-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, D5DGUwhCSXGU1efPi0r/27fkbYeX6YSMMiC/cuBQirVim5+yBE248D2NbmMavgdS 57kYuWXxpqu8AZhq8r0O3A== 0001104659-03-028744.txt : 20031217 0001104659-03-028744.hdr.sgml : 20031217 20031217171746 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-03-028744 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 4 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20031215 ITEM INFORMATION: Other events ITEM INFORMATION: Financial statements and exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20031217 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: SILICON GRAPHICS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000802301 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS [3571] IRS NUMBER: 942789662 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0630 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-10441 FILM NUMBER: 031060638 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1600 AMPHITHEATRE PKWY CITY: MOUNTAIN VIEW STATE: CA ZIP: 94043-1351 BUSINESS PHONE: 6509601980 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1600 AMPHITHEATRE PKWY STREET 2: MS 6U-710 CITY: MOUNTAIN VIEW STATE: CA ZIP: 94043-1389 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: SILICON GRAPHICS INC /CA/ DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 8-K 1 a03-6297_18k.htm 8-K

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC  20549

 

 

 

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

 

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported)

 

December 15, 2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SILICON GRAPHICS, INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

 

 

 

 

Delaware

 

001-10441

 

94-2789662

(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)

 

(Commission File Number)

 

(IRS Employer Identification No.)

 

 

 

 

 

1500 Crittenden Lane Mountain View, CA

 

 

 

94043

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

 

 

 

(Zip Code)

 

 

 

 

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code

 

(650) 960-1980

 

 

 

 

 

1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 

 

 



 

 

Item 5.  Other Events and Required Regulation FD Disclosure

                On December 15, 2003, the address of the Company’s headquarters changed from 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway; Mountain View, CA 94043 to 1500 Crittenden Lane; Mountain View, CA 94043.

                On December 16, 2003, Silicon Graphics, Inc. (the “Company”) held its annual meeting of stockholders at which meeting the Company’s stockholders approved an amendment to the Company’s certificate of incorporation to increase the number of shares of common stock authorized for issuance thereunder.  The Stockholders also approved the issuance of common stock in connection with the Company’s exchange offer for its 5.25% Senior Convertible Notes due 2004, satisfying a condition to the completion of the exchange offer.  A copy of the press release dated December 16, 2003 announcing the results of the meeting is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and the amendment of the Company’s certificate of incorporation is attached as Exhibit 3.1.

Item 7. Exhibits

                (c)

                3.1 Amendment of the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation.

                3.2 By-laws of the Company currently in effect.

                99.1 Press release dated December 16, 2003.

 

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Dated: December 17, 2003

By:

/s/ SANDRA M. ESCHER

 

 

Sandra M. Escher

 

 

Senior Vice President and General Counsel

 

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

EXHIBIT NUMBER

 

DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION

 

 

 

3.1

 

Amendment of the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation.

 

 

 

3.2

 

By-laws of the Company currently in effect.

 

 

 

99.1

 

Press release dated December 16, 2003.

 

 

 

 

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EX-3.1 3 a03-6297_1ex3d1.htm EX-3.1

EXHIBIT 3.1

 

CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

OF

RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

SILICON GRAPHICS, INC.

 

 

Silicon Graphics, 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 that:

(1)  At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Company, a resolution was duly adopted setting forth a proposed Amendment to the Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company to increase the authorized number of shares of Common Stock of the Company from five hundred million (500,000,000) to seven hundred and fifty million (750,000,000), declaring said amendment to be advisable, and authorizing its submission to the stockholders of the Company for their approval at a meeting of the stockholders of the Company called for consideration thereof.

(2)  A meeting of the stockholders of the Company was duly called and held, upon notice in accordance with Section 222 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, at which meeting the necessary number of shares as required by statute were voted in favor of the Amendment.

(3)  Said Amendment was duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of Section 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware on December 16, 2003 by the affirmative vote of the holders of the necessary number of shares required by statute.

(4)  As a result of the foregoing, Article FOURTH of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company is amended in its entirety to read as follows:

 

The total number of shares of all classes of stock which the Corporation has authority to issue is Seven Hundred Fifty-Two Million (752,000,000) shares, consisting of Seven Hundred and Fifty Million (750,000,000) shares of Common Stock, $0.001 par value, (the “Common Stock”) and Two Million (2,000,000) shares of Preferred Stock, $0.001 par value (the “Preferred Stock”).

 

The Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more series.  The Board of Directors is hereby authorized to fix or alter the dividend rights, dividend rate, conversion rights, voting rights, rights and terms of redemption (including sinking fund provisions), redemption price or prices, and liquidation preferences of any wholly unissued series of Preferred Stock, and the number of shares constituting any such series and the designation thereof, or any of them.

 



 

The Board of Directors is further authorized to increase or decrease the number of shares of any series, the number of which was fixed by it, subsequent to the issue of shares of such series then outstanding, subject to the limitations and restrictions stated in the resolution of the Board of Directors originally fixing the number of shares of such series.  If the number of shares of any series is so decreased, then the shares constituting such decrease shall resume the status which they had prior to the adoption of the resolution originally fixing the number of shares of such series.

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Silicon Graphics, Inc. has caused this certificate to be signed by Sandra M. Escher, its Vice President, and attested by Barry J. Weinert, its Assistant Secretary, this 16th day of December, 2003.

 

 

 

 

/s/ Sandra M. Escher

 

 

Sandra M. Escher

 

Vice President

 

 

Attest:

 

 

 

/s/ Barry J. Weinert

 

 

Barry J. Weinert

 

Assistant Secretary

 

 

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RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF

SILICON GRAPHICS, INC.

 

Silicon Graphics, 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 that:

 

(1)           The name of the Company is Silicon Graphics, Inc. The name under which the Company was originally incorporated in the State of Delaware was Silicon Graphics, Inc. The original Certificate of Incorporation of the Company was filed with the Secretary of State on September 5, 1986.

 

(2)           At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Company, a resolution was duly adopted in accordance with Section 245 of the Delaware General Corporation Law to restate and integrate all of the provisions of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation in effect and operative as of the date of such restatement.

 

(3)           This Restated Certificate of Incorporation only restates and integrates and does not further amend the provisions of the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation as heretofore amended and supplemented. There is no discrepancy between the provisions hereof and the provisions of the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation as heretofore amended or supplemented.

 

(4)           As a result of the foregoing, the certificate of incorporation of the Company is restated in its entirety as follows:

 

“FIRST:

 

The name of the Corporation is Silicon Graphics, Inc. (the “Corporation”).

 

 

 

SECOND:

 

The address of the Corporation’s registered office in the State of Delaware is 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, Zip Code 19808. The name of its registered agent at such address is Corporation Service Company.

 

 

 

THIRD:

 

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

 

 

 

FOURTH:

 

The total number of shares of all classes of stock which the Corporation has authority to issue is Five Hundred Two Million (502,000,000) shares, consisting of Five Hundred Million (500,000,000) shares of Common Stock, $0.001 par value, (the “Common Stock”) and Two Million (2,000,000) shares of Preferred Stock, $0.001 par value (the “Preferred Stock”).

 

 

 

 

 

The Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more series. The Board of Directors is hereby authorized to fix or alter the dividend rights, dividend rate, conversion rights, voting rights, rights and terms of redemption (including sinking fund provisions), redemption price or prices, and liquidation preferences of any wholly unissued series of Preferred Stock, and the number of shares constituting any such series and the designation thereof, or any of them.

 

 

 

 

 

The Board of Directors is further authorized to increase or decrease the number of shares of any series, the number of which was fixed by it, subsequent to the issue of shares of such series then outstanding, subject to the limitations and restrictions stated in the resolution of the Board of Directors originally fixing the number of shares of such series. If the number of shares of any series is so decreased, then the shares constituting such decrease shall resume the status which they had prior to the adoption of the resolution originally fixing the number of shares of such series.

 

 

 

FIFTH:

 

The Corporation is to have perpetual existence.

