0001193125-21-274010.txt : 20210915 0001193125-21-274010.hdr.sgml : 20210915 20210915163253 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-21-274010 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: POS AM PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 5 FILED AS OF DATE: 20210915 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20210915 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001830214 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS (NO DIAGNOSTIC SUBSTANCES) [2836] IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: E9 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: POS AM SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-256121 FILM NUMBER: 211255709 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 955 FIFTH AVENUE CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10075 BUSINESS PHONE: (310) 209-7280 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 955 FIFTH AVENUE CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10075 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: Spinning Eagle Acquisition Corp. DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20201027 POS AM 1 d322101dposam.htm POS AM POS AM

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 15, 2021

Registration No. 333-256121

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1

to

FORM S-4

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

SOARING EAGLE ACQUISITION CORP.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   6770   [•]

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(Primary Standard Industrial

Classification Code)

 

(I.R.S employer

identification no.)

955 Fifth Avenue

New York, New York 10075

(310) 209-7280

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of Registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

 

Copies to:

 

Joel L. Rubinstein

Jonathan P. Rochwarger

White & Case LLP

1221 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10020

(212) 819-8200

 

Rachel W. Sheridan

Shagufa R. Hossain

Emily E. Taylor

Latham & Watkins LLP

555 Eleventh Street NW

Suite 1000

Washington, D.C. 20004

(202) 637-2200

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after the Registration Statement became effective.

If the securities being registered on this Form are being offered in connection with the formation of a holding company and there is compliance with General Instruction G, check the following box.  ☐

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.  ☐

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.  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer, “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer      Accelerated filer  
Non-accelerated filer      Smaller reporting company  
     Emerging growth company  

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.  ☐

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)  ☐

Exchange Act Rule 14d-1(d) (Cross-Border Third-Party Tender Offer)  ☐

This registration statement shall hereinafter become effective in accordance with the provisions of Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

 

 


EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (this “Amendment”) to Registration Statement No. 333-256121, dated August 11, 2021 (the “Registration Statement”), is being filed pursuant to Rule 414(d) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), by Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (“New SRNG”), as the successor to Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company limited by shares (“SRNG”). On September 15, 2021, SRNG changed its jurisdiction of incorporation from the Cayman Islands to the State of Delaware, as described further below (the “Domestication”). New SRNG expressly adopts the Registration Statement, as modified by this Amendment, as its own registration statement for all purposes of the Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). For the purposes of this Amendment and the Registration Statement, references to the “Company,” the “Registrant,” “we,” “our,” “us” and similar terms mean, as of any time prior to the Domestication, SRNG, and, as of any time after the Domestication, New SRNG. The information contained in this Amendment sets forth additional information to reflect the Domestication. All documents filed by the Company under Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act before the effective date of the Domestication will not reflect the change in our jurisdiction of incorporation or capital structure.

The Domestication was effected in the manner described in the section of the Registration Statement titled “The Domestication Proposal.” In the Domestication, SRNG effected a deregistration under Article 206 of the Cayman Islands Companies Act (As Revised) and, pursuant to Section 388 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”), domesticated as a corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware. The business, assets and liabilities of the Company, as well as its principal place of business and fiscal year, were the same immediately after the Domestication as they were immediately prior to the Domestication. In addition, the directors and executive officers of the Company immediately after the Domestication were the same individuals who were directors and executive officers, respectively, immediately prior to the Domestication.

As a result of and upon the effective time of the Domestication, among other things, (1) each of the then issued and outstanding Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share, of SRNG (the “SRNG Class B ordinary shares”) converted automatically, on a one-for-one basis, into an SRNG Class A ordinary share (as defined below), (2) immediately following the conversion described in clause (1), each of the then issued and outstanding Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share, of SRNG (the “SRNG Class A ordinary shares”) converted automatically, on a one-for-one basis, into a share of Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of New SRNG (the “New SRNG Class A common stock”), (3) each of the then issued and outstanding redeemable warrants of SRNG (the “SRNG warrants”) converted automatically into a redeemable warrant exercisable for one share of New SRNG Class A common stock (the “New SRNG warrants”) and (4) each of the then issued and outstanding units of SRNG (the “SRNG units”) converted automatically into one share of New SRNG Class A common stock and one-fifth of one New SRNG warrant. No fractional New SRNG warrants were issued upon separation of the SRNG units.

The rights of holders of New SRNG Class A common stock are now governed by New SRNG’s Delaware certificate of incorporation, its Delaware bylaws and the DGCL, each of which is described in SRNG’s final proxy statement/prospectus, dated August 11, 2021, relating to the Domestication, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) on August 13, 2021 (the “Final Prospectus”). The Final Prospectus formed part of the Registration Statement.

The registration fees were paid at the time of filing of the Registration Statement. Because no additional securities are being registered, no further registration fee is required.


PART II

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN DOCUMENT

Item 20. Indemnification of Officers And Directors

Subsection (a) of Section 145 of the DGCL empowers a corporation to indemnify any person who was or is a party or who 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 the person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if the person acted in good faith and in a manner the person 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 the person’s conduct was unlawful.

Subsection (b) of Section 145 empowers a corporation to 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 the person acted in any of the capacities set forth above, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if the person acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, except 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 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.

Section 145 further provides that to the extent that a present or former director or officer of a corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in the defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in subsections (a) and (b) of Section 145, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, such person shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection therewith; that indemnification provided for by Section 145 shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which the indemnified party may be entitled; and the indemnification provided for by Section 145 shall, unless otherwise provided when authorized or ratified, continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of such person’s heirs, executors and administrators. Section 145 also empowers the corporation 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 such person and incurred by such person in any such capacity, or arising out of his status as such, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such liabilities under Section 145.

Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL provides that a corporation’s certificate of incorporation may contain a provision eliminating or limiting the personal liability of a director to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, provided that such provision 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 DGCL, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.

Additionally, our certificate of incorporation limits the liability of our directors to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, and our bylaws provide that we will indemnify them to the fullest extent permitted by such law. We have entered into and expect to continue to enter into agreements to indemnify our directors, executive officers and other employees as determined by our board of directors. Under the terms of such indemnification agreements, we


are required to indemnify each of our directors and officers, to the fullest extent permitted by the laws of the state of Delaware, if the basis of the indemnitee’s involvement was by reason of the fact that the indemnitee is or was our director or officer or was serving at our request in an official capacity for another entity. We must indemnify our officers and directors against all direct and indirect costs, fees and expenses of any type or nature whatsoever, including all other disbursements, obligations or expenses of the types customarily incurred in connection with prosecuting, defending, preparing to prosecute or defend, investigating, being or preparing to be witness in, settlement or appeal of, or otherwise participating in any threatened, pending or completed action, suit, claim, counterclaim, cross claim, arbitration, mediation, alternate dispute resolution mechanism, investigation, inquiry, administrative hearing or any other actual, threatened or completed proceeding. The indemnification agreements also require us to advance, to the extent not prohibited by law, all direct and indirect costs, fees and expenses that such director or officer incurred, provided that such person will return any such advance if it is ultimately determined that such person is not entitled to indemnification by us. Any claims for indemnification by our directors and officers may reduce our available funds to satisfy successful third-party claims against us and may reduce the amount of money available to us.

Item 21. Exhibits And Financial Statement Schedules

 

Exhibit No.

  

Description of Document

3.1    Certificate of Incorporation of Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp.
3.2    Bylaws of Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp.
4.1    Warrant Agreement, dated February 23, 2021, between Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp. and Continental Stock Transfer  & Trust Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on February 26, 2021).
5.1    Opinion of White & Case LLP (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 5.1 to Amendment No.  2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on June 28, 2021).
23.1    Consent of WithumSmith+Brown, PC.
23.2    Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
23.3    Consent of White & Case LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).

Item 22. Undertakings

 

  1.

The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

 

  (a)

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 this 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 this 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 Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement; and


  (iii)

To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in this Registration Statement or any material change to such information in this Registration Statement;

 

  (b)

That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus 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.

 

  (c)

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.

 

  (d)

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.

 

  (e)

That, for the purpose of determining liability of the registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities, the undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:

 

  (i)

Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;

 

  (ii)

Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned registrant;

 

  (iii)

The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant; and

 

  (iv)

Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser.

 

  2.

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 advised that in the opinion of the SEC 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 them is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

 

  3.

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes as follows: that prior to any public reoffering of the securities registered hereunder through use of a prospectus which is a part of this registration statement, by any person or party who is deemed to be an underwriter within the meaning of Rule 145(c), the issuer undertakes that such reoffering prospectus will contain the information called for by the applicable registration form with respect to reofferings by persons who may be deemed underwriters, in addition to the information called for by the other Items of the applicable form.

 

  4.

The registrant undertakes that every prospectus: (1) that is filed pursuant to the immediately preceding paragraph, or (2) that purports to meet the requirements of Section 10(a)(3) of the Act and is used in connection with an offering of securities subject to Rule 415, will be filed as a part of an amendment to the registration statement and will not be used until such amendment is effective, and that, for purposes 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.

 

  5.

The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes to respond to requests for information that is incorporated by reference into the prospectus pursuant to Item 4, 10(b), 11 or 13 of this Form S-4, within one business day of receipt of such request, and to send the incorporated documents by first Class mail or other equally prompt means. This includes information contained in documents filed subsequent to the effective date of this Registration Statement through the date of responding to the request.

 

  6.

The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes to supply by means of a post-effective amendment all information concerning this transaction that was not the subject of and included in this Registration Statement when it became effective.


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of New York, State of New York, on the 15th day of September 2021.

 

SOARING EAGLE ACQUISITION CORP.
By:  

/s/ Harry E. Sloan

  Name: Harry E. Sloan
  Title: Chief Executive Officer and Chairman

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on September 15, 2021.

 

Signature

  

Title

/s/ Harry E. Sloan

   Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
(Principal Executive Officer)
Harry E. Sloan

/s/ Eli Baker

   President, Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Director
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
Eli Baker

*

   Director
Scott M. Delman

*

   Director
Joshua Kazam

*

   Director
Isaac Lee

*

   Director
Timothy Leiweke

*

   Director
Dennis A. Miller

*

   Director
Laurence E. Paul

 

* By:  

/s/ Harry E. Sloan

  Harry E. Sloan
  Attorney-in-fact
EX-3.1 2 d322101dex31.htm EX-3.1 EX-3.1

Exhibit 3.1

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

SOARING EAGLE ACQUISITION CORP.

ARTICLE I

NAME

The name of the Corporation is Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp. (hereinafter called the “Corporation”).

ARTICLE II

REGISTERED OFFICE AND AGENT

The address of the Corporation’s registered office in the State of Delaware is 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, County of New Castle, DE 19801. The name of its registered agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.

ARTICLE III

PURPOSE

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 General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”) as it now exists or may hereafter be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified.

The Corporation is being incorporated in connection with the domestication of Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company limited by shares (the “Cayman Company”), to a Delaware corporation, which domestication is being effected in connection with the transactions contemplated by that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger entered into by the Cayman Company, SEAC Merger Sub Inc. and Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), on May 11, 2021 (as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”), and this Certificate of Incorporation is being filed simultaneously with a certificate of corporate domestication effecting such domestication (the “Certificate of Domestication”).

ARTICLE IV

DEFINITIONS

The following terms, where capitalized in this Certificate of Incorporation (as amended from time to time, and including the terms of any certificate of designation of any series of Preferred Stock, this “Certificate of Incorporation”), shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Article IV:

Cause” means, with respect to any Founder, “cause” or any similar concept as it may be defined or used in any agreement relating to the employment of such Founder by the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries or any policy of the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries applicable to the employment of such Founder thereby.

Distribution” means (a) any dividend or distribution of cash, property or shares of the Corporation’s capital stock or (b) any distribution following or in connection with any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation (whether voluntary or involuntary).

 

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Eligible Holder” means (a) any director or employee of the Corporation or any Subsidiary (or, in the case of any such director or employee who is subject to the community property laws of any jurisdiction, the spouse of such director or employee, solely to the extent of the interest of such spouse (if any) during the course of a marriage or civil union in any Class B Common Stock owned by such director or employee arising solely by reason of the application of such community property laws and not otherwise constituting a Transfer of all or any portion of such Class B Common Stock) or (b) any Person (other than an individual) through which (directly or indirectly, and by ownership, voting power, contract or otherwise) any director or employee (or group composed solely of directors or employees) of the Corporation or any Subsidiary has the exclusive right to exercise any voting right (directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries) with respect to the shares of Class B Common Stock owned by such Person (it being understood that no Excluded Action shall itself be deemed to cause the loss of the exclusive right to exercise any voting right with respect to the shares of Class B Common Stock owned by such Person).

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

Extraordinary Transaction” means any transaction or series of related transactions that results in or is in connection with (a) the acquisition, directly or indirectly, by any Third Party of beneficial ownership of (i) a majority of the outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Corporation (or any successor thereto) or (ii) shares representing a majority of the voting power of all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation (or any successor thereto), (b) a merger or consolidation of the Corporation with or into any other entity or any other transaction having an effect on stockholders substantially similar to that resulting from a merger or consolidation or (c) the sale, lease, exclusive license, assignment, exchange, conveyance or other transfer or disposition (other than the creation of any lien or other encumbrance in the ordinary course of business, including to secure indebtedness for borrowed money, so long as no foreclosure occurs in respect of such lien or encumbrance) of all or substantially all of the property and assets, or property or assets generating more than 50% of the revenues, of the Corporation and its subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, to any Third Party (including any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the affairs of the Company, or any other distribution made, in connection therewith).

Founder” means any of Jason Kelly (who, as of the date of this Certificate of Incorporation, is the chief executive officer of the Company), Reshma Shetty (who, as of the date of this Certificate of Incorporation, is the chief operating officer of the Company), Austin Che (who, as of the date of this Certificate of Incorporation, is the chief strategy officer of the Company), Bartholomew Canton (who, as of the date of this Certificate of Incorporation, is the chief technology officer of the Company) and Thomas Knight (who, as of the date of this Certificate of Incorporation, is a Ginkgo fellow of the Company).

Founder Holder” means (a) any Founder or (b) any Person (other than an individual) through which (directly or indirectly, and by ownership, voting power, contract or otherwise) any Founder exercises exclusive voting control with respect to the shares of capital stock of the Corporation owned by such Person.

Founder Cause Termination Action” means, with respect to any Founder, (a) any termination of the employment of such Founder by the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries for Cause, (b) any material and adverse reduction of the responsibilities, title or position of such Founder as an employee of the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries for Cause without the prior written consent of such Founder or (c) any determination that an event has occurred with respect to such Founder that constitutes Cause.

 

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Founder Non-Cause Termination Action” means, with respect to any Founder, (a) any termination of the employment of such Founder by the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries other than for Cause or (b) any material and adverse reduction of the responsibilities, title or position of such Founder as an employee of the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries other than for Cause without the prior written consent of such Founder.

Included Merger Consideration Share” means any share (a) described in clause (a) of the definition of Merger Consideration Share, (b) described in clause (b)(i) of the definition of Merger Consideration Share or (c) solely to the extent that such share is an Included Company Equity Award (as such term is defined in the Merger Agreement), described in clause (b)(ii) of the definition of Merger Consideration Share.

