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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
FORM 8-A
For Registration of Certain Classes of Securities
Pursuant to Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the
Securities Exchange Act
UAL CORPORATION
(EXACT
NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER)
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Delaware
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(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)
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(IRS Employer Identification No.) |
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1200 East Algonquin Road
Elk Grove Township, Illinois
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(Adress of principal executive offices)
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If this form relates to the registration of a class of
securities pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act
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Securities Act registration statement file number to which this form relates: N/A
Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
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Title of Each Class
to be so Registered
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Name of Each Exchange on which
Each Class is to be Registered |
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Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share
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The NASDAQ National Market |
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Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:
None
(Title of Class)
Item 1. Description of Registrants Securities to be Registered.
This registration statement registers under Section 12(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 (the Act) common stock, par value $.01 per share (the Common Stock), of UAL Corporation
(the Company) being issued pursuant to the Companys Second Amended Joint Plan of Reorganization
Pursuant to Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code (the Plan) upon the filing with the
State of Delaware of the Companys Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the Certificate). The
Common Stock replaces the Companys prior common stock registered under Section 12(b) of the Act
(which prior common stock was canceled as of the effective time of the Plan).
Description of Common Stock
Dividends. The holders of Common Stock will be entitled to receive dividends, if and when
declared payable from time to time by the Board of Directors of the Company (the Board).
Liquidation. Upon any liquidation, dissolution and/or winding up of the Company, after all
securities ranking prior to the Common Stock have been paid in full that to which they are
entitled, the holders of the then outstanding Common Stock will be entitled to receive, pro rata,
the remaining assets of the Company available for distribution to its stockholders.
Voting Rights. Each outstanding share of Common Stock of the Company will entitle the holder
thereof to one vote on each matter submitted to a vote at a meeting of stockholders.
5% Ownership Limitation. The Certificate provides, subject to certain exceptions therein,
that any attempted transfer of the Companys securities prior to the earliest of (A) February 1,
2011, (B) the repeal, amendment or modification of Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended (Section 382) in such a way as to render the restrictions imposed by Section 382
no longer applicable to the Company, (C) the beginning of a taxable year of the Company in which no
Tax Benefits (as defined in the Certificate) are available, and (D) the date on which the
limitation amount imposed by Section 382 in the event of an ownership change of the Company, would
not be materially less than the net operating loss carry forward or net unrealized built-in loss of
the Company (the Restriction Release Date), or any attempted transfer of the Companys securities
pursuant to an agreement entered into prior to the Restriction Release Date, will be prohibited and
void ab initio so far as it purports to transfer ownership or rights in respect of such stock to
the purported transferee (y) if the transferor is a Five-Percent Shareholder (as defined in the
Certificate) or (z) to the extent that, as a result of such transfer either (1) any person or group
of persons shall become a Five-Percent Shareholder or (2) the percentage stock ownership interest
in the Company of any Five-Percent Shareholder shall be increased. The Certificate provides an
exception to this limitation for securities held by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
Foreign Ownership Limitation. The Certificate limits the total number of shares of equity
securities held by all persons who fail to qualify as citizens of the United States to having no
more than 24.9% of the voting power of the outstanding equity securities.
Other. The Common Stock is not convertible into, or exchangeable for, any other class or
series of the Companys capital stock. Holders of Common Stock have no preemptive or other rights
to subscribe for or purchase additional securities of the Company. The Certificate contains no
sinking fund provisions or redemption provisions with respect to the Common Stock. There is no
classification of the board of directors of the Company.
As of the date of this registration statement, the Certificate contains no provisions
modifying the voting or dividend rights of holders of Common Stock described above.
Shares of Common Stock are not subject to calls or assessments. No personal liability will
attach to holders under the laws of the State of Delaware (the Companys state of incorporation) or
of the State of Illinois (the state in which the Companys principal place of business is located).
The foregoing description of the Common Stock is qualified in its entirety by the full terms
of the Common Stock, as set forth in the Exhibits to this registration statement which are
incorporated by reference in this Item 1.
Item 2. Exhibits.
The following exhibits are filed as part of this registration statement:
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Exhibit No. |
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3.1
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Restated Certificate of UAL Corporation |
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3.2
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Amended and Restated Bylaws of UAL Corporation |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
Registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereto duly authorized.
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Date: February 1, 2006
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UAL CORPORATION |
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(Registrant) |
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By: /s/ Frederic F. Brace |
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Name: Frederic F. Brace |
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Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
EXHIBIT INDEX
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Exhibit No. |
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3.1*
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Restated Certificate of UAL Corporation |
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3.2*
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Amended and Restated Bylaws of UAL Corporation |
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Filed herewith electronically. |
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Exhibit 3.1
RESTATED CERTIFICATE
OF UAL CORPORATION
The present name of the corporation is UAL Corporation (the Corporation). The Corporation
was incorporated under the name of UAL, Inc., the original Certificate of Incorporation having been
filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on December 30, 1968. This Restated
Certificate of the Corporation was duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of Sections 242
and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the GCL).
ARTICLE FIRST. The name of the Corporation is UAL CORPORATION.
ARTICLE SECOND. The registered office of the Corporation in the State of Delaware is located
at 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, in the City of Wilmington, County of Newcastle, Delaware
19808. The name and address of its registered agent is The Prentice-Hall Corporation System, Inc.,
2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, in the City of Wilmington, County of Newcastle, Delaware 19808.
ARTICLE THIRD. The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for
which corporations may be organized under the GCL.
ARTICLE FOURTH. The total number of shares of capital stock of all classes of which the
Corporation shall have authority to issue is 1,255,000,002, divided into five classes, as follows:
250,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, without par value (hereinafter referred to as Serial
Preferred Stock), 5,000,000 shares of PBGC 2% Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per
share (the PBGC Preferred Stock), one (1) share of Class Pilot MEC Junior Preferred Stock, par
value $0.01 per share (the Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock), one (1) share of Class IAM Junior
Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the Class IAM Preferred Stock and, together with the
Serial Preferred Stock, the PBGC Preferred Stock, and the Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock, the
Preferred Stock), and 1,000,000,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the
Common Stock).
PART I
Serial Preferred Stock
The board of directors of the Corporation (the Board of Directors) is expressly authorized,
without any vote or other action by the stockholders and subject to limitations prescribed by law,
to adopt, from time to time, a resolution or resolutions providing for the issue of Serial
Preferred Stock in one or more series, to fix the number of shares in each such series and to fix
the designations and the powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special
rights, and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof, of each such series. The
authority of the Board of Directors with respect to each such series shall include a determination
of the following (which may vary as between the different series of Serial Preferred Stock):
(a) The number of shares constituting the series and the distinctive designation of the
series;
(b) The dividend rate on the shares of the series, the conditions and dates upon which
dividends thereon shall be payable, the extent, if any, to which dividends thereon shall be
cumulative, and the relative rights of preference, if any, of payment of dividends thereon;
(c) Whether or not the shares of the series are redeemable and, if redeemable, the time or
times during which they shall be redeemable and the amount per share payable on redemption thereof,
which amount may, but need not, vary according to the time and circumstances of such redemption;
(d) The amount payable in respect of the shares of the series, in the event of any
liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, which amount may, but need not, vary
according to the time or circumstances of such action, and the relative rights of preference, if
any, of payment of such amount;
(e) Any requirement as to a sinking fund for the shares of the series, or any requirement as
to the redemption, purchase or other retirement by the Corporation of the shares of the series;
(f) The right, if any, to exchange or convert shares of the series into other securities or
property, and the rate or basis, time, manner and condition of exchange or conversion;
(g) The voting rights, if any, to which the holders of shares of the series shall be entitled
in addition to the voting rights provided by law; and
(h) Any other term, condition or provision with respect to the series not inconsistent with
the provisions of this Article Fourth, Part I or any resolution adopted by the Board of Directors
pursuant thereto.
PART II
PBGC 2% Convertible Preferred Stock
Unless otherwise indicated, any reference in this Article Fourth, Part II to Section,
subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, or clause shall refer to a Section, subsection,
paragraph, subparagraph or clause in this Article Fourth, Part II. Certain defined terms used in
this Part II shall have the definitions ascribed to them in Section 10 hereof.
Section 1. Dividends.
1.1 General Obligation. To the extent permitted under the GCL, the Corporation shall pay
preferential dividends to the holders of the PBGC Preferred Stock as provided in this Section 1.1
by increasing the aggregate Liquidation Value thereof on each Dividend Reference Date (as
hereinafter defined) by an amount equal to the amount of the dividends to be paid. Once the
Liquidation Value has been so increased, the dividends relating to such increase shall be deemed to
have been paid. Except as otherwise provided herein, dividends on each share of the PBGC Preferred
Stock (a PBGC Preferred Share) shall accrue on a daily basis at the rate of 2% per annum of the
sum of the Liquidation Value thereof plus all accumulated and unpaid dividends thereon from and
including the date of issuance of such PBGC Preferred Share (or, in the case of accumulated and
unpaid dividends, from and including the Dividend Reference Date (as defined below) on which they
were accumulated) to and including the first to occur of (i) the date on which the Liquidation
Value of such PBGC Preferred Share, plus all accrued and unpaid dividends thereon, is paid to the
holder thereof in connection with the liquidation, dissolution and/or winding up of the Corporation
(including any transaction deemed to be a liquidation, dissolution and winding up of the
Corporation under Section 2.2 below) or the redemption of such PBGC Preferred Share by the
Corporation, (ii) the date on which such PBGC Preferred Share is converted into shares of
Conversion Stock hereunder or (iii) the date on which such PBGC Preferred Share is otherwise
acquired by the Corporation. Such dividends shall be cumulative and shall accrue on a daily basis
whether or not they have been declared and whether or not there are profits, surplus or other funds
of the Corporation legally available for the payment of dividends. Each distribution on the PBGC
Preferred Stock shall be
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payable to holders of record as they appear on the records of the Corporation on the record
date declared by the Board of Directors, which shall be not fewer than ten (10) nor more than sixty
(60) days preceding the related Dividend Reference Date. The date on which the Corporation
initially issues any PBGC Preferred Share shall be deemed to be its date of issuance regardless
of the number of times transfer of such PBGC Preferred Share is made on the stock records
maintained by or for the Corporation and regardless of the number of certificates which may be
issued to evidence such PBGC Preferred Share.
1.2 Dividend Reference Dates. To the extent not paid on June 30 and December 31 of each year,
beginning June 30, 2006 (the Dividend Reference Dates), all dividends which have accrued on each
PBGC Preferred Share outstanding during the six-month period (or the period beginning on the date
of issuance of the PBGC Preferred Stock and ending on June 30, 2006 in the case of the initial
Dividend Reference Date) ending upon each such Dividend Reference Date shall be accumulated (and
dividends shall accrue thereon pursuant to Section 1.1) and shall remain accumulated dividends with
respect to such PBGC Preferred Share until paid to the holder thereof pursuant to Section 1.1.
1.3 Pro Rata Payment. All dividends paid with respect to PBGC Preferred Shares pursuant to
this Section 1 shall be paid pro rata and in like manner to the holders of each PBGC Preferred
Share entitled thereto.
Section 2. Liquidation.
2.1 Generally. Upon any liquidation, dissolution and/or winding up of the Corporation
(whether voluntary or involuntary, and including any transaction deemed to be a liquidation,
dissolution and winding up of the Corporation pursuant to Section 2.2 below):
(a) each holder of PBGC Preferred Stock shall be entitled to be paid in respect of each PBGC
Preferred Share then held by such holder, prior to and in preference to any distribution or payment
to be made in respect of any Junior Securities or to be made in respect of any PBGC Preferred
Shares pursuant to Section 2.1(b) below, an amount in cash equal to all accrued and unpaid
dividends on such PBGC Preferred Share; and
(b) each holder of PBGC Preferred Stock shall be entitled to be paid in respect of each PBGC
Preferred Share then held by such holder, prior to and in preference to any distribution or payment
to be made in respect of any Junior Securities, an amount in cash equal to the Liquidation Value of
each such PBGC Preferred Share.
2.2 Deemed Liquidations. The consummation of any Change in Ownership or Fundamental Change
shall be deemed to be a liquidation, dissolution and winding up of the Corporation for purposes of
this Section 2 (and, upon consummation thereof, each holder of PBGC Preferred Stock shall be
entitled to receive, in exchange for cancellation of such holders PBGC Preferred Shares, payment
from the Corporation of the amounts payable under this Section 2 with respect to such holders PBGC
Preferred Shares upon a liquidation, dissolution and/or winding up of the Corporation).
2.3 Notice of Liquidations; Distribution of Partial Liquidation Proceeds. Except as otherwise
agreed by the holders of a majority of the PBGC Preferred Shares then outstanding, not fewer than
45 days prior to the date of any liquidation, dissolution and/or winding up of the Corporation
stated therein, the Corporation shall mail written notice of any liquidation, dissolution and/or
winding up of the Corporation (including any transaction deemed to be a liquidation, dissolution
and winding up of the Corporation under Section 2.2 above) to each record holder of PBGC Preferred
Stock, setting forth in reasonable detail the amount of proceeds to be paid with respect to each
PBGC Preferred Share and each share of Common Stock in connection with such liquidation,
dissolution and/or winding up of the
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Corporation. If, upon any liquidation, dissolution and/or winding up of the Corporation
(whether voluntary or involuntary, and including any transaction deemed to be a liquidation,
dissolution and winding up of the Corporation under Section 2.2 above), the Corporations assets to
be distributed among the holders of the PBGC Preferred Stock are insufficient to permit payment to
such holders of the aggregate amount which they are entitled to be paid under Section 2.1(a) and
Section 2.1(b) above, then the entire assets available to be distributed to the Corporations
stockholders shall be distributed pro rata among the holders of the PBGC Preferred Stock and Serial
Preferred Stock ranking pari passu with the PBGC Preferred Stock on a pari passu basis according to
the Liquidation Value of each PBGC Preferred Share and the liquidation value of each other share of
Serial Preferred Stock.
Section 3. Ranking. The PBGC Preferred Stock shall, with respect to dividends, distributions
and the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation
(including any transaction deemed to be a liquidation, dissolution and winding up of the
Corporation under Section 2.2 above), rank on a parity with the Serial Preferred Stock and rank
senior to the Junior Securities, including without limitation the Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock,
the Class IAM Preferred Stock and all shares of Common Stock. In determining whether any class or
series of stock of the Corporation ranks on a parity or junior to the PBGC Preferred Stock, such
class or series shall be deemed to rank:
(a) on a parity with the PBGC Preferred Stock as to the distribution of assets upon
liquidation, dissolution or winding up, whether or not the liquidation prices per share thereof are
different from those of the PBGC Preferred Stock, if the holders of such class or series of Serial
Preferred Stock and the PBGC Preferred Stock shall be entitled to the receipt of amounts
distributable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up in proportion to their respective
liquidation preferences, without preference or priority one over the other; and
(b) junior to the PBGC Preferred Stock, as to the distribution of assets upon liquidation,
dissolution or winding up, if the holders of PBGC Preferred Stock shall be entitled to the receipt
of amounts distributable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up in preference or priority to
the holders of shares of such class or series.
