0001193125-13-373308.txt : 20130920 0001193125-13-373308.hdr.sgml : 20130920 20130920160311 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-13-373308 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: S-4/A PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 29 FILED AS OF DATE: 20130920 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20130920 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CROWN HOLDINGS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001219601 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: METAL CANS [3411] IRS NUMBER: 753099507 STATE OF INCORPORATION: PA FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-190694 FILM NUMBER: 131107933 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE CROWN WAY CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19154 BUSINESS PHONE: 2156985100 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE CROWN WAY CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19154 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CROWN Americas LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001520305 IRS NUMBER: 231526444 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-190694-14 FILM NUMBER: 131107935 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE CROWN WAY CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19154 BUSINESS PHONE: (215) 698-5100 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE CROWN WAY CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19154 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: NWR INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001233833 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: PA FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-190694-04 FILM NUMBER: 131107937 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: CROWN HOLDINGS STREET 2: ONE CROWN WAY CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19154 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CROWN INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001233823 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-190694-07 FILM NUMBER: 131107939 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: CROWN HOLDINGS STREET 2: ONE CROWN WAY CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19154 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CROWN Beverage Packaging Puerto Rico, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001233817 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-190694-12 FILM NUMBER: 131107941 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: CROWN HOLDINGS STREET 2: ONE CROWN WAY CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19154 BUSINESS PHONE: 215.698.5100 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: CROWN HOLDINGS STREET 2: ONE CROWN WAY CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19154 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: CROWN CORK DE PUERTO RICO INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20030516 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CROWN Cork & Seal USA, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001233815 IRS NUMBER: 232869494 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-190694-03 FILM NUMBER: 131107943 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: CROWN HOLDINGS STREET 2: ONE CROWN WAY CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19154 BUSINESS PHONE: 215.698.5100 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: CROWN HOLDINGS STREET 2: ONE CROWN WAY CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19154 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: CROWN CORK & SEAL CO USA INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20030516 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CROWN CORK & SEAL CO DE LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001233813 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-190694-10 FILM NUMBER: 131107944 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: CROWN HOLDINGS STREET 2: ONE CROWN WAY CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19154 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CROWN CORK & SEAL CO INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000025890 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: METAL CANS [3411] IRS NUMBER: 231526444 STATE OF INCORPORATION: PA FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-190694-09 FILM NUMBER: 131107947 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE CROWN WAY CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19154 BUSINESS PHONE: 2156985100 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: FOREIGN MANUFACTURERS FINANCE CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001233829 IRS NUMBER: 510099971 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-190694-05 FILM NUMBER: 131107938 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: CROWN HOLDINGS STREET 2: ONE CROWN WAY CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19154 BUSINESS PHONE: 215.698.5100 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: CROWN HOLDINGS STREET 2: ONE CROWN WAY CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19154 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: FOREIGH MANUFACTURERS FINANCE CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20030516 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CROWN Packaging Technology, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001233816 IRS NUMBER: 522006645 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-190694-06 FILM NUMBER: 131107942 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: CROWN HOLDINGS STREET 2: ONE CROWN WAY CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19154 BUSINESS PHONE: 215.698.5100 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: CROWN HOLDINGS STREET 2: ONE CROWN WAY CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19154 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: CROWN CORK & SEAL TECHNOLOGIES CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20030516 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CROWN BEVERAGE PACKAGING, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001233809 IRS NUMBER: 132853410 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-190694-02 FILM NUMBER: 131107946 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: CROWN HOLDINGS STREET 2: ONE CROWN WAY CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19154 BUSINESS PHONE: (215) 698-5100 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: CROWN HOLDINGS STREET 2: ONE CROWN WAY CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19154 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: CROWN BEVERAGE PACKAGING INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20030516 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Crown Americas Capital Corp. IV CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001572626 IRS NUMBER: 800876355 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-190694-13 FILM NUMBER: 131107934 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE CROWN WAY CITY: PHILADEPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19154 BUSINESS PHONE: (215) 698-5100 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE CROWN WAY CITY: PHILADEPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19154 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CROWN FINANCIAL CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001233818 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: PA FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-190694-08 FILM NUMBER: 131107940 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: CROWN HOLDINGS STREET 2: ONE CROWN WAY CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19154 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CROWN CONSULTANTS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001233811 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: PA FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-190694-11 FILM NUMBER: 131107945 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: CROWN HOLDINGS STREET 2: ONE CROWN WAY CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19154 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CR USA, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001234318 IRS NUMBER: 232162641 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-4/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-190694-01 FILM NUMBER: 131107936 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O CROWN HOLDINGS INC STREET 2: ONE CROWN WAY CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19154 BUSINESS PHONE: 215.698.5100 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O CROWN HOLDINGS INC STREET 2: ONE CROWN WAY CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19154 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: CROWN Risdon USA, Inc. DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20041206 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: RISDON AMS USA INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20030520 S-4/A 1 d582401ds4a.htm AMENDMENT NO.1 TO FORM S-4 Amendment No.1 to Form S-4

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 20, 2013

Registration No. 333-190694

 

 

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

 

 

Amendment No. 1

to

FORM S-4

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

CROWN HOLDINGS, INC.

(Exact name of Registrants as specified in their charter)

 

 

 

Pennsylvania   3411   75-3099507
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)  

(Primary Standard Industrial

Classification Code Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

One Crown Way

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19154

(215) 698-5100

(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

 

 

CROWN AMERICAS LLC

 

 

 

Pennsylvania   3411   23-1526444
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)   (Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number)
 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

 

 

c/o Crown Holdings, Inc.

One Crown Way

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19154

(215) 698-4000

(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

 

 

CROWN AMERICAS CAPITAL CORP. IV

 

 

 

Delaware   3411   80-0876355
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)   (Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number)
 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

 

 

c/o Crown Holdings, Inc.

One Crown Way

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19154

(215) 698-4000

(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

 

 

William T. Gallagher, Esquire

Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel

Crown Holdings, Inc.

One Crown Way

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19154

(215) 698-5100

(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

 

 

See Table of Additional Registrants Below

 

 

Copies to:

William G. Lawlor, Esquire

Ian A. Hartman, Esquire

Dechert LLP

Cira Centre

2929 Arch Street

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104

(215) 994-4000

 

 


Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to public: As soon as practicable after this Registration Statement becomes 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, please 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, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer   x      Accelerated filer   ¨
Non-accelerated filer   ¨   (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)    Smaller reporting company   ¨

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  ¨

 

 

The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act or until this Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

 

 

 


Table of Additional Registrants

 

Exact Name of Additional Registrants

  

Jurisdiction of

Incorporation

  

I.R.S. Employer

Identification Number

CROWN Beverage Packaging Puerto Rico, Inc.

   Delaware    Not Applicable

Crown Consultants, Inc.

   Pennsylvania    23-2846356

Crown Cork & Seal Company (DE), LLC

   Delaware    Not Applicable

Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc.

   Pennsylvania    23-1526444

Crown Financial Corporation

   Pennsylvania    23-1603914

Crown International Holdings, Inc.

   Delaware    75-3099512

CROWN Packaging Technology, Inc.

   Delaware    52-2006645

Foreign Manufacturers Finance Corporation

   Delaware    51-0099971

NWR, Inc.

   Pennsylvania    22-2463801

CROWN Cork & Seal USA, Inc.

   Delaware    52-2006645

CR USA, Inc.

   Delaware    23-2162641

Crown Beverage Packaging, LLC

   Delaware    13-2853410

The address for service of each of the additional registrants is c/o Crown Holdings, Inc., One Crown Way, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, telephone (215) 698-5100. The primary industrial classifications number for each of the additional registrants is 3411.


Explanatory Note

This Amendment No. 1 is being filed to include an additional undertaking in Item 22 of the Registration Statement on Form S-4 (333-190694) (the “Registration Statement”) and to file certain additional exhibits to the Registration Statement as set forth under Item 21. No change is made to the prospectus constituting Part I of the Registration Statement or Item 20 of Part II of the Registration Statement. Accordingly, such Prospectus and Item 20 of Part II have not been included herein.


PART II

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

ITEM 21. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES.

(a) Exhibits

The following exhibits are filed herewith unless otherwise indicated:

 

  3.a Articles of Incorporation of Crown Holdings, Inc., as amended (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.a of the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004 (File No. 0-50189)).

 

  3.b Crown Holdings, Inc. By-Laws, Amended and Restated as of July 25, 2013 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q dated July 26, 2013 (File No. 0-50189)).

 

  3.c Certificate of Organization of Crown Americas LLC.**

 

  3.d Limited Liability Company Agreement of Crown Americas LLC, dated as of September 27, 2005.**

 

  3.e Certificate of Incorporation of Crown Americas Capital Corp. IV.**

 

  3.f Bylaws of Crown Americas Capital Corp. IV.**

 

  3.g Certificate of Incorporation of CROWN Beverage Packaging Puerto Rico, Inc., as amended.**

 

  3.h Bylaws of CROWN Beverage Packaging Puerto Rico, Inc.**

 

  3.i Articles of Incorporation of Crown Consultants, Inc.**

 

  3.j Bylaws of Crown Consultants, Inc.**

 

  3.k Certificate of Formation of Crown Cork & Seal Company (DE), LLC, as amended.**

 

  3.l Limited Liability Company Agreement of Crown Cork & Seal Company (DE), LLC, dated as of September 1, 2001.**

 

  3.m Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc.**

 

  3.n By-Laws of Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc.**

 

  3.o Articles of Incorporation of Crown Financial Corporation, as amended.**

 

  3.p By-Laws of Crown Financial Corporation.**

 

  3.q Certificate of Incorporation of Crown International Holdings, Inc.**

 

  3.r Bylaws of Crown International Holdings, Inc.**

 

  3.s Certificate of Incorporation of CROWN Packaging Technology, Inc., as amended.**

 

  3.t Bylaws of CROWN Packaging Technology, Inc.**

 

  3.u Certificate of Incorporation of Foreign Manufacturers Finance Corporation.**

 

  3.v By-Laws of Foreign Manufacturers Finance Corporation.**

 

  3.w Articles of Incorporation of NWR, Inc., as amended.**

 

  3.x By-Laws of NWR, Inc.**

 

  3.y Certificate of Incorporation of CROWN Cork & Seal USA, Inc.**

 

  3.z Bylaws of CROWN Cork & Seal USA, Inc.**

 

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  3.aa Restated Certificate of Incorporation of CR USA, Inc., as amended.**

 

  3.bb Bylaws of CR USA, Inc.**

 

  3.cc Certificate of Formation of Crown Beverage Packaging, LLC.**

 

  3.dd Limited Liability Company Agreement of Crown Beverage Packaging, LLC, dated as of June 30, 2010.**

 

  4.a Specimen certificate of Registrant’s Common Stock (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.a of the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1995 (File No. 1-2227)).

 

  4.b Indenture, dated December 17, 1996, among Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., Crown Cork & Seal Finance PLC, Crown Cork & Seal Finance S.A. and the Bank of New York, as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 17, 1996 (File No. 1-2227)).

 

  4.c

Form of the Registrant’s 7- 3/8% Debentures Due 2026 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 17, 1996 (File No. 1-2227)).

 

  4.d

Officers’ Certificate for 7- 3/8% Debentures Due 2026 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.6 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 17, 1996 (File No. 1-2227)).

 

  4.e

Form of the Registrant’s 7- 1/2% Debentures Due 2096 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.2 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 17, 1996 (File No. 1-2227)).

 

  4.f

Officers’ Certificate for 7- 1/2% Debentures Due 2096 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.7 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 17, 1996 (File No. 1-2227)).

 

  4.g Terms Agreement, dated December 12, 1996 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 17, 1996 (File No. 1-2227)).

 

  4.h Form of Bearer Security Depositary Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-3, dated November 26, 1996, amended December 5 and 10, 1996 (File No. 333-16869)).

 

  4.i Amended and Restated Rights Agreement, dated as of December 9, 2004, between Crown Holdings, Inc. and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Rights Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 9, 2004 (File No. 0-50189)).

 

  4.j Amendment No. 1 to the Amended and Restated Rights Agreement, dated as of December 14, 2012, between Crown Holdings, Inc. and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Rights Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K as dated December 13, 2012 (File No. 0-50189)).

 

  4.k Supplemental Indenture to Indenture dated April 1, 1993, dated as of February 25, 2003, between Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., as Issuer, Crown Holdings, Inc., as Guarantor and Bank One Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated February 26, 2003 (File No. 0-50189)).

 

  4.l Supplemental Indenture to Indenture dated December 17, 1996, dated as of February 25, 2003, between Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., as Issuer and Guarantor, Crown Cork & Seal Finance PLC, as Issuer, Crown Cork & Seal Finance S.A., as Issuer, Crown Holdings, Inc., as Additional Guarantor and Bank One Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.5 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated February 26, 2003 (File No. 0-50189)).

 

  4.m U.S. Guarantee Agreement, dated as of September 1, 2004, among the Domestic Subsidiaries referred to therein and Citicorp North America Inc., as Administrative Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.g of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated September 1, 2004 (File No. 0-50189)).

 

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  4.n Credit Agreement, dated as of November 18, 2005, among Crown Americas LLC, as U.S. Borrower, Crown European Holdings, S.A., as European Borrower, CROWN Metal Packaging Canada LP, as Canadian Borrower, the Subsidiary Borrowers named therein, the Company, Crown International Holdings, Inc. and Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., as Parent Guarantors, Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Administrative Agent and U.K. Administrative Agent, The Bank of Nova Scotia, as Canadian Administrative Agent, and various Lending Institutions (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2011 (File No. 0-50189)).

 

  4.o Euro Bank Pledge Agreement, dated as of November 18, 2005, by Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., Crown Americas LLC, Crown International Holdings, Inc., the U.S. Subsidiaries party thereto, as Pledgors and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Euro Collateral Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.b of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 18, 2005 (File No. 0-50189)).

 

  4.p Second Amended and Restated CEH Pledge Agreement, dated as of November 18, 2005, by Crown European Holdings S.A., as Pledgor and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Euro Collateral Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.c of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 18, 2005 (File No. 0-50189)).

 

  4.q Second Amended and Restated Shared Pledge Agreement, dated as of November 18, 2005, by the Company, Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., Crown Americas LLC, Crown International Holdings, Inc., the U.S. Subsidiaries party thereto, as Pledgors and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Collateral Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.d of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 18, 2005 (File No. 0-50189)).

 

  4.r Bank Pledge Agreement, dated as of November 18, 2005, by the Company, Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., Crown Americas LLC, Crown International Holdings, Inc., the U.S. Subsidiaries party thereto, as Pledgors and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Collateral Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.e of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 18, 2005 (File No. 0-50189)).

 

  4.s Second Amended and Restated U.S. Security Agreement, dated as of November 18, 2005, by the Company, Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., Crown Americas LLC, Crown International Holdings, Inc., the U.S. Subsidiaries party thereto, as Grantors and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.f of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 18, 2005 (File No. 0-50189)).

 

  4.t U.S. Guarantee Agreement, dated as of November 18, 2005, among each of the subsidiaries listed therein of Crown Americas LLC and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Administrative Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.g of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 18, 2005 (File No. 0-50189)).

 

  4.u Second Amended and Restated U.S. Intercreditor and Collateral Agency Agreement, dated as of November 18, 2005, among Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Administrative Agent, Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as U.K. Agent, The Bank of Nova Scotia, as Canadian Administrative Agent, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as First Priority Notes Trustee, Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as U.S. Collateral Agent (as defined within), the Company, Crown Americas LLC, Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., Crown International Holdings, Inc., each of the U.S. subsidiaries of the Company listed therein, and the other persons who may become parties to the Agreement from time to time pursuant to and in accordance with Section 8 of the Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.o of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 18, 2005 (File No. 0-50189)).

 

  4.v

Second Amended and Restated Euro Intercreditor and Collateral Agency Agreement, dated as of November 18, 2005, among Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as U.K. Administrative Agent, The Bank of Nova Scotia, as Canadian Administrative Agent, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as First

 

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  Priority Notes Trustee, Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Euro Collateral Agent, Crown European Holdings SA, the subsidiaries of Crown European Holdings identified thereto and the other persons who may become parties to the Agreement from time to time pursuant to and in accordance with Section 6 of the Agreement, and any other obligor under any Financing Documents (as defined therein) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.p of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 18, 2005 (File No. 0-50189)).

 

  4.w First Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of August 4, 2006, by and among Crown Americas LLC, as U.S. Borrower, the other undersigned Credit Parties, the undersigned financial institutions, including Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Lenders, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Administrative Agent and as Collateral Agent for Lenders, and with Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. and Lehman Commercial Paper, Inc., as Joint Lead Arrangers for the Additional Term B Loans and as Joint Book Managers, and Lehman Commercial Paper, Inc., as Syndication Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4 of the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2006 (File No. 0-50189)).

 

  4.x Second Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of November 12, 2009, by and among Crown Americas LLC, as U.S. Borrower, the other undersigned Credit Parties, the undersigned financial institutions, including Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Lenders, and Deutsche Bank AG new York Branch, as Administrative Agent and as Collateral Agent for Lenders (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 12, 2009 (File No. 0-50189)).

 

  4.y Third Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of May 14, 2010, by and among Crown Americas LLC, as U.S. Borrower, the other undersigned Credit Parties, the undersigned financial institutions, including Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as lenders thereunder, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Administrative Agent and as Collateral Agent for the Lenders. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated May 14, 2010 (File No. 0-05189)).

 

  4.z Fourth Amendment to Credit Agreement and Waiver, dated as of June 15, 2010, by and among Crown Americas LLC, as U.S. Borrower, Crown European Holdings SA, as European Borrower, CROWN Metal Packaging Canada LP, as Canadian Borrower, the Subsidiary Borrowers named therein, the Company, Crown International Holdings, Inc. and Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., as Parent Guarantors, the financial institutions party thereto, including Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as lenders, The Bank of Nova Scotia, as Canadian Administrative Agent, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Administrative Agent and U.K. Administrative Agent, European Swing Line Lender, U.S. Swing Line Lender, Facing Agent and Collateral Agent. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2011 (File No. 0-05189)).

 

  4.aa Fifth Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of December 3, 2010, by and among Crown Americas LLC, as U.S. Borrower, the other undersigned Credit Parties, the undersigned financial institutions, including Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as lenders thereunder, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Administrative Agent and as Collateral Agent for the Lenders (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 9, 2010 (File No. 0-05189)).

 

  4.bb

Sixth Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of June 9, 2011, by and among Crown Americas LLC, as U.S. Borrower, Crown European Holdings S.A., as European Borrower, CROWN Metal Packaging Canada LP, as Canadian Borrower, the Subsidiary Borrowers named therein, the Company, Crown International Holdings, Inc. and Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., as Parent Guarantors, the financial institutions party thereto, including Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as lenders, The Bank of Nova Scotia, as Canadian Administrative Agent, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Administrative Agent and U.K. Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent

 

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  (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 of the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2011 (File No. 0-05189)).

 

  4.cc Seventh Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of November 30, 2011, by and among Crown Americas LLC, as U.S. Borrower, Crown European Holdings S.A., as European Borrower, CROWN Metal Packaging Canada LP, as Canadian Borrower, the Subsidiary Borrowers named therein, the Company, Crown International Holdings, Inc. and Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., as Parent Guarantors, the financial institutions party thereto, including Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as lenders, The Bank of Nova Scotia, as Canadian Administrative Agent, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Administrative Agent and U.K. Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.dd of the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011 (File No. 0.-50189)).

 

  4.dd First Amendment to Euro Bank Pledge Agreement, dated as of June 15, 2010, by Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., Crown Americas LLC, Crown International Holdings, Inc., the U.S. subsidiaries of the Company party thereto, as Pledgors, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Euro Collateral Agent. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 15, 2010 (File No. 0-05189)).

 

  4.ee First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated CEH Pledge Agreement, dated as of June 15, 2010, by Crown European Holdings S.A., as Pledgor, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Euro Collateral Agent. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 15, 2010 (File No. 0-05189)).

 

  4.ff First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Shared Pledge Agreement, dated as of June 15, 2010, by the Company, Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., Crown Americas LLC, Crown International Holdings, Inc., the U.S. subsidiaries of the Company party thereto, as Pledgors, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Collateral Agent. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.4 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 15, 2010 (File No. 0-05189)).

 

  4.gg First Amendment to Bank Pledge Agreement, dated as of June 15, 2010, by the Company, Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., Crown Americas LLC, Crown International Holdings, Inc., the U.S. subsidiaries of the Company party thereto, as Pledgors, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Collateral Agent. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.5 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 15, 2010 (File No. 0-05189)).

 

  4.hh First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated U.S. Security Agreement, dated as of June 15, 2010, by the Company, Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., Crown Americas LLC, Crown International Holdings, Inc., the U.S. subsidiaries of the Company party thereto, as Grantors, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Collateral Agent. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.6 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 15, 2010 (File No. 0-05189)).

 

  4.ii First Amendment to U.S. Guarantee Agreement, dated as of June 15, 2010, among each of the subsidiaries listed therein of Crown Americas LLC, as Guarantors, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Administrative Agent. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.7 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 15, 2010 (File No. 0-05189)).

 

  4.jj First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated U.S. Intercreditor and Collateral Agency Agreement, dated as of June 15, 2010, among Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Administrative Agent, Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as U.K. Agent, The Bank of Nova Scotia, as Canadian Administrative Agent, Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as U.S. Collateral Agent, the Company, Crown Americas LLC, Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., Crown International Holdings, Inc. and each of the U.S. subsidiaries of the Company listed therein. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.8 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 15, 2010 (File No. 0-05189)).

 

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    4.kk First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Euro Intercreditor and Collateral Agency Agreement, dated as of June 15, 2010, among Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as U.K. Administrative Agent, The Bank of Nova Scotia, as Canadian Administrative Agent, Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Euro Collateral Agent, Crown European Holdings SA, and each of the subsidiaries of Crown European Holdings identified therein. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.9 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 15, 2010 (File No. 0-05189)).

 

    4.ll

Indenture, dated as of July 28, 2010, by and among Crown European Holdings SA, as Issuer, the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee, relating to the 7 1/8% Senior Notes due 2018 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 28, 2010 (File No. 0-05189)).

 

    4.mm

Form of 7 1/8% Senior Notes due 2018 (included in Exhibit 4.ll).

 

    4.nn

Indenture, dated as of January 31, 2011, by and among Crown Americas LLC, Crown Americas Capital Corp. III, as Issuers, the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee, relating to the 6 1/4% Senior Notes due 2021. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated January 31, 2011 (File No. 0-05189)).

 

    4.oo

Form of 6 1/4% Senior Notes due 2021 (included in Exhibit 4.nn).

 

    4.pp

Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of January 9, 2013, by and among the Company, Crown Americas LLC and Crown Americas Capital Corp. IV, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as Representative of the several Initial Purchasers named therein and the Guarantors (as defined therein), relating to the $800 million 4 1/2% Senior Notes due 2023 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated January 9, 2013 (File No. 0-50189)).

 

    4.qq

Indenture, dated as of January 9, 2013, by and among Crown Americas LLC and Crown Americas Capital Corp. IV, as Issuers, the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee, relating to the 4 1/2% Senior Notes due 2023 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated January 9, 2013 (File No. 0-50189)).

 

    4.rr

Form of 4  1/2% Senior Notes due 2023 (included in Exhibit 4.qq).

 

    4.ss

Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of January 15, 2013, by and among the Company, Crown Americas LLC and Crown Americas Capital Corp. IV, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as the Initial Purchaser, and the Guarantors (as defined therein), relating to the $200 million 4 1/2% Senior Notes due 2023 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated January 15, 2013 (File No. 0.-50189)).

 

    5 Opinion of Dechert LLP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.*

 

  12 Computation of ratio of earnings to fixed charges.*

 

  23.a Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.*

 

  23.b Consent of Dechert LLP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (included in Exhibit 5.a).*

 

  24 Powers of Attorney.*

 

  25 Statements of Eligibility of The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.*

 

  99.a Form of Letter of Transmittal.*

 

  99.b Form of Letter to Holders.*

 

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  99.c Form of Letter to Brokers, Dealers, Commercial Banks, Trust Companies and Other Nominees.*

 

  99.d Form of Letter to Clients.*

 

  99.e Guidelines for Certification of Taxpayer Identification Number on Substitute Form W-9.*

 

  * Previously filed

 

  ** Filed herewith

(b) Financial Statement Schedules:

All schedules have been incorporated herein by reference or omitted because they are not applicable or not required.

ITEM 22. UNDERTAKINGS.

(a) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

(i) To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement;

(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement.

(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

(4) That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser, if the registrant is subject to Rule 430C, 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.

(5) That, for the purpose of determining liability of the registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distribution of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this

 

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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 registrants 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 registrants or used or referred to by the undersigned registrants;

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

(iv) Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrants to the purchaser.

(b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(c) 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 Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

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

(e) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to supply by means of a post-effective amendment all information concerning a transaction, and the company being acquired involved therein, that was not the subject of and included in the registration statement when it became effective.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on September 20, 2013.

 

CROWN HOLDINGS, INC.
By:  

*

Name:

Title:

 

John W. Conway

Chairman of the Board and

Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

*

John W. Conway

  

Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)

  September 20, 2013

*

Thomas A. Kelly

  

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)

  September 20, 2013

*

Kevin C. Clothier

  

Vice President and Corporate Controller (Principal Accounting Officer)

  September 20, 2013

*

Jenne K. Britell

  

Director

  September 20, 2013

*

Arnold W. Donald

  

Director

  September 20, 2013

*

Hugues du Rouret

  

Director

  September 20, 2013

*

William G. Little

  

Director

  September 20, 2013


Signature

  

Title

 

Date

*

Hans J. Löliger

  

Director

  September 20, 2013

 

James H. Miller

  

Director

 

 

Josef M. Müller

  

Director

 

*

Thomas A. Ralph

  

Director

  September 20, 2013

*

Jim L. Turner

  

Director

  September 20, 2013

*

William S. Urkiel

  

Director

  September 20, 2013

*By:

  /s/ MICHAEL B. BURNS

  Name:

 

     Michael B. Burns

     As attorney-in-fact


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on September 20, 2013.

 

CROWN AMERICAS LLC

By:

 

*

Name:

Title:

 

Raymond L. McGowan, Jr.

President and Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

*

Raymond L. McGowan, Jr.

  

President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)

  September 20, 2013

*

Timothy P. Aust

  

Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)

  September 20, 2013

*

John W. Conway

  

Director of Sole Member

  September 20, 2013

/S/    TIMOTHY J. DONAHUE

Timothy J. Donahue

  

Director of Sole Member

  September 20, 2013

/S/    WILLIAM T. GALLAGHER

William T. Gallagher

  

Director of Sole Member

  September 20, 2013

*By:

  /s/ MICHAEL B. BURNS

  Name:

 

     Michael B. Burns

     As attorney-in-fact


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on September 20, 2013.

 

CROWN AMERICAS CAPITAL CORP. IV

By:

 

*

Name:

Title:

 

Raymond L. McGowan, Jr.

President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

*

Raymond L. McGowan, Jr.

  

President and Director (Principal Executive Officer)

  September 20, 2013

/S/    MICHAEL B. BURNS

Michael B. Burns

  

Vice President and Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)

  September 20, 2013

*

Thomas A. Kelly

  

Director

  September 20, 2013

*

Timothy P. Aust

  

Vice President and Director

  September 20, 2013

*By:

  /s/ MICHAEL B. BURNS

  Name:

 

     Michael B. Burns

     As attorney-in-fact


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on September 20, 2013.

 

CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY, INC.

By:

 

*

Name:

Title:

 

John W. Conway

President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

*

John W. Conway

  

President and Director (Principal Executive Officer)

  September 20, 2013

*

Thomas A. Kelly

  

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)

  September 20, 2013

/S/    TIMOTHY J. DONAHUE

Timothy J. Donahue

  

Director

  September 20, 2013

/S/    WILLIAM T. GALLAGHER

William T. Gallagher

  

Senior Vice President, Secretary, General Counsel and Director

  September 20, 2013

*By:

  /s/ MICHAEL B. BURNS

  Name:

 

     Michael B. Burns

     As attorney-in-fact


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on September 20, 2013.

 

CROWN BEVERAGE PACKAGING, LLC

By:

 

*

Name:

Title:

 

Joseph R. Pierce

President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

*

Timothy P. Aust

  

Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Director of Sole Member (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)

  September 20, 2013

*

C. Anderson Bolton

  

Director of Sole Member

  September 20, 2013

*

Richard A. Forti

  

Director of Sole Member

  September 20, 2013

*

Raymond L. McGowan, Jr.

  

Director of Sole Member

  September 20, 2013

*

Joseph R. Pierce

  

President and Director of Sole Member (Principal Executive Officer)

  September 20, 2013

*

Edward C. Vesey

  

Director of Sole Member

  September 20, 2013

*

James D. Wilson

  

Director of Sole Member

  September 20, 2013

*

Alfred J. Dermody

  

Director of Sole Member

  September 20, 2013

*By:

  /s/ MICHAEL B. BURNS

  Name:

 

     Michael B. Burns

     As attorney-in-fact


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on September 20, 2013.

 

CROWN CONSULTANTS, INC.

By:

 

*

Name:

Title:

 

Thomas A. Kelly

President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

*

Thomas A. Kelly

  

President (Principal Executive Officer)

  September 20, 2013

/S/    WILLIAM T. GALLAGHER

William T. Gallagher

  

Vice President, Secretary and Director

  September 20, 2013

/S/    MICHAEL B. BURNS

Michael B. Burns

  

Vice President and Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)

  September 20, 2013

/S/    TIMOTHY J. DONAHUE

Timothy J. Donahue

  

Director

  September 20, 2013

*

Raymond L. McGowan, Jr.

  

Director

  September 20, 2013

*By:

  /s/ MICHAEL B. BURNS

  Name:

 

     Michael B. Burns

     As attorney-in-fact


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on September 20, 2013.

 

FOREIGN MANUFACTURERS FINANCE CORPORATION

By:

 

*

Name:

Title:

 

Timothy P. Aust

President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

*

Timothy P. Aust

  

President and Director (Principal Executive Officer)

  September 20, 2013

/S/    WILLIAM T. GALLAGHER

William T. Gallagher

  

Vice President, Secretary and Director

  September 20, 2013

/S/    MICHAEL B. BURNS

Michael B. Burns

  

Vice President, Treasurer and Director (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)

  September 20, 2013

*By:

  /S/    MICHAEL B. BURNS

  Name:

 

     Michael B. Burns

     As attorney-in-fact


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on September 20, 2013.

 

CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY (DE), LLC

By:

 

*

Name:

Title:

 

Joseph R. Pierce

President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

*

Joseph R. Pierce

  

President (Principal Executive Officer)

  September 20, 2013

/S/    WILLIAM T. GALLAGHER

William T. Gallagher

  

Vice President, Secretary and Manager

  September 20, 2013

/S/    TIMOTHY J. DONAHUE

Timothy J. Donahue

  

Manager

  September 20, 2013

/S/    MICHAEL B. BURNS

Michael B. Burns

  

Vice President and Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer

  September 20, 2013

*

Raymond L. McGowan, Jr.

  

Manager

  September 20, 2013

*By:

  /S/    MICHAEL B. BURNS

  Name:

 

     Michael B. Burns

     As attorney-in-fact


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on September 20, 2013.

 

CROWN CORK & SEAL USA, INC.

By:

 

*

Name:

Title:

 

Raymond L. McGowan, Jr.

President and Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

*

Raymond L. McGowan, Jr.

  

President, Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer)

  September 20, 2013

*

Timothy P. Aust

  

Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Director (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)

  September 20, 2013

*

Richard A. Forti

  

Senior Vice President—Business Support and Director

  September 20, 2013

*

C. Anderson Bolton

  

Vice President, President— CROWN Aerosol Packaging North America and Director

  September 20, 2013

*

Joseph R. Pierce

  

Vice President, President— CROWN Beverage Packaging North America and Director

  September 20, 2013

*

Edward C. Vesey

  

Senior Vice President—Sourcing and Director

  September 20, 2013

*

James D. Wilson

  

Vice President, President— CROWN Food Packaging North America, President—CROWN Closures and Specialty Packaging North America and Director

  September 20, 2013

*

Alfred J. Dermody

  

Vice President, Secretary and Director

  September 20, 2013

*By:

  /S/    MICHAEL B. BURNS

  Name:

 

     Michael B. Burns

     As attorney-in-fact


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on September 20, 2013.

 

CROWN PACKAGING TECHNOLOGY, INC.

By:

 

*

Name:

Title:

 

Daniel A. Abramowicz

President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

*

Daniel A. Abramowicz

  

President and Director (Principal Executive Officer)

  September 20, 2013

/S/    MICHAEL B. BURNS

Michael B. Burns

  

Vice President and Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)

  September 20, 2013

/S/    WILLIAM T. GALLAGHER

William T. Gallagher

  

Vice President, Secretary, General Counsel and Director

  September 20, 2013

*

Raymond L. McGowan, Jr.

  

Vice President and Director

  September 20, 2013

*By:

  /s/ MICHAEL B. BURNS

  Name:

 

     Michael B. Burns

     As attorney-in-fact


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on September 20, 2013.

 

CROWN BEVERAGE PACKAGING PUERTO RICO, INC.

By:

 

*

Name:

Title:

 

Raymond L. McGowan, Jr.

President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

*

Raymond L. McGowan, Jr.

  

President and Director (Principal Executive Officer)

  September 20, 2013

/S/    WILLIAM T. GALLAGHER

William T. Gallagher

  

Vice President, Secretary and Director

  September 20, 2013

/S/    MICHAEL B. BURNS

Michael B. Burns

  

Vice President and Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)

  September 20, 2013

*

Timothy P. Aust

  

Director

  September 20, 2013

*By:

  /s/ MICHAEL B. BURNS

  Name:

 

     Michael B. Burns

     As attorney-in-fact


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on September 20, 2013.

 

CROWN FINANCIAL CORPORATION

By:

 

/S/    TIMOTHY J. DONAHUE

Name:

Title:

 

Timothy J. Donahue

President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/S/    TIMOTHY J. DONAHUE

Timothy J. Donahue

  

President and Director (Principal Executive Officer)

  September 20, 2013

*

Thomas A. Kelly

  

Senior Vice President, Controller and Director

  September 20, 2013

/S/    WILLIAM T. GALLAGHER

William T. Gallagher

  

Vice President, Secretary and Director

  September 20, 2013

/S/    MICHAEL B. BURNS

Michael B. Burns

  

Vice President and Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)

  September 20, 2013

*By:

  /s/ MICHAEL B. BURNS

  Name:

 

     Michael B. Burns

     As attorney-in-fact


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on September 20, 2013.

 

CROWN INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS, INC.

By:

 

*

Name:

Title:

 

John W. Conway

President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

*

John W. Conway

  

President and Director (Principal Executive Officer)

  September 20, 2013

/S/    WILLIAM T. GALLAGHER

William T. Gallagher

  

Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary and Director

  September 20, 2013

/S/    TIMOTHY J. DONAHUE

Timothy J. Donahue

  

Director

  September 20, 2013

*

Thomas A. Kelly

  

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)

  September 20, 2013

*By:

  /s/ MICHAEL B. BURNS

  Name:

 

     Michael B. Burns

     As attorney-in-fact


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on September 20, 2013.

 

CR USA, INC.

By:

 

*

Name:

Title:

 

Raymond L. McGowan, Jr.

President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

*

Raymond L. McGowan, Jr.

  

President and Director (Principal Executive Officer)

  September 20, 2013

/S/    MICHAEL B. BURNS

Michael B. Burns

  

Vice President and Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)

  September 20, 2013

*

Timothy P. Aust

  

Vice President and Director

  September 20, 2013

/S/    WILLIAM T. GALLAGHER

William T. Gallagher

  

Vice President, Secretary and Director

  September 20, 2013

*By:

  /s/ MICHAEL B. BURNS

  Name:

 

     Michael B. Burns

     As attorney-in-fact


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on September 20, 2013.

 

NWR, INC.

By:

 

*

Name:

Title:

 

Raymond L. McGowan, Jr.

President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

*

Raymond L. McGowan, Jr.

  

President and Director (Principal Executive Officer)

  September 20, 2013

/S/    WILLIAM T. GALLAGHER

William T. Gallagher

  

Vice President, Secretary and Director

  September 20, 2013

*

Timothy P. Aust

  

Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Director (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)

  September 20, 2013

*By:

  /s/ MICHAEL B. BURNS

  Name:

 

     Michael B. Burns

     As attorney-in-fact


EXHIBIT INDEX

The following exhibits are filed herewith unless otherwise indicated:

 

Exhibit
Number

  

Description

3.a    Articles of Incorporation of Crown Holdings, Inc., as amended (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.a of the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004 (File No. 0-50189)).
3.b    Crown Holdings, Inc. By-Laws, Amended and Restated as of July 25, 2013 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q dated July 26, 2013 (File No. 0-50189)).
3.c    Certificate of Organization of Crown Americas LLC.**
3.d    Limited Liability Company Agreement of Crown Americas LLC, dated as of September 27, 2005.**
3.e    Certificate of Incorporation of Crown Americas Capital Corp. IV.**
3.f    Bylaws of Crown Americas Capital Corp. IV.**
3.g    Certificate of Incorporation of CROWN Beverage Packaging Puerto Rico, Inc., as amended.**
3.h    Bylaws of CROWN Beverage Packaging Puerto Rico, Inc.**
3.i    Articles of Incorporation of Crown Consultants, Inc.**
3.j    Bylaws of Crown Consultants, Inc.**
3.k    Certificate of Formation of Crown Cork & Seal Company (DE), LLC, as amended.**
3.l    Limited Liability Company Agreement of Crown Cork & Seal Company (DE), LLC, dated as of September 1, 2001.**
3.m    Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc.**
3.n    By-Laws of Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc.**
3.o    Articles of Incorporation of Crown Financial Corporation, as amended.**
3.p    By-Laws of Crown Financial Corporation.**
3.q    Certificate of Incorporation of Crown International Holdings, Inc.**
3.r    Bylaws of Crown International Holdings, Inc.**
3.s    Certificate of Incorporation of CROWN Packaging Technology, Inc., as amended.**
3.t    Bylaws of CROWN Packaging Technology, Inc.**
3.u    Certificate of Incorporation of Foreign Manufacturers Finance Corporation.**
3.v    By-Laws of Foreign Manufacturers Finance Corporation.**
3.w    Articles of Incorporation of NWR, Inc., as amended.**
3.x    By-Laws of NWR, Inc.**
3.y    Certificate of Incorporation of CROWN Cork & Seal USA, Inc.**
3.z    Bylaws of CROWN Cork & Seal USA, Inc.**
3.aa    Restated Certificate of Incorporation of CR USA, Inc., as amended.**
3.bb    Bylaws of CR USA, Inc.**


Exhibit
Number

  

Description

3.cc    Certificate of Formation of Crown Beverage Packaging, LLC.**
3.dd    Limited Liability Company Agreement of Crown Beverage Packaging, LLC, dated as of June 30, 2010.**
4.a    Specimen certificate of Registrant’s Common Stock (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.a of the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1995 (File No. 1-2227)).
4.b    Indenture, dated December 17, 1996, among Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., Crown Cork & Seal Finance PLC, Crown Cork & Seal Finance S.A. and the Bank of New York, as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 17, 1996 (File No. 1-2227)).
4.c    Form of the Registrant’s 7- 3/8% Debentures Due 2026 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 17, 1996 (File No. 1-2227)).
4.d    Officers’ Certificate for 7- 3/8% Debentures Due 2026 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.6 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 17, 1996 (File No. 1-2227)).
4.e    Form of the Registrant’s 7- 1/2% Debentures Due 2096 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.2 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 17, 1996 (File No. 1-2227)).
4.f    Officers’ Certificate for 7- 1/2% Debentures Due 2096 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.7 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 17, 1996 (File No. 1-2227)).
4.g    Terms Agreement, dated December 12, 1996 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 17, 1996 (File No. 1-2227)).
4.h    Form of Bearer Security Depositary Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-3, dated November 26, 1996, amended December 5 and 10, 1996 (File No. 333-16869)).
4.i    Amended and Restated Rights Agreement, dated as of December 9, 2004, between Crown Holdings, Inc. and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Rights Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 9, 2004 (File No. 0-50189)).
4.j    Amendment No. 1 to the Amended and Restated Rights Agreement, dated as of December 14, 2012, between Crown Holdings, Inc. and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Rights Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K as dated December 13, 2012 (File No. 0-50189)).
4.k    Supplemental Indenture to Indenture dated April 1, 1993, dated as of February 25, 2003, between Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., as Issuer, Crown Holdings, Inc., as Guarantor and Bank One Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated February 26, 2003 (File No. 0-50189)).
4.l    Supplemental Indenture to Indenture dated December 17, 1996, dated as of February 25, 2003, between Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., as Issuer and Guarantor, Crown Cork & Seal Finance PLC, as Issuer, Crown Cork & Seal Finance S.A., as Issuer, Crown Holdings, Inc., as Additional Guarantor and Bank One Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.5 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated February 26, 2003 (File No. 0-50189)).