Merger Consideration Share” means any share of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock (other than any Earn-out Share) originally issued (a) to any of the holders of common stock of the Company as consideration in the Merger (as such term is defined in the Merger Agreement) upon the exchange of Company Common Shares converted pursuant to Section 4.2(a)(ii) or Section 4.2(a)(iii), as applicable, of the Merger Agreement or (b) upon the settlement of (i) any Assumed Warrant (as such term is defined in the Merger Agreement) or (ii) any Acquiror Option, Acquiror Restricted Stock Award or Acquiror Restricted Stock Unit Award (in each case, as such term is defined in the Merger Agreement) into which a Company Option, Company Restricted Stock Award or Company Restricted Stock Unit Award (in each case, as such term is defined in the Merger Agreement), as applicable, has converted pursuant to Section 4.5 of the Merger Agreement.

Person” means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, unlimited liability company, partnership, joint venture, association, trust or other entity.

Right” means any option, warrant, restricted stock unit, conversion right or contractual right of any kind to acquire shares of the Corporation’s authorized but unissued capital stock.

Subsidiary” means any wholly owned subsidiary of the Corporation or, to the extent determined by the Board, any non-wholly owned subsidiary of the Corporation.

Third Party” means any Person (other than the Corporation or any wholly owned subsidiary of the Corporation or Person of which the Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary) or “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) of such Persons.

Transfer” means, with respect to any share of capital stock of the Corporation, (a) any sale, assignment, exchange, conveyance, pledge, hypothecation or other transfer or disposition of such share or any legal or beneficial interest in such share, whether direct or indirect, whether or not for value, and whether voluntary or involuntary or by operation of law (including by merger, consolidation or otherwise), including, without limitation, any transfer of such share to a broker or other nominee (with or without a corresponding change in beneficial ownership) and any transfer of voting control of such share, or (b) entering into any agreement or binding arrangement (including any warrant, option, other derivative transaction or proxy) providing for any transaction contemplated by the preceding clause (a); provided, however, that none of the following shall be considered a “Transfer” (each an “Excluded Action”): (i) any grant of a proxy with respect to the voting of such share to officers or directors of the Corporation at the request of the Board in connection with actions to be taken at an annual or special meeting of stockholders; (ii) entering into a support, voting, tender or similar agreement, arrangement or understanding with respect to such share (with or without granting a proxy and/or other customary terms) in support of an Extraordinary Transaction that is approved by a majority of the directors of the Corporation then in office who qualify as “independent” in accordance with the requirements of the

 

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securities exchange on which equity securities of the Corporation are then listed for trading, or consummating the actions or transactions contemplated by such Extraordinary Transaction (including, without limitation, voting, tendering, selling, exchanging, or otherwise transferring or disposing of such share or any legal or beneficial interest therein in connection with such Extraordinary Transaction); (iii) any pledge of such share that creates a mere security interest in such share pursuant to a bona fide loan or indebtedness transaction for so long as the holder of such share immediately prior to such pledge continues to exercise exclusive voting control with respect to such share (provided, however, that the pledgee’s foreclosure on such share or other similar action shall not be excluded from the definition of “Transfer”); (iv) entering into a trading plan with respect to such share pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act that has been approved by a majority of the directors of the Corporation then in office who qualify as “independent” in accordance with the requirements of the securities exchange on which equity securities of the Corporation are then listed for trading (provided, however, that the sale or other disposition of such share pursuant to such plan shall not be excluded from the definition of “Transfer”); (v) any redemption, purchase or other acquisition by, or surrender, transfer or forfeiture to, the Corporation of such share; (vi) the fact that the spouse of any holder of such share possesses or obtains an interest in such share arising solely by reason of the application of the community property laws of any jurisdiction, so long as no other event or circumstance shall exist or have occurred that constitutes a Transfer of such share (provided that any transfer of such share by any holder of such share to such holder’s spouse, including a transfer in connection with a divorce proceeding, domestic relations order or similar legal requirement, shall constitute a Transfer of such share unless otherwise exempt from the definition of “Transfer”); or (vii) entering into any voting trust or other agreement or arrangement with respect to the voting of such share (with or without granting a proxy) solely with holders of Class B Common Stock in their capacities as such that (A) is disclosed either in a Schedule 13D filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission or in writing to the secretary of the Corporation, (B) either has a term not exceeding one year or is terminable by the holder of such share at any time and (C) does not involve any payment of cash, securities or other property or other consideration to the holders of the shares subject thereto, other than the mutual promise to vote shares in a designated manner.

ARTICLE V

CAPITAL STOCK

1.    Authorized Shares.

(a)    The total number of shares of all classes of capital stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is 16,000,000,000 shares, consisting of (i) 10,500,000,000 shares of Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Class A Common Stock”), (ii) 4,500,000,000 shares of Class B Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class B Common Stock”), (iii) 800,000,000 shares of Class C Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Class C Common Stock”, and, together with the Class A Common Stock and the Class B Common Stock, the “Common Stock”), and (iv) 200,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Preferred Stock”). At the Domestication Effective Time (as such term is defined in the Merger Agreement), each Class A ordinary share, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Cayman Company and each Class B ordinary share, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Cayman Company issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Domestication Effective Time will, for all purposes thereafter and without any action on the part of the Cayman Company, the Corporation or any of their respective stockholders, be deemed to be one issued and outstanding, fully paid and nonassessable share of Class A Common Stock. Any stock certificate that immediately prior to the Domestication Effective Time represented any Class A ordinary share of the Cayman Company or Class B ordinary share of the Cayman Company will, from and after the Domestication Effective Time, automatically and without the necessity of presenting the same for exchange, represent the same number of shares of Class A Common Stock.

 

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(b)    Subject to the rights of the holders of Preferred Stock, (i) the number of authorized shares of Class A Common Stock, Class B Common Stock, Class C Common Stock or Preferred Stock may be increased by the affirmative vote of the holders of shares representing a majority of the voting power of all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon, irrespective of the provisions of Section 242(b)(2) of the DGCL (or any successor provision thereto), (ii) the number of authorized shares of Class A Common Stock, Class C Common Stock or Preferred Stock may be decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding or, in the case of the Class A Common Stock, the number of shares of Class A Common Stock reserved pursuant to Section 2(g) of this Article V) by the affirmative vote of the holders of shares representing a majority of the voting power of all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon, irrespective of the provisions of Section 242(b)(2) of the DGCL (or any successor provision thereto), and (iii) the number of authorized shares of Class B Common Stock may be decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding) by the affirmative vote of a majority of the voting power of all of the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock.

2.    Common Stock. The powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of the Class A Common Stock, the Class B Common Stock and the Class C Common Stock, and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof, are as follows:

(a)    Equal Status. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Certificate of Incorporation or required by applicable law, shares of Class A Common Stock, shares of Class B Common Stock and shares of Class C Common Stock shall have the same rights, powers and preferences and rank equally, share ratably and be identical in all respects as to all matters. The rights, powers and preferences of the holders of Common Stock are subject to and qualified by the rights, powers and preferences of the holders of the Preferred Stock of any series as may be designated by the board of directors of the Corporation (the “Board”) upon any issuance of the Preferred Stock of any series.

(b)    Voting.

(i)    Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Certificate of Incorporation or required by applicable law, at all meetings of stockholders and on all matters submitted to a vote (or to be acted upon by written consent) of the stockholders of the Corporation, (A) each holder of Class A Common Stock shall have the right to one (1) vote per share of Class A Common Stock held of record by such holder, (B) each holder of Class B Common Stock shall have the right to ten (10) votes per share of Class B Common Stock held of record by such holder and (C) each holder of Class C Common Stock shall have the right to zero (0) votes per share of Class C Common stock held of record by such holder (except that, solely to the extent that any holder of Class C Common Stock is expressly entitled to vote on any matter pursuant to this Certificate of Incorporation or by applicable law, such holder of Class C Common Stock shall have the right to one (1) vote per share of Class C Common Stock held of record by such holder). Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Certificate of Incorporation or required by applicable law, the holders of Class A Common Stock and the holders of Class B Common Stock shall at all times vote together as a single class at all meetings of stockholders and on all matters (including the election and removal of directors) submitted to a vote (or to be acted upon by written consent) of the stockholders of the Corporation.

(ii)    Except as otherwise provided in this Certificate of Incorporation or required by applicable law, the holders of the Class A Common Stock and the holders of the Class B Common Stock shall (A) have the exclusive right to vote on all matters (including the election and removal of directors) submitted to a vote (or to be acted upon by written consent) of the stockholders of the Corporation, (B) be entitled to notice of any stockholders’ meeting in accordance with the bylaws of the Corporation (as amended or restated from time to time, the “Bylaws”) and (C) be entitled to vote upon such matters and in such manner as may be provided by applicable law.

 

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(iii)    Notwithstanding any other provision of this Certificate of Incorporation to the contrary, except as otherwise required by applicable law, the holders of Common Stock, as such, shall not be entitled to vote on any amendment to this Certificate of Incorporation that relates solely to the terms of one or more outstanding series of Preferred Stock if the holders of such affected series are entitled to vote thereon, either separately or together as a class with the holders of one or more other such series, pursuant to this Certificate of Incorporation or applicable law.

(c)    Dividends and Distributions. Subject to the rights of the holders of any Preferred Stock that may then be outstanding, the holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive, if, as and when declared by the Board, out of any assets of the Corporation legally available for distribution to stockholders of the Corporation, such Distributions as may be declared from time to time by the Board. Shares of Class A Common Stock, shares of Class B Common Stock and shares of Class C Common Stock shall be treated equally, identically and ratably, on a per share basis, with respect to any Distribution paid or made by the Corporation (including with respect to the form, amount and timing thereof), unless different treatment of the shares of each such class is approved by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock, by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock and by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Class C Common Stock, each voting separately as a class; provided, however, that, in the event that a Distribution is paid in the form of Common Stock (or Rights to acquire such stock), holders of Class A Common Stock shall receive Class A Common Stock (or Rights to acquire such stock, as the case may be), holders of Class B Common Stock shall receive Class B Common Stock (or Rights to acquire such stock, as the case may be) and holders of Class C Common Stock shall receive Class C Common Stock (or Rights to acquire such stock, as the case may be).

(d)    Subdivisions, Combinations or Reclassifications. If the Corporation in any manner subdivides or combines (by any stock split, stock dividend, recapitalization, reorganization, reclassification, merger, amendment of this Certificate of Incorporation, scheme, arrangement or otherwise) the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock, the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock or the outstanding shares of Class C Common Stock, the outstanding shares of each such class shall be subdivided or combined in the same proportion and manner, unless different treatment of the shares of each such class is approved by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock, by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock and by the holders of a majority of the outstanding Class C Shares, each voting separately as a class.

(e)    Extraordinary Transactions.

(i)    In the event that any Extraordinary Transaction is effected, shares of Class A Common Stock, shares of Class B Common Stock and shares of Class C Common Stock shall be treated equally, identically and ratably, on a per share basis, with respect to any consideration paid or otherwise distributed to, or rights received by, stockholders of the Corporation, or into which such shares are converted or for which such shares are exchanged, in connection with such Extraordinary Transaction (including with respect to the form, amount and timing thereof), unless different treatment of the shares of each such class is approved by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock, the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock and the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Class C Common Stock, each voting separately as a class; provided, however, that, to the extent that such consideration is paid in the form of securities or

 

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other equity interests, (A) holders of Class B Common Stock may receive a class, series or other form of such securities or other equity interests each having voting power that is ten (10) times greater than the voting power of any security or other equity interest received by holders of Class A Common Stock and (B) holders of Class C Common Stock may receive a class, series or other form of such securities or other equity interests having no voting power.

(ii)    The Corporation may not enter into any agreement pursuant to which a Third Party may, by tender or exchange offer, acquire shares of Class A Common Stock, shares of Class B Common Stock or shares of Class C Common Stock, unless, pursuant to such agreement, (A) shares of Class A Common Stock, shares of Class B Common Stock and shares of Class C Common Stock would be treated equally, identically and ratably, on a per share basis, with respect to any consideration paid or otherwise distributed to, or rights received by, stockholders of the Corporation, or into which such shares are converted, or for which such shares are exchanged in connection with the transactions contemplated by such agreement (including with respect to the form, amount and timing thereof) or (B) different treatment of shares of Class A Common Stock and shares of Class B Common Stock is approved by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock, the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock and the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Class C Common Stock, each voting separately as a class; provided, however, that, to the extent that such consideration would be paid in the form of securities or other equity interests, (A) holders of Class B Common Stock may receive a class, series or other form of such securities or other equity interests each having voting power that is ten (10) times greater than the voting power of any security or other equity interest received by holders of Class A Common Stock and (B) holders of Class C Common Stock may receive a class, series or other form of such securities or other equity interests having no voting power.

(f)    Issuance and Conversion of Class B Common Stock.

(i)    Issuance of Class B Common Stock. Except as may otherwise be approved, ratified or otherwise determined by a majority of the Class B Directors then in office, no share of Class B Common Stock shall be issued to any Person that is not an Eligible Holder as of the time of such issuance.

(ii)    Voluntary Conversion of Class B Common Stock. Each outstanding share of Class B Common Stock shall be convertible into one (1) fully paid and nonassessable share of Class A Common Stock at the election of the holder thereof at any time upon delivery of written notice of such election to the transfer agent of the Corporation.

(iii)    Automatic Conversion of Class B Common Stock. Subject to the Stock Policies (as hereinafter defined), each outstanding share of Class B Common Stock shall automatically convert into one (1) fully paid and nonassessable share of Class A Common Stock, without the need for any further action by the holder thereof or the Corporation, upon the holder of such share of Class B Common Stock ceasing to be an Eligible Holder for any reason (a “Mandatory Conversion Event”) (whether voluntarily or involuntarily or by operation of law, and including, without limitation, by virtue of (A) (x) the termination or removal of such holder (or any individual exercising any voting right (directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries) with respect to such share through such holder (any such individual, a “Voting Individual”)) as a director or an employee of the Corporation or any Subsidiary (whether or not for cause), (y) the resignation by such holder (or any Voting Individual) as a director or an employee of the Corporation or any Subsidiary (whether or not for good reason) or (z) the death, incapacity or disability (as such term (or any similar term) may be defined or used in any agreement relating to the employment or engagement of such holder (or any Voting Individual) by the Corporation or any Subsidiary or in any policy of the Corporation or any Subsidiary applicable to the

 

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employment or engagement of such holder (or any Voting Individual) thereby) of such holder (or any Voting Individual), (B) any individual other than a director or an employee of the Corporation acquiring any right to exercise any voting right (directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries) with respect to such share and (C) the Transfer of such share to a Person other than an Eligible Holder), unless the Board has resolved, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors of the Corporation then in office who qualify as “independent” in accordance with the requirements of the securities exchange on which equity securities of the Corporation are then listed for trading, that such action, transaction or event shall not result in the conversion of such share of Class B Common Stock.