Section 4. Redemptions.
4.1 Optional Redemption. The Corporation may at any time and from time to time redeem all or
any portion of the shares of PBGC Preferred Stock then outstanding. Upon any such redemption, the
Corporation shall pay a price per PBGC Preferred Share equal to the Liquidation Value thereof (plus
all accrued and unpaid dividends thereon). Each holder of PBGC Preferred Shares shall promptly
surrender and deliver to the Corporation the certificates representing such shares. If fewer than
all of the PBGC Preferred Shares outstanding are to be redeemed by the Corporation at any time,
then the number of PBGC Preferred Shares to be redeemed from each holder of PBGC Preferred Shares
at such time shall be determined pro rata based upon the aggregate Liquidation Value of all PBGC
Preferred Shares held by each such holder (plus all accrued and unpaid dividends thereon).
4.2 Redemption Payments. For each PBGC Preferred Share that is to be redeemed hereunder, the
Corporation shall be obligated on the Redemption Date to pay to the holder thereof (upon surrender
by such holder at the Corporations principal office of the certificate representing such PBGC
Preferred Share) an amount in cash in immediately available funds equal to the Liquidation Value of
such PBGC Preferred Share, plus all accrued and unpaid dividends thereon. If the funds of the
Corporation legally available for redemption of PBGC Preferred Shares on any Redemption Date are
insufficient to redeem the total number of PBGC Preferred Shares to be redeemed on such date, those
funds which are legally available shall be used to redeem the maximum possible number of PBGC
Preferred Shares pro rata among the holders of the PBGC Preferred Shares to be redeemed based upon
the aggregate Liquidation
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Value of all PBGC Preferred Shares held by each such holder, plus all accrued and unpaid
dividends thereon.
4.3 Notice of Redemption. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Corporation shall mail
written notice of each redemption of PBGC Preferred Stock to each record holder thereof not less
than 45 days prior to the date on which such redemption is to be made. In case fewer than the
total number of PBGC Preferred Shares represented by any certificate are redeemed, a new
certificate representing the number of unredeemed PBGC Preferred Shares shall be issued to the
holder thereof within five Business Days after surrender of the certificate representing the
redeemed PBGC Preferred Shares.
4.4 Determination of the Number of Each Holders Shares to be Redeemed. Except as otherwise
provided herein, the PBGC Preferred Shares to be redeemed from the holders thereof in redemptions
hereunder shall be allocated among such holders on a pro rata basis in accordance with the
aggregate Liquidation Value of all PBGC Preferred Shares held by each such holder, plus all accrued
and unpaid dividends thereon.
4.5 Dividends After Redemption Date. No PBGC Preferred Share shall be entitled to any
dividends accruing after the date on which the Liquidation Value of such PBGC Preferred Share,
together with all accrued and unpaid dividends thereon through the date of payment, is paid in full
in immediately available funds to the holder of such PBGC Preferred Share. On such date, all
rights of the holder of such PBGC Preferred Share shall cease, and such PBGC Preferred Share shall
no longer be deemed to be issued and outstanding.
4.6 Redeemed or Otherwise Acquired Shares. Any PBGC Preferred Shares converted, redeemed,
purchased or otherwise acquired by the Corporation in any manner whatsoever shall be retired and
cancelled promptly after the acquisition thereof, and, if necessary to provide for the lawful
redemption or purchase of such shares, the capital represented by such shares shall be reduced in
accordance with the GCL. All such shares shall upon their cancellation be retired from the
available capital stock of the Corporation and no longer be authorized shares of Preferred Stock of
the Corporation.
Section 5. Voting Rights. Except as otherwise required by applicable law, the holders of PBGC
Preferred Stock shall have no voting rights except that the affirmative vote of the holders of a
majority of the outstanding PBGC Preferred Shares, voting as a separate class, shall be necessary
for authorizing, effecting or validating the amendment, alteration or repeal (including any
amendment, alteration or repeal by operation of merger or consolidation or otherwise) of any of the
provisions of this Restated Certificate or of any certificate amendatory thereof or supplemental
thereto (including any Certificate of Designation, Preferences and Rights or any similar document
relating to any series of Serial Preferred Stock) which would adversely affect the powers,
preferences or special rights of any of the PBGC Preferred Shares.
Section 6. Conversion.
6.1 Conversion Procedure.
(a) (i) At any time and from time to time following the earlier of (A) the second anniversary
of the date of issuance of the PBGC Preferred Stock and (B) a Fundamental Change or a Change in
Ownership pursuant to Section 2.3 above (in which case, any conversion would be effective
simultaneously with the consummation of the Fundamental Change or Change in Ownership), any holder
of PBGC Preferred Stock may convert all or any portion of such holders PBGC Preferred Stock
(including any fraction of a PBGC Preferred Share) held by such holder into the number of shares of
Conversion Stock computed by multiplying the number of such holders PBGC Preferred Shares to be
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converted by the Liquidation Value (plus all accrued and unpaid dividends thereon) and
dividing the result by the Conversion Price then in effect.
(ii) On the 15th anniversary of the date of issuance, each PBGC Preferred Share
shall automatically convert into the number of shares of Conversion Stock computed by
dividing the Liquidation Value (plus all accrued and unpaid dividends thereon) of such
PBGC Preferred Share by the Conversion Price then in effect.
(b) Except as otherwise provided herein, each conversion of PBGC Preferred Stock shall be
deemed to have been effected as of the close of business on the date on which the certificate or
certificates representing the PBGC Preferred Stock to be converted have been surrendered for
conversion at the principal office of the Corporation. At the time any such conversion has been
effected, the rights of the holder of the shares converted as a holder of PBGC Preferred Stock
shall cease and the Person or Persons in whose name or names any certificate or certificates for
shares of Conversion Stock are to be issued upon such conversion shall be deemed to have become the
holder or holders of record of the shares of Conversion Stock represented thereby.
(c) The conversion rights of any PBGC Preferred Share subject to redemption hereunder shall
terminate on the Redemption Date for such PBGC Preferred Share.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, if a conversion of PBGC Preferred Stock is to
be made in connection with a Change in Ownership, a Fundamental Change or similar transaction
affecting the Corporation, the conversion of any shares of PBGC Preferred Stock may, at the
election of the holder thereof, be conditioned upon the consummation of such transaction, in which
case such conversion (i) shall not become effective unless such transaction is consummated, and
(ii) shall be deemed to be effective immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction.
(e) As soon as possible after a conversion has been effected, but in any event within ten
Business Days thereafter, the Corporation shall deliver to the converting holder:
(i) a certificate or certificates representing the number of shares of Conversion
Stock issuable by reason of such conversion in the name of the record holder thereof and
in such denomination or denominations as the converting holder has specified;
(ii) a certificate representing any shares of PBGC Preferred Stock which were
represented by the certificate or certificates delivered to the Corporation in
connection with such conversion but which were not converted; and
(iii) payment of the amount payable under Section 6.1(i) below with respect to such
conversion.
(f) Upon conversion of each share of PBGC Preferred Stock, the Corporation shall take all such
actions as are necessary in order to insure that the Conversion Stock issuable with respect to such
conversion shall be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all taxes,
liens, charges and encumbrances with respect to the issuance thereof.
(g) The Corporation shall not close its books against the transfer of PBGC Preferred Stock or
of Conversion Stock issued or issuable upon conversion of PBGC Preferred Stock in any manner which
interferes with the timely conversion of PBGC Preferred Stock. The Corporation shall assist and
cooperate, in all reasonable respects, with any holder of PBGC Preferred Shares required to make
any governmental filings or obtain any governmental approval prior to or in connection with any
conversion
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of PBGC Preferred Shares hereunder (including, without limitation, making any filings required
to be made by the Corporation).
(h) The Corporation shall at all times reserve and keep available out of its authorized but
unissued shares of Common Stock, solely for the purpose of issuance upon the conversion of the PBGC
Preferred Stock, such number of shares of Conversion Stock issuable upon the conversion of all
outstanding PBGC Preferred Stock. All shares of Conversion Stock which are so issuable shall, when
issued, be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free from all taxes, liens,
charges and encumbrances. The Corporation shall take all such actions as may be necessary to
assure that all such shares of Conversion Stock may be so issued without violation of any
applicable law or governmental regulation or any requirements of any domestic securities exchange
upon which shares of Conversion Stock may be listed (except for official notice of issuance which
shall be delivered by the Corporation promptly after such issuance). The Corporation shall not
take any action which would cause the number of authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock to
be fewer than the number of Conversion Shares required to be reserved hereunder for issuance upon
conversion of all outstanding PBGC Preferred Stock.
(i) If any fractional interest in a share of Conversion Stock would, except for the provisions
of this subparagraph, be delivered upon any conversion of any PBGC Preferred Shares, the
Corporation, in lieu of delivering the fractional share therefor, shall pay an amount to the holder
thereof equal to the Market Price of such fractional interest as of the date of conversion.
6.2 Conversion Price.
(a) The initial Conversion Price shall be 125% of the average of the closing prices of the
sales of Common Stock on all domestic securities exchanges on which such Common Stock may at the
time be listed, averaged over a period beginning on the date of issuance of the PBGC Preferred
Stock and ending on the 60th consecutive trading day following such date (the Conversion Price).
The Corporation shall deliver to Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), on or prior to the
65th trading day following the date of issuance of the PBGC Preferred Stock, written notice setting
forth the initial Conversion Price and the calculation thereof. In order to prevent dilution of
the conversion rights granted under this Section 6, the Conversion Price shall be subject to
adjustment from time to time pursuant to this Section 6.2 and Section 6.4 below.
(b) If and whenever the Corporation issues or sells, or in accordance with Section 6.3 is
deemed to have issued or sold, any shares of its Common Stock for a consideration per share less
than the Market Price in effect immediately prior to the time of such issuance or sale, then
immediately upon such issuance or sale or deemed issuance or sale the Conversion Price shall be
reduced to the Conversion Price determined by dividing (a) the sum of (1) the product derived by
multiplying the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to such issuance or sale by the number
of shares of Common Stock Deemed Outstanding immediately prior to such issue or sale, plus (2) the
consideration, if any, received by the Corporation upon such issuance or sale, by (b) the number of
shares of Common Stock Deemed Outstanding immediately after such issuance or sale.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, there shall be no adjustment in the Conversion Price as a
result of (i) any issuance or sale (or deemed issuance or sale) of any Common Stock to directors,
employees, consultants, and advisors of the Corporation and its Subsidiaries pursuant to stock
option plans, stock ownership plans or other compensatory arrangements approved by the Board of
Directors (as such number of shares is proportionately adjusted for subsequent stock splits,
combinations and dividends affecting the Common Stock) or (ii) any issuance of Common Stock upon
the conversion, exchange or exercise of any securities issued on or prior to the date of issuance
of the PBGC Preferred Stock or pursuant to the Plan of Reorganization.
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6.3 Effect on Conversion Price of Certain Events. For purposes of determining the adjusted
Conversion Price under Section 6.2 above, the following shall be applicable:
(a) Issuance of Rights or Options. If the Corporation in any manner grants or sells any
Options, other than as expressly provided in the Plan of Reorganization, and the price per share
for which Common Stock is issuable upon the exercise of such Options, or upon the conversion or
exchange of any Convertible Securities issuable upon the exercise of such Options, is less than the
Market Price in effect immediately prior to the time of the granting or sale of such Options, then
the total maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of such Options or
upon conversion or exchange of the total maximum amount of such Convertible Securities issuable
upon the exercise of such Options shall be deemed to be outstanding and to have been issued and
sold by the Corporation at the time of the granting or sale of such Options for such price per
share. For purposes of this paragraph, the price per share for which Common Stock is issuable
shall be determined by dividing (A) the total amount, if any, received or receivable by the
Corporation as consideration for the granting or sale of such Options, plus the minimum aggregate
amount of additional consideration payable to the Corporation upon the exercise of all such
Options, plus in the case of such Options which relate to Convertible Securities, the minimum
aggregate amount of additional consideration, if any, payable to the Corporation upon the issuance
or sale of such Convertible Securities and the conversion or exchange thereof, by (B) the total
maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of such Options or upon the
conversion or exchange of all such Convertible Securities issuable upon the exercise of such
Options. No further adjustment of the Conversion Price shall be made when Convertible Securities
are actually issued upon the exercise of such Options or when Common Stock is actually issued upon
the exercise of such Options or the conversion or exchange of such Convertible Securities.
(b) Issuance of Convertible Securities. If the Corporation in any manner issues or sells any
Convertible Securities, other than as expressly provided in the Plan of Reorganization, and the
price per share for which Common Stock is issuable upon the conversion or exchange thereof is less
than the Market Price in effect immediately prior to the time of such issue or sale, then the
maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion or exchange of such Convertible
Securities shall be deemed to be outstanding and to have been issued and sold by the Corporation at
the time of the issuance or sale of such Convertible Securities for such price per share. For the
purposes of this paragraph, the price per share for which Common Stock is issuable shall be
determined by dividing (A) the total amount received or receivable by the Corporation as
consideration for the issue or sale of such Convertible Securities, plus the minimum aggregate
amount of additional consideration, if any, payable to the Corporation upon the conversion or
exchange thereof, by (B) the total maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon the
conversion or exchange of all such Convertible Securities. No further adjustment of the Conversion
Price shall be made when Common Stock is actually issued upon the conversion or exchange of such
Convertible Securities, and if any such issue or sale of such Convertible Securities is made upon
exercise of any Options for which adjustments of the Conversion Price had been or are to be made
pursuant to other provisions of this Section 6, no further adjustment of the Conversion Price shall
be made by reason of such issue or sale.
(c) Change in Option Price or Conversion Rate. If the purchase price provided for in any
Option, the additional consideration, if any, payable upon the issue, conversion or exchange of any
Convertible Securities or the rate at which any Convertible Security is convertible into or
exchangeable for Common Stock changes at any time, the Conversion Price in effect at the time of
such change shall be adjusted immediately to the Conversion Price which would have been in effect
at such time had such Option or Convertible Security originally provided for such changed purchase
price, additional consideration or conversion rate, as the case may be, at the time initially
granted, issued or sold. For purposes of Section 6.3, if the terms of any Option or Convertible
Security which was outstanding as of the date of issuance of the PBGC Preferred Stock are changed
in the manner described in the immediately
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preceding sentence, then such Option or Convertible Security and the Common Stock deemed
issuable upon exercise, conversion or exchange thereof shall be deemed to have been issued as of
the date of such change; provided that no such change shall at any time cause the Conversion Price
hereunder to be increased.
(d) Treatment of Expired Options and Unexercised Convertible Securities. Upon the expiration
of any Option or the termination of any right to convert or exchange any Convertible Security
without the exercise of any such Option or right, the Conversion Price then in effect hereunder
shall be adjusted immediately to the Conversion Price that would have been in effect at the time of
such expiration or termination had such Option or Convertible Security, to the extent outstanding
immediately prior to such expiration or termination, never been issued. For purposes of this
Section 6.3, the expiration or termination of any Option or Convertible Security that was
outstanding as of the date of issuance of the PBGC Preferred Stock shall not cause the Conversion
Price hereunder to be adjusted unless, and only to the extent that, a change in the terms of such
Option or Convertible Security caused it to be deemed pursuant to Section 6.3(c), to have been
issued after the date of issuance of the PBGC Preferred Stock.
