EX-3.1 2 ea022061701ex3-1_thought.htm FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF THOUGHTWORKS HOLDING, INC., DATED NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Exhibit 3.1

  

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF THE SURVIVING CORPORATION

 

FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

 

OF

 

THOUGHTWORKS HOLDING, INC.

 

ARTICLE ONE

 

The name of the corporation is Thoughtworks Holding, Inc. (hereinafter called the “Corporation”).

 

ARTICLE TWO

 

The address of the Corporation’s registered office is located at 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware 19808. The name of its registered agent at such address is Corporation Service Company.

 

ARTICLE THREE

 

The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”).

 

ARTICLE FOUR

 

The total number of shares which the Corporation shall have the authority to issue is one thousand (1,000), all of which shall be shares of common stock, with a par value of one cent ($0.01) per share.

 

ARTICLE FIVE

 

The board of directors of the Corporation (the “Board of Directors”) shall have the power to adopt, amend or repeal by-laws of the Corporation (the “By-laws”), except as may otherwise be provided in the By-laws.

 

ARTICLE SIX

 

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

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE SEVEN

 

The Corporation hereby eliminates, to the fullest extent permitted by law (as contemplated by Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL) the personal liability of any person who serves as a director or officer of the Corporation to the Corporation and/or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director or officer; provided that this Article Seven shall not eliminate or limit the liability of a director or officer: (i) for any breach of the director or officer’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 or officer derived an improper personal benefit; provided further, however, that if in the future the DGCL is amended or modified (including, but not limited to, Section 102(b)(7)) to permit the elimination of the personal liability of a director or officer of the Corporation to a greater extent than contemplated above, then the provisions of this Article Seven shall be deemed to be automatically amended to provide for the elimination of the personal liability of the directors or officers of the Corporation to such greater extent. This Article Seven shall not eliminate or limit the liability of a director or officer for any act or omission occurring prior to the date when this Article Seven becomes effective.

 

ARTICLE EIGHT

 

Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between the Corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between the Corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary way of the Corporation or any creditor or stockholder thereof or on the application of any receiver or receivers appointed for the Corporation under the provisions of Section 291 of the DGCL or on the application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed for the Corporation under the provisions of Section 279 of the DGCL, order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or the stockholders or class of stockholders of the Corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such manner as the said court directs. If a majority in number representing three fourths in value of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of the Corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of the Corporation as a consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by the court to which the said application has been made, be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the stockholders, or class of stockholders, of the Corporation, as the case may be, and also on this Corporation.

 

ARTICLE NINE

 

Section 1. Certain Acknowledgments. In recognition and anticipation that (i) certain of the directors, partners, principals, officers, members, managers and/or employees of the Sponsor (as defined below) or its Affiliated Companies (as defined below) may serve as directors or officers of the Corporation and (ii) the Sponsor and its Affiliated Companies engage and may continue to engage in the same or similar activities or related lines of business as those in which the Corporation, directly or indirectly, may engage and/or other business activities that overlap with or compete with those in which the Corporation, directly or indirectly, may engage, and (iii) that the Corporation and its Affiliated Companies may engage in material business transactions with the Sponsor and its Affiliated Companies, and that the Corporation is expected to benefit therefrom, the provisions of this Article Nine are set forth to regulate and define the conduct of certain affairs of the Corporation as they may involve the Sponsor and/or its Affiliated Companies and/or their respective directors, partners, principals, officers, members, managers and/or employees, including any of the foregoing who serve as officers or directors of the Corporation (collectively, the “Exempted Persons”), and the powers, rights, duties and liabilities of the Corporation and its officers, directors and stockholders in connection therewith. As used in this Certificate of Incorporation, “Affiliated Companies” shall mean any entity that controls, is controlled, directly or indirectly, by or under common control with the Sponsor (other than the Corporation and any company that is controlled by the Corporation) and any investment entities managed by the Sponsor or any of its Affiliated Companies (as general partner, sole member or otherwise). As used in this Article Nine, “the Sponsor” shall mean Apax Partners LLP.