(iv)    Certificated Shares. The Corporation shall not be obligated to issue certificates evidencing the shares of Class A Common Stock issuable upon any conversion of shares of Class B Common Stock unless the certificates evidencing such shares of Class B Common Stock, if any such certificates have been issued, have been delivered to the Corporation or its transfer agent or the holder of such shares of Class B Common Stock has notified the Corporation or its transfer agent that such certificates have been lost, stolen or destroyed and has executed an agreement satisfactory to the Corporation to indemnify the Corporation from any loss incurred by it in connection with such certificates (or the absence thereof).

(v)    Procedures. The Corporation may, from time to time, establish such restrictions, policies and procedures relating to the conversion of Class B Common Stock to Class A Common Stock and the general administration of the Corporation’s multi-class stock structure (the “Stock Policies”), including the issuance of stock certificates (or the establishment of book-entry positions) with respect thereto, as it may deem necessary or advisable. None of the Stock Policies shall be adopted, amended, altered or repealed unless such action has been recommended or approved pursuant to a resolution adopted by the affirmative vote of (A) a majority of the directors of the Corporation then in office and (B) if any Class B Director is then in office, then at least one Class B Director. The Corporation may request that holders of shares of Class B Common Stock furnish affidavits or other proof to the Corporation as it deems necessary to verify the ownership of Class B Common Stock and to confirm that a conversion to Class A Common Stock has not occurred. A determination by the secretary of the Corporation that a Mandatory Conversion Event has occurred shall be conclusive and binding; provided that, if the holder of any share with respect to which the secretary of the Corporation has determined that a Mandatory Conversion Event has occurred believes in good faith that such determination is in error, such holder may appeal such determination to the Board, and the Board shall determine in its sole discretion (x) whether to review the secretary’s determination and (y) if the Board elects to review the secretary’s determination, whether a Mandatory Conversion Event has occurred with respect to such share, in which case the Board’s determination shall be conclusive and binding.

(vi)    Effectiveness of Conversion. In the event of a voluntary conversion of shares of Class B Common Stock to shares of Class A Common Stock pursuant to Section 2(f)(ii) of this Article V, such conversion shall be deemed to have occurred at the time that the Corporation’s transfer agent receives the required written notice of the holder’s election to effect such conversion. In the event of an automatic conversion of shares of Class B Common Stock to shares of Class A Common Stock pursuant to Section 2(f)(iii) of this Article V, such conversion shall be deemed to have occurred at the time specified in the Stock Policies with respect to the applicable relevant Mandatory Conversion Event. Upon any conversion of a share of Class B Common Stock to a share of Class A Common Stock pursuant to this Section 2(f) of this Article V, all rights of the holder of such share of Class B Common Stock shall cease and the Person(s) in whose name(s) the certificate(s) or book-entry position(s) representing the shares of Class A Common Stock are to be issued shall be treated for all purposes as having become the record holder(s) of such shares of Class A Common Stock.

 

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(vii)    Unless otherwise determined by the Corporation, each share of Class B Common Stock that is converted pursuant to this Section 2(f) of this Article V shall return to the status of authorized but unissued shares of Class B Common Stock, but shall be reserved and may only be reissued pursuant to the Corporation’s equity plans, subject to the terms thereof.

(g)    Reservation of Stock. The Corporation shall at all times reserve and keep available out of its authorized but unissued shares of Class A Common Stock or out of shares of Class A Common Stock held in its treasury, solely for the purpose of effecting conversions of shares of Class B Common Stock, such number of shares of Class A Common Stock as shall from time to time be sufficient to effect the conversion of all outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock into shares of Class A Common Stock.

(h)    Restrictions on Transfer of Certain Shares.

(i)    From the Merger Effective Time (as such term is defined in the Merger Agreement) until the date that is 180 calendar days following the Closing Date (as such term is defined in the Merger Agreement), no stockholder of the Corporation (other than a stockholder described in Section 2(h)(ii) of this Article V) or transferee thereof may Transfer any Merger Consideration Share legally or beneficially owned by it, other than in accordance with Section 2(h)(iii) of this Article V.

(ii)    From the Merger Effective Time until the date that is one year following the Closing Date, no stockholder of the Corporation who is a Founder Holder or, as of the Closing, is an employee of the Corporation or any Subsidiary, or transferee thereof, may Transfer any Merger Consideration Share legally or beneficially owned by such stockholder, other than in accordance with Section 2(h)(iii) of this Article V, except that the foregoing restriction shall not apply to an aggregate of 10% (rounded down to the nearest whole share) of the total number of Included Merger Consideration Shares that are (or are subject to equity awards of Acquiror that are) legally or beneficially owned or held, directly or indirectly, by such stockholder (other than any such stockholder that is a Founder Holder) immediately following the Merger Effective Time (such portion of such Included Merger Consideration Shares, such stockholder’s “Transferrable Included Merger Consideration Shares”).

(iii)    Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 2(h)(i) or Section 2(h)(ii) of this Article V, each stockholder of the Corporation shall be permitted to Transfer any Merger Consideration Share:

(A)    if such stockholder holds any equity award issued pursuant to any equity plan of the Company or any of its subsidiaries that is assumed by the Corporation in connection with the Merger (as defined in the Merger Agreement) or issued pursuant to any equity plan of the Corporation, then, beginning on the earlier of (x) March 1, 2022 or (y) the date that is fifteen (15) calendar days before the date on which any tax relating to such equity award (other than any equity award or portion thereof that is a Transferrable Included Merger Consideration Share) will become due under applicable law (as reasonably determined by the Corporation), solely to the extent necessary to yield aggregate net proceeds to such stockholder in connection with such Transfer (assuming that all Merger Consideration Shares so Transferred would be sold for value at the prevailing trading price of shares of Class A Common Stock at the time of such Transfer) sufficient to cover the aggregate amount of ordinary income, employment or similar taxes payable in connection with such equity award (as reasonably determined by the Corporation);

(B)    if such stockholder is an individual, then (x) by will or other testamentary document or device or (y) by operation of applicable law, including applicable laws of intestacy or descent or pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order, divorce settlement, divorce decree, separation agreement or related court order;

 

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(C)    as a bona fide gift or gifts, including to any charitable organization;

(D)    for bona fide estate planning purposes;

(E)    to any Person of which all of the outstanding equity interests are legally and beneficially owned by such stockholder or, if such stockholder is an individual, then to one or more members of the immediate family or former spouse of such stockholder;

(F)    if such stockholder is a Person other than an individual, then to another Person (other than an individual) that is an Affiliate of such stockholder, or to any investment fund or other Person managing or managed by such stockholder or one or more of its Affiliates (including, for the avoidance of doubt, where such stockholder is a partnership, to its general partner);

(G)    if such stockholder is a Person other than an individual, then (i) to any shareholder, partner or member of such stockholder in redemption of such shareholder’s partner’s or member’s interest in such stockholder or (ii) upon such stockholder’s bona fide liquidation or dissolution, to the shareholders, partners or members of such stockholder in accordance with its governing documents; or

(H)    to a nominee or custodian of any Person to which a Transfer would be permissible under any of the preceding clauses (A) through (G);

provided that, (1) in the case of any Transfer pursuant to any of the foregoing clauses (B), (C), (D) and (H), such Transfer does not involve a disposition for value and (2) in the case of any Transfer pursuant to any of the foregoing clauses (C), (D), (E), (F), (G) and (H), (x) the Person effecting such Transfer provides written notice of such Transfer to the Corporation at least two Business Days prior to effecting such Transfer, (y) the shares so Transferred shall remain subject to the transfer restrictions set forth in this Section 2(h) of this Article V, (z) any public report or filing required to be made pursuant to applicable securities laws (including filings under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act) will disclose the nature of such Transfer on a timely basis.

(iv)    Each certificate or book entry representing Merger Consideration Shares or shares of Class B Common Stock shall bear a legend substantially in the following form (or in such other form as the Board may determine):

THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS [CERTIFICATE] [BOOK ENTRY] ARE SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER SET FORTH IN THE CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF THE CORPORATION (AS IT MAY BE AMENDED AND/OR RESTATED), A COPY OF WHICH IS ON FILE WITH THE SECRETARY OF THE CORPORATION AND SHALL BE PROVIDED FREE OF CHARGE TO ANY STOCKHOLDER MAKING A REQUEST THEREFOR.

(i)    Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Certificate of Incorporation, there shall be no Transfer of any share of Class B Common Stock involving a disposition for value unless the value paid in respect of such share of Class B Common Stock is equal to the prevailing price per share

 

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of Class A Common Stock at the time of such disposition for value. The Corporation may establish in the Stock Policies such other restrictions and such policies and procedures relating to Transfers of Class B Common Stock as the Corporation may deem necessary or advisable.

3.    Preferred Stock. Shares of Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more series. The Board is hereby authorized, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to provide, by resolution from time to time, for the issuance, out of the unissued shares of Preferred Stock, of one or more series of Preferred Stock, without stockholder approval, by filing a certificate of designation with respect thereto pursuant to the applicable provisions of the DGCL setting forth such resolution or resolutions and, with respect to each such series, establishing the number of shares to be included in such series and fixing the powers (which may include full, limited or no voting power), designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, if any, of the shares of each such series and any qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof. The powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional and other special rights of each series of Preferred Stock, if any, and any qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof may differ from those of any and all other series of Preferred Stock at any time outstanding. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any resolution or certificate of designation providing for issuance of any series of Preferred Stock may provide that such series shall be superior or rank equally or be junior to any other series of Preferred Stock, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Subject to the terms of any such series of Preferred Stock, and except as otherwise required by applicable law, any shares of Preferred Stock that may be redeemed, purchased or acquired by the Corporation shall return to the status of authorized but unissued shares of Preferred Stock and may be reissued by the Corporation in one or more series as provided in this Section 3 of this Article V.

ARTICLE VI

STOCKHOLDER ACTION

1.    Action without Meeting.

(a)    Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock, any action required or permitted to be taken by the stockholders of the Corporation must be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting of the stockholders, and may not be taken or effected by a written consent of stockholders in lieu thereof, unless (i) such action has been recommended or approved pursuant to a resolution adopted by the affirmative vote of all of the directors of the Corporation then in office or (ii) the holders of Class B Common Stock collectively beneficially own shares representing a majority of the voting power of all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation.

2.    Special Meetings.

(a)    Except as otherwise required by applicable law, and subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock, special meetings of the stockholders of the Corporation may be called for any purpose or purposes, at any time, only by (i) the Board, (ii) the chairman of the Board, (iii) the chief executive officer or president of the Corporation or (iv) at any time that the holders of Class B Common Stock collectively beneficially own shares representing a majority of the voting power of all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation, the holders of shares representing a majority of the voting power of all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation.

(b)    Advance notice of stockholder nominations for the election of directors and of other business to be brought by stockholders of the Corporation before any meeting of stockholders shall be given in the manner provided in the Bylaws. Only those matters set forth in the notice of the special meeting may be considered or acted upon at a special meeting of stockholders.

 

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ARTICLE VII

DIRECTORS

1.    General. The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board, except as otherwise provided in this Certificate of Incorporation or required by applicable law.

2.    Number of Directors. Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock with respect to the election of directors, between the Corporation and certain of its stockholders, the number of directors of the Corporation shall be fixed from time to time solely by resolution of the Board; provided that, if at any time the number of directors that the holders of Class B Common Stock are entitled to nominate and elect pursuant to Section 3 of this Article VII is less than one-quarter (1/4) of the total number of directors of the Corporation, then the total number of directors of the Corporation and the number of directors that the holders of Class B Common Stock are entitled to nominate and elect shall be automatically increased to the extent necessary so that the number of directors that the holders of Class B Common Stock are entitled to nominate and elect is one-quarter (1/4) of the total number of directors of the Corporation.

3.    Election of Directors.

(a)    The election of directors need not be by written ballot unless the Bylaws shall so provide.

(b)    For so long (and only for so long) as the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock continue to represent at least 2% of all of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, the holders of Class B Common Stock, voting separately as a class, shall be entitled to nominate and elect a number of directors equal to one-quarter (1/4) of the total number of directors of the Corporation (the “Class B Directors”). In the event that the total number of directors of the Corporation is not evenly divisible by four (4), the number of directors entitled to be nominated and elected by the holders of Class B Common Stock shall be the smallest whole number of directors that constitutes at least one-quarter (1/4) of the total number of directors of the Corporation. At any time that a Class B Director is serving as a director of the Corporation, at least one (1) Class B Director shall be required to be present at a meeting of the Board to constitute a quorum.

(c)    Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock with respect to the election of directors, the holders of Class A Common Stock and the holders of Class B Common Stock, voting together as a single class, shall be entitled to elect the directors of the Corporation other than the Class B Directors (the “Common Directors”).

(d)    Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock with respect to the election of directors, each director of the Corporation shall hold such office until the expiration of the term for which he or she is elected and until his or her successor has been duly elected and qualified or until his or her earlier death, resignation or removal.

4.    Removal; Vacancies.

(a)    Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock with respect to the election (or removal) of directors, any Common Director may be removed from office, with or without cause, by the affirmative vote of the holders of shares representing a majority of the voting power of all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon, voting together as a single class. Any Class B Director may be removed from office (i) without cause, by the affirmative

 

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vote of the holders of shares representing a majority of the voting power of all of the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock and (ii) with cause, by the affirmative vote of the holders of shares representing a majority of the voting power of all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon, voting together as a single class.

(b)    Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock with respect to the election of directors, vacancies occurring with respect to any Common Director for any reason and newly created directorships resulting from an increase in the authorized number of Common Directors may be filled only by vote of a majority of the remaining members of the Board, although less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director. Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock with respect to the election of directors, vacancies occurring with respect to any Class B Director for any reason and newly created directorships resulting from an increase in the authorized number of Class B Directors may be filled only by vote of a majority of the remaining Class B Directors, although less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining Class B Director. A person elected to fill a vacancy or newly created directorship in accordance with the preceding sentences of this Section 4(b) of this Article VII shall hold office until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until his or her successor shall be duly elected and qualified, or until his or her earlier resignation, death or removal.

(c)    In the event of a vacancy on the Board, the remaining directors of the Corporation, except as otherwise provided by law, and so long as a quorum is present, shall exercise the powers of the full Board until the vacancy is filled.

5.    Committees of the Board. The Board shall establish and maintain an audit committee, a nominating and corporate governance committee and a compensation committee, and may establish such other committees as it shall determine from time to time. For so long as any Founder serving as a director of the Corporation holds shares of Class B Common Stock, such Founder shall not be permitted to serve as a member of the compensation committee of the Board. Subject to applicable requirements of the securities exchange on which equity securities of the Corporation are then listed for trading, at any time that any Class B Director is serving as a director of the Corporation, each committee of the Board (other than the compensation committee of the Board) shall include at least one (1) Class B Director unless a majority of the Class B Directors then in office approve the formation and composition of such committee.

