company shall be under seal signed by a Director and countersigned by the Secretary or another Director or other authorised person and that the Directors may authorise such share certificates to be issued with the seal and authorised signatures affixed by some method or system of mechanical process.
 
106.   The Company may have for use in any territory, district or place not situate in the Cayman Islands one or more official seal or seals each of which shall be a facsimile of the seal of the

24


 

    Company and each of which such seal or seals may bear the addition on its face of the name of the territory, district or place where it is to be used.
DIVIDENDS AND RESERVES
107.   Subject to the Law, payment of dividends will be at the sole discretion of the Directors and the Directors may from time to time pay to the members such interim dividends as appear to the Directors to be justified by the profits of the Company. No dividend shall be paid otherwise than out of profits or out of the share premium account or otherwise as permitted by the Law.
 
108.   Subject to the rights of persons, if any, entitled to shares with special rights as to dividend, all dividends shall be declared and paid according to the amounts paid or credited as paid on the shares in respect whereof the dividend is paid but no amount paid or credited as paid on a share in advance of calls shall be treated for the purposes of this Article as paid on the share. All dividends shall be apportioned and paid proportionately to the amounts paid or credited as paid on the shares during any portion or portions of the period in respect of which the dividend is paid but if any share is issued on terms providing that it shall rank for dividend as from a particular date such share shall rank for dividend accordingly.
 
109.   The Directors may, before recommending any dividend, set aside out of the profits of the Company such sums as they think proper as a reserve or reserves which shall, at the discretion of the Directors, be applicable for meeting contingencies or for equalizing dividends, or for any other purpose to which the profits of the Company may be properly applied, and pending such application may, at the like discretion, either be employed in the business of the Company or be invested in such investments (other than shares of the Company) as the Directors may from time to time think fit. The Directors may also, without placing the same to reserve, carry forward any profits which they may think prudent not to divide.
 
110.   If several persons are registered as joint holders of any share, any of them may give effectual receipts for any dividends, bonuses or other moneys payable on or in respect of the share.
 
111.   With the sanction of a general meeting, any dividend may be paid either wholly or partly by the distribution of specific assets and, in particular, of paid-up shares or debentures of any other company or in any one or more of such ways. Where any difficulty arises in regard to such distribution, the Directors may settle the same as they think expedient and, in particular, may issue fractional certificates and fix the value for distribution of such specific assets or any part thereof and may determine that cash payments shall be made to any members upon the footing of the value so fixed, in order to adjust the rights of all members, and may vest any such specific assets in trustees upon trust for the members entitled to the dividend as may seem expedient to the Directors.
 
112.   Any dividend, interest or other moneys payable in cash in respect of shares may be paid by cheque or warrant sent through the post directed to the registered address of the member or person entitled thereto or, in the case of joint holders, to any one of such joint holders at his

25


 

    registered address or to such person and such address as the member or person entitled or such joint holders, as the case may be, may direct. Every such cheque or warrant shall be made payable to the order of the person to whom it is sent or to the order of such other person as the member or person entitled or such joint holders, as the case may be, may direct.
 
113.   No dividend shall bear interest against the Company. All dividends unclaimed for one year after having been declared may be invested or otherwise made use of by the Directors for the benefit of the Company until claimed and the Company shall not be constituted a trustee in respect thereof. All dividends unclaimed for a period of twelve years after having been declared shall be forfeited and shall revert to the Company.
CAPITALISATION OF PROFITS
114.   The Company in general meeting may, upon the recommendation of the Directors, resolve that it is desirable to capitalise any part of the amount for the time being standing to the credit of any of the Company’s reserve accounts or to the credit of the profit and loss account or otherwise available for distribution and not required for the payment or provision of the fixed dividend on any shares entitled to fixed preferential dividends and accordingly that such sums be set free for distribution amongst the members who would have been entitled thereto if distributed by way of dividend and in the same proportions on condition that the same be not paid in cash but be applied either in or towards paying up any amounts for the time being unpaid on any shares held by such members respectively or paying up in full
un-issued shares or debentures of the Company to be allotted and distributed credited as fully paid-up to and amongst such members in the proportion aforesaid, or partly in the one way and partly in the other, and the Directors shall give effect to such resolution provided that a share premium account and a capital redemption reserve fund may, for the purposes of this Article, only be applied in the paying-up of un-issued shares to be issued to members as fully paid bonus shares.
 
115.   Whenever such a resolution as aforesaid has been passed, the Directors shall make all appropriations and applications of the undivided profits resolved to be capitalised thereby and all allotments and issues of fully paid shares or debentures, if any, and generally shall do all acts and things required to give effect thereto, with full power to the Directors to make such provision by the issue of fractional certificates or by payment in cash or otherwise as they think fit for the case of shares or debentures becoming distributable in fractions, and also to authorise any person to enter on behalf of all members entitled thereto into an agreement with the Company providing for the allotment to them respectively, credited as fully paid-up, of any further shares or debentures to which they may be entitled upon such capitalisation, or as the case may require, for the payment up by the Company on their behalf, by the application thereto of their respective proportions of the profits resolved to be capitalised, of the amounts or any part of the amounts remaining unpaid on their existing shares, and any agreement made under such authority shall be effective and binding on all such members.

26


 

BOOKS OF ACCOUNT
116.   The Directors shall cause proper books of account to be kept with respect to:
  116.1   all sums of money received and expended by the Company and the matters in respect of which the receipt and expenditure takes place;
 
  116.2   all sales and purchases of goods by the Company; and
 
  116.3   the assets and liabilities of the Company.
    Proper books of account shall not be deemed to be kept with respect to the matters aforesaid if there are not kept such books of account as are necessary to give a true and fair view of the state of the Company’s affairs and to explain its transactions.
 
117.   The books of account shall be kept at the registered office of the Company, or at such other place or places as the Directors think fit, and shall always be open to the inspection of the Directors as a board and individually.
 
118.   The Directors shall from time to time determine whether and to what extent and at what times and places and under what conditions or regulations the accounts and books of the Company or any of them shall be open to the inspection of members not being Directors and no member (not being a Director) shall have any right of inspecting any account or book or document of the Company except as conferred by law or authorised by the Directors or by the Company in general meeting.
 
119.   The Company in general meeting may determine or, failing such determination, the Directors may determine:
  119.1   that there be prepared and/or laid before the Company a profit and loss account, a balance sheet, group accounts and/or reports for such period and on such terms as the Company or Directors may determine;
 
  119.2   that there be laid before the Company in general meeting a copy of every balance sheet together with a copy of the auditor’s report which, not less than seven days before the date of the meeting, shall be sent to all persons entitled to receive notices of general meetings of the Company; and
 
  119.3   that the accounts relating to the Company’s affairs may be audited in such manner as may be determined from time to time.
120.   The Company in general meeting may revoke, alter or amend any such determination under the preceding Article and the Directors may revoke, alter or amend any determination made by the Directors under the preceding Article.

27


 

NOTICES
121.   A notice may be given by the Company to any member either personally or by sending it by post to him at his registered address or, if he has no registered address in the Cayman Islands, to the address, if any, supplied to the Company by him for the giving of notices to him. Where a notice is sent by post, service of the notice shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing, prepaying and posting a letter containing the notice and to have been effected, in the case of a notice of a meeting, at the expiration of three days after the letter containing the same is posted and, in any other case, at the time at which the letter would be delivered in the ordinary course of post. A notice may also be sent by cable, telex or telefax and service of the notice shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing, prepaying and sending the notice through a transmitting or communications organisation and to have been effected at the expiration of twenty four hours after the same is sent as aforesaid.
 
122.   A notice may be given by the Company to the joint holders of a share by giving the notice to the joint holder named first in the register of members in respect of the share.
 
123.   A notice may be given by the Company to the persons entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a member by sending it through the post in a prepaid letter addressed to them by name, or by the title of representatives of the deceased, or trustee of the bankruptcy, or by any like description at the address, if any, supplied for the purpose by the persons claiming to be so entitled or (until such an address has been so supplied) by giving the notice in any manner in which the same might have been given if the death or bankruptcy had not occurred.
 
124.   Notice of every general meeting shall be given in any manner hereinbefore authorised to:
  124.1   every member holding voting shares except those members who (having no registered address in the Cayman Islands) have not supplied to the Company an address for the giving of notices to them; and
 
  124.2   every person entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a member who, but for his death or bankruptcy, would be entitled to receive notice of the meeting.
    No other person shall be entitled to receive notices of general meetings.
LIQUIDATION OF THE COMPANY
125.   If the Company shall be wound up the liquidator may, with the sanction of a Special Resolution and any other sanction required by the Law, divide amongst the members in specie or kind the whole or any part of the assets of the Company (whether they shall consist of property of the same kind or not) and may for such purpose set such value as he deems fair upon any property to be divided as aforesaid and may determine how such division shall be carried out as between members or different classes of members. The liquidator may with the like sanction vest the whole or any part of the assets in trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of contributories as the liquidator, with the like sanction, shall think fit but so that no

28


 

  member shall be compelled to accept any shares or other securities whereon there is any liability.
126.   If the Company shall be wound up, and the assets available for distribution amongst the members shall be insufficient to repay the whole of the paid-up share capital, such assets shall be distributed so that, as nearly as may be, the losses shall be borne by the members in proportion to the capital paid-up at the commencement of the winding up on the shares held by them respectively. If, on a winding up, the assets available for distribution amongst the members shall be more than sufficient to repay the whole of the capital paid-up at the commencement of the winding up, the excess shall be distributed amongst the members in proportion to the capital at the commencement of the winding up paid on the shares held by them respectively. This Article is to be without prejudice to the rights of holders of shares issued upon special terms and conditions.
INDEMNITY
127.   Every Director, Managing Director, President, Vice-President, Manager, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Treasurer or other officer of the Company and their heirs and personal representatives shall be entitled to be indemnified and held harmless out of the assets of the Company against all actions, proceedings, costs, damages, expenses (including reasonable legal and/or accountancy fees), claims, losses or liabilities which he may sustain or incur in or about the execution of the duties of his office or otherwise in relation thereto, including any liability incurred by him in defending any proceedings, whether civil or criminal, in which judgment is given in his favour or in which he is acquitted, and no Director or person as aforementioned shall be liable for any loss, damage or misfortune which may happen to or be incurred by the Company in the execution of the duties of his office or in relation thereto provided that he acted in good faith and in a manner reasonably believed by him to be in the best interests of the Company and provided further that his actions did not involve negligence, wilful default, fraud or dishonesty.
AMENDMENT OF MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES
128.   Subject to the provisions of the Law, the Company may by Special Resolution change its name, amend its objects or alter or amend these Articles either in whole or in part.
TRANSFER BY WAY OF CONTINUATION
129.   If the Company is exempted as defined in the Law, it shall, subject to the provisions of the Law, and with the sanction of a Special Resolution, have the power to register by way of continuation as a body corporate under the laws of any jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands and to be de-registered in the Cayman Islands.

29


 

     
NAME, ADDRESS & DESCRIPTION OF SUBSCRIBER/S
   
 
   
MARICORP SERVICES LTD.
   
P.O. BOX 2075
   
GRAND CAYMAN KY1-1105
   
CAYMAN ISLANDS
   
 
   
COMPANY MANAGEMENT COMPANY
   
 
   
/s/ [ILLEGIBLE]
   
 
   
Duly authorised signatory for and
   
on behalf of Maricorp Services Ltd.
   
 
   
Dated this 1st day of April, 2010
   
 
   
Witness to the above signature:
   
 
   
/s/ Christine Thomson
   
 
   
P.O. BOX 2075
   
GRAND CAYMAN KY1-1105
   
CAYMAN ISLANDS
   
         
CERTIFIED TO BE A TRUE AND CORRECT COPY  
 
       
SIG.
  /s/ Joy A. Rankine    
 
       
 
  JOY A. RANKINE    
 
  Assistant Registrar    
 
       
Date.
  1st APRIL, 2010    

30

EX-3.26 25 y04313a1exv3w26.htm EX-3.26 exv3w26
Exhibit 3.26
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
KOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
PURSUANT TO THE MARSHALL ISLANDS BUSINESS CORPORATIONS ACT
     The undersigned, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the provisions of the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act, does hereby make, subscribe, acknowledge and file with the Registrar of Corporations this instrument for that purpose, as follows:
A.   The name of the Corporation shall be:
KOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
B.   The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may now or hereafter be organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act and without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, the corporation shall have the power:
  (1)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, pledge, hypothecate, mortgage, lease, charter, sub-charter, sell, build, and repair steamships, motorships, tankers, vessels, sailing vessels, tugs, lighters, barges, and all other vessels and craft of any and all motive power whatsoever, including landcraft, and any and all means of conveyance and transportation by land or water, together with engines, boilers, machinery equipment and appurtenances of all kinds, including masts, sails, boats, anchors, cables, tackle, furniture and all other necessities thereunto appertaining and belonging, together with all materials, articles, tools, equipment and appliances necessary, suitable or convenient for the construction, equipment, use and operation thereof; and to equip, furnish, and outfit such vessels and ships.

 


 

  (2)   To engage in ocean, coastwise and inland commerce, and generally in the carriage of freight, goods, cargo in bulk, passengers, mail and personal effects by water between the various ports of the world and to engage generally in waterborne commerce.
 
  (3)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, lease, build, repair, sell or in any manner dispose of docks, piers, quays, wharves, dry docks, warehouses and storage facilities of all kinds, and any property, real, personal and mixed, in connection therewith.
 
  (4)   To act as ship’s husband, shipbrokers, customhouse brokers, ship’s agents, manager of shipping property, freight contractors, forwarding agents, warehousemen, wharfingers, ship chandlers, and general traders.
C.   The registered address of the Corporation in the Marshall Islands is Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH96960. The name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is The Trust Company of the Marshall Islands, Inc.
 
D.   The aggregate number of shares of stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is Five Hundred (500) registered and/or bearer shares with a par value of One US Dollar (US$1.00) per share.
 
    The Corporation shall mail notices and information to holders of bearer shares to the address provided to the Corporation by the shareholder for that purpose.
 
    The holder of a stock certificate issued to bearer may cause such certificate to be exchanged for another certificate in his name for a like number of shares, and the holder of shares issued in the name of the owner may cause his certificate to be exchanged for another certificate to bearer for a like number of shares.

 


 

E.   The Corporation shall have every power which a corporation now or hereafter organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act may have.
 
F.   The name and address of the incorporator is:
     
Name   Post Office Address
Majuro Nominee Ltd.
  P.O Box 1405
 
  Majuro
 
  Marshall Islands
G.   The Board of Directors as well as the shareholders of the Corporation shall have the authority to adopt, amend on repeal the bylaws of the Corporation.
 
H.   Corporate existence shall begin upon filing these Articles of Incorporation with the Registrar of Corporations as of the filing date stated on these Articles.
          IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have executed this instrument on March 18, 2010.
         
  Majuro Nominees Ltd.
Incorporator
 
 
  by:   /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]    
       
       
 

 


 

     On March 18, 2010 before me personally came S. Gioula known to me to be the individual described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and she duly acknowledged to me that the execution thereof was her act and deed.
         
     
  /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]  
     
     
 

 

EX-3.27 26 y04313a1exv3w27.htm EX-3.27 exv3w27
Exhibit 3.27
BYLAWS
KOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
A Marshall Islands Corporation
ARTICLE I
OFFICES
The principal place of business of the Corporation shall be at such place or places as the Directors shall from time to time determine. The Corporation may also have an office at such other places within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may from time to time appoint or the business of the Corporation may require.
ARTICLE II
MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Section 1. Annual Meetings. The annual meeting of shareholders of the Corporation shall be held on such day and at such time and place within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may determine for the purpose of electing Directors and of transacting such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.
Section 2. Special Meeting. Special meetings of the shareholders, unless otherwise prescribed by law, may be called for any purpose or purposes at any time by resolution of the Board of Directors or by the President and shall be called by the President or Secretary of the Corporation whenever required in writing to do so by shareholders owning a majority in amount of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote which is issued and outstanding. Such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed special meeting. Such meetings shall be held at such place and on a date and at such time as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer of the Corporation calling any such meeting. Business transacted at any special meeting of shareholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice.
Section 3. Notice of Meetings. Notice of every annual and special meeting of shareholders, other than any meeting the giving of notice of which is prescribed by law, stating the date, time, place and purpose thereof, and in the case of special meetings, the name of the person or persons at whose direction the notice is being issued, shall be given personally or sent by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter at least fifteen but not more than sixty days before such meeting, to each shareholder of record entitled to vote thereat and to each shareholder of record who, by reason of any action proposed at such meeting would be entitled to have his/her shares appraised if such action were taken, and the notice shall include a statement of that purpose and to that effect. If mailed, notice shall be deemed to have been given when deposited in the mail, directed to the shareholder at his/her address as the same appears on the record of shareholders of the Corporation or at such address as to which the shareholder has given notice to the Secretary. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any shareholder who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting or who attends the meeting without protesting prior to the conclusion thereof the lack of notice to him. If the Corporation shall issue any class of bearer shares, notice for all meetings shall be given in the manner provided in the Articles of Incorporation.
Section 4. Quorum. At all meetings of the shareholders, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, there must be present, either in person or by proxy, shareholders holding at least a majority of the shares issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at such meetings in order to constitute a quorum, but if less than a quorum is present, a majority of those shares present either in person or by proxy shall have power to adjourn any meeting until a quorum shall be present.

1


 

Section 5. Voting. If a quorum is present, and except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of stock represented at the meeting shall be the act of the shareholders. At any meeting of shareholders, each shareholder entitled to vote any shares on any manner to be voted upon at such meeting shall be entitled to one vote on such matter for each such share, and may exercise such voting right either in person or by proxy. Any action which may be taken at a meeting of shareholders, may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken or to be taken, is signed by all of the shareholders entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof.
Section 6. Fixing of Record Dates. The Board of Directors may fix a time not more than sixty nor less than fifteen days prior to the date of any meeting of the shareholders, or more than sixty (60) days prior to the last day on which the consent or dissent of shareholders may be expressed for any purpose without a meeting, as the time as of which shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or whose consent or dissent is required or may be expressed for any purpose, as the case may be, shall be determined, and all persons who were holders of record of voting shares at such time and not others shall be entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or to express their consent or dissent, as the case may be. The Board of Directors may fix a time not exceeding sixty days preceding the date fixed for the payment of any dividend, distribution, or allotment or for the purpose of such other action.
ARTICLE III
DIRECTORS
Section 1. Number. The affairs, business and property of the Corporation shall be managed by a Board of Directors to consist of at least one director. Within the limits fixed by these Bylaws, the number of directors may be determined either by a vote of a majority of the entire Board or by vote of shareholders. The directors need not be residents of the Marshall Islands nor shareholders of the Corporation.
Section 2. How Elected. Except as otherwise provided by law or Section 4 of this Article, the directors of the Corporation (other than the first Board of Directors designated by the Incorporator) shall be elected at the annual meeting of shareholders. Each director shall be elected to serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until his/her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified, except in the event of his/her death, resignation, removal or the earlier termination of his/her term of office.
Section 3. Removal. Any or all of the directors may be removed, with or without cause, by a vote of the shareholders. Any director may be removed for cause by action of the Board of Directors.
Section 4. Vacancies. Vacancies in the Board of Directors occurring by death, resignation, the creation of new directorships, the failure of the shareholders to elect the whole Board at any annual election of directors, or, except as herein provided, for any other reason, including removal of directors for cause, may be filled either by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors then in office, although less than a quorum, at any special meeting called for that purpose or at any regular meeting of the Board, except as otherwise prescribed by law or unless the Articles of Incorporation provide that such vacancies or newly created directorships shall be filled by vote of the shareholders. Vacancies occurring by removal of directors without cause may be filled only by vote of the shareholders.
Section 5. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held at such time and place as may be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors and no notice shall be required for any regular meeting. Except as otherwise provided by law, any business may be transacted at any regular meeting.

2


 

Section 6. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board may, unless otherwise prescribed by law, be called by the President or any other officer of the Corporation who is also a director. The President or the Secretary shall call a special meeting of the Board upon written request directed to either of them by any two directors stating the time, place and purpose of such special meeting. Special meetings of the Board shall be held on a date and at such time and at such place as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer calling the meeting.
Section 7. Notice of Special Meeting. Notice of the date, time and place of each special meeting of the Board of Directors shall be given to each director at least forty-eight hours prior to such meeting, unless the notice is given orally or delivered in person, in which case it shall be given at least twenty-four hours prior to such meeting. For the purpose of this section, notice shall be deemed to be duly given to a director if given personally (including by telephone) or if such notice be delivered to such director by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter to his/her last known address. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any director who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting, or who attends the meeting without protesting, prior to the conclusion thereof, the lack of notice to him/her.
Section 8. Quorum. A majority of the entire board, present in person or by proxy or by communicating equipment, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
Section 9. Voting. The vote of the majority of the directors, present in person or by proxy, in communication by telefax or conference telephone, at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the directors. Any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if all the members of the Board consent in writing thereto.
Section 10. Compensation of Directors and Members of Committees. The Board may from time to time, in its discretion, fix the amounts which shall be payable to members of the Board of Directors and to members of any committee, for attendance at the meetings of the Board or of such committee and for services rendered to the Corporation.
ARTICLE IV
COMMITTEES
Section 1. Executive Committee and Other Committees. The Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members an Executive Committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation, which, to the extent provided in said resolution or resolutions, or in these Bylaws, shall have and may exercise, to the extent permitted by law, the powers of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may have power to authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it. In addition, the Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members other committees to consist of one or more directors of the Corporation, each of which shall perform such function and have such authority and powers as shall be delegated to it by said resolution or resolutions or as provided for in these Bylaws, except that only the Executive Committee may have and exercise the powers of the Board of Directors. Members of the Executive Committee and any other committee shall hold office for such periods as may be prescribed by the vote of the majority of the entire Board of Directors, subject, however, to removal at any time by the vote of the Board of Directors. Vacancies in the membership of such committees shall be filled by vote of the Board of Directors. Committees may adopt their own rules of procedure and may meet at stated times or on such notice as they may determine. Each committee shall keep a record of its proceedings and report the same to the Board when requested.

3


 

ARTICLE V
OFFICERS
Section 1. Number and Designation. The Board of Directors shall appoint a Secretary and a Treasurer, and may appoint a President as well as such other officers as it may deem necessary. Officers may be of any nationality, need not be residents of the Marshall Islands and may be, but are not required to be, directors. Officers of the Corporation shall be natural persons except the Secretary may be a corporate entity. Any two or more offices may be held by the same natural person.
The officers shall be appointed annually by the Board of Directors at its first meeting following the annual election of directors, but in the event of the failure of the Board to so appoint any officer, such officer may be appointed at any subsequent meeting of the Board of Directors. The salaries of the officers and any other compensation paid to them shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may at any meeting appoint additional officers. Each officer shall hold office until the first meeting of the Board of Directors following the next annual election of directors and until his/her successor shall have been duly appointed and qualified, except in the event of the earlier termination of his/her term of office through death, resignation, removal or otherwise. Any officer may be removed by the Board at any time with or without cause. Any vacancy in an office may be filled for the unexpired portion of the term of such office by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting.
Section 2. President. The President shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation and shall have the general management of the affairs of the Corporation, together with the powers and duties usually incident to the office of President, except as specifically limited by appropriate written resolution of the Board of Directors and shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors. The President shall preside at all meetings of shareholders at which he/she is present and if, in the case of the President, he/she is a director, at all meetings of the directors.
Section 3. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have general supervision over the care and custody of the funds, securities and other valuable effects of the Corporation and shall deposit the same or cause the same to be deposited in the name of the Corporation in such depositories as the Board of Directors may designate, shall disburse the funds of the Corporation as may be ordered by the Board of Directors, shall have supervision over the accounts of all receipts and disbursements of the Corporation, shall, whenever required by the Board, render or cause to be rendered financial statements of the Corporation, shall have the power and perform the duties usually incident to the office of Treasurer; and shall have the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors, or President.
Section 4. Secretary. The Secretary shall act as Secretary of all meetings of the shareholders and of the Board of Directors at which he/she is present, shall have supervision over the giving and serving of notices of the Corporation; shall be the custodian of the corporate records and of the corporate seal of the Corporation; shall be empowered to affix the corporate seal to those documents, the execution of which, on behalf of the Corporation under its seal, is duly authorized and when so affixed may attest the same, and shall exercise the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors or the President. If the Secretary is a Corporation, the duties of the Secretary may be carried out by any duly authorized representative of such corporation acting in its name.
Section 5. Other Officers: Officers other than those treated in section 2 through 4 of this Article shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the Board of Directors or by the President.
Section 6. Bond. The Board of Directors shall have the power to the extent permitted by

4


 

law, to require any officer, agent or employee of the Corporation to give bond for the faithful discharge of his/her duties in such form and with such surety or sureties as the Board of Directors may deem advisable.
ARTICLE VI
CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES
Section 1. Form and Issuance. The shares of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates in a form meeting the requirements of law and approved by the Board of Directors. Certificates shall be signed by the President or a Vice President, and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer. These signatures may be facsimiles if the certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent or registered by a registrar other than the Corporation itself or its employee.
Section 2. Transfer. The Board of Directors shall have the power and authority to make such rules and regulations as they may deem expedient concerning the issuance, registration and transfer of certificates representing shares of the Corporation’s stock, and may appoint, transfer agents and registrars thereof.
Section 3. Loss of Stock Certificates. The Board of Directors may direct a new certificate or certificates of stock to be issued in place of any certificate or certificates thereof issued by the Corporation alleged to have been lost or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of a new certificate or certificates, the Board of Directors may, in its discretion, and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his/her representative, to advertise the same in such manner as it shall require and/or give the Corporation a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the Corporation with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost or destroyed.
ARTICLE VII
DIVIDENDS
Section 1. Declaration and Form. Dividends may be declared in conformity with law by, and at the discretion of, the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting. Dividends may be declared and paid in cash, stock, or other property of the Corporation.
ARTICLE VIII
CORPORATE SEAL
Section 1. Corporate Seal. The seal of the Corporation, if any, shall be circular in form, with the name of the Corporation in the circumference and such other appropriate legend as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine.
ARTICLE IX
FISCAL YEAR
Section 1. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be such period of twelve consecutive months as the Board of Directors may by resolution designate.

5


 

ARTICLE X
AMENDMENTS
Section 1. By the Shareholders. These Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any meeting of the shareholders of the Corporation by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the stock present and voting at such meeting provided notice that an amendment is to be considered and acted upon is inserted in the notice or waiver of notice of said meeting.
Section 2. By the Directors. If the Articles of Incorporation so provide, these Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors by the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire Board, subject, however, to the power of the shareholders to alter, amend or repeal any Bylaws as adopted.

6

EX-3.28 27 y04313a1exv3w28.htm EX-3.28 exv3w28
Exhibit 3.28
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
MYTILENE SHIPPING CORPORATION
PURSUANT TO THE MARSHALL ISLANDS BUSINESS CORPORATIONS ACT
     The undersigned, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the provisions of the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act, does hereby make, subscribe, acknowledge and file with the Registrar of Corporations this instrument for that purpose, as follows:
A.   The name of the Corporation shall be:
MYTILENE SHIPPING CORPORATION
B.   The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may now or hereafter be organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act and without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, the corporation shall have the power:
  (1)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, pledge, hypothecate, mortgage, lease, charter, sub-charter, sell, build, and repair steamships, motorships, tankers, vessels, sailing vessels, tugs, lighters, barges, and all other vessels and craft of any and all motive power whatsoever, including landcraft, and any and all means of conveyance and transportation by land or water, together with engines, boilers, machinery equipment and appurtenances of all kinds, including masts, sails, boats, anchors, cables, tackle, furniture and all other necessities thereunto appertaining and belonging, together with all materials, articles, tools, equipment and appliances necessary, suitable or convenient for the construction, equipment, use and operation thereof; and to equip, furnish, and outfit such vessels and ships.

 


 

  (2)   To engage in ocean, coastwise and inland commerce, and generally in the carriage of freight, goods, cargo in bulk, passengers, mail and personal effects by water between the various ports of the world and to engage generally in waterborne commerce.
 
  (3)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, lease, build, repair, sell or in any manner dispose of docks, piers, quays, wharves, dry docks, warehouses and storage facilities of all kinds, and any property, real, personal and mixed, in connection therewith.
 
  (4)   To act as ship’s husband, shipbrokers, customhouse brokers, ship’s agents, manager of shipping property, freight contractors, forwarding agents, warehousemen, wharfingers, ship chandlers, and general traders.
C.   The registered address of the Corporation in the Marshall Islands is Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH96960. The name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is The Trust Company of the Marshall Islands, Inc.
 
D.   The aggregate number of shares of stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is Five Hundred (500) registered and/or bearer shares with a par value of One US Dollar (US$1.00) per share.
 
    The Corporation shall mail notices and information to holders of bearer shares to the address provided to the Corporation by the shareholder for that purpose.
 
    The holder of a stock certificate issued to bearer may cause such certificate to be exchanged for another certificate in his name for a like number of shares, and the holder of shares issued in the name of the owner may cause his certificate to be exchanged for another certificate to bearer for a like number of shares.

 


 

E.   The Corporation shall have every power which a corporation now or hereafter organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act may have.
F.   The name and address of the incorporator is:
     
Name             
  Post Office Address
 
   
Majuro Nominees Ltd.
  P.O Box 1405
 
  Majuro
 
  Marshall Islands
G.   The Board of Directors as well as the shareholders of the Corporation shall have the authority to adopt, amend or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation.
 
H.   Corporate existence shall begin upon filing these Articles of Incorporation with the Registrar of Corporations as of the filing date stated on these Articles.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have executed this instrument on March 18, 2010
             
    Majuro Nominees Ltd.    
          Incorporator    
 
           
 
  by:   /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]
 
   

 


 

     On March 18, 2010 before me personally came S. Gioula known to me to be the individual described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and she duly acknowledged to me that the execution thereof was her act and deed.
         
 
  /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]
 
   

 

EX-3.29 28 y04313a1exv3w29.htm EX-3.29 exv3w29
Exhibit 3.29
BYLAWS
MYTILENE SHIPPING CORPORATION
A Marshall Islands Corporation
ARTICLE I
OFFICES
The principal place of business of the Corporation shall be at such place or places as the Directors shall from time to time determine. The Corporation may also have an office at such other places within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may from time to time appoint or the business of the Corporation may require.
ARTICLE II
MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Section 1. Annual Meetings. The annual meeting of shareholders of the Corporation shall be held on such day and at such time and place within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may determine for the purpose of electing Directors and of transacting such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.
Section 2. Special Meeting. Special meetings of the shareholders, unless otherwise prescribed by law, may be called for any purpose or purposes at any time by resolution of the Board of Directors or by the President and shall be called by the President or Secretary of the Corporation whenever required in writing to do so by shareholders owning a majority in amount of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote which is issued and outstanding. Such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed special meeting. Such meetings shall be held at such place and on a date and at such time as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer of the Corporation calling any such meeting. Business transacted at any special meeting of shareholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice.
Section 3. Notice of Meetings. Notice of every annual and special meeting of shareholders, other than any meeting the giving of notice of which is prescribed by law, stating the date, time, place and purpose thereof, and in the case of special meetings, the name of the person or persons at whose direction the notice is being issued, shall be given personally or sent by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter at least fifteen but not more than sixty days before such meeting, to each shareholder of record entitled to vote thereat and to each shareholder of record who, by reason of any action proposed at such meeting would be entitled to have his/her shares appraised if such action were taken, and the notice shall include a statement of that purpose and to that effect. If mailed, notice shall be deemed to have been given when deposited in the mail, directed to the shareholder at his/her address as the same appears on the record of shareholders of the Corporation or at such address as to which the shareholder has given notice to the Secretary. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any shareholder who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting or who attends the meeting without protesting prior to the conclusion thereof the lack of notice to him. If the Corporation shall issue any class of bearer shares, notice for all meetings shall be given in the manner provided in the Articles of Incorporation.
Section 4. Quorum. At all meetings of the shareholders, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, there must be present, either in person or by proxy, shareholders holding at least a majority of the shares issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at such meetings in order to constitute a quorum, but if less than a quorum is present, a majority of those shares present either in person or by proxy shall have power to adjourn any meeting until a quorum shall be present.

1


 

Section 5. Voting. If a quorum is present, and except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of stock represented at the meeting shall be the act of the shareholders. At any meeting of shareholders, each shareholder entitled to vote any shares on any manner to be voted upon at such meeting shall be entitled to one vote on such matter for each such share, and may exercise such voting right either in person or by proxy. Any action which may be taken at a meeting of shareholders, may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken or to be taken, is signed by all of the shareholders entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof.
Section 6. Fixing of Record Dates. The Board of Directors may fix a time not more than sixty nor less than fifteen days prior to the date of any meeting of the shareholders, or more than sixty (60) days prior to the last day on which the consent or dissent of shareholders may be expressed for any purpose without a meeting, as the time as of which shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or whose consent or dissent is required or may be expressed for any purpose, as the case may be, shall be determined, and all persons who were holders of record of voting shares at such time and not others shall be entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or to express their consent or dissent, as the case may be. The Board of Directors may fix a time not exceeding sixty days preceding the date fixed for the payment of any dividend, distribution, or allotment or for the purpose of such other action.
ARTICLE III
DIRECTORS
Section 1. Number. The affairs, business and property of the Corporation shall be managed by a Board of Directors to consist of at least one director. Within the limits fixed by these Bylaws, the number of directors may be determined either by a vote of a majority of the entire Board or by vote of shareholders. The directors need not be residents of the Marshall Islands nor shareholders of the Corporation.
Section 2. How Elected. Except as otherwise provided by law or Section 4 of this Article, the directors of the Corporation (other than the first Board of Directors designated by the Incorporator) shall be elected at the annual meeting of shareholders. Each director shall be elected to serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until his/her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified, except in the event of his/her death, resignation, removal or the earlier termination of his/her term of office.
Section 3. Removal. Any or all of the directors may be removed, with or without cause, by a vote of the shareholders. Any director may be removed for cause by action of the Board of Directors.
Section 4. Vacancies. Vacancies in the Board of Directors occurring by death, resignation, the creation of new directorships, the failure of the shareholders to elect the whole Board at any annual election of directors, or, except as herein provided, for any other reason, including removal of directors for cause, may be filled either by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors then in office, although less than a quorum, at any special meeting called for that purpose or at any regular meeting of the Board, except as otherwise prescribed by law or unless the Articles of Incorporation provide that such vacancies or newly created directorships shall be filled by vote of the shareholders. Vacancies occurring by removal of directors without cause may be filled only by vote of the shareholders.
Section 5. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held at such time and place as may be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors and no notice shall be required for any regular meeting. Except as otherwise provided by law, any business may be transacted at any regular meeting.

2


 

Section 6. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board may, unless otherwise prescribed by law, be called by the President or any other officer of the Corporation who is also a director. The President or the Secretary shall call a special meeting of the Board upon written request directed to either of them by any two directors stating the time, place and purpose of such special meeting. Special meetings of the Board shall be held on a date and at such time and at such place as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer calling the meeting.
Section 7. Notice of Special Meeting. Notice of the date, time and place of each special meeting of the Board of Directors shall be given to each director at least forty-eight hours prior to such meeting, unless the notice is given orally or delivered in person, in which case it shall be given at least twenty-four hours prior to such meeting. For the purpose of this section, notice shall be deemed to be duly given to a director if given personally (including by telephone) or if such notice be delivered to such director by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter to his/her last known address. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any director who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting, or who attends the meeting without protesting, prior to the conclusion thereof, the lack of notice to him/her.
Section 8. Quorum. A majority of the entire board, present in person or by proxy or by communicating equipment, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
Section 9. Voting. The vote of the majority of the directors, present in person or by proxy, in communication by telefax or conference telephone, at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the directors. Any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if all the members of the Board consent in writing thereto.
Section 10. Compensation of Directors and Members of Committees. The Board may from time to time, in its discretion, fix the amounts which shall be payable to members of the Board of Directors and to members of any committee, for attendance at the meetings of the Board or of such committee and for services rendered to the Corporation.
ARTICLE IV
COMMITTEES
Section 1. Executive Committee and Other Committees. The Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members an Executive Committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation, which, to the extent provided in said resolution or resolutions, or in these Bylaws, shall have and may exercise, to the extent permitted by law, the powers of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may have power to authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it. In addition, the Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members other committees to consist of one or more directors of the Corporation, each of which shall perform such function and have such authority and powers as shall be delegated to it by said resolution or resolutions or as provided for in these Bylaws, except that only the Executive Committee may have and exercise the powers of the Board of Directors. Members of the Executive Committee and any other committee shall hold office for such periods as may be prescribed by the vote of the majority of the entire Board of Directors, subject, however, to removal at any time by the vote of the Board of Directors. Vacancies in the membership of such committees shall be filled by vote of the Board of Directors. Committees may adopt their own rules of procedure and may meet at stated times or on such notice as they may determine. Each committee shall keep a record of its proceedings and report the same to the Board when requested.

3


 

ARTICLE V
OFFICERS
Section 1. Number and Designation. The Board of Directors shall appoint a Secretary and a Treasurer, and may appoint a President as well as such other officers as it may deem necessary. Officers may be of any nationality, need not be residents of the Marshall Islands and may be, but are not required to be, directors. Officers of the Corporation shall be natural persons except the Secretary may be a corporate entity. Any two or more offices may be held by the same natural person.
The officers shall be appointed annually by the Board of Directors at its first meeting following the annual election of directors, but in the event of the failure of the Board to so appoint any officer, such officer may be appointed at any subsequent meeting of the Board of Directors. The salaries of the officers and any other compensation paid to them shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may at any meeting appoint additional officers. Each officer shall hold office until the first meeting of the Board of Directors following the next annual election of directors and until his/her successor shall have been duly appointed and qualified, except in the event of the earlier termination of his/her term of office through death, resignation, removal or otherwise. Any officer may be removed by the Board at any time with or without cause. Any vacancy in an office may be filled for the unexpired portion of the term of such office by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting.
Section 2. President. The President shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation and shall have the general management of the affairs of the Corporation, together with the powers and duties usually incident to the office of President, except as specifically limited by appropriate written resolution of the Board of Directors and shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors. The President shall preside at all meetings of shareholders at which he/she is present and if, in the case of the President, he/she is a director, at all meetings of the directors.
Section 3. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have general supervision over the care and custody of the funds, securities and other valuable effects of the Corporation and shall deposit the same or cause the same to be deposited in the name of the Corporation in such depositories as the Board of Directors may designate, shall disburse the funds of the Corporation as may be ordered by the Board of Directors, shall have supervision over the accounts of all receipts and disbursements of the Corporation, shall, whenever required by the Board, render or cause to be rendered financial statements of the Corporation, shall have the power and perform the duties usually incident to the office of Treasurer; and shall have the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors, or President.
Section 4. Secretary. The Secretary shall act as Secretary of all meetings of the shareholders and of the Board of Directors at which he/she is present, shall have supervision over the giving and serving of notices of the Corporation; shall be the custodian of the corporate records and of the corporate seal of the Corporation; shall be empowered to affix the corporate seal to those documents, the execution of which, on behalf of the Corporation under its seal, is duly authorized and when so affixed may attest the same, and shall exercise the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors or the President. If the Secretary is a Corporation, the duties of the Secretary may be carried out by any duly authorized representative of such corporation acting in its name.
Section 5. Other Officers: Officers other than those treated in section 2 through 4 of this Article shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the Board of Directors or by the President.
Section 6. Bond. The Board of Directors shall have the power to the extent permitted by

4


 

law, to require any officer, agent or employee of the Corporation to give bond for the faithful discharge of his/her duties in such form and with such surety or sureties as the Board of Directors may deem advisable.
ARTICLE VI
CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES
Section 1. Form and Issuance. The shares of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates in a form meeting the requirements of law and approved by the Board of Directors. Certificates shall be signed by the President or a Vice President, and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer. These signatures may be facsimiles if the certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent or registered by a registrar other than the Corporation itself or its employee.
Section 2. Transfer. The Board of Directors shall have the power and authority to make such rules and regulations as they may deem expedient concerning the issuance, registration and transfer of certificates representing shares of the Corporation’s stock, and may appoint, transfer agents and registrars thereof.
Section 3. Loss of Stock Certificates. The Board of Directors may direct a new certificate or certificates of stock to be issued in place of any certificate or certificates thereof issued by the Corporation alleged to have been lost or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of a new certificate or certificates, the Board of Directors may, in its discretion, and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his/her representative, to advertise the same in such manner as it shall require and/or give the Corporation a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the Corporation with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost or destroyed.
ARTICLE VII
DIVIDENDS
Section 1. Declaration and Form. Dividends may be declared in conformity with law by, and at the discretion of, the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting. Dividends may be declared and paid in cash, stock, or other property of the Corporation.
ARTICLE VIII
CORPORATE SEAL
Section 1. Corporate Seal. The seal of the Corporation, if any, shall be circular in form, with the name of the Corporation in the circumference and such other appropriate legend as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine.
ARTICLE IX
FISCAL YEAR
Section 1. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be such period of twelve consecutive months as the Board of Directors may by resolution designate.

5


 

ARTICLE X
AMENDMENTS
Section 1. By the Shareholders. These Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any meeting of the shareholders of the Corporation by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the stock present and voting at such meeting provided notice that an amendment is to be considered and acted upon is inserted in the notice or waiver of notice of said meeting.
Section 2. By the Directors. If the Articles of Incorporation so provide, these Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors by the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire Board, subject, however, to the power of the shareholders to alter, amend or repeal any Bylaws as adopted.

6

EX-3.30 29 y04313a1exv3w30.htm EX-3.30 exv3w30
Exhibit 3.30
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
RHODES SHIPPING CORPORATION
PURSUANT TO THE MARSHALL ISLANDS BUSINESS CORPORATIONS ACT
     The undersigned, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the provisions of the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act, does hereby make, subscribe, acknowledge and file with the Registrar of Corporations this instrument for that purpose, as follows:
A.   The name of the Corporation shall be:
RHODES SHIPPING CORPORATION
B.   The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may now or hereafter be organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act and without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, the corporation shall have the power:
  (1)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, pledge, hypothecate, mortgage, lease, charter, sub-charter, sell, build, and repair steamships, motorships, tankers, vessels, sailing vessels, tugs, lighters, barges, and all other vessels and craft of any and all motive power whatsoever, including landcraft, and any, and all means of conveyance and transportation by land or water, together with engines, boilers, machinery equipment and appurtenances of all kinds, including masts, sails, boats, anchors, cables, tackle, furniture and all other necessities thereunto appertaining and belonging, together with all materials, articles, tools, equipment and appliances necessary, suitable or convenient for the construction, equipment, use and operation thereof; and to equip, furnish, and outfit such vessels and ships.

 


 

  (2)   To engage in ocean, coastwise and inland commerce, and generally in the carriage of freight, goods, cargo in bulk, passengers, mail and personal effects by water between the various ports of the world and to engage generally in waterborne commerce.
 
  (3)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, lease, build, repair, sell or in any manner dispose of docks, piers, quays, wharves, dry docks, warehouses and storage facilities of all kinds, and any property, real, personal and mixed, in connection therewith.
 
  (4)   To act as ship’s husband, shipbrokers, customhouse brokers, Ship’s agents, manager of shipping property, freight contractors, forwarding agents, warehousemen, wharfingers, ship chandlers, and general traders.
C.   The registered address of the Corporation in the Marshall Islands is Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH96960. The name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is the Trust Company of the Marshall Island, Inc.
 
D.   The aggregate number of shares of stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is Five Hundred (500) registered shares with a par value of One US Dollar (US$1.00) per share.
 
E.   The Corporation shall have every power which a corporation now or hereafter organized under the Marshall Island Business Corporation Act may have.
 
F.   The name and address of the incorporator is:
     
Name
  Post Office Address
 
   
Majuro Nominees Ltd.
  P. O Box 1405
 
  Majuro
 
  Marshall Islands

 


 

G.   The Board of Directors as well as the shareholders of the Corporation shall have the authority to adopt, amend or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation.
H.   Corporate existence shall begin upon filing these Articles of Incorporation with the Registrar of Corporations as of the filing date stated on these Articles.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have executed this instrument on March 29, 2010.
             
    Majuro Nominees Ltd.
       Incorporator
   
 
           
 
  by:   /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]
 
   

 


 

          On March 29, 2010 before me personally came S. Vatista known to me to be the individual described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and she duly acknowledged to me that the execution thereof was her act and deed.
         
     
  /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]    
     
     
 

 

EX-3.31 30 y04313a1exv3w31.htm EX-3.31 exv3w31
Exhibit 3.31
BYLAWS
RHODES SHIPPING CORPORATION
A Marshall Islands Corporation
ARTICLE I
OFFICES
The principal place of business of the Corporation shall be at such place or places as the Directors shall from time to time determine. The Corporation may also have an office at such other places within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may from time to time appoint or the business of the Corporation may require.
ARTICLE II
MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Section 1. Annual Meetings. The annual meeting of shareholders of the Corporation shall be held on such day and at such time and place within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may determine for the purpose of electing Directors and of transacting such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.
Section 2. Special Meeting. Special meetings of the shareholders, unless otherwise prescribed by law, may be called for any purpose or purposes at any time by resolution of the Board of Directors or by the President and shall be called by the President or Secretary of the Corporation whenever required in writing to do so by shareholders owning a majority in amount of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote which is issued and outstanding. Such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed special meeting. Such meetings shall be held at such place and on a date and at such time as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer of the Corporation calling any such meeting. Business transacted at any special meeting of shareholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice.
Section 3. Notice of Meetings. Notice of every annual and special meeting of shareholders, other than any meeting the giving of notice of which is prescribed by law, stating the date, time, place and purpose thereof, and in the case of special meetings, the name of the person or persons at whose direction the notice is being issued, shall be given personally or sent by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter at least fifteen but not more than sixty days before such meeting, to each shareholder of record entitled to vote thereat and to each shareholder of record who, by reason of any action proposed at such meeting would be entitled to have his/her shares appraised if such action were taken, and the notice shall include a statement of that purpose and to that effect. If mailed, notice shall be deemed to have been given when deposited in the mail, directed to the shareholder at his/her address as the same appears on the record of shareholders of the Corporation or at such address as to which the shareholder has given notice to the Secretary. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any shareholder who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting or who attends the meeting without protesting prior to the conclusion thereof the lack of notice to him. If the Corporation shall issue any class of bearer shares, notice for all meetings shall be given in the manner provided in the Articles of Incorporation.
Section 4. Quorum. At all meetings of the shareholders, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, there must be present, either in person or by proxy, shareholders holding at least a majority of the shares issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at such meetings in order to constitute a quorum, but if less than a quorum is present, a majority of those shares present either in person or by proxy shall have power to adjourn any meeting until a quorum shall be present.

1


 

Section 5. Voting. If a quorum is present, and except as otherwise expressly provided by law or by the Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation, the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of stock represented at the meeting shall be the act of the shareholders. At any meeting of shareholders, each shareholder entitled to vote any shares on any manner to be voted upon at such meeting shall be entitled to one vote on such matter for each such share, and may exercise such voting right either in person or by proxy. Any action which may be taken at a meeting of shareholders, may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken or to be taken, is signed by all of the shareholders entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof.
Section 6. Fixing of Record Dates. The Board of Directors may fix a time not more than sixty nor less than fifteen days prior to the date of any meeting of the shareholders, or more than sixty (60) days prior to the last day on which the consent or dissent of shareholders may be expressed for any purpose without a meeting, as the time as of which shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or whose consent or dissent is required or may be expressed for any purpose, as the case may be, shall be determined, and all persons who were holders of record of voting shares at such time and not others shall be entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or to express their consent or dissent, as the case may be. For the purpose of determining shareholders entitled in connection with the following, the Board of Directors may fix a date not exceeding sixty days preceding the date fixed for the payment of any dividend, distribution, or allotment or for the purpose of any other action.
ARTICLE III
DIRECTORS
Section 1. Number. The affairs, business and property of the Corporation shall be managed by a Board of Directors to consist of at least one director. Within the limits fixed by these Bylaws, the number of directors may be determined either by a vote of a majority of the entire Board or by vote of shareholders. The directors need not be residents of the Marshall Islands nor shareholders of the Corporation.
Section 2. How Elected. Except as otherwise provided by law or Section 4 of this Article, the directors of the Corporation (other than the first Board of Directors designated by the Incorporator) shall be elected at the annual meeting of shareholders. Each director shall be elected to serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until his/her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified, except in the event of his/her death, resignation, removal or the earlier termination of his/her term of office.
Section 3. Removal. Any or all of the directors may be removed, with or without cause, by a vote of the shareholders. Any director may be removed for cause by action of the Board of Directors.
Section 4. Vacancies. Vacancies in the Board of Directors occurring by death, resignation, the creation of new directorships, the failure of the shareholders to elect the whole Board at any annual election of directors, or, except as herein provided, for any other reason, including removal of directors for cause, may be filled either by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors then in office, although less than a quorum, at any special meeting called for that purpose or at any regular meeting of the Board, except as otherwise prescribed by law or unless the Articles of Incorporation provide that such vacancies or newly created directorships shall be filled by vote of the shareholders. Vacancies occurring by removal of directors without cause may be filled only by vote of the shareholders.
Section 5. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held at such time and place as may be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors and no notice shall be required for any regular meeting. Except as otherwise provided by law, any business may

2


 

be transacted at any regular meeting.
Section 6. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board may, unless otherwise prescribed by law, be called by the President or any other officer of the Corporation who is also a director. The President or the Secretary shall call a special meeting of the Board upon written request directed to either of them by any two directors stating the time, place and purpose of such special meeting. Special meetings of the Board shall be held on a date and at such time and at such place as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer calling the meeting.
Section 7. Notice of Special Meeting. Notice of the date, time and place of each special meeting of the Board of Directors shall be given to each director at least forty-eight hours prior to such meeting, unless the notice is given orally or delivered in person, in which case it shall be given at least twenty-four hours prior to such meeting. For the purpose of this section, notice shall be deemed to be duly given to a director if given personally (including by telephone) or if such notice be delivered to such director by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter to his/her last known address. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any director who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting, or who attends the meeting without protesting, prior to the conclusion thereof, the lack of notice to him/her.
Section 8. Quorum. A majority of the entire board, present in person or by proxy or by communicating equipment, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
Section 9. Voting. The vote of the majority of the directors, present in person or by proxy, in communication by telefax or conference telephone, at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the directors. Any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if all the members of the Board consent in writing thereto.
Section 10. Compensation of Directors and Members of Committees. The Board may from time to time, in its discretion, fix the amounts which shall be payable to members of the Board of Directors and to members of any committee, for attendance at the meetings of the Board or of such committee and for services rendered to the Corporation.
ARTICLE IV
COMMITTEES
Section 1. Executive Committee and Other Committees. The Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members an Executive Committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation, which, to the extent provided in said resolution or resolutions, or in these Bylaws, shall have and may exercise, to the extent permitted by law, the powers of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may have power to authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it. In addition, the Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members other committees to consist of one or more directors of the Corporation, each of which shall perform such function and have such authority and powers as shall be delegated to it by said resolution or resolutions or as provided for in these Bylaws, except that, subject to the limitations of law, only the Executive Committee may have and exercise the powers of the Board of Directors. Members of the Executive Committee and any other committee shall hold office for such periods as may be prescribed by the vote of the majority of the entire Board of Directors, subject, however, to removal at any time by the vote of the Board of Directors. Vacancies in the membership of such committees shall be filled by vote of the Board of Directors. Committees may adopt their own rules of procedure and may meet at stated times or on such notice as they may determine. Each committee shall keep a record of its proceedings and report the same to the Board when requested.

3


 

ARTICLE V
OFFICERS
Section 1. Number and Designation. The Board of Directors shall appoint a Secretary and a Treasurer, and may appoint a President as well as such other officers as it may deem necessary. Officers may be of any nationality, need not be residents of the Marshall Islands and may be, but are not required to be, directors. Officers of the Corporation shall be natural persons except the Secretary may be a corporate entity. Any two or more offices may be held by the same natural person.
The officers shall be appointed annually by the Board of Directors at its first meeting following the annual election of directors, but in the event of the failure of the Board to so appoint any officer, such officer may be appointed at any subsequent meeting of the Board of Directors. The salaries of the officers and any other compensation paid to them shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may at any meeting appoint additional officers. Each officer shall hold office until the first meeting of the Board of Directors following the next annual election of directors and until his/her successor shall have been duly appointed and qualified, except in the event of the earlier termination of his/her term of office through death, resignation, removal or otherwise. Any officer may be removed by the Board at any time with or without cause. Any vacancy in an office may be filled for the unexpired portion of the term of such office by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting.
Section 2. President. The President shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation and shall have the general management of the affairs of the Corporation, together with the powers and duties usually incident to the office of President, except as specifically limited by appropriate written resolution of the Board of Directors and shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors. The President shall preside at all meetings of shareholders at which he/she is present and if, in the case of the President, he/she is a director, at all meetings of the directors.
Section 3. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have general supervision over the care and custody of the funds, securities and other valuable effects of the Corporation and shall deposit the same or cause the same to be deposited in the name of the Corporation in such depositories as the Board of Directors may designate, shall disburse the funds of the Corporation as may be ordered by the Board of Directors, shall have supervision over the accounts of all receipts and disbursements of the Corporation, shall, whenever required by the Board, render or cause to be rendered financial statements of the Corporation, shall have the power and perform the duties usually incident to the office of Treasurer; and shall have the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors, or President.
Section 4. Secretary. The Secretary shall act as Secretary of all meetings of the shareholders and of the Board of Directors at which he/she is present, shall have supervision over the giving and serving of notices of the Corporation; shall be the custodian of the corporate records and of the corporate seal of the Corporation; shall be empowered to affix the corporate seal to those documents, the execution of which, on behalf of the Corporation under its seal, is duly authorized and when so affixed may attest the same, and shall exercise the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors or the President. If the Secretary is a Corporation, the duties of the Secretary may be carried out by any duly authorized representative of such corporation acting in its name.
Section 5. Other Officers: Officers other than those treated in section 2 through 4 of this Article shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the

4


 

Board of Directors or by the President.
Section 6. Bond. The Board of Directors shall have the power to the extent permitted by law, to require any officer, agent or employee of the Corporation to give bond for the faithful discharge of his/her duties in such form and with such surety or sureties as the Board of Directors may deem advisable.
ARTICLE VI
CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES
Section 1. Form and Issuance. The shares of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates in a form meeting the requirements of law and approved by the Board of Directors. Certificates shall be signed by the President or a Vice President, and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer. These signatures may be facsimiles if the certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent or registered by a registrar other than the Corporation itself or its employee.
Section 2. Transfer. The Board of Directors shall have the power and authority to make such rules and regulations as they may deem expedient concerning the issuance, registration and transfer of certificates representing shares of the Corporation’s stock, and may appoint, transfer agents and registrars thereof.
Section 3. Loss of Stock Certificates. The Board of Directors may direct a new certificate or certificates of stock to be issued in place of any certificate or certificates thereof issued by the Corporation alleged to have been lost or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of a new certificate or certificates, the Board of Directors may, in its discretion, and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his/her representative, to advertise the same in such manner as it shall require and/or give the Corporation a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the Corporation with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost or destroyed.
ARTICLE VII
DIVIDENDS
Section 1. Declaration and Form. Dividends may be declared in conformity with law by, and at the discretion of, the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting. Dividends may be declared and paid in cash, stock, or other property of the Corporation.
ARTICLE VIII
CORPORATE SEAL
Section 1. Corporate Seal. The seal of the Corporation, if any, shall be circular in form, with the name of the Corporation in the circumference and such other appropriate legend as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine.
ARTICLE IX
FISCAL YEAR
Section 1. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be such period of twelve consecutive months as the Board of Directors may by resolution designate.

5


 

ARTICLE X
AMENDMENTS
Section 1. By the Shareholders. These Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any meeting of the shareholders of the Corporation by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the stock present and voting at such meeting provided notice that an amendment is to be considered and acted upon is inserted in the notice or waiver of notice of said meeting.
Section 2. By the Directors. If the Articles of Incorporation so provide, these Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors by the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire Board, subject, however, to the power of the shareholders to alter, amend or repeal any Bylaws as adopted.

6

EX-3.32 31 y04313a1exv3w32.htm EX-3.32 exv3w32
Exhibit 3.32
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
SIFNOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
PURSUANT TO THE MARSHALL ISLANDS BUSINESS CORPORATIONS ACT
          The undersigned, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the provisions of the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act, does hereby make, subscribe, acknowledge and file with the Registrar of Corporations this instrument for that purpose, as follows:
A.   The name of the Corporation shall be:
SIFNOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
B.   The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may now or hereafter be organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act and without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, the corporation shall have the power:
  (1)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, pledge, hypothecate, mortgage, lease, charter, sub-charter, sell, build, and repair steamships, motorships, tankers, vessels, sailing vessels, tugs, lighters, barges, and all other vessels and craft of any and all motive power whatsoever, including landcraft, and any and all means of conveyance and transportation by land or water, together with engines, boilers, machinery equipment and appurtenances of all kinds, including masts, sails, boats, anchors, cables, tackle, furniture and all other necessities thereunto appertaining and belonging, together with all materials, articles, tools, equipment and appliances necessary, suitable or convenient for the construction, equipment, use and operation thereof; and to equip, furnish, and outfit such vessels and ships.

 


 

  (2)   To engage in ocean, coastwise and inland commerce, and generally in the carriage of freight, goods, cargo in bulk, passengers, mail and personal effects by water between the various ports of the world and to engage generally in waterborne commerce.
 
  (3)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, lease, build, repair, sell or in any manner dispose of docks, piers, quays, wharves, dry docks, warehouses and storage facilities of all kinds, and any property, real, personal and mixed, in connection therewith.
 
  (4)   To act as ship’s, husband, shipbrokers, customhouse brokers, ship’s agents, manager of shipping property, freight contractors, forwarding agents, warehousemen, wharfingers, ship chandlers, and general traders.
C.   The registered address of the Corporation in the Marshall Islands is Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH96960. The name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is The Trust Company of the Marshall Islands, Inc.
 
D.   The aggregate number of shares of stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is Five Hundred (500) registered and/or bearer shares with a par value of One US Dollar (US$1.00) per share.
 
    The Corporation shall mail notices and information to holders of bearer shares to the address provided to the Corporation by the shareholders for that purpose.
 
    The holder of a stock certificate issued to bearer may cause such certificate to be exchanged for another certificate in his name for a like number of shares, and the holder of shares issued in the name of the owner may cause his certificate to be exchanged for another certificate to bearer for a like number of shares.

 


 

E.   The Corporation shall have every power which a corporation now or hereafter organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act may have.
 
F.   The name and address of the incorporator is:
         
    Name   Post Office Address
 
  Majuro Nominees Ltd.   P.O Box 1405
 
      Majuro
 
      Marshall Islands
G.   The Board of Directors as well as the shareholders of the Corporation shall have the authority to adopt, amend or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation.
 
H.   Corporate existence shall begin upon filing these Articles of Incorporation with the Registrar of Corporations as of the filing date stated on these Articles.
          IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have executed this instrument on March 18, 2010.
             
    Majuro Nominees Ltd.
       Incorporator
   
 
           
 
  by:   /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]
 
   

 


 

          On March 18, 2010 before me personally came S. Gioula known to me to be the individual described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and she duly acknowledged to me that the execution thereof was her act and deed.
             
 
      /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]
 
   

 

EX-3.33 32 y04313a1exv3w33.htm EX-3.33 exv3w33
Exhibit 3.33
BYLAWS
SIFNOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
A Marshall Islands Corporation
ARTICLE I
OFFICES
The principal place of business of the Corporation shall be at such place or places as the Directors shall from time to time determine. The Corporation may also have an office at such other places within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may from time to time appoint or the business of the Corporation may require.
ARTICLE II
MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Section 1. Annual Meetings. The annual meeting of shareholders of the Corporation shall be held on such day and at such time and place within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may determine for the purpose of electing Directors and of transacting such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.
Section 2. Special Meeting. Special meetings of the shareholders, unless otherwise prescribed by law, may be called for any purpose or purposes at any time by resolution of the Board of Directors or by the President and shall be called by the President or Secretary of the Corporation whenever required in writing to do so by shareholders owning a majority in amount of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote which is issued and outstanding. Such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed special meeting. Such meetings shall be held at such place and on a date and at such time as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer of the Corporation calling any such meeting. Business transacted at any special meeting of shareholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice.
Section 3. Notice of Meetings. Notice of every annual and special meeting of shareholders, other than any meeting the giving of notice of which is prescribed by law, stating the date, time, place and purpose thereof, and in the case of special meetings, the name of the person or persons at whose direction the notice is being issued, shall be given personally or sent by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter at least fifteen but not more than sixty days before such meeting, to each shareholder of record entitled to vote thereat and to each shareholder of record who, by reason of any action proposed at such meeting would be entitled to have his/her shares appraised if such action were taken, and the notice shall include a statement of that purpose and to that effect. If mailed, notice shall be deemed to have been given when deposited in the mail, directed to the shareholder at his/her address as the same appears on the record of shareholders of the Corporation or at such address as to which the shareholder has given notice to the Secretary. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any shareholder who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting or who attends the meeting without protesting prior to the conclusion thereof the lack of notice to him. If the Corporation shall issue any class of bearer shares, notice for all meetings shall be given in the manner provided in the Articles of Incorporation.
Section 4. Quorum. At all meetings of the shareholders, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, there must be present, either in person or by proxy, shareholders holding at least a majority of the shares issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at such meetings in order to constitute a quorum, but if less than a quorum is present, a majority of those shares present either in person or by proxy shall have power to adjourn any meeting until a quorum shall be present.

1


 

Section 5. Voting. If a quorum is present, and except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of stock represented at the meeting shall be the act of the shareholders. At any meeting of shareholders, each shareholder entitled to vote any shares on any manner to be voted upon at such meeting shall be entitled to one vote on such matter for each such share, and may exercise such voting right either in person or by proxy. Any action which may be taken at a meeting of shareholders, may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken or to be taken, is signed by all of the shareholders entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof.
Section 6. Fixing of Record Dates. The Board of Directors may fix a time not more than sixty nor less than fifteen days prior to the date of any meeting of the shareholders, or more than sixty (60) days prior to the last day on which the consent or dissent of shareholders may be expressed for any purpose without a meeting, as the time as of which shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or whose consent or dissent is required or may be expressed for any purpose, as the case may be, shall be determined, and all persons who were holders of record of voting shares at such time and not others shall be entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or to express their consent or dissent, as the case may be. The Board of Directors may fix a time not exceeding sixty days preceding the date fixed for the payment of any dividend, distribution, or allotment or for the purpose of such other action.
ARTICLE III
DIRECTORS
Section 1. Number. The affairs, business and property of the Corporation shall be managed by a Board of Directors to consist of at least one director. Within the limits fixed by these Bylaws, the number of directors may be determined either by a vote of a majority of the entire Board or by vote of shareholders. The directors need not be residents of the Marshall Islands nor shareholders of the Corporation.
Section 2. How Elected. Except as otherwise provided by law or Section 4 of this Article, the directors of the Corporation (other than the first Board of Directors designated by the Incorporator) shall be elected at the annual meeting of shareholders. Each director shall be elected to serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until his/her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified, except in the event of his/her death, resignation, removal or the earlier termination of his/her term of office.
Section 3. Removal. Any or all of the directors may be removed, with or without cause, by a vote of the shareholders. Any director may be removed for cause by action of the Board of Directors.
Section 4. Vacancies. Vacancies in the Board of Directors occurring by death, resignation, the creation of new directorships, the failure of the shareholders to elect the whole Board at any annual election of directors, or, except as herein provided, for any other reason, including removal of directors for cause, may be filled either by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors then in office, although less than a quorum, at any special meeting called for that purpose or at any regular meeting of the Board, except as otherwise prescribed by law or unless the Articles of Incorporation provide that such vacancies or newly created directorships shall be filled by vote of the shareholders. Vacancies occurring by removal of directors without cause may be filled only by vote of the shareholders.
Section 5. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held at such time and place as may be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors and no notice shall be required for any regular meeting. Except as otherwise provided by law, any business may be transacted at any regular meeting.