 



 

SIXTH:

 

The election of directors need not be by written ballot unless a stockholder demands election by written ballot at a meeting of stockholders and before voting begins or unless the Bylaws of the Corporation shall so provide.

 

 

 

SEVENTH:

 

The number of directors which constitute the whole Board of Directors of the Corporation shall be designated in the Bylaws of the Corporation.

 

 

 

EIGHTH:

 

In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute, the Board of Directors is expressly authorized to make, alter, amend or repeal the Bylaws of the Corporation.

 

 

 

NINTH:

 

To the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law as the same exists or as may thereafter be amended, no director of the Corporation shall be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director.

 

 

 

 

 

Neither any amendment nor repeal of this Article, nor the adoption of any provision of this Certificate of Incorporation inconsistent with this Article, shall eliminate or reduce the effect of this Article in respect of any matter occurring, or any cause of action, suit or claim that, but for this Article, would accrue or arise, prior to such amendment, repeal or adoption of an inconsistent provision.

 

 

 

TENTH:

 

At the election of directors of the Corporation, each holder of stock or of any class or classes of a series or series thereof shall be entitled to as many votes as shall equal the number of votes which (except for such provision as to cumulative voting) he would be entitled to cast for the election of directors with respect to his shares of stock multiplied by the number of directors to be elected, and he may cast all of such votes for a single director or may distribute them among the number to be voted for, or for any two or more of them, as he may see fit.

 

 

 

ELEVENTH:

 

Meetings of stockholders may be held within or without the State of Delaware, as the Bylaws may provide. The books of the Corporation may be kept (subject to any provision contained in the statutes) outside of 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 Bylaws of the Corporation.

 

 

 

TWELFTH:

 

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.

 

 

 

THIRTEENTH:

 

At each annual meeting of stockholders, directors of the Corporation shall be elected to hold office until the expiration of the term for which they are elected, and until their successors have been duly elected and qualified; except that if any such election shall not be so held, such election shall take place at a stockholders meeting called and held in accordance with the Delaware General Corporation Law.

 



 

 

 

The directors of the Corporation shall be divided into three classes as nearly equal in size as is practicable, which classes are hereby designated Class I, Class II and Class III. The term of office of the initial Class I directors shall expire at the next regularly-scheduled annual meeting of stockholders after the filing of this amendment; the term of office of the initial Class II directors shall expire at the second succeeding annual meeting of stockholders; and the term of office of the initial Class III directors shall expire at the third succeeding annual meeting of the stockholders. For the purposes hereof, the initial Class I, Class II and Class III directors shall be those directors so designated and elected at the annual meeting of stockholders scheduled to be held in October 1992.

 

 

 

 

 

At each annual meeting after the annual meeting of stockholders scheduled to be held in October 1992, directors to replace those of the Class whose terms expire at such annual meeting shall be elected to hold office until the third succeeding annual meeting and until their respective successors shall have been duly elected and qualified.

 

 

 

 

 

If the number of directors is hereafter changed, any newly created directorships or decrease in directorships shall be so apportioned among the classes so as to make all classes as nearly equal in number as is practicable.

 

 

 

 

 

Any director may be removed from office by the stockholders of the Corporation only for cause.

 

 

 

 

 

The number of directors which constitute the whole Board of Directors of the Corporation shall be designated in the Bylaws of the Corporation.

 

 

 

 

 

Vacancies occurring on the Board of Directors for any reason may be filled only by vote of a majority of the remaining members of the Board of Directors, although less than a quorum, at any meeting of the Board of Directors. A person so elected by the Board of Directors to fill a vacancy shall hold office until the next succeeding annual meeting of stockholders of the Corporation and until his or her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified.

 

 

 

FOURTEENTH:

 

Subject to and in accordance with the section Fourth above:

 

 

 

 

 

I.  Authorized Number and Designation.  One share of the preferred stock, $0.001 par value per share, of the Company is hereby constituted as a series of the preferred stock designated Series E Preferred Stock, $0.001 par value (the “Series E Preferred”).

 

 

 

 

 

II.  Dividends.  The holder of Series E Preferred shall not be entitled to receive any dividends declared and paid by the Company.

 

 



 

 

 

III.  Voting Rights.  Except as otherwise required by law or the Certificate of Incorporation, (i) the holder of record of the share of Series E Preferred shall have a number of votes equal to the number of votes that the holders of the outstanding Exchangeable Non-Voting Shares (“Exchangeable Shares”) of Silicon Graphics Canada Limited from time to time, which are not owned by the Company, any of its subsidiaries or any person directly or indirectly controlled by or under common control of the Company, would be entitled to if all such Exchangeable Shares were exchanged by the holders thereof for shares of the Common Stock of the Company pursuant to the terms of the Exchangeable Shares, in each case for the election of directors and on all matters submitted to a vote of the Stockholders of the Company, and (ii) in respect of all matters concerning the voting of shares, the Series E Preferred and the common stock of the Company shall vote as a single class.

 

 

 

 

 

IV.  Liquidation Preference.  Upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary, and subject to any prior rights of holders of shares of preferred stock ranking senior to the Series E Preferred, the holder of the share of Series E Preferred shall be paid an amount equal to $1.00, together with payment to any class of stock ranking equally with the Series E Preferred, and before payment shall be made to holders of any stock ranking on liquidation junior to the Series E Preferred (such amount payable with respect to the Series E Preferred being referred to as the “Series E Preferred Liquidation Preference Payment”).

 

 

 

 

 

V.  Ranking.  The Series E shall rank junior to the Series A Preferred Stock of the Company in all respects.

 

 

 

 

 

VI.  Other Provisions.

 

 

 

 

 

(a)  Pursuant to the terms of that certain Amended and Restated Agreement and Plan of Acquisition and Arrangement, dated as of February 6, 1995, by and among the Company, Silicon Graphics Manufacturing S.A., a Swiss corporation and subsidiary of the Company (“Swissco”), 1103707 Ontario Inc., an Ontario corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Swissco, and Alias Research Inc., an Ontario corporation, as amended, one share of Series E Preferred is being issued to the trustee (the “Trustee”) under the Voting and Exchange Trust Agreement, dated as of June 15, 1995 by and between the Company, Swissco, Silicon Graphics Canada Limited (“SGCL”) and the Trustee.

 

 

 

 

 

(b)  The holder of the share of Series E Preferred is entitled to exercise the voting rights attendant thereto in such manner as such holder desires.

 

 

 

 

 

(c)  At such time as the Series E Preferred has no votes attached to it because there are no Exchangeable Shares of Alias outstanding which are not owned by the Company, any of its subsidiaries or any person directly or indirectly controlled by or under common control of the Company, and there are no shares of stock, debts, options or other agreements of SGCL which could give rise to the issuance of any Exchangeable Shares of SGCL to any person (other than the Company, any of its subsidiaries or any person directly or indirectly controlled by or under common control of the Company), the Series E Preferred shall be cancelled.

 

 



 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Silicon Graphics, Inc. has caused this certificate to be signed by Sandra M. Escher, its Senior Vice President and General Counsel, this 24th day of July, 2003.

 

 

By:

/s/ Sandra M. Escher

 

 

Name:

Sandra M. Escher

 

 

Title:

Senior Vice President and General Counsel

 

 


EX-3.2 4 a03-6297_1ex3d2.htm EX-3.2

Exhibit 3.2

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS

OF

SILICON GRAPHICS, INC.

