Annual Meetings of Stockholders. (1) Nominations of persons for election to the Board and the proposal of other business to be considered by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders only (a) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant to Section 2.05, (b) by or at the direction of the Board or any authorized committee thereof, (c) by any stockholder of the Corporation who (i) was a stockholder of record at the time of giving of notice provided for in this Section 2.03 and at the time of the annual meeting, (ii) is entitled to vote at the meeting and (iii) complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.03 as to such business or nomination, or (d) with respect to nominations, by any Eligible Stockholder (as defined in paragraph (C)(2) of this Section 2.03) whose Stockholder Nominee (as defined in paragraph (C)(1) of this Section 2.03) is included in the Corporation’s proxy materials for the relevant annual meeting. Clauses (c) and (d) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make director nominations and clause (c) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to submit other business (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and included in the Corporation’s notice of meetings) before an annual meeting of stockholders. (2) Without qualification, for nominations or any other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (c) of paragraph (A)(1) of this Section 2.03, the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation, and, in the case of business other than nominations of persons for election to the Board, such other business must constitute a proper matter for stockholder action. To be timely, such stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than ninety (90) days nor more than one hundred and twenty (120) days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting (which date shall, for purposes of the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders after its shares of Common Stock (as defined in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation) are first publicly traded, be deemed to have occurred on May 15, 2018); provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is advanced by more than thirty (30) days, or delayed by more than seventy (70) days, from the anniversary date of the previous year’s meeting, or if no annual meeting was held in the preceding year, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the close of business on the one hundred and twentieth (120th) day prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day prior to such annual meeting or the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made. Public announcement of an adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting shall not commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s notice. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.03(A)(2) to the contrary, if the number of directors to be elected to the Board at an annual meeting is increased, and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board at least one hundred (100) calendar days prior to the first anniversary of the prior year’s annual meeting of stockholders, then a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 2.03 shall be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it is received by the Secretary of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) calendar day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation. (3) To be in proper form, a stockholder’s notice delivered pursuant to this Section 2.03 must: (a) set forth, as to the stockholder giving the notice, the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (i) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the Corporation’s books, and of such beneficial owner, and of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; (ii) (A) the class or series and number of shares of the Corporation which are, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (B) any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to any class or series of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any derivative or synthetic arrangement having the characteristics of a long position in any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions designed to produce economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially to the ownership of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, including due to the fact that the value of such contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions is determined by reference to the price, value or volatility of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument, contract or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of capital stock of the Corporation, through the delivery of cash or other property, or otherwise, and without regard to whether the stockholder of record, the beneficial owner, or any affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, may have entered into transactions that hedge or mitigate the economic effect of such instrument, contract or right, or any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation (any of the foregoing, a “Derivative Instrument”) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder, the beneficial owner, or any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (C) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith have any right to vote any class or series of shares of any security of the Corporation, and any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, the purpose or effect of which is to increase or decrease the voting power of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (D) any short interest in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of this Section 2.03 a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security) involving such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (E) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (F) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner, (G) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, as of the date of such notice, including, without limitation, any such interests held by members of the immediate family sharing the same household of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (H) any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments or short interests in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith and (I) any direct or indirect interest of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith in any contract with the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement) (which information shall be supplemented by such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than ten (10) days after the record date for the meeting to disclose such ownership as of the record date); (iii) any other information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; and (iv) a representation whether the stockholder or the beneficial owner, if any, intends or is part of a group which intends (y) to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the business to be proposed or to elect the nominee and/or (z) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal or the nomination; (b) if the notice relates to any business other than a nomination of a director or directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, set forth (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws of the Corporation, the language of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest of such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, in such business and (ii) a description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; (c) set forth, as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection to the Board of Directors (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee of the stockholder and to serving as a director if elected) and (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making the nomination, such beneficial owner, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, and a description of any other agreements, arrangements and understandings between or among such stockholder, such beneficial owner, any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the nomination by such stockholder; and (d) with respect to each nominee for election or reelection to the Board of Directors, include a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.04. The Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the Corporation to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation, including information relevant to the independence, or lack thereof, of such nominee.
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Samples: Agreement and Plan of Merger (Legacy Reserves Lp), Merger Agreement (Legacy Reserves Lp)
Annual Meetings of Stockholders. (1) Nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors and the proposal of other business to be considered by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders may be made only (a) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant to Section 2.05), (b) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or any authorized committee thereof, (c) by any stockholder of the Corporation who (i) who was a stockholder of record of the Corporation (and, with respect to any beneficial owner, if different, on whose behalf such business is proposed or such nomination or nominations are made, only if such beneficial owner was the beneficial owner of shares of the Corporation) both at the time of giving of the notice provided for in Paragraphs (A)(2) and (A)(3) of this Section 2.03 2.8 is delivered to, or mailed to and received by, the Secretary of the Corporation and on the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to vote at the time of the annual meeting, (ii) who is entitled to vote at the meeting upon such election of directors or upon such business, as the case may be, and (iii) who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.03 as to such business or nomination, or Paragraphs (dA)(2) with respect to nominations, by any Eligible Stockholder and (as defined in paragraph (C)(2A)(3) of this Section 2.03) whose Stockholder Nominee (as defined 2.8. Except for proposals properly made in paragraph (C)(1) of this Section 2.03) is included in the Corporation’s proxy materials for the relevant annual meeting. Clauses (c) and (d) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make director nominations and clause (c) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to submit other business (other than matters properly brought under accordance with Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (as so amended (and inclusive of such rules and regulations, the “Exchange Act”) ), and included in the Corporation’s notice of meetingsmeeting given by or at the direction of the Board of Directors, the foregoing clause (c) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to propose business to be brought before an annual meeting of stockholdersxxxxxxxxxxxx.Xx addition, for business (other than the nomination of persons for election to the Board of Directors) to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder, such business must be a proper matter for stockholder action pursuant to the Certificate of Incorporation, these Bylaws, and applicable law.
(2) Without qualification, For nominations of persons for nominations election to the Board of Directors or any other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (c) of paragraph Paragraph (A)(1) of this Section 2.032.8, the stockholder (a) must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation, and, and (b) must provide any updates or supplements to such notice at such times and in the case of business other than nominations of persons for election to the Board, such other business must constitute a proper matter for stockholder actionforms required by this Section 2.8. To be timely, such a stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to, or mailed to and received by, the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices office of the Corporation not less earlier than ninety (90) days the close of business on the 120th day, nor more later than one hundred and twenty (120) days the close of business on the 90th day, prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting (which date shall, for purposes of the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders after its shares of Common Stock (as defined in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation) are first publicly traded, be deemed to have occurred on May 15, 2018)meeting; provided, however, that in the event that the date of the any annual meeting is advanced by more than thirty (30) days, 30 days before or delayed by more than seventy (70) days, from the 30 days after such anniversary date of the previous year’s meeting, or if no annual meeting was held in the preceding yeardate, notice by the stockholder stockholder, to be timely timely, must be so delivered delivered, or mailed and received, not earlier than the close of business on the one hundred and twentieth (120th) 120th day prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of (a) the ninetieth (90th) 90th day prior to such annual meeting or and (b) the tenth (10th) 10th day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first mademade by the Corporation. Public Except as provided in Section 2.5 of these Bylaws, the public announcement of an adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting shall not commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s notice. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.03(A)(2) to the contrary, if the number of directors to be elected to the Board at an annual meeting is increased, and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board at least one hundred (100) calendar days prior to the first anniversary of the prior year’s annual meeting of stockholders, then a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 2.03 shall be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it is received by the Secretary of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) calendar day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporationas described above.
(3) To be in proper formform for purposes of this Section 2.8, a stockholder’s notice delivered to the Secretary (whether pursuant to this Paragraph (A) or Paragraph (B) of this Section 2.03 must: 2.8) must set forth:
(a) set forth, as to the stockholder giving the notice, the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith each Proposing Person (as defined below) (i) the name and address of such stockholderProposing Person (including, as they if applicable, the name and address that appear on the Corporation’s books, books and of such beneficial owner, records); and of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; (ii) (A) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation which that are, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and of record or beneficially owned (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) by such stockholder and Proposing Person (provided that such beneficial owner, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting Proposing Person shall in concert therewith (B) all events be deemed to beneficially own any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to any class or series of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from the value of any class or series and number of shares of the Corporation, or any derivative or synthetic arrangement having the characteristics of a long position in any class or series of shares capital stock of the CorporationCorporation as to which such Proposing Person has a right to acquire beneficial ownership at any time in the future);
(b) as to each Proposing Person, or (i) any contract, derivative, swap swap, or other transaction or series of transactions designed engaged in, directly or indirectly, by such Proposing Person, the purpose or effect of which is to produce give such Proposing Person economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially risk similar to the ownership of shares of any class or series of shares capital stock of the Corporation, including due to the fact that the value of such contract, derivative, swap swap, or other transaction or series of transactions is are determined by reference to the price, value value, or volatility of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument, contract or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation, through the delivery of cash or which derivative, swap, or other propertytransactions provide, directly or otherwiseindirectly, and the opportunity to profit from any increase in the price or value of shares of any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation (“Synthetic Equity Interests”), which Synthetic Equity Interests shall be disclosed without regard to whether (x) the stockholder of recordderivative, the beneficial ownerswap, or other transactions convey any affiliates voting rights in such shares to such Proposing Person, (y) the derivative, swap, or associates other transactions are required to be, or others acting in concert therewithare capable of being, settled through delivery of such shares, or (z) such Proposing Person may have entered into other transactions that hedge or mitigate the economic effect of such instrumentderivative, contract or rightswap, or other transactions; (ii) any proxy (other direct than a revocable proxy or indirect opportunity consent given in response to profit or share a solicitation made pursuant to, and in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares accordance with, Section 14(a) of the Corporation and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value Exchange Act by way of any class or series of shares of the Corporation (any of the foregoinga solicitation statement filed on Schedule 14A), a “Derivative Instrument”) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder, the beneficial owner, or any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (C) any proxy, contractagreement, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates Proposing Person has or associates or others acting in concert therewith have any shares a right to vote any shares of any class or series of shares of any security capital stock of the CorporationCorporation (including the number of shares and class or series of capital stock of the Corporation that are subject to such proxy, and any contractagreement, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwiserelationship); (iii) any agreement, arrangement, understanding, or relationship, including any repurchase or similar so-called “stock borrowing” agreement or arrangement, engaged in, directly or indirectly, by such Proposing Person, the purpose or effect of which is to mitigate loss to, reduce the economic risk (of ownership or otherwise) of shares of any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation by, manage the risk of share price changes for, or increase or decrease the voting power of such stockholderof, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates Proposing Person with respect to the shares of any class or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (D) any short interest in any security series of capital stock of the Corporation (for purposes of this Section 2.03 a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person Corporation, or that provides, directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the price or value of the subject security) involving such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates shares of any class or associates or others acting in concert therewith, series of the Corporation (E“Short Interests”); (iv) any rights to dividends on the shares of any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith Proposing Person that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, ; (Fv) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner, (G) any performance-performance related fees (other than an asset-asset based fee) that to which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith Proposing Person is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the price or value of shares of any class or series of the Corporation capital stock of the Corporation, or Derivative Instrumentsany Synthetic Equity Interests or Short Interests, if any, as of the date of such notice, including, without limitation, any such interests held by members of the immediate family sharing the same household of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (H) any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments or short interests in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith ; and (I) any direct or indirect interest of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith in any contract with the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement) (which information shall be supplemented by such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than ten (10) days after the record date for the meeting to disclose such ownership as of the record date); (iiivi) any other information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, Proposing Person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings filing required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies foror consents by such Proposing Person in support of the nominations or business proposed to be brought before the meeting pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Exchange Act (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (i) through (vi) are referred to as “Disclosable Interests”); provided, however, that Disclosable Interests shall not include any such disclosures with respect to the ordinary course business activities of any broker, dealer, commercial bank, trust company, or other nominee who is a Proposing Person solely as a result of being the stockholder directed to prepare and submit the notice required by these Bylaws on behalf of a beneficial owner;
(c) if such notice pertains to the nomination by the stockholder of a person or persons for election to the Board of Directors (each, a “nominee”), as applicableto each nominee, (i) the proposal and/or name, age, business and residence address, and principal occupation or employment of the nominee; (ii) all other information relating to the nominee that would be required to be disclosed about such nominee if proxies were being solicited for the election of directors the nominee as a director in a contested an election contest (whether or not such proxies are or will be solicited), or that is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Section 14 of and in accordance with Regulation 14A under the Exchange Act Act; (iii) such nominee’s written consent to being named in the proxy statement, if any, as a nominee and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunderto serving as a director if elected; and (iv) all information with respect to such nominee that would be required to be set forth in a stockholder’s notice pursuant to this Section 2.8 if such nominee were a Proposing Person;
(d) if the notice relates to any business (other than the nomination of persons for election to the Board of Directors) that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, (i) a reasonably brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting, (ii) the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and if such business includes a proposal to amend these Bylaws, the language of the proposed amendment), (iii) the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting, and (iv) any material interest in such business of each Proposing Person;
(e) a representation that the stockholder giving the notice 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 to propose such business or nomination; and
(f) a representation whether the stockholder or the beneficial owner, if any, any Proposing Person intends or is part of a group which that intends (ya) to deliver a proxy statement and/or or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the business to be proposed proposal or to elect the nominee and/or or (zb) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal or the nomination; .
(b4) if the notice relates to any business other than a nomination of a director or directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, set forth (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws of the Corporation, the language of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest of such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, in such business and (ii) a description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; (c) set forth, as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection to the Board of Directors (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee of the stockholder and to serving as a director if elected) and (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making the nomination, such beneficial owner, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, and a description of any other agreements, arrangements and understandings between or among such stockholder, such beneficial owner, any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the nomination by such stockholder; and (d) with respect to each nominee for election or reelection to the Board of Directors, include a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.04. The Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as it may reasonably be required by the Corporation require to determine (i) the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation, including information relevant and (ii) whether such nominee qualifies as an “independent director” or “audit committee financial expert” under applicable law, securities exchange rule or regulation, or any publicly-disclosed corporate governance guideline or committee charter of the Corporation.
(5) Notwithstanding anything in the second sentence of paragraph (A)(2) of this Section 2.8 to the independencecontrary, in the event that the number of directors to be elected to the Board of Directors at an annual meeting of stockholders is increased and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the Corporation’s nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board of Directors at least 120 days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting, a stockholder’s notice pursuant to this Section 2.8 shall also be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new seats on the Board of Directors created by such increase, if it is delivered to, or lack thereofmailed to and received by, the Secretary at the principal executive office of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the 10th day following the day on which such nomineepublic announcement is first made by the Corporation.
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Samples: Separation and Distribution Agreement (Dell Technologies Inc.), Separation and Distribution Agreement (Vmware, Inc.)
Annual Meetings of Stockholders. (1i) Nominations of persons one or more individuals for election to the Board of Directors by the stockholders generally entitled to vote (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall exclude nominations of one or more individuals for election as Class/Series Directors (as defined below)) (each, a “Nomination,” and more than one, “Nominations”) and the proposal of any question or business other business than a Nomination or Nominations to be considered by the stockholders generally entitled to vote (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall exclude any question or business other than a Nomination or Nominations required by or pursuant to the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation to be voted on solely and exclusively by the holders of any class (voting separately as a class) or series (voting separately as a series) of capital stock of the Corporation then outstanding) (collectively, “Business”) may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders only (aA) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant ); provided, however, that reference in the Corporation’s notice of meeting to Section 2.05the election of directors or the election of members of the Board of Directors shall not include or be deemed to include a Nomination or Nominations, (bB) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or any authorized committee thereof, (cC) by any stockholder of the Corporation who (i) was a stockholder of record of the Corporation at the time of giving of the notice provided for in this Section 2.03 and at 1.13 is delivered to the time of the annual meetingSecretary, (ii) who is entitled to vote at the meeting and (iii) who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.03 as to such business or nomination, or (d) with respect to nominations, by any Eligible Stockholder (as defined in paragraph (C)(2) of this Section 2.03) whose Stockholder Nominee (as defined in paragraph (C)(1) of this Section 2.03) is included in the Corporation’s proxy materials for the relevant annual meeting. Clauses (c) and (d) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make director nominations and clause (c) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to submit other business (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and included in the Corporation’s notice of meetings) before an annual meeting of stockholders1.13.
(2ii) Without qualification, for nominations For Nominations or any other business Business to be properly brought before an annual meeting of stockholders by a stockholder pursuant to clause (cSection 1.13(a)(i)(C) of paragraph (A)(1) of this Section 2.03these Bylaws, the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation, and, in the case of business other than nominations of persons for election to the Board, such other business and any proposed Business must constitute a proper matter for stockholder action. To be timely, such a stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less later than ninety the close of business on the ninetieth (9090th) days day nor more earlier than the close of business on the one hundred and twenty twentieth (120120th) days day prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting (which date shall, for purposes of the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders after its shares of Common Stock (as defined in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation) are first publicly traded, be deemed to have occurred on May 15, 2018)stockholders; provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is advanced by more than thirty (30) days, days before or delayed by more than seventy (70) days, from the days after such anniversary date of the previous year’s meeting, or if no annual meeting was held in the preceding yeardate, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the close of business on the one hundred and twentieth (120th) day prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day prior to such annual meeting or the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first mademade by the Corporation. Public In no event shall the public announcement of an adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting shall not of stockholders commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s noticenotice as described above. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.03(A)(2) to the contrary, if the number of directors to be elected to the Board at an annual meeting is increased, and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board at least one hundred (100) calendar days prior to the first anniversary of the prior year’s annual meeting of stockholders, then a Such stockholder’s notice required by this Section 2.03 shall set forth: (A) as to each Nomination to be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created made by such increasestockholder, (1) all information relating to the individual subject to such Nomination that is required to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of directors in an election contest, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to and in accordance with Regulation 14A under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), without regard to the application of the Exchange Act to either the Nomination or the Corporation, (2) such individual’s written consent to being named in any proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as director if it is received by elected, (3) a description of any direct or indirect compensation or benefit (including, without limitation, indemnification and/or advancement rights) to which the Secretary individual subject to such Nomination may be entitled under any agreement, arrangement or understanding with any person other than the Corporation (including, without limitation, the amount of any such monetary compensation) in connection with such individual’s nomination or service as a director of the Corporation not later than and (4) a description of any other material relationship or relationships between or among the close of business individual subject to such Nomination and/or such individual’s affiliates and associates, on the tenth (10th) calendar day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation.
(3) To be in proper formone hand, a stockholder’s notice delivered pursuant to this Section 2.03 must: (a) set forth, as to and the stockholder giving the notice, notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination Nomination or proposal is made, and their Nominations is/are made and/or such stockholder’s or beneficial owner’s respective affiliates or associates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith with such stockholder or beneficial owner or their respective affiliates and associates, on the other hand, including, without limitation, all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 under Regulation S-K if such stockholder, beneficial owner, affiliate, associate or other person were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the individual subject to such Nomination was a director or officer of such registrant; (iB) as to the Business proposed by such stockholder, a brief description of the Business, the text of the proposed Business (including the text of any resolution or resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such Business includes a proposal to amend these Bylaws, the text of the proposed amendment), the reason or reasons for conducting such Business at the meeting and any material interest or interests in such Business of such stockholder and of the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the Business is proposed; and (C) as to the stockholder giving the notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the Nomination, Nominations or Business is/are made (1) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the Corporation’s books, and of such beneficial owner, if any, and any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; with them, (ii) (A2) the class or class, series and number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation which are, directly or indirectly, are owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith if any, (B3) any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at representation that the stockholder is a price related to any class or series holder of record of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any derivative or synthetic arrangement having the characteristics of a long position in any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions designed to produce economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially to the ownership of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, including due to the fact that the value of such contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions is determined by reference to the price, value or volatility of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument, contract or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of capital stock of the Corporation, through the delivery of cash or other property, or otherwise, and without regard to whether the stockholder of record, the beneficial owner, or any affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, may have entered into transactions that hedge or mitigate the economic effect of such instrument, contract or right, or any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation (any of the foregoing, a “Derivative Instrument”) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder, the beneficial owner, or any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (C) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith have any right entitled to vote any class at such meeting and such stockholder (or series of shares of any security of the Corporation, and any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, the purpose or effect of which is to increase or decrease the voting power a qualified representative of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates ) intends to appear in person or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (D) any short interest in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of this Section 2.03 a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security) involving such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (E) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (F) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner, (G) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, as of the date of such notice, including, without limitation, any such interests held by members of the immediate family sharing the same household of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (H) any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments or short interests in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith and (I) any direct or indirect interest of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith in any contract with the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement) (which information shall be supplemented by such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than ten (10) days after the record date for proxy at the meeting to disclose propose such ownership as of the record date); (iii) any other information relating to such stockholder and beneficial ownerNomination, if any, that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement Nominations or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; Business and (iv4) a representation as to whether the stockholder or the beneficial owner, if any, intends or is part of a group which intends (yx) to deliver a by proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the business to be proposed Business or to elect the nominee or nominees subject to the Nomination or Nominations and/or (zy) to otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders of the Corporation in support of such proposal Nomination, Nominations or the nominationBusiness; (b) provided, however, that if the notice relates Business is otherwise subject to Rule 14a-8 (or any business other than a nomination of a director or directors that successor thereto) promulgated under the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, set forth Exchange Act (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws of the Corporation, the language of the proposed amendment“Rule 14a-8”), the reasons for conducting foregoing notice requirements shall be deemed satisfied by a stockholder if the stockholder has notified the Corporation of his, her or its intention to present such business Business at the an annual meeting and any material interest of such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, stockholders in such business and (ii) a description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, if anycompliance with Rule 14a-8, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; (c) set forth, as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection to the Board of Directors (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed Business has been included in a proxy statement or other filings required that has been prepared by the Corporation to be made in connection with solicitations of solicit proxies for election such annual meeting of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee of the stockholder and to serving as a director if elected) and (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making the nomination, such beneficial owner, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, and a description of any other agreements, arrangements and understandings between or among such stockholder, such beneficial owner, any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the nomination by such stockholder; and (d) with respect to each nominee for election or reelection to the Board of Directors, include a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.04stockholders. The Corporation may require (1) any proposed nominee individual subject to such Nomination to furnish such other information as the Corporation may reasonably be required by the Corporation require to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee individual subject to such Nomination to serve as a director of the Corporation, including Corporation if elected and (2) the stockholder giving notice to furnish such other information relevant as the Corporation may reasonably require to demonstrate that any Business is a proper matter for stockholder action at an annual meeting of stockholders.