6.    Founder Termination Actions.

(a)     No Founder Cause Termination Action shall be taken or approved or agreed to by or on behalf of the Corporation, and the Corporation shall not take any Founder Cause Termination Action in its capacity as stockholder of any of its subsidiaries (and shall use its best efforts to prevent any subsidiary board of directors or equivalent governing body or any committee thereof from taking any Founder Cause Termination Action), unless such Founder Cause Termination Action has been recommended or approved pursuant to a resolution adopted by the affirmative vote of at least three-quarters (3/4) of the directors of the Corporation then in office.

(b)    No Founder Non-Cause Termination Action shall be taken or approved or agreed to by or on behalf of the Corporation, and the Corporation shall not take any Founder Non-Cause Termination Action in its capacity as stockholder of any of its subsidiaries (and shall use its best efforts to prevent any subsidiary board of directors or equivalent governing body or any committee thereof from taking any Founder Non-Cause Termination Action), unless such Founder Non-Cause Termination Action has been recommended or approved pursuant to a resolution adopted by the affirmative vote of (i) at least three-quarters (3/4) of the directors of the Corporation then in office and (ii) if any Founder is then serving as a director of the Corporation, at least one director of the Corporation who is a Founder;

 

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provided that, if only one Founder is then serving as a director of the Corporation and such Founder is the subject of the Founder Non-Cause Termination Action, the affirmative vote described in the foregoing clause (ii) shall not be required.

(c)    Any Founder Cause Termination Action or Founder Non-Cause Termination Action considered by or voted upon by the Board shall concern one Founder only, and, in the event that more than one Founder is the subject of a Founder Cause Termination Action or a Founder Non-Cause Termination Action, a separate Founder Cause Termination Action or Founder Non-Cause Termination Action, as applicable, shall be considered and voted upon by the Board with respect to each such Founder.

7.    Stakeholders. In addition to any other considerations which the Board, any committee thereof or any individual director lawfully may take into account in determining whether to take or refrain from taking corporate action on any matter, including making or declining to make any recommendation to the stockholders of the Corporation, the Board, any committee thereof or any individual director may, in his, her, or its discretion, consider the long-term as well as the short-term interests of the Corporation, taking into account and considering, as deemed appropriate, the effects of such action on the Corporation’s (a) stockholders and (b) other stakeholders, including the Corporation’s workforce, customers, suppliers, academic researchers, governments and communities, in the case of this clause (b), as may be identified or revised by the Board from time to time. Nothing in this Section 7 of this Article VII, elsewhere in this Certificate of Incorporation or in any other governing document, policy or guideline adopted by the Corporation from time to time shall (a) create any duty owed by any director to any person or entity to consider, or afford any particular weight to, any of the foregoing matters or to limit his or her consideration thereof or (b) other than as vested in the Corporation’s stockholders to the extent provided under applicable law, be construed as creating any rights against any director of the Corporation or the Corporation. This Section 7 of this Article VII shall be deemed to grant discretionary authority only to the extent consistent with and permitted by law, and shall not be deemed to confer third-party beneficiary status on any person or entity.

ARTICLE VIII

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

To the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, as it presently exists or may hereafter be amended from to time, no director of the Corporation shall be personally liable to the Corporation or any of its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director. If the DGCL is amended after the effective date of this Certificate of Incorporation to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors of corporations, then the liability of each director of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, as so amended.

Neither any amendment, repeal or modification of this Article VIII by the stockholders of the Corporation or by virtue of an amendment to the DGCL nor the adoption of any provision of this Certificate of Incorporation inconsistent with this Article VIII shall adversely affect any limitation of personal liability or other right or protection of a director of the Corporation existing by virtue of this Article VIII at the time of such amendment, repeal, modification or adoption with respect to any act or omission occurring before such amendment, repeal, modification or adoption.

ARTICLE IX

CORPORATE OPPORTUNITIES

The Corporation renounces any interest or expectancy of the Corporation in, or in being offered an opportunity to participate in, any matter, transaction or interest that is presented to, or acquired, created

 

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or developed by, or which otherwise comes into the possession of, any director of the Corporation who is not an employee of the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries, unless such matter, transaction or interest is presented to, or acquired, created or developed by, or otherwise comes into the possession of, such director first in such director’s capacity as a director of the Corporation.

ARTICLE X

AMENDMENT OF CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

1.    The Corporation reserves the right to adopt, amend, alter or repeal any provision of this Certificate of Incorporation, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by statute, except as provided in Section 2 of this Article X, and all rights, powers and preferences conferred upon any stockholder, director or other Person herein are granted subject to this reservation.

2.    Notwithstanding any other provision of this Certificate of Incorporation or provision of applicable law that might otherwise permit a lesser or no vote, but in addition to any vote or assent of any stockholder or the holders of any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation required by any provision of this Certificate of Incorporation or applicable law, the affirmative vote of the holders of shares representing at least two-thirds (2/3) of the voting power of all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation shall be required to adopt, amend, alter or repeal (by amendment, merger, consolidation or otherwise) any provision of this Certificate of Incorporation that is inconsistent with Article VI, Article VII, Article VIII, Article IX, this Article X or Article XI. So long as any share of Class B Common Stock remains outstanding, in addition to any other vote required by applicable law or this Certificate of Incorporation, the Corporation shall not, without the prior affirmative vote of the holders of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock, voting as a separate class, adopt, amend, alter or repeal (by amendment, merger, consolidation or otherwise) any provision of this Certificate of Incorporation (a) in a manner that adversely alters or changes or is inconsistent with any of the voting, conversion, dividend or liquidation provisions hereof applicable to the Class B Common Stock or other rights, powers or preferences of the Class B Common Stock; (b) to provide for any holder of Class A Common Stock to have more than one (1) vote per share or any right to a separate class vote of the holders of Class A Common Stock other than as provided by this Certificate of Incorporation as then in effect or required by the DGCL; (c) to reclassify any outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock into shares having rights as to dividends or liquidation that are senior to the Class B Common Stock or the right to have more than one (1) vote per share or any right to a separate class vote of the holders of such shares other than as provided by this Certificate of Incorporation as then in effect or required by the DGCL; (d) to authorize, or issue any shares of, any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation (other than Class B Common Stock) having the right to more than one (1) vote per share or any right to a separate class vote of the holders of such shares other than as provided by this Certificate of Incorporation as then in effect or required by the DGCL; or (e) in a manner that otherwise adversely impacts or affects the rights, powers or preferences of the Class B Common Stock in a manner that is disparate from the manner in which it affects the rights, powers or preferences of the Class A Common Stock. So long as any share of Class A Common Stock remains outstanding, in addition to any other vote required by applicable law or this Certificate of Incorporation, the Corporation shall not, without the prior affirmative vote of the holders of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock, voting as a separate class, adopt, amend, alter or repeal (by amendment, merger, consolidation or otherwise), any provision of this Certificate of Incorporation (i) in a manner that adversely alters or changes or is inconsistent with any of the voting, conversion, dividend or liquidation provisions hereof applicable to the Class A Common Stock or other rights, powers or preferences of the Class A Common Stock; (ii) to provide for any holder of Class B Common Stock to have more than ten (10) votes per share or any right to a separate class vote of the holders of Class B Common Stock other than as provided by this Certificate of Incorporation as then in effect or required by the DGCL; (iii) to reclassify any outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock into shares having rights as to dividends or

 

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liquidation that are senior to the Class A Common Stock or the right to have more than ten (10) votes per share or any right to a separate class vote of the holders of such shares other than as provided by this Certificate of Incorporation as then in effect or required by the DGCL; or (iv) in a manner that otherwise adversely impacts or affects the rights, powers or preferences of the Class A Common Stock in a manner that is disparate from the manner in which it affects the rights, powers or preferences of the Class B Common Stock.

ARTICLE XI

AMENDMENT OF BYLAWS

1.    Amendment by Directors. Except as otherwise provided in this Certificate of Incorporation or required by applicable law, and in furtherance (and not in limitation) of the powers conferred upon it by the DGCL, the Board shall have the power to adopt, amend, alter or repeal any provision of the Bylaws without the vote or assent of the stockholders.

2.    Amendment by Stockholders. Except as otherwise provided therein, any provision of the Bylaws may be adopted, amended, altered or repealed at any annual meeting of stockholders, or any special meeting of stockholders called for such purpose, by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the voting power of all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation; provided, however, that if the Board recommends that stockholders approve such amendment or repeal at such meeting of stockholders, such amendment or repeal shall only require the affirmative vote of a majority of the voting power of all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation.

ARTICLE XII

MISCELLANEOUS

1.    Opt Out of Section 203 of the DGCL. The Corporation shall not be governed by Section 203 of the DGCL.

2.    Notice of Provisions. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any Person acquiring, owning or holding any interest in shares of capital stock of the Corporation shall be deemed to have notice of and to have consented to the provisions of this Certificate of Incorporation (including those contained in Article IX).

3.    Severability. If any provision of this Certificate of Incorporation shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable as applied to any circumstance for any reason whatsoever, then the validity, legality and enforceability of such provision in any other circumstance and of the remaining provisions of this Certificate of Incorporation (including, without limitation, each portion of any paragraph of this Certificate of Incorporation containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable that is not itself held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

4.    Incorporator; Initial Directors. The incorporator of the Corporation is Eli Baker, whose mailing address is 955 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10075. The powers of the incorporator are to terminate upon the filing of this Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware. The names and mailing address of the individuals who are to serve as the initial directors of the Corporation until the first annual meeting of stockholders and until his or her successor has been duly elected and qualified or until his or her earlier death, resignation or removal, are as follows:

 

Name

  

Mailing Address

Harry Sloan

   Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp.

Eli Baker

  

955 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10075

Scott M. Delman

Joshua Kazam

Isaac Lee

TImothy Leiweke

Dennis A. Miller

Laurence E. Paul

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THIS CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION is executed as of this 15th day of September, 2021.

 

SOARING EAGLE ACQUISITION CORP.
By:  

/s/ Eli Baker

Name:   Eli Baker
Title:   Incorporator

 

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EX-3.2 3 d322101dex32.htm EX-3.2 EX-3.2

Exhibit 3.2

Bylaws of

Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp.

(a Delaware corporation)

 


Table of Contents

 

          Page  

Article I—Corporate Offices

     1  

1.1

   Registered Office      1  

1.2

   Other Offices      1  

Article II—Meetings of Stockholders

     1  

2.1

   Place of Meetings      1  

2.2

   Annual Meeting      1  

2.3

   Special Meeting      1  

2.4

   Notice of Business to Be Brought before a Meeting      2  

2.5

   Notice of Nominations for Election to the Board of Directors      6  

2.6

   Additional Requirements for Valid Nomination of Candidates to Serve as Director and, if Elected, to be Seated as Directors      8  

2.7

   Notice of Stockholders’ Meetings      9  

2.8

   Quorum      9  

2.9

   Adjourned Meeting; Notice      10  

2.10

   Conduct of Business      10  

2.11

   Voting      11  

2.12

   Record Date for Stockholder Meetings and Other Purposes      11  

2.13

   Proxies      12  

2.14

   List of Stockholders Entitled to Vote      12  

2.15

   Inspectors of Election      13  

2.16

   Delivery to the Corporation      13  

2.17

   Action without Meeting      13  

Article III—Directors

     14  

3.1

   Powers      14  

3.2

   Number of Directors      14  

3.3

   Election, Qualification and Term of Office of Directors      14  

3.4

   Resignation; Removal; Vacancies      14  

3.5

   Place of Meetings; Meetings by Telephone      14  

3.6

   Regular Meetings      15  

3.7

   Special Meetings; Notice      15  

3.8

   Quorum      15  

3.9

   Board Action without a Meeting      15  

3.10

   Fees and Compensation of Directors      19  

Article IV—Committees

     16  

4.1

   Committees of Directors      16  

4.2

   Committee Minutes      16  

4.3

   Meetings and Actions of Committees      16  

4.4

   Subcommittees      17  

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

(continued)

 

          Page  

Article V—Officers

     17  

5.1

   Officers      17  

5.2

   Appointment of Officers      17  

5.3

   Subordinate Officers      17  

5.4

   Removal and Resignation of Officers      17  

5.5

   Vacancies in Offices      18  

5.6

   Representation of Shares of Other Corporations      18  

5.7

   Authority and Duties of Officers      18  

5.8

   Compensation      18  

Article VI—Records

     18  

Article VII—General Matters

     19  

7.1

   Execution of Corporate Contracts and Instruments      19  

7.2

   Stock Certificates      19  

7.3

   Special Designation of Certificates      19  

7.4

   Lost Certificates      20  

7.5

   Shares Without Certificates      20  

7.6

   Construction; Definitions      20  

7.7

   Dividends      20  

7.8

   Fiscal Year      20  

7.9

   Seal      21  

7.10

   Transfer of Stock      21  

7.11

   Stock Transfer Agreements      21  

7.12

   Registered Stockholders      21  

7.13

   Waiver of Notice      21  

Article VIII—Notice

     22  

8.1

   Delivery of Notice; Notice by Electronic Transmission      22  

Article IX—Forum

     23  

9.1

   Choice of Forum      23  

9.2

   Consent to Jurisdiction      23  

9.3

   Remedies      23  

Article X—Indemnification

     24  

10.1

   Indemnification of Directors and Officers      24  

10.2

   Indemnification of Others      24  

10.3

   Prepayment of Expenses      24  

10.4

   Determination; Claim      24  

10.5

   Non-Exclusivity of Rights      25  

10.6

   Insurance      25  

10.7

   Other Indemnification      25  

10.8

   Continuation of Indemnification      25  

10.9

   Amendment or Repeal; Interpretation      25  

10.10

   Other Indemnification and Advancement of Expenses      26  

Article XI—Amendments

     26  

Article XII—Definitions

     26  

 

 

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Bylaws of

Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp.

 

 

 

Article I—Corporate Offices

1.1 Registered Office.

The address of the registered office of Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp. (the “Corporation”) in the State of Delaware, and the name of its registered agent at such address, shall be as set forth in the Corporation’s certificate of incorporation, as the same may be amended and/or restated from time to time (the “Certificate of Incorporation”).

1.2 Other Offices.

The Corporation may have additional offices at any place or places, within or outside the State of Delaware, as the Corporation’s board of directors (the “Board”) may from time to time establish or as the business of the Corporation may require.

Article II—Meetings of Stockholders

2.1 Place of Meetings.

Meetings of stockholders shall be held at any place within or outside the State of Delaware, designated by the Board. The Board may, in its sole discretion, determine that a meeting of stockholders shall not be held at any place, but may instead be held solely by means of remote communication as authorized by Section 211(a)(2) of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”). In the absence of any such designation or determination, stockholders’ meetings shall be held at the Corporation’s principal executive office.

2.2 Annual Meeting.

The Board shall designate the date and time of the annual meeting. At the annual meeting, directors shall be elected and other proper business properly brought before the meeting in accordance with Section 2.4 of these bylaws may be transacted. The Board may postpone, reschedule or cancel any previously scheduled annual meeting of stockholders.

2.3 Special Meeting.

Special meetings of the stockholders may be called only by such persons and only in such manner as set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation.