Exhibit
Number

  

Description

4.m    U.S. Guarantee Agreement, dated as of September 1, 2004, among the Domestic Subsidiaries referred to therein and Citicorp North America Inc., as Administrative Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.g of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated September 1, 2004 (File No. 0-50189)).
4.n    Credit Agreement, dated as of November 18, 2005, among Crown Americas LLC, as U.S. Borrower, Crown European Holdings, S.A., as European Borrower, CROWN Metal Packaging Canada LP, as Canadian Borrower, the Subsidiary Borrowers named therein, the Company, Crown International Holdings, Inc. and Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., as Parent Guarantors, Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Administrative Agent and U.K. Administrative Agent, The Bank of Nova Scotia, as Canadian Administrative Agent, and various Lending Institutions (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2011 (File No. 0-50189)).
4.o    Euro Bank Pledge Agreement, dated as of November 18, 2005, by Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., Crown Americas LLC, Crown International Holdings, Inc., the U.S. Subsidiaries party thereto, as Pledgors and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Euro Collateral Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.b of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 18, 2005 (File No. 0-50189)).
4.p    Second Amended and Restated CEH Pledge Agreement, dated as of November 18, 2005, by Crown European Holdings S.A., as Pledgor and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Euro Collateral Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.c of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 18, 2005 (File No. 0-50189)).
4.q    Second Amended and Restated Shared Pledge Agreement, dated as of November 18, 2005, by the Company, Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., Crown Americas LLC, Crown International Holdings, Inc., the U.S. Subsidiaries party thereto, as Pledgors and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Collateral Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.d of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 18, 2005 (File No. 0-50189)).
4.r    Bank Pledge Agreement, dated as of November 18, 2005, by the Company, Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., Crown Americas LLC, Crown International Holdings, Inc., the U.S. Subsidiaries party thereto, as Pledgors and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Collateral Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.e of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 18, 2005 (File No. 0-50189)).
4.s    Second Amended and Restated U.S. Security Agreement, dated as of November 18, 2005, by the Company, Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., Crown Americas LLC, Crown International Holdings, Inc., the U.S. Subsidiaries party thereto, as Grantors and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.f of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 18, 2005 (File No. 0-50189)).
4.t    U.S. Guarantee Agreement, dated as of November 18, 2005, among each of the subsidiaries listed therein of Crown Americas LLC and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Administrative Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.g of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 18, 2005 (File No. 0-50189)).
4.u    Second Amended and Restated U.S. Intercreditor and Collateral Agency Agreement, dated as of November 18, 2005, among Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Administrative Agent, Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as U.K. Agent, The Bank of Nova Scotia, as Canadian Administrative Agent, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as First Priority Notes Trustee, Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as U.S. Collateral Agent (as defined within), the Company, Crown Americas LLC, Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., Crown International Holdings, Inc., each of the U.S. subsidiaries of the Company listed therein, and the other persons who may become parties to the Agreement from time to time pursuant to and in accordance with Section 8 of the Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.o of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 18, 2005 (File No. 0-50189)).


Exhibit
Number

  

Description

4.v    Second Amended and Restated Euro Intercreditor and Collateral Agency Agreement, dated as of November 18, 2005, among Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as U.K. Administrative Agent, The Bank of Nova Scotia, as Canadian Administrative Agent, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as First Priority Notes Trustee, Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Euro Collateral Agent, Crown European Holdings SA, the subsidiaries of Crown European Holdings identified thereto and the other persons who may become parties to the Agreement from time to time pursuant to and in accordance with Section 6 of the Agreement, and any other obligor under any Financing Documents (as defined therein) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.p of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 18, 2005 (File No. 0-50189)).
4.w    First Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of August 4, 2006, by and among Crown Americas LLC, as U.S. Borrower, the other undersigned Credit Parties, the undersigned financial institutions, including Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Lenders, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Administrative Agent and as Collateral Agent for Lenders, and with Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. and Lehman Commercial Paper, Inc., as Joint Lead Arrangers for the Additional Term B Loans and as Joint Book Managers, and Lehman Commercial Paper, Inc., as Syndication Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4 of the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2006 (File No. 0-50189)).
4.x    Second Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of November 12, 2009, by and among Crown Americas LLC, as U.S. Borrower, the other undersigned Credit Parties, the undersigned financial institutions, including Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Lenders, and Deutsche Bank AG new York Branch, as Administrative Agent and as Collateral Agent for Lenders (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 12, 2009 (File No. 0-50189)).
4.y    Third Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of May 14, 2010, by and among Crown Americas LLC, as U.S. Borrower, the other undersigned Credit Parties, the undersigned financial institutions, including Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as lenders thereunder, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Administrative Agent and as Collateral Agent for the Lenders. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated May 14, 2010 (File No. 0-05189)).
4.z    Fourth Amendment to Credit Agreement and Waiver, dated as of June 15, 2010, by and among Crown Americas LLC, as U.S. Borrower, Crown European Holdings SA, as European Borrower, CROWN Metal Packaging Canada LP, as Canadian Borrower, the Subsidiary Borrowers named therein, the Company, Crown International Holdings, Inc. and Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., as Parent Guarantors, the financial institutions party thereto, including Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as lenders, The Bank of Nova Scotia, as Canadian Administrative Agent, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Administrative Agent and U.K. Administrative Agent, European Swing Line Lender, U.S. Swing Line Lender, Facing Agent and Collateral Agent. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2011 (File No. 0-05189)).
4.aa    Fifth Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of December 3, 2010, by and among Crown Americas LLC, as U.S. Borrower, the other undersigned Credit Parties, the undersigned financial institutions, including Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as lenders thereunder, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Administrative Agent and as Collateral Agent for the Lenders (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 9, 2010 (File No. 0-05189)).


Exhibit
Number

  

Description

4.bb    Sixth Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of June 9, 2011, by and among Crown Americas LLC, as U.S. Borrower, Crown European Holdings S.A., as European Borrower, CROWN Metal Packaging Canada LP, as Canadian Borrower, the Subsidiary Borrowers named therein, the Company, Crown International Holdings, Inc. and Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., as Parent Guarantors, the financial institutions party thereto, including Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as lenders, The Bank of Nova Scotia, as Canadian Administrative Agent, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Administrative Agent and U.K. Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 of the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2011 (File No. 0-05189)).
4.cc    Seventh Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of November 30, 2011, by and among Crown Americas LLC, as U.S. Borrower, Crown European Holdings S.A., as European Borrower, CROWN Metal Packaging Canada LP, as Canadian Borrower, the Subsidiary Borrowers named therein, the Company, Crown International Holdings, Inc. and Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., as Parent Guarantors, the financial institutions party thereto, including Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as lenders, The Bank of Nova Scotia, as Canadian Administrative Agent, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Administrative Agent and U.K. Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.dd of the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011 (File No. 0.-50189)).
4.dd    First Amendment to Euro Bank Pledge Agreement, dated as of June 15, 2010, by Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., Crown Americas LLC, Crown International Holdings, Inc., the U.S. subsidiaries of the Company party thereto, as Pledgors, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Euro Collateral Agent. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 15, 2010 (File No. 0-05189)).
4.ee    First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated CEH Pledge Agreement, dated as of June 15, 2010, by Crown European Holdings S.A., as Pledgor, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Euro Collateral Agent. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 15, 2010 (File No. 0-05189)).
4.ff    First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Shared Pledge Agreement, dated as of June 15, 2010, by the Company, Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., Crown Americas LLC, Crown International Holdings, Inc., the U.S. subsidiaries of the Company party thereto, as Pledgors, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Collateral Agent. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.4 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 15, 2010 (File No. 0-05189)).
4.gg    First Amendment to Bank Pledge Agreement, dated as of June 15, 2010, by the Company, Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., Crown Americas LLC, Crown International Holdings, Inc., the U.S. subsidiaries of the Company party thereto, as Pledgors, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Collateral Agent. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.5 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 15, 2010 (File No. 0-05189)).
4.hh    First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated U.S. Security Agreement, dated as of June 15, 2010, by the Company, Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., Crown Americas LLC, Crown International Holdings, Inc., the U.S. subsidiaries of the Company party thereto, as Grantors, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Collateral Agent. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.6 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 15, 2010 (File No. 0-05189)).
4.ii    First Amendment to U.S. Guarantee Agreement, dated as of June 15, 2010, among each of the subsidiaries listed therein of Crown Americas LLC, as Guarantors, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Administrative Agent. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.7 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 15, 2010 (File No. 0-05189)).


Exhibit
Number

  

Description

  4.jj    First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated U.S. Intercreditor and Collateral Agency Agreement, dated as of June 15, 2010, among Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Administrative Agent, Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as U.K. Agent, The Bank of Nova Scotia, as Canadian Administrative Agent, Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as U.S. Collateral Agent, the Company, Crown Americas LLC, Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., Crown International Holdings, Inc. and each of the U.S. subsidiaries of the Company listed therein. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.8 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 15, 2010 (File No. 0-05189)).
  4.kk    First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Euro Intercreditor and Collateral Agency Agreement, dated as of June 15, 2010, among Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as U.K. Administrative Agent, The Bank of Nova Scotia, as Canadian Administrative Agent, Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Euro Collateral Agent, Crown European Holdings SA, and each of the subsidiaries of Crown European Holdings identified therein. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.9 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 15, 2010 (File No. 0-05189)).
  4.ll    Indenture, dated as of July 28, 2010, by and among Crown European Holdings SA, as Issuer, the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee, relating to the 7 1/8% Senior Notes due 2018 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 28, 2010 (File No. 0-05189)).
  4.mm    Form of 7 1/8% Senior Notes due 2018 (included in Exhibit 4.ll).
  4.nn    Indenture, dated as of January 31, 2011, by and among Crown Americas LLC, Crown Americas Capital Corp. III, as Issuers, the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee, relating to the 6 1/4% Senior Notes due 2021. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated January 31, 2011 (File No. 0-05189)).
  4.oo    Form of 6 1/4% Senior Notes due 2021 (included in Exhibit 4.nn).
  4.pp    Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of January 9, 2013, by and among the Company, Crown Americas LLC and Crown Americas Capital Corp. IV, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as Representative of the several Initial Purchasers named therein and the Guarantors (as defined therein), relating to the $800 million 4 1/2% Senior Notes due 2023 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated January 9, 2013 (File No. 0-50189)).
  4.qq    Indenture, dated as of January 9, 2013, by and among Crown Americas LLC and Crown Americas Capital Corp. IV, as Issuers, the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee, relating to the 4 1/2% Senior Notes due 2023 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated January 9, 2013 (File No. 0-50189)).
  4.rr    Form of 4 1/2% Senior Notes due 2023 (included in Exhibit 4.qq).
  4.ss    Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of January 15, 2013, by and among the Company, Crown Americas LLC and Crown Americas Capital Corp. IV, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as the Initial Purchaser, and the Guarantors (as defined therein), relating to the $200 million 4 1/2% Senior Notes due 2023 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated January 15, 2013 (File No. 0.-50189)).
5    Opinion of Dechert LLP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.*
12    Computation of ratio of earnings to fixed charges.*
23.a    Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.*
23.b    Consent of Dechert LLP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (included in Exhibit 5.a).*


Exhibit
Number

  

Description

24    Powers of Attorney.*
25    Statements of Eligibility and Qualification of The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.*
99.a    Form of Letter of Transmittal.*
99.b    Form of Letter to Holders.*
99.c    Form of Letter to Brokers, Dealers, Commercial Banks, Trust Companies and Other Nominees.*
99.d    Form of Letter to Clients.*
99.e    Guidelines for Certification of Taxpayer Identification Number on Substitute Form W-9.*

 

* Previously filed

 

** Filed herewith
EX-3.C 2 d582401dex3c.htm EX-3.C EX-3.C

Exhibit 3.c

PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF STATE

CORPORATION BUREAU

 

 

 

Entity Number

3337938

  

Certificate of Organization

Domestic Limited Liability Company

(15 Pa.C.S. § 8913)

  

Name

 

      Document will be returned to the name and address you enter to the left.
Address         CT CORP COUNTER       ï

 

     

City             State             Zip Code

 

     

 

Fee: $125   

Filed in the Department of State on Sep 27 2005

 

/s/ Pedro A. Cortés

   Secretary of the Commonwealth

In compliance with the requirements of 15 Pa.C.S. § 8913 (relating to certificate of organization), the undersigned desiring to organize a limited liability company, hereby certifies that:

 

1. The name of the limited liability company (designator is required, i.e., “company”, “limited” or “limited liability company” or abbreviation):

Crown Americas LLC

 

2. The (a) address of the limited liability company’s initial registered office in the Commonwealth or (b) name of its commercial registered office provider and the county of venue is:

 

  (a) Number and Street                 City                 State                         Zip                         County

 

 

 

(b)    Name of Commercial Registered Office Provider

  

County

c/o    C T Corporation System

   Philadelphia                                             

 

3. The name and address, including street and number, if any, of each organizer is (all organizers must sign on page 2):

Name                                                                                                   Address

Lianne Barnard, Paralegal, Dechert LLP, 4000 Bell Atlantic Tower, 1717 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

 

 


DSCB:15-8913-2

 

4. Strike out if inapplicable term

A member’s interest in the company is to be evidenced by a certificate of membership interest.

 

5. Strike out if inapplicable:

 

   Management of the company is vested in a manager or managers.

 

6.      The specified effective date, if any is

  

        upon filing

        month date year hour, if any

  

 

7. Strike out if inapplicable: The company is a restricted professional company organized to render the following restricted professional service(s):

n/a

 

8. For additional provisions of the certificate, if any, attach an 81/2 x 11 sheet.

 

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the organizer(s) has (have) signed this Certificate of Organization this 19th day of September 2007.
/s/ Lianne Barnard
Signature
 
Signature
 
Signature
EX-3.D 3 d582401dex3d.htm EX-3.D EX-3.D

Exhibit 3.d

LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT

OF

CROWN AMERICAS LLC

This Limited Liability Company Agreement (this “Agreement”) of Crown Americas LLC (the “Company”), dated September 27, 2005, is entered into by Crown Cork & Seal Company. Inc. a Pennsylvania corporation, as sole member (the “Member” and collectively with any persons or entities who become members of the Company in accordance with the provisions hereof from time to time, the “Members”).

WHEREAS, the Company was formed as a Pennsylvania limited liability company under the name “Crown Americas LLC” pursuant to and in accordance with the Pennsylvania Limited Liability Company Law, as amended from time to time (the “Act”), by filing a Certificate of Organization of the Company with the Secretary of the Commonwealth of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on September 27.2005, executed by Lianne Barnard, as an authorized person:

WHEREAS, prior to the date first above written, neither the Member nor any person or entity under the direct or indirect control of the Member has entered into a limited liability company agreement of the Company: and

WHEREAS, the Member desires to enter into this Agreement, to be effective as of September 27, 2005, pursuant to and in accordance with the Act.

NOW THEREFORE, the Member hereby agrees as follows:

1. Name. The name of the limited liability company is Crown Americas LLC.

2. Purpose. The purpose of the Company, and the nature of the business to be conducted and promoted by the Company, is engaging in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be formed under the Act and engaging in any and all activities necessary or incidental to the foregoing.

3. Powers of the Company. Subject to any limitations set forth in this Agreement, the Company shall have the power and authority to take any and all actions necessary, appropriate, proper, advisable, incidental or convenient to or for the furtherance of the purposes set forth in Section 2, including without limitation the power to borrower money and issue evidences of indebtedness in furtherance of the purposes of the Company.

4. Registered Office. The address of the registered office of the Company in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is c/o CT Corporation, 1515 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103.

5. Registered Agent. The name and address of the registered agent of the Company for service of process on the Company in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are CT Corporation. 1515 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103.


6. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Company (the “Fiscal Year”) shall be the calendar year or, if applicable, that shorter period within the calendar year during which the Company had legal existence.

7. Member. The name and the business, residence or mailing address of the Member is as follows:

 

Name

  

Address

Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc.    One Crown Way
   Philadelphia, PA 19154-4599

8. Management; Authorized Person. Crown Cork & Seal Company. Inc. shall be the “Manager” as defined in the Act (the “Managing Member”). The business and affairs of the Company shall be managed exclusively by the Managing Member, and no other Member (acting in its, his or her capacity as such) or person shall have the power, authority or right to bind the Company, unless expressly authorized by the Managing Member. The Managing Member shall have the power to do any and all acts necessary or convenient to or for the furtherance of the purposes described herein, including all powers, statutory or otherwise, possessed by members under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Managing Member is hereby designated as an authorized person, within the meaning of the Act, to execute, deliver and file all certificates (and any amendments and/or restatements thereof) required or permitted by the Act to be filed in the office of the Secretary of Commonwealth of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Managing Member hereby approves and ratifies the execution and filing by Lianne Barnard, as an authorized person within the meaning of the Act, of such certificates of the Company on such dates as are referred to in the recitals to this Agreement. As of September 27, 2005. Lianne Barnard’s powers as an authorized person within the meaning of the Act shall cease.

9. Liability. Except as otherwise provided by the Act, the debts, obligations and liabilities of the Company, whether arising in contract, tort or otherwise, shall be solely the debts, obligations and liabilities of the Company, and no Member shall be obligated personally for any such debt,` obligation or liability of the Company solely by reason of being a Member.

10. Exculpation. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no Member shall be liable to the Company or any other Member for any loss, damage or claim incurred by reason of any act or omission performed or omitted by such Member in good faith on behalf of the Company and in a manner believed to be within the scope of authority conferred on such Member by this Agreement, except that a Member shall be liable for any such loss, damage or claim incurred by reason of such Member’s gross negligence, willful misconduct or willful breach of this Agreement.

11. Dissolution. The Company shall dissolve, and its affairs shall be wound up, upon the first to occur of the following: (g) the unanimous decision of the Members to dissolve the Company. (12) any of the Members ceasing to be a Member of the Company unless the Company is continued in accordance with the Act, or (c) the entry of a decree of judicial dissolution under §18-802 of the Act.

 

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12. Amendment. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, this Agreement may be modified or amended, and any provision hereof may be waived, by a writing signed by or on behalf of all Members.

13. Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement among the Members with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes any prior agreement or understanding among them with respect to such matter.

14. Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED IN ALL RESPECTS. INCLUDING AS TO VALIDITY, INTERPRETATION AND EFFECT. BY THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO THE CONFLICT OF LAWS RULES THEREOF.

15. Miscellaneous. The limited liability company interests of the Company shall be treated as a “security” within the meaning of Article 8 of the New York Uniform Commercial Code.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, intending to be legally bound hereby, has duly executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc.
By:   /s/ Alan W. Rutherford
Name:   Alan W. Rutherford
Title:   Vice President & CFO

 

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EX-3.E 4 d582401dex3e.htm EX-3.E EX-3.E

Exhibit 3.e

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

CROWN AMERICAS CAPITAL CORP. IV

1. Name. The name of the Corporation is Crown Americas Capital Corp. IV.

2. Registered Office and Agent. The address of the Corporation’s registered office in the State of Delaware is The Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, DE 19801. The name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.

3. Purpose. The purposes for which the Corporation is formed are to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of Delaware and to possess and exercise all of the powers and privileges granted by such law and any other law of Delaware.

4. Authorized Capital. The aggregate number of shares of stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is One Hundred (100) shares, all of which are of one class and are designated as Common Stock and each of which has a par value of $0.01 per share.

5. Incorporator. The name and mailing address of the incorporator are James M. Hipolit, Dechert LLP, Cira Centre, 2929 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2808.

6. Bylaws. The board of directors of the Corporation is authorized to adopt, amend or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation, except as otherwise specifically provided therein.

7. Elections of Directors. Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless the bylaws of the Corporation shall so provide.

8. Right to Amend. The Corporation reserves the right to amend any provision contained in this Certificate as the same may from time to time be in effect in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by law, and all rights conferred on stockholders or others hereunder are subject to such reservation.

9. Limitation on Liability. The directors of the Corporation shall be entitled to the benefits of all limitations on the liability of directors generally that are now or hereafter become available under the General Corporation Law of Delaware. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, no director of the Corporation shall be liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (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 Delaware General Corporation Law, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. Any repeal or modification of this Section 9 shall be prospective only, and shall not affect, to the detriment of any director, any limitation on the personal liability of a director of the Corporation existing at the time of such repeal or modification.


10. Miscellaneous. The Corporation elects not to be governed by Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law.

Dated: December 12, 2012

 

/s/ James M. Hipolit
James M. Hipolit, Incorporator

 

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EX-3.F 5 d582401dex3f.htm EX-3.F EX-3.F

Exhibit 3.f

BYLAWS

OF

CROWN AMERICAS CAPITAL CORP. IV

ARTICLE I

STOCKHOLDERS

1.1. Meetings.

1.1.1. Place. Meetings of the stockholders shall be held at such place as may be designated by the board of directors.

1.1.2. Annual Meeting. An annual meeting of the stockholders for the election of directors and for other business shall be held on such date and at such time as may be fixed by the board of directors.

1.1.3. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the stockholders may be called at any time by the president, or the board of directors, or the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of stock of the Company entitled to vote at the meeting.

1.1.4. Quorum. The presence, in person or by proxy, of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of stock of the Company entitled to vote on a particular matter shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of considering such matter.

1.1.5. Voting Rights. Except as otherwise provided herein, in the certificate of incorporation or by law, every stockholder shall have the right at every meeting of stockholders to one vote for every share standing in the name of such stockholder on the books of the Company which is entitled to vote at such meeting. Every stockholder may vote either in person or by proxy.

ARTICLE II

DIRECTORS

2.1. Number and Term. The board of directors shall have authority to (i) determine the number of directors to constitute the board and (ii) fix the terms of office of the directors.

 

2.2. Meetings.

2.2.1. Place. Meetings of the board of directors shall be held at such place as may be designated by the board or in the notice of the meeting.

2.2.2. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the board of directors shall be held at such times as the board may designate. Notice of regular meetings need not be given.

2.2.3. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the board may be called by direction of the president or any two members of the board on three days’ notice to each director, either personally or by mail, telegram or facsimile transmission.


2.2.4. Quorum. A majority of all the directors in office shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting.

2.2.5. Voting. Except as otherwise provided herein, in the certificate of incorporation or by law, the vote of a majority of the directors present at any meeting at which a quorum is present shall constitute the act of the board of directors.

2.2.6. Committees. The board of directors may, by resolution adopted by a majority of the whole board, designate one or more committees, each committee to consist of one or more directors and such alternate members (also directors) as may be designated by the board. Unless otherwise provided herein, in the absence or disqualification of any 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 director to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member. Except as otherwise provided herein, in the certificate of incorporation or by law, any such committee shall have and may exercise the powers of the full board of directors to the extent provided in the resolution of the board directing the committee.

ARTICLE III

OFFICERS

3.1. Election. At its first meeting after each annual meeting of the stockholders, the board of directors shall elect a president, vice president, treasurer, secretary and assistant secretary and such other officers as it deems advisable.

3.2. Authority, Duties and Compensation. The officers shall have such authority, perform such duties and serve for such compensation as may be determined by resolution of the board of directors. Except as otherwise provided by board resolution, (i) the president shall be the chief executive officer of the Company, shall have general supervision over the business and operations of the Company, may perform any act and execute any instrument for the conduct of such business and operations and shall preside at all meetings of the board and stockholders, (ii) the other officers shall have the duties customarily related to their respective offices, and (iii) any vice president, or vice presidents in the order determined by the board, shall in the absence of the president have the authority and perform the duties of the president.

ARTICLE IV

INDEMNIFICATION

4.1. Right to Indemnification. The Company shall indemnify any person who was or is party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (a “proceeding”), by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the Company or a constituent corporation absorbed in a consolidation or merger, or is or was serving at the request of the Company or a constituent corporation absorbed in a consolidation or merger, as a director or officer of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, or is or was a director or officer of the Company serving at its request as an administrator, trustee or other fiduciary of one or more of the employee benefit plans of the Company or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), liability and loss

 

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actually and reasonably incurred or suffered by such person in connection with such proceeding, whether or not the indemnified liability arises or arose from any threatened, pending or completed proceeding by or in the right of the Company, except to the extent that such indemnification is prohibited by applicable law.

4.2. Advance of Expenses. Expenses incurred by a director or officer of the Company in defending a proceeding shall be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of such proceeding subject to the provisions of any applicable statute.

4.3. Procedure for Determining Permissibility. To determine whether any indemnification or advance of expenses under this Article IV is permissible, the board of directors by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors not parties to such proceeding may, and on request of any person seeking indemnification or advance of expenses shall be required to, determine in each case whether the applicable standards in any applicable statute have been met, or such determination shall be made by independent legal counsel if such quorum is not obtainable, or, even if obtainable, a majority vote of a quorum of disinterested directors so directs, provided that, if there has been a change in control of the Company between the time of the action or failure to act giving rise to the claim for indemnification or advance of expenses and the time such claim is made, at the option of the person seeking indemnification or advance of expenses, the permissibility of indemnification or advance of expenses shall be determined by independent legal counsel. The reasonable expenses of any director or officer in prosecuting a successful claim for indemnification, and the fees and expenses of any special legal counsel engaged to determine permissibility of indemnification or advance of expenses, shall be borne by the Company.

4.4. Contractual Obligation. The obligations of the Company to indemnify a director or officer under this Article IV, including the duty to advance expenses, shall be considered a contract between the Company and such director or officer, and no modification or repeal of any provision of this Article IV shall affect, to the detriment of the director or officer, such obligations of the Company in connection with a claim based on any act or failure to act occurring before such modification or repeal.

4.5. Indemnification Not Exclusive; Inuring of Benefit. The indemnification and advance of expenses provided by this Article IV shall not be deemed exclusive of any other right to which one indemnified may be entitled under any statute, provision of the Certificate of Incorporation, these bylaws, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in such person’s official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of any such person.

4.6. Insurance and Other Indemnification. The board of directors shall have the power to (i) authorize the Company to purchase and maintain, at the Company’s expense, insurance on behalf of the Company and on behalf of others to the extent that power to do so has not been prohibited by statute, (ii) create any fund of any nature, whether or not under the control of a trustee, or otherwise secure any of its indemnification obligations, and (iii) give other indemnification to the extent permitted by statute.

 

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ARTICLE V

TRANSFER OF SHARE CERTIFICATES

Transfers of share certificates and the shares represented thereby shall be made on the books of the Company only by the registered holder or by duly authorized attorney. Transfers shall be made only on surrender of the share certificate or certificates.

ARTICLE VI

PURPOSE

The sole purpose for which the Company is formed is to act as co-issuer, along with Crown Americas LLC, of notes of Crown Americas LLC, to facilitate the offering of such notes and to guarantee other indebtedness of Crown Holdings, Inc. and its affiliates. The Company is not authorized to carry on any trade or business and will serve only as an agent to facilitate the offering and to guarantee other indebtedness of Crown Holdings, Inc. and its affiliates. Consistent with this purpose, the Company is permitted to enter into agreements to specify the responsibilities between itself and Crown Americas LLC. The Company is not authorized to hold any assets other than the minimum capital amount of $1.00. The Company is not authorized to receive proceeds from such offering.

ARTICLE VII

AMENDMENTS

These bylaws may be amended or repealed at any regular or special meeting of the board of directors by vote of a majority of all directors in office or at any annual or special meeting of stockholders by vote of holders of a majority of the outstanding stock entitled to vote. Notice of any such annual or special meeting of stockholders shall set forth the proposed change or a summary thereof.

 

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EX-3.G 6 d582401dex3g.htm EX-3.G EX-3.G

Exhibit 3.g

CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

OF

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

CROWN CORK DE PUERTO RICO, INC.

Crown Cork de Puerto Rico, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “Company”), does hereby certify:

FIRST: That a Certificate of Incorporation of the Company was filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on June 12, 1974.

SECOND: That by written consent of the board of directors dated November 3, 2003, a resolution was duly adopted setting forth a proposed amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, declaring said amendment to be advisable and calling for consideration of said proposed amendment by the stockholders of the Company. The resolution setting forth the amendment is as follows:

RESOLVED, that it is hereby proposed that Article FIRST of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company be amended so that the same as amended would read as follows:

FIRST: The name of the Corporation is “CROWN Beverage Packaging Puerto Rico, Inc.”,

THIRD: That thereafter, pursuant to the resolution of the board of directors, the proposed amendment was approved by the stockholders of the Company by written consent dated November 3, 2003.

FOURTH: That this Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Incorporation shall be effective on January 1, 2004.

FIFTH: That said amendment was duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of Section 242 and 228 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Certificate to be executed by Frank J. Mechura, its President, this 3rd day of November, 2003.

 

CROWN CORK DE PUERTO RICO, INC.
By:   /s/ Frank J. Mechura
 

Frank J. Mechura

President


CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

CROWN CORK DE PUERTO RICO, INC.

 

 

1. The name of the corporation is

CROWN CORK DE PUERTO RICO, INC.

2. The address of its registered office in the State of Delaware is No. 100 West Tenth Street, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle. The name of its registered agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.

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

4. The total number of shares of stock which the corporation shall have authority to issue is one hundred (100); all of such shares shall be without par value.

5. The name and mailing address of each incorporator is as follows:

 

NAME            MAILING ADDRESS        
B. A. Pennington    100 West Tenth Street Wilmington, Delaware 19801
W. J. Reif    100 West Tenth Street Wilmington, Delaware 19801
G. J. Coyle    100 West Tenth Street Wilmington, Delaware 19801

6. The corporation is to have perpetual existence.

7. In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute, the board of directors is expressly authorized to make, alter or repeal the by-laws of the corporation.


8. Meetings of stockholders may be held within or without the State of Delaware, as the by-laws may provide. The books of the corporation may be kept (subject to any provision contained in the statutes) outside the State of Delaware at such place or places as may be designated from time to time by the board of directors or in the by-laws of the corporation. Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless the by-laws of the corporation shall so provide.

9. The corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this certificate of incorporation, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by statute, and all rights conferred upon stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation.

WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, being each of the incorporators hereinbefore named, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, do make this certificate, hereby declaring and certifying that this is our act and deed and the facts herein stated are true, and accordingly have hereunto set our hands this 12th day of June, 1974.

 

/s/ B. A. Pennington

 

/s/ W. J. Reif

 

/s/ G. J. Coyle

 

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EX-3.H 7 d582401dex3h.htm EX-3.H EX-3.H

Exhibit 3.h

BYLAWS OF

CROWN CORK DE PUERTO RICO, INC.

ARTICLE I

STOCKHOLDERS

 

1.1 Meetings.

(a) Place. Meetings of the stockholders shall be held at such place as may be designated by the board of directors.

(b) Annual Meeting. An annual meeting of the stockholders for the election of directors and for other business shall be held at such time as may be fixed by the board of directors, on the fourth Thursday of April in each year (or if such is a legal holiday, on the next following business day), or on such other day as may be fixed by the board of directors.

(c) Special Meetings. Special meetings of the stockholders may be called at any time by the president, or the board of directors, or the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of stock of the Company entitled to vote at the meeting.

(d) Quorum. The presence, in person or by proxy, of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of stock of the Company entitled to vote on a particular matter shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of considering such matter.

ARTICLE II

DIRECTORS

2.1 Number and Term. The board of directors shall have authority to (i) determine the number of directors to constitute the board, and (ii) fix the terms of office of the directors.

2.2 Meetings.

(a) Place. Meetings of the board of directors shall be held at such place as may be designated by the board or in the notice of the meeting.

(b) Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the board of directors shall be held at such times as the board may designate by resolution. Notice of regular meetings need not be given.

(c) Special Meetings. Special meetings of the board may be called by direction of the president or any two members of the board on three days’ notice to each director, either personally or by mail or by telegram.


(d) Quorum. A majority of all the directors in office shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting.

2.3 Committees. The board of directors may by resolution adopted by a majority of the whole board designate one or more committees, each committee to consist of one or more directors and such alternate members (also directors) as may be designated by the board. In the absence or disqualification of any member of a committee, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not he or they constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another director to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member.

ARTICLE III

OFFICERS

3.1 Election. At its first meeting after each annual meeting of the stockholders, the board of directors shall elect a president, treasurer, secretary and such other officers as it deems advisable.

3.2 Authority, Duties and Compensation. The officers shall have such authority, perform such duties and serve for such compensation as may be determined by resolution of the board of directors. Except as otherwise provided by board resolution (i) the president shall be the chief executive officer of the Company, shall have general supervision over the business and operations of the Company, may perform any act and execute any instrument for the conduct of such business and operations and shall preside at all meetings of the board and shareholders, (ii) the other officers shall have the duties usually related to their offices, and (iii) the vice president, or vice presidents in the order determined by the board, shall in the absence of the president have the authority and perform the duties of the president.

ARTICLE IV

TRANSFER OF SHARE CERTIFICATES

Transfers of share certificates and the shares represented thereby shall be made on the books of the Company only by the registered holder or by duly authorized attorney. Transfers shall be made only on surrender of the share certificate or certificates.

ARTICLE V

AMENDMENTS

These bylaws may be altered, amended or repealed at any regular or special meeting of the board of directors by the vote of a majority of all the directors in office or at any annual or special meeting of stockholders by the vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding stock entitled to vote. Notice of any such annual or special meeting of stockholders shall set forth the proposed change or a summary thereof.

 

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EX-3.I 8 d582401dex3i.htm EX-3.I EX-3.I

Exhibit 3.i

Filed with the Department of State on May 3, 1996

 

Entity Number     2695160                                

      /s/ Yvette Kane
      Secretary of the Commonwealth
     

ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION-FOR PROFIT

DSCB.15-1306/2102/2303/2702/2903/7102A (REV 90)

Indicate type of domestic corporation (check one):

 

    x    Business-stock (15 Pa.C.S. § 1306)        ¨     Management (15 Pa.C.S. § 2702)
    ¨     Business-nonstock (15 Pa,C.S. § 2102)        ¨     Professional (15 Pa.C.S. § 2903)
    ¨     Business-statutory close (15 Pa,C.S. § 2303)        ¨     Cooperative (15 Pa.C.S. § 7102A)

In compliance with the requirements of the applicable provisions of 15 Pa.C.S. (relating to corporations and unincorporated :associations) the undersigned, desiring to incorporate a corporation for profit hereby state(s) that:

 

1.    The name of the corporation is:    Crown Consultants, Inc.

 

   

 

2. The (a) address of this corporation’s initial registered office in this Commonwealth or (b) name of its commercial registered office provider and the county of venue is:

 

(a)   9300 Ashton Road    Philadelphia    PA    19136    Philadelphia
  Number and Street    City    State    Zip    County
(b) c/o                        
  Name of Commercial Registered Office Provider       County

For a corporation represented by a commercial registered office provider, the county in (b) shall be deemed the County in which the corporation is located for venue and official publication purposes.

 

3. The corporation is incorporated under the provisions of the Business Corporation Law of 1988.

 

4.

The aggregate number of shares authorized is: 1000 (other provisions, if any, attach 8  1/2 x 11 sheet)

 

5. The name and address, including street and number, if any, of each incorporator is:

 

Name    Address

Luann M. Taiariol

   Dechert Price & Rhoads
   4000 Bell Atlantic Tower
   1717 Arch Street
     Philadelphia, PA 19103-2793

 

6.     The specified effective date, if any is:    
  Month                            day                     year                             hour, m.

 

7.

Any additional provisions of the articles. If any, attach an 8  1/2 x 11 sheet.


IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Application for Registration to be signed by a duly authorized officer thereof this 13th day of May, 1996.

 

/s/ Luann M. Taiariol        
(Signature)       (Signature)
EX-3.J 9 d582401dex3j.htm EX-3.J EX-3.J

Exhibit 3.j

BYLAWS

OF

CROWN CONSULTANTS, INC.

(A Pennsylvania Business Corporation)

ARTICLE I

SHAREHOLDERS

1.1. Meetings.

1.1.1. Place. Meetings of the shareholders shall be held at such place within or without the Commonwealth as may be designated by the Board of Directors.

1.1.2. Annual Meeting. An annual meeting of the shareholders for the election of directors and for other business shall be held at such time in each year as may be designated by the Board of Directors.

1.1.3. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the shareholders may be called at any time by the Board of Directors, president, or shareholders entitled to cast at least one-fifth of the votes that all shareholders are entitled to cast at the meeting.

1.1.4. Notice. Written notice of the time and place of every meeting of shareholders and of the general nature of the business to be transacted at each special meeting of shareholders shall be given to each shareholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting at least (i) ten days prior to the day named for a meeting called to consider a fundamental change under Chapter 19 of the Pennsylvania Business Corporation Law of 1988, as amended (“BCL”), or (ii) five days before the day named for the meeting in any other case.

1.1.5. Quorum. The presence of shareholders entitled to cast at least a majority of the votes that all shareholders are entitled to cast on a particular matter shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of consideration and action on the matter.

1.1.6. Voting Rights. Except as otherwise provided herein, in the articles of incorporation or by applicable law, every shareholder shall have the right at every shareholders’ meeting to one vote for every share standing in his name on the books of the corporation which is entitled to vote at such meeting. Every shareholder may vote either in person or by proxy.

1.2. Written Consent by Majority. Any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting of the shareholders or a class of shareholders may be taken without a meeting upon the written consent of shareholders who would have been entitled to cast the minimum number of


votes that would be necessary to authorize the action at a meeting at which all shareholders entitled to vote thereon were present and voting. The consents shall be filed with the secretary of the corporation. The action shall not become effective until after at least ten days’ written notice of the action has been given to each shareholder entitled to vote thereon who has not consented thereto.

ARTICLE II

DIRECTORS

2.1. Number and Term. Subject to the provisions of applicable law, the Board of Directors shall have authority to determine the number of directors to constitute the Board of Directors. Each director elected to the Board of Directors shall hold office until the next annual meeting of the shareholders unless he sooner resigns or is removed or disqualified.

2.2. Powers. All corporate powers shall be exercised by or under authority of, and the business and affairs of the corporation shall be managed under the direction of, the Board of Directors.

2.3. Meetings.

2.3.1. Place. Meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held at such place as the Board of Directors may from time to time appoint or as may be designated in the notice of the meeting.

2.3.2. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held at such times as the Board of Directors may designate. Notice of regular meetings need not be given.

2.3.3. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called at any time by the president and shall be called by him on the written request of at least one-third of the directors. Notice of the time and place of each special meeting shall be given to each director at least two days before the meeting.

2.3.4. Quorum. A majority of the directors in office shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting and except as otherwise provided herein the acts of a majority of the directors present at any meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the acts of the Board of Directors.

2.4. Vacancies. Vacancies in the Board of Directors may be filled by vote of a majority of the remaining members of the Board of Directors.

2.5. Committees. The Board of Directors may by resolution adopted by a majority of the directors in office establish one or more committees, each committee to consist of one or more directors and such alternate members (also directors) as may be designated by the Board of


Directors. To the extent provided in such resolution, any such committee shall have and exercise the powers of the Board of Directors except as may be limited by the BCL. Unless otherwise determined by the Board of Directors, in the absence or disqualification of any member or alternate member or members of a committee, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not he or they constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another director to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member.

