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Nature of Business at Meetings of Stockholders. (a) 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, business must be (i) brought before the meeting by the Board of Directors and specified in a notice of meeting given by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or (ii) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by a stockholder present in person who (A) (1) was a beneficial owner of shares of the Corporation both at the time of giving the notice provided for in this Article II, Section 7 and at the time of the meeting, (2) is entitled to vote at the meeting, and (3) has complied with this Article II, Section 7 in all applicable respects, or (B) properly made such proposal in 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”). The foregoing clause (ii) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to propose business to be brought before an annual meeting of the stockholders. Stockholders shall not be permitted to propose business to be brought before a special meeting of the stockholders, and the only matters that may be brought before a special meeting are the matters specified in the notice of meeting given by or at the direction of the person calling the meeting pursuant to Article II, Section 2. For purposes of this Article II, Section 7, “present in person” shall mean that the stockholder proposing that the business be brought before the annual meeting of the Corporation, or, if the proposing stockholder is not an individual, a qualified representative of such proposing stockholder, appear at such annual meeting. A “qualified representative” of such proposing stockholder shall be, if such proposing stockholder is (i) a general or limited partnership, any general partner or person who functions as a general partner of the general or limited partnership or who controls the general or limited partnership, (ii) a trust, any trustee of the trust, or (iii) a corporation, limited liability company or other entity, any officer or person who functions as an officer of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity or any officer, director, general partner or person who functions as an officer, director or general partner of any entity ultimately in control of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity. Stockholders seeking to nominate persons for election to the Board of Directors must comply with Article III, Sections 2 and 7, and this Article II, Section 7 shall not be applicable to nominations except as expressly provided in Article III, Sections 2 and 7. (b) In addition to any other applicable requirements, for business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder, the stockholder must (i) provide Timely Notice (as defined below) thereof in writing and in proper form to the Secretary of the Corporation and (ii) provide any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the forms required by this Article II, Section 7. To be timely, a stockholder’s notice must be delivered to, or mailed and received at, the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than 90 days nor more than 120 days prior to the one-year anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting; provided, however, that if the date of the annual meeting is more than 30 days before or after such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered, or mailed and received, not later than the 90th day prior to such annual meeting or, if later, the tenth day following the day on which public disclosure of the date of such annual meeting was first made (such notice within such time periods, “Timely Notice”). 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. (c) To be in proper form for purposes of this Article II, Section 7, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary shall set forth: (i) As to each Proposing Person (as defined below), (A) the name and address of such Proposing Person (including, if applicable, the name and address that appear on the Corporation’s books and records); and (B) the class or series and number of shares of the Corporation that are, directly or indirectly, owned of record or beneficially owned (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) by such Proposing Persons, except that such Proposing Person shall in all events be deemed to beneficially own any shares of any class or series of the Corporation as to which such Proposing Person has a right to acquire beneficial ownership at any time in the future (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (A) and (B) are referred to as “Stockholder Information”); (ii) As to each Proposing Person, (A) the full notional amount of any securities that, directly or indirectly, underlie any “derivative security” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(c) under the Exchange Act) that constitutes a “call equivalent position” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(b) under the Exchange Act) (“Synthetic Equity Position”) and that is, directly or indirectly, held or maintained by such Proposing Person with respect to any shares of any class or series of shares of the Corporation; provided that, for the purposes of the definition of “Synthetic Equity Position,” the term “derivative security” shall also include any security or instrument that would not otherwise constitute a “derivative security” as a result of any feature that would make any conversion, exercise or similar right or privilege of such security or instrument becoming determinable only at some future date or upon the happening of a future occurrence, in which case the determination of the amount of securities into which such security or instrument would be convertible or exercisable shall be made assuming that such security or instrument is immediately convertible or exercisable at the time of such determination; and, provided, further, that any Proposing Person satisfying the requirements of Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act (other than a Proposing Person that so satisfies Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act solely by reason of Rule 13d-1(b)(1)(ii)(E)) shall not be deemed to hold or maintain the notional amount of any securities that underlie a Synthetic Equity Position held by such Proposing Person as a hedge with respect to a bona fide derivatives trade or position of such Proposing Person arising in the ordinary course of such Proposing Person’s business as a derivatives dealer, (B) any rights to dividends on the shares of any class or series of shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such Proposing Person that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (C)(x) if such Proposing Person is (i) a general or limited partnership, syndicate or other group, the identity of each general partner and each person who functions as a general partner of the general or limited partnership, each member of the syndicate or group and each person controlling the general partner or member, a trust, any trustee of the trust, or (iii) a corporation, limited liability company or other entity, the identity of each officer and each person who functions as an officer of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity, each person controlling the corporation, limited liability company or other entity, and each officer, director, general partner and person who functions as an officer, director or general partner of any entity ultimately in control of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity (each such person or persons set forth in the preceding clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), a “Responsible Person”), any fiduciary duties owed by such Responsible Person to the equity holders or other beneficiaries of such Proposing Person and any material interests or relationships of such Responsible Person that are not shared generally by other record or beneficial holders of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation and that reasonably could have influenced the decision of such Proposing Person to propose such business to be brought before the meeting, and (y) if such Proposing Person is a natural person, any material interests or relationships of such natural person that are not shared generally by other record or beneficial holders of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation and that reasonably could have influenced the decision of such Proposing Person to propose such business to be brought before the meeting, (D) any material shares or any Synthetic Equity Position in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such Proposing Persons, (E) a summary of any material discussions regarding the business proposed to be brought before the meeting (1) between or among any of the Proposing Persons or (2) between or among any Proposing Person and any other record or beneficial holder of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation (including their names), (F) any material pending or threatened legal proceeding in which such Proposing Person is a party or material participant involving the Corporation or any of its Officers or Directors, or any affiliate of the Corporation, (G) any other material relationship between such Proposing Person, on the one hand, and the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation, on the other hand, (H) any direct or indirect material interest in any material contract or agreement of such Proposing Person 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) and (I) any other information relating to such Proposing Person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies or consents by such Proposing Person in support of the business proposed to be brought before the meeting pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (A) through (I) 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; and (iii) As to each item of business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting, (A) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the annual meeting, the reasons for conducting such business at the annual meeting and any material interest in such business of each Proposing Person, (B) the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration), (C) a reasonably detailed description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings (x) between or among any of the Proposing Persons or (y) between or among any Proposing Person and any other person or entity (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; and (D) any other information relating to such item of business that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies in support of the business proposed to be brought before the meeting pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act; provided, however, that the disclosures required by this paragraph (iii) shall not include any disclosures with respect to 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.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Merger Agreement (Us Airways Group Inc), Merger Agreement (Amr Corp)