 

July 25, 2000

 



 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

 

 

 

 

Page

 

 

 

ARTICLE I - CORPORATE OFFICES

1

 

 

 

1.1

Registered Office

1

1.2

Other Offices

1

 

 

 

ARTICLE II - STOCKHOLDERS

1

 

 

 

2.1

Place of Meetings

1

2.2

Annual Meeting

1

2.3

Special Meeting

2

2.4

Notice of Stockholders Meetings

3

2.5

Manner of Giving Notice; Affidavit of Notice

3

2.6

Quorum

3

2.7

Adjourned Meeting; Notice

4

2.8

Voting

4

2.9

Waiver of Notice

5

2.10

Stockholder Action by Written Consent Without a Meeting

5

2.11

Record Date for Stockholder Notice; Voting; Giving Consents

6

2.12

Proxies

7

2.13

Conduct of Business

7

2.14

Inspectors of Election

7

2.15

Inspectors of Election and Procedures for Counting Written Consents

8

 

 

 

ARTICLE III - DIRECTORS

9

 

 

 

3.1

Powers

9

3.2

Number of Directors

9

3.3

Election, Qualification and Term of Office of Directors

9

3.4

Resignation and Vacancies

11

3.5

Place of Meetings; Meetings by Telephone

12

3.6

Regular Meetings

12

3.7

Special Meetings; Notice

12

3.8

Quorum

13

3.9

Waiver of Notice

13

3.10

Adjourned Meeting; Notice

13

3.11

Board Action by Written Consent Without a Meeting

13

 



TABLE OF CONTENTS
(continued)

 

 

 

Page

 

 

 

3.12

Fees and Compensation of Directors

14

3.13

Approval of Loans to Officers

14

3.14

Removal of Directors

14

3.15

Conduct of Business

15

 

 

 

ARTICLE IV - COMMITTEES

15

 

 

 

4.1

Committees of Directors

15

4.2

Committee Minutes

16

4.3

Meetings and Action of Committees

16

 

 

 

ARTICLE V - OFFICERS

16

 

 

 

5.1

Officers

16

5.2

Appointment of Officers

17

5.3

Subordinate Officers

17

5.4

Removal and Resignation of Officers

17

5.5

Vacancies in Offices

17

5.6

Chairman of the Board

17

5.7

Chief Executive Officer; President

18

5.8

Vice Presidents

18

5.9

Secretary

18

5.10

Chief Financial Officer

19

5.11

Treasurer

19

5.12

Assistant Secretary

20

5.13

Assistant Treasurer

20

5.14

Authority and Duties of Officers

20

5.15

Representation of Shares of Other Corporations

20

 

 

 

ARTICLE VI - INDEMNITY

21

 

 

 

6.1

Indemnification of Directors and Officers

21

6.2

Indemnification of Others

21

6.3

Insurance

21

 



TABLE OF CONTENTS
(continued)

 

 

Page

 

 

ARTICLE VII - RECORDS AND REPORTS

22

 

 

 

7.1

Maintenance and Inspection of Records

22

7.2

Inspection by Directors

22

 

 

 

ARTICLE VIII - GENERAL MATTERS

23

 

 

 

8.1

Checks

23

8.2

Execution of Corporate Contracts and Instruments

23

8.3

Stock Certificates; Partly Paid Shares

23

8.4

Special Designation on Certificates

24

8.5

Lost Certificates

24

8.6

Construction; Definitions

25

8.7

Dividends

25

8.8

Fiscal Year

25

8.9

Seal

25

8.10

Transfer of Stock

25

8.11

Stock Transfer Agreements

26

8.12

Registered Stockholders

26

8.13

Notices

26

 

 

 

ARTICLE IX - AMENDMENTS

26

 

 

 

ARTICLE X - DISSOLUTION

27

 

 



 

AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS

OF

SILICON GRAPHICS, INC.

 

ARTICLE I

CORPORATE OFFICES

 

                1.1           Registered Office

 

                The registered office of the corporation shall be in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, State of Delaware.  The name of the registered agent of the corporation at such location is The Corporation Trust Company.

 

                1.2           Other Offices

 

                The board of directors may at any time establish other offices at any place or places where the corporation is qualified to do business.

 

 

ARTICLE II

STOCKHOLDERS

 

                2.1           Place of Meetings

 

                Meetings of stockholders shall be held at any place, within or outside the State of Delaware, designated by the board of directors.  In the absence of any such designation, stockholders’ meetings shall be held at the registered office of the corporation.

 

                2.2           Annual Meeting

 

                The annual meeting of stockholders shall be held, each year, on a date and at a time designated by the board of directors.  In the absence of such designation, the annual meeting of stockholders shall be held on the third Thursday of October in each year at 2:00 p.m.  However, if such day falls on a legal holiday, then the meeting shall be held at the same time and place on the next succeeding full business day.  At the meeting, directors shall be elected and any other proper business may be transacted.

 

                To be properly brought before an annual meeting business must be (a) specified in the notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) given by or at the direction of the board of directors, (b) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by or at the direction of the board of directors, or (c) otherwise properly

 



 

brought before the meeting by a stockholder.  For business to be properly brought before the meeting by a stockholder, the secretary of the corporation must have received notice in writing from the stockholder not less than one hundred twenty (120) calendar days in advance of the date of the corporation’s proxy statement released to stockholders in connection with the annual meeting of the corporation’s stockholders for the immediately prior year; provided, however, that if no such annual meeting was held or the date of such annual meeting is more than thirty (30) calendar days different from the date contemplated for the current year’s annual meeting, then such written notice from a stockholder to be timely must be received not later than the close of business on the tenth day following the date on which notice of the date of the current year’s annual meeting was mailed or on which such date was otherwise publicly disclosed. ..  Such written notice to the secretary shall set forth, as to each matter the stockholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting: (i) a brief description of the business, (ii) the name and address, as they appear on the corporation’s books, of the stockholder proposing such business, (iii) the number of shares of stock of the corporation beneficially owned by such stockholder, and (iv) any material interest of such stockholder in such business.  Notwithstanding any provision in the bylaws to the contrary, no business shall be conducted at an annual meeting except in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 2.2.

 

                2.3           Special Meeting

 

                A special meeting of the stockholders may be called at any time by the board of directors, by the chairman of the board, or by the chief executive officer of the corporation.

 

                If a special meeting is called by any person or persons other than the board of directors, the request shall be in writing,  specifying the time of such meeting and the general nature of the business proposed to be transacted, and shall be delivered personally or sent by registered mail or by telegraphic or other facsimile transmission to the chairman of the board, the president, chief executive officer or the secretary of the corporation.  No business may be transacted at such special meeting otherwise than specified in such notice.  The officer receiving the request shall cause notice to be promptly given to the stockholders entitled to vote, in accordance with the provisions of Sections 2.4 and 2.5, that a meeting will be held at the time requested by the person or persons who called the meeting, not less than  sixty (60) nor more than  ninety (90) days after the receipt of the request.  If the notice is not given within twenty (20) days after the receipt of the request, the person or persons requesting the meeting may give the notice.  Nothing contained in this paragraph of this Section 2.3 shall be construed as limiting, fixing, or affecting the time when a meeting of stockholders called by action of the board of directors may be held.

 

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                2.4           Notice of Stockholders Meetings

 

                All notices of meetings of stockholders shall be in writing and shall be sent or otherwise given in accordance with Section 2.5 of these bylaws not less than ten (10) nor more than sixty (60) days before the date of the meeting to each stockholder entitled to vote at such meeting, except as otherwise provided herein or required by law (meaning, here and hereinafter, as required from time to time by the General Corporation Law of Delaware or the certificate of incorporation of the corporation).  The notice shall specify the place, date, and hour of the meeting, and, in the case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called.

 

                2.5           Manner of Giving Notice; Affidavit of Notice

 

                Written notice of any meeting of stockholders, if mailed, is 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.  An affidavit of the secretary or an assistant secretary or of the transfer agent of the corporation that the notice has been given shall, in the absence of fraud, be prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein.

 

                2.6           Quorum

 

                At any meeting of the stockholders, the holders of a majority, present in person or by proxy, of all of the shares of the stock entitled to vote at the meeting shall constitute a quorum for all purposes, unless or except to the extent that the presence of a larger number may be required by law.  Where a separate vote by a class or classes is required, a majority, present in person or by proxy, of the shares of such class or classes entitled to take action with respect to that vote on that matter shall constitute a quorum.  If a quorum shall fail to attend any meeting, the chairman of the meeting may adjourn the meeting to another place, date or time.