2


 

Section 6. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board may, unless otherwise prescribed by law, be called by the President or any other officer of the Corporation who is also a director. The President or the Secretary shall call a special meeting of the Board upon written request directed to either of them by any two directors stating the time, place and purpose of such special meeting. Special meetings of the Board shall be held on a date and at such time and at such place as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer calling the meeting.
Section 7. Notice of Special Meeting. Notice of the date, time and place of each special meeting of the Board of Directors shall be given to each director at least forty-eight hours prior to such meeting, unless the notice is given orally or delivered in person, in which case it shall be given at least twenty-four hours prior to such meeting. For the purpose of this section, notice shall be deemed to be duly given to a director if given personally (including by telephone) or if such notice be delivered to such director by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter to his/her last known address. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any director who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting, or who attends the meeting without protesting, prior to the conclusion thereof, the lack of notice to him/her.
Section 8. Quorum. A majority of the entire board, present in person or by proxy or by communicating equipment, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
Section 9. Voting. The vote of the majority of the directors, present in person or by proxy, in communication by telefax or conference telephone, at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the directors. Any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if all the members of the Board consent in writing thereto.
Section 10. Compensation of Directors and Members of Committees. The Board may from time to time, in its discretion, fix the amounts which shall be payable to members of the Board of Directors and to members of any committee, for attendance at the meetings of the Board or of such committee and for services rendered to the Corporation.
ARTICLE IV
COMMITTEES
Section 1. Executive Committee and Other Committees. The Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members an Executive Committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation, which, to the extent provided in said resolution or resolutions, or in these Bylaws, shall have and may exercise, to the extent permitted by law, the powers of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may have power to authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it. In addition, the Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members other committees to consist of one or more directors of the Corporation, each of which shall perform such function and have such authority and powers as shall be delegated to it by said resolution or resolutions or as provided for in these Bylaws, except that only the Executive Committee may have and exercise the powers of the Board of Directors. Members of the Executive Committee and any other committee shall hold office for such periods as may be prescribed by the vote of the majority of the entire Board of Directors, subject, however, to removal at any time by the vote of the Board of Directors. Vacancies in the membership of such committees shall be filled by vote of the Board of Directors. Committees may adopt their own rules of procedure and may meet at stated times or on such notice as they may determine. Each committee shall keep a record of its proceedings and report the same to the Board when requested.

3


 

ARTICLE V
OFFICERS
Section 1. Number and Designation. The Board of Directors shall appoint a Secretary and a Treasurer, and may appoint a President as well as such other officers as it may deem necessary. Officers may be of any nationality, need not be residents of the Marshall Islands and may be, but are not required to be, directors. Officers of the Corporation shall be natural persons except the Secretary may be a corporate entity. Any two or more offices may be held by the same natural person.
The officers shall be appointed annually by the Board of Directors at its first meeting following the annual election of directors, but in the event of the failure of the Board to so appoint any officer, such officer may be appointed at any subsequent meeting of the Board of Directors. The salaries of the officers and any other compensation paid to them shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may at any meeting appoint additional officers. Each officer shall hold office until the first meeting of the Board of Directors following the next annual election of directors and until his/her successor shall have been duly appointed and qualified, except in the event of the earlier termination of his/her term of office through death, resignation, removal or otherwise. Any officer may be removed by the Board at any time with or without cause. Any vacancy in an office may be filled for the unexpired portion of the term of such office by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting.
Section 2. President. The President shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation and shall have the general management of the affairs of the Corporation, together with the powers and duties usually incident to the office of President, except as specifically limited by appropriate written resolution of the Board of Directors and shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors. The President shall preside at all meetings of shareholders at which he/she is present and if, in the case of the President, he/she is a director, at all meetings of the directors.
Section 3. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have general supervision over the care and custody of the funds, securities and other valuable effects of the Corporation and shall deposit the same or cause the same to be deposited in the name of the Corporation in such depositories as the Board of Directors may designate, shall disburse the funds of the Corporation as may be ordered by the Board of Directors, shall have supervision over the accounts of all receipts and disbursements of the Corporation, shall, whenever required by the Board, render or cause to be rendered financial statements of the Corporation, shall have the power and perform the duties usually incident to the office of Treasurer; and shall have the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors, or President.
Section 4. Secretary. The Secretary shall act as Secretary of all meetings of the shareholders and of the Board of Directors at which he/she is present, shall have supervision over the giving and serving of notices of the Corporation; shall be the custodian of the corporate records and of the corporate seal of the Corporation; shall be empowered to affix the corporate seal to those documents, the execution of which, on behalf of the Corporation under its seal, is duly authorized and when so affixed may attest the same, and shall exercise the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors or the President. If the Secretary is a Corporation, the duties of the Secretary may be carried out by any duly authorized representative of such corporation acting in its name.
Section 5. Other Officers: Officers other than those treated in section 2 through 4 of this Article shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the Board of Directors or by the President.
Section 6. Bond. The Board of Directors shall have the power to the extent permitted by

4


 

law, to require any officer, agent or employee of the Corporation to give bond for the faithful discharge of his/her duties in such form and with such surety or sureties as the Board of Directors may deem advisable.
ARTICLE VI
CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES
Section 1. Form and Issuance. The shares of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates in a form meeting the requirements of law and approved by the Board of Directors. Certificates shall be signed by the President or a Vice President, and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer. These signatures may be facsimiles if the certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent or registered by a registrar other than the Corporation itself or its employee.
Section 2. Transfer. The Board of Directors shall have the power and authority to make such rules and regulations as they may deem expedient concerning the issuance, registration and transfer of certificates representing shares of the Corporation’s stock, and may appoint, transfer agents and registrars thereof.
Section 3. Loss of Stock Certificates. The Board of Directors may direct a new certificate or certificates of stock to be issued in place of any certificate or certificates thereof issued by the Corporation alleged to have been lost or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of a new certificate or certificates, the Board of Directors may, in its discretion, and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his/her representative, to advertise the same in such manner as it shall require and/or give the Corporation a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the Corporation with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost or destroyed.
ARTICLE VII
DIVIDENDS
Section 1. Declaration and Form. Dividends may be declared in conformity with law by, and at the discretion of, the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting. Dividends may be declared and paid in cash, stock, or other property of the Corporation.
ARTICLE VIII
CORPORATE SEAL
Section 1. Corporate Seal. The seal of the Corporation, if any, shall be circular in form, with the name of the Corporation in the circumference and such other appropriate legend as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine.
ARTICLE IX
FISCAL YEAR
Section 1. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be such period of twelve consecutive months as the Board of Directors may by resolution designate.

5


 

ARTICLE X
AMENDMENTS
Section 1. By the Shareholders. These Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any meeting of the shareholders of the Corporation by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the stock present and voting at such meeting provided notice that an amendment is to be considered and acted upon is inserted in the notice or waiver of notice of said meeting.
Section 2. By the Directors. If the Articles of Incorporation so provide, these Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors by the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire Board, subject, however, to the power of the shareholders to alter, amend or repeal any Bylaws as adopted.

6

EX-3.34 33 y04313a1exv3w34.htm EX-3.34 exv3w34
Exhibit 3.34
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
SKIATHOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
PURSUANT TO THE MARSHALL ISLANDS BUSINESS CORPORATIONS ACT
          The undersigned, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the provisions of the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act, does hereby make, subscribe, acknowledge and file with the Registrar of Corporations this instrument for that purpose, as follows:
A.   The name of the Corporation shall be:
SKIATHOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
B.   The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may now or hereafter be organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act and without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, the corporation shall have the power:
  (1)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, pledge, hypothecate, mortgage, lease, charter, sub-charter, sell, build, and repair steamships, motorships, tankers, vessels, sailing vessels, tugs, lighters, barges, and all other vessels and craft of any and all motive power whatsoever, including landcraft, and any and all means of conveyance and transportation by land or water, together with engines, boilers, machinery equipment and appurtenances of all kinds, including masts, sails, boats, anchors, cables, tackle, furniture and all other necessities thereunto appertaining and belonging, together with all materials, articles, tools, equipment and appliances necessary, suitable or convenient for the construction, equipment, use and operation thereof; and to equip, furnish, and outfit such vessels and ships.

 


 

  (2)   To engage in ocean, coastwise and inland commerce, and generally in the carriage of freight, goods, cargo in bulk, passengers, mail and personal effects by water between the various ports of the world and to engage generally in waterborne commerce.
 
  (3)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, lease, build, repair, sell or in any manner dispose of docks, piers, quays, wharves, dry docks, warehouses and storage facilities of all kinds, and any property, real, personal and mixed, in connection therewith.
 
  (4)   To act as ship’s husband, shipbrokers, customhouse brokers, ship’s agents, manager of shipping property, freight contractors, forwarding agents, warehousemen, wharfingers, ship chandlers, and general traders.
C.   The registered address of the Corporation in the Marshall Islands is Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH96960. The name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is The Trust Company of the Marshall Islands, Inc.
 
D.   The aggregate number of shares of stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is Five Hundred (500) registered and/or bearer shares with a par value of One US Dollar (US$1.00) per share.
 
    The Corporation shall mail notices and information to holders of bearer shares to the address provided to the Corporation by the shareholder for that purpose.
 
    The holder of a stock certificate issued to bearer may cause such certificate to be exchanged for another certificate in his name for a like number of shares, and the holder of shares issued in the name of the owner may cause his certificate to be exchanged for another certificate to bearer for a like number of shares.

 


 

  E.   The Corporation shall have every power which a corporation now or hereafter organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act may have.
 
  F.   The name and address of the incorporator is:
         
    Name   Post Office Address
 
  Majuro Nominees Ltd.   P.O Box 1405
 
      Majuro
 
      Marshall Islands
G.   The Board of Directors as well as the shareholders of the Corporation shall have the authority to adopt, amend or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation.
 
H.   Corporate existence shall begin upon filing these Articles of Incorporation with the Registrar of Corporations as of the filing date stated on these Articles.
          IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have executed this instrument on March 18, 2010.
             
    Majuro Nominees Ltd. Incorporator    
 
           
 
  by:   /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]
 
   

 


 

          On March 18, 2010 before me personally came S. Gioula known to me to be the individual described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and she duly acknowledged to me that the execution thereof was her act and deed.
             
 
      /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]
 
   

 

EX-3.35 34 y04313a1exv3w35.htm EX-3.35 exv3w35
Exhibit 3.35
BYLAWS
SKIATHOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
A Marshall Islands Corporation
ARTICLE I
OFFICES
The principal place of business of the Corporation shall be at such place or places as the Directors shall from time to time determine. The Corporation may also have an office at such other places within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may from time to time appoint or the business of the Corporation may require.
ARTICLE II
MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Section 1. Annual Meetings. The annual meeting of shareholders of the Corporation shall be held on such day and at such time and place within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may determine for the purpose of electing Directors and of transacting such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.
Section 2. Special Meeting. Special meetings of the shareholders, unless otherwise prescribed by law, may be called for any purpose or purposes at any time by resolution of the Board of Directors or by the President and shall be called by the President or Secretary of the Corporation whenever required in writing to do so by shareholders owning a majority in amount of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote which is issued and outstanding. Such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed special meeting. Such meetings shall be held at such place and on a date and at such time as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer of the Corporation calling any such meeting. Business transacted at any special meeting of shareholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice.
Section 3. Notice of Meetings. Notice of every annual and special meeting of shareholders, other than any meeting the giving of notice of which is prescribed by law, stating the date, time, place and purpose thereof, and in the case of special meetings, the name of the person or persons at whose direction the notice is being issued, shall be given personally or sent by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter at least fifteen but not more than sixty days before such meeting, to each shareholder of record entitled to vote thereat and to each shareholder of record who, by reason of any action proposed at such meeting would be entitled to have his/her shares appraised if such action were taken, and the notice shall include a statement of that purpose and to that effect. If mailed, notice shall be deemed to have been given when deposited in the mail, directed to the shareholder at his/her address as the same appears on the record of shareholders of the Corporation or at such address as to which the shareholder has given notice to the Secretary. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any shareholder who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting or who attends the meeting without protesting prior to the conclusion thereof the lack of notice to him. If the Corporation shall issue any class of bearer shares, notice for all meetings shall be given in the manner provided in the Articles of Incorporation.
Section 4. Quorum. At all meetings of the shareholders, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, there must be present, either in person or by proxy, shareholders holding at least a majority of the shares issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at such meetings in order to constitute a quorum, but if less than a quorum is present, a majority of those shares present either in person or by proxy shall have power to adjourn any meeting until a quorum shall be present.

1


 

Section 5. Voting. If a quorum is present, and except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of stock represented at the meeting shall be the act of the shareholders. At any meeting of shareholders, each shareholder entitled to vote any shares on any manner to be voted upon at such meeting shall be entitled to one vote on such matter for each such share, and may exercise such voting right either in person or by proxy. Any action which may be taken at a meeting of shareholders, may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken or to be taken, is signed by all of the shareholders entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof.
Section 6. Fixing of Record Dates. The Board of Directors may fix a time not more than sixty nor less than fifteen days prior to the date of any meeting of the shareholders, or more than sixty (60) days prior to the last day on which the consent or dissent of shareholders may be expressed for any purpose without a meeting, as the time as of which shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or whose consent or dissent is required or may be expressed for any purpose, as the case may be, shall be determined, and all persons who were holders of record of voting shares at such time and not others shall be entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or to express their consent or dissent, as the case may be. The Board of Directors may fix a time not exceeding sixty days preceding the date fixed for the payment of any dividend, distribution, or allotment or for the purpose of such other action.
ARTICLE III
DIRECTORS
Section 1. Number. The affairs, business and property of the Corporation shall be managed by a Board of Directors to consist of at least one director. Within the limits fixed by these Bylaws, the number of directors may be determined either by a vote of a majority of the entire Board or by vote of shareholders. The directors need not be residents of the Marshall Islands nor shareholders of the Corporation.
Section 2. How Elected. Except as otherwise provided by law or Section 4 of this Article, the directors of the Corporation (other than the first Board of Directors designated by the Incorporator) shall be elected at the annual meeting of shareholders. Each director shall be elected to serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until his/her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified, except in the event of his/her death, resignation, removal or the earlier termination of his/her term of office.
Section 3. Removal. Any or all of the directors may be removed, with or without cause, by a vote of the shareholders. Any director may be removed for cause by action of the Board of Directors.
Section 4. Vacancies. Vacancies in the Board of Directors occurring by death, resignation, the creation of new directorships, the failure of the shareholders to elect the whole Board at any annual election of directors, or, except as herein provided, for any other reason, including removal of directors for cause, may be filled either by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors then in office, although less than a quorum, at any special meeting called for that purpose or at any regular meeting of the Board, except as otherwise prescribed by law or unless the Articles of Incorporation provide that such vacancies or newly created directorships shall be filled by vote of the shareholders. Vacancies occurring by removal of directors without cause may be filled only by vote of the shareholders.
Section 5. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held at such time and place as may be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors and no notice shall be required for any regular meeting. Except as otherwise provided by law, any business may be transacted at any regular meeting.

2


 

Section 6. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board may, unless otherwise prescribed by law, be called by the President or any other officer of the Corporation who is also a director. The President or the Secretary shall call a special meeting of the Board upon written request directed to either of them by any two directors stating the time, place and purpose of such special meeting. Special meetings of the Board shall be held on a date and at such time and at such place as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer calling the meeting.
Section 7. Notice of Special Meeting. Notice of the date, time and place of each special meeting of the Board of Directors shall be given to each director at least forty-eight hours prior to such meeting, unless the notice is given orally or delivered in person, in which case it shall be given at least twenty-four hours prior to such meeting. For the purpose of this section, notice shall be deemed to be duly given to a director if given personally (including by telephone) or if such notice be delivered to such director by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter to his/her last known address. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any director who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting, or who attends the meeting without protesting, prior to the conclusion thereof, the lack of notice to him/her.
Section 8. Quorum. A majority of the entire board, present in person or by proxy or by communicating equipment, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
Section 9. Voting. The vote of the majority of the directors, present in person or by proxy, in communication by telefax or conference telephone, at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the directors. Any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if all the members of the Board consent in writing thereto.
Section 10. Compensation of Directors and Members of Committees. The Board may from time to time, in its discretion, fix the amounts which shall be payable to members of the Board of Directors and to members of any committee, for attendance at the meetings of the Board or of such committee and for services rendered to the Corporation.
ARTICLE IV
COMMITTEES
Section 1. Executive Committee and Other Committees. The Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members an Executive Committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation, which, to the extent provided in said resolution or resolutions, or in these Bylaws, shall have and may exercise, to the extent permitted by law, the powers of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may have power to authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it. In addition, the Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members other committees to consist of one or more directors of the Corporation, each of which shall perform such function and have such authority and powers as shall be delegated to it by said resolution or resolutions or as provided for in these Bylaws, except that only the Executive Committee may have and exercise the powers of the Board of Directors. Members of the Executive Committee and any other committee shall hold office for such periods as may be prescribed by the vote of the majority of the entire Board of Directors, subject, however, to removal at any time by the vote of the Board of Directors. Vacancies in the membership of such committees shall be filled by vote of the Board of Directors. Committees may adopt their own rules of procedure and may meet at stated times or on such notice as they may determine. Each committee shall keep a record of its proceedings and report the same to the Board when requested.

3


 

ARTICLE V
OFFICERS
Section 1. Number and Designation. The Board of Directors shall appoint a Secretary and a Treasurer, and may appoint a President as well as such other officers as it may deem necessary. Officers may be of any nationality, need not be residents of the Marshall Islands and may be, but are not required to be, directors. Officers of the Corporation shall be natural persons except the Secretary may be a corporate entity. Any two or more offices may be held by the same natural person.
The officers shall be appointed annually by the Board of Directors at its first meeting following the annual election of directors, but in the event of the failure of the Board to so appoint any officer, such officer may be appointed at any subsequent meeting of the Board of Directors. The salaries of the officers and any other compensation paid to them shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may at any meeting appoint additional officers. Each officer shall hold office until the first meeting of the Board of Directors following the next annual election of directors and until his/her successor shall have been duly appointed and qualified, except in the event of the earlier termination of his/her term of office through death, resignation, removal or otherwise. Any officer may be removed by the Board at any time with or without cause. Any vacancy in an office may be filled for the unexpired portion of the term of such office by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting.
Section 2. President. The President shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation and shall have the general management of the affairs of the Corporation, together with the powers and duties usually incident to the office of President, except as specifically limited by appropriate written resolution of the Board of Directors and shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors. The President shall preside at all meetings of shareholders at which he/she is present and if, in the case of the President, he/she is a director, at all meetings of the directors.
Section 3. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have general supervision over the care and custody of the funds, securities and other valuable effects of the Corporation and shall deposit the same or cause the same to be deposited in the name of the Corporation in such depositories as the Board of Directors may designate, shall disburse the funds of the Corporation as may be ordered by the Board of Directors, shall have supervision over the accounts of all receipts and disbursements of the Corporation, shall, whenever required by the Board, render or cause to be rendered financial statements of the Corporation, shall have the power and perform the duties usually incident to the office of Treasurer; and shall have the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors, or President.
Section 4. Secretary. The Secretary shall act as Secretary of all meetings of the shareholders and of the Board of Directors at which he/she is present, shall have supervision over the giving and serving of notices of the Corporation; shall be the custodian of the corporate records and of the corporate seal of the Corporation; shall be empowered to affix the corporate seal to those documents, the execution of which, on behalf of the Corporation under its seal, is duly authorized and when so affixed may attest the same, and shall exercise the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors or the President. If the Secretary is a Corporation, the duties of the Secretary may be carried out by any duly authorized representative of such corporation acting in its name.
Section 5. Other Officers: Officers other than those treated in section 2 through 4 of this Article shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the Board of Directors or by the President.
Section 6. Bond. The Board of Directors shall have the power to the extent permitted by

4


 

law, to require any officer, agent or employee of the Corporation to give bond for the faithful discharge of his/her duties in such form and with such surety or sureties as the Board of Directors may deem advisable.
ARTICLE VI
CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES
Section 1. Form and Issuance. The shares of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates in a form meeting the requirements of law and approved by the Board of Directors. Certificates shall be signed by the President or a Vice President, and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer. These signatures may be facsimiles if the certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent or registered by a registrar other than the Corporation itself or its employee.
Section 2. Transfer. The Board of Directors shall have the power and authority to make such rules and regulations as they may deem expedient concerning the issuance, registration and transfer of certificates representing shares of the Corporation’s stock, and may appoint, transfer agents and registrars thereof.
Section 3. Loss of Stock Certificates. The Board of Directors may direct a new certificate or certificates of stock to be issued in place of any certificate or certificates thereof issued by the Corporation alleged to have been lost or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of a new certificate or certificates, the Board of Directors may, in its discretion, and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his/her representative, to advertise the same in such manner as it shall require and/or give the Corporation a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the Corporation with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost or destroyed.
ARTICLE VII
DIVIDENDS
Section 1. Declaration and Form. Dividends may be declared in conformity with law by, and at the discretion of, the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting. Dividends may be declared and paid in cash, stock, or other property of the Corporation.
ARTICLE VIII
CORPORATE SEAL
Section 1. Corporate Seal. The seal of the Corporation, if any, shall be circular in form, with the name of the Corporation in the circumference and such other appropriate legend as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine.
ARTICLE IX
FISCAL YEAR
Section 1. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be such period of twelve consecutive months as the Board of Directors may by resolution designate.

5


 

ARTICLE X
AMENDMENTS
Section 1. By the Shareholders. These Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any meeting of the shareholders of the Corporation by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the stock present and voting at such meeting provided notice that an amendment is to be considered and acted upon is inserted in the notice or waiver of notice of said meeting.
Section 2. By the Directors. If the Articles of Incorporation so provide, these Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors by the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire Board, subject, however, to the power of the shareholders to alter, amend or repeal any Bylaws as adopted.

6

EX-3.36 35 y04313a1exv3w36.htm EX-3.36 exv3w36
Exinbit 3.36
THE COMPANIES LAW (2009 Revision)
EXEMPTED COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
OF
SKOPELOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
(the “Company”)
1. The NAME of the Company is Skopelos Sinpping Corporation
2.   The REGISTERED OFFICE of the Company is situate at the offices of Maricorp Services Ltd., P.O. Box 2075, George Town, Grand Cayman KY1-1105, Cayman Islands, British West Indies or at such other place as the Directors may determine.
3.   The OBJECTS for winch the Company is established are NOT restricted but, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company shall have full power and authority to do and carry out any and all acts exercisable by a natural person or body corporate or any other legal entity in any part of the world in any capacity whatsoever including whether as principal, agent, contractor, broker, representative, attorney or otherwise and whether alone or jointly with others and the Company shall have full power and authority to carry out any object not proinbited by the Companies Law (2009 Revision) or any other law of the Cayman Islands or any modifications or re-enactments thereof.
4.   Pursuant to the Companies Law (2009 Revision), the Company shall have, and be capable of exercising, all of the functions of a natural person of full capacity irrespective of any question of corporate benefit.
5.   If the Company is registered as an exempted company:
  5.1   it shall have the power to apply to the Registrar of Companies to be registered by way of continuation as a body corporate limited by shares under the laws of any jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands and to be de-registered in the Cayman Islands with full power to carry out all or any matters required by section 206 of the Companies Law (2009 Revision) or any statutory modifications or re-enactments thereof; and
 
  5.2   it shall not trade in the Cayman Islands with any person, firm or corporation except in furtherance of the business of the Company carried on outside the Cayman Islands provided that notinng in tins clause shall be construed so as to prevent the Company effecting and concluding contracts in the Cayman Islands and exercising in the

1


 

      Cayman Islands all of its powers necessary for the carrying on of its business outside the Cayman Islands.
6.   Notinng in the preceding clauses shall be deemed to permit the Company to carry on such business as requires a licence under applicable Cayman Islands law including, without limitation:
  6.1   the business of a bank or trust company unless licensed therefor under The Banks and Trust Companies Law (2009 Revision);
 
  6.2   the business of an insurance company, manager, agent, sub-agent or broker unless licensed therefor under the Insurance Law (2008 Revision); or
 
  6.3   the business of company management unless licensed therefor under The Companies Management Law (2003 Revision)
    or any statutory modification or re-enactment of any of the same for the time being in force.
 
7.   THE LIABILITY of the members is limited.
 
8.   THE AUTHORISED SHARE CAPITAL of the Company is fifty thousand United States dollars (US$50,000) divided into fifty thousand (50,000) shares each with a nominal or par value of one United States dollar (US$1.00) with the power for the Company, insofar as is permitted by law, to redeem any of its shares, increase or reduce such capital and to issue all or any part of its capital (whether original, redeemed, increased or reduced) with or without any preference, priority or special privilege, or subject to any postponement of rights, or to any conditions or restrictions whatsoever and so that, unless the conditions of issue shall otherwise expressly provide, every issue of shares, whether stated to be preference or otherwise, shall be subject to the powers on the part of the Company hereinbefore contained.
I/We, the person or persons who have subscribed our names and addresses, are desirous of being formed into a company, in pursuance of tins Memorandum of Association, and I/We respectively agree to take the number of shares in the capital of the Company set opposite my/our respective name/s.

2


 

     
NAME, ADDRESS & DESCRIPTION OF SUBSCRIBER/S
  NUMBER OF SHARES TAKEN BY EACH SUBSCRIBER
 
   
 
  One (1)
MARICORP SERVICES LTD.
   
P.O. BOX 2075
   
GRAND CAYMAN KY1-1105
   
CAYMAN ISLANDS
   
 
   
COMPANY MANAGEMENT COMPANY
   
 
   
/s/ [ILLEGIBLE]
 
Duly authorised signatory for and on behalf of Maricorp Services Ltd.
   
 
   
 
  TOTAL NO. OF SHARES TAKEN: One (1)
 
   
Dated tins 1st day of April, 2010
 
   
Witness to the above signature:
   
 
   
SIG.                    /s/ Christine Thomson  
 
P.O. BOX 2075
   
GRAND CAYMAN KY1-1105
   
CAYMAN ISLANDS
   
         
  CERTIFIED TO BE A TRUE AND CORRECT COPY
 
 
  SIG.                    /s/ Joy A. Rankine    
  JOY A. RANKINE   
  Assistant Registrar   
 
                   Date. 1st April 2010

3


 

INDEX TO ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
PRELIMINARY - Article 1
INTERPRETATION - Article 2
SHARES - Article 3
VARIATION OF SHARE RIGHTS - Articles 4-5
NON-RECOGNITION OF TRUSTS - Article 6
ISSUE OF SHARES - Article 7
REGISTER OF MEMBERS - Articles 8 - 9
LIEN - Articles 10 to 13
CALLS ON SHARES - Articles 14 to 21
TRANSFER AND TRANSMISSION OF SHARES - Articles 22 to 27
FORFEITURE OF SHARES - Articles 28 to 34
CONVERSION OF SHARES INTO STOCK - Articles 35 to 38
PRE-EMPTIVE AND SHARE RIGHTS - Article 39
ALTERATION OF SHARE CAPITAL - Articles 40 to 43
STATUTORY MEETINGS - Articles 44 to 45
GENERAL MEETINGS - Articles 46 to 51
PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS - Articles 52 to 59
VOTES OF MEMBERS - Articles 60 to 66
PROXIES - Articles 67 - 70
RESOLUTIONS IN WRITING - Article 71
CORPORATIONS ACTING BY REPRESENTATIVES AT MEETINGS - Article 72
DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS - Articles 73 to 83
MANAGING DIRECTOR/OTHER OFFICERS - Article 84

4


 

ALTERNATE DIRECTORS - Articles 85 to 86
POWERS AND DUTIES OF DIRECTORS - Articles 87 to 91
DISQUALIFICATION AND PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS - Articles 92 to 100
TENURE OF OFFICE OF DIRECTORS - Articles 101 to 103
PRESUMPTION OF ASSENT - Article 104
SEAL - Articles 105 to 106
DIVIDENDS AND RESERVES - Articles 107 to 113
CAPITALISATION OF PROFITS - Articles 114 to 115
BOOKS OF ACCOUNT - Articles 116 to 120
NOTICES - Articles 121 to 124
LIQUIDATION OF THE COMPANY - Articles 125 to 126
INDEMNITY - Article 127
AMENDMENT OF MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES - Article 128
TRANSFER BY WAY OF CONTINUATION - Article 129

5


 

THE COMPANIES LAW (2009 Revision)
EXEMPTED COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
SKOPELOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
PRELIMINARY
1.   The regulations in Table “A” in the First Schedule to the Law (as defined below) shall not apply to the Company except insofar as they are repeated or contained in these Articles.
INTERPRETATION
2.   In these Articles, if not inconsistent with the subject or context, the following expressions shall have the following meanings:
             
 
  2.1   “Articles”   means the articles of association of the Company for the time being in force.
 
           
 
      “Company”   means the above named company.
 
           
 
      “Directors”   means the directors for the time being of the Company.
 
           
 
      “Law”   means the Companies Law (2009 Revision) of the Cayman Islands and every statutory modification or
re-enactment thereof for the time being in force.
 
           
 
      “member”   has the meaning assigned to it in the Law.
 
           
 
      “Memorandum
of Association”
  means the memorandum of association of the Company for the time being in force.
 
           
 
      “Ordinary Resolution”  
means any resolution of the members, not being a Special Resolution, winch is either: (i) approved at a duly convened and constituted meeting of the members by the affirmative vote of a simple majority of the votes of the shares entitled to vote thereon winch were present at the meeting and were voted and not abstained; or (ii) consented to in writing by all of the members entitled to vote thereon.

6


 

           
 
    “Secretary”   means any person appointed to perform the duties of secretary of the Company and shall include an assistant secretary.
 
         
 
    “share”   includes a fraction of a share.
 
         
 
    “Special Resolution”   has the meaning assigned to it in the Law.
  2.2   Expressions defined in the Law, or any statutory modification or re-enactment thereof in force at the date on winch these Articles become binding on the Company, shall have the meanings so defined.
 
  2.3   Words importing the singular number shall include the plural number and vice versa.
 
  2.4   Words importing the masculine gender shall include the feminine and neuter genders.
 
  2.5   Persons shall include corporations.
 
  2.6   The headings are intended for convenience and shall not affect the construction of these Articles.
SHARES
3.   Subject to the provisions, if any, in that behalf in the Memorandum of Association, and without prejudice to any special rights previously conferred on the holders of existing shares, any share may be issued with such preferred, deferred or other special rights, or such restrictions, whether in regard to dividend, voting, return of share capital or otherwise, as the Company may from time to time by Special Resolution determine and, subject to the provisions of the Law, any preference share may, with the sanction of a Special Resolution, be issued on the terms that it is, or at the option of the Company is liable, to be redeemed.
VARIATION OF SHARE RIGHTS
4.   If at any time the share capital is divided into different classes of shares the rights attached to any class (unless otherwise provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class) may be varied with the consent in writing of the holders of three-fourths of the issued shares of that class or with the sanction of a Special Resolution passed at a separate general meeting of the holders of the shares of the class. To every such separate general meeting the provisions of these Articles relating to general meetings shall apply, but so that the necessary quorum shall be one person holding or representing by proxy at least one-tinrd of the issued shares of the class (but so that if, at any adjourned meeting of such holders, a quorum as defined above is not present, those members who are present shall be a quorum) and that any holder of shares of the class present in person or by proxy may demand a poll and, on a poll, shall have one vote for each share of the class of winch he is the holder.
5.   The rights conferred upon the holders of the shares of any class issued with preferred or other rights shall, unless otherwise expressly provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that

7


 

    class, be deemed not to be varied by the creation or issue of further shares ranking pari passu therewith.
NON-RECOGNITION OF TRUSTS
6.   Except as required by law, no person shall be recognised by the Company as holding any share upon any trust, and the Company shall not be bound by or be compelled in any way to recognise (even when having notice thereof) any equitable, contingent, future or partial interest in any share or any interest in any fractional part of a share (except only as is otherwise provided by these Articles, by law or under an order of a court of competent jurisdiction) or any other rights in respect of any share except an absolute right to the entirety thereof in the registered holder.
ISSUE OF SHARES
7.   Subject to Article 39 and to the provisions of these Articles relating to shares, the shares shall be at the disposal of the Directors and they may (subject to the provisions of the Law) allot, grant options over, or otherwise dispose of them to such persons, on such terms and conditions and at such times as they tinnk fit but so that no share shall be issued at a discount, except in accordance with the provisions of the Law, and so that in the case of shares offered to the public for subscription the amount payable on application on each share shall not be less than such percentage of the nominal amount of the share as shall be determined by the Directors.
REGISTER OF MEMBERS
8.1   Shares in the Company may only be issued as registered shares and may not be exchanged for shares issued to bearer.
8.2   The Directors shall keep or cause to be kept at the Registered Office or such other place determined by the Directors the register of members containing such particulars relating to each member as they may deem appropriate provided that the following particulars are recorded:
  8.2.1   the name and address of each member, a statement of the shares of each class held by inm and of the amount paid, or agreed to be considered as paid, on such shares;
 
  8.2.2   the date on winch the name of each person was entered in the register of members as a member;
 
  8.2.3   the date on winch any person ceased to be a member.
8.3   Every person whose name is entered as a member in the register of members shall, without payment, be entitled to a certificate under the seal of the Company specifying the share or shares held by inm and the amount paid up thereon provided that, in respect of a share or shares held jointly by several persons, the Company shall not be bound to issue more than

8


 

    one certificate and delivery of a certificate for a share to one of several joint holders shall be sufficient delivery to all.
9.   If a share certificate is worn out, defaced, lost or destroyed, it may be renewed on payment of such fee, if any, not exceeding one United States dollar and on such terms, if any, as to evidence and indemnity as the Directors may prescribe.
LIEN
10.   The Company shall have a first and paramount lien on every share (not being a fully paid share) for all moneys (whether presently payable or not) called or payable at a fixed time in respect of that share and the Company shall also have a lien on all shares (other than fully paid-up shares) standing registered in the name of a single person for all moneys presently payable by inm or ins estate to the Company but the Directors may at any time declare any share to be wholly or partly exempt from the provisions of tins Article. The Company’s lien, if any, on a share shall extend to all dividends payable thereon.
11.   The Company may sell, in such manner as the Directors tinnk fit, any shares on winch the Company has a lien, but no sale shall be made unless some sum in respect of winch the lien exists is presently payable nor until the expiration of fourteen days after a notice in writing, stating and demanding payment of such part of the amount in respect of winch the lien exists as is presently payable, has been given to the registered holder for the time being of the share, or the persons entitled thereto by reason of ins death or bankruptcy.
12.   For giving effect to any such sale, the Directors may authorise some person to transfer the shares sold to the purchaser thereof. The purchaser shall be registered as the holder of the shares comprised in any such transfer and he shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, nor shall ins title to the shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in relation to the sale.
13.   The proceeds of the sale shall be received by the Company and applied in payment of such part of the amount in respect of winch the lien exists as is presently payable and the residue shall (subject to a like lien for sums not presently payable as existed upon the shares prior to the sale) be paid to the person entitled to the shares at the date of the sale.
CALLS ON SHARES
14.   The Directors may from time to time make calls upon the members in respect of any moneys unpaid on their shares (whether on account of the nominal value of the shares or by way of premium or otherwise) and not by the conditions of allotment thereof made payable at fixed times provided that no call shall exceed one-half of the nominal value of the share or be payable earlier than one month from the date fixed for the payment of the previous call and each member shall (subject to receiving at least fourteen days’ notice specifying the time or times and place of payment) pay to the Company at the time or times and place so specified the amount called on ins shares. A call may be revoked or postponed at the determination of the Directors.

9


 

15.   A call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the resolution of the Directors authorising the call was passed and may be required to be paid by instalments.
16.   The joint holders of a share shall be jointly and severally liable to pay all calls in respect thereof.
17.   If a sum called in respect of a share is not paid before or on the day appointed for payment thereof, the person from whom the sum is due shall pay interest on the sum from such day appointed for payment to the time of actual payment at such rate not exceeding six per cent. per annum as the Directors may determine but the Directors shall be at liberty to waive payment of such interest either wholly or partly.
18.   Any sum winch by the terms of issue of a share becomes payable on allotment or on any fixed date (whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium or otherwise) shall for the purposes of these Articles be deemed to be a call duly made, notified and payable on the date on winch, by the terms of issue, the same becomes payable and, in case of non-payment, all the relevant provisions of these Articles as to payment of interest and expenses, forfeiture or otherwise shall apply as if such sum had become payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.
19.   The provisions of these Articles as to the liability of joint holders and as to payment of interest shall apply in the case of non-payment of any sum winch, by the terms of issue of a share, becomes payable at a fixed time (whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium or otherwise) as if the same had become payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.
20.   The Directors may make arrangements on the issue of shares for a difference between the holders in the amount of calls to be paid and in the times of payment.
21.   The Directors may, if they tinnk fit, receive from any member willing to advance the same all or any part of the moneys uncalled and unpaid upon any shares held by inm and upon all or any of the moneys so advanced may (until the same would, but for such advance, become presently payable) pay interest at such rate, not exceeding (without the sanction of the Company in general meeting) six per cent. per annum, as may be agreed upon between the member paying the sum in advance and the Directors.
TRANSFER AND TRANSMISSION OF SHARES
22.   The instrument of transfer of any share shall be executed by or on behalf of the transferor and transferee and the transferor shall be deemed to remain a holder of the share until the name of the transferee is entered in the register of members in respect thereof provided that the Directors may waive execution by the transferee of the instrument of transfer but shall, as soon as possible thereafter, inform the transferee of such waiver of execution.
23.   Subject to such of the restrictions of these Articles (if any) as may be applicable, shares shall be transferred by instrument in writing in the following form or in any usual or common form approved by the Directors:-

10


 

SHARE TRANSFER
    I                      of                      (the “Transferor”) in consideration of the sum of                      paid to me by                      of                      (the “Transferee”) do HEREBY TRANSFER to the Transferee the share or shares numbered                      in the Company to hold unto the Transferee, ins executors, heirs and assigns subject to the conditions on winch I hold the same and I, the Transferee, do hereby agree to take the said share(s) subject to such conditions.
 
    Dated the                      day of                     
 
    Signed by the Transferor:                                         
 
    WITNESS to the signature of the Transferor:
 
    Signed by the Transferee:                                         
 
    WITNESS to the signature of the Transferee:                                         
24.   The Directors may, in their absolute discretion and without assigning any reason therefor, decline to register any transfer of any share, whether or not it is a fully paid share. The registration of transfers may be suspended at such times and for such periods as the Directors may from time to time determine provided always that such registration shall not be suspended for more than tinrty days in any year.
 
    The Directors may also decline to recognise any instrument of transfer unless:
  24.1   a fee not exceeding one United States dollar is paid to the Company in respect thereof; and
 
  24.2   the instrument of transfer is accompanied by any share certificate to winch it relates and such other evidence as the Directors may reasonably require to show the right of the transferor to make the transfer.
    If the Directors refuse to register a transfer of any shares they shall, witinn two months after the date on winch the transfer was lodged with the Company, send to the transferee notice of the refusal.
25.   In the case of the death of a member, the legal personal representative of a deceased sole shareholder shall be the only person recognised by the Company as having any title to the share. In the case of a share registered in the names of two or more holders, the survivors or survivor, or the legal personal representatives of the deceased shareholder, shall be the only persons recognised by the Company as having any title to the share.
26.   Any person becoming entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a member shall, upon such evidence being produced as may from time to time be properly required by the Directors, have the right either to be registered as a member in respect of the

11


 

    share or, instead of being registered inmself, to make such transfer of the share as the deceased or bankrupt person could have made but the Directors shall, in either case, have the same right to decline or suspend registration as they would have had in the case of a transfer of the share by the deceased or bankrupt member before ins death or bankruptcy (as the case may be).
27.   A person becoming entitled to a share by reason of the death or bankruptcy of the holder shall be entitled to the same dividends and other advantages to winch he would be entitled if he were the registered holder of the share except that he shall not, before being registered as a member in respect of the share, be entitled in respect of it to exercise any right conferred by membersinp in relation to meetings of the Company. The Directors may at any time give notice requiring any such person to elect either to be registered inmself or to transfer the share and, if the notice is not complied with witinn ninety days, the Directors may, if such shares are redeemable at the option of the Company, redeem such shares but, in the meantime, the Directors may elect to withhold payment of all dividends, bonus or other moneys payable in respect of the share until the requirements of the notice have been complied with.
FORFEITURE OF SHARES
28.   If a member fails to pay any call or instalment of a call on the day appointed for payment thereof, the Directors may, at any time thereafter during such time as any part of such call or instalment remains unpaid, serve a notice on inm requiring payment of so much of the call or instalment as is unpaid, together with any interest winch may have accrued and all expenses incurred by the Company by reason of such non-payment.
29.   The notice shall name a day (not earlier than the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the notice) on or before winch the payment required by the notice is to be made and shall state that, in the event of non-payment at or before the time appointed, the shares in respect of winch the call was made will be liable to be forfeited.
30.   If the requirements of any such notice as aforesaid are not complied with, any share in respect of winch the notice has been given may, at any time thereafter before the payment required by the notice has been made, be forfeited by a resolution of the Directors to that effect.
31.   A forfeited share may be sold or otherwise disposed of on such terms and in such manner as the Directors tinnk fit and, at any time before a sale or disposition, the forfeiture may be cancelled on such terms as the Directors tinnk fit.
32.   A person whose shares have been forfeited shall cease to be a member in respect of the forfeited shares but shall, notwithstanding, remain liable to pay the Company all moneys winch, at the date of forfeiture, were payable by inm to the Company in respect of the shares, but ins liability shall cease if and when the Company receives payment in full of the nominal amount of the shares.

12


 

33.   A voluntary declaration in writing that the declarant is a Director or the Secretary and that a share in the Company has been duly sold, forfeited or otherwise disposed of on a date stated in the declaration shall be conclusive evidence of the facts therein stated as against all persons claiming to be entitled to the share. The Company may receive the consideration, if any, given for the share on any sale, forfeiture or disposition thereof and may execute a transfer of the share in favour of the person to whom the share is sold, forfeited or otherwise disposed and he shall thereupon be registered as the holder of the share and shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, if any, nor shall ins title to the share be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in relation to the sale, forfeiture or disposal of the share.
34.   The provisions of these Articles as to forfeiture shall apply in the case of non-payment of any sum winch, by the terms of issue of a share, becomes payable at a fixed time (whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium or otherwise) as if the same had been payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.
CONVERSION OF SHARES INTO STOCK
35.   The Company may by Ordinary Resolution convert any paid-up shares into stock, and reconvert any stock into paid-up shares of any denomination.
36.   The holders of stock may transfer the same, or any part thereof, in the same manner, and subject to the same Articles as and subject to winch the shares from winch the stock arose might prior to conversion have been transferred, or as near thereto as circumstances admit but the Directors may from time to time fix the minimum amount of stock transferable and restrict or forbid the transfer of fractions of that minimum but the minimum shall not exceed the nominal amount of the shares from winch the stock arose.
37.   The holders of stock shall, according to the amount of the stock held by them, have the same rights, privileges and advantages as regards dividends, voting at meetings of the Company and other matters as if they held the shares from winch the stock arose but no such privilege or advantage (except participation in the dividends and profits of the Company) shall be conferred by any such aliquot part of stock as would not, if existing shares, have conferred that privilege or advantage.
38.   Such of the Articles as are applicable to paid-up shares shall apply to stock and the words “share” and “shareholder” therein shall include “stock” and “stockholder”.
PRE-EMPTIVE AND SHARE RIGHTS
39.   The Company may by Ordinary Resolution, before the issue of any shares (whether such shares be of the original, increased or altered capital), determine that the same, or any of them, shall be offered in the first instance, and either at par or at a premium, to all existing holders of any class of shares, in proportion as nearly as may be to the number of shares of such class held by them respectively, or make any other provisions as to the issue of such shares.

13


 

ALTERATION OF SHARE CAPITAL
40.   The Company may from time to time by Ordinary Resolution increase its share capital by such sum, to be divided into shares of such amount or, if an exempted company, without nominal or par value, as the resolution shall prescribe and with such rights, priorities and privileges annexed thereto as the Company in general meeting may determine provided that the Company, if an exempted company, shall not divide its share capital into both shares of a fixed amount and shares without nominal or par value.
41.   Except so far as otherwise provided by the conditions of issue, or by these Articles, any capital raised by the creation of new shares shall be considered part of the original capital and shall be subject to the provisions herein contained with reference to the payment of calls and instalments, transfer and transmission, forfeiture, lien, surrender and otherwise.
42.   The Company may by Ordinary Resolution:
  42.1   consolidate and divide all or any of its share capital into shares of larger amount than its existing shares;
 
  42.2   sub-divide its existing shares, or any of them, into shares of smaller amount than is fixed by the Memorandum of Association subject nevertheless to the provisions of the Law; and
 
  42.3   cancel any shares winch, at the date of the passing of the Ordinary Resolution, have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any person and diminish the amount of its share capital by the amount of the shares so cancelled.
43.   The Company may:
  43.1   by Special Resolution, and subject to and in accordance with the provisions of the Law, reduce its share capital and any capital redemption reserve fund in any manner whatsoever;
 
  43.2   by resolution of its Directors purchase its own shares (including any redeemable shares and fractions of a share) in any manner whatsoever; and
 
  43.3   make a payment in respect of the redemption or purchase of its own shares otherwise than out of profits or the proceeds of a fresh issue of shares.
STATUTORY MEETINGS
44.   The Company, if registered as an ordinary non-resident company or an ordinary company under the Law, shall hold a general meeting once in every calendar year at such time and place as may be resolved by the Company in general meeting or, in default, at such time and place as the Directors may determine or, in default, at such time in the tinrd month following that in winch the anniversary of the Company’s incorporation occurs, and at such place as the Directors shall appoint. In default of a general meeting being so held, a general meeting shall

14


 

    be held in the month next following and may be convened by any two members in the same manner as nearly as possible as that in winch meetings are to be convened by the Directors. The above mentioned general meetings shall be called ordinary general meetings; all other general meetings shall be called extraordinary general meetings.
45.   The Company may, but shall not be obliged to, hold one or more Directors’ meetings in the Cayman Islands in each calendar year.
GENERAL MEETINGS
46.   The Directors may, whenever they tinnk fit, convene an extraordinary general meeting. If, at any time, there are not sufficient Directors capable of acting to form a quorum, any Director or any one member of the Company may convene an extraordinary general meeting in the same manner as nearly as possible as that in winch meetings may be convened by the Directors. The Directors shall, upon the requisition in writing of one or more members holding in the aggregate not less than one-tenth of such paid-up capital of the Company as at the date of the requisition carries the right of voting at general meetings, convene an extraordinary general meeting. Any such requisition shall express the object of the meeting proposed to be called and shall be left at the registered office of the Company. If the Directors do not proceed to convene a general meeting witinn twenty-one days from the date of such requisition being left as aforesaid, the requisitionists or any or either of them or any other member or members holding in the aggregate not less than one-tenth of such paid-up capital of the Company as at the date of the requisition carries the right of voting at general meetings, may convene an extraordinary general meeting to be held at the registered office of the Company or at some convenient place witinn the Cayman Islands at such time, subject to the Company’s Articles as to notice, as the persons convening the meeting fix.
47.   Subject to the provisions of the Law relating to Special Resolutions, seven days notice at the least (exclusive of the day on winch the notice is served or deemed to be served but inclusive of the day for winch the notice is given) specifying the place, the day and the hour of the general meeting and, in case of special business, the general nature of that business shall be given in the manner hereinafter provided, or in such other manner (if any) as may be prescribed by the Company in general meeting, to such persons as are, under the Articles, entitled to receive such notices from the Company but with the consent of all the members entitled to receive notice of some particular meeting, that meeting may be convened by such shorter notice and in such manner as those members may tinnk fit.
48.   For the purpose of determining members entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of members or any adjournment thereof, or members entitled to receive payment of any dividend, or in order to make a determination of members for any other proper purpose, the Directors may provide that the register of members shall be closed for transfers for a stated period but not to exceed in any case forty days. If the register of members shall be so closed for the purpose of determining members entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of members, such register shall be so closed for at least ten days immediately preceding such meeting and the record date (the “Record Date”) for such determination shall be the date of the closure of the register of members.

15


 

49.   In lieu of or apart from closing the register of members, the Directors may fix in advance a date as the Record Date for any such determination of members entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of members and for the purpose of determining the members entitled to receive payment of any dividend the Directors may, at or witinn ninety days prior to the date of declaration of such dividend, fix a subsequent date no later than the date of declaration as the Record Date for such determination.
50.   If the register of members is not so closed and no Record Date is fixed for the determination of members entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of members or members entitled to receive payment of a dividend, the date on winch notice of the meeting is mailed or the date on winch the resolution of the Directors declaring such dividend is adopted, as the case may be, shall be the Record Date for such determination of members. When a determination of members entitled to vote at any meeting of members has been made as provided in tins section, such determination shall apply to any adjournment thereof.
51.   The accidental omission to give notice of a meeting to, or the non-receipt of a notice of a meeting by, any member entitled to receive notice shall not invalidate the proceedings at any meeting.
PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS
52.   All business that is transacted at an extraordinary general meeting, and all that is transacted at an ordinary general meeting (with the exception of sanctioning a dividend, the consideration of the accounts, balance sheets, and the ordinary report of the Directors and auditors, the election of Directors and other officers in place of those retiring and the fixing of the remuneration of the auditors) shall be deemed special business.
53.   No business shall be transacted at any general meeting unless a quorum of members is present at the time when the meeting proceeds to business; two members present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote shall be a quorum provided always that, if there is only one member of record entitled to attend and vote at general meetings, that one member present in person or by proxy shall be a quorum and such member may transact business by written resolution as if a meeting were being held under the provisions of these Articles.
54.   If, witinn half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting, a quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened upon the requisition of members, shall be dissolved. In any other case, it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week, at the same time and place and if, at the adjourned meeting, a quorum is not present witinn half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting the members present shall be a quorum and may transact the business for winch the meeting was called.
55.   The Chairman, if any, of the board of Directors shall preside as Chairman at every general meeting of the Company. If there is no such Chairman, or if at any meeting he is not present witinn fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting or is unwilling to act as Chairman, the members present shall choose one of their number to be Chairman of the meeting.

16


 

56.   The Chairman may, with the consent of any meeting at winch a quorum is present (and shall if so directed by the meeting), adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from winch the adjournment took place. When a meeting is adjourned for ten days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given as in the case of an original meeting. Save as aforesaid, it shall not be necessary to give any notice of an adjournment or of the business to be transacted at an adjourned meeting.
57.   At any general meeting, a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a show of hands unless a poll is (before or on the declaration of the result of the show of hands) demanded by the Chairman of the meeting or any member present in person or by proxy entitled to vote and, unless a poll is so demanded, a declaration by the Chairman of the meeting that a resolution has, on a show of hands, been carried, or carried unanimously, or by a particular majority, or lost, and an entry to that effect in the book of the proceedings of the Company shall be conclusive evidence of the fact without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of, or against, that resolution.
58.   If a poll is duly demanded it shall be taken in such manner as the Chairman of the meeting directs and the result of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting at winch the poll was demanded. A poll demanded on the election of the Chairman of the meeting or on a question of adjournment shall be taken forthwith. A poll demanded on any other question shall be taken at such time as the Chairman of the meeting directs and any business other than that upon winch a poll has been demanded may be proceeded with pending the taking of the poll. The demand for a poll may be withdrawn.
59.   In the case of an equality of votes, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, the Chairman of the meeting at winch the show of hands takes place or at winch the poll is demanded shall be entitled to a second or casting vote.
VOTES OF MEMBERS
60.   Subject to any rights or restrictions for the time being attached to any class or classes of shares, on a show of hands every member present in person, and entitled to vote, shall have one vote. On a poll every member entitled to vote shall have one vote for each share of winch he is the holder. On a poll a member entitled to more than one vote need not, if he votes, use all ins votes or cast all the votes he uses in the same way.
61.   In the case of joint holders, the vote of the senior holder who tenders a vote, whether in person or by proxy, shall be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holders and, for tins purpose, seniority shall be determined by the order in winch the names stand in the register of members.
62.   A member of unsound mind, or in respect of whom an order has been made by any court having jurisdiction in lunacy, may vote, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, by ins committee, receiver, or other person in the nature of a committee appointed by that court and any such committee, receiver or other person may, on a poll, vote by proxy.

17


 

63.   Subject to the Law, the Company in general meeting may determine (and may revoke, alter or amend such determination) that no member shall be entitled to vote at any general meeting unless all calls or other sums presently payable by inm in respect of shares in the Company have been paid.
64.   No member shall be entitled to vote at any general meeting unless he is registered as a holder of a voting share of the Company on the Record Date for such meeting.
65.   No objection shall be raised to the qualification of any voter except at the meeting or adjourned meeting at winch the vote objected to is given or tendered, and every vote not disallowed at such meeting shall be valid for all purposes. Any such objection made in due time shall be referred to the Chairman of the meeting whose decision shall be final and conclusive.
 
66.   On a poll or on a show of hands, votes may be given either personally or by proxy.
PROXIES
67.   The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing under the hand of the appointor or ins attorney duly authorised in writing or, if the appointor is a corporation, either under seal or under the hand of an officer or attorney duly authorised. A proxy need not be a member of the Company.
68.   The instrument appointing a proxy and the power of attorney or other authority (if any) under winch it is signed, or a notarially certified copy of that power of attorney or other authority, shall be deposited at the registered office of the Company or at such other place as is specified for that purpose in the notice convening the meeting at such time (if any) as the notice may specify before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at winch the person named in the instrument proposed to vote and, in default, the instrument of proxy may, at the option of the Company, not be treated as valid. The instrument appointing a proxy shall be deemed to confer authority to demand or join in demanding a poll.
69.   An instrument appointing a proxy may afford members an opportunity of voting for or against a resolution and may be in the following form or a form as near thereto as circumstances admit or any other form approved by the Directors:-
    I, _______of                      being a member of the Company, hereby appoint                      of                      as my proxy, to vote for me and on my behalf at the (ordinary or extraordinary, as the case may be) general meeting of the Company to be held on the                      day of                      and at any adjournment thereof.
    Signed by:                      tins                      day of                                         
70.   A vote given in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy shall be valid notwithstanding the previous death or insanity of the principal or revocation of the proxy or of the authority under winch the proxy was executed, or the transfer of the share in respect of winch the proxy is given, provided that no intimation in writing of such death, insanity,

18


 

    revocation or transfer as aforesaid shall have been received by the Company at its registered office before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at winch the proxy is used.
RESOLUTIONS IN WRITING
71.   A resolution in writing (whether ordinary or special and whether in one or more counterparts) signed by all the members for the time being entitled to receive notice of and to attend and vote at general meetings (or, being corporations, by their duly authorised representatives) shall be as valid and effective as if the same had been passed at a general meeting of the Company duly convened and held.
CORPORATIONS ACTING BY REPRESENTATIVES AT MEETINGS
72.   Any corporation winch is a member of the Company may, in accordance with its articles of association or, in the absence of such provision, by resolution of its directors or other governing body, authorise such person as it tinnks fit to act as its representative at any meeting of the Company or of any class of members of the Company and the person so authorised shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the corporation winch he represents as that corporation could exercise if it were an individual member of the Company.
DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS
73.   Until otherwise determined by the Company in general meeting, the number of Directors shall not be less than one nor more than ten and the names of the first Directors shall be determined in writing by a majority of the subscribers to the Memorandum of Association.
74.   Thereafter, and subject as otherwise provided in these Articles, Directors shall be appointed by a resolution of the Company. At a general meeting, a motion for the appointment of two or more persons as Directors may be made by a single resolution.
75.   The remuneration of the Directors shall, from time to time, be determined by the Company in general meeting. The Directors may also be paid all travelling, hotel and other expenses properly incurred by them in connection with the business of the Company. Any Director who serves on any committee or who devotes special attention to the business of the Company, or who otherwise performs services winch, in the opinion of the Directors, are outside the scope of the ordinary duties of a Director, may be paid such extra remuneration by way of salary, percentage of profits or otherwise as the Directors may determine.
76.   The Directors may, on behalf of the Company, pay a gratuity or pension or allowance on retirement to any Director who has held any other salaried office or place of profit with the Company or to ins widow or dependents and may make contributions to any fund and pay premiums for the purchase or provision of any such gratuity, pension or allowance.
77.   A Director or officer of the Company may be or become a director or other officer of, or otherwise interested in, any company promoted by the Company or in winch the Company

19


 

    may be interested as shareholder or otherwise and no such Director or officer shall be accountable to the Company for any remuneration or other benefits received by inm as a director or officer of, or from ins interest in, such other company.
78.   A Director or officer of the Company may hold any other office or place of profit under the Company (other than the office of auditor) in conjunction with ins office of Director or officer of the Company for such period and on such terms (as to remuneration and otherwise) as the Directors may determine.
79.   No Director or officer of the Company shall be disqualified by ins office from holding any office or place of profit under the Company or under any company in winch the Company shall be a member or otherwise interested, or from contracting or dealing with the Company either as vendor, purchaser or otherwise, nor shall any such contract, or any contract or arrangement entered into by or on behalf of the Company in winch any Director or officer shall be in any way interested, be avoided, nor shall any Director or officer be liable to account to the Company for any profit arising from any such office or place of profit or realised by any such, contract or arrangement by reason only of such Director or officer holding that office or of the fiduciary relations thereby established, but it is declared that the nature of ins interest must be disclosed by inm at the meeting of the Directors at winch the contract or arrangement is taken into consideration if ins interest then exists, or in any other case at the first meeting of the Directors after the acquisition of ins interest. A general notice that a Director or officer is a member of any specified firm or company, and is to be regarded as interested in all transactions with that firm or company, shall be a sufficient disclosure under tins Article as regards such Director or officer and the said transactions, and after such general notice it shall not be necessary for such Director or officer to give a special notice relating to any particular transaction with that firm or company.
80.   A Director or officer of the Company may, notwithstanding ins interest, be counted in the quorum present at any meeting at winch he or any other Director or officer is appointed to hold any such office or place of profit under the Company or at winch the terms of any such appointment are arranged and he may vote on any such appointment or arrangement other than ins own appointment or the arrangement of the terms thereof.
81.   Any Director or officer of the Company may act by inmself or ins firm in a professional capacity for the Company and he or ins firm shall be entitled to remuneration for professional services as if he were not a Director or officer provided that notinng herein contained shall authorise a Director or officer or ins firm to act as auditor of the Company.
82.   The share qualification for a Director may be fixed by the Company in general meeting and, unless and until so fixed, no qualification shall be required.
83.   The Directors may entrust to and confer upon a Managing Director, President, Vice- President, Manager, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Treasurer or any other officer of the Company any of the powers exercisable by them upon such terms and conditions and with such restrictions as they may tinnk fit, and either collaterally with or to the exclusion of their

20


 

  own powers, and may from time to time revoke, withdraw, alter or vary all or any of such powers.
MANAGING DIRECTOR/OTHER OFFICERS
84.   The members or the Directors may from time to time appoint one or more of their body to the office of Managing Director, or any other office, on such terms and at such remuneration (whether by way of salary or commission or participation in profits or partly in one way and partly in another) as they may tinnk fit but ins appointment shall be subject to determination ipso facto if he ceases from any cause to be Director, or if the members or the Directors resolve that ins tenure of the office of Managing Director or such other office be determined.
ALTERNATE DIRECTORS
85.   Any Director may in writing appoint any person, of whom a majority of the Directors do not object, to be ins alternate to act in ins place at any meeting of the Directors at winch he is unable to be present. Every such alternate shall be entitled to notice of meetings of the Directors and to attend and vote at such meetings as a Director when the person, appointing inm is not personally present and, where he is a Director, to have a separate vote on behalf of the Director he is representing in addition to ins own vote. A Director may at any time in writing revoke the appointment of an alternate appointed by inm. Every such alternate shall be an officer of the Company and shall not be deemed to be the agent of the Director appointing inm. The remuneration of such an alternate shall be payable out of the remuneration payable to the Director appointing inm and the proportion thereof shall be agreed between them. An alternate need not hold any share qualification.
86.   A Director may appoint any person to act as ins proxy at meetings of the Directors. Such appointment must be made in writing under the hand of the appointor and may at any time be revoked in like manner, and may be general or for a specified period, or for specified meetings, or for specified resolutions, and may authorise and direct the appointee to be Chairman of such meetings if the appointor would, if present, be entitled to preside, and notice of every such appointment or revocation must be given to the Company, and the appointee need not be a Director or member of the Company, but he must furnish the Company with ins address.
POWERS AND DUTIES OF DIRECTORS
87.   The business of the Company shall be managed by the Directors, who may pay all expenses incurred in setting-up and registering the Company and may exercise all such powers of the Company as are not, by the Law or these Articles, required to be exercised by the Company in general meeting subject, nevertheless, to any regulations of these Articles, to the provisions of the Law, and to such regulations, being not inconsistent with the aforesaid regulations or provisions, as may be prescribed by the Company in general meeting but no regulations made by the Company in general meeting shall invalidate any prior act of the Directors winch would have been valid if that regulation had not been made.

21


 

88.   The Directors may exercise all the powers of the Company to borrow money and to mortgage or charge its undertaking, property and uncalled capital, or any part thereof, and to issue debentures, debenture stock, bonds and other securities whether outright or as security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or of any tinrd party. Debentures, debenture stock, bonds and other securities may be made assignable free from any equities between the Company and the person to whom the same may be issued.
89.   The Directors may from time to time and at any time by power of attorney appoint any company, firm or person or body of persons, whether nominated directly or indirectly by the Directors, to be the attorney or attorneys of the Company for such purposes and with such powers, authorities and discretions (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by the Directors under these Articles) and for such period and subject to such conditions as they may tinnk fit and any such powers of attorney may contain such provisions for the protection and convenience of persons dealing with any such attorney as the Directors may tinnk fit and may also authorise any such attorney to delegate all or any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in inm.
90.   All cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange and other negotiable instruments, and all receipts for moneys paid to the Company, shall be signed, drawn, accepted, endorsed or otherwise executed, as the case may be, in such manner as the Directors shall from time to time by resolution determine.
91.   The Directors shall cause minutes to be made in books provided for the purpose:
  91.1   of all appointments of officers of the Company made by the Directors;
 
  91.2   of the names of the Directors present at each meeting of the Directors and of any committee of the Directors; and
 
  91.3   of all resolutions and proceedings at each meeting of the Company and of the Directors and of any committee of the Directors.
DISQUALIFICATION AND PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS
92.   The office of Director shall, ipso facto, be vacated if the Director:
  92.1   dies; or
 
  92.2   becomes bankrupt or makes any arrangement or composition with ins creditors generally; or
 
  92.3   is found to be or becomes of unsound mind; or
 
  92.4   resigns ins office by notice in writing to the Company; or
 
  92.5   is removed from office by a resolution of the Company.

22


 

93.   The Directors may meet together either witinn or without the Cayman Islands for the dispatch of business, adjourn, and otherwise regulate their meetings and proceedings, as they tinnk fit. Except as otherwise determined by the Directors, it shall not be necessary to give written notice of a meeting of Directors. The Directors or any committee thereof may participate in a meeting of the board of Directors or of such committee by means of conference telephone, or similar communications equipment by means of winch all persons participating can hear each other, and participation in a meeting pursuant to tins provision shall constitute presence in person at such meeting. Questions arising at any meeting shall be decided by a majority of votes. In case of an equality of votes, the Chairman shall have a second or casting vote. A Director may, and the Secretary on the requisition of a Director shall, at any time summon a meeting of the Directors.
 
94.   Unless otherwise determined by the Company in general meeting, the quorum necessary for the transaction of the business of the Directors may be fixed by the Directors and, unless so fixed, shall be two provided always that, if there is only a sole Director, that Director shall be a quorum and such Director may transact business by written resolution as if a meeting were being held under the provisions of these Articles.
 