(e) Calculation of Consideration Received. If any Common Stock, Option or Convertible
Security is issued or sold or deemed to have been issued or sold for cash, the consideration
received therefor shall be deemed to be the amount received by the Corporation therefor (net of
discounts, commissions and related expenses). If any Common Stock, Option or Convertible Security
is issued or sold for a consideration other than cash, the amount of the consideration other than
cash received by the Corporation shall be the fair value of such consideration, except where such
consideration consists of securities, in which case the amount of consideration received by the
Corporation shall be the Market Price thereof as of the date of the sale or issuance by the
Corporation of such Common Stock, Option or Convertible Security. If any Common Stock, Option or
Convertible Security is issued to the owners of the non-surviving Person in connection with any
merger or consolidation in which the Corporation is the surviving Person, the amount of
consideration therefor shall be deemed to be the fair value of the portion of the net assets and
business of the non-surviving Person that is attributable to such Common Stock, Option or
Convertible Security, as the case may be. The fair value of any consideration or net assets other
than cash and securities (and, if applicable, the portion thereof attributable to any such stock or
securities) shall be determined in good faith by the Board of Directors.
(f) Integrated Transactions. In case any Common Stock, Option or Convertible Security is
issued in connection with the issue or sale of other securities of the Corporation, together
comprising one integrated transaction in which no specific consideration is allocated to such
Common Stock, Option or Convertible Security by the parties thereto, the Common Stock, Option or
Convertible Security shall be deemed to have been issued for a consideration of $.01.
(g) Treasury Shares. The number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at any given time shall
not include shares owned or held by or for the account of the Corporation or any of its
Subsidiaries, and the disposition of any shares so owned or held shall be considered an issue or
sale of Common Stock.
(h) Record Date. If the Corporation takes a record of the holders of Common Stock for the
purpose of entitling them (a) to receive a dividend or other distribution payable in Common Stock,
Options or in Convertible Securities or (b) to subscribe for or purchase Common Stock, Options or
Convertible Securities, then such record date shall be deemed to be the date of the issuance or
sale of the shares of Common Stock to be issued or sold upon the declaration of such dividend or
upon the making of such other distribution or the date of the granting of such right of
subscription or purchase, as the case may be.
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6.4 Subdivision or Combination of Common Stock. If the Corporation at any time subdivides (by
any stock split, stock dividend, recapitalization or otherwise) one or more classes of its
outstanding shares of Common Stock into a greater number of shares, the Conversion Price in effect
immediately prior to such subdivision shall be proportionately reduced, and if the Corporation at
any time combines (by reverse stock split or otherwise) one or more classes of its outstanding
shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, the Conversion Price in effect immediately
prior to such combination shall be proportionately increased.
6.5 Reorganization, Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger or Sale. Any recapitalization,
reorganization, reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale or disposition of all or
substantially all of the Corporations property or assets or other transaction, in each case which
is effected in such a manner that the holders of Common Stock are entitled to receive (either
directly or upon subsequent liquidation) stock, securities, property or assets with respect to or
in exchange for Common Stock, is referred to herein as an Organic Change. Prior to the
consummation of any Organic Change, unless the PBGC Preferred Stock receives in such Organic Change
either (i) on an as-converted basis, the same proportionate consideration as the Common Stock or
(ii) in exchange therefor, preferred stock of the successor Person resulting from the Organic
Change (or its parent Person) bearing the same relative rights, privileges and priorities as the
PBGC Preferred Stock, the Corporation shall make appropriate provisions to insure that the PBGC
Preferred Stock shall not be cancelled or retired as a result of such Organic Change and each of
the holders of the PBGC Preferred Stock shall thereafter have the right to acquire and receive, in
lieu of the shares of Conversion Stock immediately theretofore acquirable and receivable upon the
conversion of such holders PBGC Preferred Stock, such shares of stock, securities or assets as
such holder would have received in connection with such Organic Change if such holder had converted
in accordance with this Section 6 all of such holders PBGC Preferred Stock immediately prior to
such Organic Change (plus all accrued and unpaid dividends on all PBGC Preferred Shares held by
such holder immediately prior to such Organic Change). In each such case, the Corporation shall
also make appropriate provisions to insure that the provisions of this Section 6 shall thereafter
be applicable to the PBGC Preferred Stock (including, in the case of any such consolidation,
merger, sale or disposition in which the successor Person or purchasing Person is other than the
Corporation, an immediate adjustment of the Conversion Price to the value for the Common Stock
reflected by the terms of such consolidation, merger, sale or disposition, and a corresponding
immediate adjustment in the number of shares of Conversion Stock acquirable and receivable upon
conversion of PBGC Preferred Stock, if the value so reflected is less than the Market Price in
effect immediately prior to such consolidation, merger, sale or disposition). The Corporation
shall not effect any such consolidation, merger, sale or disposition, unless prior to the
consummation thereof, the successor Person (if other than the Corporation) resulting from
consolidation or merger or the Person purchasing such assets assumes by written instrument, the
obligation to deliver to each holder of PBGC Preferred Shares of stock, securities, property or
assets as, in accordance with the foregoing provisions, such holder may be entitled to acquire.
6.6 Certain Events. If any event occurs of the type contemplated by the provisions of this
Section 6 but not expressly provided for by such provisions (other than in respect of any
compensatory arrangement described in Section 6.2(c)(i) above), then the Board of Directors shall
make an appropriate adjustment in the Conversion Price so as to protect the rights of the holders
of PBGC Preferred Stock; provided that no such adjustment shall increase the Conversion Price as
otherwise determined pursuant to this Section 6 or decrease the number of shares of Conversion
Stock issuable upon the conversion of any PBGC Preferred Share.
6.7 Notices.
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(a) As soon as practicable after any adjustment of the Conversion Price, the Corporation shall
give written notice thereof to all holders of PBGC Preferred Stock, setting forth in reasonable
detail and certifying the calculation of such adjustment.
(b) The Corporation shall give written notice to all holders of PBGC Preferred Stock at least
20 days prior to the date on which the Corporation closes its books or takes a record (i) with
respect to any dividend or distribution upon Common Stock, (ii) with respect to any pro rata
subscription offer to holders of Common Stock or (iii) for determining rights to vote with respect
to any Organic Change, dissolution or liquidation.
(c) The Corporation shall also give written notice to all holders of PBGC Preferred Stock at
least 20 days prior to the date on which any Organic Change shall take place.
Section 7. Registration of Transfer. The Corporation shall keep at its principal office a
register for the registration of PBGC Preferred Stock. Upon the surrender of any certificate
representing PBGC Preferred Stock at such place, the Corporation shall, at the request of the
record holder of such certificate, execute and deliver (at the Corporations expense) a new
certificate or certificates in exchange therefor representing in the aggregate the number of PBGC
Preferred Shares represented by the surrendered certificate. Each such new certificate shall be
registered in such name and shall represent such number of PBGC Preferred Shares as is requested by
the holder of the surrendered certificate and shall be substantially identical in form to the
surrendered certificate, and dividends shall accrue on the PBGC Preferred Stock represented by such
new certificate from the date to which dividends have been fully paid on such PBGC Preferred Stock
represented by the surrendered certificate.
Section 8. Liquidating Dividends. If the Corporation declares or pays a dividend upon the
Common Stock payable otherwise than in cash out of earnings or earned surplus (determined in
accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles) except for a stock dividend
payable in shares of Common Stock (a Liquidating Dividend), then the Corporation shall pay to the
holders of PBGC Preferred Stock at the time of payment thereof the Liquidating Dividends which
would have been paid in respect of shares of Conversion Stock had such PBGC Preferred Stock been
converted immediately prior to the date on which a record is taken for such Liquidating Dividend,
or, if no record is taken, the date as of which the record holders of such class of Common Stock
entitled to such dividends are to be determined. The Liquidation Value of any PBGC Preferred Share
shall be reduced by the amount of any Liquidating Dividend paid in respect of such Share.
Section 9. Replacement. Upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Corporation
of the ownership and the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of any certificate evidencing PBGC
Preferred Shares, and in the case of any such loss, theft or destruction, upon receipt of indemnity
reasonably satisfactory to the Corporation, or, in the case of any such mutilation upon surrender
of such certificate, the Corporation shall execute and deliver in lieu of such certificate a new
certificate of like kind representing the number of PBGC Preferred Shares represented by such lost,
stolen, destroyed or mutilated certificate and dated the date of such lost, stolen, destroyed or
mutilated certificate, and dividends shall accrue on the PBGC Preferred Stock represented by such
new certificate from the date to which dividends have been fully paid on the PBGC Preferred Stock
represented by such lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated certificate or, if there is no such date,
from the date of issuance of the PBGC Preferred Stock represented by such lost, stolen, destroyed
or mutilated certificate.
Section 10. Definitions.
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10.1 Business Day means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a
day on which banking institutions in New York, New York or U.S. governmental agencies are
authorized or obligated by applicable law or executive order to remain closed.
10.2 Change in Ownership means any sale, disposition, transfer or issuance or series of
sales, dispositions, transfers and/or issuances of shares of the capital stock by the Corporation
or any holders thereof which results in any Person or group of Persons (as the term group is used
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended), other than the holders of Common Stock and
PBGC Preferred Stock as of the date of issuance of the PBGC Preferred Stock, owning capital stock
of the Corporation possessing the voting power (under ordinary circumstances and without regard to
cumulative voting rights) to elect a majority of the Board of Directors.
10.3 Common Stock means the Corporations Common Stock and any capital stock of any class of
the Corporation hereafter authorized which is not limited to a fixed sum or percentage of par or
stated value in respect to the rights of the holders thereof to participate in dividends or in the
distribution of assets upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation.
10.4 Common Stock Deemed Outstanding means, at any given time, the number of shares of
Common Stock actually outstanding at such time, plus the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding or that would be outstanding upon exercise or conversion of all Options and Convertible
Securities, whether or not the Options or Convertible Securities are actually exercisable at such
time, including any shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the PBGC Preferred Stock.
10.5 Conversion Stock means shares of Common Stock; provided that if there is a change such
that the securities issuable upon conversion of the PBGC Preferred Stock are issued by a Person
other than the Corporation or there is a change in the type or class of securities so issuable,
then the term Conversion Stock shall mean shares of the security issuable upon conversion of the
PBGC Preferred Stock if such security is issuable in shares, or shall mean the smallest unit in
which such security is issuable if such security is not issuable in shares.
10.6 Convertible Securities means any stock or securities directly or indirectly convertible
into or exchangeable for Common Stock.
10.7 Fundamental Change means the occurrence of any of the following: (a) any sale,
transfer or disposition of more than 50% of the property or assets of the Corporation and its
Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis (measured either by book value in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles consistently applied or by fair market value determined in the
reasonable good faith judgment of the Board of Directors) in any transaction or series of
transactions (other than sales in the ordinary course of business) and (b) any merger or
consolidation to which the Corporation is a party, except for (x) a merger which is effected solely
to change the state of incorporation of the Corporation or (y) a merger in which the Corporation is
the surviving Person, the terms of the PBGC Preferred Stock are not changed or altered in any
respect, the PBGC Preferred Stock is not exchanged for cash, securities or other property or
assets, and after giving effect to such merger, the holders of the capital stock of the Corporation
as of the date prior to the merger or consolidation shall continue to own the outstanding capital
stock of the Corporation possessing the voting power (under ordinary circumstances) to elect a
majority of the Board of Directors.
10.8 Junior Securities means any capital stock or other equity securities of the
Corporation, except for the Serial Preferred Stock and the PBGC Preferred Stock.
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10.9 Liquidation Value of any PBGC Preferred Share as of any particular date shall be the
sum of (a) $100 and (b) all increases in Liquidation Value pursuant to Section 1.1 above.
10.10 Market Price of any security means the average of the closing prices of such
securitys sales on all securities exchanges on which such security may at the time be listed, or,
if there has been no sales on any such exchange on any day, the average of the highest bid and
lowest asked prices on all such exchanges at the end of such day, or, if on any day such security
is not so listed, the average of the representative bid and asked prices quoted in the NASDAQ
System as of 4:00 P.M., New York time, or, if on any day such security is not quoted in the NASDAQ
System, the average of the highest bid and lowest asked prices on such day in the domestic
over-the-counter market as reported by the National Quotation Bureau, Incorporated, or any similar
successor organization, in each such case averaged over a period of 21 days consisting of the day
as of which Market Price is being determined and the 20 consecutive Business Days prior to such
day. If at any time such security is not listed on any securities exchange or quoted in the NASDAQ
System or the over-the-counter market, the Market Price shall be the fair value thereof
determined in good faith by the Corporation.
10.11 Options means any rights, warrants or options to subscribe for or purchase Common
Stock or Convertible Securities.
10.12 Person means an individual, a corporation, a limited liability company, an
association, a partnership, a joint venture, a trust, an unincorporated organization and a
governmental entity or any department, agency or political subdivision thereof.
10.13 Plan of Reorganization means the Joint Plan of Reorganization under Chapter 11 of the
United States Bankruptcy Code confirmed by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern
District of Illinois, on behalf of the Corporation and 27 other direct and indirect wholly owned
subsidiaries, in Case No. 02-B-48191, as in effect on the date of issuance of the PBGC Preferred
Stock.
10.14 Redemption Date as to any PBGC Preferred Share means the applicable date specified in
the notice of any redemption given in accordance with Section 4.3 above; provided that no such date
shall be a Redemption Date unless the Liquidation Value of such PBGC Preferred Share, plus all
accrued and unpaid dividends thereon, is actually paid in full on such date, and if not so paid in
full, the Redemption Date shall be the date on which all such amounts are fully paid.
10.15 Subsidiary means, with respect to any Person, any corporation, limited liability
company, partnership, association or other business entity of which (i) if a corporation, a
majority of the total voting power of shares of stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of
any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof is at the time
owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by that Person or one or more of the other
Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof, or (ii) if a limited liability company,
partnership, association or other business entity, a majority of the partnership or other similar
ownership interest thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by any
Person or one or more Subsidiaries of that person or a combination thereof. For purposes hereof, a
Person or Persons shall be deemed to have a majority ownership interest in a limited liability
company, partnership, association or other business entity if such Person or Persons shall be
allocated a majority of limited liability company, partnership, association or other business
entity gains or losses or shall be or control the managing general partner of such limited
liability company, partnership, association or other business entity.
Section 11. Amendment and Waiver. No amendment, modification or waiver shall be binding or
effective with respect to any provision of this Article FOURTH, Part II without the prior written
consent of the holders of a majority of the PBGC Preferred Shares outstanding at the time such
action is taken.