(iii) Notwithstanding anything in the second sentence of Section 1.13(a)(ii) of these Bylaws to the independencecontrary, or lack thereofin the event that the number of directors to be elected to the Board of Directors by the stockholders generally entitled to vote (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall exclude any Class/Series Directors) at an annual meeting of stockholders is increased and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming the nominees for election to the additional directorships at least one hundred (100) days prior to the first (1st) anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting of stockholders, a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 1.13 shall also be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for election to such nomineeadditional directorships, if it shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation.
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Samples: Business Combination Agreement (Maquia Capital Acquisition Corp), Business Combination Agreement (Maquia Capital Acquisition Corp)
Annual Meetings of Stockholders. (1) Nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors and the proposal of other business to be considered by the stockholders may be made at brought before an annual meeting of stockholders only (a) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant to Section 2.05, (bi) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or any authorized committee thereof, (cii) by any stockholder of the Corporation who (i) was a stockholder of record at the time of giving of notice provided for in this Section 2.03 and at the time of the annual meetingthese Bylaws, (ii) who is entitled to vote at the meeting, who is present (in person or by proxy) at the meeting and (iii) who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.03 these Bylaws as to such business nomination or nominationbusiness. For the avoidance of doubt, or (d) with respect to nominations, by any Eligible Stockholder (as defined in paragraph (C)(2) of this Section 2.03) whose Stockholder Nominee (as defined in paragraph (C)(1) of this Section 2.03) is included in the Corporation’s proxy materials for the relevant annual meeting. Clauses (c) and (d) of the foregoing sentence clause (ii) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make director bring nominations and clause (c) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to submit other or business properly before an annual meeting (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 (or any successor rule) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) )), and included such stockholder must comply with the notice and other procedures set forth in the Corporation’s notice Section 2.3 of meetings) this Article to bring such nominations or business properly before an annual meeting of stockholders.
(2) Without qualificationmeeting. In addition to the other requirements set forth in these Bylaws, for any proposal of business to be considered at an annual meeting, it must be a proper subject for action by stockholders of the Corporation under the laws of the State of Delaware. For nominations or any other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (c) of the paragraph (A)(1) of this Section 2.03above, the stockholder must (i) have given timely notice Timely Notice (as defined below) thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation, and, (ii) have provided any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the case of forms required by these Bylaws and (iii) together with the beneficial owner(s), if any, on whose behalf the nomination or business other than nominations of persons for election to proposal is made, have acted in accordance with the Board, such other business must constitute a proper matter for stockholder actionrepresentations set forth in the Solicitation Statement (as defined below) required by these Bylaws. To be timely, such a stockholder’s written notice shall be delivered to received by the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less later than ninety the close of business on the ninetieth (9090th) days day nor more earlier than the close of business on the one hundred and twenty twentieth (120120th) days day prior to the first one-year anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting (which date shall, for purposes of the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders after its shares of Common Stock (as defined in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation) are first publicly traded, be deemed to have occurred on May 15, 2018)meeting; provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is advanced by first convened more than thirty (30) days, days before or delayed by more than seventy sixty (7060) days, from the days after such anniversary date of the previous year’s meetingdate, or if no annual meeting was were held in the preceding year, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than received by the close Secretary of business on the one hundred and twentieth (120th) day prior to such annual meeting and Corporation not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day prior to the scheduled date of such annual meeting or the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first mademade (such notice within such time periods shall be referred to as “Timely Notice”). Public announcement of an adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting shall not commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a Such stockholder’s notice. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.03(A)(2) to the contrary, if the number of directors to be elected to the Board at an annual meeting is increased, and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board at least one hundred (100) calendar days prior to the first anniversary of the prior year’s annual meeting of stockholders, then a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 2.03 Timely Notice shall be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it is received by the Secretary of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) calendar day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation.
(3) To be in proper form, a stockholder’s notice delivered pursuant to this Section 2.03 must: (a) set forth, : • as to each person whom the stockholder giving the noticeproposes to nominate for election or reelection as a Director, the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (i) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the Corporation’s books, and of such beneficial owner, and of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; (ii) (A) the class or series and number of shares of the Corporation which are, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (B) any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to any class or series of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any derivative or synthetic arrangement having the characteristics of a long position in any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions designed to produce economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially to the ownership of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, including due to the fact that the value of such contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions is determined by reference to the price, value or volatility of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument, contract or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of capital stock of the Corporation, through the delivery of cash or other property, or otherwise, and without regard to whether the stockholder of record, the beneficial owner, or any affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, may have entered into transactions that hedge or mitigate the economic effect of such instrument, contract or right, or any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation (any of the foregoing, a “Derivative Instrument”) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder, the beneficial owner, or any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (C) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith have any right to vote any class or series of shares of any security of the Corporation, and any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, the purpose or effect of which is to increase or decrease the voting power of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (D) any short interest in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of this Section 2.03 a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security) involving such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (E) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (F) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner, (G) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, as of the date of such notice, including, without limitation, any such interests held by members of the immediate family sharing the same household of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (H) any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments or short interests in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith and (I) any direct or indirect interest of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith in any contract with the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement) (which information shall be supplemented by such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than ten (10) days after the record date for the meeting to disclose such ownership as of the record date); (iii) any other all information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, person that would be is required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of directors Directors in a contested an election contest, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Section 14 of Regulation 14A under the Exchange Act and (including such person’s written consent to being named in the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; and (iv) a representation whether the stockholder or the beneficial owner, if any, intends or is part of a group which intends (y) to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy as a nominee and to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the business to be proposed or to elect the nominee and/or (z) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal or the nominationserving as a Director if elected); (b) if the notice relates • as to any other business other than a nomination of a director or directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, set forth (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting meeting, the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws of the Corporationthese Bylaws, the language of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest in such business of such each Proposing Person (as defined below); • the name and address of the stockholder giving the notice, as they appear on the Corporation’s books, and beneficial owner, the names and addresses of the other Proposing Persons (if any); • as to each Proposing Person, the following information: (a) the class or series and number of all shares of capital stock of the Corporation which are, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially or of record by such Proposing Person or any of its affiliates or associates (as such terms are defined in Rule 12b-2 promulgated under the Exchange Act), including any shares of any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation as to which such Proposing Person or any of its affiliates or associates has a right to acquire beneficial ownership at any time in the future, (b) all Synthetic Equity Interests (as defined below) in which such Proposing Person or any of its affiliates or associates, directly or indirectly, holds an interest, including a description of the material terms of each such Synthetic Equity Interest, including without limitation, identification of the counterparty to each such Synthetic Equity Interest and disclosure, for each such Synthetic Equity Interest, as to (x) whether or not such Synthetic Equity Interest conveys any voting rights, directly or indirectly, in such business shares to such Proposing Person, (y) whether or not such Synthetic Equity Interest is required to be, or is capable of being, settled through delivery of such shares and (iiz) whether or not such Proposing Person, and/or, to the extent known, the counterparty to such Synthetic Equity Interest, has entered into other transactions that hedge or mitigate the economic effect of such Synthetic Equity Interest, (c) any proxy (other than a revocable proxy given in response to a public proxy solicitation made pursuant to, and in accordance with, the Exchange Act), agreement, arrangement, understanding or relationship pursuant to which such Proposing Person has or shares a right to, directly or indirectly, vote any shares of any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation, (d) any rights to dividends or other distributions on the shares of any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially by such Proposing Person that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, and (e) any performance-related fees (other than an asset based fee) that such Proposing Person, directly or indirectly, is entitled to, based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation or any Synthetic Equity Interests (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (a) through (e) are referred to, collectively, as “Material Ownership Interests”); • a description of the material terms of all agreements, arrangements or understandings (whether or not in writing) entered into by any Proposing Person or any of its affiliates or associates with any other person for the purpose of acquiring, holding, disposing or voting of any shares of any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation; • a description of all agreements, arrangements or understandings by and understandings between among any of the Proposing Persons, or by and among any Proposing Persons and any other person (including with any proposed nominee(s)), pertaining to the nomination(s) or other business proposed to be brought before the meeting of stockholders (which description shall identify the name of each other person who is party to such an agreement, arrangement or understanding); • identification of the names and addresses of other stockholders (including beneficial owners) known by any of the Proposing Persons to support nominations or other business proposal(s), and to the extent known the class and number of all shares of the Corporation’s capital stock owned beneficially or of record by such other stockholder(s) or other beneficial owner(s); and • a statement whether or not the stockholder and beneficial ownergiving the notice and/or the other Proposing Person(s), if any, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; (c) set forth, as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection to the Board of Directors (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in will deliver a proxy statement and form of proxy to holders of, in the case of a business proposal, at least the percentage of voting power of all of the shares of capital stock of the Corporation required under applicable law to approve the proposal or, in the case of a nomination or other filings required nominations, at least the percentage of voting power of all of the shares of capital stock of the Corporation reasonably believed by such Proposing Person to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant sufficient to Section 14 of elect the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent nominee or nominees proposed to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee of the stockholder and to serving as a director if elected) and (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among be nominated by such stockholder and the beneficial owner(such statement, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making the nomination, such beneficial owner, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, and a description of any other agreements, arrangements and understandings between or among such stockholder, such beneficial owner, any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the nomination by such stockholder; and (d) with respect to each nominee for election or reelection to the Board of Directors, include a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.04. The Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the Corporation to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation, including information relevant to the independence, or lack thereof, of such nomineeSolicitation Statement”).
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Annual Meetings of Stockholders. (1) Nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors of the Corporation and the proposal of other business to be considered by the stockholders may be made at brought before an annual meeting of stockholders only Annual Meeting (a) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant to Section 2.05, (bi) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or any authorized committee thereof, (cii) by any stockholder of the Corporation who (i) was a stockholder of record at the time of giving of notice provided for in this Section 2.03 and at the time of the annual meetingBy-law, (ii) who is entitled to vote at the meeting, who is present (in person or by proxy) at the meeting and (iii) who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.03 By-law as to such business nomination or nominationbusiness. For the avoidance of doubt, or (d) with respect to nominations, by any Eligible Stockholder (as defined in paragraph (C)(2) of this Section 2.03) whose Stockholder Nominee (as defined in paragraph (C)(1) of this Section 2.03) is included in the Corporation’s proxy materials for the relevant annual meeting. Clauses (c) and (d) of the foregoing sentence clause (ii) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make director bring nominations and clause (c) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to submit other or business properly before an Annual Meeting (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 (or any successor rule) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)), and such stockholder must comply with the notice and other procedures set forth in Article I, Section 2(a)(2) and included in the Corporation’s notice (3) of meetings) this By-law to bring such nominations or business properly before an annual meeting Annual Meeting. In addition to the other requirements set forth in this By-law, for any proposal of stockholdersbusiness to be considered at an Annual Meeting, it must be a proper subject for action by stockholders of the Corporation under Delaware law.
(2) Without qualification, for For nominations or any other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting Annual Meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (cii) of paragraph (A)(1Article I, Section 2(a)(1) of this Section 2.03By-law, the stockholder must (i) have given timely notice Timely Notice (as defined below) thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation, and, (ii) have provided any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the case of business other than nominations of persons for election to the Board, such other business must constitute a proper matter for stockholder action. To be timely, such stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than ninety (90) days nor more than one hundred and twenty (120) days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting (which date shall, for purposes of the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders after its shares of Common Stock (as defined in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation) are first publicly traded, be deemed to have occurred on May 15, 2018); provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is advanced by more than thirty (30) days, or delayed by more than seventy (70) days, from the anniversary date of the previous year’s meeting, or if no annual meeting was held in the preceding year, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the close of business on the one hundred and twentieth (120th) day prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day prior to such annual meeting or the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made. Public announcement of an adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting shall not commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s notice. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.03(A)(2) to the contrary, if the number of directors to be elected to the Board at an annual meeting is increased, and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board at least one hundred (100) calendar days prior to the first anniversary of the prior year’s annual meeting of stockholders, then a stockholder’s notice forms required by this Section 2.03 shall be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it is received by the Secretary of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) calendar day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation.
(3) To be in proper form, a stockholder’s notice delivered pursuant to this Section 2.03 must: (a) set forth, as to the stockholder giving the notice, the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (i) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the Corporation’s books, and of such beneficial owner, and of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; (ii) (A) the class or series and number of shares of the Corporation which are, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (B) any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to any class or series of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any derivative or synthetic arrangement having the characteristics of a long position in any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions designed to produce economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially to the ownership of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, including due to the fact that the value of such contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions is determined by reference to the price, value or volatility of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument, contract or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of capital stock of the Corporation, through the delivery of cash or other property, or otherwise, and without regard to whether the stockholder of record, the beneficial owner, or any affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, may have entered into transactions that hedge or mitigate the economic effect of such instrument, contract or right, or any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation (any of the foregoing, a “Derivative Instrument”) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder, the beneficial owner, or any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (C) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith have any right to vote any class or series of shares of any security of the Corporation, and any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, the purpose or effect of which is to increase or decrease the voting power of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (D) any short interest in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of this Section 2.03 a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security) involving such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (E) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (F) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner, (G) any performanceBy-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, as of the date of such notice, including, without limitation, any such interests held by members of the immediate family sharing the same household of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (H) any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments or short interests in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith and (I) any direct or indirect interest of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith in any contract with the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement) (which information shall be supplemented by such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than ten (10) days after the record date for the meeting to disclose such ownership as of the record date); (iii) any other information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; and (iv) a representation whether the stockholder or the beneficial owner, if any, intends or is part of a group which intends (y) to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the business to be proposed or to elect the nominee and/or (z) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal or the nomination; (b) if the notice relates to any business other than a nomination of a director or directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, set forth (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws of the Corporation, the language of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest of such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, in such business and (ii) a description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; (c) set forth, as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection to the Board of Directors (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee of the stockholder and to serving as a director if elected) and (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making the nomination, such beneficial owner, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, and a description of any other agreements, arrangements and understandings between or among such stockholder, such beneficial owner, any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the nomination by such stockholder; and (d) with respect to each nominee for election or reelection to the Board of Directors, include a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.04. The Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the Corporation to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation, including information relevant to the independence, or lack thereof, of such nominee.law and
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Samples: Business Combination Agreement (Dragoneer Growth Opportunities Corp.)
Annual Meetings of Stockholders. (1i) Nominations of persons for election to the Board and of Directors or the proposal of other business to be considered transacted by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders may be made only (aA) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant to Section 2.05), (bB) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or any authorized committee thereof, (cC) with respect to Pioneer Merger Sponsor LLC and its affiliates, in accordance with the procedures set forth in the Shareholders’ Agreement by and among the Corporation and the stockholders party thereto, dated as of May 26, 2021 (the “Shareholders’ Agreement”) or (D) by any stockholder of the Corporation who (i) was is a stockholder of record at the time of giving of notice provided for in paragraph (ii) of this Section 2.03 Section 2.10(a) and at the time of the annual meeting, (ii) is who shall be entitled to vote at the meeting and (iii) who complies with the procedures set forth in this Section 2.10(a), and, except as otherwise required by law, any failure to comply with these procedures shall result in the nullification of such nomination or proposal. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.10 to the contrary, the advance notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.03 as to such business or nomination, or (d) 2.10 shall not apply with respect to nominationsthe nomination of any director pursuant to and in accordance with the Shareholders’ Agreement (such a director, a “Designated Director”), and the nomination of a Designated Director shall instead by any Eligible Stockholder (as defined in paragraph (C)(2) of this Section 2.03) whose Stockholder Nominee (as defined in paragraph (C)(1) of this Section 2.03) is included governed by the procedures set forth in the Corporation’s proxy materials for the relevant annual meeting. Clauses (c) and (d) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make director nominations and clause (c) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to submit other business (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and included in the Corporation’s notice of meetings) before an annual meeting of stockholdersShareholders’ Agreement.
(2ii) Without qualification, for For nominations or any other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting of stockholders by a stockholder pursuant to clause (cD) of paragraph (A)(1(i) of this Section 2.03Section 2.10(a), the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation, and, in the case of Corporation and any such proposed business (other than the nominations of persons for election to the Board, such other business Board of Directors) must constitute a proper matter for stockholder action. To be timely, such a stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to to, or mailed and received by, the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than ninety (90) 90 days nor more than one hundred and twenty (120) 120 days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting of stockholders (which date shall, for purposes of the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders after its shares of Common Stock (as defined in the Amended year of the closing of the merger contemplated by that certain Business Combination Agreement, dated as of May 26, 2021, by and Restated Certificate of Incorporation) are first publicly tradedamong Pioneer Merger Corp., Pioneer SPAC Merger Sub Inc., and Acorns Grow Incorporated, be deemed to have occurred on May 15September 1, 20182021 of such year); provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is advanced by more than thirty (30) days, 30 days prior to such anniversary date or delayed by more than seventy (70) days, from the 70 days after such anniversary date of the previous year’s meeting, or if no annual meeting was held in the preceding year, notice by the stockholder then to be timely such notice must be so delivered delivered, or mailed and received, not earlier later than the close of business on the one hundred and twentieth (120th) 90th day prior to such annual meeting and not later than or, if later, the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day prior to such annual meeting or the tenth (10th) 10th day following the day on which public announcement disclosure of the date of such annual meeting is was first made. Public announcement of an In no event shall the adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting shall not any meeting, or any announcement thereof, commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s noticenotice as described above. Notwithstanding anything The number of nominees a stockholder may nominate for election at the annual meeting (or in this Section 2.03(A)(2the case of a stockholder giving the notice on behalf of a beneficial owner, the number of nominees a stockholder may nominate for election at the annual meeting on behalf of such beneficial owner) to the contrary, if shall not exceed the number of directors to be elected to the Board at an as such annual meeting is increased, and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board at least one hundred meeting.
(100iii) calendar days prior to the first anniversary of the prior year’s annual meeting of stockholders, then a A stockholder’s notice required by this Section 2.03 shall be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it is received by the Secretary of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) calendar day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation.
(3) To be in proper form, a stockholder’s notice delivered pursuant to this Section 2.03 must: (a) shall set forth, as to the stockholder giving the notice, the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (i) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the Corporation’s books, and of such beneficial owner, and of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; (ii) forth (A) the class or series and number of shares of the Corporation which are, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (B) any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related as to any class or series of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any derivative or synthetic arrangement having the characteristics of a long position in any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions designed to produce economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially to the ownership of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, including due to the fact that the value of such contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions is determined by reference to the price, value or volatility of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument, contract or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of capital stock of the Corporation, through the delivery of cash or other property, or otherwise, and without regard to whether each person whom the stockholder of record, the beneficial owner, proposes to nominate for election or any affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, may have entered into transactions that hedge or mitigate the economic effect of such instrument, contract or right, or any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation reelection as a director: (any of the foregoing, a “Derivative Instrument”1) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder, the beneficial owner, or any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (C) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith have any right to vote any class or series of shares of any security of the Corporation, and any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, the purpose or effect of which is to increase or decrease the voting power of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (D) any short interest in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of this Section 2.03 a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security) involving such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (E) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (F) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner, (G) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, as of the date of such notice, including, without limitation, any such interests held by members of the immediate family sharing the same household of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (H) any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments or short interests in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith and (I) any direct or indirect interest of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith in any contract with the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement) (which information shall be supplemented by such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than ten (10) days after the record date for the meeting to disclose such ownership as of the record date); (iii) any other all information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, person that would be is required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of directors directors, or is otherwise required, in a contested election each case pursuant to Section 14 of Regulation 14A under the Securities Exchange Act and of 1934 (as amended (together with the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder), the “Exchange Act”) including such person’s written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected; and (iv2) a representation whether reasonably detailed description of any compensatory, payment or other financial agreement, arrangement or understanding that such person has with any other person or entity other than the stockholder Corporation including the amount of any payment or the beneficial ownerpayments received or receivable thereunder, if any, intends in each case in connection with candidacy or is part of service as a group which intends (y) to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage director of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the business to be proposed or to elect the nominee and/or Corporation (za “Third-Party Compensation Arrangement”), (B) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal or the nomination; (b) if the notice relates as to any other business other than a nomination of a director or directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, set forth (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting meeting, the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws of the Corporationthese Bylaws, the language text of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest of such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, in such business and (ii) a description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; (c) set forth, as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection to the Board of Directors (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee of the stockholder and to serving as a director if elected) and (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination proposal is made and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required (C) as to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making giving the nomination, such notice and the beneficial owner, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewithif any, were on whose behalf the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, and a description of any other agreements, arrangements and understandings between or among such stockholder, such beneficial owner, any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the nomination by such stockholder; and (d) with respect to each nominee for election or reelection to the Board of Directors, include a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.04. The Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the Corporation to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation, including information relevant to the independence, or lack thereof, of such nominee.proposal is made:
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Samples: Business Combination Agreement (Pioneer Merger Corp.)