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Nature of Business at Meetings of Stockholders. No business may be transacted at an Annual Meeting of Stockholders, other than business that is either: (a) 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, business must be (i) brought before the meeting by the Board of Directors and specified in a the notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) given by or at the direction of the Board of Directors (or any duly authorized committee thereof); (iib) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by a stockholder present in person who (A) (1) was a beneficial owner of shares of the Corporation both at the time of giving the notice provided for in this Article II, Section 7 and at the time of the meeting, (2) is entitled to vote at the meeting, and (3) has complied with this Article II, Section 7 in all applicable respects, or (B) properly made such proposal in 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”). The foregoing clause (ii) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to propose business to be brought before an annual meeting of the stockholders. Stockholders shall not be permitted to propose business to be brought before a special meeting of the stockholders, and the only matters that may be brought before a special meeting are the matters specified in the notice of meeting given Annual Meeting by or at the direction of the person calling the meeting pursuant to Article II, Section 2. For purposes Board of this Article II, Section 7, “present in person” shall mean that the stockholder proposing that the business be Directors (or any duly authorized committee thereof); or (c) otherwise properly brought before the annual meeting Annual Meeting by any stockholder of the Corporation, or, if the proposing stockholder is not an individual, a qualified representative of such proposing stockholder, appear at such annual meeting. A “qualified representative” of such proposing stockholder shall be, if such proposing stockholder is : (i) who is a general or limited partnership, any general partner or person who functions as a general partner stockholder of record on the date of giving of the general or limited partnership or who controls notice provided for in this Section 8 and on the general or limited partnership, record for the determination of stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such Annual Meeting; and (ii) a trust, any trustee of who complies with the trust, or (iii) a corporation, limited liability company or other entity, any officer or person who functions as an officer of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity or any officer, director, general partner or person who functions as an officer, director or general partner of any entity ultimately notice procedures set forth in control of the corporation, limited liability company or other entitythis Section 8. Stockholders seeking to nominate persons for election to the Board of Directors must comply with Article III, Sections 2 and 7, and this Article II, Section 7 shall not be applicable to nominations except as expressly provided in Article III, Sections 2 and 7. (b) In addition to any other applicable requirements, for business to be properly brought before an annual meeting Annual Meeting by a stockholder, the such stockholder must (i) provide Timely Notice (as defined below) have given timely notice thereof in writing and in proper written form to the Secretary of the Corporation and (ii) provide any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the forms required by this Article II, Section 7Corporation. To be timely, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary must be delivered to, to or mailed and received at, at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than 90 ninety (90) days nor more than 120 one hundred twenty (120) days prior to the one-year anniversary date of the immediately preceding year’s annual meetingAnnual Meeting of Stockholders; provided, however, that if in the event that the Annual Meeting is called for a date of the annual meeting that is more than 30 not within thirty (30) days before or after such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder in order to be timely must be so delivered, or mailed and received, received not later than the 90th day prior to such annual meeting or, if later, close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the day on which such notice of the date of the Annual Meeting was mailed or such public disclosure of the date of such annual meeting the Annual Meeting was made, whichever first made (such notice within such time periods, “Timely Notice”)occurs. 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. (c) To be in proper form for purposes of this Article II, Section 7written form, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary shall must set forth: forth as to each matter such stockholder proposes to bring before the Annual Meeting: (i) As to each Proposing Person (as defined below), (A) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the Annual Meeting, the reasons for conducting such business at the Annual Meeting and any material interest of such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, in such business, and (B) the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and, in the event that such proposal or business includes a proposal to amend the By-Laws of the Corporation, the text of the proposed amendment); (ii) the name and address of such Proposing Person (includingstockholder, if applicable, the name and address that as they appear on the Corporation’s books books, of such beneficial owner, if any, and records)of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; and (Biii) (A) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation that are, directly which are owned beneficially or indirectly, owned of record or beneficially owned (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) by such Proposing Personsstockholder, except that such Proposing Person shall beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in all events be deemed 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 beneficially own any shares of any class or series of shares of the Corporation as to which such Proposing Person has or with a right to acquire beneficial ownership at any time value derived in whole or in part from the future (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (A) and (B) are referred to as “Stockholder Information”); (ii) As to each Proposing Person, (A) the full notional amount of any securities that, directly or indirectly, underlie any “derivative security” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(c) under the Exchange Act) that constitutes a “call equivalent position” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(b) under the Exchange Act) (“Synthetic Equity Position”) and that is, directly or indirectly, held or maintained by such Proposing Person with respect to any shares value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation; provided that, for or any derivative or synthetic arrangement having the purposes characteristics of a long position in any class or series of shares of the definition Corporation, or any contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of “Synthetic Equity Position,” transactions designed to produce economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially to the term “derivative security” 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 also include be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of shares 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, if any, or any security affiliates or instrument associates or others acting in concert therewith, may have entered into transactions that would not otherwise constitute 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 (any of the foregoing, a “derivative securityDerivative Instrument”) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder, the beneficial owner, if any, or any affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, (C) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder has a right to vote any class or series of shares of the Corporation, (D) any agreement, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, including any repurchase or similar so-called “stock borrowingas a result agreement or arrangement, involving such stockholder, directly or indirectly, the purpose or effect of which is to mitigate loss to, reduce the economic risk (of ownership or otherwise) of any feature that would make any conversion, exercise class or similar right or privilege of such security or instrument becoming determinable only at some future date or upon the happening of a future occurrence, in which case the determination series of the amount shares of securities into which the Corporation by, manage the risk of share price changes for, or increase or decrease the voting power of, such security or instrument would be convertible or exercisable shall be made assuming that such security or instrument is immediately convertible or exercisable at the time of such determination; and, provided, further, that any Proposing Person satisfying the requirements of Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act (other than a Proposing Person that so satisfies Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act solely by reason of Rule 13d-1(b)(1)(ii)(E)) shall not be deemed to hold or maintain the notional amount of any securities that underlie a Synthetic Equity Position held by such Proposing Person as a hedge stockholder with respect to a bona fide derivatives trade any class or position series of such Proposing Person arising the shares of the Corporation, or which provides, directly or indirectly, the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the ordinary course price or value of such Proposing Person’s business as any class or series of the shares of the Corporation (any of the foregoing, a derivatives dealer“Short Interest”), (BE) any rights to dividends on the shares of any class or series of shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such Proposing Person stockholder that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (C)(xF) if any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such Proposing Person stockholder is (i) a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner of such general or limited partnership, syndicate (G) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such stockholder is entitled to based on any increase or other group, the identity of each general partner and each person who functions as a general partner of the general or limited partnership, each member of the syndicate or group and each person controlling the general partner or member, a trust, any trustee of the trust, or (iii) a corporation, limited liability company or other entity, the identity of each officer and each person who functions as an officer of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity, each person controlling the corporation, limited liability company or other entity, and each officer, director, general partner and person who functions as an officer, director or general partner of any entity ultimately in control of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity (each such person or persons set forth decrease in the preceding clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), a “Responsible Person”), any fiduciary duties owed by such Responsible Person to the equity holders or other beneficiaries value of such Proposing Person and any material interests or relationships of such Responsible Person that are not shared generally by other record or beneficial holders of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation and that reasonably could have influenced the decision or Derivative Instruments, if any, including without limitation any such interests held by members of such Proposing Person to propose such business to be brought before stockholder’s immediate family sharing the meetingsame household, and (yH) if such Proposing Person is a natural person, any material significant equity interests or relationships of such natural person that are not shared generally by other record any Derivative Instruments or beneficial holders of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation and that reasonably could have influenced the decision of such Proposing Person to propose such business to be brought before the meeting, (D) any material shares or any Synthetic Equity Position Short Interests in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such Proposing Persons, (E) a summary of any material discussions regarding the business proposed to be brought before the meeting (1) between or among any of the Proposing Persons or (2) between or among any Proposing Person and any other record or beneficial holder of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation (including their names), (F) any material pending or threatened legal proceeding in which such Proposing Person is a party or material participant involving the Corporation or any of its Officers or Directors, or any affiliate of the Corporation, (G) any other material relationship between such Proposing Person, on the one handstockholder, and the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation, on the other hand, (HI) any direct or indirect material interest of such stockholder in any material contract or agreement of such Proposing Person 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) and (I) any other information relating to such Proposing Person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies or consents by such Proposing Person in support of the business proposed to be brought before the meeting pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (A) through (I) 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; and (iii) As to each item of business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting, (Aiv) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the annual meeting, the reasons for conducting such business at the annual meeting and any material interest in such business of each Proposing Person, (B) the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration), (C) a reasonably detailed description of all agreementsarrangements or understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, arrangements and understandings (x) between or among any of the Proposing Persons or (y) between or among any Proposing Person if any, and any other person or entity persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholderstockholder and any material interests of such stockholder in such business; and (Dv) any other information relating to such item of business stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement and form or proxy or other filing filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of directors in support a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; and (vi) a representation that such stockholder intends to appear in person or by proxy at the Annual Meeting to bring such business proposed to before the meeting. No business shall be conducted at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders except business brought before the meeting pursuant to Annual Meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act8; provided, however, that, once business has been properly brought before the Annual Meeting in accordance with such procedures, nothing in this Section 8 shall be deemed to preclude discussion by any stockholder of any such business. If the Chairman of an Annual Meeting determines that business was not properly brought before the Annual Meeting in accordance with the foregoing procedures, the Chairman shall declare to the meeting that the disclosures required by this paragraph (iii) business was not properly brought before the meeting and such business shall not include any disclosures with respect to 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 ownerbe transacted.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Merger Agreement (Knight Capital Group, Inc.), Merger Agreement (GETCO Holding Company, LLC)

Nature of Business at Meetings of Stockholders. (a) At an annual No business may be transacted at any special meeting of the stockholders, only such other than business shall be conducted as shall have been properly brought before the meeting. To be properly brought before an annual meeting, business must be that is (ia) brought before the meeting by the Board of Directors and specified in a the notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) given by or at the direction of the Board (or any duly authorized committee thereof), or the Chief Executive Officer or Chairman of Directors the Board or (iib) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by a stockholder present in person who (A) (1) was a beneficial owner of shares or at the direction of the Corporation both at Board (or any duly authorized committee thereof), the time of giving the notice provided for in this Article II, Section 7 and at the time Chairman of the meeting, (2) is entitled to vote at the meeting, and (3) has complied with this Article II, Section 7 in all applicable respectsBoard, or the Chief Executive Officer. (Bb) properly made such proposal in 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”). The foregoing clause (ii) shall No business may be the exclusive means for a stockholder to propose business to be brought before an transacted at any annual meeting of the stockholders. Stockholders shall not be permitted to propose business to be brought before a special meeting of the stockholders, and the only matters other than business that may be brought before a special meeting are the matters is (a) specified in the notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) given by or at the direction of the person calling Board (or any duly authorized committee thereof), (b) otherwise properly brought before the meeting pursuant to Article IIby or at the direction of the Board (or any duly authorized committee thereof), Section 2. For purposes the Chairman of this Article IIthe Board, Section 7or the Chief Executive Officer, “present in person” shall mean that the stockholder proposing that the business be or (c) otherwise properly brought before the annual meeting by any stockholder of the Corporation, or, if Corporation (i) who is a stockholder of record on the proposing stockholder is not an individual, a qualified representative date of such proposing stockholder, appear the giving of the notice provided for in this Section 1.10 and on the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to vote at such annual meeting. A “qualified representative” of such proposing stockholder shall be, if such proposing stockholder is (i) a general or limited partnership, any general partner or person who functions as a general partner of the general or limited partnership or who controls the general or limited partnership, meeting and (ii) a trust, any trustee of who complies with the trust, or (iii) a corporation, limited liability company or other entity, any officer or person who functions as an officer of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity or any officer, director, general partner or person who functions as an officer, director or general partner of any entity ultimately notice procedures set forth in control of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity. Stockholders seeking to nominate persons for election to the Board of Directors must comply with Article III, Sections 2 and 7, and this Article II, Section 7 shall not be applicable to nominations except as expressly provided in Article III, Sections 2 and 71.10. (bc) In addition to any other applicable requirements, for business to be properly brought by a stockholder before an annual meeting by a stockholdermeeting, the such stockholder must (i) provide Timely Notice (as defined below) have given timely notice thereof in writing and in proper written form to the Secretary of the Corporation and Corporation. (iid) provide any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the forms required by this Article II, Section 7. To be timely, a stockholder’s 's notice to the Secretary must be delivered to, to or mailed and received at, at the principal executive offices of the Corporation Corporation's corporate headquarters not less than 90 ninety (90) days nor more than 120 one hundred twenty (120) days prior to the one-year anniversary date of the immediately preceding year’s annual meetingmeeting of stockholders; provided, however, that if in the date of event that the annual meeting is more than 30 called for a date that is not within thirty (30) days before or after such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder in order to be timely must be so delivered, or mailed and received, received not later than the 90th day prior to such annual meeting or, if later, close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the day on which notice of the date of the annual meeting was mailed or public disclosure of the date of such the annual meeting was made, whichever first made (such notice within such time periods, “Timely Notice”). 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 aboveoccurs. (ce) To be in proper form for purposes of this Article II, Section 7written form, a stockholder’s 's notice to the Secretary shall must set forth: (i) As forth as to each Proposing Person (as defined below), (A) the name and address of matter such Proposing Person (including, if applicable, the name and address that appear on the Corporation’s books and records); and (B) the class or series and number of shares of the Corporation that are, directly or indirectly, owned of record or beneficially owned (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) by such Proposing Persons, except that such Proposing Person shall in all events be deemed to beneficially own any shares of any class or series of the Corporation as to which such Proposing Person has a right to acquire beneficial ownership at any time in the future (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (A) and (B) are referred to as “Stockholder Information”); (ii) As to each Proposing Person, (A) the full notional amount of any securities that, directly or indirectly, underlie any “derivative security” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(c) under the Exchange Act) that constitutes a “call equivalent position” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(b) under the Exchange Act) (“Synthetic Equity Position”) and that is, directly or indirectly, held or maintained by such Proposing Person with respect to any shares of any class or series of shares of the Corporation; provided that, for the purposes of the definition of “Synthetic Equity Position,” the term “derivative security” shall also include any security or instrument that would not otherwise constitute a “derivative security” as a result of any feature that would make any conversion, exercise or similar right or privilege of such security or instrument becoming determinable only at some future date or upon the happening of a future occurrence, in which case the determination of the amount of securities into which such security or instrument would be convertible or exercisable shall be made assuming that such security or instrument is immediately convertible or exercisable at the time of such determination; and, provided, further, that any Proposing Person satisfying the requirements of Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act (other than a Proposing Person that so satisfies Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act solely by reason of Rule 13d-1(b)(1)(ii)(E)) shall not be deemed to hold or maintain the notional amount of any securities that underlie a Synthetic Equity Position held by such Proposing Person as a hedge with respect to a bona fide derivatives trade or position of such Proposing Person arising in the ordinary course of such Proposing Person’s business as a derivatives dealer, (B) any rights to dividends on the shares of any class or series of shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such Proposing Person that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (C)(x) if such Proposing Person is (i) a general or limited partnership, syndicate or other group, the identity of each general partner and each person who functions as a general partner of the general or limited partnership, each member of the syndicate or group and each person controlling the general partner or member, a trust, any trustee of the trust, or (iii) a corporation, limited liability company or other entity, the identity of each officer and each person who functions as an officer of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity, each person controlling the corporation, limited liability company or other entity, and each officer, director, general partner and person who functions as an officer, director or general partner of any entity ultimately in control of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity (each such person or persons set forth in the preceding clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), a “Responsible Person”), any fiduciary duties owed by such Responsible Person to the equity holders or other beneficiaries of such Proposing Person and any material interests or relationships of such Responsible Person that are not shared generally by other record or beneficial holders of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation and that reasonably could have influenced the decision of such Proposing Person to propose such business to be brought before the meeting, and (y) if such Proposing Person is a natural person, any material interests or relationships of such natural person that are not shared generally by other record or beneficial holders of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation and that reasonably could have influenced the decision of such Proposing Person to propose such business to be brought before the meeting, (D) any material shares or any Synthetic Equity Position in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such Proposing Persons, (E) a summary of any material discussions regarding the business proposed to be brought before the meeting (1) between or among any of the Proposing Persons or (2) between or among any Proposing Person and any other record or beneficial holder of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation (including their names), (F) any material pending or threatened legal proceeding in which such Proposing Person is a party or material participant involving the Corporation or any of its Officers or Directors, or any affiliate of the Corporation, (G) any other material relationship between such Proposing Person, on the one hand, and the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation, on the other hand, (H) any direct or indirect material interest in any material contract or agreement of such Proposing Person 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) and (I) any other information relating to such Proposing Person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies or consents by such Proposing Person in support of the business proposed to be brought before the meeting pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (A) through (I) 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; and (iii) As to each item of business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting, meeting of stockholders (Aa) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the annual meeting, meeting and the reasons for conducting such business at the annual meeting and any material interest in such business of each Proposing Personmeeting, (Bb) the text name and record address of such stockholder, (c) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock of the proposal Corporation which are owned beneficially or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration)record by such stockholder, (Cd) a reasonably detailed description of all agreements, arrangements and or understandings (x) between or among any of the Proposing Persons or (y) between or among any Proposing Person such stockholder and any other person or entity persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; stockholder and any material interest of such stockholder in such business and (De) a representation that such stockholder intends to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to bring such business before the meeting. (f) No business shall be conducted at the annual meeting, or at any other information relating to such item special meeting, of stockholders except business that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies in support of the business proposed to be brought before the meeting pursuant in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 1.10. If the chairman of any meeting determines that business was not properly brought before the meeting in accordance with the foregoing procedures, the chairman shall declare to Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act; provided, however, meeting that the disclosures required by this paragraph (iii) business was not properly brought before the meeting and such business shall not include any disclosures with respect to 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 ownerbe transacted.