95.   A meeting of the Directors at winch a quorum is present shall be competent to exercise all or any of the authorities, powers and discretions by or under these Articles for the time being vested in or exercisable by the Directors generally.
 
96.   A resolution in writing signed by all the Directors in office (including any duly appointed alternate Director) shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Directors duly convened and held.
 
97.   The continuing Directors or sole continuing Director may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body, but, if and so long as their number is reduced below the number fixed by or pursuant to these Articles as the necessary quorum of Directors, the continuing Directors or Director may act for the purpose of increasing the number of Directors to that number, or of summoning a general meeting of the Company, but for no other purpose.
 
98.   The Directors may elect a Chairman of their meetings and determine the period for winch he is to hold office but if no such Chairman is elected, or if at any meeting the Chairman is not present witinn five minutes after the time appointed for holding the same, the Directors present may choose one of their number to be Chairman of the meeting.
 
99.   The Directors may delegate any of their powers to committees consisting of such member or members of their body as they tinnk fit. Any committee so formed shall, in the exercise of the powers so delegated, conform to any regulations that may be imposed on it by the Directors. Save as aforesaid, the meetings and proceedings of a committee consisting of more than one member shall be governed by the provisions of these Articles regulating the proceedings and meetings of Directors.
 
100.   All acts done by any meeting of the Directors or of a committee of Directors or by any person acting as a Director shall, notwithstanding that it be afterwards discovered that there was

23


 

    some defect in the appointment or continuance in office of any such Director or person acting as aforesaid, or that they or any of them were disqualified or had vacated office, or were not entitled to vote, be as valid as if every such person had been duly appointed or had duly continued on in office and was qualified or had continued to be a Director and had been entitled to be a Director.
TENURE OF OFFICE OF DIRECTORS
101.   The Directors shall hold and continue in office until they are removed from office under the terms of these Articles or until they resign.
102.   The Company may, by Ordinary Resolution, appoint any person to be a Director, remove any Director and/or appoint another person in ins stead.
103.   The Directors shall have the power at any time, and from tune to time, to appoint any person to be a Director, either to fill a casual vacancy or as an addition to the existing Directors, but so that the total number of Directors (exclusive of alternate Directors) shall not at any time exceed the number fixed in accordance with these Articles.
PRESUMPTION OF ASSENT
104.   A Director who is present at a meeting of the board of Directors at winch action on any Company matter is taken shall be presumed to have assented to the action taken unless ins dissent shall be entered in the minutes of the meeting or unless he shall file ins written dissent from such action with the person acting as the Secretary of the meeting before the adjournment thereof or shall forward such dissent by registered mail to the Secretary immediately after the adjournment of the meeting. Such right of dissent shall not apply to a Director who voted in favour of such action.
SEAL
105.   Any seal shall only be used by the authority of the Directors or of a committee of the Directors authorised by the Directors in that behalf and every instrument to winch the seal has been affixed shall be signed by one person who shall be either a Director or the Secretary or Secretary-Treasurer, Assistant Secretary or some person appointed by the Directors for the purpose provided that a Director, Secretary or other officer of the Company or representative or attorney may, without further authority of the Directors, affix any seal of the Company over ins signature alone to any document of the Company required to be authenticated by inm under seal or to be filed with the Registrar of Companies in the Cayman Islands or elsewhere wheresoever and provided further that share certificates representing shares in the capital of the Company shall be under seal signed by a Director and countersigned by the Secretary or another Director or other authorised person and that the Directors may authorise such share certificates to be issued with the seal and authorised signatures affixed by some method or system of mechanical process.
106.   The Company may have for use in any territory, district or place not situate in the Cayman Islands one or more official seal or seals each of winch shall be a facsimile of the seal of the

24


 

    Company and each of winch such seal or seals may bear the addition on its face of the name of the territory, district or place where it is to be used.
DIVIDENDS AND RESERVES
107.   Subject to the Law, payment of dividends will be at the sole discretion of the Directors and the Directors may from time to time pay to the members such interim dividends as appear to the Directors to be justified by the profits of the Company. No dividend shall be paid otherwise than out of profits or out of the share premium account or otherwise as permitted by the Law.
108.   Subject to the rights of persons, if any, entitled to shares with special rights as to dividend, all dividends shall be declared and paid according to the amounts paid or credited as paid on the shares in respect whereof the dividend is paid but no amount paid or credited as paid on a share in advance of calls shall be treated for the purposes of tins Article as paid on the share. All dividends shall be apportioned and paid proportionately to the amounts paid or credited as paid on the shares during any portion or portions of the period in respect of winch the dividend is paid but if any share is issued on terms providing that it shall rank for dividend as from a particular date such share shall rank for dividend accordingly.
109.   The Directors may, before recommending any dividend, set aside out of the profits of the Company such sums as they tinnk proper as a reserve or reserves winch shall, at the discretion of the Directors, be applicable for meeting contingencies or for equalizing dividends, or for any other purpose to winch the profits of the Company may be properly applied, and pending such application may, at the like discretion, either be employed in the business of the Company or be invested in such investments (other than shares of the Company) as the Directors may from time to time tinnk fit. The Directors may also, without placing the same to reserve, carry forward any profits winch they may tinnk prudent not to divide.
110.   If several persons are registered as joint holders of any share, any of them may give effectual receipts for any dividends, bonuses or other moneys payable on or in respect of the share.
111.   With the sanction of a general meeting, any dividend may be paid either wholly or partly by the distribution of specific assets and, in particular, of paid-up shares or debentures of any other company or in any one or more of such ways. Where any difficulty arises in regard to such distribution, the Directors may settle the same as they tinnk expedient and, in particular, may issue fractional certificates and fix the value for distribution of such specific assets or any part thereof and may determine that cash payments shall be made to any members upon the footing of the value so fixed, in order to adjust the rights of all members, and may vest any such specific assets in trustees upon trust for the members entitled to the dividend as may seem expedient to the Directors.
112.   Any dividend, interest or other moneys payable in cash in respect of shares may be paid by cheque or warrant sent through the post directed to the registered address of the member or person entitled thereto or, in the case of joint holders, to any one of such joint holders at ins

25


 

    registered address or to such person and such address as the member or person entitled or such joint holders, as the case may be, may direct. Every such cheque or warrant shall be made payable to the order of the person to whom it is sent or to the order of such other person as the member or person entitled or such joint holders, as the case may be, may direct.
113.   No dividend shall bear interest against the Company. All dividends unclaimed for one year after having been declared may be invested or otherwise made use of by the Directors for the benefit of the Company until claimed and the Company shall not be constituted a trustee in respect thereof. All dividends unclaimed for a period of twelve years after having been declared shall be forfeited and shall revert to the Company.
CAPITALISATION OF PROFITS
114.   The Company in general meeting may, upon the recommendation of the Directors, resolve that it is desirable to capitalise any part of the amount for the time being standing to the credit of any of the Company’s reserve accounts or to the credit of the profit and loss account or otherwise available for distribution and not required for the payment or provision of the fixed dividend on any shares entitled to fixed preferential dividends and accordingly that such sums be set free for distribution amongst the members who would have been entitled thereto if distributed by way of dividend and in the same proportions on condition that the same be not paid in cash but be applied either in or towards paying up any amounts for the time being unpaid on any shares held by such members respectively or paying up in full un-issued shares or debentures of the Company to be allotted and distributed credited as fully paid-up to and amongst such members in the proportion aforesaid, or partly in the one way and partly in the other, and the Directors shall give effect to such resolution provided that a share premium account and a capital redemption reserve fund may, for the purposes of tins Article, only be applied in the paying-up of un-issued shares to be issued to members as fully paid bonus shares.
115.   Whenever such a resolution as aforesaid has been passed, the Directors shall make all appropriations and applications of the undivided profits resolved to be capitalised thereby and all allotments and issues of fully paid shares or debentures, if any, and generally shall do all acts and tinngs required to give effect thereto, with full power to the Directors to make such provision by the Issue of fractional certificates or by payment in cash or otherwise as they tinnk fit for the case of shares or debentures becoming distributable in fractions, and also to authorise any person to enter on behalf of all members entitled thereto into an agreement with the Company providing for the allotment to them respectively, credited as fully paid-up, of any further shares or debentures to winch they may be entitled upon such capitalisation, or as the case may require, for the payment up by the Company on their behalf, by the application thereto of their respective proportions of the profits resolved to be capitalised, of the amounts or any part of the amounts remaining unpaid on their existing shares, and any agreement made under such authority shall be effective and binding on all such members.

26


 

BOOKS OF ACCOUNT
116. The Directors shall cause proper books of account to be kept with respect to:
  116.1   all sums of money received and expended by the Company and the matters in respect of winch the receipt and expenditure takes place;
 
  116.2   all sales and purchases of goods by the Company; and
 
  116.3   the assets and liabilities of the Company.
    Proper books of account shall not be deemed to be kept with respect to the matters aforesaid if there are not kept such books of account as are necessary to give a true and fair view of the state of the Company’s affairs and to explain its transactions.
117.   The books of account shall be kept at the registered office of the Company, or at such other place or places as the Directors tinnk fit, and shall always be open to the inspection of the Directors as a board and individually.
118.   The Directors shall from time to time determine whether and to what extent and at what times and places and under what conditions or regulations the accounts and books of the Company or any of them shall be open to the inspection of members not being Directors and no member (not being a Director) shall have any right of inspecting any account or book or document of the Company except as conferred by law or authorised by the Directors or by the Company in general meeting.
119.   The Company in general meeting may determine or, failing such determination, the Directors may determine:
  119.1   that there be prepared and/or laid before the Company a profit and loss account, a balance sheet, group accounts and/or reports for such period and on such terms as the Company or Directors may determine;
 
  119.2   that there be laid before the Company in general meeting a copy of every balance sheet together with a copy of the auditor’s report winch, not less than seven days before the date of the meeting, shall be sent to all persons entitled to receive notices of general meetings of the Company; and
 
  119.3   that the accounts relating to the Company’s affairs may be audited in such manner as may be determined from time to time.
120.   The Company in general meeting may revoke, alter or amend any such determination under the preceding Article and the Directors may revoke, alter or amend any determination made by the Directors under the preceding Article.

27


 

NOTICES
121.   A notice may be given by the Company to any member either personally or by sending it by post to inm at ins registered address or, if he has no registered address in the Cayman Islands, to the address, if any, supplied to the Company by inm for the giving of notices to inm. Where a notice is sent by post, service of the notice shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing, prepaying and posting a letter containing the notice and to have been effected, in the case of a notice of a meeting, at the expiration of three days after the letter containing the same is posted and, in any other case, at the time at winch the letter would be delivered in the ordinary course of post. A notice may also be sent by cable, telex or telefax and service of the notice shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing, prepaying and sending the notice through a transmitting or communications organisation and to have been effected at the expiration of twenty four hours after the same is sent as aforesaid.
122.   A notice may be given by the Company to the joint holders of a share by giving the notice to the joint holder named first in the register of members in respect of the share.
123.   A notice may be given by the Company to the persons entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a member by sending it through the post in a prepaid letter addressed to them by name, or by the title of representatives of the deceased, or trustee of the bankruptcy, or by any like description at the address, if any, supplied for the purpose by the persons claiming to be so entitled or (until such an address has been so supplied) by giving the notice in any manner in winch the same might have been given if the death or bankruptcy had not occurred.
124. Notice of every general meeting shall be given in any manner hereinbefore authorised to:
  124.1   every member holding voting shares except those members who (having no registered address in the Cayman Islands) have not supplied to the Company an address for the giving of notices to them; and
 
  124.2   every person entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a member who, but for ins death or bankruptcy, would be entitled to receive notice of the meeting.
    No other person shall be entitled to receive notices of general meetings.
LIQUIDATION OF THE COMPANY
125.   If the Company shall be wound up the liquidator may, with the sanction of a Special Resolution and any other sanction required by the Law, divide amongst the members in specie or kind the whole or any part of the assets of the Company (whether they shall consist of property of the same kind or not) and may for such purpose set such value as he deems fair upon any property to be divided as aforesaid and may determine how such division shall be carried out as between members or different classes of members. The liquidator may with the like sanction vest the whole or any part of the assets in trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of contributories as the liquidator, with the like sanction, shall tinnk fit but so that no

28


 

    member shall be compelled to accept any shares or other securities whereon there is any liability.
126.   If the Company shall be wound up, and the assets available for distribution amongst the members shall be insufficient to repay the whole of the paid-up share capital, such assets shall be distributed so that, as nearly as may be, the losses shall be borne by the members in proportion to the capital paid-up at the commencement of the winding up on the shares held by them respectively. If, on a winding up, the assets available for distribution amongst the members shall be more than sufficient to repay the whole of the capital paid-up at the commencement of the winding up, the excess shall be distributed amongst the members in proportion to the capital at the commencement of the winding up paid on the shares held by them respectively. Tins Article is to be without prejudice to the rights of holders of shares issued upon special terms and conditions.
INDEMNITY
127.   Every Director, Managing Director, President, Vice-President, Manager, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Treasurer or other officer of the Company and their heirs and personal representatives shall be entitled to be indemnified and held harmless out of the assets of the Company against all actions, proceedings, costs, damages, expenses (including reasonable legal and/or accountancy fees), claims, losses or liabilities winch he may sustain or incur in or about the execution of the duties of ins office or otherwise in relation thereto, including any liability incurred by inm in defending any proceedings, whether civil or criminal, in winch judgment is given in ins favour or in winch he is acquitted, and no Director or person as aforementioned shall be liable for any loss, damage or misfortune winch may happen to or be incurred by the Company in the execution of the duties of ins office or in relation thereto provided that he acted in good faith and in a manner reasonably believed by inm to be in the best interests of the Company and provided further that ins actions did not involve negligence, wilful default, fraud or dishonesty.
AMENDMENT OF MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES
128.   Subject to the provisions of the Law, the Company may by Special Resolution change its name, amend its objects or alter or amend these Articles either in whole or in part.
TRANSFER BY WAY OF CONTINUATION
129.   If the Company is exempted as defined in the Law, it shall, subject to the provisions of the Law, and with the sanction of a Special Resolution, have the power to register by way of continuation as a body corporate under the laws of any jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands and to be de-registered in the Cayman Islands.

29


 

NAME, ADDRESS & DESCRIPTION OF SUBSCRIBER/S
MARICORP SERVICES LTD.
P.O. BOX 2075
GRAND CAYMAN KY1-1105
CAYMAN ISLANDS
COMPANY MANAGEMENT COMPANY
     
/s/ [ILLEGIBLE]
 
Duly authorised signatory for and
   
on behalf of Maricorp Services Ltd.
   
 
   
Dated tins 1st day of April, 2010
   
 
   
Witness to the above signature:
   
 
   
/s/ [ILLEGIBLE]
 
P.O. BOX 2075
   
GRAND CAYMAN KY1-1105
   
CAYMAN ISLANDS
   
         
  CERTIFIED TO BE A TRUE AND CORRECT COPY
 
 
  SIG.                    /s/ Joy A. Rankine    
  JOY A. RANKINE   
  Assistant Registrar   
 
                   Date. 1st April 2010

EX-3.37 36 y04313a1exv3w37.htm EX-3.37 exv3w37
Exhibit 3.37
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
SYROS SHIPPING CORPORATION
PURSUANT TO THE MARSHALL ISLANDS BUSINESS CORPORATIONS ACT
     The undersigned, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the provisions of the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act, does hereby make, subscribe, acknowledge and file with the Registrar of Corporations this instrument for that purpose, as follows:
A.   The name of the Corporation shall be:
SYROS SHIPPING CORPORATION
 
B.   The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may now or hereafter be organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act and without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, the corporation shall have the power:
  (1)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, pledge, hypothecate, mortgage, lease, charter, sub-charter, sell, build, and repair steamships, motorships, tankers, vessels, sailing vessels, tugs, lighters, barges, and all other vessels and craft of any and all motive power whatsoever, including landcraft, and any and all means of conveyance and transportation by land or water, together with engines, boilers, machinery equipment and appurtenances of all kinds, including masts, sails, boats, anchors, cables, tackle, furniture and all other necessities thereunto appertaining and belonging, together with all materials, articles, tools, equipment and appliances necessary, suitable or convenient for the construction, equipment, use and operation thereof; and to equip, furnish, and outfit such vessels and ships.

 


 

  (2)   To engage in ocean, coastwise and inland commerce, and generally in the carriage of freight, goods, cargo in bulk, passengers, mail and personal effects by water between the various ports of the world and to engage generally in waterborne commerce.
 
  (3)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, lease, build, repair, sell or in any manner dispose of docks, piers, quays, wharves, dry docks, warehouses and storage facilities of all kinds, and any property, real, personal and mixed, in connection therewith.
 
  (4)   To act as ship’s husband, shipbrokers, customhouse brokers, ship’s agents, manager of shipping property, freight contractors, forwarding agents, warehousemen, wharfingers, ship chandlers, and general traders.
C.   The registered address of the Corporation in the Marshall Islands is Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH96960. The name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is The Trust Company of the Marshall Islands, Inc.
 
D.   The aggregate number of shares of stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is Five Hundred (500) registered and/or bearer shares with a par value of One US Dollar (US $1.00) per share .
 
    The Corporation shall mail notices and information to holders of bearer shares to the address provided to the Corporation by the shareholder for that purpose.
 
    The holder of a stock certificate issued to bearer may cause such certificate to be exchanged for another certificate in his name for a like number of shares, and the holder of shares issued in the name of the owner may cause his certificate to be exchanged for another certificate to bearer for a like number of shares.

 


 

E.   The Corporation shall have every power which a corporation now or hereafter organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act may have.
 
F.   The name and address of the incorporator is:
     
Name   Post Office Address
 
   
Majuro Nominees Ltd.
  P.O Box 1405
 
  Majuro
 
  Marshall Islands
G.   The Board of Directors as well as the shareholders of the Corporation shall have the authority to adopt, amend or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation.
 
H.   Corporate existence shall begin upon filing these Articles of Incorporation with the Registrar of Corporations as of the filing date stated on these Articles.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have executed this instrument on March 18, 2010.
         
  Majuro Nominees Ltd.
      Incorporator
 
 
  by:   /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]    
       
       
 

 


 

     On March 18, 2010 before me personally came S. Gioula known to me to be the individual described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and she duly acknowledged to me that the execution thereof was her act and deed.
         
    /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]    
       
       
 

 

EX-3.38 37 y04313a1exv3w38.htm EX-3.38 exv3w38
Exhibit 3.38
BYLAWS
SYROS SHIPPING CORPORATION
A Marshall Islands Corporation
ARTICLE I
OFFICES
The principal place of business of the Corporation shall be at such place or places as the Directors shall from time to time determine. The Corporation may also have an office at such other places within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may from time to time appoint or the business of the Corporation may require.
ARTICLE II
MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Section 1. Annual Meetings. The annual meeting of shareholders of the Corporation shall be held on such day and at such time and place within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may determine for the purpose of electing Directors and of transacting such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.
Section 2. Special Meeting. Special meetings of the shareholders, unless otherwise prescribed by law, may be called for any purpose or purposes at any time by resolution of the Board of Directors or by the President and shall be called by the President or Secretary of the Corporation whenever required in writing to do so by shareholders owning a majority in amount of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote which is issued and outstanding. Such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed special meeting. Such meetings shall be held at such place and on a date and at such time as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer of the Corporation calling any such meeting. Business transacted at any special meeting of shareholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice.
Section 3. Notice of Meetings. Notice of every annual and special meeting of shareholders, other than any meeting the giving of notice of which is prescribed by law, stating the date, time, place and purpose thereof, and in the case of special meetings, the name of the person or persons at whose direction the notice is being issued, shall be given personally or sent by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter at least fifteen but not more than sixty days before such meeting, to each shareholder of record entitled to vote thereat and to each shareholder of record who, by reason of any action proposed at such meeting would be entitled to have his/her shares appraised if such action were taken, and the notice shall include a statement of that purpose and to that effect. If mailed, notice shall be deemed to have been given when deposited in the mail, directed to the shareholder at his/her address as the same appears on the record of shareholders of the Corporation or at such address as to which the shareholder has given notice to the Secretary. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any shareholder who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting or who attends the meeting without protesting prior to the conclusion thereof the lack of notice to him. If the Corporation shall issue any class of bearer shares, notice for all meetings shall be given in the manner provided in the Articles of Incorporation.
Section 4. Quorum. At all meetings of the shareholders, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, there must be present, either in person or by proxy, shareholders holding at least a majority of the shares issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at such meetings in order to constitute a quorum, but if less than a quorum is present, a majority of those shares present either in person or by proxy shall have power to adjourn any meeting until a quorum shall be present.

1


 

Section 5. Voting. If a quorum is present, and except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of stock represented at the meeting shall be the act of the shareholders. At any meeting of shareholders, each shareholder entitled to vote any shares on any manner to be voted upon at such meeting shall be entitled to one vote on such matter for each such share, and may exercise such voting right either in person or by proxy. Any action which may be taken at a meeting of shareholders, may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken or to be taken, is signed by all of the shareholders entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof.
Section 6. Fixing of Record Dates. The Board of Directors may fix a time not more than sixty nor less than fifteen days prior to the date of any meeting of the shareholders, or more than sixty (60) days prior to the last day on which the consent or dissent of shareholders may be expressed for any purpose without a meeting, as the time as of which shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or whose consent or dissent is required or may be expressed for any purpose, as the case may be, shall be determined, and all persons who were holders of record of voting shares at such time and not others shall be entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or to express their consent or dissent, as the case may be. The Board of Directors may fix a time not exceeding sixty days preceding the date fixed for the payment of any dividend, distribution, or allotment or for the purpose of such other action.
ARTICLE III
DIRECTORS
Section 1. Number. The affairs, business and property of the Corporation shall be managed by a Board of Directors to consist of at least one director. Within the limits fixed by these Bylaws, the number of directors may be determined either by a vote of a majority of the entire Board or by vote of shareholders. The directors need not be residents of the Marshall Islands nor shareholders of the Corporation.
Section 2. How Elected. Except as otherwise provided by law or Section 4 of this Article, the directors of the Corporation (other than the first Board of Directors designated by the Incorporator) shall be elected at the annual meeting of shareholders. Each director shall be elected to serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until his/her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified, except in the event of his/her death, resignation, removal or the earlier termination of his/her term of office.
Section 3. Removal. Any or all of the directors may be removed, with or without cause, by a vote of the shareholders. Any director may be removed for cause by action of the Board of Directors.
Section 4. Vacancies. Vacancies in the Board of Directors occurring by death, resignation, the creation of new directorships, the failure of the shareholders to elect the whole Board at any annual election of directors, or, except as herein provided, for any other reason, including removal of directors for cause, may be filled either by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors then in office, although less than a quorum, at any special meeting called for that purpose or at any regular meeting of the Board, except as otherwise prescribed by law or unless the Articles of Incorporation provide that such vacancies or newly created directorships shall be filled by vote of the shareholders. Vacancies occurring by removal of directors without cause may be filled only by vote of the shareholders.
Section 5. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held at such time and place as may be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors and no notice shall be required for any regular meeting. Except as otherwise provided by law, any business may be transacted at any regular meeting.

2


 

Section 6. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board may, unless otherwise prescribed by law, be called by the President or any other officer of the Corporation who is also a director. The President or the Secretary shall call a special meeting of the Board upon written request directed to either of them by any two directors stating the time, place and purpose of such special meeting. Special meetings of the Board shall be held on a date and at such time and at such place as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer calling the meeting.
Section 7. Notice of Special Meeting. Notice of the date, time and place of each special meeting of the Board of Directors shall be given to each director at least forty-eight hours prior to such meeting, unless the notice is given orally or delivered in person, in which case it shall be given at least twenty-four hours prior to such meeting. For the purpose of this section, notice shall be deemed to be duly given to a director if given personally (including by telephone) or if such notice be delivered to such director by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter to his/her last known address. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any director who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting, or who attends the meeting without protesting, prior to the conclusion thereof, the lack of notice to him/her.
Section 8. Quorum. A majority of the entire board, present in person or by proxy or by communicating equipment, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
Section 9. Voting. The vote of the majority of the directors, present in person or by proxy, in communication by telefax or conference telephone, at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the directors. Any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if all the members of the Board consent in writing thereto.
Section 10. Compensation of Directors and Members of Committees. The Board may from time to time, in its discretion, fix the amounts which shall be payable to members of the Board of Directors and to members of any committee, for attendance at the meetings of the Board or of such committee and for services rendered to the Corporation.
ARTICLE IV
COMMITTEES
Section 1. Executive Committee and Other Committees. The Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members an Executive Committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation, which, to the extent provided in said resolution or resolutions, or in these Bylaws, shall have and may exercise, to the extent permitted by law, the powers of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may have power to authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it. In addition, the Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members other committees to consist of one or more directors of the Corporation, each of which shall perform such function and have such authority and powers as shall be delegated to it by said resolution or resolutions or as provided for in these Bylaws, except that only the Executive Committee may have and exercise the powers of the Board of Directors. Members of the Executive Committee and any other committee shall hold office for such periods as may be prescribed by the vote of the majority of the entire Board of Directors, subject, however, to removal at any time by the vote of the Board of Directors. Vacancies in the membership of such committees shall be filled by vote of the Board of Directors. Committees may adopt their own rules of procedure and may meet at stated times or on such notice as they may determine. Each committee shall keep a record of its proceedings and report the same to the Board when requested.

3


 

ARTICLE V
OFFICERS
Section 1. Number and Designation. The Board of Directors shall appoint a Secretary and a Treasurer, and may appoint a President as well as such other officers as it may deem necessary. Officers may be of any nationality, need not be residents of the Marshall Islands and may be, but are not required to be, directors. Officers of the Corporation shall be natural persons except the Secretary may be a corporate entity. Any two or more offices may be held by the same natural person.
The officers shall be appointed annually by the Board of Directors at its first meeting following the annual election of directors, but in the event of the failure of the Board to so appoint any officer, such officer may be appointed at any subsequent meeting of the Board of Directors. The salaries of the officers and any other compensation paid to them shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may at any meeting appoint additional officers. Each officer shall hold office until the first meeting of the Board of Directors following the next annual election of directors and until his/her successor shall have been duly appointed and qualified, except in the event of the earlier termination of his/her term of office through death, resignation, removal or otherwise. Any officer may be removed by the Board at any time with or without cause. Any vacancy in an office may be filled for the unexpired portion of the term of such office by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting.
Section 2. President. The President shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation and shall have the general management of the affairs of the Corporation, together with the powers and duties usually incident to the office of President, except as specifically limited by appropriate written resolution of the Board of Directors and shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors. The President shall preside at all meetings of shareholders at which he/she is present and if, in the case of the President, he/she is a director, at all meetings of the directors.
Section 3. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have general supervision over the care and custody of the funds, securities and other valuable effects of the Corporation and shall deposit the same or cause the same to be deposited in the name of the Corporation in such depositories as the Board of Directors may designate, shall disburse the funds of the Corporation as may be ordered by the Board of Directors, shall have supervision over the accounts of all receipts and disbursements of the Corporation, shall, whenever required by the Board, render or cause to be rendered financial statements of the Corporation, shall have the power and perform the duties usually incident to the office of Treasurer; and shall have the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors, or President.
Section 4. Secretary. The Secretary shall act as Secretary of all meetings of the shareholders and of the Board of Directors at which he/she is present, shall have supervision over the giving and serving of notices of the Corporation; shall be the custodian of the corporate records and of the corporate seal of the Corporation; shall be empowered to affix the corporate seal to those documents, the execution of which, on behalf of the Corporation under its seal, is duly authorized and when so affixed may attest the same, and shall exercise the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors or the President. If the Secretary is a Corporation, the duties of the Secretary may be carried out by any duly authorized representative of such corporation acting in its name.
Section 5. Other Officers: Officers other than those treated in section 2 through 4 of this Article shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the Board of Directors or by the President.
Section 6. Bond. The Board of Directors shall have the power to the extent permitted by

4


 

law, to require any officer, agent or employee of the Corporation to give bond for the faithful discharge of his/her duties in such form and with such surety or sureties as the Board of Directors may deem advisable.
ARTICLE VI
CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES
Section 1. Form and Issuance. The shares of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates in a form meeting the requirements of law and approved by the Board of Directors. Certificates shall be signed by the President or a Vice President, and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer. These signatures may be facsimiles if the certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent or registered by a registrar other than the Corporation itself or its employee.
Section 2. Transfer. The Board of Directors shall have the power and authority to make such rules and regulations as they may deem expedient concerning the issuance, registration and transfer of certificates representing shares of the Corporation’s stock, and may appoint, transfer agents and registrars thereof.
Section 3. Loss of Stock Certificates. The Board of Directors may direct a new certificate or certificates of stock to be issued in place of any certificate or certificates thereof issued by the Corporation alleged to have been lost or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of a new certificate or certificates, the Board of Directors may, in its discretion, and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his/her representative, to advertise the same in such manner as it shall require and/or give the Corporation a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the Corporation with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost or destroyed.
ARTICLE VII
DIVIDENDS
Section 1. Declaration and Form. Dividends may be declared in conformity with law by, and at the discretion of, the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting. Dividends may be declared and paid in cash, stock, or other property of the Corporation.
ARTICLE VIII
CORPORATE SEAL
Section 1. Corporate Seal. The seal of the Corporation, if any, shall be circular in form, with the name of the Corporation in the circumference and such other appropriate legend as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine.
ARTICLE IX
FISCAL YEAR
Section 1. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be such period of twelve consecutive months as the Board of Directors may by resolution designate.

5


 

ARTICLE X
AMENDMENTS
Section 1. By the Shareholders. These Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any meeting of the shareholders of the Corporation by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the stock present and voting at such meeting provided notice that an amendment is to be considered and acted upon is inserted in the notice or waiver of notice of said meeting.
Section 2. By the Directors. If the Articles of Incorporation so provide, these Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors by the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire Board, subject, however, to the power of the shareholders to alter, amend or repeal any Bylaws as adopted.

6

EX-3.39 38 y04313a1exv3w39.htm EX-3.39 exv3w39
Exhibit 3.39
BVI COMPANY NUMBER: 1473676
TERRITORY OF THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
THE BVI BUSINESS COMPANIES ACT, 2004
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES
OF ASSOCIATION
OF
Shinyo Kieran Limited
A COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
Incorporated on the 3rd day of April, 2008
INCORPORATED IN THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS

 


 

TERRITORY OF THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
THE BVI BUSINESS COMPANIES ACT, 2004
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
OF
Shinyo Kieran Limited
A COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
1.   DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
1.1.   In this Memorandum of Association and the attachment Articles of Association, if not inconsistent with the subject or context:
 
    “Act” means the BVI Business Companies Act, 2004 (No. 16 of 2004) and includes the regulations made under the Act;
 
    “Articles” means the attached Articles of Association of the Company;
 
    “Chairman of the Board” has the meaning specified in Regulation 12;
 
    “Distribution” in relation to a distribution by the Company to a Shareholder means the direct or indirect transfer of an asset, other than Shares to or for the benefit of the Shareholder, or the incurring of a debt to or for the benefit of a Shareholder, in relation to Shares held by a Shareholder, and whether by means of the purchase of an asset, the purchase, redemption or other acquisition of Shares, a transfer of indebtedness or otherwise, and includes a dividend;
 
    “Eligible Person” means individuals, corporations, trusts, the estates of deceased individuals, partnerships and unincorporated associations of persons;
 
    “Memorandum” means this Memorandum of Association of the Company;
 
    “Registrar” means the Registrar of Corporate Affairs appointed under section 229 of the Act;
 
    “Resolution of Directors” means either:
  (a)   a resolution approved at a duly convened and constituted meeting of directors of the Company or of a committee of directors of the Company by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors present at the meeting who voted except that where a director is given more than one vote, he shall be counted by the number of votes he casts for the purpose of establishing a majority; or
 
  (b)   a resolution consented to in writing by all directors or by all members of a committee of directors of the Company, as the case may be;

- 1 -


 

    “Resolution of Shareholders” means either:
  (a)   a resolution approved at a duly convened and constituted meeting of the Shareholders of the Company by the affirmative vote of a majority of in excess of 50 percent of the votes of the Shares entitled to vote thereon which were present at the meeting and were voted; or
 
  (b)   a resolution consented to in writing by a majority of in excess of 50 percent of the votes of Shares entitled to vote thereon;
    “Seal” means any seal which has been duly adopted as the common seal of the Company;
 
    “Securities” means Shares and debt obligations of every kind of the Company, and including without limitation options, warrants and rights to acquire Shares or debt obligations;
 
    “Share” means a share issued or to be issued by the Company;
 
    “Shareholder” means an Eligible Person whose name is entered in the register of members of the Company as the holder of one or more Shares or fractional Shares;
 
    “Treasury Share” means a Share that was previously issued but was repurchased, redeemed or otherwise acquired by the Company and not cancelled; and
 
    “Written” or any term of like import includes information generated, sent, received or stored by electronic, electrical, digital, magnetic, optical , electromagnetic, biometric or photonic means, including electronic data interchange, electronic mail, telegram, telex or telecopy, and “in writing” shall be construed accordingly.
1.2.   In the Memorandum and the Articles, unless the context otherwise requires a reference to:
  (a)   a “Regulation” is a reference to a regulation of the Articles;
 
  (b)   a “Clause” is a reference to a clause of the Memorandum;
 
  (c)   voting by Shareholders is a reference to the casting of the votes attached to the Shares held by the Shareholder voting;
 
  (d)   the Act, the Memorandum or the Articles is a reference to the Act or those documents as amended or, in the case of the Act, any re-enactment thereof; and
 
  (e)   the singular includes the plural and vice versa.
1.3.   Any words or expressions defined in the Act unless the context otherwise requires bear the same meaning in the Memorandum and the Articles unless otherwise defined herein.
 
1.4.   Headings are inserted for convenience only and shall be disregarded in interpreting the Memorandum and the Articles.
2.   NAME
 
    The name of the Company is Shinyo Kieran Limited.
 
3.   STATUS
 
    The Company is a company limited by Shares.

- 2 -


 

4.   REGISTERED OFFICE AND REGISTERED AGENT
4.1.   The first registered office of the Company is at P.O. Box 957, Offshore Incorporations Centre, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, the office of the first registered agent.
 
4.2.   The first registered agent of the Company is Offshore Incorporations Limited of P.O. Box 957, Offshore Incorporations Centre, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands.
 
4.3.   The Company may by Resolution of Shareholders or by Resolution of Directors change the location of its registered office or change its registered agent.
 
4.4.   Any change of registered office or registered agent will take effect on the registration by the Registrar of a notice of the change filed by the existing registered agent or a legal practitioner in the British Virgin Islands acting on behalf of the Company.
 
5.   CAPACITY AND POWERS
 
5.1.   Subject to the Act and any other British Virgin Islands legislation, the Company has, irrespective of corporate benefit:
  (a)   full capacity to carry on or undertake any business or activity, do any act or enter into any transaction; and
 
  (b)   for the purposes of paragraph (a), full rights, power and privileges.
5.2.   For the purposes of section 9(4) of the Act, there are no limitations on the business that the Company may carry on.
6.   NUMBER AND CLASSES OF SHARES
6.1.   Shares in the company shall be issued in the currency of United States of America.
 
6.2.   The Company is authorised to issue a maximum of 50,000 Shares of a single class each with a par value of US$1.00.
 
6.3.   The Company may issue fractional Shares and a fractional Share shall have the corresponding fractional rights, obligations and liabilities of a whole Share of the same class or series of Shares.
 
6.4.   Shares may be issued in one or more series of Shares as the directors may by Resolution of Directors determine from time to time.
7.   RIGHTS OF SHARES
7.1.   Each Share in the Company confers upon the Shareholder:
  (a)   the right to one vote at a meeting of the Shareholders of the Company or on any Resolution of Shareholders;
 
  (b)   the right to an equal share in any dividend paid by the Company; and
 
  (c)   the right to an equal share in the distribution of the surplus assets of the Company on its liquidation.
7.2.   The Company may by Resolution of Directors redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire all or any of the Shares in the Company subject to Regulation 3 of the Articles.

- 3 -


 

8.   VARIATION OF RIGHTS
 
    If at any time the Shares are divided into different classes, the rights attached to any class may only be varied, whether or not the Company is in liquidation, with the consent in writing of or by a resolution passed at a meeting by the holders of not less than 50 percent of the issued Shares in that class.
 
9.   RIGHTS NOT VARIED BY THE ISSUE OF SHARES PARI PASSU
 
    The rights conferred upon the holders of the Shares of any class shall not, unless otherwise expressly provided by the terms of issue of the Shares of that class, be deemed to be varied by the creation or issue of further Shares ranking pari passu therewith.
 
10.   REGISTERED SHARES
 
10.1.   The Company shall issue Registered Shares only.
 
10.2.   The Company is not authorised to issue Bearer Shares, convert Registered Shares to Bearer Shares or exchange Registered Shares for Bearer Shares.
 
11.   TRANSFER OF SHARES
 
11.1.   Subject to Clause 13, the Company shall, on receipt of an instrument of transfer complying with Sub-Regulation 6.1 of the Articles, enter the name of the transferee of a Share in the register of members unless the directors resolve to refuse or delay the registration of the transfer for reasons that shall be specified in a Resolution of Directors.
 
11.2.   The directors may not resolve to refuse or delay the transfer of a Share unless the Shareholder has failed to pay an amount due in respect of the Shares.
 
12.   AMENDMENT OF THE MEMORANDUM AND THE ARTICLES
 
12.1.   Subject to Clause 8, the Company may amend the Memorandum or the Articles by Resolution of Shareholders or by Resolution of Directors, save that no amendment may be made by Resolution of Directors;
  (a)   to restrict the rights or powers of the Shareholders to amend the Memorandum or the Articles;
 
  (b)   to change the percentage of Shareholders required to pass a Resolution of Shareholders to amend the Memorandum or the Articles;
 
  (c)   in circumstances where the Memorandum or the Articles cannot be amended by the Shareholders; or
 
  (d)   to Clauses 7, 8, 9 or this Clause 12.
12.2.   Any amendment of the Memorandum or the Articles will take effect on the registration by the Registrar of a notice of amendment, or restated Memorandum and Articles, filed by the registered agent.
 
13.   PRIVATE COMPANY
 
    The Company is a private company, and accordingly:
  (a)   any invitation to the public to subscribe for any Shares or debentures of the Company is prohibited;
 
  (b)   the number of the members of the Company (not including persons who are in the employment of the Company, and persons who, having been formerly in the employment of the Company, were, while in such employment, and have continued after the determination of such employment to be, members of the Company) shall be limited to fifty PROVIDED that where two or more persons hold one or more Shares in the Company jointly they shall, for the purposes of this Clause 13, be treated as a single member;

- 4 -


 

  (c)   the right to transfer the Shares of the Company shall be restricted in manner herein prescribed; and
 
  (d)   the Company shall not have power to issue Share Warrants to Bearer.
We, OFFSHORE INCORPORATIONS LIMITED of P.O. Box 957, Offshore Incorporations Centre, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands for the purpose of incorporating a BVI Business Company under the laws of the British Virgin Islands hereby sign this Memorandum of Association the 3rd day of April, 2008.
Incorporator
     
/s/ Rexella D. Hodge
 
(Sd.) Rexella D. Hodge
   
Authorised Signatory
   
OFFSHORE INCORPORATIONS LIMITED
   

- 5 -


 

TERRITORY OF THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
THE BVI BUSINESS COMPANIES ACT, 2004
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
Shinyo Kieran Limited
A COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
1.   REGISTERED SHARES
 
1.1.   Every Shareholder is entitled to a certificate signed by a director or officer of the Company, or any other person authorised by Resolution of Directors, or under the Seal specifying the number of Shares held by him and the signature of the directors, officer or authorised person and the Seal may be facsimiles.
 
1.2.   Any Shareholder receiving a certificate shall indemnify and hold the Company and its directors and officers harmless from any loss or liability which it or they may incur by reason of any wrongful or fraudulent use or representation made by any person by virtue of the possession thereof. If a certificate for Shares is worn out or lost it may be renewed on production of the worn out certificate or on satisfactory proof of its loss together with such indemnity as may be required by Resolution of Directors.
 
1.3.   If several Eligible Persons are registered as joint holders of any Shares, any one of such Eligible Persons may give an effectual receipt for any distribution.
 
2.   SHARES
 
2.1.   Shares and other Securities may be issued at such times, to such Eligible Persons, for such consideration and on such terms as the directors may by Resolution of Directors determine.
 
2.2.   Section 46 of the Act (Pre-emptive rights) does not apply to the Company.
 
2.3.   A Share may be issued for consideration in any form, including money, a promissory note, or other written obligation to contribute money or property, real property, personal property (including goodwill and know-how), services rendered or a contract for future services.
 
2.4.   The consideration for a Share with par value shall not be less than the par value of the Share. If a Share with par value is issued for consideration less than the par value, the person to whom the Share is issued is liable to pay to the Company an amount equal to the difference between the issue price and the par value.
 
2.5.   No Shares may be issued for a consideration other than money, unless a Resolution of Directors has been passed stating:
  (a)   the amount to be credited for the issue of the Shares;

- 6 -


 

  (b)   the determination of the directors of the reasonable present cash value of the non-money consideration for the issue; and
 
  (c)   that, in the opinion of the directors, the present cash value of the non-money consideration for the issue is not less than the amount to be credited for the issue of the Shares.
2.6.   The consideration paid for any Share, whether a par value Share or a no par value Share, shall not be treated as a liability or debt of the Company for the purposes of
  (a)   the solvency test in Regulations 3 and 18; and
 
  (b)   sections 197 and 209 of the Act.
2.7.   The Company shall keep a register (the “register of members”) containing:
  (a)   the names and addresses of the Eligible Persons who hold Shares;
 
  (b)   the number of each class and series of Shares held by each Shareholder;
 
  (c)   the date on which the name of each Shareholder was entered in the register of members; and
 
  (d)   the date on which any Eligible Person ceased to be a Shareholder.
2.8.   The register of members may be in any such form as the directors may approve, but if it is in magnetic, electronic or other data storage form, the Company must be able to produce legible evidence of its contents. Until the directors otherwise determine, the magnetic, electronic or other data storage form shall be the original register of members.
 
2.9.   A Share is deemed to be issued when the name of the Shareholder is entered in the register of members.
 
3.   REDEMPTION OF SHARES AND TREASURY SHARES
 
3.1.   The Company may purchase, redeem or otherwise acquired hold its own Shares save that the Company may not purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire and hold its own Shares without the consent of Shareholders whose Shares are to be purchased redeemed or otherwise acquired unless the Company is permitted by the Act or any other provision in the Memorandum or Articles to purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire the Shares without their consent.
 
3.2.   The Company may only offer to purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire Shares if the Resolution of Directors authorising the purchase, redemption or other acquisition contains a statement that the directors are satisfied, on reasonable grounds, that immediately after the acquisition the value of the Company’s assets will exceed its liabilities and the Company will be able to pay its debts as they fall due.
 
3.3.   Sections 60 (Process for acquisition of own Shares), 61 (Offer to one or more shareholders) and 62 (Shares redeemed otherwise than at the option of company) of the Act shall not apply to the Company.
 
3.4.   Shares that the Company purchases, redeems or otherwise acquires pursuant to this Regulation may be cancelled or held as Treasury Shares except to the extent that such Shares are in excess of 50 percent of the issued Shares in which case they shall be cancelled but they shall be available for reissue.
 
3.5.   All rights and obligations attaching to a Treasury Share are suspended and shall not be exercised by the Company while it holds the Share as a Treasury Share.
 
3.6.   Treasury Shares may be transferred by the Company on such terms and conditions (not otherwise inconsistent with the Memorandum and the Articles) as the Company may by Resolution of Directors determine.

- 7 -


 

3.7.   Where Shares are held by another body corporate of which the Company holds, directly or indirectly, Shares having more than 50 percent of the votes in the election of directors of the other body corporate, all rights and obligations attaching to the Shares held by the other body corporate are suspended and shall not be exercised by the other body corporate.
 
4.   MORTGAGES AND CHARGES OF SHARES
 
4.1.   Shareholders may mortgage or charge their Shares.
 
4.2.   There shall be entered in the register of members at the written request of the Shareholder:
  (a)   a statement that the Shares held by him are mortgaged or charged;
 
  (b)   the name of the mortgagee or chargee; and
 
  (c)   the date on which the particulars specified in subparagraphs (a) and (b) are entered in the register of members.
4.3.   Where particulars of a mortgage or charge are entered in the register of members, such particulars may be cancelled:
  (a)   with the written consent of the named mortgagee or chargee or anyone authorised to act on his behalf; or
 
  (b)   upon evidence satisfactory to the directors of the discharge of the liability secured by the mortgage or charge and the issue of such indemnities as the directors shall consider necessary or desirable.
4.4.   Whilst particulars of a mortgage or charge over Shares are entered in the register of members pursuant to this Regulation:
  (a)   no transfer of any share the subject of those particulars shall be effected;
 
  (b)   the Company may not purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any such Share; and
 
  (c)   no replacement certificate shall be issued in respect of such shares,
    without the written consent of the named mortgagee or chargee.
 
5.   FORFEITURE
 
5.1.   Shares that are not fully paid on issue are subject to the forfeiture provisions set forth in this Regulation and for this purpose Shares issued for a promissory note, other written obligation to contribute money or property or a contract for future services are deemed to be not fully paid.
 
5.2.   A written notice of call specifying the date for payment to be made shall be served on the Shareholder who defaults in making payment in respect of the Shares.
 
5.3.   The written notice of call referred to in Sub-Regulation 5.2 shall name a further date not earlier than the expiration of 14 days from the date of service of the notice on or before which the payment required by the notice is to be made and shall contain a statement that in the event of non-payment at or before the time named in the notice the Shares, or any of them, in respect of which payment is not made will be liable to be forfeited.
 
5.4.   Where a written notice of call has been issued pursuant to Sub-Regulation 5.3 and the requirements of the notice have not been complied with, the directors may, at any time before tender of payment, forfeit and cancel the Shares to which the notice relates.
 
5.5.   The Company is under no obligation to refund any moneys to the Shareholder whose Shares have been cancelled pursuant to Sub-Regulation 5.4 and that Shareholder shall be discharged from any further obligation to the Company.

- 8 -


 

6.   TRANSFER OF SHARES
 
6.1.   Subject to the Memorandum, Shares may be transferred by a written instrument of transfer signed by the transferor and containing the name and address of the transferee, which shall be sent to the Company for registration.
 
6.2.   The transfer of a Share is effective when the name of the transferee is entered on the register of members.
 
6.3.   If the directors of the Company are satisfied that an instrument of transfer relating to Shares has been signed but that the instrument has been lost or destroyed, they may resolve by Resolution of Directors:
  (a)   to accept such evidence of the transfer of Shares as they consider appropriate; and
 
  (b)   that the transferee’s name should be entered in the register of members notwithstanding the absence of the instrument of transfer.
6.4.   Subject to the Memorandum, the personal representative of a deceased Shareholder may transfer a Share even though the personal representative is not a Shareholder at the time of the transfer.
 
7.   MEETINGS AND CONSENTS OF SHAREHOLDERS
 
7.1.   Any director of the Company may convene meetings of the Shareholders at such times and in such manner and places within or outside the British Virgin Islands as the director considers necessary or desirable.
 
7.2.   Upon the written request of Shareholders entitled to exercise 30 percent or more of the voting rights in respect of the matter for which the meeting is requested the directors shall convene a meeting of Shareholders.
 
7.3.   The director convening a meeting shall give not less than 7 days’ notice of a meeting of Shareholders to:
  (a)   those Shareholders whose names on the date the notice is given appear as Shareholders in the register of members of the Company and are entitled to vote at the meeting; and
 
  (b)   the other directors.
7.4.   The director convening a meeting of Shareholders may fix the record date for determining those Shareholders that are entitled to vote at the meeting the date notice is given of the meeting, or such other date as may be specified in the notice, being a date not earlier than the date of the notice.
 
7.5.   A meeting of Shareholders held in contravention of the requirement to give notice is valid if Shareholders holding at least 90 percent of the total voting rights on all the matters to be considered at the meeting have waived notice of the meeting and, for this purpose, the presence of a Shareholder at the meeting shall constitute waiver in relation to all the Shares which that Shareholder holds.
 
7.6.   The inadvertent failure of a director who convenes a meeting to give notice of a meeting to a Shareholder or another director, or the fact that a Shareholder or another director has not received notice, does not invalidate the meeting.
 
7.7.   A Shareholder may be represented at a meeting of Shareholders by a proxy who may speak and vote on behalf of the Shareholder.
 
7.8.   The instrument appointing a proxy shall be produced at the place designated for the meeting before the time for holding the meeting at which the person named in such instrument proposes to vote. The notice of the meeting may specify an alternative or additional place or time at which the proxy shall be presented.

- 9 -


 

7.9.   The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in substantially the following form or such other form as the chairman of the meeting shall accept as properly evidencing the wishes of the Shareholder appointing the proxy.

[COMPANY NAME]
I/We being a Shareholder of the above Company HEREBY APPOINT ________ of ________ or failing him ________ of ________ to be my/our proxy to vote for me/us at the meeting of Shareholders to be held on the ________ day of ________, 20________ and at any adjournment thereof.
(Any restrictions on voting to be inserted here.)
Signed this ________ day of ________, 20________
                                                                                          
Shareholder
7.10.   The following applies where Shares are jointly owned:
  (a)   if two or more persons hold Shares jointly each of them may be present in person or by proxy at a meeting of Shareholders and may speak as a Shareholder;
 
  (b)   if only one of the joint owners are present in person or by proxy he may vote on behalf of all joint owners; and
 
  (c)   if two or more of the joint owners are present in person or by proxy they must vote as one.
7.11.   A Shareholder shall be deemed to be present at a meeting of Shareholders if he participates by telephone or other electronic means and all Shareholders participating in the meeting are able to hear each other.
 
7.12.   A meeting of Shareholders is dully constituted if, at the commencement of the meeting, there are present in person or by proxy not less than 50 percent of the votes of the Shares entitled to vote on Resolutions of Shareholders to be considered at the meting. A quorum may comprise a single Shareholder or proxy and then such person may pass a Resolution of Shareholders and a certificate signed by such person accompanied where such person be a proxy by a copy of the proxy instrument shall constitute a valid Resolution of Shareholders.
 
7.13.   If within two hours from the time appointed for the meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened upon the requisition of Shareholders, shall be dissolved; in any other case it shall stand adjourned to the next business day in the jurisdiction in which the meeting was to have been held at the same time and place or to such other time and place as the directors may determine, and if at the adjourned meeting there are present within one hour from the time appointed for the meeting in person or by proxy not less than one third of the votes of the Shares or each class or series of Shares entitled to vote on the matters to be considered by the meeting, those present shall constitute a quorum but otherwise the meeting shall be dissolved.
 
7.14.   At every meeting of Shareholders, the Chairman of the Board shall preside as chairman of the meeting. If there is no Chairman of the Board or if the Chairman of the Board is not present at the meeting, the Shareholders present shall choose one of their number to be the chairman. If the Shareholders are unable to choose a chairman for any reason, then the person representing the greatest number of voting Shares present in person or by proxy at the meeting shall preside as chairman failing which the oldest individual Shareholder or representative of a Shareholder present shall take the chair.
 
7.15.   The chairman may, with the consent of the meeting, adjourn any meeting from time to time, and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place.

- 10 -


 

7.16.   At any meeting of the Shareholders the chairman is responsible for deciding in such manner as he considers appropriate whether any resolution proposed has been carried or not and the result of his decision shall be announced to the meeting and recorded in the minutes of the meeting. If the chairman has any doubt as to the outcome of the vote on a proposed resolution, he shall cause a poll to be taken of all votes cast upon such resolution. If the chairman fails to take a poll then any Shareholder present in person or by proxy who disputes the announcement by the chairman of the result of any vote may immediately following such announcement demand that a poll be taken and the chairman shall cause a poll to be taken. If a poll is taken at any meeting, the result shall be announced to the meeting and recorded in the minutes of the meeting.
7.17.   Subject to the specific provisions contained in this Regulation for the appointment of representatives of Eligible Persons other than individuals the right of any individual to speak for or represent a Shareholder shall be determined by the law of the jurisdiction where, and by the documents by which, the Eligible Person is constituted or derives its existence. In case of doubt, the directors may in good faith seek legal advice from any qualified person and unless and until a court of competent jurisdiction shall otherwise rule, the directors may rely and act upon such advice without incurring any liability to any Shareholder or the Company.
 
7.18.   Any Eligible Person other than an individual which is a Shareholder may by resolution of its directors or other governing body authorise such individual as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any meeting of Shareholders or of any class of Shareholders, and the individual so authorised shall be entitled to exercise the same rights on behalf of the Shareholder which he represents as that Shareholder could exercise if it were an individual.
 
7.19.   The chairman of any meeting at which a vote is cast by proxy or on behalf of any Eligible Person other than an individual may call for a notarially certified copy of such proxy or authority which shall be produced within 7 days of being so requested or the votes cast by such proxy or on behalf of such Eligible Person shall be disregarded.
 
7.20.   Directors of the Company may attend and speak at any meeting of Shareholders and at any separate meeting of the holders of any class or series of Shares.
 
7.21.   An action that may be taken by the Shareholders at a meeting may also be taken by a resolution consented to in writing, without the need for any notice, but if any Resolution of Shareholders is adopted otherwise than by the unanimous written consent of all Shareholders, a copy of such resolution shall forthwith be sent to all Shareholders not consenting to such resolution. The consent may be in the form of counterparts, each counterpart being signed by one or more Shareholders. If the consent is in one or more counterparts, and the counterparts bear different dates, then the resolution shall take effect on the earliest date upon which Shareholders holding a sufficient number of votes of Shares to constitute a Resolution of Shareholders have consented to the resolution by signed counterparts.
8.   DIRECTORS
 
8.1.   The first directors of the Company shall be appointed by the first registered agent within 6 months of the date of incorporation of the Company; and thereafter, the directors shall be elected by Resolution of Shareholders or by Resolution of Directors.
 
8.2.   No person shall be appointed as a director, or nominated as a reserve director, of the Company unless he has consented in writing to be a director or to be nominated as a reserve director.
 
8.3.   Subject to Sub-Regulation 8.1. the minimum number of directors shall be one and there shall be no maximum number.
 
8.4.   Each director holds office for the term, if any, fixed by the Resolution of Shareholders or the Resolution of Directors appointing him, or until his earlier death, resignation or removal. If no term is fixed on the appointment of a director, the director serves indefinitely until his earlier death, resignation or removal.
 
8.5.   A director may be removed from office,

- 11 -


 

  (a)   with or without cause, by Resolution of Shareholders passed at a meeting of Shareholders called for the purposes of removing the director or for purposes including the removal of the director or by a written resolution passed by at least 75 percent of the Shareholders of the Company entitled to vote; or
 
  (b)   with cause, by Resolution of Directors passed at a meeting of directors called for the purpose of removing the director or for purposes including the removal of the director.
8.6.   A director may resign his office by giving written notice of his resignation to the Company and the resignation has effect from the date the notice is received by the Company or from such later date as may be specified in the notice. A director shall resign forthwith as a director if he is, or becomes, disqualified from acting as a director under the Act.
 
8.7.   The directors may at any time appoint any person to be a director either to fill a vacancy or as an addition to the existing directors. Where the directors appoint a person as director to fill a vacancy, the term shall not exceed the term that remained when the person who has ceased to be a director ceased to hold office.
 
8.8.   A vacancy in relation to directors occurs if a director dies or otherwise ceases to hold office prior to the expiration of his term of office.
 
8.9.   Where the Company only has one Shareholder who is an individual and that Shareholder is also the sole director of the Company, the sole Shareholder/director may, by instrument in writing, nominate a person who is not disqualified from being a director of the Company as a reserve director of the Company to act in the place of the sole director in the event of his death.
 
8.10.   The nomination of a person as a reserve director of the Company ceases to have effect if:
  (a)   before the death of the sole Shareholder/director who nominated him,
  (i)   he resigns as reserve director, or
 
  (ii)   the sole Shareholder/director revokes the nomination in writing; or
  (b)   the sole Shareholder/director who nominated him ceases to be able to be the sole Shareholder/director of the Company for any reason other than his death.
8.11.   The Company shall keep a register of directors containing:
  (a)   the names and addresses of the persons who are directors of the Company or who have been nominated as reserve directors of the Company;
 
  (b)   the date on which each person whose name is entered in the register was appointed as a director, or nominated as a reserve director, of the Company;
 
  (c)   the date on which each person named as a director ceased to be a director of the Company;
 
  (d)   the date on which the nomination of any person nominated as a reserve director ceased to have effect; and
 
  (e)   such other information as may be prescribed by the Act.
8.12.   The register of directors may be kept in any such form as the directors may approve, but if it is in magnetic, electronic or other data storage form, the Company must be able to produce legible evidence of its contents. Until a Resolution of Directors determining otherwise is passed, the magnetic, electronic or other data storage shall be the original register of directors.
 
8.13.   The directors may, by Resolution of Directors, fix the emoluments of directors with respect to services to be rendered in any capacity to the Company.
 
8.14.   A director is not required to hold a Share as a qualification to office.

- 12 -


 

9.   POWERS OF DIRECTORS
 
9.1.   The business and affairs of the Company shall be managed by, or under the direction or supervision of, the directors of the Company. The directors of the Company have all the powers necessary for managing, and for directing and supervising, the business and affairs of the Company. The directors may pay all expenses incurred preliminary to and in connection with the incorporation of the Company and may exercise all such powers of the Company as are not by the Act or by the Memorandum or the Articles required to be exercised by the Shareholders.
 
9.2.   Each director shall exercise his powers for a proper purpose and shall not act or agree to the Company acting in a manner that contravenes the Memorandum, the Articles or the Act. Each director, in exercising his powers or performing his duties, shall act honestly and in good faith in what the director believes to be the best interests of the Company.
 
9.3.   If the Company is the wholly owned subsidiary of a holding company, a director of the Company may, when exercising powers or performing duties as a director, act in a manner which he believes is in the best interests of the holding company even though it may not be in the best interests of the Company.
 
9.4.   Any director which is a body corporate may appoint any individual as its duly authorised representative for the purpose of representing it at meetings of the directors, with respect to the signing of consents or otherwise.
 
9.5.   The continuing directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body.
 
9.6.   The directors may by Resolution of Directors exercise all the powers of the Company to incur indebtedness, liabilities or obligations and to secure indebtedness, liabilities or obligations whether of the Company or of any third party.
 
9.7.   All cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange and other negotiable instruments and all receipts for moneys paid to the Company shall be signed, drawn, accepted, endorsed or otherwise executed, as the case may be, in such manner as shall from time to time be determined by Resolution of Directors.
 
9.8.   For the purposes of Section 175 (Disposition of assets) of the Act, the directors may by Resolution of Directors determine that any sale, transfer, lease, exchange or other disposition is in the usual or regular course of the business carried on by the Company and such determination is, in the absence of fraud, conclusive.
 
10.   PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS
 
10.1.   Any one director of the Company may call a meeting of the directors by sending a written notice to each other director.
 
10.2.   The directors of the Company or any committee thereof may meet at such times and in such manner and places within or outside the British Virgin Islands as the directors may determine to be necessary or desirable.
 
10.3.   A director is deemed to be present at a meeting of directors if he participates by telephone or other electronic means and all directors participating in the meeting are able to hear each other.
 
10.4.   A director shall be given not less than 3 days’ notice of meetings of directors, but a meeting of directors held without 3 days’ notice having been given to all directors shall be valid if all the directors entitled to vote at the meeting who do not attend waive notice of the meeting, and for this purpose the presence of a director at a meeting shall constitute waiver by that director. The inadvertent failure to give notice of a meeting to a director, or the fact that a director has not received the notice, does not invalidate the meeting.
 
10.5.   A director may by a written instrument appoint an alternate who need not be a director and the alternate shall be entitled to attend meetings in the absence of the director who appointed him and to vote in place of the director until the appointment lapses or is terminated.

- 13 -


 

10.6.   A meeting of directors is duly constituted for all purposes if at the commencement of the meeting there are present in person or by alternate not less than one-half of the total number of directors, unless there are only 2 directors in which case the quorum is 2.
 
10.7.   If the Company has only one director the provisions herein contained for meetings of directors do not apply and such sole director has full power to represent and act for the Company in all matters as are not by the Act, the Memorandum or the Articles required to be exercised by the Shareholders. In lieu of minutes of a meeting the sole director shall record in writing and sign a note or memorandum of all matters requiring a Resolution of Directors. Such a note or memorandum constitutes sufficient evidence of such resolution for all purposes.
 
10.8.   At meetings of directors at which the Chairman of the Board is present, he shall preside as chairman of the meeting. If there is no Chairman of the Board or if the Chairman of the Board is not present, the directors present shall choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.
 
10.9.   An action that may be taken by the directors or a committee of directors at a meeting may also be taken by a Resolution of Directors or a resolution of a committee of directors consented to in writing by all directors or by all members of the committee, as the case may be, without the need for any notice. The consent may be in the form of counterparts each counterpart being signed by one or more directors. If the consent is in one or more counterparts, and the counterparts bear different dates, then the resolution shall take effect on the date upon which the last director has consented to the resolution by signed counterparts.
 
11.   COMMITTEES
 
11.1.   The directors may, by Resolution of Directors, designate one or more committees, each consisting of one or more directors, and delegate one or more of their powers, including the power to affix the Seal, to the committee.
 
11.2.   The directors have no power to delegate to a committee of directors any of the following powers:
  (a)   to amend the Memorandum or the Articles;
 
  (b)   to designate committees of directors;
 
  (c)   to delegate powers to a committee of directors;
 
  (d)   to appoint or remove directors;
 
  (e)   to appoint or remove an agent;
 
  (f)   to approve a plan of merger, consolidation or arrangement;
 
  (g)   to make a declaration of solvency or to approve a liquidation plan; or
 
  (h)   to make a determination that immediately after a proposed Distribution the value of the Company’s assets will exceed its liabilities and the Company will be able to pay its debts as they fall due.
11.3.   Sub-Regulation 11.2(b) and (c) do not prevent, a committee of directors, where authorised by the Resolution of Directors appointing such committee or by a subsequent Resolution of Directors, from appointing a sub-committee and delegating powers exercisable by the committee to the sub-committee.
 
11.4.   The meetings and proceedings of each committee of directors consisting of 2 or more directors shall be governed mutatis mutandis by the provisions of the Articles regulating the proceedings of directors so far as the same are not superseded by any provisions in the Resolution of Directors establishing the committee.

- 14 -


 

11.5.   Where the directors delegate their powers to a committee of directors they remain responsible for the exercise of that power by the committee, unless they believed on reasonable grounds at all times before the exercise of the power that the committee would exercise the power in conformity with the duties imposed on directors of the Company under the Act.
 
12.   OFFICERS AND AGENTS
 
12.1.   The Company may by Resolution of Directors appoint officers of the Company at such times as may be considered necessary or expedient. Such officers may consist of a Chairman of the Board of Directors, a president and one or more vice-presidents, secretaries and treasurers and such other officers as may from time to time be considered necessary or expedient. Any number of offices may be held by the same person.
 
12.2.   The officers shall perform such duties as are prescribed at the time of their appointment subject to any modification in such duties as may be prescribed thereafter by Resolution of Directors. In the absence of any specific prescription of duties it shall be the responsibility of the Chairman of the Board to preside at meetings of directors and Shareholders, the president to manage the day to day affairs of the Company, the vice-presidents to act in order of seniority in the absence of the president but otherwise to perform such duties as may be delegated to them by the president, the secretaries to maintain the register of members, minute books and records (other than financial records) of the Company and to ensure compliance with all procedural requirements imposed on the Company by applicable law, and the treasurer to be responsible for the financial affairs of the Company.
 
12.3.   The emoluments of all officers shall be fixed by Resolution of Directors.
 
12.4.   The officers of the Company shall hold office until their successors are duly appointed, but any officer elected or appointed by the directors may be removed at any time without cause, by Resolution of Directors. Any vacancy occurring in any office of the Company may be filled by Resolution of Directors.
 