Annual Meetings of Stockholders. (1i) Nominations of persons one or more individuals for election to the Board of Directors by the stockholders generally entitled to vote (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall exclude nominations of one or more individuals for election as Class Directors and/or Preferred Directors) (each, a “Nomination,” and more than one, “Nominations”) and the proposal of any question or business other business than a Nomination or Nominations to be considered by the stockholders generally entitled to vote (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall exclude any question or business other than a Nomination or Nominations required by or pursuant to the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation with respect to the rights of the holders of any class of capital stock of the Corporation then outstanding to be voted on by the holders of such class, voting separately as a single class, or the holders of any series of preferred stock of the Corporation then outstanding to be voted on by the holders of such series, voting separately as a single class) (collectively, “Business”) may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders only (aA) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant ); provided, however, that reference in the Corporation’s notice of meeting to Section 2.05the election of directors or the election of members of the Board of Directors shall not include or be deemed to include a Nomination or Nominations, (bB) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or any authorized committee thereof, (cC) by any stockholder of the Corporation who (i) was a stockholder of record of the Corporation at the time of giving of the notice provided for in this Section 2.03 and at 1.13 is delivered to the time of the annual meetingSecretary, (ii) who is entitled to vote at the meeting and (iii) who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.03 as to such business or nomination, or (d) with respect to nominations, by any Eligible Stockholder (as defined in paragraph (C)(2) of this Section 2.03) whose Stockholder Nominee (as defined in paragraph (C)(1) of this Section 2.03) is included in the Corporation’s proxy materials for the relevant annual meeting. Clauses (c) and (d) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make director nominations and clause (c) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to submit other business (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and included in the Corporation’s notice of meetings) before an annual meeting of stockholders1.13.
(2ii) Without qualification, for nominations For Nominations or any other business Business to be properly brought before an annual meeting of stockholders by a stockholder pursuant to clause (c) of paragraph (A)(1) of this Section 2.031.13(a)(i)(C), the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation, and, in the case of business other than nominations of persons for election to the Board, such other business and any proposed Business must constitute a proper matter for stockholder action. To be timely, such a stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less later than ninety the close of business on the ninetieth (9090th) days day nor more earlier than the close of business on the one hundred and twenty twentieth (120120th) days day prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting (which date shall, for purposes of the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders after its shares of Common Stock (as defined in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation) are first publicly traded, be deemed to have occurred on May 15, 2018)stockholders; provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is advanced by more than thirty (30) days, days before or delayed by more than seventy (70) days, from the days after such anniversary date of the previous year’s meeting, or if no annual meeting was held in the preceding yeardate, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the close of business on the one hundred and twentieth (120th) day prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day prior to such annual meeting or the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first mademade by the Corporation. Public In no event shall the public announcement of an adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting shall not of stockholders of the Corporation commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s noticenotice as described above. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.03(A)(2) to the contrary, if the number of directors to be elected to the Board at an annual meeting is increased, and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board at least one hundred (100) calendar days prior to the first anniversary of the prior year’s annual meeting of stockholders, then a Such stockholder’s notice required by this Section 2.03 shall set forth: (A) as to each Nomination to be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created made by such increasestockholder, (1) all information relating to the individual subject to such Nomination that is required to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of directors in an election contest, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to and in accordance with Regulation 14A under the Exchange Act, without regard to the application of the Exchange Act to either the Nomination or the Corporation, (2) such individual’s written consent to being named in a proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as director if it is elected, (3) any direct or indirect compensatory, payment, indemnification or other financial agreement, arrangement or understanding that such individual has, or has had within the past three years, with any person or persons other than the Corporation (including, without limitation, the amount of any payment or payments received by the Secretary or receivable thereunder), in each case in connection with such individual’s nomination or service as a director of the Corporation not later than the close (such agreement, arrangement or understanding, a “Third-Party Compensation Arrangement”), and (4) a description of business any other material relationships between such individual and such individual’s respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert with them, on the tenth (10th) calendar day following the day on which one hand, and such public announcement is first made by the Corporation.
(3) To be in proper form, a stockholder’s notice delivered pursuant to this Section 2.03 must: (a) set forth, as to the stockholder giving the notice, notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal Nomination is made, and their respective affiliates or associates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith with them, on the other hand, including, without limitation, all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 under Regulation S-K if such stockholder, beneficial owner, affiliate or associate were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and such person were a director or executive officer of such registrant; (iB) as to the Business proposed by such stockholder, a brief description of the Business, the text of the proposed Business (including the text of any resolution or resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such Business includes a proposal to amend these Bylaws, the text of the proposed amendment), the reason or reasons for conducting such Business at the meeting and any material interest or interests of stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made; and (C) as to the stockholder giving the notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the Nomination, Nominations or Business is made (1) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the Corporation’s books, and of such beneficial owner, if any, and of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; with them, (ii) (A2) the class or class, series and number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation which are, directly or indirectly, are owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, if any, (3) a representation that the stockholder is a holder of record of shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at such meeting and such stockholder (or a qualified representative) intends to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to propose such Nomination, Nominations or Business, (4) any agreement, arrangement or understanding between such stockholder, such beneficial owner or their respective affiliates or associates, or others acting in concert with them, on the one hand, and any other person or persons other than the Corporation (including, in each case, the name or names of such person or persons), on the other hand, in connection with such Nomination, Nominations or Business, (5) any (x) agreement, arrangement or understanding (including, without limitation and regardless of the form of settlement, any derivative, long or short positions, profit interests, forwards, futures, swaps, options, warrants, convertible securities, stock appreciation or similar rights, hedging transactions and borrowed or loaned shares) that has been entered into by or on behalf of such stockholder, such beneficial owner or their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (B) any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related them with respect to any class or series of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any derivative or synthetic arrangement having the characteristics of a long position in any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions designed to produce economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially to the ownership of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, including due to the fact that the value of such contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions is determined by reference to the price, value or volatility of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument, contract or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of capital stock of the Corporation, through the delivery of cash or other property, or otherwise, and without regard to whether the stockholder of record, the beneficial owner, or any affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, may have entered into transactions that hedge or mitigate the economic effect of such instrument, contract or right, or any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation ’s securities (any of the foregoing, a “Derivative Instrument”) ), including the full notional amount of any securities that, directly or indirectly owned beneficially by indirectly, underlie any Derivative Instrument, and (y) other agreement, arrangement or understanding that has been made the effect or intent of which is to create or mitigate loss to, manage risk or benefit of share price changes for, or increase or decrease the voting power of, such stockholder, the such beneficial owner, owner or any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewithwith them with respect to the Corporation’s securities, (C6) any proxy, contract, agreement, arrangement, understanding, understanding or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and or their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith have any right to vote any class or series of shares of any security of the Corporation, and any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, the purpose or effect of which is to increase or decrease the voting power of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (D) any short interest in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of this Section 2.03 a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security) involving such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (E) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (F) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner, (G) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, as of the date of such notice, including, without limitation, any such interests held by members of the immediate family sharing the same household of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (H) any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments or short interests in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith and (I) any direct or indirect interest of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith in any contract with the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement) (which information shall be supplemented by such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than ten (10) days after the record date for the meeting to disclose such ownership as of the record date); (iii) any other information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; and (iv) a representation whether the stockholder or the beneficial owner, if any, intends or is part of a group which intends (y) to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the business to be proposed or to elect the nominee and/or (z) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal or the nomination; (b) if the notice relates to any business other than a nomination of a director or directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, set forth (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws of the Corporation, the language of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest of such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, in such business and (ii) a description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; (c) set forth, as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection to the Board of Directors (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee of the stockholder and to serving as a director if elected) and (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making the nomination, such beneficial owner, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, and a description of any other agreements, arrangements and understandings between or among such stockholder, such beneficial owner, any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the nomination by such stockholder; and (d) with respect to each nominee for election or reelection to the Board of Directors, include a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.04. The Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the Corporation to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation, including information relevant to the independence, or lack thereof, of such nominee.them has
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Samples: Business Combination Agreement (Aurora Technology Acquisition Corp.)
Annual Meetings of Stockholders. (1) Nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors of the Corporation and the proposal of other business to be considered by the stockholders may be made at brought before an annual meeting of stockholders only Annual Meeting (a) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant to Section 2.05, (bi) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or any authorized committee thereof, (cii) by any stockholder of the Corporation who (i) was a stockholder of record at the time of giving of notice provided for in this Section 2.03 and at the time of the annual meetingBy-law, (ii) who is entitled to vote at the meeting, who is present (in person or by proxy) at the meeting and (iii) who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.03 By-law as to such business nomination or nominationbusiness. For the avoidance of doubt, or (d) with respect to nominations, by any Eligible Stockholder (as defined in paragraph (C)(2) of this Section 2.03) whose Stockholder Nominee (as defined in paragraph (C)(1) of this Section 2.03) is included in the Corporation’s proxy materials for the relevant annual meeting. Clauses (c) and (d) of the foregoing sentence clause (ii) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make director bring nominations and clause (c) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to submit other or business properly before an Annual Meeting (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 (or any successor rule) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)), and such stockholder must comply with the notice and other procedures set forth in Article I, Section 2(a)(2) and included in the Corporation’s notice (3) of meetings) this By-law to bring such nominations or business properly before an annual meeting Annual Meeting. In addition to the other requirements set forth in this By-law, for any proposal of stockholdersbusiness to be considered at an Annual Meeting, it must be a proper subject for action by stockholders of the Corporation under Delaware law.
(2) Without qualification, for For nominations or any other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting Annual Meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (cii) of paragraph (A)(1Article I, Section 2(a)(1) of this Section 2.03By-law, the stockholder must (i) have given timely notice Timely Notice (as defined below) thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation, and, (ii) have provided any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the case of forms required by this By-law and (iii) together with the beneficial owner(s), if any, on whose behalf the nomination or business other than nominations of persons for election to proposal is made, have acted in accordance with the Board, such other business must constitute a proper matter for stockholder actionrepresentations set forth in the Solicitation Statement (as defined below) required by this By-law. To be timely, such a stockholder’s written notice shall be delivered to received by the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less later than ninety the close of business on the ninetieth (9090th) days day nor more earlier than the close of business on the one hundred and twenty twentieth (120120th) days day prior to the first one-year anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting (which date shall, for purposes of the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders after its shares of Common Stock (as defined in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation) are first publicly traded, be deemed to have occurred on May 15, 2018)Annual Meeting; provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting Annual Meeting is advanced by first convened more than thirty (30) days, days before or delayed by more than seventy sixty (7060) days, from the days after such anniversary date of the previous year’s meetingdate, or if no annual meeting was Annual Meeting were held in the preceding year, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than received by the close Secretary of business on the one hundred and twentieth (120th) day prior to such annual meeting and Corporation not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day prior to the scheduled date of such annual meeting Annual Meeting or the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first mademade (such notice within such time periods shall be referred to as “Timely Notice”). Public announcement of an adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting shall not commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a Such stockholder’s notice. Notwithstanding anything Timely Notice shall set forth:
(A) as to each person whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection as a director, all information relating to such person that is required to be disclosed in this Section 2.03(A)(2) to the contrary, if the number solicitations of proxies for election of directors in an election contest, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Exchange Act (including such person’s written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected);
(B) as to any other business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, a brief description of the business desired to be elected to brought before the Board meeting, the reasons for conducting such business at an annual meeting is increasedthe meeting, and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all any material interest in such business of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board at least one hundred each Proposing Person (100) calendar days prior to the first anniversary of the prior year’s annual meeting of stockholders, then a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 2.03 shall be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it is received by the Secretary of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) calendar day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation.as defined below);
(3) To be in proper form, a stockholder’s notice delivered pursuant to this Section 2.03 must: (a) set forth, as to the stockholder giving the notice, the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (i) the name and address of such stockholderthe stockholder giving the notice, as they appear on the Corporation’s books, and the names and addresses of such beneficial owner, the other Proposing Persons (if any) and of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; (ii) as to each Proposing Person, the following information: (Aa) the class or series and number of all shares of capital stock of the Corporation which are, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and or of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, and their respective Proposing Person or any of its affiliates or associates or others acting (as such terms are defined in concert therewith (B) Rule 12b-2 promulgated under the Exchange Act), including any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to any class or series of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from the value of any class or series of shares capital stock of the Corporation, Corporation as to which such Proposing Person or any derivative of its affiliates or synthetic arrangement having associates has a right to acquire beneficial ownership at any time in the characteristics future, (b) all Synthetic Equity Interests (as defined below) in which such Proposing Person or any of its affiliates or associates, directly or indirectly, holds an interest including a long position in any class or series of shares description of the Corporationmaterial terms of each such Synthetic Equity Interest, or any contractincluding without limitation, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions designed to produce economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially to the ownership of any class or series of shares identification of the Corporationcounterparty to each such Synthetic Equity Interest and disclosure, including due for each such Synthetic Equity Interest, as to the fact that the value of such contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions is determined by reference to the price, value or volatility of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, (x) whether or not such instrumentSynthetic Equity Interest conveys any voting rights, contract directly or indirectly, in such shares to such Proposing Person, (y) whether or not such Synthetic Equity Interest is required to be, or is capable of being, settled through delivery of such shares and (z) whether or not such Proposing Person and/or, to the extent known, the counterparty to such Synthetic Equity Interest has entered into other transactions that hedge or mitigate the economic effect of such Synthetic Equity Interest, (c) any proxy (other than a revocable proxy given in response to a public proxy solicitation made pursuant to, and in accordance with, the Exchange Act), agreement, arrangement, understanding or relationship pursuant to which such Proposing Person has or shares a right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying to, directly or indirectly, vote any shares of any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation, through the delivery of cash (d) any rights to dividends or other property, or otherwise, and without regard to whether distributions on the stockholder of record, the beneficial owner, or any affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, may have entered into transactions that hedge or mitigate the economic effect of such instrument, contract or right, or any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of any class or series of shares capital stock of the Corporation (any of the foregoingCorporation, a “Derivative Instrument”) directly or indirectly indirectly, owned beneficially by such stockholder, the beneficial owner, or any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (C) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith have any right to vote any class or series of shares of any security of the Corporation, and any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, the purpose or effect of which is to increase or decrease the voting power of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (D) any short interest in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of this Section 2.03 a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security) involving such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (E) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith Proposing Person that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, and (F) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner, (Ge) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-asset based fee) that such stockholderProposing Person, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates directly or associates or others acting in concert therewith indirectly, is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation any class or Derivative Instruments, if any, as series of the date of such notice, including, without limitation, any such interests held by members of the immediate family sharing the same household of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (H) any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments or short interests in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith and (I) any direct or indirect interest of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith in any contract with the Corporation, any affiliate capital stock of the Corporation or any principal competitor of Synthetic Equity Interests (the Corporation disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (includinga) through (e) are referred to, in any such casecollectively, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreementas “Material Ownership Interests”) (which information shall be supplemented by such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than ten (10) days after the record date for the meeting to disclose such ownership as of the record date); (iii) a description of the material terms of all agreements, arrangements or understandings (whether or not in writing) entered into by any Proposing Person or any of its affiliates or associates with any other information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or person for the election purpose of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 acquiring, holding, disposing or voting of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; and (iv) a representation whether the stockholder any shares of any class or the beneficial owner, if any, intends or is part series of a group which intends (y) to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage capital stock of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the business to be proposed or to elect the nominee and/or ;
(zD) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal or the nomination; (b) if the notice relates to any business other than a nomination of a director or directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, set forth (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws of the Corporation, the language of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest of such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, in such business and (ii) a description of all agreements, arrangements or understandings by and understandings between among any of the Proposing Persons, or by and among any Proposing Persons and any other person (including with any proposed nominee(s)), pertaining to the nomination(s) or other business proposed to be brought before the meeting of stockholders (which description shall identify the name of each other person who is party to such an agreement, arrangement or understanding), and (ii) identification of the names and addresses of other stockholders (including beneficial owners) known by any of the Proposing Persons to support such nominations or other business proposal(s), and to the extent known the class and number of all shares of the Corporation’s capital stock owned beneficially or of record by such other stockholder(s) or other beneficial owner(s); and
(E) a statement whether or not the stockholder and beneficial ownergiving the notice and/or the other Proposing Person(s), if any, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; (c) set forth, as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection to the Board of Directors (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in will deliver a proxy statement and form of proxy to holders of, in the case of a business proposal, at least the percentage of voting power of all of the shares of capital stock of the Corporation required under applicable law to approve the proposal or, in the case of a nomination or other filings required nominations, at least the percentage of voting power of all of the shares of capital stock of the Corporation reasonably believed by such Proposing Person to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant sufficient to Section 14 of elect the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent nominee or nominees proposed to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee of the stockholder and to serving as a director if elected) and (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among be nominated by such stockholder and the beneficial owner(such statement, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making the nomination, such beneficial owner, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, and a description of any other agreements, arrangements and understandings between or among such stockholder, such beneficial owner, any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the nomination by such stockholder; and (d) with respect to each nominee for election or reelection to the Board of Directors, include a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.04. The Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the Corporation to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation, including information relevant to the independence, or lack thereof, of such nomineeSolicitation Statement”).
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Annual Meetings of Stockholders. (1) Nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors and the proposal of other business to be considered by the stockholders may be made at brought before an annual meeting of stockholders only Annual Meeting (a) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant to Section 2.05, (bi) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or any authorized committee thereof, (cii) by any stockholder of the Corporation who (i) was a stockholder of record at the time of giving of notice of the Annual Meeting provided for in this Section 2.03 and at the time of the annual meetingBylaw, (ii) who is entitled to vote at the meeting, who is present (in person or by proxy) at the meeting and (iii) who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.03 Bylaw as to such business nomination or nominationbusiness. For the avoidance of doubt, or (d) with respect to nominations, by any Eligible Stockholder (as defined in paragraph (C)(2) of this Section 2.03) whose Stockholder Nominee (as defined in paragraph (C)(1) of this Section 2.03) is included in the Corporation’s proxy materials for the relevant annual meeting. Clauses (c) and (d) of the foregoing sentence clause (ii) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make director bring nominations and clause (c) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to submit other or business properly before an Annual Meeting (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 (or any successor rule) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)), and such stockholder must comply with the notice and other procedures set forth in Article I, Section 2(a)(2), (3) and included in the Corporation’s notice (4) of meetings) this Bylaw to bring such nominations or business properly before an annual meeting Annual Meeting. In addition to the other requirements set forth in this Bylaw, for any proposal of stockholdersbusiness to be considered at an Annual Meeting, it must be a proper subject for action by stockholders of the Corporation under Delaware law.