 

                If a notice of any adjourned special meeting of stockholders is sent to all stockholders entitled to vote thereat, stating that it will be held with those present constituting a quorum, those present at such adjourned meeting shall constitute a quorum (but in no event shall a quorum consist of less than one-third of the shares entitled to vote at the meeting), and all matters shall be determined by a majority of the votes cast at such meeting, except as otherwise required by law.

 

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                2.7           Adjourned Meeting; Notice

 

                When a meeting is adjourned to another time or place, unless these bylaws otherwise require, notice need not be given of the adjourned meeting if the time and place thereof are announced at the meeting at which the adjournment is taken.  At the adjourned meeting the corporation may transact any business that might have been transacted at the original meeting.  If the adjournment is for more than thirty (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 meeting.

 

                2.8           Voting

 

                The stockholders entitled to vote at any meeting of stockholders shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.11 of these bylaws, subject to the provisions of  the General Corporation Law of Delaware.

 

                Each stockholder shall have one (1) vote for every share of stock entitled to vote that is registered in his or her name on the record date for the meeting (as determined in accordance with Section 2.11 of these bylaws), except as otherwise provided herein or required by law.

 

                At a stockholders’ meeting at which directors are to be elected, each stockholder shall be entitled to cumulate votes (i.e., cast for any candidate a number of votes greater than the number of votes which such stockholder normally is entitled to cast) if the candidates’ names have been properly placed in nomination (in accordance with these bylaws) prior to commencement of the voting and the stockholder requesting cumulative voting has given notice prior to commencement of the voting of the stockholder’s intention to cumulate votes.  If cumulative voting is properly requested, each holder of stock, or of any class or classes or of a series or series thereof, who elects to cumulate votes shall be entitled to as many votes as equals the number of votes which (absent this provision as to cumulative voting) he would be entitled to cast for the election of directors with respect to his shares of stock multiplied by the number of directors to be elected by him, and he may cast all of such votes for a single director or may distribute them among the number to be voted for, or for any two or more of them, as he may see fit.

 

                Every stock vote shall be taken by ballots, each of which shall state the name of the stockholder or proxy voting and such other information as may be required under the procedure established for the meeting.  All elections shall be determined by a plurality of the votes cast, and except as otherwise required by law or provided herein, all other matters shall be determined by a majority of the votes cast.

 

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                2.9           Waiver of Notice

 

                Whenever notice is required to be given under any provision of the General Corporation Law of Delaware or of the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws, a written waiver thereof, signed by the person entitled to notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, 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 need be specified in any written waiver of notice unless so required by the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws.

 

                2.10         Stockholder Action by Written Consent Without a Meeting

 

                Any action required or able to 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 or consents 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 and shall be delivered to the corporation at its registered office in Delaware, its principal place of business, or to an officer or agent of the corporation having custody of the book in which proceedings of meetings of stockholders are recorded.  Delivery to the corporation’s registered office shall be made by hand or by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested.

 

                Every written consent shall bear the date of signature of each stockholder who signs the consent and no written consent shall be effective to take the corporate action referred to therein unless, within sixty (60) days after the date the earliest dated consent is delivered to the corporation, a written consent or consents signed by holders of a sufficient number of votes to take action are delivered to the corporation in the manner prescribed in the first paragraph of this section.

 

                Prompt notice of the taking of the corporate action without a meeting by less than unanimous written consent shall be given to those stockholders who have not consented in writing.  If the action which is consented to is such as would have required the filing of a certificate under any section of the General Corporation Law of Delaware if such action had been voted on by stockholders at a meeting thereof, then the certificate filed under such section shall state, in lieu of any statement required by such section concerning any vote of

 

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stockholders, that written notice and written consent have been given as provided in Section 228 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware.

 

                2.11         Record Date for Stockholder Notice; Voting; Giving Consents

 

                In order that the corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, or entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights, or entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the board of directors may fix a record date, which shall not be more than sixty (60) nor less than ten (10) days before the date of such meeting, nor more than sixty (60) days prior to any other action.

 

                If the board of directors does not so fix a record date:

 

                (i)            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 day 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.

 

                (ii)           The record date for determining stockholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of rights or to exercise any rights of change, conversion or exchange of stock or for any other purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the board of directors adopts the resolution relating thereto.

 

                In order that the corporation may determine 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 neither precede nor be more than ten (10) days after the date upon which such resolution is adopted by the board of directors.  Any stockholder of record seeking to have the stockholders authorize or take action by written consent shall, by written notice to the secretary, request the board of directors to fix a record date.  The board of directors shall promptly, but in all events within ten (10) days after the date on which such notice is received, adopt a resolution fixing the record date.

 

                If the board of directors has not fixed a record date within such time, 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 corporation in the manner prescribed in the first paragraph of Section 2.10 of these bylaws.  If the board of directors has not fixed a record date within such time and prior

 

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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 date on which the board of directors adopts the resolution taking such prior action.

 

                A determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the board of directors may fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting.

 

                2.12         Proxies

 

                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 a written proxy, filed in accordance with the procedure established for the meeting or taking of action in writing, but no such proxy shall be voted or acted upon after three (3) years from its date, unless the proxy provides for a longer period.  Any copy, facsimile telecommunication or other reliable reproduction of the writing or transmission created pursuant to this Section 2.12 may be substituted or used in lieu of the original writing or transmission for any and all purposes for which the original writing or transmission could be used, provided that such copy, facsimile telecommunication or other reproduction shall be a complete reproduction of the entire original writing or transmission.  The revocability of a proxy that states on its face that it is irrevocable shall be governed by the provisions of Section 212(c) of the General Corporation Law of Delaware.

 

                2.13         Conduct of Business

 

                Such person as the board of directors may have designated or, in the absence of such a person, any executive officer of the corporation, shall call to order any meeting of the stockholders and act as chairman of the meeting.  In the absence of the secretary of the corporation, the secretary of the meeting shall be such person as the chairman appoints.  The chairman of any meeting of stockholders shall determine the order of business and the procedure at the meeting, including such regulation of the manner of voting and the conduct of discussion as seem to him in order.  The date and time of the opening and closing of the polls for each matter upon which the stockholders will vote at the meeting shall be announced at the meeting.

 

                2.14         Inspectors of Election

 

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meeting and make a written report thereof.  The corporation may designate one or more persons as alternate inspectors to replace any inspector who fails to act.  If no inspector or alternate is able to act at a meeting of stockholders, the person presiding at the meeting may, and to the extent required by law, shall, appoint one or more inspectors to act at the meeting.  Each inspector, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, shall take and sign an oath faithfully to execute the duties of inspector with strict impartiality and according to the best of his ability.  Every vote taken by ballots shall be counted by an inspector or inspectors appointed by the chairman of the meeting.

 

                2.15         Inspectors of Election and Procedures for Counting Written Consents

 

                Within two business days after receipt of written requests or revocations of stockholders purporting to own a sufficient number of shares of the capital stock of the corporation issued and outstanding and entitled to vote to take action pursuant to Section 2.10 hereof or Section 228(c) of the Delaware General Corporation Law or prevent such action from being taken, respectively, the secretary may engage nationally recognized independent inspectors of elections for the purpose of performing a ministerial review of the validity of the requests and revocations.  The cost of retaining inspectors of elections shall be borne by the corporation.  Within five (5) business days after such written requests and revocations are provided to the inspector, the inspector shall issue a preliminary report to the corporation and to the stockholder or stockholders soliciting the consents or revocations in opposition to action by consent proposed by the corporation (the “Soliciting Stockholders”) stating:  (i) the number of valid requests, (ii) the number of valid revocations, (iii) the number of valid and unrevoked requests, (iv) the number of invalid requests, (v) the number of invalid revocations, and (vi) whether, based on its preliminary count, written requests of stockholders owning a sufficient number of shares of the capital stock of the corporation issued and outstanding and entitled to vote to take action pursuant to Section 2.10 hereof or Section 228(c) of the Delaware General Corporation Law have been obtained.