 

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Section 2. Competition and Corporate Opportunities. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Sponsor, its Affiliated Companies or any of the Exempted Persons shall not have any fiduciary duty to refrain from engaging directly or indirectly in the same or similar business activities or lines of business as the Corporation or any of its Affiliated Companies, and the Sponsor, its Affiliated Companies or any of the Exempted Persons shall not be liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for breach of any fiduciary or other duty (whether contractual or otherwise) solely by reason of any such activities of the Sponsor, its Affiliated Companies or any of the Exempted Persons. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Corporation, on behalf of itself and its Affiliated Companies, renounces any interest or expectancy of the Corporation and its Affiliated Companies in, or in being offered an opportunity to participate in, business opportunities that are from time to time presented to the Sponsor, its Affiliated Companies or any of the Exempted Persons, even if the opportunity is one that the Corporation or its Affiliated Companies might reasonably be deemed to have pursued or had the ability or desire to pursue if granted the opportunity to do so, and the Sponsor, its Affiliated Companies and the Exempted Persons shall have no duty to communicate or offer such business opportunity to the Corporation or its Affiliated Companies and, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, shall not be liable to the Corporation, any of its Affiliated Companies or its stockholders for breach of any fiduciary or other duty (whether contractual or otherwise), as a director, officer or stockholder of the Corporation solely, by reason of the fact that the Sponsor, its Affiliated Companies or any such Exempted Person pursues or acquires such business opportunity, sells, assigns, transfers or directs such business opportunity to another person or fails to present such business opportunity, or information regarding such business opportunity, to the Corporation or any of its Affiliated Companies. For the avoidance of doubt, the Sponsor, its Affiliated Companies and the Exempted Persons shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, have the right to, and shall have no duty (whether contractual or otherwise) not to, directly or indirectly: (i) engage in the same, similar or competing business activities or lines of business as the Corporation or its Affiliated Companies, (ii) do business with any client or customer of the Corporation or its Affiliated Companies, or (iii) make investments in competing businesses of the Corporation or its Affiliated Companies, and such acts shall not be deemed wrongful or improper. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2 of Article Nine, the Corporation does not renounce any interest or expectancy it may have in any business opportunity that is expressly offered to any Exempted Person solely in his or capacity as a director or officer of the Corporation.

 

Section 3. Certain Matters Deemed Not Corporate Opportunities. In addition to and notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Article Nine, a corporate opportunity shall not be deemed to be a potential corporate opportunity for the Corporation if it is a business opportunity the Corporation is not financially able or contractually permitted or legally able to undertake, or that is, from its nature, not in the line of the Corporation’s business or is of no practical advantage to it or that is one in which the Corporation has no interest or reasonable expectancy.

 

Section 4. Deemed Notice. Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring or holding any interest in any shares of the Corporation shall be deemed to have notice of and to have consented to the provisions of this Article Nine.

 

ARTICLE TEN

 

Any action required or permitted to be taken by the Board of Directors of the Corporation may be taken without a meeting if all of the members of the Board of Directors consent in writing or by electronic transmission to the adoption of a resolution authorizing the action. The resolutions, written consents or electronic transmissions of the members of the Board of Directors shall be filed with the minutes of the proceeding of the Board of Directors. Such filing shall be in paper form if the minutes are maintained in paper form and shall be in electronic form if the minutes are maintained in electronic form.

 

ARTICLE ELEVEN

 

Pursuant to Section 141 of the DGCL, the business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction and supervision of the Board of Directors, however, the day to day management of the Corporation shall be delegated to the officers of the Corporation as set forth in a delegation of authority approved by the Board of Directors.

 

ARTICLE TWELVE

 

The Corporation reserves the right to amend or repeal any provisions contained in this Certificate of Incorporation from time to time and at any time in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by the laws of the State of Delaware, and all rights conferred upon stockholders and directors are granted subject to such reservation.

 

 

 

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