No business may be transacted at any special meeting of stockholders other than the business specified in the notice of such meeting. The Board may postpone, reschedule or cancel any previously scheduled special meeting of stockholders.

 

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2.4 Notice of Business to Be Brought before a Meeting.

(a) At an annual meeting of the stockholders, only such business shall be conducted as shall have been properly brought before the meeting. To be properly brought before an annual meeting, business must be (i) specified in a notice of meeting given by or at the direction of the Board of Directors, (ii) if not specified in a notice of meeting, otherwise brought before the meeting by the Board of Directors or the Chairperson of the Board or (iii) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by a stockholder present in person who (A) (1) was a record owner of shares of the Corporation both at the time of giving the notice provided for in this Section 2.4 and at the time of the meeting, (2) is entitled to vote at the meeting, and (3) has complied with this Section 2.4 in all applicable respects or (B) properly made such proposal in accordance with Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (as so amended and inclusive of such rules and regulations, the “Exchange Act”), which proposal has been included in the Corporation’s proxy statement for the annual meeting. Unless otherwise required by law, if the stockholder is not present in person to present the proposed business, such proposed business shall not be transacted, notwithstanding that proxies in respect of such vote may have been received by the Corporation. The foregoing clause (iii) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to propose business to be brought before an annual meeting of the stockholders. For purposes of this Section 2.4, “present in person” shall mean that the stockholder proposing that the business be brought before the annual meeting of the Corporation, or a qualified representative of such proposing stockholder, appear at such annual meeting. A “qualified representative” of such proposing stockholder shall be a duly authorized officer, manager or partner of such stockholder or any other person authorized by a writing executed by such stockholder or an electronic transmission delivered by such stockholder to act for such stockholder as proxy at the meeting of stockholders and such person must produce such writing or electronic transmission, or a reliable reproduction of the writing or electronic transmission, at the meeting of stockholders. Stockholders seeking to nominate persons for election to the Board of Directors must comply with Section 2.5 and Section 2.6 and this Section 2.4 shall not be applicable to nominations except as expressly provided in Section 2.5 and Section 2.6.

(b) Without qualification, for business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder, the stockholder must (i) provide Timely Notice (as defined below) thereof in writing and in proper form to the Secretary of the Corporation and (ii) provide any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the forms required by this Section 2.4. To be timely, a stockholder’s notice must be delivered to, or mailed and received at, the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than 90 days nor more than 120 days prior to the one-year anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting; provided, however, that if no annual meeting was held in the preceding year, to be timely, a stockholder’s notice must be so delivered, or mailed and received, not earlier than the close of business on the 120th day prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the 90th day prior to such annual meeting or the 10th day following the day on which public disclosure of the date of such annual meeting was first made by the Corporation; provided, however, that if the date of the annual meeting is more than 30 days before or more than 60 days after such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered, or mailed and received, not later than the 90th day prior to such annual meeting or, if later, the 10th day following the day on which public disclosure of the date of such annual meeting was first made by the Corporation (such notice within such time periods, “Timely Notice”). In no event shall any adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting or the announcement thereof commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of Timely Notice as described above.

 

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(c) To be in proper form for purposes of this Section 2.4, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary shall set forth:

(i) As to each Proposing Person (as defined below), (1) the name and address of such Proposing Person (including, if applicable, the name and address that appear on the Corporation’s books and records); (2) the class or series and number of shares of the Corporation that are, directly or indirectly, owned of record or beneficially owned (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) by such Proposing Person, except that such Proposing Person shall in all events be deemed to beneficially own any shares of any class or series of the Corporation as to which such Proposing Person has a right to acquire beneficial ownership at any time in the future; and (3) a representation that the stockholder is a holder of record of stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at the meeting and intends to be present in person at the meeting to propose such business (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (1)-(3) are referred to as “Stockholder Information”);

(ii) As to each Proposing Person, (1) the full notional amount of any securities that, directly or indirectly, underlie any “derivative security” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(c) under the Exchange Act) that constitutes a “call equivalent position” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(b) under the Exchange Act) (“Synthetic Equity Position”) and that is, directly or indirectly, held or maintained by such Proposing Person with respect to any shares of any class or series of shares of the Corporation; provided that, for the purposes of the definition of “Synthetic Equity Position,” the term “derivative security” shall also include any security or instrument that would not otherwise constitute a “derivative security” as a result of any feature that would make any conversion, exercise or similar right or privilege of such security or instrument becoming determinable only at some future date or upon the happening of a future occurrence, in which case the determination of the amount of securities into which such security or instrument would be convertible or exercisable shall be made assuming that such security or instrument is immediately convertible or exercisable at the time of such determination; and, provided, further, that any Proposing Person satisfying the requirements of Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act (other than a Proposing Person that so satisfies Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act solely by reason of Rule 13d-1(b)(1)(ii)(E)) shall not be deemed to hold or maintain the notional amount of any securities that underlie a Synthetic Equity Position held by such Proposing Person as a hedge with respect to a bona fide derivatives trade or position of such Proposing Person arising in the ordinary course of such Proposing Person’s business as a derivatives dealer, (2) any rights to dividends on the shares of any class or series of shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such Proposing Person that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (3) any material pending or threatened legal proceeding in which such Proposing Person is a party or material participant involving the Corporation or any of its officers or directors, or any affiliate of the Corporation, (4) any other material relationship between such Proposing Person, on the one hand, and the Corporation or any affiliate of the Corporation, on the other hand, (5) any direct or indirect material interest in any contract or agreement of such Proposing Person with the Corporation or any affiliate of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement), (6) a representation that such Proposing Person intends or is part of a group which intends to deliver a proxy statement or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the proposal or otherwise solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal and (7) any other information relating to such Proposing Person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies or consents by such Proposing Person in support of the business proposed to be brought before the meeting pursuant to Section 14(a) of the

 

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Exchange Act (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (1) through (7) are referred to as “Disclosable Interests”); provided, however, that Disclosable Interests shall not include any such disclosures with respect to the ordinary course business activities of any broker, dealer, commercial bank, trust company or other nominee who is a Proposing Person solely as a result of being the stockholder directed to prepare and submit the notice required by these bylaws on behalf of a beneficial owner; and

(iii) As to each item of business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting, (1) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the annual meeting, the reasons for conducting such business at the annual meeting and any material interest in such business of each Proposing Person, (2) the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend these bylaws, the language of the proposed amendment), and (3) a reasonably detailed description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings (x) between or among any of the Proposing Persons or (y) between or among any Proposing Person and any other record or beneficial holder(s) or persons(s) who have a right to acquire beneficial ownership at any time in the future of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation or any other person or entity (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder, and (4) any other information relating to such item of business that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies in support of the business proposed to be brought before the meeting pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act; provided, however, that the disclosures required by this paragraph (iii) shall not include any disclosures with respect to any broker, dealer, commercial bank, trust company or other nominee who is a Proposing Person solely as a result of being the stockholder directed to prepare and submit the notice required by these bylaws on behalf of a beneficial owner.

For purposes of this Section 2.4, the term “Proposing Person” shall mean (i) the stockholder providing the notice of business proposed to be brought before an annual meeting, (ii) the beneficial owner or beneficial owners, if different, on whose behalf the notice of the business proposed to be brought before the annual meeting is made, and (iii) any participant (as defined in paragraphs (a)(ii)-(vi) of Instruction 3 to Item 4 of Schedule 14A) with such stockholder in such solicitation.

(d) A Proposing Person shall update and supplement its notice to the Corporation of its intent to propose business at an annual meeting, if necessary, so that the information provided or required to be provided in such notice pursuant to this Section 2.4 shall be true and correct as of the record date for stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting and as of the date that is 10 business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof, and such update and supplement shall be delivered to, or mailed and received by, the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than five business days after the record date for stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of such record date), and not later than eight business days prior to the date for the meeting or, if practicable, any adjournment or postponement thereof (and, if not practicable, on the first practicable date prior to the date to which the meeting has been adjourned or postponed) (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of 10 business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof). For the avoidance of doubt, the obligation to update and supplement as set forth in this paragraph or any other Section of these bylaws shall not limit the Corporation’s rights with respect to any deficiencies in any notice provided by a stockholder, extend any applicable deadlines hereunder or enable or be deemed to permit a stockholder who has previously submitted notice hereunder to amend or update any proposal or to submit any new proposal, including by changing or adding matters, business or resolutions proposed to be brought before a meeting of the stockholders.

 

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(e) Notwithstanding anything in these bylaws to the contrary and except as otherwise expressly provided in any applicable rule or regulation promulgated under the Exchange Act, no business shall be conducted at an annual meeting that is not properly brought before the meeting in accordance with this Section 2.4. The presiding officer of the meeting shall, if the facts warrant, determine that the business was not properly brought before the meeting in accordance with this Section 2.4, and if he or she should so determine, he or she shall so declare to the meeting and any such business not properly brought before the meeting shall not be transacted.

(f) This Section 2.4 is expressly intended to apply to any business proposed to be brought before an annual meeting of stockholders other than any proposal made in accordance with Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act and included in the Corporation’s proxy statement. The foregoing notice requirements of this Section 2.4 shall be deemed satisfied by a stockholder as to any proposal (other than a nomination) if the stockholder has notified the Corporation of his, her or its intention to present such proposal at an annual meeting in compliance with Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act and such stockholder’s proposal has been included in a proxy statement that has been prepared by the Corporation to solicit proxies for such annual meeting. In addition to the requirements of this Section 2.4 with respect to any business proposed to be brought before an annual meeting, each Proposing Person shall comply with all applicable requirements of the Exchange Act with respect to any such business. Nothing in this Section 2.4 shall be deemed to affect the rights of stockholders to request inclusion of proposals in the Corporation’s proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act.

(g) For purposes of these bylaws, “public disclosure” shall mean disclosure in a press release reported by a national news service, in a document publicly filed by the Corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Sections 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or by such other means as is reasonably designed to inform the public or securityholders of the Corporation in general of such information including, without limitation, posting on the Corporation’s investor relations website.

2.5 Notice of Nominations for Election to the Board of Directors.

(a) Subject in all respects to the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation, nominations of any person for election to the Board of Directors at an annual meeting or at a special meeting (but only if the election of directors is a matter specified in the notice of meeting given by or at the direction of the person calling such special meeting) may be made at such meeting only (x) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors, including by any committee or persons authorized to do so by the Board of Directors or these bylaws, or (y) by a stockholder present in person (A) who was a record owner of shares of the Corporation both at the time of giving the notice provided for in this Section 2.5 and at the time of the meeting, (B) is entitled to vote at the meeting, and (C) has complied with this Section 2.5 and Section 2.6 as to such notice and nomination. Unless otherwise required by law, if the stockholder is not present in person to present a nomination, such nomination shall be disregarded, notwithstanding that proxies in respect of such vote may have been received by the Corporation. For purposes of this Section 2.5, “present in person” shall mean that the stockholder proposing that the business be brought before the meeting of the Corporation, or a qualified representative of such stockholder, appear at such meeting. A “qualified representative” of such proposing stockholder shall be a duly authorized officer, manager or partner of such stockholder or any other person authorized by a writing executed by such stockholder or an electronic transmission delivered by such stockholder to act for such

 

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stockholder as proxy at the meeting of stockholders and such person must produce such writing or electronic transmission, or a reliable reproduction of the writing or electronic transmission, at the meeting of stockholders. The foregoing clause (y) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make any nomination of a person or persons for election to the Board of Directors at an annual meeting or special meeting.

(b) Without qualification, for a stockholder to make any nomination of a person or persons for election to the Board of Directors at an annual meeting, the stockholder must (1) provide Timely Notice (as defined in Section 2.4) thereof in writing and in proper form to the Secretary of the Corporation, (2) provide the information, agreements and questionnaires with respect to such stockholder and its candidate for nomination as required to be set forth by this Section 2.5 and Section 2.6 and (3) provide any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the forms required by this Section 2.5 and Section 2.6.

(i) Without qualification, if the election of directors is a matter specified in the notice of meeting given by or at the direction of the person calling a special meeting in accordance with the Certificate of Incorporation or these bylaws, then for a stockholder to make any nomination of a person or persons for election to the Board of Directors at a special meeting, the stockholder must (i) provide timely notice thereof in writing and in proper form to the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation, (ii) provide the information with respect to such stockholder and its candidate for nomination as required by this Section 2.5 and Section 2.6 and (iii) provide any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the forms required by this Section 2.5. To be timely, a stockholder’s notice for nominations to be made at a special meeting must be delivered to, or mailed and received at, the principal executive offices of the Corporation not earlier than the 120th day prior to such special meeting and not later than the 90th day prior to such special meeting or, if later, the 10th day following the day on which public disclosure (as defined in Section 2.4) of the date of such special meeting was first made.

(ii) In no event shall any adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting or special meeting or the announcement thereof commence a new time period (or extend the time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s notice as described above.

(iii) In no event may a Nominating Person provide notice with respect to a greater number of director candidates than are subject to election by stockholders at the applicable meeting; provided, however that if the Nominating Person is giving the notice on behalf of a beneficial owner, the foregoing clause shall mean that the number of director candidates a Nominating Person may nominate for election at the applicable meeting on behalf of any beneficial owner shall not be greater than the number of director candidates that are subject to election by stockholders at the applicable meeting. If the Corporation shall, subsequent to such notice, increase the number of directors subject to election at the meeting, such notice as to any additional nominees shall be due on the later of (i) the conclusion of the time period for Timely Notice for an annual meeting or timely notice for a special meeting), (ii) the date set forth in Section 2.5(b)(i), or (iii) the tenth day following the date of public disclosure (as defined in Section 2.4) of such increase.

 

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(c) To be in proper form for purposes of this Section 2.5, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary shall set forth:

(i) As to each Nominating Person (as defined below), the Stockholder Information (as defined in Section 2.4(c)(i), except that for purposes of this Section 2.5 the term “Nominating Person” shall be substituted for the term “Proposing Person” in all places it appears in Section 2.4(c)(i));

(ii) As to each Nominating Person, any Disclosable Interests (as defined in Section 2.4(c)(ii), except that for purposes of this Section 2.5 the term “Nominating Person” shall be substituted for the term “Proposing Person” in all places it appears in Section 2.4(c)(ii) and the disclosure with respect to the business to be brought before the meeting in Section 2.4(c)(ii) shall be made with respect to the election of directors at the meeting); and

(iii) As to each candidate whom a Nominating Person proposes to nominate for election as a director, (A) all information with respect to such candidate for nomination that would be required to be set forth in a stockholder’s notice pursuant to this Section 2.5 and Section 2.6 if such candidate for nomination were a Nominating Person, (B) all information relating to such candidate for nomination that is required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14(a) under the Exchange Act (including such candidate’s written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected), (C) a description of any direct or indirect material interest in any contract or agreement between or among any Nominating Person, on the one hand, and each candidate for nomination or his or her respective associates or any other participants in such solicitation, on the other hand, including, without limitation, all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 under Regulation S-K if such Nominating Person were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the candidate for nomination were a director or executive officer of such registrant (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (A) through (C) are referred to as “Nominee Information”), and (D) a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement as provided in Section 2.6(a).