 

                Unless the corporation and the Soliciting Stockholders shall agree to a shorter or longer period, the corporation and the Soliciting Stockholder shall have two business days to review the requests and revocations and to advise the inspector and the opposing party in writing as to whether they intend to challenge the

 

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preliminary report of the inspector.  If no written notice of an intention to challenge the preliminary report is received within two business days after issuance of the preliminary report, the inspector shall issue to the corporation and the Soliciting Stockholder its final report containing the information included in the preliminary report.  If the corporation or the Soliciting Stockholders issue written notice of an intention to challenge the preliminary report within two business days after its issuance, the inspector shall schedule a challenge hearing as promptly as practicable.  Following the challenge hearing, the inspector shall issue to the corporation and the Soliciting Stockholder as promptly as practicable its final report containing the information included in the preliminary report, as such information may have been modified based on the challenge hearing, and a certification of whether written requests of stockholders owning a sufficient number of shares of the capital stock of the corporation issued and outstanding and entitled to vote to take action pursuant to Section 2.10 hereof or Section 228(c) of the Delaware General Corporation Law have been obtained.  Any action taken by the stockholders without a meeting shall be effective upon the receipt by the corporation of a certification of the inspector of elections that written requests of stockholders owning a sufficient number of shares of the capital stock of the corporation issued and outstanding and entitled to vote to take action pursuant to Section 2.10 hereof or Section 228(c) of the Delaware General Corporation Law have been obtained.

 

 

ARTICLE III

DIRECTORS

 

                3.1           Powers

 

                Subject to the provisions of the General Corporation Law of Delaware and any limitations in the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws relating to action required to be approved by the stockholders or by the outstanding shares, the business and affairs of the corporation shall be managed and all corporate powers shall be exercised by or under the direction of the board of directors.

 

                3.2           Number of Directors

 

                The number of directors of the corporation shall be such number between three (3) and nine (9) as may be established from time to time by a resolution adopted by a majority of the board of directors.

 

                No reduction of the authorized number of directors shall have the effect of removing any director before that director’s term of office expires.

 

                3.3           Election, Qualification and Term of Office of Directors

 

                Except as provided in Section 3.4 of these bylaws, at each annual meeting of stockholders, directors of the corporation shall be elected to hold office until the expiration of the term for which they are elected, and until their successors have been duly elected and qualified; except that if any such election shall not be

 

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 so held, such election shall take place at a stockholders’ meeting called and held in accordance with the Delaware General Corporation Law.

 

                The directors of the corporation shall be divided into three classes as nearly equal in size as is practicable, which classes are hereby designated Class I, Class II and Class III.  The term of office of the initial Class I directors shall expire at the next regularly-scheduled annual meeting of stockholders after the date of this amendment; the term of office of the initial Class II directors shall expire at the second succeeding annual meeting of stockholders; and the term of office of the initial Class III directors shall expire at the third succeeding annual meeting of the stockholders.  For the purposes hereof, the initial Class I, Class II and Class III directors shall be those directors so designated and elected at the annual meeting of stockholders scheduled to be held in October 1992.

 

                At each annual meeting after the annual meeting of stockholders scheduled to be held in October 1992, directors to replace those of the class whose terms expire at such annual meeting shall be elected to hold office until the third succeeding annual meeting and until their respective successors shall have been duly elected and qualified.

 

                If the number of directors is hereafter changed, any newly created directorships or decrease in directorships shall be so apportioned among the classes so as to make all classes as nearly equal in number as is practicable.

 

                Directors need not be stockholders unless so required by the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws, wherein other qualifications for directors may be prescribed.

 

                Nominations for election to the board of directors of the corporation at an annual meeting of stockholders may be made by the board or on behalf of the board by a nominating committee appointed by the board, or by any stockholder of the corporation entitled to vote for the election of directors at such meeting.  Such nominations, other than those made by or on behalf of the board, shall be made by notice in writing received by the secretary of the corporation not less than ninety (90) days nor more than one hundred twenty (120) days in advance of the date of the annual meeting of the corporation’s stockholders for the immediately prior year; provided, however, that if no such annual meeting was held or the date of such annual meeting is more than thirty (30) calendar days different from the date contemplated for the current year’s annual meeting, then such written notice from a stockholder to be timely must be received not later than the close of business on the tenth day following the date on which notice of the date of the current year’s annual meeting was mailed or on which such date was otherwise publicly disclosed.  Such notice shall set forth (i) the name and address of the stockholder who intends to make the nomination; (ii) a

 

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representation that the nominating stockholder is a holder of record of stock of the corporation entitled to vote at such meeting and intends to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting and nominate the person or persons specified in the notice; (iii) the number of shares of stock held beneficially and of record by the nominating stockholder; (iv) the name, age, business address and, if known, residence address of each nominee proposed in such notice; (v) the principal occupation or employment of such nominee; (vi) the number of shares of stock of the corporation beneficially owned by each such nominee; (vii) a description of all arrangements or understandings between the nominating stockholder and each nominee and any other person or persons (naming such person or persons) pursuant to which the nomination or nominations are to be made by the nominating stockholder; (viii) any other information concerning the nominee that must be disclosed of nominees in proxy solicitations pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and (ix) the consent of such nominee to serve as a director of the corporation if so elected.

 

                The chairman of the annual meeting may, if the facts warrant, determine and declare to the meeting that a nomination was not made in accordance with the foregoing procedure.  If such determination and declaration is made, the defective nomination shall be disregarded.

 

                3.4           Resignation and Vacancies

 

                Any director may resign at any time upon written notice to the corporation.  When one or more directors so resign and the resignation is effective at a future date, only 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 this section in the filling of other vacancies.

 

                Unless otherwise provided in the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws:

 

                (i)            Vacancies and newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized number of directors elected by all of the stockholders having the right to vote as a single class may be filled only by a majority of the directors then in office, although less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director.

 

                (ii)           Whenever the holders of any class or classes of stock or series thereof are entitled to elect one or more directors by the provisions of the certificate of incorporation, vacancies and newly created directorships of such class or classes or series may be filled only by a majority of the directors elected

 

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by such class or classes or series thereof then in office, or by a sole remaining director so elected.

 

                3.5           Place of Meetings; Meetings by Telephone

 

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

 

                Unless otherwise restricted by the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws, members of the board of directors, or any committee designated by the board of directors, may participate in a meeting of the board of directors, or any 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 in a meeting shall constitute presence in person at the meeting.

 

                3.6           Regular Meetings

 

                Regular meetings of the board of directors shall be held at such place or places, on such date or dates, and at such time or times as shall have been established by the board of directors and publicized among all directors.  A notice of each regular meeting shall not be required.

 

                3.7           Special Meetings; Notice

 

                Special meetings of the board of directors for any purpose or purposes may be called at any time by the chairman of the board, the chief executive officer, the president or the secretary of the corporation, or by one-third of the directors then in office (rounded up to the nearest whole number) and shall be held at a place, on a date and at a time as such officer or such directors shall fix.  Notice of the place, date and time of special meetings, unless waived, shall be given to each director by mailing written notice not less than two (2) days before the meeting or by sending a facsimile transmission of the same not less than two (2) hours before the time of the holding of the meeting.  If the circumstances warrant, notice may also be given personally or by telephone not less than two (2) hours before the time of the holding of the meeting.  Oral notice given personally or by telephone may be communicated either to the director or to a person at the office of the director who the person giving the notice has reason to believe will promptly communicate it to the director.  Unless otherwise indicated in the notice thereof, any and all business may be transacted at a special meeting.

 

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                3.8           Quorum

 

                At all meetings of the board of directors, a majority of the authorized number of directors shall 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.  If a quorum is not present at any meeting of the board of directors, then the directors present thereat may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum is present.

 

                A meeting at which a quorum is initially present may continue to transact business notwithstanding the withdrawal of directors, if any action taken is approved by at least a majority of the required quorum for that meeting.

 

                3.9           Waiver of Notice

 

                Whenever notice is required to be given under any provision of the General Corporation Law of Delaware or of the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws, a written waiver thereof, signed by the person entitled to notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, 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 directors, or members of a committee of directors, need be specified in any written waiver of notice unless so required by the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws.