12.5.   The directors may, by Resolution of Directors appoint any person, including a person who is a director, to be an agent of the Company.
 
12.6.   An agent of the Company shall have such powers and authority of the directors, including the power and authority to affix the Seal, as are set forth in the Articles or in the Resolution of Directors appointing the agent, except that no agent has any power or authority with respect to the following:
  (a)   to amend the Memorandum or the Articles;
 
  (b)   to change the registered office or agent;
 
  (c)   to designate committees of directors;
 
  (d)   to delegate powers to a committee of directors;
 
  (e)   to appoint or remove directors;
 
  (f)   to appoint or remove an agent;
 
  (g)   to fix emoluments of directors;
 
  (h)   to approve a plan of merger, consolidation or arrangement;
 
  (i)   to make a declaration of solvency or to approve a liquidation plan;
 
  (j)   to make a determination that immediately after a proposed Distribution the value of the Company’s assets will exceed its liabilities and the Company will be able to pay its debts as they fall due; or
 
  (k)   to authorise the Company to continue as a company incorporated under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the British Virgin Islands.

- 15 -


 

12.7.   The Resolution of Directors appointing an agent may authorise the agent to appoint one or more substitutes or delegates to exercise some or all of the powers conferred on the agent by the Company.
 
12.8.   The directors may remove an agent appointed by the Company and may revoke or vary a power conferred on him.
 
13.   CONFLICT OF INTERESTS
 
13.1.   A director of the Company shall, forthwith after becoming aware of the fact that he is interested in a transaction entered into or to be entered into by the Company, disclose the interest to all other directors of the Company.
 
13.2.   For the purposes of Sub-Regulation 13.1, a disclosure to all other directors to the effect that a director is a member, director or officer of another named entity or has a fiduciary relationship with respect to the entity or a named individual and is to be regarded as interested in any transaction which may, after the date of the entry into the transaction or disclosure of the interest, be entered into with that entity or individual, is a sufficient disclosure of interest in relation to that transaction.
 
13.3.   A director of the Company who is interested in a transaction entered into or to be entered into by the Company may:
  (a)   vote on a matter relating to the transaction;
 
  (b)   attend a meeting of directors at which a matter relating to the transaction arises and be included among the directors present at the meeting for the purpose of a quorum; and
 
  (c)   sign a document on behalf of the company, or do any other thing in his capacity as a director, that relates to me transactions;
    and, subject to compliance with the Act shall not, by reason of his office be accountable to the Company for any benefit which he derives from such transaction and no such transaction shall be liable to be avoided on the grounds of any such interest or benefit.
 
14.   INDEMNIFICATION
 
14.1.   Subject to the limitations hereinafter provided the Company shall indemnify against all expenses, including legal fees, and against all judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement and reasonably incurred in connection with legal, administrative or investigative proceedings any person who:
  (a)   is or was a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed proceedings, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director of the Company; or
 
  (b)   is or was, at the request of the Company, serving as a director of, or in any other capacity is or was acting for, another body corporate or a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise.
14.2.   The indemnity in Sub-Regulation 14.1 only applies if the person acted honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of the Company and, in the case of criminal proceedings, the person had no reasonable cause to believe that their conduct was unlawful.
 
14.3.   For the purposes of Sub-Regulation 14.2, a director acts in the best interests of the Company if he acts in the best interests of
  (a)   the Company’s holding company; or
 
  (b)   a Shareholder or Shareholders of the Company;
    in either case, in the circumstances specified in Sub-Regulation 9.3 or the Act, as the case may be.

- 16 -


 

14.4.   The decision of the directors as to whether the person acted honestly and in good faith and with a view to the best interests of the Company and as to whether the person had no reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful is, in the absence of fraud, sufficient for the purposes of the Articles, unless a question of law is involved.
 
14.5.   The termination of any proceedings by any judgment, order, settlement, conviction or the entering of a nolle prosequi does not, by itself, create a presumption that the person did not act honestly and in good faith and with a view to the best interests of the Company or that the person had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful.
 
14.6.   Expenses, including legal fees, incurred by a director in defending any legal, administrative or investigative proceedings may be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of such proceedings upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the director to repay the amount if it shall ultimately be determined that the director is not entitled to be indemnified by the Company in accordance with Sub-Regulation 14.1.
 
14.7.   Expenses, including legal fees, incurred by a former director in defending any legal, administrative or investigative proceedings may be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of such proceedings upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the former director to repay the amount if it shall ultimately be determined that the former director is not entitled to be indemnified by the Company in accordance with Sub-Regulation 14.1 and upon such terms and conditions, if any, as the Company deems appropriate.
 
14.8.   The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this section is not exclusive of any other rights to which the person seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any agreement, Resolution of Shareholders, resolution of disinterested directors or otherwise, both as acting in the person’s official capacity and as to acting in another capacity while serving as a director of the Company.
 
14.9.   If a person referred to in Sub-Regulation 14.1 has been successful in defence of any proceedings referred to in Sub-Regulation 14.1, the person is entitled, to be indemnified against all expenses, including legal fees, and against all judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with the proceedings.
 
14.10.   The Company may purchase and maintain insurance in relation to any person who is or was a director, officer or liquidator of the Company, or who at the request of the Company is or was serving as a director, officer or liquidator of, or in an other capacity is or was acting for, another company or a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against any liability asserted against the person and incurred by the person in that capacity, whether or not the Company has or would have had the power to indemnify the person against the liability as provided in the Articles.
 
15.   RECORDS
 
15.1.   The Company shall keep the following documents at the office of its registered agent:
  (a)   the Memorandum and the Articles;
 
  (b)   the register of members, or a copy of the register of members;
 
  (c)   the register of directors, or a copy of the register of directors; and
 
  (d)   copies of all notices and other documents filed by the Company with the Registrar of Corporate Affairs in the previous 10 years.
15.2.   Until the directors determine otherwise by Resolution of Directors the Company shall keep the original register of members and original register of directors at the office of its registered agent.
 
15.3.   If the Company maintains only a copy of the register of members or a copy of the register of directors at the office of its registered agent, it shall:

- 17 -


 

  (a)   within 15 days of any change in either register, notify the registered agent in writing of the change; and
 
  (b)   provide the registered agent with a written record of the physical address of the place or places at which the original register of members or the original register of directors is kept.
15.4.   The Company shall keep the following records at the office of its registered agent or at such other place or places, within or outside the British Virgin Islands, as the directors may determine:
  (a)   minutes of meetings and Resolutions of Shareholders and classes of Shareholders;
 
  (b)   minutes of meetings and Resolutions of Directors and committees of directors; and
 
  (c)   an impression of the Seal.
15.5.   Where any original records referred to in this Regulation are maintained other than at the office of the registered agent of the Company, and the place at which the original records is changed, the Company shall provide the registered agent with the physical address of the new location of the records of the Company within 14 days of the change of location.
 
15.6.   The records kept by the Company under this Regulation shall be in written form or either wholly or partly as electronic records complying with the requirements of the Electronic Transactions Act, 2001 (No. 5 of 2001) as from time to time amended or re-enacted.
 
16.   REGISTER OF CHARGES
 
    The Company shall maintain at the office of its registered agent a register of charges in which there shall be entered the following particulars regarding each mortgage charge and other encumbrance created by the Company:
  (a)   the date of creation of the charge;
 
  (b)   a short description of the liability secured by the charge;
 
  (c)   a short description of the property charged;
 
  (d)   the name and address of the trustee for the security or, if there is no such trustee, the name and address of the chargee;
 
  (e)   unless the charge is a security to bearer, the name and address of the holder of the charge; and
 
  (f)   details of any prohibition or restriction contained in the instrument creating the charge on the power of the Company to create any future charge ranking in priority to or equally with the charge.
17.   SEAL
 
    The Company shall have a Seal and may have more than one Seal and references herein to the Seal shall be references to every Seal which shall have been duly adopted by Resolution of Directors. The directors shall provide for the safe custody of the Seal and for an imprint thereof to be kept at the registered office. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein the Seal when affixed to any written instrument shall be witnessed and attested to by the signature of any one director or other person so authorised from time to time by Resolution of Directors. Such authorisation may be before or after the Seal is affixed, may be general or specific and may refer to any number of sealings. The directors may provide for a facsimile of the Seal and of the signature of any director or authorised person which may be reproduced by printing or other means on any instrument and it shall have the same force and validity as if the Seal had been affixed to such instrument and the same had been attested to as hereinbefore described.

- 18 -


 

18.   DISTRIBUTIONS BY WAY OF DIVIDEND
 
18.1.   The directors of the Company may, by Resolution of Directors, authorise a Distribution by way of dividend at a time and of an amount they think fit if they are satisfied, on reasonable grounds, that, immediately after the Distribution, the value of the Company’s assets will exceed its liabilities and the Company will be able to pay its debts as they fall due.
 
18.2.   Dividends may be paid in money, Shares, or other property.
 
18.3.   Notice of any dividend that may have been declared shall be given to each Shareholder as specified in Sub-Regulation 20.1 and all dividends unclaimed for 3 years after having been declared may be forfeited by Resolution of Directors for the benefit of the Company.
 
18.4.   No dividend shall bear interest as against the Company and no dividend shall be paid on Treasury Shares.
 
19.   ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT
 
19.1.   The Company shall keep records that are sufficient to show and explain the Company’s transactions and that will, at any time, enable the financial position of the Company to be determined with reasonable accuracy.
 
19.2.   The Company may by Resolution of Shareholders call for the directors to prepare periodically and make available a profit and loss account and a balance sheet. The profit and loss account and balance sheet shall be drawn up so as to give respectively a true and fair view of the profit and loss of the Company for a financial period and a true and fair view of the assets and liabilities of the Company as at the end of a financial period.
 
19.3.   The Company may by Resolution of Shareholders cell for the accounts to be examined by auditors.
 
19.4.   The first auditors shall be appointed by Resolution of Directors; subsequent auditors shall be appointed by Resolution of Shareholders or by Resolutions of Directors.
 
19.5.   The auditors may be Shareholders, but no director or other officer shall be eligible to be an auditor of the Company during their continuance in office.
 
19.6.   The remuneration of the auditors of the Company may be fixed by Resolution of Directors.
 
19.7.   The auditors shall examine each profit and loss account and balance sheet required to be laid before a meeting of the Shareholders or otherwise given to Shareholders and shall state in a written report whether or not:
  (a)   in their opinion the profit and loss account and balance sheet give a true and fair view respectively of the profit and loss for the period covered by the accounts, and of the assets and liabilities of the Company at the end of that period; and
 
  (b)   all the information and explanations required by the auditors have been obtained.
19.8.   The report of the auditors shall be annexed to the accounts and shall be read at the meeting of Shareholders at which the accounts are laid before the Company or shall be otherwise given to the Shareholders.
 
19.9.   Every auditor of the Company shall have a right of access at all times to the books of account and vouchers of the Company, and shall be entitled to require from the directors and officers of the Company such information and explanations as he thinks necessary for the performance of the duties of the auditors.
 
19.10.   The auditors of the Company shall be entitled to receive notice of, and to attend any meetings of Shareholders at which the Company’s profit and loss account and balance sheet are to be presented.

- 19 -


 

20.   NOTICES
 
20.1.   Any notice, information or written statement to be given by the Company to Shareholders may be given by personal service or by mail addressed to each Shareholder at the address shown in the register of members.
 
20.2.   Any summons, notice, order, document, process, information or written statement to be served on the Company may be served by leaving it, or by sending it by registered mail addressed to the Company, at its registered office, or by leaving it with, or by sending it by registered mail to, the registered agent of the Company.
 
20.3.   Service of any summons, notice, order, document, process, information or written statement to be served on the Company may be proved by showing that the summons, notice, order, document, process, information or written statement was delivered to the registered office or the registered agent of the Company or that it was mailed in such time as to admit to its being delivered to the registered office or the registered agent of the Company in the normal course of delivery within the period prescribed for service and was correctly addressed and the postage was prepaid.
 
21.   VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION
 
    The Company may by Resolution of Shareholders or by Resolution of Directors appoint a voluntary liquidator.
 
22.   CONTINUATION
 
    The Company may by Resolution of Shareholders or by a resolution passed unanimously by all directors of the Company continue as a company incorporated under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the British Virgin Islands in the manner provided under those laws.
We, OFFSHORE INCORPORATIONS LIMITED of P.O. Box 957, Offshore Incorporations Centre, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands for the purpose of incorporating a BVI Business Company under the laws of the British Virgin Islands hereby sign these Articles of Association the 3rd day of April, 2008.
Incorporator
/s/ (Sd.) Rexella D. Hodge
(Sd.) Rexella D. Hodge
Authorised Signatory
OFFSHORE INCORPORATIONS LIMITED

- 20 -

EX-3.40 39 y04313a1exv3w40.htm EX-3.40 exv3w40
Exhibit 3.40
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
FOLEGANDROS SHIPPING CORPORATION
PURSUANT TO THE MARSHALL ISLANDS BUSINESS CORPORATIONS ACT
     The undersigned, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the provisions of the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act, does hereby make, subscribe, acknowledge and file with the Registrar of Corporations this instrument for that purpose, as follows:
A.   The name of the Corporation shall be:
FOLEGANDROS SHIPPING CORPORATION
B.   The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may now or hereafter be organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act and without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, the corporation shall have the power:
  (1)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, pledge, hypothecate, mortgage, lease, charter, sub-charter, sell, build, and repair steamships, motorships, tankers, vessels, sailing vessels, tugs, lighters, barges, and all other vessels and craft of any and all motive power whatsoever, including landcraft, and any and all means of conveyance and transportation by land or water, together with engines, boilers, machinery equipment and appurtenances of all kinds, including masts, sails, boats, anchors, cables, tackle, furniture and all other necessities thereunto appertaining and belonging, together with all materials, articles, tools, equipment and appliances necessary, suitable or convenient for the construction, equipment, use and operation thereof; and to equip, furnish, and outfit such vessels and ships.

 


 

  (2)   To engage in ocean, coastwise and inland commerce, and generally in the carriage of freight, goods, cargo in bulk, passengers, mail and personal effects by water between the various ports of the world and to engage generally in waterborne commerce.
 
  (3)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, lease, build, repair, sell or in any manner dispose of docks, piers, quays, wharves, dry docks, warehouses and storage facilities of all kinds, and any property, real, personal and mixed, in connection therewith.
 
  (4)   To act as ship’s husband, shipbrokers, customhouse brokers, ship’s agents, manager of shipping property, freight contractors, forwarding agents, warehousemen, wharfingers, ship chandlers, and general traders.
C.   The registered address of the Corporation in the Marshall Islands is Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH96960. The name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is The Trust Company of the Marshall Islands, Inc.
 
D.   The aggregate number of shares of stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is Five Hundred (500) registered shares with a par value of One US Dollar (US$1.00) per share.
 
E.   The Corporation shall have every power which a corporation now or hereafter organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act may have.
 
F.   The name and address of the incorporator is:
     
Name   Post Office address
Majuro Nominees Ltd.
  P.O. Box 1405
 
  Majuro
 
  Marshall Islands

 


 

G.   The Board of Directors as well as the shareholders of the Corporation shall have the authority to adopt, amend or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation.
H.   Corporate existence shall begin upon filing these Articles of Incorporation with the Registrar of Corporations as of the filing date stated on these Articles.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have executed this instrument on March 30, 2010.
             
    Majuro Nominees Ltd.
       Incorporator
   
 
           
 
  by:   /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]
 
   

 


 

     On March 30, 2010 before me personally came S. Vatista know to me to be the individual described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and she duly acknowledged to me that the execution thereof was her act and deed.
         
     
  /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]    
     
     
 

 

EX-3.41 40 y04313a1exv3w41.htm EX-3.41 exv3w41
Exhibit 3.41
BYLAWS
FOLEGANDROS SHIPPING CORPORATION
A Marshall Islands Corporation
ARTICLE I
OFFICES
The principal place of business of the Corporation shall be at such place or places as the Directors shall from time to time determine. The Corporation may also have an office at such other places within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may from time to time appoint or the business of the Corporation may require.
ARTICLE II
MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Section 1. Annual Meetings. The annual meeting of shareholders of the Corporation shall be held on such day and at such time and place within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may determine for the purpose of electing Directors and of transacting such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.
Section 2. Special Meeting. Special meetings of the shareholders, unless otherwise prescribed by law, may be called for any purpose or purposes at any time by resolution of the Board of Directors or by the President and shall be called by the President or Secretary of the Corporation whenever required in writing to do so by shareholders owning a majority in amount of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote which is issued and outstanding. Such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed special meeting. Such meetings shall be held at such place and on a date and at such time as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer of the Corporation calling any such meeting. Business transacted at any special meeting of shareholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice.
Section 3. Notice of Meetings. Notice of every annual and special meeting of shareholders, other than any meeting the giving of notice of which is prescribed by law, stating the date, time, place and purpose thereof, and in the case of special meetings, the name of the person or persons at whose direction the notice is being issued, shall be given personally or sent by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter at least fifteen but not more than sixty days before such meeting, to each shareholder of record entitled to vote thereat and to each shareholder of record who, by reason of any action proposed at such meeting would be entitled to have his/her shares appraised if such action were taken, and the notice shall include a statement of that purpose and to that effect. If mailed, notice shall be deemed to have been given when deposited in the mail, directed to the shareholder at his/her address as the same appears on the record of shareholders of the Corporation or at such address as to which the shareholder has given notice to the Secretary. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any shareholder who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting or who attends the meeting without protesting prior to the conclusion thereof the lack of notice to him. If the Corporation shall issue any class of bearer shares, notice for all meetings shall be given in the manner provided in the Articles of Incorporation.
Section 4. Quorum. At all meetings of the shareholders, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, there must be present, either in person or by proxy, shareholders holding at least a majority of the shares issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at such meetings in order to constitute a quorum, but if less than a quorum is present, a majority of those shares present either in person or by proxy shall have power to adjourn any meeting until a quorum shall be present.

1


 

Section 5. Voting. If a quorum is present, and except as otherwise expressly provided by law or by the Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation, the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of stock represented at the meeting shall be the act of the shareholders. At any meeting of shareholders, each shareholder entitled to vote any shares on any manner to be voted upon at such meeting shall be entitled to one vote on such matter for each such share, and may exercise such voting right either in person or by proxy. Any action which may be taken at a meeting of shareholders, may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken or to be taken, is signed by all of the shareholders entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof.
Section 6. Fixing of Record Dates. The Board of Directors may fix a time not more than sixty nor less than fifteen days prior to the date of any meeting of the shareholders, or more than sixty (60) days prior to the last day on which the consent or dissent of shareholders may be expressed for any purpose without a meeting, as the time as of which shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or whose consent or dissent is required or may be expressed for any purpose, as the case may be, shall be determined, and all persons who were holders of record of voting shares at such time and not others shall be entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or to express their consent or dissent, as the case may be. For the purpose of determining shareholders entitled in connection with the following, the Board of Directors may fix a date not exceeding sixty days preceding the date fixed for the payment of any dividend, distribution, or allotment or for the purpose of any other action.
ARTICLE III
DIRECTORS
Section 1. Number. The affairs, business and property of the Corporation shall be managed by a Board of Directors to consist of at least one director. Within the limits fixed by these Bylaws, the number of directors may be determined either by a vote of a majority of the entire Board or by vote of shareholders. The directors need not be residents of the Marshall Islands nor shareholders of the Corporation.
Section 2. How Elected. Except as otherwise provided by law or Section 4 of this Article, the directors of the Corporation (other than the first Board of Directors designated by the Incorporator) shall be elected at the annual meeting of shareholders. Each director shall be elected to serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until his/her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified, except in the event of his/her death, resignation, removal or the earlier termination of his/her term of office.
Section 3. Removal. Any or all of the directors may be removed, with or without cause, by a vote of the shareholders. Any director may be removed for cause by action of the Board of Directors.
Section 4. Vacancies. Vacancies in the Board of Directors occurring by death, resignation, the creation of new directorships, the failure of the shareholders to elect the whole Board at any annual election of directors, or, except as herein provided, for any other reason, including removal of directors for cause, may be filled either by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors then in office, although less than a quorum, at any special meeting called for that purpose or at any regular meeting of the Board, except as otherwise prescribed by law or unless the Articles of Incorporation provide that such vacancies or newly created directorships shall be filled by vote of the shareholders. Vacancies occurring by removal of directors without cause may be filled only by vote of the shareholders.
Section 5. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held at such time and place as may be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors and no notice shall be required for any regular meeting. Except as otherwise provided by law, any business may

2


 

be transacted at any regular meeting.
Section 6. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board may, unless otherwise prescribed by law, be called by the President or any other officer of the Corporation who is also a director. The President or the Secretary shall call a special meeting of the Board upon written request directed to either of them by any two directors stating the time, place and purpose of such special meeting. Special meetings of the Board shall be held on a date and at such time and at such place as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer calling the meeting.
Section 7. Notice of Special Meeting. Notice of the date, time and place of each special meeting of the Board of Directors shall be given to each director at least forty-eight hours prior to such meeting, unless the notice is given orally or delivered in person, in which case it shall be given at least twenty-four hours prior to such meeting. For the purpose of this section, notice shall be deemed to be duly given to a director if given personally (including by telephone) or if such notice be delivered to such director by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter to his/her last known address. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any director who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting, or who attends the meeting without protesting, prior to the conclusion thereof, the lack of notice to him/her.
Section 8. Quorum. A majority of the entire board, present in person or by proxy or by communicating equipment, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
Section 9. Voting. The vote of the majority of the directors, present in person or by proxy, in communication by telefax or conference telephone, at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the directors. Any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if all the members of the Board consent in writing thereto.
Section 10. Compensation of Directors and Members of Committees. The Board may from time to time, in its discretion, fix the amounts which shall be payable to members of the Board of Directors and to members of any committee, for attendance at the meetings of the Board or of such committee and for services rendered to the Corporation.
ARTICLE IV
COMMITTEES
Section 1. Executive Committee and Other Committees. The Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members an Executive Committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation, which, to the extent provided in said resolution or resolutions, or in these Bylaws, shall have and may exercise, to the extent permitted by law, the powers of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may have power to authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it. In addition, the Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members other committees to consist of one or more directors of the Corporation, each of which shall perform such function and have such authority and powers as shall be delegated to it by said resolution or resolutions or as provided for in these Bylaws, except that, subject to the limitations of law, only the Executive Committee may have and exercise the powers of the Board of Directors. Members of the Executive Committee and any other committee shall hold office for such periods as may be prescribed by the vote of the majority of the entire Board of Directors, subject, however, to removal at any time by the vote of the Board of Directors. Vacancies in the membership of such committees shall be filled by vote of the Board of Directors. Committees may adopt their own rules of procedure and may meet at stated times or on such notice as they may determine. Each committee shall keep a record of its proceedings and report the same to the Board when requested.

3


 

ARTICLE V
OFFICERS
Section 1. Number and Designation. The Board of Directors shall appoint a Secretary and a Treasurer, and may appoint a President as well as such other officers as it may deem necessary. Officers may be of any nationality, need not be residents of the Marshall Islands and may be, but are not required to be, directors. Officers of the Corporation shall be natural persons except the Secretary may be a corporate entity. Any two or more offices may be held by the same natural person.
The officers shall be appointed annually by the Board of Directors at its first meeting following the annual election of directors, but in the event of the failure of the Board to so appoint any officer, such officer may be appointed at any subsequent meeting of the Board of Directors. The salaries of the officers and any other compensation paid to them shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may at any meeting appoint additional officers. Each officer shall hold office until the first meeting of the Board of Directors following the next annual election of directors and until his/her successor shall have been duly appointed and qualified, except in the event of the earlier termination of his/her term of office through death, resignation, removal or otherwise. Any officer may be removed by the Board at any time with or without cause. Any vacancy in an office may be filled for the unexpired portion of the term of such office by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting.
Section 2. President. The President shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation and shall have the general management of the affairs of the Corporation, together with the powers and duties usually incident to the office of President, except as specifically limited by appropriate written resolution of the Board of Directors and shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors. The President shall preside at all meetings of shareholders at which he/she is present and if, in the case of the President, he/she is a director, at all meetings of the directors.
Section 3. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have general supervision over the care and custody of the funds, securities and other valuable effects of the Corporation and shall deposit the same or cause the same to be deposited in the name of the Corporation in such depositories as the Board of Directors may designate, shall disburse the funds of the Corporation as may be ordered by the Board of Directors, shall have supervision over the accounts of all receipts and disbursements of the Corporation, shall, whenever required by the Board, render or cause to be rendered financial statements of the Corporation, shall have the power and perform the duties usually incident to the office of Treasurer; and shall have the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors, or President.
Section 4. Secretary. The Secretary shall act as Secretary of all meetings of the shareholders and of the Board of Directors at which he/she is present, shall have supervision over the giving and serving of notices of the Corporation; shall be the custodian of the corporate records and of the corporate seal of the Corporation; shall be empowered to affix the corporate seal to those documents, the execution of which, on behalf of the Corporation under its seal, is duly authorized and when so affixed may attest the same, and shall exercise the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors or the President. If the Secretary is a Corporation, the duties of the Secretary may be carried out by any duly authorized representative of such corporation acting in its name.
Section 5. Other Officers: Officers other than those treated in section 2 through 4 of this Article shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the

4


 

Board of Directors or by the President.
Section 6. Bond. The Board of Directors shall have the power to the extent permitted by law, to require any officer, agent or employee of the Corporation to give bond for the faithful discharge of his/her duties in such form and with such surety or sureties as the Board of Directors may deem advisable.
ARTICLE VI
CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES
Section 1. Form and Issuance. The shares of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates in a form meeting the requirements of law and approved by the Board of Directors. Certificates shall be signed by the President or a Vice President, and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer. These signatures may be facsimiles if the certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent or registered by a registrar other than the Corporation itself or its employee.
Section 2. Transfer. The Board of Directors shall have the power and authority to make such rules and regulations as they may deem expedient concerning the issuance, registration and transfer of certificates representing shares of the Corporation’s stock, and may appoint, transfer agents and registrars thereof.
Section 3. Loss of Stock Certificates. The Board of Directors may direct a new certificate or certificates of stock to be issued in place of any certificate or certificates thereof issued by the Corporation alleged to have been lost or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of a new certificate or certificates, the Board of Directors may, in its discretion, and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his/her representative, to advertise the same in such manner as it shall require and/or give the Corporation a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the Corporation with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost or destroyed.
ARTICLE VII
DIVIDENDS
Section 1. Declaration and Form. Dividends may be declared in conformity with law by, and at the discretion of, the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting. Dividends may be declared and paid in cash, stock, or other property of the Corporation.
ARTICLE VIII
CORPORATE SEAL
Section 1. Corporate Seal. The seal of the Corporation, if any, shall be circular in form, with the name of the Corporation in the circumference and such other appropriate legend as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine.
ARTICLE IX
FISCAL YEAR
Section 1. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be such period of twelve consecutive months as the Board of Directors may by resolution designate.

5


 

ARTICLE X
AMENDMENTS
Section 1. By the Shareholders. These Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any meeting of the shareholders of the Corporation by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the stock present and voting at such meeting provided notice that an amendment is to be considered and acted upon is inserted in the notice or waiver of notice of said meeting.
Section 2. By the Directors. If the Articles of Incorporation so provide, these Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors by the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire Board, subject, however, to the power of the shareholders to alter, amend or repeal any Bylaws as adopted.

6

EX-3.42 41 y04313a1exv3w42.htm EX-3.42 exv3w42
Exhibit 3.42
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
SERIFOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
PURSUANT TO THE MARSHALL ISLANDS BUSINESS CORPORATIONS ACT
          The undersigned, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the provisions of the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act, does hereby make, subscribe, acknowledge and file with the Registrar of Corporations this instrument for that purpose, as follows:
A.   The name of the Corporation shall be:
SERIFOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
B.   The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may now or hereafter be organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act and without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, the corporation shall have the power:
  (1)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, pledge, hypothecate, mortgage, lease, charter, sub-charter, sell, build, and repair steamships, motorships, tankers, vessels, sailing vessels, tugs, lighters, barges, and all other vessels and craft of any and all motive power whatsoever, including landcraft, and any and all means of conveyance and transportation by land or water, together with engines, boilers, machinery equipment and appurtenances of all kinds, including masts, sails, boats, anchors, cables, tackle, furniture and all other necessities thereunto appertaining and belonging, together with all materials, articles, tools, equipment and appliances necessary, suitable or convenient for the construction, equipment, use and operation thereof; and to equip, furnish, and outfit such vessels and ships.

 


 

  (2)   To engage in ocean, coastwise and inland commerce, and generally in the carriage of freight, goods, cargo in bulk, passengers, mail and personal effects by water between the various ports of the world and to engage generally in waterborne commerce.
 
  (3)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, lease, build, repair, sell or in any manner dispose of docks, piers, quays, wharves, dry docks, warehouses and storage facilities of all kinds, and any property, real, personal and mixed, in connection therewith.
 
  (4)   To act as ship’s husband, shipbrokers, customhouse brokers, ship’s agents, manager of shipping property, freight contractors, forwarding agents, warehousemen, wharfingers, ship chandlers, and general traders.
C.   The registered address of the Corporation in the Marshall Islands is Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH96960. The name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is The Trust Company of the Marshall Islands, Inc.
 
D.   The aggregate number of shares of stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is Five Hundred (500) registered shares with a par value of One US Dollar (US$1.00) per share.
 
E.   The Corporation shall have every power which a corporation now or hereafter organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act may have.
 
F.   The name and address of the incorporator is:
             
Name
      Post Office Address    
 
           
Majuro Nominees Ltd.
      P.O Box 1405    
 
      Majuro    
 
      Marshall Islands    

 


 

G.   The Board of Directors as well as the shareholders of the Corporation shall have the authority to adopt, amend or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation.
 
H.   Corporate existence shall begin upon filing these Articles of Incorporation with the Registrar of Corporations as of the filing date stated on these Articles.
          IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have executed this instrument on March 30, 2010.
         
  Majuro Nominees’ Ltd.
         Incorporator
 
 
  by:   /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]    
       
       

 


 

         
          On March 30, 2010 before me personally came S. Vatista known to me to be the individual described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and she duly acknowledged to me that the execution thereof was her act and deed.
         
     /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]    
       
       

 

EX-3.43 42 y04313a1exv3w43.htm EX-3.43 exv3w43
Exhibit 3.43
BYLAWS
SERIFOS SHIPPING CORPORATION
A Marshall Islands Corporation
ARTICLE I
OFFICES
The principal place of business of the Corporation shall be at such place or places as the Directors shall from time to time determine. The Corporation may also have an office at such other places within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may from time to time appoint or the business of the Corporation may require.
ARTICLE II
MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Section 1. Annual Meetings. The annual meeting of shareholders of the Corporation shall be held on such day and at such time and place within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may determine for the purpose of electing Directors and of transacting such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.
Section 2. Special Meeting. Special meetings of the shareholders, unless otherwise prescribed by law, may be called for any purpose or purposes at any time by resolution of the Board of Directors or by the President and shall be called by the President or Secretary of the Corporation whenever required in writing to do so by shareholders owning a majority in amount of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote which is issued and outstanding. Such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed special meeting. Such meetings shall be held at such place and on a date and at such time as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer of the Corporation calling any such meeting. Business transacted at any special meeting of shareholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice.
Section 3. Notice of Meetings. Notice of every annual and special meeting of shareholders, other than any meeting the giving of notice of which is prescribed by law, stating the date, time, place and purpose thereof, and in the case of special meetings, the name of the person or persons at whose direction the notice is being issued, shall be given personally or sent by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter at least fifteen but not more than sixty days before such meeting, to each shareholder of record entitled to vote thereat and to each shareholder of record who, by reason of any action proposed at such meeting would be entitled to have his/her shares appraised if such action were taken, and the notice shall include a statement of that purpose and to that effect. If mailed, notice shall be deemed to have been given when deposited in the mail, directed to the shareholder at his/her address as the same appears on the record of shareholders of the Corporation or at such address as to which the shareholder has given notice to the Secretary. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any shareholder who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting or who attends the meeting without protesting prior to the conclusion thereof the lack of notice to him. If the Corporation shall issue any class of bearer shares, notice for all meetings shall be given in the manner provided in the Articles of Incorporation.
Section 4. Quorum. At all meetings of the shareholders, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, there must be present, either in person or by proxy, shareholders holding at least a majority of the shares issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at such meetings in order to constitute a quorum, but if less than a quorum is present, a majority of those shares present either in person or by proxy shall have power to adjourn any meeting until a quorum shall be present.

1


 

Section 5. Voting. If a quorum is present, and except as otherwise expressly provided by law or by the Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation, the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of stock represented at the meeting shall be the act of the shareholders. At any meeting of shareholders, each shareholder entitled to vote any shares on any manner to be voted upon at such meeting shall be entitled to one vote on such matter for each such share, and may exercise such voting right either in person or by proxy. Any action which may be taken at a meeting of shareholders, may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken or to be taken, is signed by all of the shareholders entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof.
Section 6. Fixing of Record Dates. The Board of Directors may fix a time not more than sixty nor less than fifteen days prior to the date of any meeting of the shareholders, or more than sixty (60) days prior to the last day on which the consent or dissent of shareholders may be expressed for any purpose without a meeting, as the time as of which shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or whose consent or dissent is required or may be expressed for any purpose, as the case may be, shall be determined, and all persons who were holders of record of voting shares at such time and not others shall be entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or to express their consent or dissent, as the case may be. For the purpose of determining shareholders entitled in connection with the following, the Board of Directors may fix a date not exceeding sixty days preceding the date fixed for the payment of any dividend, distribution, or allotment or for the purpose of any other action.
ARTICLE III
DIRECTORS
Section 1. Number. The affairs, business and property of the Corporation shall be managed by a Board of Directors to consist of at least one director. Within the limits fixed by these Bylaws, the number of directors may be determined either by a vote of a majority of the entire Board or by vote of shareholders. The directors need not be residents of the Marshall Islands nor shareholders of the Corporation.
Section 2. How Elected. Except as otherwise provided by law or Section 4 of this Article, the directors of the Corporation (other than the first Board of Directors designated by the Incorporator) shall be elected at the annual meeting of shareholders. Each director shall be elected to serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until his/her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified, except in the event of his/her death, resignation, removal or the earlier termination of his/her term of office.
Section 3. Removal. Any or all of the directors may be removed, with or without cause, by a vote of the shareholders. Any director may be removed for cause by action of the Board of Directors.
Section 4. Vacancies. Vacancies in the Board of Directors occurring by death, resignation, the creation of new directorships, the failure of the shareholders to elect the whole Board at any annual election of directors, or, except as herein provided, for any other reason, including removal of directors for cause, may be filled either by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors then in office, although less than a quorum, at any special meeting called for that purpose or at any regular meeting of the Board, except as otherwise prescribed by law or unless the Articles of Incorporation provide that such vacancies or newly created directorships shall be filled by vote of the shareholders. Vacancies occurring by removal of directors without cause may be filled only by vote of the shareholders.
Section 5. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held at such time and place as may be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors and no notice shall be required for any regular meeting. Except as otherwise provided by law, any business may

2


 

be transacted at any regular meeting.
Section 6. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board may, unless otherwise prescribed by law, be called by the President or any other officer of the Corporation who is also a director. The President or the Secretary shall call a special meeting of the Board upon written request directed to either of them by any two directors stating the time, place and purpose of such special meeting. Special meetings of the Board shall be held on a date and at such time and at such place as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer calling the meeting.
Section 7. Notice of Special Meeting. Notice of the date, time and place of each special meeting of the Board of Directors shall be given to each director at least forty-eight hours prior to such meeting, unless the notice is given orally or delivered in person, in which case it shall be given at least twenty-four hours prior to such meeting. For the purpose of this section, notice shall be deemed to be duly given to a director if given personally (including by telephone) or if such notice be delivered to such director by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter to his/her last known address. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any director who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting, or who attends the meeting without protesting, prior to the conclusion thereof, the lack of notice to him/her.
Section 8. Quorum. A majority of the entire board, present in person or by proxy or by communicating equipment, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
Section 9. Voting. The vote of the majority of the directors, present in person or by proxy, in communication by telefax or conference telephone, at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the directors. Any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if all the members of the Board consent in writing thereto.
Section 10. Compensation of Directors and Members of Committees. The Board may from time to time, in its discretion, fix the amounts which shall be payable to members of the Board of Directors and to members of any committee, for attendance at the meetings of the Board or of such committee and for services rendered to the Corporation.
ARTICLE IV
COMMITTEES
Section 1. Executive Committee and Other Committees. The Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members an Executive Committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation, which, to the extent provided in said resolution or resolutions, or in these Bylaws, shall have and may exercise, to the extent permitted by law, the powers of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may have power to authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it. In addition, the Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members other committees to consist of one or more directors of the Corporation, each of which shall perform such function and have such authority and powers as shall be delegated to it by said resolution or resolutions or as provided for in these Bylaws, except that, subject to the limitations of law, only the Executive Committee may have and exercise the powers of the Board of Directors. Members of the Executive Committee and any other committee shall hold office for such periods as may be prescribed by the vote of the majority of the entire Board of Directors, subject, however, to removal at any time by the vote of the Board of Directors. Vacancies in the membership of such committees shall be filled by vote of the Board of Directors. Committees may adopt their own rules of procedure and may meet at stated times or on such notice as they may determine. Each committee shall keep a record of its proceedings and report the same to the Board when requested.

3


 

ARTICLE V
OFFICERS
Section 1. Number and Designation. The Board of Directors shall appoint a Secretary and a Treasurer, and may appoint a President as well as such other officers as it may deem necessary. Officers may be of any nationality, need not be residents of the Marshall Islands and may be, but are not required to be, directors. Officers of the Corporation shall be natural persons except the Secretary may be a corporate entity. Any two or more offices may be held by the same natural person.
The officers shall be appointed annually by the Board of Directors at its first meeting following the annual election of directors, but in the event of the failure of the Board to so appoint any officer, such officer may be appointed at any subsequent meeting of the Board of Directors. The salaries of the officers and any other compensation paid to them shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may at any meeting appoint additional officers. Each officer shall hold office until the first meeting of the Board of Directors following the next annual election of directors and until his/her successor shall have been duly appointed and qualified, except in the event of the earlier termination of his/her term of office through death, resignation, removal or otherwise. Any officer may be removed by the Board at any time with or without cause. Any vacancy in an office may be filled for the unexpired portion of the term of such office by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting.
Section 2. President. The President shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation and shall have the general management of the affairs of the Corporation, together with the powers and duties usually incident to the office of President, except as specifically limited by appropriate written resolution of the Board of Directors and shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors. The President shall preside at all meetings of shareholders at which he/she is present and if, in the case of the President, he/she is a director, at all meetings of the directors.
Section 3. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have general supervision over the care and custody of the funds, securities and other valuable effects of the Corporation and shall deposit the same or cause the same to be deposited in the name of the Corporation in such depositories as the Board of Directors may designate, shall disburse the funds of the Corporation as may be ordered by the Board of Directors, shall have supervision over the accounts of all receipts and disbursements of the Corporation, shall, whenever required by the Board, render or cause to be rendered financial statements of the Corporation, shall have the power and perform the duties usually incident to the office of Treasurer; and shall have the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors, or President.
Section 4. Secretary. The Secretary shall act as Secretary of all meetings of the shareholders and of the Board of Directors at which he/she is present, shall have supervision over the giving and serving of notices of the Corporation; shall be the custodian of the corporate records and of the corporate seal of the Corporation; shall be empowered to affix the corporate seal to those documents, the execution of which, on behalf of the Corporation under its seal, is duly authorized and when so affixed may attest the same, and shall exercise the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors or the President. If the Secretary is a Corporation, the duties of the Secretary may be carried out by any duly authorized representative of such corporation acting in its name.
Section 5. Other Officers: Officers other than those treated in section 2 through 4 of this Article shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the

4


 

Board of Directors or by the President.
Section 6. Bond. The Board of Directors shall have the power to the extent permitted by law, to require any officer, agent or employee of the Corporation to give bond for the faithful discharge of his/her duties in such form and with such surety or sureties as the Board of Directors may deem advisable.
ARTICLE VI
CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES
Section 1. Form and Issuance. The shares of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates in a form meeting the requirements of law and approved by the Board of Directors. Certificates shall be signed by the President or a Vice President, and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer. These signatures may be facsimiles if the certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent or registered by a registrar other than the Corporation itself or its employee.
Section 2. Transfer. The Board of Directors shall have the power and authority to make such rules and regulations as they may deem expedient concerning the issuance, registration and transfer of certificates representing shares of the Corporation’s stock, and may appoint, transfer agents and registrars thereof.
Section 3. Loss of Stock Certificates. The Board of Directors may direct a new certificate or certificates of stock to be issued in place of any certificate or certificates thereof issued by the Corporation alleged to have been lost or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of a new certificate or certificates, the Board of Directors may, in its discretion, and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his/her representative, to advertise the same in such manner as it shall require and/or give the Corporation a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the Corporation with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost or destroyed.
ARTICLE VII
DIVIDENDS
Section 1. Declaration and Form. Dividends may be declared in conformity with law by, and at the discretion of, the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting. Dividends may be declared and paid in cash, stock, or other property of the Corporation.
ARTICLE VIII
CORPORATE SEAL
Section 1. Corporate Seal. The seal of the Corporation, if any, shall be circular in form, with the name of the Corporation in the circumference and such other appropriate legend as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine.
ARTICLE IX
FISCAL YEAR
Section 1. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be such period of twelve consecutive months as the Board of Directors may by resolution designate.

5


 

ARTICLE X
AMENDMENTS
Section 1. By the Shareholders. These Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any meeting of the shareholders of the Corporation by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the stock present and voting at such meeting provided notice that an amendment is to be considered and acted upon is inserted in the notice or waiver of notice of said meeting.
Section 2. By the Directors. If the Articles of Incorporation so provide, these Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors by the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire Board, subject, however, to the power of the shareholders to alter, amend or repeal any Bylaws as adopted.

6

EX-3.44 43 y04313a1exv3w44.htm EX-3.44 exv3w44
Exhibit 3.44
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
AEGEAN SEA MARITIME HOLDINGS INC.
PURSUANT TO THE MARSHALL ISLANDS BUSINESS CORPORATIONS ACT
     The undersigned, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the provisions of the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act, does hereby make, subscribe, acknowledge and file with the Registrar of Corporations this instrument for that purpose, as follows:
A.   The name of the Corporation shall be:
AEGEAN SEA MARITIME HOLDINGS INC.
B.   The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may now or hereafter be organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act and without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, the corporation shall have the power:
  (1)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, pledge, hypothecate, mortgage, lease, charter, sub-charter, sell, build, and repair steamships, motorships, tankers, sailing vessels, tugs, lighters, barges, and all other vessels and craft of any and all motive power whatsoever, including landcraft, and any and all means of conveyance and transportation by land or water, together with engines, boilers, machinery equipment and appurtenances of all kinds, including masts, sails, boats, anchors, cables, tackle, furniture and all other necessities thereunto appertaining and belonging, together with all materials, articles, tools, equipment and appliances necessary, suitable or convenient for the construction, equipment, use and operation thereof; and to equip, furnish, and outfit such vessels and ships.

 


 

  (2)   To engage in ocean, coastwise and inland commerce, and generally in the carriage of freight, goods, cargo in bulk, passengers, mail and personal effects by water between the various ports of the world and to engage generally in waterborne commerce.
 
  (3)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, own, use, operate, lease, build, repair, sell or in any manner dispose of docks, piers, quays, wharves, dry docks, warehouses and storage facilities of all kinds, and any property, real, personal and mixed, in connection therewith.
 
  (4)   To act as ship’s husband, ship brokers, custom house brokers, ship’s agents, manager of shipping property, freight contractors, forwarding agents, warehousemen, wharfingers, ship chandlers, and general traders.
 
  (5)   To enter into, make and perform contracts of every kind and description with any person, firm, association, corporation, municipality, county, state, body politic, or government or colony or any dependency thereof.
 
  (6)   To appoint or act as an agent, broker, or representative, general or special, in respect of any or all of the powers expressed herein or implied hereby; to appoint agents, brokers or representatives.
 
  (7)   To carry on its business, to have one or more offices, and to exercise its powers in foreign countries, subject to the laws of the particular country.
 
  (8)   To borrow or raise money and contract debts, when necessary, for the transaction of its business or for the exercise of its corporate rights, privileges or franchise or for any other lawful purpose of its incorporation; to draw, make, accept, endorse, execute and issue promissory notes, bills of exchange, bonds, debentures, and other instruments and evidences of indebtedness either secured by mortgage, pledge, deed of trust, or otherwise, or unsecured.
 
  (9)   To give a guarantee not in furtherance of corporate purposes when authorized by majority vote of shareholders entitled to vote thereon and, when authorized by like vote, such guarantee may be secured

 


 

      by mortgage or pledge or creation of security interest in corporate property.
 
  (10)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, hold, own, mortgage, sell, convey, or otherwise dispose of real and personal property of every class and description.
 
  (11)   To apply for, secure by purchase or otherwise hold, use, sell, assign, lease, grant licenses in respect of, mortgage or otherwise dispose of letters patent, patent rights, licenses, privileges, inventions, improvements and processes, copyrights, trademarks, and trade names, relative to or useful in connection with any business of this corporation.
 
  (12)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, underwrite, hold, pledge, turn to account in any manner, sell, distribute, or otherwise dispose of and generally to deal in, bonds, debentures, notes, evidences of indebtedness, shares of stock, warrants, rights, certificates, receipts or any other instruments or interests in the nature of securities created or issued by any person, partnership, firm, corporation, company, association, or other business organizations, foreign or domestic, or by any domestic or foreign governmental, municipal or other public authority, and exercise as holder or owner of any such securities all rights, powers and privileges in respect thereof; to do any and all acts and things for the preservation, protection, improvement and enhancement in value of any such securities and to aid by loan, subsidy, guaranty or otherwise those issuing, creating or responsible for any such securities; to acquire or become interested in any such securities by original subscription, underwriting, loan, participation in syndicates or otherwise, and irrespective of whether such securities be fully paid or subject to future payments; to make payments thereon as called for or in advance of calls or otherwise and to underwrite or subscribe for the same conditionally or otherwise and either with a view to resale or investment or for any other lawful purpose; and in connection therewith or otherwise to acquire and hold membership in or otherwise secure trading privileges on any board of trade, exchange or other similar institution where any securities are dealt in and to comply with the rules

 


 

      of any such institution; as used herein the term “securities” shall include bonds, debentures, notes, evidences of indebtedness, shares of stock, warrants, options, rights, certificates, receipts or any other instruments or interests in the nature of securities of any kind whatsoever which a corporation organized under the Business Corporations Act of the Republic of the Marshall Islands is legally permitted to acquire or deal in, by whomsoever issued or created; the term “person” shall include any person, partnership, firm, corporation, company, association or other business organization, domestic or foreign governmental, municipal or other public authority.
 
  (13)   To purchase or otherwise acquire, hold, pledge, turn to account in any manner, import, export, sell, distribute or otherwise dispose of, and generally to deal in, commodities and products (including any future interest therein) and merchandise, articles of commerce, materials, personal property and real property of every kind, character and description whatsoever, and any interest therein, either as principal or as a factor or broker, or as commercial, sales, business or financial agent or representative, general or special, or, to the extent permitted by the laws of the Marshall Islands, in any other capacity whatsoever for the account of any domestic or foreign person or public authority, and in connection therewith or otherwise to acquire trading privileges on any board of trade, exchange or other similar institution where any such products or commodities or personal or real property are dealt in, and to comply with the rules of any such institution.
 
  (14)   To engage in any mercantile, manufacturing or trading business of any kind or character whatsoever and to do all things incidental to such business.
 
  (15)   To carry on the business of warehousing and all business incidental thereto, including the issuing of warehouse receipts, negotiable or otherwise, and the making of advances or loans upon the security of goods warehoused.
 
  (16)   To purchase, lease or otherwise acquire, hold, own, mortgage, pledge, hypothecate, build, erect,

 


 

      construct, maintain and operate, develop, improve and sell, lease or otherwise dispose of lands, and improvements, warehouses, factories, buildings, structures, piers, wharves, mills, dams, stores and dwellings and all other property and things of whatsoever kind and nature, real, personal or mixed, tangible or intangible, suitable or necessary in connection with any of the purposes hereinabove or hereinafter set forth, or otherwise deal with or in any such properties.
 
  (17)   To cause to be formed, merged, reorganized or liquidated, and to promote, take charge of, in any way permitted by law, the formation, merger, reorganization or liquidation of any person.
 
  (18)   To acquire all or any part of the good will, rights, property and business of any person, heretofore or hereafter engaged in any business similar to any business which the Corporation has power to conduct, to pay for the same in cash or in the securities of the Corporation or otherwise, to hold, utilize and in any manner dispose of the whole or any part of the rights and property so acquired, and to assume in connection therewith any liabilities of any such person, and conduct in any lawful manner the whole or any part of the business thus acquired.
 
  (19)   To make, enter into and carry out any arrangements with any person or public authority, to obtain therefrom or otherwise to acquire by purchase, lease, assignment or otherwise any powers, rights, privileges, immunities, franchises, guarantees, grants and concessions, to acquire, hold, own, exercise, exploit, dispose of and realize upon the same, and to undertake and prosecute any business dependent thereon provided it is such a business as this Corporation may engage in; and to promote, cause to be formed and aid in any way any person for any such purpose.
 
  (20)   To make and issue trust receipts, deposit receipts, certificates of deposit, interim receipts, or any other receipts for, or certificates of deposit for, any securities or interest therein; to acquire and

 


 

      exercise any proxies or powers of attorney or other privileges pertaining to any securities or interest therein.
 
  (21)   To render advisory, investigatory, supervisory, managerial or other like services, permitted to corporations, in connection with the promotion, organization, reorganization, recapitalization, liquidation, consolidation or merger of any person or in connection with the issuance, underwriting, sale or distribution of any securities issued in connection therewith or incidental thereto; and to render general investment advisory or financial advisory or managerial services to any person or public authority.
 
  (22)   To cause or allow the legal title, or any legal or equitable estate, right or interest in any property, whether real, personal or mixed, owned, acquired, controlled or operated by the Corporation, to remain or to be vested or registered in the name of or operated by, any person, formed or to be formed, either upon trust for or as agents or nominees of, this Corporation, or upon any other proper terms or conditions which the Board of Directors may consider for the benefit of the Corporation.
 
  (23)   To enter into any lawful arrangements for sharing profits, union of interest, reciprocal concession or cooperation with any person or public authority, in the carrying on of any similar business which the Corporation is authorized to carry on, or any business or transaction deemed necessary, convenient or incidental to carrying out any of the purposes of the Corporation.
 
  (24)   To the extent suitable or necessary to carry out any of the purposes hereinbefore or hereinafter set forth, but only in so far as the same may be permitted to be done by a corporation organized under the Business Corporations Act of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, to buy, sell and deal in foreign exchange.

 


 

  (25)   To invest its uninvested funds and/or surplus from time to time to such extent as the Corporation may deem advisable in securities or in call and/or in time loans or otherwise, upon such security, if any, as the Board of Directors may determine, but the Corporation shall not engage in the banking business or exercise banking powers, and nothing in these Articles contained shall be deemed to authorize it to do so.
 
  (26)   To issue, purchase, hold, sell, transfer, reissue or cancel the shares of its own capital stock or any securities of the Corporation in the manner and to the extent now or hereafter permitted by the Business Corporations Act of the Republic of the Marshall Islands; and provided further that shares of its own capital stock owned by the Corporation shall not be voted upon directly or indirectly, nor counted as outstanding for the purpose of any stockholders’ quorum or vote.
 
  (27)   To act in any and all parts of the world in any capacity whatsoever as agent, broker, or representative, general or special, for any person or public authority.
 
  (28)   To do any and all of the acts and things herein set forth, as principal, factor, agent, contractor, or otherwise, either alone or in company with others; and in general to carry on any other similar business which is incidental or conducive or convenient or proper to the attainment of the foregoing purposes or any of them and which is not forbidden by law; and to exercise any and all powers which now or hereafter may be lawful for the Corporation to exercise under the laws of the Marshall Islands; to establish and maintain offices and agencies wherever situated; and to exercise any or all of its corporate powers and rights.

 


 

C.   The registered address of the Corporation in the Marshall Islands is Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH96960. The name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is The Trust Company of the Marshall Islands, Inc.
 
D.   The aggregate number of shares of stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is Five Hundred (500) registered and/or bearer shares with a par value of One US Dollar (US$1.00) per share.
    The Corporation shall mail notices and information to holders of bearer shares to the address provided to the Corporation by the shareholder for that purpose.
 
    The holder of a stock certificate issued to bearer may cause such certificate to be exchanged for another certificate in his name for a like number of shares, and the holder of shares issued in the name of the owner may cause his certificate to be exchanged for another certificate to bearer for a like number of shares.
 
E.   The Corporation shall have every power which a corporation now or hereafter organized under the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act may have.
 
F.   The name address of the incorporator is:
     
Name   Post Office Address
Majuro Nominee Ltd.
  P.O. Box 1405
Majuro
Marshall Islands
G.   The board of directors as well as the shareholders of the Corporation shall have the authority to adopt, amend or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation.

 


 

H.   Corporate existence shall begin upon filing these Articles of Incorporation with the Registrar of Corporations as of the filing date stated on these Articles.
          IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have executed this instrument on March 18, 2010.
         
  Majuro Nominees Ltd.
     Incorporator
 
 
  by:   [ILLEGIBLE]    
       
 

 


 

          On March 18, 2010 before me personally came S. Gioula known to me to be the individual described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and she duly acknowledged to me that the execution thereof was her act and deed.
         
    [ILLEGIBLE]  
     
     
     
 

 

EX-3.45 44 y04313a1exv3w45.htm EX-3.45 exv3w45
Exhibit 3.45
BYLAWS
AEGEAN SEA MARITIME HOLDINGS INC.
A Marshall Islands Corporation
ARTICLE I
OFFICES
The principal place of business of the Corporation shall be at such place or places as the Directors shall from time to time determine. The Corporation may also have an office at such other places within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may from time to time appoint or the business of the Corporation may require.
ARTICLE II
MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Section 1. Annual Meetings. The annual meeting of shareholders of the Corporation shall be held on such day and at such time and place within or without the Marshall Islands as the Board of Directors may determine for the purpose of electing Directors and of transacting such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.
Section 2. Special Meeting. Special meetings of the shareholders, unless otherwise prescribed by law, may be called for any purpose or purposes at any time by resolution of the Board of Directors or by the President and shall be called by the President or Secretary of the Corporation whenever required in writing to do so by shareholders owning a majority in amount of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote which is issued and outstanding. Such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed special meeting. Such meetings shall be held at such place and on a date and at such time as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer of the Corporation calling any such meeting. Business transacted at any special meeting of shareholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice.
Section 3. Notice of Meetings. Notice of every annual and special meeting of shareholders, other than any meeting the giving of notice of which is prescribed by law, stating the date, time, place and purpose thereof, and in the case of special meetings, the name of the person or persons at whose direction the notice is being issued, shall be given personally or sent by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter at least fifteen but not more than sixty days before such meeting, to each shareholder of record entitled to vote thereat and to each shareholder of record who, by reason of any action proposed at such meeting would be entitled to have his/her shares appraised if such action were taken, and the notice shall include a statement of that purpose and to that effect. If mailed, notice shall be deemed to have been given when deposited in the mail, directed to the shareholder at his/her address as the same appears on the record of shareholders of the Corporation or at such address as to which the shareholder has given notice to the Secretary. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any shareholder who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting or who attends the meeting without protesting prior to the conclusion thereof the lack of notice to him. If the Corporation shall issue any class of bearer shares, notice for all meetings shall be given in the manner provided in the Articles of Incorporation.
Section 4. Quorum. At all meetings of the shareholders, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, there must be present, either in person or by proxy, shareholders holding at least a majority of the shares issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at such meetings in order to constitute a quorum, but if less than a quorum is present, a majority of those shares present either in person or by proxy shall have power to adjourn any meeting until a quorum shall be present.

1


 

Section 5. Voting. If a quorum is present, and except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of stock represented at the meeting shall be the act of the shareholders. At any meeting of shareholders, each shareholder entitled to vote any shares on any manner to be voted upon at such meeting shall be entitled to one vote on such matter for each such share, and may exercise such voting right either in person or by proxy. Any action which may be taken at a meeting of shareholders, may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken or to be taken, is signed by all of the shareholders entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof.
Section 6. Fixing of Record Dates. The Board of Directors may fix a time not more than sixty nor less than fifteen days prior to the date of any meeting of the shareholders, or more than sixty (60) days prior to the last day on which the consent or dissent of shareholders may be expressed for any purpose without a meeting, as the time as of which shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or whose consent or dissent is required or may be expressed for any purpose, as the case may be, shall be determined, and all persons who were holders of record of voting shares at such time and not others shall be entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or to express their consent or dissent, as the case may be. The Board of Directors may fix a time not exceeding sixty days preceding the date fixed for the payment of any dividend, distribution, or allotment or for the purpose of such other action.
ARTICLE III
DIRECTORS
Section 1. Number. The affairs, business and property of the Corporation shall be managed by a Board of Directors to consist of at least one director. Within the limits fixed by these Bylaws, the number of directors may be determined either by a vote of a majority of the entire Board or by vote of shareholders. The directors need not be residents of the Marshall Islands nor shareholders of the Corporation.
Section 2. How Elected. Except as otherwise provided by law or Section 4 of this Article, the directors of the Corporation (other than the first Board of Directors designated by the Incorporator) shall be elected at the annual meeting of shareholders. Each director shall be elected to serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until his/her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified, except in the event of his/her death, resignation, removal or the earlier termination of his/her term of office.
Section 3. Removal. Any or all of the directors may be removed, with or without cause, by a vote of the shareholders. Any director may be removed for cause by action of the Board of Directors.
Section 4. Vacancies. Vacancies in the Board of Directors occurring by death, resignation, the creation of new directorships, the failure of the shareholders to elect the whole Board at any annual election of directors, or, except as herein provided, for any other reason, including removal of directors for cause, may be filled either by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors then in office, although less than a quorum, at any special meeting called for that purpose or at any regular meeting of the Board, except as otherwise prescribed by law or unless the Articles of Incorporation provide that such vacancies or newly created directorships shall be filled by vote of the shareholders. Vacancies occurring by removal of directors without cause may be filled only by vote of the shareholders.
Section 5. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held at such time and place as may be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors and no notice shall be required for any regular meeting. Except as otherwise provided by law, any business may be transacted at any regular meeting.

2


 

Section 6. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board may, unless otherwise prescribed by law, be called by the President or any other officer of the Corporation who is also a director. The President or the Secretary shall call a special meeting of the Board upon written request directed to either of them by any two directors stating the time, place and purpose of such special meeting. Special meetings of the Board shall be held on a date and at such time and at such place as may be designated in the notice thereof by the officer calling the meeting.
Section 7. Notice of Special Meeting. Notice of the date, time and place of each special meeting of the Board of Directors shall be given to each director at least forty-eight hours prior to such meeting, unless the notice is given orally or delivered in person, in which case it shall be given at least twenty-four hours prior to such meeting. For the purpose of this section, notice shall be deemed to be duly given to a director if given personally (including by telephone) or if such notice be delivered to such director by mail, E-mail, telefax, cablegram, telex or teleprinter to his/her last known address. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any director who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting, or who attends the meeting without protesting, prior to the conclusion thereof, the lack of notice to him/her.
Section 8. Quorum. A majority of the entire board, present in person or by proxy or by communicating equipment, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
Section 9. Voting. The vote of the majority of the directors, present in person or by proxy, in communication by telefax or conference telephone, at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the directors. Any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if all the members of the Board consent in writing thereto.
Section 10. Compensation of Directors and Members of Committees. The Board may from time to time, in its discretion, fix the amounts which shall be payable to members of the Board of Directors and to members of any committee, for attendance at the meetings of the Board or of such committee and for services rendered to the Corporation.
ARTICLE IV
COMMITTEES
Section 1. Executive Committee and Other Committees. The Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members an Executive Committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation, which, to the extent provided in said resolution or resolutions, or in these Bylaws, shall have and may exercise, to the extent permitted by law, the powers of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may have power to authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it. In addition, the Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members other committees to consist of one or more directors of the Corporation, each of which shall perform such function and have such authority and powers as shall be delegated to it by said resolution or resolutions or as provided for in these Bylaws, except that only the Executive Committee may have and exercise the powers of the Board of Directors. Members of the Executive Committee and any other committee shall hold office for such periods as may be prescribed by the vote of the majority of the entire Board of Directors, subject, however, to removal at any time by the vote of the Board of Directors. Vacancies in the membership of such committees shall be filled by vote of the Board of Directors. Committees may adopt their own rules of procedure and may meet at stated times or on such notice as they may determine. Each committee shall keep a record of its proceedings and report the same to the Board when requested.

3


 

ARTICLE V
OFFICERS
Section 1. Number and Designation. The Board of Directors shall appoint a Secretary and a Treasurer, and may appoint a President as well as such other officers as it may deem necessary. Officers may be of any nationality, need not be residents of the Marshall Islands and may be, but are not required to be, directors. Officers of the Corporation shall be natural persons except the Secretary may be a corporate entity. Any two or more offices may be held by the same natural person.
The officers shall be appointed annually by the Board of Directors at its first meeting following the annual election of directors, but in the event of the failure of the Board to so appoint any officer, such officer may be appointed at any subsequent meeting of the Board of Directors. The salaries of the officers and any other compensation paid to them shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may at any meeting appoint additional officers. Each officer shall hold office until the first meeting of the Board of Directors following the next annual election of directors and until his/her successor shall have been duly appointed and qualified, except in the event of the earlier termination of his/her term of office through death, resignation, removal or otherwise. Any officer may be removed by the Board at any time with or without cause. Any vacancy in an office may be filled for the unexpired portion of the term of such office by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting.
Section 2. President. The President shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation and shall have the general management of the affairs of the Corporation, together with the powers and duties usually incident to the office of President, except as specifically limited by appropriate written resolution of the Board of Directors and shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors. The President shall preside at all meetings of shareholders at which he/she is present and if, in the case of the President, he/she is a director, at all meetings of the directors.
Section 3. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have general supervision over the care and custody of the funds, securities and other valuable effects of the Corporation and shall deposit the same or cause the same to be deposited in the name of the Corporation in such depositories as the Board of Directors may designate, shall disburse the funds of the Corporation as may be ordered by the Board of Directors, shall have supervision over the accounts of all receipts and disbursements of the Corporation, shall, whenever required by the Board, render or cause to be rendered financial statements of the Corporation, shall have the power and perform the duties usually incident to the office of Treasurer; and shall have the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors, or President.
Section 4. Secretary. The Secretary shall act as Secretary of all meetings of the shareholders and of the Board of Directors at which he/she is present, shall have supervision over the giving and serving of notices of the Corporation; shall be the custodian of the corporate records and of the corporate seal of the Corporation; shall be empowered to affix the corporate seal to those documents, the execution of which, on behalf of the Corporation under its seal, is duly authorized and when so affixed may attest the same, and shall exercise the powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him/her by the Board of Directors or the President. If the Secretary is a Corporation, the duties of the Secretary may be carried out by any duly authorized representative of such corporation acting in its name.
Section 5. Other Officers: Officers other than those treated in section 2 through 4 of this Article shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the Board of Directors or by the President.
Section 6. Bond. The Board of Directors shall have the power to the extent permitted by

4


 

law, to require any officer, agent or employee of the Corporation to give bond for the faithful discharge of his/her duties in such form and with such surety or sureties as the Board of Directors may deem advisable.
ARTICLE VI
CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES
Section 1. Form and Issuance. The shares of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates in a form meeting the requirements of law and approved by the Board of Directors. Certificates shall be signed by the President or a Vice President, and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer. These signatures may be facsimiles if the certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent or registered by a registrar other than the Corporation itself or its employee.
Section 2. Transfer. The Board of Directors shall have the power and authority to make such rules and regulations as they may deem expedient concerning the issuance, registration and transfer of certificates representing shares of the Corporation’s stock, and may appoint, transfer agents and registrars thereof.
Section 3. Loss of Stock Certificates. The Board of Directors may direct a new certificate or certificates of stock to be issued in place of any certificate or certificates thereof issued by the Corporation alleged to have been lost or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of a new certificate or certificates, the Board of Directors may, in its discretion, and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his/her representative, to advertise the same in such manner as it shall require and/or give the Corporation a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the Corporation with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost or destroyed.
ARTICLE VII
DIVIDENDS
Section 1. Declaration and Form. Dividends may be declared in conformity with law by, and at the discretion of, the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting. Dividends may be declared and paid in cash, stock, or other property of the Corporation.
ARTICLE VIII
CORPORATE SEAL
Section 1. Corporate Seal. The seal of the Corporation, if any, shall be circular in form, with the name of the Corporation in the circumference and such other appropriate legend as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine.
ARTICLE IX
FISCAL YEAR
Section 1. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be such period of twelve consecutive months as the Board of Directors may by resolution designate.