For purposes of this Section 2.5, the term “Nominating Person” shall mean (i) the stockholder providing the notice of the nomination proposed to be made at the meeting, (ii) the beneficial owner or beneficial owners, if different, on whose behalf the notice of the nomination proposed to be made at the meeting is made, and (iii) any other participant in such solicitation.

(d) A stockholder providing notice of any nomination proposed to be made at a meeting shall further update and supplement such notice, if necessary, so that the information provided or required to be provided in such notice pursuant to this Section 2.5 shall be true and correct as of the record date for stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting and as of the date that is 10 business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof, and such update and supplement shall be delivered to, or mailed and received by, the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than five business days after the record date for stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of such record date), and not later than eight business days prior to the date for the meeting or, if practicable, any adjournment or postponement thereof (and, if not practicable, on the first practicable date prior to the date to which the meeting has been adjourned or postponed) (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of 10 business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof). For the avoidance of doubt, the obligation to update and supplement as set forth in this paragraph or any other Section of these bylaws shall not limit the Corporation’s rights with respect to any deficiencies in any notice provided by a stockholder, extend any applicable deadlines hereunder or enable or be deemed to permit a stockholder who has previously submitted notice hereunder to amend or update any nomination or to submit any new nomination.

 

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(e) In addition to the requirements of this Section 2.5 with respect to any nomination proposed to be made at a meeting, each Nominating Person shall comply with all applicable requirements of the Exchange Act with respect to any such nominations.

2.6 Additional Requirements for Valid Nomination of Candidates to Serve as Director and, if Elected, to be Seated as Directors.

(a) To be eligible to be a candidate for election as a director of the Corporation at an annual or special meeting, a candidate must be nominated in the manner prescribed in Section 2.5 and the candidate for nomination, whether nominated by the Board of Directors or by a stockholder of record, must have previously delivered (in accordance with the time period prescribed for delivery in a notice to such candidate given by or on behalf of the Board of Directors), to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation, (i) a completed written questionnaire (in a form provided by the Corporation) with respect to the background, qualifications, stock ownership and independence of such proposed nominee, and such additional information with respect to such proposed nominee as would be required to be provided by the Corporation pursuant to Schedule 14A if such proposed nominee were a participant in the solicitation of proxies by the Corporation in connection with such annual or special meeting and (ii) if requested by the Corporation, a written representation and agreement (in a form provided by the Corporation) that such candidate for nomination (A) is not and, if elected as a director during his or her term of office, will not become a party to (1) any agreement, arrangement or understanding with, and has not given and will not give any commitment or assurance to, any person or entity as to how such proposed nominee, if elected as a director of the Corporation, will act or vote on any issue or question (a “Voting Commitment”) that has not been disclosed to the Corporation or (2) any Voting Commitment that could limit or interfere with such proposed nominee’s ability to comply, if elected as a director of the Corporation, with such proposed nominee’s fiduciary duties under applicable law, (B) is not, and will not become a party to, any agreement, arrangement or understanding with any person or entity other than the Corporation with respect to any direct or indirect compensation or reimbursement for service as a director that has not been disclosed therein or to the Corporation, (C) if elected as a director of the Corporation, will comply with all applicable corporate governance, conflict of interest, confidentiality, stock ownership and trading and other policies and guidelines of the Corporation applicable to directors and in effect during such person’s term in office as a director, and (D) consents to being named as a nominee in the Corporation’s proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-4(d) under the Exchange Act and any associated proxy card of the Corporation and agrees to serve if elected as a director.

(b) The Board of Directors may also require any proposed candidate for nomination as a Director to furnish such other information as may reasonably be requested by the Board of Directors in writing prior to the meeting of stockholders at which such candidate’s nomination is to be acted upon in order for the Board of Directors to determine the eligibility of such candidate for nomination to be an independent director of the Corporation in accordance with the Corporation’s Corporate Governance Guidelines.

(c) A candidate for nomination as a director shall further update and supplement the materials delivered pursuant to this Section 2.6, if necessary, so that the information provided or required to be provided pursuant to this Section 2.6 shall be true and correct as of the record date for stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting and as of the date that is 10 business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof, and such update and supplement shall be delivered to, or mailed and received by, the

 

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Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation (or any other office specified by the Corporation in any public announcement) not later than five business days after the record date for stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of such record date), and not later than 8 business days prior to the date for the meeting or, if practicable, any adjournment or postponement thereof (and, if not practicable, on the first practicable date prior to the date to which the meeting has been adjourned or postponed) (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of 10 business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof). For the avoidance of doubt, the obligation to update and supplement as set forth in this paragraph or any other Section of these bylaws shall not limit the Corporation’s rights with respect to any deficiencies in any notice or information previously provided, extend any applicable deadlines hereunder or enable or be deemed to permit a stockholder who has previously submitted notice hereunder to amend or update any proposal or to submit any new proposal, including by changing or adding nominees, matters, business or resolutions proposed to be brought before a meeting of the stockholders.

(d) No candidate shall be eligible for nomination as a director of the Corporation unless such candidate for nomination and the Nominating Person seeking to place such candidate’s name in nomination has complied with Section 2.5 and this Section 2.6, as applicable. The presiding officer at the meeting shall, if the facts warrant, determine that a nomination was not properly made in accordance with Section 2.5 and this Section 2.6, and if he or she should so determine, he or she shall so declare such determination to the meeting, the defective nomination shall be disregarded and any ballots cast for the candidate in question (but in the case of any form of ballot listing other qualified nominees, only the ballots cast for the nominee in question) shall be void and of no force or effect.

(e) Notwithstanding anything in these bylaws to the contrary, no candidate for nomination shall be eligible to be seated as a director of the Corporation unless nominated and elected in accordance with Section 2.5 and this Section 2.6.

2.7 Notice of Stockholders Meetings.

Unless otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these bylaws, the notice of any meeting of stockholders shall be sent or otherwise given in accordance with Section 8.1 of these bylaws not less than 10 days nor more than 60 days before the date of the meeting to each stockholder entitled to vote at such meeting as of the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting. The notice shall specify the place, if any, date and hour of the meeting, the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting (if such date is different from the record date for stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting), the means of remote communication, if any, by which stockholders and proxy holders may be deemed to be present in person and vote at such meeting, and, in the case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called.

2.8 Quorum.

Unless otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these bylaws, the holders of a majority in voting power of the stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote thereat, present in person (including present by remote communication) or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at all meetings of the stockholders. Where a separate vote by class or series is required on a matter, the holders of a majority in voting power of such class or series issued and outstanding and entitled to vote, present in person (including present by remote communication) or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum for such matter. A quorum, once established at a meeting, shall not be broken by the

 

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withdrawal of enough votes to leave less than a quorum. If, however, a quorum is not present or represented at any meeting of the stockholders, then either (i) the person presiding over the meeting or (ii) a majority in voting power of the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, present in person (including by remote communication) or represented by proxy, shall have power to recess the meeting or adjourn the meeting from time to time in the manner provided in Section 2.9 of these bylaws until a quorum is present or represented.

2.9 Adjourned Meeting; Notice.

When a meeting is adjourned to another time or place, unless these bylaws otherwise require, notice need not be given of the adjourned meeting if the time, place, if any, thereof, and the means of remote communications, if any, by which stockholders and proxy holders may be deemed to be present in person and vote at such adjourned meeting are announced at the meeting at which the adjournment is taken. At any adjourned meeting, the Corporation may transact any business which might have been transacted at the original meeting. If the adjournment is for more than thirty (30) days, a notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting. If after the adjournment a new record date for determination of stockholders entitled to vote is fixed for the adjourned meeting, the Board shall fix as the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of such adjourned meeting the same or an earlier date as that fixed for determination of stockholders entitled to vote at the adjourned meeting, and shall give notice of the adjourned meeting to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at such meeting as of the record date so fixed for notice of such adjourned meeting.

2.10 Conduct of Business.

Meetings of stockholders shall be presided over by the chairperson of the Board, if any, or in his or her absence by the vice chairperson of the Board, if any, or in the absence of the foregoing persons by the Chief Executive Officer, or in the absence of the foregoing persons by the President, or in the absence of the foregoing persons by a vice president, or in the absence of the foregoing persons by a chairperson designated by the Board, or in the absence of such designation by a chairperson chosen at the meeting. The Secretary of the Corporation shall act as secretary of the meeting, but in his or her absence the chairperson of the meeting may appoint any person to act as secretary of the meeting. The date and time of the opening and the closing of the polls for each matter upon which the stockholders will vote at a meeting shall be announced at the meeting by the person presiding over the meeting. The Board may adopt by resolution such rules and regulations for the conduct of the meeting of stockholders as it shall deem appropriate. Except to the extent inconsistent with such rules and regulations as adopted by the Board, the person presiding over any meeting of stockholders shall have the right and authority to convene and (for any or no reason) to recess and/or adjourn the meeting, to prescribe such rules, regulations and procedures (which need not be in writing) and to do all such acts as, in the judgment of such presiding person, are appropriate for the proper conduct of the meeting. Such rules, regulations or procedures, whether adopted by the Board or prescribed by the person presiding over the meeting, may include, without limitation, the following: (i) the establishment of an agenda or order of business for the meeting; (ii) rules and procedures for maintaining order at the meeting and the safety of those present (including, without limitation, rules and procedures for removal of disruptive persons from the meeting); (iii) limitations on attendance at or participation in the meeting to stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, their duly authorized and constituted proxies or such other persons as the person presiding over the meeting shall determine; (iv) restrictions on entry to the meeting after the time fixed for the commencement thereof; and (v) limitations on the time allotted to questions or comments by participants. The presiding person at any meeting of stockholders, in addition to making any other determinations that may be appropriate to the conduct of the meeting (including, without limitation, determinations with respect to the administration and/or interpretation of any of the rules, regulations or procedures of the meeting, whether adopted by the Board or prescribed by the person presiding

 

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over the meeting), shall, if the facts warrant, determine and declare to the meeting that a matter or business was not properly brought before the meeting and if such presiding person should so determine, such presiding person shall so declare to the meeting and any such matter or business not properly brought before the meeting shall not be transacted or considered. Unless and to the extent determined by the Board or the person presiding over the meeting, meetings of stockholders shall not be required to be held in accordance with the rules of parliamentary procedure.

2.11 Voting.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation, these bylaws or the DGCL, each stockholder shall be entitled to one (1) vote for each share of capital stock held by such stockholder.

(b) Except as otherwise provided by the Certificate of Incorporation, at all duly called or convened meetings of stockholders at which a quorum is present, for the election of directors, a plurality of the votes cast shall be sufficient to elect a director. Unless a different or minimum vote is provided for such matter by the Certificate of Incorporation, these bylaws, the rules or regulations of any stock exchange applicable to the Corporation, or applicable law or pursuant to any regulation applicable to the Corporation or its securities, in which case such different or minimum vote shall be the required vote for such matter, each matter (other than the election of directors) presented to the stockholders at a duly called or convened meeting at which a quorum is present shall be decided by a majority of the votes cast (excluding abstentions and broker non-votes) on such matter.

2.12 Record Date for Stockholder Meetings and Other Purposes.

(a) In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, the Board may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board, and which record date shall, unless otherwise required by law, not be more than 60 days nor less than 10 days before the date of such meeting. If the Board so fixes a date, such date shall also be the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote at such meeting unless the Board determines, at the time it fixes such record date, that a later date on or before the date of the meeting shall be the date for making such determination. If no record date is fixed by the Board, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall be the close of business on the day immediately preceding the day on which notice is first given, or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the day immediately preceding the day on which the meeting is held. 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 may fix a new record date for determination of stockholders entitled to vote at the adjourned meeting; and in such case shall also fix as the record date for stockholders entitled to notice of such adjourned meeting the same or an earlier date as that fixed for determination of stockholders entitled to vote in accordance herewith at the adjourned meeting.

(b) In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment or any rights or the stockholders entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of capital stock, or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the Board may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted, and which record date shall be not more than 60 days prior to such action. If no record date is fixed, the record date for determining stockholders for any such purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board adopts the resolution relating thereto.

 

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(c) Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation, in order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to express consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, the Board may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board, and which record date shall not be more than 10 days after the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board. If no record date for determining stockholders entitled to express consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting is fixed by the Board, (i) when no prior action of the Board is required by law, the record date for such purpose shall be the first date on which a signed written consent setting forth the action taken or proposed to be taken is delivered to the Corporation in accordance with applicable law, and (ii) if prior action by the Board is required by law, the record date for such purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board adopts the resolution taking such prior action.

2.13 Proxies.

Each stockholder entitled to vote at a meeting of stockholders or to express consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting may authorize another person or persons to act for such stockholder by proxy authorized by an instrument in writing or by a transmission permitted by law filed in accordance with the procedure established for the meeting, but no such proxy shall be voted or acted upon after three years from its date, unless the proxy provides for a longer period. The revocability of a proxy that states on its face that it is irrevocable shall be governed by the provisions of Section 212 of the DGCL. A proxy may be in the form of an electronic transmission which sets forth or is submitted with information from which it can be determined that the transmission was authorized by the stockholder.

2.14 List of Stockholders Entitled to Vote.

The Corporation shall prepare, at least 10 days before every meeting of stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting (provided, however, that if the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote is less than 10 days before the date of the meeting, the list shall reflect the stockholders entitled to vote as of the tenth day before the meeting date), arranged in alphabetical order, and showing the address of each stockholder and the number of shares registered in the name of each stockholder. The Corporation shall not be required to include electronic mail addresses or other electronic contact information on such list. Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder, for any purpose germane to the meeting for a period of at least 10 days prior to the meeting: (i) on a reasonably accessible electronic network, provided that the information required to gain access to such list is provided with the notice of the meeting, or (ii) during ordinary business hours, at the Corporation’s principal executive office. In the event that the Corporation determines to make the list available on an electronic network, the Corporation may take reasonable steps to ensure that such information is available only to stockholders of the Corporation. If the meeting is to be held at a place, then 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. If the meeting is to be held solely by means of remote communication, then the list shall also be open to the examination of any stockholder during the whole time of the meeting on a reasonably accessible electronic network, and the information required to access such list shall be provided with the notice of the meeting. Such list shall presumptively determine the identity of the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting and the number of shares held by each of them. Except as otherwise provided by law, the stock ledger shall be the only evidence as to who are the stockholders entitled to examine the list of stockholders required by this Section 2.14 or to vote in person or by proxy at any meeting of stockholders.

 

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2.15 Inspectors of Election.

Before any meeting of stockholders, the Corporation shall appoint an inspector or inspectors of election to act at the meeting or its adjournment and make a written report thereof. The Corporation may designate one or more persons as alternate inspectors to replace any inspector who fails to act. If any person appointed as inspector or any alternate fails to appear or fails or refuses to act, then the person presiding over the meeting shall appoint a person to fill that vacancy.

