EX-3.1 2 tm2319592d1_ex3-1.htm EXHIBIT 3.1

 

Exhibit 3.1

 

SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

MONSTER BEVERAGE CORPORATION

 

(Pursuant to Sections 242 and 245 of the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware)

 

Monster Beverage Corporation, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the provisions of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “Corporation”), certifies that:

 

1.        The Corporation was originally incorporated on August 12, 2014 under the name New Laser Corporation pursuant to the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”).

 

2.        An Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on June 12, 2015 so that it was the same name as the Certificate of Incorporation of Monster Beverage 1990 Corporation (f/k/a Monster Beverage Corporation), a Delaware corporation incorporated on April 25, 1990 and further amended by a certificate of amendment filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on October 11, 2016 (the “Prior Amended and Restated Certificate”).

 

3.        The Board of Directors of the Corporation duly adopted resolutions proposing to amend and restate the Prior Amended and Restated Certificate in accordance with the provisions of Sections 242 and 245 of the DGCL, declaring the amendments to be advisable and in the best interests of the Corporation and its stockholders and calling for the submission of the proposed amendments to the stockholders of the Corporation for their consideration thereof.

 

4.        The amendments to the Prior Amended and Restated Certificate were duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of Sections 242 and 245 of the DGCL.

 

5.        This Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation amends and restates the Prior Amended and Restated Certificate in its entirety to read, upon effectiveness hereof, as follows:

 

ARTICLE I

 

The name of the corporation is:

MONSTER BEVERAGE CORPORATION

 

ARTICLE II

 

The address of its registered agent in the State of Delaware is the Corporation Service Company, 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, Delaware 19808, County of New Castle, and the name of its registered agent in the State of Delaware at such address is the Corporation Service Company.

 

 

 

ARTICLE III

 

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

 

ARTICLE IV

 

The aggregate number of shares of stock that the Corporation shall have authority to issue is five billion (5,000,000,000) shares of common stock $0.005 par value per share.

 

ARTICLE V

 

The following provisions are inserted for the management of the business and for the conduct of the affairs of the Corporation, and for further definition, limitation and regulation of the powers of the Corporation and of its directors and stockholders:

 

(1) Election of directors need not be by ballot unless the by-laws so provide.

 

(2) The Board of Directors shall have the power, without the assent or vote of the stockholders, to make, alter, amend, change, add to, or repeal the by-laws of the Corporation.

 

(3) Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between the Corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between the Corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the summary application of the Corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof or on the application of any receiver or receivers appointed for the Corporation under the provisions of Section 291 of Title 291 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code or on the application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed for this Corporation under the provisions of Section 279 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of the corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such manner as the said court directors. If a majority in number representing three-fourths in value of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of the Corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of the Corporation as consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by the court to which the said application has been made, be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the stockholders or class of stockholders, of the Corporation, as the case may be, and also on the Corporation.

 

ARTICLE VI

 

The Corporation shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, including, but not limited to, 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as the same exists or may hereafter be modified, amended and supplemented, and any subsequent provision replacing said 145, indemnify any and all persons whom it shall have power to indemnify from and against any and all expenses, liabilities or other matters, and the indemnification provided for herein shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which an indemnified person may be entitled under any provision of the by-laws of the Corporation, any agreement, any vote of stockholder or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in his official capacity and as to action in any capacity while holding such office, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person. Any repeal or modification of this Article by the stockholders of the Corporation shall be prospective only, and shall not adversely affect any right to indemnification of a director, officer, employee, or agent of the Corporation existing at the time of such repeal or modification.

 

 

 

ARTICLE VII

 

The personal liability of the directors and officers of the Corporation to the Corporation and its stockholders is hereby eliminated to the fullest extent permitted by 102(b)(7) of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as the same exists or may hereafter be modified, amended and supplemented, and any subsequent provision replacing said 102(b)(7).

 

ARTICLE VIII

 

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 Delaware law, and all rights conferred upon stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation.

 

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be signed by a duly authorized officer of the Corporation as of June 23, 2023.

 

  MONSTER BEVERAGE CORPORATION
   
  By: /s/ Rodney C. Sacks
  Name: Rodney C. Sacks
  Title:   Co-Chief Executive Officer