2.6. Limitation on Liability. A director shall not be personally liable for monetary damages for any action taken, or any failure to take any action, unless (i) the director has breached or failed to perform the duties of his office under Sections 1711-18 of the BCL (relating to fiduciary duty) and (ii) the breach or failure to perform constitutes self-dealing, willful misconduct or recklessness. The provisions of this Section 2.6 shall not apply to (i) the responsibility or liability of a director pursuant to any criminal statute or (ii) the liability of a director for the payment of taxes pursuant to local, state or federal law. Any repeal or modification of this Section 2.6 shall be prospective only, and shall not affect, to the detriment of any director, any limitation on the personal liability of a director of the corporation existing at the time of such repeal or modification.

ARTICLE III

OFFICERS

3.1. Election. The Board of Directors shall elect a president, treasurer, secretary and such other officers or assistant officers as it deems advisable. Any number of offices may be held by the same person.

3.2. Authority, Duties and Compensation. The officers shall have such authority, perform such duties and serve for such compensation as may be determined by or under the direction of the Board of Directors. Except as otherwise provided by the Board of Directors (a) the president shall be the chief executive officer of the corporation, shall have general supervision over the business and operations of the corporation, may perform any act and execute any instrument for the conduct of such business and operations and shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors and shareholders, (b) the other officers shall have the duties usually related to their offices and (c) the vice president (or vice presidents in the order determined by the Board of Directors) shall in the absence of the president have the authority and perform the duties of the president.

ARTICLE IV

INDEMNIFICATION

4.1. Right to Indemnification. The corporation shall indemnify to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal,


administrative or investigative (a “Proceeding”), by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director or officer of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise or entity, whether or not for profit, whether domestic or foreign, including service with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants or beneficiaries, against all liability, loss and expense (including attorneys’ fees and amounts paid in settlement) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such Proceeding, whether or not the indemnified liability arises or arose from any Proceeding by or in the right of the corporation.

4.2. Advance of Expenses. Expenses incurred by a director or officer in defending a Proceeding shall be paid by the corporation in advance of the final disposition of such Proceeding, subject to the provisions of applicable law, upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the director or officer to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that such person is not entitled to be indemnified by the corporation under applicable law.

4.3. Procedure for Determining Permissibility. To determine whether any indemnification or advance of expenses under this Article IV is permissible, the Board of Directors by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors who are not parties to such Proceeding may, and on request of any person seeking indemnification or advance of expenses shall, determine in each case whether the standards under applicable law have been met, or such determination shall be made by independent legal counsel if such quorum is not obtainable, or, even if obtainable, a majority vote of a quorum of disinterested directors so directs, provided that, if there has been a change in control of the corporation between the time of the action or failure to act giving rise to the claim for indemnification or advance of expenses and the time such claim is made, at the option of the person seeking indemnification or advance of expenses, the permissibility of indemnification or advance of expenses shall be determined by independent legal counsel. The reasonable expenses of any director or officer in prosecuting a successful claim for indemnification, and the fees and expenses of any independent legal counsel engaged to determine permissibility of indemnification or advance of expenses, shall be borne by the corporation.

4.4. Contractual Obligation. The obligations of the corporation to indemnify a director or officer under this Article IV, including the duty to advance expenses, shall be considered a contract between the corporation and such director or officer, and no modification or repeal of any provision of this Article IV shall affect, to the detriment of the director or officer, such obligations of the corporation in connection with a claim based on any act or failure to act occurring before such modification or repeal.

4.5. Indemnification Not Exclusive; Inuring of Benefit. The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by this Article IV shall not be deemed exclusive of any other right to which one indemnified may be entitled under any statute, agreement, vote of shareholders or otherwise, both as to action in such person’s official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, legal representatives and estate of any such person. The Board of Directors shall have the power to give other indemnification to the extent not prohibited by applicable law.


ARTICLE V

SHARE CERTIFICATES AND TRANSFERS

5.1. Share Certificates. Every shareholder of record shall be entitled to a share certificate representing the shares held by him. Every share certificate shall bear the corporate seal (which may be a facsimile) and the signature of the president or a vice president and the secretary or an assistant secretary or the treasurer or an assistant treasurer of the corporation. Where a certificate is signed by a transfer agent or registrar the signature of any corporate officer may be a facsimile.

5.2. Transfers. Transfers of share certificates and the shares represented thereby shall be made on the books of the corporation only by the registered holder or by duly authorized attorney. Transfers shall be made only on surrender of the share certificate or certificates.

ARTICLE VI

AMENDMENTS

6.1. Except as restricted by applicable law, the authority to adopt, amend and repeal the bylaws of the corporation is expressly vested in the Board of Directors, subject to the power of the shareholders to change such action.

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Exhibit 3.k

CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

OF

CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY, LLC

 

1. The name of the limited liability company is: Crown Cork & Seal Company, LLC.

 

2. The Certificate of Formation of the limited liability company is hereby amended as follows:

“The name of the limited liability company is: Crown Cork & Seal Company (DE), LLC:”

 

3. This Certificate of Amendment shall be effective upon filing.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Certificate of Amendment of Crown Cork & Seal Company, LLC this 13th day of February, 2003.

 

      BY:   /s/ Pamela Bishop
  Authorized
NAME:    Pamela Bishop
  Type or Print


CERTIFICATE OF FORMATION

OF

CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY, LLC

 

1. The name of the limited liability company is: Crown Cork & Seal Company, I.I.C.

 

2. The address of its registered office in the State of Delaware is Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle. The name of its registered office agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Certificate of Formation of Crown Cork & Seal Company, LLC this 31st day of August, 2001.

 

      BY:   /s/ Pamela Bishop
  Authorized Person
NAME:   Pamela Bishop
  Type or Print
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Exhibit 3.l

LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT

OF

CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY, LLC


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LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT

OF

CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY LLC

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ARTICLE I DEFINED TERMS

     3   

ARTICLE II FORMATION AND NAME; OFFICE; PURPOSE; TERM; SERIES

     4   

2.1.  

  Organization      4   

2.2.

  Name of the Company      4   

2.3.

  Purpose      4   

2.4.

  Term      4   

2.5.

  Principal Office      4   

2.6.

  Registered Agent      5   

2.7.

  Member      5   
ARTICLE III MEMBERSHIP UNITS      5   

3.1.

  Units      5   

3.2.

  Certificated Units      5   

3.3.

  Issuance and Transfer of Membership Units      5   
ARTICLE IV CAPITAL      5   

4.1.

  Capital Contributions      5   

4.2.

  No Other Capital Contributions Required      5   
ARTICLE V PROFIT, LOSS AND DISTRIBUTIONS      5   
ARTICLE VI MANAGEMENT: RIGHTS, POWERS, AND DUTIES      6   

6.1.

  Board of Managers      6   

6.2.

  Authority of the Board      6   

6.3.

  Subcommittees      7   

6.4.

  Meetings and Voting      7   

6.5.

  Executive Officers      7   

6.6.

  Signing Authority      7   

6.7.

  Liability and Indemnification      7   

 

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ARTICLE VII TRANSFER OR PLEDGE OF MEMBERSHIP INTERESTS; ADMISSION OF NEW MEMBERS

     8   

7.1.

  Transfer      8   

7.2.

  Pledge      8   

7.3.

  Admission of New Members      8   

ARTICLE VIII DISSOLUTION, LIQUIDATION AND TERMINATION OF THE COMPANY

     8   

8.1.

  Events of Dissolution      8   

8.2.

  Procedure for Winding Up and Dissolution      9   

8.3.

  Filing of Certificate of Cancellation      9   

ARTICLE IX BOOKS, RECORDS, ACCOUNTING, AND TAX ELECTIONS

     9   

9.1.

  Bank Accounts      9   

9.2.

  Books and Records      9   

9.3.

  Tax Elections      9   

ARTICLE X GENERAL PROVISIONS

     9   

10.1.

  Complete Agreement      9   

10.2.

  Applicable Law      9   

10.3.

  Section Titles      9   

10.4.

  Binding Provisions      9   

10.5.   

  Terms      10   

10.6.

  Severability of Provisions      10   

 

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LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT

OF

CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY LLC

THIS LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is entered into this 1st day of September, 2001, by and between Crown Cork & Seal Company, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Company”) and Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., a Pennsylvania Corporation (the “Member”).

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

The Member desires to organize and operate a limited liability company in accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement.

NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the parties, intending legally to be bound, agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINED TERMS

The following capitalized terms shall have the meanings specified in this Article I. Other terms are defined in the text of this Agreement and, throughout this Agreement, those terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them.

Act” means the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act, as amended from time to time.

Agreement” means this Agreement, as amended from time to time.

Board” means the Board of Managers of the Company described in Section 5.1.

Capital Contribution” means the total amount of cash and the fair market value of any other assets contributed to the Company by the Member, net of liabilities assumed or to which the assets are subject.

Cash Flow” means all cash provided by operations of the Company as reflected in the financial statements of the Company.

Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or any corresponding provision of any succeeding law.

Company” means the limited liability company formed in accordance with this Agreement.


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Delaware Secretary of State” means the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware.

Involuntary Withdrawal” means, with respect to the Member, the bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation or dissolution of the Member under applicable federal or state law.

Manager” means an individual who serves on the Board of Managers.

Member” means Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc. and any Person who subsequently is admitted as a member of the Company.

Person” means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, an association, a federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory entity (or any department, agency, authority or political subdivision thereof), a trust or other entity or organization.

Profit” and “Loss” means, for each taxable year of the Company (or other period for which Profit or Loss must be computed), the Company’s net income or net loss determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, as consistently applied by the Company.

Units” means membership units which shall be issued in a single class of voting, non-redeemable units.

ARTICLE II

FORMATION AND NAME; OFFICE; PURPOSE; TERM; SERIES

2.1. Organization. The Member hereby organizes a limited liability company pursuant to the Act and the provisions of this Agreement and, for that purpose, has caused a Certificate of Formation to be prepared, executed and filed with the office of the Delaware Secretary of State on August 31, 2001.

2.2. Name of the Company. The name of the Company shall be “Crown Cork & Seal Company, LLC”. The Company may do business under that name and under any other name or names as selected by the Board.

2.3. Purpose. The Company is organized to do all things permitted to be done by limited liability companies under the Act, and to do all things necessary, convenient or incidental to that purpose.

2.4. Term. The term of the Company began upon the acceptance of the Certificate of Formation by the office of the Delaware Secretary of State and shall continue in existence perpetually unless terminated pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.

2.5. Principal Office. The principal office of the Company shall be located at 919 N. Market St., Suite 406, Wilmington, Delaware 19801, or at any other place selected by the Member.

 

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2.6. Registered Agent. The name and address of the Company’s registered agent in the State of Delaware shall be The Corporation Trust Company, Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware 19805.

2.7. Member. The name, present mailing address and taxpayer identification number of the Member shall be maintained with the books and records of the Company.

ARTICLE III

MEMBERSHIP UNITS

3.1. Units. The ownership rights in the Company are reflected in membership units which shall be issued in a single class of voting, non-redeemable units (“Units”). Each Unit shall have equal rights with every other Unit in all matters, including allocations of profits and losses and distributions, and in matters subject to a vote, each Unit shall have one vote. The Company hereby authorizes for issuance 1,000 Units. As of the date hereof, the Company shall have issued 1 Unit to the Member.

3.2. Certificated Units. All Units at any time and from time to time outstanding shall be evidenced by certificates in the form attached as Exhibit A hereto (a “Unit Certificate”) and shall bear the following legend:

“These Units represent the right of the holder designated herein pursuant to the Limited Liability Agreement of Crown Cork & Seal Company, LLC, as may be amended and restated from time to time (the “LLC Agreement”) and are subject to restrictions on transfer, which restrict the transfer of Units pursuant to the terms and conditions of the LLC Agreement.”

3.3. Issuance and Transfer of Membership Units. The Managers may issue additional Units to the Member. The Member may transfer Units to a person other than the Member only pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in Article VII.

ARTICLE IV

CAPITAL

4.1. Capital Contributions. The Member has made a capital contribution to the Company of $5,000.00.

4.2. No Other Capital Contributions Required. The Member is not required to contribute any additional capital to the Company, and the Member shall have no personal liability for any obligations of the Company.

ARTICLE V

PROFIT, LOSS AND DISTRIBUTIONS

All Cash Flow, Profit and Loss shall be distributed or allocated to the Member.

 

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ARTICLE VI

MANAGEMENT: RIGHTS, POWERS, AND DUTIES

6.1. Board of Managers.

A. In order to provide for the management of the Company, the Member hereby establishes a Board of Managers consisting of persons elected by the Member. The Board shall have the power, authority and responsibility to manage the Company for and on behalf of the Member and to make decisions as to all matters which the Company has authority to perform, as fully as if the Member were making such decisions. Approval by or action taken by the Board in accordance with this Agreement shall constitute approval or action by the Company.

B. The Board shall at all times consist of not less than one nor more than eight Managers, as determined by the Member. The Board shall initially consist of one Manager. The initial Manager shall be Thomas A. Kelly.

6.2. Authority of the Board. The Board, by its own action or by action of a majority of the Board, or by delegation to officers of the Company, shall, in addition to any other power granted to it in this Agreement, have the right, power and authority to take the following actions and none of the following actions will be taken without the approval of the Board:

A. To do and perform all acts as may be necessary or appropriate to the conduct of the Company's business;

B. To purchase, hold, sell, exchange, transfer and otherwise acquire and dispose of and exercise all rights, powers, privileges and other incidents of ownership or possession with respect to real and personal property, whether tangible or intangible, held by the Company;

C. To purchase liability and other insurance to protect the Company’s property and business;

D. To execute on behalf of the Company all instruments and documents, including, without limitation, checks, drafts, notes and other negotiable instruments, mortgages or deeds of trust, security agreements, financing statements, documents providing for the acquisition, mortgage or disposition of the Company’s property, assignments, bills of sale, leases, partnership agreements, operating agreements of other limited liability companies and any other instruments or documents necessary, in the opinion of the Managers, to the business of the Company;

E. To employ accountants, legal counsel, managing agents, or other experts or consultants to perform services for the Company and to compensate them from Company funds;

F. To enter into any and all other agreements on behalf of the Company, with any other person for any purpose, in such forms as the Managers may approve;

 

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G. With the consent of the Member, to approve of the dissolution of the Company; and

H. With the consent of the Member, to amend this Agreement.

6.3. Subcommittees. The Board may designate one or more subcommittees. Any subcommittee, to the extent provided by the Board, shall have and may exercise all of the power and authority of the Board.

6.4. Meetings and Voting.

A. Regular and special meetings of the Board shall be held at any time on reasonable notice given by any Manager. Meetings of the Board shall be held at the Company’s principal place of business or at such other place as shall be designated from time to time by the Manager.

B. The presence in person or by proxy of at least a majority of the Manager Members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at a Board meeting. Board Members may participate in any Board meeting by means of telephone and participation by such means shall constitute presence in person at such Board meeting. The affirmative vote of a majority of the Board Members present at a duly constituted meeting shall govern all of the Board’s actions and constitute approval by the Board. Each Manager may vote by delivering his proxy to another Manager

C. In lieu of holding a meeting, the Board may vote or otherwise take action by a written instrument indicating the consent of Board.

6.5. Executive Officers. The Board may unanimously agree on and appoint employees to hold the positions of president, chief financial officer, treasurer, secretary, one or more vice presidents, and any other office that the Board may establish, all with such duties as may be established by the Board. Initially, there shall be a Vice Chairman and President, a Vice President and Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, a Secretary, and an Assistant Secretary of the Company.

6.6. Signing Authority. Any document or instrument purporting to bind the Company shall be effective to bind the Company when executed by (a) the Member or (b) a Manager or (c) an officer of the Company expressly authorized to execute such document or instrument by the terms of this Agreement or the written resolutions of the Board.

6.7. Liability and Indemnification. The Company shall indemnify and hold harmless, to the fullest extent permitted by law, (i) the Member, (ii) each officer, (iii) each Manager, (iv) each agent, partner, employee, counsel and affiliate of the Member, officer, Manager or of any of their affiliates (individually, an “Indemnified Party”), as follows:

A. The Company shall indemnify and hold harmless, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any Indemnified Party from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities, expenses (including legal fees and expenses), judgments, fines, settlements and other amounts (“Indemnified Costs”) arising from all claims, demands, actions, suits or

 

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proceedings (“Actions”), whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, in which the Indemnified Party may be involved, or threatened to be involved, as a party or otherwise arising as a result of its status as (i) a Member, (ii) an officer, (iii) Manager or ,(iv) an agent, partner, employee, counsel or Affiliate of a Member, an officer a Manager, or any of their Affiliates, regardless of whether the Indemnified Party continues in the capacity at the time the liability or expense is paid or incurred, and regardless of whether the Action is brought by a third party, or by or in the right of the Company; provided, however, no such Person shall be indemnified for any Indemnified Costs which proximately result from the Person’s fraud, bad faith or willful misconduct or the Person’s material breach of this Agreement.

B. The Company shall pay or reimburse, to the fullest extent allowed by law and consistent with Section 5.7(a) above, in advance of the final disposition of the proceeding, Indemnified Costs incurred by the Indemnified Party in connection with any Action that is the subject of Section 5.7(a) above.

ARTICLE VII

TRANSFER OR PLEDGE OF MEMBERSHIP INTERESTS; ADMISSION

OF NEW MEMBERS

7.1. Transfer. The Member shall have the right to transfer all (but not less than all) of its membership interest to any Person at any time. Any transferee shall be admitted as a Member as of the effective date of the transfer.

7.2. Pledge. The Member shall have the right to pledge, or grant a security interest in, up to all of its membership interest to any Person at any time. With respect to such pledge or grant of security interest under the Uniform Commercial Code, as codified under applicable law (the “UCC”), the Company elects to opt in and be governed by Article 8 of the UCC, and anything contained in the Agreement or any other document of the Company to the contrary notwithstanding, the membership interests of the Company shall be considered “securities” for purposes of Section 8-103(c), Article 8 and Article 9 of the UCC.

7.3. Admission of New Members. No new Member shall be admitted (other than pursuant to Section 7.1), either by transfer of a portion of the Member’s interest, or in any other manner, which causes the Company to have two or more Members, until this Agreement has been amended to provide for such admission, including amendments relating to the governance of the Company, and providing for the allocation of Profits and Losses of the Company among the Members, and such amendment has been accepted by the existing Member and the New Member.

ARTICLE VIII

DISSOLUTION, LIQUIDATION AND

TERMINATION OF THE COMPANY

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A. upon the election of the Board and the Member; or

B. upon the occurrence of an Involuntary Withdrawal of the Member.

8.2. Procedure for Winding Up and Dissolution. If the Company is dissolved for any reason, the Board shall wind up its affairs.

8.3. Filing of Certificate of Cancellation. If the Company is dissolved, the Board shall promptly file a certificate of cancellation with the Delaware Secretary of State.

ARTICLE IX

BOOKS, RECORDS, ACCOUNTING, AND TAX ELECTIONS

9.1. Bank Accounts. All funds of the Company shall be deposited in a bank account or accounts opened in the Company’s name as determined by the Board.

9.2. Books and Records. The Company shall keep or cause to be kept complete and accurate books and records of the Company. The books and records shall be maintained in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and practices.

9.3. Tax Elections. Any election under any provision of any tax law shall be made only by the Board or by a person authorized to do so by the Board.

ARTICLE X

GENERAL PROVISIONS

10.1. Complete Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the complete and exclusive statement of the agreement of the Member. It supersedes all prior written and oral statements, including any prior representation, statement, condition or warranty. Except as expressly provided otherwise herein, this Agreement may not be amended without the written consent of the Member.

10.2. Applicable Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity and interpretation of this Agreement and the performance of the obligations imposed by this Agreement shall be governed by the internal law, not the law of conflicts, of the State of Delaware.

10.3. Section Titles. The headings herein are inserted as a matter of convenience only, and do not define, limit or describe the scope of this Agreement or the intent of the provisions hereof

10.4. Binding Provisions. This Agreement is binding upon, and inures to the benefit of, the parties hereto and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, personal and legal representatives, successors and permitted assigns.

 

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10.5. Terms. Common nouns and pronouns shall be deemed to refer to the masculine, feminine, neuter, singular and plural, as the identity of the Person may in the context require.

10.6. Severability of Provisions. Each provision of this Agreement shall be considered severable; and if, for any reason, any provision or provisions herein are determined to be invalid and contrary to any existing or future law, such invalidity shall not impair the operation of or affect those portions of this Agreement which are valid.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed, or caused this Agreement to be executed, under seal, as of the date set forth hereinabove.

 

MEMBER
CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY, INC.
By:   /s/ William T. Gallagher
  Name: William T. Gallagher
  Title: Vice President & Secretary
COMPANY
CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY, LLC
By:   /s/ Thomas A. Kelly
  Name: Thomas A. Kelly
  Title: Vice President & Manager

 

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EX-3.M 12 d582401dex3m.htm EX-3.M EX-3.M

Exhibit 3.m

AMENDED AND RESTATED

ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

of

CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY, INC.,

A PENNSYLVANIA CORPORATION

FIRST: The name of the corporation is Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc. The corporation is incorporated under the Pennsylvania Business Corporation Law.

SECOND: The purposes of the corporation (hereinafter sometimes called the Corporation) are to do any and all of the things hereinafter set forth to the same extent as natural persons might or could do in any part of the world, namely;

1. To manufacture, produce, purchase or otherwise acquire, sell or otherwise dispose of (i) containers made from metal, glass, paper, rubber, wood, plastics or other material, for liquids, solids, powder, cream, loose pourables and other substances; (ii) crowns, caps, corks, seals and closures of all kinds for containers; and (iii) machinery, equipment and component parts for bottling, filling, closing, sealing and packaging bottles and other containers of all kinds.

2. To carry on a general mercantile, manufacturing, fabricating, metalworking, machinery, lithographing, printing and packaging business.

3. To carry on the business of general merchants, brokers, agents, dealers in, importers and exporters of, searchers for, workers in and manufacturers of natural products, raw materials, manufactured products and marketable goods, wares and merchandise of every kind, nature and description.

4. To apply for, purchase or in any manner to acquire; to hold, own, use and operate; to sell or in any manner dispose of; to grant or license other rights in respect of; and in any manner deal with any and all rights, interests, inventions, improvements and processes used in connection with or secured under letters patent or copyrights of the United States or other countries or otherwise; and to work, operate or develop the same.

5. To purchase, lease or otherwise acquire, and to hold, own, sell or dispose of real and personal property of all kinds and in particular lands, buildings, business concerns and undertakings, shares of stock, mortgages, bonds, debentures, and other securities, merchandise, book debts and claims, trademarks, trade names, and any interest in real or personal property.

6. To guarantee the payment of dividends on any shares of the capital stock of any corporation, joint stock company or association in which the Corporation has or may at any time have an interest; to endorse or otherwise guarantee the payment of the principal of, or interest on, any scrip, bonds, coupons, mortgages, debentures, or other securities issued or created by any corporation, joint stock company or associations in which the Corporation have

 

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an interest, or whose shares or securities it owns; to become surety for and to guarantee the carrying out or the performance of any and all contracts of every kind or character of any corporation, joint stock company or corporation in which the Corporation has an interest, or whose shares or securities it owns; and to do any and all lawful things designed to protect, preserve, improve or enhance the value of any such shares, scrip, voting trust certificates, bonds, coupons, mortgages, debentures, securities or other evidences of indebtedness of any corporation, joint stock company or association in which the Corporation has an interest or whose shares or securities it may own, and to make any guarantee which may be lawful for a corporation organized under the Business Corporation Law.

7. To lend and borrow money; to draw, make, accept, endorse, transfer, assign, execute and issue bonds, debentures, promissory notes, and other evidences of indebtedness, and for the purpose of securing any of its obligations or contracts to convey, transfer, assign, deliver, mortgage and pledge all or any part of the property or assets at any time owned or held by the Corporation, upon such terms and conditions as the Board of Directors shall authorize and as may be permitted by law.

8. To acquire, hold, sell, reissue, or cancel any shares of its own capital stock, provided, however, that the Corporation may not use any of its funds or property for the purchase of its own shares of capital stock when such use would cause any impairment of the capital of the Corporation, and provided further, that the shares of its own capital stock belonging to the Corporation shall not be voted directly or indirectly.

9. To undertake or assume the whole or any part of the bonds, mortgages, franchises, leases, contracts, indebtedness, guaranties, liabilities and obligations of any person, firm, association, corporation or organization, and to purchase or otherwise acquire the whole or any part of the property, assets, business, good-will and rights of any person, firm, association, corporation or organization and to pay for the same or any part or combination thereof in cash, shares of the capital stock, bonds, debentures, debenture stock, notes and other obligations of the Corporation or otherwise, or by undertaking and assuming the whole or any part of the liabilities or obligations of the transferor; and to hold or in any manner dispose of the whole or any part of the property and assets so acquired or purchased, and to conduct in any lawful manner the whole or any part of the business so acquired and to exercise all the powers necessary or convenient in and about the conduct, management and carrying on of such business.

10. To organize, incorporate and reorganize subsidiary corporations and joint stock companies and associations for any purpose permitted by law.

11. To sell, improve, manage, develop, lease, mortgage, dispose of, or otherwise turn to account, or deal with all or any part of the property of the Corporation.

12. To carry on business at any place or places within the jurisdiction of the United States, and in any and all foreign countries, and to purchase, hold, mortgage, convey, lease or otherwise dispose of and deal with real and personal property at any such place or places.

 

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13. To enter into, make, perform and carry out contracts of every sort and kind which may be necessary or convenient for the business of the Corporation or business of a similar nature, with any person, firm, corporation (private, public or municipal), or body politic under the government, or agency thereof, of the United States or any state, territory or colony thereof or any foreign government, so far as, and to the extent that the same may be done and performed by corporations organized under the Business Corporation Law.

14. To do all and everything necessary, suitable or proper for the accomplishment of any of the purposes, the attainment of any of the objects or the furtherance of any of the powers hereinbefore set forth, either alone or in connection with other corporations, firms or individuals, and either as principals or as agents, and to do every other act or acts, thing or things, incidental or appurtenant to or growing out of or connected with the aforesaid objects, purposes or powers, or any of them.

15. The foregoing enumeration of specific powers shall not be deemed to limit or restrict in any manner the general powers of the Corporation, and the enjoyment and exercise thereof, as may now or hereafter be conferred by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania upon corporations organized under the provisions ef the Business Corporation Law.

THIRD: The total number of shares which may be issued by the Corporation is 500,000,000 shares of Common Stock, at a par value per share of $5.00 (the “Common Stock”), and 50,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock to be used in the acquisition of CarnaudMetalbox (the “Acquisition Preferred Stock”) and 30,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock (the “Additional Preferred Stock”), without par value.

A. Common Stock. The designations, voting powers, restrictions and rights of the Common Stock are as follows:

1. Dividends. Holders of Common Stock will be entitled to receive such dividends as may be declared by the Board of Directors.

2. Liquidation. In any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, after the debts of the Corporation and obligations with respect to any issued and outstanding shares of preferred stock shall have been paid or provided for, all of the remaining assets of the Corporation shall belong to and shall be distributed ratably among the holders of the Common Stock.

3. Reacquired Share. The Board of Directors shall have the power to eliminate reacquired shares of Common Stock from the authorized number of shares of the Corporation or to restore such shares to the status of authorized but unissued shares.

4. Voting Rights. Except as may otherwise be required by law in any case and as provided in a resolution of the Board of Directors fixing voting rights pursuant to Section C below, the holders of shares of Common Stock possess the exclusive voting powers of the Corporation. At every meeting of stockholders of the Corporation, the holders of record of shares of Common Stock entitled to vote thereat shall be entitled to one vote for each share held. The holders of Common Stock shall not be entitled to cumulative voting in the election of directors of the Corporation.

 

 

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B. Capital Stock Generally. The following provisions shall apply to all classes of the Corporation’s capital stock:

1. Additional or Increased Stock. No holder of stock of the Corporation of any class shall be entitled as of right to subscribe for any additional or increased stock of any class or any obligations convertible into any class or classes of stock, and the Corporation may, without offering any such increased or additional stock or obligations to stockholders of any class, sell or dispose of the same to such persons and for such consideration permitted by law as the Hoard of Directors from time to time in its absolute discretion determines.

2. Authorized Shares. The Corporation may issue and sell its authorized shares, if any, without par value prom time to time in the absence of fraud in the transaction, for such consideration as may from time to time be fixed by the Board of Directors, and sell and dispose of any stock having a par value, for such consideration permitted by law, as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine, without other authority, consent or vote of the stockholders of the Corporation of any class or classes, except as otherwise provided herein or under applicable law.

C. Preferred Stock.

1. Acquisition Preferred Stock. The following provisions shall apply to Acquisition Preferred Stock:

a. Designation. The unissued shares of Acquisition Preferred Stock may be divided and issued at any time, as set forth in C.1(b) below, in one or more classes or series of a class as may be designated by the Board of Directors of the Corporation. The Board of Directors shall have the full authority permitted by law to fix by resolution the designations, number and the voting rights, preferences, privileges, limitations, restrictions, conversion rights and other special or relative rights, if any, of any class or any series of any class of the Acquisition Preferred Stock that may be desired.

b. Issuance. Shares of Acquisition Preferred Stock shall be issued solely to effect the acquisition by the Corporation of the capital stock fund securities convertible into or exchangeable for such capital stock) of CarnaudMetalbox, a société anonyme organized under the laws of the Republic of France. Following the initial issuance of Acquisition Preferred Stock to effect the acquisition of CarnaudMetalbox, no further shares of Acquisition Preferred Stock shall be issued and, in the event that any shares of Acquisition Preferred Stock are authorized but unissued, the number of authorized shares of Acquisition Preferred Stock shall be reduced accordingly.

2. Additional Preferred Stock. The unissued shares of Additional Preferred Stock may be divided and issued at any time and from time to time in one or more classes or series of a class as may be designated by the Board of Directors of the Corporation. The Board of Directors shall have the full authority permitted by law to fix by resolution the designations, number and the voting rights, preferences, privileges, limitations, restrictions, conversion rights and other special or relative rights, if any, of any class or any series of any class of the Additional Preferred Stock that may be desired; provided, however, that such shares will rank on

 

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a parity with or junior to Acquisition Preferred Stock and provided further that the shares of any such class or series of a class shall not be entitled to more than one vote per share when voting as a class with holders of the Corporation’s Common Stock.

FOURTH: The capital of the Corporation shall be at least equal to the amount of the aggregate par value of all issued shares having par value.

FIFTH: The registered office of the Corporation within the Commonwealth is to be located in the City of Philadelphia, at 9300 Ashton Road, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19136.

SIXTH: The duration of the Corporation is to be perpetual.

SEVENTH: Following the merger of Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., a New York corporation into the Corporation, the number of the directors of the Corporation is to be not less than ten (10) nor more than eighteen (18), as may be provided in the by-laws from time to time. The directors need not be stockholders of the Corporation.

EIGHTH: The following provisions are inserted for the regulation of the business and for the conduct of the affairs of the Corporation and its directors and stockholders:

1. The Board of Directors from time to time shall determine whether and to what extent and at what times and places and under what conditions and regulations the accounts and books of the Corporation or any of them, except the stock book, shall be open to the inspection of the stockholders, and no stockholder shall have the right to inspect any books or documents of the Corporation except as conferred by statute or authorized by the Board of Directors.

2. A director of the Corporation shall not, in the absence of fraud, be disqualified by his office from dealing or contracting with the Corporation, either as a vendor, purchaser or otherwise, nor in the absence of fraud shall, insofar as permitted by statute, any transaction or contract of the Corporation be void or voidable or affected by reason of the fact that any director, or any firm of which any director is a member, or any corporation of which any director is an officer, director or stockholder, is in any way interested in such transaction or contract, provided that at the meeting of the Board of Director’, or of a committee thereof having authority in the premises to authorize or confirm said contract or transaction, the interest of such director, firm or corporation is disclosed or made known, and there shall be present a quorum of the Board of Directors or of the directors constituting such committee, and such contract or transaction shall be approved by a majority of such quorum, which majority shall consist of directors not so interested or connected. Nor shall any director be liable to account to the Corporation for any profit realized by him from or through any such transaction or contract of the Corporation, ratified or approved as aforesaid, by reason of the fact that he or any firm of which he is a member, or any corporation of which he is a stockholder, director or officer, was interested in such transaction or contract. Directors so interested may be counted when present at meetings of the Board of Directors or of such committee for the purpose of determining the existence of a quorum. Each and every person who is or may become a director of the Corporation is hereby relieved from any liability that might otherwise exist from those contracting with the Corporation for the benefit of himself or any firm, association or corporation

 

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in which he may be in any wise interested. Any contract, transaction or act of the Corporation or the Board of Directors or of any committee which shall be ratified by a majority in interest of a quorum of the stockholders having voting power, shall, insofar as permitted by statute, be as valid and as binding as though ratified by every stockholder of the Corporation; but this shall not be construed as requiring the submission of any contract to the stockholders for approval.

3. The Board of Directors shall have power from time to time to fix and determine and vary the amount to be set aside from the earnings of the Corporation as working capital before making payment of any dividends on any class of stock or any distribution of profits; and before making payment of any dividends on any stock or any distribution of profits, the Board of Directors may set aside out of the profits of the Corporation such sum or sums as it may from time to time in its absolute discretion think proper, whether as additional working capital, as a fund for the payment and retirement of the indebtedness of the Corporation, whether funded or otherwise, or as a surplus fund for such corporate purposes as the Board shall think conducive to the best interests of the Corporation.

4. The Board of Directors shall have power to hold their meetings in or outside the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in such places as from time to time may be designated by the By-Laws or by resolution of the Board of Directors.

NINTH: The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision herein contained in the manner named, or hereafter prescribed by law, and all rights conferred upon stockholders hereunder are granted subject to this provision.

TENTH: Subchapter E, Control Transactions, of Chapter 25 of the Pennsylvania Business Corporation Law, as amended, shall not be applicable to the Corporation.

 

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Exhibit A

Designation of Terms of 4.5% Preferred Stock

RESOLVED, that pursuant to the authority vested in the Board of Directors of the Company (and, therefore, the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors) in accordance with Article THIRD, Section C.L of the amended and restated Articles of Incorporation of the Company, a series of Preferred Stock of the Company is hereby created having the terms and provisions set forth in Exhibit B hereto.

 

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Exhibit B

Terms of Preferred Stock

The designation and number, voting rights, preferences, privileges, limitations, restrictions, conversion and other special or relative rights of the new series of Preferred Stock of the Corporation are as follows:

1. Designation and Amount. The shares of such series shall be designated as “4.5% Convertible Preferred Stock” (the “4.5% Preferred Stock”) and the number of shares constituting such series shall be 50,000,000. The par value of the 4.q% Preferred Stock shall be $41.8875 per share.

2. Rank. All shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock shall, with respect to dividend rights and rights upon liquidation, dissolution and winding-up, rank senior to all of the Corporation’s now or hereafter issued Junior Securities (as hereinafter defined) and on a parity with the Parity Securities (as hereinafter defined), unless the issuance of a new class of preferred stock that ranks senior in respect of dividend rights or rights upon liquidation, dissolution and winding-up is specifically approved by the holders of 4.5% Preferred Stock as provided under Section 6(d). The Common Stock and other equity securities (other than any senior securities specifically approved by the holders of 4.5% Preferred Stock as provided under Section 6(d)) of the Corporation shall be “Junior Securities” for all purposes hereunder unless, with respect to any class of equity securities other than the Common Stock such securities expressly provide that they rank on a parity with the 4.5% Preferred Stock with respect to dividends and upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up, in which case such class of equity securities shall be “Parity Securities”. The terms of the 4.5% Preferred Stock do not restrict the creation of Junior Securities and Parity Securities other than as provided in Section 6(d).

3. 4.5% Preferred Dividends. The holders of 4.5% Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds at the time legally available therefor, dividends at the rate of $1.8848 per annum per share (the “4.5% Preferred Dividends”), and no more, which shall be fully cumulative and shall be payable in cash (except as provided in Section 5(i)) quarterly in arrears on February 20, May 20, August 20 and November 20 of each year (each a “Dividend Payment Date”) (except that if any such date is a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, then such dividend shall be payable on the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday) to holders of record as they appear upon the stock transfer books of the Corporation on such record dates, not more than sixty days nor less than ten days preceding the respective Dividend Payment Dates, as are fixed by the Board of Directors (or, to the extent permitted by applicable law, a duly authorized , committee thereof).

The first dividend period shall be from the date of initial issuance of the 4.5% Preferred Stock to, but excluding, the first Dividend Payment Date occurring in 1996 (except that if the date of initial issuance occurs within 20 days prior to such Dividend Payment Date, the first dividend period shall be from the date of initial issuance to, but including, the next following Dividend Payment Date) and the first Dividend Payment Date in respect of the 4.5% Preferred Stock shall be the first Dividend Payment Date occurring in 1996 (or if the date of initial issuance occurs within 20 days prior to such date, the next following Dividend Payment Date).


Dividends on the 4.5% Preferred Stock shall accrue (whether or not declared and whether or not such amounts would be available, legally or otherwise, at that time for distribution to holders of 4.5% Preferred Stock) on a daily basis from the date of original issuance of the 4.5% Preferred Stock or from the most recent Dividend Payment Date to which full dividends have been paid. Dividends will cease to accrue in respect of any shares of the 4.5% Preferred Stock on the effective date of a mandatory conversion pursuant to Section 5(e) or on the date of their earlier voluntary conversion. Dividends (or cash amounts equal to accrued and unpaid dividends) payable on the 4.5% Preferred Stock for any period shorter than a quarterly dividend period shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

For purposes hereof, the term “legal holiday” shall mean any day on which banking institutions are authorized to close in New York, New York or in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Subject to the next Paragraph of this Section 3, payments on account of accrued and unpaid dividends for any past dividend period may be declared and paid at any time, without reference to any regular Dividend Payment Date. The amount of dividends payable per share of 4.5% Preferred Stock for each quarterly dividend period shall be computed by dividing the annual dividend amount by four. No interest shall be payable in respect of any accrued and unpaid dividends on the 4.5% Preferred Stock. Holders of the shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock, as such, shall not be entitled to any dividends, whether payable in cash, property or stock, in excess of full cumulative cash dividends as provided in this Section 3.

No dividends or other distributions shall be declared, paid or set apart for payment or otherwise made on shares of any Junior Securities (other than a dividend or distribution paid solely in shares of, or warrants, rights or options exercisable for or convertible into Junior Securities), unless and until all accrued and unpaid dividends on the 4.5% Preferred Stock for all dividend payment periods ending on or before the payment date of such dividend or other distribution on Junior Securities shall have been paid or declared and set apart for payment.

No payment in cash or otherwise on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement or other acquisition of shares of Junior Securities shall be made unless and until all accrued and unpaid dividends on the 4.5% Preferred Stock for all dividend payment periods ending on or before such payment in respect of such Junior Securities shall have been paid or declared and set apart for payment; provided, however, that the restrictions set forth in this sentence shall not apply to the purchase or other acquisition of Junior Securities (A) pursuant to any employee or director incentive or benefit plan or arrangement (including any employment, severance or consulting agreement) of the Corporation or any subsidiary of the Corporation heretofore or hereafter adopted, (B) solely in exchange for or upon conversion into Junior Securities or (C) pursuant to a redemption at the stated redemption price of any rights granted to holders of Common Stock pursuant to a stockholder rights plan.

No full dividends shall be declared, paid or set apart for payment on shares of any class or series of the Parity Securities for any period unless full cumulative dividends have been, or contemporaneously are, paid or declared and set apart for such payment on the 4.5% Preferred Stock for all dividend payment periods ending on or before the payment date of such full dividends on Parity Securities. No dividends may be paid on Parity Securities except on dates on which dividends are paid on the 4.5% Preferred Stock. If dividends are not paid or set apart in full upon the shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock and any Parity Securities, all dividends paid or

 

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declared and set apart for payment on the 4.5% Preferred Stock and the Parity Securities shall be paid or declared and set apart for payment pro rata so that the amount of dividends paid or declared and set apart for payment per share on the 4.5% Preferred Stock and the Parity Securities on any date shall in all cases bear to each other the same ratio that accrued and unpaid dividends to the date of payment on the 4.5% Preferred Stock and the Parity Securities bear to each other.