Such inspectors shall:

(i) determine the number of shares outstanding and the voting power of each, the number of shares represented at the meeting and the validity of any proxies and ballots;

(ii) count all votes or ballots;

(iii) count and tabulate all votes;

(iv) determine and retain for a reasonable period a record of the disposition of any challenges made to any determination by the inspector(s); and

(v) certify its or their determination of the number of shares represented at the meeting and its or their count of all votes and ballots.

Each inspector, before entering upon the discharge of the duties of inspector, shall take and sign an oath faithfully to execute the duties of inspection with strict impartiality and according to the best of such inspector’s ability. Any report or certificate made by the inspectors of election is prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein. The inspectors of election may appoint such persons to assist them in performing their duties as they determine.

2.16 Delivery to the Corporation.

Whenever Sections 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6 require one or more persons (including a record or beneficial owner of stock) to deliver a document or information to the Corporation or any officer, employee or agent thereof (including any notice, request, questionnaire, revocation, representation or other document or agreement), such document or information shall be in writing exclusively (and not in an electronic transmission) and shall be delivered exclusively by hand (including, without limitation, overnight courier service) or by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, and the Corporation shall not be required to accept delivery of any document not in such written form or so delivered. For the avoidance of doubt, the Corporation expressly opts out of Section 116 of the DGCL with respect to the delivery of information and documents to the Corporation required by Sections 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6.

2.17 Action without Meeting.

Any action required or permitted to be taken at any annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Corporation may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote only to the extent permitted by and in the manner provided in the Certificate of Incorporation and in accordance with applicable law.

 

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Article III—Directors

3.1 Powers.

Except as otherwise provided by the Certificate of Incorporation or the DGCL, the business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board.

3.2 Number of Directors.

Subject to the Certificate of Incorporation, the number of directors of the Corporation shall be fixed from time to time solely by resolution of the Board. No reduction of the authorized number of directors shall have the effect of removing any director before that director’s term of office expires.

3.3 Election, Qualification and Term of Office of Directors.

Except as provided in Section 3.4 of these bylaws, and subject to the Certificate of Incorporation, each director, including a director elected to fill a vacancy or newly created directorship, shall hold office until the expiration of the term of the class, if any, for which elected and until such director’s successor is elected and qualified or until such director’s earlier death, resignation, disqualification or removal in accordance with the Certificate of Incorporation. Directors need not be stockholders. The Certificate of Incorporation or these bylaws may prescribe qualifications for directors.

3.4 Resignation; Removal; Vacancies.

Any director may resign at any time upon notice given in writing or by electronic transmission to the Corporation. The resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein or upon the happening of an event specified therein, and if no time or event is specified, at the time of its receipt. When one or more directors so resigns and the resignation is effective at a future date or upon the happening of an event to occur on a future date, a majority of the directors then in office, including those who have so resigned, shall have power to fill such vacancy or vacancies, the vote thereon to take effect when such resignation or resignations shall become effective, and each director so chosen shall hold office as provided in Section 3.3.

Any director may only be removed from office as provided by the Certificate of Incorporation.

Vacancies resulting from the death, resignation, disqualification or removal of any director, and newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized number of directors, shall be filled as provided by the Certificate of Incorporation. Any director appointed in accordance with the preceding sentence shall hold office for the remainder of the term of the director and until such director’s successor shall have been elected and qualified.

3.5 Place of Meetings; Meetings by Telephone.

The Board may hold meetings, both regular and special, either within or outside the State of Delaware.

Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation or these bylaws, members of the Board, or any committee designated by the Board, may participate in a meeting of the Board, or any committee, by means of conference telephone or other communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and such participation in a meeting pursuant to this bylaw shall constitute presence in person at the meeting.

 

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3.6 Regular Meetings.

Regular meetings of the Board may be held within or outside the State of Delaware and at such time and at such place as which has been designated by the Board and publicized among all directors, either orally or in writing, by telephone, including a voice-messaging system or other system designed to record and communicate messages, facsimile, telegraph or telex, or by electronic mail or other means of electronic transmission. No further notice shall be required for regular meetings of the Board.

3.7 Special Meetings; Notice.

Special meetings of the Board for any purpose or purposes may be called at any time by the chairperson of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Secretary or a majority of the total number of directors constituting the Board.

Notice of the time and place of special meetings shall be:

(i) delivered personally by hand, by courier or by telephone;

(ii) sent by United States first-class mail, postage prepaid;

(iii) sent by facsimile or electronic mail; or

(iv) sent by other means of electronic transmission,

directed to each director at that director’s address, telephone number, facsimile number or electronic mail address, or other address for electronic transmission, as the case may be, as shown on the Corporation’s records.

If the notice is (i) delivered personally by hand, by courier or by telephone, (ii) sent by facsimile or electronic mail, or (iii) sent by other means of electronic transmission, it shall be delivered or sent at least twenty-four (24) hours before the time of the holding of the meeting. If the notice is sent by U.S. mail, it shall be deposited in the U.S. mail at least four (4) days before the time of the holding of the meeting. The notice need not specify the place of the meeting (if the meeting is to be held at the Corporation’s principal executive office) nor the purpose of the meeting.

3.8 Quorum.

At all meetings of the Board, unless otherwise provided by the Certificate of Incorporation, a majority of the total number of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The vote of a majority of the directors present at any meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the Board, except as may be otherwise specifically provided by statute, the Certificate of Incorporation or these bylaws. If a quorum is not present at any meeting of the Board, then a majority of the directors present thereat may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without further notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum is present.

3.9 Board Action without a Meeting.

Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation or these bylaws, any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board, or of any committee thereof, may be taken without a meeting if all members of the Board or committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing or by electronic transmission. After an action is taken, the consent or consents relating thereto shall be filed with the minutes of the proceedings of the Board, or the committee thereof, in the same paper or electronic form as the minutes are maintained. Such action by written consent or consent by electronic transmission shall have the same force and effect as a unanimous vote of the Board.

 

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3.10 Fees and Compensation of Directors.

Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation or these bylaws, the Board shall have the authority to fix the compensation, including fees and reimbursement of expenses, of directors for services to the Corporation in any capacity.

Article IV—Committees

4.1 Committees of Directors.

The Board may designate one (1) or more committees, each committee to consist, of one (1) or more of the directors of the Corporation in accordance with the requirements of the Certificate of Incorporation. The Board may designate one (1) or more directors as alternate members of any committee, who may replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of the committee. In the absence or disqualification of a member of a committee, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not such member or members constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the Board to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member. Any such committee, to the extent permitted by law and provided in the resolution of the Board or in these bylaws, shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the Board in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers that may require it; but no such committee shall have the power or authority to (i) approve or adopt, or recommend to the stockholders, any action or matter (other than the election and removal of directors) expressly required by the DGCL to be submitted to stockholders for approval, or (ii) adopt, amend or repeal any bylaw of the Corporation.

4.2 Committee Minutes.

Each committee shall keep regular minutes of its meetings and report the same to the Board when required.

4.3 Meetings and Actions of Committees.

Meetings and actions of committees shall be governed by, and held and taken in accordance with, the provisions of:

(i) Section 3.5 (place of meetings; meetings by telephone);

(ii) Section 3.6 (regular meetings);

(iii) Section 3.7 (special meetings; notice);

(iv) Section 3.9 (board action without a meeting); and

(v) Section 7.13 (waiver of notice),

 

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in each case, with such changes in the context of those bylaws as are necessary to substitute the committee and its members for the Board and its members. However:

(i) the time of regular meetings of committees may be determined either by resolution of the Board or by resolution of the committee;

(ii) special meetings of committees may also be called by resolution of the Board or the chairperson of the applicable committee; and

(iii) the Board may adopt rules for the governance of any committee to override the provisions that would otherwise apply to the committee pursuant to this Section 4.3, provided that such rules do not violate the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation or applicable law.

4.4 Subcommittees.

Unless otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation, these bylaws or the resolutions of the Board designating the committee, a committee may create one (1) or more subcommittees, each subcommittee to consist of one (1) or more members of the committee, and delegate to a subcommittee any or all of the powers and authority of the committee.

Article V—Officers

5.1 Officers.

The officers of the Corporation shall include a Chief Executive Officer, a President and a Secretary. The Corporation may also have, at the discretion of the Board, a Chairperson of the Board, a Vice Chairperson of the Board, a Chief Financial Officer, a Treasurer, one (1) or more Vice Presidents, one (1) or more Assistant Vice Presidents, one (1) or more Assistant Treasurers, one (1) or more Assistant Secretaries, and any such other officers as may be appointed in accordance with the provisions of these bylaws. Any number of offices may be held by the same person. No officer need be a stockholder or director of the Corporation.

5.2 Appointment of Officers.

The Board shall appoint the officers of the Corporation, except such officers as may be appointed in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.3.

5.3 Subordinate Officers.

The Board may appoint, or empower the Chief Executive Officer or the President to appoint, such other officers and agents as the business of the Corporation may require. Each of such officers shall hold office for such period, have such authority, and perform such duties as are provided in these bylaws or as the Board may from time to time determine.

5.4 Removal and Resignation of Officers.

Subject to the rights, if any, of an officer under any contract of employment, and to the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation, any officer may be removed, either with or without cause, by the Board or, except in the case of an officer chosen by the Board, by any officer upon whom such power of removal may be conferred by the Board.

 

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Any officer may resign at any time by giving notice to the Corporation. Any resignation shall take effect at the date of the receipt of that notice or at any later time specified in that notice. Unless otherwise specified in the notice of resignation, the acceptance of the resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective. Any resignation is without prejudice to the rights, if any, of the Corporation under any contract to which the officer is a party.

5.5 Vacancies in Offices.

Any vacancy occurring in any office of the Corporation shall be filled as provided in Section 5.2 or Section 5.3, as applicable.

5.6 Representation of Shares of Other Corporations.

The Chairperson of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, or the President of this Corporation, or any other person authorized by the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President, is authorized to vote, represent and exercise on behalf of this Corporation all rights incident to any and all shares or voting securities of any other corporation or other entity standing in the name of this Corporation. The authority granted herein may be exercised either by such person directly or by any other person authorized to do so by proxy or power of attorney duly executed by such person having the authority.

5.7 Authority and Duties of Officers.

All officers of the Corporation shall respectively have such authority and perform such duties in the management of the business of the Corporation as may be provided herein or designated from time to time by the Board and, to the extent not so provided, as generally pertain to their respective offices, subject to the control of the Board.

5.8 Compensation.

The compensation of the officers of the Corporation for their services as such shall be fixed from time to time by or at the direction of the Board. An officer of the Corporation shall not be prevented from receiving compensation by reason of the fact that he or she is also a director of the Corporation.

Article VI—Records

A stock ledger consisting of one or more records in which the names of all of the Corporation’s stockholders of record, the address and number of shares registered in the name of each such stockholder, and all issuances and transfers of stock of the corporation are recorded in accordance with Section 224 of the DGCL shall be administered by or on behalf of the Corporation. Any records administered by or on behalf of the Corporation in the regular course of its business, including its stock ledger, books of account, and minute books, may be kept on, or by means of, or be in the form of, any information storage device, or method, or one or more electronic networks or databases (including one or more distributed electronic networks or databases), provided that the records so kept can be converted into clearly legible paper form within a reasonable time and, with respect to the stock ledger, that the records so kept (i) can be used to prepare the list of stockholders specified in Sections 219 and 220 of the DGCL, (ii) record the information specified in Sections 156, 159, 217(a) and 218 of the DGCL, and (iii) record transfers of stock as governed by Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code as adopted in the State of Delaware.

 

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Article VII—General Matters

7.1 Execution of Corporate Contracts and Instruments.

The Board, except as otherwise provided in these bylaws, may authorize any officer or officers, or agent or agents, to enter into any contract or execute any instrument in the name of and on behalf of the Corporation; such authority may be general or confined to specific instances. Except as otherwise required by the Certificate of Incorporation or these bylaws (including, without limitation, as otherwise required by Section 2.16), any document, including, without limitation, any consent, agreement, certificate or instrument, required by the DGCL, the Certificate of Incorporation or these bylaws to be executed by any officer, director, stockholder, employee or agent of the Corporation may be executed using a facsimile, by docusign or any other form of electronic signature to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. All other contracts, agreements, certificates or instruments to be executed on behalf of the Corporation may be executed using a facsimile, docusign or any other form of electronic signature to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

7.2 Stock Certificates.

The shares of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates, provided that the Board by resolution may provide that some or all of the shares of any class or series of stock of the Corporation shall be uncertificated. Certificates for the shares of stock, if any, shall be in such form as is consistent with the Certificate of Incorporation and applicable law. Every holder of stock represented by a certificate shall be entitled to have a certificate signed by, or in the name of the Corporation by, any two officers authorized to sign stock certificates representing the number of shares registered in certificate form. The Chairperson or Vice Chairperson of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Treasurer, or the Secretary of the Corporation shall be specifically authorized to sign stock certificates. Any or all of the signatures on the 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 has ceased to be such officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the Corporation with the same effect as if he or she were such officer, transfer agent or registrar at the date of issue.

The Corporation may issue the whole or any part of its shares as partly paid and subject to call for the remainder of the consideration to be paid therefor. Upon the face or back of each stock certificate issued to represent any such partly paid shares, or upon the books and records of the Corporation in the case of uncertificated partly paid shares, the total amount of the consideration to be paid therefor and the amount paid thereon shall be stated. Upon the declaration of any dividend on fully paid shares, the Corporation shall declare a dividend upon partly paid shares of the same class, but only upon the basis of the percentage of the consideration actually paid thereon.

7.3 Special Designation of Certificates.

If the Corporation is authorized to issue more than one class of stock or more than one series of any class, then the powers, the designations, the preferences and the 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 shall be set forth in full or summarized on the face or on the back of the certificate that the

 

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Corporation shall issue to represent such class or series of stock (or, in the case of uncertificated shares, set forth in a notice provided pursuant to Section 151 of the DGCL); provided, however, that except as otherwise provided in Section 202 of the DGCL, in lieu of the foregoing requirements, there may be set forth on the face of back of the certificate that the Corporation shall issue to represent such class or series of stock (or, in the case of any uncertificated shares, included in the aforementioned notice) a statement that the Corporation will furnish without charge to each stockholder who so requests the powers, the designations, the preferences and the 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.

7.4 Lost Certificates.

Except as provided in this Section 7.4, no new certificates for shares shall be issued to replace a previously issued certificate unless the latter is surrendered to the Corporation and cancelled at the same time. The Corporation may issue a new certificate of stock or uncertificated shares in the place of any certificate theretofore issued by it, alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed, and the Corporation may require the owner of the lost, stolen or destroyed certificate, or such owner’s legal representative, to give the Corporation a bond sufficient to indemnify it against any claim that may be made against it on account of the alleged loss, theft or destruction of any such certificate or the issuance of such new certificate or uncertificated shares.

7.5 Shares Without Certificates

The Corporation may adopt a system of issuance, recordation and transfer of its shares of stock by electronic or other means not involving the issuance of certificates, provided the use of such system by the Corporation is permitted in accordance with applicable law.

7.6 Construction; Definitions.

Unless the context requires otherwise, the general provisions, rules of construction and definitions in the DGCL shall govern the construction of these bylaws. Without limiting the generality of this provision, the singular number includes the plural and the plural number includes the singular.