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Samples: Revolving Credit and Security Agreement (Neogenomics Inc), Revolving Credit and Security Agreement (Neogenomics Inc)

Nature of Business at Meetings of Stockholders. (a) At No business may be transacted at an annual meeting of the stockholders, only such other than business shall be conducted as shall have been properly brought before the meeting. To be properly brought before an annual meeting, business must be that is either (ia) brought before the meeting by the Board of Directors and specified in a the notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) given by or at the direction of the Board of Directors (or any duly authorized committee thereof), (iib) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by a stockholder present in person who (A) (1) was a beneficial owner of shares of the Corporation both at the time of giving the notice provided for in this Article II, Section 7 and at the time of the meeting, (2) is entitled to vote at the meeting, and (3) has complied with this Article II, Section 7 in all applicable respects, or (B) properly made such proposal in 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”). The foregoing clause (ii) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to propose business to be brought before an annual meeting of the stockholders. Stockholders shall not be permitted to propose business to be brought before a special meeting of the stockholders, and the only matters that may be brought before a special meeting are the matters specified in the notice of meeting given by or at the direction of the person calling the meeting pursuant to Article II, Section 2. For purposes Board of this Article II, Section 7, “present in person” shall mean that the stockholder proposing that the business be Directors (or any duly authorized committee thereof) or (c) otherwise properly brought before the annual meeting by any stockholder of the Corporation, or, if Company (i) who is a stockholder of record on the proposing stockholder is not an individual, a qualified representative date of such proposing stockholder, appear the giving of the notice provided for in this Section 6 and on the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to vote at such annual meeting. A “qualified representative” of such proposing stockholder shall be, if such proposing stockholder is (i) a general or limited partnership, any general partner or person who functions as a general partner of the general or limited partnership or who controls the general or limited partnership, meeting and (ii) a trust, any trustee of who complies with the trust, or (iii) a corporation, limited liability company or other entity, any officer or person who functions as an officer of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity or any officer, director, general partner or person who functions as an officer, director or general partner of any entity ultimately notice procedures set forth in control of the corporation, limited liability company or other entitythis Section 6. Stockholders seeking to nominate persons for election to the Board of Directors must comply with Article III, Sections 2 and 7, and this Article II, Section 7 shall not be applicable to nominations except as expressly provided in Article III, Sections 2 and 7. (b) In addition to any other applicable requirements, for business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder, the such stockholder must (i) provide Timely Notice (as defined below) have given timely notice thereof in writing and in proper written form to the Secretary of the Corporation and (ii) provide any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the forms required by this Article II, Section 7Company. To be timely, a stockholder’s 's notice to the Secretary must be delivered to, to or mailed and received at, at the principal executive offices of the Corporation Company not less than 90 sixty (60) days nor more than 120 ninety (90) days prior to the one-year anniversary date of the immediately preceding year’s annual meetingmeeting of stockholders; provided, however, that if in the date of event that the annual meeting is more than 30 called for a date that is not within thirty (30) days before or after such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder in order to be timely must be so delivered, or mailed and received, received not later than the 90th day prior to such annual meeting or, if later, close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the day on which such notice of the date of the annual meeting was mailed or such public disclosure of the date of such the annual meeting was made, whichever first made (such notice within such time periods, “Timely Notice”)occurs. 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. (c) To be in proper form for purposes of this Article II, Section 7written form, a stockholder’s 's notice to the Secretary shall must set forth: (i) As forth as to each Proposing Person (as defined below), (A) the name and address of matter such Proposing Person (including, if applicable, the name and address that appear on the Corporation’s books and records); and (B) the class or series and number of shares of the Corporation that are, directly or indirectly, owned of record or beneficially owned (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) by such Proposing Persons, except that such Proposing Person shall in all events be deemed to beneficially own any shares of any class or series of the Corporation as to which such Proposing Person has a right to acquire beneficial ownership at any time in the future (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (A) and (B) are referred to as “Stockholder Information”); (ii) As to each Proposing Person, (A) the full notional amount of any securities that, directly or indirectly, underlie any “derivative security” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(c) under the Exchange Act) that constitutes a “call equivalent position” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(b) under the Exchange Act) (“Synthetic Equity Position”) and that is, directly or indirectly, held or maintained by such Proposing Person with respect to any shares of any class or series of shares of the Corporation; provided that, for the purposes of the definition of “Synthetic Equity Position,” the term “derivative security” shall also include any security or instrument that would not otherwise constitute a “derivative security” as a result of any feature that would make any conversion, exercise or similar right or privilege of such security or instrument becoming determinable only at some future date or upon the happening of a future occurrence, in which case the determination of the amount of securities into which such security or instrument would be convertible or exercisable shall be made assuming that such security or instrument is immediately convertible or exercisable at the time of such determination; and, provided, further, that any Proposing Person satisfying the requirements of Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act (other than a Proposing Person that so satisfies Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act solely by reason of Rule 13d-1(b)(1)(ii)(E)) shall not be deemed to hold or maintain the notional amount of any securities that underlie a Synthetic Equity Position held by such Proposing Person as a hedge with respect to a bona fide derivatives trade or position of such Proposing Person arising in the ordinary course of such Proposing Person’s business as a derivatives dealer, (B) any rights to dividends on the shares of any class or series of shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such Proposing Person that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (C)(x) if such Proposing Person is (i) a general or limited partnership, syndicate or other group, the identity of each general partner and each person who functions as a general partner of the general or limited partnership, each member of the syndicate or group and each person controlling the general partner or member, a trust, any trustee of the trust, or (iii) a corporation, limited liability company or other entity, the identity of each officer and each person who functions as an officer of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity, each person controlling the corporation, limited liability company or other entity, and each officer, director, general partner and person who functions as an officer, director or general partner of any entity ultimately in control of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity (each such person or persons set forth in the preceding clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), a “Responsible Person”), any fiduciary duties owed by such Responsible Person to the equity holders or other beneficiaries of such Proposing Person and any material interests or relationships of such Responsible Person that are not shared generally by other record or beneficial holders of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation and that reasonably could have influenced the decision of such Proposing Person to propose such business to be brought before the meeting, and (y) if such Proposing Person is a natural person, any material interests or relationships of such natural person that are not shared generally by other record or beneficial holders of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation and that reasonably could have influenced the decision of such Proposing Person to propose such business to be brought before the meeting, (D) any material shares or any Synthetic Equity Position in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such Proposing Persons, (E) a summary of any material discussions regarding the business proposed to be brought before the meeting (1) between or among any of the Proposing Persons or (2) between or among any Proposing Person and any other record or beneficial holder of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation (including their names), (F) any material pending or threatened legal proceeding in which such Proposing Person is a party or material participant involving the Corporation or any of its Officers or Directors, or any affiliate of the Corporation, (G) any other material relationship between such Proposing Person, on the one hand, and the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation, on the other hand, (H) any direct or indirect material interest in any material contract or agreement of such Proposing Person 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) and (I) any other information relating to such Proposing Person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies or consents by such Proposing Person in support of the business proposed to be brought before the meeting pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (A) through (I) 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; and (iii) As to each item of business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting, meeting (Ai) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the annual meeting, meeting and the reasons for conducting such business at the annual meeting and any material interest in such business of each Proposing Personmeeting, (Bii) the text name and record address of such stockholder, (iii) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock of the proposal Company which are owned beneficially or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration)record by such stockholder, (Civ) a reasonably detailed description of all agreements, arrangements and or understandings (x) between or among any of the Proposing Persons or (y) between or among any Proposing Person such stockholder and any other person or entity persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; stockholder and any material interest of such stockholder in such business and (Dv) a representation that such stockholder intends to appear in person or by proxy at the annual meeting to bring such business before the meeting. Once business has been properly brought before the annual meeting in accordance with the procedures in this Section 6, nothing in this Section 6 shall be deemed to preclude discussion by any other information relating stockholder of any such business. If the Chairman of an annual meeting determines that business was not properly brought before the annual meeting in accordance with the foregoing procedures, the Chairman shall declare to such item of business the meeting that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies in support of the business proposed to be was not properly brought before the meeting pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act; provided, however, that the disclosures required by this paragraph (iii) and such business shall not include any disclosures with respect to 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 ownerbe transacted.