(2) Without qualification, for For nominations or any other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting Annual Meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (cii) of paragraph (A)(1Article I, Section 2(a)(1) of this Section 2.03Bylaw, the stockholder must (i) have given timely notice Timely Notice (as defined below) thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation, and, (ii) have provided any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the case of forms required by this Bylaw and (iii) together with the beneficial owner(s), if any, on whose behalf the nomination or business other than nominations of persons for election to proposal is made, have acted in accordance with the Board, such other business must constitute a proper matter for stockholder actionrepresentations set forth in the Solicitation Statement (as defined below) required by this Bylaw. To be timely, such a stockholder’s written notice shall must be delivered to received by the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less later than ninety the close of business on the ninetieth (9090th) days day nor more earlier than the close of business on the one hundred and twenty twentieth (120120th) days day prior to the first one-year anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting (which date shall, for purposes of the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders after its shares of Common Stock (as defined in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation) are first publicly traded, be deemed to have occurred on May 15, 2018)Annual Meeting; provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting Annual Meeting is advanced by first convened more than thirty (30) days, days before or delayed by more than seventy sixty (7060) days, from the days after such anniversary date of the previous year’s meetingdate, or if no annual meeting was Annual Meeting were held in the preceding year, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than received by the close Secretary of business on the one hundred and twentieth (120th) day prior to such annual meeting and Corporation not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day prior to the scheduled date of such annual meeting Annual Meeting or the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made. Public announcement of an adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting made (such notice within such time periods shall not commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s noticebe referred to as “Timely Notice”). Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.03(A)(2) to the contrarycontrary provided herein, if for the number of directors Corporations first Annual Meeting to be elected to the Board at an annual meeting is increasedheld in [2024], and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board at least one hundred (100) calendar days prior to the first anniversary of the prior year’s annual meeting of stockholders, then a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 2.03 shall be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, timely if it is received by the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day prior to the scheduled date of such Annual Meeting or the tenth (10th) calendar day following the day on which such public announcement of the date of such Annual Meeting is first made or sent by the Corporation.. Such stockholder’s Timely Notice shall set forth or include:
(3A) To be in proper form, a stockholder’s notice delivered pursuant to this Section 2.03 must: (a) set forth, as to each person whom the stockholder giving the noticeproposes to nominate for election or reelection as a director, the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (i) the name name, age, business address and residence address of such stockholderthe nominee, as they appear on the Corporation’s books, and of such beneficial owner, and of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; (ii) the principal occupation or employment of the nominee, (Aiii) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation which are, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and that are held of record or are beneficially owned by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, and the nominee or their respective affiliates or associates and any Synthetic Equity Interest (as defined below) held or others acting beneficially owned by the nominee or their affiliates or associates, (iv) a description of all arrangements or understandings between or among the stockholder and each nominee and any other person or persons (naming such person or persons) pursuant to which the nominations are to be made by the stockholder or concerning the nominee’s potential service on the Board of Directors, (v) a questionnaire with respect to the background and qualifications of the nominee completed by the nominee in concert therewith the form required by the Corporation (Bwhich questionnaire shall be provided by the Secretary upon written request), (vi) any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related representation and agreement in the form required by the Corporation (which form shall be provided by the Secretary upon written request) that: (a) such proposed nominee is not and will not become party to any class agreement, arrangement or series understanding with, and has not given any commitment or assurance to, any person or entity as to how such person, if elected as a director of shares of the Corporation, will act or vote on any issue or question (a “Voting Commitment”) that has not been disclosed to the Corporation or any Voting Commitment that could limit or interfere with such person’s ability to comply, if elected as a value derived director of the Corporation, with such person’s fiduciary duties under applicable law; (b) such proposed nominee is not and will not become a party to any agreement, arrangement, or understanding with any person or entity other than the Corporation with respect to any direct or indirect compensation, reimbursement, or indemnification in whole connection with service or in part from action as a director that has not been disclosed to the value Corporation; (c) such proposed nominee would, if elected as a director, comply with all applicable rules and regulations of any class or series of the exchanges upon which shares of the Corporation’s capital stock trade, or any derivative or synthetic arrangement having all of the characteristics Corporation’s corporate governance, ethics, conflict of interest, confidentiality, stock ownership and trading policies and guidelines applicable generally to the Corporation’s directors, and applicable fiduciary duties and other obligations under state law and, if elected as a long position in any class or series of shares director of the Corporation, such person currently would be in compliance with any such policies and guidelines that have been publicly disclosed; (d) intends to serve as a director for the full term for which he or any contractshe is to stand for election; (e) such proposed nominee will provide facts, derivative, swap or statements and other transaction or series of transactions designed to produce economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially to the ownership of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, including due to the fact that the value of such contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions is determined by reference to the price, value or volatility of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument, contract or right shall be subject to settlement information in the underlying class or series of capital stock of the Corporation, through the delivery of cash or other property, or otherwise, and without regard to whether the stockholder of record, the beneficial owner, or any affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, may have entered into transactions that hedge or mitigate the economic effect of such instrument, contract or right, or any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of all communications with the Corporation and any other direct its stockholders that are or indirect opportunity will be true and correct in all material respects and that do not and will not omit to profit or share state a material fact necessary in any profit derived from any increase or decrease order to make the statements made, in the value of any class or series of shares light of the Corporation circumstances under which they are made, not misleading; and (any of the foregoing, a “Derivative Instrument”f) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder, the beneficial owner, or any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (C) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant will promptly provide to which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith have any right to vote any class or series of shares of any security of the Corporation, and any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, the purpose or effect of which is to increase or decrease the voting power of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (D) any short interest in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of this Section 2.03 a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security) involving such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (E) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (F) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner, (G) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, information as of the date of such notice, including, without limitation, any such interests held by members of the immediate family sharing the same household of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (H) any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments or short interests in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith it may reasonably request; and (I) any direct or indirect interest of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith in any contract with the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement) (which information shall be supplemented by such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than ten (10) days after the record date for the meeting to disclose such ownership as of the record date); (iiivii) any other information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, person that would be is required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of directors in a contested an election contest, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Section 14 of Regulation 14A under the Exchange Act and (including without limitation such person’s written consent to being named in the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; and (iv) a representation whether the stockholder or the beneficial owner, if any, intends or is part of a group which intends (y) to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy as a nominee and to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the business to be proposed or to elect the nominee and/or serving as a director if elected);
(zB) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal or the nomination; (b) if the notice relates as to any other business other than a nomination of a director or directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, set forth (i) : a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws of the Corporation, the language of the proposed amendment)meeting, the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting meeting, the text, if any, of any resolutions or Bylaw amendment proposed for adoption, and any material interest of such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, in such business and of each Proposing Person (ii) a description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; (c) set forth, as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection to the Board of Directors (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee of the stockholder and to serving as a director if elected) and (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making the nomination, such beneficial owner, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, and a description of any other agreements, arrangements and understandings between or among such stockholder, such beneficial owner, any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the nomination by such stockholder; and (d) with respect to each nominee for election or reelection to the Board of Directors, include a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.04. The Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the Corporation to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation, including information relevant to the independence, or lack thereof, of such nominee.defined below);
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Samples: Business Combination Agreement (Good Works II Acquisition Corp.)
Annual Meetings of Stockholders. (1) Nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors and the proposal of other business to be considered by the stockholders may be made at brought before an annual meeting of stockholders only Annual Meeting (a) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant to Section 2.05, (bi) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or any authorized committee thereof, (cii) by any stockholder of the Corporation who (i) was a stockholder of record at the time of giving of notice provided for in this Section 2.03 and at the time of the annual meetingthese By-laws, (ii) who is entitled to vote at the meeting, who is present (in person or by proxy) at the meeting and (iii) who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.03 these By-laws as to such business nomination or nominationbusiness. For the avoidance of doubt, or (d) with respect to nominations, by any Eligible Stockholder (as defined in paragraph (C)(2) of this Section 2.03) whose Stockholder Nominee (as defined in paragraph (C)(1) of this Section 2.03) is included in the Corporation’s proxy materials for the relevant annual meeting. Clauses (c) and (d) of the foregoing sentence clause (ii) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make director bring nominations and clause (c) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to submit other or business properly before an Annual Meeting (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 (or any successor rule) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)), and such stockholder must comply with the notice and other procedures set forth in Article I, Section 2(a)(2) and included in the Corporation’s notice (3) of meetings) these By-laws to bring such nominations or business properly before an annual meeting Annual Meeting. In addition to the other requirements set forth in these By-laws, for any proposal of stockholdersbusiness to be considered at an Annual Meeting, it must be a proper subject for action by stockholders of the Corporation under Delaware law.
(2) Without qualification, for For nominations or any other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting Annual Meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (cii) of paragraph (A)(1Article I, Section 2(a)(1) of this Section 2.03these By-laws, the stockholder must (i) have given timely notice Timely Notice (as defined below) thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation, and, (ii) have provided any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the case of forms required by these By-laws and (iii) together with the beneficial owner(s), if any, on whose behalf the nomination or business other than nominations of persons for election to proposal is made, have acted in accordance with the Board, such other business must constitute a proper matter for stockholder actionrepresentations set forth in the Solicitation Statement (as defined below) required by these By-laws. To be timely, such a stockholder’s written notice shall be delivered to received by the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less later than ninety the close of business on the ninetieth (9090th) days day nor more earlier than the close of business on the one hundred and twenty twentieth (120120th) days day prior to the first one-year anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting (which date shall, for purposes of the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders after its shares of Common Stock (as defined in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation) are first publicly traded, be deemed to have occurred on May 15, 2018)Annual Meeting; provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting Annual Meeting is advanced by first convened more than thirty (30) days, days before or delayed by more than seventy sixty (7060) days, from the days after such anniversary date of the previous year’s meetingdate, or if no annual meeting was Annual Meeting were held in the preceding year, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than received by the close Secretary of business on the one hundred and twentieth (120th) day prior to such annual meeting and Corporation not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day prior to the scheduled date of such annual meeting Annual Meeting or the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made. Public announcement of an adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting made (such notice within such time periods shall not commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s noticebe referred to as “Timely Notice”). Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.03(A)(2) to the contrarycontrary provided herein, if the number of directors to be elected to the Board at an annual meeting is increased, and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board at least one hundred (100) calendar days prior to the first anniversary Annual Meeting following the adoption of the prior year’s annual meeting of stockholdersthese By-Laws, then a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 2.03 shall be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, timely if it is received by the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day prior to the scheduled date of such Annual Meeting or the tenth (10th) calendar day following the day on which such public announcement of the date of such Annual Meeting is first made or sent by the Corporation.. Such stockholder’s Timely Notice shall set forth:
(3A) To as to each person whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection as a director, (i) the name, age, business address and residence address of the nominee, (ii) the principal occupation or employment of the nominee, (iii) the class and number of shares of the Corporation that are held of record or are beneficially owned by the nominee and any derivative positions held or beneficially held by the nominee, (iv) whether and the extent to which any hedging or other transaction or series of transactions has been entered into by or on behalf of the nominee with respect to any securities of the Corporation, and a description of any other agreement, arrangement or understanding (including any short position or any borrowing or lending of shares), the effect or intent of which is to mitigate loss to, or to manage the risk or benefit of share price changes for, or to increase or decrease the voting power of the nominee, (v) a description of all arrangements or understandings between or among the stockholder and each nominee and any other person or persons (naming such person or persons) pursuant to which the nominations are to be made by the stockholder or concerning the nominee’s potential service on the Board of Directors, (vi) a written statement executed by the nominee acknowledging that as a director of the corporation, the nominee will owe fiduciary duties under Delaware law with respect to the Corporation and its stockholders, and (vii) all information relating to such person that the Corporation may reasonably request regarding to determine the eligibility of such person to serve as a director of the Corporation, including information relevant to a determination whether such person can be considered an independent director, and any other information that is required to be disclosed in proper formsolicitations of proxies for election of directors in an election contest, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Exchange Act (including such person’s written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected for the full term for which such person is standing for election);
(B) as to any other business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, a stockholder’s notice delivered pursuant brief description of the business desired to this Section 2.03 must: (a) set forth, as to be brought before the stockholder giving the noticemeeting, the beneficial ownerreasons for conducting such business at the meeting, the text, if any, on whose behalf the nomination of any resolutions or proposal is madeBy-law amendment proposed for adoption, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting any material interest in concert therewith such business of each Proposing Person (as defined below);
(i) the name and address of such stockholderthe stockholder giving the notice, as they appear on the Corporation’s books, and the names and addresses of such beneficial owner, the other Proposing Persons (if any) and of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; (ii) as to each Proposing Person, the following information: (Aa) the class or series and number of all shares of capital stock of the Corporation which are, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and or of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, and their respective Proposing Person or any of its affiliates or associates or others acting (as such terms are defined in concert therewith (B) Rule 12b-2 promulgated under the Exchange Act), including any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to any class or series of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from the value of any class or series of shares capital stock of the Corporation, Corporation as to which such Proposing Person or any derivative of its affiliates or synthetic arrangement having associates has a right to acquire beneficial ownership at any time in the characteristics future, (b) all Synthetic Equity Interests (as defined below) in which such Proposing Person or any of its affiliates or associates, directly or indirectly, holds an interest including a long position in any class or series of shares description of the Corporationmaterial terms of each such Synthetic Equity Interest, or any contractincluding without limitation, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions designed to produce economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially to the ownership of any class or series of shares identification of the Corporationcounterparty to each such Synthetic Equity Interest and disclosure, including due for each such Synthetic Equity Interest, as to the fact that the value of such contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions is determined by reference to the price, value or volatility of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, (x) whether or not such instrumentSynthetic Equity Interest conveys any voting rights, contract directly or indirectly, in such shares to such Proposing Person, (y) whether or not such Synthetic Equity Interest is required to be, or is capable of being, settled through delivery of such shares and (z) whether or not such Proposing Person and/or, to the extent known, the counterparty to such Synthetic Equity Interest has entered into other transactions that hedge or mitigate the economic effect of such Synthetic Equity Interest, (c) any proxy (other than a revocable proxy given in response to a public proxy solicitation made pursuant to, and in accordance with, the Exchange Act), agreement, arrangement, understanding or relationship pursuant to which such Proposing Person has or shares a right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying to, directly or indirectly, vote any shares of any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation, through the delivery of cash (d) any rights to dividends or other property, or otherwise, and without regard to whether distributions on the stockholder of record, the beneficial owner, or any affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, may have entered into transactions that hedge or mitigate the economic effect of such instrument, contract or right, or any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of any class or series of shares capital stock of the Corporation (any of the foregoingCorporation, a “Derivative Instrument”) directly or indirectly indirectly, owned beneficially by such stockholder, the beneficial owner, or any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (C) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith have any right to vote any class or series of shares of any security of the Corporation, and any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, the purpose or effect of which is to increase or decrease the voting power of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (D) any short interest in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of this Section 2.03 a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security) involving such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (E) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith Proposing Person that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, and (F) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner, (Ge) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-asset based fee) that such stockholderProposing Person, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates directly or associates or others acting in concert therewith indirectly, is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation any class or Derivative Instruments, if any, as series of the date of such notice, including, without limitation, any such interests held by members of the immediate family sharing the same household of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (H) any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments or short interests in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith and (I) any direct or indirect interest of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith in any contract with the Corporation, any affiliate capital stock of the Corporation or any principal competitor of Synthetic Equity Interests (the Corporation disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (includinga) through (e) are referred to, in any such casecollectively, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreementas “Material Ownership Interests”) (which information shall be supplemented by such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than ten (10) days after the record date for the meeting to disclose such ownership as of the record date); (iii) a description of the material terms of all agreements, arrangements or understandings (whether or not in writing) entered into by any Proposing Person or any of its affiliates or associates with any other information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or person for the election purpose of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 acquiring, holding, disposing or voting of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; and (iv) a representation whether the stockholder any shares of any class or the beneficial owner, if any, intends or is part series of a group which intends (y) to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage capital stock of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the business to be proposed or to elect the nominee and/or ;
(zD) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal or the nomination; (b) if the notice relates to any business other than a nomination of a director or directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, set forth (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws of the Corporation, the language of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest of such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, in such business and (ii) a description of all agreements, arrangements or understandings by and understandings between among any of the Proposing Persons, or by and among any Proposing Persons and any other person (including with any proposed nominee(s)), pertaining to the nomination(s), or other business proposed to be brought before the meeting of stockholders (which description shall identify the name of each other person who is party to such an agreement, arrangement or understanding), and (ii) identification of the names and addresses of other stockholders (including beneficial owners) known by any of the Proposing Persons to support such nominations or other business proposal(s), and to the extent known the class and number of all shares of the Corporation’s capital stock owned beneficially or of record by such other stockholder(s) or other beneficial owner(s); and
(E) a statement whether or not the stockholder and beneficial ownergiving the notice and/or the other Proposing Person(s), if any, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; (c) set forth, as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection to the Board of Directors (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in will deliver a proxy statement and form of proxy to holders of, in the case of a business proposal, at least the percentage of voting power of all of the shares of capital stock of the Corporation required under applicable law to approve the proposal or, in the case of a nomination or other filings required nominations, at least the percentage of voting power of all of the shares of capital stock of the Corporation reasonably believed by such Proposing Person to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant sufficient to Section 14 of elect the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent nominee or nominees proposed to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee of the stockholder and to serving as a director if elected) and (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among be nominated by such stockholder and the beneficial owner(such statement, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making the nomination, such beneficial owner, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, and a description of any other agreements, arrangements and understandings between or among such stockholder, such beneficial owner, any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the nomination by such stockholder; and (d) with respect to each nominee for election or reelection to the Board of Directors, include a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.04. The Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the Corporation to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation, including information relevant to the independence, or lack thereof, of such nomineeSolicitation Statement”).
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Annual Meetings of Stockholders. (1) Nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors and the proposal of other business to be considered by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders only (a) as provided in the Stockholders Agreement (as defined in the Certificate of Incorporation) (with respect to nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors only), (b) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant to Section 2.052.04 of these Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Corporation (these “Bylaws”), (bc) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or any authorized committee thereof, thereof or (cd) by any stockholder of the Corporation who is entitled to vote at the meeting, who, subject to paragraph (iC)(4) of this Section 2.03, complied with the notice procedures set forth in paragraphs (A)(2) and (A)(3) of this Section 2.03 and who was a stockholder of record at the time of giving of such notice provided for in this Section 2.03 and at is delivered to the time Secretary of the annual meeting, (ii) is entitled to vote at the meeting and (iii) complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.03 as to such business or nomination, or (d) with respect to nominations, by any Eligible Stockholder (as defined in paragraph (C)(2) of this Section 2.03) whose Stockholder Nominee (as defined in paragraph (C)(1) of this Section 2.03) is included in the Corporation’s proxy materials for the relevant annual meeting. Clauses (c) and (d) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make director nominations and clause (c) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to submit other business (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and included in the Corporation’s notice of meetings) before an annual meeting of stockholders.
(2) Without qualification, for For nominations or any other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (cd) of paragraph (A)(1) of this Section 2.03, the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation, and, in the case of business other than nominations of persons for election to the BoardBoard of Directors, such other business must constitute a proper matter for stockholder action. To be timely, such a stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than ninety (90) 90 days nor more than one hundred and twenty (120) 120 days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting (which date shall, for purposes in the case of the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders after its shares as a corporation with a class of Common Stock equity security registered under the Exchange Act (as defined in below), for notice by the Amended stockholder to be timely, it must be received (A) no earlier than 120 days before such annual meeting and Restated Certificate (B) no later than the later of Incorporation) are 90 days before such annual meeting and the tenth day after the day on which the notice of such annual meeting was first publicly traded, be deemed to have occurred on May 15, 2018made by mail or public announcement); provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is advanced by more than thirty (30) 30 days, or delayed by more than seventy (70) 70 days, from the anniversary date of the previous year’s meeting, or if no annual meeting was held in the preceding year, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the close of business on the one hundred and twentieth (120th) day 120 days prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) 90th day prior to such annual meeting or the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made. Public announcement of an adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting shall not commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s notice. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.03(A)(2) to the contrary, if the number of directors to be elected to the Board of Directors at an annual meeting is increased, increased and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board of Directors at least one hundred (100) 100 calendar days prior to the first anniversary of the prior year’s annual meeting of stockholders, then a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 2.03 shall be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it is received by the Secretary of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) calendar day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation.
(3) To be in proper form, a Such stockholder’s notice delivered pursuant to this Section 2.03 must: shall set forth:
(a) set forthas to each person whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or re-election as a director:
(i) all information relating to such person that is required to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of directors in an election contest, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, including such person’s written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected; and
(ii) complete and accurate responses to a written questionnaire with respect to the background and qualification of such person and the background of any other person or entity on whose behalf the nomination is being made (which questionnaire shall be provided by the Secretary of the Corporation upon written request);
(b) as to any other business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting, the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and, in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend these Bylaws, the language of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest in such business of such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made;
(c) as to the stockholder giving the notice, notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith :
(i) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the Corporation’s booksbooks and records, and of such beneficial owner, and of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; ,
(ii) (A) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation which arethat are owned, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith ,
(Biii) any option, warrant, convertible security, a representation that the stockholder is a holder of record of the stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to any class or series of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from at the value of any class or series of shares time of the Corporation, or any derivative or synthetic arrangement having the characteristics of a long position in any class or series of shares giving of the Corporationnotice, will be entitled to vote at such meeting and will appear in person or any contract, derivative, swap by proxy at the meeting to propose such business or other transaction or series of transactions designed to produce economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially to the ownership of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, including due to the fact that the value of such contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions is determined by reference to the price, value or volatility of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument, contract or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of capital stock of the Corporation, through the delivery of cash or other property, or otherwise, and without regard to nomination,
(iv) a representation whether the stockholder of record, or the beneficial owner, if any, will be or any affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, may have entered into transactions is part of a group that hedge or mitigate will (x) deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the economic effect percentage of such instrument, contract or right, or any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation (any of the foregoing, a “Derivative Instrument”) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder, the beneficial owner, or any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (C) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith have any right to vote any class or series of shares of any security of the Corporation, and any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, the purpose or effect of which is to increase or decrease the voting power of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (D) any short interest in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of this Section 2.03 a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security) involving such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (E) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, ’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the proposal or elect the nominee and/or (Fy) any proportionate interest otherwise to solicit proxies or votes from stockholders in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner, (G) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, as of the date support of such notice, including, without limitation, any such interests held by members of the immediate family sharing the same household of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates proposal or associates or others acting in concert therewith, nomination,
(Hv) any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments or short interests in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith and (I) any direct or indirect interest of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith in any contract with the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement) (which information shall be supplemented by a certification regarding whether such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than ten (10) days after have complied with all applicable federal, state and other legal requirements in connection with the record date for the meeting to disclose such ownership as stockholder’s and/or beneficial owner’s acquisition of shares of capital stock or other securities of the record date); Corporation and/or the stockholder’s and/or beneficial owner’s acts or omissions as a stockholder of the Corporation and
(iiivi) any other information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of directors in a contested an election contest pursuant to and in accordance with Section 14 14(a) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; and ;
(iv) a representation whether the stockholder or the beneficial owner, if any, intends or is part of a group which intends (y) to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the business to be proposed or to elect the nominee and/or (z) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal or the nomination; (b) if the notice relates to any business other than a nomination of a director or directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, set forth (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws of the Corporation, the language of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest of such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, in such business and (iid) a description of all agreementsany agreement, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and any other person arrangement or persons (including their names) in connection understanding with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; (c) set forth, as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection respect to the Board nomination or proposal and/or the voting of Directors (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement shares of any class or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations series of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 stock of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee of the stockholder and to serving as a director if elected) and (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, Corporation between or among such the stockholder and giving the notice, the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making the nomination, such beneficial owner, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, and a description of any other agreements, arrangements and understandings between or among such stockholder, such beneficial ownermade, any of their respective affiliates or associates or and/or any others acting in concert therewithwith any of the foregoing (collectively, and “proponent persons”); and
(e) a description of any other person agreement, arrangement or persons understanding (including their nameswithout limitation any contract to purchase or sell, acquisition or grant of any option, right or warrant to purchase or sell, swap or other instrument) to which any proponent person is a party, the intent or effect of which may be:
(i) to transfer to or from any proponent person, in connection with whole or in part, any of the nomination by such stockholder; and economic consequences of ownership of any security of the Corporation,
(dii) to increase or decrease the voting power of any proponent person with respect to each nominee shares of any class or series of stock of the Corporation, and/or
(iii) to provide any proponent person, directly or indirectly, with the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from, or to otherwise benefit economically from, any increase or decrease in the value of any security of the Corporation. A stockholder providing notice of a proposed nomination for election or reelection to the Board of DirectorsDirectors or other business proposed to be brought before a meeting (whether given pursuant to this paragraph (A)(3) or paragraph (B) of this Section 2.03 of these Bylaws) shall update and supplement such notice from time to time to the extent necessary so that the information provided or required to be provided in such notice shall be true and correct (x) as of the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting and (y) as of the date that is 15 days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof, include provided that if the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting is less than 15 days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof, the information shall be supplemented and updated as of such later date. Any such update and supplement shall be delivered in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than five days after the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting (in the case of any update and supplement required to be made as of the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting), not later than ten days prior to the date for the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof (in the case of any update or supplement required to be made as of 15 days prior to the meeting or adjournment or postponement thereof) and not later than five days after the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, but no later than the date prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof (in the case of any update and supplement required to be made as of a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.04date less than 15 days prior the date of the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof). The Corporation may require proponent persons shall also provide any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required requested by the Corporation to determine the eligibility within five business days of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation, including information relevant to the independence, or lack thereof, of such nomineerequest.