No payment on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement or other acquisition of shares of Parity Securities shall be made, and, other than dividends to the extent permitted by the preceding Paragraph, no distributions shall be declared, paid or set apart for payment or otherwise made on shares of Parity Securities, unless and until all accrued and unpaid dividends on the 4.5% Preferred Stock for all dividend payment periods ending on or before such payment in respect of, or the payment date of such distribution on, such Parity Securities shall have been paid or declared and set apart for payment; provided, however, that the restrictions set forth in this sentence shall not apply to the purchase or other acquisition of Parity Securities (A) pursuant to any Employee or director incentive or benefit plan or arrangement (including any employment, severance or consulting agreement) of the Corporation or any subsidiary of the Corporation hereafter adopted, (B) solely in exchange for or upon conversion into other Parity Securities or Junior Securities or (C) pursuant to a redemption at the stated redemption price of any rights granted to holders of Common Stock pursuant to a stockholder rights plan.

Subject to the foregoing provisions, the Board of Directors may declare and the Corporation may pay or set apart for payment dividends and other distributions on any junior Securities or Parity Securities, and may redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire any Junior Securities or Parity Securities, and the holders of the 4.5% Preferred Stock shall not be entitled to share therein.

Any dividend payment made on shares of the 4.5% Preferred Stock shall first be credited against the earliest accrued but unpaid dividend due with respect to shares of the 4.5% Preferred Stock.

All dividends paid with respect to shares of the 4.5% Preferred Stock pursuant to this Section 3 shall be paid pro rata to the holders entitled thereto.

Holders of shares of the 4.5% Preferred Stock shall he entitled to receive the dividends provided for in this Section 3 in preference to and in priority over any dividend upon any of the Junior Securities.

4. Liquidation Preference. In the event of a liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, the holders of shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive out of the assets of the Corporation available for distribution to stockholders an amount per share of 4.5% Preferred Stock equal to all dividends accrued and unpaid on such share to (but not including) the date of final distribution to such holders, whether or not declared, without interest, plus a sum equal to $41.8875 per share, before any payment shall be made or any assets distributed in respect of such Junior Securities.

 

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If the assets of the Corporation available for distribution to stockholders are not sufficient to pay in full the liquidation payments payable to the holders of outstanding shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock (as provided in the preceding Paragraph of this Section 4) and any Parity Securities, then the holders of such shares shall share ratably in such distribution of assets in accordance with the amounts which would be payable on such distribution if the amounts to which the holders of outstanding shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock and the holders of outstanding shares of such Parity Securities are entitled were paid in full.

Except as provided in this Section 4, holders of 4.5% Preferred Stock, as such, shall not be entitled to any distribution in the event of liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the affairs of the Corporation.

For the purposes of this Section 4, none of the following shall be deemed to be a voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation:

(i) the voluntary sale, conveyance, lease, exchange or transfer (for cash, shares of stock, securities or other consideration) of all or substantially all of the property or assets of the Corporation;

(ii) the consolidation or merger of the Corporation with or into one or more other corporations, or other associations;

(iii) the consolidation or merger of one or more corporations or other associations with or into the Corporation;

(iv) the participation by the Corporation in a share exchange; or

(v) the division of the Corporation pursuant to 15 Pa. C.S. Subch. 19D.

5. Conversion Privilege.

(a) Right of Conversion. At any time after the date of initial issuance of the 4.5% Preferred Stock, each share of 4.5% Preferred Stock shall be convertible at the option of the holder thereof into fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock, at the rate of that number of shares of Common Stock for each full share of 4.5% Preferred Stock that is equal to $41.8875 divided by the conversion price applicable per share of Common Stock. For purposes of this Section 5, the “conversion price” applicable per share of Common Stock shall initially be equal to $45.9715 and shall be adjusted from time to time in accordance with the provisions of this Section 5.

(b) Conversion Procedures. Any holder of shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock desiring to convert such shares into Common Stock shall surrender the certificate or certificates evidencing such shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock at the office of the transfer agent for the 4.5% Preferred Stock, which certificate or certificates, if the Corporation shall so require, shall be duly endorsed to the Corporation or in blank, or accompanied by proper instruments of transfer to the Corporation or in blank, accompanied by irrevocable written notice to the Corporation that the holder elects so to convert such shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock and specifying the name or names (with address or addresses) in which a certificate or certificates evidencing shares of Common Stock are to be issued.

 

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The Corporation shall, as soon as practicable after such surrender of certificates evidencing shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock accompanied by the written notice and compliance with any other conditions herein contained, deliver at such office of such transfer agent to the person for whose account such shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock were so surrendered, or to the nominee or nominees of such person, certificates evidencing the number of full shares of Common Stock to which such person shall be entitled as aforesaid, together with a cash adjustment without interest in respect of any fraction of a share of Common Stock as hereinafter provided. Such conversion shall be deemed to have been made on the date of such surrender of the shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock to be converted (the “Surrender Date”), and the person or persons entitled to receive the Common Stock deliverable upon conversion of such 4.5% Preferred Stock shall be treated for all purposes as the record holder or holders of such Common Stock on such date.

In the event that fewer than all shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock represented by a surrendered certificate are to be converted hereunder, a new certificate shall be issued at the expense of the Corporation representing the shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock not so converted. No interest will be payable with respect to any cash adjustment paid with respect to any fractional shares of Common Stock as hereinafter provided. No holder of a certificate or certificates which immediately prior to the Surrender Date represented shares of outstanding 4.5% Preferred Stock shall have any rights as a holder of such Common Stock, including without limitation voting rights or the right to receive any dividend or other distribution from the Corporation with respect to any Common Stock, until surrender of such certificate or certificates that prior to the Surrender Date represented such shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock in exchange for a certificate or certificates representing such Common Stock.

Effective on the day following the Surrender Date, dividends shall cease to accrue on any shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock surrendered for conversion, such shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock shall no longer be deemed outstanding, all rights of the holders thereof as preferred stockholders of the Corporation shall cease (other than the right to receive dividends declared payable to holders of record of 4.5% Preferred Stock on a record date prior to the Surrender Date) and thereupon the certificate or certificates theretofore representing such shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock shall represent only the right to receive the Common Stock deliverable upon conversion in respect thereof.

(c) Adjustment of Conversion Price. The conversion price at which a share of 4.5% Preferred Stock is convertible into Common Stock shall be subject to adjustment from time to time as follows:

(1) In case at any time after the date of original issuance of the 4.5% Preferred Stock, the Corporation shall pay or make a dividend or other distribution to all holders of its Common Stock or other Junior Securities of the Corporation in shares of Common Stock, the conversion price in effect at the opening of business on the business day following the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or other distribution shall be reduced by multiplying such conversion price by a fraction of which the numerator shall

 

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be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such determination and the denominator shall be the sum of such number of shares and the total number of shares constituting such dividend or other distribution, such reduction to become effective immediately prior to the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for such determination. For the purposes of this Subparagraph (1), the number of shares of Common Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares held in the treasury of the Corporation but shall include shares issuable in respect of scrip certificates issued in lieu of fractions of shares of Common Stock. The Corporation will not pay any dividend or make any distribution on shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Corporation.

(2) In case at any time after the date of original issuance of the 4.5% Preferred Stock, the Corporation shall issue rights or warrants to all holders of its Common Stock entitling them to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock at a price per share less than the current market price per share (determined as provided in Subparagraph (6) of this Paragraph) of the Common Stock on the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such rights or warrants, the conversion price in effect at the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for such determination shall be reduced by multiplying such conversion price by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such determination plus the number of shares of Common Stock which the aggregate of the offering price of the total number of shares of Common Stock so offered for subscription or purchase would purchase at such current market price (determined by multiplying such total number of shares by the exercise price of such rights or warrants and dividing the product so obtained by such current market price) and the denominator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such determination plus the number of shares of Common Stock so offered for subscription or purchase, such reduction to become effective immediately prior to the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for such determination. For the purposes of this Subparagraph (2), the number of shares of Common Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares held in the treasury of the Corporation but shall include shares issuable in respect of scrip certificates issued in lieu of fractions of shares of Common Stock. The Corporation will not issue any rights or warrants in respect of shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Corporation. The foregoing provision shall not apply to issuances of rights pursuant to a stockholder rights plan provided that such rights are issued together with the Common Stock upon conversion of the 4.5% Preferred Stock. In the event that all the shares of Common Stock offered for subscription or purchase are not delivered upon the exercise of such rights or warrants, upon the expiration of such rights or warrants the conversion price shall be adjusted to the conversion price which would have been in effect had the numerator and the denominator of the foregoing fraction and the resulting adjustment been made based upon the number of shares of Common Stock actually delivered upon the exercise of such rights or warrants rather than upon the number of shares of Common Stock offered for subscription or purchase; provided, however, that no such readjustment upon expiration of such rights or warrants shall affect the number of shares of Common Stock issued upon any conversion of 4.5% Preferred Stock prior to such readjustment.

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following the day upon which such subdivision becomes effective shall be proportionately reduced, and, conversely, in case at any time after the date of original issuance of the 4.5% Preferred Stock outstanding shares of Common Stock shall each be combined into a smaller number of shares of Common Stock, the conversion price in effect at the opening of business on the day following the day upon which such combination becomes effective shall be proportionately increased, such reduction or increase, as the case may be, to become effective immediately prior to the opening of business on the day following the day upon which such subdivision or combination becomes effective.

(4) In case at any time after the date of original issuance of the 4.5%. Preferred Stock, the Corporation shall, by dividend or otherwise, distribute to all holders of its Common Stock evidences of its indebtedness or assets (including securities, but excluding (i) any rights or warrants referred to in Subparagraph (2) of this Paragraph, (ii) any dividend or distribution in cash solely out of the retained earnings of the Corporation (retained earnings of the Corporation for this purpose being calculated at any date to exclude the one-time impact of the Corporation’s adopting changes in accounting principles required by changes in (x) United States generally accepted accounting principles or (y) the application or interpretation of United States generally accepted accounting principles by any applicable governmental or regulatory authority, provided that only changes occurring in the fiscal year with respect to which retained earnings is being determined shall be excluded for this purpose) and (iii) any dividend or distribution referred to in Subparagraph (1) of this Paragraph), then in each such case, unless the Corporation elects to reserve shares or other units of such securities or assets for distribution to the holders of the 4.5% Preferred Stock upon the conversion of the shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock so that any holder of 4.5% Preferred Stock will receive upon such conversion, in addition to the shares of the Common Stock to which such holder is entitled, the kind and amount of such securities or assets which such holder would have received if such shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock had been converted into shares of Common Stock immediately prior to the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such distribution, the conversion price shall be adjusted so that the same shall equal the price determined by multiplying the conversion price in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such distribution by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the current market price per share (determined as provided in Subparagraph (6) of this Paragraph) of the Common Stock on the date fixed for such determination less the then fair market value (as determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination, if made in good faith, shall be conclusive and described in a resolution of the Board of Directors filed with the transfer agent for the 4.5% Preferred Stock and mailed to the holders of record of the 4.5% Preferred Stock) on the date fixed for such determination of the portion of the assets or evidences of indebtedness se distributed applicable to one share of Common Stock and the denominator shall be such current market price per share of the Common Stock, such adjustment to become effective immediately prior to the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such distribution.

(5) The reclassification of Common Stock into securities other than Common Stock (other than any reclassification upon a consolidation or merger to which Section 5(f) applies) shall be deemed to involve (a) a distribution of such securities other than Common Stock to all holders of Common Stock (and the effective date of such reclassification shall be deemed to be “the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such

 

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distribution” and “the date fixed for such determination” within the meaning of Subparagraph (4) of this Paragraph), and a subdivision or combination, as the case may be, of the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such reclassification into the number of shares of Common Stock, if any, outstanding immediately thereafter (and the effective date of such reclassification shall be deemed to be “the day upon which such subdivision becomes effective” or “the day upon which such combination becomes effective”, as the case may be, and “the day upon which such subdivision or combination becomes effective” within the meaning of Subparagraph (3) of this Paragraph).

(6) For the purpose of any computation under Subparagraphs (2) and (4) of this Paragraph, the current market price per share of Common Stock on any day shall be deemed to be the average of the “market prices” (as defined below) for shares of Common Stock for any five consecutive Business Days selected by the Corporation commencing not more than 20 Business Days before the date in question, provided, however, that if the “ex” date (as defined later in this Subparagraph (6)) for any event (other than the issuance or distribution requiring such computation) that requires an adjustment to the conversion price pursuant to Subparagraph (1), (2), (3) or (4) above occurs on or after the 20th Business Day prior to the day in question and prior to the “ex” date for the issuance or distribution requiring such computation, the market price for each Business Day prior to the “ex” date for such other event shall be adjusted by multiplying such market price by the same fraction by which the conversion price is required to be adjusted as a result of such other event. For purposes of this Paragraph, the term “‘ex’ date”, (i) when used with respect to any issuance or distribution, means the first day on which the Common Stock trades regular way on the relevant exchange or in the relevant market from which the market price was obtained without the right to receive such issuance or distribution and (ii) when used with respect to any subdivision or combination of shares of Common Stock, means the first date on which the shares of Common Stock trade regular way on such exchange or in such market after the time at which such subdivision or combination becomes effective. The term “market price” as used in this Paragraph means, the last reported sales price regular way or, in case no such reported sale takes place on such day, the average of the reported closing bid and asked prices regular way, in either case of the Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange or, if the Common Stock is not listed or admitted to trading on such exchange, on the principal national securities exchange on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted to trading or, if not listed or admitted to trading on any national securities exchange, on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations National Market System or, if the Common Stock is not Li d or admitted to trading on any national securities exchange or quoted on such National Market System, the average of the closing bid and asked prices in the over-the-counter market as furnished by any New York Stock Exchange member firm selected from time to time by the Corporation for that purpose. If none of the conditions set forth above is met, the closing price of Common Stock on any day or the average of such closing prices for any period shall he the fair market value of such class of stock as determined by a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. selected by the Corporation.

(7) In any case in which this Paragraph shall require that an adjustment be made immediately following a record date, the Corporation may elect to defer the implementation of such adjustment (but in no event until a date later than the effective time of the event giving rise to such adjustment), in which case the Corporation shall, with respect to any share of 4.5% Preferred Stock converted after such record date and before such adjustment shall

 

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have become implemented (i) defer paying any cash payment pursuant to Paragraph (d) below in respect of fractional shares or issuing to the holder of such share of 4.5% Preferred Stock the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversion in excess of the number of shares of Common Stock issuable thereupon only on the basis of the conversion price prior to adjustment, and (ii) not later than five Business Days after such adjustment shall be implemented, pay to such holder the appropriate cash payment pursuant to Paragraph (d) and issue to such holder the additional shares of Common Stock and other capital stock and securities of the Corporation issuable on such conversion and deliver to such holder such other assets deliverable on such conversion. If an event otherwise requiring that an adjustment be made pursuant to this Paragraph never becomes effective, no such adjustment shall be required to be implemented.

(8) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no adjustment in the Conversion Price shall be required unless such adjustment would require an increase or decrease of at least 1% in such price; provided, that any adjustments which by reason of this Subparagraph (8) are not required to be made shall be carried forward and taken into account in any subsequent adjustment. All calculations under this Paragraph shall be made by the Corporation to the nearest cent or the nearest one-hundredth of a share, as the case may be.

(9) The Corporation may make such reductions in the conversion price, in addition to those required by Subparagraphs (1), (2), (3) and (4) of this Paragraph, as it considers to be advisable in order that any event treated for Federal income tax purposes as a dividend of stock or stock rights shall not be taxable to the recipients. Any determination by the Board of Directors of the Corporation in connection with the foregoing, if made in good faith, shall be conclusive and described in a resolution of the Board of Directors filed with the transfer agent for the 4.5% Preferred Stock and mailed to the holders of record of the 4.5% Preferred Stock.

(10) As used in this Section 5, “Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in the State of New York are authorized by law or executive order to close.

(11) Whenever the conversion price is adjusted as herein provided, the Corporation shall:

(i) forthwith compute the adjusted conversion price in accordance with this Section 5(c) and prepare a certificate signed by the Chief Financial Officer, any Vice President, the Treasurer or Controller of the Corporation setting forth the adjusted conversion price, the method of calculation thereof in reasonable detail and the facts requiring such adjustment and upon which such adjustment is based, which certificate shall be conclusive, final and binding evidence of the correctness of the adjustment, and file such certificate forthwith with the transfer agent or agents for the 4.5% Preferred Stock and the Common Stock; and

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the 4.5% Preferred Stock at or prior to the time the Corporation mails an interim statement to its stockholders covering the fiscal quarter during which the facts requiring such adjustment occurred, but in any event within 45 days of the end of such fiscal quarter for the first three quarters of each year and within 90 days of the end of the last fiscal quarter of each year.

(d) No Fractional Shares. No fractional shares or scrip representing fractional shares of Common Stock shall be issued upconversion of 4.5% Preferred Stock. If more than one certificate evidencing shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock shall be surrendered for conversion at one time by the same holder, the number of full shares issuable upon conversion thereof shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate number of shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock so surrendered. Instead of any fractional share of Common Stock that would otherwise be issuable to a holder upon conversion of any shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock, the Corporation shall pay a cash adjustment without interest in respect of such fractional share in an amount equal to the same fraction of the market price per share of Common Stock (as determined by the Board of Directors, which, so long as the Common Stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, shall be the reported last sale price regular way on the New York Stock Exchange) at the close of business on the day of conversion.

(e) Mandatory Conversion. On the fourth anniversary of the date of original issuance of the 4.5% Preferred Stock (the “Latest Mandatory Conversion Date”) all of the 4.5% Preferred Stock shall convert into shares of Common Stock on the basis provided in Subparagraph (3) of this Paragraph (e). If, at any time prior to the Latest Mandatory Conversion Date less than 30% of the number of shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock initially issued remain outstanding, the remaining shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock shall, at the election of the Corporation and after notice has been provided as set forth below, convert into shares of Common Stock on the basis provided in Subparagraph (3) of this Paragraph (e).

(1) Notice of Conversion. If the Corporation has elected to convert the 4.5% Preferred Stock into Common Stock pursuant to the second sentence of this Paragraph (e), the Corporation will provide notice of mandatory conversion of shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock pursuant to this Paragraph (e) (other than any conversion on the Latest Mandatory Conversion Date) to holders of record of the 4.5% Preferred Stock to be converted not less than 15 nor more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for conversion. Such notice shall be provided by mailing notice of such conversion first class air mail postage prepaid, to each holder of record of the 4.5% Preferred Stock to be converted, at such holder’s address as it appears on the stock register of the Corporation; provided, however, that no failure to such notice nor any defect therein shall affect the validity of the preceding notice for the conversion of any shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock except as to the holder to whom the Corporation has failed to give said notice or except as to the holder whose notice was defective. Such notice shall specify the date fixed for conversion, the conversion price then effect and that on and after the date fixed for conversion dividends will cease to accrue on such shares.

(2) Deposit of Shares and Funds. The Corporation’s obligation to deliver shares of Common Stock and (only with respect to fractional shares) provide funds in accordance with this Paragraph (e) shall be deemed fulfilled if, on the mandatory conversion date, the Corporation shall deposit, with a bank or trust company, having an office or agency in

 

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New York, New York and having a capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, such number of shares of Common Stock as are required to be delivered by the Corporation pursuant to this Paragraph (e) upon the conversion (including the payment of fractional share amounts) in trust for the account of the holders of the shares to be converted (and so as to be and continue to be available therefor), with irrevocable instructions and authority to such bank or trust company that such shares and funds be delivered upon conversion of the shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock so called for conversion, provided that the Corporation shall not deposit such shares of Common Stock or such funds on any date prior to the mandatory conversion date. Any interest accrued on such funds shall be paid to the Corporation from time to time. Any shares of Common Stock or funds so deposited and unclaimed at the end of two years from such conversion date shall be repaid and released to the Corporation, after which the holder or holders of such shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock so called for conversion shall look only to the Corporation for delivery of such shares of Common Stock or funds.

(3) Effective Date. Provided that the Corporation has fulfilled its obligations to deposit shares and funds as provided in Subparagraph (2) of this Paragraph (e), then effective on the conversion date fixed by the Corporation and notified to the holders of 4.5% Preferred Stock pursuant to Subparagraph (1) of this Paragraph (a) (or on the Latest Mandatory Conversion Date, as the case may be), each outstanding share of 4.5%. Preferred Stock shall be converted into fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock at the conversion price then in effect, automatically and without any action on the part of any holder of shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock, and such shares of Common Stock shall be deemed outstanding from and after the conversion date.

(4) Surrender of Certificates, Status. Each holder of shares of 4.596 Preferred Stock to be converted pursuant to this Paragraph (e) shall surrender the certificates evidencing such shares to the Corporation at the price designated in the notice of such conversion or, if such version occurs on the Latest Mandatory Conversion Date, than such conversion shall, unless the Corporation has notified each holder otherwise, take place at the offices of the Corporation’s transfer agent, and shall thereupon be entitled to receive certificates evidencing shares of Common Stock and to receive any funds payable following such surrender and following the date of such conversion. If any required notice of conversion shall have been given or no such notice is required by the terms hereof, and if on the date fixed for conversion, shares of Common Stock and funds necessary for the conversion shall have been deposited with a bank or trust company as provided in Subparagraph (2) of this Paragraph (e), then, notwithstanding that i-he certificates evidencing any shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock. subject to conversion shall not have been surrendered, the shares represented thereby subject to conversion shall be deemed no longer outstanding, dividends with respect to the shares subject to conversion shall cease to accrue after the date fixed for conversion and all rights with respect to the shares subject to conversion shall forthwith after such date cease and terminate, except for the right of the holders to receive the shares of Common Stock and funds, if any, to which they are entitled without interest upon surrender of their certificates therefor.

(f) Reclassification, Consolidation Merger or Sale of Assets. In case of any consolidation of the Corporation with, or merger of the Corporation or share exchange into, any other Person (as hereinafter defined), any merger of another Person into the Corporation (other than a merger or share exchange which does not result in any reclassification, conversion,

 

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exchange or cancellation of outstanding shares of Common Stock.) or any sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Corporation, lawful provision shall be made as a part of the terms of such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer whereby the holder of each share of the 4.5% Preferred Stock shall have the right to convert such share into the kind and amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer by a holder of the number of shares of Common Stock of the Corporation into which a share of the 4.5% Preferred Stock might have been converted at the conversion price in effect immediately prior to such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer (including aggregation rights with respect to fractional shares equivalent to those set forth in Paragraph (d) above), assuming such holder of Common Stock of the Corporation (i) is not a Person with which the Corporation consolidated or into which the Corporation merged or which merged into the Corporation or exchanged its shares or to which such sale or transfer was made, as the case may be (a “constituent Person”), or an Affiliate (as hereinafter defined) of a Constituent Person, and (ii) failed to exercise his rights of election, any, as to the kind or amount of securities, cash or other property receivable upon such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer by other than a constituent Person or an Affiliate thereof and in respect of which such rights of election shall not have been exercised; provided, however, that if the kind or amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer is not the same for each share of Common Stock of the Corporation held immediately prior to such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer by others than a constituent Person or an Affiliate thereof and in respect of which such rights of election shall not have been exercised (“non-electing share”), then for the purpose of this Paragraph the kind and amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer by each non-electing share shall be deemed to be the kind and amount so receivable per share by a plurality of the non-electing shares. It is understood for purposes of this Paragraph that, if the stockholders of the Corporation have approved any such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer which makes provision for the 4.5% Preferred Stock under the terms of such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer (such approval to include the necessary approval, if any, of the holders of the 4.5% Preferred Stock under Section 6), then the holders of 4.5% Preferred Stock shall be deemed to have waived the benefits of this Paragraph.

Such provision shall also provide, as a part of the terms of such consolidation, merger, share exchange, sale or transfer, for adjustments for subsequent events equivalent to the adjustments provided for in Section 5(c). The above provisions of this Paragraph (f) shall similarly apply to successive consolidations, mergers, share exchanges, sales or transfers.

For purposes of this Paragraph (f), “Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization, government or any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any other entity and “Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.

 

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With respect to any consolidation, merger, share exchange, or transfer in which the Corporation is not the surviving Person, the surviving Person shall be a Person organized under the laws of a State of the United States.

(g) Reservation of Shares; Etc. The Corporation shall at all times reserve and keep available, free from preemptive rights out of its authorized and unissued stock, solely for the purpose of effecting the conversion of the 4.5% Preferred Stock, such number of shares of its Common Stock as shall from time to time be sufficient to effect the conversion of all shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock from time to time outstanding. The Corporation shall from time to time, in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, increase the authorized number of shares of Common Stock if at any time the number of shares of authorized and unissued Common Stock shall not be sufficient to permit the conversion of all the then-outstanding shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock.

If any shares of Common Stock required to be reserved for purposes of conversion of the 4.5% Preferred Stock hereunder require registration with or approval of any governmental authority under any Federal or State law before such shares may be issued upon conversion, the Corporation will in good faith and as expeditiously as possible endeavor to cause such shares to be duly registered or approved as the case may be. If the Common Stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the Paris Stock Exchange or any other national or foreign securities exchange, the Corporation will, if permitted by the rules of such exchange, list and keep listed on such exchange, upon official notice of issuance, all shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the 4.5% Preferred Stock.

(h) Prior Notice of Certain Events. In case:

(1) the Corporation shall declare any dividend (or any other distribution) on its Common Stock other than ordinary quarterly dividends in accordance with the Corporation’s dividend policy (and other than dividends and distributions described in clauses (2) and (3) below); or

(2) the Corporation shall authorize the granting to all holders of Common Stock of rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any shares of stock of any class or series or of any other rights or warrants other than pursuant to a stockholder rights plan provided that such rights are issuable together with Common Stock upon conversion of the 4.5% Preferred Stock; or

(3) of any reclassification of Common Stock (other than a subdivision or combination of the outstanding Common Stock, or a change in par value, or from par value to no par value, or from no par value to par value), or of any division or consolidation or merger to which the Corporation is a party and for which approval of any stockholders of the Corporation shall be required, or of the sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Corporation or of any compulsory share exchange whereby the Common Stock is converted into other securities, cash or other property; or

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then the Corporation shall cause to be filed with the transfer agent for the 4.5% Preferred Stock, and shall cause to be mailed to the holders of record of the 4.5% Preferred Stock, at their last addresses as they w all appear upon the stock transfer books of the Corporation, at least fifteen days prior to the applicable record or effective date hereinafter specified, a notice stating (x) the date on which a record (if any) is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend, distribution, redemption, repurchase, lights or warrants or, if a record is not to be taken, the date as of which the holders of Common Stock of record to be entitled to such dividend, distribution, redemption, rights or warrants are to be determined or (y) the date on which such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer, share exchange, dissolution, liquidation or winding up is expected to become effective, and the date as of which it is expected that holders of Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange their shares of Common Stock for securities, cash or other property deliverable upon such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer, share exchange, dissolution, liquidation or winding up (but no failure to mail such notice or any defect therein or in the mailing thereof shall affect the validity of the corporate action required to be specified in such notice).

(i) Accrued and Unpaid Dividends. Notwithstanding the provisions of Paragraph (b) above, the holder of each share of 4.5% Preferred Stock shall, upon the conversion of shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock pursuant to Paragraph (e) above, convert all accrued and unpaid dividends in respect of such shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock into Common Stock at the conversion price.

6. Voting Rights. Other than as set forth below and except as provided under applicable law, the holders of 4.5% Preferred Stock shall be entitled to vote together with the holders of Common Stock on all matters to be voted on by the Corporation’s holders of Common Stock. When voting together with the holders of Common Stock on any matter, each share of 4.5% Preferred Stock shall be entitled to the number of votes equal to the number of shares of Common Stock into which such share of 4.5% Preferred Stock is convertible as provided under Section 5 as of the record date applicable to such vote. The holders of 4.5% Preferred Stock shall have the following additional voting rights:

(a) Required Votes. Except as provided below, a vote of at least a majority of 4.5% Preferred Stock then outstanding shall be sufficient to take any action requiring the vote of the 4.5% Preferred Stock as a separate class. The Common Stock shall not vote together with the 4.5% Preferred Stock on any such matters. At any meeting where the 4.5% Preferred Stock shall have the right to vote as a separate class, the presence, in person or by proxy, of a majority of the outstanding shares of the 4.5% Preferred Stock shall constitute a quorum of such class.

(b) Default Voting Rights. Whenever dividends accrued on the 4.5% Preferred Stock shall be in arrears and unpaid for at least six consecutive quarterly dividend periods, (i) the number of members constituting the Board of Directors shall be increased by two, effective as of the time of election of such directors as hereinafter provided and (ii) the holders of shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock (voting separately as a class together with holders of any Parity Securities upon which like voting rights have been conferred and are then exercisable) will have the exclusive right to vote for and elect such two additional directors of the Corporation (the “4.5% Preferred Stock Directors”) to fill such newly-created directorships. Such right to elect two 4.5% Preferred Stock Directors shall become effective at the earlier of (x) the next meeting

 

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of stockholders of the Corporation at which directors are to be elected held after such dividends have been in arrears and unpaid for six consecutive quarterly dividend periods and (y) the special meeting of holders of 4.5% Preferred Stock (and of Parity Securities on which similar voting rights have been conferred) called as provided below in this Paragraph (b), and shall terminate when all accrued and unpaid dividends on the 4.5% Preferred Stock have been declared and paid or set apart for payment in full, subject to re-vesting in the event of each and every subsequent failure of the Corporation to pay dividends for the requisite number of quarterly dividend periods as described above.

Each of the two 4.5% Preferred Stock Directors shall serve until the next annual meeting of stockholders of the Corporation and until his or her successor shall be elected and shall have qualified or the earlier expiration of his or her term as provided in this Paragraph (b). No 4.5% Preferred Stock Director may be removed without the vote of holders of a majority of the shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock voting as a class, or the holders of majority of shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock and Parity Securities having the right to vote in the election of the 4.5% Preferred Stock Directors in case holders of shares of Parity Securities shall also have the right to elect such directors voting together as a single class, as the case may he. If, prior to the expiration of the term of any 4.5% Preferred Stock Director, a vacancy in the office of such director shall occur, such vacancy shall, until the expiration of such term, in each case be filled by the vote of the holders of record of a majority of the then outstanding shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock voting as a class, or the holders of a majority of the shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock and Parity Securities who are then entitled to participate in the election of the 4.5% Preferred Stock Directors in case holders of such Parity Securities shall also have the right to elect such directors voting together as a single class, as the case may be.

Upon any termination of the right of the holders of 4.5% Preferred Stock voting as a class to elect the 4.5% Preferred Stock Directors as herein provided, the term of office of the 4.5% Preferred Stock Directors then in office shall terminate immediately. Upon such termination the number of directors constituting the Board of Directors shall, without further action, be reduced by two.

At elections for 4.5% Preferred Stock Directors, each holder of 4.5% Preferred Stock shall be entitled to one vote per share. In the event that the holders of any Parity Securities shall be entitled to participate in the election of the 4.5% Preferred Stock Directors, the holders of such Parity Securities shall be entitled to cast one vote for each $41.8875 in liquidation value of such Parity Securities.

The foregoing right of the holders of shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock with respect to the election of the 4.5% Preferred Stock Directors may be exercised at any annual meeting of stockholders or at any special meeting of stockholders held for such purpose. If the right to elect directors shall have accrued to the holders of shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock more than ninety days preceding the date established for the next annual meeting of stockholders, the Chairman of the Board or President of the Corporation shall, within twenty days after the delivery to the Corporation at its principal office of a written request for a special meeting signed by the holders of at least 10% of all outstanding shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock, call a special meeting of the holders of 4.5% Preferred Stock (and of any Parity Securities on which similar voting rights have been conferred) to be held within sixty days after the delivery of such request for the purpose of electing the 4.5% Preferred Stock Directors.

 

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(c) Removal. The holders of shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock (together with the holders of any Parity Securities on which similar voting rights have been conferred), voting as a class shall have the right to remove without cause at any time and replace the 4.5% Preferred Stock Directors.

(d) Class Voting Rights. So long as any 4.5% Preferred Stock is outstanding (except when notice of the mandatory conversion of all outstanding shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock has been duly given by the Corporation or as of the Latest Mandatory Conversion Date and, in each case, shares of Common Stock and any necessary funds have been deposited in trust for such conversion pursuant to Section 5(e)), the Corporation shall not, without the affirmative vote or consent of the holders of at least two-thirds ( 2/3) (unless a higher percentage shall then be required by applicable law) of all outstanding shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock voting separately as a class, given in person or by proxy, either in writing or by resolution adopted at an annual or special meeting called for this purpose, (i) amend, alter or repeal any provision of the Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation, as amended, so as to affect, in any manner adverse to the holders of the 4.5% Preferred Stock, the relative rights, preferences, qualifications, limitations or restrictions of the 4.5% Preferred Stock; (ii) create, authorize, or reclassify any authorized stock of the Corporation into, or increase the authorized amount of, any class or series of the Corporation’s capital stock ranking prior to the 4.5% Preferred Stock as to dividends or as to distributions of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, or any security convertible into shares of such a class or series; or (iii) take any other action on which the holders of the 4.5% Preferred Stock shall be entitled by law to vote separately as a class.

For purposes of Section 6(d), without limitation, (i) the creation, authorization or issuance of any shares of any Junior Securities or Parity Securities and (ii) the creation of any indebtedness of the Corporation (other than indebtedness convertible into or exchangeable for capital stock of the Corporation other than Junior Securities or Parity Securities), shall not require the consent of the holders of the 4.5% Preferred Stock voting as a class.

(e) Limitations. Except as may otherwise be required by law, the shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock shall not have any powers, preferences or relative, participating, optional or other special rights other than those specifically set forth in the Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation (as the same may be amended from time to time).

(f) No Cumulative Voting. The holders of 4.5% Preferred Stock shall not be entitled to cumulative voting in the election of directors of the Corporation whether voting as a class or voting together with the holders of Common Stock.

7. Status of Acquired Shares and Further Issuances of 4.5% Preferred Stock. Shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock received upon conversion pursuant to Section 5 or otherwise acquired by the Corporation, shall be cancelled and shall not be reissued by the Corporation, and the number of authorized shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock shall be correspondingly reduced.

 

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Following the initial issuance of 4.5% Preferred Stock, no further shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock shall be issued and, in the event that any shares of 4.5% Preferred stock are authorized but unissued, the number of authorized shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock shall be reduced accordingly.

8. Severability of Provisions. Whenever possible, each provision hereof shall be interpreted in a manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision hereof is held to be prohibited by or invalid under applicable law, such provision shall be ineffective only to the extent of such prohibition or invalidity, without invalidating or otherwise adversely affecting the remaining provisions hereof. If a court of competent jurisdiction should determine that a provision hereof would be valid or enforceable if a period of time were extended or shortened or a particular percentage were increased or decreased, then such court may make such change as shall be necessary to render the provision in question effective and valid under applicable law.

9. Miscellaneous. (a) The Corporation shall pay any and all stock transfer and documentary stamp taxes that may be payable in respect of any issuance or delivery of shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock or shares of Common Stock or other securities issued on account of 4.5% Preferred Stock pursuant hereto or certificates or instruments evidencing such shares or securities. The Corporation shall not, however, be required to pay any such tax which may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issuance or delivery of shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock or Common Stock or other securities in a name other than that in which the shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock with respect to which such shares or other securities are issued or delivered were registered, or in respect of any payment to any person with respect to any such shares or securities other than a payment to the registered holder thereof, and shall not be required to make any such issuance, delivery or payment unless and until the person otherwise entitled to such issuance, delivery or payment has paid to, the Corporation the amount of any such tax or has established to the satisfaction of the Corporation, that such tax has been paid or is not payable.

(b) In the event that a holder of shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock shall not by written notice designate the name in which shares of Common Stock to be issued upon conversion of such shares should be registered or to whom payment upon redemption of shares of 4.5% Preferred Stock should be made or the address to which the certificates evidencing such shares, or such payment, should be sent, the Corporation shall be entitled to register such shares, and make such payment, in the name of the holder of such 4.5% Preferred Stock as shown on the records of the Corporation and to send the certificates evidencing such shares, or such payment, to the address of such holder shown on the records of the Corporation.

 

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EX-3.N 13 d582401dex3n.htm EX-3.N EX-3.N

Exhibit 3.n

BY-LAWS

OF

CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY, INC.

(A PENNSYLVANIA CORPORATION)

ARTICLE I

Shareholders

SECTION 1: Annual Meetings. The Corporation shall hold annually a regular meeting of its shareholders for the election of Directors and for the transaction of general business which may properly come before the meeting in accordance with these By-Laws in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the fourth (4th) Thursday in April in each year, at 11:00 a.m. local time, or at such other place, on such other date or at such other time as may be designated by the Board of Directors.

SECTION 2: Special Meetings. Special meetings may be called by a majority of the Board of Directors or the chief executive officer, to meet at such place or time as may be designated by the Board of Directors or the chief executive officer, respectively. Except as provided by law, the shareholders shall not be entitled to call a special meeting.

SECTION 3: Notice of Meetings. Written or printed notice of every annual and every special meeting of the shareholders shall be given to each shareholder of record entitled to vote at such meeting by mail, postage prepaid and addressed to the address on the books of the Corporation, or as otherwise provided by law, at least ten (10) days before such meeting. Notice of every special meeting shall state the place, date and time of the meeting and the business proposed to be transacted. Failure to give notice of any annual meeting, or any irregularity in such notice, shall not affect the validity of any annual meeting or of any proceedings at any such meeting. Notice of any meeting of shareholders need not be given to any shareholder who waives notice thereof in writing either before or after the holding thereof, and attendance at any such meeting shall constitute waiver of notice thereof except as otherwise provided by law. No notice of any adjourned meeting of shareholders or of the business to be transacted at an adjourned meeting need be given by the Corporation.

SECTION 4: Quorum. At all meetings of shareholders, the presence, in person or by proxy, of shareholders entitled to cast a majority in number of votes shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; but in the absence of a quorum, the shareholders present in person or by proxy at the time and place fixed for such meeting, or at the time and place of any adjournment thereof, may, by majority vote, adjourn the meeting from time to time, but not for a period of over fifteen (15) days with respect to any meeting at which directors are to be elected or a period of over thirty (30) days with respect to any other meeting at any one time.


SECTION 5: Voting. Except in cases in which it is by statute, by the Articles of Incorporation or by these By-Laws otherwise provided, each shareholder entitled to vote at such meeting shall be entitled to cast one vote for each share of stock held by him, and a majority of the votes cast shall be sufficient to elect and pass any measure.

SECTION 6: Proxies. Any shareholder entitled to vote at any meeting of shareholders may vote by person or by proxy. Every proxy shall be in writing, subscribed by the shareholder or his duly authorized attorney and dated.

SECTION 7: Judges of Election. Prior to any meeting of shareholders, the Board of Directors may appoint three judges of election, and in default of such appointment the shareholders at such meeting shall by majority vote appoint such judges. The judges of election need not be shareholders and may not be candidates for any office. The judges of election shall exercise all of the powers and duties usually incident to their office.

SECTION 8: Nominations. (a) Only persons who are nominated in accordance with the procedures set forth in these By-Laws shall be eligible to serve as Directors of the Corporation. Nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors of the Corporation may be made at a meeting of shareholders (i) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or (ii) by any shareholder of the Corporation who is a shareholder of record at the time of giving of notice provided for in this By-Law, who shall be entitled to vote for the election of Directors at the meeting and who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this By-Law.