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Samples: Securities Purchase Agreement (Pinnacle Holdings Inc)

Nature of Business at Meetings of Stockholders. Only such business (other than nominations for election to the Board of Directors, which must comply with the provisions of Section 6 of this Article II) may be transacted at an Annual Meeting of Stockholders as is either (a) 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, business must be (i) brought before the meeting by the Board of Directors and specified in a the notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) given by or at the direction of the Board of Directors (or any duly authorized committee thereof), (iib) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by a stockholder present in person who (A) (1) was a beneficial owner of shares of the Corporation both at the time of giving the notice provided for in this Article II, Section 7 and at the time of the meeting, (2) is entitled to vote at the meeting, and (3) has complied with this Article II, Section 7 in all applicable respects, or (B) properly made such proposal in 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”). The foregoing clause (ii) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to propose business to be brought before an annual meeting of the stockholders. Stockholders shall not be permitted to propose business to be brought before a special meeting of the stockholders, and the only matters that may be brought before a special meeting are the matters specified in the notice of meeting given Annual Meeting by or at the direction of the person calling Board of Directors (or any duly authorized committee thereof), or (c) otherwise properly brought before the meeting pursuant Annual Meeting by any stockholder of the Corporation (i) who is a stockholder of record on the date of the giving of the notice provided for in this Section 5 of this Article II and on the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to Article II, notice of and to vote at such Annual Meeting and (ii) who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2. For purposes 5 of this Article II, Section 7, “present in person” shall mean that the stockholder proposing that the business be brought before the annual meeting of the Corporation, or, if the proposing stockholder is not an individual, a qualified representative of such proposing stockholder, appear at such annual meeting. A “qualified representative” of such proposing stockholder shall be, if such proposing stockholder is (i) a general or limited partnership, any general partner or person who functions as a general partner of the general or limited partnership or who controls the general or limited partnership, (ii) a trust, any trustee of the trust, or (iii) a corporation, limited liability company or other entity, any officer or person who functions as an officer of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity or any officer, director, general partner or person who functions as an officer, director or general partner of any entity ultimately in control of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity. Stockholders seeking to nominate persons for election to the Board of Directors must comply with Article III, Sections 2 and 7, and this Article II, Section 7 shall not be applicable to nominations except as expressly provided in Article III, Sections 2 and 7. (b) In addition to any other applicable requirements, for business to be properly brought before an annual meeting Annual Meeting by a stockholder, such business must be a proper subject for stockholder action under the laws of the State of Delaware and such stockholder must (i) provide Timely Notice (as defined below) have given timely notice thereof in writing and in proper written form to the Secretary of the Corporation and (ii) provide any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the forms required by this Article II, Section 7Corporation. To be timely, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary must be delivered to, to or be mailed and received at, at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than 90 ninety (90) days nor more than 120 one hundred twenty (120) days prior to the one-year anniversary date of the immediately preceding year’s annual meeting; Annual Meeting; provided, however, subject to the last sentence of this paragraph, that if in the event that the Annual Meeting is called for a date of the annual meeting that is more than 30 not within thirty (30) days before or after such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder in order to be timely must be so delivered, or mailed and received, received not later than the 90th day prior to such annual meeting or, if later, close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the day on which such notice of the date of the Annual Meeting was mailed or such public disclosure of the date of such annual meeting the Annual Meeting was made, whichever first made (such notice within such time periods, “Timely Notice”)occurs. In no event shall any the adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting Annual Meeting, or the public announcement thereof of such an adjournment or postponement, commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of Timely Notice a stockholder’s notice as described above. (c) . To be in proper form for purposes of this Article II, Section 7written form, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary shall must set forth: forth the following information: (a) as to each matter such stockholder proposes to bring before the Annual Meeting, a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the Annual Meeting and the reasons for conducting such business at the Annual Meeting, and (b) as to the stockholder giving notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is being made, (i) As to each Proposing Person (as defined below), (A) the name and address of such Proposing Person person, (including, if applicable, the name and address that appear on the Corporation’s books and records); and ii) (BA) the class or series and number of all shares of stock of the Corporation that are, directly which are owned beneficially or indirectly, owned of record or beneficially owned (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) by such Proposing Persons, except that such Proposing Person shall in all events be deemed to beneficially own person and any shares of any class affiliates or series of the Corporation as to which such Proposing Person has a right to acquire beneficial ownership at any time in the future (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (A) and (B) are referred to as “Stockholder Information”); (ii) As to each Proposing Person, (A) the full notional amount of any securities that, directly or indirectly, underlie any “derivative security” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(c) under the Exchange Act) that constitutes a “call equivalent position” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(b) under the Exchange Act) (“Synthetic Equity Position”) and that is, directly or indirectly, held or maintained by such Proposing Person with respect to any shares of any class or series of shares of the Corporation; provided that, for the purposes of the definition of “Synthetic Equity Position,” the term “derivative security” shall also include any security or instrument that would not otherwise constitute a “derivative security” as a result of any feature that would make any conversion, exercise or similar right or privilege associates of such security or instrument becoming determinable only at some future date or upon the happening of a future occurrence, in which case the determination of the amount of securities into which such security or instrument would be convertible or exercisable shall be made assuming that such security or instrument is immediately convertible or exercisable at the time of such determination; and, provided, further, that any Proposing Person satisfying the requirements of Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act (other than a Proposing Person that so satisfies Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act solely by reason of Rule 13d-1(b)(1)(ii)(E)) shall not be deemed to hold or maintain the notional amount of any securities that underlie a Synthetic Equity Position held by such Proposing Person as a hedge with respect to a bona fide derivatives trade or position of such Proposing Person arising in the ordinary course of such Proposing Person’s business as a derivatives dealerperson, (B) any rights to dividends on the name of each nominee holder of shares of any class or series of shares all stock of the Corporation owned beneficially but not of record by such Proposing Person that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (C)(x) if such Proposing Person is (i) a general or limited partnership, syndicate or other group, the identity of each general partner and each person who functions as a general partner of the general or limited partnership, each member of the syndicate or group and each person controlling the general partner or member, a trust, any trustee of the trust, or (iii) a corporation, limited liability company or other entity, the identity of each officer and each person who functions as an officer of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity, each person controlling the corporation, limited liability company or other entity, and each officer, director, general partner and person who functions as an officer, director or general partner of any entity ultimately in control of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity (each such person or persons set forth in the preceding clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), a “Responsible Person”), any fiduciary duties owed by such Responsible Person to the equity holders affiliates or other beneficiaries associates of such Proposing Person person, and any material interests or relationships the number of such Responsible Person that are not shared generally by other record or beneficial holders of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation and that reasonably could have influenced the decision of such Proposing Person to propose such business to be brought before the meeting, and (y) if such Proposing Person is a natural person, any material interests or relationships of such natural person that are not shared generally by other record or beneficial holders of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation and that reasonably could have influenced the decision of such Proposing Person to propose such business to be brought before the meeting, (D) any material shares or any Synthetic Equity Position in any principal competitor stock of the Corporation held by each such Proposing Personsnominee holder, (EC) whether and the extent to which any derivative instrument, swap, option, warrant, short interest, hedge or profit interest or other transaction has been entered into by or on behalf of such person, or any affiliates or associates of such person, with respect to stock of the Corporation and (D) whether and the extent to which any other transaction, agreement, arrangement or understanding (including any short position or any borrowing or lending of shares of stock of the Corporation) has been made by or on behalf of such person, or any affiliates or associates of such person, the effect or intent of any of the foregoing being to mitigate loss to, or to manage risk or benefit of stock price changes for, such person, or any affiliates or associates of such person, or to increase or decrease the voting power or pecuniary or economic interest of such person, or any affiliates or associates of such person, with respect to stock of the Corporation; (iii) a summary description of any material discussions regarding the business proposed to be brought before the meeting all agreements, arrangements, or understandings (1whether written or oral) between or among such person, or any affiliates or associates of the Proposing Persons or (2) between or among any Proposing Person such person, and any other record person or beneficial holder of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation persons (including their names), (F) in connection with the proposal of such business and any material pending or threatened legal proceeding in which interest of such Proposing Person is a party or material participant involving the Corporation person or any affiliates or associates of its Officers or Directorssuch person, in such business, including any anticipated benefit therefrom to such person, or any affiliate affiliates or associates of the Corporationsuch person, (Giv) any other material relationship between a representation that the stockholder giving notice intends to appear in person or by proxy at the Annual Meeting to bring such Proposing Person, on business before the one hand, and the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation, on the other hand, (H) any direct or indirect material interest in any material contract or agreement of such Proposing Person 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) Annual Meeting; and (Iv) any other information relating to such Proposing Person person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with solicitations a contested solicitation of proxies or consents by such Proposing Person in support person with respect to the proposed business to be brought by such person before the Annual Meeting pursuant to Section 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. A stockholder providing notice of business proposed to be brought before an Annual Meeting shall further update and supplement such notice, if necessary, so that the information provided or required to be provided in such notice pursuant to this Section 5 of this Article II shall be true and correct as of the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to receive notice of the Annual Meeting and such update and supplement shall be delivered to or be mailed and received by the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than five (5) business days after the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to receive notice of the Annual Meeting. No business shall be conducted at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders except business brought before the Annual Meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 5 of this Article II; provided, however that, once business has been properly brought before the Annual Meeting in accordance with such procedures, nothing in this Section 5 of this Article II shall be deemed to preclude discussion by any stockholder of any such business. If the Chairman of an Annual Meeting determines that business was not properly brought before the Annual Meeting in accordance with the foregoing procedures, the Chairman shall declare to the meeting that the business was not properly brought before the Annual Meeting and such business shall not be transacted. Nothing contained in this Section 5 of this Article II shall be deemed to affect any rights of stockholders to request inclusion of proposals in the Corporation’s proxy statement pursuant to Section 14(a) of Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (A) through (I) are referred to as “Disclosable Interests”or any successor provision of law); 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; and (iii) As to each item of business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting, (A) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the annual meeting, the reasons for conducting such business at the annual meeting and any material interest in such business of each Proposing Person, (B) the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration), (C) a reasonably detailed description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings (x) between or among any of the Proposing Persons or (y) between or among any Proposing Person and any other person or entity (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; and (D) any other information relating to such item of business that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies in support of the business proposed to be brought before the meeting pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act; provided, however, that the disclosures required by this paragraph (iii) shall not include any disclosures with respect to 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.