5


 

ARTICLE X
AMENDMENTS
Section 1. By the Shareholders. These Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any meeting of the shareholders of the Corporation by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the stock present and voting at such meeting provided notice that an amendment is to be considered and acted upon is inserted in the notice or waiver of notice of said meeting.
Section 2. By the Directors. If the Articles of Incorporation so provide, these Bylaws may be amended, added to, altered or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted, at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors by the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire Board, subject, however, to the power of the shareholders to alter, amend or repeal any Bylaws as adopted.

6

EX-5.1 45 y04313a1exv5w1.htm EX-5.1 exv5w1
Exhibit 5.1
December 30, 2010
Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation
85 Akti Miaouli Street
Piraeus, Greece 185 38
Ladies and Gentlemen:
     We are acting as special United States and New York counsel to Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation, a Marshall Islands corporation (the “Company”), Navios Acquisition Finance (US) Inc., a Delaware corporation (“NAFI” and, together with the Company, the “Co-Issuers”) and certain of the Company’s subsidiaries listed on Exhibit A hereto (each, a “Guarantor”) in connection with a Registration Statement on Form F-4 (the “Registration Statement”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), relating to the proposed offer to exchange up to $400,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of new 8 5/8% First Priority Ship Mortgage Notes due 2017 of the Co-Issuers (the “Exchange Notes”), which are being registered under the Securities Act, for a like principal amount of the Co-Issuers’ issued and outstanding 8 5/8% First Priority Ship Mortgage Notes due 2017 (the “Outstanding Notes”). The Outstanding Notes and the Exchange Notes are collectively referred to herein as the “Notes.” Pursuant to the Indentures (as defined below), the Outstanding Notes are, and the Exchange Notes will be, unconditionally guaranteed, jointly and severally, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Indentures (the “Outstanding Note Guarantees” and the “Exchange Note Guarantees,” respectively).
     All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in, or by reference in, the Indentures have the meanings assigned to such terms therein or by reference therein, unless otherwise defined herein. With your permission, all assumptions and statements of reliance herein have been made without any independent investigation or verification on our part except to the extent otherwise expressly stated, and we express no opinion with respect to the subject matter or accuracy of such assumptions or items relied upon.
     In connection with this opinion, we have (i) investigated such questions of law, (ii) examined originals or certified, facsimile, conformed, electronic, photostatic or reproduction copies of such agreements, instruments, documents and records of the Co-Issuers and the Guarantors, such certificates of public officials and such other documents and (iii) received such information from officers and representatives of the Co-Issuers and the

 


 

Guarantors and others, in each case, as we have deemed necessary or appropriate for the purposes of this opinion. We have examined, among other documents, the following:
  (a)   The Indenture dated October 21, 2010 together with the First Supplemental Indenture dated November 9, 2010, between the Co-Issuers, the Guarantors listed therein and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee with respect to the 8 5/8% First Priority Ship Mortgage Notes due 2017 (the “Indentures”);
 
  (b)   the Notes; and
 
  (c)   the Notations of Guarantee (as defined in the Indentures).
The documents referred to in items (a) through (c) above are collectively referred to as the “Documents.” For purposes of this opinion, the Uniform Commercial Code, as in effect in the State of New York on the date hereof, is referred to herein as the “NYUCC.” Terms used herein that are defined in Articles 8 and 9 of the NYUCC and not otherwise defined herein have the meaning assigned to such terms therein.
     In all such examinations, we have assumed the legal capacity of all natural persons, the genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of original and certified documents and the conformity to original or certified documents of all copies submitted to us as conformed, facsimile, electronic or reproduction copies. As to various questions of fact relevant to the opinions expressed herein, we have relied upon, and assume the accuracy of, representations and warranties contained in the Documents and certificates and oral or written statements and other information of or from public officials, officers or other appropriate representatives of the Co-Issuers, the Guarantors and others and assume compliance on the part of all parties to the Documents with their covenants and agreements contained therein.
     To the extent it may be relevant to the opinions expressed herein, we have assumed (i) that the Registration Statement has become effective under the Securities Act and the Indentures have been qualified under the TIA, (ii) that the Exchange Notes have been duly authorized and executed by the Co-Issuers and Guarantors (other than NAFI), (iii) that the Exchange Notes have been duly authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, (iv) that all of the parties to the Documents (other than NAFI) are validly existing and in good standing under the laws of their respective jurisdictions of organization and have the full power, authority and legal right to (a) execute and deliver the Documents and any agreements or instruments relevant thereto, (b) perform their obligations thereunder and (c) consummate the transactions contemplated thereby, (v) each of the Documents, agreements or instruments has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by all of the parties thereto (other than NAFI) under the laws of their respective jurisdictions of incorporation or organization, (vi) the execution thereof does not violate the charter, the by-laws or any other organizational document of any such parties or the laws of their respective jurisdictions of incorporation or organization (other than NAFI), (vii) no other proceedings or actions under the laws of the respective jurisdictions of incorporation or organization of any such parties are necessary for any such

- 2 -


 

parties to perform their obligations under each of the Documents, agreements or instruments (other than NAFI), (viii) under the laws of the respective jurisdictions of incorporation or organization of any party thereto, each of the Documents, agreements and instruments constitutes a valid and legally binding obligation of all the parties thereto (other than as expressly addressed in the opinions below as to the Co-Issuers and the Guarantors) enforceable against such parties in accordance with their respective terms, and (ix) that all of the parties to the Documents, agreements or instruments will comply with all laws applicable thereto.
     Based upon the foregoing, and subject to the limitations, qualifications and assumptions set forth herein, we are of the opinion that:
  1.   The Exchange Notes, when executed, issued and delivered in accordance with the terms of the Indentures in exchange for the Outstanding Notes, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Co-Issuers, enforceable against the Co-Issuers in accordance with their terms.
 
  2.   The Exchange Note Guarantees by the Guarantors, when the Exchange Notes have been duly executed, issued and delivered in accordance with the terms of the Indentures in exchange for the Outstanding Notes, will constitute a valid and binding obligation of each of the Guarantors, enforceable against each of the Guarantors in accordance with their terms.
     The opinions set forth above are subject to the following qualifications:
     (A) We express no opinion as to the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability of any provision of the Documents:
          (i) relating to indemnification, contribution or exculpation;
          (ii) (a) containing any purported waiver, release, variation, disclaimer, consent or other agreement of similar effect (all of the foregoing, collectively, a “Waiver”) by the Co-Issuers or the Guarantors under any of such Documents, agreements or instruments to the extent limited by provisions of applicable law (including judicial decisions), or to the extent that such a Waiver applies to a right, claim, duty, defense or ground for discharge otherwise existing or occurring as a matter of law (including judicial decisions), except to the extent that such a Waiver is effective under, and is not prohibited by or void or invalid under provisions of applicable law (including judicial decisions); or (b) with respect to any Waiver in the Exchange Note Guarantees insofar as it relates to causes or circumstances that would operate as a discharge or release of, or defense available to, the Guarantors thereunder as a matter of law (including judicial decisions), except to the extent such Waiver is effective under and is not prohibited by or void or invalid under applicable law (including judicial decisions);

- 3 -


 

          (iii) related to (a) forum selection or submission to jurisdiction (including, without limitation, any waiver of any objection to venue in any court or of any objection that a court is an inconvenient forum) to the extent that the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability of any such provision is to be determined by any court other than a court of the State of New York, or (b) choice of governing law to the extent that the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability of any such provision (x) is to be determined by any court other than a court of the State of New York or a federal district court sitting in the State of New York, in each case, applying the law and choice of law principles of the State of New York, or (y) is contrary to the governing law provided in Sections 1-105(b), 5-116, 8-110 or 9-301-9-306 of the NYUCC, (c) service of process except in accordance with applicable law, or (d) waivers of any rights to trial by jury;
          (iv) specifying that provisions thereof may be waived only in writing, to the extent that an oral agreement or an implied agreement by trade practice or course of conduct has been created that modifies any provision of such agreement;
          (v) purporting to give any person or entity the power to accelerate obligations, foreclose on collateral or require additional collateral at will or without any notice to the Co-Issuers; and
          (vi) which may be construed to be in the nature of a penalty.
          (vii) that purports to limit the ability of the Issuers or the Guarantors or any other person to transfer any of its right, title or interest in or to any collateral, to the extent contemplated by Section 9-401 of the NYUCC or other applicable law regarding restraints on alienation; and
          (viii) with respect to the effect of any law of any jurisdiction other than the State of New York wherein any party to the Documents may be located.
     (B) We express no opinion as to (i) the right, title or interest of the Co-Issuers or the Guarantors (or the power of the Co-Issuers or any Guarantor to transfer rights) in or to any collateral under the Documents, (ii) whether any property constitutes a particular type of collateral under the NYUCC or (iii) the validity or effectiveness for any purpose of any such collateral or any other property.
     (C) We express no opinion (i) as to the creation, attachment, validity, binding effect, enforceability or perfection of any security interest, mortgage, pledge, lien or other encumbrance that may be created under any of the Documents, or (ii) the priority or other effect of perfection or non-perfection of any security interest created under any of the Documents.

- 4 -


 

     (D) We express no opinion as to any agreement, instrument or other document referred to, or incorporated by reference, in any of the Documents, other than the Documents listed in this opinion letter.
     (E) Our opinions above are subject to the following:
          (i) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws (or related judicial doctrines) now or hereafter in effect affecting creditors’ rights and remedies generally;
          (ii) general principles of equity (including, without limitation, standards of materiality, good faith, fair dealing and reasonableness, equitable defenses and limits as to the availability of equitable remedies), whether such principles are considered in a proceeding in equity or at law;
          (iii) the application of any applicable fraudulent conveyance, fraudulent transfer, fraudulent obligation, or preferential transfer law or any law governing the distribution of assets of any person now or hereafter in effect affecting creditors’ rights and remedies generally; and
          (iv) the qualification that certain provisions of the Documents may be unenforceable in whole or in part, but the inclusion of such provisions does not affect the validity of the Documents as a whole, and the Documents and the laws of the State of New York contain adequate provisions for enforcing payment of the obligations governed or secured thereby, subject to the other qualifications in this letter.
     (F) Provisions in the Notations of Guarantee and the Indentures that provide that the Guarantors’ liability thereunder shall not be affected by (i) amendments to, or waivers of, provisions of documents governing the guaranteed obligations, (ii) other actions, events or circumstances that make more burdensome or otherwise change the obligations and liabilities of the Guarantors, or (iii) actions or failures to act on the part of the holders or Trustee, might not be enforceable if such amendments, waivers, actions, events, circumstances or failures to act change the essential nature of the terms and conditions of the obligation and guarantee of the Guarantors under the Indentures.
     (G) We have assumed consideration that is fair and sufficient to support the agreements of each Guarantor under the Notations of Guarantee and Article Ten of the Indentures has been, and would be deemed by a court of competent jurisdiction to have been, duly received by each Guarantor.
     (H) We express no opinion as to the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability of Section 13.16(a) of the Indentures providing for the Co-Issuers and the Guarantors’ indemnity against loss in connection with obtaining a court judgment in another currency.

- 5 -


 

     (I) We express no opinion as to the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability of any document that is or may be deemed to be or purports to create a power of attorney.
     The opinions expressed herein are limited solely to the federal laws of the United States of America, the laws of the State of New York, and, to the extent relevant to the opinions expressed herein, the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, each as currently in effect, together with applicable provisions of the Constitution of Delaware and relevant decisional law, and no opinion is expressed with respect to any other laws or any effect that such other laws may have on the opinions expressed herein. Insofar as the opinions expressed herein involve the laws of the Republic of Marshall Islands, Hong Kong, the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands we have relied with your permission on the opinions of Reeder & Simpson P.C., Holman Fenwick Willan LLP, Nelson & Company and Maples and Calder, addressed to you of even date herewith and being filed as Exhibits 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5, respectively, to the Registration Statement. To the extent such opinion contains assumptions, conditions, or qualifications we are incorporating such assumptions, conditions, and qualifications herein.
     This opinion letter is limited to the matters stated herein and no opinion is implied or may be inferred beyond the matters expressly stated herein. The opinions expressed herein are given solely as of the date of effectiveness of the Registration Statement, and we undertake no obligation to supplement this letter if any applicable laws change after the date hereof or if we become aware of any facts that might change the opinions expressed herein or for any other reason.

- 6 -


 

     We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the reference to this firm under the caption “Legal Matters” in the prospectus that is included in the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not hereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act.
Very truly yours,
/s/ FRIED, FRANK, HARRIS, SHRIVER & JACOBSON LLP
FRIED, FRANK, HARRIS, SHRIVER & JACOBSON LLP

- 7 -


 

Exhibit A — Guarantors
Shinyo Dream Limited
Shinyo Kannika Limited
Shinyo Loyalty Limited
Shinyo Navigator Limited
Shinyo Ocean Limited
Shinyo Saowalak Limited
Thera Shipping Corporation
Tinos Shipping Corporation
Aegean Sea Maritime Holdings Inc.
Amorgos Shipping Corporation
Andros Shipping Corporation
Antiparos Shipping Corporation
Crete Shipping Corporation
Ikaria Shipping Corporation
Ios Shipping Corporation
Kos Shipping Corporation
Mytilene Shipping Corporation
Rhodes Shipping Corporation
Sifnos Shipping Corporation
Skiathos Shipping Corporation
Skopelos Shipping Corporation
Syros Shipping Corporation
Shinyo Kieran Limited
Folegandros Shipping Corporation
Serifos Shipping Corporation

- 8 -

EX-5.2 46 y04313a1exv5w2.htm EX-5.2 exv5w2
Exhibit 5.2
REEDER & SIMPSON P.C.
Attorneys-at-Law
             
RRE Commercial Center   Raymond E. Simpson Law Offices
Ace Building, Suite 205   53-55 Akti Miaouli, 6th floor
1 Lagoon Drive   185 36 Piraeus, Greece
Majuro, Marshall Islands MH 96960,   Telephone:   +30 210 429 3323
Telephone:
  +692 625 3602   Fax:   +30 210 429 3309
Fax:
  +692 625 3603   E-mail:   simpson@otenet.gr
E-mail:
  dreeder@ntamar.net   Mobile phone:   +30 6945 465 173
December 30, 2010
Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation
85 Akti Miaouli Street
Piraeus, Greece 185 38
               Re:   Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation
Dear Sirs:
     We are licensed to practice law in the Republic of the Marshall Islands and are members in good standing of the Bar of the Marshall Islands.
     We have acted as Marshall Islands counsel to Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation, a Marshall Islands corporation (the “Company”) and the Covered Guarantors (as defined below) in connection with the offer by the Company and Navios Acquisition Finance (US) Inc., a Delaware corporation (“NAFI” and together with the Company, the “Co-Issuers”), to exchange up to $400,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of its new 8 5/8% First Priority Ship Mortgage Notes due 2017 (the “Exchange Notes”), which are being registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), for a like principal amount of its 8 5/8% First Priority Ship Mortgage Notes due 2017 (the “Outstanding Notes”) in each case pursuant to the Registration Statement on Form F-4 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Registration Statement”). The Outstanding Notes and the Exchange Notes are collectively referred to herein as the “Notes.” As used herein, the “Covered Guarantors” means the Guarantors listed on Schedule I hereto.
     In connection herewith we have examined originals or copies of:
  1.   The Indenture dated October 21, 2010 together with the First Supplemental Indenture dated November 9, 2010, between the Co-Issuers, the Guarantors listed therein and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee with respect to the 8 5/8% First Priority Ship Mortgage Notes due 2017;
 
  2.   The Notes; and
 
  3.   The Notations of Guarantee (as defined in the Indenture).

 


 

     The documents referred to in Items 1, 2 and 3 are collectively referred to as the “Documents.”
     We have also examined and relied upon originals, or copies certified to our satisfaction, of all such records, documents, certificates of officers of the Company, the Covered Guarantors and of public officials and such other instruments, and made such other inquiries as, in our judgment, are necessary or appropriate to enable us to render the opinion expressed below.
     As to questions of fact material to this opinion, we have, with your approval, where relevant facts were not independently established, relied upon, among other things, the representations made in the Documents and certificates of officers of the Company and the Covered Guarantors.
     For the purpose of this opinion, we have further assumed:
  (a)   the power, authority and legal right of all parties to the Documents (other than the Company and the Covered Guarantors) to enter into and to perform their respective obligations thereunder and that the Documents have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by each such party;
 
  (b)   the genuineness of all signatures on all documents and the completeness, and the conformity to original documents, of all copies submitted to us;
 
  (c)   the due compliance of each of the Documents with all matters of, and the validity and enforceability thereof under, all such laws as govern or relate to it (other than the laws of the Republic of the Marshall Islands as to which we are opining);
 
  (d)   that each of the parties to the Documents (other than the Company and the Covered Guarantors) has duly and validly executed and delivered the Documents to which it is a party and has complied with all legal requirements pertaining to its status as such status relates to its rights to seek benefits of and enforce the Documents against the Company or the Covered Guarantors, as the case may be; and
 
  (e)   that any required consents, licenses, permits, approvals, exemptions, qualifications or authorizations of or by, and any required registrations or filings with, any governmental authority or regulatory body of any jurisdiction other than the Republic of the Marshall Islands in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Documents have been duly obtained or made.
     Based upon and subject to the foregoing and having regard to legal considerations we deem relevant, we are of the opinion that, insofar as the laws of the Republic of the Marshall Islands are concerned:
  (i)   Each of the Company and each Covered Guarantor has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the Republic of Marshall Islands.

- 2 -


 

  (ii)   Each of the Company and each Covered Guarantor has full power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Documents.
 
  (iii)   Each of the Company and each Covered Guarantor has duly authorized, executed and delivered the Documents.
 
  (iv)   No consent, approval, license or exemption by, order or authorization of, or filing, recording or registration with, any governmental authority is required to be obtained or made by the Company or any Covered Guarantor under the laws of the Republic of the Marshall Islands in connection with its execution and delivery of the Documents or the performance by it of its obligations thereunder other than those that have been obtained or made.
     We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement, and to the reference to this firm under the caption “Legal Matters” in the prospectus that is included in the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not hereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act.
         
  Yours faithfully,

REEDER & SIMPSON P.C.
 
 
  By:   /s/ Raymond E. Simpson    
       
       

- 3 -


 

         
Schedule I
     
Aegean Sea Maritime Holdings Inc.
  Marshall Islands
Amorgos Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands
Andros Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands
Antiparos Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands
Crete Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands
Folegandros Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands
Ikaria Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands
Kos Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands
Mytilene Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands
Rhodes Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands
Sifnos Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands
Serifos Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands
Skiathos Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands
Syros Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands
Thera Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands
Tinos Shipping Corporation
  Marshall Islands

- 4 -

EX-5.3 47 y04313a1exv5w3.htm EX-5.3 exv5w3
Exhibit 5.3
(HFW LETTERHEAD)
15th Floor
Tower One, Lippo Centre
89 Queensway
Admiralty
Hong Kong
T: +852 3983 7788
F:+852 2877 8110
DX-9031-IC
hfw.com
                         
Your Ref:   
      Direct Line:   +852 3983 7780   Date:      30 December 2010     
Our Ref:
  CMF/ESC/6790-17   Email:   Henry.Fung@hfw.com      
 
          Erica.Chan@hfw.com      
BY POST AND BY EMAIL (alaios@Navios.com)
Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation
85 Akti Miaouli Street
Piraeus, Greece 185 38
Dear Sirs
Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation
1.   We have acted as Hong Kong legal advisers to the Covered Guarantors (as defined below) in connection with the offer by Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation, a Marshall Islands corporation (the “Company”) and Navios Acquisition Finance (US) Inc., a Delaware corporation (“NAFI” and together with the Company, the “Co-Issuers”), to exchange up to $400,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of its new 8 5/8% First Priority Ship Mortgage Notes due 2017 (the “Exchange Notes”), which are being registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), for a like principal amount of its 8 5/8% First Priority Ship Mortgage Notes due 2017 (the “Outstanding Notes”) in each case pursuant to the Registration Statement on Form F-4 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Registration Statement”). The Outstanding Notes and the Exchange Notes are collectively referred to herein as the “Notes.” As used herein, the “Covered Guarantors” means the Guarantors listed on Schedule I hereto.
 
2.   For the purpose of this opinion, we have examined the following documents (collectively referred to as the “Transaction Documents”):-
  a.   The Indenture dated 21 October 2010 together with the First Supplemental Indenture dated 9 November 2010, between the Co-Issuers, the Guarantors listed therein and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee with respect to the 8 5/8% First Priority Ship Mortgage Notes due 2017;
Lawyers for international commerce
P. J. Hatzer H. W. Dunlop P. P. C. Yeung** H. C. M. Fung** R. J. Wilmot G. D. Lamplough P. T. Murphy A. P. Apostolis S. J. Wise
C. T. Chan G. Q. Gray* H. J. Livingstone* G. M. T. Eddings* G. J. V. Hardaker* N. D. Campbell* P. T. Aston*
Consultant: C. S. Quennell* P. Rees-Smith*
London   Paris   Rouen   Brussels   Geneva   Piraeus   Dubai   Hong Kong   Shanghai   Singapore   Melbourne   Sydney
Notary Public / *Not Ordinarily Resident/ **China-Appointed Attesting Officer

 


 

     
Page No. 2   (HFW LOGO)
  b.   The Notes; and
 
  c.   The Notations of Guarantee (as defined in the Indenture).
3.   For the purpose of this opinion, we have examined the Transaction Documents and have conducted the following searches:-
  a.   searches against the Covered Guarantors of public records on file at the Hong Kong Companies Registry on 30 December 2010;
 
  b.   writ searches against the Covered Guarantors at the District Court and High Court of Hong Kong on 30 December 2010; and
 
  c.   winding up searches against the Covered Guarantors at the Official Receiver’s Office in Hong Kong on 30 December 2010.
    Note, however, that the records disclosed by searches may not be complete or up to date. To the extent that we have engaged and relied on external service providers to obtain search results who in turn have relied on databases maintained by them or third parties by searching the court records, while we are given to understand that every effort is made by the service providers to ensure that all the data and information supplied to you is as accurate and up-to-date as possible, there is inevitably some delay in the updating of the database and verification of information. In particular, the searches in Hong Kong can at most only cover court records up to the close of business of the second day before the day of search. We do not accept responsibility or liability whatsoever that may be caused to anyone as a result of any error or omission in the information.
 
4.   We have also examined such other documents we consider necessary or advisable for the purpose of giving this opinion, including:
  a.   the Certificate of Incorporation of each of the Covered Guarantors;
 
  b.   the Memorandum and Articles of Association of each of the Covered Guarantors;
 
  c.   the latest Annual Return (Form AR1) of the Covered Guarantors filed and other statutory filings of the Covered Guarantors as at 30 December 2010 with the Hong Kong Companies Registry;
 
  d.   the Written Resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Covered Guarantors all dated 6 October 2010; and
 
  e.   the latest Business Registration Certificate of each of the Covered Guarantors.
5.   For the purpose of this opinion, we have assumed:-
  a.   the Transaction Documents have been or will be authorised and duly executed and delivered by or on behalf of all relevant parties (other than the Covered Guarantors as a matter of Hong Kong law) in accordance with all relevant laws (other than the laws of Hong Kong);
 
  b.   the Written Resolutions of a Meeting of the Board of Directors of each of the Covered Guarantors resolving to execute the Transaction Documents or the power of attorney of each of the Covered Guarantors for the execution of the Transaction Documents have been duly ratified and executed by the Covered Guarantors;
 
  c.   at the time of the ratification and execution of the Written Resolutions of a Meeting of the Board of Directors of each of the Covered Guarantors resolving to execute the Transaction Documents or of the power of attorney of each of the Covered Guarantors for the execution of the Transaction Documents, the directors or, as the case may be, the attorney-in-fact of each of

 


 

     
Page No. 3   (HFW LOGO)
      the Covered Guarantors are under no disability, legal or otherwise, preventing them from executing the Transaction Documents on behalf of each of the Covered Guarantors;
 
  d.   all corporate documents of each of the Covered Guarantors provided to us (or obtained by us) are not revoked / cancelled / superseded and remain in full force and effect;
 
  e.   in respect to each party to the Transaction Documents (other than the Covered Guarantors), such party is duly organised, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of organisation, it has complied with all legal requirements pertaining to its legal status, it has the power and authority to enter into, execute, deliver and perform the Transaction Documents, its execution, delivery and performance of the Transaction Documents has been duly authorised by all requisite action, and it has duly executed and delivered the Transaction Documents;
 
  f.   there is no other agreement or understanding among the parties, written or oral, or any waiver of a right or remedy, or any usage of trade or previous course of dealing between the parties, that would, in any such case, modify, define supplement or qualify any of the terms of the Transaction Documents and no terms will be implied into any Transaction Documents by the Hong Kong Courts on any other ground, including, without limitation, to give the Transaction Documents ‘business efficacy’;
 
  g.   there has been no misrepresentation, omission or deceit by any person in connection with the execution, delivery or performance of the Transaction Documents or any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, and there has been no mutual mistake of fact or misunderstanding, fraud, duress or undue influence involved in the negotiation, execution or delivery of the Transaction Documents;
 
  h.   each document submitted to us as a copy document is complete and conforms in every respect to the original thereof;
 
  i.   the authenticity of all signatures, markings and records and that the Transaction Documents have been executed and delivered by each of the parties thereto as it purports to have been and the accuracy of all representations and statements of fact made in the Transaction Documents;
 
  j.   each of the Covered Guarantors was not unable to pay its debts within the meaning of Section 178 Companies Ordinance (Cap. 32) and/or at the time of, and immediately after, entry into the Transaction Documents and that the obligations assumed by it under the Transaction Documents were in its /their best interests and that the directors of each of the Covered Guarantors honestly and reasonably considered them to be in the best interests of each of the Covered Guarantors;
 
  k.   each of the Covered Guarantors in executing the Transaction Documents is not in breach of any other agreements or cross-default provisions or the terms of any Court Orders or injunction; and
 
  l.   that the information provided to us regarding the intended purpose of the proceeds of the Notes to be made available under the Transaction Documents is correct and complete.
6.   Based upon and subject to the foregoing and having regard to legal considerations which we deem relevant, we are of the opinion that under Hong Kong law:-
  a.   Each Covered Guarantor is duly incorporated and validly existing under the laws of Hong Kong and has all requisite power, authority and legal right to own, lease or operate its properties and assets and to conduct its business in accordance with its Memorandum and Articles of Association.

 


 

     
Page No. 4   (HFW LOGO)
  b.   Each Covered Guarantor has full power and authority under its Memorandum and Articles of Association to enter into, execute and deliver each of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party and perform its obligations under each of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party.
 
  c.   The execution, delivery and performance of the Transaction Documents by the Covered Guarantors does not in any respect contravene or fail to comply with:-
  i.   any law, rule or regulation whether authority or otherwise of Hong Kong; or
 
  ii.   the terms of any order or ruling of any Court of authority, whether government or otherwise of Hong Kong.
  d.   Each of the Transaction Documents were duly authorised, executed, signed and delivered by the Covered Guarantors and constitute legal, binding, valid obligations of the Covered Guarantors and each of the Transaction Documents is enforceable against the Covered Guarantors in accordance with its terms.
 
  e.   No consent, approval, license or exemption by, order or authorization of, or filing, recording or registration with, any governmental authority is required to be obtained or made by any Covered Guarantor under the laws of Hong Kong in connection with its execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents or the performance by it of its obligations thereunder other than those that have been obtained or made.
7.   This opinion is however subject to the following qualifications:-
  a.   the enforcement of the Transaction Documents may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganisation, moratorium, limitation of actions or other similar laws relating to the enforcement of creditors’ rights including but not limited to, seafarers’ rights generally;
 
  b.   obligations or liabilities of each of the Covered Guarantors otherwise than for payment of money may not be enforceable in Hong Kong by way of such equitable remedies as injunction or specific performance which remedies are in the discretion of the Courts;
 
  c.   any provisions requiring any party to pay interest on overdue amounts in excess of the rate (if any) payable on such amounts before they become overdue may be unenforceable if held by a Hong Kong Court to be a penalty;
 
  d.   if any provision of any of the Transaction Documents is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, the severance of such provision from the remaining provisions of such document will be subject to the exercise of the discretion of a Hong Kong Court;
 
  e.   any provision in any of the Transaction Documents that certain calculations and/or certificates will be conclusive and binding will not be effective if such calculations and/or certificates are fraudulent or erroneous on their face and will not necessarily prevent judicial enquiry into the merits of any claim by an aggrieved party;
 
  f.   insofar as the parties resort to the Hong Kong Courts, claims may be or become subject to defences of set-off or counterclaim;
 
  g.   a Hong Kong Court may refuse to give effect to a purported contractual obligation to pay costs imposed upon another party in respect of the costs of any successful litigation brought against that party and such a court may not award by way of costs all of the expenditure incurred by a successful litigant in proceedings brought before that Court;
 
  h.   except with leave of the Court, the Mortgagee may not itself purchase the Vessel when

 


 

     
Page No. 5   (HFW LOGO)
      exercising its power of sale if the Vessel is on the high seas or in waters of a country whose laws prohibit a lender from purchasing security it holds as lender; and
 
  i.   this opinion is limited to matters of the laws of Hong Kong and we express no opinion with respect to the laws of any other jurisdiction.
We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the reference to this firm under the caption “Legal Matters” in the prospectus that is included in the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not hereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act. This opinion is strictly limited to the matters stated herein and is not to be read as applying by implication to any other matter in connection with the Transaction Documents or otherwise. We do not, by giving this opinion, accept any liability to update it to reflect changes in the laws of the Hong Kong occurring after the date hereof.
Yours faithfully
/s/ Holman Fenwick Willan
Holman Fenwick Willan

 


 

     
Page No. 6   (HFW LOGO)
Schedule I
1.   Shinyo Dream Limited;
 
2.   Shinyo Kannika Limited;
 
3.   Shinyo Loyalty Limited;
 
4.   Shinyo Navigator Limited; and
 
5.   Shinyo Ocean Limited.

 

EX-5.4 48 y04313a1exv5w4.htm EX-5.4 exv5w4
Exhibit 5.4
     
(NELSON & CO LOGO)
Attorneys-at-Law
  31 The Strand
  P.O. Box 2075
  Grand Cayman KY1-1105
  CAYMAN ISLANDS
  T: (345) 949-9710
  F: (345) 945-2188
  E: info@nellaw.com
  W: www.nellaw.com
   
  Our ref: 2546-99/2547-99
  Writer’s email: rnelson@nellaw.com
30 December 2010
Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation
85 Akti Miaouli Street
Piraeus, Greece 185 38
Dear Sirs:
Re:   Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation
          We confirm that we are qualified to practice law in the Cayman Islands without restriction and have sufficient knowledge of relevant aspects of the law of the Cayman Islands and are fully qualified to give this opinion.
          We have acted as special counsel to Ios Shipping Corporation and Skopelos Shipping Corporation (the “Covered Guarantors”) in connection with the offer by Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation, a Marshall Islands corporation (the “Company”) and Navios Acquisition Finance (US) Inc., a Delaware corporation (“NAFI” and together with the Company, the “Co-Issuers”), to exchange up to $400,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of its new 8 5/8% First Priority Ship Mortgage Notes due 2017 (the “Exchange Notes”), which are being registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), for a like principal amount of its 8 5/8% First Priority Ship Mortgage Notes due 2017 (the “Outstanding Notes”) in each case pursuant to the Registration Statement on Form F-4 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Registration Statement”). The Outstanding Notes and the Exchange Notes are collectively referred to herein as the “Notes.”
          In connection herewith we have examined originals or copies of:
  1.   The Indenture dated October 21, 2010 together with the First Supplemental Indenture dated November 9, 2010, between the Co-Issuers, the Guarantors listed therein and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee with respect to the 8 5/8% First Priority Ship Mortgage Notes due 2017;
 
  2.   The Notes; and
 
  3.   The Notations of Guarantee (as defined in the indenture).
          The documents referred to in Items 1, 2 and 3 are collectively referred to as the “Documents.”


 

-2-

(NELSON & CO LOGO)
          In addition we have examined the corporate documents of the Covered Guarantors maintained at the registered office of the Covered Guarantors.
          We are of the opinion that:
  (i)   The Covered Guarantors have been duly organized and are validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the Cayman Islands.
 
  (ii)   Each Covered Guarantor has statutory power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement and to enter into and perform their respective obligations under the Documents.
 
  (iii)   Each Covered Guarantor has duly authorized, executed and delivered the Documents.
 
  (iv)   No consent, approval, license or exemption by, order or authorization of, or filing, recording or registration with, any governmental authority is required to be obtained or made by the Covered Guarantors under the laws of the Cayman Islands in connection with its execution and delivery of the Documents or the performance by it of its obligations thereunder other than those that have been obtained or made.
          We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the reference to this firm under the caption “Legal Matters” in the prospectus that is included in the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not hereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act.
         
  Yours faithfully,
NELSON & COMPANY
 
 
  By:   /s/ Roger Nelson    
       
       
 

 

EX-5.5 49 y04313a1exv5w5.htm EX-5.5 exv5w5
Exhibit 5.5
(MAPLES LOGO)
Our ref   DLK\658529\4260594v2
Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation
85 Akti Miaouli Street
Piraens, Greence 185 38
30 December 2010
Dear Sirs
Shinyo Saowalak Limited
Shinyo Kieran Limited
We have acted as counsel as to British Virgin Islands law to Shinyo Saowalak Limited and Shinyo Kieran Limited (together, the “Companies” and each a “Company”) in connection with the offer by Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation (“Navios”) and Navios Acquisition Finance (US) Inc. (“NAFI” and together with Navios, the “Co-Issuers”), to exchange up to US$400,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of its new 8 5/8% first priority ship mortgage notes due 2017 which are being registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), for a like principal amount of its 8 5/8% first priority ship mortgage notes due 2017, in each case pursuant to the Registration Statement on Form F-4 (the “Registration Statement”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”).
1   Documents Reviewed
We have reviewed originals, copies, drafts or conformed copies of the following documents:
1.1   The written resolutions of the board of directors of each Company dated 6 October 2010 and the written resolutions of the sole shareholder of each Company dated 6 October 2010 (the “Resolutions”).
 
1.2   A registered agent’s certificate dated 29 December 2010 in respect of each Company, issued by Maples Corporate Services (BVI) Limited, the Companies’ registered agent (the “Registered Agent’s Certificates”).
 
1.3   The public records of each Company on file and available for public inspection at the Registry of Corporate Affairs in the British Virgin Islands (the “Registry of Corporate Affairs”) on 24 December 2010 including:
  (a)   each Company’s Certificate of Incorporation; and
 
  (b)   each Company’s Memorandum and Articles of Association.
1.4   The records of proceedings on file with and available for inspection on 24 December 2010 at the British Virgin Islands High Court Registry (the “High Court Registry”).
 
1.5   A certificate from a Director of each Company dated 29 December 2010 (the “Director’s Certificates”).
Maples and Calder
53rd Floor   The Center   99 Queen’s Road Central   Hong Kong
Tel +852 2522 9333   Fax +852 2537 2955   www.maplesandcalder.com
Resident Hong Kong Partners: Christine Chang (England and Wales), Spencer Privett (England and Wales), Anne Walker (England and Wales)
Anthony Webster (England and Wales), Greg Knowles (England and Wales), Barry Mitchell (British Virgin Islands), Mark Western (England and Wales)
Stacey Overholt (England and Wales), John Trehey (New Zealand), Michael Gagie (British Virgin Islands), Gareth Griffiths (England and Wales)
Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands Attorneys at Law | Offices: British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dubai, Dublin, Hong Kong, London

 


 

1.6   The Registration Statement.
 
1.7   An indenture dated 21 October 2010 made between, inter alia, the Co-Issuers, the Companies and the other Guarantors (as defined therein) and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (the “Trustee”).
 
1.8   A first supplemental indenture dated 9 November 2010 made between, inter alia, the Issuers, the Companies, the other Guarantors (as defined therein) and the Trustee.
 
1.9   A notation of guarantee dated 21 October 2010 made by each of the Companies in favour of the Trustee.
The documents referred to in paragraphs 1.7 to 1.9 above are collectively referred to as the “Transaction Documents”.
2   Assumptions
In giving this opinion we have assumed (without further verification) the completeness and accuracy of the Registered Agent’s Certificates and the Director’s Certificates. We have also relied upon the following assumptions, which we have not independently verified:
2.1   The Transaction Documents have been or will be authorised and duly executed and delivered by or on behalf of all relevant parties (other than the Companies as a matter of British Virgin Islands law) in accordance with all relevant laws (other than the laws of the British Virgin Islands).
 
2.2   The Transaction Documents are, or will be, legal, valid, binding and enforceable against all relevant parties in accordance with their respective terms under the laws of the State of New York and all other relevant laws (other than the laws of the British Virgin Islands).
 
2.3   The choice of the laws of the State of New York as the governing law of the Transaction Documents has been made in good faith and would be regarded as a valid and binding selection which will be upheld by the courts of the State of New York and any other relevant jurisdiction (other than the British Virgin Islands) as a matter of the laws of the State of New York and all other relevant laws (other than the laws of the British Virgin Islands).
 
2.4   Copy documents, conformed copies or drafts of documents provided to us are true and complete copies of, or in the final forms of, the originals.
 
2.5   All signatures, initials and seals are genuine.
 
2.6   The accuracy and completeness of all factual representations expressed in or implied by the documents we have examined.
 
2.7   That all public records of the Companies which we have examined are accurate and that the information disclosed by the searches which we conducted against the Companies at the Registry of Corporate Affairs and the High Court Registry is true and complete and that such information has not since then been altered and that such searches did not fail to disclose any information which had been delivered for registration but did not appear on the public records at the date of our searches.
 
2.8   The power, authority and legal right of all parties under all relevant laws and regulations (other than, with respect to the Companies, the laws of the British Virgin Islands) to enter into, execute, deliver and perform their respective obligations under the Transaction Documents.
 
2.9   The Resolutions remain in full force and effect.

2


 

2.10   There is nothing under any law (other than the law of the British Virgin Islands) which would or might affect the opinions hereinafter appearing. Specifically, we have made no independent investigation of the laws of the State of New York.
 
3   Opinions
Based upon, and subject to, the foregoing assumptions and the qualifications set out below, and having regard to such legal considerations as we deem relevant, we are of the opinion that:
3.1   Each Company is a company limited by shares registered under the BVI Business Companies Act, 2004 (the “Act”), in good standing at the Registry of Corporate Affairs and validly existing under the laws of the British Virgin Islands, and possesses the capacity to sue and be sued in its own name.
 
3.2   Each Company has full power and authority under its Memorandum and Articles of Association to enter into, execute and deliver each of the Transaction Documents and to perform its obligations under each of the Transaction Documents and to own, lease or operate its properties and assets and to carry on its business in accordance with its Memorandum and Articles of Association and as described in the Registration Statement.
 
3.3   The execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents and the performance by each Company of its obligations thereunder do not conflict with or result in a breach of any of the terms or provisions of the Memorandum and Articles of Association of such Company or any law, public rule, regulation, order or decree applicable to such Company in the British Virgin Islands currently in force.
 
3.4   The execution, delivery and performance of the Transaction Documents have been authorised by and on behalf of each Company and, assuming the Transaction Documents have been executed and unconditionally delivered in accordance with the Resolutions of such Company, the Transaction Documents have been duly executed and delivered on behalf of each Company and constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of each of the Companies enforceable in accordance with their terms.
 
3.5   No authorisations, consents, approvals, licences, validations or exemptions are required by law from any governmental authorities or agencies or other official bodies in the British Virgin Islands in connection with:
  (a)   the creation, execution or delivery of the Transaction Documents by the Companies;
 
  (b)   enforcement of the Transaction Documents against the Companies;
 
  (c)   the performance by the Companies of their respective obligations under any of the Transaction Documents; or
 
  (d)   payments made under, or pursuant to, the Transaction Documents.
4   Qualifications
The opinions expressed above are subject to the following qualifications:
4.1   The term “enforceable” as used above means that the obligations assumed by the Companies under the Transaction Documents are of a type which the courts of the British Virgin Islands will enforce. It does not mean that those obligations will necessarily be enforced in all circumstances in accordance with their terms. In particular:

3


 

  (a)   enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation, reorganisation, readjustment of debts or moratorium or other laws of general application relating to or affecting the rights of creditors;
 
  (b)   enforcement may be limited by general principles of equity. For example, equitable remedies such as specific performance may not be available, inter alia, where damages are considered to be an adequate remedy;
 
  (c)   some claims may become barred under the statutes of limitation or may be or become subject to defences of set off, counterclaim, estoppel and similar defences;
 
  (d)   where obligations are to be performed in a jurisdiction outside the British Virgin Islands, they may not be enforceable in the British Virgin Islands to the extent that performance would be illegal under the laws of that jurisdiction;
 
  (e)   the courts of the British Virgin Islands have jurisdiction to give judgment in the currency of the relevant obligation and statutory rates of interest payable upon judgments will vary according to the currency of the judgment;
 
  (f)   obligations to make payments that may be regarded as penalties will not be enforceable;
 
  (g)   the courts of the British Virgin Islands may decline to exercise jurisdiction in relation to substantive proceedings brought under or in relation to the Transaction Documents in matters where they determine that such proceedings may be tried in a more appropriate forum; and
 
  (h)   a company cannot, by agreement or in its articles of association, restrict the exercise of a statutory power. There exists doubt as to enforceability of any provision whereby the Companies covenant not to exercise powers specifically given to its shareholders by the Act.
4.2   To maintain each Company in good standing under the laws of the British Virgin Islands, annual filing fees must be paid to the Registry of Corporate Affairs.
 
4.3   The obligations of the Companies may be subject to restrictions pursuant to United Nations sanctions as implemented under the laws of the British Virgin Islands.
 
4.4   A certificate, determination, calculation or designation of any party to the Transaction Documents as to any matter provided therein might be held by a British Virgin Islands court not to be conclusive final and binding if, for example, it could be shown to have an unreasonable or arbitrary basis, or in the event of manifest error.
 
4.5   We reserve our opinion as to the extent to which the courts of the British Virgin Islands would, in the event of any relevant illegality, sever the offending provisions and enforce the remainder of the transaction of which such provisions form a part, notwithstanding any express provisions in this regard.
 
4.6   We make no comment with regard to the references to foreign statutes in the Transaction Documents.
 
4.7   This opinion is given only as to, and based on, circumstances and matters of fact existing and known to us on the date of this opinion. This opinion only relates to the laws of the British Virgin Islands which are in force on the date of this opinion.