(b) Nominations by shareholders shall be made pursuant to timely notice in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation. To be timely, a shareholder’s notice shall be delivered to or mailed and received at the principal executive offices of the Corporation (i) in the case of an annual meeting, not less than ninety (90) days nor more than one-hundred twenty (120) days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting; provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is changed by more than thirty (30) days from such anniversary date, notice by the shareholder to be timely must be so received not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the earlier of the day on which notice of the date of the meeting was mailed or public disclosure was made, and (ii) in the case of a special meeting at which Directors are to be elected, not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the earlier of the day on which notice of the date of the meeting was mailed or public disclosure was made. Such shareholder’s notice shall set forth (i) (A) the name, age, business address and residence address of each proposed nominee, (B) the principal occupation of each proposed nominee, (C) a representation that the notifying shareholder intends to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to nominate the person or persons specified in the notice, (D) if known, the class and total number of shares of the Corporation that are beneficially owned by the proposed nominee, (E) the total number of shares of the Corporation that will be voted by the notifying shareholder for each proposed nominee, (F) a description of all arrangements or understandings between the notifying shareholder and each nominee and any

 

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other person or persons (naming such person or persons) pursuant to which the nomination or nominations are to be made by the notifying shareholder, and (G) as to each proposed nominee all information relating to such person that is required to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of Directors, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (including such person’s written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a Director if elected and including information as to the purpose of such nomination); (ii) as to the shareholder giving the notice (A) the name and address, as they appear on the Corporation’s books, of such shareholder and (B) the class and number of shares of the Corporation which are beneficially owned by such shareholder and also which are owned of record by such shareholder; and (iii) as to the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made (A) the name and address of such person and (B) the class and number of shares of the Corporation which are beneficially owned by such person. At the request of the Board of Directors, any person nominated by the Board of Directors for election as a Director shall furnish to the Secretary of the Corporation that information required to be set forth in a shareholder’s notice of nomination which pertains to the nominee. The Corporation may request any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the Corporation to determine the qualifications of the proposed nominee to serve as a Director of the Corporation.

(c) No person shall be eligible to serve as a Director of the Corporation unless nominated in accordance with the procedures set forth in this By-Law. The chairman of the meeting shall, if the facts warrant, determine and declare to the meeting that a nomination was not made in accordance with the procedures prescribed by this By-Law, and if he should so determine, he shall so declare to the meeting and the defective nomination shall be disregarded. Any such decision by the chairman shall be final, binding and conclusive upon all parties in interest. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this By-Law, a shareholder shall also comply with all applicable requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder with respect to the matters set forth in this By-Law.

SECTION 9: Notice of Shareholder Business. (a) At an annual or special meeting of the shareholders, only such business shall be conducted as shall have been brought before the meeting (i) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting, (ii) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or (iii) as to an annual meeting, by any shareholder of the Corporation who is a shareholder of record at the time of giving of the notice provided for in this By-Law, who shall be entitled to vote at such meeting and who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this By-Law.

(b) For business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a shareholder pursuant to clause (iii) of paragraph (a) of this By-Law, the shareholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation. To be timely, a share-holder’s notice must be delivered to or mailed and received at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than ninety (90) days nor more than one-hundred twenty (120) days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting; provided, however, that in the event that the date of the meeting is changed by more than thirty (30) days from such

 

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anniversary date, notice by the shareholder to be timely must be received no later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the earlier of the day on which notice of the date of the meeting was mailed or public disclosure was made. A shareholder’s notice to the Secretary shall set forth as to each matter the shareholder proposes to bring before the meeting (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting and the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting, and if a specific action is to be proposed, the text of the resolution or resolutions which the shareholder proposes that the Corporation adopt, (ii) the name and address, as they appear on the Corporation’s books, of the shareholder proposing such business, and the name and address of the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made, (iii) the class and number of shares of the Corporation which are owned beneficially and of record by such shareholder of record and by the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made, (iv) any material interest of such shareholder of record and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made in such business, (v) a representation that the shareholder intends to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to bring before the meeting the business specified in the notice, and (vi) the total number of shares of the Corporation that will be voted by the notifying shareholder for such proposal.

(c) Notwithstanding anything in these By-Laws to the contrary, no business shall be conducted at an annual or special meeting except in accordance with the procedures set forth in this By-Law. The chairman of the meeting shall, if the facts warrant, determine and declare to the meeting that business was not properly brought before the meeting and in accordance with the procedures prescribed by this By-Law, and if he should so determine, he shall so declare to the meeting and any such business not properly brought before the meeting shall not be transacted. Any such decision by the chairman shall be final, binding and conclusive upon all parties in interest. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this By-Law, a shareholder shall also comply with all applicable requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder with respect to the matters set forth in this By-Law.

SECTION 10: No Consents in Lieu of Meeting. No action of the shareholders shall be taken by either unanimous consent or partial written consent or other consent in lieu of a meeting.

ARTICLE II

Board of Directors

SECTION 1: Powers. The business and affairs of the Corporation, except as otherwise provided by statute, the Articles of Incorporation or these By-Laws, shall be conducted and managed by the Board of Directors. The number of Directors of the Corporation, which shall be not more than eighteen (18) and not less than ten (10), shall be determined from time to time by the Directors.

 

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SECTION 2: Election. The Directors of the Corporation shall be elected by ballot at the annual meeting of the shareholders and shall serve one (1) year and until their successors shall be duly elected and qualified or until their earlier death, resignation or removal.

SECTION 3: Annual Meeting. The regular annual meeting of the Board of Directors shall be held immediately following each meeting of the shareholders at which a Board of Directors shall have been elected for the purpose of organization and the transaction of other business.

SECTION 4: Regular Meetings. In addition to the annual meeting, regular meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held at such intervals as may be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors.

SECTION 5: Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called by the Chairman of the Board, the President, or a Vice President, or by a majority of the Board of Directors, and shall be held at the time and place specified in the call for such special meeting.

SECTION 6: Place of Meeting. Subject to the provisions of Section 4 of this Article II, regular and special meetings of the Board of Directors may be held within or without the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and at such times and places as, in the case of a regular meeting, may be stated in the notice of the meeting, or in the case of a special meeting, may be specified in the call for such meeting.

SECTION 7: Conference Calls. Any one or more members of the Board of Directors of the Corporation or any committee thereof may participate in a meeting of such Board or committee by means of a conference telephone or similar communications equipment allowing all persons participating in the meeting to hear each other at the same time. Participation by such means shall constitute presence in person at a meeting. No persons may participate in any meeting of the shareholders by means of a conference telephone or similar communications equipment.

SECTION 8: Notice of Meetings. Notice of the place, day and hour of every regular and special meeting of the Board of Directors shall be given each Director before the meeting personally be telegram, letter or telefax or by mail, postage prepaid, to the address on the books of the Corporation or as otherwise provided by law at least four (4) days before the meeting. No notice need be given any director who waives such notice in writing either before or after the holding thereof, and attendance at any such meeting shall constitute waiver of notice thereof except as otherwise provided by law. No notice of any adjournment meeting of the Board of Directors need be given.

SECTION 9: Quorum. No less than one-half of the Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business at every meeting of the Board of Directors, but if at any meeting there be less than a quorum present a majority of those present may adjourn the meeting from time to time but not for a period of over thirty (30) days at any one time, without notice other than by announcement at the meeting until a quorum shall attend. At any such adjourned meeting at which a quorum shall attend, any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as previously modified.

 

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SECTION 10: Committees. From time to time, the Board of Directors may by resolution provide for and appoint the members of an Executive Committee, or any other regular or special committee, or committees, and all such committees shall have and may exercise such powers as shall be conferred or authorized by the resolution of appointment.

SECTION 11: Vacancies. Vacancies in the Board of Directors occurring during the year shall be filled for the unexpired terms by a majority of the remaining members of the Board of Directors although less than a quorum.

SECTION 12: Limitation on Liability. A Director shall not be personally liable for monetary damages for any action taken, or any failure to take any action, unless (a) the Director has breached or failed to perform the duties of his office under Subchapter B of Chapter 17 of the Pennsylvania Business Corporation Law of 1988, as the same may be amended (relating to standard of care and justifiable reliance) and (b) the breach or failure to perform constitutes self-dealing, willful misconduct or recklessness. The provisions of this Section 12 shall not apply to (a) the responsibility or liability of a Director pursuant to any criminal statute or (b) the liability of a Director for the payment of taxes pursuant to local, state or federal law. Any repeal or modification of this Section 12 shall be prospective only, and shall not affect, to the detriment of any Director, any limitation on the personal liability of a Director of the Corporation existing at the time of such repeal or modification.

SECTION 13: Independent Directors.

(a) A majority of the persons constituting the nominees of the Board of Directors for the election of whom the Board of Directors will solicit proxies from the shareholders for use at the Corporation’s annual meeting shall consist of individuals who, on the date of their selection as the nominees of the Board of Directors, are Independent Directors.

(b) In the event the Board of Directors elects Directors between annual meetings of shareholders, the majority of all Directors holding office immediately after such election shall be Independent Directors.

(c) For purposes of this By-Law, the term “Independent Director” shall mean a Director who: (i) is not and has not been employed by the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries in an executive capacity within the five years immediately prior to such person’s nomination; (ii) is not (and is not affiliated with a company or a firm that is) a regular advisor or consultant, for compensation, to the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries; (iii) is not affiliated with a regular and significant customer or supplier of the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries; (iv) does not have a personal services contract with the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries; (v) is not affiliated with a tax-exempt entity that receives significant contributions from the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries; and (vi) is not a spouse, parent, sibling or child of any person described in (i) through (v), above.

 

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(d) The Board of Directors shall have the exclusive right and power to interpret and apply the provisions of this By-Law. Any such interpretation or application of the provisions of this By-Law made in good faith shall be binding and conclusive upon all shareholders.

ARTICLE III

Officers

SECTION 1: Officers. The Officers of the Corporation shall be a Chairman of the Board of Directors, a President, one or more Vice Presidents (one or more of whom may be designated as Executive Vice Presidents or Senior Vice Presidents by the Board of Directors), a Treasurer, one or more Assistant Treasurers, a Secretary, and one or more Assistant Secretaries and a Controller. The Board of Directors may elect such other officers as they may from time to time deem necessary, who shall have such authority and shall perform such duties as from time to time may be prescribed by the Board of Directors.

SECTION 2: Officers Holding More Than One Office. Any two (2) of the offices provided for in this Article III may be held by the same person except that the President may not hold the office of Vice President or Secretary, nor the Treasurer that of Assistant Treasurer, nor the Secretary that of Assistant Secretary.

SECTION 3: Chairman of the Board. The Chairman of the Board of Directors shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors. He shall have supervision of such matters as may be designated to him by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may elect a Vice Chairman of the Board, who shall have such authority and shall perform such duties as from time to time may be presented by the Board of Directors.

SECTION 4: President. The President shall have such authority and perform such duties as may from time to time be assigned to him by the Board of Directors, and, in the absence of the Chairman of the Board and the Vice Chairman of the Board, he shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors.

SECTION 5: Chief Executive Officer. Either the Chairman of the Board or the President, as determined by the Board of Directors, shall be the chief executive officer of the Corporation and, subject to the Board of Directors, shall have general charge of the business and affairs of the Corporation.

SECTION 6: Vice Presidents. The Vice Presidents shall perform such duties as may be incidental to their office and as may be assigned to them from time to time by the Board of Directors. In the absence of the President, the specific duties assigned to that officer shall be exercised by the Vice Presidents.

 

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SECTION 7: Secretary. The Secretary shall keep the minutes of all meetings of the Board of Directors and the minutes of all meetings of the shareholders in books provided for that purpose. He shall attend to the giving and serving of all notices of the Corporation and shall be the custodian of the corporate seal. He shall have charge of and keep and preserve such books and records of the Corporation as the Board of Directors may prescribe, and he shall perform all other duties incidental to his office and as may be assigned to him by the Board of Directors from time to time. Unless otherwise ordered by the Board of Directors, he may certify copies of and extracts from any of the official records of the Corporation and may also certify as to the Officers of the Corporation and as to similar matters.

SECTION 8: Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have the care and custody of the funds and securities of the Corporation and shall deposit the same in such bank or banks as the Board of Directors may select, or in the absence of such selection, as may be selected by him. He shall disburse the funds of the Corporation in the regular conduct of its business or as may be ordered by the Board. The Treasurer shall perform such other duties as the Board of Directors may from time to time require.

SECTION 9: Controller. The Controller shall maintain adequate records of all assets, liabilities and transactions of the Corporation; see that adequate audits thereof are currently and regularly made; and, in conjunction with other officers and department heads, initiate and enforce measures and procedures whereby the business of this Corporation shall be conducted with the maximum safety, efficiency and economy. He shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as the Board of Directors may from time to time prescribe.

SECTION 10: Assistant Secretaries and Assistant Treasurers. The Assistant Secretaries and Assistant Treasurers shall have such powers and perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the Board of Directors or by the President, or by the Secretary or the Treasurer respectively, and in the absence or incapacity of the Secretary or Treasurer, shall have the powers and perform the duties of those officers respectively.

SECTION 11: Vacancies. Vacancies in any of the offices provided herein shall be filled by the Board of Directors by majority vote for the unexpired terms.

SECTION 12: Contracts, Notes, Drafts, Etc. Except as otherwise provided by the Board of Directors, all written material contracts, deeds, bonds and similar instruments of the Corporation, shall be executed on its behalf by the Chairman of the Board, the Vice Chairman of the Board, the President or any Vice President or Treasurer and shall be either: (a) countersigned by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Corporation or (b) have the corporate seal affixed thereto and attested by the Secretary, an Assistant Secretary or a member of the legal department of the Corporation. Notes drawn and drafts accepted by the Corporation shall be valid only when signed by the Chairman of the Board, the Vice Chairman of the Board, the President or any Vice President, the Treasurer or the Controller, and countersigned by the Secretary, Assistant Treasurer, any Assistant Secretary or any Assistant Controller. Funds of the Corporation deposited in banks and other depositories by checks, drafts, or other orders for the payment of money, bearing the signatures of any two (2) of the officers and/or such other

 

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employees of the Corporation as the Board of Directors may from time to time designate; and, in lieu of manual signature thereof, the Board of Directors may adopt and thereupon the Corporation may use a facsimile signature of any officer or officers, notwithstanding the fact that such officer or officers may no longer be employed by the Corporation at the time the checks bearing such facsimile signature are actually drawn or presented for payment. The funds deposited in banks or other depositories in special accounts for payroll or other purposes shall be drawn from such depositories by checks signed by any two officers or such person or persons as the Board of Directors may from time to time designate. Whenever the Board of Directors shall provide by resolution that any contract or note shall be executed, or draft accepted, in any other manner and by any other officer or agent than as specified in these By-Laws, such method of execution, acceptance or endorsement shall be as equally effective to bind the Corporation as if specified herein. Access to the safe deposit boxes of the Corporation shall be had only in the presence of any two of the following officers, that is to say, the Chairman of the Board, the Vice Chairman of the Board, the President, any one of the Vice Presidents, the Secretary, the Treasurer, or the Controller, or in the presence of any one of the aforementioned officers and an Assistant Secretary or an Assistant Treasurer. The signing of any instrument or the doing of any act by any person elected a Vice President as such Vice President, or by any person elected an Assistant Secretary or Assistant Treasurer as such Assistant Secretary or Assistant Treasurer, as the case may be, shall not be subject to any inquiry as to whether the President, the Secretary or the Treasurer, as the case may be, was at the time of such signing or of such act, absent, unavailable or under any disability.

ARTICLE IV

Indemnification

SECTION 1: Right to Indemnification. Subject to Section 3 of this Article IV, the Corporation shall indemnify to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is otherwise involved in any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (a “Proceeding”), by reason of the fact that such person is or was a Director or Officer of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director or officer of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise or entity, whether or not for profit, whether domestic or foreign, including service with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants or beneficiaries, against all liability, loss and expense (including attorneys’ fees and amounts paid in settlement) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such Proceeding, whether or not the indemnified liability arises or arose from any Proceeding by or in the right of the Corporation.

SECTION 2: Advance of Expenses. Subject to Section 3 of this Article IV, expenses incurred by a Director or Officer in defending (or acting as a witness in) a Proceeding shall be paid by the Corporation in advance of the final disposition of such Proceeding, subject to the provisions of applicable law, upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the Director or Officer to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that such person is not entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation under applicable law.

 

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SECTION 3: Procedure for Determining Permissibility. To determine whether any indemnification or advance of expenses under this Article IV is permissible, the Board of Directors by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of Directors who are not parties to such Proceeding may, and on request of any person seeking indemnification or advance of expenses shall, determine (i) in the case of indemnification, whether the standards under applicable law have been met, and (ii) in the case of advance of expenses prior to a change of control of the Corporation as set forth below, whether such advance is appropriate under the circumstances, provided that each such determination shall be made by independent legal counsel if such quorum is not obtainable, or, even if obtainable, a majority vote of a quorum of disinterested Directors so directs; and provided further that, if there has been a change in control of the Corporation between the time of the action or failure to act giving rise to the claim for indemnification or advance of expenses and the time such claim is made, at the option of the person seeking indemnification or advance of expenses, the permissibility of indemnification shall be determined by independent legal counsel and the advance of expenses shall be obligatory subject to receipt of the undertaking in Section 2 of this Article IV. The reasonable expenses of any Director or Officer in prosecuting a successful claim for indemnification, and the fees and expenses of any independent legal counsel engaged to determine permissibility of indemnification or advance of expenses, shall be borne by the Corporation. As used herein, a “change of control” of the Corporation means (a) the acquisition by any person or entity, or two or more such persons or entities acting in concert, of beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3, or any successor rule, of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding voting shares of the Corporation or (b) any change in one-third (1/3) or more of the members of the Board of Directors unless such change was approved by a majority of the Continuing Directors. The term “Continuing Directors” means the Directors existing on July 22, 1999 or any person who subsequently becomes a Director if such person’s nomination for election or election to the Board of Directors is recommended or approved by the Continuing Directors.

SECTION 4: Contractual Obligation. The obligations of the Corporation to indemnify a Director or Officer under this Article IV, including, if applicable, the duty to advance expenses, shall be considered a contract between the Corporation and such Director or Officer, and no modification or repeal of any provision of this Article IV shall affect, to the detriment of the Director or Officer, such obligations of the Corporation in connection with a claim based on any act or failure to act occurring before such modification or repeal.

SECTION 5: Indemnification Not Exclusive; Inuring of Benefit. The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by this Article IV shall not be deemed exclusive of any other right to which one indemnified may be entitled under any statute, agreement, vote of shareholders or otherwise, both as to action in such person’s official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, legal representatives and estate of any such person.

 

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SECTION 6: Insurance and Other Indemnification. The Board of Directors shall have the power to (a) authorize the Corporation to purchase and maintain, at the Corporation’s expense, insurance on behalf of the Corporation and on behalf of others to the extent that power to do so has not been prohibited by statute, (b) create any fund of any nature, whether or not under the control of a trustee, or otherwise secure any of its indemnification obligations, and (c) give other indemnification to the extent permitted by statute.

ARTICLE V

Capital Stock

SECTION 1: Share Certificates. Every shareholder of record shall be entitled to a share certificate representing the shares held by him. Every share certificate shall bear the corporate seal (which may be a facsimile) and the signature of the President or a Vice President and the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer of the Corporation. Where a certificate is signed by a transfer agent or registrar the signature of any corporate officer may be a facsimile.

SECTION 2: Transfers. Transfers of share certificates and the shares represented thereby shall be made on the books of the Corporation only by the registered holder or by duly authorized attorney. Transfers shall be made only on surrender of the share certificate or certificates.

ARTICLE VI

Record Dates

SECTION 1: Record Dates. Subject to the requirements of law and to the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation, the Board of Directors may fix a time not exceeding, except in the case of an adjourned meeting, ninety (90) days preceding the date of any meeting of shareholders, or the date fixed for the payment of any dividend or distribution, or for the allotment of rights, or when any change or conversion or exchange of shares shall go into effect or any consent of shareholders shall be obtained, as a record date for the determination of the shareholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any such meeting or entitled to receive any such dividend or distribution or any such allotment of rights, or to exercise the rights in respect to any such change, consent, conversion or exchange of shares, and in such case only shareholders of record on the date so fixed shall be entitled to notice of or to vote at such meeting or to receive such dividend, distribution or allotment of rights, or to exercise such rights as the case may be, notwithstanding any transfer of any shares of stock on the books of the Corporation after any record date fixed as aforesaid. The Board of Directors, in their discretion, may close the books of the Corporation against transfers of shares during the whole or any part of such period.

 

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ARTICLE VII

Dividends

SECTION 1: Declaration of Dividends. Subject to the provisions of statute and the Articles of Incorporation, dividends may be declared and paid as often at such times as the Board of Directors may determine.

ARTICLE VIII

Sundry Provisions

SECTION 1: Seal. The seal of the Corporation shall be in such force and shall bear such inscription as may be adopted by the Board of Directors. If deemed advisable by the Board of Directors, a duplicate seal or duplicate seals may be provided and kept for the necessary purposes of the Corporation.

SECTION 2: Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall commence on January 1st of each year and end on December 31st of each year, unless otherwise provided by the Board of Directors.

SECTION 3: Voting Stock of Other Corporations. Any stock in other corporations, which may from time to time be held by this Corporation, may be represented and voted at any meeting of shareholders of such other corporations or instructions given to any nominee holding such stock, by the Chairman of the Board, the President or Vice Presidents of the Corporation, or by proxy executed in the name of this Corporation by its Chairman of the Board, Vice Chairman of the Board, President or a Vice President, with the corporate seal affixed and attested by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary.

ARTICLE IX

Amendments

SECTION 1: Amendments. Except as otherwise provided by law, these By-Laws may be amended at any meeting of the Board of Directors at which a quorum is present by a majority vote of the Directors present, or they may be amended by a majority vote at any meeting of shareholders entitled to vote thereon, provided, in either case, notice of the proposed amendment was included in the notice of the meeting (unless, in the case of amendment at a meeting of the Board of Directors, such notice is waived by a majority vote of the Directors present).

 

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ARTICLE X

Certain Matters Relating to

Pennsylvania Act No. 36 of 1990

SECTION 1: Section 511. Subsections (d) through (f) of Section 511, Standard of Care and Justifiable Reliance, of the Pennsylvania Associations Code, as amended, shall not be applicable to the Corporation.

SECTION 2: Section 1721. Subsections (e) through (g) of Section 1721, Board of Directors, of Pennsylvania Associations Code, as amended, shall not be applicable to the Corporation.

SECTION 3: Subchapter G, Chapter 25. Subchapter G, Control-Share Acquisitions, of Chapter 25 of the Pennsylvania Associations Code, as amended, shall not be applicable to the Corporation.

SECTION 4: Subchapter H, Chapter 25. Subchapter H, Disgorgement by Certain Controlling Shareholders Following Attempts to Acquire Control, of Chapter 25 of the Pennsylvania Associations Code, as amended, shall not be applicable to the Corporation.

ARTICLE XI

Separability; Effect of Determination by the Board

SECTION 1: Separability. The provisions of these By-Laws are independent of and separate from each other, and no provision shall be affected or rendered invalid or unenforceable because for any reason any other or others of them may be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part.

SECTION 2: Effect of Determination by the Board. Any determination involving the interpretation or application of these By-Laws made in good faith by the Board of Directors shall be final, binding and conclusive on all parties in interest.

 

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EX-3.O 14 d582401dex3o.htm EX-3.O EX-3.O

Exhibit 3.o

ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

OF

CROWN FINANCIAL CORPORATION

* * * * * * * *

FIRST. The name of the corporation is:

CROWN FINANCIAL CORPORATION.

SECOND. The location and Post Office address of its initial registered office in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is: 9300 Ashton Road, Philadelphia 36, Pennsylvania.

THIRD. The purposes for which the corporation is formed are:

(a) To buy, sell, pledge, and generally deal in and loan money on commercial paper, warehouse receipts, securities, shares of stock, bonds, debentures and evidences of indebtedness of all kinds, whether secured or unsecured, including bills and accounts receivable, to manufacture, to buy and sell, warehouse, store and deal in, either as principal or agent and upon commission, consignment or otherwise, goods, wares, merchandise, commodities or property of any and every kind and to hypothecate the same as security; to advance money to any person, firm or corporation on the security of any such property or on the security of commercial paper or notes given in evidence of any deferred payment for any property sold by this corporation or by any person, firm, association or corporation to assist in the organization, incorporation, reorganization, financing and refinancing of corporations, syndicates, partnerships and associations of all kinds and individuals, either by the sale of or lending money on bonds, stocks, securities, debentures, notes or undertakings or otherwise, and to endorse, underwrite and subscribe for the bonds, stocks, securities, debentures, notes or undertakings of any corporation, syndicate, partnership, association or individual to do a general agency business; also to engage

 

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in the business of lending money provided, however, northing herein contained shall be taken to authorize or intended to authorize such corporation to engage in the business of banking or functions of bank discount or to deal in commercial paper in the exercise of the functions of bank discount under The Act of April 8, 1937 P.L. 262 (Consumer Discount Co. Act), The Act of June 17, 1937, P.L. 1012, as amended (Small Loan Act) or by The Act of March 15, 1933, P.L. 624 as amended (Banking Code).

FOURTH. The term of this corporation’s existence is PERPETUAL.

FIFTH. The aggregate number of shares which the corporation shall have authority to issue is:

Total authorized capital stock of this corporation is one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) divided into 100 shares common stock, no par value.

If it seems desirable to do so, the Board of Directors may from time to time issue scrip for fractional shares of stock. Such scrip shall not confer upon the holder any voting or other rights of a stockholder of the Corporation, but the Corporation shall from time to time, within such time as the Board of Directors may determine, issue one whole share of stock upon the surrender of scrip for fractional shares aggregating one whole share properly endorsed, if in registered form.

The corporation shall be entitled to treat the person in whose name any share of its stock is registered as the owner thereof, for all purposes, and shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to, or interest in, such share on the part of any other person, whether or not the corporation shall have notice thereof, save as expressly provided by the laws of the State of Pennsylvania.

 

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SIXTH. No stockholder of this corporation shall have any preemptive or preferential right of subscription to any shares of any stock of this corporation, or to any obligations convertible into stock of this corporation, issued or sold, nor any right of subscription to any thereof other than such, if any, as the Board of Directors of this corporation in its discretion from time to time may determine, and at such price as the Board of Directors from time to time may fix, pursuant to the authority hereby conferred by the Articles of Incorporation of this corporation, and the Board of Directors may issue stock of this corporation, or obligations convertible into stock, without offering such issue of stock, either in whole or in part to the stockholders of this corporation. The acceptance of stock in this corporation shall be a waiver of any such preemptive or preferential right which in the absence of this provision might otherwise be asserted by stockholders of this corporation or any of them.

SEVENTH. The names and addresses of each of the first Directors, who shall serve until the first Annual Meeting are:

 

NAME

  

ADDRESS

N. A. D’Angelo                9300 Ashton Road, Philadelphia 36, Penna.
R. M. O’Malley    9300 Ashton Road, Philadelphia 36, Penna.
J. R. Cox    9300 Ashton Road, Philadelphia 36, Penna.

EIGHT. The names and addresses of each of the incorporators and the number and class of shares subscribed by each are:

 

NAME

  

ADDRESS

   SHARES
N. A. D’Angelo            9300 Ashton Road, Philadelphia 36, Pa.    1 Share Common
R. M. O’Malley    9300 Ashton Road, Philadelphia 36, Pa.    1 Share Common
J. R. Cox    9300 Ashton Road, Philadelphia 36, Pa.    1 Share Common

 

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NINTH. The number of Directors of the corporation shall be as specified in the By-Laws, and such may, from time to time, be increased or decreased in such manner as may be prescribed in the By-Laws provided the number of Directors shall not be less than three. In case of any increase in the number of Directors, the additional Directors may be elected by the Board of Directors, to hold office until the next Annual Meeting of the shareholders and until the successors are elected and qualified. In the case of vacancy or vacancies in the Board of Directors a majority of the remaining members of the Board may elect a Director or Directors to fill such vacancy or vacancies.

Directors need not be stockholders,

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the incorporators have signed and sealed these Articles of Incorporation, this the 1st day of February, 1962.

 

/s/ N. A. D’Angelo

  (SEAL)

/s/ R. M. O’Malley

  (SEAL)

/s/ J. R. Cox

  (SEAL)

Approved and filed in the Department of State on the 1st day of February, A. D. 1962.

 

/s/ E. James Trimarchi Jr.

Secretary of the Commonwealth

 

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ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT

OF

CROWN FINANCIAL CORPORATION

1. The name of the corporation is CROWN FINANCIAL CORPORATION, and the registered office of the corporation is 9300 Ashton Road, Philadelphia 36, Pennsylvania.

2. Formed under Business Corporation Law, May 5, 1933, P.L. 364, as amended. Date of Incorporation February 1, 1962.

3. The Shareholders met at the offices of the corporation, 9300 Ashton Road, Philadelphia 36, Pennsylvania, at 11:00 o’clock A.M., on the 20th day of July 1962, pursuant to written Notice of Special Meeting of Shareholders dated July 6, 1962, at which time the Amendment was unanimously adopted.

4. There are one hundred (100) shares of Common Stock outstanding entitled to vote on the Amendment. There are no other classes of shares.

5. There were one hundred (100) shares of Common Stock voted for the Amendment. There were no votes against the Amendment.

6. The Amendment adopted by the Shareholders is as follows:

To amend paragraph “THIRD” of the ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION to read as follows:

THIRD. The purposes for which the corporation is formed are:

(a) To buy, sell, pledge, and generally deal in and loan money on commercial paper, warehouse receipts, securities, shares of stock, bonds, debentures and evidences of indebtedness of all kinds, whether secured or unsecured, including bills and

 

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accounts receivable, to act as funding agent for any person, partnership, association or corporation in dealing in property of any and every kind; to manufacture, to buy and sell, warehouse, store and deal in, either as principal or agent and upon commission, consignment or otherwise, goods, wares, merchandise, commodities, or property of any and every kind and to hypothecate the same as security; to advance money to any person, firm or corporation on the security of any such property or on the security of commercial paper or notes given in evidence of any deferred payment for any property sold by this corporation or by any person, firm, association or corporation to assist in the organization, incorporation, reorganization, financing and refinancing of corporations, syndicates, partnerships and associations of all kinds and individuals, either by the sale of or lending money on bonds, stocks, securities, debentures, notes or undertakings or otherwise, and to endorse, underwrite and subscribe for the bonds, stocks, securities, debentures, notes or undertakings of any corporation, syndicate, partnership, association or individual to do a general agency business; also to engage in the business of lending money provided, however, nothing herein contained shall be taken to authorize or intended to authorize such corporation to engage in the business of banking or functions of bank discount or to deal in commercial paper in the exercise of the functions of bank discount under The Act of April 8, 1937 P.L. 262 (Consumer Discount Co. Act), The Act of June 17, 1937, P.L. 1012, as amended (Small Loan Act) or by The Act of May 15, 1933, P.L. 624 as amended (Banking Code).

 

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IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, The duly authorized officers have signed and sealed these Articles of Amendment this the 20th day of July, 1962.

 

CROWN FINANCIAL CORPORATION
By  

/s/ Henry S. Faus

  President

ATTEST:

 

/s/ Francis X. Dalton

Secretary

Seal

Approved and filed in the Department of State on the 8th day of August, 1962.

 

/s/ E. James Trimarchi Jr.

Secretary of the Commonwealth

 

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EX-3.P 15 d582401dex3p.htm EX-3.P EX-3.P

Exhibit 3.p

CROWN FINANCIAL CORPORATION

BY-LAWS

ARTICLE I

SHAREHOLDERS

Section 1. Meetings

(a) All meetings of the shareholders shall be held at the principal office of the corporation in Philadelphia, Pa. or at such other place within or without the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as may be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors.

(b) Shareholders having voting power may vote at all meetings either in person or by proxy in writing.

(c) A majority in amount of the shares having voting power issued and outstanding, represented by the holder in person or by proxy, shall be requisite at every meeting, except as provided by law, to constitute a quorum for the election of Directors or for the transaction of other business.

(d) Voting upon all questions at all meetings of the shareholders shall be by shares having voting power not per capita.

(e) The vote for Directors, and upon the demand of any shareholder, the vote upon any question before the meeting, shall be by ballot.

(f) Except as now or hereafter otherwise provided by law, written notice of every meeting of the shareholders shall be mailed to each shareholder having voting power, at his address, as the same appears on the share book of the corporation, not less than five, or more than twenty, days prior to the meeting.


Section 2. Annual Meeting

(a) The annual meeting of shareholders, after the year 1962, shall be held on the 3rd Monday of February in each year, unless a legal holiday, and if a legal holiday, then on the next secular day following, at ten o’clock A.M., at the principal office of the Corporation in Philadelphia, Pa., or at such other place within or without the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as may be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors, when they shall elect by ballot a Board of Directors to serve for one year and until their successors are elected or chosen and qualify.

(b) All elections for Directors shall be by ballot and each shareholder shall be entitled to one vote, in person or by proxy, for each share having voting power standing registered in his or her name on the twentieth day preceding the election exclusive of the day of such election.

(c) All proxies shall be filed with the Secretary of the meeting before being voted upon.

(d) In all elections for Directors, every shareholder entitled to vote shall have the right, in person or by proxy, to multiply the number of votes to which he may be entitled by the number of Directors to be elected, and he may cast the whole number of such votes for one candidate or he may distribute them among any two or more candidates. The candidates receiving the highest number of votes up to the number of Directors to be elected shall be elected.

(e) Such election may be conducted by one or three Judges, who may or may not be shareholders, appointed by the Board of Directors, or if the Board of Directors fail to so appoint, by the presiding officer of the meeting. The Judge or Judges shall decide all questions relating to the validity of proxies and votes, and all other questions pertaining to the election and shall in writing certify to the returns. No person who is a candidate for office shall act as a Judge. If no Judges are so appointed, the election shall be conducted in such manner and form as the meeting may determine.

 

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Section 3. Special Meetings of Shareholders

Special meetings of the shareholders may be called by the President; and shall, at the request in writing of, or by vote of, a majority of the Board of Directors, or at the request in writing by shareholders of record owning one-fifth in amount of the shares of the Corporation issued and outstanding having voting power, be called by the Secretary. Notice shall be given as provided in Section 1(f) above.

ARTICLE II

DIRECTORS

Section 1. Number. The number of Directors which shall constitute the whole Board shall be not less than three (3), nor more than seven (7), and the Board of Directors prior to each annual meeting shall set the number of Directors to be elected at said meeting. Directors need not be stockholders.

Section 2. First Meeting. The newly elected directors shall hold a meeting at the principal office of the Company, for the purpose of organization, the election of officers and the transaction of business generally, if a quorum be present, immediately after the organization meeting of incorporators and subscribers, and thereafter, immediately after each annual meeting of stockholders. Notice of the time and place of the annual meeting of directors shall be mailed to each director not less than three days prior to the meeting.

Section 3. Election of Officers. At such meeting, the directors shall elect a President, a Treasurer, and a Secretary, and may elect a Vice-President and such other officers, as in their opinion the needs of the Corporation require. In case such officers shall not be elected at such meeting, they may be chosen at any subsequent meeting of directors called for the purpose.

 

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Section 4. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the directors may be held at such times and places as shall be designated by resolution of the Board. Notice of the time and place of the meeting shall be sent to each director not less than three days prior to the meeting.

Section 5. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the directors may be called by the President; and shall, upon the written request of not less than two directors, be called by the Secretary. Notice must be given to each director as provided in Section 4 above. Any business may be transacted at a special meeting subject, however, to compliance with the provisions for notice and waivers contained in Article VI.

Section 6. Quorum and Board Action. A majority of the directors shall be necessary at all meetings to constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business, and no Board action shall be valid unless approved by a majority of all the directors of the Corporation; provided that if all the directors shall severally or collectively consent in writing to any action taken or to be taken by the Corporation, such action shall be as valid corporate action as though it had been authorized at a meeting of the Board of Directors.

Section 7. Place of Meeting. The directors shall hold their meetings at the principal office of the Company, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania or at such other place as the directors may designate.

Section 8. General Powers of Directors. The Board of Directors shall have the management of the business of the Corporation. In addition to the powers and authorities by these By-Laws expressly conferred upon them, the Board may exercise all such powers of the Corporation and do all such lawful acts and things as are not by statute or these By-Laws directed or required to be exercised or done by the shareholders.

 

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Section 9. Specific Powers of Directors. Without prejudice to the general powers conferred by the last preceding clause, and the other powers conferred by the Articles, and by these By-Laws, it is hereby expressly declared that the Board of Directors shall have the following powers, that is to say:

First: From time to time to make and change rules and regulations not inconsistent with these By-Laws, for the management of the Corporation’s business and affairs.

Second: To purchase or otherwise acquire for the Corporation any property, rights or privileges which the Corporation is authorized to acquire, at such price and on such terms and conditions and for such consideration as they shall from time to time see fit.

Third: At their discretion to pay for any property or rights acquired by the Corporation, either wholly or partly in money or in stock, bonds, debentures or other securities of the Corporation.

Fourth: To appoint and, at their discretion, remove or suspend subordinate employees, agents or servants, permanently or temporarily, as they may from time to time think fit, and to determine their duties, and fix, and from time to time change, their salaries or emoluments, and to require security in such instances and in such amounts as they may think fit.

Fifth: To confer by resolution upon any appointed officer of the Corporation the power to choose, remove or suspend such subordinate employees, agents or servants.

Sixth: To appoint any person or persons to accept and hold in trust for the Corporation any property belonging to the Corporation, or in which it is interested, or to act as trustees and to execute and do all such duties and things as may be requisite in relation to any such trust.

 

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Seventh: To determine who shall be authorized on the Corporation’s behalf to sign bills, notes, receipts, acceptances, endorsements, checks, releases, contracts and documents.

Eighth: From time to time to provide for the management of the affairs of the Corporation, at home or abroad, in such manner as they see fit, and in particular, from time to time, to delegate any of the powers of the Board in the course of the current business of the Corporation to any standing or special committee, or to any officers or agents, and to appoint any persons to be the agents of the Corporation with such powers (including the power to sub-delegate), and upon such terms as may be thought fit.

Section 10. Attendance Fee. Directors as such shall not receive any stated salary for services, but by resolution of the Board, a fixed sum and expenses of attendance, if any, may be allowed for attendance at each regular or special meeting of the Board; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to preclude any director from serving the Corporation in any other capacity and receiving compensation therefor.

Section 11. Removal of Directors. The Board of Directors may declare vacant the office of a director if he be declared of unsound mind by an order of court, or convicted of felony, or for any other proper cause, or if, within sixty days after notice of his election, he does not accept such office either in writing or by attending a meeting of the Board of Directors.

ARTICLE III

OFFICERS

Section 1. Officers. The executive officers of the Company shall be the President, the Secretary, the Treasurer, and, if deemed necessary by the Directors, a Vice-President. One person may simultaneously hold two or more offices, except the offices of President and Secretary. The directors may, from time to time, appoint such other officers as they shall deem proper, and determine their powers and duties.

 

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Section 2. Compensation. The executive officers shall receive such compensation as the Board shall authorize.

Section 3. Delegation of Powers and Duties of Officers. In case of the absence of an officer, or for any other reason which may seem sufficient to them, the directors or the President (unless and until the directors vote otherwise) may devolve all or any of the powers and duties of such officer for the time being upon any other officer.

Section 4. Removal of Officers. The directors may at any time remove from office any officer elected or appointed by them and any subordinate officer.

Section 5. Powers and Duties of Officers. All officers and agents of the Corporation, as between themselves and the Corporation, shall have such authority and perform such duties in the management of the property and affairs of the Corporation as may be provided in these By-Laws, or, in the absence of controlling provisions in these By-Laws, as may be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors.