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Samples: Merger Agreement (Knight Transportation Inc)

Nature of Business at Meetings of Stockholders. (a) At No business may be transacted at an annual meeting of the stockholders, only such other than business shall be conducted as shall have been properly brought before the meeting. To be properly brought before an annual meeting, business must be that is either (ia) brought before the meeting by the Board of Directors and specified in a the notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) given by or at the direction of the Board of Directors (or any duly authorized committee thereof), (iib) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by a stockholder present in person who (A) (1) was a beneficial owner of shares of the Corporation both at the time of giving the notice provided for in this Article II, Section 7 and at the time of the meeting, (2) is entitled to vote at the meeting, and (3) has complied with this Article II, Section 7 in all applicable respects, or (B) properly made such proposal in 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”). The foregoing clause (ii) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to propose business to be brought before an annual meeting of the stockholders. Stockholders shall not be permitted to propose business to be brought before a special meeting of the stockholders, and the only matters that may be brought before a special meeting are the matters specified in the notice of meeting given by or at the direction of the person calling the meeting pursuant to Article II, Section 2. For purposes Board of this Article II, Section 7, “present in person” shall mean that the stockholder proposing that the business be Directors (or any duly authorized committee thereof) or (c) otherwise properly brought before the annual meeting by any stockholder of the Corporation, or, if Corporation (i) who is a stockholder of record on the proposing stockholder is not an individual, a qualified representative date of such proposing stockholder, appear the giving of the notice provided for in this Section 8 and on the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to vote at such annual meeting. A “qualified representative” of such proposing stockholder shall be, if such proposing stockholder is (i) a general or limited partnership, any general partner or person who functions as a general partner of the general or limited partnership or who controls the general or limited partnership, meeting and (ii) a trust, any trustee of who complies with the trust, or (iii) a corporation, limited liability company or other entity, any officer or person who functions as an officer of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity or any officer, director, general partner or person who functions as an officer, director or general partner of any entity ultimately notice procedures set forth in control of the corporation, limited liability company or other entitythis Section 8. Stockholders seeking to nominate persons for election to the Board of Directors must comply with Article III, Sections 2 and 7, and this Article II, Section 7 shall not be applicable to nominations except as expressly provided in Article III, Sections 2 and 7. (b) In addition to any other applicable requirements, for business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder, the such stockholder must (i) provide Timely Notice (as defined below) have given timely notice thereof in writing and in proper written form to the Secretary of the Corporation and (ii) provide any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the forms required by this Article II, Section 7Corporation. To be timely, a stockholder’s 's notice to the Secretary must be delivered to, to or mailed and received at, at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than 90 days nor more than 120 days prior to the one-year anniversary date of the immediately preceding year’s annual meetingmeeting of stockholders; provided, however, that if in the date of event that the annual meeting is more than called for a date that is not within 30 days before or after such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder in order to be timely must be so delivered, or mailed and received, received not later than the 90th day prior to such annual meeting or, if later, close of business on the tenth 10th day following the day on which such notice of the date of the annual meeting was mailed or such public disclosure of the date of such the annual meeting was made, whichever first made (such notice within such time periods, “Timely Notice”)occurs. 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. (c) To be in proper form for purposes of this Article II, Section 7written form, a stockholder’s 's notice to the Secretary shall must set forth: (i) As forth as to each Proposing Person (as defined below), (A) the name and address of matter such Proposing Person (including, if applicable, the name and address that appear on the Corporation’s books and records); and (B) the class or series and number of shares of the Corporation that are, directly or indirectly, owned of record or beneficially owned (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) by such Proposing Persons, except that such Proposing Person shall in all events be deemed to beneficially own any shares of any class or series of the Corporation as to which such Proposing Person has a right to acquire beneficial ownership at any time in the future (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (A) and (B) are referred to as “Stockholder Information”); (ii) As to each Proposing Person, (A) the full notional amount of any securities that, directly or indirectly, underlie any “derivative security” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(c) under the Exchange Act) that constitutes a “call equivalent position” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(b) under the Exchange Act) (“Synthetic Equity Position”) and that is, directly or indirectly, held or maintained by such Proposing Person with respect to any shares of any class or series of shares of the Corporation; provided that, for the purposes of the definition of “Synthetic Equity Position,” the term “derivative security” shall also include any security or instrument that would not otherwise constitute a “derivative security” as a result of any feature that would make any conversion, exercise or similar right or privilege of such security or instrument becoming determinable only at some future date or upon the happening of a future occurrence, in which case the determination of the amount of securities into which such security or instrument would be convertible or exercisable shall be made assuming that such security or instrument is immediately convertible or exercisable at the time of such determination; and, provided, further, that any Proposing Person satisfying the requirements of Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act (other than a Proposing Person that so satisfies Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act solely by reason of Rule 13d-1(b)(1)(ii)(E)) shall not be deemed to hold or maintain the notional amount of any securities that underlie a Synthetic Equity Position held by such Proposing Person as a hedge with respect to a bona fide derivatives trade or position of such Proposing Person arising in the ordinary course of such Proposing Person’s business as a derivatives dealer, (B) any rights to dividends on the shares of any class or series of shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such Proposing Person that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (C)(x) if such Proposing Person is (i) a general or limited partnership, syndicate or other group, the identity of each general partner and each person who functions as a general partner of the general or limited partnership, each member of the syndicate or group and each person controlling the general partner or member, a trust, any trustee of the trust, or (iii) a corporation, limited liability company or other entity, the identity of each officer and each person who functions as an officer of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity, each person controlling the corporation, limited liability company or other entity, and each officer, director, general partner and person who functions as an officer, director or general partner of any entity ultimately in control of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity (each such person or persons set forth in the preceding clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), a “Responsible Person”), any fiduciary duties owed by such Responsible Person to the equity holders or other beneficiaries of such Proposing Person and any material interests or relationships of such Responsible Person that are not shared generally by other record or beneficial holders of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation and that reasonably could have influenced the decision of such Proposing Person to propose such business to be brought before the meeting, and (y) if such Proposing Person is a natural person, any material interests or relationships of such natural person that are not shared generally by other record or beneficial holders of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation and that reasonably could have influenced the decision of such Proposing Person to propose such business to be brought before the meeting, (D) any material shares or any Synthetic Equity Position in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such Proposing Persons, (E) a summary of any material discussions regarding the business proposed to be brought before the meeting (1) between or among any of the Proposing Persons or (2) between or among any Proposing Person and any other record or beneficial holder of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation (including their names), (F) any material pending or threatened legal proceeding in which such Proposing Person is a party or material participant involving the Corporation or any of its Officers or Directors, or any affiliate of the Corporation, (G) any other material relationship between such Proposing Person, on the one hand, and the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation, on the other hand, (H) any direct or indirect material interest in any material contract or agreement of such Proposing Person 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) and (I) any other information relating to such Proposing Person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies or consents by such Proposing Person in support of the business proposed to be brought before the meeting pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (A) through (I) 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; and (iii) As to each item of business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting, meeting (Ai) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the annual meeting, meeting and the reasons for conducting such business at the annual meeting and any material interest in such business of each Proposing Personmeeting, (Bii) the text name and record address of such stockholder, (iii) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock of the proposal Corporation which are owned beneficially or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration)record by such stockholder, (Civ) a reasonably detailed description of all agreements, arrangements and or understandings (x) between or among any of the Proposing Persons or (y) between or among any Proposing Person such stockholder and any other person or entity persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; stockholder and any material interest of such stockholder in such business and (Dv) a representation that such stockholder intends to appear in person or by proxy at the annual meeting to bring such business before the meeting. No business shall be conducted at the annual meeting of stockholders except business brought before the annual meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 8, provided, however, that, once business has been properly brought before the annual meeting in accordance with such procedures, nothing in this Section 8 shall be deemed to preclude discussion by any other information relating stockholder of any such business. If the chairman of an annual meeting determines that business was not properly brought before the annual meeting in accordance with the foregoing procedures, the chairman shall declare to such item of business the meeting that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies in support of the business proposed to be was not properly brought before the meeting pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act; provided, however, that the disclosures required by this paragraph (iii) and such business shall not include any disclosures with respect to 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 ownerbe transacted.

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Samples: Merger Agreement (Bell Atlantic Corp)