7.7 Dividends.

The Board, subject to any restrictions contained in either (i) the DGCL or (ii) the Certificate of Incorporation, may declare and pay dividends upon the shares of its capital stock. Dividends may be paid in cash, in property or in shares of the Corporation’s capital stock.

The Board may set apart out of any of the funds of the Corporation available for dividends a reserve or reserves for any proper purpose and may abolish any such reserve. Such purposes shall include but not be limited to equalizing dividends, repairing or maintaining any property of the Corporation, and meeting contingencies.

7.8 Fiscal Year.

The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be fixed by resolution of the Board and may be changed by the Board.

 

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7.9 Seal.

The Corporation may adopt a corporate seal, which shall be adopted and which may be altered by the Board. The Corporation may use the corporate seal by causing it or a facsimile thereof to be impressed or affixed or in any other manner reproduced.

7.10 Transfer of Stock.

Shares of the Corporation shall be transferable in the manner prescribed by law, in these bylaws and in the Certificate of Incorporation. Shares of stock of the Corporation shall be transferred on the books of the Corporation only by the holder of record thereof or by such holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, upon surrender to the Corporation of the certificate or certificates representing such shares endorsed by the appropriate person or persons (or by delivery of duly executed instructions with respect to uncertificated shares), with such evidence of the authenticity of such endorsement or execution, transfer, authorization and other matters as the Corporation may reasonably require, and accompanied by all necessary stock transfer stamps. No transfer of stock shall be valid as against the Corporation for any purpose until it shall have been entered in the stock records of the Corporation by an entry showing the names of the persons from and to whom it was transferred.

7.11 Stock Transfer Agreements.

The Corporation shall have power to enter into and perform any agreement with any number of stockholders of any one or more classes or series of stock of the Corporation to restrict the transfer of shares of stock of the Corporation of any one or more classes or series owned by such stockholders in any manner not prohibited by the DGCL.

7.12 Registered Stockholders.

The Corporation:

(i) shall be entitled to recognize the exclusive right of a person registered on its books as the owner of shares to receive dividends and to vote as such owner; and

(ii) shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such share or shares on the part of another person, whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, except as otherwise required by the laws of the State of Delaware.

7.13 Waiver of Notice.

Whenever notice is required to be given under any provision of the DGCL, the Certificate of Incorporation or these bylaws, a written waiver, signed by the person entitled to notice, or a waiver by electronic transmission by the person entitled to notice, whether before or after the time of the event for which notice is to be given, shall be deemed equivalent to notice. Attendance of a person at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when the person attends a meeting 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. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special meeting of the stockholders or the Board need be specified in any written waiver of notice or any waiver by electronic transmission unless so required by the Certificate of Incorporation or these bylaws.

 

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Article VIII—Notice

8.1 Delivery of Notice; Notice by Electronic Transmission.

Without limiting the manner by which notice otherwise may be given effectively to stockholders, any notice to stockholders given by the Corporation under any provisions of the DGCL, the Certificate of Incorporation, or these bylaws may be given in writing directed to the stockholder’s mailing address (or by electronic transmission directed to the stockholder’s electronic mail address, as applicable) as it appears on the records of the Corporation and shall be given (1) if mailed, when the notice is deposited in the U.S. mail, postage prepaid, (2) if delivered by courier service, the earlier of when the notice is received or left at such stockholder’s address or (3) if given by electronic mail, when directed to such stockholder’s electronic mail address unless the stockholder has notified the Corporation in writing or by electronic transmission of an objection to receiving notice by electronic mail. A notice by electronic mail must include a prominent legend that the communication is an important notice regarding the Corporation.

Without limiting the manner by which notice otherwise may be given effectively to stockholders, any notice to stockholders given by the Corporation under any provision of the DGCL, the Certificate of Incorporation or these bylaws shall be effective if given by electronic mail in accordance with the first paragraph of this Section or by any other form of electronic transmission consented to by the stockholder to whom the notice is given. Any such consent shall be revocable by the stockholder by written notice or electronic transmission to the Corporation.

Any notice given pursuant to the preceding paragraph shall be deemed given:

 

  (i)

if by facsimile telecommunication, when directed to a number at which the stockholder has consented to receive notice;

 

  (ii)

if by a posting on an electronic network together with separate notice to the stockholder of such specific posting, upon the later of (A) such posting and (B) the giving of such separate notice; and

 

  (iii)

if by any other form of electronic transmission, when directed to the stockholder.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, a notice may not be given by an electronic transmission from and after the time that (1) the Corporation is unable to deliver by such electronic transmission two (2) consecutive notices given by the Corporation and (2) such inability becomes known to the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Corporation or to the transfer agent, or other person responsible for the giving of notice, provided, however, the inadvertent failure to discover such inability shall not invalidate any meeting or other action.

An affidavit of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or of the transfer agent or other agent of the Corporation that the notice has been given shall, in the absence of fraud, be prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein.

 

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Article IX—Forum

9.1 Choice of Forum.

(a) Unless the Corporation expressly consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware or, if the Court of Chancery lacks subject matter jurisdiction, another state or federal court located within the State of Delaware (collectively, the “Selected Courts”) shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be the sole and exclusive forum for resolution of (a) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Corporation, (b) any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any current or former director, officer, employee, agent or stockholder of the Corporation to the Corporation or any of the Corporation’s stockholders, or any claim for aiding and abetting such an alleged breach, (c) any action governed by the “internal affairs doctrine” or arising pursuant to any provision of these bylaws or the Certificate of Incorporation, or to interpret, apply, enforce or determine the validity of these bylaws or the Certificate of Incorporation, or (d) any action asserting a claim against the Corporation or any current or former director, officer, employee, agent or stockholder of the Corporation (i) arising pursuant to any provision of the DGCL or (ii) as to which the DGCL confers jurisdiction on the Court of Chancery; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not apply to any action, claim or proceeding (A) as to which a Selected Court determines that there is an indispensable party not subject to the jurisdiction of the Selected Courts (and the indispensable party does not consent to the personal jurisdiction of the Selected Courts within ten (10) days following such determination) or (B) the subject matter of which is within the scope contemplated by Section 9.1(b).

(b) Unless the Corporation expressly consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the federal district courts of the United States of America shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be the sole and exclusive forum for resolution of any action, claim or proceeding arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

9.2 Consent to Jurisdiction.

If any action, claim or proceeding the subject matter of which is within the scope contemplated by Section 9.1 is filed in the name of any stockholder of the Corporation in a court other than the applicable courts specified in Section 9.1, then such stockholder shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, be deemed to have consented to (a) the personal jurisdiction of the applicable courts specified in Section 9.1 in connection with any action brought in any such court to enforce this Article IX and (b) having service of process made upon such stockholder in any such action by service upon such stockholder’s counsel in such action as agent for such stockholder.

9.3 Remedies.

Failure to enforce the provisions of this Article IX would cause the Corporation irreparable harm and, accordingly, the Corporation shall be entitled to equitable relief, including injunctive relief and specific performance, to enforce such provisions.

 

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Article X—Indemnification

10.1 Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

The Corporation shall indemnify and hold harmless, to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL as it presently exists or may hereafter be amended, any director or officer of the Corporation who was or is made or is threatened to be made a party or is otherwise involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (a “Proceeding”) by reason of the fact that he or she, or a person for whom he or she is the legal representative, is or was a director or officer of the Corporation or, while serving as a director or officer of the Corporation, is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust, enterprise or non-profit entity, including service with respect to employee benefit plans (any such person a “covered person”), against all liability and loss suffered and expenses (including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines ERISA excise taxes or penalties and amounts paid in settlement) reasonably incurred by such person in connection with any such Proceeding. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, except as otherwise provided in Section 10.4, the Corporation shall be required to indemnify a person in connection with a Proceeding initiated by such person only if the initiation of such Proceeding (or part thereof) by such person was authorized in advance in the specific case by the Board.

10.2 Indemnification of Others.

The Corporation shall have the power to indemnify and hold harmless, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law as it presently exists or may hereafter be amended, any employee or agent of the Corporation who was or is made or is threatened to be made a party or is otherwise involved in any Proceeding by reason of the fact that he or she, or a person for whom he or she is the legal representative, is or was an employee or agent of the Corporation or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust, enterprise or non-profit entity, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, against all liability and loss suffered and expenses reasonably incurred by such person in connection with any such Proceeding.

10.3 Prepayment of Expenses.

The Corporation shall to the fullest extent not prohibited by applicable law pay the expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by any covered person, and may pay the expenses incurred by any employee or agent of the Corporation, in defending any Proceeding in advance of its final disposition; provided, however, that such payment of expenses in advance of the final disposition of the Proceeding shall be made only upon receipt of an undertaking by the person to repay all amounts advanced if it should be ultimately determined that the person is not entitled to be indemnified under this Article X or otherwise.

10.4 Determination; Claim.

If a claim for indemnification (following the final disposition of such Proceeding) under this Article X is not paid in full within sixty (60) days, or a claim for advancement of expenses under this Article X is not paid in full within thirty (30) days, after a written claim therefor has been received by the Corporation, the claimant may thereafter (but not before) file suit to recover the unpaid amount of such claim and, if successful in whole or in part, shall be entitled to be paid the expense of prosecuting such claim to the fullest extent permitted by law. In any such action the Corporation shall have the burden of proving that the claimant was not entitled to the requested indemnification or advancement of expenses under applicable law.

 

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10.5 Non-Exclusivity of Rights.

The rights conferred on any person by this Article X shall not be exclusive of any other rights which such person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of the Certificate of Incorporation, these bylaws, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.

10.6 Insurance.

The Corporation may 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 enterprise or non-profit entity, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, against any liability, loss or expense incurred by him or her in any such capacity, or arising out of his or her status as such, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify him or her against such liability, loss or expense under the provisions of the DGCL.

10.7 Other Indemnification.

The Corporation’s obligation, if any, to indemnify or advance expenses to any person who was or is serving at its request as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, enterprise or non-profit entity shall be reduced by any amount such person may collect as indemnification or advancement of expenses from such other corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, enterprise or non-profit entity.

10.8 Continuation of Indemnification.

The rights to indemnification and to advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this Article X shall continue notwithstanding that the person has ceased to be a director or officer of the Corporation and shall inure to the benefit of the estate, heirs, executors, administrators, legatees and distributees of such person.

10.9 Amendment or Repeal; Interpretation.

The provisions of this Article X shall constitute a contract between the Corporation, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, each individual who serves or has served as a director or officer of the Corporation (whether before or after the adoption of these bylaws), in consideration of such person’s performance of such services, and pursuant to this Article X the Corporation intends to be legally bound to each such current or former director or officer of the Corporation. With respect to current and former directors and officers of the Corporation, the rights conferred under this Article X are present contractual rights and such rights are fully vested, and shall be deemed to have vested fully, immediately upon adoption of theses bylaws. With respect to any directors or officers of the Corporation who commence service following adoption of these bylaws, the rights conferred under this provision shall be present contractual rights and such rights shall fully vest, and be deemed to have vested fully, immediately upon such director or officer commencing service as a director or officer of the Corporation. Any repeal or modification of the foregoing provisions of this Article X shall not adversely affect any right or protection (i) hereunder of any person in respect of any act or omission occurring prior to the time of such repeal or modification or (ii) under any agreement providing for indemnification or advancement of expenses to an officer or director of the Corporation in effect prior to the time of such repeal or modification.

 

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Any reference to an officer of the Corporation in this Article X shall be deemed to refer exclusively to the Chief Executive Officer, President, and Secretary, or other officer of the Corporation appointed by (x) the Board pursuant to Article V of these bylaws or (y) an officer to whom the Board has delegated the power to appoint officers pursuant to Article V of these bylaws, and any reference to an officer of any other corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise shall be deemed to refer exclusively to an officer appointed by the board of directors (or equivalent governing body) of such other entity pursuant to the certificate of incorporation and bylaws (or equivalent organizational documents) of such other entity. The fact that any person who is or was an employee of the Corporation or an employee of any other corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise has been given or has used the title of “Vice President” or any other title that could be construed to suggest or imply that such person is or may be an officer of the Corporation or of such other corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise shall not in and of itself result in such person being constituted as, or being deemed to be, an officer of the Corporation or of such other corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise for purposes of this Article X .

10.10 Other Indemnification and Advancement of Expenses. 

This Article X shall not limit the right of the Corporation, to the fullest extent and in the manner permitted by law, to indemnify and to advance expenses to other persons serving the Corporation when and as authorized by appropriate corporate action.

Article XI—Amendments

The Board is expressly empowered to adopt, amend or repeal these bylaws. The stockholders also shall have power to adopt, amend or repeal these bylaws at any annual meeting of stockholders, or any special meeting of stockholders called for such purpose; provided, however, that such action by stockholders shall require, in addition to any other vote required by the Certificate of Incorporation or applicable law, the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 2/3rds of the voting power of all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation; provided further, however, that if the Board recommends that stockholders approve such amendment or repeal at such meeting of stockholders, such amendment or repeal shall only require the affirmative vote of a majority of the voting power of all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation.

Article XII—Definitions

As used in these bylaws, unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

An “electronic transmission” means any form of communication, not directly involving the physical transmission of paper, including the use of, or participation in, one or more electronic networks or databases (including one or more distributed electronic networks or databases), that creates a record that may be retained, retrieved and reviewed by a recipient thereof, and that may be directly reproduced in paper form by such a recipient through an automated process.

An “electronic mail” means an electronic transmission directed to a unique electronic mail address (which electronic mail shall be deemed to include any files attached thereto and any information hyperlinked to a website if such electronic mail includes the contact information of an officer or agent of the Corporation who is available to assist with accessing such files and information).

 

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An “electronic mail address” means a destination, commonly expressed as a string of characters, consisting of a unique user name or mailbox (commonly referred to as the “local part” of the address) and a reference to an internet domain (commonly referred to as the “domain part” of the address), whether or not displayed, to which electronic mail can be sent or delivered.

The term “person” means any individual, general partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, corporation, trust, business trust, joint stock company, joint venture, unincorporated association, cooperative or association or any other legal entity or organization of whatever nature, and shall include any successor (by merger or otherwise) of such entity.

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EX-23.1 4 d322101dex231.htm EX-23.1 EX-23.1

Exhibit 23.1

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4 of our report dated February 11, 2021, relating to the financial statements of Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corporation appearing in Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4, File No. 333-256121. We also consent to the reference to our firm under the heading “Experts” in such Registration Statement.

 

/s/ WithumSmith+Brown, PC
New York, New York
September 14, 2021
EX-23.2 5 d322101dex232.htm EX-23.2 EX-23.2

Exhibit 23.2

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

We consent to the reference to our firm under the caption “Experts” and to the use of our report dated May 14, 2021, with respect to the consolidated financial statements of Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. in Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement (Form S-4 No. 333-256121) and related Prospectus of Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp. for the registration of shares of its common stock and warrants to purchase shares of its common stock.

 

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
Boston, Massachusetts
September 15, 2021