Section 6. Powers and Duties of the President.

(a) The President shall preside at all meetings of the shareholders and directors; he shall have general and active management and direction of the business of the Corporation; shall see that all orders and resolutions of the Board are carried into effect; shall execute bonds, mortgages and other contracts requiring a seal, under the seal of the Corporation; shall keep in safe custody the seal of the Corporation, and, when authorized by the Board, affix the seal to any instrument requiring the same, and the seal, when so affixed, shall be attested by the signatures of the Secretary or the Treasurer.

(b) He shall have general superintendence and direction of all the other officers of the Corporation, and shall see that their duties are properly performed.

 

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(c) He shall submit a report of the operations of the Corporation for the fiscal year to the directors and to the shareholders at the annual meeting, and from time to time shall report to the Board all matters within his knowledge which the interests of the Corporation may require to be brought to their notice.

(d) He shall be ex-officio a member of all committees, and shall have the general powers and duties of supervision and management usually vested in the office of the President of a corporation.

Section 7. Powers and Duties of the Vice-President. During the absence or disability of the President, it shall be the duty of the Vice-President, if there be one, to preside at meetings of the directors and stockholders. He shall exercise such other powers and perform such other duties as the directors or the President shall from time to time prescribe, and during the absence or disability of the President, he shall exercise all of the powers of the President contained in Article III, Section 6 above.

Section 8. Powers and Duties of the Secretary. The Secretary shall keep full minutes of all meetings of the shareholders and directors; he shall be ex-officio Secretary of the Board of Directors; he shall attend all sessions of the Board; shall act as clerk thereof, and record all votes and the minutes of all proceedings in a book to be kept for that purpose; and he shall perform like duties for the standing committees when required. He shall give, or cause to be given notice of all meetings of the shareholders of the Corporation and of all meetings of the Board of Directors, and shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors or President, under whose supervision he shall be.

 

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Section 9. Powers and Duties of the Treasurer.

(a) The Treasurer shall keep full and accurate accounts of receipts and disbursements in books belonging to the Corporation, and shall deposit all moneys and other valuable effects in the name and to the credit of the Corporation, in such depositories as may be designated by the Board of Directors.

(b) He shall disburse the funds of the Corporation as may be ordered by the Board, taking proper vouchers for such disbursements, and shall render to the President and Directors, at the regular meetings of the Board, or whenever they may require it, an account of all his transactions as Treasurer, and of the financial condition of the Corporation. He shall furnish to the Corporation, if the directors so require, a bond in a sum, and with one or more sureties, acceptable to the Board of Directors, for the faithful performances of the duties of his office.

ARTICLE IV

REMOVALS; RESIGNATIONS; FILLING

OF VACANCIES; TERMS OF OFFICE

Section 1. Resignations. Any director or other officer may resign at any time. Such resignation shall be in writing, but the acceptance thereof shall not be necessary to make it effective.

Section 2. Filling of Vacancies. If the office of any director or officer becomes vacant, by reason of his death, removal or resignation, or otherwise, the directors in office, by majority vote of those then remaining in-office, may appoint any qualified person to fill such vacancy.

Section 3. Terms of Office. Every director and officer shall hold his office, unless he resigns or is removed, until the succeeding annual election and until his successor is elected and qualifies.

 

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ARTICLE V

CAPITAL STOCK, DIVIDENDS AND

DISTRIBUTION OF ASSETS

Section 1. Issue of Certificates of Stock. Every stockholder shall be entitled to receive a certificate of the number of shares standing to his credit on the books of the Corporation, signed by the President, or Vice-President and countersigned by the Secretary or Treasurer, and sealed with the common seal of the Corporation.

Section 2. Stock Book. The Treasurer shall cause a book to be kept at the principal office of the Company, which shall contain the names of all persons, alphabetically arranged, who are or who shall within one year have been stockholders of the Company, showing their places of residence, the number of the shares of stock held by them, respectively, and the times when they respectively became owners thereof, and the amount paid on such shares, and the total amount of the capital stock paid in.

Section 3. Transfers of Shares.

(a) All transfers of the shares of the Corporation shall be made upon the books of the Corporation by written order or assignment of the holder of the shares or his legal representatives; certificates of transferred shares shall be surrendered and cancelled at the time of the transfer, and no new certificates shall be issued until the old certificates are surrendered and cancelled.

(b) No transfer of shares shall be made on the books within ten days next preceding the day appointed for paying a dividend.

(c) The Board may also close the transfer books for not exceeding twenty days preceding the annual meeting of shareholders; provided, however, that in case of a proposed amendment to permit an increase of the authorized capital stock, the Board may close such books for not exceeding seventy days before the meeting of shareholders to vote thereupon.

 

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(d) The Corporation shall be entitled to treat the registered holder of any shares as the absolute owner thereof, and accordingly shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to, or interest in, such share, on the part of any other person, whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, save as expressly provided by law.

Section 4. Lost or destroyed Certificates. Any person desiring a certificate of stock to be issued in lieu of one alleged to be lost or destroyed, shall make and deliver to the Company an affidavit of the facts concerning such loss or destruction and of his ownership of the shares evidenced thereby, and shall give notice of such loss or destruction by advertisement in one or more newspapers of general circulation published in Philadelphia, Pa. at least once a week for four consecutive weeks, describing the certificate, and shall also give the Company a bond of indemnity in such form and for such amount and with such sureties as shall be required by the directors, whereupon the President and the Treasurer may, not less than one week after publication of the last advertisement, issue a new certificate of the same tenor as the one alleged to be lost or destroyed, therein specifying that it is issued in lieu thereof.

Section 5. Dividends. The directors may at any time declare dividends of so much of the surplus or net profits of the Company as shall appear advisable to them, such dividends to be paid to the stockholders or their legal representatives at such time after such declaration as the directors may fix.

ARTICLE VI

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Section 1. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall end on the last day of December in each year.

 

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Section 2. Offices. The principal office of the Corporation shall be established and maintained at Philadelphia, Pa., or at such other place as shall from time to time be designated by the directors.

Section 3. Directors’ Annual Report. It is hereby expressly provided that the Directors of this Corporation need not cause to be sent to the shareholders of this Corporation any financial report specified by the Business Corporation Law of Pennsylvania; provided, however, that this By-Law shall not be construed to prohibit the Directors or Officers from sending financial or other reports to the shareholders, from time to time, in such form as the Directors in their discretion may, from time to time, deem necessary or advisable, but such reports need not be verified by a certified public accountant.

Section 4. Notice of Meetings. Whenever written notice is required to be given to any person, by law, the Articles or these By-Laws, it may be given to such person, either personally or by sending a copy thereof through the mail, or by telegram, charges prepaid, to his address appearing on the books of the corporation, or supplied by him to the Corporation for the purpose of notice. If the notice is sent by mail or by telegraph, it shall be deemed to have been given to the person entitled thereto when deposited in the United States mail or with a telegraph office for transmission to such person. Such notice shall specify the place, day and hour of the meeting and, in case of a special meeting, the general nature of the business to be transacted.

Section 5. Waiver of Notice. Whenever any written notice is required to be given by the Articles or these By-Laws, a waiver thereof in writing, signed by the person or persons entitled to such notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent to the giving of such notice. Except in the case of a special meeting, neither the business to be transacted nor the purpose of the meeting need be specified in the waiver of notice of such meeting.

 

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Section 6. Waiver of Notice by Attendance. Attendance of a person, either in person or by proxy, at any meeting, shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting except where a person attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business because the meeting was not lawfully called or convened.

Section 7. Interpretation. In these By-Laws, unless there shall be something in the subject or context inconsistent therewith:

“Stockholder” or “shareholder” means the registered owner of a share or shares of the capital stock.

In provisions relating to meetings of stockholders, “majority” means a majority in interest, and “present” means present in person or represented by proxy.

“Board”, “Board of Directors” and “Directors” mean, respectively, the directors of the company for the time being duly convened in a regular or special meeting.

Words importing the singular number include the plural and vice versa; words importing masculine include all genders; and words importing natural persons include corporations and other entities.

Section 8. Inconsistency with Law. If any provision of these By-Laws shall be inconsistent with any law or laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania now or hereafter in force, then the provisions of such law or laws shall prevail.

ARTICLE VII

AMENDMENTS

Section 1. Amendment by Shareholders. The shareholders having voting power, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares issued and outstanding, may at any regular, or upon notice, at any special meeting, alter, amend or repeal any one or more of these By-Laws, or add thereto.

 

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Section 2. Amendment by Directors. The Board of Directors, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the members, may alter, amend or repeal any one or more of these By-Laws, or add thereto, at any regular meeting of the Board or at any special meeting of the Board, provided that notice of the proposed alteration, amendment or repeal has been given to each Director; and further provided that the directors may not amend, alter or repeal or add to this Article (VII) and that any action of the Board with respect to By-Laws shall be subject to the power of the shareholders to change such action.

 

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EX-3.Q 16 d582401dex3q.htm EX-3.Q EX-3.Q

Exhibit 3.q

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

CROWN INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS, INC.

1. Name. The name of the Corporation is Crown International Holdings, Inc.

2. Registered Office and Agent. The address of the Corporation’s registered office in the State of Delaware is 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle. The name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.

3. Purpose. The purposes for which the Corporation is formed are to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of Delaware and to possess and exercise all of the powers and privileges granted by such law and any other law of Delaware.

4. Authorized Capital. The aggregate number of shares of stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is one thousand (1,000) shares, all of which are of one class and arc designated as Common Stock and each of which has a par value of one cent ($.01).

5. Incorporator. The name and mailing address of the incorporator are Jamie L. Warner, 4000 Bell Atlantic Tower, 1717 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-2793.

6. Bylaws. The board of directors of the Corporation is authorized to adopt, amend or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation, except as otherwise specifically provided therein.

7. Elections of Directors. Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless the bylaws of the Corporation shall so provide.

8. Right to Amend. The Corporation reserves the right to amend any provision contained in this Certificate as the same may from time to time be in effect in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by law, and all rights conferred on stockholders or others hereunder are subject to such reservation.

9. Limitation on Liability. The directors of the Corporation shall be entitled to the benefits of all limitations on the liability of directors generally that are now or hereafter become available under the General Corporation Law of Delaware. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, no director of the Corporation shall be liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (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 Delaware General Corporation Law, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. Any repeal or modification of this Section 9 shall be prospective only, and shall not affect, to the detriment of any director, any limitation on the personal liability of a director of the Corporation existing at the time of such repeal or modification.


Dated: February 10, 2003

 

/s/ Jamie L. Warner
Jamie L. Warner, Incorporator

 

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EX-3.R 17 d582401dex3r.htm EX-3.R EX-3.R

Exhibit 3.r

BYLAWS

OF

CROWN INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS, INC.

ARTICLE I

STOCKHOLDERS

1.1. Meetings.

1.1.1. Place. Meetings of the stockholders shall be held at such place as may be designated by the board of directors.

1.1.2. Annual Meeting. An annual meeting of the stockholders for the election of directors and for other business shall be held on such date and at such time as may be fixed by the board of directors.

1.1.3. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the stockholders may be called at any time by the president, or the board of directors, or the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of stock of the Company entitled to vote at the meeting.

1.1.4. Quorum. The presence, in person or by proxy, of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of stock of the Company entitled to vote on a particular matter shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of considering such matter.

1.1.5. Voting Rights. Except as otherwise provided herein, in the certificate of incorporation or by law, every stockholder shall have the right at every meeting of stockholders to one vote for every share standing in the name of such stockholder on the books of the Company which is entitled to vote at such meeting. Every stockholder may vote either in person or by proxy.

ARTICLE II

DIRECTORS

2.1. Number and Term. The board of directors shall have authority to (i) determine the number of directors to constitute the board and (ii) fix the terms of office of the directors.

2.2. Meetings.

2.2.1. Place. Meetings of the board of directors shall be held at such place as may be designated by the board or in the notice of the meeting.

2.2.2. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the board of directors shall be held at such times as the board may designate, but in no event less frequently than quarterly. Notice of regular meetings need not be given.


2.2.3. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the board may be called by direction of the president or any two members of the board on three days’ notice to each director, either personally or by mail, telegram or facsimile transmission.

2.2.4. Quorum. A majority of all the directors in office shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting.

2.2.5. Voting. Except as otherwise provided herein, in the certificate of incorporation or by law, the vote of a majority of the directors present at any meeting at which a quorum is present shall constitute the act of the board of directors.

2.2.6. Committees. The board of directors may, by resolution adopted by a majority of the whole board, designate one or more committees, each committee to consist of one or more directors and such alternate members (also directors) as may be designated by the board. Unless otherwise provided herein, in the absence or disqualification of any 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 director to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member. Except as otherwise provided herein, in the certificate of incorporation or by law, any such committee shall have and may exercise the powers of the full board of directors to the extent provided in the resolution of the board directing the committee.

ARTICLE III

OFFICERS

3.1. Election. At its first meeting after each annual meeting of the stockholders, the board of directors shall elect a president, treasurer, secretary and such other officers as it deems advisable.

3.2. Authority, Duties and Compensation. The officers shall have such authority, perform such duties and serve for such compensation as may be determined by resolution of the board of directors. Except as otherwise provided by board resolution, (i) the president shall be the chief executive officer of the Company, shall have general supervision over the business and operations of the Company, may perform any act and execute any instrument for the conduct of such business and operations and shall preside at all meetings of the board and stockholders, (ii) the other officers shall have the duties customarily related to their respective offices, and (iii) any vice president, or vice presidents in the order determined by the board, shall in the absence of the president have the authority and perform the duties of the president.

ARTICLE IV

INDEMNIFICATION

4.1. Right to Indemnification. The Company shall indemnify any person who was or is party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (a “proceeding”), by

 

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reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the Company or a constituent corporation absorbed in a consolidation or merger, or is or was serving at the request of the Company or a constituent corporation absorbed in a consolidation or merger, as a director or officer of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, or is or was a director or officer of the Company serving at its request as an administrator, trustee or other fiduciary of one or more of the employee benefit plans of the Company or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), liability and loss actually and reasonably incurred or suffered by such person in connection with such proceeding, whether or not the indemnified liability arises or arose from any threatened, pending or completed proceeding by or in the right of the Company, except to the extent that such indemnification is prohibited by applicable law.

4.2. Advance of Expenses. Expenses incurred by a director or officer of the Company in defending a proceeding shall be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of such proceeding subject to the provisions of any applicable statute.

4.3. Procedure for Determining Permissibility. To determine whether any indemnification or advance of expenses under this Article IV is permissible, the board of directors by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors not parties to such proceeding may, and on request of any person seeking indemnification or advance of expenses shall be required to, determine in each case whether the applicable standards in any applicable statute have been met, or such determination shall be made by independent legal counsel if such quorum is not obtainable, or, even if obtainable, a majority vote of a quorum of disinterested directors so directs, provided that, if there has been a change in control of the Company between the time of the action or failure to act giving rise to the claim for indemnification or advance of expenses and the time such claim is made, at the option of the person seeking indemnification or advance of expenses, the permissibility of indemnification or advance of expenses shall be determined by independent legal counsel. The reasonable expenses of any director or officer in prosecuting a successful claim for indemnification, and the fees and expenses of any special legal counsel engaged to determine permissibility of indemnification or advance of expenses, shall be borne by the Company.

4.4. Contractual Obligation. The obligations of the Company to indemnify a director or officer under this Article IV, including the duty to advance expenses, shall be considered a contract between the Company and such director or officer, and no modification or repeal of any provision of this Article IV shall affect, to the detriment of the director or officer, such obligations of the Company in connection with a claim based on any act or failure to act occurring before such modification or repeal.

4.5. Indemnification Not Exclusive; Inuring of Benefit. The indemnification and advance of expenses provided by this Article IV shall not be deemed exclusive of any other right to which one indemnified may be entitled under any statute, provision of the Certificate of Incorporation, these bylaws, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in such person’s official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of any such person.

 

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4.6. Insurance and Other Indemnification. The board of directors shall have the power to (i) authorize the Company to purchase and maintain, at the Company’s expense, insurance on behalf of the Company and on behalf of others to the extent that power to do so has not been prohibited by statute, (ii) create any fund of any nature, whether or not under the control of a trustee, or otherwise secure any of its indemnification obligations, and (iii) give other indemnification to the extent permitted by statute.

ARTICLE V

TRANSFER OF SHARE CERTIFICATES

Transfers of share certificates and the shares represented thereby shall be made on the books of the Company only by the registered holder or by its duly authorized attorney. Transfers shall be made only on surrender of the share certificate or certificates.

ARTICLE VI

AMENDMENTS

These bylaws may be amended or repealed at any regular or special meeting of the board of directors by vote of a majority of all directors in office or at any annual or special meeting of stockholders by vote of holders of a majority of the outstanding stock entitled to vote. Notice of any such annual or special meeting of stockholders shall set forth the proposed change or a summary thereof.

 

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EX-3.S 18 d582401dex3s.htm EX-3.S EX-3.S

Exhibit 3.s

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

CROWN CORK & SEAL TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION

1. Name. The name of the Corporation is Crown Cork & Seal Technologies Corporation.

2. Registered Office and Agent. The address of the Corporation’s registered office in the State of Delaware is 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle. The name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.

3. Purpose. The purposes for which the Corporation is formed are to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of Delaware and to possess and exercise all of the powers and privileges granted by such law and any other law of Delaware.

4. Authorized Capital. The aggregate number of shares of stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is One Thousand (1000) shares, all of which are of one class and are designated as Common Stock and each of which has a par value of One Cent ($.01).

5. Incorporator. The name and mailing address of the incorporator are Nikki Gold, 4000 Bell Atlantic Tower, 1717 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-2793.

6. Bylaws. The board of directors of the Corporation is authorized to adopt, amend or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation, except as otherwise specifically provided therein.

7. Elections of Directors. Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless the bylaws of the Corporation shall so provide,

8. Right to Amend. The Corporation reserves the right to amend any provision contained in this Certificate as the same may from time to time be in effect in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by law, and all rights conferred on stockholders or others hereunder are subject to such reservation.

9. Limitation on Liability. The directors of the Corporation shall be entitled to the benefits of all limitations on the liability of directors generally that are now or hereafter become available under the General Corporation Law of Delaware. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, no director of the Corporation shall be liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (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 Delaware General Corporation Law, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. Any repeal or modification of this Section 9 shall be prospective only, and shall not affect, to the detriment of any director, any limitation on the personal liability of a director of the Corporation existing at the time of such repeal or modification.

Dated: December 18, 1996

/s/ Nikki Gold                                                             

Nikki Gold, Incorporator

 

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CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

OF

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

CROWN CORK & SEAL TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION

Crown Cork & Seal Technologies Corporation, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “Company”), does hereby certify:

FIRST: That a Certificate of Incorporation of the Company was filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on December 18, 1996.

SECOND: That by written consent of the board of directors dated November 3, 2003, a resolution was duly adopted setting forth a proposed amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, declaring said amendment to be advisable and calling for consideration of said proposed amendment by the stockholders of the Company. The resolution setting forth the amendment is as follows:

RESOLVED, that it is hereby proposed that Article FIRST of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company be amended so that the same as amended would read as follows:

FIRST: The name of the Corporation is “CROWN Packaging Technology, Inc.”.

THIRD: That thereafter, pursuant to the resolution of the board of directors, the proposed amendment was approved by the stockholders of the Company by written consent dated November 3, 2003.

FOURTH: That this Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Incorporation shall be effective on January 1, 2004.

FIFTH: That said amendment was duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of Section 242 and 228 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Certificate to be executed by Daniel A. Abramowicz, its President, this 31st day of November, 2003.

 

CROWN CORK & SEAL TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
By:   /s/ Daniel A. Abramowicz
 

Daniel A. Abramowicz

President

 

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EX-3.T 19 d582401dex3t.htm EX-3.T EX-3.T

Exhibit 3.t

BYLAWS

OF

CROWN CORK & SEAL TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION

ARTICLE I

STOCKHOLDERS

1.1 Meetings.

1.1.1 Place. Meetings of the stockholders shall be held at such place as may be designated by the board of directors.

1.1.2 Annual Meeting. An annual meeting of the stockholders for the election of directors and for other business shall be held on such date and at such time as may be fixed by the board of directors.

1.1.3 Special Meetings. Special meetings of the stockholders may be called at any time by the president, or the board of directors, or the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of stock of the Company entitled to vote at the meeting.

1.1.4 Quorum. The presence, in person or by proxy, of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of stock of the Company entitled to vote on a particular matter shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of considering such matter.

1.1.5 Voting Rights. Except as otherwise provided herein, in the certificate of incorporation or by law, every stockholder shall have the right at every meeting of stockholders to one vote for every share standing in the name of such stockholder on the books of the Company which is entitled to vote at such meeting. Every stockholder may vote either in person or by proxy.

ARTICLE II

DIRECTORS

2.1 Number and Term. The board of directors shall have authority to (i) determine the number of directors to constitute the board and (ii) fix the terms of office of the directors.

2.2 Meetings.

2.2.1 Place. Meetings of the board of directors shall be held at such place as may be designated by the board or in the notice of the meeting.


2.2.2 Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the board of directors shall be held at such times as the board may designate. Notice of regular meetings need not be given.

2.2.3 Special Meetings. Special meetings of the board may be called by direction of the president or any two members of the board on three days’ notice to each director, either personally or by mail, telegram or facsimile transmission.

2.2.4 Quorum. A majority of all the directors in office shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting.

2.2.5 Voting. Except as otherwise provided herein, in the certificate of incorporation or by law, the vote of a majority of the directors present at any meeting at which a quorum is present shall constitute the act of the board of directors.

2.2.6 Committees. The board of directors may, by resolution adopted by a majority of the whole board, designate one or more committees, each committee to consist of one or more directors and such alternate members (also directors) as may be designated by the board. Unless otherwise provided herein, in the absence or disqualification of any 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 director to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member. Except as otherwise provided herein, in the certificate of incorporation or by law, any such committee shall have and may exercise the powers of the full board of directors to the extent provided in the resolution of the board directing the committee.

ARTICLE III

OFFICERS

3.1 Election. At its first meeting after each annual meeting of the stockholders, the board of directors shall elect a president, treasurer, secretary and such other officers as it deems advisable.

3.2 Authority, Duties and Compensation. The officers shall have such authority, perform such duties and serve for such compensation as may be determined by resolution of the board of directors. Except as otherwise provided by board resolution, (i) the president shall be the chief executive officer of the Company, shall have general supervision over the business and operations of the Company, may perform any act and execute any instrument for the conduct of such business and operations and shall preside at all meetings of the board and stockholders, (ii) the other officers shall have the duties customarily related to their respective offices, and (iii) any vice president, or vice presidents in the order determined by the board, shall in the absence of the president have the authority and perform the duties of the president.

 

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ARTICLE IV

INDEMNIFICATION

4.1 Right to Indemnification. The Company shall indemnify any person who was or is party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (a “proceeding”), by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the Company or a constituent corporation absorbed in a consolidation or merger, or is or was serving at the request of the Company or a constituent corporation absorbed in a consolidation or merger, as a director or officer of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, or is or was a director or officer of the Company serving at its request as an administrator, trustee or other fiduciary of one or more of the employee benefit plans of the Company or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), liability and loss actually and reasonably incurred or suffered by such person in connection with such proceeding, whether or not the indemnified liability arises or arose from any threatened, pending or completed proceeding by or in the right of the Company, except to the extent that such indemnification is prohibited by applicable law.

4.2 Advance of Expenses. Expenses incurred by a director or officer of the Company in defending a proceeding shall be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of such proceeding subject to the provisions of any applicable statute.

4.3 Procedure for Determining Permissibility. To determine whether any indemnification or advance of expenses under this Article IV is permissible, the board of directors by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors not parties to such proceeding may, and on request of any person seeking indemnification or advance of expenses shall be required to, determine in each case whether the applicable standards in any applicable statute have been met, or such determination shall be made by independent legal counsel if such quorum is not obtainable, or, even if obtainable, a majority vote of a quorum of disinterested directors so directs, provided that, if there has been a change in control of the Company between the time of the action or failure to act giving rise to the claim for indemnification or advance of expenses and the time such claim is made, at the option of the person seeking indemnification or advance of expenses, the permissibility of indemnification or advance of expenses shall be determined by independent legal counsel. The reasonable expenses of any director or officer in prosecuting a successful claim for indemnification, and the fees and expenses of any special legal counsel engaged to determine permissibility of indemnification or advance of expenses, shall be borne by the Company.

4.4 Contractual Obligation. The obligations of the Company to indemnify a director or officer under this Article IV, including the duty to advance expenses, shall be considered a contract between the Company and such director or officer, and no modification or repeal of any provision of this Article IV shall affect, to the detriment of the director or officer, such obligations of the Company in connection with a claim based on any act or failure to act occurring before such modification or repeal.

 

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4.5 Indemnification Not Exclusive; Inuring of Benefit. The indemnification and advance of expenses provided by this Article IV shall not be deemed exclusive of any other right to which one indemnified may be entitled under any statute, provision of the Certificate of Incorporation, these bylaws, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in such person’s official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of any such person.

4.6 Insurance and Other Indemnification. The board of directors shall have the power to (i) authorize the Company to purchase and maintain, at the Company’s expense, insurance on behalf of the Company and on behalf of others to the extent that power to do so has not been prohibited by statute, (ii) create any fund of any nature, whether or not under the control of a trustee, or otherwise secure any of its indemnification obligations, and (iii) give other indemnification to the extent permitted by statute.

ARTICLE V

TRANSFER OF SHARE CERTIFICATES

Transfers of share certificates and the shares represented thereby shall be made on the books of the Company only by the registered holder or by duly authorized attorney. Transfers shall be made only on surrender of the share certificate or certificates.

ARTICLE VI

AMENDMENTS

These bylaws may be amended or repealed at any regular or special meeting of the board of directors by vote of a majority of all directors in office or at any annual or special meeting of stockholders by vote of holders of a majority of the outstanding stock entitled to vote. Notice of any such annual or special meeting of stockholders shall set forth the proposed change or a summary thereof.

 

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EX-3.U 20 d582401dex3u.htm EX-3.U EX-3.U

Exhibit 3.u

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

FOREIGN MANUFACTURERS FINANCE CORPORATION

FIRST. The name of this Corporation is: FOREIGN MANUFACTURERS FINANCE CORPORATION.

SECOND. The principal office of the Corporation in the State of Delaware is located at No. 900 Market Street in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle. The name and address of its resident agent is the REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER COMPANY, No. 900 MARKET STREET, WILMINGTON, DELAWARE.

THIRD. The nature of the business, or the objects or purposes to be transacted, promoted, or carried on by the Corporation, are as follows:

(a) To acquire by purchase, subscription or otherwise, and to own, hold, sell, negotiate, assign, deal in, exchange, transfer, mortgage, pledge or otherwise dispose of any shares of the capital stock, scrip; or any voting trust certificates in respect of the shares of capital stock of, or any bonds, mortgages, securities or evidence of indebtedness issued or created by, any other corporation joint stock company or association, public or private, or of the Government of the United States of America, or of any foreign government, or of any state, territory, municipality or other political subdivision or of any governmental agency; and to issue in exchange therefor, in the manner permitted by law, shares of the capital stock, bonds or other obligations of the Corporation; and while the holder or owner of any such shares of capital stock, scrip, voting trust certificates, bonds, mortgages or other securities or evidence of indebtedness, to possess and exercise in respect thereof any and all rights, powers and privileges of ownership, including the right to vote thereon;

(b) To guarantee the payment of dividends on any shares of the capital stock of any corporation, joint stock company or association in which this Corporation has or may at any time have an interest; to endorse or otherwise guarantee the payment of the principal of, or interest on, any scrip, bonds, coupons, mortgages, debentures, or other securities issued or created by any corporation, joint stock occupancy or association in which this Corporation has an interest, or whose shares or securities it owns; to become surety for and to guarantee the carrying out or the performance of any and all contracts of every kind or character of any corporation, joint stock company or association in which this Corporation has an interest, or whose shares or securities it owns; and to do any and


all lawful things designed to protect, preserve, improve or enhance the value of any such shares, scrip, voting trust certificates, bonds, coupons, mortgages, debentures, securities or other evidences of indebtedness of any corporation, joint stock company or association in which this Corporation has an interest or whose shares or securities it may own, and to make any guarantee which may be lawful for a corporation organized under the General Corporation Law;

(c) To enter into and make, and perform and carry out contracts of any kind and description made for any lawful purpose, without limit as to amount, with any person, firm, association or corporation, either public or private, or with any territory or government or agency thereof;

(d) To loan and borrow money; to draw, make, accept, endorse, transfer, assign, execute and issue bonds, debentures, promissory notes, and other evidences of indebtedness, and for the purpose of securing any of its obligations or contracts to convey, transfer, assign, deliver, mortgage and/or pledge all or any part of the property or assets at any time owned or held by this Corporation, upon such terms and conditions as the Board of Directors shall authorize, and as may be permitted by law;

(e) To acquire, hold, sell, reissue, or cancel any shares of its own capital stock, provided, however, that this Corporation may not use any of its funds or property for the purchase of its own shares of capital stock when such use would cause any impairment of the capital of this Corporation, and provided further, that the shares of its own capital stock belonging to this Corporation shall not be voted directly or indirectly;

(f) To undertake or assume the whole or any part of the bonds, mortgages, franchises, leases, contracts, indebtedness, guaranties, liabilities and obligations of any person, firm, association, corporation or organization, and to purchase or otherwise acquire the whole or any part of the property, assets, business, good-will and rights of any person, firm, association, corporation or organization and to pay for the same or any part or combination thereof in cash, shares of the capital stock, bonds, debentures, debenture stock, notes and other obligations of this Corporation or otherwise, or by undertaking and assuming the whole or any part of the liabilities or obligations of the transferor; and to hold or in any manner dispose of the whole or any part of the property and assets so acquired or purchased, and to conduct in any lawful manner the whole or any part of the business so acquired and to exercise all the powers necessary or convenient in and about the conduct, management and carrying on of such business;

(g) To manufacture, buy or otherwise acquire, own, mortgage, sell, assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of, import, export, trade and deal in and with goods, wares and merchandise and articles of commerce;

(h) To buy, exchange, contract for, lease, and in any and all other ways, acquire, take, hold and own real property, wherever situated, and personal property of every character and description, and to sell, mortgage, lease and otherwise dispose of the same;


(i) To engage in any kind of manufacturing business and to buy, exchange, contract for, lease, construct and otherwise acquire, take, hold and own, and to sell, mortgage, lease or otherwise dispose of, manufacturing plants, and to manage, operate, maintain, improve and develop the same;

(j) To acquire, organize, incorporate and reorganize subsidiary corporations and joint stock companies and associations for any purpose permitted by law;

(k) To apply for, obtain, register, purchase, lease, or otherwise acquire any concessions, rights, options, patents, privileges, patent rights and privileges, inventions, improvements and processes, copyrights, trade-marks and trade names, or any right, option or contract in relation thereto, and to perform, carry out and fulfill the terms and conditions thereof, and to develop, maintain, lease, sell, transfer, dispose of, and otherwise deal with the same;

(l) To conduct all or any part of its operations and business without restriction or limit as to amount in the State of Delaware or in any or all other states, territories, districts, colonies and dependencies of the United States of America and in any or all foreign countries; and to acquire (by purchase, exchange, lease, hire or otherwise), and hold, develop, operate, lease, sell, assign, transfer, exchange, mortgage, pledge or otherwise dispose of, or turn to account, and convey, real and personal property of every kind and nature, and rights or privileges therein, in the State of Delaware and in any or all other States, territories, districts, colonies and dependencies of the United States of America and in any or all foreign countries;

(m) To carry out all or any part of the foregoing objects as principal, factor, agent, contractor, or otherwise, either alone or in connection with any person, firm, association or corporation, and generally to act as factor, agent or representative for any person or for any other corporation, so far as permitted by law.

(n) To have and to exercise any and all powers and privileges now or hereafter conferred by the laws of the State of Delaware upon corporations formed under the Acts hereinafter referred to or under any act amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto or substituted therefor.

The foregoing clauses are to be construed both as objects and powers; and it is hereby expressly provided that the enumeration herein of specific objects and powers shall not be held to limit or restrict in any manner the general powers of the Corporation; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize or permit the Corporation to carry on any business or to exercise any power or to do any act which a corporation formed under the Act


hereinafter referred to, or any amendment thereof or supplement or substitute therefor, may not at the time lawfully carry on or do. It is the intention that the purposes, objects and powers specified in each of the paragraphs of this Article Third of this Certificate of Incorporation shall, except as otherwise expressly provided, in no wise be limited or restricted by reference to or inference from the terms of any other clause or paragraph of this Article, or of any other Article of this Certificate of Incorporation.

FOURTH: The total authorized capital stock of this corporation is Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) divided into five thousand (5,000) shares of the par value of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) each.

If it seems desirable so to do, the Board of Directors may from time to time issue scrip for fractional shares of stock. Such scrip shall not confer upon the holder of any voting or other rights of a stockholder of the Corporation, but the Corporation shall from time to time; within such time as the Board of Directors may determine, issue one whole share of stock upon the surrender of scrip for fractional shares aggregating one whole share properly endorsed, if in registered form.

The Corporation shall be entitled to treat the person in whose name any share of its stock is registered as the owner thereof, for all purposes, and shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to, or interest such share on the part of any other person, whether or not the Corporation shall have notice thereof, save as expressly, provided by the laws of the State of Delaware.


FIFTH. No stockholder of this Corporation shall have any preemptive or preferential right of subscription to any shares of any stock of this Corporation, or to any obligations convertible into stock of this Corporation, issued or sold, nor any right of subscription to any thereof other than such, if any, as the Board of Directors of this Corporation in its discretion from time to time may determine, and at such price as the Board of Directors from time to time may fix, pursuant to the authority hereby conferred by the Certificate of Incorporation of this Corporation, and the Board of Directors may issue stock of this Corporation, or obligations convertible into stock, without offering such issue of stock, either in whole or in part to the stockholders of this Corporation. The acceptance of stock in this Corporation shall be a waiver of any such preemptive or preferential right which in the absence of this provision might otherwise be asserted by stockholders of this Corporation or any of them.

SIXTH. The minimum amount of capital with which the Corporation will commence business shall be one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).

SEVENTH. The names and places of residence of each of the incorporators are as follows:

 

NAME

  

RESIDENCE

  

SHARES

M.M. Nichols    Wilmington, Delaware    8
L.A. Irwin    Wilmington, Delaware    1
M.A. Desmond    Wilmington, Delaware    1

NINTH. The private property of the stockholders of the Corporation shall not be subject to the payment of corporate debts to any extent whatever.

TENTH. The number of directors of the Corporation shall be as specified in the By-Laws, and such number may from time to time be increased or decreased in such manner as may be prescribed in the By-Laws, provided the number of directors of the Corporation shall not


be less than three (3). In case of any increase in the number of directors, the additional directors may be elected by the Board of Directors to hold office until the next annual meeting of the stockholders and until their successors are elected and qualified. In case of a vacancy or vacancies in the Board of Directors, a majority of the remaining members of the Board may elect a director or directors to fill such vacancy or vacancies.

Directors need not be stockholders.

ELEVENTH. In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by the laws of the State of Delaware, the Board of Directors is expressly authorized:

To make, alter, amend or repeal the By-Laws of the Corporation, subject to the power of the holders of stock having voting power to alter, amend or repeal the By-Laws made by the Board of Directors;

To determine from time to time whether and to what extent and at what times and places and under what conditions and regulations the accounts and books of the Corporation (other than the stock ledger) or any of them, shall be open to the inspection of the stockholders; and no stockholder shall have any right to inspect any account or book or document of the Corporation except as conferred by the laws of the State of Delaware, unless and until authorized so to do by resolution of the Board of Directors, or of the stockholders;

To set apart out of any funds of the Corporation available for dividends a reserve or reserves for working capital or for any other lawful purpose, and also to abolish any such reserve in the same manner in which it was created;


To sell, lease or exchange all of the property and, assets of this Corporation upon such terms and conditions as the Board of Directors deem expedient and for the best interests of the Corporation but only pursuant to the affirmative vote of the holders of at least majority of the stock issued and outstanding, having voting power, given at a stockholders’ meeting duly called for that purpose, or when authorized by the written consent of the holders of at least a majority of the voting stock issued and outstanding;

To issue all or from time to time any of the capital stock of this Corporation for such consideration as may from time to time be fixed by the Board of Directors, such consideration to be an amount in cash fixed by such Board and/or an amount or quantity of property, real, personal or mixed (including shares of stock of other corporations, and/or bonds, debentures, notes and contracts of persons, firms, associations and other corporations and/or rights, services and labor) fixed by the Board of Directors and when the full consideration so fixed by the said Board has been paid, transferred or delivered to the Corporation in cash and/or in shares of stock of other corporations and/or bonds, debentures, notes and contracts of persons, firms, associations or other corporations and/or rights, services, labor or other property, real, personal or mixed, at a valuation or at valuations thereof, fixed by the Board of Directors then (a) all such valuations shall be final and conclusive upon all the world including all stockholders and creditors of the Corporation, past, present and future and (b) the said shares of stock issued therefor shall be deemed forever fully paid and forever non-assessable, and not liable to any further call or assessment thereon, and the holders of such shares shall not be liable for any other and/or further payments thereon under the provisions of any law of the State of Delaware or of the United States or of the common law.


By resolution passed by a majority of the whole Board, to designate three or more of their number to constitute an Executive Committee, which Committee, to the extent provided in said resolution or in the By-Laws of this Corporation, shall have and exercise (except when the Board of Directors shall be in session) any and all of the powers of the Board of Directors and the management of the business and affairs of this Corporation and have power to authorize the seal of this corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it.

To authorize and cause to be executed mortgages and liens, without limit as to amount, on the real and personal property of this Corporation.

To sell, exchange, assign, convey or otherwise dispose of a part of the property, assets and effects of this Corporation in less than the whole or less than substantially the whole thereof, on such terms and conditions as they shall deem advisable without the assent of the stockholders in writing or otherwise.

To provide for designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, and qualifications, limitations or restrictions or the Class B shares in the resolution or resolutions providing for the issue of such stock at any time, or from time to time, and to provide for the redemption of such shares at any time or times and at any price or prices and for their issue in series.

TWELFTH. If the By-Laws so provide, the stockholders and Board of Directors of the Corporation shall have power to hold their meetings, to have an office or offices and to keep the books of the Corporation, subject to the provisions of the laws of Delaware, outside of said State at such place or places as may from time to time be designated by the Board of Directors. The first meeting of the incorporators, or of the Corporation, may be held at any time and place designated and consented to in writing by the incorporators.


The Corporation may in its By-Laws confer powers upon its Directors in addition to those granted by this Certificate of Incorporation, and in addition to the powers and authorities expressly conferred upon them by the statutes;

The members of the Board of Directors shall be entitled to reasonable directors’ fees and other compensation for their personal Services.

THIRTEENTH. No contract or other transaction between the Corporation and any other corporation and no act of the Corporation shall in any way be affected or invalidated by the fact that any of the directors of the Corporation are pecuniarily or otherwise interested in, or are directors or officers of, such other corporation; any director individually, or any firm of which any director is be a member, may be a party to, or may be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in, any contract or transaction of the Corporation, provided that the fact that he or such firm is so interested shall be disclosed or shall have been known to the Board of Directors or a majority thereof; and any director of the Corporation who is also a director or officer of such other corporation or who is so interested may be counted in determining the existence of a quorum at any meeting of the Board of Directors of the Corporation which shall authorize any such contract or transaction, and may vote thereat to authorize any such contract or transaction with like force and effect as if he were not such director or officer of such other corporation or not so interested.

Any contract, transaction or act of the Corporation or of the Board of Directors or any Committee, which shall be ratified by a majority of a quorum of the stockholders at any annual meeting, or at any special meeting called for such purpose, shall be as valid and as binding as though ratified by every stockholder of the Corporation.