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Annual Meetings of Stockholders. (1) Nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors and the proposal of other business to be considered by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders only (a) as provided in the Investor Rights Agreement (as defined in the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation) (with respect to nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors only), (b) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant to Section 2.052.04 of Article II of these Bylaws, (bc) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or any authorized committee thereof, thereof or (cd) by any stockholder of the Corporation who is entitled to vote at the meeting, who, subject to paragraph (iC)(4) of this Section 2.03, complied with the notice procedures set forth in paragraphs (A)(2) and (A)(3) of this Section 2.03 and who was a stockholder of record at the time of giving of such notice provided for in this Section 2.03 and at is delivered to the time Secretary of the annual meeting, (ii) is entitled to vote at the meeting and (iii) complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.03 as to such business or nomination, or (d) with respect to nominations, by any Eligible Stockholder (as defined in paragraph (C)(2) of this Section 2.03) whose Stockholder Nominee (as defined in paragraph (C)(1) of this Section 2.03) is included in the Corporation’s proxy materials for the relevant annual meeting. Clauses (c) and (d) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make director nominations and clause (c) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to submit other business (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and included in the Corporation’s notice of meetings) before an annual meeting of stockholders.
(2) Without qualification, for For nominations or any other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (cd) of paragraph (A)(1) of this Section 2.03, the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation, and, in the case of business other than nominations of persons for election to the BoardBoard of Directors, such other business must constitute a proper matter for stockholder action. To be timely, such a stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than ninety (90) days nor more than one hundred and twenty (120) days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting (which date shall, for purposes of the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders after its shares of Common Stock (as defined in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation) are first publicly traded, be deemed to have occurred on May 1521, 20182019); provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is advanced by more than thirty (30) days, days or delayed by more than seventy thirty (7030) days, days from the anniversary date of the previous year’s meeting, or if no annual meeting was held in the preceding year, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the close of business on the one hundred and twentieth twenty (120th120) day days prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day prior to such annual meeting or the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made. Public announcement of an adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting shall not commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s notice. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.03(A)(2) to the contrary, if the number of directors to be elected to the Board of Directors at an annual meeting is increased, increased and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board of Directors at least one hundred (100) calendar days prior to the first anniversary of the prior year’s annual meeting of stockholders, then a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 2.03 shall be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it is received by the Secretary of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) calendar day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation.
(3) To be in proper form, a Such stockholder’s notice delivered pursuant to this Section 2.03 must: shall set forth (a) set forthas to each person whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or re-election as a director, all information relating to such person that is required to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of directors in an election contest, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, including such person’s written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected; (b) as to any other business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting, the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and, in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend these Bylaws, the language of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest in such business of such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made; (c) as to the stockholder giving the notice, notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith made (i) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the Corporation’s booksbooks and records, and of such beneficial owner, and of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; (ii) (A) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation which arethat are owned, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (Biii) any option, warrant, convertible security, a representation that the stockholder is a holder of record of the stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to any class or series of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from at the value of any class or series of shares time of the Corporation, or any derivative or synthetic arrangement having the characteristics of a long position in any class or series of shares giving of the Corporationnotice, will be entitled to vote at such meeting and will appear in person or any contractby proxy at the meeting to propose such business or nomination, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions designed to produce economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially to the ownership of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, including due to the fact that the value of such contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions is determined by reference to the price, value or volatility of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument, contract or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of capital stock of the Corporation, through the delivery of cash or other property, or otherwise, and without regard to (iv) a representation whether the stockholder of record, or the beneficial owner, if any, will be or any affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, may have entered into transactions is part of a group that hedge or mitigate will (x) deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the economic effect percentage of such instrument, contract or right, or any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation (any of the foregoing, a “Derivative Instrument”) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder, the beneficial owner, or any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (C) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith have any right to vote any class or series of shares of any security of the Corporation, and any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, the purpose or effect of which is to increase or decrease the voting power of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the proposal or elect the nominee and/or (y) otherwise to solicit proxies or votes from stockholders in support of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates proposal or associates or others acting in concert therewithnomination, (Dv) any short interest in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of this Section 2.03 a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security) involving such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (E) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (F) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner, (G) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, as of the date of such notice, including, without limitation, any such interests held by members of the immediate family sharing the same household of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (H) any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments or short interests in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith and (I) any direct or indirect interest of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith in any contract with the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement) (which information shall be supplemented by certification regarding whether such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than ten have complied with all applicable federal, state and other legal requirements in connection with (10x) days after the record date for the meeting to disclose such ownership as stockholder’s and/or beneficial owner’s acquisition of shares of capital stock or other securities of the record date); Corporation and/or the stockholder’s and/or (iiiy) the beneficial owner’s acts or omissions as a stockholder of the Corporation and (vi) any other information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of directors in a contested an election contest pursuant to and in accordance with Section 14 14(a) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; and (iv) a representation whether the stockholder or the beneficial owner, if any, intends or is part of a group which intends (y) to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the business to be proposed or to elect the nominee and/or (z) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal or the nomination; (b) if the notice relates to any business other than a nomination of a director or directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, set forth (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws of the Corporation, the language of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest of such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, in such business and (iid) a description of all agreementsany agreement, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and any other person arrangement or persons (including their names) in connection understanding with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; (c) set forth, as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection respect to the Board nomination or proposal and/or the voting of Directors (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement shares of any class or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations series of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 stock of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee of the stockholder and to serving as a director if elected) and (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, Corporation between or among such the stockholder and giving the notice, the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making the nomination, such beneficial owner, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, and a description of any other agreements, arrangements and understandings between or among such stockholder, such beneficial ownermade, any of their respective affiliates or associates or and/or any others acting in concert therewithwith any of the foregoing (collectively, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the nomination by such stockholder“proponent persons”); and (de) a description of any agreement, arrangement or understanding (including without limitation any contract to purchase or sell, acquisition or grant of any option, right or warrant to purchase or sell, swap or other instrument) to which any proponent person is a party, the intent or effect of which may be (i) to transfer to or from any proponent person, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of any security of the Corporation, (ii) to increase or decrease the voting power of any proponent person with respect to each nominee shares of any class or series of stock of the Corporation and/or (iii) to provide any proponent person, directly or indirectly, with the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from, or to otherwise benefit economically from, any increase or decrease in the value of any security of the Corporation. A stockholder providing notice of a proposed nomination for election or reelection to the Board of DirectorsDirectors or other business proposed to be brought before a meeting (whether given pursuant to this paragraph (A)(3) or paragraph (B) of this Section 2.03 of these Bylaws) shall update and supplement such notice from time to time to the extent necessary so that the information provided or required to be provided in such notice shall be true and correct (x) as of the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting and (y) as of the date that is fifteen (15) days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof, include provided that if the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting is less than fifteen (15) days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof, the information shall be supplemented and updated as of such later date. Any such update and supplement shall be delivered in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than five (5) days after the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting (in the case of any update and supplement required to be made as of the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting), not later than ten (10) days prior to the date for the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof (in the case of any update or supplement required to be made as of fifteen (15) days prior to the meeting or adjournment or postponement thereof) and not later than five (5) days after the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, but no later than the date prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof (in the case of any update and supplement required to be made as of a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.04date less than fifteen (15) days prior the date of the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof). The Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as it may reasonably be required by the Corporation require to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation, including information relevant Corporation and to determine the independence, or lack thereof, independence of such nomineedirector under the Exchange Act and rules and regulations thereunder and applicable stock exchange rules.
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Annual Meetings of Stockholders. (1i) Nominations of persons for election to the Board and of Directors or the proposal of other business to be considered transacted by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders may be made only (aA) subject to the Director Nomination Agreement, dated as of [___], [___] (as the same may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Nomination Agreement”), (B) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant to Section 2.05), (bC) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or any authorized committee thereof, (cD) as may be provided in the certificate of designations for any class or series of preferred stock or (E) by any stockholder of the Corporation who (i) was is a stockholder of record at the time of giving of notice provided for in paragraph (ii) of this Section 2.03 2.10(a) and at the time of the annual meeting, (ii) is who shall be entitled to vote at the meeting and (iii) who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.03 2.10(a), and, except as otherwise required by law, any failure to such business or nomination, or (d) comply with respect to nominations, by any Eligible Stockholder (as defined in paragraph (C)(2) of this Section 2.03) whose Stockholder Nominee (as defined in paragraph (C)(1) of this Section 2.03) is included these procedures shall result in the Corporation’s proxy materials for the relevant annual meeting. Clauses (c) and (d) nullification of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make director nominations and clause (c) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to submit other business (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and included in the Corporation’s notice of meetings) before an annual meeting of stockholderssuch nomination or proposal.
(2ii) Without qualification, for For nominations or any other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting of stockholders by a stockholder pursuant to clause (cE) of paragraph (A)(1i) of this Section 2.032.10(a), the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation, and, in the case of Corporation and any such proposed business (other than the nominations of persons for election to the Board, such other business Board of Directors) must constitute a proper matter for stockholder action. To be timely, such a stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to to, or mailed and received by, the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than ninety (90) 90 days nor more than one hundred and twenty (120) 120 days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting of stockholders (which date shall, for purposes of the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders after its shares of Common Stock (as defined in the Amended year of the closing of the merger contemplated by that certain Agreement and Restated Certificate Plan of Incorporation) are first publicly tradedMerger, dated as of April 15, 2021, by and among D8 Holdings Corp., Snowball Merger Sub, Inc., Vicarious Surgical Inc. and Xxxx Xxxxx, in his capacity as the Stockholder Representative, be deemed to have occurred on May 15, 2018[●] of such year); provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is advanced by more than thirty (30) days, 30 days prior to such anniversary date or delayed by more than seventy (70) days, from the 70 days after such anniversary date of the previous year’s meeting, or if no annual meeting was held in the preceding year, notice by the stockholder then to be timely such notice must be so delivered delivered, or mailed and received, not earlier later than the close of business on the one hundred and twentieth (120th) 90th day prior to such annual meeting and not later than or, if later, the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day prior to such annual meeting or the tenth (10th) 10th day following the day on which public announcement disclosure of the date of such annual meeting is was first made. Public announcement of an In no event shall the adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting shall not any meeting, or any announcement thereof, commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s noticenotice as described above. Notwithstanding anything The number of nominees a stockholder may nominate for election at the annual meeting (or in this Section 2.03(A)(2the case of a stockholder giving the notice on behalf of a beneficial owner, the number of nominees a stockholder may nominate for election at the annual meeting on behalf of such beneficial owner) to the contrary, if shall not exceed the number of directors to be elected to the Board at an as such annual meeting is increased, and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board at least one hundred meeting.
(100iii) calendar days prior to the first anniversary of the prior year’s annual meeting of stockholders, then a A stockholder’s notice required by this Section 2.03 shall be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it is received by the Secretary of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) calendar day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation.
(3) To be in proper form, a stockholder’s notice delivered pursuant to this Section 2.03 must: (a) shall set forth, as to the stockholder giving the notice, the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (i) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the Corporation’s books, and of such beneficial owner, and of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; (ii) forth (A) the class or series and number of shares of the Corporation which are, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (B) any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related as to any class or series of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any derivative or synthetic arrangement having the characteristics of a long position in any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions designed to produce economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially to the ownership of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, including due to the fact that the value of such contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions is determined by reference to the price, value or volatility of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument, contract or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of capital stock of the Corporation, through the delivery of cash or other property, or otherwise, and without regard to whether each person whom the stockholder of record, the beneficial owner, proposes to nominate for election or any affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, may have entered into transactions that hedge or mitigate the economic effect of such instrument, contract or right, or any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation reelection as a director: (any of the foregoing, a “Derivative Instrument”1) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder, the beneficial owner, or any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (C) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith have any right to vote any class or series of shares of any security of the Corporation, and any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, the purpose or effect of which is to increase or decrease the voting power of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (D) any short interest in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of this Section 2.03 a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security) involving such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (E) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (F) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner, (G) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, as of the date of such notice, including, without limitation, any such interests held by members of the immediate family sharing the same household of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (H) any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments or short interests in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith and (I) any direct or indirect interest of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith in any contract with the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement) (which information shall be supplemented by such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than ten (10) days after the record date for the meeting to disclose such ownership as of the record date); (iii) any other all information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, person that would be is required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of directors directors, or is otherwise required, in a contested election each case pursuant to Section 14 of Regulation 14A under the Securities Exchange Act and of 1934 (as amended (together with the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder), the “Exchange Act”) including such person’s written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected; and (iv2) a representation whether reasonably detailed description of any compensatory, payment or other financial agreement, arrangement or understanding that such person has with any other person or entity other than the stockholder Corporation including the amount of any payment or the beneficial ownerpayments received or receivable thereunder, if any, intends in each case in connection with candidacy or is part of service as a group which intends (y) to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage director of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the business to be proposed or to elect the nominee and/or Corporation (za “Third-Party Compensation Arrangement”), (B) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal or the nomination; (b) if the notice relates as to any other business other than a nomination of a director or directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, set forth (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting meeting, the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws of the Corporationthese Bylaws, the language text of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest of such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, in such business and (ii) a description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; (c) set forth, as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection to the Board of Directors (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee of the stockholder and to serving as a director if elected) and (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination proposal is made and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required (C) as to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making giving the nomination, such notice and the beneficial owner, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewithif any, were on whose behalf the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, and a description of any other agreements, arrangements and understandings between or among such stockholder, such beneficial owner, any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the nomination by such stockholder; and (d) with respect to each nominee for election or reelection to the Board of Directors, include a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.04. The Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the Corporation to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation, including information relevant to the independence, or lack thereof, of such nominee.proposal is made:
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Samples: Merger Agreement (D8 Holdings Corp.)
Annual Meetings of Stockholders. (1) Nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors of the Corporation and the proposal of other business to be considered by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders only (a) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting delivered pursuant to Section 1.3 of these Bylaws (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant to Section 2.05), (b) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or any authorized committee thereof, thereof or (c) by any stockholder of the Corporation who is entitled to vote at the meeting, who complied with the notice procedures set forth in clauses (i2) and (3) of paragraph (A) of this Section 1.9 and who was a stockholder of record at the time of giving of such notice provided for in this Section 2.03 and at was delivered to the time Secretary of the annual meeting, (ii) is entitled to vote at the meeting and (iii) complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.03 as to such business or nomination, or (d) with respect to nominations, by any Eligible Stockholder (as defined in paragraph (C)(2) of this Section 2.03) whose Stockholder Nominee (as defined in paragraph (C)(1) of this Section 2.03) is included in the Corporation’s proxy materials for the relevant annual meeting. Clauses (c) and (d) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make director nominations and clause (c) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to submit other business (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and included in the Corporation’s notice of meetings) before an annual meeting of stockholders.
(2) Without qualification, for For nominations or any other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (c) of paragraph (A)(1A) (1) of this Section 2.031.9, (1) the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation, and(2) such business must be a proper matter for stockholder action under the GCL, (3) if the stockholder, or the beneficial owner on whose behalf any such proposal or nomination is made, has provided the Corporation with a Solicitation Notice, as that term is defined in subclause (c)(iii) of this paragraph, such stockholder or beneficial owner must, in the case of a proposal, have delivered a proxy statement and form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s voting shares required under applicable law or these Bylaws to carry any such proposal, or, in the case of a nomination or nominations, have delivered a proxy statement and form of proxy to holders of a percentage of the Corporation’s voting shares reasonably believed by such stockholder or beneficial holder to be sufficient to elect the nominee or nominees proposed to be nominated by such stockholder, and must, in either case, have included in such materials the Solicitation Notice and (4) if no Solicitation Notice relating thereto has been timely provided pursuant to this Section, the stockholder or beneficial owner proposing such business other than nominations or nomination must not have solicited a number of persons for election proxies sufficient to have required the Board, delivery of such other business must constitute a proper matter for stockholder actionSolicitation Notice under this Section. To be timely, such a stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than ninety forty-five (9045) days nor or more than one hundred and twenty seventy-five (12075) days prior to the first anniversary (the “Anniversary”) of the date on which the Corporation first mailed its proxy materials for the preceding year’s annual meeting (which date shall, for purposes of the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders after its shares of Common Stock (as defined in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation) are first publicly traded, be deemed to have occurred on May 15, 2018)stockholders; provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is advanced more than thirty (30) days prior to or delayed by more than thirty (30) days, or delayed by more than seventy (70) days, from days after the anniversary date of the previous year’s meeting, or if no annual meeting was held in the preceding year’s annual meeting, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the close of business on the one hundred and twentieth (120th) day prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of (i) the ninetieth (90th) day prior to such annual meeting or (ii) the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made. Public announcement of an adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting shall not commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s notice. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.03(A)(2) to the contrary, if the number of directors to be elected to the Board at an annual meeting is increased, and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board at least one hundred (100) calendar days prior to the first anniversary of the prior year’s annual meeting of stockholders, then a Such stockholder’s notice required by this Section 2.03 shall be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it is received by the Secretary of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) calendar day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation.
(3) To be in proper form, a stockholder’s notice delivered pursuant to this Section 2.03 mustset forth: (a) set forthas to each person whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection as a Director all information relating to such person that is required to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of Directors, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), including such person’s written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a Director if elected; (b) as to any other business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting, the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest in such business of such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made; and (c) as to the stockholder giving the notice, notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith made (i) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the Corporation’s books, and of such beneficial owner, and of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; (ii) (A) the class or series and number of shares of the Corporation which are, directly or indirectly, are owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (Biii) any option, warrant, convertible security, a representation that the stockholder is a holder of record of stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to any class or series of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any derivative or synthetic arrangement having the characteristics of a long position in any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions designed to produce economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially to the ownership of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, including due to the fact that the value of such contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions is determined by reference to the price, value or volatility of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument, contract or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of capital stock of the Corporation, through the delivery of cash or other property, or otherwise, and without regard to whether the stockholder of record, the beneficial owner, or any affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, may have entered into transactions that hedge or mitigate the economic effect of such instrument, contract or right, or any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation (any of the foregoing, a “Derivative Instrument”) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder, the beneficial owner, or any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (C) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith have any right entitled to vote any class at such meeting and intends to appear in person or series of shares of any security of the Corporation, and any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, the purpose or effect of which is to increase or decrease the voting power of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (D) any short interest in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of this Section 2.03 a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security) involving such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (E) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (F) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner, (G) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, as of the date of such notice, including, without limitation, any such interests held by members of the immediate family sharing the same household of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (H) any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments or short interests in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith and (I) any direct or indirect interest of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith in any contract with the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement) (which information shall be supplemented by such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than ten (10) days after the record date for proxy at the meeting to disclose propose such ownership as of the record date); (iii) any other information relating to such stockholder business and beneficial owner, if any, that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; nomination and (iv) a representation whether the either such stockholder or the beneficial owner, if any, owner intends or is part of a group which intends (y) to deliver a proxy statement and/or and form of proxy to holders of, in the case of a proposal, at least the percentage of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock voting shares required under applicable law to approve or adopt carry the business to be proposed or to elect proposal or, in the nominee and/or (z) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support case of such proposal or the nomination; (b) if the notice relates to any business other than a nomination or nominations, a sufficient number of a director or directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, set forth (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws holders of the Corporation, the language of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting ’s voting shares to elect such business at the meeting and any material interest nominee or nominees (an affirmative statement of such intent, a “Solicitation Notice”). The foregoing notice requirements of this Section 1.9(A)(2) shall be deemed satisfied by a stockholder if the stockholder has notified the Corporation of his, her or its intention to present a proposal or nomination at an annual meeting in compliance with applicable rules and beneficial owner, if any, in such business regulations promulgated under the Exchange Act and (ii) a description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; (c) set forth, as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election ’s proposal or reelection to the Board of Directors (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed nomination has been included in a proxy statement or other filings required that has been prepared by the Corporation to be made in connection with solicitations of solicit proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee of the stockholder and to serving as a director if elected) and (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making the nomination, such beneficial owner, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, and a description of any other agreements, arrangements and understandings between or among such stockholder, such beneficial owner, any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the nomination by such stockholder; and (d) with respect to each nominee for election or reelection to the Board of Directors, include a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.04annual meeting. The Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as it may reasonably be required by the Corporation require to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation, including information relevant .