 

                3.10         Adjourned Meeting; Notice

 

                If a quorum is not present at any meeting of the board of directors, then the directors present thereat may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum is present.

 

                3.11         Board Action by Written Consent Without a Meeting

 

                Unless otherwise restricted by the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws, any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the board of directors, or of any committee thereof, may be taken without a meeting if all members of the board or committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing and the writing or writings are filed with the minutes of proceedings of the board or committee.

 

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                3.12         Fees and Compensation of Directors

 

                Unless otherwise restricted by the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws, the board of directors shall have the authority to fix the compensation of directors. The directors may be paid their expenses, if any, of attendance of each meeting of the board of directors and may be paid a fixed sum for attendance at each meeting of the board of directors or a stated salary as director.  No such payment shall preclude any director from serving the corporation in any other capacity and receiving compensation therefor.  Members of special or standing committees may be allowed like compensation for attending committee meetings.

 

                3.13         Approval of Loans to Officers

 

                The corporation may lend money to, or guarantee any obligation of, or otherwise assist any officer or other employee of the corporation or of its subsidiaries, including any officer or employee who is a director of the corporation or its subsidiaries, whenever, in the judgment of the directors, such loan, guaranty or assistance may reasonably be expected to benefit the corporation.  The loan, guaranty or other assistance may be with or without interest and may be unsecured, or secured in such manner as the board of directors shall approve, including, without limitation, a pledge of shares of stock of the corporation.  Nothing in this section contained shall be deemed to deny, limit or restrict the powers of guaranty or warranty of the corporation at common law or under any statute.

 

                3.14         Removal of Directors

 

                Any director may be removed from office by the stockholders of the corporation only for cause.

 

                For purposes of the foregoing paragraph, ‘cause’ shall mean (i) continued willful failure to perform the obligations of a director, (ii) gross negligence by the director, (iii) engaging in transactions that defraud the corporation, (iv) fraud or intentional misrepresentation, including falsifying use of funds and intentional misstatements made in financial statements, books, records or reports to stockholders or governmental agencies, (v) material violation of any agreement between the director and the corporation, (vi) knowingly causing the corporation to commit violations of applicable law (including by failure to act), (vii) acts of moral turpitude or (viii) conviction of a felony.

 

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                3.15         Conduct of Business

 

                At any meeting of the board of directors, business shall be transacted in such order and manner as the board may from time to time determine, and all matters shall be determined by the vote of a majority of the directors present, except as otherwise provided herein or required by law.

 

 

ARTICLE IV

COMMITTEES

 

                4.1           Committees of Directors

 

                The board of directors may, by resolution passed by a majority of the whole board, designate one or more committees, with each committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the corporation.  The board may designate one or more directors as alternate members of any committee, who may replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of the committee.  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.  Any such committee, to the extent provided in the resolution of the board of directors or in the bylaws of the corporation, 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, and may authorize the seal of the corporation to be affixed to all papers that may require it; but no such committee shall have the power or authority to (i) amend the certificate of incorporation (except that a committee may, to the extent authorized in the resolution or resolutions providing for the issuance of shares of stock adopted by the board of directors as provided in Section 151(a) of the General Corporation Law of Delaware, fix the designation and any of the preferences or rights of such shares relating to dividends, redemption, dissolution, any distribution of assets of the corporation or the conversion into, or the exchange of such shares for, shares of any other class or classes or any other series of the same or any other class or classes of stock of the corporation or fix the number of shares of any series of stock or authorize the increase or decrease of the shares of any series), (ii) adopt an agreement of merger or consolidation under Section 251 or 252 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware, (iii) recommend to the stockholders the sale, lease or exchange of all or substantially all of the corporation’s property and assets, (iv) recommend to the stockholders a dissolution of the corporation or a revocation of a dissolution, or (v) amend the bylaws of the corporation; and, unless the board resolution establishing the committee, a supplemental

 

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resolution of the board of directors, the bylaws or the certificate of incorporation expressly so provide, no such committee shall have the power or authority to declare a dividend, to authorize the issuance of stock, or to adopt a certificate of ownership and merger pursuant to Section 253 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware.

 

                4.2           Committee Minutes

 

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

 

                4.3           Meetings and Action of Committees

 

                Meetings and actions of committees shall be governed by, and held and taken in accordance with, the provisions of Article III of these bylaws, Section 3.5 (place of meetings and meetings by telephone), Section 3.6 (regular meetings), Section 3.7 (special meetings and notice), Section 3.8 (quorum), Section 3.9 (waiver of notice), Section 3.10 (adjournment and notice of adjournment), and Section 3.11 (action without a meeting), with such changes in the context of those bylaws as are necessary to substitute the committee and its members for the board of directors and its members; provided, however, that the time of regular meetings of committees may be determined either by resolution of the board of directors or by resolution of the committee, that special meetings of committees may also be called by resolutions of the board of directors, and that notice of special meetings of committees shall also be given to all alternate members, who shall have the right to attend all meetings of the committee.  The board of directors may adopt rules for the government of any committee not inconsistent with the provisions of these bylaws.

 

 

ARTICLE V

OFFICERS

 

                5.1           Officers

 

                The officers of the corporation shall be a chief executive officer, a secretary, and a chief financial officer.  The corporation may also have, at the discretion of the board of directors, a chairman of the board, a vice chairman of the board, a president, one or more vice presidents, one or more assistant secretaries, a controller, one or more assistant controllers, a treasurer, one or more assistant treasurers, and any such other officers as may be appointed in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.3 of these bylaws. Any number of offices may be held by the same person.

 

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                5.2           Appointment of Officers

 

                The officers of the corporation, except such officers as may be appointed in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.3 or 5.5 of these bylaws, shall be appointed by the board of directors, subject to the rights, if any, of an officer under any contract of employment.

 

                5.3           Subordinate Officers

 

                The board of directors may appoint, or empower the chief executive officer to appoint, such other officers and agents as the business of the corporation may require, each of whom shall hold office for such period, have such authority, and perform such duties as are provided in these bylaws or as the board of directors may from time to time determine.

 

                5.4           Removal and Resignation of Officers

 

                Subject to the rights, if any, of an officer under any contract of employment, any officer may be removed, either with or without cause, by an affirmative vote of the majority of the board of directors at any regular or special meeting of the board or, except in the case of an officer chosen by the board of directors, by any officer upon whom such power of removal may be conferred by the board of directors.

 

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

 

                5.5           Vacancies in Offices

 

                Any vacancy occurring in any office of the corporation shall be filled in the manner prescribed in these bylaws for regular appointments to that office.

 

                5.6           Chairman of the Board

 

                The chairman of the board, if such an officer be elected, shall, if present, preside at meetings of the board of directors and exercise and perform such other powers and duties as may from time to time be assigned to him by the board of directors or as may be prescribed by these bylaws.  If there is no chief executive officer, then the chairman of the board shall also be the chief executive officer of

 

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the corporation and shall have the powers and duties prescribed in Section 5.7 of these bylaws.

 

                5.7           Chief Executive Officer; President

 

                Subject to such supervisory powers, if any, as may be given by the board of directors to the chairman of the board, if there be such an officer, the chief executive officer of the corporation shall , subject to the control of the board of directors, have general supervision, direction, and control of the business and the officers of the corporation.  He shall preside at all meetings of the stockholders and, in the absence or nonexistence of a chairman of the board, at all meetings of the board of directors.  He shall have the general powers and duties of management usually vested in the office of the chief executive officer of a corporation and shall have such other powers and duties as may be prescribed by the board of directors or these bylaws.

 

                He shall also function as president of the corporation unless the board of directors names another person as president, in which case, the president shall have such powers and duties as may be prescribed by the board of directors.

 

                5.8           Vice Presidents

 

                In the absence or disability of the president, the vice presidents, if any, in order of their rank as fixed by the board of directors or, if not ranked, a vice president designated by the board of directors, shall perform all the duties of the president and when so acting shall have all the powers of, and be subject to all the restrictions upon, the president.  The vice presidents shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as from time to time may be prescribed for them respectively by the board of directors, these bylaws, the chief executive officer or the chairman of the board.

