EX-3.12 13 dex312.htm CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF IPG (US) HOLDINGS INC., AS AMENDED Certificate of Incorporation of IPG (US) Holdings Inc., as amended

Exhibit 3.12

 

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

 

OF

 

IPG (US) Holdings Inc.

 

The undersigned incorporator, for the purpose of incorporating or organizing a corporation under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, certifies:

 

FIRST: The name of the corporation is

 

IPG (US) Holdings Inc.

 

SECOND: The address of the Corporation’s registered office in the State of Delaware is 15 East North Street, in the City of Dover, County of Kent. The name of its registered agent at such address is United Corporate Services, Inc.

 

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 stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is One Thousand (1,000) shares of Common Stock, and the par value of each such share is $.01.

 

FIFTH: The name and mailing address of the incorporator is Kathryn Plunkett, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, 101 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10178.

 

SIXTH: Elections of directors need not be by ballot unless the By-Laws of the Corporation shall so provide.

 

SEVENTH: The Board of Directors of the Corporation may make By-Laws and from time to time may alter, amend or repeal By-Laws.

 

EIGHTH: No director of the Corporation shall be liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i) for any breach of the directors duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for


acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.

 

NINTH: Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between this Corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between this Corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary way of this Corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof or on the application of any receiver or receivers appointed for this Corporation under the provisions of section 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 this Corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such manner as the said court directs. If a majority in number representing three-fourths in value of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of this 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 this corporation, as the case may be, and also on this Corporation.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have signed this Certificate this 4th day of September, 1997.

 

/s/ Kathryn Plunkett


Kathryn Plunkett

Incorporator


CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

 

OF

 

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

 

IPG (US) Holdings Inc., a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “Corporation”)

 

DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:

 

FIRST: That the Board of Directors of the Corporation, by the unanimous written consent of its members, filed with the minutes of the Board, adopted a resolution proposing and declaring advisable the following amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation of said corporation:

 

RESOLVED, that the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation be amended by changing the Fourth Article thereof so that, as amended, said Article shall be and read as follows:

 

FOURTH: The total number of shares of stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is Ten Thousand (10,000) shares of Common Stock, and the par value of each such share is $.01.

 

SECOND: That in lieu of a meeting and vote of stockholders of the Corporation, the stockholders of the Corporation have given unanimous written consent to said amendment in accordance with the provisions of Section 228 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

 

THIRD: That the aforesaid amendment was duly adopted in accordance with the applicable provisions of Sections 242 and 228 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, said IPG (US) HOLDINGS INC. has caused this certificate to be signed by F. Stephanie Worth, its Assistant Secretary, this 16th day of March, 1999.

 

IPG (US) HOLDINGS INC.

By:

 

/s/ F. Stephanie Worth


   

Name: F. Stephanie Worth

Title: Assistant Secretary