Board of Directors Resolutions. (a) The Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board of Directors”) shall adopt within 45 days of the Effective Date resolutions pursuant to 8 Del. C. § 242(b), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustees, to amend (i) the Charter to reduce the par value of the Common Stock to $0.000001 per share, and increase the number of authorized shares of Common Stock to 19 billion (the “Common Stock Amendment Proposal”), (ii) the Charter to reduce the par value of the Company’s Serial Preferred Stock (as defined in the Charter) to $0.00004 per share and increase the number of authorized shares of the Company’s Serial Preferred Stock to 13 billion (the “Serial Preferred Stock Amendment Proposal”), (iii) the Certificate of Designations such that (1) the number of shares of Series C Preferred Stock authorized and outstanding upon the effectiveness of the Serial Preferred Stock Amendment Proposal shall be the Number of Underlying Shares (as defined in the Certificate of Designations) as of the effective date of the Serial Preferred Stock Amendment Proposal, (2) the Conversion Ratio (as defined in the Certificate of Designations) as of any date shall equal the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the Number of Outstanding Shares (as defined in the Certificate of Designations) as of such date by (y) the Number of Outstanding Shares as of the effective date of such amendment and (3) the liquidation preference per share of the Series C Preferred Stock shall be $500,000 divided by the Number of Underlying Shares as of the effective date of such amendment (the “Series C Preferred Stock Amendment Proposal” and, collectively with the Common Stock Amendment Proposal and the Serial Preferred Stock Amendment Proposal, the “Special Meeting Shareholder Proposals”), (iv) the Charter (A) to permit the Board of Directors to issue classes of Serial Preferred Stock that are not of equal rank, such that the Board of Directors or a duly authorized committee thereof may, prior to issuance, in the resolution or resolutions providing for the issue of shares of each particular series, provide whether the shares of such series rank senior or junior to any other class of Serial Preferred Stock as to the right to receive dividends and the right to receive payments out of the assets of the Company upon voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company and (B) to cause the Series D Preferred Stock and any other series of Serial Preferred Stock subsequently issued to the United States Department of the Treasury to rank senior to the Series C Preferred Stock and any other subsequently issued series of Serial Preferred Stock that is not issued to the United States Department of the Treasury, so that as a result of these amendments the Series C Preferred Stock and any subsequently issued series of Serial Preferred Stock that ranks pari passu with or junior to the Series C Preferred Stock would not be entitled to vote on the subsequent creation or issuance of any such senior Serial Preferred Stock (the “Series D Preferred Stock Amendment Proposal”) and (v) the Charter to eliminate any restriction on the pledging of all or substantially all of the property or assets of the Company (the “Pledging Restrictions Amendment Proposal” and, collectively with the Common Stock Amendment Proposal, the Serial Preferred Stock Amendment Proposal, the Series C Preferred Stock Amendment Proposal and the Series D Preferred Stock Amendment Proposal, the “Charter Amendment Proposals”). (b) Pursuant to 8 Del. C. § 242(b) the Board of Directors shall, concurrently with the adoption of the resolutions described in clause (a) above, declare that the Charter Amendment Proposals are advisable and (i) call a special meeting with respect to the Special Meeting Shareholder Proposals or direct that the Special Meeting Shareholder Proposals be considered at an annual meeting of the holders of the Company’s capital stock, as applicable, when so directed by the Trust in accordance with Section 6.2(a) (provided, that the notice for a special meeting or annual meeting described in this clause (a) shall not be given until at least 60 days after the Company’s 2009 Annual Meeting of Shareholders) and (ii) direct that the Series D Preferred Stock Amendment Proposal and the Pledging Restrictions Amendment Proposal (collectively the “General Meeting Shareholder Proposals”) be considered at the next annual meeting of the holders of the Company’s capital stock in accordance with Section 6.2(b).
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Samples: Series C Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement, Series C Perpetual, Convertible, Participating Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement, Series C Perpetual, Convertible, Participating Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement (American International Group Inc)