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Section 12. Notices. Except as otherwise expressly provided hereunder, all notices referred
to herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by registered or certified mail, return
receipt requested and postage prepaid, or by reputable overnight courier service, charges prepaid,
and shall be deemed to have been given when so mailed or sent (i) to the Corporation, at its
principal executive offices and (ii) to any stockholder, at such holders address as it appears in
the stock records of the Corporation (unless otherwise indicated by any such holder).
PART III
Class Pilot MEC Junior Preferred Stock
Unless otherwise indicated, any reference in this Article Fourth, Part III to Section,
subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, or clause shall refer to a Section, subsection,
paragraph, subparagraph or clause in this Article Fourth, Part III.
Section 1. Issuance; Restrictions on Transfer.
The share of Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock shall be issued only to, and shall be held only
by, (i) the United Airlines Pilots Master Executive Council (the MEC) of the Air Line Pilots
Association, International (ALPA) pursuant to ALPAs authority as the collective bargaining
representative for the crafts or class of pilots employed by United Air Lines, Inc. (United) or
(ii) a duly authorized agent acting for the benefit of the MEC. Any purported sale, transfer,
pledge or other disposition (a transfer) of the share of Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock to any
person, other than a successor to the MEC by merger or reorganization of ALPA (in any such case, an
ALPA Successor), or a duly authorized agent acting for the benefit of ALPA or an ALPA Successor,
shall be null and void and of no force and effect. Upon any purported transfer of the share of
Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock by the holder thereof other than as expressly permitted above, and
without any further action by the Corporation, such holder or any other person or entity, such
share shall, to the extent of funds legally available therefor and subject to the other provisions
of this Restated Certificate, be automatically redeemed by the Corporation in accordance with
Subsection 9.2 hereof, and thereupon such share shall no longer be deemed outstanding, and neither
such holder nor any purported transferee thereof shall have in respect thereof any of the voting
powers, preferences or relative, participating, optional or special rights ascribed to the share of
Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock hereunder, but rather such holder thereafter shall only be entitled
to receive the amount payable upon redemption in accordance with Section 9. The certificate
representing the share of Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock shall be legended to reflect the
restrictions on transfer and automatic redemption provided for herein.
Section 2. Definitions. For purposes of this Article FOURTH, Part III, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
2.1 Affiliate shall have the meaning defined in Rule 12b-2 under the Exchange Act.
2.2 Board of Directors shall mean the board of directors of the Corporation or any committee
thereof authorized by such board of directors to perform any of its responsibilities with respect
to the Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock.
2.3 Business Day shall mean any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a day on which state or
federally chartered banking institutions in New York, New York are not required to be open.
2.4 Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any successor act
thereto.
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2.5 set apart for payment shall be deemed to include, without any action other than the
following, the recording by the Corporation in its accounting ledgers of any accounting or
bookkeeping entry which indicates, pursuant to a declaration of dividends or other distribution by
the Board of Directors, the allocation of funds to be so paid on any series or class of capital
stock of the Corporation; provided, however, that if any funds for any class or series of stock of
the Corporation ranking on a parity with or junior to the Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock as to
distributions upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation are placed in a
separate account of the Corporation or delivered to a disbursing, paying or other similar agent,
then set apart for payment with respect to the Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock shall mean, with
respect to such distributions, placing such funds in a separate account or delivering such funds to
a disbursing, paying or other similar agent.
2.6 Transfer Agent means the Corporation or such agent or agents of the Corporation as may
be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors as the transfer agent for the Class Pilot
MEC Preferred Stock.
Section 3. Dividends. The holder of the share of Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock as such
shall not be entitled to receive any dividends or other distributions (except as provided in
Section 4).
Section 4. Payments upon Liquidation.
4.1 In the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the
Corporation, before any payment or distribution of the assets of the Corporation (whether capital
or surplus) shall be made to or set apart for payment to the holders of any class or series of
stock of the Corporation that ranks junior to the Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock as to amounts
distributable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, the holder of the
share of Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive $0.01 for the share of Class
Pilot MEC Preferred Stock (the Liquidation Preference), but such holder shall not be entitled to
any further payment. If, upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, the
assets of the Corporation, or proceeds thereof, distributable to the holder of the share of Class
Pilot MEC Preferred Stock shall be insufficient to pay in full the Liquidation Preference and the
liquidation preference on all other shares of any class or series of stock of the Corporation that
ranks on a parity with the Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock as to amounts distributable upon
liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, then such assets, or the proceeds
thereof, shall be distributed among the holder of the share of Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock and
any such other parity stock ratably in accordance with the respective amounts that would be payable
on such share of Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock and any such other parity stock if all amounts
payable thereon were paid in full. For the purposes of this Section 4, (i) a consolidation or
merger of the Corporation with or into one or more corporations, or (ii) a sale, lease, exchange or
transfer of all or substantially all of the Corporations assets, shall not be deemed to be a
liquidation, dissolution or winding up, voluntary or involuntary, of the Corporation.
4.2 Subject to the rights of the holders of shares of any series or class of stock ranking
prior to or on a parity with the Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock as to amounts distributable upon
liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, after payment shall have been made to
the holder of the share of Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock, as and to the fullest extent provided
in this Section 4, any series or class of stock of the Corporation that ranks junior to the Class
Pilot MEC Preferred Stock as to amounts distributable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up
of the Corporation, shall, subject to the respective terms and provisions (if any) applying
thereto, be entitled to receive any and all assets remaining to be paid or distributed, and the
holder of the share of Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock shall not be entitled to share therein.
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Section 5. Shares to be Retired. The share of Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock which shall have
been issued and reacquired in any manner (other than redemption pursuant to Section 9.1) by the
Corporation shall be retired and restored to the status of an authorized but unissued share of
Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock and, in the event of the redemption of such share pursuant to
Section 9.1 hereof, shall not be reissued.
Section 6. Ranking.
6.1 Any class or series of stock of the Corporation shall be deemed to rank:
(a) prior to the Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock as to the distribution of assets upon
liquidation, dissolution or winding up, if the holders of such class or series shall be entitled to
the receipt of amounts distributable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up in preference or
priority to the holder of Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock;
(b) on a parity with the Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock as to the distribution of assets upon
liquidation, dissolution or winding up, whether or not the liquidation prices per share thereof be
different from those of the Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock, if the holders of such class or series
and the Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock shall be entitled to the receipt of amounts distributable
upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up in proportion to their respective liquidation
preferences, without preference or priority one over the other; and
(c) junior to the Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock, as to the distribution of assets upon
liquidation, dissolution or winding up, if the holder of Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock shall be
entitled to the receipt of amounts distributable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up in
preference or priority to the holders of shares of such class or series.
6.2 The PBGC Preferred Stock shall be deemed to rank senior to the Class Pilot MEC Preferred
Stock as to amounts distributable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up. The Class IAM
Preferred Stock shall be deemed to rank on a parity with the Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock as to
amounts distributable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up. The Common Stock shall each be
deemed to rank junior to the Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock as to amounts distributable upon
liquidation, dissolution or winding up.
Section 7. Consolidation, Merger, etc.
7.1 In case the Corporation enters into any consolidation, merger, share exchange or similar
transaction, however named, involving the Corporation or its subsidiary, United (or any successor
to all or substantially all the assets or business of United), pursuant to which the outstanding
shares of Common Stock are to be exchanged for or changed, reclassified or converted into
securities of any successor or resulting or other company (including the Corporation), or cash or
other property (each of the foregoing transactions is referred to herein as a Merger
Transaction), proper provision shall be made so that, upon consummation of such transaction, the
share of Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock shall be converted, reclassified or changed into or
exchanged for preferred stock of such successor or resulting or other company having, in respect of
such company, the same powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special
rights (including the rights provided by this Section 7), and the qualifications, limitations or
restrictions thereof, that the Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock had, in respect of the Corporation,
immediately prior to such transaction; specifically including, without limitation, the right, until
the ALPA Termination Date (as defined in Section 8.1 below), to elect one member of the board of
directors (or similar governing body) of such company.
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7.2 In case the Corporation shall enter into any agreement providing for any Merger
Transaction, then the Corporation shall as soon as practicable thereafter (and in any event at
least fifteen (15) Business Days before consummation of such transaction) give notice of such
agreement and the material terms thereof to the holder of the share of Class Pilot MEC Preferred
Stock. The Corporation shall not consummate any such Merger Transaction unless all of the terms of
this Section 7 and Section 8 have been complied with.
Section 8. Voting. The holder of the share of Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock shall have the
following voting rights:
8.1 Until such time (the ALPA Termination Date) as (i) there are no longer any persons
represented by ALPA (or any ALPA Successor) employed by the Corporation or any of its Affiliates or
(ii) the collective bargaining agreement between the Corporation or any of its Affiliates and ALPA
has been amended by the parties thereto so that such agreement no longer provides that ALPA has the
right to appoint a director of the Corporation, the holder of the share of Class Pilot MEC
Preferred Stock shall have the right (a) voting as a separate class, to (1) elect one director to
the Board of Directors at each annual meeting of stockholders for a term of office to expire at the
succeeding annual meeting of stockholders, (2) remove such director with or without cause and (3)
fill any vacancies in such directorship resulting from death, resignation, disqualification,
removal or other cause, and (b) voting together as a single class with the holders of Common Stock
and the holders of such other classes or series of stock that vote together with the Common Stock
as a single class, to vote on all matters submitted to a vote of the holders of Common Stock of the
Corporation (other than the election of Directors), except as otherwise required by law.
8.2 The affirmative vote of the holder of the share of Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock, voting
as a separate class, shall be necessary for authorizing, effecting or validating the amendment,
alteration or repeal (including any amendment, alteration or repeal by operation of merger or
consolidation) of any of the provisions of this Restated Certificate or of any certificate
amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto (including any Certificate of Designation, Preferences
and Rights or any similar document relating to any series of Serial Preferred Stock) which would
adversely affect the powers, preferences or special rights of the Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock.
8.3 For purposes of the foregoing provisions of Sections 8.1 and 8.2, the share of Class Pilot
MEC Preferred Stock shall have one (1) vote.
Section 9. Redemption.
9.1 The share of Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock shall, to the extent of funds legally
available therefor and subject to the other provisions of this Restated Certificate, be
automatically redeemed on the ALPA Termination Date, at a price of $0.01 per share, as provided
herein below. As promptly as reasonably possible following the occurrence of the ALPA Termination
Date, the Corporation shall give notice thereof and of the redemption under this Section 9 to the
record holder of the Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock. From and after the redemption provided for in
this Section 9.1, all rights of the holder of the Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock as such, except
the right to receive the redemption price of such share upon the surrender of the certificate
formerly representing the same, shall cease and terminate and such share shall not thereafter be
deemed to be outstanding for any purpose whatsoever.
9.2 The share of Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock shall, to the extent of funds legally
available therefor and subject to the other provisions of this Restated Certificate, be
automatically redeemed upon any purported transfer thereof other than as expressly permitted under
Section 1.2. The redemption price to be paid in connection with any redemption shall be $0.01 per
share of Class Pilot MEC Preferred
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Stock. Upon any such redemption, all rights of the holder of Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock
as such, except the right to receive the redemption price of such share upon the surrender of the
certificate formerly representing the same, shall cease and terminate and such share shall not
thereafter be deemed to be outstanding for any purpose whatsoever.
9.3 The holder of the share of Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock so redeemed pursuant to Section
9.1 or 9.2 shall present and surrender the certificate formerly representing such share to the
Corporation and thereupon the redemption price of such share shall be paid to or on the order of
the person whose name appears on such certificate as the owner thereof and the surrendered
certificate shall be cancelled.
Section 10. Record Holders. The Corporation and the Transfer Agent (if other than the
Corporation) may deem and treat the record holder of the share of Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock
as the true and lawful owner thereof for all purposes, and, except as otherwise provided by law,
neither the Corporation nor the Transfer Agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
PART IV
Class IAM Junior Preferred Stock
Unless otherwise indicated, any reference in this Article Fourth, Part IV to Section,
subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, or clause shall refer to a Section, subsection,
paragraph, subparagraph or clause in this Article Fourth, Part IV.
Section 1. Issuance; Restrictions on Transfer.
The share of Class IAM Preferred Stock shall be issued only to, and shall be held only by, (i)
the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (the IAM) pursuant to the IAMs
authority as the collective bargaining representative for certain crafts or classes of public
contact employees, ramp and stores employees, food service and security officer employees, Mileage
Plus public contact employees, fleet technical instructors and related and maintenance instructor
employees employed by United or (ii) a duly authorized agent acting for the benefit of the IAM. Any
purported sale, transfer, pledge or other disposition (hereinafter a transfer) of the share of
Class IAM Preferred Stock to any person, other than a successor to the IAM by merger or
reorganization of the IAM (in any such case, an IAM Successor), or a duly authorized agent acting
for the benefit of the IAM or an IAM Successor, shall be null and void and of no force and effect.
Upon any purported transfer of the share of Class IAM Preferred Stock by the holder thereof other
than as expressly permitted above, and without any further action by the Corporation, such holder
or any other person or entity, such share shall, to the extent of funds legally available therefor
and subject to the other provisions of this Restated Certificate, be automatically redeemed by the
Corporation in accordance with Subsection 9.2 hereof, and thereupon such share shall no longer be
deemed outstanding, and neither such holder nor any purported transferee thereof shall have in
respect thereof any of the voting powers, preferences or relative, participating, optional or
special rights ascribed to the share of Class IAM Preferred Stock hereunder, but rather such holder
thereafter shall only be entitled to receive the amount payable upon redemption in accordance with
Section 9. The certificate representing the share of Class IAM Preferred Stock shall be legended to
reflect the restrictions on transfer and automatic redemption provided for herein.
Section 2. Definitions. For purposes of this Article Fourth, Part IV, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
2.1 Affiliate shall have the meaning defined in Rule 12b-2 under the Exchange Act.
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2.2 Board of Directors shall mean the board of directors of the Corporation or any committee
thereof authorized by such board of directors to perform any of its responsibilities with respect
to the Class IAM Preferred Stock.
2.3 Business Day shall mean any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a day on which state or
federally chartered banking institutions in New York, New York are not required to be open.
2.4 Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any successor act
thereto.
2.5 set apart for payment shall be deemed to include, without any action other than the
following, the recording by the Corporation in its accounting ledgers of any accounting or
bookkeeping entry which indicates, pursuant to a declaration of dividends or other distribution by
the Board of Directors, the allocation of funds to be so paid on any series or class of capital
stock of the Corporation; provided, however, that if any funds for any class or series of stock of
the Corporation ranking on a parity with or junior to the Class IAM Preferred Stock as to
distributions upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation are placed in a
separate account of the Corporation or delivered to a disbursing, paying or other similar agent,
then set apart for payment with respect to the Class IAM Preferred Stock shall mean, with
respect to such distributions, placing such funds in a separate account or delivering such funds to
a disbursing, paying or other similar agent.
2.6 Transfer Agent means the Corporation or such agent or agents of the Corporation as may
be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors as the transfer agent for the Class IAM
Preferred Stock.
Section 3. Dividends. The holder of the share of Class IAM Preferred Stock as such shall not
be entitled to receive any dividends or other distributions (except as provided in Section 4).