 

                5.9           Secretary

 

                The secretary shall keep or cause to be kept, at the principal executive office of the corporation or such other place as the board of directors may direct, a book of minutes of all meetings and actions of directors, committees of directors, and stockholders.  The minutes shall show the time and place of each meeting, whether regular or special (and, if special, how authorized and the notice given), the names of those present at directors’ meetings or committee meetings, the number of shares present or represented at stockholders’ meetings, and the proceedings thereof.

 

                The secretary shall keep, or cause to be kept, at the principal executive office of the corporation or at the office of the corporation’s transfer agent or

 

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registrar, as determined by resolution of the board of directors, a share register, or a duplicate share register, showing the names of all stockholders and their addresses, the number and classes of shares held by each, the number and date of certificates evidencing such shares, and the number and date of cancellation of every certificate surrendered for cancellation.

 

                The secretary shall give, or cause to be given, notice of all meetings of the stockholders and of the board of directors required to be given by law or by these bylaws. He shall keep the seal of the corporation, if one be adopted, in safe custody and shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the board of directors or by these bylaws.

 

                5.10         Chief Financial Officer

 

                The chief financial officer shall keep and maintain, or cause to be kept and maintained, adequate and correct books and records of accounts of the properties and business transactions of the corporation, including accounts of its assets, liabilities, receipts, disbursements, gains, losses, capital, retained earnings, and shares.  The books of account shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by any director.

 

                The chief financial officer shall deposit all money and other valuables in the name and to the credit of the corporation with such depositories as may be designated by the board of directors.  He shall disburse the funds of the corporation as may be ordered by the board of directors, shall render to the chief executive officer and directors, whenever they request it, an account of all of his transactions as chief financial officer and of the financial condition of the corporation, and shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the board of directors or these bylaws.  The duties of the chief financial officer may be allocated by the board of directors among one or more persons, in its discretion.

 

                5.11         Treasurer

 

              The treasurer shall keep and maintain, or cause to be kept and maintained, adequate and correct books and records of accounts or the properties and business transactions of the corporation, including accounts of its assets, liabilities, receipts, disbursements, gains, losses, capital, retained earnings and shares.  The books of account shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by any director.

 

              The treasurer shall deposit all money and other valuables in the name and to the credit of the corporation with such depositories as may be designated by the board of directors.  He shall disburse the funds of the corporation as may be

 

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ordered by the board of directors, shall render to the chief executive officer and directors, whenever they request it, an account of all of his transactions as treasurer and of the financial condition of the corporation, and shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the board of directors or these bylaws.

 

                5.12         Assistant Secretary

 

                The assistant secretary, or, if there is more than one, the assistant secretaries in the order determined by the stockholders or board of directors (or if there be no such determination, then in the order of their election) shall, in the absence of the secretary or in the event of his or her inability or refusal to act, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the secretary and shall perform such other duties and have such other powers as the board of directors or the stockholders may from time to time prescribe.

 

                5.13         Assistant Treasurer

 

                The assistant treasurer, or, if there is more than one, the assistant treasurers in the order determined by the stockholders or board of directors (or if there be no such determination, then in the order of their election), shall, in the absence of the treasurer or in the event of his or her inability or refusal to act, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the treasurer and shall perform such other duties and have such other powers as the board of directors or the stockholders may from time to time prescribe.

 

                5.14         Authority and Duties of Officers

 

                In addition to the foregoing authority and duties, all officers of the corporation shall respectively have such authority and perform such duties in the management of the business of the corporation as may be designated from time to time by the board of directors or the stockholders.

 

                5.15         Representation of Shares of Other Corporations

 

                The chairman of the board, the chief executive officer, the president, any vice president, the treasurer, the secretary or assistant secretary of this corporation, or any other person authorized by the board of directors, the chief executive officer, the president or a vice president, is authorized to vote, represent, and exercise on behalf of this corporation all rights incident to any and all shares of any other corporation or corporations standing in the name of this corporation.  The authority granted herein may be exercised either by such person directly or by any other person authorized to do so by proxy or power of attorney duly executed by such person having the authority.

 

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ARTICLE VI

INDEMNITY

 

                6.1           Indemnification of Directors and Officers

 

                The corporation shall, to the maximum extent and in the manner permitted by the General Corporation Law of Delaware, indemnify each of its directors and officers against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines, settlements, and other amounts actually and reasonably incurred in connection with any proceeding, arising by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation.  For purposes of this Section 6.1, a “director” or “officer” of the corporation includes any person (i) who is or was a director or officer of the corporation, (ii) who is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director or officer of another corporation partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, or (iii) who was a director or officer of a corporation which was a predecessor corporation of the corporation or of another enterprise at the request of such predecessor corporation.

 

                6.2           Indemnification of Others

 

                The corporation shall have the power, to the extent and in the manner permitted by the General Corporation Law of Delaware, to indemnify each of its employees and agents (other than directors and officers) against expenses (including attorney’s fees), judgments, fines, settlements, and other amounts actually and reasonably incurred in connection with any proceeding, arising by reason of the fact that such person is or was an agent of the corporation.  For purposes of this Section 6.2, an “employee” or “agent” of the corporation (other than a director or officer) includes any person (i) who is or was an employee or agent of the corporation, (ii) who is or was serving at the request of the corporation as an employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, or (iii) who was an employee or agent of a corporation which was a predecessor corporation of the corporation or of another enterprise at the request of such predecessor corporation.

 

                6.3           Insurance

 

                The corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against him and incurred by him in any such capacity, or arising out of his status as such, whether or not the corporation

 

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would have the power to indemnify him against such liability under the provisions of the General Corporation Law of Delaware.

 

ARTICLE VII

RECORDS AND REPORTS

 

                7.1           Maintenance and Inspection of Records

 

                The corporation shall, either at its principal executive office or at such place or places as designated by the board of directors, keep a record of its stockholders listing their names and addresses and the number and class of shares held by each stockholder, a copy of these bylaws as amended to date, accounting books, and other records.

 

                Any stockholder of record, in person or by attorney or other agent, shall, upon written demand under oath stating the purpose thereof, have the right during the usual hours for business to inspect for any proper purpose the corporation’s stock ledger, a list of its stockholders, and its other books and records and to make copies or extracts therefrom.  A proper purpose shall mean a purpose reasonably related to such person’s interest as a stockholder.  In every instance where an attorney or other agent is the person who seeks the right to inspection, the demand under oath shall be accompanied by a power of attorney or such other writing that authorizes the attorney or other agent to so act on behalf of the stockholder.  The demand under oath shall be directed to the corporation at its registered office in Delaware or at its principal place of business.

 

                7.2           Inspection by Directors

 

                Any director shall have the right to examine the corporation’s stock ledger, a list of its stockholders, and its other books and records for a purpose reasonably related to his position as a director.  The Court of Chancery is hereby vested with the exclusive jurisdiction to determine whether a director is entitled to the inspection sought.  The Court may summarily order the corporation to permit the director to inspect any and all books and records, the stock ledger, and the stock list and to make copies or extracts therefrom.  The Court may, in its discretion, prescribe any limitations or conditions with reference to the inspection, or award such other and further relief as the Court may deem just and proper.

 

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ARTICLE VIII

GENERAL MATTERS

 

                8.1           Checks

 

                From time to time, the board of directors shall determine by resolution which person or persons may sign or endorse all checks, drafts, other orders for payment of money, notes or other evidences of indebtedness that are issued in the name of or payable to the corporation, and only the persons so authorized shall sign or endorse those instruments.

 

                8.2           Execution of Corporate Contracts and Instruments

 

                The board of directors, except as otherwise provided in these bylaws, may authorize any officer or officers, or agent or agents, to enter into any contract or execute any instrument in the name of and on behalf of the corporation; such authority may be general or confined to specific instances.  Unless so authorized or ratified by the board of directors or within the agency power of an officer, no officer, agent or employee shall have any power or authority to bind the corporation by any contract or engagement or to pledge its credit or to render it liable for any purpose or for any amount.