(3) Notwithstanding anything in the second sentence of paragraph (A) (2) of this Section 1.9 to the independencecontrary, in the event that the number of Directors to be elected to the Board of Directors is increased and there is no public announcement naming all of the nominees for Director or lack thereofspecifying the size of the increased Board of Directors made by the Corporation at least fifty-five (55) days prior to the Anniversary, a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 1.9 shall also be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth day following the day on which such nomineepublic announcement is first made by the Corporation.
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Annual Meetings of Stockholders. (1i) Nominations of persons for election to the Board and of Directors or the proposal of other business to be considered transacted by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders may be made only (aA) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant to Section 2.05), (bB) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or any authorized committee thereof, (cC) as may be provided in the certificate of designations for any class or series of preferred stock, or (D) by any stockholder of the Corporation who (i) was is a stockholder of record at the time of giving of notice provided for in paragraph (ii) of this Section 2.03 2.9(a) and at the time of the annual meeting, (ii) is who shall be entitled to vote at the meeting and (iii) who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.03 2.9(a), and, except as otherwise required by law, any failure to such business or nomination, or (d) comply with respect to nominations, by any Eligible Stockholder (as defined in paragraph (C)(2) of this Section 2.03) whose Stockholder Nominee (as defined in paragraph (C)(1) of this Section 2.03) is included these procedures shall result in the Corporation’s proxy materials for nullification of such nomination or proposal. For the relevant annual meeting. Clauses (c) avoidance of doubt and (d) of subject to Section 2.9(c)(vi), the foregoing sentence clause (D) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make director nominations and clause (c) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to submit or propose other business at an annual meeting of stockholders (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and a proposal included in the Corporation’s notice of meetings) before an annual meeting of stockholdersproxy statement pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act (as defined herein)).
(2ii) Without qualification, for For nominations or any other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting of stockholders by a stockholder pursuant to clause (cD) of paragraph (A)(1i) of this Section 2.032.9(a), (1) the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation, and, in the case of and any such proposed business (other than the nominations of persons for election to the Board, such other business Board of Directors) must constitute a proper matter for stockholder action, (2) the stockholder must have complied in all respects with the requirements of Regulation 14A under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (as amended (together with the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder), the “Exchange Act”), as amended, including, without limitation, the requirements of Rule 14a-19 (as such rules and regulations may be amended from time to time by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including any SEC Staff interpretations relating thereto), and (3) the Board of Directors or an executive officer designated thereby shall determine that the stockholder has satisfied the requirements of this clause (ii), including without limitation the satisfaction of any undertaking delivered under paragraph (iii) below. To be timely, such a stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to to, or mailed and received by, the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than ninety (90) 90 days nor more than one hundred and twenty (120) 120 days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting (which date shall, for purposes of the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders after its shares of Common Stock (as defined in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation) are first publicly traded, be deemed to have occurred on May 15, 2018)stockholders; provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is advanced by more than thirty (30) days, 30 days prior to such anniversary date or delayed by more than seventy (70) days, from the 70 days after such anniversary date of the previous year’s meeting, or if no annual meeting was held in the preceding year, notice by the stockholder then to be timely such notice must be so delivered not received by the Corporation no earlier than the close of business on the one hundred and twentieth (120th) day 120 days prior to such annual meeting and not no later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day 70 days prior to such annual the date of the meeting or the tenth (10th) 10th day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such the meeting is was first mademade by the Corporation. Public announcement of an In no event shall the adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting shall not any meeting, or any announcement thereof, commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s noticenotice as described above. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.03(A)(2) A stockholder may not provide notice with respect to the contrary, if the nomination of a greater number of directors director candidates than are subject to be elected to election by stockholders at the Board at an annual meeting is increased, and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board at least one hundred applicable meeting.
(100iii) calendar days prior to the first anniversary of the prior year’s annual meeting of stockholders, then a A stockholder’s notice required by this Section 2.03 shall be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it is received by the Secretary of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) calendar day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation.
(3) To be in proper form, a stockholder’s notice delivered pursuant to this Section 2.03 must: (a2.9(a)(ii) or Section 2.9(b) shall set forth, as to the stockholder giving the notice, the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (i) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the Corporation’s books, and of such beneficial owner, and of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; (ii) forth (A) the class or series and number of shares of the Corporation which are, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (B) any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related as to any class or series of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any derivative or synthetic arrangement having the characteristics of a long position in any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions designed to produce economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially to the ownership of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, including due to the fact that the value of such contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions is determined by reference to the price, value or volatility of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument, contract or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of capital stock of the Corporation, through the delivery of cash or other property, or otherwise, and without regard to whether each person whom the stockholder of record, the beneficial owner, proposes to nominate for election or any affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, may have entered into transactions that hedge or mitigate the economic effect of such instrument, contract or right, or any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation reelection as a director: (any of the foregoing, a “Derivative Instrument”1) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder, the beneficial owner, or any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (C) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith have any right to vote any class or series of shares of any security of the Corporation, and any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, the purpose or effect of which is to increase or decrease the voting power of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (D) any short interest in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of this Section 2.03 a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security) involving such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (E) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (F) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner, (G) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, as of the date of such notice, including, without limitation, any such interests held by members of the immediate family sharing the same household of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (H) any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments or short interests in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith and (I) any direct or indirect interest of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith in any contract with the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement) (which information shall be supplemented by such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than ten (10) days after the record date for the meeting to disclose such ownership as of the record date); (iii) any other all information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, person that would be is required to be disclosed in a solicitations of proxies for election of directors, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Exchange Act, including such person’s written consent to being named in the proxy statement and form of proxy as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected, (2) a reasonably detailed description of any compensatory, payment or other filings required to be made financial agreement, arrangement or understanding that such person has with any other person or entity other than the Corporation including the amount of any payment or payments received or receivable thereunder, in each case in connection with solicitations of proxies for, candidacy or service as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 director of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; Corporation (a “Third-Party Compensation Arrangement”), and (iv3) a representation whether the stockholder or the beneficial ownerinformation required under Section 2.9(c), if any, intends or is part of a group which intends (yB) to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the business to be proposed or to elect the nominee and/or (z) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal or the nomination; (b) if the notice relates as to any other business other than a nomination of a director or directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, set forth (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting meeting, the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws of the Corporationthese Bylaws, the language text of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest of such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, in such business and (ii) a description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; (c) set forth, as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection to the Board of Directors (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee of the stockholder and to serving as a director if elected) and (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination proposal is made and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required (C) as to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making giving the nomination, such notice and the beneficial owner, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewithif any, were on whose behalf the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, and a description of any other agreements, arrangements and understandings between or among such stockholder, such beneficial owner, any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the nomination by such stockholder; and (d) with respect to each nominee for election or reelection to the Board of Directors, include a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.04. The Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the Corporation to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation, including information relevant to the independence, or lack thereof, of such nominee.proposal is made:
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Annual Meetings of Stockholders. (1) Nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors by the stockholders generally entitled to vote (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall exclude nominations of one or more individuals elected by the separate vote of the holders of any one or more series of preferred stock of the Corporation) and the proposal of other business to be considered by the stockholders generally entitled to vote (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall exclude any question or business other than Nominations required by or pursuant to the Restated Certificate with respect to the rights of the holders of any outstanding series of preferred stock of the Corporation to be voted on by the holders of one or more such series, voting separately as a single class) may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders only (a) as provided in the Stockholders Agreement (as defined in the Restated Certificate of Incorporation) (with respect to nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors only), (b) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant to Section 2.052.04 of Article II of these Bylaws, (bc) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or any authorized committee thereof, thereof or (cd) by any stockholder of the Corporation who is entitled to vote at the meeting, who, subject to paragraph (iC)(4) of this Section 2.03, complied with the notice procedures set forth in paragraphs (A)(2) and (A)(3) of this Section 2.03 and who was a stockholder of record at the time of giving of such notice provided for in this Section 2.03 and at the time of the annual meeting, (ii) is entitled to vote at the meeting and (iii) complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.03 as to such business or nomination, or (d) with respect to nominations, by any Eligible Stockholder (as defined in paragraph (C)(2) of this Section 2.03) whose Stockholder Nominee (as defined in paragraph (C)(1) of this Section 2.03) is included in the Corporation’s proxy materials for the relevant annual meeting. Clauses (c) and (d) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make director nominations and clause (c) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to submit other business (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and included in the Corporation’s notice of meetings) before an annual meeting of stockholders.
(2) Without qualification, for nominations or any other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (c) of paragraph (A)(1) of this Section 2.03, the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation, and, in the case of business other than nominations of persons for election to the Board, such other business must constitute a proper matter for stockholder action. To be timely, such stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than ninety (90) days nor more than one hundred and twenty (120) days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting (which date shall, for purposes of the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders after its shares of Common Stock (as defined in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation) are first publicly traded, be deemed to have occurred on May 15, 2018); provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is advanced by more than thirty (30) days, or delayed by more than seventy (70) days, from the anniversary date of the previous year’s meeting, or if no annual meeting was held in the preceding year, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the close of business on the one hundred and twentieth (120th) day prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day prior to such annual meeting or the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made. Public announcement of an adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting shall not commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s notice. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.03(A)(2) to the contrary, if the number of directors to be elected to the Board at an annual meeting is increased, and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board at least one hundred (100) calendar days prior to the first anniversary of the prior year’s annual meeting of stockholders, then a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 2.03 shall be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it is received by the Secretary of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) calendar day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation.
(3) To be in proper form, a stockholder’s notice delivered pursuant to this Section 2.03 must: (a) set forth, as to the stockholder giving the notice, the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (i) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the Corporation’s books, and of such beneficial owner, and of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; (ii) (A) the class or series and number of shares of the Corporation which are, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (B) any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to any class or series of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any derivative or synthetic arrangement having the characteristics of a long position in any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions designed to produce economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially to the ownership of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, including due to the fact that the value of such contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions is determined by reference to the price, value or volatility of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument, contract or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of capital stock of the Corporation, through the delivery of cash or other property, or otherwise, and without regard to whether the stockholder of record, the beneficial owner, or any affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, may have entered into transactions that hedge or mitigate the economic effect of such instrument, contract or right, or any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation (any of the foregoing, a “Derivative Instrument”) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder, the beneficial owner, or any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (C) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith have any right to vote any class or series of shares of any security of the Corporation, and any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, the purpose or effect of which is to increase or decrease the voting power of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (D) any short interest in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of this Section 2.03 a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security) involving such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (E) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (F) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner, (G) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, as of the date of such notice, including, without limitation, any such interests held by members of the immediate family sharing the same household of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (H) any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments or short interests in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith and (I) any direct or indirect interest of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith in any contract with the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement) (which information shall be supplemented by such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than ten (10) days after the record date for the meeting to disclose such ownership as of the record date); (iii) any other information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; and (iv) a representation whether the stockholder or the beneficial owner, if any, intends or is part of a group which intends (y) to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the business to be proposed or to elect the nominee and/or (z) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal or the nomination; (b) if the notice relates to any business other than a nomination of a director or directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, set forth (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws of the Corporation, the language of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest of such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, in such business and (ii) a description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; (c) set forth, as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection to the Board of Directors (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee of the stockholder and to serving as a director if elected) and (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making the nomination, such beneficial owner, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, and a description of any other agreements, arrangements and understandings between or among such stockholder, such beneficial owner, any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the nomination by such stockholder; and (d) with respect to each nominee for election or reelection to the Board of Directors, include a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.04. The Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the Corporation to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation, including information relevant to the independence, or lack thereof, of such nominee.
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Annual Meetings of Stockholders. (1) Nominations At an annual meeting of the stockholders, only such business shall be conducted as shall have been properly brought before the meeting. To be properly brought before an annual meeting, nominations of persons for election to the Board and the of Directors or proposal of other business to must be considered by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders only (aA) pursuant to specified in the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant to Section 2.05, (b) given by or at the direction of the Board of Directors (or any authorized committee thereof), (cB) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by or at the direction of the Board of Directors (or any committee thereof), or (C) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by any stockholder of the Corporation who (i) was a stockholder of record of the Corporation (and, with respect to any beneficial owner, if different, on whose behalf such business is proposed, only if such beneficial owner was the beneficial owner of shares of the Corporation) both at the time of giving of the notice provided for in this Section 2.03 9 is delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation and at the time of the annual meeting, (ii) is entitled to vote at the meeting meeting, and (iii) complies has complied with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.03 9 as to such business or nomination, or . Clause (d) with respect to nominations, by any Eligible Stockholder (as defined in paragraph (C)(2) of this Section 2.03) whose Stockholder Nominee (as defined in paragraph (C)(1) of this Section 2.03) is included in the Corporation’s proxy materials for the relevant annual meeting. Clauses (c) and (dC) of the foregoing preceding sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make director nominations and clause (c) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to or submit other business (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and included in the Corporation’s notice of meetingsmeeting) before an annual meeting of stockholders. The number of nominees a stockholder may nominate for election at an annual meeting of the stockholders (or in the case of a stockholder giving notice on behalf of a beneficial owner, the number of nominees a stockholder may nominate for election at the annual meeting on behalf of such beneficial owner) shall not exceed the number of directors to be elected at such meeting.
(2) Without qualificationqualification or limitation, for any nominations or any other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (cC) of paragraph (A)(1a)(1) of this Section 2.039, the stockholder must (A) have given timely notice thereof in writing and in proper form to the Secretary of the CorporationCorporation and any such proposed business, and, in the case of business other than the nominations of persons for election to the BoardBoard of Directors, such other business must constitute a proper matter for stockholder action, and (B) provide any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the forms required by this Section 9. To be timely, such a stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less earlier than ninety (90) days nor more than the close of business on the one hundred and twenty twentieth (120120th) days day nor later than the close of business on the ninetieth (90th) day prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting (which date shall, for purposes in the case of the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders held after its shares January 1, 2022, the date of Common Stock (as defined in the Amended and Restated Certificate preceding year’s annual meeting of Incorporation) are first publicly traded, the stockholders shall be deemed to have occurred on May 15be [_____], 20182021); provided, however, that in the event that if the date of the annual meeting is advanced by more than thirty (30) days, days prior to or delayed by more than seventy sixty (7060) days, from days after the anniversary date of the previous year’s meeting, or if no annual meeting was held in the preceding year’s annual meeting, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the close of business on the one hundred and twentieth (120th) day prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day prior to such annual meeting or the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such annual meeting is was first mademade by the Corporation (such notice within such time periods, “Timely Notice”). Public In no event shall the public announcement of an adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting shall not commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s notice. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.03(A)(2) to the contrary, if the number of directors to be elected to the Board at an annual meeting is increased, and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board at least one hundred (100) calendar days prior to the first anniversary of the prior year’s annual meeting of stockholders, then a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 2.03 shall be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it is received by the Secretary of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) calendar day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the CorporationTimely Notice as described above.
(3) To be in proper formform for purposes of this Section 9, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary of the Corporation delivered pursuant to this Section 2.03 must: (a) 9 must set forth:
A. as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection as a director (i) all information with respect to such proposed nominee that would be required under Section 9(a)(3)(C) of this Article II if such proposed nominee were the nominating stockholder, (ii) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors in contested election, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to and in accordance with Regulation 14A under the Exchange Act, including, without limitation, each proposed nominee’s name, age, principal occupation or employment (present and for the five year prior to such stockholder’s notice), (iii) such person’s written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected, (iv) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three (3) years, and any other material relationships, between or among such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Rule 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making the nomination and any beneficial owner on whose behalf the nomination is made, if any, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, (v) a description of any material pending or threatened legal proceedings in which any such stockholder and beneficial owner and each proposed nominee is a party or material participant involving the Corporation or any of its affiliates, officers or directors, (vi) a statement whether each proposed nominee is, or has been within the last three years from the date of the stockholder’s notice, an officer or director of a competitor of the Corporation, as defined in Section 8 of the Xxxxxxx Antitrust Act of 1914, as amended from time to time, (vii) a statement whether each proposed nominee is a named subject of a pending criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations and other minor offenses) or has been convicted in a criminal proceeding within the 10 years prior to the date of the stockholder’s notice, and (viii) a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 10 of this Article II; provided, that the Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as it reasonably may require to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as an independent director of the Corporation or that could be material to a reasonable stockholder’s understanding of the independence, or lack thereof, of such nominee, including, without limitation, for purposes of serving on one or more committees of the Board;
B. if the notice relates to any business other than a nomination of a director or directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting and any material interest in such business of such stockholder, (ii) the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws of the Corporation, the language of the proposed amendment), (iii) the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest in such business of such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made, and (iv) a reasonably detailed description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; and
C. as to the stockholder giving the notice, notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith made (i) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the Corporation’s books, and of such beneficial owner, and of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; if any, (ii) (Aa) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation which are, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and of record or beneficially owned (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, except that such stockholder and their respective affiliates beneficial owner shall in all events be deemed to beneficially own any shares of any class or associates or others acting series of the Corporation as to which such stockholder and beneficial owner has a right to acquire beneficial ownership at any time in concert therewith the future, (Bb) any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, right or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to any class or series of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any derivative or synthetic arrangement having the characteristics of a long position in any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions designed to produce economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially to the ownership of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, including due to the fact that the value of such contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions is determined by reference to the price, value or volatility of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument, contract instrument or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of capital stock of the Corporation, through the delivery of cash or other property, Corporation or otherwise, including, without limitation, any derivative, swap, hedge, repurchase or so-called “stock borrowing” agreement or arrangement (a “Derivative Instrument”), directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder and without regard to whether the stockholder of record, the beneficial owner, or any affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, may have entered into transactions that hedge or mitigate the economic effect of such instrument, contract or right, or any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation (any of the foregoing, a “Derivative Instrument”) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder, the beneficial owner, or any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewithCorporation, (Cc) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, understanding or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith have any stockholder has a right to vote any class or series of shares of any security of the Corporation, and any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, the purpose or effect of which is to increase or decrease the voting power of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (Dd) any short interest in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of this Section 2.03 Bylaw a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security) involving such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith), (Ee) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith stockholder that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (Ff) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith stockholder is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner, partner and (Gg) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith stockholder is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, as of the date of such notice, including, including without limitation, limitation any such interests held by members of the such stockholder’s immediate family sharing the same household household, (iii) a description of any agreement, arrangement or understanding with respect to the nomination or proposal between or among such stockholder, stockholder and such beneficial owner and owner, any of their respective affiliates or associates or associates, and any others acting in concert therewithwith any of the foregoing, (Hiv) any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments or short interests in any principal competitor a representation that the stockholder is a holder of record of stock of the Corporation held entitled to vote at such meeting and intends to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to propose such stockholderbusiness or nomination, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates (v) a representation whether the stockholder or associates or others acting in concert therewith and (I) any direct or indirect interest of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith in any contract with the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement) (which information shall be supplemented by such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than ten intends or is part of a group that intends (10a) days after to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the record date for the meeting to disclose such ownership as percentage of the record date); Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the proposal or elect the nominee or (iiib) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal or nomination and (vi) any other information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; .
(4) A stockholder providing notice of any nomination proposed to be made, or business proposed to be brought, in each case before an annual meeting, shall further update and (iv) a representation whether the stockholder or the beneficial ownersupplement such notice, if anynecessary, intends so that the information provided or is part of a group which intends (y) required to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy be provided in such notice pursuant to holders of at least the percentage this Section 9 shall be true and correct as of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock record date for determining stockholders entitled to the notice of the annual meeting and as of the date that is ten (10) business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof, and such update and supplement shall be delivered to, or mailed and received by, the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than five (5) business days after the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of the annual meeting (in the case of the update and supplement required to approve be made as of the record date), and not later than eight (8) business days prior to the date for the meeting or, if practicable, any adjournment or adopt postponement thereof (and, if not practicable, on the business first practicable date prior to the date to which the meeting has been adjourned or postponed) (in the case of the update and supplement required to be proposed or made as of ten (10) business days prior to elect the nominee and/or (z) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal or the nomination; (b) if the notice relates to any business other than a nomination of a director or directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, set forth (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof).
(including 5) Notwithstanding anything in the text second sentence of any resolutions proposed for consideration and paragraph (a)(2) of this Section 9 to the contrary, in the event that such business includes a proposal the number of directors to amend the Bylaws of the Corporation, the language of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest of such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, in such business and (ii) a description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; (c) set forth, as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection be elected to the Board of Directors (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act Corporation at an annual meeting is increased effective after the time period for which nominations would otherwise be due under this Section 9 and there is no public announcement by the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee Corporation naming all of the stockholder and to serving as a director if elected) and (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making the nomination, such beneficial owner, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the “registrant” nominees for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer specifying the size of such registrantthe increased Board of Directors at least one hundred (100) days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting, and a description of any other agreementsstockholder’s notice required by this Section 9 shall also be considered timely, arrangements and understandings between or among such stockholder, such beneficial owner, any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the nomination by such stockholder; and (d) but only with respect to each nominee nominees for election or reelection any new positions created by such increase, if it shall be delivered to the Board Secretary at the principal executive offices of Directors, include a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.04. The the Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the day on which such other information as may reasonably be required public announcement is first made by the Corporation to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation, including information relevant to the independence, or lack thereof, of such nominee.