Section 4. Payments upon Liquidation.
4.1 In the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the
Corporation, before any payment or distribution of the assets of the Corporation (whether capital
or surplus) shall be made to or set apart for payment to the holders of any class or series of
stock of the Corporation that ranks junior to the Class IAM Preferred Stock as to amounts
distributable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, the holder of the
share of Class IAM Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive $0.01 for the share of Class IAM
Preferred Stock (the Liquidation Preference), but such holder shall not be entitled to any
further payment. If, upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, the assets
of the Corporation, or proceeds thereof, distributable to the holder of the share of Class IAM
Preferred Stock shall be insufficient to pay in full the Liquidation Preference and the liquidation
preference on all other shares of any class or series of stock of the Corporation that ranks on a
parity with the Class IAM Preferred Stock as to amounts distributable upon liquidation, dissolution
or winding up of the Corporation, then such assets, or the proceeds thereof, shall be distributed
among the holder of the share of Class IAM Preferred Stock and any such other parity stock ratably
in accordance with the respective amounts that would be payable on such share of Class IAM
Preferred Stock and any such other parity stock if all amounts payable thereon were paid in full.
For the purposes of this Section 4, (i) a consolidation or merger of the Corporation with or into
one or more corporations, or (ii) a sale, lease, exchange or transfer of all or substantially all
of the Corporations assets, shall not be deemed to be a liquidation, dissolution or winding up,
voluntary or involuntary, of the Corporation.
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4.2 Subject to the rights of the holders of shares of any series or class of stock ranking
prior to or on a parity with the Class IAM Preferred Stock as to amounts distributable upon
liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, after payment shall have been made to
the holder of the share of Class IAM Preferred Stock, as and to the fullest extent provided in this
Section 4, any series or class of stock of the Corporation that ranks junior to the Class IAM
Preferred Stock as to amounts distributable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the
Corporation, shall, subject to the respective terms and provisions (if any) applying thereto, be
entitled to receive any and all assets remaining to be paid or distributed, and the holder of the
share of Class IAM Preferred Stock shall not be entitled to share therein.
Section 5. Shares to be Retired. The share of Class IAM Preferred Stock which shall have been
issued and reacquired in any manner (other than redemption pursuant to Section 9.1) by the
Corporation shall be retired and restored to the status of an authorized but unissued share of
Class IAM Preferred Stock and, in the event of the redemption of such share pursuant to Section 9.1
hereof, shall not be reissued.
Section 6. Ranking.
6.1 Any class or series of stock of the Corporation shall be deemed to rank:
(a) prior to the Class IAM Preferred Stock as to the distribution of assets upon liquidation,
dissolution or winding up, if the holders of such class or series shall be entitled to the receipt
of amounts distributable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up in preference or priority to
the holder of Class IAM Preferred Stock;
(b) on a parity with the Class IAM Preferred Stock as to the distribution of assets upon
liquidation, dissolution or winding up, whether or not the liquidation prices per share thereof be
different from those of the Class IAM Preferred Stock, if the holders of such class or series and
the Class IAM Preferred Stock shall be entitled to the receipt of amounts distributable upon
liquidation, dissolution or winding up in proportion to their respective liquidation preferences,
without preference or priority one over the other; and
(c) junior to the Class IAM Preferred Stock, as to the distribution of assets upon
liquidation, dissolution or winding up, if the holder of Class IAM Preferred Stock shall be
entitled to the receipt of amounts distributable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up in
preference or priority to the holders of shares of such class or series.
6.2 The PBGC Preferred Stock shall be deemed to rank senior to the Class IAM Preferred Stock
as to amounts distributable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up. The Class Pilot MEC
Preferred Stock shall be deemed to rank on a parity with the Class IAM Preferred Stock as to
amounts distributable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up. The Common Stock shall be deemed
to rank junior to the Class IAM Preferred Stock as to amounts distributable upon liquidation,
dissolution or winding up.
Section 7. Consolidation, Merger, etc.
7.1 In case the Corporation enters into any consolidation, merger, share exchange or similar
transaction, however named, involving the Corporation or its subsidiary, United (or any successor
to all or substantially all the assets or business of United), pursuant to which the outstanding
shares of Common Stock are to be exchanged for or changed, reclassified or converted into
securities of any successor or resulting or other company (including the Corporation), or cash or
other property (each of the foregoing transactions is referred to herein as a Merger
Transaction), proper provision shall be made so that, upon consummation of such transaction, the
share of Class IAM Preferred Stock shall be converted, reclassified
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or changed into or exchanged for preferred stock of such successor or resulting or other
company having, in respect of such company, the same powers, preferences and relative,
participating, optional or other special rights (including the rights provided by this Section 7),
and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, that the Class IAM Preferred Stock
had, in respect of the Corporation, immediately prior to such transaction; specifically including,
without limitation, the right, until the IAM Termination Date (as defined in Section 8.1 below), to
elect one member of the board of directors (or similar governing body) of such company.
7.2 In case the Corporation shall enter into any agreement providing for any Merger
Transaction, then the Corporation shall as soon as practicable thereafter (and in any event at
least fifteen (15) Business Days before consummation of such transaction) give notice of such
agreement and the material terms thereof to the holder of the share of Class IAM Preferred Stock.
The Corporation shall not consummate any such Merger Transaction unless all of the terms of this
Section 7 and Section 8 have been complied with.
Section 8. Voting. The holder of the share of Class IAM Preferred Stock shall have the
following voting rights:
8.1 Until such time (the IAM Termination Date) as (i) there are no longer any persons
represented by the IAM (or any IAM Successor) employed by the Corporation or any of its Affiliates
or (ii) the letter agreement between the Corporation and the IAM, dated as of May 1, 2003, no
longer provides that the IAM has the right to appoint a director of the Corporation, the holder of
the share of Class IAM Preferred Stock shall have the right (a) voting as a separate class, to (1)
elect one director to the Board of Directors at each annual meeting of stockholders for a term of
office to expire at the succeeding annual meeting of stockholders, (2) remove such director with or
without cause and (3) fill any vacancies in such directorship resulting from death, resignation,
disqualification, removal or other cause, and (b) voting together as a single class with the
holders of Common Stock and the holders of such other classes or series of stock that vote together
with the Common Stock as a single class, to vote on all matters submitted to a vote of the holders
of Common Stock of the Corporation (other than the election of Directors), except as otherwise
required by law.
8.2 The affirmative vote of the holder of the share of Class IAM Preferred Stock, voting as a
separate class, shall be necessary for authorizing, effecting or validating the amendment,
alteration or repeal (including any amendment, alteration or repeal by operation of merger or
consolidation) of any of the provisions of this Restated Certificate or of any certificate
amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto (including any Certificate of Designation, Preferences
and Rights or any similar document relating to any series of Serial Preferred Stock) which would
adversely affect the powers, preferences or special rights of the Class IAM Preferred Stock.
8.3 For purposes of the foregoing provisions of Sections 8.1 and 8.2, the share of Class IAM
Preferred Stock shall have one (1) vote.
Section 9. Redemption.
9.1 The share of Class IAM Preferred Stock shall, to the extent of funds legally available
therefor and subject to the other provisions of this Restated Certificate, be automatically
redeemed on the IAM Termination Date, at a price of $0.01 per share, as provided herein below. As
promptly as reasonably possible following the occurrence of the IAM Termination Date, the
Corporation shall give notice thereof and of the redemption under this Section 9 to the record
holder of the Class IAM Preferred Stock. From and after the redemption provided for in this Section
9.1, all rights of the holder of the Class IAM Preferred Stock as such, except the right to receive
the redemption price of such share upon the surrender
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of the certificate formerly representing the same, shall cease and terminate and such share
shall not thereafter be deemed to be outstanding for any purpose whatsoever.
9.2 The share of Class IAM Preferred Stock shall, to the extent of funds legally available
therefor and subject to the other provisions of this Restated Certificate, be automatically
redeemed upon any purported transfer thereof other than as expressly permitted under Section 1.2.
The redemption price to be paid in connection with any redemption shall be $0.01 per share of Class
IAM Preferred Stock. Upon any such redemption, all rights of the holder of Class IAM Preferred
Stock as such, except the right to receive the redemption price of such share upon the surrender of
the certificate formerly representing the same, shall cease and terminate and such share shall not
thereafter be deemed to be outstanding for any purpose whatsoever.
9.3 The holder of the share of Class IAM Preferred Stock so redeemed pursuant to Sections 9.1
or 9.2 shall present and surrender the certificate formerly representing such share to the
Corporation and thereupon the redemption price of such share shall be paid to or on the order of
the person whose name appears on such certificate as the owner thereof and the surrendered
certificate shall be cancelled.
Section 10. Record Holders. The Corporation and the Transfer Agent (if other than the
Corporation) may deem and treat the record holder of the share of Class IAM Preferred Stock as the
true and lawful owner thereof for all purposes, and, except as otherwise provided by law, neither
the Corporation nor the Transfer Agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
PART V
Common Stock
Unless otherwise indicated, any reference in this Article Fourth, Part V to Section,
subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, or clause shall refer to a Section, subsection,
paragraph, subparagraph or clause in this Article Fourth, Part V.
Section 1. Dividends. Subject to any rights to receive dividends to which the holders of the
shares of any other class or series of stock may be entitled, the holders of shares of Common Stock
shall be entitled to receive dividends, if and when declared payable from time to time by the Board
of Directors, from any funds legally available therefor.
Section 2. Liquidation. In the event of any dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the
Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, after there shall have been paid to the holders of
shares of any other class or series of stock ranking prior to the Common Stock in respect thereof
the full amounts to which they shall be entitled, and subject to any rights of the holders of any
other class or series of stock to participate therein, the holders of the then outstanding shares
of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive, pro rata, any remaining assets of the Corporation
available for distribution to its stockholders. Subject to the foregoing, the Board of Directors
may distribute in kind to the holders of the shares of Common Stock such remaining assets of the
Corporation, or may sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of all or any part of such remaining assets
to any other corporation, trust or other entity and receive payment therefor in cash, stock or
obligations of such, other corporations, trust or entity or any combination thereof, and may sell
all or any part of the consideration so received, and may distribute the consideration so received
or any balance thereof in kind to holders of the shares of Common Stock. The voluntary sale,
conveyance, lease, exchange or transfer of all or substantially all the property or assets of the
Corporation (unless in connection therewith the dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the
Corporation is specifically approved), or the merger or consolidation of the Corporation into or
with any other corporation, or the merger of any other corporation into it, or any purchase or
redemption of shares of
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stock of the Corporation of any class, shall not be deemed to be a dissolution, liquidation or
winding up of the corporation for the purpose of this Section 2.
Section 3. Voting. Except as provided by law or this Restated Certificate, each outstanding
share of Common Stock of the Corporation shall entitle the holder thereof to one vote on each
matter submitted to a vote at a meeting of stockholders.
PART VI
General Provisions
Section 1. No Preemptive Rights, Etc. Except as otherwise provided herein, no holder of stock
of the Corporation of any class shall have any preemptive, preferential or other right to purchase
or subscribe for any shares of stock, whether now or hereafter authorized, of the Corporation of
any class, or any obligations convertible into, or any options or warrants to purchase, any shares
of stock, whether now or hereafter authorized, of the Corporation of any class, other than such, if
any, as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine, and at such price as the Board of
Directors may from time to time fix; and any shares of stock or any obligations, options or
warrants which the Board of Directors may determine to offer for subscription to holders of any
shares of stock of the Corporation may, as the Board of Directors shall determine, be offered to
holders of shares of stock of the Corporation of any class or classes or series, and if offered to
holders of shares of stock of more than one class or series, in such proportions as between such
classes and series as the Board of Directors may determine.
Section 2. Non-Citizen Voting Limitation. All (x) capital stock of, or other equity interests
in, the Corporation, (y) securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of capital stock,
voting securities or other equity interests in the Corporation, and (z) options, warrants or other
rights to acquire the securities described in clauses (x) and (y), whether fixed or contingent,
matured or unmatured, contractual, legal, equitable or otherwise (collectively, Equity
Securities) shall be subject to the following limitations:
(a) Non-Citizen Voting Limitation. In no event shall the total number of shares of Equity
Securities held by all persons who fail to qualify as a citizen of the United States, as the term
is used in Section 40102(a)(15) of Title 49 of the United States Code, in any similar legislation
of the United States enacted in substitution or replacement therefor, and as interpreted by the
Department of Transportation, be entitled to be more than 24.9% (or such other maximum percentage
as such Section or substitute or replacement legislation shall hereafter provide) of the aggregate
votes of all outstanding Equity Securities of the Corporation (the Cap Amount).
(b) Allocation of Cap Amounts. The restrictions imposed by the Cap Amount shall be applied
pro rata among the holders of Equity Securities who fail to qualify as citizens of the United
States based on the number of votes the underlying securities are entitled to.
Each certificate or other representative document for Equity Securities (including each such
certificate or representative document for Equity Securities issued upon any permitted transfer of
Equity Securities) shall contain a legend in substantially the following form:
The [type of Equity Securities] represented by this [certificate/representative document] are
subject to voting restrictions with respect to [shares/warrants, etc.] held by persons or entities
that fail to qualify as citizens of the United States as the term is defined used in Section
40102(a)(15) of Title 49 of the United States Code. Such voting restrictions are contained in the
Restated Certificate of UAL Corporation, as the same may be amended or restated from time to time.
A complete and correct copy of
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the Restated Certificate shall be furnished free of charge to the holder of such shares of
[type of Equity Securities] upon written request to the Secretary of UAL Corporation.
Section 3. Restrictions on Issuance of Securities. (a) The Corporation shall not issue
nonvoting equity securities on or prior to the second anniversary of the Corporations emergence
from protection under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code to the extent prohibited by Section
1123(a)(6) of the United States Bankruptcy Code for so long as such section is in effect and
applicable to the Corporation (except to the extent of any voting restrictions on the PBGC
Preferred Stock set forth in this Restated Certificate).
(b) Except as required by law or as approved by the Stockholders, the Corporation shall not
issue serial preferred stock pursuant to Article Fourth, Part I with voting rights (unless such
serial preferred stock is convertible into Common Stock, in which case such serial preferred stock
may vote with the Common Stock on an as-converted basis).
Section 4. Stockholder Action. Any action required or permitted to be taken by the
stockholders of the Corporation must be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting of such
stockholders and may not be effected by any consent in writing by such stockholders.
Section 5. 5% Ownership Limit.
5.1 For purposes of Sections 5, 6 and 7, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated
(and any references to any portions of Treasury Regulation § 1.382-2T shall include any successor
provisions):
5% Transaction means any Transfer of Corporation Securities described in
clause (y) or (z) of paragraph 5.2, subject to the provision of such paragraph 5.2.
An Affiliate of any Person means any other Person, that, directly or
indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by, or is
under common control with, such Person; and, for the purposes of this definition
only, control (including the terms controlling, controlled by and under
common control with) means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to
direct or cause the direction of the management, policies or activities of a Person
whether through the ownership of securities, by contract or agency or otherwise.