FOURTEENTH. The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this Certificate of Incorporation in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by law, and all rights and powers conferred herein upon stockholders, directors and officers are subject to this reserved power.

FIFTEENTH. It is now and hereby provided and each and every of the undersigned incorporators and each and every holder or the shares of stock of the Corporation, whenever the same may from time to time hereafter be issued or re-issued, do now and hereby agree to each and every of the provisions in the foregoing paragraphs Eleventh, Thirteenth and Fourteenth set forth and each and every such provision is an agreement and condition to which each successive owner or holder of stock expressly agrees by his acceptance of the certificate or certificates evidencing his share or shares of stock and is a covenant running with the title to the said stock into whose hands soever the same may pass.

WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, being all of the incorporators hereinbefore named for the purpose of forming a corporation to do business both within and without the State of Delaware, and in pursuance of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, being Chapter 65 of the Revised Code of Delaware, and the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, do make and file this Certificate, hereby declaring and certifying that the facts herein stated are true, and accordingly have signed and sealed this Certificate this 26th day of December, A.D. 1930.

 

In presence of:

      /s/ M. M. Nichols                                                                              (L.S.)

/s/ Harry W. Davis

     Notary Public

      /s/ L. A. Irwin                                                                                      (L.S.)
     

 

/s/ M. A. Desmond                                                                           (L.S.)

EX-3.V 21 d582401dex3v.htm EX-3.V EX-3.V

Exhibit 3.v

FOREIGN MANUFACTURERS FINANCE CORPORATION

BY-LAWS

OFFICES.

1. The principal office shall be in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, State of Delaware, and the name of the agent in charge thereof shall be the Registrar and Transfer Company.

2. The corporation may also have an office in the City of New York, State of New York, and also offices at such other places as the Board of Directors may from time to time appoint or the business of the corporation require.

SEAL.

3. The corporate seal shall have inscribed thereon the name of the corporation, the year of its organization and the words “Corporate Seal, Delaware.”

STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETINGS.

4. All meetings of the stockholders shall be held at the office of the corporation in Wilmington, Delaware, or at the office of the corporation in New York City or at such other place as may be fixed by the Board of Directors and specified in the notice of the meeting.

5. The annual meeting of stockholders, after the year 1930, shall be held on the last Monday of December in each year, if not a legal holiday, and if a legal holiday, then on the day following, at two o’clock P. M., when they shall elect by a plurality vote, by ballot, a Board of Directors to serve for one year and until their successors are elected or chosen and qualify.


6. The holders of a majority of the stock issued and outstanding, present in person, or represented by proxy, shall be requisite and shall constitute a quorum for all meetings of the stockholders for the transaction of business except as otherwise provided by law, by the certificate of incorporation or by these by-laws. If, however, such majority shall not be present or represented at any meeting of the stockholders, the stockholders present in person, or by proxy, shall have power to adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until the requisite amount of stock shall be represented. At such adjourned meeting at which the requisite amount of stock shall be represented any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as originally notified.

7. At each meeting of the stockholders every stockholder shall be entitled to vote in person, or by proxy appointed by an instrument in writing subscribed by such stockholder or by his duly authorized attorney and delivered to the inspectors at the meeting, and he shall have one vote for each share of stock registered in his name on the transfer books. No share of stock shall be voted on at any election which has been transferred on the books of the corporation within twenty days next preceding such election. The vote for directors, and upon the demand of any stockholder, the vote upon any question before the meeting, shall be by ballot. All elections shall be had and all questions decided by a plurality vote.

8. Written notice of the annual meeting shall be mailed to each stockholder at such address as appears on the stock book of the corporation, at least ten days prior to the meeting.

 

 

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9. A full list of the stockholders entitled to vote at the ensuing election, arranged in alphabetical order, with the residence of each, and the number of shares held by each, shall be prepared by the secretary and filed in the office where the election is to be held, at least ten days before every election, and shall at all times, during the usual hours for business be open to the examination of any stockholder.

10. Special meetings of the stockholders, for any purpose or purposes, other than those regulated by statute, may be called by the president, and shall be called by the president or secretary at the request in writing of a majority of the board of directors, or at the request in writing of stockholders owning a majority in amount of the entire capital stock of the corporation issued and outstanding. Such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed meeting.

11. Business transacted at all special meetings shall be confined to the objects stated in the call and matters germane thereto.

12. Written notice of a special meeting of stockholders, stating the time and place and object thereof shall be mailed, postage prepaid, at least three days before such meeting to each stockholder at such address as appears on the books of the corporation.

DIRECTORS.

13. The property and business of this corporation shall be managed by its Board of Directors, three in number. They shall be elected by the stockholders, at the annual meeting of stockholders of the corporation, and each director shall be elected to serve for the term of one year, and until his successor shall be elected and shall qualify.

14. The directors may hold their meetings and have one or more offices, and keep the books of the corporation, except the original or duplicate stock ledger, outside of Delaware, at the office of the corporation in the City of New York, State of New York, or at such other places as they may from time to time determine.

 

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15. In addition to the powers and authorities by these by-laws expressly conferred upon it, the board may exercise all such powers of the corporation and do all such lawful acts and things as are not by statute or by the Certificate of Incorporation or by these by-laws directed or required to be exercised or done by the stockholders.

16. Without prejudice to the general powers conferred by the last preceding clause, and the other powers conferred by statute, by the certificate of incorporation and by these by-laws it is hereby expressly declared that the board of directors shall have the following powers, that is to say:

 

  (a) From time to time to make and change rules and regulations, not inconsistent with these by-laws for the management of the corporation’s business and affairs.

 

  (b) To purchase, or otherwise acquire for the corporation any property, rights or privileges which the corporation is authorized to acquire, at such price or consideration and generally on such terms and conditions as they think fit.

 

  (c) At their discretion to pay for any property or rights acquired by the corporation either wholly or partly in money, stock, bonds, debentures or other securities of the corporation.

 

  (d) To create, make and issue mortgages, bonds, deeds of trust, trust agreements and negotiable or transferable instruments and securities, secured by mortgage or otherwise, and to do every other act and thing necessary to effectuate the same.

 

  (e) To determine who shall be authorized on the corporation’s behalf to sign bills, notes, receipts, acceptances, endorsements, checks, releases, contracts and documents.

 

  (f) To delegate any of the powers of the Board in the course of the current business of the corporation to any standing or special committee or to any officer or agent or to appoint any persons to be the agent of the corporation, with such powers (including the power to sub-delegate) and upon such terms as they think fit.

 

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MEETINGS OF THE BOARD.

17. The newly elected board may meet at such place and time as shall be fixed by the vote of the stockholders at the annual meeting, for the purpose of organization and otherwise, and no notice of such meeting shall be necessary to the newly elected directors in order to legally constitute the meeting; PROVIDED a majority of the whole board shall be present; or such place and time may be fixed by the consent in writing of all the directors.

18. Regular meetings of the board may be held without notice at such time and place as shall from time to time be determined by the board.

19. At all meetings of the board a majority of the directors shall be necessary and sufficient to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and the act of a majority of the directors present at any meeting at which there is a quorum shall be the act of the Board of Directors, except as may be otherwise specifically provided by statute or by the certificate of incorporation or by these by-laws.

20. Special meetings of the board may be called by the president on two days notice to each Director, either personally or by mail or by telegram; special meetings shall be called by the president or secretary in like manner and on like notice on the written request of two directors.

OFFICERS.

21. The officers of the corporation shall be a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer. Any two of the aforesaid offices, except those of president and vice-president may be filled by the same person.

 

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22. The board of directors, at its first meeting after each annual meeting of stockholders shall elect by ballot, a president and vice-president from their own number, and the board shall also annually choose a secretary and a treasurer who need not be members of the board.

23. The board may appoint such other officers and agents as it shall deem necessary, who shall have the authority and shall perform such duties as from time to time shall be prescribed by the board.

24. The salaries of all officers and agents of the corporation shall be fixed by the board of directors.

25. The officers of the corporation shall hold office for one year and until their successors are chosen and qualify in their stead. Any officer elected or appointed by the board of directors may be removed at any time by the affirmative vote of a majority of the whole board of directors.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

26. There may be an executive committee of two or more directors appointed by the board, who may meet at stated times, or on notice to all by any of their own number. During the intervals between the meetings of the board they shall advise with and aid the officers of the corporation in all matters concerning its interests and the management of its business, and generally perform such duties and exercise such powers as may be directed or delegated by the board of directors from time to time. The board may delegate to such committee authority to exercise all the powers of the board, excepting power to amend the by-laws, while the board is not in session. Vacancies in the membership of the committee shall be filled by the board of directors at a regular meeting or at a special meeting called for that purpose.

 

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27. The executive committee shall keep the regular minutes of its proceedings and report the same to the board when required.

THE PRESIDENT.

28. The President shall be the chief executive officer of the corporation; he shall preside at all meetings of the stockholders and directors; he shall have general and active management of the business of the corporation; he shall see that all orders and resolutions of the board are carried into effect, subject, however, to the right of the directors to delegate any specific powers, except such as may be by statute exclusively conferred on the president, to any other officer or officers of the corporation.

29. He shall execute bonds, mortgages and other contracts requiring a seal, under the seal of the corporation; he shall keep in safe custody the seal of the corporation, and when authorized by the board, affix the seal to any instrument requiring the same, and the seal when so affixed shall be attested by the signature of the secretary or the treasurer. He or the vice-president shall sign certificates of stock.

30. He shall be EX OFFICIO a member of all standing committees, and shall have the general powers and duties of supervision and management usually vested in the office of president of a corporation.

 

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VICE-PRESIDENT.

31. The Vice-President shall, in the absence or disability of the president, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the president, and shall perform such other duties as shall from time to time be imposed upon him by the board.

SECRETARY.

32. The secretary shall attend all sessions of the board and all meetings of the stockholders and act as clerk thereof, and record all votes and the minutes of all proceedings in a book to be kept for that purpose; and shall perform like duties for the standing committees when required. He shall give, or cause to be given, notice of all meetings of the stockholders and of the board of directors, and shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the board of directors or president, and under whose supervision he shall be. He may sign certificates of stock. He shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of his duty.

THE TREASURER.

33. The treasurer shall have the custody of the corporate funds and securities and shall keep full and accurate accounts of receipts and disbursements in books belonging to the corporation and shall deposit all moneys and other valuable effects in the name and to the credit of the corporation, in such depositories as may be designated by the board of directors.

34. He shall disburse the funds of the corporation as may be ordered by the board, taking proper vouchers for such disbursements, and shall render to the president and directors, at the regular meetings of the board, or whenever they may require it, an account of all his trans-actions as treasurer and of the financial condition of the corporation. He may sign certificates of stock.

 

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35. He shall give the corporation a bond if required by the board of directors in a sum, and with one or more sureties satisfactory to the board, for the faithful performance of the duties of his office, and for the restoration to the corporation in case of his death, resignation, retirement, or removal from office, of all books, papers, vouchers, money and other property of whatever kind in his possession or under his control belonging to the corporation.

VACANCIES.

36. If the office of any director, or of the president, vice-president, secretary or treasurer, or other officer or agent, one or more, becomes vacant by reason of death, resignation, retirement, disqualification, removal from office, or otherwise, the directors then in office, although less than a quorum, by a majority vote, may choose a successor or successors, who shall hold office for the unexpired term in respect of which such vacancy occurred.

37. In case of any increase in the number of directors, the additional directors shall be elected by the directors then in office.

DUTIES OF OFFICERS MAY BE DELEGATED.

38. In case of the absence of any officer of the corporation, or for any other reason that the board may deem sufficient, the board may delegate the powers or duties of such officer to any other officer, or to any director, for the time being, PROVIDED, a majority of the entire board concur therein.

CERTIFICATES OF STOCK.

39. The certificates of stock of the corporation shall be numbered and shall be entered in the books of the corporation as they are issued. They shall exhibit the holder’s name and the number of shares and shall be signed by the president or vice-president and treasurer or assistant treasurer or secretary or assistant secretary and shall bear the corporate seal.

 

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TRANSFERS OF STOCK.

40. Transfers of stock shall be made on the books of the corporation only by the person named in the certificate or by attorney, lawfully constituted in writing, and upon surrender of each certificate.

41. The board of directors may close the transfer books in their discretion for a period not exceeding thirty days preceding any meeting, annual or special, of the stockholders, or the day appointed for the payment of a dividend.

42. The corporation shall be entitled to treat the holder of record of any share or shares of stock as the holder in fact thereof, and accordingly shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such share on the part of any other person whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, save as expressly provided by the laws of Delaware.

LOST CERTIFICATE.

43. Any person claiming a certificate of stock to be lost or destroyed shall make an affidavit or affirmation of that fact and advertise the same in such manner as the board of directors may require, and shall give the corporation a bond of indemnity, in form and with one or more sureties satisfactory to the board, in at least double the par value of the stock represented by said certificate, whereupon a new certificate may be issued of the same tenor and for the same number of shares as the one alleged to be lost or destroyed, but always subject to the approval of the board of directors.

 

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INSPECTION OF BOOKS.

44. The directors shall determine from time to time whether, and if allowed, when and under what conditions and regulations the accounts and books of the corporation (except such as may by statute be specifically open to inspection) or any of them shall be open to the inspection of the stockholders, and the stockholders’ rights in this respect are and shall be restricted and limited accordingly.

CHECKS.

45. All checks or demands for money and notes of the corporation shall be signed by such officer or officers as the board of directors may from time to time designate.

FISCAL YEAR,

46. The fiscal year shall begin the first day of January in each year.

DIVIDENDS.

47. Dividends upon the capital stock of the corporation, when earned, may be declared by the board of directors, at any regular or special meeting.

48. Before payment of any dividend or making any distribution of profits, there shall be set aside out of the surplus or net profits of the corporation, such sum or sums as the directors from time to time, in their absolute discretion, think proper as a reserve fund to meet contingencies, or for equalizing dividends or for repairing or maintaining any property of the corporation, or for such other purpose as the directors shall think conducive to the interests of the corporation.

 

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DIRECTORS’ ANNUAL STATEMENT.

49. The board of directors shall present at each annual meeting and when called for by the stockholders, at any special meeting of stockholders, a full and clear statement of the business and condition of the corporation.

NOTICES.

50. Whenever under the provisions of these bylaws, notice is required to be given to any director, officer or stockholder, it shall not be construed to mean personal notice, but such notice may be given in writing by depositing the same in the post office or a letter box, in a postpaid, sealed wrapper, addressed to such stockholder, officer or director at such address as appears on the books of the corporation, or in default of other address, to such director, officer or stockholder at the general post office in the City of Wilmington, Delaware, and such notice shall be deemed to be given at the time when the same shall be thus mailed.

51. Any stockholder, director or officer may waive any notice required to be given under these by-laws.

AMENDMENTS.

52. The stockholders, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the stock issued and outstanding, may at any regular, or at any special meeting, alter or amend these by-laws, if notice thereof be contained in the notice of the meeting.

53. The board of directors, by the affirmative vote of a majority of its members may alter, or amend these by-laws, but no alteration or amendment shall be made unless proposed at a regular or special meeting of the board, and adopted at a subsequent regular meeting.

 

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Exhibit 3.w

 

Applicant’s Account No.             

 

      Filed this 26th day of November, A.D. 1980

DSCB-BCL-204 (Rev. 8-72)

      Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of State

Filing Fee: $75

     

AIB-7

   80-69 1834   
   720604   

Articles of

   COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA    /s/ William R. Davis

Incorporation-

   DEPARTMENT OF STATE   

Domestic Business Corporation

   CORPORATION BUREAU   
      Secretary of the Commonwealth

 

as

In compliance with the requirements of section 204 of the Business Corporation Law, act of May 5, 1933(P.L.364) (15 P. S. § 1204) the undersigned, desiring to be incorporated as a business corporation, hereby certifies (certify) that:

 

1. The name of the corporation is:

Nationwide Recyclers’ Inc.

 

2. The location and post office address of the initial registered office of the corporation in this Commonwealth is:

 

1600 Locust Street,

              
   (NUMBER)       (STREET)   
     Philadelphia    Pennsylvania    19103     
   (CITY)                                     (ZIP CODE)   

 

3. The corporation is incorporated under the Business Corporation Law of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the following purpose or purposes:

The corporation is organized under the Business Corporation Law, Act of 1933 P.L. 364, as amended, to engage in the recycling of scrap metals and to do any lawful act concerning any or all lawful business to which corporations may be incorporated under this act.

 

4. The term for which the corporation is to exist is: Perpetual.

 

5. The aggregate number of shares which the corporation shall have authority to issue is:

1,000 shares no par common

DSCB-BCL-204 (Rev. 8-72)

 

6. The name(s) and post office address(es) of each incorporator(s). and the number and class of shares subscribed by such incorporator(s) is (are):

 

NAME   

ADDRESS

(including street and number, if any)

   NUMBER AND CLASS OF SHARES
Michael J. Stack   

1600 Locust Street

Phila. Penna. 19103

   1

 

 

 

 

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the incorporator(s) has (have) signed and sealed these Articles of Incorporation this 21st day of November, 1980.

 

(SEAL)   

/s/ Michael J. Stack

  (SEAL)
  

 

  (SEAL)


INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETION OF FORM:

 

A. For general instructions relating to the incorporation of business corporations see 19 Pa. Code Ch. 35 (relating to business corporations generally). These instructions relate to such matters as corporate name, stated purposes, term of existence, authorized share structure and related authority of the board of directors, inclusion of names of first directors in the Articles of Incorporation, optional provisions on cumulative voting for election of directors, etc.

 

B. One or more corporations or natural persons of full age may incorporate a business corporation.

 

C. Optional provisions required or authorized by law may be added as Paragraphs 7, 8, 9 .. . etc.

 

D. The following shall accompany this form:

 

  (1) Three copies of Form DSCB:BCL-206 (Registry Statement Domestic of Foreign Business Corporation).

 

  (2) Any necessary copies of Form DSCB: 17.2 (Consent to Appropriation of Name) or Form DSCB: 17 .3 (Consent to Use of Similar Name).

 

  (3) Any necessary governmental approvals.

 

E. BCL §205 (15 Pa. S. §1205) requires that the incorporators shall advertise their intention to file or the corporation shall advertise the filing of articles of incorporation. Proofs of publication of such advertising should not be delivered to the Department, but should be filed with the minutes of the corporation.


PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF STATE

CORPORATION BUREAU

Articles of Amendment-Domestic Corporation

(15 Pa.C.S.)

 

Entity Number

  

x  Business Corporation (§ 1915)

720604

  

¨  Nonprofit Corporation (§ 5915)

 

           

Document will be returned to the

name and address you enter to

the left

Name

           
   

Pamela Bishop – Dechert

     

Address

            f
   

Thirty North Third Street

     

City

   

State

 

Zip Code

     
 

Harrisburg,

 

PA

 

7101

     

 

Fee: $52

   Filed in the Department of State on APR 17 2003
  

/s/ Pedro Cortés

   Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth

In compliance with the requirements of the applicable provisions (relating to articles of amendment), the undersigned, desiring to amend its articles, hereby states that:

 

  1. The name of the Corporation is:

Nationwide Recyclers’ Inc.

 

  2. The (a) address of this corporation’s current registered office in this Commonwealth or (b) name of its commercial registered office provider and the county of venue is (the Department is hereby authorized to correct the following information to conform to the records of the Department):

 

(a) Number and Street

   City    State    Zip    County

 

 

 

(b) Name of Commercial Registered Office Provider

   County

c/o CT Corporation System

   Philadelphia


  3. The statute by or under which it was incorporated:

Pennsylvania Business Corporation Law of 1933, as amended

 

  4. The date of its incorporation:

11/26//1980

 

  5. Check, and if appropriate complete, one of the following:

 

  x The amendment shall be effective upon filing these Articles of Amendment in the Department of State.

 

  ¨ The amendment shall be effective on:                          at                     

                                                                                          Date                   Hour

 

  6. Check one of the following:

 

  ¨ The amendment was adopted by the shareholders or members pursuant to 15 Pa.C.S. § 1914(a) and (b) or § 5914(a).

 

  x The amendment was adopted by the board of directors pursuant to 15 Pa. C.S. § 1914(c) or § 5914(b).

 

  7. Check, and if appropriate, complete one of the following:

 

  x The amendment adopted by the corporation, set forth in full, is as follows

“1. The name of the corporation is: NWR, Inc.”

 

 

  ¨ The amendment adopted by the corporation is set forth in full in Exhibit A attached hereto and made a part hereof.

 

  8. Check if the amendment restates the Articles:

 

  ¨ The restated Articles of Incorporation supersede the original articles and all amendments thereto.

 

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the undersigned corporation has caused these Articles of Amendment to be signed by a duly authorized officer thereof this 15th day of April, 2003 .

Nationwide Recyclers’ Inc.

Name of Corporation

/s/ William T. Gallagher

Signature

Vice President & Secretary

Title
EX-3.X 23 d582401dex3x.htm EX-3.X EX-3.X

Exhibit 3.x

BY-LAWS

OF

NWR, INC.

ARTICLE I - OFFICES

1. The registered office of the corporation shall be at One Crown Way, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19154.

2. The corporation may also have offices at such other places as the Board of Directors may from time to time appoint or the business of the corporation may require.

ARTICLE II - SEAL

1. The corporation seal shall have inscribed thereon the name of the corporation, the year of its organization and the words “Corporate Seal, Pennsylvania”.

ARTICLE III - SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETING

1. Meetings of the shareholders shall be held at the registered office of the corporation or at such other place or places, either within or without the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as may from time to time be selected.

2. The annual meeting of the shareholders shall be held on the second Thursday of December in each year if not a legal holiday, and if a legal holiday, then on the next secular day following at 10 o’clock A.M., when they shall elect a Board of Directors, and transact such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting. If the annual meeting shall not be called and held during any calendar year, any shareholder may call such meeting at any time thereafter.

3. The presence, in person or by proxy, of shareholders entitled to cast at least a majority of the votes which all shareholders are entitled to cast on the particular matter shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of considering such matter, and unless otherwise provided by statute the acts, at a duly organized meeting, of the shareholders present, in person or by proxy, entitled to cast at least a majority of the votes which all shareholders present are entitled to cast shall be the acts of the shareholders. The shareholders present at a duly organized meeting can continue to do business until adjournment, notwithstanding the withdrawal of enough shareholders to leave less than a quorum. Adjournment or adjournments of any annual or special meeting may be taken, but any meeting at which directors are to be elected shall be adjourned only from day to day, or for such longer periods not exceeding fifteen days each, as may be directed by shareholders who are present in person or by proxy and who are entitled to cast at least a majority of the votes which all such shareholders would be entitled to cast at an election of directors until such directors have been elected. If a meeting cannot be organized because a quorum has not attended, those present may, except as otherwise provided by statute, adjourn the meeting to such time and place as they may determine, but in the case of any meeting called for the election of directors, those who attend the second of such adjourned meetings, although less than a quorum, shall nevertheless constiute a quorum for the purpose of electing directors.


4. Every shareholder entitled to vote at a meeting of shareholders, or to express consent or dissent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, may authorize another person or persons to act for him by proxy. Every proxy shall be executed in writing by the shareholders, or by his duly authorized attorney in fact, and filed with the Secretary of the corporation. A proxy, unless coupled with an interest, shall be revocable at will, notwithstanding any other agreement or any provision in the proxy to the contrary, but the revocation of a proxy shall not be effective until notice thereof has been given to the Secretary of the corporation. No unrevoked proxy shall be valid after eleven months from the date of its execution, unless a longer time is expressly provided therein, but in no event shall a proxy, unless coupled with an interest, be voted on after three years from the date of its execution. A proxy shall not be revoked by the death or incapacity of the maker unless before the vote is counted or the authority is exercised, written notice of such death or incapacity is given to the Secretary of the corporation. A shareholder shall not sell his vote or execute a proxy to any person for any sum of money or anything of value. A proxy coupled with an interest shall include an unrevoked proxy in favor of a creditor of a shareholder and such proxy shall be valid so long as the debt owed by him to the creditor remains unpaid. Elections for directors need not be by ballot, except upon demand made by a shareholder at the election and before the voting begins. Except as otherwise provided in the Articles, in each election of directors cumulative voting shall be allowed. No share shall be voted at any meeting upon which any installment is due and unpaid.

5. Written notice of the annual meeting shall be given to each shareholder entitled to vote thereat, at least ten days prior to the meeting.

6. In advance of any meeting of shareholders, the Board of Directors may appoint judges of election, who need not be shareholders, to act at such meeting or any adjournment thereof. If judges of election be not so appointed, the chairman of any such meeting may, and on the request of any shareholder or his proxy shall, make such appointment at any meeting. The number of judges shall be one or three. If appointed at a meeting on the request of one or more shareholders or proxies, the majority of shares present and entitled to vote shall determine whether one or three judges are to be appointed. On request of the chairman of the meeting, or of any shareholder or his proxy, the judges shall make a report in writing of any challenge or question or matter determined by them, and execute a certificate of any fact found by them. No person who is a candidate for office shall act as a judge.

7. Special meetings of the shareholders may be called at any time by the President, or the Board of Directors, or shareholders entitled to cast at least one-fifth of the votes which all shareholders are entitled to cast at the particular meeting. At any time, upon written request of any person or persons who have duly called a special meeting, it shall be the duty of the Secretary to fix the date of the meeting, to be held not more than sixty days after the receipt of the request, and to give due notice thereof. If the Secretary shall neglect or refuse to fix the date of the meeting and give notice thereof, the person or persons calling the meeting may do so.

 

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8. Business transacted at all special meetings shall be confined to the objects stated in the call and matters germane thereto, unless all shareholders entitled to vote are present and consent.

9. Written notice of a special meeting of the shareholders stating the time and place and object thereof, shall be given to each shareholder entitled to vote thereat at least ten days before such meeting, unless a greater period of notice is required by statute in a particular case.

10. The officer or agent having charge of the transfer books shall make at least five days before each meeting of shareholders, a complete list of the shareholders entitled to vote at the meeting, arranged in alphabetical order, with the address of and the number of shares held by each, which list shall be subject to inspection by any shareholder at any time during usual business hours. Such list shall also be produced and kept open at the time and place of the meeting, and shall be subject to the inspection of any shareholder during the whole time of the meeting. The original share ledger or transfer book, or a duplicate thereof kept in this Commonwealth, shall be prima facie evidence as to who are the shareholders entitled to examine such list or share ledger or transfer book, or to vote in person or by proxy, at any meeting of shareholders.

ARTICLE IV - DIRECTORS

1. The business of this corporation shall be managed by its Board of Directors, three in number. The directors need not be residents of this Commonwealth or shareholders in the corporation. They shall be elected by the shareholders at the annual meeting of shareholders of the corporation, and each director shall be elected for the term of one year, and until his successor shall be elected and shall qualify. Whenever all of the shares of the corporation are owned beneficially and of record by either one or two shareholders, the number of directors may be less than three but not less than the number of shareholders. Whenever there are three or more shareholders, there must be at least three directors.

2. In addition to the powers and authorities by these By-Laws expressly conferred upon them, the Board may exercise all such powers of the corporation and do all such lawful acts and things as are not by statute or by the Articles or by these By-Laws directed or required to be exercised or done by the shareholders.

3. The meetings of the Board of Directors may be held at such place within this Commonwealth, or elsewhere, as a majority of the directors may from time to time appoint, or as may be designated in the notice calling the meeting.

4. Each newly elected Board may meet at such place and time as shall be fixed by the shareholders at the meeting at which such directors are elected and no notice shall be necessary to the newly elected directors in order legally to constitute the meeting, or they may meet at such place and time as may be fixed by the consent in writing of all the directors.

 

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5. Regular meetings of the Board shall be held without notice at the registered office of the corporation, or at such other time and place as shall be determined by the Board.

6. Special meetings of the Board may be called by the President on two days’ notice to each director, either personally or by mail or by telegram; special meetings shall be called by the President or Secretary in like manner and on like notice on the written request of a majority of the directors in office.

7. A majority of the directors in office shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and the acts of a majority of the directors present at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the acts of the Board of Directors. Any action which may be taken at a meeting of the directors may be taken without a meeting if a consent or consents in writing„ setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by all of the directors and shall be filed with the Secretary of the corporation.

8. Directors as such, shall not receive any stated salary for their services, but by resolution of the Board, a fixed sum and expenses of attendance, if any, may be allowed for attendance at each regular or special meeting of the Board PROVIDED, that nothing herein contained shall be constured to preclude any director from serving the corporation in any other capacity and receiving compensation therefor.

ARTICLE V - OFFICERS

1. The executive officers of the corporation shall be chosen by the directors and shall be a President, Secretary and Treasurer. The Board of Directors may also choose a Vice President, and such other officers and agents as it shall deem necessary, who shall hold their offices for such terms and shall have such authority and shall perform such duties as from time to time shall be prescribed by the Board. Any number of offices may be held by the same person. It shall not be necessary for the officers to be directors.

2. The salaries of all officers and agents of the corporation shall be fixed by the Board of Directors.

3. The officers of the corporation shall hold office for one year and until their successors are chosen and have qualified. Any officer or agent elected or appointed by the Board may be removed by the Board of Directors whenever in its judgment the best interests of the corporation will be served thereby.

4. The President shall be the chief executive officer of the corporation; he shall preside at all meetings of the shareholders and directors; he shall have general and active management of the business of the corporation, shall see that all orders and resolutions of the Board are carried into effect, subject, however, to the right of the directors to delegate any

 

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specific powers, except such as may be by statute exclusively conferred on the President, to any other officer or officers of the corporation. He shall execute bonds, mortgages and other contracts requiring a seal, under the seal of the corporation. He shall be EX-OFFICIO a member of all committees, and shall have the general powers and duties of supervision and management usually vested in the office of the President or a corporation.

5. The Secretary shall attend all sessions of the Board and all meetings of the shareholders and act as clerk thereof, and record all the votes of the corporation and the minutes of all its transactions in a book to be kept for that purpose; and shall perform like duties for all committees of the Board of Directors when required. He shall give, or cause to be given, notice of all meetings of the shareholders and of the Board of Directors, and shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors or President, and under whose supervision he shall be. He shall keep in safe custody the corporate seal of the corporation, and when authorized by the Board, affix the same to any instrument requiring it.

6. The Treasurer shall have custody of the corporate funds and securities and shall keep full and accurate accounts of receipts and disbursements in books belonging to the corporation, and shall keep the money of the corporation in a separate account to the credit of the corporation. He shall disburse the funds of the corporation as may be ordered by the Board, taking proper vouchers for such disbursements, and shall render to the President and directors, at the regular meetings of the Board, or whenever they may require it, an account of all his transactions as Treasurer and of the financial condition of the corporation.

ARTICLE VI - VACANCIES

1. If the office of any officer or agent, one or more, becomes vacant for any reason, the Board of Directors may choose a successor or successors, who shall hold office for the unexpired term in respect of which such vacancy occurred.

2. Vacancies in the Board of Directors, including vacancies resulting from an increase in the number of directors, shall be filled by a majority of the remaining members of the Board though less than a quorum, and each person so elected shall be a director until his successor is elected by the shareholders, who may make such election at the next annual meeting of the shareholders or at any special meeting duly called for that purpose and held prior thereto.

ARTICLE VII - CORPORATE RECORDS

1. There shall be kept at the registered office or principal place of business of the corporation an original or duplicate record of the proceedings of the shareholders and of the directors, and the original or a copy if its By-Laws, including all amendments or alterations thereto to date, certified by the Secretary of the corporation. An original or duplicate share register shall also be kept at the registered office or principal place of business or at the office of a transfer agent or registrar, giving the names of the shareholders, their respective addresses and the names of the shareholders, their respective addresses and the number and classes of shares held by each.

 

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2. Every shareholder shall, upon written demand under oath stating the purpose thereof, have a right to examine, in person or by agent or attorney, during the usual hours for business for any proper purpose, the share register, books or records of account, and records of the proceedings of the shareholders and directors, and make copies or extracts therefrom. A proper purpose shall mean a purpose reasonably related to such person’s interest as a shareholder. In every instance where an attorney or other agent shall be the person who seeks the right to inspection, the demand under oath shall be accompanied by a power of attorney or such other writing which authorizes the attorney or other agent to so act on behalf of the shareholder. The demand under oath shall be directed to the corporation at its registered office in this Commnwealth or at its principal place of busines.

ARTICLE VIII - SHARE CERTIFICATES, DIVIDENDS, ETC.

1. The share certificates of the corporation shall be numbered and registered in the share ledger and transfer books of the corporation as they are issued. They shall bear the corporate seal and shall be signed by the President or Vice President and the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the corporation.

2. Transfer of shares shall be made on the books of the corporation upon surrender of the certificates therefor, endorsed by the person named in the certificate or by attorney, lawfully constituted in writing. No transfer shall be made which is inconsistent with law.

3. The Board of Directors may fix a time, not more than fifty days, prior to the date of any meeting of shareholders, or the date fixed for the payment of any dividend or distribution, or the date for the allotment or rights, or the date when any change or conversion or exchange of shares will be made or go into effect, as a record date for the determination of the shareholders entitled to notice of, or to vote at, any such meeting, or entitled to receive payment of any such dividend or distribution, or to receive any such allotment of rights, or to exercise the rights in respect to any such change, conversion, or exchange of shares. In such case, only such shareholders as shall be shareholders of record on the date so fixed shall be entitled to notice of, or to vote at, such meeting or to receive payment of such dividend, or to receive such allotment of rights, or to exercise such rights, as the case may be, notwithstanding any transfer of any shares on the books of the corporation after any record date fixed as aforesaid. The Board of Directors may close the books of the corporation against transfers of shares during the whole or any part of such period, and in such case, written or printed notice thereof shall be mailed at least ten days before the closing thereof to each shareholder or record at the address appearing on the records of the corporation or supplied by him to the corporation for the purpose of notice. While the stock transfer books of the corporation are closed, no transfer of shares shall be made thereon. If no record date is fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive notice of, or vote at, a shareholders’ meeting, transferees of shares which are transferred on the books of the corporation within ten days next preceding the date of such meeting shall not be entitled to notice of or to vote at such meeting.

 

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4. In the event that a share certificate shall be lost, destroyed or mutilated, a new certificate may be issued therefor upon such terms and indemnity to the corporation as the Board of Directors may prescribe.

5. The Board of Directors may declare any pay dividends upon the outstanding shares of the corporation, from time to time and to such extent as they deem advisable, in the manner and upon the terms and conditions provided by statute and the Articles of Incorporation.

6. Before payment of any dividend there may be set aside out of the net profits of the corporation such sum or sums as the directors, from time to time, in their absolute discretion, think proper as a reserve fund to meet contingencies, or for equalizing dividends, or for repairing or maintaining any property of the corporation, or for such other purpose as the directors shall think conducive to the interests of the corporation, and the directors may abolish any such reserve in the manner in which it was created.

ARTICLE IX - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

1. All checks or demands for money and notes of the corporation shall be signed by such officer or officers as the Board of Directors may from time to time designate.

2. The fiscal year of the corporation shall begin on the first day of January each year.

3. Whenever written notice is required to be given to any person, it may be given to such person, either personally or by sending a copy thereof through the mail, or by telegram, charges prepaid, to his address appearing on the books of the corporation, or supplied by him to the corporation for the purpose of notice. If the notice is sent by mail or by telegraph, it shall be deemed to have been given to the person entitled thereto when deposited in the United States mail or with a telegraph office for transmission to such person. Such notice shall specify the place, day and hour of the meeting and, in the case of a special meeting of shareholders, the general nature of the business to be transacted.

4. Whenever any written notice is required by statute, or by the Articles or By-Laws of this corporation, a waiver thereof in writing, signed by the person or persons entitled to such notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent to the giving of such notice. Except in the case of a special meeting of shareholders, neither the business to be transacted at nor the purpose of the meeting need be specified in the waiver of notice of such meeting. Attendance of a person, either in person or by proxy, at any meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except where a person attends a meeting for the purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business because the meeting was not lawfully called or convened.

5. One or more directors or shareholders may participate in a meeting of the Board, or a committee of the Board or of the shareholders, by means of conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other.

 

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6. Except as otherwise provided in the Articles or By-Laws of this corporation, any action which may be taken at a meeting of the shareholders or of a class of shareholders may be taken without a meeting, if a consent or consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by all of the shareholders who would be entitled to vote at a meeting for such purpose and shall be fixed with the Secretary of the corporation.

7. Any payments made to an officer or employee of the corporation such as a salary, commission, bonus, interest, rent, travel or entertainment expense incurred by him, which shall be disallowed in whole or in part as a deductible expense by the Internal Revenue Service, shall be reimbursed by such officer or employee to the corporation to the full extent of such disallowance. It shall be the duty of the directors, as a Board, to enforce payment of each such amount disallowed. In lieu of payment by the officer or employee, subject to the determination of the directors, proportionate amounts may be withheld from his future compensation payments until the amount owed to the corporation has been recovered.

ARTICLE X - ANNUAL STATEMENT

1. The President and Board of Directors shall present at each annual meeting a full and complete statement of the business and affairs of the corporation for the preceding year. Such statement shall be prepared and presented in whatever manner the Board of Directors shall deem advisable and need not be verified by a certified public accountant.

ARTICLE XI - AMENDMENTS

1. These By-Laws may be amended or repealed by the vote of shareholders entitled to cast at least a majority of the votes which all shareholders are entitled to cast thereon, at any regular or special meeting of the shareholders, duly convened after notice to the shareholders of that purpose.

 

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EX-3.Y 24 d582401dex3y.htm EX-3.Y EX-3.Y

Exhibit 3.y

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY (USA), INC.

1. Name. The name of the Corporation is Crown Cork & Seal Company (USA), Inc,.

2. Registered Office and Accent. The address of the Corporation’s registered office in the State of Delaware is 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle. The name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.

3. Purpose. The purposes for which the Corporation is formed are to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of Delaware and to possess and exercise all of the powers and privileges granted by such law and any other law of Delaware.

4. Authorized Capital. The aggregate number of shares of stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is One Thousand (1000) shares, all of which are of one class and are designated as Common Stock and each of which has a par value of One Cent ($.01).

5. Incorporator. The name and mailing address of the incorporator are Nikki Gold, 4000 Bell Atlantic Tower, 1717 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-2793.

6. Bylaws. The board of directors of the Corporation is authorized to adopt, amend or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation, except as otherwise specifically provided therein.

7. Elections of Directors. Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless the bylaws of the Corporation shall so provide.

8. Right to Amend. The Corporation reserves the right to amend any provision contained in this Certificate as the same may from time to time be in effect in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by law, and all rights conferred on stockholders or others hereunder are subject to such reservation.

9. Limitation on Liability. The directors of the Corporation shall be entitled to the benefits of all limitations on the liability of directors generally that are now or hereafter become available under the General Corporation Law of Delaware. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, no director of the Corporation shall be liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (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 Delaware General Corporation Law, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. Any repeal or modification of this Section 9 shall be prospective only, and shall not affect:, to the detriment of any director, any limitation on the personal liability of a director of the Corporation existing at the time of such repeal or modification.


Dated: December 17, 1996

 

/s/ Nikki Gold
Nikki Gold, Incorporator

 

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CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

OF

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY (USA), INC.

Crown Cork & Seal Company (USA), Inc., a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “Company”), does hereby certify:

FIRST: That a Certificate of Incorporation of the Company was filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on December 17, 1996.

SECOND: That by written consent of the board of directors dated November 3, 2003, a resolution was duly adopted setting forth a proposed amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, declaring said amendment to be advisable and calling for consideration of said proposed amendment by the stockholders of the Company. The resolution setting forth the amendment is as follows:

RESOLVED, that it is hereby proposed that Article FIRST of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company be amended so that the same as amended would read as follows:

FIRST: The name of the Corporation is “CROWN Cork & Seal USA, Inc.”