Nature of Business at Meetings of Stockholders. (a) At an annual meeting of the stockholders, only Only such business shall be conducted as shall have been properly brought before the meeting. To be properly brought before an annual meeting, business must be (i) brought before the meeting by other than nominations for election to the Board of Directors and Directors, which must comply with the provisions of Section 6 of this Article II) may be transacted at an Annual Meeting of Stockholders as is either (a) specified in a the notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) given by or at the direction of the Board of Directors (or any duly authorized committee thereof), (iib) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by a stockholder present in person who (A) (1) was a beneficial owner of shares of the Corporation both at the time of giving the notice provided for in this Article II, Section 7 and at the time of the meeting, (2) is entitled to vote at the meeting, and (3) has complied with this Article II, Section 7 in all applicable respects, or (B) properly made such proposal in 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”). The foregoing clause (ii) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to propose business to be brought before an annual meeting of the stockholders. Stockholders shall not be permitted to propose business to be brought before a special meeting of the stockholders, and the only matters that may be brought before a special meeting are the matters specified in the notice of meeting given Annual Meeting by or at the direction of the person calling Board of Directors (or any duly authorized committee thereof), or (c) otherwise properly brought before the meeting pursuant Annual Meeting by any stockholder of the Corporation (i) who is a stockholder of record on the date of the giving of the notice provided for in this Section 5 of this Article II and on the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to Article II, notice of and to vote at such Annual Meeting and (ii) who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2. For purposes 5 of this Article II, Section 7, “present in person” shall mean that the stockholder proposing that the business be brought before the annual meeting of the Corporation, or, if the proposing stockholder is not an individual, a qualified representative of such proposing stockholder, appear at such annual meeting. A “qualified representative” of such proposing stockholder shall be, if such proposing stockholder is (i) a general or limited partnership, any general partner or person who functions as a general partner of the general or limited partnership or who controls the general or limited partnership, (ii) a trust, any trustee of the trust, or (iii) a corporation, limited liability company or other entity, any officer or person who functions as an officer of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity or any officer, director, general partner or person who functions as an officer, director or general partner of any entity ultimately in control of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity. Stockholders seeking to nominate persons for election to the Board of Directors must comply with Article III, Sections 2 and 7, and this Article II, Section 7 shall not be applicable to nominations except as expressly provided in Article III, Sections 2 and 7. (b) In addition to any other applicable requirements, for business to be properly brought before an annual meeting Annual Meeting by a stockholder, the such stockholder must (i) provide Timely Notice (as defined below) have given timely notice thereof in writing and in proper written form to the Secretary of the Corporation and (ii) provide any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the forms required by this Article II, Section 7Corporation. To be timely, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary must be delivered to, to or be mailed and received at, at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than 90 ninety (90) days nor more than 120 one hundred twenty (120) days prior to the one-year anniversary date of the immediately preceding year’s annual meetingAnnual Meeting of Stockholders; provided, however, that if in the event that the Annual Meeting is called for a date of the annual meeting that is more than 30 not within twenty-five (25) days before or after such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder in order to be timely must be so delivered, or mailed and received, received not later than the 90th day prior to such annual meeting or, if later, close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the day on which such notice of the date of the Annual Meeting was mailed or such public disclosure of the date of such annual meeting the Annual Meeting was made, whichever first made (such notice within such time periods, “Timely Notice”)occurs. In no event shall any the adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting Annual Meeting, or the public announcement thereof of such an adjournment or postponement, commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of Timely Notice a stockholder’s notice as described above. (c) To be in proper form for purposes of this Article II, Section 7written form, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary shall must set forth: forth the following information: (a) as to each matter such stockholder proposes to bring before the Annual Meeting, a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the Annual Meeting and the proposed text of any proposal regarding such business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and, if such business includes a proposal to amend these bylaws, the text of the proposed amendment), and the reasons for conducting such business at the Annual Meeting, and (b) as to the stockholder giving notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is being made, (i) As to each Proposing Person (as defined below), (A) the name and address of such Proposing Person person, (including, if applicable, the name and address that appear on the Corporation’s books and records); and ii) (BA) the class or series and number of all shares of stock of the Corporation that are, directly which are owned beneficially or indirectly, owned of record or beneficially owned (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) by such Proposing Persons, except that such Proposing Person shall in all events be deemed to beneficially own person and any shares of any class affiliates or series of the Corporation as to which such Proposing Person has a right to acquire beneficial ownership at any time in the future (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (A) and (B) are referred to as “Stockholder Information”); (ii) As to each Proposing Person, (A) the full notional amount of any securities that, directly or indirectly, underlie any “derivative security” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(c) under the Exchange Act) that constitutes a “call equivalent position” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(b) under the Exchange Act) (“Synthetic Equity Position”) and that is, directly or indirectly, held or maintained by such Proposing Person with respect to any shares of any class or series of shares of the Corporation; provided that, for the purposes of the definition of “Synthetic Equity Position,” the term “derivative security” shall also include any security or instrument that would not otherwise constitute a “derivative security” as a result of any feature that would make any conversion, exercise or similar right or privilege associates of such security or instrument becoming determinable only at some future date or upon the happening of a future occurrence, in which case the determination of the amount of securities into which such security or instrument would be convertible or exercisable shall be made assuming that such security or instrument is immediately convertible or exercisable at the time of such determination; and, provided, further, that any Proposing Person satisfying the requirements of Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act (other than a Proposing Person that so satisfies Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act solely by reason of Rule 13d-1(b)(1)(ii)(E)) shall not be deemed to hold or maintain the notional amount of any securities that underlie a Synthetic Equity Position held by such Proposing Person as a hedge with respect to a bona fide derivatives trade or position of such Proposing Person arising in the ordinary course of such Proposing Person’s business as a derivatives dealerperson, (B) any rights to dividends on the name of each nominee holder of shares of any class or series of shares all stock of the Corporation owned beneficially but not of record by such Proposing Person that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (C)(x) if such Proposing Person is (i) a general or limited partnership, syndicate or other group, the identity of each general partner and each person who functions as a general partner of the general or limited partnership, each member of the syndicate or group and each person controlling the general partner or member, a trust, any trustee of the trust, or (iii) a corporation, limited liability company or other entity, the identity of each officer and each person who functions as an officer of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity, each person controlling the corporation, limited liability company or other entity, and each officer, director, general partner and person who functions as an officer, director or general partner of any entity ultimately in control of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity (each such person or persons set forth in the preceding clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), a “Responsible Person”), any fiduciary duties owed by such Responsible Person to the equity holders affiliates or other beneficiaries associates of such Proposing Person person, and any material interests or relationships the number of such Responsible Person that are not shared generally by other record or beneficial holders of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation and that reasonably could have influenced the decision of such Proposing Person to propose such business to be brought before the meeting, and (y) if such Proposing Person is a natural person, any material interests or relationships of such natural person that are not shared generally by other record or beneficial holders of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation and that reasonably could have influenced the decision of such Proposing Person to propose such business to be brought before the meeting, (D) any material shares or any Synthetic Equity Position in any principal competitor stock of the Corporation held by each such Proposing Personsnominee holder, (EC) whether and the extent to which any derivative instrument, swap, option, warrant, short interest, hedge or profit interest or other transaction has been entered into by or on behalf of such person, or any affiliates or associates of such person, with respect to stock of the Corporation and (D) whether and the extent to which any other transaction, agreement, arrangement or understanding (including any short position or any borrowing or lending of shares of stock of the Corporation) has been made by or on behalf of such person, or any affiliates or associates of such person, the effect or intent of any of the foregoing being to mitigate loss to, or to manage risk or benefit of stock price changes for, such person, or any affiliates or associates of such person, or to increase or decrease the voting power or pecuniary or economic interest of such person, or any affiliates or associates of such person, with respect to stock of the Corporation; (iii) a summary description of any material discussions regarding the business proposed to be brought before the meeting all agreements, arrangements, or understandings (1whether written or oral) between or among such person, or any affiliates or associates of the Proposing Persons or (2) between or among any Proposing Person such person, and any other record person or beneficial holder of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation persons (including their names), ) in connection with or relating to (FA) any material pending or threatened legal proceeding in which such Proposing Person is a party or material participant involving the Corporation or (B) the proposal, including any of its Officers material interest in, or Directorsanticipated benefit from the proposal to such person, or any affiliate affiliates or associates of the Corporationsuch person, (Giv) any other material relationship between a representation that the stockholder giving notice intends to appear in person or by proxy at the Annual Meeting to bring such Proposing Person, on business before the one hand, and the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation, on the other hand, (H) any direct or indirect material interest in any material contract or agreement of such Proposing Person 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) meeting; and (Iv) any other information relating to such Proposing Person person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with solicitations the solicitation of proxies or consents by such Proposing Person in support person with respect to the proposed business to be brought by such person before the Annual Meeting pursuant to Section 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. (d) A stockholder providing notice of business proposed to be brought before an Annual Meeting shall further update and supplement such notice, if necessary, so that the meeting information provided or required to be provided in such notice pursuant to this Section 14(a) 5 of this Article II shall be true and correct as of the Exchange Act record date for determining the stockholders entitled to receive notice of the Annual Meeting and such update and supplement shall be delivered to or be mailed and received by the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than five (5) business days after the disclosures record date for determining the stockholders entitled to receive notice of the Annual Meeting. (e) No business shall be made pursuant to conducted at the foregoing clauses (A) through (I) are referred to as “Disclosable Interests”)Annual Meeting of Stockholders except business brought before the Annual Meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 5 of this Article II; provided, however, that Disclosable Interests shall not include any such disclosures with respect to the ordinary course that, once 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; and (iii) As to each item of business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting, (A) a brief description of the business desired to be has been properly brought before the annual meetingAnnual Meeting in accordance with such procedures, nothing in this Section 5 of this Article II shall be deemed to preclude discussion by any stockholder of any such business. If the chairperson of an Annual Meeting determines that business was not properly brought before the Annual Meeting in accordance with the foregoing procedures, the reasons for conducting such business at chairperson shall declare to the annual meeting and any material interest in such business of each Proposing Person, (B) the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration), (C) a reasonably detailed description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings (x) between or among any of the Proposing Persons or (y) between or among any Proposing Person and any other person or entity (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; and (D) any other information relating to such item of business that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies in support of the business proposed to be was not properly brought before the meeting and such business shall not be transacted. (f) Nothing contained in this Section 5 of this Article II shall be deemed to affect any rights of stockholders to request inclusion of proposals in the Corporation’s proxy statement pursuant to Section 14(a) of Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act; provided, however, that the disclosures required by this paragraph Act (iii) shall not include or any disclosures with respect to any broker, dealer, commercial bank, trust company or other nominee who is a Proposing Person solely as a result successor provision of being the stockholder directed to prepare and submit the notice required by these Bylaws on behalf of a beneficial ownerlaw).

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Samples: Business Combination Agreement (Zanite Acquisition Corp.)