Associate has the meaning ascribed to such term in Rule 12b-2 under the
Exchange Act.
A Person will be deemed the Beneficial Owner of, and will be deemed to
Beneficially Own, and will be deemed to have Beneficial
Ownership of:
(a) any securities that such Person or any of such Persons Affiliates or
Associates is deemed to Beneficially Own within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under
the Exchange Act, and any securities deposited into a trust established by or on
behalf of the Person or any of its Affiliates or Associates, the sole beneficiaries
of which are the shareholders of the Person;
(b) any securities (the Underlying Securities) that such Person or any of
such Persons Affiliates or Associates has the right to acquire (whether such right
is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time) pursuant to any
agreement, arrangement or understanding (written or oral), or upon the exercise of
conversion rights,
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exchange rights, rights, warrants or options, or otherwise (it being understood
that such Person will also be deemed to be the Beneficial Owner of the securities
convertible into or exchangeable for the Underlying Securities); and
(c) any securities Beneficially Owned by persons that are part of a group
(within the meaning of Rule 13d-5(b) under the Exchange Act) with such Person.
For purposes of calculating the percentage of Voting Securities that are
Beneficially Owned by any Person, such calculation will be made based on the
aggregate number of issued and outstanding securities at the time of such
calculation, but will not include in the denominator any such securities issuable
upon any options, warrants or other securities that are exercisable for such
securities.
Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
Corporation Securities means (i) shares of Common Stock, (ii) shares of
Preferred Stock (other than preferred stock described in Section 1504(a)(4) of the
Code), (iii) warrants, rights, or options (including options within the meaning of
Treasury Regulation § 1.382-2T(h)(4)(v)) to purchase stock of the Corporation, and
(iv) any other interest that would be treated as stock of the Corporation pursuant
to Treasury Regulation § 1.382-2T(f)(18).
Effective Date means February 1, 2006.
Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any
successor act thereto.
Five-Percent Shareholder means a Person or group of Persons that is
identified as a 5-percent shareholder of the Corporation pursuant to Treasury
Regulation § 1.382-2T(g).
Percentage Stock Ownership means the percentage Stock Ownership interest
as determined in accordance with Treasury Regulation § 1.382-2T(g), (h), (j) and
(k).
Person means any individual, firm, corporation or other legal entity, and
includes any successor (by merger or otherwise) of such entity.
Prohibited Transfer means any purported Transfer of Corporation Securities
to the extent that such Transfer is prohibited and/or void under this Section 5.
Tax Benefit means the net operating loss carryovers, capital loss
carryovers, general business credit carryovers, alternative minimum tax credit
carryovers and foreign tax credit carryovers, as well as any loss or deduction
attributable to a net unrealized built-in loss within the meaning of Section 382,
of the Corporation or any direct or indirect subsidiary thereof.
Transfer means, with respect to any Person other than the Corporation, any
direct or indirect sale, transfer, assignment, conveyance, pledge or other
disposition, other than a sale, transfer, assignment, conveyance, pledge or other
disposition to a wholly owned subsidiary of the transferor, or, if the transferor is
wholly owned by a Person, to a wholly owned subsidiary of such Person. A Transfer
also shall include the creation or grant of
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an option (including an option within the meaning of Treasury Regulation §
1.382-2T(h)(4)(v)).
Voting Securities means all securities that by their terms are entitled to
vote generally in the election of directors of the Corporation (without giving
effect to any contractual limitations on voting).
5.2 Any attempted Transfer of Corporation Securities prior to the earliest of (A) February 1,
2011, (B) the repeal, amendment or modification of Section 382 of the Code (and any comparable
successor provision) (Section 382) in such a way as to render the restrictions imposed by Section
382 no longer applicable to the Corporation, (C) the beginning of a taxable year of the Corporation
(or any successor thereof) in which no Tax Benefits are available, and (D) the date on which the
limitation amount imposed by Section 382 in the event of an ownership change of the Corporation, as
defined in Section 382, would not be materially less than the net operating loss carryforward or
net unrealized built-in loss of the Corporation (the Restriction Release Date), or any attempted
Transfer of Corporation Securities pursuant to an agreement entered into prior to the Restriction
Release Date, shall be prohibited and void ab initio so far as it purports to transfer ownership or
rights in respect of such stock to the Purported Transferee (y) if the transferor is a Five-Percent
Shareholder or (z) to the extent that, as a result of such Transfer (or any series of Transfers of
which such Transfer is a part), either (1) any Person or group of Persons shall become a
Five-Percent Shareholder other than by reason of Treasury Regulation Section 1.382T(j)(3) or any
successor to such regulation or (2) the Percentage Stock Ownership interest in the Corporation of
any Five-Percent Shareholder shall be increased; provided, that this paragraph 5.2 shall not apply
to, nor shall any other provision in this Restated Certificate prohibit, restrict or limit in any
way, the issuance of Corporation Securities by the Corporation in accordance with the Second
Amended Joint Plan of Reorganization of the Corporation dated January 20, 2006 (the Chapter 11
Plan). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the transfer restrictions described in this Section 5.2
shall not apply if (A) the Transferor is any of PBGC, any Person who purchased or acquired all or
any part of the Unsecured PBGC Claim (as defined in the Plan of Reorganization) prior to
Corporations emergence from protection under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code pursuant to the
Plan of Reorganization, or any of the trusts holding assets of the United Airlines Pilot Defined
Benefit Pension Plan, the United Airlines Flight Attendant Defined Benefit Pension Plan, the United
Airlines Ground Retirement Income Plan or the Management, Administrative and Public Contract
Defined Benefit Pension Plan of United (each, a PBGC Transferor) and (B) the Transfer is of
Corporation Securities that the PBGC Transferor obtained pursuant to the terms of the Plan of
Reorganization.
5.3 The restrictions set forth in paragraph 5.2 shall not apply to an attempted Transfer that
is a 5% Transaction if the transferor or the transferee obtains the prior written approval of the
Board of Directors or a duly authorized committee thereof.
As a condition to granting its approval pursuant to this paragraph 5.3, the Board of Directors may,
in its discretion, require (at the expense of the transferor and/or transferee) an opinion of
counsel selected by the Board of Directors that the Transfer shall not result in the application of
any Section 382 limitation on the use of the Tax Benefits. The Board of Directors may exercise the
authority granted by this Section 5 through duly authorized officers or agents of the Corporation.
5.4 Each certificate representing shares of Corporation Securities issued prior to the
Restriction Release Date shall contain the legend set forth on Exhibit A hereto, evidencing
the restrictions set forth in this Section 5 and Sections 6 and 7.
Section 6. Treatment of Excess Securities.
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6.1 No employee or agent of the Corporation shall record any Prohibited Transfer, and the
purported transferee of such a Prohibited Transfer (the Purported Transferee) shall not be
recognized as a stockholder of the Corporation for any purpose whatsoever in respect of the
Corporation Securities which are the subject of the Prohibited Transfer (the Excess Securities).
Until the Excess Securities are acquired by another Person in a Transfer that is not a Prohibited
Transfer, the Purported Transferee shall not be entitled with respect to such Excess Securities to
any rights of stockholders of the Corporation, including, without limitation, the right to vote
such Excess Securities and to receive dividends or distributions, whether liquidating or otherwise,
in respect thereof, if any; provided, however, that the Transferor of such Excess Securities shall
not be required to disgorge, and shall be permitted to retain for its own account, any proceeds of
such Transfer, and shall have no further rights, responsibilities, obligations or liabilities with
respect to such Excess Securities, if such Transfer was a Prohibited Transfer pursuant to Section
5.2(z). Once the Excess Securities have been acquired in a Transfer that is not a Prohibited
Transfer, the Corporation Securities shall cease to be Excess Securities. For this purpose, any
transfer of Excess Securities not in accordance with the provisions of this Section 5 shall also be
a Prohibited Transfer.
6.2 If the Board of Directors determines that a Transfer of Corporation Securities constitutes
a Prohibited Transfer then, upon written demand by the Corporation, the Purported Transferee shall
transfer or cause to be transferred any certificate or other evidence of ownership of the Excess
Securities within the Purported Transferees possession or control, together with any dividends or
other distributions that were received by the Purported Transferee from the Corporation with
respect to the Excess Securities (Prohibited Distributions ), to an agent designated by the Board
of Directors (the Agent). The Agent shall thereupon sell to a buyer or buyers, which may include
the Corporation, the Excess Securities transferred to it in one or more arms-length transactions
(over the New York Stock Exchange or other national securities exchange on which the Corporation
Securities may be traded, if possible, or otherwise privately); provided, however, that the Agent
shall effect such sale or sales in an orderly fashion and shall not be required to effect any such
sale within any specific time frame if, in the Agents discretion, such sale or sales would disrupt
the market for the Corporation Securities or otherwise would adversely affect the value of the
Corporation Securities. If the Purported Transferee has resold the Excess Securities before
receiving the Corporations demand to surrender Excess Securities to the Agent, the Purported
Transferee shall be deemed to have sold the Excess Securities for the Agent, and shall be required
to transfer to the Agent any Prohibited Distributions and proceeds of such sale, except to the
extent that the Corporation grants written permission to the Purported Transferee to retain a
portion of such sales proceeds not exceeding the amount that the Purported Transferee would have
received from the Agent pursuant to Section 6.3 if the Agent rather than the Purported Transferee
had resold the Excess Securities.
6.3 The Agent shall apply any proceeds of a sale by it of Excess Securities and, if the
Purported Transferee had previously resold the Excess Securities, any amounts received by it from a
Purported Transferee as follows: (x) first, such amounts shall be paid to the Agent to the extent
necessary to cover its costs and expenses incurred in connection with its duties hereunder; (y)
second, any remaining amounts shall be paid to the Purported Transferee, up to the amount paid by
the Purported Transferee for the Excess Securities (or the fair market value, (1) calculated on the
basis of the closing market price for the Corporation Securities on the day before the Prohibited
Transfer, (2) if the Corporation Securities are not listed or admitted to trading on any stock
exchange but are traded in the over-the-counter market, calculated based upon the difference
between the highest bid and lowest asked prices, as such prices are reported by the National
Association of Securities Dealers through its NASDAQ system or any successor system on the day
before the Prohibited Transfer or, if none, on the last preceding day for which such quotations
exist, or (3) if the Corporation Securities are neither listed nor admitted to trading on any stock
exchange nor traded in the over-the-counter market, then as determined in good faith by the Board
of Directors, of the Excess Securities at the time of the Prohibited Transfer to the Purported
Transferee by gift, inheritance, or similar Transfer), which amount (or fair market value) shall be
determined at the
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discretion of the Board of Directors; and (z) third, any remaining amounts, subject to the
limitations imposed by the following proviso, shall be paid to one or more organizations qualifying
under Section 501(c)(3) of the Code (or any comparable successor provision) (Section 501(c)(3))
selected by the Board of Directors; provided, however, that if the Excess Securities (including any
Excess Securities arising from a previous Prohibited Transfer not sold by the Agent in a prior
sale or sales), represent a 5% or greater Percentage Stock Ownership in any class of Corporation
Securities, then any such remaining amounts to the extent attributable to the disposition of the
portion of such Excess Securities exceeding a 4.99% Percentage Stock Ownership interest in such
class shall be paid to two or more organizations qualifying under Section 501(c)(3) selected by the
Board of Directors. The recourse of any Purported Transferee in respect of any Prohibited Transfer
shall be limited to the amount payable to the Purported Transferee pursuant to clause (y) of the
preceding sentence. In no event shall the proceeds of any sale of Excess Securities pursuant to
this Section 5 inure to the benefit of the Corporation.
6.4 If the Purported Transferee fails to surrender the Excess Securities or the proceeds of a
sale thereof to the Agent within thirty days from the date on which the Corporation makes a written
demand pursuant to Section 6.2, then the Corporation shall use its best efforts to enforce the
provisions hereof, including the institution of legal proceedings to compel the surrender.
6.5 The Corporation shall make the written demand described in Section 6.2 within thirty days
of the date on which the Board of Directors determines that the attempted Transfer would result in
Excess Securities; provided, however, that if the Corporation makes such demand at a later date,
the provisions of Sections 5 and 6 shall apply nonetheless.
Section 7. Board Authority.
The Board of Directors shall have the power to determine all matters necessary for assessing
compliance with Sections 5 and 6, including, without limitation, (A) the identification of
Five-Percent Shareholders, (B) whether a Transfer is a 5% Transaction or a Prohibited Transfer, (C)
the Percentage Stock Ownership in the Corporation of any Five-Percent Shareholder, (D) whether an
instrument constitutes a Corporation Security, (E) the amount (or fair market value) due to a
Purported Transferee pursuant to clause (y) of Section 6, and (F) any other matters which the Board
of Directors determines to be relevant; and the good faith determination of the Board of Directors
on such matters shall be conclusive and binding for all the purposes of Sections 5 and 6.
ARTICLE FIFTH.
Unless otherwise indicated, any reference in this Article Fifth to Section, subsection,
paragraph, subparagraph, or clause shall refer to a Section, subsection, paragraph,
subparagraph or clause in this Article Fifth.
Section 1. Definitions. As used in this Restated Certificate, the following terms shall have
the following meanings:
1.1 Chief Executive Officer means the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation.
1.2 Director means a director of the Corporation.
1.3 entire Board of Directors means all Directors of the Corporation who would be in office
if there were no vacancies.
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1.4 Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any successor act
thereto.
1.5 GCL means the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as amended from time to
time.
1.6 Person means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, association,
partnership, joint venture, trust or unincorporated organization, or a governmental entity or any
department, agency or political subdivision thereof.
1.7 Restated Bylaws means the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Corporation, as amended
from time to time.
1.8Stockholders means the stockholders of the Corporation.
Section 2. Directors.
2.1 General Powers. Except as otherwise provided in this Restated Certificate, the business
and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of
Directors. The Board of Directors may adopt such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with this
Restated Certificate, the Restated Bylaws or applicable law, as it may deem proper for the conduct
of its meetings and the management of the Corporation. In addition to the powers conferred
expressly by this Restated Certificate and the Restated Bylaws, the Board of Directors may exercise
all powers and perform all acts that are not required, by this Restated Certificate, the Restated
Bylaws or applicable law, to be exercised or performed by the Stockholders.
2.2 Number. Except as otherwise provided for or fixed by or pursuant to the provisions of
Article Fourth hereof relating to the rights of the holders of any class or series of stock to
elect Directors and take certain actions with respect to such elected Directors, the number of
Directors shall be fixed from time to time exclusively pursuant to a resolution of the Board of
Directors (but shall not be fewer than five). The initial number of Directors shall be twelve, and
shall not be increased to any number greater than twelve prior to February 1, 2008.
2.3 Term of Office. Except as otherwise provided in this Restated Certificate, each Director
shall hold office until the next annual meeting of Stockholders and until his or her successor is
elected and qualified, subject to such Directors earlier death, resignation or removal.
2.4 Resignation of Directors. Any Director may resign at any time upon written notice to the
Corporation.