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Annual Meetings of Stockholders. (1) Nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors and the proposal of other business to be considered by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders only (a) as provided in the Investor Rights Agreement (as defined in the Certificate of Incorporation) (with respect to nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors only), (b) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant to Section 2.052.04 of Article II of these Bylaws, (bc) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or any authorized committee thereof, thereof or (cd) by any stockholder of the Corporation who is entitled to vote at the meeting, who, subject to paragraph (iC)(4) of this Section 2.03, complied with the notice procedures set forth in paragraphs (A)(2) and (A)(3) of this Section 2.03 and who was a stockholder of record at the time of giving of such notice provided for in this Section 2.03 and at is delivered to the time Secretary of the annual meeting, (ii) is entitled to vote at the meeting and (iii) complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.03 as to such business or nomination, or (d) with respect to nominations, by any Eligible Stockholder (as defined in paragraph (C)(2) of this Section 2.03) whose Stockholder Nominee (as defined in paragraph (C)(1) of this Section 2.03) is included in the Corporation’s proxy materials for the relevant annual meeting. Clauses (c) and (d) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make director nominations and clause (c) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to submit other business (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and included in the Corporation’s notice of meetings) before an annual meeting of stockholders.
(2) Without qualification, for For nominations or any other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (cd) of paragraph (A)(1) of this Section 2.03, the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation, and, in the case of business other than nominations of persons for election to the BoardBoard of Directors, such other business must constitute a proper matter for stockholder action. To be timely, such a stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than ninety (90) days nor more than one hundred and twenty (120) days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting (which date shall, for purposes of the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders after its shares of Common Stock (as defined in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation) are first publicly traded, be deemed to have occurred on May 15, 2018[●]1); provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is advanced by more than thirty (30) days, or delayed by more than seventy (70) days, from the anniversary date of the previous year’s meeting, or if no annual meeting was held in the preceding year, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the close of business on the one hundred and twentieth (120th) day prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day prior to such annual meeting or the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first mademade by the Corporation. Public announcement of an adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting shall not commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s notice. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.03(A)(2) to the contrary, if the number of directors to be elected to the Board of Directors at an annual meeting is increased, increased and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board of Directors at least one hundred (100) calendar days prior to the first anniversary of the prior year’s annual meeting of stockholders, then a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 2.03 shall be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it is received by the Secretary of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) calendar day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation.
(3) To be in proper form, a A stockholder’s notice delivered pursuant to this Section 2.03 mustshall set forth: (a) set forthas to each person whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or re-election as a director, all information relating to such person that is required to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of directors in an election contest, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, including such person’s written 1 Note to Draft: To be the date that is one year before the date the Corporation expects to have its 2022 stockholder meeting. consent to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee of the stockholder and to serving as a director if elected; (b) as to any other business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting, the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and, in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend these Bylaws, the language of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest in such business of such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made; (c) as to the stockholder giving the notice, notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith made (i) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the Corporation’s booksbooks and records, and of such beneficial owner, and of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; (ii) (A) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation which arethat are owned, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (Biii) any option, warrant, convertible security, a representation that the stockholder is a holder of record of the stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to any class or series of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from at the value of any class or series of shares time of the Corporation, or any derivative or synthetic arrangement having the characteristics of a long position in any class or series of shares giving of the Corporationnotice, will be entitled to vote at such meeting and will appear in person or any contractby proxy at the meeting to propose such business or nomination, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions designed to produce economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially to the ownership of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, including due to the fact that the value of such contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions is determined by reference to the price, value or volatility of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument, contract or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of capital stock of the Corporation, through the delivery of cash or other property, or otherwise, and without regard to (iv) a representation whether the stockholder of record, or the beneficial owner, if any, will be or any affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, may have entered into transactions is part of a group that hedge or mitigate will (x) deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the economic effect percentage of such instrument, contract or right, or any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation (any of the foregoing, a “Derivative Instrument”) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder, the beneficial owner, or any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (C) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith have any right to vote any class or series of shares of any security of the Corporation, and any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, the purpose or effect of which is to increase or decrease the voting power of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the proposal or elect the nominee and/or (y) otherwise solicit proxies or votes from stockholders in support of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates proposal or associates or others acting in concert therewithnomination, (Dv) any short interest in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of this Section 2.03 a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security) involving such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (E) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (F) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner, (G) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, as of the date of such notice, including, without limitation, any such interests held by members of the immediate family sharing the same household of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (H) any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments or short interests in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith and (I) any direct or indirect interest of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith in any contract with the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement) (which information shall be supplemented by certification regarding whether such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than ten (10) days after have complied with all applicable federal, state and other legal requirements in connection with the record date for the meeting to disclose such ownership as stockholder’s and/or beneficial owner’s acquisition of shares of capital stock or other securities of the record date); Corporation and/or the stockholder’s and/or beneficial owner’s acts or omissions as a stockholder of the Corporation and (iiivi) any other information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of directors in a contested an election contest pursuant to and in accordance with Section 14 14(a) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; and (iv) a representation whether the stockholder or the beneficial owner, if any, intends or is part of a group which intends (y) to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the business to be proposed or to elect the nominee and/or (z) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal or the nomination; (b) if the notice relates to any business other than a nomination of a director or directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, set forth (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws of the Corporation, the language of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest of such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, in such business and (iid) a description of all agreementsany agreement, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and any other person arrangement or persons (including their names) in connection understanding with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; (c) set forth, as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection respect to the Board nomination or proposal and/or the voting of Directors (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement shares of any class or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations series of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 stock of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee of the stockholder and to serving as a director if elected) and (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, Corporation between or among such the stockholder and giving the notice, the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making the nomination, such beneficial owner, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, and a description of any other agreements, arrangements and understandings between or among such stockholder, such beneficial ownermade, any of their respective affiliates or associates or and/or any others acting in concert therewithwith any of the foregoing (collectively, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the nomination by such stockholder“proponent persons”); and (de) a description of any agreement, arrangement or understanding (including without limitation any contract to purchase or sell, acquisition or grant of any option, right or warrant to purchase or sell, swap or other instrument) to which any proponent person is a party, the intent or effect of which may be (i) to transfer to or from any proponent person, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of any security of the Corporation, (ii) to increase or decrease the voting power of any proponent person with respect to each nominee shares of any class or series of stock of the Corporation and/or (iii) to provide any proponent person, directly or indirectly, with the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from, or to otherwise benefit economically from, any increase or decrease in the value of any security of the Corporation. A stockholder providing notice of a proposed nomination for election or reelection to the Board of DirectorsDirectors or other business proposed to be brought before a meeting (whether given pursuant to this paragraph (A)(3) or paragraph (B) of this Section 2.03 of these Bylaws) shall update and supplement such notice from time to time to the extent necessary so that the information provided or required to be provided in such notice shall be true and correct (x) as of the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting and (y) as of the date that is fifteen (15) days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof, include provided that if the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting is less than fifteen (15) days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof, the information shall be supplemented and updated as of such later date. Any such update and supplement shall be delivered in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than five (5) days after the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting (in the case of any update and supplement required to be made as of the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting), not later than ten (10) days prior to the date for the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof (in the case of any update or supplement required to be made as of fifteen (15) days prior to the meeting or adjournment or postponement thereof) and not later than five (5) days after the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, but no later than the day prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof (in the case of any update and supplement required to be made as of a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.04date less than fifteen (15) days prior to the date of the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof). The Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as it may reasonably be required by the Corporation require to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation, including information relevant Corporation and to determine the independence, or lack thereof, independence of such nomineedirector under the Exchange Act and rules and regulations thereunder and applicable stock exchange rules.
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Samples: Business Combination Agreement (CBRE Acquisition Holdings, Inc.)
Annual Meetings of Stockholders. (1i) Nominations of persons for election to the Board and the proposal of other business to be considered by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders may be made only (aA) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant to Section 2.05), (bB) by or at the direction of the Board or any authorized committee thereof, subject to the obligations of the Corporation set forth in any nomination agreements between the Corporation and any stockholder that may be in effect from time to time (cas amended or supplemented in accordance with their terms, the “Nomination Agreements”) or (C) by any stockholder of the Corporation who (i1) was a stockholder of record at the time of giving of notice provided for in this Section 2.03 these Bylaws and at the time of the annual meeting, (ii2) is entitled to vote at the meeting and (iii3) complies with the notice procedures and other requirements set forth in this Section 2.03 these Bylaws and applicable law as to such business or nomination. For the avoidance of doubt, or (d) with respect to nominations, by any Eligible Stockholder (as defined in paragraph (C)(2Section 2.9(a)(i)(C) of this Section 2.03) whose Stockholder Nominee (as defined in paragraph (C)(1) of this Section 2.03) is included in the Corporation’s proxy materials for the relevant annual meeting. Clauses (c) and (d) of the foregoing sentence these Bylaws shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make director nominations and clause (c) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to or submit other business (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) , and included in the Corporation’s notice of meetingsproxy statement pursuant thereto) before an annual meeting of the stockholders.
(2ii) Without qualification, for For any nominations or any other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (cSection 2.9(a)(i)(C) of paragraph (A)(1) of this Section 2.03these Bylaws, the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation, and, and in the case of business other than nominations of persons for election to the Boardnominations, such other business must constitute otherwise be a proper matter for stockholder action. To be timely, such a stockholder’s notice shall must be delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation by registered mail at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less earlier than ninety (90) days nor more the close of business on the 120th day and not later than one hundred and twenty (120) days the close of business on the 90th day prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting (which date shallanniversary, for purposes in the case of the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders after its shares following the close of Common Stock (as defined in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation) are first publicly tradedCorporation’s business combination, shall be deemed to have occurred on be [May 151, 20182022]); provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is advanced by more greater than thirty (30) days, 30 days before or delayed by more greater than seventy (70) days, from the 60 days after such anniversary date of the previous year’s meetingdate, or if no annual meeting was held in the preceding yearyear (other than with respect to the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders following the close of the Corporation’s business combination), notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the close of business on the one hundred and twentieth (120th) 150th day prior to the date of such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) 120th day prior to such annual meeting or or, if the tenth (10th) first public announcement of the date of such annual meeting is fewer than 100 days prior to the date of such annual meeting, the 10th day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first mademade by the Corporation. Public announcement of an adjournment In no event shall any adjournment, postponement or postponement recess of an annual meeting shall not or the announcement thereof commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s noticenotice as described above. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.03(A)(2) to the contrary, if the number of directors to be elected to the Board at an annual meeting is increased, and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board at least one hundred (100) calendar days prior to the first anniversary of the prior year’s annual meeting of stockholders, then a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 2.03 shall be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it is received by the Secretary of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) calendar day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation.
(3) To be in proper form, a stockholder’s notice delivered (whether given pursuant to this Section 2.03 must: (a2.9(a)(ii) set forth, as or Section 2.9(b)) to the stockholder giving the notice, the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (i) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the Corporation’s books, and of such beneficial owner, and of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; (ii) (A) the class or series and number of shares Secretary of the Corporation which are, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (B) any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to any class or series of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any derivative or synthetic arrangement having the characteristics of a long position in any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions designed to produce economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially to the ownership of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, including due to the fact that the value of such contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions is determined by reference to the price, value or volatility of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument, contract or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of capital stock of the Corporation, through the delivery of cash or other property, or otherwise, and without regard to whether the stockholder of record, the beneficial owner, or any affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, may have entered into transactions that hedge or mitigate the economic effect of such instrument, contract or right, or any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation (any of the foregoing, a “Derivative Instrument”) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder, the beneficial owner, or any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (C) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith have any right to vote any class or series of shares of any security of the Corporation, and any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, the purpose or effect of which is to increase or decrease the voting power of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (D) any short interest in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of this Section 2.03 a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security) involving such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (E) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (F) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner, (G) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, as of the date of such notice, including, without limitation, any such interests held by members of the immediate family sharing the same household of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (H) any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments or short interests in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith and (I) any direct or indirect interest of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith in any contract with the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement) (which information shall be supplemented by such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than ten (10) days after the record date for the meeting to disclose such ownership as of the record date); (iii) any other information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; and (iv) a representation whether the stockholder or the beneficial owner, if any, intends or is part of a group which intends (y) to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the business to be proposed or to elect the nominee and/or (z) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal or the nomination; (b) if the notice relates to any business other than a nomination of a director or directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, set forth (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws of the Corporation, the language of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest of such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, in such business and (ii) a description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; (c) set forth, as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection to the Board of Directors (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee of the stockholder and to serving as a director if elected) and (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making the nomination, such beneficial owner, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, and a description of any other agreements, arrangements and understandings between or among such stockholder, such beneficial owner, any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the nomination by such stockholder; and (d) with respect to each nominee for election or reelection to the Board of Directors, include a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.04. The Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the Corporation to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation, including information relevant to the independence, or lack thereof, of such nominee.must:
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Samples: Business Combination Agreement (Climate Change Crisis Real Impact I Acquisition Corp)
Annual Meetings of Stockholders. (1i) Nominations of persons for election to the Board and of Directors or the proposal of other business to be considered transacted by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders may be made only (aA) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant to Section 2.05), (bB) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or any authorized committee thereof, (cC) as may be provided in the certificate of designations for any class or series of preferred stock or (D) by any stockholder of the Corporation who (i) was is a stockholder of record at the time of giving of notice provided for in paragraph (ii) of this Section 2.03 Section 2.10(a) and at the time of the annual meeting, (ii) is who shall be entitled to vote at the meeting and (iii) who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.03 Section 2.10(a), and, except as otherwise required by law, any failure to such business or nomination, or (d) comply with respect to nominations, by any Eligible Stockholder (as defined in paragraph (C)(2) of this Section 2.03) whose Stockholder Nominee (as defined in paragraph (C)(1) of this Section 2.03) is included these procedures shall result in the Corporation’s proxy materials for the relevant annual meeting. Clauses (c) and (d) nullification of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make director nominations and clause (c) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to submit other business (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and included in the Corporation’s notice of meetings) before an annual meeting of stockholderssuch nomination or proposal.
(2ii) Without qualification, for For nominations or any other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting of stockholders by a stockholder pursuant to clause (cD) of paragraph (A)(1(i) of this Section 2.03Section 2.10(a), the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation, and, in the case of Corporation and any such proposed business (other than the nominations of persons for election to the Board, such other business Board of Directors) must constitute a proper matter for stockholder action. To be timely, such a stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to to, or mailed and received by, the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than ninety (90) 90 days nor more than one hundred and twenty (120) 120 days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting of stockholders (which date shall, for purposes of the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders after its shares of Common Stock (as defined in the Amended year of the closing of the merger contemplated by that certain Agreement and Restated Certificate Plan of Incorporation) are first publicly tradedMerger, dated as of [●], by and among Fusion Acquisition Corp., ML Merger Sub Inc., and MoneyLion Inc., be deemed to have occurred on May 15, 2018[●] of such year); provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is advanced by more than thirty (30) days, 30 days prior to such anniversary date or delayed by more than seventy (70) days, from the 70 days after such anniversary date of the previous year’s meeting, or if no annual meeting was held in the preceding year, notice by the stockholder then to be timely such notice must be so delivered delivered, or mailed and received, not earlier later than the close of business on the one hundred and twentieth (120th) 90th day prior to such annual meeting and not later than or, if later, the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day prior to such annual meeting or the tenth (10th) 10th day following the day on which public announcement disclosure of the date of such annual meeting is was first made. Public announcement of an In no event shall the adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting shall not any meeting, or any announcement thereof, commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s noticenotice as described above. Notwithstanding anything The number of nominees a stockholder may nominate for election at the annual meeting (or in this Section 2.03(A)(2the case of a stockholder giving the notice on behalf of a beneficial owner, the number of nominees a stockholder may nominate for election at the annual meeting on behalf of such beneficial owner) to the contrary, if shall not exceed the number of directors to be elected to the Board at an as such annual meeting is increased, and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board at least one hundred meeting.
(100iii) calendar days prior to the first anniversary of the prior year’s annual meeting of stockholders, then a A stockholder’s notice required by this Section 2.03 shall be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it is received by the Secretary of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) calendar day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation.
(3) To be in proper form, a stockholder’s notice delivered pursuant to this Section 2.03 must: (a) shall set forth, as to the stockholder giving the notice, the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (i) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the Corporation’s books, and of such beneficial owner, and of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; (ii) forth (A) the class or series and number of shares of the Corporation which are, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (B) any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related as to any class or series of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any derivative or synthetic arrangement having the characteristics of a long position in any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions designed to produce economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially to the ownership of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, including due to the fact that the value of such contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions is determined by reference to the price, value or volatility of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument, contract or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of capital stock of the Corporation, through the delivery of cash or other property, or otherwise, and without regard to whether each person whom the stockholder of record, the beneficial owner, proposes to nominate for election or any affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, may have entered into transactions that hedge or mitigate the economic effect of such instrument, contract or right, or any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation reelection as a director: (any of the foregoing, a “Derivative Instrument”1) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder, the beneficial owner, or any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (C) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith have any right to vote any class or series of shares of any security of the Corporation, and any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, the purpose or effect of which is to increase or decrease the voting power of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (D) any short interest in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of this Section 2.03 a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security) involving such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (E) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (F) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner, (G) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, as of the date of such notice, including, without limitation, any such interests held by members of the immediate family sharing the same household of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (H) any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments or short interests in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith and (I) any direct or indirect interest of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith in any contract with the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement) (which information shall be supplemented by such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than ten (10) days after the record date for the meeting to disclose such ownership as of the record date); (iii) any other all information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, person that would be is required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of directors directors, or is otherwise required, in a contested election each case pursuant to Section 14 of Regulation 14A under the Securities Exchange Act and of 1934 (as amended (together with the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder), the “Exchange Act”) including such person’s written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected; and (iv2) a representation whether reasonably detailed description of any compensatory, payment or other financial agreement, arrangement or understanding that such person has with any other person or entity other than the stockholder Corporation including the amount of any payment or the beneficial ownerpayments received or receivable thereunder, if any, intends in each case in connection with candidacy or is part of service as a group which intends (y) to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage director of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the business to be proposed or to elect the nominee and/or Corporation (za “Third-Party Compensation Arrangement”), (B) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal or the nomination; (b) if the notice relates as to any other business other than a nomination of a director or directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, set forth (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting meeting, the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws of the Corporationthese Bylaws, the language text of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest of such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, in such business and (ii) a description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; (c) set forth, as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection to the Board of Directors (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee of the stockholder and to serving as a director if elected) and (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination proposal is made and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required (C) as to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making giving the nomination, such notice and the beneficial owner, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewithif any, were on whose behalf the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, and a description of any other agreements, arrangements and understandings between or among such stockholder, such beneficial owner, any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the nomination by such stockholder; and (d) with respect to each nominee for election or reelection to the Board of Directors, include a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.04. The Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the Corporation to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation, including information relevant to the independence, or lack thereof, of such nominee.proposal is made:
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Annual Meetings of Stockholders. (1i) Nominations of persons for election to the Board (other than nominations of persons for election as Preferred Directors (if any and as defined below) and the proposal of other business (other than other business for which a separate vote of the holders of shares of a class or series or classes or series of capital stock is required by the Certificate) to be considered by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders only (aA) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant to Section 2.053 of this Article I, (bB) by or at the direction of the Board or any authorized committee thereof, or (cC) by any stockholder of the Corporation who (iis entitled to vote on such election or such other business at the meeting, who has complied with the notice procedures set forth in Section 12(a)(ii) and Section 12(a)(iii) of this Article I and who was a stockholder of record at the time of giving of such notice provided for in this Section 2.03 and at was delivered to the time Secretary of the annual meeting, Corporation in accordance with Section 12(a)(ii) of this Article I.
(ii) is entitled to vote at the meeting and (iii) complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.03 as to such business or nomination, or (d) with respect to nominations, by any Eligible Stockholder (as defined in paragraph (C)(2) of this Section 2.03) whose Stockholder Nominee (as defined in paragraph (C)(1) of this Section 2.03) is included in the Corporation’s proxy materials for the relevant annual meeting. Clauses (c) and (d) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make director nominations and clause (c) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to submit other business (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and included in the Corporation’s notice of meetings) before an annual meeting of stockholders.