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Nature of Business at Meetings of Stockholders. Only such business (other than nominations for election to the Board of Directors, which must comply with the provisions of Section 6 of this Article II) may be transacted at an Annual Meeting of Stockholders as is either (a) 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, business must be (i) brought before the meeting by the Board of Directors and specified in a the notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) given by or at the direction of the Board of Directors (or any duly authorized committee thereof), (iib) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by a stockholder present in person who (A) (1) was a beneficial owner of shares of the Corporation both at the time of giving the notice provided for in this Article II, Section 7 and at the time of the meeting, (2) is entitled to vote at the meeting, and (3) has complied with this Article II, Section 7 in all applicable respects, or (B) properly made such proposal in 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”). The foregoing clause (ii) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to propose business to be brought before an annual meeting of the stockholders. Stockholders shall not be permitted to propose business to be brought before a special meeting of the stockholders, and the only matters that may be brought before a special meeting are the matters specified in the notice of meeting given Annual Meeting by or at the direction of the person calling Board of Directors (or any duly authorized committee thereof), or (c) otherwise properly brought before the meeting pursuant Annual Meeting by any stockholder of the Corporation (i) who is a stockholder of record on the date of the giving of the notice provided for in this Section 5 of this Article II and on the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to Article II, notice of and to vote at such Annual Meeting and (ii) who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2. For purposes 5 of this Article II, Section 7, “present in person” shall mean that the stockholder proposing that the business be brought before the annual meeting of the Corporation, or, if the proposing stockholder is not an individual, a qualified representative of such proposing stockholder, appear at such annual meeting. A “qualified representative” of such proposing stockholder shall be, if such proposing stockholder is (i) a general or limited partnership, any general partner or person who functions as a general partner of the general or limited partnership or who controls the general or limited partnership, (ii) a trust, any trustee of the trust, or (iii) a corporation, limited liability company or other entity, any officer or person who functions as an officer of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity or any officer, director, general partner or person who functions as an officer, director or general partner of any entity ultimately in control of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity. Stockholders seeking to nominate persons for election to the Board of Directors must comply with Article III, Sections 2 and 7, and this Article II, Section 7 shall not be applicable to nominations except as expressly provided in Article III, Sections 2 and 7. (b) In addition to any other applicable requirements, for business to be properly brought before an annual meeting Annual Meeting by a stockholder, such business must be a proper subject for stockholder action under the laws of the State of Delaware and such stockholder must (i) provide Timely Notice (as defined below) have given timely notice thereof in writing and in proper written form to the Secretary of the Corporation and (ii) provide any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the forms required by this Article II, Section 7Corporation. To be timely, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary must be delivered to, to or be mailed and received at, at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than 90 ninety (90) days nor more than 120 one hundred twenty (120) days prior to the one-year anniversary date of the immediately preceding year’s annual meetingAnnual Meeting; provided, however, subject to the last sentence of this paragraph, that if in the event that the Annual Meeting is called for a date of the annual meeting that is more than 30 not within thirty (30) days before or after such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder in order to be timely must be so delivered, or mailed and received, received not later than the 90th day prior to such annual meeting or, if later, close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the day on which such notice of the date of the Annual Meeting was mailed or such public disclosure of the date of such annual meeting the Annual Meeting was made, whichever first made (such notice within such time periods, “Timely Notice”)occurs. In no event shall any the adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting Annual Meeting, or the public announcement thereof of such an adjournment or postponement, commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of Timely Notice a stockholder’s notice as described above. (c) . To be in proper form for purposes of this Article II, Section 7written form, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary shall must set forth: forth the following information: (a) as to each matter such stockholder proposes to bring before the Annual Meeting, a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the Annual Meeting and the reasons for conducting such business at the Annual Meeting, and (b) as to the stockholder giving notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is being made, (i) As to each Proposing Person (as defined below), (A) the name and address of such Proposing Person person, (including, if applicable, the name and address that appear on the Corporation’s books and records); and ii) (BA) the class or series and number of all shares of stock of the Corporation that are, directly which are owned beneficially or indirectly, owned of record or beneficially owned (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) by such Proposing Persons, except that such Proposing Person shall in all events be deemed to beneficially own person and any shares of any class affiliates or series of the Corporation as to which such Proposing Person has a right to acquire beneficial ownership at any time in the future (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (A) and (B) are referred to as “Stockholder Information”); (ii) As to each Proposing Person, (A) the full notional amount of any securities that, directly or indirectly, underlie any “derivative security” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(c) under the Exchange Act) that constitutes a “call equivalent position” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(b) under the Exchange Act) (“Synthetic Equity Position”) and that is, directly or indirectly, held or maintained by such Proposing Person with respect to any shares of any class or series of shares of the Corporation; provided that, for the purposes of the definition of “Synthetic Equity Position,” the term “derivative security” shall also include any security or instrument that would not otherwise constitute a “derivative security” as a result of any feature that would make any conversion, exercise or similar right or privilege associates of such security or instrument becoming determinable only at some future date or upon the happening of a future occurrence, in which case the determination of the amount of securities into which such security or instrument would be convertible or exercisable shall be made assuming that such security or instrument is immediately convertible or exercisable at the time of such determination; and, provided, further, that any Proposing Person satisfying the requirements of Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act (other than a Proposing Person that so satisfies Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act solely by reason of Rule 13d-1(b)(1)(ii)(E)) shall not be deemed to hold or maintain the notional amount of any securities that underlie a Synthetic Equity Position held by such Proposing Person as a hedge with respect to a bona fide derivatives trade or position of such Proposing Person arising in the ordinary course of such Proposing Person’s business as a derivatives dealerperson, (B) any rights to dividends on the name of each nominee holder of shares of any class or series of shares all stock of the Corporation owned beneficially but not of record by such Proposing Person that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (C)(x) if such Proposing Person is (i) a general or limited partnership, syndicate or other group, the identity of each general partner and each person who functions as a general partner of the general or limited partnership, each member of the syndicate or group and each person controlling the general partner or member, a trust, any trustee of the trust, or (iii) a corporation, limited liability company or other entity, the identity of each officer and each person who functions as an officer of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity, each person controlling the corporation, limited liability company or other entity, and each officer, director, general partner and person who functions as an officer, director or general partner of any entity ultimately in control of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity (each such person or persons set forth in the preceding clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), a “Responsible Person”), any fiduciary duties owed by such Responsible Person to the equity holders affiliates or other beneficiaries associates of such Proposing Person person, and any material interests or relationships the number of such Responsible Person that are not shared generally by other record or beneficial holders of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation and that reasonably could have influenced the decision of such Proposing Person to propose such business to be brought before the meeting, and (y) if such Proposing Person is a natural person, any material interests or relationships of such natural person that are not shared generally by other record or beneficial holders of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation and that reasonably could have influenced the decision of such Proposing Person to propose such business to be brought before the meeting, (D) any material shares or any Synthetic Equity Position in any principal competitor stock of the Corporation held by each such Proposing Personsnominee holder, (EC) whether and the extent to which any derivative instrument, swap, option, warrant, short interest, hedge or profit interest or other transaction has been entered into by or on behalf of such person, or any affiliates or associates of such person, with respect to stock of the Corporation and (D) whether and the extent to which any other transaction, agreement, arrangement or understanding (including any short position or any borrowing or lending of shares of stock of the Corporation) has been made by or on behalf of such person, or any affiliates or associates of such person, the effect or intent of any of the foregoing being to mitigate loss to, or to manage risk or benefit of stock price changes for, such person, or any affiliates or associates of such person, or to increase or decrease the voting power or pecuniary or economic interest of such person, or any affiliates or associates of such person, with respect to stock of the Corporation; (iii) a summary description of any material discussions regarding the business proposed to be brought before the meeting all agreements, arrangements, or understandings (1whether written or oral) between or among such person, or any affiliates or associates of the Proposing Persons or (2) between or among any Proposing Person such person, and any other record person or beneficial holder of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation persons (including their names), (F) in connection with the proposal of such business and any material pending or threatened legal proceeding in which interest of such Proposing Person is a party or material participant involving the Corporation person or any affiliates or associates of its Officers or Directorssuch person, in such business, including any anticipated benefit therefrom to such person, or any affiliate affiliates or associates of the Corporationsuch person, (Giv) any other material relationship between a representation that the stockholder giving notice intends to appear in person or by proxy at the Annual Meeting to bring such Proposing Person, on business before the one hand, and the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation, on the other hand, (H) any direct or indirect material interest in any material contract or agreement of such Proposing Person 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) Annual Meeting; and (Iv) any other information relating to such Proposing Person person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with solicitations a contested solicitation of proxies or consents by such Proposing Person in support person with respect to the proposed business to be brought by such person before the Annual Meeting pursuant to Section 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. A stockholder providing notice of business proposed to be brought before an Annual Meeting shall further update and supplement such notice, if necessary, so that the information provided or required to be provided in such notice pursuant to this Section 5 of this Article II shall be true and correct as of the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to receive notice of the Annual Meeting and such update and supplement shall be delivered to or be mailed and received by the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than five (5) business days after the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to receive notice of the Annual Meeting. No business shall be conducted at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders except business brought before the Annual Meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 5 of this Article II; provided, however that, once business has been properly brought before the Annual Meeting in accordance with such procedures, nothing in this Section 5 of this Article II shall be deemed to preclude discussion by any stockholder of any such business. If the Chairman of an Annual Meeting determines that business was not properly brought before the Annual Meeting in accordance with the foregoing procedures, the Chairman shall declare to the meeting that the business was not properly brought before the Annual Meeting and such business shall not be transacted. Nothing contained in this Section 5 of this Article II shall be deemed to affect any rights of stockholders to request inclusion of proposals in the Corporation’s proxy statement pursuant to Section 14(a) of Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (A) through (I) are referred to as “Disclosable Interests”or any successor provision of law); 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; and (iii) As to each item of business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting, (A) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the annual meeting, the reasons for conducting such business at the annual meeting and any material interest in such business of each Proposing Person, (B) the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration), (C) a reasonably detailed description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings (x) between or among any of the Proposing Persons or (y) between or among any Proposing Person and any other person or entity (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; and (D) any other information relating to such item of business that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies in support of the business proposed to be brought before the meeting pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act; provided, however, that the disclosures required by this paragraph (iii) shall not include any disclosures with respect to 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.

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Samples: Merger Agreement (SWIFT TRANSPORTATION Co)

Nature of Business at Meetings of Stockholders. No business may be transacted at an annual or special meeting of stockholders, other than business that is either (a) 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, business must be (i) brought before the meeting by the Board of Directors and specified in a the notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) given by or at the direction of the Board of Directors (or any duly authorized committee thereof), (iib) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by a or at the direction of the Board (or any duly authorized committee thereof) or (c) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by any stockholder present in person who (A) (1) was a beneficial owner of shares of the Corporation both at (i) who is a stockholder of record on the time date of the giving of the notice provided for in this Article II, Section 7 1.5 and at on the time record date for the determination of the meeting, (2) is stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, such meeting and (3) has complied with this Article II, Section 7 in all applicable respects, or (B) properly made such proposal in 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”). The foregoing clause (ii) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to propose business to be brought before an annual meeting of the stockholders. Stockholders shall not be permitted to propose business to be brought before a special meeting of the stockholders, and the only matters that may be brought before a special meeting are the matters specified in who complies with the notice of meeting given by or at the direction of the person calling the meeting pursuant to Article II, procedures set forth in this Section 21.5. For purposes of this Article II, Section 7, “present in person” shall mean that the stockholder proposing that the business be brought before the annual meeting of the Corporation, or, if the proposing stockholder is not an individual, a qualified representative of such proposing stockholder, appear at such annual meeting. A “qualified representative” of such proposing stockholder shall be, if such proposing stockholder is (i) a general or limited partnership, any general partner or person who functions as a general partner of the general or limited partnership or who controls the general or limited partnership, (ii) a trust, any trustee of the trust, or (iii) a corporation, limited liability company or other entity, any officer or person who functions as an officer of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity or any officer, director, general partner or person who functions as an officer, director or general partner of any entity ultimately in control of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity. Stockholders seeking to nominate persons for election to the Board of Directors must comply with Article III, Sections 2 and 7, and this Article II, Section 7 shall not be applicable to nominations except as expressly provided in Article III, Sections 2 and 7. (b) In addition to any other applicable requirements, for business to be properly brought before an annual or special meeting by a stockholder, the such stockholder must (i) provide Timely Notice (as defined below) have given timely notice thereof in writing and in proper written form to the Secretary secretary of the Corporation and (ii) provide any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the forms required by this Article II, Section 7Corporation. To be timely, a stockholder’s 's notice to the secretary must be delivered to, to or mailed and received at, at the principal executive offices of the Corporation (a) in the case of an annual meeting, not less than 90 ninety (90) days nor more than 120 one hundred and twenty (120) days prior to the one-year anniversary date of the immediately preceding year’s annual meetingmeeting of stockholders; providedPROVIDED, howeverHOWEVER, that if in the date of event that the annual meeting is more than 30 called for a date that is not within thirty (30) days before or after such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder in order to be timely must be so delivered, or mailed and received, received not later than the 90th day prior to such annual meeting or, if later, close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the day on which such notice of the date of the annual meeting was mailed or such public disclosure of the date of such the annual meeting was made, whichever first made occurs; and (b) in the case of a special meeting, not less than ninety (90) days nor more than one hundred and twenty (120) days prior to such notice within such time periods, “Timely Notice”)special meeting. 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. (c) To be in proper form for purposes of this Article II, Section 7written form, a stockholder’s 's notice to the Secretary shall secretary must set forth: (i) As forth as to each Proposing Person (as defined below), (A) the name and address of matter such Proposing Person (including, if applicable, the name and address that appear on the Corporation’s books and records); and (B) the class or series and number of shares of the Corporation that are, directly or indirectly, owned of record or beneficially owned (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) by such Proposing Persons, except that such Proposing Person shall in all events be deemed to beneficially own any shares of any class or series of the Corporation as to which such Proposing Person has a right to acquire beneficial ownership at any time in the future (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (A) and (B) are referred to as “Stockholder Information”); (ii) As to each Proposing Person, (A) the full notional amount of any securities that, directly or indirectly, underlie any “derivative security” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(c) under the Exchange Act) that constitutes a “call equivalent position” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(b) under the Exchange Act) (“Synthetic Equity Position”) and that is, directly or indirectly, held or maintained by such Proposing Person with respect to any shares of any class or series of shares of the Corporation; provided that, for the purposes of the definition of “Synthetic Equity Position,” the term “derivative security” shall also include any security or instrument that would not otherwise constitute a “derivative security” as a result of any feature that would make any conversion, exercise or similar right or privilege of such security or instrument becoming determinable only at some future date or upon the happening of a future occurrence, in which case the determination of the amount of securities into which such security or instrument would be convertible or exercisable shall be made assuming that such security or instrument is immediately convertible or exercisable at the time of such determination; and, provided, further, that any Proposing Person satisfying the requirements of Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act (other than a Proposing Person that so satisfies Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act solely by reason of Rule 13d-1(b)(1)(ii)(E)) shall not be deemed to hold or maintain the notional amount of any securities that underlie a Synthetic Equity Position held by such Proposing Person as a hedge with respect to a bona fide derivatives trade or position of such Proposing Person arising in the ordinary course of such Proposing Person’s business as a derivatives dealer, (B) any rights to dividends on the shares of any class or series of shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such Proposing Person that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (C)(x) if such Proposing Person is (i) a general or limited partnership, syndicate or other group, the identity of each general partner and each person who functions as a general partner of the general or limited partnership, each member of the syndicate or group and each person controlling the general partner or member, a trust, any trustee of the trust, or (iii) a corporation, limited liability company or other entity, the identity of each officer and each person who functions as an officer of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity, each person controlling the corporation, limited liability company or other entity, and each officer, director, general partner and person who functions as an officer, director or general partner of any entity ultimately in control of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity (each such person or persons set forth in the preceding clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), a “Responsible Person”), any fiduciary duties owed by such Responsible Person to the equity holders or other beneficiaries of such Proposing Person and any material interests or relationships of such Responsible Person that are not shared generally by other record or beneficial holders of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation and that reasonably could have influenced the decision of such Proposing Person to propose such business to be brought before the meeting, and (y) if such Proposing Person is a natural person, any material interests or relationships of such natural person that are not shared generally by other record or beneficial holders of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation and that reasonably could have influenced the decision of such Proposing Person to propose such business to be brought before the meeting, (D) any material shares or any Synthetic Equity Position in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such Proposing Persons, (E) a summary of any material discussions regarding the business proposed to be brought before the meeting (1) between or among any of the Proposing Persons or (2) between or among any Proposing Person and any other record or beneficial holder of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation (including their names), (F) any material pending or threatened legal proceeding in which such Proposing Person is a party or material participant involving the Corporation or any of its Officers or Directors, or any affiliate of the Corporation, (G) any other material relationship between such Proposing Person, on the one hand, and the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation, on the other hand, (H) any direct or indirect material interest in any material contract or agreement of such Proposing Person 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) and (I) any other information relating to such Proposing Person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies or consents by such Proposing Person in support of the business proposed to be brought before the meeting pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (A) through (I) 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; and (iii) As to each item of business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting, meeting (Ai) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the annual meeting, meeting and the reasons for conducting such business at the annual meeting and any material interest in such business of each Proposing Personmeeting, (Bii) the text name and record address of such stockholder, (iii) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock of the proposal Corporation which are owned beneficially or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration)record by such stockholder, (Civ) a reasonably detailed description of all agreements, arrangements and or understandings (x) between or among any of the Proposing Persons or (y) between or among any Proposing Person such stockholder and any other person or entity persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; stockholder and any material interest of such stockholder in such business and (Dv) a representation that such stockholder intends to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to bring such business before the meeting. At the same time or prior to the submission of any other information relating to such item stockholder proposal of business that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement conducted at an annual or special meeting that, if approved, could not be implemented by the Corporation without notifying or obtaining the consent or approval of any federal, state, municipal or other filing required regulatory body, the proponent stockholder or stockholders shall submit to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies in support the secretary of the Corporation an analysis, satisfactory to the Board, demonstrating that the proposal will have no material detrimental effect on the business proposed and operations of the Corporation after making the requisite notices or obtaining the requisite consents or approvals and after giving effect to the potential responses thereto. No business shall be conducted at a meeting of stockholders except business brought before the meeting pursuant in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 1.5; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that, once business has been properly brought before the meeting in accordance with such procedures, nothing in this Section 1.5 shall be deemed to Section 14(a) preclude discussion by any stockholder of any such business. If the chairman of the Exchange Act; providedmeeting determines that business was not properly brought before the meeting in accordance with such procedures, however, the chairman shall declare to the meeting that the disclosures required by this paragraph (iii) business was not properly brought before the meeting and such business shall not include any disclosures with respect to 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 ownerbe transacted.