2.5 Voting by Directors. Subject to any greater or additional vote of the Board or of any
class of Directors required by law or by this Restated Certificate, an act of the Board shall
require the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the votes entitled to be cast by the
Directors present at a meeting of the Board at which a quorum is present. Each Director shall have
one vote.
Section 3. Special Voting Provisions.
3.1 Election of Directors. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Restated Certificate,
and except as otherwise required by law, whenever the holders of one or more series of Preferred
Stock shall have the right, voting separately as a class, to elect one or more Directors, the term
of office, the filling of vacancies, the removal from office and other features of such
directorships shall be governed by the terms
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of this Restated Certificate or the resolution or resolutions of the Board of Directors
establishing such series of Preferred Stock. During any period when the holders of any series of
Preferred Stock have the right to elect additional Directors as provided for or fixed by or
pursuant to the provisions of Article Fourth hereof, then upon commencement and for the duration of
the period during which such right continues: (i) the then otherwise total authorized number of
Directors of the Corporation shall automatically be increased by such specified number of
Directors, and the holders of such Preferred Stock shall be entitled to elect the additional
Directors so provided for or fixed by or pursuant to said provisions, and (ii) each such additional
Director shall serve until such office terminates pursuant to said provisions, whichever occurs
earlier, subject to his or her earlier death, disqualification, resignation or removal. Except as
otherwise provided by the Board of Directors in the resolution or resolutions establishing a series
of Preferred Stock, whenever the holders of any series of Preferred Stock having a right to elect
additional Directors are divested of such right pursuant to the provisions of such series of
Preferred Stock, the terms of office of all such additional Directors elected by the holders of
such series of Preferred Stock, or elected, or fill any vacancies resulting from the death,
resignation, disqualification or removal of such additional Directors, shall forthwith terminate
and the total authorized number of Directors of the Corporation shall be reduced accordingly.
3.2 Amendment to the Restated Bylaws. The Board of Directors is expressly authorized to make,
alter, amend or repeal the Restated Bylaws; provided, however, that no bylaws hereafter adopted
shall invalidate any prior act of the Board of Directors that would have been valid if such bylaws
had not been adopted.
ARTICLE SIXTH.
(a) A director of the Corporation shall not be personally liable to the Corporation or its
stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability
(i) for any breach of the directors duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii)
for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing
violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the GCL, or (iv) for any transaction from which the
director derived an improper personal benefit.
(b) Each person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party or is involved
in any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal,
administrative or investigative (hereinafter a proceeding), by reason of the fact that he or
she, or a person of whom he or she is the legal representative, is or was a director, officer, or
employee, of the Corporation or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director,
officer, or employee of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other
enterprise, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, whether the basis of such
proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer, or employee or in any
other capacity while serving as a director, officer, or employee, shall be indemnified and held
harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent authorized by the GCL, as the same exists or may
hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that such
amendment permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights than said law permitted
the Corporation to provide prior to such amendment), against all expense, liability and loss
(including attorneys fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties and amounts paid or
to be paid in settlement) actually and reasonably incurred or suffered by such person in connection
therewith. Such indemnification shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director,
officer, or employee and shall inure to the benefit of his or her heirs, executors and
administrators; provided, however, that, except as provided in paragraph (c) hereof, the
Corporation shall indemnify any such person seeking indemnification in connection with a proceeding
(or part thereof) initiated by such person only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized
by the Board of Directors. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Corporation shall
not be obligated to indemnify a director, officer, or
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employee for costs and expenses relating to proceedings (or any part thereof) instituted
against the Corporation by such director, officer, or employee (other than proceedings pursuant to
which such director, officer, or employee is seeking to enforce such directors, officers, or
employees indemnification rights hereunder). The right to indemnification conferred in this
Article Sixth shall be a contract right and shall include the right to be paid by the Corporation
the expenses incurred in defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition;
provided, however, that, if the GCL requires, the payment of such expense incurred by a director or
officer in his or her capacity as a director or officer (and not in any other capacity in which
service was or is rendered by such person while a director or officer, including, without
limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) in advance of the final disposition of a
proceeding, shall be made only upon delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking, by or on behalf
of such director or officer, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined
that such director or officer is not entitled to be indemnified under this Article Sixth or
otherwise.
(c) If a claim under paragraph (b) of this Article Sixth is not paid in full by the
Corporation within thirty days after a written claim has been received by the Corporation, the
claimant may at any time thereafter bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount
of the claim and, if successful in whole or in part, the claimant shall be entitled to be paid also
the expense of prosecuting such claim. It shall be a defense to any such action (other than an
action brought to enforce a claim for expenses incurred in defending any proceeding in advance of
its final disposition where the required undertaking, if any is required, has been tendered to the
Corporation) that the claimant has not met the standards of conduct which make it permissible under
the GCL for the Corporation to indemnify the claimant for the amount claimed, but the burden of
proving such defense shall be on the Corporation. Neither the failure of the Corporation (including
its Board of Directors, independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) to have made a
determination prior to the commencement of such action that indemnification of the claimant is
proper in the circumstances because he or she has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth
in the GCL, nor an actual determination by the Corporation (including its Board of Directors,
independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) that the claimant has not met such applicable
standard of conduct, shall be a defense to the action or create a presumption that the claimant has
not met the applicable standard of conduct.
(d) The right to indemnification and the payment of expenses incurred in defending a
proceeding in advance of its final disposition conferred in this Article Sixth shall not be
exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute,
provision of this Restated Certificate, by-law, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested
directors or otherwise.
(e) The Corporation may maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect itself and any
director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint
venture, trust or other enterprise against any such expense, liability or loss, whether or not the
Corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss
under the GCL.
ARTICLE SEVENTH. Except as expressly provided in this Restated Certificate, the Corporation
reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this Restated
Certificate, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by the laws of Delaware and this Restated
Certificate, and all rights and powers conferred herein upon stockholders and directors are granted
subject to this reservation.
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I, the undersigned officer of UAL Corporation, a corporation of the State of Delaware, hereby
certify that the foregoing is a true, correct and complete copy of the Restated Certificate of said
Corporation as at present in force.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed by name and affixed the seal of this
Corporation this 1st day of February, 2006.
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Title: Assistant Secretary
EXHIBIT A
Form of Stock Legend
The shares of UAL Corporation Common Stock represented by this Certificate are issued pursuant to
the Plan of Reorganization for UAL Corporation, as confirmed by the United States Bankruptcy Court
for the Northern District of Illinois. The transfer of securities represented hereby is subject to
restriction pursuant to Article Fourth, Part VI, Sections 5, 6 and 7 of the Restated Certificate of
Incorporation of UAL Corporation. UAL Corporation will furnish a copy of its Restated Certificate
of Incorporation to the holder of record of this Certificate without charge upon written request
addressed to UAL Corporation at its principal place of business.
exv3w2
Exhibit 3.2
AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS
OF UAL CORPORATION
(as amended and restated on February 1, 2006)
ARTICLE 1
Definitions
As used in these Restated Bylaws, unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms
shall have the following meanings:
1.1 Assistant Secretary means an Assistant Secretary of the Corporation.
1.2 Assistant Treasurer means an Assistant Treasurer of the Corporation.
1.3 Board means the Board of Directors of the Corporation.
1.4 Chairman means the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Corporation.
1.5 Change in Ownership means any sale, disposition, transfer or issuance or series
of sales, dispositions, transfers and/or issuances of shares of the capital stock by the
Corporation or any holders thereof which results in any person or group of persons (as the
term group is used under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended), other than the
holders of Common Stock and PBGC Preferred Stock as of the date of issuance of the PBGC
Preferred Stock, owning capital stock of the Corporation possessing the voting power (under
ordinary circumstances and without regard to cumulative voting rights) to elect a majority
of the Board.
1.6 Chief Executive Officer means the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation.
1.7 Common Stock means the common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Corporation.
1.8 Corporation means UAL Corporation.
1.9 Director means a director of the Corporation.
1.10 Entire Board means all Directors who would be in office if there were no vacancies.
1.11 Fundamental Change means the occurrence of any of the following: (a) any sale,
transfer or disposition of more than 50% of the property or assets of the Corporation and
its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis (measured either by book value in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles consistently applied or by fair market value
determined in the reasonable good faith judgment of the Board) in any transaction or series
of transactions (other than sales in the ordinary course of business) and (b) any merger or
consolidation to which the Corporation is a party, except for (x) a merger which is effected
solely to change the state of incorporation of the Corporation or (y) a merger in which the
Corporation is the surviving person, the terms of the PBGC Preferred Stock are not changed
or altered in any respect, the PBGC Preferred Stock is not exchanged for cash, securities or
other property or assets, and after giving effect to such merger, the holders of the capital
stock of the Corporation as of the date prior to the merger or consolidation shall continue
to own the outstanding capital stock of the Corporation possessing the voting power (under
ordinary circumstances) to elect a majority of the Board.
1.12 General Counsel means the General Counsel of the Corporation.
1.13 GCL means the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as amended from time
to time.
1.14 PBGC Preferred Stock means the 2% convertible preferred stock, par value $0.01,
of the Corporation.
1.15 Preferred Stock means the serial preferred stock, without par value, of the Corporation
and the PBGC Preferred Stock.
1.16 President means the President of the Corporation.
1.17 Restated Certificate means the Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the
Corporation, as amended from time to time.
1.18 Restated Bylaws means the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Corporation, as amended
from time to time.
1.19 Rights Plan means an arrangement for distribution to Stockholders of Common
Stock or Preferred Stock purchase rights that provide all Stockholders, other than persons
who meet certain criteria specified in the arrangement, with the right to purchase Common
Stock or Preferred Stock at less than the prevailing market price (sometimes referred to as
a poison pill).
1.20 Secretary means the Secretary of the Corporation.
1.21 Stockholders means the stockholders of the Corporation.
1.22 Treasurer means the Treasurer of the Corporation.
1.23 Union Directors means those directors of the Corporation elected by the holders
of Class IAM Preferred Stock and the Class Pilot MEC Preferred Stock pursuant to Article
Fourth, Parts III and IV of the Restated Certificate.
1.24 Vice President means a Vice President of the Corporation.
ARTICLE 2
Stockholders Meetings
2.1 Annual Meeting. A meeting of Stockholders shall be held annually for the election of
Directors and the transaction of other business at an hour and date as shall be determined by the
Board and designated in the notice of meeting.
2.2 Special Meetings. Subject to the Restated Certificate, a special meeting of the
Stockholders may be called only by the Chief Executive Officer, the Chairman or the Board, and at
an hour and date as shall be determined by them. At any special meeting of Stockholders, no
business other than that set forth in the notice thereof given pursuant to Section 2.4 may be
transacted.
2.3 Place of Meetings. All meetings of Stockholders shall be held at such places, within or
without the State of Delaware, as may from time to time be fixed by the Board or as specified or
fixed in the respective notices. The Board may, in its sole discretion, determine that a meeting
of the Stockholders shall not be held at any place, but may instead be held solely by means of
remote communication as authorized by Section 211(a)(2) of the GCL (or any successor provision
thereto). Any previously scheduled meeting of the Stockholders may be postponed by action of the
Board taken prior to the time previously scheduled for such annual meeting of Stockholders.
2.4 Notices of Stockholders Meetings. Except as otherwise provided in Section 2.5 or
otherwise required by the Restated Certificate or applicable law, written notice of each meeting of
Stockholders, whether annual or special, shall be given to each Stockholder required or permitted
to take any action at or entitled to notice of such meeting not less than ten (10) nor more than
sixty (60) days before the date on which the meeting is to be
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held, by delivering such notice to him, personally or by mail. If mailed, such notice shall be
deemed to be given when deposited in the United States mail, with postage prepaid, directed to the
Stockholder at his address as it appears on the stock books of the Corporation. Every notice of a
meeting of Stockholders shall state the place, date and hour of the meeting and the purpose or
purposes for which the meeting is called.
2.5 Waivers of Notice. Notwithstanding any other provision in these Restated Bylaws, notice
of any meeting of Stockholders shall not be required as to any Stockholder who shall attend such
meeting in person or be represented by proxy, except when such Stockholder attends such meeting for
the express purpose of objecting at the beginning of the meeting to the transaction of any business
at such meeting because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened. If any Stockholder shall,
in person or represented by proxy, waive notice of any meeting, whether before or after such
meeting, notice thereof shall not be required as to such Stockholder.
2.6 Quorum Requirements and Required Vote at Stockholder Meetings.
(a) Except as otherwise required by applicable law, the Restated Certificate or these Restated
Bylaws, at all meetings of Stockholders the presence, in person or represented by proxy, of the
holders of outstanding shares representing at least a majority of the total voting power entitled
to vote at a meeting of Stockholders shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business;
provided, however, that where a separate vote of a class or classes or series of stock is required
the presence in person or represented by proxy of the holders of outstanding shares representing at
least a majority of the total voting power of all outstanding shares of such class or classes or
series shall constitute a quorum thereof entitled to take action with respect to such separate
vote.
(b) Except as otherwise required by applicable law, the Restated Certificate or these Restated
Bylaws, including, without limitation, Section 3.3 hereof, the affirmative vote of a majority in
voting power of the shares present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the
subject matter at a meeting of Stockholders at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the
Stockholders.
(c) The holders of a majority in voting power of the shares entitled to vote and present in
person or represented by proxy at any meeting of Stockholders, whether or not a quorum is present,
may adjourn such meeting to another time and place. At any such adjourned meeting at which a
quorum shall be present, any business may be transacted that might have been transacted at the
meeting as originally called. Unless otherwise required by applicable law, the Restated
Certificate or these Restated Bylaws, no notice of an adjourned meeting need be given.
2.7 Proxies. Each Stockholder entitled to vote at a meeting of Stockholders may authorize
another person or persons to act for him by proxy, but such proxy shall no longer be valid eleven
months after the date of such proxy.
2.8 Judges. At every meeting of Stockholders, the votes shall be conducted by two judges
appointed for that purpose by the Board. All questions with respect to the qualification of voters,
the validity of the proxies and the acceptance or rejection of votes shall be decided by such
judges. Before acting at any meeting, the judges shall be sworn faithfully to execute their duties
with strict impartiality and according to the best of their ability. If any judge appointed to act
at any meeting shall fail to be present or shall decline to act, the Board or the Chairman shall
appoint another judge to act in his place.
2.9 Conduct of Stockholders Meetings. The Chairman or, in his absence, a Director or officer
designated by the Chairman, shall preside at all meetings of Stockholders and may establish such
rules of procedure for conducting the meetings as he or she deems fair and reasonable.
2.10 Proposing Business or Nominating Directors, other than Union Directors, at Stockholders
Meetings.
(a) No business may be transacted at an annual meeting of Stockholders unless (1) specified in
the notice of such meeting or any supplement thereto, given by or at the direction of the Board (or
any duly authorized committee of the Board); (2) otherwise properly brought before the annual
meeting by or at the direction of the Board (or any duly authorized committee of the Board); or (3)
otherwise properly brought before the annual meeting by any Stockholder who (A) is a Stockholder of
record on the date of the giving of the notice provided for in this Section 2.10 and, as of the
record date for the determination of Stockholders, is entitled to vote at such annual meeting on
the matter that is being brought before the meeting by such Stockholder, and (B) complies with the
notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.10.