4

GRAPHIC 51 y04313a1y0431310.gif GRAPHIC begin 644 y04313a1y0431310.gif M1TE&.#EAI0`.`.8``*NHIRLH*6)>79&.C7-P<-32T6YL:Q42$LO)R0P*"HZ+ MB7MV5E:NGI&5B8D(^/'1R<5Y<6R`='3TZ M.D1!09F6E,G&Q8*`?Y*1DFEG9YZ;FK:SLE-/3L"^O1P9&4M&1'QY>(!]?+JX MMS`M+:*AH20@'SHV-J.?G9N9EU524EE555E651(/$.7DY.KIZ._O[_3T\ZRJ MJA`-#CHX.-#0T$M)2N#?W^[M[$],3(:#@5I75N3BX7Y[>MK9V,;%Q8F(B+*P MK]74U._N[ MW6-A8+*NK3@S,,3!OZ:DHV=D8Z>EI?/R\:"=G*6BH7AU=+2PK5Q75962D7]] M?;FVM3TW-5E76(2#A*2@GTM'1S(P,$A"0$A$0]/1SUU85L_,RC8Q+X>$@QH7 M&"PG)BDG*"\J*&UH9M73T9>4DQL7%\'`P(."@D5#1`<%!O___R'Y!``````` M+`````"E``X```?_@'^"@W@S@X>'2!*&B(V.CX2(,PB#BBB0F)F/2!.0,Q*4 MC7B",Z.(#HR."$B:@HJ-?7Z9>'XQK9!Z?GXR>0&ZNH>Y>`@(M"9_!7F'DUYY MSLZR?TY`>3)\1M3.0$Y_>=-Y!`$]?`DWCWM^IHB_?GUV`3+L=H='0Q$8'`H< MXN?.'XAV^EQ$KKBX+`PYL0,``#Q\]?RQ$$X1NE!T\>.:I%!1#F=;#@_K8 M^A/#B8:T&62T$.*'0)X9SPCXH?"L]8RF?Z3:(1&CMIJUAU(.XI,AR*$.M8-K M\&-3SXT$6SF0:#(HQAE!8/I(SQ%7>A\24APTLC"O48T]$6!\^$.#`+>/?SH\ MV;-GQ04_'M@38&^H\1\,'SX<,."$!&4G,2!W6!"UI:#%($U(M8<54;Q@0`:I M",*%$^Q5:$(-@C05@P5_O/,,:6S-``$0B#3``@^#.-#:,PA,H0<">80R@1.I MH```#6JQQ9E4L'2'2$]6^,#+#B0\84(,?J!0P_\*.4BW0QY16.>+`T=XX(<< M#F!@A!$DH`"$!H)H0(TUA_40I5NN'/[110L,K'#@4W3.N!0[E/.47` M#E$5.IX+6`"0@BG.(:(#SQD&,TH14-.P!AB"("`N(C0PX.,?*4R'RQ6%8&\.'#!RD0RAB/'B1Q!01!X#$%94L3=Q@:1/RQPV9;M//' M%D+L0&8#!_GQ!6<*(WP%U+"M7/4->A!P`!\\]#!(`LIT&`..N5%R0P@XC((9 M>3NL-H(-0K`@>R-)^`%`;A'UZ(@>!KBQ0A\VC?7'`HL-@4,'-TBK0`P6"1($ M_Q0)T+$"`7P8H%4#&0B2@L)2%'<#`V4$8)$2";!0&-Y]['`#'PQ0P!^XY@.; MV&0'4HC84RI0!!9032HT\,$!X(`(&%3@>`Y8@0L.T0,_N`T#/O"#$?Y0A`0( M(H(?$`!^9``"1S#!`CA`T2#\$`5'N(.#@M`*'J!'A2J\P!9W6`P1_*`&+&2* M`5#+@!X:D(3_I>\R6]'-9?1@M@.0(6)M\($#_-")/Q20/`S0$6<*:$`#^*%R M3Q'#%/CP@*C0X`8$D`$!$)&`!PB""GBX``9PAPP9($P)1=!($J2`B"I8P6,L MX$,5#L$$%Y3F#U7PC1+\X(4_+`%AD,G!P1#F`PET0?^'3CM`'1*@AC\$<1#V M&00*98`!2)RA4W1`@@1H8`\*;((?!.`%/^C!!#_=@Z)&<$9(J,L/*^#=R\PP MSC_02002P4$<.#`('>P!4Q%<:@46MK*,'TCA!X.HP0&@$"EH(:("F`)#I-AC M`1'4``1V6,(`Z+`'.8U!(4=X@@!$(`(4\0``=MA7 GRAPHIC 52 y04313a1y0431305.gif GRAPHIC begin 644 y04313a1y0431305.gif M1TE&.#EAFP`,`.8``$1!04E%1(%]>[2PKE%.3L"^O!42$H:#@2`='1P9&:*A MH3`M+<3!P5Y<6TU+2M#0T*NGI+6RL#TZ.@P*"K&OKE1142DE)$(^/#4R,7QY M>&UH9FYK:;>UM6-?78F&AA<5%2,@'R\J*.7DY#4S-'-P<-74U.KIZ.#?W^[M M["LH*>_O[VEG9Y*1DH*`?Q`-#MG7UM[W6!=761B8Q(/ M$.3BX?GX^#HX.*RJJF=D8T],3.CGY2PJ*KJXMZ&?GB8D)<3!OTM)2IR:FF%= M6Y&.C)>6EJ:DHYZEI7Y[>FYL:[V[NW-R$@[RY MN+"MJS@U-3,P+QL7%UE659>4DX."@@<%!M73T<'`P$5#1/___R'Y!``````` M+`````";``P```?_@'\G#']_?'<]A7\TBHI]>WR-A2@^DG\Y'"^*=YR=G!81 M)G]+.I!C6C-[:7Q9%%QZ>G@+0B-Y>F]60J)Z+G<357ZP>@M/@L)Z,W]^!H5\ M*(U\"/`(M]#%BQ@>`)IPD=&K7P MD^!.+TF>HKH`84+"SSXV)IPI2<5+B3]+TXT0@L]//!$E^[#8$Z1/&1,G__Z@ M[1-C3X0^9EP4.-'GQ(J&?_;\21`O28!&))7Q@)!`@``_A4*2A%Q(0IY")P)( MR+`DP!XF>3Z4$%$B`($^'Z2$6!VBR($-(TTD@!$+@NT%?115]4.O@`5),+HI M&@!A":P2)$3]P;-"41(5A2J69&$C;1`#7*A!LA2E!H\]4O(`V./D"9$K#ZB, M\+.'?8IT"?Q4H($B!0D@?C(\JL*"LIX?'GPPTA\\^#&""'+E08<%*/3`0A4+ MI!"#)`H@,`03A6!QV1\C#3@,'B`FD%LA)(R@'`X7J-%(!O>D(\4-D,`"1!XT MAM9&C7E(40,U>BC"1PB6/!*))#4`X!`!+"1`@?\->QAP`@4IL$`"B'AD@`<) M34R@1P%.[`'`!BD4(MB`?^BQ@@PC#!A#!AQ0\,<1('X@1D-8I+#'AH6(\`,& M`C1`HQ0@%-(A9"']`4,*(P*Q0!*-*'$#@HHR@2&(&Y@'>>I'U.-D> M%MB:0!F%X'%##R2PL0<>?UC0GEPW@*#%J=!R"-D=?`Q#Q`1XB/B'JD!PN-T? M2NQ!`J1[M.NN-G>(^D<,%U3B`P(C6G+'&#Z2VHB0EK"GP06"(A"!'K#NJL'" M&LS4R+VY'?%%8/,>$9G_"U(TY$<>&BS'PR8N+!P#JG^X,<0?!^PA`"_2NIOM M@'T(<\BX'>_1\1\A4%:(`,1.N,"&,;@02:$E;(H#NH]:8JZI4_CKR+F(07MG M'B3$F'`A&]=(@@"-X)```%_C\<6S(!X-"Q\:4WQG97B$@`*-=F:\APA2P%"F MO'^0K"V'PM0']@AY1V=`)"M9HL&&0N(@@:@/A"?&!'NP`)TD*H#0W*Y."PHU MI'Y(/1VA5RM3`XX`%:+$!$3D,2.-4^>!`A\(*%#?@-]-44@8/T1`J@EI_G%X M(WH(0<09QBC"S90!R0DP`5P"","($`%%R3E`A80$!%<\(`.&.$#=E/$"D35@2),25"0 M48$:?.&``6P!`"#X2A^\$,;5($`'.EA`]+H0R)3TP6X$@ZRA'^;`AQPT0@'Q M4(8"&I&#;X1#:4J+0BH;80(^*. GRAPHIC 53 y04313a1y0431320.gif GRAPHIC begin 644 y04313a1y0431320.gif M1TE&.#EATP`2`.8``$]/3Z"AH45%13P\/`L+"YVFII23DU9554I) M28*`@#,S,T)"0EY?7QD9&65D9",B(B8G)RPL+&EH:#PZ.C8T-)J9F5M;6Q`0 M$!86%NSKZR`@(+FYN?7U]2\P,-S6EEA75R,D)%534WMZ>NKIZ3DX M.*6CH^_O[VYN;BDH*-_?W]74U#DY.&AL;&QLS,S)>7EV)B8F5C8R\N+OGY^L;$Q*ZMK:NKJ^CHZ+.SLQ,4%$A'1VQK:[NY MN:JIJ82#@YJ8F&YM;>+AX6-C8Y24E)&1D:2CHX^.CFAG9X%^?HF(B(2$A%)0 M4&)A838V-LS+RXJ*BL"^OD1"0L[,S*.AH>3CXW=V=EY<7$`_/S$P,.;FYFMK M:VMI:7M\?'AW=[.QL=G8V$)#0W1SE'*(F(XY?(XJ M?"&5I*6FIGPJIY>GK:ZOIWI^`R46*'D*M1:[&7M`E'X$`;".&SFA9%%R/J)B-' M?QOJY)A^+'0H)20.'!B5[$$24<"?.E(JP&U#IBC$*%*#6DRZPZ%/'PYW#'7( M4$)/B5DN*)780PJ&GIUE!C]W\AB=ZN>F+#]3C%XPU,=/"11^AG2EJO7/';)&\:0X:BB&GA23__#L MP2$)A!ZN://ZD2F)Y@@42/W0=01BP@28B&&"[3/)Q0<,&#[!.D85LDL[ZP2"SC)_EDC!A@0+PO";$'WOX$9TCLO!`C@PL M[9`-&WL`F,0$>V"(P@<$`"!`'GD,8%1(DVS`P(*DA.#'$X;PX4<"*OPP@R$? MR#`$)C+PL0,!/_VAQ`""7$HH$P<`# M'`R@P@8-R/";7`#\$8('ZN#@QQP.0:)E5W?TP((*?4A1`!YTXN'#"),XH$$1 M&U3GQR^2S%#GH'C8`$0->D2@PR2R+'@!2RWLT4$>*_39UQ\89,"'#1Y-F@>` MD^2!HB0!>-35'A[QH&`?*WS`6!\=8.`1`#Q()2NKHL+*U9`9K'#J<4P>Y]&3 M?PS`PPH9@&J("?CU08(.QJX`@+**8%"A)"V`RJ8?)CB7UUV.=$`"`);RDP<) MU&*@EU9Z[/&))++TLL<>$!H"1@8:T$"*!@)(XA$IH@+LQPMY<)#!N7(6\,(# M!G01YS$EG%"!63(#_'R)4L4<&!,S[P+4!.1=APP^&)#`O M-@,(D$$!R;R@("4@&/7QO"^'R9443?SFW`N$^@"N(AGX4*XA&SR@0:"$$HHH M`38PZ@<``!AQP05>&.*;!A'<`,!6?PAQ`59;WT%R&U3UZ0AQ"IR`P9)_!'%UA'X<8$1`$3Q1PHH`/`8 M7(Y,X`<26X=^A0R#N3W%$,X]@#<&&AS]!Q=^B.$UYW^$X0?MAB2!P0V.C,$[ M_3@1[!.RF<48'J(N)4A("1XT@!,L>6]47PXP0+V`)8A M"!`F/<@`B9S#`=!P0#[%0\H`VD6B#C"%1%U!@2-BT!H]#.0/,#!8#P!SDO\P MIVU6(:12BQB4Y@YAT,,7^%`$#2SP M#R[ZX0^%YB_D@`$=?-@#&=8!!N.0``'1ZP,#6'`7(FR!`?OX`Q&^8)0ID@.& M;1$!']I@``*P(&<^H$,%G!&>!;()4P*``'("YL,["&$+&9#='[1@!@:`@T&L M65`>*.`!<)B(!YC0`PNH-9,^W(%E.\Q`$)*#!XHHPO\#/4"A#6]&"3R00(=_ MR`.0I*.!E_F!"G^X@0(?X0(,#Q#1'VIP`30D,P(7L,$>!O"'($C``,MAHB+D8L<'K.$/%,(` MTU1`@50+Z0"6("W#-$:2`"2,@&-76\-0"P11+B M%)P,`!R2OSG9#Q&`90BPP;4:'&%KE+M`Y*;BM/Z^;A(Z4!M9+Y?B$*3IS?IJ MP!Z00)$6\,%E.]`(,12AA(I.@@\'V(,`EI:`%WT!EWQH@-E4X#)<.GH/(,B# M!)*P@USVH6-#4($'$#R\DG0$5R/V5'%QCT+(5\UI-N8[O[W?".M[Q+ 1TR?$D*02E[T```#L_ ` end GRAPHIC 54 y04313a1y0431306.gif GRAPHIC begin 644 y04313a1y0431306.gif M1TE&.#EAFP`.`.8``$Y+2Z&?GN3BX;&OKA43$UM75F%>7?GY^!L7%TM'1B\J M*(V+BFYK:U)/3C8S,T1!03$M+9J5DYZ;F;:TLU934JRIINCGY8:#@28C)"DE M)-32TAP9&=+/SM[(%^?<3!P6AE94(^/20@'ZNGI/3T\^7DY.[M[#HX.._O[W-P<+JXM]_> MW>KIZ-#0T"LH*1`-#LO)R8*`?VEG9YZN_N M[>#>W:RJJI:4DZJFI!(/$%Y<7'1R<7=U=//R\:>EI=K9V/7T].#?W]74U+RY MN'AU=-K8UG-R4DX."@@<%!L'`P$5#1/___R'Y!``````` M+`````";``X```?_@'^"@W0\@X>#4H("1X]/ M`H]&?P>*>-.%>,B'B"%JBUMHA39(,;%(,W,(A6?+*W@AVP0Q\(RQ]H M=@AY-X(',Q!K>Q8),Y(_.!->7GMY$'OEY2A_?0![#"7E'N8\,"/E/V$#>'Q) M?S*TAP`NN`R2`8R/FA\?]B"1A"?OQ90"!`"0(J'J3HTX>/'AI<^Y3@4\,'GP`^=(20P1`/`09M_P$X M^/.@1A`13G8LRQ"`#Y1#>0B4R;`CX*`881-SO?J'1`VN>G:4X.J`P(`_#/PP MT5)9B\L#$(#X(_+_BH M8).@`PD]@A3@&8'@11Y!'/C$$`3"2HL4*PBX^!%"2)\8"L*[0!"^?/@_>?34 MH-`'0X07+^JXH'$(PP5,>CY(&P0$OG\B?JRPAP_HV2!('B5,P0\+8@B26!`; M#,!5`")0@9(?CHR@1PI>Z='`!F$PX,00!LS0@QX%%-!A'FS8H8MO`W2QP0,. M9)"""\C]$0(88#27QP!^M#"7(#0D)`,%4&3AA_\+B,1`PAX#Z3$=>BDD8$(? M$.2A90(*'&*``8>@P<`A/6AIII9([.&`#7JTJ<<26[BI1QM@'G(!AH+XUD@? M>"+BQP-Y\.'``QM<\``?<0C``P0G*`9%$A1L@(03,XA`0&5]Z'$">CGR58*/ M,221QW0Y@(0!!C/\1H2@B%S`QQ9V@#2#/@=FUH$Z-OP@0Q%="O(%'P8J(<,? M'B#@Q"%Z?,%FFY?M`8V9(F0YC@AF(J)`GWI>Z(@??0S!1SHZO,D'E'LT$!R@ M6O)AP!E2_:%G<#44T((>7B6'QP_-\:&OOGTBX``"8@?^E8@B`0GG)#0("]D$,4@Z1WR;@8GM,!H!LA-0$"*S640@L,Y"L'' M#@7D',(%?WRQ:0,AI+'OURPC'04!].)A,A$G2,"'S>B-.8@%(1#P$?#B"G0-EJB+#!!E(.TA5O2(PA"K)U_Z%< MR5"&UH8>=C@`01R.T,`"$X?L\<">!`#1"+?T'HAA'L$#Y\*9#N31[A@08-`# M_\0YA0`2%G>;[>,`+F30Q!\T4.##XGAL,-VWMDMLIN@LYY%%90'`P`UD`(`& M-.(![[L(``B$+/.%1!9[0-X@P(*`&>C@1XA@0?3^8`88"(`UJ1F-`\(R``.\ MX0_4\PH+'*"X[+V@=7)R`//^0`$&&&(0E'M9'F3@+.>P3CKI(,`-3`:#$A@0 M<83C0Q'<)+#^Z<$&$BI!";>P`2C01Q!4,!U8^J`"`IQP$$T@PB`,(`V8<24! M+L"`"IZP@DJ=P4$*>(#T>-`3#!``$S1YB4M4@(,1#F!,0.A"%A2``!<20`CF MV)0!PG48`-) ME,44^M`7ECT`.8OB`P:L@( GRAPHIC 55 y04313a1y0431307.gif GRAPHIC begin 644 y04313a1y0431307.gif M1TE&.#EAI0+P`^8``&YK:V5D8XV+BC(Q,9".CGU[>D].3:RKJY63DHB'A@(" M`B4E):BGICX\.T%!0;V[NH"`@!45%%944QL:&6%=7+"NK9F7E08%!=G7UK6S ML@L*"<&^O:&?G;BUM$E(2'5S'7%P<&%@7Z2CHT9%15I75EU95UA65+@ MWH2$@R\M+$$_/L?&QGIX>!H8%T9$0ZNIIZ6DI"$A(4M)1S8T,T-`/EY;6=#. MS1(0#[^_O_/R\N/BXNSKZN?FYJ&=F^#>WO?W]M/3TM_?W]O:V>_O[\_/S]32 MT2TL*YF8F,/#PUI96-?6UN7CXJ"@H/#O[@@'!W=T(B8J+C(V.CY"1DI.4E9:7F)F:FYR=GI^@ MH:*CI*6FIZBIJJNLK:ZOL+&RL[2UMK>XN;J[O+V^O\#!PL/$Q<;'R,G*R\S- MSL_0T=+3U-76U]C9VMOKK[.WN[_#Q\O/T]?;W^/GZ M^_S]_O\``PH<2+"@P6\(*"A*"`@-6X+KV&TN14-5@+\T:+@>NOO4B"HD0(<))"FI=.K MI[>F/&XU'Q5<:#/R@2`0"G23%`(".W.1"VCQQP/RA73!`K%N MO4FP[+/LM@M,M+7BEM\,*XB$8A"@)>6!@`]$8"2Y(,E`Q0)(?,"$#PFLZ^[" M#-L"KQR]@B1$Q""I@8#_>[X*TBL`MP',A!D`-&`#"%8H&Q*S#:>L*@6% M5X-8@-(`WV%\D@==A-&%&ET?K?389&?"-")50'&3==]U')(#A?!PT@I@#$*` M!VZ;A#(A8I?M]]^/1(O!66Y,Y@87&$B9$@@%N$3(%E>PFH`@:Y"P0;TFS3`( M!H+$P6I)V@U^U@;Z[0WXZ:@?$BT`^"&AP0`-Q%`;2A.,@`@&6?Q10'XY_P&! M`K>69/L?&2S@@`,]1$T2!'_$JX`#;IN>^O2H1\N!2%;,X(*L)37A)R$6\'#\ M_PH>Q"@"W((\0(>:)C$AAB"W"A#`21=HF@&E"A#0-_7\EQWM"R)A@@SHL+_^>1!I\++5\WYWD@(0 M(@,K$0D2>D<$$>B')$NB0$@\(`.MH480SF/=R3[(0Z6%$"0+N-A)J.`T#@0O M`J\;R:A>(`@E.(\D%W!?*6K_JA$,88$A((`@ZW`8%=1)(JD5R@.']@ M@,\6<`#C_&$#=-!`QVK9*EQ:\THA1$(*>`D2"0C"!;NAHC%'8H,3.(!8O@/8 M!W*G,RA@33>;M.4UY[FA'UX!)2;\@Y:L4(3;R$H_('A4&4``MS"482M,6)(E MD5`#D%0JGM6DIT1)(ZM_T0@E!/A#>Q2P@`AH*5PHD648#I"WG%S``26XPOL& MD85P%3-8?)RH3(6RND:A!&XDW`E.DZ*!`Q3BGL_#V*.H*;V9&C4H_\O?[DZR MTY`H\"1,4$-.25*#AA9P$`3_JI0<"`@2&4*TJ$<-ZTMJ^J5$,F"C30*3?`8` MI;?I\R0(`)9)R/3$X$0@-R"8P%?%RM>8D!61)!D`%@YJDF,F@041\(&('``& M.IRD"EK0BDGH\#Y!YF<%%Z@7)IFP@%5QLJ^@W8<2T*.Z+=4J`I,420`.8(,/ MD,0*00B"8S6GAEXY8*H8+&,C45*$Y@$O)%!0F[7:H`$?Q#2TB*J"I@JQ!0@T MT!"0(P089!:SNCEP#0R(F4(%P0`E_`,#SD1$"*4`!6Z*1`-3^,`!S%`%,WA@ M#E1@0L=\^@P;(_DTYYB(K<9F$``$"(`!/>,(B$M48( M*"A$_QPFP`1"1,$_UUF2!300`8\BH<)_4,)`-9#1C9#5`?/#B17"Q(@`00`$`T%43BXRIY/5UFGB#F]`/G16V\4G>4S@Q$` MX.8+LL$:_J2`MYNDQ#.X`!)TL(`QJ<0#6)""#:#@T@\1F.X\$+.">&2C%A`""@@PNX,'T'D$`SR7>`05FCI8C-1?@<7^`!6_Q%@$``&_A-(3@`R#!!!_P?X>0!3:F M`4^'"%MP,PJ@3%N49/@7@NWP0]AA(/*A`1@!!@@0!W^P!:2U.0?``F6`1&T@ M'+[4@@>0_UT0H`0/<``I1A)%``<'\!9FT!3LE8#Y<@%)0!\0]68BN`YL4`7/ MAH#A56"&X@`"8"M)2"D3@`3V\05T<%L>$``/T%Y5``%'``$D($VX@7X?@CX, MH`$K8!0>$%PG,0%`QAPPI@07H`,K0"+8<4Q00#("D"I4]X3J<"'HPREDHF13 M=0!>8D>^E@5:XCH@!410`!P:H!4V03!PPV=R:!(:<(DED2%6`UP:4!/_\2T8 M@HCK$#&F(J=P)LIK(``(`G!(`$4JD\)U>2Z=`KN_,`]\0\.D(' M%/`H3-17;\!*9LE*#(:5Z-`K5\`$:-"5K/AFSQ-:=D"*9WF7.6$%=J"66=EY M%.``<)E5Q#.7H>4#PH*7B)D2$D!??'G_#KTR`W6@`=S"/+\S01A`F,C%!2\0 M?YS9F9[YF:#9F1%@/)QY-9/1F":I.9B5DLG4C$ZV>P2Q;C'1!0Y("`EXFPGX M@JAI#KWR`7^0`"#AE0I`!+[%`X*0``^TF\H9%H_Y!V<`',Q#!LT!`5BQ95HB MB\N9G4&!!U:P7%1@!0T49ZWAF_%&`"WI1$]'7TK@7>CYG\CP!2Q!+R3V$2\PFL=S`1H@`?5R/`6@>R0@/J'9 MF6C@`.A6H1.:?#8P`,;#4;JG-A2B>]6">U`0?XP)H"B:HBJZHBS:HB[ZHC`: MHS(ZHS3ZA%[P_P:Z6:,Z6@Y5$&&"4`$0T'^%D(#&H04KP`$'4`$[NJ3E(`"^ M]@=@``7/-0@9T!P*@&/4QS-,NJ7@P`9(<``=\`<8L`5G<7A_L`(),`$9:N!IL+7G``5P`'0@`&"G`&(5`#O"*+2)0"*X``B_D'#A`#5>```'"P M(+L+;(`C$(`%6H`!.2!EA&`&+0`#:U`"[/H'(5!D$>"?(7NSO3!:.+NS/-NS M/ONS0!NT0CNT1%NT1GNT2)NT2KNT3-NT3ONT4!NU4CNU5&L0&'".59NUE;`! MKJ2U7ONU8!NV8CNV9%NV9GNV:)NV:KNV;-NV;ONV)NW M>KNW?-NW?ONW@$L:6_`6SX8(6O`6X8`%51C_N'^3!3R@-OGA`,"Z'00@`2#E M`"'@@!V@>Q+0DD&@>R:4!6CP9[J'!NNV!L>#JX0@`^Y7L`\J`5H0!KT'`[GS MF?GTJ,D'`UBK"!GPH`-@`R1``$_'`9V)GX.`NO%'`"<:`L^YGL\VC>SS@NFU"`@[@`GC"N-V0!4$7@<39-%2P M1J[$!2(1;#FE.6+`@2$QEH)`6!KP>YD&@A]!+'RFCN]S$KZ67[NQNX?@`X#5 M`)@V`A%'7[@U(IF;10K`>0H`!<:G.R#!P%H`4DQ'""2$!(1P3W1@73X`0,94 M`.P4'Q&``U2BOMR`_Q]M8`*#\"A,`&HD!`(&N%0-@!%U8"CV2VHHV08A%Y8@ M46(5P%7;!50DQWGH4YF"H`,@T0`-028@(0<5@'&GX82&('-,0`$)4`$C%\5` ME<1*3)@DU`(+42GH$S$H`L7Y%B^%4)8A`:PYU8CWM#PLD>LC=V3,+`$R[1 M-E6#T,S?QSWO0'IW'*SIL?]H8!,8((WI;)A<#)0*6G=L-1 MX5;-YZP`>LK)KF4%:'`!VN%;&8Q5(!&2"J"I#I0?`OBQ?V#,?^#*A:"]$N`2 MS>S,WA`?9CH(OQ-%AJ`E"=TKCJ$!<)!.WJPY6Z`F^7;/.,R'%Q!7(/$]%=T= M87`=/K7.]2<(,H1&N#C4_ODS1=`#@Y<(\2*;^@P2*RT(8Z`E[0S0Q3S)O(RL M6,``T05Q-!J?1`MMQRZ%] M!=?H2V==VHE010T-U]8`G)6$""0$8U6GCG_`!H]"`?<$-\"HL9F'"%G/Y`-`=:E MV],`5(<7,YL'G+)1"%$6+,D$'!0`!BLP-58P9H$MRM0%:L\Y0A`0'_YIT41P M`35@6SGRTW]`'_#\!X6K_W\;4`(8?@A:\"CDN""X`6$BY(QSN#3,.(($%Y* M`!+&ZQS>,78&=77;9<"T7\+$=P`7A`L&"0`0@80"]DP"W$:E_8`3UDBW<$@&?IMR^]A'8 M*0@V(0)L?07Y8MTLY59^CN9]CF,=D#/Q$;-_D,UNC@A9B!O]=P>0.SP.3@B. MGO].;6"`FHG,1J[!.)9')VE[P`$"5]`"$B`"M[$"PR=S2Z($'8,R][P`UUXO M0B#%I*X-8M`$\N$`LM)I2[`;Q[,;/KK*V0)44H`C=/[K@@2L\>)3>2[9V^WB M^%$MN2?PFG.LW:%[FF6`AT`JI`FY(K!2M-SH;`P2(5J+SR8LY#X(KKS0H)'" MA`#-WH(`N2T(;[YFP(!:`?$9!/C*37.O"&I`^8R_^0N!WECUHQ10`0E``9`O M^*[_^K`?^[(_^[2_(55`U^T`6;7O+&5Y@RV(`-35PK\US_;JO"!B0@'9&"%V0@/^WB;6Y^XC"'9'\ M!RA@Z=VQEZND`,,C"%9SE8P?$MBI<$SQ]9FC_R4!"']_(`J%AH4>6H*+C``: MAA<9BP41AE`5@A8*+HR=GI^@H:*CI*6FIZBIJJNLK:ZOL+&RL[2UMK>XN8(` M"I)_2@L*%R)78\B\:(R2%IBW@Y6`1&A((9G2Q"Z&0O%"$K*`4U M4+#R$[8!6$`J^$9MP#X4W;[]Z;A`T<2G4*-*G4JUJM6K"GE16&112J=T79@I M<+8(&LY%!'@.4C`3H]I%$!0@&/'D"-WPK=5D,Q08ANLVWE6$)*A:[TNJ@GW)=VVH[.MVX9`D`22J7N. M,H,LB_^@##X$=>EV>*]LR<"#"Q].O#AP+H7*%D+M2>PA0YWK*2#PIX`".F`6 M!8L`X$H"?`I$*J_+Z/FA"$&9>`UN<9I<5#G3HX2*$F*=``;:) M,H8#4"C`Q`&,B!%B`]?D`Z%_--9HXXTX7@7@(EC00=XB)0I%EH"PD=#,%5?X M:`5:R'CH@`=!,3+&.`3B\ULG+5S'0!5<@@<8*2A8U!L#/EZ00)2"8*.`7CFV MZ>:;<,:9RHZ+F$0"FG]H8(406@C&B'5G,3".>1ID]X=%5WK_DL4C!(Z3Z"(Y MP(:8`FB`(@4$:RR"SV$%7'"!!W%XDA$9B('`DS$A>.Q12[Q]Q*;`#M'Q],J!=(CZ87FNIK<`&*'(<@O=(`$"R"!Y/BFM+<'&K;-4"DL M_8C7"@#M,1+"ZZI(2P$<$((UU$`&V_A:*93@.@LHRG5*:,4!7$<`-'3(5NG+ MH`9GP0&[`?^P%36`080&X(QM$*!;I^!`"+KE@*FM`C2=X$"`4N&#!;0`21E8 M@`P*+VA`-BU\14\L8,42S1`5`/"+`[(`@BYT(8VFF(,] MP'.8]QP""4%*14\JQ48"\)"*B$RD(!@P@TJH[(.M^.("2N@*#GA`4YKIQ2I` M0(`Y+$`#'X@@8E3Q`J4(X@O;H`(JL-$6L:1)`4WY@Q:"L3)2=&$;GX&E19#P M"!<@'**("MWF@*;OZA0P.XH@<6$,A1##!30A%$)=!HFE+`H$,\($`&LH"D M$>P@F<`,Z/,>L`(.:#,+#7!`!0"J*!L@0`D\2$HI61$!#W#+`EG`HRJRX+0_ M2(`88`@`3,AIBBS$YPMS&$`"R@#/5%3M!=FX#0&.A@4BUG(42@P``#K$"Q&@ M4*!`=1X6.&`#;GZ`15"[`!VLL`(%D@(+U$M`!/8!@`]D*!5W9$`)-(6D\EFA M`0S]`P/J>!$&<(=751CI*@AP@1F08``VJ`*I5C$T!Y"11P$HQ.E,(8`&?,`* M5AB!%=06U,(V+P$@H$$8(`;8,FR!#,RZ_RLI9I"`+4`!!Q"PP@R6L(*KIB(' M``.`%2(@@%XAX`%PH-XHGJ`V!8!A!2\8Q`;\`JVU]N0*`%.7%:1`MU*L2QBB M6<06<%"()82U0%"(`9=6D`/#.O=W%H``B\A0!C-P*090\&PJKH`#..!@!B(P M@QR@]`,Z1,R7H0!##0X``0:(P`I9D"PJ7&L&'=C@`UYPP`>T0-)2\$`#(,@! M'7++``:LH+>DV$(5$)`B5?X!"P\`0CY^<%Q/P"`)0*#`\I[+8>#QP`R]N@+G M0H$".LB`!#,0P!*J4(/7)0`"E#U%`MIEK0_\00_,,T6`XF`%4@E``$KH+RG6 MP(`N!&``*]G"%O]H2PHP]&I&\ZIGKA0`!/2:@@UP4!*W?XR[%S`-N0 M-&)0S,`!->^(' M,G_B`Z;D@BE9,8&59$$(9Q3I%5HP#U4H@`--V,@B?)"651Q@`2(IM2!0`(6K MD>)54'`!`7X;GUS:P$GW*P46SG`%45(`DI_.-NR8$0XDF-H38D#3!E90`->A M00(_)44"`'.%"RSA"E=#P+?+DP!A-6(!'DNB!%9`EC-SY!1B&)HA1##_*:*U MP@;8UC8L^J=P<+T@#6F:MR@>0(&*4Z`.BGG!346A!HACQ`W[L[C'_V#QDE,` M9ZNX=L-7+KLL(.\6"3?.''(\EE0C[K4IT[UJEO]ZEC/>@:OP(3(Q:+B=&`")F#1:_QY(@U> MU[K:@9K`@`_<$854*"$&D!`#R6`@'9-D8,">&$+-@"!(&82_.&;7W5*N(`H M!1$"*R2?%'TJ"^2;3(=>)8`-!]"##`[0!2*P60>'1`H"H`'GL`4+@`#2T`86 M4'[GUX"=PP94L!$,@$%;0`(:8%T]M&`0@`,:``$1Y'RG@`4%(``GP`,04`"\ M50$*$!95L'VS@0,$X`!>@`!T\`@DMX`2YX`Z>#$ET`1I$@'&0P:`Q2%()`H\ M0`=>,WJV`8*F\`+M`@(S``%QUR$*H`.`E7:BD`#P)6('P`1B(``^N!4[M8-D MB#A:(`%4<#4%E04_]?]^C%`%&E`B"_`Z3%@*`&`;4`@!73,'+8`$(Z`*'B=B M`<`#]^0,*S(".5B&BA@G6A``37`U:``8'^!%K(`%(@``.U5/'S!_I#`&0K`$ M,^$#,Y`&.H1NJW!HEK@"0:,`_)2(B_B*<6(#F9,&%-`&^79W+8!R`L*)RM<` MK1(`(-`:%^$2+HZ`$;]8"UA@* MKPV4*8\`# M>)(&@U8*("!2T\0/T@AR[5B0L;,%!&%WJ@`'Q",(=="/I+`#"LD(";``EV?_ MD!BY.F,@>[-`<["0;AD9DB(YDB19DB9YDBB9DBJYDBS9DB[YDC`9DS(YDS19 MDS9YDSB9DSJYDSS9DS[YDT`9E$(YE$19E$9YE$B9E$JYE$S9E$[YE%`9E5(Y ME519E59YE5B9E5JYE5S9E5[YE6`9EF(YEF19EF9YEFB9EFJYEKIS!1XPA%;` M'"``EW`I0G^@A0#36+V2(5M0!D.8600!6&=0!7ZI%``0,5S6*U)P/0!0`EO% M"`$PA!Z`A53#9892`8F9F1*8F5QFC*#``!`0F=W1"9S)9:"P!KVR2"'&")BY M88N`FH`5A2[(,E*035U&FIS96T[&F:"@!%SF=X*`_YH>R`#`^0D),"2I"0J8 M"9R^V2OK%QCMY9E+!@&=QI91\0&/@`Q6H"U.81$BTA,M8QYT$`?.(2)7P`:$ M41G>:1XK81'F\P<581X!@&`R]"XD5S.FH2;F87.>$&J#4@@:H(^I(2*@`!ZO M!$."H((1P)%>X`+_60@K@#Q:@`#K60A6X'4BLE1;1#79>0A6,$U>$`=ET*$7 M4`8(0#UPD)T:X"F`A0,(!@9,8!'&!S-T.81_0!@+,",8X`B&H`%E\';(<0%M MT"TT8)_6.15A@@PAP"5YI0"D4X*4!E9 MTH&9F2GN*0A:\`AMU2NBI?\`QG4RAM!X$,0Z*"&B$(!S`.]8=WXT`"5Q4"XR"F M$"!A&@!H,',!<#D.%\`5^3"$C[``&'0`$H:HF54F1X.>"M`&<-D&$Q``>'(` MAH`O?^`#VCDH>@)8]]D3%5@(2[6=Y#`C`.*DI3$61TH5@#HUO&`#BE"FH-`R M4X,`R-`)E?"8FO*EEK&MGV"M+E`(,L`(1;IG@C`E^:``$X`WK_1MK\&* M>*57.A$SH6"@C:H`9;`(#L,%?Q`&95"%QC8"A=`:86`1;1`D9&`2^F`P?X*O M4(K_&EG0!F]1L`J@:W]P!N-0=X)@+HO``T:Z%]E)%F2A"700>-30$]JJ`"UP M-:L"LLM*K>-7LL\Z$6-0"03"3VX&I?)*FB5K%G9Q)2)KK9Y@$12"#W3P-"T` M`HZ3,E;``!;A0O':"15S"OC0`IV``8]P&$1D:OP**-OY,O`,R(K"&KKK.M:"0^0 M5[?H>L_"MW]0L"L00Y[2&@#B(]?S!\F(N#G[%#,3"EGD)!URD7&A`0J4!81! M(:E1>-^JGOE`0104KH=1N*`P>`J`JW&Q:BPCKFY!C12D_[N+T`$6P9\A6T^% MX+NNLZ_N^DH0<#GP=9\YNKN%4"*7L0B$L1)Q<0%.]0=B MT"_%RY]Q00?&ID=K4KJ!9!9ZP;=*T$M)6Q<`D@838'G2ZX:=FQ"?"PH5>@@" M*[WL*5F%0)"M.RPB\CK62KLR4PA;1!O3>[4Q0J"?`""!5[R'43.4Z:4!PDJ[ MN\$+NKM!.QF,:KW&"TL4%$:1(R9:D`435`C40<$Q44_X@'"N\UMKXDMENB/$LK_]Z[D0+`H6H0&PZSHS$I[/85=%:\*N"\6P>QAB M\@<`0KR>\"JQ)!;D2,)86P@?L/_%H(`!P0#&^#`7Z&#!G\"O(#Q+SOH6-#S' MRUL@UULS]1+`WA"N)0RELRLB!)(86K`N]1+$0ZP6\SN]>NO%R6&[57``>K+$ M3[&SR.)Z5_`E2.L)V+H('$`E=N&MYYNO@URQQ2M^QC(X`Y$-)?`!C51/-QNT M66L*#FS'&ZROB_K!Y.$&[FH6EQ>^XTMM?L.^S1'(,..[+F`1$V"J4.`DK$O, MG?`%I.RE.$P`)``%%^!@>Q$!<)0/@*>,KSPWQ`(\@H'\@`Q3[R>0K$/H< MR>6A``*`Q?@\KKGDU5?DJMA;] M(_%9"`)+L"IR-6+0!(4@>U'6L&51"1$+,[]1O2?M"06KOHL0U_YJ=[1+P5EP MO!T"!5!@$3Y()#0-N>EK;'^@"3"@#'3R8#Z"LT#=$)%R'8`U#N3HG71)!Q=` M*DL-I3,Z*326P$`+P+S[6\%*IX:B+(R`#S7PTC$BJC7JI^NB_UF](F$*$#G1 M,@ITC"QB/<)B9:R]DMD$0#UB':BA2:>@6@AP*@@D:]*;S`@,\`AT$`"]0D0; MR]JU+`AI8;,1LF0G;,X`^Q8;4`@#,!,,$`#C``#5-:$! MO.&I\=1X>S1='0I>L`,9#J`N0#VRBKZ%P`!G&C-B,7;00`<<*0@]`P72X`4& M9J&D6@;*6@C&N`7`S;_Y?1!$-A%@,/^;@E!9\L%E:L[A\]>:I;F- M=`X!6-@KQ7F:R0F:+M2:>E$%B?F9"F(@`C-P`-WQ!0/P!:YSCQ0O1=!`D&80AZ]`02Q2 M!:GL$'B']+9Q$1_0C%F@3Q;@!C;&$S,PY>7T!\9$`-AI".L0\C^?007`!!CW M!VK`!!.?"G5@$C90<:V"],]7<3TSX0!0`]E-"IG%#,YP$0Q8"A67)4QPSL`3G"E]0(G"/"EG``_F4!O!V3@X`2@1` MZ*:`=R@``B.@1ZBVU220\9[@.C%P!2,@`."W!G,P`PAPF&8C8]L@_P(KX`!H M`+R-+T4M0#I?0.W:ZT2HP'F9-P%(P$V7GPJ,%'?V`0+`/PH?,`F4/@2(```(`/SLTU9X`'@?."GL/4/D`.N'/Q4]`%,0"0;VH@=H@,* M+PH;``A6$0!5,58;?U56?XR-CH^.6RH95V*-+1E82I"+`,"5,8VJP);&0(@-*AAQVZ.&'('*"Q1?5"'#!*,R``08C6<#TS`@/=((@-.J,`,N-L`RW M#`@?++C@`B$&*>201!;)(0M&7B."'!0TR<1Z248IY9145FGE6@=D<.667';I MY9=@ABGFF&26:>:9:*:IYIILMNGFFW#&*>><=-9IYYUXYJGGGGSVZ>>?@`8J MZ*"$%FKHH8@FJNBBC#;JZ*.01BKII)16:NFEF&:JZ::<=NKIIZ"&*NJHI)9J MZJFHIJKJJJRVZNJKL,8JZZRTUFKKK;CFJNNNO/;JZZ_`!BOLL,06:^RQ_\@F MJ^RRS#;K[+/01@O).;T,U8H7ADFK[;:MZ-*+%8*Q@@`\W);++0``?)"`#!`] M,H8$!TAA`0!90#)&"`Q8@8$$Z)GK;Y48U.N(#VW.,4,`+33ATX`SB.!!`Q=" M\H4$*5QP'XG_9AQE`DPHX'&3%,A!!\@4@,`$!2TH4`/(-BA`QPQ"S`W$ M;//-..>L\\X\]VPS`JT\4/+)B#V21I-MU```)T?7H$`+0+="@,\RMR&S`C;, MO/+++K_L]==@ARWVV&2_K/'91AZ0[@OLVNO`'E98P$._CHS!@P56[.$`W1L= M0(#`&?A(@`5^$_"`X!E88($C!&0PH19*!.Q#C/^,6-`/P7]DD>4?%@3>.`$L M'J"%@H*7;CK:J!,)@&ZM@-M*;:G'/NP61O3"`!NML+&P[+SW[OOOP`O_?;<=^_]]^"'+_[XY)=O_OGH MIZ_^^NRW[_[[\,$%`"A`*3#,84>\((,5*6,+-@"`CG1(Q&Q404/,<(`"D%C$ M)EH#"_Y9QA@&$`$G6G'_+`[2TOE"X(`"0"(,P>&;-,#HQ;$$P0$PJ%<&"N"` M$#A#`"[HQ_3"($9E<$$!4"*?$O.8"`4T((K3J`(>1Y*!-C+B`0I@@B5FX#$# MM>(`#G@!8!2`(F08 MHY3#`QTT'#`!]"DQE;OY9`9FA@1$_*$+IU3`!+28,C-`0`&F0,`$%!"!,MIP M!AE@IA<`&Q'-!SE``RM``18&H%$'U(0#?SCF"KXY@P),_-`!<.]`H(Q@0`0U@()TKR%QJ M.`$#!02`$2F#`%T3LH$(#``+Q[Q``KC@2U@NE1$-T`!0_U`&.EBBI""$Q"HG M.0/!A&"0)84![N"@`!$P`I;"BVU#;>G0NPR2$8RLPO\QYW"C4@(611:X`#)A MP00Z/$"4C4AN&*#@VJFYM1%RQ4(5MD`#/]Y(NLI5ZR-,N\_?*D"6QS2%7!\Q MVS_XDQ%36X=XMP"+`!P7N,'KPQ"7@0%A$#>BQWVG`M(K@G_\`R+/K=P%VN#@ M?US!`PK8`2/`L((%_Z&\5^"!`B8$B?DRHKP#J#!`CDFNW[I#D#EPKRPWH("[ M74`.G9B:#5J)WT&"(0"V\``)_.IBXBE!CLNX`Q1V5SX3,P*[R%UP>5>KA2J@ M(\)_T$+6&"'>H:"&=0=0`!0XVULH1)830RX:`2!P!1I_(#U5\`*+U_MB!<3X M%.]E!!DTH`$1**"$]'49C___D-\%8FV\9E!`;`%\/0=<('U.[N-Z.EP%,C!! M`]?%L!LY0,E&B/@`A4@D=A2P`C-408DD8$1`/%9/3DRM!GBU@@8.0(9J7C?1 M"]C"G!UQ:"^<%L\,98#''IUCE:'COH0>9`FPQ@8R?/JW-H@S]GI@A1%`FLAS MW:<"_T!6P<1AF1XK8X6P"WV M8[UVW0BR+OC7'F.H1'UKP4;^P<\HFAI3E2#=%;1AF0-(B+_#5;TP6$$.@"P? M+3#F""Q<@>.O&(['8=$(,5S!AXVXT7!H(88674%@3TYP)V[$-Y>_?,-7P&$C M7G$%_RQXO!RP@/E.D=D*6*#G`!ED$0`PIH3<5`"8!17K"(1H/2U.SK'JD9T=M71T>(800+"`&)R;^AS!0/1F^KL(<"/'Y MX;EN&5>P0A"6(0+=F,$X,."XU`CV@%HFHP$2R,*",O"!_AA#^@2HLA^G[OS> M`\\*'W#!+I)QA0C,$!EB./H,7,"$X!@#^HE@:C*^P`&3V_\@`1.X@00H)Z,7 MS$`#"%`%%T`BFN%]OF,S#M!JY)=-4@,`"Z`!5%0%\F<,,P`Z$H@,/D``-@0` M5@`?`#`!RL<)%``Z@1%4`$``'X!V!I@Q7]`9S``"#`@)-H0$!!!;5J=:R%"! MB?!)WS0'K```-(@Y4G``74`%`,`=K4`!YZ0!5=`%>O`Y*KB"YB(&5``%+>`" MRC`"#0``*H4,!R4"'<``NJ`!(=!BD.`#'N6`&<($!+!:O8`&#D`$5"`"`G`W M?P``(#`#>.<(%#`#!Q`854`'+7(#42B%W/(!)2`%3J`'3-8+*]`!6:`'_-<+ M/A``)X-B$P!%60`@&0CAH2!CPQ>HV@ M!!+0`+3G!4E@!0&@69V@!(HV`%R@;BW`!`U`>/!8!1]@!1(P?&1@%`VA7#SY M!TJ`!`$`_P.,0`%;(`4H=PP'@`,)87?$UI'_TBZ)@9(SV8B-L`8.Q@H:0`1E M(!@,D`+7>``0``Z0@#=6($<7AA$[R0I6L`:\H1X\T&`0\`;'@`$1$%L`X`&% MB)71\GO9JHF9JJN9JLV9JN^9JP&9NR.9NT69NV>9NXF9NZN9N\V9N^ M^9O`&9S".9S$69S&>9S(F9S*N9S,V9S.^9S0&9W2.9W469W6>9W8F9W:N9W< MV9W>^9W@&9[B.9[D69[F>9[HF9[JN9[LV9[N^9[P&9^3HHWR6?^?]GF?^)F? M^KF?_-F?_OF?`*HL'<`%"<$(<,`&80$)!PH)-\D(;/!NK#!>C;`!A:4-#[H, M6P!Y`:HH9P0#,]`$#@!"(&`#"\`#?Z`W[I<%5F`#$.)%81:BPZ@!P5$`$A`< M!`,##K``).(#`!`!PF`'QJ`%-1HR@#-B"C7<0(;`0A#B`;C)`! M:#``2,64K0!&$**-0@JE$G`3.(JE"V1(:P"E[O<'BFFF#O``3VJF8P!)4,H# M1[FA:A$!N[,@C'`%E52`CF`7O-84;-:4L*$$L/@'!89$+4B?CV!U+3"E"C!` M`A@!/M@(WB0@%O$(AOE;6G2!QL"GKL;_2NDA:P(C3&Y5"HY0@K6!!JRT&(Q@ MJJ2P6#>UAW2Z%@J)IW]@!7N:1WX*7C/@!HP0J(`1(PV`(O?A"%=0`VS)"1!0 MBW_``8"J65!2@HS`!7F4J1SY9`K)"IXJ6Z#Z9'+@`+Y%`#J@@^#%=:@Z5:NJ M'*ZJ'&^0K;.J%GJ0`+"@?-5W(P"01S/@2@FP-P$25"Z2`0,`=VSEJHV0J8\@ M!:[T!RN@)6`0`4J@!0LPD'_0`B_PF9R0J6AX<\FPK?35K?%7!8J$!`E`KJW* M=1PP(;4Q.4SQ!U@0`/NA1LK!J>_Z&6?T51/P`0*#`"P:'%:@JZ[$1G]`BJ#% M=1X@?.6*J5S9_P@S\0@3`#H0`!OWV@A90`(RVC`99[!H$`'G5`*`IJU08K&$ MYK$2"+%S4$4D2PJ6B1/&^DF.QG4QZZXS>Q8",Z`+($N&&0)Y-*R.D`*KL`5` M\`#`FJ?JRG6AE[2_FK`LH6ZL402I]0A>P05)0'`%RY4;\!5`%I4YMAYIT`84 M1P!BRU0EY44DJP9,D+:PDZ@8.L`$[X0'U=`9B^@?4BK2. MH#B-4$,)ZVI08IB>ZP@TL`A5H+SOQ%`0:[IFN!A;@`4D8`I=H!P,`/^[L2L6 M$.``_5@%!^`!2B!>="`4M5>0@B%>H7"-Q:`%2T`%<88!5`L3:E`(T5:@;)`$ MIE8%!5`$%!K`ER4HI=['R`'5L8(`$`'AC$A:K`"6*@356`#,="$C2!> M#"!Z`M(%,1!M16D#5U!E.%##3)"9]6L6"3##(&`RHY`%-<`:K'0"3!`!.*8$ M8\P$3``"[L0!-0$"-W$`5H!#+``"$Q`!(,!00>#'(*`'Y]<)&(`$;\R7*6`% M;,@(:LP:9\`:8PP"`>!#*<#'DEP.^#')(*#_8:V``28CR&/L`5L`RB8#!"!P M`HRP`F'7""S0LX06QQ$P`2`P!"DYQJPQ!/62`GW,R1%P!AP`QYRLJ%\\+++J M#,=`CA]#3\94#]4:4B)_ZN0(`!6H(#0,+M>'`T!D`3'.QI:0'N]\`8(8-6<,+MI MVY<]X0@C(*$Y@534P/#)Q9W1-C2H`5J&3,\$`=X MW0D0)6PQZ"DZX0@8T*#'``<:0!VGO0V)70W)O!98]DHXV`MG<'+.`&63%#4; MX3&"P5L70,QJ(=K1<$RC4-S1<`<=%L?ZD#=B`0=C?`T2$&^3?`&R:`P0]?\% MJ7PJ!0`%$&$'.?H@`.",[G)6%W`"->6LP3%\7.1%A00A;F0,/@`A1'#<*#H, M/B``#M`N'7"FK1`A6E"F8X"BDL0(7#2C@(.C)!!'?[#@+V"D4+4+XN<`#&4! MR-A%`A.'4PL1!S"D2\,!/`4%3,FCP0$`A:4$XH<&I[``_/T(1``#2E#A&?`` M:"`!V6<,TFU?"D`YA=/BBU,X_#T(GF,!).8WA+8@ M)Y)TC"#,E?7N' M7W-^#!8'@HW``!>@`9NP.1E`,'B^"7)%,&9NJ+;:"`HB,!EHZTAV.,Y8Y'GR M7!:G`?BQ3,+("E_089N)9Q8Q`Q=0!GJ^#C6!'RMP`0G>"NM]3M<.+D%@!1.` M'PH@`5AV1\S:"5]^3`/@H?H$0C)03;J@`$N3`=_D`!VV`-+G,1A6%\QD,R!4 M`.YM[PK@`?62&C4#`=]N[/I$!`E0,_2$`4*P3XS$DF%0!N>F1'GV+70`!G<4 M`1W#:EK]".F4V8)A!_FF5;=Z`6C0;DQ`,";B,20*VUY.Y&(>>TS^32)%!?6B M1!7E,0$P(7#C,0O`4Y;]_PCQ%66K(&LNP/(N[]\DT%$:4J4>`P5NM$H8!MR< MH'9J!5(VD+58,WQ"VFXH_RT#J+LS@`@A<%81X`!:,@<#3P)0D%(.^"!$$%07 M@`,M$P%"WJP\)5(%4/!^E>-NU`$&E@52?P%(6N(8#Y0A_PC^E4<9-0,=T+,) M$`$$(`!G!04%T%&M*@1:8`5"X`(=I@`=+N'2-0!_GU]H<`$ZS@@^(`$=LP`2 M@I0\D*.1]"?/)4ATL&T4\->0<$S$[3$%NPB=!$MJ@"Z]H'##7P45D$!%=MS^ M]4JK`/P]1@";ZV&DBPJ)!$%!U5N#C40U@X3>!5A,P);^Y44>TP`/;`5ML&V) M]/\`$7;^3JH`;D#]?X!(]TC9BW!'\@<(5PH*57^&AXA_$(.,C!!5"G1I?P@* M#G]6"@V&+PH$:70*;W]N@XFGAHV;ASH*+X8-"A)_#@HV?VEM5E60"@64(`H0 MJ(F+5X8SEI@*+6D/-IZ""B9JSFT5)P#-$B*Q4'44`02@X%:_S^*,N$D`*3:`KR(;CI#:+`8;5T M4`CFH$JF%OIGXIE M'1^2JTP01P4?#`ER8.R09'+U'I,]%`PNN0,*D!!832#3@<[(""GVB_.2H5I[ M&RV6:?N/TK+!7N&`-0V!)OO[D%9"!Q@WQ>L(I*0>9)/>JY58`#`RAP_X$`(K457!7##8`&`1%3 M<7]\@T9A`V5AGQ0*RJ3`6+WE)P\6`D0P@`-H*!!!!H'5,N:*#H0`6X@BA9:? M(:6)-!R(?Y3V9BQ52*&!A,QM]EQ,(@TRQP$:7#`?G+^-E)@&KQ'W1X)0HH+< M3'2(01L!R9@Q:`:##!#+((YYQL\7)L*F!$Q2`0S``!&@`J,4(P"96P`;6R+.JK? M;%%Z(L85P9:1"87TS0`)GO>M`*N96YDH[[STFBB$,&!<(2$7$5@1!HP*W!`N MH:$=6__6%6/\L84+W/6H27`,6!'!%H9H8%L9=`RA0<),7@+;-S`((L*+6+0` M`@:..=N"C.!::8*N?^`PFCP/T*$!Q3*M@$&:?9G4,YSCV3-GGK+.LPB>>BI@ M@6?^6G$!`9N"8AL6.>[E+QOJ,:&I8[]QH`'!N\`AJ5U+77J)%3=OND.6N$6@ M0`!("&=-3A+:Z#RM.=QEH-8:(4`7+A0 M'\'(\J/`"GYSL<%C+^"H`!08B&1P(E`(4]$JR1`Q:"IG.^C)")_GP("`(2Z2 MI*3I^NU&Z/7V[OOOQ`0#`0,;06#\!;T=9^9J]H66`%E?06'_/`\:>""2%M`8 M?ZP5'3A@!0-*Q&+;(M[M=8D'/?^%12@\0,"#,BM<4`($`*`-!LL;):`$^@2` M$3\`]!O6?.3!``UH8%K)$83U!*"``1A""E:`00$C``8E)`,*@P.-T"15)Z/A MKC0;V,BTB->ZQ3`'#$[[0!7>1ZAYR,,+[W-@#2X0`D/(C`-**-VC&`")'1F" M694ZQ2(2\$.ED"=:@0#S[%:V[)C*$&?82`>@8(5I*0(" M.".'>BB8'@7P8'VT(L%Z=I4**%1A$=;[@Q(P4P(%Q(L&DSN$G\#`!FC\8050 MH-@6C,<`XQD"C:8AQA:@<`$&'$(]_W380DH,@9K%+))!)=Q4,C8WH=HI0`J0 M6`$6ZR&!%I5C#7\``P/""+Q6NI)$-;!"`KS@@GK4HPQ!6`H&<&"%&EC@B"`` MP1]@8`4J_,$,MK2"!P9$CB`X[55,8$(%#H"V"$!`"F4HQ`9"T8.FT.$2(+#" M&?P3P7XPX6MTD`(*_M`%*0Q+`4"8CP4TT(9#W,0!1?B:%+3P!Q3<9!!T*,"+ MY+$%F=$A`N[$(`H'PH8`<,=I94!!02.A`2R=223;B60IW+*AHBD/:0H@@A>2 M<`$Z.&T!N40;7"0'M0^$@@X!T"&3+D`&0V"@=&:HP`7.XS0@@,%KE(.`%P"0 M*"LP(4=!3/_$`79J!2!@Z6QT>-&D/(&%'RB`!`!@PK#48@4=2`!M5HC#-^30 M%#Q:@0@R4$`]^[&1*@C@`@.X)I*\(!(,P"`2]6C#`@#T@0LP`0)EN,`^!07# MGEW."`=AP@P2I83GK0`"/W#;`!7`3TPPH(`5U%$H*= MSB``F;#"#D3CP%2"H'H`H$,3N]`@$WH"-22`[-<28('$*:`$7KA7`R`P@`NX M@`]J#``$DE'#(BCJE="-[E,P4`6*>8$7O/@74[90!0QH@1>'($--PU`%\6"W MNDT!T@&T0(;J7A)A)Q'_($"#.!A" M"P<8A2'J"`$4&"_`9*"!\1X@50B@TJ;&,T,7S``!`+V&B`@V'@*TBP'CW<5X M&40%%B2LA#L,[Y`#9B4JKO#B6T$@=&%`P#4AD,L_)*##AG@"D+'P``*'@9%, M"4`9PK@&"$3@F!#@8@@,K`4=/W*9?V##:R!P@+4E%1%>0("YWM`%*RPA3Q/( MPH*ML#0L\)()#T"M(ZM`@7IX8#Y**,,0FK++KA[`7(8``Q-`0(:AVC(`E:UK M_>K1@!YO(02'7LL9RHD!)HB3'A&`PR+0L&A/@0&"5L`!-0,P(Q_029P1LP<6 MS&!I91XC"`VP91EX=ST$S$#6!Z!K%OY&X5I)H,C\C[WZY,%<`'3J(M?"$1NR"XPA=. M\$P(KN%98KC$#R&&F]C``="PEG3C\+4U14`#M)ZXR%$5\9&;/!%;2$`$0G[R MEKL\*@)(P#@)?H8K>/'E!%="L.8R`DV5FP%S`4&T.(;SH@N\Z"?_P@S6B?2F M._WI4(^ZU*=.]:I;_>I8S[K6M\[UKGO]ZV`/N]C'3O:RF_WL:$^[VM?.]K:[ MG2EC\'F]8'#PI_\7@9F_P[OOQ"#5M_O][X`_^QFP3(MK]\X%["JZ%;YLHC64 M00&F]AV004"#W\TA,_0"`QC]H]P4FT@)C)_7(&]>KRHX,O"_@X$42.\[*IP9 M]>YVLRC[V"UZ$<"86-"NO)1@!@[S``2$KY<.XJ#O>F%`!T6(`;E+A`$A.%(. M!,!"`7A0TWE]KQ\>\/R(L@B7##0``!;0O;RTX.1$TVL"$0BF!$@`!#7+*P$E M$8`#7J,Z>0D`\X>X`0)&6R(S5+8(`,!R)()=&R!A-B`$O8,"4'`,$7!ANP`///"!N)! M!3S@.V#@@$9!+R3X!\$5`![0`-HG%?CT!_S5#QI0?25B!6Z!0B4H+Q^B`3S@ M`#S`!8EG(B1P#`Q00_.29P#``$U8@>]@(ECP`6$@`G,``$7Q!417(F'",4#03?3""P?@`*@4 MA?*"!590:`7`!$VP`/02!A,P.PM@!3+0#Z'W_Q2*"`9]9R(SP`6[``%7P(:^ MXP*=DSPF\H,1L`)#X`#BAX?`XP`2$``7$`-GH`5(\`4 M`.")(Q($*R!W8B`',]@[',!/D3EO10("#^`",#`":`(K`185B'(,`!``"P$8 MU3@/6```'W`%99$%`=``*S"5-*8 MVDAJ?Z`&X:!8)I(&-=``$1@`2/$'ZY`3@3@B#S`),9$&0]"A(O(,3@0+,C#_ M!'(@"?*2"S*0!&HP:!1P`O\X(F\P$7_P`GJ#"VV0$Q0P"2/""#80"KS@DR-B M`PHJ!QE`&)P"$`(:%2**)ES0`M!P!=!I(@20H8:0!D\J(NCP#VWP1F(Y+X;4 M;B\P%PA*(B]@-VD``B2:G[[S`3=I!?-A(*0I+UU0F)SR!W,0`9R$I0OZB%&1 M`$C`!=*@`1P@+PER`.VD`:LQ%_32!0Z0!6=QE0Y0`'0P`W47FFK&#Z7T"!>P MJ222`!KP"+N`!%<`*F49%69`!Q+B`#6J!*M!FU`Q`W8#`O/QFT%(`%]``D-0 M$="@&C!)(EE`@U;Z`01``59*E252`&=Q"%]@GAUI_R)3$I;@*"_D`STO22\9 M<`D),`,-<(XK,*UP2B]*YP-B4`:Z)Y@C4@%"(`!7``#GZ34K4`*L%Q4$<(C1 M,@(7(*A/48M7\`KLA("]`Z\[$`2K,2]@(`(RX`$%,`%7(`>%H`1I^`LDH@`P M$`(`]`=V,`'X*2)((`080`!&,08(L`!I5B)9``.YM`4>0!@9D*CT(IHCL%BY M:J0C8J4-4`5@<`(B\`$V0*M2X8T88)3]<*4F(HIJ5@`#X`$$L#3RJTF MHERT<`R0.B]8T`1#LAI*\"++5:[UP@%(@`%*P`3_"0<2(*HCH@0K$'X.L``O MP`6A`P=QXZ],<0!]$S MQ9@#B!BO$]EX1!%0+I!E`;`B)>*"/(``',"PZK(B39"<48%'="`$ M11'_`S1%+R2:!;J:LPXPB#RRIUCYMT\!`1D@!`(;127B!2*0`4\V+AG``PO, MME'1`-WB!5O``FT8%190`&1@+C+`!%U0`+]P!66HN@&`!$-P`VW0!2&`!1X0 M!O`;O_62G%46CO[K.U@@8SGI`J;(?_1"!B```42`&E#;.PPP:,'4P!)L"&@+ MQRH+`CA0`%M``V;@`:RQ%*1``=`!'UG M`71PQ2("`P70!2D@!"9&`QM08R("`!9["%M0KUB*!!2#B$$@'BZ@!YDV(E2` M`TI@3*;1`@```FQ,QBZG!"+L<@*0R+[C!2=9%_=$@'=(B/=(D7=(F?=(HG=(JO=(LW=(N_=(P'=,R M/=,T7=,V?=,XG=,ZO=,\W=,^_=-`'=1"/=1$7=1&?=1(G=1*O=1,W=1._=10 M'=52/=547=56?=58G=5:O=5_=5@'=9B/=9D7=9F?=9HG=9JO=9LW=9N M_=9P'==R/==T_1355@0SYHW(P/]F3E%B\`QF#,#)]&#)",?78[<%90`%W4P, MFD=$NX:SY)!R$#`MWP6:BD1@$5S79[T(`B-$"E(F?"P2>#0'J$`&B3)SGQ$6 M=QQV3'0!,\<4_O`'F-5"(D$&-S%.RN84D.``!:W94=U>O"!50XC.O'"*V;4( M_XD(9/`^U#<2%H`%O`#'V*5=6_`^,2#"7H`:DCA0E]!>8<0+B0;0UBY?T!>+U(%.,D&X.7*A?:@B&#>0#@&64@,@E`&AC`&>COV.=.H)5"3!23P3@,@LXF@!5\U"$(0>4'@/6@1 M>0V@`0$`#1&P&FZS`CU6"[8(X?6G!3S`+):P)('E`A+`!"OB`UG0`,)H"'M@ M!7=Z"&&P(@GS`&C`)CR@?;;2/;9Q(VN@(B20`3ZP(@!@:F%PB6,0`E>Q`'*H M(BMBXQG`E3S06]J0(TLR""]P!0FP`AN3HRUR!2/`+'HG!B`A M`N-42D@P!U?0!.SV!UT.L2,P`?ZRL%O"MEC``0J@`2-P<*%R`%%P'HP!-;&P M!%?``B=^"L<"L06@`$+`3X'U+LRX#.X"'@,!KI_S+RPR%Z;^_R^5X.KJ`7E_ M<"P1T`!S`>%3M1BU@']4H@$'9P/0,@/,`N"G8"O:$A,7U`2U<.TS(!VS8!2A MZJRI\0NEA3SP0K]'O@)N,^B$GM1*)QZUX!:.T1GV\28^P^V>H!G.L0$@D@R% M@/!4@K@ATB@PO@P6FP%="@G@C@Q(T`6+0)(&#BZX02>RTNV&D"`O3`6::@CQ M`#4A[RL./BR\H``30,2]\!`+$'E4D,9LM4'JK@">@A>&=0D6SQP:4E%KD>Y. MI`!+2"\([D(%VA(910/X41_5L..T2E`C3=\;!D\H87]TH,WPP]`) M$ND#$,]&IY#SK%,=Y#$($RFK3V[SJZ\`6F,(N-CTNS$8F!#JWD(TA4`[;,7; MOSX`!4``"O$'C[<87Q$35`$!D5[[#:!F#W`C'CX`W)$PM::Q=2BD@* M!W]6=`^)#J+_B2"#?[@CB1^2E1J0?RV9?P$*$(E9"KE9&BLK(*.*51.?QL1N3,*9G]=$1-?D9.5EW\$R.4!6(J(L(1_'BB88:V@P8,( M$RI%P8^(>*)$6&$"50H,'2,P0% M#44XTPO9GW+,2BAH<:7),T*&FL@;%0;*!03R3C*RA(D`%B$*`ERY,F"2-65T MKIARD:B,`A!7!"U(9(I9346[".&Z,'5DAC!>$5P)ALRK62W/%'E5T,-@HT,> M!TR]$H$./W(DN>3]LX[97T1_3M9+A`]`%BQTZ'#`O7L&/+GDV[MC4L1"!`"7'`BI`_#*S`2*1E!A0PB$L%(-AA4EB5A82XF<-_T,&Q`1(EBS\P4*#B:4` M*`IZ`6#)"@(MB6#`GR40`/@'"-LE8AT+B=1@!1PUQ6!)&0AX\0=Z5A1@@A4? M_%%"@G]PP%0BI2E`4T%D6$+3&Y;0H0$3W%E3#A/`C92(3C2P=P$=)RJ@"AE, M$/.'!6TH0`<(*%'"PQP<-I"ER@FFU89JGEEEQVZ>67$F'@A1=5 M>,)(&(IL@<$B6%0Q)AF'64,F&7^$`=!\5?]L05P5A+2I9YUEZL6G$`#?QH\0:R M;/P1!PT0/&"F.]0>L`4$5T(+YK?@ABONN.26:^ZY!^$"&45M3ADCNO#&*^^\ M]-9K[[WEJFN1&'0H``6^``L\<8<=^SQQR"'+/+())=L\LDHIVPR&">J[/++,,?$?\=0$>D,"` MW9(V^M`5-F"P!)E6$$``!1>1L0)R2M!A^$25\NE)`GGW[?GGH-=;1@:D5G2% M`U?`5$78'T!GT09,Z&R!*A9)V)\\(W0>^NZ\]^XE'A=,X;4&85-T>AH41*J! M`QK4T8%%2/RP2`,-K(F1]5>\B]`=#CAPI>_@AR_^0QS80$<52F2!NND.?!$! MGQI\\`43Q4\4@A!=A`$#)%],((3CEV.(!0C@@NXM(&Q7X()"M""!$?1D_WP0 MC*`$$S&'"'3!%!=(P?J,E["CS!O*%\808H_)Y#&/"96Y#H!0KI M0@.RX(,&3/"&.`S=#!;@@UD`9(,3.1U*$#&#$$HD`4@`4!6(D0'M4>1I?T!# M+CZ@0(5X1`%SR*$6MTBU`[AN%CAP@``N M>.5H!IBZ$#>(-*^`A6C_!EKHD#EH@)V!3>PV==>:+H"`KXJ-K#L#`-E%@"$` M0JBL9#=KS@WLX`MLM(88I@*")$R3LZAMYP,&()6I@/8*=+""`S)@H=3:UIU8 MV`"U(+#;4]WVM\`-+CJW4%OA&C>=5_C3<9?+W.8Z][G0C:YTITO=ZEKWNMC- MKG:WR]WN>O>[X`VO>,=+WO*:][SH3:]ZQZ4%`MATO?+2`@>"^P`"2%41!W"< M#\!!4?PZ+@,IE4@6K$>1=^3B-1:0CS7XNV#[&B0#]RVO(=8:F]!`;A1_F4@& M7HE(%D,#EFF-!T3`CDXES178"5HLR'F37Q"!`0:C MLT2,]@IG.`PW;N*-,P3:A8.1%3>FH@@Y+XP;7C;(&)A@J`/$+A$C6,":PJ`' M=DY`%EE80)(3D88%S"',V^W""A3PBS]\801KS.I@0OL'TIBP&XG`PF`0ZV@H M6Z,12+@)KO]P!H7U([FCR$)H`.`-0Y1!UV&]\T%T/931>AD,"TO8474M!H]T MCML%`8@X,C\`+'O8`)%0E M`O/]`Y>M8`$.(,$!$7BO00*\1"_/P,J(A$P&#@S%9H#@`*DL[U\(DH:1/$,# MW,F"(!20#B%@0=6QV.-)L#"E9UR@C&)(AP)T8`,%1/D:5:++!2H`FJ\HPA$! M500)@!R!#1A"!%!Q1#$L8)HJJ7`1XC!D.2Q(!@WHX`,CT0#"YP.`?F5%*6`` M@=];D`@J"`<`&H#`%AI@F@M8`0^)2(`53M0".CC^!EX;DA4D\`4KM,$*D%F\ M!C30`"]C0426*(>,M6()C"K_R`I?:($E-J,1,>A@`P5YN4+"@`2Y`)-?!="3 M%CP`5ZT$P4)A\$`),!WB"\P!0%YP00!690-"'``&7MA`-7H!``!U00C,J/L! M^-$%)GPO`Q>H/B/ZJP@:$'Z/.(XY940*@>F7V0TW0;5VMX`+6;0A`CN0-4RP M`EWG`&4B!U;`=4ZV#N.!`U%1!0=@&DJ`!1-08U4``"-Q=2VV#%5@!BMP`7&P M`4;"#Q:@`%Q!%,%`!6AB"!I``U6@#!U2`9)``PSP@>-A#;@@=Y+Q#`/P-!>@ M3'\0`D3W-*8Q"6!`(!`@#G+C$3NR'6/W-`%P`1=`)R/F$0M0?Z9Q"3`F`?6G M`!ZP_P5;\($^"`7Y(81T$``04"0DD'L*4`9=.`%ZLA96$`#]DB,8T052D`3% MI0A=L`!<=1!T\R$@T```<@4KL`1/DX1DE7^+0`"&-`,P-`HEF(@0P`,:@!Q6 M40+C4075P`"+F&L10`8TD'B)N`)K2`D3D%'6L`7.$4TS$'^%`!GA@!*N$P+5 M5P4Q4'U[*%Z&P!TU<`$S``=5\`!TX@(*L`(0,(R9LH`*@']6L'5\8@(F>`8L M02=P8W6_=HR*L`XTP'\*P'7B\(>446,=Y@'$P1(>P@Z)(`#:B(.GH7J,\`Q2 MA0L*%"2040`G,26NHP1&<1-5<@!Y@@MF4`588`:*5PBG8/\:7,%TY@!C`((9 M5E`%,V<52^"%?\`$"D![TDAFBZ`$SX`F6#!V'8(+*T"0,;`,&/$&4A``IY4( M`U00("!#9>O?@'%=`OST`"=*($>^$O M%8*0D+$."F0*0%:6.*$(OH9AI_$'*\$,#$`2Z%@0^!!_$_9UHK`.#O`TZW!@ M\Z8`,0*/C6`%#^.6J+$()V$*A?DT4*``6@"/B;`$/O10MB$`*SA6DH:0A9]`>PH$!2<`%> M1@#TQB])5Q,*V@@I]PW_<`L1$`J05:$(:18P]@MA(38#)9`?BS"Q,"N5^'I,&Q9RW#5\6&0,/B(!).!X(1(!$0``!*<`MD!C M$=`]SZ!`9G`!`U``/V94/(MO#F`*N?H,23L`"C``AW%%-F00^"`$LF`(Q)H7 M7_"#/$``@B`"YT%T!(`&Z1"BSZH`"J0,-D```!`*D\`O"^`XZS`!()H(!H8& M[@4+MC!B,[<`1#L2I7EAY5HF0NLXX@`=^&@#$(:1H?H*->8X&D`'F*@`1HJ2 M^$*?$Z%9\!4O:D`!.I!N?X``%$`'-?#_10]``<]@`^^B#!F)`"!0116`D4*: M"`#0!FW``OB`LU@W`P*A`#;`*8F@!AAI1`6A`RB!::K M$!/Z!^E3$$U[H0%F`5RE7Z.07Y"0`71E#1D`0(J`K8H`#N(H+_5$`,!)P_,5@',9B/,9D7,9F?,9HG,:I50&)Z)L1L2W"Z1`Q MK`A*P'4-`209C"54<%<4H04U@(:4Z`$SX,8+`0+O`@-$W!`D9Q'B.,?9I000 MT,!?(@3XAQ%:<$P:P2I07"FCUA%T`(4DH*D?501HB$*.;!!:Z35;^;TZBB!M MD,()00.OJ0AD0,BUH6,8X0!)28D.P`2YHLC?XP"8[!!4%1$$0`<[.CR5[%U* MH`$*ZA#"-`I!,,P.\0$?P"=2O!!;0`2*XHBK\0`>T!*6$`%-!Z4,,59VS!@D M8,L*P9Y?!`%48)]T^8A`8189T)0*X04\L,LXJ0'FN"4)T*X4`42(]/_#BGPG M^F<0-:!R$S$$F(P$#+T0`%&0V0P184#-2+4`K"LV$1`&#)``%6`'0/`%\CP* MW3,!+:&.$`$&$V`/$D!A&7$%=@1MC`81$@!7BO`<$:&[HW`!)\@0WLP8]3R. M#8$`$3!K*#H5+4,;O,$G#E!]'M`]Z$`5=$]W0,%!HT0G-,]Z8?_V@87`59`UT2!VKC`<+9M`Q%P M;@G!TLM$UH`H!"@D`QYP`PEP!5G%$#!@`Q?P`$+P`3Z0D4G%0$H[`VM$:T#] MM@[@`CP@!%^0!1[`UPJ!J@Z`!@'0`#PL!3AG;'+L`C)00\%F+HIA#1#0V`MA M!08=V0QQKS?!8C475`L1`CQP`*;D``00`?]#`B3`L%OR8L0Q`QW:$`XP!QR: ME`V1!H-!!QLZ%8*1:`I!TU?0`M?-H7U6R+^]P0>A!0T@!6CP`#<``$HP2!%Q M!DLP`&+``2O0`!$^5`)!J1%!`13P`&F@!F_0``E``=4:8`TQNQ2P"S_A$,A3 M)#5``6GP`@7P`#8@_]_XS-@1@=_DD-`[^0=R7=")(!`,40&FT@:LB[[9(A(Y0#(*]!]W;<(0`?U1$,#43\+X<)7,$F)C!#\)07M\`[^4';D,M^C4-]= MGM]@[LT3`)C,D`&PX!"5\'6@V@-Q%DE.IVKA!>GN<2L><5P00?,,/" MVA`9D.76G6.=\`7WNA*WSA!GJ](0E0`V!AH>T,36$`0S(`(9P``O-P.`ZS@1 MMA``8-H-(`''G=P*(09E@`-T(`(;P1O#W>&K#1'U"2$0$'0-`R*6`%YV[P`^!);+"D&P#@"B$'(*#H.JH' MCN`U$W`!:IXEM[H4B,`!*_M1&E#5W_D05J#PO4`1(R\187WB#;$#)[`!9CH5 M)=`&7O/V!B$&>@`'#."5)X`!&@`"6Q!&2_"IDJW_\X";4*61`70T%6D@!*?/ MWL!>`P/0#ERV`#"]$'92!01`6AS@[@DQ`B7@!6A('/2V$=;1']`/_1=0PPNT M`&TP%0@`!5G_$-%'H'AG!P\1U'[Y\-&1)Y72!4APS5"<)3(`KY2PZP3PB0Q1 M!:F8ZOW+^"`/^2?