THIRD: That thereafter, pursuant to the resolution of the board of directors, the proposed amendment was approved by the stockholders of the Company by written consent dated November 3, 2003.

FOURTH: That this Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Incorporation shall be effective on January 1, 2004.

FIFTH: That said amendment was duly adopted in, accordance with the provisions of Section 242 and 228 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Certificate to be executed by Frank J. Mechura, its President and Chief Executive Officer, this 3rd day of November, 2003.

 

CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY (USA), INC.
By:   /s/ Frank J. Mechura
 

Frank J. Mechura

President & Chief Executive Officer

 

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EX-3.Z 25 d582401dex3z.htm EX-3.Z EX-3.Z

Exhibit 3.z

BYLAWS

OF

CROWN CORK & SEAL USA, INC.

ARTICLE I

STOCKHOLDERS

1.1 Meetings.

1.1.1. Place. Meetings of the stockholders shall be held at such place as may be designated by the board of directors.

1.1.2. Annual Meeting. An annual meeting of the stockholders for the election of directors and for other business shall be held on such date and at such time as may be fixed by the board of directors.

1.1.3. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the stockholders may be called at any time by the president, or the board of directors, or the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of stock of the Company entitled to vote at the meeting.

1.1.4. Quorum, The presence, in person or by proxy, of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of stock of the Company entitled to vote on a particular matter shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of considering such matter.

1.1.5. Voting Rights. Except as otherwise provided herein, in the certificate of incorporation or by law, every stockholder shall have the right at every meeting of stockholders to one vote for every share standing in the name of such stockholder on the books of the Company which is entitled to vote at such meeting. Every stockholder may vote either in person or by proxy.

ARTICLE II

DIRECTORS

2.1 Number and Term. The board of directors shall have authority to (i) determine the number of directors to constitute the board and (ii) fix the terms of office of the directors.

2.2 Meetings.

2.2.1. Place. Meetings of the board of directors shall be held at such place as may be designated by the board or in the notice of the meeting.

2.2.2. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the board of directors shall be held at such times as the board may designate. Notice of regular meetings need not be given.


2.2.3. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the board may be called by direction of the President or any two members of the board on three days’ notice to each director, either personally or by mail, telegram or facsimile transmission.

2.2.4. Quorum. A majority of all the directors in office shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting.

2.2.5. Voting. Except as otherwise provided herein, in the certificate of incorporation or by law, the vote of a majority of-the directors present shall constitute the act of the board of directors.

2.2.6. Committees. The board of directors may, by resolution adopted by a majority of the whole board, designate one or more committees, each committee to consist of one or more directors and such alternate members (also directors) as may be designated by the board. Unless otherwise provided herein, in the absence or disqualification of any 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 director to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member. Except as otherwise provided herein, in the certificate of incorporation or by law, any such committee shall have and may exercise the powers of the full board of directors to the extent provided in the resolution of the board directing the committee.

ARTICLE III

OFFICERS

3.1 Election. At its first meeting after each annual meeting of the stockholders, the board of directors shall elect a president, treasurer, secretary and such other officers as it deems advisable.

3.2 Authority, Duties and Compensation. The officers shall have such authority, perform such duties and serve for such compensation as may be determined by resolution of the board of directors. Except as otherwise provided by board resolution, (i) the president shall be the chief executive officer of the Company, shall have general supervision over the business and operations of the Company, may perform any act and exercise any instrument for the conduct of such business and operations and shall preside at all meetings of the board and stockholders, (ii) the other officers shall have the duties customarily related to their respective offices, and (iii) any vice president, or vice presidents in the order determined by the board, shall in the absence of the president have the authority and perform the duties of the president.

ARTICLE IV

INDEMNIFICATION

4.1 Right to Indemnification. The Company shall indemnify any person who was or is party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (a “proceeding”), by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the Company or a constituent corporation absorbed in a consolidation or merger, or is or was serving at the request of the

 

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Company or a constituent corporation absorbed in a consolidation or merger, as a director or officer of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, or is or was a director or officer of the Company serving at its request as an administrator, trustee or other Fiduciary of one or more of the employee benefit plans of the Company or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), liability and loss actually and reasonably incurred or suffered by such person in connection with such proceeding, whether or not the indemnified liability arises or arose from any threatened, pending or completed proceeding by or in the right of the Company, except to the extent that such indemnification is prohibited by applicable law.

4.2 Advance of Expenses. Expenses incurred by a director or officer of the Company in defending a proceeding shall be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of such proceeding subject to the provisions of any applicable statute.

4.3 Procedure for Determining Permissibility. To determine whether any indemnification or advance of expenses under this Article 1V is permissible, the board of directors by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors not parties to such proceeding may, and on request of any person seeking indemnification or advance of expenses shall be required to, determine in each case whether the applicable standards in any applicable statute have been met, or such determination shall be made by independent legal counsel if such quorum is not obtainable, or even if obtainable, a majority vote of a quorum of disinterested directors so directs, provided that, if there has been a change in control of the Company between the time of the action or failure to act giving rise to the claim for indemnification or advance of expenses and the time such claim is made, at the option of the person seeking indemnification or advance or expenses, the permissibility of indemnification or advance of expenses shall be determined by independent legal counsel. The reasonable expenses of any director or officer in prosecuting a successful claim for indemnification, and the fees and expenses of any special legal counsel engaged to determine permissibility of indemnification or advance of expenses, shall be borne by the Company.

4.4 Contractual Obligation. The obligations of the Company to indemnify a director or officer under this Article IV, including the duty to advance expenses, shall be considered a contract between the Company and such director or officer, and no modification or repeal of any provision of this Article 1V shall affect, to the detriment of the director or officer, such obligations of the Company in connection with a claim based on any act or failure to act occurring before such modification or repeal.

4.5 Indemnification Not Exclusive; Inuring of Benefit. The indemnification and advance of expenses provided by this Article IV shall not be deemed exclusive of any other right to which one indemnified maybe entitled under any statute, provision of the Certificate of Incorporation, these bylaws, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in such person’s official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of any such person.

4.6 Insurance and Other Indemnification. The board of directors shall have the power to (i) authorize the Company to purchase and maintain, at the Company’s expense, insurance on behalf of the Company and on behalf of others to the extent that power to do so has not been prohibited by statute, (ii) create any fund of any name, whether or not under the control of a trustee, or otherwise secure any of its indemnification obligations, and (iii) give other indemnification to the extent permitted by statute.

 

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ARTICLE V

TRANSFER OF SHARE CERTIFICATES

Transfers of share certificates and the shares represented thereby shall be made on the books of the Company only by the registered holder or by duly authorized attorney. Transfers shall be made only on surrender of the share certificate or certificates.

ARTICLE VI

AMENDMENTS

These bylaws may be amended or repealed at any regular or special meeting of the board of directors by vote of a majority of all directors in office or at any annual or special meeting of stockholders by vote of holders of a majority of the outstanding stock entitled to vote. Notice of any such annual or special meeting of stockholders shall set forth the proposed change or a summary thereof.

 

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EX-3.AA 26 d582401dex3aa.htm EX-3.AA EX-3.AA

Exhibit 3.aa

RESTATED

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

RISDON CORPORATION

The original Certificate of Incorporation of Risdon Corporation was filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on February 11, 1980. Pursuant to Sections 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation restates and integrates and further amends the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation of this corporation.

FIRST: The name of the Corporation is “Risdon Corporation”.

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

THIRD: The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations now or hereafter shall be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

FOURTH: The total number of shares of stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is one thousand, all of which are to be without par value.

FIFTH: The name and address of the incorporator is Robert O. Barberi, P.O. Box 520, Naugatuck, Connecticut 06770.

SIXTH: The bylaws of the Corporation may be made, altered, amended, changed, added to or repealed by the Board of Directors without assent or vote of the stockholders.

SEVENTH: Any one or more directors may be removed, with or without cause, by the vote or written consent of the holders of a majority of the issued and outstanding shares of stock of the Corporation.

EIGHTH: Elections of directors need not be by ballot unless and to the extent that the bylaws so provide.

NINTH: A Director of the Corporation shall not be liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law as the same exists or may hereafter be amended. No repeal or modification of the foregoing provisions of this Article NINTH nor, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any modifications of law, shall adversely affect any right or protection of a Director of the Corporation existing at the time of such repeal or modification.

TENTH: The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this Certificate of Incorporation in any manner permitted by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as amended from time to time, and all rights and powers conferred herein on stockholders, directors and officers, if any, are subject to this reservation.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Risdon Corporation this 21st day of October, 1992.

 

        RISDON CORPORATION
    By:   /s/ Paul J. Holderith
      President
ATTEST:      

/s/ Robert O. Barberi

     

Secretary

     


CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

OF

RESTATED CERTIFICATE

OF INCORPORATION

OF

RISDON CORPORATION

RISDON CORPORATION, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “Company”), does hereby certify:

FIRST: That a Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company was filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on December 17, 1992.

SECOND: That by written consent of the board of directors dated May 28, 1997, a resolution was duly adopted setting forth a proposed amendment to the Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, declaring said amendment to be advisable and calling for consideration of said proposed amendment by the stockholders of the Company. The resolution setting forth the amendment is as follows:

RESOLVED, that it is hereby proposed that Article FIRST of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company be amended so that the same as amended would read as follows:

FIRST: The name of the Corporation is “Risdon/AMS (USA), Inc.”

THIRD: That thereafter, pursuant to the resolution of the board of directors, the proposed amendment was approved by the stockholders of the Company by written consent dated May 28, 1997.

FOURTH: That said amendment was duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of Section 242 and 228 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Certificate to be executed by Rick H. Schofield, its President, this 28th day of May, 1997.

 

RISDON CORPORATION

By:   /s/ Rick H. Schofield
  Rick H. Schofield
  President


CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION FILED TO CORRECT

A CERTAIN ERROR IN THE

CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

OF

RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF RISDON/AMS (USA),

FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF

STATE OF DELAWARE ON MAY 29, 1997

Risdon/AMS (USA), Inc., a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware,

DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:

1. The name of the corporation is Risdon/AMS (USA), Inc.

2. That a Certificate of Amendment was filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on May 29, 1997 and that said Certificate requires correction as permitted by Section 103 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

3. The inaccuracy or defect of said Certificate to be corrected is in the listing of the first board of directors of the corporation.

4 The new name of the corporation was incorrectly stated as:

Risdon\AMS (USA), Inc.

Article Second was incorrectly stated and should be corrected as follows:

SECOND: That by written consent of the board of directors dated May 28, 1997. a resolution was duly adopted setting forth a proposed amendment to the Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, declaring said amendment to be advisable and calling for consideration of said proposed amendment by the stockholders of the Company. The resolution setting forth the amendment is as follows:

RESOLVED, That it is hereby proposed that Article FIRST of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company be amended so that the same as amended would read as follows:

FIRST: The name of the corporations is “Risdon-AMS (USA), Inc.”

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, said Risdon/AMS (USA), Inc. has caused this Certificate to be signed by William T. Gallagher, its Assistant Secretary, this 8th day of July, 1997.

 

RISDON/AMS (USA), INC.

By:   /s/ Rick H. Schofield
  Name: Rick H. Schofield
  Title:   President


CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

OF

RESTATED CERTFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

RISDON-AMS (USA), INC.

Risdon-AMS (USA), Inc., a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “Company”), does hereby certify:

FIRST: That a Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company was filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on December 17, 1992.

SECOND: That by written consent of the board of directors dated November 3, 2003, a resolution was duly adopted setting forth a proposed amendment to the Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, declaring said amendment to be advisable and calling for consideration of said proposed amendment by the stockholders of the Company. The resolution setting forth the amendment is as follows:

RESOLVED, that it is hereby proposed that Article FIRST of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company be amended so that the same as amended would read as follows:

FIRST: The name of the Corporation is “CROWN Risdon USA, Inc.”.

THIRD: That thereafter, pursuant to the resolution of the board of directors, the proposed amendment was approved by the stockholders of the Company by written consent dated November 3, 2003.

FOURTH: That this Certificate of Amendment of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation shall be effective on January 1, 2004.

FIFTH: That said amendment was duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of Section 242 and 228 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Certificate to be executed by Stephen Pearlman, its President, this 31st day of November, 2003.

 

RISDON-AMS (USA), INC.

By:   /s/ Stephen Pearlman
  Stephen Pearlman
  President


CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

OF

RESTATED CERTFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

CROWN RISDON USA, INC.

CROWN Risdon USA, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “Company”), does hereby certify:

FIRST: That a Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company was filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on December 11, 2003.

SECOND: That by written consent of the board of directors dated February 6th, 2007, a resolution was duly adopted setting forth a proposed amendment to the Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, declaring said amendment to be advisable and calling for consideration of said proposed amendment by the stockholders of the Company. The resolution setting forth the amendment is as follows:

RESOLVED, that it is hereby proposed that Article FIRST of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company be amended so that the same as amended would read as follows:

FIRST: The name of the Corporation is “CR USA, Inc.”

THIRD: That thereafter, pursuant to the resolution of the board of directors, the proposed amendment was approved by the stockholders of the Company by written consent dated February 6th, 2007.

FOURTH: That this Certificate of Amendment of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation shall be effective upon filing.

FIFTH: That said amendment was duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of Section 242 and 228 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Certificate to be executed by William T. Gallagher, its Vice President & Secretary, this 6th day of February, 2007.

 

CR USA, Inc.
By:   /s/ William T. Gallagher
  William T. Gallagher
  Vice President and Secretary
EX-3.BB 27 d582401dex3bb.htm EX-3.BB EX-3.BB

Exhibit 3.bb

CR USA, Inc.

BYLAWS

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ARTICLE I

STOCKHOLDERS

SECTION 1.1. Annual Meetings. An annual meeting of stockholders to elect directors and transact such other business as may properly be presented to the meeting shall be held on such date during the month of February in each year as shall be fixed by the Board of Directors, at such time and at such place, within or without the State of Delaware, as shall be determined by the Board of Directors.

SECTION 1.2. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the stockholders may be called at any time by the Board of Directors, its Chairman, the Executive Committee, if any, or the President and shall be called by any of them or by the Secretary upon receipt of a written request to do so specifying the matter or matters, appropriate for action at such a meeting, proposed to be presented at the meeting and signed by holders of record of a majority of the shares of stock that would be entitled to be voted on such matter or matters if the meeting were held on the day such request is received and the record date for such meeting were the close of business on the preceding day. Any such meeting shall be held at such time and at such place, within or without the State of Delaware, as shall be determined by the body or person calling such meeting.

SECTION 1.3. Notice of Meeting. For each meeting of stock- holders written notice shall be given stating the place, date and hour and, in the case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called and, if the list of stock- holders required by Section 1.9 is not to be at such place at least 10 days prior to the meeting, the place where such list will be. Except as otherwise provided by Delaware law, the written notice of any meeting shall be given not less than 10 days nor more than 60 days before the date of the meeting to each stock- holder entitled to vote at such meeting. If mailed, notice shall be deemed to be given when deposited in the United States mail, postage prepaid, directed to the stockholder at his address as it appears on the records of the Corporation.

SECTION 1.4. Quorum. Except as otherwise required by Delaware law or the Certificate of Incorporation, the holders of record of a majority of the shares of stock entitled to be voted present in person or represented by proxy at a meeting shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at the meeting, but in the absence of a quorum the holders of record present or represented by proxy at such meeting may vote to adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum is obtained. At any such adjourned session of the meeting at which there shall be present or represented the holders of record of the requisite number of shares, any business may be transacted that might have been transacted at the meeting as originally called.


SECTION 1.5. Chairman and Secretary at Meeting. At each meeting of stockholders the Chairman of the Board, or in his absence the person designated in writing by the Chairman of the Board, or if no person is so designed, then a person designated by the Board of Directors, shall preside as chairman of the meeting; if no person is so designated, then the meeting shall choose a chairman by plurality vote. The Secretary, or in his absence a person designated by the chairman of the meeting, shall act as secretary of the meeting.

SECTION 1.6. Voting; Proxies. Except as otherwise provided by Delaware law or the Certificate of Incorporation, and subject to the provisions of Section 1.10:

 

  (a) Each stockholder shall at every meeting of the stockholders be entitled to one vote for each share of capital stock held by him.

 

  (b) Each stockholder entitled to vote at a meeting of stockholders or to express consent or dissent to corporate action in writing without a meeting may authorize another person or persons to act for him by proxy, but no such proxy shall be voted or acted upon after three years from its date, unless the proxy provides for a longer period.

 

  (c) Directors shall be elected by a plurality vote.

 

  (d) Each matter, other than election of directors, properly presented to any meeting shall be decided by a majority of the votes cast on the matter.

 

  (e) Election of directors and the vote on any other matter presented to a meeting shall be by written ballot only if so ordered by the chairman of the meeting or if so requested by any stockholder present or represented by proxy at the meeting entitled to vote in such election or on such matter, as the case may be.

SECTION 1.7. Adjourned Meetings. A meeting of stockholders may be adjourned to another time or place as provided in Section 1.4. Unless the Board of Directors fixes a new record date, stockholders of record for an adjourned meeting shall be as originally determined for the meeting from which the adjournment was taken. If the adjournment is for more than 30 days, or if after the adjournment a new record date is fixed for the adjourned meeting, a notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to vote. At the adjourned meeting any business maybe transacted that might have been transacted at the meeting as originally called.

SECTION 1.8. Consent of Stockholders in Lieu of Meeting. Any action that may be taken at any annual or special meeting of stockholders may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by the holders of outstanding stock having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all shares entitled to vote thereon were present and voted. Notice of the taking of such action shall be given promptly to each stockholder that would have been entitled to vote thereon at a meeting of stockholders and that did not consent thereto in writing.


SECTION 1.9. List of Stockholders Entitled to Vote. At least 10 days before every meeting of stockholders a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, arranged in alphabetical order and showing the address of each stockholder and the number of shares registered in the name of each stockholder, shall be prepared and shall be open to the examination of any stockholder for any purpose germane to the meeting, during ordinary business hours, for a period of at least 10 days prior to the meeting, either at a place within the city where the meeting is to be held, which place shall be specified in the notice of the meeting, or, if not so specified, at the place where the meeting is to be held. Such list shall be produced and kept at the time and place of the meeting during the whole time thereof and may be inspected by any stockholder who is present.

SECTION 1.10. Fixing of Record Date. (a) For the purpose of determining the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, the Board of Directors 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 of Directors, and which record date shall not be more than sixty nor less than ten days before the date of such meeting. If no record date is fixed by the Board of Directors, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall be at the close of business on the date next preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held.

 

  (b) For the purpose of determining the stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, the Board of Directors 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 of Directors, and which date shall not be more than ten days after the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board of Directors. If no record date has been fixed by the Board of Directors, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, when no prior action by the Board of Directors is required by law, 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 Corpora- livery to its registered office in the State of Delaware, its principal place of business, or an officer or agent of the Corporation having custody of the book in which proceedings of meetings of stockholders are recorded. If no record date has been fixed by the Board of Directors and prior action by the Board of Directors is required by law, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board of Directors adopts the resolution taking such prior action.

 

  (c) For the purpose of determining the stockholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights or the stockholders entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock, or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the Board of Directors may fix 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 sixty 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 of Directors adopts the resolution relating thereto.


ARTICLE II

DIRECTORS

SECTION 2.1. Number; Term of Office; Qualifications; Vacancies. The number of directors that shall constitute the whole Board of Directors shall be determined by action of the Board of Directors taken by the affirmative vote of a majority of the whole Board of Directors. Directors shall be elected at the annual meeting of stockholders to hold office, subject to Sections 2.2 and 2.3, until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their respective successors are elected and qualified. Vacancies and newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized number of directors may be filled by a majority of the directors then in office, although less than a quorum, or by the sole remaining director, and the directors so chosen shall hold office, subject to Sections 2.2 and 2.3, until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their respective successors are elected and qualified.

SECTION 2.2. Resignation. Any director of the Corporation may resign at any time by giving written notice of such resignation to the Board of Directors, its Chairman, the President or the Secretary of the Corporation. Any such resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein or, if no time be specified, upon receipt thereof by the Board of Directors, its Chairman, or one of the above-named officers; and, unless specified therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective. When one or more directors shall resign from the Board of Directors effective at 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 these By-Laws in the filling of other vacancies.

SECTION 2.3. Removal. Any one or more directors may be removed, with or without cause, by the vote or written consent of the holders of a majority of the shares entitled to vote at an election of directors.

SECTION 2.4. Regular and Annual Meetings; Notice. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held at such time and at such place, within or without the State of Delaware, as the Board of Directors may from time to time prescribe. No notice need be given of any regular meeting, and a notice, if given, need not specify the purpose thereof. A meeting of the Board of Directors may be held without notice immediately after an annual meeting of stockholders at the same place as that at which such meeting was held.

SECTION 2.5. Special Meetings; Notice. A special meeting of the Board of Directors may be called at any time by the Board of Directors, its Chairman, the Executive Committee, if any, the President or any person acting in the place of the President and shall be called by any one of them or by the Secretary upon receipt of a written request to do so specifying the matter or matters, appropriate for action at such a meeting, proposed to be


presented at the meeting and signed by at least one director. Any such meeting shall be held at such time and at such place, within or without the State of Delaware, as shall be determined by the body or person calling such meeting. Notice of such meeting stating the time and place thereof shall be given (a) by deposit of the notice in the United States mail, first class, postage prepaid, at least two days before the day fixed for the meeting addressed to each director at his address as it appears on the Corporation’s records or at such other address as the director may have furnished the Corporation for that purpose, or (b) by delivery of the notice similarly addressed for dispatch by telegraph, cable or radio or by delivery of the notice by telephone or in person, in each case at least 24 hours before the time fixed for the meeting.

SECTION 2.6. Chairman of the Board; Presiding Officer and Secretary at Meeting. The Board of Directors may elect one of its members to serve at its pleasure as Chairman of the Board. Each meeting of the Board of Directors shall be presided over by the Chairman of the Board or in his absence by the President, if a director, or if neither present by such member of the Board of Directors as shall be chosen by the meeting. The Secretary, or in his absence an Assistant Secretary, shall act as secretary of the meeting, or if no such officer is present, a secretary of the meeting shall be designated by the person presiding over the meeting.

SECTION 2.7. Quorum. A majority of the whole Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but in the absence of a quorum a majority of those present (or if only one be present, then that one) may adjourn the meeting, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until such time as a quorum is present. Except as otherwise required by the Certificate of Incorporation or the By-Laws, the vote of the majority of the directors present at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the Board of Directors.

SECTION 2.8. Meeting by Telephone. Members of the Board of Directors or of any committee thereof may participate in meetings of the Board of Directors or of such committee by means of conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and such participation shall constitute presence in person at such meeting.

SECTION 2.9. Action Without Meeting. Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation, any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board of Directors or of any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting if all members of the Board of Directors or of such committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing and the writing or writings are filed with the minutes of proceedings of the Board of Directors or of such committee.

SECTION 2.10. Executive and Other Committees. The Board of Directors may, by resolution passed by a majority of the whole Board of Directors, designate an Executive Committee and one or more other committees, each such committee to consist of one or more directors as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine Any such committee, to the extent provided in such resolution or resolutions, shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, including the power to authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers that may require it but no such committee shall have such power or authority in reference


to amending the Certificate of Incorporation, adopting an agreement of merger or consolidation, recommending to the stockholders the sale, lease or exchange of all or substantially all of the Corporation’s property and assets, recommending to the stockholders a dissolution of the Corporation or a revocation of a dissolution, or amending the By-Laws; and unless the resolution shall expressly so provide, no such committee shall have the power or authority to declare a dividend or to authorize the issuance of stock. 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 he or they constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the Board of Directors to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member. Each such committee other than the Executive Committee shall have such name as may be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors.

SECTION 2.11. Compensation. A director shall receive such compensation, if any, for his service as a director as may from time to time be fixed by the Board of Directors, which compensation may be based, in whole or in part, upon his attendance at meetings of the Board of Directors or of its committees. He may also be reimbursed for his expenses in attending any meeting.

ARTICLE III

OFFICERS

SECTION 3.1. Election; Qualification. The officers of the Corporation shall be a President, a Secretary and a Treasurer, each of whom shall be elected by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may elect one or more Vice Presidents, a Controller, one or more Assistant Secretaries, one or more Assistant Treasurers, one or more Assistant Controllers and such other officers as it may from time to time determine. Two or more offices may be held by the same person.

SECTION 3.2. Term of Office. Each officer shall hold office from time of his election and qualification to the time at which his successor is elected and qualified, unless sooner he shall die or resign or shall be removed pursuant to Section 3.4.

SECTION 3.3. Resignation. Any officer of the Corporation may resign at any time by giving written notice of such resignation to the Board of Directors, its Chairman, the President or the Secretary of the Corporation. Any such resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein or, if no time be specified, upon receipt thereof by the Board of Directors, its chairman or one of the above-named officers; and, unless specified therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective.

SECTION 3.4. Removal. Any officer may be removed at any time, with or without cause, by the vote of a majority of the whole Board of Directors.

SECTION 3.5. Vacancies. Any vacancy, however caused, in any office of the Corporation may be filled by the Board of Directors.

SECTION 3.6. Compensation. The compensation of each officer shall be such as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine.


SECTION 3.7. President. The President shall be the chief executive officer of the Corporation and shall have general charge of the business and affairs of the Corporation, subject, however, to the right of the Board of Directors to confer specified powers on other officers and subject generally to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, if any.

SECTION 3.8. Action with Respect to Securities of Other Corporations. Unless otherwise directed by the Board of Directors, the President, any Vice President, the Secretary and any Assistant Secretary shall have power to vote and otherwise act on behalf of the Corporation, in person or by proxy, at any meeting of stockholders of or with respect to any action of stockholders of any other corporation in which this Corporation may hold securities and otherwise to exercise any and all rights and powers which this Corporation may possess by reason of its ownership of securities in such other corporations.

SECTION 3.9. Secretary. The Secretary shall keep the minutes of all meetings of stockholders and of the Board of Directors. He shall be custodian of the corporate seal and shall affix it or cause it to be affixed to such instruments as require such seal and attest the same and shall exercise the powers and shall perform the duties incident to the office of Secretary, subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, if any.

SECTION 3.10. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have care of all funds and securities of the Corporation and shall exercise the powers and shall perform the duties incident to the office of Treasurer, subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, if any.

SECTION 3.11. Other Officers. Each other officer of the Corporation shall exercise the powers and shall perform the duties incident to his office, subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, if any.

ARTICLE IV

CAPITAL STOCK

SECTION 4.1. Stock Certificates. The interest of each holder of stock of the Corporation shall be evidenced by a certificate or certificates in such forms as the Board of Directors may from time to time prescribe. Each certificate shall be signed by or in the name of the Corporation by the Chairman of the Board or the President or a Vice President and by the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer or the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary. Any or all of the signatures appearing on such certificate or certificates may be a facsimile. if any officer, transfer agent or registrar who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a certificate shall have ceased to be such officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the Corporation with the same effect as if he were such officer, transfer agent or registrar at the date of issue.

SECTION 4.2. Transfer of Stock. Shares of stock shall be transferable on the books of the Corporation pursuant to applicable law or such rules and regulations as the Board of Directors shall from time to time prescribe.


SECTION 4.3. Holders of Record. Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer the Corporation may treat the holder of record of a share of its stock as the complete owner thereof exclusively entitled to vote, to receive notifications and other- wise entitled to all the rights and powers of a complete owner thereof, notwithstanding notice to the contrary.

SECTION 4.4. Lost, Stolen, Destroyed or Mutilated Certificates. The Corporation shall issue a new certificate of stock to replace a certificate theretofore issued by it alleged to have been lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken, if the owner or his legal representative (i) requests replacement before the Corporation has notice that the stock certificate has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser; (ii) agrees to indemnify the Corporation against any claim that may be made against it on account of the alleged loss or destruction of any such stock certificate or the issuance of any such new stock certificate and provides such security for such indemnity as the Corporation deems necessary or desirable; and (iii) satisfies such other terms and conditions as the Board of Directors may from time to time prescribe.

ARTICLE V

INDEMNIFICATION

SECTION 5.1. Right to Indemnification. Each person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is otherwise involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (hereinafter a “proceeding”), by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director or officer of the Corporation or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit plan (hereinafter an “indemnitee), whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer, employee or agent or in any other capacity while serving as a director, officer, employee or agent, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent authorized by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that such amendment permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights than permitted prior thereto), against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties and amounts paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by such indemnitee in connection therewith and such indemnification shall continue as to an indemnitee who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the indemnitee’s heirs, executors and administrators; provided, however, that, except as provided in Section 5.2 hereof with respect to proceedings to enforce rights to indemnification, the Corporation shall indemnify any such indemnitee in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such indemnitee only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors. The right to indemnification conferred in this Section shall be a contract right and shall include the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses incurred in defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition (hereinafter an “advancement of expenses”); provided, however, that, if the Delaware General Corporation Law requires, an advancement of expenses incurred by an indemnitee in his or her capacity as a director or officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by such indemnitee, including, without limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) shall be made only upon delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking


(hereinafter an “undertaking”), by or on behalf of such indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal (hereinafter a “final adjudication”) that such indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified for such expenses under this Article or otherwise.

SECTION 5.2. Right of Indenmitee to Bring Suit. If a claim under Section 5.1 is not paid in full by the Corporation within sixty days after a written claim has been received by the Corporation, except in the case of a claim for an advancement of expenses, in which case the applicable period shall be twenty days, the indemnitee may at any time thereafter bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim. If successful in whole or in part in any such suit, or in a suit brought by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the indemnitee shall be entitled to be paid the expense of prosecuting or defending such suit. In (i) any suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification hereunder (but not in a suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to an advancement of expenses), it shall be a defense that, and (ii) in any suit by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the Corporation shall be entitled to recover such expenses upon a final adjudication that, the indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in the Delaware General Corporation Law. Neither the failure of the Corporation (including the Board of Directors, independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such suit that indemnification of the indemnitee has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in the Delaware General Corporation Law, nor an actual determination by the Corporation (including the Board of Directors, independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) that the indemnitee has not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall create a presumption that the indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of conduct or, in the case of such a suit brought by the indemnitee, be a defense of such suit. In any suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification or to an advancement of expenses hereunder, or by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the burden of proving that the indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified, or to such advancement of expenses, under this Article or otherwise shall be on the Corporation.

SECTION 5.3. Non-Exclusivity of Rights. The rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses conferred in this Article shall not be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, the Corporation’s certificate of incorporation, by-law, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.

SECTION 5.4. Insurance. The Corporation may maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect itself and any director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the Delaware General Corporation Law.

SECTION 5.5. Indemnification of Employees and Agents of the Corporation. The Corporation may, to the extent authorized from time to time by the Board of Directors, grant rights to indemnification, and to the advancement of expenses, to any employee or agent of the Corporation to the fullest extent of the provisions of this Article with respect to the indemnification and advancement of expenses of directors and officers of the Corporation.


ARTICLE VI

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

SECTION 6.1. Waiver of Notice. Whenever notice is required by the Certificate of Incorporation, the By-Laws or any provision of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, a written waiver thereof, signed by the person entitled to notice, whether before or after the time required for such notice, 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, directors or members of a committee of directors need be specified in any written waiver of notice.

SECTION 6.2. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be that which is selected by the Board of Directors.

SECTION 6.3. Corporate Seal. The corporate seal shall be in such form as the Board of Directors may from time to time prescribe, and the same may be used by causing it or a facsimile thereto to be impressed or affixed or in any other manner reproduced.

ARTICLE VII

AMENDMENT OF BYLAWS

SECTION 7.1. Amendment. The Bylaws may be adopted, amended or repealed by the Board of Directors by a majority vote of the whole Board or by a majority vote of all the stockholders entitled to vote at a meeting of stockholders.

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Exhibit 3.cc

CERTIFICATE OF FORMATION

OF

CROWN BEVERAGE PACKAGING, LLC

The undersigned, an authorized person, for the purpose of forming a limited liability company, under the provisions and subject to the requirements of the State of Delaware (particularly Chapter 18, Title 6 of the Delaware Code and the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, and known, identified, and referred to as the “Delaware Limited Liability Company Act”), hereby certifies that:

FIRST: The name of the limited liability company (hereinafter called the “limited liability company”) is: Crown Beverage Packaging, LLC.

SECOND: The address of the registered office and the name of the registered agent of the limited liability company required to be maintained by Section 18-104 of the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act are: The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, New Castle County, DE 19801.

THIRD: This Certificate of Formation shall become effective at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on July 1, 2010.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Certificate of Formation as of the 30th day of June, 2010.

 

/s/ Marian T. Ryan
Name: Marian T. Ryan
Authorized Person
EX-3.DD 29 d582401dex3dd.htm EX-3.DD EX-3.DD

Exhibit 3.dd

LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT

OF

CROWN BEVERAGE PACKAGING, LLC

This Limited Liability Company Agreement (this “Agreement”) of Crown Beverage Packaging, LLC (the “Company”), dated June 30, 2010, is entered into by Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc., as sole member (the “Member,” and collectively with any persons or entities who become members of the Company in accordance with the provisions hereof from time to time, the “Members”).

WHEREAS, the Company was formed as a Delaware limited liability company under the name “Crown Beverage Packaging, LLC” pursuant to and in accordance with the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act, as amended from time to time (the “Act”), by filing a Certificate of Formation of the Company with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on June 30, 2010, executed by Marian T. Ryan as an authorized person;

WHEREAS, prior to the date first above written, neither the Member nor any person or entity under the direct or indirect control of the Member has entered into a limited liability company agreement of the Company; and

WHEREAS, the Member desires to enter into this Agreement, to be effective as of July 1, 2010, pursuant to and in accordance with the Act.

NOW THEREFORE, the Member hereby agrees as follows:

1. Name. The name of the limited liability company is Crown Beverage Packaging, LLC.

2. Purpose. The purpose of the Company, and the nature of the business to be conducted and promoted by the Company, is engaging in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be formed under the Act and engaging in any and all activities necessary or incidental to the foregoing.

3. Powers of the Company. Subject to any limitations set forth in this Agreement, the Company shall have the power and authority to take any and all actions necessary, appropriate, proper, advisable, incidental or convenient to or for the furtherance of the purposes set forth in Section 2, including without limitation the power to borrower money and issue evidences of indebtedness in furtherance of the purposes of the Company.

4. Registered Office. The address of the registered office of the Company in the State of Delaware is c/o CT Corporation System, 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, New Castle County, DE 19801.


5. Registered Agent. The name and address of the registered agent of the Company for service of process on the Company in the State of Delaware is CT Corporation System, 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, New Castle County, DE 19801.

6. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Company (the “Fiscal Year”) shall be the calendar year or, if applicable, that shorter period within the calendar year during which the Company had legal existence.

7. Member. The name and the business, residence or mailing address of the Member is as follows:

 

Name           Address        
Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc.  

One Crown Way

Philadelphia, PA 19154-4599

8. Management of Company.

(i) Management by the Member. The Company shall be managed by, and the conduct of its business will be controlled by, the Member. Any third party may rely on the Member to bind the Company without independent verification of its authority to do so.

(ii) Officers. The Member may, from time to time as it deems advisable, appoint officers of the Company (the “Officers”) and assign in writing titles (including, without limitation, President, Vice President, Assistant Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer) to any such person. Unless the Member decides otherwise, if the title is one commonly used for officers of a business corporation formed under the Delaware general corporate statutes, the assignment of such title shall constitute the delegation to such person of the authorities and duties that are normally associated with that office. Any delegation pursuant to this Section 8(ii) may be revoked in writing at any time by the Member. An Officer may be removed with or without cause by the Member. The persons listed on Schedule A attached hereto are appointed to be initial officers of the Company to hold such office or offices set forth opposite his/her names, each to hold such office or offices until his/her successor is elected and qualified or until his/her earlier resignation or removal.

(iii) Indemnification. The Company shall indemnify any Member, officer, consultant or employee of the Company, any manager, member, director, officer, partner, trustee, beneficiary, or shareholder of any applicable Member of the Company, and any affiliate of such Persons or entities (collectively Indemnified Persons) or the personal representatives thereof, made or threatened to be made a party in any civil or criminal action or proceeding by reason of the fact that it, he, his testator or intestate is or was an Indemnified Person or served the corporation, subsidiary, affiliate, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan, or other enterprise in any capacity at the request of the Company, against judgments, fines (including excise taxes assessed on such a person in connection with service to an employee benefit plan), amounts paid in settlement and reasonable expenses, including without limitation, court costs,

 

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attorneys’ fees and disbursements and those of accountants and other experts and consultants incurred as a result of such action or proceeding or any appeal therein, all of which expenses as incurred shall be advanced by the Company pending the final disposition of such action or proceeding. Such required indemnification shall be subject only to the exception that no indemnification may be made to or on behalf of any Indemnified Person in the event and to the extent that a judgment or other final adjudication adverse to the Indemnified Person establishes that his acts were committed in bad faith or were the result of active and deliberate dishonesty and were material to the cause of action so adjudicated, or that he personally gained in fact a financial profit or other advantage to which he was not legally entitled (provided, however, that indemnification shall be made upon any successful appeal of any such adverse judgment or final adjudication). For purposes of this Section 8, the Company shall be deemed to have requested such Indemnified Person to serve an employee benefit plan where the performance by such person of his duties to the Company also imposes duties on, or otherwise involves services by, such person to the plan or participants or beneficiaries of the plan. The foregoing right of indemnification shall not be deemed exclusive of any and other rights to which any such Indemnified Person his testator or intestate, may be entitled apart from this provision.

9. Authorized Person. The Member hereby approves and ratifies the execution and filing by Marian T. Ryan, as an authorized person within the meaning of the Act, of such certificates of the Company on such dates as are referred to in the recitals to this Agreement. As of July 1, 2010, Marian T. Ryan’s powers as an authorized person within the meaning of the Act shall cease.

10. Liability. Except as otherwise provided by the Act, the debts, obligations and liabilities of the Company, whether arising in contract, tort or otherwise, shall be solely the debts, obligations and liabilities of the Company, and no Member shall be obligated personally for any such debt, obligation or liability of the Company solely by reason of being a Member.

11. Exculpation. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no Member shall be liable to the Company or any other Member for any loss, damage or claim incurred by reason of any act or omission performed or omitted by such Member in good faith on behalf of the Company and in a manner believed to be within the scope of authority conferred on such Member by this Agreement, except that a Member shall be liable for any such loss, damage or claim incurred by reason of such Member’s gross negligence, willful misconduct or willful breach of this Agreement.

12. Dissolution. The Company shall dissolve, and its affairs shall be wound up, upon the first to occur of the following: (a) the unanimous decision of the Members to dissolve the Company, (b) any of the Members ceasing to be a Member of the Company unless the Company is continued in accordance with the Act, or (c) the entry of a decree of judicial dissolution under §18-802 of the Act.

13. Amendment. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, this Agreement may be modified or amended, and any provision hereof may be waived, by a writing signed by or on behalf of all Members.

 

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14. Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement among the Members with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes any prior agreement or understanding among them with respect to such matter.

15. Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED IN ALL RESPECTS, INCLUDING AS TO VALIDITY, INTERPRETATION AND EFFECT, BY THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO THE CONFLICT OF LAWS RULES THEREOF.

16. Miscellaneous. The limited liability company interests of the Company shall be treated as a “security” within the meaning of the Delaware Uniform Commercial Code.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, intending to be legally bound hereby, has duly executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc.
By:   /s/ Raymond L. McGowan, Jr.
Name:   Raymond L. McGowan, Jr.
Title:   President & Chief Executive Officer

 

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Schedule A

Officers

Timothy Paul Aust – Vice President & Secretary

Michael B. Burns – Assistant Treasurer

Thomas T. Fischer – Vice President

William T. Gallagher – Vice President & General Counsel

Jerry Gifford – President

Michael J. Rowley – Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel

Kenneth Siedlecki – Tax Officer and Assistant Secretary

Patrick D. Szmyt – Treasurer, Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

 

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