 

                8.3           Stock Certificates; Partly Paid Shares

 

                The shares of a corporation shall be represented by certificates, provided that the board of directors of the corporation may provide by resolution or resolutions that some or all of any or all classes or series of its stock shall be uncertificated shares.  Any such resolution shall not apply to shares represented by a certificate until such certificate is surrendered to the corporation.  Notwithstanding the adoption of such a resolution by the board of directors, every holder of stock represented by certificates and upon request every holder of uncertificated shares shall be entitled to have a certificate signed by, or in the name of the corporation by the chairman or vice-chairman of the board of directors, or the president or vice-president, and by the treasurer or an assistant treasurer, or the secretary or an assistant secretary of such corporation representing the number of shares registered in certificate form.  Any or all of the signatures on the certificate may be a facsimile.  In case any officer, transfer agent or registrar who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a certificate has ceased to be such officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the corporation with the same effect as if he were such officer, transfer agent or registrar at the date of issue.

 

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

 

                8.4           Special Designation on Certificates

 

                If the corporation is authorized to issue more than one class of stock or more than one series of any class, then the powers, the designations, the preferences, and the relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights shall be set forth in full or summarized on the face or back of the certificate that the corporation shall issue to represent such class or series of stock; provided, however, that, except as otherwise provided in Section 202 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware, in lieu of the foregoing requirements there may be set forth on the face or back of the certificate that the corporation shall issue to represent such class or series of stock a statement that the corporation will furnish without charge to each stockholder who so requests the powers, the designations, the preferences, and the relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights.

 

                8.5           Lost Certificates

 

                Except as provided in this Section 8.5, no new certificates for shares shall be issued to replace a previously issued certificate unless the latter is surrendered to the corporation and canceled at the same time.  The corporation may issue a new certificate of stock or uncertificated shares in the place of any certificate theretofore issued by it, alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed, and the corporation may require the owner of the lost, stolen or destroyed certificate, or his legal representative, to give the corporation a bond sufficient to indemnify it against any claim that may be made against it on account of the alleged loss, theft or destruction of any such certificate or the issuance of such new certificate or uncertificated shares.

 

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                8.6           Construction; Definitions

 

                Unless the context requires otherwise, the general provisions, rules of construction, and definitions in the General Corporation Law of Delaware shall govern the construction of these bylaws.  Without limiting the generality of this provision, the singular number includes the plural, the plural number includes the singular, and the term “person” includes both a corporation and a natural person.

 

                8.7           Dividends

 

                The directors of the corporation, subject to any restrictions contained in (i) the General Corporation Law of Delaware or (ii) the certificate of incorporation, may declare and pay dividends upon the shares of its capital stock.  Dividends may be paid in cash, in property, or in shares of the corporation’s capital stock.

 

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

 

                8.8           Fiscal Year

 

                The fiscal year of the corporation shall be fixed by resolution of the board of directors and may be changed by the board of directors.

 

                8.9           Seal

 

                The corporation may adopt a corporate seal, which may be altered at pleasure, and may use the same by causing it or a facsimile thereof to be impressed or affixed or in any other manner reproduced.

 

                8.10         Transfer of Stock

 

                Upon surrender to the corporation or the transfer agent of the corporation of a certificate for shares duly endorsed or accompanied by proper evidence of succession, assignment or authority to transfer, it shall be the duty of the corporation to issue a new certificate to the person entitled thereto, cancel the old certificate, and record the transaction in its books.

 

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                8.11         Stock Transfer Agreements

 

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

 

                8.12         Registered Stockholders

 

                The corporation shall be entitled to recognize the exclusive right of a person registered on its books as the owner of shares to receive dividends and to vote as such owner, shall be entitled to hold liable for calls and assessments the person registered on its books as the owner of shares, and shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such share or shares on the part of another person, whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, except as otherwise provided by the laws of Delaware.

 

                8.13         Notices

 

                Except as otherwise specifically provided herein or required by law, all notices required to be given to any stockholder, director, officer, employee or agent shall be in writing and may in every instance be effectively given by hand delivery, by mail, postage paid, or by facsimile transmission.  Any such notice shall be addressed to such stockholder, director, officer, employee or agent at his last known address as it appears on the books of the corporation.  The time when such notice shall be deemed received, if hand delivered, or dispatched, if sent by mail or facsimile, transmission, shall be the time of the giving of the notice.

 

 

ARTICLE IX

AMENDMENTS

 

                Any of these bylaws may be altered, amended or repealed by the affirmative vote of a majority of the board of directors or, with respect to bylaw amendments placed before the stockholders for approval and except as otherwise provided herein or required by law, by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of the corporation’s stock entitled to vote in the election of directors, voting as one class.

 

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ARTICLE X

DISSOLUTION

 

                If it should be deemed advisable in the judgment of the board of directors of the corporation that the corporation should be dissolved, the board, after the adoption of a resolution to that effect by a majority of the whole board at any meeting called for that purpose, shall cause notice to be mailed to each stockholder entitled to vote thereon of the adoption of the resolution and of a meeting of stockholders to take action upon the resolution.

 

                At the meeting a vote shall be taken for and against the proposed dissolution.  If a majority of the outstanding stock of the corporation entitled to vote thereon votes for the proposed dissolution, then a certificate stating that the dissolution has been authorized in accordance with the provisions of Section 275 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware and setting forth the names and residences of the directors and officers shall be executed, acknowledged, and filed and shall become effective in accordance with Section 103 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware.  Upon such certificate’s becoming effective in accordance with Section 103 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware, the corporation shall be dissolved.

 

                Whenever all the stockholders entitled to vote on a dissolution consent in writing, either in person or by duly authorized attorney, to a dissolution, no meeting of directors or stockholders shall be necessary.  The consent shall be filed and shall become effective in accordance with Section 103 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware.  Upon such consent’s becoming effective in accordance with Section 103 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware, the corporation shall be dissolved.  If the consent is signed by an attorney, then the original power of attorney or a photocopy thereof shall be attached to and filed with the consent.  The consent filed with the Secretary of State shall have attached to it the affidavit of the secretary or some other officer of the corporation stating that the consent has been signed by or on behalf of all the stockholders entitled to vote on a dissolution; in addition, there shall be attached to the consent a certification by the secretary or some other officer of the corporation setting forth the names and residences of the directors and officers of the corporation.

 

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EX-99.1 5 a03-6297_1ex99d1.htm EX-99.1

Exhibit 99.1

News Release

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

SGI STOCKHOLDERS APPROVE SHARE ISSUANCE

IN CONNECTION WITH EXCHANGE OFFER

 

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (December 16, 2003)—Silicon Graphics, Inc. (NYSE: SGI) announced today that its stockholders have approved all matters presented by the Company at its annual meeting held on December 16, 2003. These matters included the issuance of up to 185 million shares of common stock in connection with SGI’s exchange offer for its 5.25% Senior Convertible Notes due 2004. Receipt of stockholder approval satisfies a condition for SGI to complete the exchange offer. The exchange offer also requires that the holders of at least 80% of the convertible notes tender their notes before the expiration of the offer on Friday, December 19, 2003 at midnight.

 

Other matters approved by SGI’s stockholders at its annual meeting included the re-election of three members of its Board of Directors, an increase in the number of shares reserved for issuance under its Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and an amendment to the Company’s certificate of incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares from 500 to 750 million shares.

 

—end—

 

This news release does not constitute an offer to exchange or sell, or the solicitation of an offer to exchange or buy, nor shall there be any exchange or sale of these securities in any State in which such offer, exchange, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such State.

 

Noteholders are strongly advised to read the registration statement, tender offer statement and other related documents when they are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission because these documents contain important information. Stockholders and noteholders may obtain a free copy of these documents when available from SGI or at the SEC’s website, www.sec.gov.

 

Noteholders may obtain copies of the exchange offer materials when available from MacKenzie Partners, the information agent for the exchange offer, at 800-322-2885.

 

 


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