_$"``"%5_@X,*!(2(B7]8#1-T4@`S'SD(9%5578J:8A([ M+D5D``=9(X*:IXIC-E`"J*ZOL+&RL[2UMK>XLVX25P='2!`02E@,$#18L@XP MH'\(8`"MMQ96(@%<2@,TM`5)?A`@6W]*$*:YFF&7Z>KJ6K5:;P%E$!CF7AO! MY+8$&B#]_OY6VN0R9*X@_R$E"RH@JF+ERA\""FK1**((@H=PM:R0@$"DQ`5S M%*BLVX""UI8(//`%(P@KS@,U.'90J$`'"L998(+\`4$%1!4I,S08Q'+3H-&C M2),J32J`WB"AN00$4,%APPX10O($:T=+B8(A(!IH8;*!EH0@6$!\&*1DAA6N M2^-B"1.WE@4YZ]05,#'P4%U97J@L2;3%@PB+'VE!Z(&HF`,(MT``@'``P@)S M%2+X8V(%!`):!"),5JG!`BT!&BI<`6'#"ZX*0:QLP>%A\-_;N'/KWJTI8D$Q M5X(+#Y[%EH(J`!S,H4/&Z`?3O*-+/]JB^'1$9%J(402F@9467VHAV$[HRVJ' M!?^M&P5SYI9Z0N]AL?%@19D,"S9*VMK"(T`8#W2`,,=U!!9HX'3H'4@("`4$ MIP-D"D8HX8045F@A(B](\(<(UD$!82T$T!%'#1*(D84"!URHXHHL2B@&&"W& M*..,-*Z8!G223#;IY)-01BGEE%16 M:>656&:IY99<=NGEEV"&*>:89)9IYIEHIJGFFFRVZ>:;<,8IYYQTUFGGG7CF MJ>>>?/;IYY^`!BKHH(06:NBAB":JZ**,-NKHHY!&*NFDE%9JZ:689JKIIIQV MZNFGH(8JZJBDEFKJJ:BFJNJJK+;JZJNPQBKKK+36:NO_K;CFJNNNO/;JZZ_` M!BOLL,06:^RQR":K[++,-NOLL]!&*^VTU%9K[;789JOMMMQVZ^VWX(8K[KCD MEFONN>BFJ^ZZ[+;K[KOPQBOOO/36:^^]^.:K[[[\]NOOOP`'+/#`!!=L\,$( M)ZSPP@PW[/##$$L\LHL MM^SRRS#'+//,--=L\\TXYZSSSCSW[///0`M]=9<=^WUUV"'+?;89)=M]MEHIZWVVFRW[?;;<,+L%S#W?UXQ5M<,<<, M"BS@P`51*#3YQ%@(H<``;E31#AG>D??YPP?08<4#D@_"$-.K+[R#%3@XEP+0@3ZG5)&`-(GG$5] MKJSQ>O<(7W&<*U9\2'[!YI>C2/MG=K%"].MO"H(#IP2A`=1F2J&``K2K7Z7N M=XH9K(`-9_K`!13`@J((L%(YP)\B!+"`.YP)#!IP```?F*DKM"81%=!`",Z$ MA0DX8`=MN!$'+W6%"S0'$7*@`ES(5`$%,"`$)'#>"B4%/T+800'0,=,,!A`& M.B1@A_^7$@,=X$`(#*R@!6@:0P0>0S\D6@H!'Y+`!%38)0'P8(:#``"*9L`] M*UKJ"E80A!L4L!8O(>%_[BL$_M)HQDL!X0UJ8$(!OJ0`&]#A?(B@@"%Z6$=* M06``(K""CZ[$`1`LP`<<(``8"6B%S_RHR64/.``![1G M2TNX`/\TH0$%G&$!V9,1#C000&$J:016.``-='`W%!P`@:C``A&21R0,0&$` MQ5.$!130@`'P@$98P`$0=F#-)V%0&V10YB!6H``NN.)W#$#_$O32J0@7_&\! M.Y*1+YE33R=A80@N'`0)'(`,!5P@H*?H@A`N8(,$Z)`07JC"@%B$`BA0!!5L ML,'_@B@+.SC`#7_I0A4<.(@7".&C#3W2'"+P`$)P00$#,B$JLO#&`>S``0U8 MI!8^\+\606"#J/BI`J`X"`LDU!5[L`+FEHD4*2H`"JHD!!HNDE,G(>$%B-C" M`&8Y`UXJP@,*<$!)L#"```9!=`H008O*<('PH&*-$[#D&"Z@OE,X0`0^4,`B M#6*^O,;N!8HM:Y,0P(0Z)`(B?VBK)A[P/T#^P0&S3$0#%-`&%D2H`A2@`!<1 MD3Y75$$!("!$&MJ@@"J>(H\>I,!?_S#G/LCV5+),F@``%.&#!2!`LXDHY0S, M-]Q!N"&T@_C""C2PQ]N4TB^N8,`"`>C*1+0VHQ%0`'3;J@0-2,$5`+#".G^K M"#1`%Q$;0`(28,'4!<`%(KH%[I(@,DI%```$0D4$!R+@2LPM8``'N((!&A"< M&31@!5"@(RK`H#I;9`&N"A@E`V;@241\X0)Y*,`%9M!@4<1D8461R`"F?C#!B+@`?TR MR0J7T00&_L=+++1@`FC-[`HP0`(H7,`*G75`"8P``3JP5Q%QL,(*8"&<]V3` M"J13@!@L$/\!+V.7$.O4`!U<$($Q*.*[B0`#""*L`3^G00,:^L,:H+!FPS*0 M.SF@@P.T2@@QZ*`-)(`#1)A0S,WI@&]C*`"4.U``0.)@`#1U,I'6"488QG40 M6.#!!=B+W"V0P0TON`0AMD"',FJ"-<[4!!:"P]3_V0`C+7Q!%];IN@UL@`Z% MW#P`!](L`$X`V*0`%?(>_O$/`M#%@,AN0I3XA[5P&UP6*S!W$>YO0*H@(HU M0$\>:X@.YN878]<'B0,*(&?@W<"9`J3Z_P]BD$,?;7`!#IR"#?R,+2$0\#\0 M9&&TQ3QR#W!J-P*),]$6@CD*0`3>IR1(L``$`#5*0``2L``*4`"+56F[A`0= ME@A=,`/AA0ABD``'`"-9<#DS,`?GER;;5W4%>"0"V%DCYE>=TEAQ=()'D@84 M``#Y!BHN"(/S,@*OAH/R,EJ^QH/OH@`'!(3PXC\1183MH@7&1GI(J"[%%GM- MB"Z=10)1N"Z)A3EW5H7F`@`-4``#$(%:""Z@!7%A:"Z@%6!E6"ZE]C_]E8;D M,F.^X8;D(@'_DW5R*"X0<0%7=8?A,@URP(>`&(B".(B$6(B&Z#9@6"!^]@?% M,0;!H0A80%"U,/\&)I(@8!`<2I`%+'B(6K(!0%9=?T`%,T!]GAAD,P"*8P`` M2/")A/`,IO@*IC@#)5!A%@9D$0!D0K!D_U,]098#.[`"L7B*7P!D$I`%/A", MK:`%"]``;^0#8C`"96`##C`!J\B)7&($PN<;2L!O!&@$7/!3W]@!@4<'+_"- M+R!!L48"W[A&K\`%$>`"WQ@`>D"+LW!_UO"-\[,!7+`"IO4'7&`"+G!Z+M`& M>_"-_Q@`6Q``$H!17-``)O"->@8C'0".?S`-%H!`'=``)V:-5P)[_AKIN`%-M!]KT`"MC$(6S"2#I`@,]!D?_#_6CJ) M/S3`DX-``7YA!2G`D^OT!V!@!<$T"`2PD1Q9)4\90B6DDNY3DCVI`;`S"`B` M0"KY0G\``:V6""/Y!W'`=K=0!6AW6>'@`#&0#L4D.Q=0`55@`A:``A8$/8'D M`H-@!1W@`.KF%0-7=H.@!6<6E5;RE']P`06P`#=YE83Q>`$0#*JT!3,``L%@ M!C6("B"0$A"``W9("TL68P[`!"``!$R00;*C`$S`!&V`77I)"#/8ERO'!&"@ MA`,G02&5#IN)F%2BF%2@`$=4EH6@"8XH`59@`ZCGB"W&!&.)""`0`S$0`2UI M$G5E6`Z1!A\H055`!R;2`@30!701FT/9773D_P$`D)1H1!>Q9@6<9&V^.26* M^0<14!;$^0=8N0:+.`@-X$\AD'V$P!*<60584`!E8`X.`)^$D).$@%P,,0C: MJ5EF$`&!5)2"(#_@AWY,,%)."97Q"27SN8CWB9408(=(X$\!\%X*T)2G,))= M4`;[.0@<``#5J0D@#6I"HC@H+D$H`"96HZI$%->H*"3A4;?@* M6@"I[L!2AWH;,JF=@P`&_">)J^HJHDA]^'F*@U"K/@H"W24%#F"K!0!D@W`% M*R`!._*4H94"HY@)&0!DU9,`R_H'P3H#GS&,,]!3#R"L?P"M,Y`)&S8#X<&M M7=`%HI@"/HJKH0BN?]"LU/,'PU@",,(!0%8QS4#95&PZ\J*WVJN[%H]"GN,[6JM&!6LU4.Q9A<)U0JP^QI: M0<"Q*"`"5[")40AF;41E??FG^+F#8$8_,S:L*@L1OL&F="2S`5=;@C!CNG7_ M@R]K=>?3I0Z!.2[F!6(D?RC[!V#F$#)[".9S`=DW8Z/4`SC[64UE=3QP`01H04'M+N^8`E.<0FJ9`G(8'KMP+_A MH+^!)[^N87J#$,"NXFAT`# M?,(]:3KHR\*7P!66@!'W)L/S6[_X=K_]NYL3_,'V.ZM`',1"/,1$7,1&?,0Q M`QR+9PX.D8BS@`4D>R":Z`I9T",J<@9+C,2SH`1,H++F`'X@T!G]4`2R&@L$ M\&.NX(BK]1=Q$,8>N@-A7%L@P*(1`@:NH\6V4`)QQ56WH'$*$`PB\#],<`M: M`%>&ZFB>C@((WP`_4L(#BR>?^`%$XD1`:Q*(:52%SIYMD8(Z0!.((P% M]W8*IN?"?T`&Q3L!+(P(>P<"O_4`_/0AP[QK)XP.M\2_E'=OF6#`B##,Y4L& M9'!O`=_2;/L8P`CV<%9B`%-:`%9-!T._(335<&!^`%`N!O?TH%KX,#L14$ MT--T`.`:"6`%'!``ESP(*.`633<#.P("?_1E6&%\"%J``)!7 M!O0PTP5=2<\9Q%\P6C%P!F'@;RUP!2VP0-73I7>L"3)[P9?`3T=D!P%Q!0BP M0((0=WR'LO07/4I(3?1'!QL`R5,%MA%`!P`0UA&E`'3@?D;`3RHD.@A@V%#33"GR5)]!AWSQ!V=0!(>@_T&#X%4Q@`P%``+F MFED:@`$,<0$6\`4DRP9ZK&YR-`A\5:.+'6/TIP/D,5K^Q%RZ$C[K6;G0CD30CF`QD:]&.FV`5/E2!=[N2=!1FO M%5IOCL(.*%YO_E3GI0F;5$6E1/_B"I#H?Q9SZXH$A%!J8@E7:-SGL%L]3$4._Z.105:QSVU*F,SF;P#JQ^WHW3>GK+7;&@1= M::`03V7<]"=!0YX`%.#A@0SHM(XY_O0'LUY=].=/3Q5M@_!45<2FAQ#MIS!: M)MZU22NCK^;I?P!9^<6F=D[KTE8%LRY_X(=63W7E*YNREW"VB(!:*L194"C< MNUW([`1D[-0.FHT*4@Y=2K3;@%4`'S`!3TI_&L#OL/Y4LU2TP:%^*2)`> M$U"V7BNR9F]T1%!^"N+S/Z)QI4I>F$'=64S`/T&PSJQ9E!?@IKH(L\?1!4>& M!ITE%F9KIRJU1]:[Z7WZ572159U%]?F[V'J?97B,!:A7F,0\"%XP@NAL@C/L MRMH,4KK6`#9P.C-%^JT?RY>0S6'E!1D``+E,%][\"OJK^F!Y"OJ;PYS-F^(\ M^SB\P9,7Z#WI`*=G^NF`!2/L^[./PBXHJ:JKK*VNK["QLK.D,S,; M@P4S":)?MEVY,PH$M,7&Q\C)RLO,S;GZ.GJG10*(=,*$5NB(M%_<58*!O/K_?[_``,*'+BIS;!!-!2`&(3`BL,K M@K(TL/*GA94&8`;)<"CCC!5>AH1E`!/AP@PL@[ZL<&C%PB"'"1J".#,HC<4& M6$`L),BSI\^?0(-6JN8!`@0&/!3T^/^CI<$%AQJL0"10C8D5.@H@_/$"X`(= M*QJP,CBT0@$/L`<(F5EQP8,'#0H^"*KV-9^&C$$,7L7J0:C?OX`#"R:GI)IA M#7`A%E`0H$J5I'U=*+APH$J,K'\.7!CPH,J2R60.&5:@`:(@-1K" MPE`J5Z%S]P\)!3.J/(B`>;#OW\"#"]]$58-1"#S@GBFL8!`$!4S^.%!`15"/ MK%Z2FKYBSQ"#:BO!#6K'8]#WA53+_]GR]8\2*#4&):4QO+[]^_@'LPGP)\1! M07!$U9\"+3B'V72#@*!`9Y,I(0@`W14B#$[/73"&($S\]\=S0ORQP'_/0?&' M!`I0\)(55>3_I^**++9X3A=C39>!@10M9J(@95S`0!CY)*B`8Z1=^`<2"H!4 M"&_$@#$`@7/]I\4,%WSQ1S59""*,5M/=F(4&4@#CXI=@ABDF*P@.(LQ4U?CP MQV)2_$'-#()P%T$7U"@```$V5,.%:!',N&$U$"FX``$$>,`D5BOLO/36_VMO%U3, MD%86O0)`2A_!""<\)ALE3`9"/@U@0$JK(&3(G\(89ZSQ<%LP M<-P;SX[BQ0&&9@6'%QNGK/+*"6OA&,LPQRSSS#37;//-..>L\\X\]^SSSPC+ MNX@2Y:IC0=&*$`N)%BX![?33/6$@3**)9*`F!+@BHD6RCDQ+0,B)'*!L(QR` M;0@$&G@0Y2(*Y(E&(E2$".&#P'T3`7DA#MDSY!P@I M0GY%"3,L0`(!"PSP.19G7+'##$@XL*X5QAORA08?D$`"TJJW[_XKE]NRY`R$ MRHN%@SYDX(`0!&B@PA4T*<3Y)(>!V1UB#%=PW0QF)+Q#B"&!*(G(%7;G)A"L MRWG0$PW]"%```!*!@F$H@PT(-8$$6D!H@[A"!'QP@(N][X4P3`49JJ`"&%#@ M!C@P#2'"$(&Q#`P`T$B"`QR0N#BM``6"<,$%TF"(#0P1`%7@1@,U984:."`! M6G"<%83@`*'=[8)(N`(38L`#$(A!4S&X`@]6X(`*(`("&;C"!Z(1@-.E4`$- M\$`08LC'/HXB#KO_<$,)FJ(OQZ#L#Q:@`@=`((4%0$`(?#@$&)AP``Q`1`L> M:,,!0K8%QU3A`!#8XQ2G$0,`%"$#7H##!A800$&`P2AGF8$&"'`!"(B``#2@ M000%X0`P(.!R$&`!"-BW(8^9809&:<`)$+&%!BB!!A#X@4Z(Z<=J6M,16'B` M#D3@A1PDH`H9@``=)@`"/[$!!2BH@@$'+O`"#7:B!+`@&D$8"MG``'@B@`KL4Q!8\ M<(8J,$`+`9A!`9!(B"`8)0!TH`)R+G#0C%[SI3`U!!@"4(8K)"`'5I""_Z'^ MP("""H('##`#%,ZB@`)8@095\-(22+`>#P`@#!$\SCRV``5.Q6EX@J!"&2`P M#^%!X2OL@\`5+M@<@)Z&!&"@`P](IH$2&.)N?\@!$LQ``<3X``>`H"%..A$#W]X00'F`0`= M_`$'+$#$#`S@ANF(PZQ_0"P.UM"-*QB`B85@PPS`!2<%6!*K?Z``"PQP@`8\ M0`86V($AX%"$'JS@!@V@0`J,A8@F;$$,#QNL=*<+@14$C#N&X!$2)I`%6TC@ MKBD4A`6$$`0"F*"HAZA"ZQ)X54-$P*_H:I24B/\Q#8ID04H?R`)JF9"`&0BA M,36H0@30(`TS`4`$0I@=!3(@@A"08(^%D(8%@B`'$G!@NAB&*>&N-4=#=`$$ M(Y`2_10QA@M`(5\C`$`$#H&%Q&7@`!_`+0SVQP!"26`!0W3'(`+@0D$48`!8 M!'_0@0T^QUC&B/G2UB3:K"A]"'41H&F:R`(: M[&B)L@VB`V\;D9H$H07_%PQQB$00@!W^\(3=98#`0]3=(#)`!$S[^IJK_K6P MATWL8AO[V,A.MK*7S>QF._O9T(ZVM*=-[6I;^]J%R,`[%I$%"Y`:$2].A;J^ MS91@7\+3!'"!&\*`!G2CX7B$<$"P9P!A1Z`0%DIP`[G_X*=&C&$/V,8V$OJM M""D4SA!:0,*Z1G,-0V3!6Q````4/02@D^!,17[B``NXMB"HP8>*3\(4M5D*- M!F!.I(90T!\XT#\/C`M/_DK$!!;`<56LV@H0T,*%TZL`'3("!#4/.+,SC8-**N_,_!2I_4@>*%# M&PE!_^><,D.',QH""PF\0I(%D<%.>TL+:.^X%;@`IP+-8$^*.,,!9E"=0H@A M`@<(0XX)96Y()&`'5Q`!!*@Q@%=OFQ!"RH)`O4R%+0P@`Q0`,^2JE`4ZV-T5 M*P`X`H[P!PSXZ0M5`D,!`D`3'WPY\8\S?+07BX@/-(`;F)2#XW?X:@>DNO(1 M`8`"6:`%,"00`+LH1!4V#Z?H?/X,9\CH!S"'8QZ`FB'9YSR6,`/D`P6SUW-Q M,G$2L`O)0@!TX`!4D`!(4!'"5PC_$0*LY0I?(`$=-_\$8P!_,_(N?R`%C;$V M@_!`5V!EA5`&QZ=]SL9]Y@,$'3`(/-($CH!^3!$`;K`!!"`Q0L`6E5%X;K)Y MK7,KF^$`=4<(GB0$N"4('F$`]#$7A"4DD3`#`K`>G81'#C%@".<`,W`#*W$! M-I`$0B`.&W<(,#`E8`,#,=`*#0`['$`'-I`;A4`&("4$6(!`#C$!0Y2!9].$ M+IAL,$@(%;`"+O`'```2`J``4@`!&>@Z$%`&+.$@./@@$C![3%%/A3!)5Z$! M)K`"9E`#%A`#>X(!AU0(,29)#8`"`K`!6V`46D@'%\!IBW`&%[`G"51VCM$% M*."'A'`!74`$&P`]'A``;1;_'X<@#=R'`JRT"@WP`5#0$#Q``DB'$'30!2=P M!!!@!C@`;V\$B(%X;(/(:C50`%J`!73@0VR``$9Q!&JR!>KC&`$@!]Q0B7^` M`!(``G#P!V3``'6W.5A``QO@`@#`>7_0!A90`J!7"'12!0'@`3J`C(-P`W?P M!U`@`CH`BYY4!?P0/!`$Z M80&F48D'X`!RH`$+275L0`4$L`5XD%L/(`)+:0@W$%^'@'YV&0DE<(!7P`$F M,`81@&>P0@AJT`!,8`$,P`4*`'"$P`8K,`(Y20@"D`)D0@@#-0]U@`$/A`7S M%V&;B6>>>6Q9L`!J%@%LU`0E\`(%XF&EURY9$(`1,0POP`]*H'`$<">#T%N$ MD`89,`>]60AM9V,.H#R4]P#C$@U#9)V4()=E]P<3\`(`D/^5&S<&0V0#9=`$ M,"`"'U``O3D'#7!&W!<"J*D*2XD%`W`--C`VYZF9)$99Z\EL$U!S":!^5X`2 M<,4(#3``BU<(138&Q>,`'G!R?B,!:*$@$9YJGH(8D2I M@YJK$2$Q/9$%$/(!S^(`,?=TVU#_",$W;KRT$P]0M.ZK=S:K=[ZK>`:KN(ZKN1:KN9ZKNB:KNJZKNS:KN[ZKO`:K_)* M;`@T08/0/0GD>"B80"HX,'^Y!5+R!518)5MP!>,WKPA;*1O`1@XP<((0`4.T M``)S!>3C`.M#"&(@`@N960"0`0VP`AP@!B4@`26@!`O@S" M'5_Q.17`FPL)5X$9-Z_YBF/EF-:F!&Y4M#=#`B!1`$T#/56P?W%B`X[QEW3@ M`2O0EAVWK!"]!65;```"X`%9&XAL!,$L`(;<@4% M9E.#4`'5Y;85M"$'L%1GX`!PX`!G(+-ZF[GX,0:0E05B(`%8`#M9(!<&*R17 M$'/F<5>3J8<-4"6.XR\DJ[FRBS$]B@@8T`#5.+NZ&RP`RTRYN[O`&[S".[S$ M6[S&>[S(F[S*N[S,NPX]U;S0RR+/&[W46[W6>[W8F[W:N[W^[U%&P@` !.S\_ ` end GRAPHIC 56 y04313a1y0431308.gif GRAPHIC begin 644 y04313a1y0431308.gif M1TE&.#EAD@+P`^8``%Y;6F5D8Y".CI63DC(Q,7U[>JRKJHV+BD].38B'AB4E M)4%!00("`JBGIH"`@#T\.[RZN145%1L:&6UK:E944YF7E;"NK0L*"=G7UDE( M2+BUM,&_OK6SL@8%!:*?GFYL;'5S'5I85Z2CH\3!P(6%A$9%12DH M*&%@7WIV=7!P<%E65#0P+TM)1T(_/H^-C+^_O]#.S0\-#1(0#_/R\J&=F^SKZN/BXN?FYM/3 MTN#>WO?W]M_?W^_O[\_/S]O:V=#/SL/#P]32T>7CXO#O[BTL*]?6UJ"@H`@' M!W=T(B8J+C(V.CY"1DI.4E9:7F)F:FYR=GI^@ MH:*CI*6FIZBIJJNLK:ZOL+&RL[2UMK>XN;J[O+V^O\#!PL/$Q<;'R,G*R\S- MSL_0T=+3U-76U]C9VMOKK[.WN[_#Q\O/T]?;W^/GZ M^_S]_O\``PH<2+"@P8,($RI."B=2K6J5:(HR$#=RG6:APA7PXH=*[2#DZYHTR+#<(&LV[=5_R\8 M4$NW;J\Q483*:*"!AE\5*FCHH*&!2]_`%2SX9<&%BPW`-&RP8*'#AH4*?AMS M84'#@F;-+`18;DSCK4*8:BL$N[-JT&03L4<)+A2I<9%U)T M."*A2YL_96A(H!'E`5`O4Z9I0Y'69(>=!!4(*?/VAX,>*E/(/I(N"@ MD%!#0OGR*"S\B3/%2P047D2\<$`C`9@30HU@VX`$IF*&#$'9L,8%"WAQ@A<9 MG)<`#6?]P44'(M`P@Q7G!87"3Q=T$05U**0VVQ\-4/?"3RM6)U1;*%`G00<= M1"#@%D)!!Y0('PE5X(]`@L*%4&D\<`$-%X#E'/\,!*B0A1I_N($%"B*`^`)U M#$A!P18Q0&``"$\H$4((/PGB``-S2-'64C#AQ+4\0<941`0E`2M3E`'`P'@!I0` MA19K;"-G`A4"""-X8<41FS+@UP(4H%"&A4`UP6H#($Q%PQI_).O%!&N\.0$# M&=BD[5(WB7&KP2UP+X@']LOPTWX@"50$7R0JK7(H3!" M`:F&!084<,+%``IP'"'"ND`I\!U0'X0('-#-P``P--P-O!WD"?;;AM13]`0004*,=`S+Q*H`0.=H<%@R`F,"`" M@C9W8$%;(G0@P1PST,E`T(>GKE;1I;]77@1>B#>"`#W`A6\"^=5L$`$5/"!&L4`?T510!@8\8$RFQMCV/``^I0 MND%<;R@=$(D&%WD'0C0!=O3_4RA.MRH/ASHN.D>!I2``(`$IS&@&#]#6!"2@ M@#D950CB^P,4".J6&5SK#VM8@`*:F52M)1C00D!8#?K#H?2:P$@(.9/.`BI"+R@+1UP:1-2<$;8 M94@0@'H+%F>XSR;P#`57$."P.,M;=3A4A09(0B0%H516V>T#8(F`"B'%JXH) MXJEB68"@!-&""*PK9E-0@5][RUUP>)8!4!ON"(5HNM#.@`<3Z``J'Z6`/[!A M+%']P-P&L8&VS$!WZZQI=_BO.M,)J;1H`#L4N*D# M77@!_P&1,!8"?*$0&\C`=`@@T\")(#P_,)U-^4MB;?AW`2,H`H>.XH$_"(!T M$A"!$+V8@@`T;E,2B$$`+O"'(!AE"C*@JU!X<$P'-!/""?:"!"AP@@=4(2B7 M*[&4L^'0#P$9*5WX@E1F$*U4_2XH$9@!-,&RHC\\C"@+:`-(?7KA._V$!D:P MPB01-V5J_MKOOAOW"H!!8` M```<@&\#$$0!-&58HRSQ#P;X&E)B`.XJ8(D$OWK.N1DP8HBO`PT5$($(;)!2 M09`AYB*`:2%N\`(M_D$%,@_Z"P3A@:#+/`@UGQX%6*`1AS8S`G`P@+;?,C<* M2&$&5WCE7+[@`@JL&BE]`$""0:2Y+(5`"%;;'GMSW%[09AA!ARD+8J>+X@-?:'XAQA#!`H[B/+$@$!H!YZ%`/_5A46]@=A`"=P M5!2#\`)*PTQ3110*T`(!D`+0Q0`I,&[&9H3L8`!B17128`!M]@?9!BL,HA6$ MD`8=,%^#(`87((FLI'\3,3(0H'#0D2IKI@!.$(?8)X6/(T%#$0."D`92<#*B M6!2H$6D_(6,)<`,.)XCD8`=S$`>#4`"192&%.$J6^`+X1`S1_!]AS(IL_*+?_`#W+$`CFAS$@`EA1!4MD((7=0J%/!]^P=Y"J`M M'<`SFX("%Y!Q82``+1$28#$%(5$#`L`!A!`&.`@".B=7%2`(:_`^`!`>0;&' M-U&2`@`%CZ1P-=`66"!!Z:B.M>`!(!"%?W`&*5`'3=@)-:%^?P`!-]&1A.`! M-8&%?R`&TU4(',"3+F830/EX^D0`SA%56?(X"E!67D@((220A6"33:`I1*0( M/S0#9\0K&\`(80!'$1!K'8`Q@0B3N1`MS#,&79!E)%9'6/4"8"$PX88FQ-@& M)*>+B4`&,1!>#%`%S@&4;#`]BKD%9)#_!EM#'I]W`1ZPF"F%!HMY!B$`%G70 M!&W1!4]0BVXI"]$B=W]0'B6&0NDS8`Q`C`LS!UX`!PZP!5`P!@X`!^)QD!WP M.S%@3PZ`+ROX/Q@BD4MC%"A@)W4P!2F`)#,%7M+"4=I5A*%Y"]$R!UMP`2-P!%50'M3!8!'@GG:C ME-%)"YO"'0#P!J4I5ED3%">0B%LU!NT$``.0!3?S(0@T!7@W!`KW,+F)`BQP M1K$19.>!G`X@_R@?L$P7H`(&\`+_3!A0CP`$YT`&9!B*6A7=T8%END@.3$C=> M()8B,`-'<`1H,B8I4&D/\`"$J515HF2Q6'8_83IV@@`GQ(HG=?('IO*56P4$-9BN_$H5'5`#["J= M[CH&'\*AN?$`FA;``Z_H':I`2*#$# MFH(2#[(`55`#/%NT1GNT*4$#06@2-)`!2I8!4O`>KNDZ7G`#Y?`%7)`!2(L2 M"K``!+!7*1$=4A!(0W&'5X$"";"=*TL.9@"BAQ",Q2!Y?X`!_?<9-?L/,_0% M87!7B$!Y;D!O_<=Y=3NX@ZNA:WNXB)NXBLO_#V;@38O[N.;P!;P'N90+D];8 M"%)`!)6[N^TNKS;"S$@=6#P`E,P,6G4/&0U`47G0P%P`!?P`+W[O+I@`R(0 M`$?P!EY@`&60`RU@"&/`!3[Y,4<0FVV@MM!;OK,@!P$``%!P!OF1`S;U!2;@ M`!D`3<\J`A(``QJ`!^:[O[,0!B^0`36P`Z?7&*U'4@Z@2[8D``#P!P!0'AK( MOQ#,"@)PDR$`!!)PP5>`(Y?[!WOP0VE``7\0`AC``GH0P2:\"@8`!0NP`39P M`17@!0!``*M60'7#_P/MQ0`<(`(;?,(\3`J4-0`5L``/P`4B,`1VXJ[7Z064 M52YB0$10(+H]',6;``&:)0(AL`5<<`>QJ8"$,`$OD'];,`,"$`B`"Z%$`9-"50T,8*"0+@%38D!'^`Z<#``=]L`5.LZDQO._;`!6S,' MB@D6'?"Y7]9W?Z@X(D@KN*- MX/A])K"T`.(35!%@`=;)_]Z"0#Z)"C"PI%M1/6UO`BX54]7XS=SG49(SE"PT M`=J+8..&H+!F+8\_L40FSL_A2MX_`0-@`2X2/@AD$@$X+2W^R"H?`E-47J^( M0#XD+A!1?@B1JG_H]E@=0`;,BB,+X-EB93`$`"MTLL%;0T#B^KF/52<5(R`L MKMQ!TX<_D6M"T2JE?`AFON0V5"4=(*I5(D/8XN52[N!_O@4U)#Y93NAN?H\` M,^=RHA547JXU7A0#?N;XD.:&@.*&\.2?7D,QRI ME%5XQ&XP`6`#"W`"8/#5S\4`74"K8K.=_/T'",``/1`;0!XTQ-[L";``U&'J M(5X_"ZM'@@#I-G``(0%2#W!AU4[5F'XF/R5`#Z`VP_UUUL@&Z%R\Y0[O'="A M#T[FC(YN8+#S.Y_)[GX/"4D(GJTYRKU]@H`@U#FI'9!Y#=`6O$?CAG`& M.RC>"W\&"!3QY!I_F!R4Y[&[AE!Z0R?T['S@@D"$B&[IWO$3+?;6CV50;O@A M%W]M('(]'3"YY:Z("77S%R@"L9/Q%/KS^.`$U#'$C5'_`S^1R1/3UJ3'!0%` M'7)'[$#!2T]?KU)?"-]Q`3+PR=1!3@N?GL_AZ7\0(72)'&'P!907GEY?^HC` M.:F+`7G!`)EL]E%RZ)7^E1@`('#O]O.#?`QN;7]0`1?_'N^,=WEO!G!$+&-@ M!*RRNT3H3>2#Y(*O#S:0/OBJ1Y7T$W.`?,0^8'Q_ZRF^L)N2`>0+,)GW6%]Y M!G2B]=;NAR:2`2F0`6$@+)_<%NR'"!P^!:\1+<8$"']_(@PS@H(3#`QFHI;?R$,%TK&6[_$/Q0%>+.)AB=_G`0I:C4IG$,'?[X\ M<*@H!YYE8L`Y['`$S2%"G3PIVM&(8C@77RS%VM0AS2$#%SAQ43,I!K%-##9\ M2N6I1JR(2TQ>N-C+9+@"W9(J7 M$M/YT/\7`S0BB(@P@>V&R\!?4QU.O+CQX\B3*U_.O+GS9FGBL'U.O;KUZ]BS M:]_.O;OW[^##BQ]/OKSY\^C3JU_/OKW[]_#CRY]/O[[]^_CSZ]]//+CB6!IBP-^,--9HXW%`,""#(!C@`$LX'<`A8TD,A.`)3O<< MLD5,#(Q`3$/A7`"'$W_,8I0B"?AB5!"G<%UL04`HR:<2$$@`F&)W`RD$P=BC#R!RI& M@@*1(*AH_`<:75S0)[TLM^QR>!0+XL^SQB`Z@P`X"Y`!LH/(5'+#A3S\P;2* M!&@M)CGCW*?%C'[+3!CWKE8:.20S_]!$LLN^K/767#^7C\GZTEP,HE"$%\[4SS(GA(S- M!7Q0``P[9_V'L`P8\`?4B39KDA=`$"/QT:DL(+KH9GEIT@/-\"T!MH*<884B M5Q\KN.&TUVX[-*B(H.2^4-AU%5[%*GJ!6:`PL,15WO:J>0>C+Z!!,9_+[33T MBF1Q@NA[,J`",UR``<9$RI]%"`,(U$JPXK>GK_[ZQ.P*-D+,ZLM`!@(KJKL@ M/YI4@>:SOQUW46"C'@,N)@@S[$EOQ6A`),:@$I.=81(7@`"+-M$_]EGP@EN+ M641.P(`(H/^F$=ZZ@.6"=ZP.X*4!BI!!,*:@(\U)01G1`R"KRF"B%S'M$"!+ M1@(Z)@@.:NP,A#@!+XJQLPIB\(A(S-4K&,`J5\2D"S-PAR(^,"<2GB]KJ)@" M`P]!BAG$:A+P.D8,M?0`!\S`4Z!2!`$O=Z\7)(,-L!``%S;`0M3M,!4;PMJ. MDLC'/N8JAX+X`@_RMZ\'9,6*]5A6&!;B.47`X`\.2P8,?B*]LOWAAE4+H#&" M0)$._"$-$;A2(,$1/S^:\I0T@I,A/)&&+>BE+)[@UA98=Y:T<*`.L/0$66#9 M%\>`ZRHK:]%?_.(1SM#`?'\H`&&4@8;2$`8$=4'#8A+@EV7JBP#_HT&E-K=I M'S%XRV4@Z,`0N$G. M9(`"%N"M*0C"`XH8;O*RN8PC0``#51",7"9+W3JIP`M3R``LHL"!H@+7*S04 M@8G**$'HV3`:U`1IC^5\@MS$@0+:*RA`?#`>R4P@)O^ MX,X,FUD_7W`!#J@@@RV$X9Y!SK(RPA"`"?S@`1,XP09ZH(.4C'D9)A`!7&C( M!14*(@PF6L8&)-"),`#@#D-0`Q)"/&1/M$$#8(``#8;@@!,X`]%NH*$+&"`! M!LK!`2K]@A$8;`PU)+H!3,B!"$#P@RXZ`X&5?#'";9`Z6=( M(5->N("@!)R,XN6D&%\X@B)\J8P&S"`!HCN`$?J5ZW[/9PTA6(`'TB#_NA.D MH`D1>/`6V.!@8TB!`P,#/";#1)@S7!C=/!@6X0@)Q1H/DW*K"#!A6@')#IP,S MD$$&)$"#`FRAZ^-\!A3``8=#<""4#"A`PY$1`P#(H`8TD'G1!P\?(=R!`2*X M!#3R\8<90&`+=SA\D@80`JLB(P!#%X$=W/``"KSU?B@71!PLL/)FC/X/%A#! M#Y0DA3(?(P$AH,?Y0H+R0KB^&9R/00AV7WG"__N>/2Q0J>*?L0`:+"!`,0#! M_J+1@`@DJ0X(N$H!O)`"YB(#`A+X@P=0P.Q#E%ZQ"A##!\2RLP`PXT\V.1DX M(,(!163@*F?X@O6AEX(1+$#M$TC:9G_/?_(<83&$H4G+``1A\@!Q]TG\M@SN M(!:!``/>@P($4`V@1&.@50/.H`>]]0<1 M0`?/(PAO,`+3L3<.H`*U)0@UT`5UQPP_@`(V8%]<,'3/L`(4L0>9]"700(,W M6(;E80%9!@-*-0TJ4O]#T_!GTC`&4>@)!E"#QE`&%\8%3,2-!]N/B,]1$'&:",S3`!(@!R#T``?%@, M`2<(:@`'V<@)VU@,(D4TT'B.[Z$&)Z!3#S`TV&!\T#`#[1(`,X`&=)`"T;`& M?,(!`B`#"R`'ER2`Z#B0Y>$(("`(3A`%>0`-*-6/I`,;Z-4,?/('/@`'5;#_ M`!+``]'P`2#`&0SP9EMEQ!C-@`UV5`?ER M,!TP`EN0@,;``X5Q!'MRD&3PDL@P!@#0?EOP`35`)1]P!UPQCBUP!6*@"F1P M!`*@;C1XEFI9F=CQ+V`8D$1P"!5P/0O`<\8P!@B``F"`C!&@$XO5#'?`,,LB M`"\P!5=P`1AQC(``]P`4#X`!'T`&6QPQW,(?PZ`R*UP(!``*GX):@D`$.,"1]:%QE M``>_%3'AF:`J6AP.T`%W55XI4)_.L`)@0`!"B*$:\P1FL0#WPQ4/D@S?@P$Y MD%A*"`8J`)PKFJ1.T0!$>@AD`)K1D`8Y^3\8H4D+L'S/``8TP`'!]`4`$`%( MJJ1BRAUBD&W04$H?8(?),/\&=AE(&7"08QJG)JG>KJG?-JG M?OJG@!JH@CJHA%JHAGJHB)JHBKJHC-JHCOJHD!JIDCJIE%JIEGJIF)JIFKJI MG-JIGOJIH!JJHCJJI%JJIGJJJ(I*KF8'069?AS"(A/@B;A"K+R((A$:K,_$' M*I(5LRJ,*J4&6$8,LYJKJ8J@2Z@L6>"J'V-)7T,1!&`L[F82JC`)/XD.P]4\ M"I!,7D``IL(C=(`.G'"EQE`#HO,$&-,\Z+H"?R`'Z-H\)7@,&"!?HU,!ROHQ M(W`'"W`"WC,"4%H,8V`#HQ,"YC,&UV.N"8*ORGD(#2`Z]$H,WE.:AX`!"P`& M(OK_!Y@F.B,`L1'[L!Q;6LC@/2%0`*_H/1I0L<;P!K;X!\BXFB,<7C,6$@;YV4L()P,*'@"3_K M$*K`-R;QBG*%M$!R!"MS)6%J=S4;#AXD"&0`"_F2.`S@5CLA$\00#D5U"1&@ M4V$``\I2"#)G.A11E,6``8VB"%-P`ECZ!Z%PK:-3#'40`:+C"0,P!5(P'00G M.AXN`MPHP;0KJ+3KR][$XH`I]`2$R.#"E3:4FKD"8B#0PR`EI$T M+,9P1QY3,OD2MOH03!RC"#,%MGBC"&C5=O70`:[@/D;:*X'4!V0I+Y`4KLY1!$\#-T"C:!@4Q05=^:\#'0#;H90"( M]R3A(`$)R#?R&P[T*UQ)DU?:AK]M04K)@`J9X1>.\;\8$\/>.`D$'!*J:PP\ MM`F/0@P5(``K0SD?(KS%4#"R`_\-B(*60L8`<*H(Z90,KO*2'[``Z@K#T/L/ M'\$`:8H^"E$('8!-*RP(`1"[8`P#W>HEM0EOWH*6/LP`)/#',NI]#B$;/LR^ MDZ,/`3`)G)M(WX(&#T`HBG,)D\S$Q``_3VP4(?$U*L`5,7`!$<"R@=3(0*S% M^@"$-,9D76S&[298;S``^N"5:'P^+HK+(N"RGH`H<74(2VC&BD``?M&F*/Q2 M0"P%N`RN4E6F7F``$/`1!21XQ>8L`M\V?*J(P,);,`H80"HN*_5Z+` ME,S+^9O_PW0#+;M\O_ACIC0!R6=,P5+K$%0;T1%8$'],$1@]NL>`,D,K57#" M$+KP,'/4!5V`!J0\T=`"`L04P!5-#(A22FO\QZ+B*<80.7\``/-3#^P+1V7[ M!X7,`*Q#0;Y@$"'%!>APQ$&=;DYLRO"6U;;!!4.$"@=)0V_0!D/T-30`#".` M,`P2T5G\QQFP`1L`!!O@`(.VRPNP=X)@U!&@(F6P)REZP?&S"1<`(G/(TXJP M?V;P)VD5OQRB#(K0I,6P3@P0``X:"0=0PE7S2'["*XC1,6:P*PE0T^/\+!O@ M$%P2P)Y2(/0F"#UMV,Z\+Z0BD#]S!@R-!^M["#O4`1R\P;%]C$S M8`8UH1)7[05=8$):;0R3L$?MZP4I"KK'0,5*>$#K+-&C_H-0C`P4L M!*(.4#)*Q4-XT`$HD`(04]5V%PD(?L2+$*L.ABB6]],Y7``;H"&18`R(LT,? MP#'LBPHH``4FLB=SD,8+X$G,,\[I=PDS0(@;,`1XS<2%W`%^<`C3GOF?Z)Q.%,`L"""H`#-?K$SJ[3`\0-!.:.5.YD,M0.>U:*(!U9%!+Q7]+NW M&AZP>[(,&[OGC&YP],0P`2$05[LWH7]`>2%09G>D"VM]24=F>3&DWA\-TLNP M]<-29C[>#`CN$`,3YO+C`&X`KJX]Y`6_K!%I!Q31>@7BO29Q#$0`KN$P!UV? MPQR,T--C`7/PP[5'I1+3YSGLT@YN$I@,]+;#C\AL#6$LQLP@!DQF`'E5#%#P M^9>44IZ@E;7I^0(`4%"P?*SN\SQN"4DCC#BSR'+U\YX0QO3`ZA?'_^J=4P$P M<*,+(`"=\P"4+FC(P,"``,+0,V4__S0'_W2/_W47_W6?_W8G_W:O_W< MW_W>[PR6(W^";6\)_3<^<#EZ8#&C39Y-H,EX3?PL%F!4,%UX=76228T!< M6%"K1H(Q?VH`B&1FQH@_7KS4@`)GPQ9FD/\>O*"!@@"7!13"B1Q)LJ3)DRA3 M?F-0@Q`>$1LHM7!`TP$=0@XR3,)#\T"(.0<<7)#2!M(/$4=DU&C38,:?,D/D M3"H#P\4&+@1+`AR!$A6$"-OD<,W.6"FK'Y\^C3JU\?*8R""H:^ M'"'@1Q/G21"\K%#_,.I($!%S5,@4HUC#3@A0Q;]%'*'17,K2H MH"5LC#`#1@(>0`,)!`SRAPA6I"`-`5M`(L<"!@$1)0TTM-`"'`74^$@#>)*0 M01W4[&CH)6OX>>BBC)ZG113_;,'`!X44@&<*'S"YR!<%=`#"-`]D@-!]DRPP MP1$S$!!!?9%L00!J+4B0!@.*4N+#699HX443"ZP!7093I%$`F8RA$$)%^H0 M\B6ID'B100%D3%O)%@O\`05A&RS`@"5B-$%IM:K4VHBX`="0``-#'&!&#\3(L("**`0P=`,/%17Q>70 M\``#7$CR0P=#7P`RR.J:;/;9:*?-B*0\;#$""@S$0(FI`D!@2,V1C!!!`>1( M0D(3!$#VQ0Y_U3%)'5*L@:\A"UC=B!,314S#"/\4>`%"!>HN$*-*`C-JLM^XZN!X,7<,"!X`10`>$I54>&J[@[<@9,;"P00!> M%.!;)!>@P,<903S=``81Q+#%\8RD$4,(1/!2Q1]?3$,`N9'4,`@:4G1-B.:0 M`$"#!/3\P8`81RBQ;A M<8:^O*7P`RF,(=)S&(:\YC(3*8RE\G,9CKS MF=",IC2G2-F``#X-.(=`SUHF,X M0>WN1]6J6O6J6,VJ5K?*U:PV@`M>C40,9C`%#]TC$0980`!FM@`U**(&(4#! M!0IPKJ=.E`RIRZM>]\K7OOJU"0P0P=:H1MC"&O:PB#UL!Z:0V'8]P@`TZ$`' M4@"^0XAA`C*+P`3B6(@&+`!L#P!!).:$BM*:]K2H3:UJ41L"5%`@!!]016P% M,`)4R$"V!1B;`&)K@]SJ]K?`#:X`#&;7AW($!6=5Q/\:&-`$!6A*$3086G+_ MY-?J6O>ZV,VN=E&P@)CAB;E:(RS0BOM0,5S```;P@B(-\0>.`FBNB<>-1+ MWOK:][[XS:]^]\O?_OKWOP`.L(`'3.`"&_C`"$ZP@A?,X`8[^,$0CK"$)TSA M"EOXPAC.L(8WS.$.>_C#(`ZQB`%<`R\PM;,1`45$`B02[M`E#11H"3RFP=D1 MYU,&2",$&(8&BJ$%D!LB:A<4^H&0"G1@#C)V1(G9\`=)3>&*C4BA_&R\3@'D M^`\[_I=J#G$7TIF!"Z7PZ1_,T`86^UB#QW.#6PL!G$1\F2N&0',BU,4%QA+B M"R;HUA]@P(`[K-D1_HJ3I'+_]@@&S.`-5*[RE1L`MADQP`M2^8,:ULH`!00@ MAER861T49($92)8&7!E:`Z+``/K\80)>6(`&)#V#<1W"+`R(P`+,]P5@E9I2 M?RB`6A.@@+1Z868K2$A+5O!K*:S`![2+X1L"L`!%J:'$I4Z`I&;`!6/0X'A? M2"LJ##`@?Z4ZTHD^IY7UJ(%?=Z$`=ZC:&]X`-Q%0X`(,D%"FJ>8!1F]':+AP MWZ-%@&]7P!L,?Q@``XYPB#1(ECOPKD6"MC.U>Q2`:AWP@`C@+8(6I9@%YF:! MI+S0M1W[J!`8>`&\I:`"20U-`K]&`"&4>@$)@&T'$A]:!'(3;G%?.-'0"%4N!MCM"PB@E;Z/#@`&T".Z-W$``Z3X`*T08@2S2`.\ M[;:!"#3A#R"(M0&87(]_$2+%$6/`N73.\3]@7<^,FWJ3Q?X%"/#X#T/RPQ?L M@#%WO:KFZ!SW(;):O<=$:LWN?E<'W;Q MNHL!`*=].05OB*Z;/?IW84`*"-&.Z?6^Z"9,PQ;^,?D_?/^``8;[PZ9=#N[" M:XP0'D`#GZ)^OC$&AQ1=.7-[T4<(I5<(<-`!_I)_AY!]LS=O[J(`ZF)WLD=H MXB=.#V=[=X=^[!986Y!N,R!T0+,#@84$2`!O,7%R2&`#%Q`!U:!U#+`+B/`$ M'2`"6U``"3<&6[,$6[`UN("`A<`'<#,."YAKTX<3,@=EYX-_<2`I4N`&?V"! M[D,`7_`%:R5[?]>!XX1C>E1G9F=>;:<'&4`UE_8'!G!]W,-(0^,%&\,`4Z`T M^L!"A2`S"X0(,D@U=D`(9^`O0Y,"I6"$K3``R;PCXD00G_`,S_F"!8P-T!P)<%0T40$.@`-SR0@"4%<]P`4;$).,``4.0#P?T``9(`6$D`$[ MQ0@BH$$+\0<*<`0UX#M^^4U:P``HH`64D`9=,`-Z\)%;8`'V,P8:``8B,`(A M@`2.L`(-(`!20"==P!T50"R6M05/H#([$`5W0"?F10=\T`A&(`31XHAG]0"& MN9K>M`8/$`-D$`5Y,`D3\`$0<`6/R0@J,`);``6"(`%UD`(");W>F=V_1\92D`/!.:C5`' M*Z,TZ[4(%7`!'5`O0],$H.8(8"`MYU*1D$`#(@H5':"BYW>97D!;#"JB!:": M$(I-91`!AE-78M`%"U":C?``:U`(XE)9A\E"'+`^-#!=BU"B`A`E*/H(J6,7 M+2JBD'`N)>H^A6"C-UI-!Y`!!R``:P4280`%,B"=\54',S"DA1`&#R`!TS"/ MB%``4T`\S+(^)+`ZC0`&$K```I!((@!G&UH($&!I'0!F5^`!]L`Q0`,'#]JE MU40#78,!&Y`#DI!6V7,(?%!;"Y`!F9K_"&D0+;N05A$`!AK`!@]I"!@@`A&` M`+I8`]S!'9;*"!+P`B.P;@4P!NLW"6*0`TS2#B+PJ)"*32^Z#5[0`&JP!2#` M#U-``PL@`FGIBEP01['XBHQ@!V'@("E4`R<`&%/`CHLP!C-P5O+1!>"*45]@ M`19`&`4@`G<`0']V7\(:"F0D&1!P%VN&`2II#6*$1LD8KXR`!"9T9P: M.P,A\+>5&[JB.[JD6[JF>[JHF[JJN[JLV[JN^[JP&[NR.[NT6[NV>[NXF[NL M1(IWJ[L>U3F[ZKO".[S$6[S&>[S(F[S*N[S,V[S.^[S0&[W2.[W46[W6>[W8 MF[W:N[W:[QC8#\!!'!@P"1*\`:Z&'Y_,&484!YCT(K?:TX>0/\`::(` M+;$&O-($'-"C,Q`,%L-6"]`%4(`!\U%7#S`#"V`=V_8'!X`*,K8&I76@CK`& M2I(IA$!:O7((8?`!J/`!%AP&9UI:P48(82``L3`"V*((:5!:->!%4'`"MT4! M(V`WS2(`93.R?YH0,``RN%;#NL4LP!4Q8^.1\>L--$)Y2^,NA<`%+EL(49IV M;,H%]L(!7X<3"V1E$O(',4`#O4O"-$L((("!K1=\2]P!>D:)ZALQ(^D`#_`/ MZT.RA^`[ZA,!GR,A9-!R07)_5:P^*``S>D8#:0(UW_4'"2`;>84+"2`!:<(1 M%S"018P-.1,&_JNEE-?$A/#$"P`!-`,TTK+_DX=Z/A)8+L*Z`*%<`"Z3+R_J M5(701X;0-$MLR9.S1X^*/GE(`T[1=:IP-S7$RJIL=E&Z,JQ,"'4@`4;ZR-B` M`H021U,W#0:0!9O'@?G2!/>0F86P!A'``W<0)%Q`@X8P&8O`!4GLQ"A0"@GP M=0607(D+/AS@C:Y,"&IP!7++`8>;"#9*RT[#!1)P!@D@+4(TEH4P`JO&+N=S MR2M#+R,0!:W( M!<<'`1+PS8YUR5Q3#SM`""%!"&\P`A+`'04@I^U\P1'`'80'YL'_R.8R?M;@U[!<+``-<4$9```>D409+<`+>B`A.``<0X`9?,`0OT/^^ M'P`^&W`$:.$`-\`590`'3#4&&``#X^4`)X`=83`$K,T(9O`!4(G;?=TU8^`; MONT`P$UYAHW;A!#,9F``<)"JR=T)$[`%,1`1(O`.%1"2%:"M$AE](>D%W5)B M$K%R<+?B7A`@:>`%"B`%#\#A!?<`4C`##^`*#^`%6?`/"3`U7H`$$?DTSWK7 M3]$$^R!K\!61J;8`"D!?BY`&GN8AI<7:GK4`7B`CW>*#)T@(!J``O980"S`% M$)@S*^QIBYIK!##EJ*`.MU`#U38#BMOAWU(HK2*GAC`-TT-]T^!%W0/HA`[H MCM!^@#[HA,`&B[XL_1GH?^"/2NCHBUX(BCY_A!#_Z8L>)V1`*"-@`!>AYZ1> MZJ9^ZJB>ZJJ^ZJS>ZJ[^ZK`>Z[(^Z[1>Z[9^Z[B>Z[J^Z[S>Z[[^Z\`>[,(^ M[,1>[,9^[,B>[,J^[,S>[,[^[-`>[=(^[=1>[=9^[=B>[=J^[=S>[=[^[>`> M[N(^[N1>[N9^[NB>[NJ^[NS>[N[^[O`>[_(^[_1>[_9^[_B>[_J^[_S>[_[^ M[P`?\#;5#CHN"02_">U@L`*O$F$WKX^`=0[_"))RX(6AK='Z!VW@!5-0\)\` M!:8A"9C9M)P@!Q$_$APIMI)2\B$R!2-I"9=H&!;_S8_&\9Y@94K$"`ZB)E<; M"O[R`R81$8M+"',`!X2Q_P4.<*Z+D?$OD!(TH?"-(AE#@)"8?0(=.3TE.]FNQIBDU`#8R1P1HL#59O&,7P(1. MDFD1<#2/-L)OD`540P"S]^>/QEAW^`<_X)J(I@8)9*%ZL(Q#(P6P^0=PP``J MH/LSHRD5`/P1\*E6P%@$$`(Q88-=\]*E-0+5F6D7(*=JD`4/4.;GTN6HL-*$ MT/]:J'`:A0`&I64#YB-X*YQDJ/`'.P`(!`Q3)V,&"UI_BA4+"R%@BG]I)Q5( MC9"1F7]@(2-@;XH+#!L;=&!%'S9P`#"5M`2!`8;:1``U881%`4#)4!!C2B M.6!PQZ)*`W^\,.A`@T83!A_^0+G`E$8$*6O^^.B`@H;_H"8B>_X)P.`!C84C M2C+XEXF+EPX*,/Z)()`&B@MI_B1@T(3&@@XSQ/SY&<$N`P6"!40,ZR52L#\_ M%G8EH[B`(AL=@@6+&K:#EYD,D$8#HIE!@#!_1$6@.\C)GS`4E`:;P7)HA+@J M7?_)(UL!751.9#.@D#4,V6"J-T0[O"9&,,__1K#N8".:&*HC9'/^8V-*,`() M%(F88F,&`P("I#.8H7L-A<.(W*F)P$(1AQ$79E`B5^.$``J-9*4(%#(TLH!$ MDBQ0'08`9E7``G)$,\("+,FQ0`$?+$"!:*]EN,`'`KX&0R,A"*A&?Q!\8-D( M%'``PPD%"!9)!2?X)^,?'P@@_X`,U:TA0",?C!,&#$H)`,$B!<88B1@Z"M`` M76Q%$L8'(H/+'1^(QP$49386T:$E>W*B(6PR`H`@R&944E`B+E0$` M#2$%HZ:DL3HGXI\.E('T/SQE$0CS9#L8IHH)H(B<*;VDB+O`;KM MHZ:6)$%X()#43[#EFMK/!2'-%-50'82$#*.:B#GIM(QJ&HU2*/S`03`2(8," M`!S05?]J5X+P=19088015U,S<4A./]>&69AAE"HBFUF/2:6/671QYD5C8``, MKJB9S(3*4*6%ZW#+D)Q;6E2P!A-4RX<26IH7O^ZL;6F&:I912IHU(>-3+6>\ M;DA_J`QL:0J@%@9$I3'Z4VD"*F6>H&YV[;5!R`H+UA\`9*;9`(J`$&J@B'K+ M-3)!L[6J)G-K&]1($6PPPP6N*G*US;_>R]-`_#KUU`AYADJW6.8TA9Q:2H\< M"3($-"5*4"$@1T.SBCGZQQ`J"2O1=<6&>2Q)HH<5I[!I13LMG9&(4BN3Z%S> MMB9D.,VVZK9.;BKHFQ*^EF/T9F+O\,+FW8[DK_]Q)FK:EHK_"@9Q(;HV4+>S M0_$?:XB99=])H=[QUHY%H*;D)4P"`)L6$9R(I(`!>;K<[-"R$ M"VKP#ELV4CQ$T4L4OT+&`;J0OVA\"4!2B(`'_@`'Y(5)`1A02@::)``#D$Y4 M8E!53[X`@/,(8`+\4TG?W%(Z@35"!CI*S(0R\P`R7*U2H5-6Z(R5O4]E:UI1 M"=NG-"&[:(@B$LCZP@2NL@"Z(&4H_Q$T%_9F92J602T,58Q2$XHX.$4(;E2L M04$"T+"OT@WR`*+0C/0:93TN?.`E35E("N91CNW-!3D)8`,YF.*?@#&1;"2;R5X0\M6$TD4B*!#OA3$P`8`2G_ MD+EW,0!M@^*4:<*Y!<%XH0L&S4"?;&*H#J[*EFWA90$8<,,O;$%5+74>1/[1 M,6`]('5I\/],.#LFR&&M5!%HA!;J!IF)5]8*#5LX0_1N]Y,F'(F9DVSH)'UH MJI_T@(N/M.(#.!DF1GW2'`_R#DHSP`"1]!1]?Z`*U$=,BPS*(,HMLA% MZ$TLGG!=@'>854K?2>0M0XB$WT)CRE,%*PL@52]B3>TV"6E"Z, M-*#(=:%28NA,).A$!OJ0BR)>R0`D1*)<;E,$&S*#BA:DT&P5#4872LL`9RHB MJ7N,QBMS8)$Y>"&M*HF!/O+PAS%TX:0@T`=2/*"3+1R!)C3M1P?_!K"%^PZD M'[RU!B_GT@$/;($LSA3F!+[`@PAX]`_E`H%%+)R70;[4(N8YG3)3]X7[RL`H M#$!-4V$WK3F(`0U2&/!6>6<[LJ+")9'LB!K>`@VB`7$*"2:#%VH`K(K%(5'& MRT=`KM M@E;_H`^)5'%U1]$85;80AF"L9)GA:B8EE3D4S_I)F9ETS$K8:#QMLDT4HFE# M!W9B.M0*Q`U_<.`?=LRH>66")$H0TCTV4FVB`"#6)T"J7U@@OFX889O/0"4E#.:PP^ M,BF(1C'YVX%2NA"`"UR`V4;P#!0J0"T#2"&ZX.:=L+@F);)]ZNI;'R%;@,!%]?)Y=HRA#9KX@@2ZH/!RJ&%/D/;D6MZP)TV884_; M5X09VK`G6GYA3RM_?_O+(';]4W_^X)<)&,`%!L`%J<9_)M```:@(_+&`")O`%8>``8?8';=``M88RO_9JL48.'5AK`[#_!(X@[6F&W^``>,6`,]'`T>7%,0Q MA#;@!4WW.0$P,AD@,9'0;Y&0'>@P!CC@!5(P!%$X12_@!0%8`\7B;B(`?DY` M`R,#!RNH%Q=`."2`1((`U2A#P$`"C((<_I``^C@%AWP@7_Q4O0`$WTF\BN8XX>7U? ML`--00,3\%'UD`!-@8OW@`RAE9-(N8YD=!X+(`BUDI0MY`02((10N6J'85A5 MF95:N959_D.`O`/_7"4]&`![E@0<@`'YF4/L.8`!D<#V6D/#3`#S1*-"0H0 M#?"!">&@!#$&$-J;ECD&46`!D64!#O`!)K">[_`%+B`%X_`'+)`%0&0/36C_ M`8,Q`Q#0`%T0CYJ`!S=83@/P`B)0F^_@`4;@`"DP!5QP`&,`!OMY;3AP0_M0 MH.]@`0F``2-@!4WP`OOH0CT@`@^P!!?PG_00!B/`!D+Z.1(@`$V``_>`!T<` M`5*9!`Z@HO<0!B_``$,@;"Q(#US@`B(@`!@@`C(P!`-`E>^`!`Z@``5XEO9` M?T':`?&G:@(`$]S3!1-*#PUP!'Q:#WC@`'3:;UT`>%EJ`-"S`4;0J.VP!>47 M`9'J#J7&!1M@`G!P``5A`UA*H04!!`?P=BWX!3C`!0M`G>Q@!@UP`$R@;6S% M#G*@HENP`%+0!&CF#B+0`!\@`Q@`:W-X?UP@J.SP_P)<8`4+T`92X`!=.H[] MX``9,*K1<'ZXM@0\UMJWNP`(V``HL0*5;D/\#JOH..R`"%+`%.Z!=/Y`"(P"4^&`0`"0I'%L/ M;S`"!/`"6R`"%Q`"54"4]!`/!\`%13`%`/$&S\EV&R`!A7L/8_``8%`"-N`$ M3O`$^&EXQ=>2:>"$]B`"0)`$+O`&0H`&8+``*Z!J#0`&)U`#N[``1R`"L.D. M`B`%BC``>[`.9/L+(P`--`"W[:``L%FF!0&92P(0%S``#_`&M48#L5L.2"`! M%;`%#^`%TF:T]X"2W_HH_V$`0X`8[\`!-'`!5O`%3.`'"E`'<="UFF``%)`6 M'D``/4`!":!.YPM5"/`%M58`-*!A!%P.":2I%#"\0UK`*%`$$<*8J7$/AQ`C M-4+_`UVP!3?@F/5``VS14Y1&K;L#CZ"%!4@!5RP14]V#R/@R^P`%"QL_P],HE<3,"=H]!1- MY`YB<+T5,,3V,`-C8P]J0@-1PP4=P`'*-)[T,!#0@@*'Z@X*X`4HH`)!D:@& MX1<%42[2@@%'1<7VH,>9,$+97!"GK`AT`!3(``(BL'T+,-#D0`:;LW&-(P&/ M2P]-P`$S(`#1)0$T4*?VL``3,`/1G,GOP`5S$`(H#1DH/0.MV@XI0%IN(`7_ M4-#)3`\AT*X$,0`SD`-S`/\&7G#0S@$0**T9YF8/4D`$BF`'=>K5Y/`@ M!1$'(3`!,2T"4'T/"X`V+'K8&932GRH%=V#5DT33V[H`<0`!:OK*]3`!CQT) M`]#6A"0T7?![#L`%/&U(6TW2[W`&9U`&3L`!X7%&&:#(T1`/=7`#+2`KKVS* MS/P'$[``:0`#MY8#Z1H[%!"@<@(6K&T=SDL"R@0%4&"W[8`&!(`48U`%:[`` MT:T)^OLC@MP%D/P`-4S"C%L.1UW2UV+:">`!9(`#P!W<=9`""?`7`="\%TT/ M?O`4/_`CO4(DBG) M#@60XPN0`2.@PH(AXN20!G40`2C!&6$``&]L#]:Y!FJ2XN0@!D:<`,T7#EY- M`5.@!E^``,Y4`!D@Y>2P!D>P!15!`EU@!54@`:$,4!$`/F+@T>Y0`*MIVARP M`C=(#_I[%@M0`P+@`SJ@)A`@`&1,#E]P`%7PY5F,!G``!/D;`6LPK"KP`UFG M(QE-RO7P$W3>#@1``D?`$GOQZ`"5`"E@`VS7`"CP!P\`Z^Y0_P:IBBU>=)X` ML04I<`CLHA>]3DBAL`BU,]L#8`'_V`C7N]^9(`;[D.0CR.1?8`$+(`$Z,`-- M&0$+.N7A6ILCXP4SD`$9T`B$G@G0,P88;8PC,P44K@DK\`%<0`<+P+=G8`;S M,-O6J7E^Z`[\AA0`'($W\(;TX*<;`)VT5#9>P`,PFBP.MP`<(`(:T`:J?B;( M50`SH$\6D5^-RPYL$`4MH&A1LNGO$`9[$@9L<`%MH`824.\V+P)",`^,@@9U ML#KM$`87-:P26CIS`!!I(`4S\``H6PYDP``U8`9L(`-=8`!1H.$!90`$D`(? ML`$Q4`;E\N^1,']I8`IUX.=<`6:V`$24_#>[?`%&2DQT`IO/9]^*I`!S/`&%8?X M;5*#VUEKQ_>AS&`&6:!O/Z"O]]`"/=``*]<""O"W[2`&L<:"-B#9!Y!KYJXH M`]$&0;$&4?T.$^@`1R`#;D"+1K#V\.<.`#")L-8`XP`%,B<%@PA0)@L(#G@' M2A1#7#,V?XN,C8T5'48F#ALG)HZ8F&&,2$,+`IFA-0X.)XMC!PTH9Z&.9QDT M>5Q39&[J\#E#H[]5J7XME+@;5%'J--@#785S@JIT99T;9'ROW[^` M`PL>3+BPX<.($RM>S+BQX\>0(TN>3+FRYS+FSY\^@0XL>_TVZM.G3 MJ%.K7LVZM>O7L&/+GDV[MNW;N'/KWLV[M^_?P(,+'TZ\N/'CR),K7\Z\N?/G MT*-+GTZ]NO7KV+-KW\Z]N_?OX,.+'T^^O/GSZ-.K7\^^O?OW\./+GT^_OOW[ M^%FO`96_OW_H`-!`QB(,,,!?92(4Z,U_##:(EP,,K%/@91PP<(0`&3FHX89; ML9$"`W4,."$4+;'"4HF9H+'%&6>T5-%,C`,`5ZT4&4K$#19($7#./(%@Q<<$&!75CPQQE2 M.-G!#(O0P$`77S)`@)H,=&#%(@:TR4`-F?]8Z:01NBS@)`,++BGHH-.T(0,# M-YQ3(`"SG!#A'X<&P`4$3;*Q)0->-,`%``R$\$<='62P`2(,I,E`%!L,,"4! M=EC!@`)AX'&!%Q#0T@$0CD#QY0!H`0(#,WA$Z+'(A@*AA`S,],>R M?_A9*Q<4,.#!I1\L(D"G?[3`ZRPSE/J'FAS\84:X]W`Y@QDF,$"!&ER48>%' MC&R;`2,?,##2MJ8DZ^^_T/XQX2+0^BFEDR)5&^RB7 M$90!X:P,1!!G&XU4>R"$"6][X+\H#QKPP,\^ZNUL&`%9:^/"X# M]UBL"QD20`-A'3__;L$C(P48R`B$,YF<\M."KBQNR[HDC>L?-BQP]")<+OS' MMIZJZ4T8"H@K]B)^ZB)&$[!"P$`,BW`@0,^,5*C`&HO`T<&`VU(`]=\<0OBD MP%-#Z_:?"`%2@$!)N$RD$.!B6\+#>"D,QA& M!0*4*X``>/\!A0!W?3T"#!5D*(8`(_UAP`C\57""#%`8($`!?\A]3QBKERO& M"`O4A#P%"WS0.B;#+[#`U;I?7_KVW'?O_??@AR_^^.27;_[YZ*>O_OKUS<+^ M^_.M43'6)\QX%@2MPZ$E_/RWE^^G#%C``&!W#>&M;GK3&``#LN6%0/7O_X'E M*8.?FA`W,FCJ`K&+1H`:L(`)"&`&HZL&!]:P!0>4H0$03"%YY/:`+7!@!62` M`!3L1PP.U*`#Q#L!#0(`@6Q10PPT"*($9)`!!610A4C,SA=BE($(0&,+=U@` M#0Y0C0;^H0H%X,``J[$?`="`#AY*P8N22$;KJ*$&!IA!'?Z0`"\$0`8-8(LT M5-0%$;2A`UF@00A.-@TV&*$&"TA!![96QD)*QPPP>,$,CO"''DS`"SZ08S3. MX(`,X,$-(DB""5[`1VE@`088X((`+D"*(`(0U(*1J/],IG(&(`4T"&`""SC!K#QP M@R[(+"0&Z`(/SD6"$'Y#!'&0QQCDD(`O>%&9Z#P.B_Y``1)L(0'\X8(D=U$` M`B#@#&$`0!70$,(T8*45:]`C#Z)P``4TH`ED^,#^TLG0X2Q`%S0`A1QF,,]6 MU&@,4!#"".#"N^)-P&NMR,,#G"`%,21@`VPH`_$6,*"&NC0X$(B#(TA1#0N( M:1$0"`$#I!`"-Q`C`3+U5"/LT+"7&A4_!CCB49?*U*8Z]:E0C:I4ITK5JEKU MJEC-JE:WRM6N>O6K8`VK6,=*UK*:]:QH3:M:U\K6MKKUK7"-JUSG2M>ZVO6N M>,VK7O?*U[[Z]:^`#:S_8`=+V,(:]K"(3:QB%\O8QCKVL9"-K&0G2]G*6O:R MF,VL9C?+V(Q`(V\"*8`8A MF`,#%J93;GT(4XM#G!O\E#`=.>D%9>(6G+S66RDXI15<#N'R"0`]SNY`$O"(%ZA3H!]7(W`>H];WI#(%-BQ&&]]&W$ M??$+N3^HUZ>+@.^U!H#?_/JWP"$80$X)O%[N0F#`/:WM;\Y)L`!H2ZC/`FF: M3B:`","-8)O3'9[^@`8)U.0+1R!>\1Y@A8>T8@%K_$,-;`".$4R@N&GJP#WV M_W,W,62@`RC<3Q-H@`'7":`'35C=(GR<@;)XP$#W@((/X,!+:7@@`QD@("-N M)P`%9+EB1:S"(K@0@0=L3FY87EU90A!1`7@!!`(8`0UXO+K5*6`+:PC!A00@ M`P504<*[4;)-M"0`#-.T$1%MA!?52#"04@!R(+#P'S[PX24K(,0OU@4(_,:( M,D1@"U*8GP..((&6CF[4$JA+HADAYYDN+`U5&$$C**6&*+24&(?.1*[_0`(! MY.`<'P#!O9:FX1"H6`3>`(.6O/G01:CX(`J@&Z!O4R>C.4(`,?A1"C0\+@[3 MP`T,*$NNPS`'/]8D6D#:=28>"@(0!,0`"_A"`OJ5X?\1R#I:C0[`O5>]"&6[ M.IA^F&FVVBD-=3=BUP8X@0=,T(8+%"!Q%6Y$`O*P"&3_00,J'MT`SK`"N<3! MFQO`\;1O,P0'1,`+4NB9`%Y`BA[$?X^>!,Z`"Q'Y,)U0=^%P8G=B"TLX`PB M*(`7(''PK#?"XHV8`BF\`-(0>),+(A\Y;4KRAU`*H+B%7H0;U!WSL!,>0`$R$`4P4`.Q(S==```$M`8CX`4VL#HPX`5X%@(*L#HR<`3] M`(94M0$M%42FY`ADX(86P0@)0(;5."X),AF(`! M(/`!`KF09N60H6`&0E``$TF1=/4%,R!>')E78E`%\Q.2814&2C4-!4!!)IE7 M,X!I+5E7@A:3=;4&24B34!1:@-/>F3:Z4K1"E7,WF4;D4# M):F4;#643FE6%!:5:^4!WD255L4!8Q0-?E`%V(655Y6+]35)#["18"E58=`# M/G!NH?`%%$`#)GB66N4&/```O$(ON#@+0Y`*!B&76Z4B(M`#.!!-%/5F9NF7 M6>46MX:8C-F8COF8D!F9DCF9E%F9EGF9F)F9FKF9G-F9GOF9H!F:HCF:I%F: MIGF:J)F:JKF:K/E6G=2:L!F;LCG_F[19F[9YF[B9F[JYF[S9F[[YF\`9G,(Y MG,19G,9YG,B9G,JYG,S9G,[YG-`9G=(YG=19G=9YG=B9G=JYG=SY4N'X;&>1 M!EMP1.*YF-G0(EOI&"G9G6"A)EH$!=X`5?T@`(E6H1RX`!V4'(.T`!X:9P&"B$J]@,B M8(!>,`6E`@(E`F**`/O?6?4Z($R6F@;A,!O$,WX3*()X.O M.\L!7))E=L8`:U`D((6@0L<`)$`C'0`':N!I$5`\W.((";!`!/,H.P,*7M`% M=5%=\LFJ5C2R6M(U?Q"I"VI<#:1`6D("&"JJV;BI7[`#CZL@:J`W+24!#&"# M$-),?Q`'E@90HB3Y(DO2V#8Q@:+NNKO-`@)<\G,%>I MN$L#7'XB5(R[NW?*"!Z0(-Z44SNU.<6;J`'<"$GSMC4;`P6V=^C[!RJ06U2[L[-0O/!+ M,D@H-&_SL^$B!400KS>EOX[`OW_+%CH%P,M+&B'@J;7EGF&@)@]`!G'P(2.@ M*QU``BHB`7=C_X17O`4VLZF#^Q8>T`0)DP8=T`4WNP,>,Z,MM`6TNPBPFZB9 MD,%48RJ@0`-`]@=`-&X M6#8TW+D=D',9*[I%12`Z[!+6MKI>4R%7J0%>(`']NS!@PS5)C`X'0(9SVPBK M3`,@8)ZAP`9R1@,Y1PQ.$'#2D&<_&!9Q0`)'8DLTTA("62.$M`CW&%<&Z@3A M4A464F21R@`9RP!7$P!3XB8%4BXV,"4/$`&]_`?3W"5-,J.^BRFW7"ULFPE] M.V1E$*D;K#1.H``=0`--X+&.D"]Y"+I=L#E]:\(61C9/0@.@VT!D(_\!0N0% M%!`Q5K`%!N#---RS#�<(+)\@L-=?(`[J0F?M.T!-`2O_J>U4(T6T`` M%Q#(>]O`Z-``P+@Z1W!K++TZ'Q`%T6``"@`#`@`#4<#$F4`#,38-$O":64&O MKP@'VR@&04,``*""#[<`$N"BC?`,<54&6+H(:2HI`&'57!``T1,H9G``T?,% M=;``O^`$KZC+$+%Z&8`!*_">;>T'=&`]<5`V"O`!5.<-2%`VKY([^>D'`%L@!*#+ M%FH&`=`DUA.Z\9O#YD*K3D+6>>,D`/N>`%W_JP?P$?^+RK)W#1:`%5.9:Q0` MDIG`!A$`U7E@!(R@(C+"(V3P`#?;$HM)(BO2"#,0!C&2(\.-(DO6$F6Q1):R M"P+`?I-V"8LP`6N$8M[]!Q4@!9O``5WPIHL`/=V*6FDZ+%_8%6ZP"5_0!A_Q M!@YDWXSP#YO0!OJ=EUE]"F#:"%]`IHPP"V9@!MS@/GYB@V/`!4%9U>;2#0[T MX+-0X&S9"/]PHWU9I`!&24`"$C(PCNG'"#"`8>I,;XL@`]S5`E/P`:0``!>P M"*H@`RU*#T?`<@Z``T'P$!UP!$V0?E.`!XLP!&#K`"*``_-@)2EP`ALP!5AF MA:T0!J:7:U.S!1E@_Q`R@&%2,-X&\`)IE*ZJU0:$"I6=@0$HX`4%P`5VX+3Y MFQEFH`0*L(U;,`4F,``.$`4HC@E3=&TA\`5WL`?T\@:A-RX4>@<`<&X80%`$ MDNCF8@!3@$]=8`#:AP6N:M8( M7)J@H:*CI*6FIZBIJJNLK:ZOL+&P&%(C(1IP(D)9IF-@#5PP=U`+&++'R,G* MR\RJ<@LC1Q);U%^C80("'PL!*B=Y7P`/:*-B-0L@%#1-#UL9U%O6I`(C!FEP M2\WZ^_S]_O\`]ZVA48`:_X@"2Z"<>H+BPH`($VC0X!2PHL6+&$%]8+#F5`$: M?S@8$'.E@8`*(^J8@I)-`0.)'$A!//J[2$%2752('9R,H,,6#XQAR@NZA)"!)9:L M0,H7#^PPP0@:Q*%`$+4EYYL-0827"AY>++4!`@_T=PH>.:B@!`9T>,'>*`PP M>,$,,S!`@&PCH$*##9K$\6)`-'SBR@(1,&C)#!V0A@H7#&RAR`XHO,$*%Q(BA$B@%5O!$#&%X(0`(1$7@A`AZE%$#$&$<8 M0]^>B6V!0P,.9(#"##;@<4$74@@@"@@H.'#"7#+(X,4I;0@@0U,T>`&'F:*, M$8457S!@YA@'J&(&H$VEVI0)75+J!9V*?+%`!JMD<$+_=4,\B@H#BXC`!51. M_D$#4J=T<($7R";KQ1P*<'I1D*\L`-P?7$R:"I/!;C'90"LC!G301BIG1+!!(Q=,"Z,B;'B"K2+#GC)"`?QRT0`#-R3-!6$8 M03OD88Q4JPH7"\BCK2)0C_)%T@U(D/003JRRA5.-;,L*GC)DD(`$"--`QQ]J M_!J*!Q%PL00*2!B0A`,FN)%*_Q@.'%"VP8@?C(<9B@@@U2E0S,"%"0-\(,,) M?SM@02D;>)&#`$!``(=8G1[`6A9_?8%##00'U%0C6S`PKBD>>)(VL:;P^H<[ M8PPM+.ZC0-%%"P]3VT%T8