(2) Without qualification, for For nominations or any other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (c) of paragraph (A)(1Section 12(a)(i) of this Section 2.03Article I, the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation, and, in the case of business other than nominations of persons for election to the Board, such other business must constitute be a proper matter for stockholder action. To be timely, such a stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than ninety (90) days nor more than one hundred and twenty (120) days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting (which date shall, for purposes of the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders after its shares of Common Stock (as defined in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation) are first publicly traded, be deemed to have occurred on May 15, 2018)meeting; provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is advanced by more than thirty (30) days, or delayed by more than seventy (70) days, from the such anniversary date of the previous year’s meeting, or if no annual meeting was held in the preceding yeardate, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the close of business on the one hundred and twentieth (120th) 120th day prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) 90th day prior to such annual meeting or the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first mademade by the Corporation. Public announcement For purposes of an adjournment or postponement the application of an annual meeting shall not commence a new time period Rule 14a-4(c) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) (or extend any time period) successor provision), the date for the giving of a stockholder’s notice. Notwithstanding anything notice specified in this Section 2.03(A)(212(a)(ii) to of this Article I shall be the contrary, if earlier of the number date calculated as hereinbefore provided or the date specified in paragraph (c)(1) of directors to be elected to Rule 14a-4. For purposes of the Board at an first annual meeting is increasedof stockholders following the adoption of these Bylaws, and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all date of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board at least one hundred (100) calendar days prior to the first anniversary of the prior preceding year’s annual meeting of stockholders, then a shall be deemed to be [_____]. Such stockholder’s notice shall set forth (A) as to each person whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or re-election as a director all information relating to such person that is required by this to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of directors, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Section 2.03 shall 14(a) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, including such person’s written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected; (B) as to any other business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, a brief description of the business desired to be considered timelybrought before the meeting, but only with respect the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and, in the event that such business includes a proposal to nominees amend these Bylaws, the language of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any new positions created by material interest in such increasebusiness of such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if it any, on whose behalf the proposal is received by the Secretary of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth made; (10thC) calendar day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation.
(3) To be in proper form, a stockholder’s notice delivered pursuant to this Section 2.03 must: (a) set forth, as to the stockholder giving the notice, notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith made (i1) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the Corporation’s booksbooks and records, and of such beneficial owner, and of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; (ii) (A2) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation which are, are owned directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (B3) any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to any class or series of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any derivative or synthetic arrangement having the characteristics of a long position in any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions designed to produce economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially to the ownership of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, including due to the fact representation that the value stockholder is a holder of such contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions is determined by reference to the price, value or volatility of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument, contract or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series record of capital stock of the CorporationCorporation at the time of the giving of the notice, through the delivery stockholder will be entitled to vote at such meeting and the stockholder (or a qualified representative of cash the stockholder) will appear in person or other propertyby proxy at the meeting to propose such business or nomination, or otherwise, and without regard to (4) a representation whether the stockholder of record, or the beneficial owner, if any, will be or any affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, may have entered into transactions that hedge or mitigate is part of a group which will (y) deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the economic effect percentage of such instrument, contract or right, or any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation (any of the foregoing, a “Derivative Instrument”) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder, the beneficial owner, or any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (C) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith have any right to vote any class or series of shares of any security of the Corporation, and any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, the purpose or effect of which is to increase or decrease the voting power of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the business or elect the nominee and/or (z) otherwise solicit proxies or votes from stockholders in support of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates business or associates or others acting in concert therewithnomination, (D5) any short interest in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of this Section 2.03 a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security) involving such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (E) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (F) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner, (G) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, as of the date of such notice, including, without limitation, any such interests held by members of the immediate family sharing the same household of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (H) any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments or short interests in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith and (I) any direct or indirect interest of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith in any contract with the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement) (which information shall be supplemented by certification regarding whether such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than ten (10) days after have complied with all applicable federal, state and other legal requirements in connection with the record date for the meeting to disclose such ownership as stockholder’s and/or beneficial owner’s acquisition of shares of capital stock or other securities of the record date); Corporation and/or the stockholder’s and/or beneficial owner’s acts or omissions as a stockholder of the Corporation and (iii6) any other information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal business and/or for the election of directors in a contested an election contest pursuant to and in accordance with Section 14 14(a) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; and (iv) a representation whether the stockholder or the beneficial owner, if any, intends or is part of a group which intends (y) to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the business to be proposed or to elect the nominee and/or (z) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal or the nomination; (b) if the notice relates to any business other than a nomination of a director or directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, set forth (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws of the Corporation, the language of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest of such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, in such business and (iiD) a description of all agreementsany agreement, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and any other person arrangement or persons (including their names) in connection understanding with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; (c) set forth, as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection respect to the Board nomination or business and/or the voting of Directors (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement shares of any class or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations series of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 capital stock of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee of the stockholder and to serving as a director if elected) and (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, Corporation between or among such the stockholder and giving the notice, the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making the nomination, such beneficial owner, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, and a description of any other agreements, arrangements and understandings between or among such stockholder, such beneficial ownermade, any of their respective affiliates or associates or and/or any others acting in concert therewithwith any of the foregoing (collectively, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the nomination by such stockholder“proponent persons”); and (dE) a description of any agreement, arrangement or understanding (including without limitation any contract to purchase or sell, acquisition or grant of any option, right or warrant to purchase or sell, swap or other instrument) the intent or effect of which may be (1) to transfer to or from any proponent person, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of any security of the Corporation, (2) to increase or decrease the voting power of any proponent person with respect to each nominee shares of any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation and/or (3) to provide any proponent person, directly or indirectly, with the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from, or to otherwise benefit economically from, any increase or decrease in the value of any security of the Corporation. A stockholder providing notice of a proposed nomination for election or reelection to the Board or other business proposed to be brought before a meeting (whether given pursuant to this Section 12(a)(ii) or Section 12(b) of Directorsthis Article I) shall update and supplement such notice from time to time to the extent necessary so that the information provided or required to be provided in such notice shall be true and correct as of the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting and as of the date that is fifteen days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof; provided that if the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting is less than fifteen days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof, include the information shall be supplemented and updated as of such later date. Any such update and supplement shall be delivered in writing to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than five days after the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting (in the case of any update or supplement required to be made as of the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting), not later than ten days prior to the date for the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof (in the case of any update or supplement required to be made as of fifteen days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof) and not later than five days after the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, but no later than the date prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof (in the case of any update and supplement required to be made as of a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.04date less than fifteen days prior the date of the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof). The Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as it may reasonably be required by the Corporation require to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation, including information relevant Corporation and to determine the independence of such director under the Exchange Act and rules and regulations thereunder and applicable stock exchange rules.
(iii) Notwithstanding anything in the second sentence of Section 12(a)(ii) of this Article I to the independencecontrary, in the event that the number of directors to be elected to the Board is increased, effective after the time period for which nominations would otherwise be due under Section 12(a)(ii) of this Article I, and there is no public announcement naming all of the nominees for director or lack thereofspecifying the size of the increased Board made by the Corporation at least one hundred days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting, a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 12(a) shall also be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth day following the day on which a public announcement of such nomineeincrease is first made by the Corporation; provided that, if no such announcement is made at least ten days before the meeting, then no such notice shall be required.
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Annual Meetings of Stockholders. (1i) Nominations of persons for election to the Board and the proposal of other business to be considered by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders only (aA) on behalf of the Corporation, by or at the direction of the Board or any duly authorized committee thereof (B) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant to Article I, Section 2.053 of these Bylaws (provided that any such nominations made on behalf of the Corporation while the Investors beneficially own the shares of Common Stock representing the requisite economic interests in accordance with the Investor Rights Agreement must be made by or at the direction of such in the manner provided in the Investor Rights Agreement) or (C) by any stockholder of the Corporation who is entitled to vote on such election at the meeting, who has complied with the notice procedures set forth in Section 12(a)(ii) and Section 12(a)(iii) of this Article I and who was a stockholder of record at the time such notice was delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation. The proposal of business (bother than the election of directors) to be considered by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders only (1) by or at the direction of the Board or any duly authorized committee thereof, (c2) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant to Article I, Section 3 of these Bylaws, (3) by the Investors, in accordance with the Investor Rights Agreement or (4) by any stockholder of the Corporation (other than the Investors) who (iis entitled to vote on such other business at the meeting, who has complied with the notice procedures set forth in Section 12(a)(ii) and Section 12(a)(iii) of this Article I and who was a stockholder of record at the time of giving of such notice provided for in this Section 2.03 and at was delivered to the time Secretary of the annual meeting, Corporation.
(ii) is entitled to vote at the meeting and (iii) complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.03 as to such business or nomination, or (d) with respect to nominations, by any Eligible Stockholder (as defined in paragraph (C)(2) of this Section 2.03) whose Stockholder Nominee (as defined in paragraph (C)(1) of this Section 2.03) is included in the Corporation’s proxy materials for the relevant annual meeting. Clauses (c) and (d) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make director nominations and clause (c) of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to submit other business (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and included in the Corporation’s notice of meetings) before an annual meeting of stockholders.
(2) Without qualification, for For nominations or any other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (c) of paragraph (A)(1) of this Section 2.03other than the Investors), the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation, and, in the case of business other than nominations of persons for election to the Board, such other business must constitute be a proper matter for stockholder action. To be timely, such a stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than ninety (90) days nor more than one hundred and twenty (120) days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting (which date shall, for purposes of the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders after its shares of Common Stock (as defined in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation) are first publicly traded, be deemed to have occurred on May 15, 2018)meeting; provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is advanced by more than thirty (30) days, or delayed by more than seventy (70) days, from the such anniversary date of the previous year’s meeting, or if no annual meeting was held in the preceding yeardate, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the close of business on the one hundred and twentieth (120th) 120th day prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) 90th day prior to such annual meeting or the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made. Public announcement For purposes of an adjournment the application of Rule 14a-4(c) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) (or postponement any successor provision), the date for notice specified in this Section 12(a)(ii) of an this Article I shall be the earlier of the date calculated as hereinbefore provided or the date specified in paragraph (c)(1) of Rule 14a-4. For purposes of the first annual meeting of stockholders following the adoption of these Bylaws, the date of the preceding year’s annual meeting shall not commence be deemed to be the date of the annual meeting held the preceding calendar year. The number of nominees a new time period stockholder may nominate for election at the annual meeting (or extend any time period) for in the giving case of a stockholder’s notice. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.03(A)(2stockholder giving the notice on behalf of a beneficial owner, the number of nominees a stockholder may nominate for election at the annual meeting on behalf of such beneficial owner) to the contrary, if shall not exceed the number of directors to be elected to the Board at an such annual meeting is increased, and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board at least one hundred (100) calendar days prior to the first anniversary of the prior year’s annual meeting of stockholders, then a meeting. Such stockholder’s notice shall set forth (A) as to each person whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or re-election as a director all information relating to such person that is required by this to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of directors, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Section 2.03 shall 14(a) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, including such person’s written consent to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee of the stockholder and to serving as a director if elected; (B) as to any other business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, a brief description of the business desired to be considered timelybrought before the meeting, but only with respect the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and, in the event that such business includes a proposal to nominees amend these Bylaws, the language of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any new positions created by material interest in such increasebusiness of such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if it any, on whose behalf the proposal is received by the Secretary of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth made; (10thC) calendar day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation.
(3) To be in proper form, a stockholder’s notice delivered pursuant to this Section 2.03 must: (a) set forth, as to the stockholder giving the notice, notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith made (i1) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the Corporation’s booksbooks and records, and of such beneficial owner, and of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; (ii) (A2) the class or classes or series and number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation which are, are owned directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (B3) any option, warrant, convertible security, a representation that the stockholder is a holder of record of the stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to any class or series of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from at the value of any class or series of shares time of the Corporation, or any derivative or synthetic arrangement having the characteristics of a long position in any class or series of shares giving of the Corporationnotice, or any contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions designed will be entitled to produce economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially to vote at such meeting on the ownership of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, including due to the fact that the value proposal of such contractbusiness or such nomination such stockholder intends to bring before the annual meeting and will appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to propose such business or nomination, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions is determined by reference to the price, value or volatility of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument, contract or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of capital stock of the Corporation, through the delivery of cash or other property, or otherwise, and without regard to (4) a representation whether the stockholder of record, or the beneficial owner, if any, will be or any affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, may have entered into transactions that hedge or mitigate is part of a group which will (x) deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the economic effect percentage of such instrument, contract or right, or any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation (any of the foregoing, a “Derivative Instrument”) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder, the beneficial owner, or any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (C) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith have any right to vote any class or series of shares of any security of the Corporation, and any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, the purpose or effect of which is to increase or decrease the voting power of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the proposal or elect the nominee and/or (y) otherwise solicit proxies or votes from stockholders in support of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates proposal or associates or others acting in concert therewithnomination, (D5) any short interest in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of this Section 2.03 a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security) involving such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (E) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (F) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner, (G) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, as of the date of such notice, including, without limitation, any such interests held by members of the immediate family sharing the same household of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (H) any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments or short interests in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith and (I) any direct or indirect interest of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith in any contract with the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement) (which information shall be supplemented by certification regarding whether such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than ten (10) days after have complied with all applicable federal, state and other legal requirements in connection with the record date for the meeting to disclose such ownership as stockholder’s and/or beneficial owner’s acquisition of shares of capital stock or other securities of the record date); Corporation and/or the stockholder’s and/or beneficial owner’s acts or omissions as a stockholder of the Corporation and (iii6) any other information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of directors in a contested an election contest pursuant to and in accordance with Section 14 14(a) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; and (iv) a representation whether the stockholder or the beneficial owner, if any, intends or is part of a group which intends (y) to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the business to be proposed or to elect the nominee and/or (z) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal or the nomination; (b) if the notice relates to any business other than a nomination of a director or directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, set forth (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws of the Corporation, the language of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest of such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, in such business and (iiD) a description of all agreementsany agreement, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and any other person arrangement or persons (including their names) in connection understanding with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; (c) set forth, as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection respect to the Board nomination or proposal and/or the voting of Directors (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement shares of any class or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations series of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 stock of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee of the stockholder and to serving as a director if elected) and (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, Corporation between or among such the stockholder and giving the notice, the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making the nomination, such beneficial owner, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, and a description of any other agreements, arrangements and understandings between or among such stockholder, such beneficial ownermade, any of their respective affiliates or associates or and/or any others acting in concert therewithwith any of the foregoing (collectively, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the nomination by such stockholder“proponent persons”); and (dE) a description of any agreement, arrangement or understanding (including without limitation any contract to purchase or sell, acquisition or grant of any option, right or warrant to purchase or sell, swap or other instrument) the intent or effect of which may be (1) to transfer to or from any proponent person, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of any security of the Corporation, (2) to increase or decrease the voting power of any proponent person with respect to each nominee shares of any class or series of stock of the Corporation and/or (3) to provide any proponent person, directly or indirectly, with the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from, or to otherwise benefit economically from, any increase or decrease in the value of any security of the Corporation. A stockholder providing notice of a proposed nomination for election or reelection to the Board or other business proposed to be brought before a meeting (whether given pursuant to this Section 12(a)(ii) or Section 12(b) of Directorsthis Article I) shall update and supplement such notice from time to time to the extent necessary so that the information provided or required to be provided in such notice shall be true and correct as of the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting and as of the date that is fifteen days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof; provided that if the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting is less than fifteen days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof, include the information shall be supplemented and updated as of such later date. Any such update and supplement shall be delivered in writing to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than five days after the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting (in the case of any update or supplement required to be made as of the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting), not later than ten days prior to the date for the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof (in the case of any update or supplement required to be made as of fifteen days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof) and not later than five days after the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, but no later than the date prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof (in the case of any update and supplement required to be made as of a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.04date less than fifteen days prior the date of the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof). The Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the Corporation requests to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the CorporationCorporation and to determine the independence of such director under the Exchange Act and rules and regulations thereunder and applicable stock exchange rules; provided that such information shall be delivered to or be mailed and received by the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation no later than five business days after the request by the Board for subsequent information regarding director qualifications has been delivered to or mailed and received by such shareholder of record, including information relevant or group of shareholders of record, providing notice of any nomination.
(iii) Notwithstanding anything in the second sentence of Section 12(a)(ii) of this Article I to the independencecontrary, in the event that the number of directors to be elected to the Board is increased, effective after the time period for which nominations would otherwise be due under Section 12(a)(ii) of this Article I, and there is no public announcement naming all of the nominees for director or lack thereofspecifying the size of the increased Board made by the Corporation at least one hundred days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting, a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 12 shall also be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth day following the day on which a public announcement of such nomineeincrease is first made by the Corporation.
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Samples: Business Combination Agreement (MDH Acquisition Corp.)
Annual Meetings of Stockholders. (1) Nominations of persons for election to the Board and the proposal of other No business to be considered by the stockholders may be made transacted at an annual meeting of stockholders only stockholders, other than business that is either: (ai) pursuant to specified in the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant to Section 2.05, (b) given by or at the direction of the Board Board; (ii) otherwise properly brought before the annual meeting by or any authorized committee thereof, at the direction of the Board; or (ciii) otherwise properly brought before the annual meeting by any stockholder of the Corporation Corporation: (A) who (i) was is a stockholder of record at on the time date of the giving of the notice provided for in this Section 2.03 2.7(a) and at on the time record date for the determination of the annual meeting, (ii) is stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting such annual meeting; and (iiiB) who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.03 as to such business or nomination2.7(a). For the avoidance of doubt, or (d) with respect to nominations, by any Eligible Stockholder (as defined in paragraph (C)(2) of this Section 2.03) whose Stockholder Nominee (as defined in paragraph (C)(1) of this Section 2.03) is included in the Corporation’s proxy materials for the relevant annual meeting. Clauses (c) and (d) of the foregoing sentence clause (iii) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make director nominations and clause (c) bring business properly before an annual meeting of the foregoing sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to submit other business stockholders (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.7(a) and included in to the Corporation’s notice contrary, only persons nominated for election as a director to fill any term of meetings) before an a directorship that expires on the date of the annual meeting of stockholderspursuant to Section 3.2 will be considered for election at such meeting.
(2i) Without qualificationIn addition to any other applicable requirements, for nominations or any business (other business than nominations) to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (c) of paragraph (A)(1) of this Section 2.03stockholder, the such stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing proper written form to the Secretary of the Corporation, and, in the case of business other than nominations of persons for election to the Board, and such other business must constitute otherwise be a proper matter for stockholder action. To Subject to Section 2.7(a)(v), a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary with respect to such business, to be timely, such stockholder’s notice shall must be delivered to received by the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less later than ninety (90) days the close of business on the 90th day nor more earlier than one hundred and twenty (120) days prior to the first opening of business on the 120th day before the anniversary date of the immediately preceding year’s annual meeting of stockholders (which date shall, for purposes of the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders after its shares of Common Stock (as defined in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation) are first publicly traded, be deemed to have occurred on May 15, 2018[insert date of the first annual meeting]); provided, however, that in the event that if the date of the annual meeting is advanced by more than thirty (30) days, days before or delayed by more than seventy sixty (7060) days, from the days after such anniversary date of the previous year’s meetingdate, or if no annual meeting was held in the preceding year, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the close of business on the one hundred delivered, or mailed and twentieth (120th) day prior to such annual meeting and received, not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day prior to such annual meeting or or, if later, the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public announcement disclosure of the date of such annual meeting is was first mademade (such notice within such time periods, “Timely Notice”). Public In no event shall any adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting or the announcement thereof commence a new time period for the giving of Timely Notice as described above.
(ii) The public announcement of an adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting shall not commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s notice. Notwithstanding anything notice as described in this Section 2.03(A)(2) to the contrary, if the number of directors to be elected to the Board at an annual meeting is increased, and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board at least one hundred (100) calendar days prior to the first anniversary of the prior year’s annual meeting of stockholders, then a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 2.03 shall be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it is received by the Secretary of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) calendar day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation2.7(a).
(3iii) To be in proper written form, a stockholder’s notice delivered pursuant to this Section 2.03 must: (a) set forth, as to the stockholder giving the notice, the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (i) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the Corporation’s books, and of such beneficial owner, and of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; (ii) (A) the class or series and number of shares of the Corporation which are, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (B) any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right Secretary with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related respect to any class or series of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any derivative or synthetic arrangement having the characteristics of a long position in any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions designed to produce economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially to the ownership of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, including due to the fact that the value of such contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions is determined by reference to the price, value or volatility of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument, contract or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of capital stock of the Corporation, through the delivery of cash or other property, or otherwise, and without regard to whether the stockholder of record, the beneficial owner, or any affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, may have entered into transactions that hedge or mitigate the economic effect of such instrument, contract or right, or any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation (any of the foregoing, a “Derivative Instrument”) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder, the beneficial owner, or any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (C) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith have any right to vote any class or series of shares of any security of the Corporation, and any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, the purpose or effect of which is to increase or decrease the voting power of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (D) any short interest in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of this Section 2.03 a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security) involving such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (E) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (F) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner, (G) any performance-related fees business (other than an asset-based feenominations) that must set forth as to each such stockholder, matter such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, as of the date of such notice, including, without limitation, any such interests held by members of the immediate family sharing the same household of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (H) any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments or short interests in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith and (I) any direct or indirect interest of such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith in any contract with the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement) (which information shall be supplemented by such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than ten (10) days after the record date for the meeting to disclose such ownership as of the record date); (iii) any other information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; and (iv) a representation whether the stockholder or the beneficial owner, if any, intends or is part of a group which intends (y) to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the business to be proposed or to elect the nominee and/or (z) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal or the nomination; (b) if the notice relates to any business other than a nomination of a director or directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting, set forth (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws of the Corporation, the language of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest of such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, in such business and (ii) a description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; (c) set forth, as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection to the Board of Directors (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee of the stockholder and to serving as a director if elected) and (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making the nomination, such beneficial owner, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, and a description of any other agreements, arrangements and understandings between or among such stockholder, such beneficial owner, any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the nomination by such stockholder; and (d) with respect to each nominee for election or reelection to the Board of Directors, include a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.04. The Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the Corporation to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation, including information relevant to the independence, or lack thereof, of such nominee.:
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