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Samples: Merger Agreement (Fei Co)

Nature of Business at Meetings of Stockholders. (a) At No business may be transacted at an annual meeting of the stockholders, only such other than business shall be conducted as shall have been properly brought before the meeting. To be properly brought before an annual meeting, business must be that is either (ia) brought before the meeting by the Board of Directors and specified in a the notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) given by or at the direction of the Board of Directors (or any duly authorized committee thereof), (iib) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by a stockholder present in person who (A) (1) was a beneficial owner of shares of the Corporation both at the time of giving the notice provided for in this Article II, Section 7 and at the time of the meeting, (2) is entitled to vote at the meeting, and (3) has complied with this Article II, Section 7 in all applicable respects, or (B) properly made such proposal in 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”). The foregoing clause (ii) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to propose business to be brought before an annual meeting of the stockholders. Stockholders shall not be permitted to propose business to be brought before a special meeting of the stockholders, and the only matters that may be brought before a special meeting are the matters specified in the notice of meeting given by or at the direction of the person calling the meeting pursuant to Article II, Section 2. For purposes Board of this Article II, Section 7, “present in person” shall mean that the stockholder proposing that the business be Directors (or any duly authorized committee thereof) or (c) otherwise properly brought before the annual meeting by any stockholder of the Corporation, or, if Corporation (i) who is a stockholder of record on the proposing stockholder is not an individual, a qualified representative date of such proposing stockholder, appear the giving of the notice provided for in this Section 1.2 and on the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to vote at such annual meeting. A “qualified representative” of such proposing stockholder shall be, if such proposing stockholder is (i) a general or limited partnership, any general partner or person who functions as a general partner of the general or limited partnership or who controls the general or limited partnership, meeting and (ii) a trust, any trustee of who complies with the trust, or (iii) a corporation, limited liability company or other entity, any officer or person who functions as an officer of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity or any officer, director, general partner or person who functions as an officer, director or general partner of any entity ultimately notice procedures set forth in control of the corporation, limited liability company or other entitythis Section 1.2. Stockholders seeking to nominate persons for election to the Board of Directors must comply with Article III, Sections 2 and 7, and this Article II, Section 7 shall not be applicable to nominations except as expressly provided in Article III, Sections 2 and 7. (b) In addition to any other applicable requirements, for business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder, the such stockholder must (i) provide Timely Notice (as defined below) have given timely notice thereof in writing and in proper written form to the Secretary of the Corporation and (ii) provide any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the forms required by this Article II, Section 7Corporation. To be timely, a stockholder’s 's notice to the Secretary must be delivered to, to or mailed and received at, at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than 90 sixty (60) days nor more than 120 ninety (90) days prior to the one-year anniversary date of the immediately preceding year’s annual meetingmeeting of stockholders; provided, however, that if in the date of event that the annual meeting is more than 30 called for a date that is not within thirty (30) days before or after such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder in order to be timely must be so delivered, or mailed and received, received not later than the 90th day prior to such annual meeting or, if later, close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the day on which such notice of the date of the annual meeting was mailed or such public disclosure of the date of such the annual meeting was made, whichever first made (such notice within such time periods, “Timely Notice”)occurs. 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. (c) To be in proper form for purposes of this Article II, Section 7written form, a stockholder’s 's notice to the Secretary shall must set forth: (i) As forth as to each Proposing Person (as defined below), (A) the name and address of matter such Proposing Person (including, if applicable, the name and address that appear on the Corporation’s books and records); and (B) the class or series and number of shares of the Corporation that are, directly or indirectly, owned of record or beneficially owned (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) by such Proposing Persons, except that such Proposing Person shall in all events be deemed to beneficially own any shares of any class or series of the Corporation as to which such Proposing Person has a right to acquire beneficial ownership at any time in the future (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (A) and (B) are referred to as “Stockholder Information”); (ii) As to each Proposing Person, (A) the full notional amount of any securities that, directly or indirectly, underlie any “derivative security” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(c) under the Exchange Act) that constitutes a “call equivalent position” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(b) under the Exchange Act) (“Synthetic Equity Position”) and that is, directly or indirectly, held or maintained by such Proposing Person with respect to any shares of any class or series of shares of the Corporation; provided that, for the purposes of the definition of “Synthetic Equity Position,” the term “derivative security” shall also include any security or instrument that would not otherwise constitute a “derivative security” as a result of any feature that would make any conversion, exercise or similar right or privilege of such security or instrument becoming determinable only at some future date or upon the happening of a future occurrence, in which case the determination of the amount of securities into which such security or instrument would be convertible or exercisable shall be made assuming that such security or instrument is immediately convertible or exercisable at the time of such determination; and, provided, further, that any Proposing Person satisfying the requirements of Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act (other than a Proposing Person that so satisfies Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act solely by reason of Rule 13d-1(b)(1)(ii)(E)) shall not be deemed to hold or maintain the notional amount of any securities that underlie a Synthetic Equity Position held by such Proposing Person as a hedge with respect to a bona fide derivatives trade or position of such Proposing Person arising in the ordinary course of such Proposing Person’s business as a derivatives dealer, (B) any rights to dividends on the shares of any class or series of shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such Proposing Person that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (C)(x) if such Proposing Person is (i) a general or limited partnership, syndicate or other group, the identity of each general partner and each person who functions as a general partner of the general or limited partnership, each member of the syndicate or group and each person controlling the general partner or member, a trust, any trustee of the trust, or (iii) a corporation, limited liability company or other entity, the identity of each officer and each person who functions as an officer of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity, each person controlling the corporation, limited liability company or other entity, and each officer, director, general partner and person who functions as an officer, director or general partner of any entity ultimately in control of the corporation, limited liability company or other entity (each such person or persons set forth in the preceding clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), a “Responsible Person”), any fiduciary duties owed by such Responsible Person to the equity holders or other beneficiaries of such Proposing Person and any material interests or relationships of such Responsible Person that are not shared generally by other record or beneficial holders of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation and that reasonably could have influenced the decision of such Proposing Person to propose such business to be brought before the meeting, and (y) if such Proposing Person is a natural person, any material interests or relationships of such natural person that are not shared generally by other record or beneficial holders of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation and that reasonably could have influenced the decision of such Proposing Person to propose such business to be brought before the meeting, (D) any material shares or any Synthetic Equity Position in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such Proposing Persons, (E) a summary of any material discussions regarding the business proposed to be brought before the meeting (1) between or among any of the Proposing Persons or (2) between or among any Proposing Person and any other record or beneficial holder of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation (including their names), (F) any material pending or threatened legal proceeding in which such Proposing Person is a party or material participant involving the Corporation or any of its Officers or Directors, or any affiliate of the Corporation, (G) any other material relationship between such Proposing Person, on the one hand, and the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation, on the other hand, (H) any direct or indirect material interest in any material contract or agreement of such Proposing Person 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) and (I) any other information relating to such Proposing Person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies or consents by such Proposing Person in support of the business proposed to be brought before the meeting pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (A) through (I) 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; and (iii) As to each item of business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting, meeting (Ai) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the annual meeting, meeting and the reasons for conducting such business at the annual meeting and any material interest in such business of each Proposing Personmeeting, (Bii) the text name and record address of such stockholder, (iii) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock of the proposal Corporation which are owned beneficially or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration)record by such stockholder, (Civ) a reasonably detailed description of all agreements, arrangements and or understandings (x) between or among any of the Proposing Persons or (y) between or among any Proposing Person such stockholder and any other person or entity persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; stockholder and any material interest of such stockholder in such business and (Dv) a representation that such stockholder intends to appear in person or by proxy at the annual meeting to bring such business before the meeting. No business shall be conducted at the annual meeting of stockholders except business brought before the annual meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 1.2, provided, however, that, once business has been properly brought before the annual meeting in accordance with such procedures, nothing in this Section 1.2 shall be deemed to preclude discussion by any other information relating stockholder of any such business. If the Chairman of an annual meeting determines that business was not properly brought before the annual meeting in accordance with the foregoing procedures, the Chairman shall declare to such item of business the meeting that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies in support of the business proposed to be was not properly brought before the meeting pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act; provided, however, that the disclosures required by this paragraph (iii) and such business shall not include any disclosures with respect to 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 ownerbe transacted.

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Samples: Restructuring Agreement (Personnel Group of America Inc)

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