M?*J+#`#N)*>4D=3,C3:5`I38`IK\")T+T$' MW8MP00UFH\V(VJN,`<$7%22`PQ\VH$!%*C+AF^9A(SY*:]*2R M:$`W5[K2!=PA.T5\0-G(D((CW-(4\VKG'^J0Q53H#A3"#`40+#&"(W7`2`MP M$$8HVHH-1"`3SCP%%QI)-(&*@ILA550+-@<8-/[!JB@-JUC%RI)+FO6L?-1$ M:]3R@`]T1A6M,8)$%E`RGPZ0&H!DJ`$SRA.FL@(,38`J7TG!A<<]_G+8`ZSF,=,YC*;^E*6_K2F,ZTIC?-Z4Y[^M.@#K6H1TWJ4IOZU*A.M:I7S>I6N_K5 ML(ZUK&=-ZUK;^M:XSK6N=\WK7OOZU\`.MK"'3>QB&_O8R$ZVLI?-[&8[^]G0 MCK:TITWM:EO[VMC.MK:WS>UN>_O;X`ZWN,=-[G)7A`SS-7>Y_3@!!E1B`1W` MPGO5_6T\2"`"(0"#GAJ`@BG0&]P3N,`1[`O0YOZ;VE]8@A<&,,L_F,#@O3W< MP=?\A0)T8`?LS<0'9L9@)$RWFN";.^/%L-Z&7H)"#%^9=>5N`Q=02O>@\5\0% M8$[>*3#@F$\ONJX:02,IE3(Z]S%MC1!@8 M0+KRVN`"$,B`3M].YBTDG1$4Z,*"TW`!(#R$[V9&PP-4`M\H'+*\[>;"-A$/ MYFKM)$Q<4\"`*2L23<0(ET.@/)@]P(@M2$%P"^#H;F/P^48,X"AT.:CHQ>P% MG'2`])45@P@RT'I&,(`"?UCX[,O,*!0\P+(<:((4Q#""/#2"`UDD0P>(._PM M?Z$+46CX2>U#`-DSHMU_"((,,KX7-(C@_P;5!S$/&'`KRIKA`01@N>\S8($Y M;&\OO-P`^=.OX9P1P`L\0%DUPU6:``6B@@4/L']W$09#$`7YQ7\=%@ZR9`)= M(`\?H%2A<`"AE#@M,`5NIPD4\'($T#I6$08@H!,0Z&%U$`%^X$M.`@&]!PI> M@(*)0P/'(PH+(`%-0'5X@0'2D%8I2&$1D".*,"MB$`D%F,L`8655VG8``$M7EAD`$?2(89!GTVYQ9_ MT`32]`#N9B9@(/\!F0`5!!5U4R%%H[``6;@(4D1]?X`5?U!SR^``!/6&BN`` M-(B(&C8!"I`)`D")I*B$9N&(BP`&/Z4(+8`"1X5[S/`%>R<*:``"-&`Z([=Y MC0"#3A>"#"!SH;``')``P+<,3+)Y!1`%1,2*%N8!/=4(&!"&L[@)7O``&$`# M%P`"UG"%BP`%6R`"'?`$^X`B$*<(=^`%!``''I"-)`<*(-)!?^!"!T`#70!3 MC:`$.G$!F$@!I9()[<@"7K,$+\$(-S`'0*>-&%8]H&"`X?@'``R')4WB5_R!!P##`I4("2"=8($S`%0Q`!;:-!5\(7_A1(@ M#RC`(QO0!8?("+AX`1F06::H78P`!5C(`-F3*O*'`X.X"&S```.@@!8Y85PP M!7:H")>H"&8P`'-0`,<1.QPP!H!B@ZDR`+W#`+Z8"5:`+**@!E\``:M2'2TP M`U&P`3)0``:@``^`)#X3`AW0!04@`"(P2_O("'?I!2>P`$0 M8)('!V-@!AO1!3+'``NI"'7SFPPPDAN4";+I_R]<8`4=0`-E(`-.8@`7P"E, M8AR-<"I6IS9?L`$;<1_",@5*`"BI]Q>`TBKEP@`.T!`?8"",^`=6H`"ZN9L1 M!@;'%PHJP``CD`!3L`3SYE?&F0F&@@`$0TT7$`+.J0A:0!,7H"<@D@`MLI#5 MT@&<4H\AXQHHT#U;<`.-NEM`!!*!3=2`1$[`%J]$(:+`% M+&D*;K$&4L"#8TIA"1!8H+`&)-H$.]!P2&<#&'""8^B8$U`DW$0#!I`"#."* M-,``&/,'4"`#1H"HFJ!2NQH*;!",I^!'U)`)IB@!S[H(:?`1$F$`I[H,"Y`5 M(@"$K=I@1"`%1>D&(2`%.2!1HL",#)`"STA0[LI!+]=8%C4'=_!X4V$!(<"O M/^$&"067Y9IA9/$2H8H%G#H"MK9B`#_IBROM8&%]`!TNJRNO9Z14FSN/9<#'#_ MLSAK:Z9(=SW+:T^IDT%;:]+'`*M8M+96`1F0`?.HM*TF`@X0`$\+M:J66)US MIU8K:[$#`Q?`3%LK:PEP=4;PH&$K8E"H-L^P`&20M@RR@6&P#=0P M`GD#7R)0!]W1**+@!V;830\``!=[#100!1+Q``K@`"VP`&$W3N:X`!MP`#FX M4A)0!CCZ`-$!`@\0`09@``2`@A(!$5_@!#.@%C0P_P,[!U0$%7JDJV(,0`8E M`P4/X`#*E4S_F(N^H@@4\'BO(PIDT7-=`(JA4`?6JPAH,#W4XG9I,+V*Y*9_ MD`;3YSN[,QQAL`YON"TT0`#-$0<2@(G%F@+:M[XBQBM20`3Q*[\A-3LPR`@J M0$,+X(L60("@``'NQBO/(%$K`S?RPLLU,!YZ0('^`4KLP(!\"SFT``BE`%\,@*:N`%,WO` MBQ!W7R45*\`&)4)-`,],"$8!>36D*"4"$JN5VPLP!C[,%4V`@?SP"VE4MP?(";NP% M8&MTUNQB3TH#G5$`%Y`"8@"_2"(#M0#+$9`J&0"BH7@!/9`J4@"ZC"`'@>(` M"F$#)_#'D-D+40"X>%D4&"`IH7<=V5,&!B`#.)`JV&,@!A"5#H"-7_`!!;T4 M;A#_7G^P`U+@`!#`!0>*B?^,8ON[.PY@%S&I*L&B$*K2)5#0`!;@`#/P`43; M"'(`!\^C$`)SQ(OP`#,I$YFB*8NUR%28%`Z4F@D`+DW1)7*0*32@U330%`(Z MDULP`LFBT4.=UWJ]UWS=UPT&`,X3$A(Q3AT`&5\UQG:T%"K%0%%1!F4POM%A M%C&A4O`"SV?Q!P!``TL1`A)@%RNDV!(1'1+AV)D='?`\V9HMV%(!``T0$Q_A MV6M1!F.X0NFV"&2L"`4`MJ>0`!QP&&50VL)RV2JU%!\1$V1``XSZ!Q\1SK7= MK.<$SYH`W8VP`=F:,7[]$U@($D;!QZ+[50R`2L7JQQ$Y_XJR4RT,($YA:8J3 MLMV=8*#>#1+A/1>G&QT$Q2]8&!\$!7Q8N-YQ&'SNS8GP_7D_ZR3%FL0[&XJ? M%SL=!.!I-"D9FT98F;$!'A<0T`4=%)98Z!20VN#\0E!VT03N;8H@0:+EC84J M810&;BV-T`T0!@\`D8``9(,08G8`.?H`%@0`3* M/0)R!`;S10=@\`9O8`4)L#,\;@R0&Q]IJPCGL%@KL`#Q,5;GE3X&@&E(@)>X""O%P/U"WQC$+.D$8**$CMP M0#=8V,!U:@=O8(YOG@%N,`"&6O_F4?@'5_X'63X<:;``/5`$O4P`I"<"6"G? M(#&VLJ,&<'"O1@%\ZHV_/06)3H&+3Z7@#N,%$4`:=;I/-OYAV1D*FVM?95`\ MFRL/3Z,(;8!>F/4'7],E=?/&>UN:V/4'YX7.?2L/^\(XO6-?_"+M7&`-P]X[ MPBXDQ?X';V`W7Y/L:J#KR5[KYG[NZ)[NZK[NN18&%/`:K2`&D8E4%ET*E;Z! M/,&%%@T!]$`!%1"\%L$!`I"-[$X?=K"SJ-0*"GY18:D*(9C'[]T/D,IS)&Y1 M5?L/G`[`!9\79R"L8KB.HLH(9$`:I2I_?;P(?AB.:5"MCJFE+1,L#5`"'_P% M6*237_#_7I(*"T\*JX[)>XF2#1?0C*L`L,>0#0"_\7E1(P1%B61P@E<'K$0# M$55@+IGP\+[G!2C4`K1+4`P,O05%`KQ'V%.`0F,0$1*AV)`ZQL>M3E@`$AY0 MK$U`'<0>$210W$KXJ30@]\]1IZ'1"!O1!/5:K-8BRMU4R):-QC20`&U``V81 M'6+`30:P0C0@<5!0IC3`K,'M!P$Y^8IPW&5D&]TTJ1;030R,]$!1`2C```B` M%)"(`G,*H\)B44>`"8W`Z>83.\!G?D>U`%A(>G9@J'/*`-P%Z':9O9:`M!@@ M!S52)$1``@05]`ZP`TE*)`S0`U_#\#`S!I!H41*``6J@]$7"_P@8$/0[4#6_ M\`<'@(4*$/1S@N`,+P5*?WQ0$/07=0&*\`,=P``S8'7R"@A_#`P7'8,74'\T M#"-_>!*#@P]B?RX=4PM>#!Y_G9Z?H*&BHZ2EIJ>HJ:JKK*VNK["QLK.TM;:W MN+4.#`F=##-O?V8"C(J_7&:A9YH77LX,+V%_,@P9G3`,`LL,`\(S#"%_6PP. M?PT,-)U##F-_)KR=BU,-7&T**&5_!K]FYPPI7`Q\&H."P1`N7!8P:/"'RZ!\ MG\ZA.".J00<47,)@Z$+NSPD&=[C<&&3`#+8%X@8)0/C-W*4-9C:@^S-A$#U_ M6XR!^9/A`@2$*L]-)@(2V! MP']V+?@2ZAP63XO*)6#@]=.NHZ$^`O"DR8&9;VY2+FCWD2'=!V\50BA3HD@# M!Q\%AF!P))G#Q7\Z=&@P^4):!R*R":WF@)ZTJ#R9PP<38-L--3$QM?Z3ABF=/!"PQ"R M#_"$LLM?QC"D4".@6.?)%PV4U!)G#)C@4`>=[+.=0NJQU]X4Z961PGY>C)73 M"]ET+`<=#5:..-..:HXXZR*,@`"GS\\<8B)%PW MRB)`>-)=2B,$PP<8.YGWQPZ$_)%&!!=@P`482HA#@8I*-.,)`P0P-B0#1?X1 M09E<:$*@90S\=666:K@I()GMM'=$!RY\<9@G:>P'U%%(_E%G>FK>-R4##ZA) M0!I"TB`%&H)@?`,;P!QD=7`""`+)*\`<)#$P!@PR:I#,.2KMXP8$`Q/2R MRP4"B#&95P[%N09=*+79!:6A#%$-!Q"L]4%##$AP*R@0#)(!M6L%_\#8@=3* M6L`7=C#*(A8(@"8,@@5G42W(\1S`1S&05% M@N`N[9*A4B=`1P)SM*.4T;/0%B^2#CT*$XX][(GDWHS0.CN6>0``Z$9<[ M'L.>5=S+!'0S$0+KQH.?>]_/0 M1R_]]+",'8$!9%A1#274FP))Q=V'+_[XY)=/R].0S,"]^9\1>FO+"4CK%G M#4=@0!/6]\(>^O"'0#24)N`4@$]02P`T,D#%IB404`A@#7^`PHM`T2][J<%K M-.!A&*@EF%`H$11AJ$"V-`7%()KQC&CDF\`^X2E]:$T@(-/:=GBE-1J"(C+[ M.-L=JV8YL*QE$&7_A$*,(@&^-!KRD(A$E;G2=@&!T"4;`JC)#/Z0-71$D@$> MFXM*:B*U3RPB$F^R&"&HY;5.,(.4)0)6-03@-40E\I6PC*5R=D&`^RW@,'!8 M(-GZB,D_3*8)G1A'.?81`4\$9X[!U%K..O$ES"BD8B%J(ET,@`8I<(,[#)"" M++?)S6[F`@-V2F8Y%H&9C@&F`)U(04<4TKD_!*=+GQ@'`P*PL$9VHIH,@"=@ M#``%0;7G3_+4$#'"X((!&=@(((1(`!JP9'!#&`E*9$\(-T M>H$%^)FL"`H@*]09D[*>8,%D>_`'-`3!$%*H`*6@X`74ND$*%^CL'^PPV2", MY(.+#:YP$1E*4*"!$F$<8R>:$`&(L((-6R!7)WB8AEM-"XF=Z-,"IN:H+*H<$"`1=$&"C;X+5!1PA$.(@=3U"$! M#H0@&`,&@0%@F,$H9K`;AA``*60`#Z(80SM>0Y$.3'$4+T``A$>Q0`.D)0`? MV#$HVO"6,&!T%%_@P@8<`-51O`$`%Q!!ATL!@@NPX`4\_,0:7B``$4@``/Y+ ML9@//`$0/(`]8VA#*!(0A3'XR0!M^D"31P'D4CS!&5O(J*@HIP*`3%6`` M'41AO_O)Z@076)XH!+``C>'OQ*`0`0?NEQ%1H*0,7`C&F#=]8"@18`D+F(($ M\-L)$$P@$T$0P02VH%G_4!2@&WB80JM'@8&==.K(GC@#<`N0`E%X($X$&(/' M'%!<.=A2`1380AVB+&1?VG(*>2:`"++GM_U>#2Q@!#2(@`06 M8(#H@L(#TOC"%@BPA030@%H3C@=!AZ`^43CA?@IH`A0S&0HQP#MU_@5%>E`R M[.)"0`IYG@"C;S#K,:TZ!1F`P0$:_HD%'+'9W,ZX=ZE%`RY(`9V@^!($4(D. M&M"`(9_@0`3FO(`=HH+?8R(;#3:CQ$'0H(OM@TNG0!!7U'%!!'G$C"C.5A,4 M;*84"S`YR#7.].XV809;4$`8H)"!!YC\$Q68%@AV.-Y12&"))@R9*#9@\IO? M_SH49*`!"H9)#%"4@0,F;Q[=NP!;UWG!!42#,@3AN'FFN,X!T`(()&`' M3@!%`TS>!&D+0`<^0;ST6RJ'.T"5`5`"`PWFVHD`[`$("D``&*1@@!U<(`A( M.,,88D#0(P2`"A1I((2'E(A(FA+7:5C``=BS@^#<@=Q.E`X$QP7$)B`.``$$ M@`(&H``$L'2>H`(4@`82$`$A"!44.,U`# M4C!79Z`6`(`#)9`"#C`'?P4!#F`"8X`$0V!5`1`3(G`W`M(%7@`$VP%SU>$` M4I`."\13H2`#!G)K!0@*4M`$7<`#*0`%JV=KGQ`"-D``'S`#=P8&Q55M.8$" MP"""9(A0#&``)=`&:`$*RV`#(%8'`0!GI#`$$N"&.3`#'2!"H&``=J`A%R2$ MG8`"`9!HGM`!"&%!G@`%"M`)%V0`$"`#V_4'/%`#0V`#%[`$(%`!!R`!(E!( M8=`%+>`!71`%3Y`!#<"),.4)"[`%=E`&,/`"#:!F93B+VT0.'Z`"%\!G1I0G M'#!47%!BD/8'%P`'Q<$%9?#_`%]H!A!T!0YP`;@V`A'@`J\Q@[4U60\@#68` M`(_Q"5#V)BT@!7@P!B[@`DO@!:N!$!1D`R/P!040!0X@`3+@!H<("I^1`D;P M5RX@!3G@`(5$B_YH2'$B!FP`B*#P!0\0'@\@8IT@0YWP!=)%"BM3)J'`!@QQ M!GG&D)[0!C'PD'\%`M*5!E)@`7(P!9TC!EZ@``&`$!Q@`2M``7]``#/`&):G MA8=X06W#`'50D%L0;__8DT!$(!6@D%#A!)ZW%&@`*6>@AYU``F4W`FS@`912 M!^OS!3M0=C1P*F7@D0;$`1CGDU[YE6`9EF(YEF19EF9YEFB9EFJYEFS9EF[Y MEG#)_T(&<`6CL`5-=`J8%A`6-@H@.`IF((NC(`=#$&8%:9.Y8&0(`0$=MG^' M:`>&B1],\`D@I@H0\)BU,`8F()1@1)@1T0)QV989H(M[*`5S)@I(D!97(!;6 M$`IC8`!YXANU4`'AT052%R(MHD*?<`(W M^(L70`^'.".D```*`!.U@`$RMHIA8`"+$PH\5PH'L%&?J99C$`08YT".X`6^ MZ0EBD&?U ML`4H(0'QAP<V\-0P$?0@-'$`,78$W]B'8Y\`!Z0`LB\/\";N``0"`&#Z!- MH:`%%X!.H'(`)]!P7J!MWUF6(,!]=#,%%_0!%_@)&'!$'R`0:3$*2>D)<2!\ MU`("=``%,]`FIR``(T`!A)D&^&`#<+``%T`"M5<+950'*!$!QR:BHS`MPE(! M73,.U&9(QH%[U(`*$`#"<"1`P"C+1J6!.E.-UAM.1D* M!6"5@K&C1B0`8V%'FE(3V*$IC;<3/6"DH=`M-D<##N@)35`9;1*FL-`=*@)3 M9714=4`M:=(=6J6 M!`D"4N<):Z``BD8*@*HD`@`%#=#_`'%TAJ+@JB!``#1@6%63K*5ZA31P-0W1 MG[,`;G\@!@)1!D?79:$`,OIFP`#`08*5: M!B(`G0HP`90W`FHP!:;``&2P!18F!G40`F3@E'9)`R*@`_A&H*^PBL'W!SZ@ M7+2:K1'``1\@`%'`!3```BG0!//U"7WZ;B$7B:H``A^0`PUP`B?P`&G2&,4D MH!0@`%(`@G>ZKSXIA%OP`I5U!@20H7]0:V"0`*2C!R*0.RA060L;62)``7*1 M!N-``:@E_R1@,`;40@()<`9!X"<\J6Y;L%0UL``.:`#A8*!/L``V``,1D"== MR0H><`'W$P%2``)=D&=Y-EFGT@E]>D\3<`5:\`4'8(5'1785B@$$0&JH4`"# M)@(:HGVB@`<'>V8&3Q,!H2P`4C M(*I8`4B0`">F1DNB!#2<+908`0%7E"H!>8D+-)`5#2.^L7)CG9"%G\`%,Y`#,&`!!>`%868# M@T>KM/4*;%`;G@`$,Q`:#2!C!]`.A^H%HMD);'`!@$G`7OD%4P!CW#@'DY6C M4X`@H*`'M]D`+?`!<_4%36`%4W"(%I(6D_D'1/P);>``4Z"41.9`7+!XOZ'& MDKD`*>@`Y=@#(A`!L#H+*'``[M0>.#`$UP@*7+"(TT@#$A`#+B`"'_`"\N$) MG]$+\]L)8\`0?7D*VNL)80``C=!Q%2?`W"<#[2O%8;D$);R0L^8#AD<*#>`% M'=#$?_`"'O`%"8!GDKL%;,`8&G"/G_#_!0%`J#HS`RC@##'0RWFFE"2P`&C0 MS)[0KK%0!L%6R&8``N<*%P6P,AP@`QL0``-`!Q\``;/&!7FH"/W8!E6@F:GP MR>@Y!PMP!/Y3&0&0`%(PKU_@!5&LRC[Y!3`<"PUP!,[%"F/0KMQJ7%MPFZ9P ME$KAJ@(0`0@BT4=@:B&@LG!Q``@PA!B)PJ'_0IV1`L(8"!W]1 M`)4KF5Y@2PLP`_"+"V3@SC'%T)W``U1=TUK]/_.ZU5[]U6`=UF(]UF1=UF9] MUFB=UFJ]UFS=_]9N_=9P'==R/==T7==V?==XG==ZO==\[11?`%W2U;$+'4^2 MF]7&)7RM=9Y]O=BN<@8YX`);&'\FYP`X@!GDD!861L,OT@8XP(-_<`=`,`%9 M@`)0%3$5P`:HP=BJ33);T+YF,`"2O1-*H*7K@8A&Q'A_4`%[Y0EN0-!=X`0# MT#"6*`!?(`)6O-K(K2I;L!UE$0^U-`5SA$E>8)R0`3[!&@*K*'5MH@$U0"VY M3:?)'=XUL@4T(`T4L*`(T*L(C++=[ZG2-H MX`4```-L&@)KD-[S@0'KXDIR4,GQ8-US-``$!P(`,`!L*SATT]5B&6$&-[W? M&,2M1Y<."0!5W+H!F.P)#7!TC--%Q?H)K9=V)LX!'&"2G?R50S"?&IY8=<#% MH``"0EWC/-[C/O[C0![D0C[D1%[D1G[D2)[D2K[D3-[D3CYT3Q[E4C[E5%[E %WA4(`#L_ ` end GRAPHIC 57 y04313a1y0431309.gif GRAPHIC begin 644 y04313a1y0431309.gif M1TE&.#EAI@`.`.8``$M&1:NGI+:SLC`M+8V+BV%>765B8A41$9*/C9>6E2\J M*)J5D]32T7)P<#4S,[*PKRDD([&OKFEG9B8D)(F$@"`='7EU=#HV-H:#@71N M;$1!01P9&8%^?,O)R9*1DFUJ:5-/3CTZ.J.AH`P)"EY;6DM)24U+2T(^/1<4 M%#0O+5E656UH9O3T\^KIZ#HX..3BX>_O[WQY>&YL:]74U.#?WWY[>A(/$.7D MY,;%Q=G7UE!.3M#0T$],3+JXM^[M[*RJJHF(B,3!OQ`-#IR:FBLH*;RYN*&? MGG1R<;*NK=[W6%=6]+/S*"=G(*`?UA55<"^O=K9V)ZEI5Q75LG'QKNZN82#A)N9ESPX-B,@'V]M M;<_.S962D<_,RJ:DHT1`/J^MJRLF)E113WU[>S\]/;Z[NG]Z>&-?7JJGIMS: MVH>$A+BVM5114<3!P8."@AL7%T5#1-73T9>4D\'`P`<%!O___R'Y!``````` M+`````"F``X```?_@'^"@X2%AH>(B8J)$7*+CY"$>XHW"3Z'"9&:D7H;-XI[ M?C&;AC=\IZBG1#V$"ALO'1U_>DR"#(5./DZIIT%_552G5$F[J8*\'7MY(8E] M`R^'?M)^`7DUISQ^&(41?=,/A$?3X^-_OH)Z"H18AJ%]I`@K@U(K]?;V?_)_ M4B@5*T)YLDB#<$+:'W)"NG1!4<^/(`S^0%QXD^="O8*"[('PDR4+PXL0\FFT M:`^`GY`.^U1HDF?2'R45W@U24>%(XN7`!=I48L`4U$/NG@H0:!_XZ M_*-"1Q\/9-7MZ*.#M:`>.CC\@?*!S@4C(`S%<`"[>Q_3!WM(N&4-%1&A((@4 MIY+E*7#I3Q0;>,W=*K0'_Z`>P_$WP@Z&S+#8`7ZIL($&BX$UP&`<;E#EU9T`7 M4BH0!W]Y$,)'@)*49D@?*"P00!H?!#``!P'$8```?U@1P@TX2`E"!`%LT,0L M&SQXQU9E?45<=GV0!0%LS9P0$R#))`'D.`Y\>$(]3QAS*?N3#"9RALH-E> MDG1I%IB#N#.F6#BDL<0L*?3A`!_R/"$"7T_L400!>[@0@0_0@&6"(!N@@,(( M>>0QW&YC*>.'`YJA\(0@7%"3!PH:3##&'TM((%8?(XB@`@IY*)`N"EX=]),* MU>RA10I_L/`=%>'&P`Q!;6$Y"'#88=-(!AQO'F@!1(0<-4>`>@>0-8:2,3:P02###"` M!3G$T88>#O#\`P-^@*,"$C-RA43"?ES"<$LMZ,##``;04-\?`Q1&@$SA"BK( MQ\9&4`$?.?R!@`.(I'W5,1<),V\@5@##,@A`J$AP<@/(%L-9A"`K;0DAP$ MP00C$\0`WC"(')``!.@3A!"XPA4R].UPA+B"!-`E@2D8D!`1L`$0"L$#>;#@ M6!""\'PV.?7QQ5."*`!:#%.]9"5,$`!`H(F*X`<`0,," M4$#*N/X0ABT&8`3M`XM+6M`"4/GA)RPXW.A4D(,#1$$U7/%#%'A6@3P((84" M*$0+N"-/=``-[#1@`N.4`,KFFI">D#!%@?!`AT406Q"B("_Q.*`.F!M:47( M0P)B4`$]*.$%6%M`#G0PA@#P0`\#V*4<)9,O%XAA$'=$BA]0@(:6">``H_!# MNC30'=5$`66'Z,0`\F`'T$#``N#YPPT44!@00,`+O.P#"!10"T',P#M0DE@? MEH@4(23!$#L`P0$HD+,&V,D*A8#!$"P``"8,04I8B`,,^B`&+R1A``J8Y!]V MP`0IS&`("H!#"BP`)1K(00&C(805'AJQ/C`AGPK(RDB?)X@6F.9GO(PC(E@` &!!P$`@`[ ` end GRAPHIC 58 y04313a1y0431311.gif GRAPHIC begin 644 y04313a1y0431311.gif M1TE&.#EA[@(]`/<```````@("!`0$!@8&"$A(2DI*3$Q,3DY.4)"0DI*2E)2 M4EI:6F-C8VMK:W-SX2$A(R,C)24E)RWN?GY^_O[_?W]_______________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M_____________________RP`````[@(]```(_@`_"!Q(L*#!@P@3*ES(L*'# MAQ`C2IQ(L:+%BQ@S:MS(L:/'CR!#BAQ)LJ3)DRA3JES)LJ7+ES!CRIQ)LV9" M#!X^Y-3)D^?.G#][`A4XU"=1H4B#VES*M*G3IU"C2IU*524&`04(9"VP5:O6 MKER]AMT*MJQ8LV2]-JC*MJW;MW#CRIT+]P*`NWCSZMW+MZ_?OW<5T!U,N+#A MPX@3Q[4+N+'CQWL%*YY,N;+ERY@S&V0,N;-GOI(UBQY-NK3ITR8Y?U[M.33J MU[!CRYXM6C7KVXU=T][-N[?OWS9MXQX.&KCQX\B3*[Q_N/6_KV\^?/H9887SYI\^O?PX\O'N)[]9_?S\^O?K[^^ M_<[X\2?@@`16Y]]_CP58X((,-DC;@0CFYN"$%%:(&H01_J6@A1QVZ&%=&0ZW MX8,'"7LA%Q M,``"$&AIT`("=`O!0Q4`D*P#$'%;[$$=#.`G!!@T9$&[K<:;W*NQ0I:!3A$L M8``$#Q!:T`8#$!`!!007;/#!!T>@J[@1"*2!`0\8;,!="%A0@`8Z60#``1Q0 M`,``''@`@0':.N3QQL8V).U=!QPT*``&U'J40N$&P`"E'2",,`0+)_"L0/W> M%0"@B`YE-`4!!*#`S_(V_:!>L,KJ&`,Y-?"?;AX\<``"6W?--=>Z!N#UV%\? M0/4''"Q`]M8-7$6``0<4`,#;!(AK@`&ZDOS0_LL2)+0!E`-I(,#'%F"\P047 MD,JWD`NH' M+`P``T['OAN]4C>VEN!7*S2I000$\*U!64ZD```)5'"`N!0X`(``@(I^\4,G M]\UH`1``_H'5`,#[@0:Z'I"``A/#_'T"HG_\^0<8!+!`!@A(+L`$15L0Z/\`#)3V9$?`"T&M7HY92P80%"`%(.!0M^J`!0+P@`A: MT`("&,`%)#(\1P(UP!R4K?[90`"%DQA!"5PEV*I,`-R`\`"/ARG$`_44``6*&!L/'##BMS* M>J;I`!83DK*WT.XQ"F2@0H:WO&0E+6D",&,:TW@7`G3Q(![8X`>&=P`(6`V* M?!(`!"`P.)EIH'=K-*,:DR8N-)[1C.(25\O0)[H%>$`"^[I7018GD$$%X&\$ M(6(#GO0D60U@@)42W82#10`=@VI M@`!DUA$+0""*'-AC3F*)PHY\46@.>$#Y\A*`,"[,=7Z!IEZ@V<"[8&!2&^!` M-K.I36Q"8'E1+`C@`E%'R`PL,P`464#)-$H2%!IA9*`'P2L!U8`("(`"F M@/8Q!H`RE9CQ&`%0V1"Y22\F&1B<-542+@$XQ&H+^(BT8*>!NT2QI@!@VD6^ M.``+4"J6,:R`-HN&30[8Q0$=VXL`\+FRO!A`F^$KTAC%A0'$6?6JB%N4\@I@ M$`ND[FY@C2'QCD>NEG*`A2/\0`EU)P!)NFQYYQM(!P[P28>%#0$&L,!5@^8` MJYY,=`20F4,'`E&=/%!QHA2(5R\P3`(@0'L`:^-)%V(YD!)&I"1EB-Q>"9/A M%0`#I;,*`A+P4AE^Y)O?PNF]N)=38QXP`@+8_F`<=[(!74W`B>2T:@9J^H`/ M".<`B!).PS@@UFJJ$S`&2"?,#@(!ZEF@AP_PG_]:1X$,>$P`9_W8HT3'2S@. M8"T(F9@`WK@]27H`>Q'@@`&XPM[R#8"]F_O*_08KD,)Z8'#>2T#XDIL`\MWE M=^?+6A)IF9!'OH[`EGT+9BMBTIDE'/&"!G.!T41=V;5ZBIL#A(4"V M=I)!+H[@+>^B[WOA_C MX5T6\$.Y#Q,)@9AJ$A8)!G. M,$=HQX$_XN4`.:D=`,*H%^Q^0+DF=BND/]:ND\48(634@!8W3<5.;UI6$46R M!;08M`I0L0,;,(``DOF`5K/:U0H8@%L1,J@?$^1D?59(#Q$\T9.R\)(%(>ZB MK]@!4.MD<#IF(I`!T%N#X)1D'4!6`-YF2$)^K'4.($!=[0P7D49NCQ'0\D`\ M<,(]FIH@#>[T!XI-XY]0X)?6\T`%]G@H@G3:`QK88X41HL6)H1!*5*2`"^VM MQ75C``*:)HJZQUUP@G,R95J4@*:A]&=;4=$@561XO+6H[@RSL+5$X?0X_DE% M;$X=<'O+-/('/LYEA.X%V(KF*@9@Q?*Y#30OQ@V8M@FPRE,H0UH\XIUD8`(4"-9!/0;L3`J-YP$;7$0]@`!U M3O25Z6PV03A0=@!($M7MT2X/G'!L``.5;4;&/``F"GU4'H_O4!Y>FE5C5GM%Z8GY=:08!C M&\#YS7DT50!8(%+PCW_\^Z7C8,NM`-BK@-4&8(`(7%6O5J57/48`DV5OC*4` M`7!D&B`Z"-`0?#(T._$R?F(`F\-_!8`WXD)@1+0^D8(!$S-V6W5VE3,X:B<0 M;(<7PH<0'P=X>7=G>($`,"@Z`S!E#9`L"#`!S24NP=)@7`=Z""`Z!L!_,!@8 M.8$T`I``D5)V`2`]92,!>C809>=H'"4`T/F.1%JM8`'`8=`65/D]%$-YG:ZBB4@)0,A:P MB[N(/0W`BQ@U@P5!7Y=8`*0%9LF66"I6@B>(%^&D$$'SC"T8%R>#2Q^@,0"` M,3CU8ZD&``B0$WIF28XC$"OSBFNX,3HAB@.A8K_3=@M0-,J#APCQ8-OC`>F4 M`*0B,DFS01]W=&B#4:85+FYD@GAQ4M+B1F9XC8,C4)7CA!T@81D@B`?!0@4U M@N+R=G(34VRXAZUU8617)*1"=1N4+N(27;LX,9M4$(FX%^"7%^*7%\*X_C(- MR`&#$T4]%@!1I&A2)6,48XA]@8'R:!`F=8I_AG=+Q-NF\8L!@">E=-R/[%#3Y*56YEVE20VM4)&3-F4NB*-:.D6>+9NQ[,T MBB'`04SBR(MLSA3'(EA M?$AEGX:.A"B--14`M?E:?-&2NEEB>]$PP)D]X3DW699.#>@!TA0@$L``MY5. M2XA%.6,J>#>4=X&*,95^NS<`:KJFY7-F#&%@WQFE!+"?EWA/)89+@L>F1S0M M;/I,STA$-Z@`$S`!_MCS`,@H@LO6;!K0`*2BGPS!3Z_WGP`ZF0.A/`I`C,?2 ME73)2G:%EQ?P=`)A/&J:%W]IGQ9*F,0Y8JF:IB:F*R,DH@7Q9_##,=SS5`\F M8*3U`69X,IP5JS#Y403!F`C%?QTP,9IV/-*SD8'FAY4S`<2GIF*W;H/#@D>: MI!N&0-^7FRWGI'HQDQF5):X3->ZG$UG:$'-6)+MX`>FJ5WS"`-!)$-)9IH]I M4QJP6_:J`5=!HP[A`74S;53UIHMRIPZ3`*,U6N>71#!(L*,5`0RP*D3D6`F[ M.7!)GXEE:"4X$(ZZ$*S5JY):%0':?46R@(U7$&6'H!2EE0K:J9\#,"TC_C)) ME`"@A5J9>K&#.8^J^@''\UD0L%L1`%H60`$A:G8$\6<=H"O7UTRZ^CHV*C-F M>)L<2Q38U0I+4*B[6BA?B MBIN,R*U.-2D"<*9Y@6C,TBXZN9,)<58+PUY\6P"NTU-P%*\^-J]X"3G3"A&V M)#3[YA`"2VMW48`'08P?=UL4>[*)>A`9"XUW<98=JW>4*A"6^@%\DH)7L829 M"0!]XS&U%A#$`NWM=&`E%7\``Q?2>(^ME%'6H*&NY7'FQ M`I&Y"1&-G3NI(T6+IF4U!?`L>X*$W)-E"86A:7\L!.PQP M1BNM`'"V2(J^UWJW`,"DV^H7M9(!3])VTQ)%%#`I466_$SDQ'/-(A"A;9-S],HL&K$^63J]H*>`E9,X"GP-YX7L%+S$R'$$1$/$310^-5Q:K9 MD7XHET.!C;U%B%Z6GK8WGMDXE)%FZ$ZPU(XDB31'@F>[J$!:03@2`<%$56.(FFG?1>\D2R((L-`B=%Q`F MR1E`)F!X\1W?1P)J\R5,1H+FRD_!ST&QT?"ULEPPZ$+(RI]$V+4A4_IQ+ M!BV`]T'OQ;D'L0'GF@"/4]9Y49[`*A!W^I`3 M4*^&?4)W\0"'O=C/UW+\^=!"^S(CPQ4DB+D5S1`7C=%1<0$)@-,Z`0$)H'8: M\+P,R*AAF`!1U,]0N0']=2IIT[!HHS9SDP".\@`$VZ$)<&0*`+,(X4[=M0'@ M\X*)HU@&H!L2@`"YMGC%,VX0$->@TRWCMG1X_D%XCR,KD4H!Q].`S#4WNKB/ M!+&1UM):)1VPC*>=[/,QV$P07$L0QY2M;1M-,F/(%_G!8TT4>K5%A5:<43Q: M&+#8H84T,G.*G5@0W^2F_/1W"[$!$2`WSATXR)(7F2,!&4!@)7:5./2X#+&! MAWVN0%NY$G`!/",N9#D\8\D0'^>?FDT8C<*=$]$!%]#`"8P3!L$!Z6H]GZ(0 M9-ET&7"6&\"++#A;$FP!24=A<84!H*0!A>,P^T9A)8/DN_A3>N5;XBM7]XW5 M=V$`[<,7QLAX'Z-??U$`HR5-;92&D=$0BK+@T](`"R#F>D';5TQP`/^.:XIC^%&:2(?A!1:TVTWZ4Q1%-2>%$<1%-A^[=IN%-Q>[=G>[=8.[M_N[=M.[N)>[N%N[NJ> M[NRN%-^.%#.3$YL>(;IQ4;F7+.)"`),^Y9"3,PP09%):EJC^@$6$1FPDR,]$ M`7J>-+>$QJ6"`58:A[]>$"L#N09!C!?``(8*[!RLB4EW*VH\T=*.(D>$_M`F M?_(HG_(JO_(LW_(N__(PO_(>C?('7?.!),AK=/,ZKT8[G_-J9$XW#T\"H`#N MM$8*L$?)$@'U.R<2LG;]U5_5I0$POF[UF@'A%G1B`R^04O5<;Z]>;]CDIKT3 M3A'D]D8]EFLY+"[17A`:T%\6_U8XV1##,\H)48/8PN(C#Q.=>*]?W_==__>1 M&BD.L$.H[0!/ M__F@3["A__2C-?JB;_JF7_JHWU^J?_JL__FM'_NP/_ND3_NO7_O]%:FI`<\P CX>*,E;<7(.,=0>.!;1`[3I:0(_QYO_S,W_S.!7\D`0$``#L_ ` end GRAPHIC 59 y04313a1y0431312.gif GRAPHIC begin 644 y04313a1y0431312.gif M1TE&.#EAG0`B`/<``````!@8&"DI*3DY.5)24GM[>XR,C*VMK;V]O<;&QM;6 MUN?GY_______________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M_____________________RP`````G0`B```(_@`9"!Q(L*#!@P@3*ES(L*'# MAQ`C2IQ(L:+%BQ@S:MS(L:-```1"BAQ)LJ1)`@(*>%S)DB6`ES!CRIQ)$Z;* MECAS6JS)LV?,FSJ#"F7HLVA-H$.3*OUHM*G-I5"3.IV*-*I5EU.;5KW*=6-6 MK5W#O'R/_AUL,#!- MOX3;PE1@X.B!QV`3)[9)@"8!!@.H2I[\DD'EF0009*V*@*&"S4MA(O@LDT"! MT01?,W3-,3/BA9T-RGXH&X!*`!$I#R@MVK>"!`4*#$AN\_7+E"^1[E9(6^,! M`*4O(LA><'I#!"J7_C,`#E'UY>0,1!8;?*[!-`!\!V+VTGS1Q0;22YCA0`"4>0.%E*F:H```F8BA02@6P2**(P(TXD`(!"*3B:0H,H**%#/0X MXH8J&1`2ATC9E,!3$#K7667S%?`B``L\-=!KQ`$'0(*BK<9/RWDYG@*]V9E9N8'"N5>OB_XJTWS%X:GHI.'N M]6)VZKFVVVK./GEHJ/D.1*I]["%;9F?..IJL1GFH*B MYRY3V+%V<8$QA8OQ:L9."Z-MRAVHZ;^=)J<>?;N-2MZ7R?&I,)H)3BI>A:]A MJR!W\`U\YH#8^0;J>C<5^F[(OC(7DXY:RAS#AYV4PX(Z=7$O BE?83:H,9-A-2&)XD^>245V[YY9AG3KGC,N''^.<,!00`.S\_ ` end GRAPHIC 60 y04313a1y0431313.gif GRAPHIC begin 644 y04313a1y0431313.gif M1TE&.#EAG0")`/<``````!@8&"DI*3DY.5)24G-SXR,C*VMK;V]O<;& MQM;6UN?GY___________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M_____________________RP`````G0")```(_@`;"!Q(L*#!@P03(%S(L*'# MAQ`C2IQ(L:+%BQ@S:KQH`(!'CP,`A%0(T<```P1.&EC)0"X M0*1&$9222`AUI]QX`R20@%H7)=755R@A$,!Q#B$6U%YEN0DF M0&`%%75A01\%.1!N2]*7W4(AT1@14I6MU-]\#H%GT&`#./EDE$69=.-,'B&4 MII`T,90>D@.%I-:!!W5D)41KZ@@@G1R&=)!186HG9$AK07:520@FF5RA!RG` MVHHF01CEI28B%H++$1[@II80DLE2^FE<=85VZ;ERCJIG%!Z2Q!KG@*`;:57L>8N0N\Y M.FIEU3;DZ&=G9HO>F8G1.Y$``9"8TE<$V+E06I,V\."(&'I;8EIB4HF65PRI MQ1-$9PE`H60-B.65``PL)]Y%1:T\64L.?PEOKH3"O-)2,A,FT7XA@2>FDLVZ MB1)6V98,**BG8A0TC-B%EG&G/RYV[E\I>=N1=Q-1-554`CQ&+501JPF`RP5+ M9Q+9RAI<7=C[.;?8B7\N3=Y2Q6F9E+=2V697_F@I=?8:1%)U+1V0LU?<;=*I]2M/O;L)F< M`QKV01ZA[?E="99N48D)/]PP6C,6E&'$%U-<$`).MHAQ1@C$)==Q*)'.T(.C M"0AW00&D)7+):"=YU?\D64O+$G(5LI2I;@E2$+5\!*Z09,Q4X6K>3.Q5+N'E MS'H&L\E1F.*Y@2`@:'_I@1C@`=];$)QNX_;)N+#CNHGR]1B#R5@6$-,0,5S2%J MBKBIC&84XC0";G&&$IL;4)A"0\90YB0?-*&"K'(S.!6I(8"ZWW_4YA?^W*L! M'S3C&AFCH$L!\3(*2ML*>T:D9:4P7%LL8PKAHL"54$4AES'AC7QDDD0J8(UE M:@]3SN4070EI0P@Y%Q/]]S_.-6!LIBQ9R2ZI$+JQI"[4.DII`JF4XV`FD7BQ MS-ST(\4U7L4Q":!*)`-)$L`TC#ZSXE3,4M>GOZ@-CWRDX0BCTIA9HA"`OV0- M3P*3NS#F38:'PJ1`E@+)'+H+,['#V1_S=CFIE&QV;G(5S>*9*H0P8`'X_L0G M`A:@@'SB\TCZT2<"%("^@C:@`,]#R5BZ$A?]]/.?'2&+/R76%;5HA@'JV]\] M%[#/?39`+NC#(T#UB<][>F5)^!1I6E)V$)MDZ"`,8LC)[IA&S%Q%-0"<%3%) MP\/VW84E[PE,`@S8$F+2L"9*5M;+/)+P,J%Q5%T(J9^.<*=GX#$F)T_(G$C9BR:RP8Q80#*F MV$62SXU'NJV923K;I7%G9IRYWGDO&F2P@+9*!+3 MJ^[4)5:>^"533?&X;<$H1RFJF91R-'3^7`!&QV(`]7%4-5]!:',AA"0?+SMC,?CH1ZZ53HE6X!C=-,U=]+D+XB] MC[T(IM:;327(9+SQ_B9OK-<@$U-B4WZ(6$,X5&*.-8JJ_-1`J$*?I!!J($?B MR1T;MD$MXAG.!0:@>@-983I+1KFSI?>CN-E0'1FE&AYRD#I!=N\7 M@XED-0*8E=.$(:0C7=MFY\TK0M7M?7+D0/D(T;>AFZ4:2<+7`AJUAJ[&)`U9 MJ5AG-Q'!;-EGA`L:OQ1E"'T-9H!=XJKNX/4GEC%S$T^I'+2^=71)@K*R_ELI M0+-BQB:*)BYQ*S?+7D<7!30@D4Y[L M$*:0FBG\GY+C+."OUO@W\HH,L+;X6NO(BX"+C$HD*7=D;?.0IQ[2M@DWF?&( M"Q>;#A'RH:*SP$M*+"I0@4K]PFD91:L7*I,ICP#%C=T*3]SOJ/LBL]EXPZ&Z M.MAETXSG6:0OC\S<2#?=U5GW>V29$LE/Q<7U MC'TKF1[]^D:#L&0=866KE\*B9, M#@:_^M*R%AG%TJC1JW(5$ M2Q)(@`%03=9'=*$;N,=?RL9[Q7)K:>,GJ78HHX9TNH%#V\<6DV:`F,04:O5# M=40G5/5$3=='J*1H><1S9.1>L/!0V%X="=@J`9`/G,H:0(E MZ;%)"0(]N*=F1^95.A==%5;!F1DD"65EU2J(119MG0O\# M;I$E3ZIT>UH2*-N&.F)'2G'&?^Y7<.JV412%1RRU9`054@+1??3F(R[V;P#7 M?1)S,OGA8O?$/^]&4>JFBP4%<.H&<1'7:Z]F72K)W0FIT8(]8;@I1B.7$B5I(0UV8>VNV&.&3B,V&:%=%.4M& M0SR'2^SX57AD@TLW92^(=%\%:Z\'2&Y'CTM60>H41/ M5H=99U0VR%B`))&91D8V1$9Y9&.YM84_M"C^,VDO9%/.EY&KADVPMX66-7D$ M:5OBJ!(,"$,$YF14T2SG.$?M!$+CQ9*E*(!YH8HD58SY5&)6817]A'#_]G8) MMV)>40`BXT\.EXP<95'0]GW?UT\?E18L\GTIA5%I>7\*MY;EZ&MHAELD]&2O MQXA1-$S\,B"%`G9@Q5;\)E0C2$B7ESUXJ&A,%I$OEXB;])*)Y9+81!D!Z2S/ M`RPO*!!R\8?C=#>/F39P`R6;=V#9F(BFIH-:890FR(BG<5X7F5Q2A&1(^1$U M@UUR=9`*@H*/52JX1ET):4K5YTV/>'2!5&-6_OF2BG6./U08:79)6C>*[W$3 ML7$B_?51W;0?V0:&C/=VO;2!B.=[BK9YH_9>-\28-1>)OVF*6^1:H.41];8< M3"$2@B86J$42EY>`/"6.G,A+9J=[6E@H[)6!QAF((/23,+03>-."T`<>-<$=H:1D29A=*EP#J=@\)9P$891#*:BKQAPKS@_X>=_%S80P1A0KNBC M$E52$29A#W08CHB#UBE%)C>3?2>AB[9C)(*%WBF/3Q*(LYF(3)@:,"ER1G<: M^(E=$.JAUY>!K[:8?8='`[F;J&:"E1BF<+AMRP:0/Z=TDOBD5BD5K-1H^XF1 M>#J2635TJ12*)R2"_M'44P-I@"K'=#5)D'9H5.DHIJCS6&@V=H[6=V5U*&YW MGT/GE(BG;-M&0F8GAY19&L-)>%;)1VSV59"YJ9'*ICEI0L%7>7@88-0(DS-$ M=L_H:]I);*M:=P\Z:ILG8,`70HPY;LQW:FS:>4^:F!.XC!L%F+KH8K/H`RV3P5WEBRJ?ARU8BRF8A?6BNI&8@X&BRGE>SFY8V_FJPGQ MF9)GJ,')I*@IH?\HAV97XKOSI M:L0JD*BYK)7S0ZF6CH?IJ',JJ4J'=3UX&726JV>EFQ`+B4792./XE;`*_H?J MM8Q@"E8TV4M[%$W,2&Z]=V#!)$X!)K([RZ3!&4T,FQF=Z&P:ZZXV"69MS"J'75X-NFZ(P%F\>]7W?>J[D>HQZB[+*8%: M]YLWV*J&]J8Y*9#!"4V]1([61[`@6(<8*F["AG;A:*K[^)$$9:;P%6!)QZJG MZ$$NV4BOAW)TR(G$5Z?,F)^6.XG!-$6:>':2_DN-)CBBR(FMLC:F\S`9V9_LM[^H2V&AT9G1C MZGB#6OI8]&IJAS=-C)%U7&B:\DJ:3*>-4CE>V[M#XQOQNA$@.8JJAN]492%>:BX)JWVNI/KBA^Q*AXXTI2:WFXUFJN`'=/ M^Q>,`*B,2-MF36F^I32ZT"B%5G:\98>Q3A2"7MN.TO1J.KN=7:N=N@5E/DFS MU-MU58N%ULF3@EJOJ#J0P^NKS/6J0PN:@U>*+VMN)@2Q:*JKE=IT+3NF#QJZ M="RSN,=WC%%\6D2[_C+QK]*6MBX!=R_H@3?IF4]<1GRGI*7F%'EL8TILK;[OVJKA/8Z7JKUQE[KRO"QP5O5 MM3D83B!)L8(H=D2S='9:IX/JN7[GS<-&RK9:&>S;6T[7I^+E=6B+8V$;M>XT MO-[V9H*W<29HD:J4P706>M0(<^O8T-`G17G*A?!J@>#L>9T*M"&\R/Y%_D#\ M.F.,6G,;N,!1N,M6R[O""17,UXSCILZ3)W1FFYU%$8%S1K4PZ<1OMJ2I2L]5 MZ%[6R;D[6VRNNXAGAF.10VZ16F"K#!,J]J(ZNG`(P(K@>J[B*G[+S'`-IW_Z MA);J"LTU3*3+7*TIEM4U[%&67)!>J5LN$8VK)XE^?(^%M[_L?-,!F\0&)*+: M1AH7B5,;ZUX:#8D<3=>E*\\$C;%O&J@C_9L0/)[):Y/9O%Y&O($UZY3@IMCI M^:"S]&KS:UO0>+F7VYF_RI0G^X\L;4G3*`_I>A4!V\67:1DJC2\\J4E7R_ MNFF]=D>_5N:S3WVP88K M\TG*"FJ#=8>JZ0L?5QW(P M4#=LE[N8KATUMRI:MV!]C`D^S?H4@$,J?\0GN`O7HTA;U1H)682JM1(:Q[C7 MH!>>SZ.;OJ3EF&RKF,R-_IH MD0/KZU)&XFMZ:(AZR+Y GRAPHIC 61 y04313a1y0431314.gif GRAPHIC begin 644 y04313a1y0431314.gif M1TE&.#EA40!)`/<``````!@8&"DI*3DY.5)24G-SXR,C*VMK;V]O<;& MQM;6UN?GY___________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M_____________________RP`````40!)```(_@`;"!Q(L*#!@P@3*ES(L*'# MAQ`30)Q(L:+%BP(-(,#(L:/"!`(`B)1H4.2`D``,>%S)T(!+``D'&!B@@*7- MA#,'Z$2H0,#-GP<1$#B`0,!&@PL&-%@@E(#3IPL6&""`0.5!IAH9+"C(].C* MF3EA&DQ`8.!.LU8-B#6H5N7)@FW5*A6(0"3!!29)XE3J4N9!GP(3`-";P"I( MA'X%$M"K5B^`N0+/#ERK4('2`0?4CBT;F7(#PYSU-A"L@"0"D@EH$A2<=L!@ M@IX1B]7IDJW9V($!%TRM5VK&UP0UCU;P.'C#F1D/O!V=>Z#PR,XY!P[\F.0" MB84A.Q>KLJW9XY!=_BXF+/UYX>@(4P.?K!W[:P,2A:<^[G/K`@(%"$05>'^_ M`0$&Y`?@5@T(M=]2!#)%`(`#%;41@?RE]-E6197E6TM6942`9&3=YIQ*\4F' MV'*LC>47?+]=E^%JTS4@F6('K">=70.1Q]!)V"6VFH0&U*3A>6,E(.12F#GW MF4R#"0GBD0E>2[6119)K@6$' M9EE"MNE2FQ(1`.*+OT4FVH97MCAD;7?I1$"2;&:WU)#OLC>6F$WNI&0"I\FTTXQ:SE4F20"H..2B!.DXFFHN84HA7BNJ!/_Y&YX5)'.85`548)Q(``45:YVJ5$0A9??(\- M8&AZHO$TZFY\.E=8I-@*F12(0@Z0Z&>6'4#23")U]^20;4H%)Z9*LE18:>(6 M":J+-;'&6;L:Z023F*?-Z^1T6VV[DJ)^*7G9GK4]YJ-`(XW6I)<6RTNI;WE> M-.]2-(X&``+2IN0::@4G*2Z*0T(X4,(_N2F`:S)E699:@UE;)',$:N) MZ9*3'5O4U5(]'JNT4.8VH-]6!21[;%?WJ83``CY&):O65R^@U;'V>EE8PA+! MU"%RBJTET746B_SG`$#/>W&V'<&[E%DD;:A4_IO#4NINN59)/-K!\8)ID]"8 MBMEP71,WL"J(!W\&DY,R";F1F#6Q;9.:F1_JJ6MND27F9W,+N:KDUQFY]5-9QK$@I;E:[K73"^2>9A\J(>&% M%5QT15=7'^OU3&FE=50!B!45`@QTK=;5"D0UOM??WUW^@<-GW+J;54U;H,K\ M#0GZ\I(//J:X"M>M9NG,00WL_B2T`L')+T=!F^I:A**%D6YEGX$/?.+',."@ MAB9HHMS>*&@QEMF+7)B:DG4.59KKG`Q>)QI,P@8VL@"NK5Z;PXZHA$:I>#7` M,NUZS`$"HY-,U60F_M(KC4;ZQY'SM(YM3W*AY>"D`(VD*0&EP5-&$"6ENQ'Q M=4)JHJA:YY(F0I%_`>S2Q0)3&M)M#'8KT5J!T)>^J*RO>E/3R-5Z]+VN8:U5 MV=L>4Q10O0^V[H'Q":/PGD1!&G*1?W9;X.:F\Z2_"8V"A;,;85H&N[&-;F'N M8MW[!&F\MBVO7E:3(+Z0*!K7>FWYFR(M_Z MEKR`IT@!NN]2E@3FS]K6R9_`#%Y!@Y^;2HB=?MW-8DN$DT8NZ9'K72U\:B2? M?;2V/JK-T7H(>&/PNHD@[;FLB,`,F@1'4S!H(O%E4K*D&9L$PD'=$I>*_H(0 M\50DMF2^B96\5)CJ*'E%BX!RFM(,826[5"."4BI^Y(I<^TK)2++E3H(2#&+A MH%E*1-Z3(K6$:-P,%L;2(=.(COQE##D9QI\)D6/WTIV;!C7+)`XSC5/;8TZK M9\ZNU:1KUD-4K,)9E>N)4YOG1*>:?A8WQ.VRF+UAY.\>^*GHH&CWRIE5FI+#&(YJ2(+E*^-#UG2\4*T3J2"QP MUE&/ZT,0&Q%4H*_9)YQ[,XH9DJ5%'9_:M^#S*KI.[W 'OW\-"```.S\_ ` end GRAPHIC 62 y04313a1y0431315.gif GRAPHIC begin 644 y04313a1y0431315.gif M1TE&.#EAC@`B`/<```````@("!`0$!@8&"DI*3DY.4I*2E)24EI:6FMK:W-S MXR,C)24E)RWN?GY^_O[___________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M____________________________________________________________ M_____________________RP`````C@`B```(_@`O"!Q(L*#!@P@3*ES(L*'# MAQ`C2IQ(L:+%BQ@S:MS(T6*"`@0&$"#@X&$!!`52%EC0L('*`A`:+GBI$D&" M!C$1/JA9X`##"32#JIR`$$*"`P4$#$"ZX$&%@P,`2`5`P.&#J50#4'`H=<`` M!`TI2`TP%BN``0P01HT*("U#!5/)#B`+0"Z`IP8/F.TJ-<+!"F8?--2+U6?# MJWRYLF6[EZ5!!(D/[YV\M2#AR5(K&S0[@*%8LX89%I@:53!#K`4>/$C`6*I; M@H2C6D5]H+;MT:8'PEVL0/5ES06Q1O6KD`%IJ:$53MA;H"'CY@(K7,YL^:S4 MV6QS$Z2`5V`$ZP"2_@MD#9S@7@+=#59HC;RA\;U$%V*M"AMU];,"9D_5GC#! M5/H&<8?09*\9!-=>XB%$@%0',LC06@!`-]!GUMTGFV3[.3=5@J?MU=E!%"IP M&8<%?7<=:1\J5)A!C*4HT&4N*H285/P-:%V,#4TUVE0*''3@`!3LN-1;[4V7 M4T+V%;3C=?5-I1^-&O(8$8\+.ED0A(%_4L54I0`D#K0```(`R!B`-O(IH4!=?ODBGTPRU&6-$,0W MD`2<$2`GF.$!-B9!RW4E$&-Y;NK:0-.U:5Z8$]Z((XQGLD==05V2-JF8_N%= MT"!:`S4P%7%:ZM259K9*26FL`O5Z:UZ1*8H98\2Q>IQU!21[4)@4>C708M-: MU^F.@UIZ%HZCZKC85$=:9F(EZ0:O;#A!N<`[*&N<%)@*0;*X!3M6`DE@Y M&QR$G"E@;IF)+M1E3[;51H"^VS6((J6&:3M`?@0(0!5!G/:G(TTM)D"I`#!! MX'%Z:B(*P)DU6O#3`A+3VVUH"O]&,:G/[D777K\.RM`!C)%J"AC:3Y4P6C9Q0Q`C[H=-X"^?)%(9W@'(%!P;4G" M.N1#L8V,(906Q3M`FC!?0*%4@'K:WD$+?O6K_L]6G\TT5OJ5AA%?<-\]$&13 ME510Q09!8*_%:QDZ$-$*X5PAAH(SI#%"D$X%LD!Q7Y"IM"QVQ2'5:NMZJ=F= M$KL60@(6C574^WY.P6(V3WX6UB^W9?72I1JN-`".ZB[\S:2)>(#RM;U-$&)1 M]:;:]*L-.M4"R3;`K[FA7V`J,2&$@D8 M)&HS28D!4D,0"+QD77E1R08M4X`-EG!SFA.A!E=HPB,!12@OV2`*+]"``U1) G.`$FIZ&"#TH1"'2,0B&O&(2$RB$I?(Q"8Z<2(!`0`[ ` end -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----