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(b) Nominations for Directors, other than Union Directors, may be made at any annual meeting
of Stockholders or at any special meeting of Stockholders called for the purpose of electing such
Directors (the annual meeting or any special meeting of Stockholders herein called the
Stockholders Meeting), (1) by or at the direction of the Board (or any duly authorized committee
of the Board), or (2) by any Stockholder who (A) is a Stockholder of record on the date of the
giving of the notice provided for in this Section 2.10 and, as of the record date for the
determination of Stockholders, is entitled to vote at such Stockholders Meeting on the election of
such Directors, and (B) complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.10.
(c) In addition to any other applicable requirements for business to be properly brought
before, or for a nomination of a Director, other than a Union Director, to be made at, a
Stockholders Meeting by a Stockholder, such Stockholder must have given timely notice in writing
to the Secretary. For a Stockholders Meeting that is an annual meeting, a timely written notice
must be delivered to, or mailed to and received by, the Secretary at the principal executive
offices of the Corporation not less than one hundred-twenty (120) days prior to the anniversary
date of the immediately preceding annual meeting of Stockholders. In the event the annual meeting
is called for a date that is more than thirty (30) days earlier than or more than sixty (60) days
later than such anniversary date, or if the Stockholders Meeting is a special meeting, notice by
the Stockholder, in order to be timely, must be received not later than the close of business on
the tenth (10th) calendar day following the day on which notice of the date of the Stockholders
Meeting was mailed or public disclosure of the date of the Stockholders Meeting was first made,
whichever first occurs. In no event shall any adjournment of a Stockholders Meeting or any
announcement or notice thereof commence a new time period for the giving of a notice as described
above.
(1) When proposing business other than the election of Directors in accordance with
this Section, a Stockholders notice to the Secretary must set forth (A) a brief description
of the business desired to be brought before the Stockholders Meeting and the reasons for
conducting such business at the Stockholders Meeting, (B) the name and record address of
such Stockholder, (C) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock of the
Corporation which are owned beneficially or of record by such Stockholder, (D) a description
of all arrangements or understandings between such Stockholder and any other person or
persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such
Stockholder and any material interest of such Stockholder in such business and (E) a
representation that such Stockholder intends to appear in person or by proxy at the
Stockholders Meeting to bring such business before the meeting.
(2) When proposing to nominate a Director, other than a Union Director, a Stockholders
notice to the Secretary must set forth (A) as to each person whom the Stockholder proposes
to nominate for election as a Director, other than a Union Director (i) the name, age,
business address and residence address of the person, (ii) the principal occupation or
employment of the person, (iii) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock of
the Corporation which are owned beneficially or of record by the person, (iv) any other
information relating to the person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy
statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies
for election of directors pursuant to Section 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended (the Exchange Act), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, (v) the
written consent of such person to be named as a nominee and to serve as a Director if so
elected and (vi) such other information as may be reasonably necessary (as defined by the
Board) to permit the Corporation to determine that (y) the person satisfies any
qualification requirements of the Restated Certificate and (z) no violation of the Clayton
Act will occur; and (B) as to the Stockholder giving notice, (i) the name and record address
of such Stockholder, (ii) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock of the
Corporation which are owned beneficially or of record by such Stockholder, (iii) a
description of all arrangements or understandings between such Stockholder and each proposed
nominee and any other person or persons (including their names) pursuant to which the
nomination(s) are to be made by such Stockholder, (iv) a representation that such
Stockholder intends to appear in person or by proxy at the Stockholders Meeting to nominate
the persons named in its notice and (v) any other information relating to such Stockholder
that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be
made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of Directors pursuant to
Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. The
Board shall have the power to determine all matters necessary for assessing compliance with
the foregoing requirements.
(3) A Stockholder may propose to nominate a Director at a Stockholders Meeting that is
a special meeting by complying with the notice requirements of this Section only if such
Stockholders Meeting has been called for the purpose of electing Directors. A Stockholder
may not propose any other
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business to be brought before a Stockholders Meeting that is a special meeting
regardless of the purpose for which such Stockholders Meeting has been called.
(4) Nominations for Union Directors shall only be made by the holders of the class of
stock eligible to elect such class of Directors, and then only in accordance with the
procedures and qualification requirements of the Restated Certificate and any stockholder
agreements applicable to such nomination process.
(d) If the chairman of the Stockholders Meeting determines that a nomination was not made in
accordance with the foregoing procedures, the chairman shall declare to the Stockholders Meeting
that the nomination was defective and such defective nomination shall be disregarded.
(e) No business shall be conducted at a Stockholders Meeting except business brought before
the Stockholders Meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in Article 2 of these
Restated Bylaws; provided, however, that, once business has been properly brought before the
Stockholders Meeting in accordance with such procedures, nothing in this Section 2.10 shall be
deemed to preclude discussion by any Stockholder of any such business. If the chairman of a
Stockholders Meeting determines that business was not properly brought before the Stockholders
Meeting in accordance with the foregoing procedures, the chairman shall declare to the
Stockholders Meeting that the business was not properly brought before the meeting and such
business shall not be transacted.
2.11 List of Stockholders. It shall be the duty of the Secretary or other officer who has
charge of the stock ledger to prepare and make, at least ten (10) days before each Stockholders
Meeting, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at such meeting, arranged in
alphabetical order, and showing the address of each stockholder and the number of shares registered
in such stockholders name. Such list shall be produced and kept available at the times and places
required by law.
ARTICLE 3
Board Of Directors
3.1 Number and Term of Office. The number and term of office of Directors on the Board shall
be determined as provided in the Restated Certificate.
3.2 Powers. The Board may, except as otherwise provided in the Restated Certificate or the
GCL, exercise all such powers and do all such acts and things as may be exercised or done by the
Corporation.
3.3 Election. Except as otherwise required by applicable law or the Restated Certificate, and
notwithstanding Section 2.6(c) hereof, Directors shall be elected by a plurality of the votes cast
at a meeting of Stockholders by the holders of shares entitled to vote on their election.
3.4 Place of Meetings. Meetings of the Board may be held either within or without the State
of Delaware.
3.5 Organization Meeting. The Board shall meet as soon as practicable after each annual
meeting of Stockholders at the place of such annual meeting for the purpose of organization and the
transaction of other business. No notice of such meeting of the Board shall be required. Such
organization meeting may be held at any other time or place specified in a notice given as
hereinafter provided for special meetings of the Board, or in a consent and waiver of notice
thereof, signed by all of the Directors.
3.6 Stated Meetings. The Board shall from time to time, by resolution adopted by the
affirmative vote of at least a majority of the votes entitled to be cast by the entire Board,
appoint the time and place for holding stated meetings of the Board; and such meetings shall
thereupon be held at the time and place so appointed, without the giving of any special notice with
regard thereto. Any and all business may be transacted at any stated meeting.
3.7 Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board shall be held whenever called by the
Secretary of the Board, at the direction of any three Directors, or by the Chairman, or, in the
event that the office of the Chairman is vacant, by the Chief Executive Officer, or in the event
that the office of the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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are vacant, by the President. Notice of a special meeting shall set forth a description of
such meeting and be sent to the Directors as provided in Section 3.8.
3.8 Notices of Board Meetings. Notice of any meeting shall be sent to each Director at his
residence or usual place of business either (a) by reputable overnight delivery service in
circumstances to which such service guarantees next day delivery, not later than on the day that is
the second business day immediately preceding the day of such meeting, or (b) by facsimile, telex,
telegram or electronic mail, not later than twenty-four (24) hours before the time of such meeting.
If sent by overnight delivery service, such notice shall be deemed to be given when delivered to
such service; if sent by facsimile, telex, telegram or electronic mail, such notice shall be deemed
to be given when transmitted. Notice of any meeting of the Board need not however be given to any
Director, if waived by him in writing or if, subject to applicable law, he shall be present at the
meeting. Any meeting of the Board shall be a legal meeting without any notice thereof having been
given if all of the Directors shall be present thereat, except when a Director attends a meeting
for the express purpose of objecting at the beginning of the meeting to the transaction of any
business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened.
3.9 Quorum and Manner of Acting. Except as otherwise required by applicable law, the Restated
Certificate or these Restated Bylaws, the presence at any organization, stated or special meeting
of Directors having at least a majority of the votes entitled to be cast by the Entire Board shall
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; and, except as otherwise required by
applicable law, the Restated Certificate or these Restated Bylaws, the affirmative vote of a
majority of the votes entitled to be cast by the Directors present at any meeting at which a quorum
is present shall be the act of the Board. In the absence of a quorum, the affirmative vote of a
majority of the votes entitled to be cast by the Directors present may adjourn any meeting, from
time to time, until a quorum is present.
3.10 Telephone Meetings. Directors or members of any committee of the Board may participate
in a meeting of the Board or of such committee by means of conference telephone or similar
communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each
other, and participation in a meeting pursuant to this Section 3.10 shall constitute presence in
person at such meeting.
3.11 Chairman of the Board Pro Tempore. In the absence of both the Chairman and the Chief
Executive Officer at any meeting of the Board, the Board may appoint from among its members a
Chairman of the Board pro tempore, who shall preside at such meeting, except where otherwise
provided by law.
3.12 Removal of Directors. Any Director or the entire Board may be removed with or without
cause as provided under the GCL.
3.13 Vacancies and Newly Created Directorships. Except as otherwise provided in the Restated
Certificate, vacancies and newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the
authorized number of Directors may be filled by a majority of the Directors then in office, even if
less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining Director, and the Directors so chosen shall hold office
until the next election of Directors and until their successors are duly elected and qualified or
until earlier resignation or removal. If there are no Directors in office, then an election of
Directors may be held in the manner provided by statute.
3.14 Directors Fees. The Board shall have authority to determine, from time to time, the
amount of compensation that shall be paid to its members for attendance at meetings of the Board or
of any committee of the Board, which compensation may be payable currently or deferred.
3.15 Action Without Meeting. Any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of
the Board or any committee of the Board may be taken without a meeting if all of the members of the
Board or of any such committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing, by electronic
transmission or transmissions, or as otherwise permitted by law and, if required by law, the
writing or writings or electronic transmission or transmissions are filed with the minutes of
proceedings of the Board or of such committee. Such filing shall be in paper form if the minutes
are maintained in paper form and shall be in electronic form if the minutes are maintained in
electronic form.
3.16 Emergency Bylaws. In the event of any emergency, disaster or catastrophe, as referred to
in Section 110 of the GCL, or other similar emergency condition, as a result of which a quorum of
the Board or a standing committee of the Board cannot readily be convened for action, then the
director or directors in attendance at the meeting shall constitute a quorum. Such director or
directors in attendance may further take action to appoint
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one or more of themselves or other directors to membership on any standing or temporary
committees of the Board as they shall deem necessary and appropriate, provided that such
appointments comply with any and all applicable laws, as well as rules of any securities exchange
to which the Corporation is subject.
ARTICLE 4
Board Committees
4.1 Designation.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in the Restated Certificate, the Board may, by resolution
adopted by the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the votes entitled to be cast by the
entire Board designate one or more committees of the Board, each such committee to consist of one
or more Directors. Except as otherwise provided in the Restated Certificate, unless sooner
discharged by the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes entitled to be cast by the entire
Board, members of each committee of the Board shall hold office until the organization meeting of
the Board in the next subsequent year and until their respective successors are appointed. The
Nominating/Governance Committee of the Board shall have power to recommend to the Board a chairman
of each committee of the Board by the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes entitled to be
cast by all of the members of the Nominating/Governance Committee. The Board shall have the power
to appoint one of its members to act as chairman of each committee of the Board.
(b) So far as practicable, members of each committee of the Board shall be appointed annually
at the organization meeting of the Board. The Board may designate one or more Directors as
alternate members of any committee of the Board, who may replace any absent or disqualified member
at any meeting of such committee.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board shall at all times maintain an Audit Committee, a
Human Resources Committee and a Nominating/Governance Committee.
(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as required by law, no committee of the Board will
have the authority to (i) issue dividends, distributions or securities, except for issuances of
cash or securities pursuant to employee benefit plans; (ii) to approve a Fundamental Change or
Change in Ownership, except as may be required in the exercise of fiduciary duties; or (iii) to
take any action that would require the approval of the Stockholders pursuant to the GCL.
Notwithstanding Section 8.1, this Section 4.1(d) may only be amended by the affirmative vote of the
holders of at least a majority in voting power of the stock entitled to vote thereon, at an annual
meeting of Stockholders or at a special meeting thereof, the notice of which meeting shall include
the form of the proposed amendment to this Section 4.1(d).
4.2 Meetings.
(a) Stated meetings of any committee of the Board shall be held at such times and at such
places as shall be fixed, from time to time, by resolution adopted by the Board or by the
affirmative vote of a majority of the votes entitled to be cast by the members of such committee of
the Board and upon notification pursuant to Section 4.3 to all the members of such committee.
Any and all business may be transacted at any stated meeting of any committee of the Board.
(b) Special meetings of any committee of the Board may be called at any time by the chairman
of such committee or by any two members of such committee. Notice of a special meeting of any
committee of the Board shall set forth a description of the business to be transacted at such
meeting and be sent to the members of such committee of the Board as provided in Section 4.3.
4.3 Notice of Board Committee Meetings. Notice of any meeting of any committee of the Board
shall be sent to each member of such committee at his residence or usual place of business either
(a) by reputable overnight delivery service in circumstances to which such service guarantees next
day delivery, not later than on the day that is the second business day immediately preceding the
day of such meeting, or (b) by facsimile, telex, telegram or electronic mail, not later than
twenty-four (24) hours before the time of such meeting. If sent by overnight delivery service,
such notice shall be deemed to be given when delivered to such service; if sent by facsimile,
telex, telegram or electronic mail, such notice shall be deemed to be given when transmitted.
Notice of any meeting of a committee of the Board need not however be given to any member of such
committee, if waived by him in writing or if, subject to applicable law, he shall be present at the
meeting. Any meeting of a committee of
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the Board shall be a legal meeting without any notice thereof having been given if all of the
members shall be present thereat except when a Director attends a meeting for the express purpose
of objecting at the beginning of the meeting to the transaction of any business because the meeting
is not lawfully called or convened.
4.4 Place of Meetings. Meetings of any committee of the Board may be held either within or
without the State of Delaware.
4.5 Quorum and Voting Requirements of Board Committees.
(a) The presence of Directors entitled to cast at least a majority of the aggregate number of
votes entitled to be cast by all Directors on a committee of the Board shall constitute a quorum
for the transaction of business, and any act of a committee of the Board shall require the
affirmative vote of at least a majority of the votes entitled to be cast by the Directors present
at a meeting of such committee at which a quorum is present.
(b) The members of any committee of the Board shall act only as a committee of the Board, and
the individual members of the Board shall have no power as such.
4.6 Records. Each committee of the Board shall keep a record of its acts and proceedings and
shall report the same, from time to time, to the Board. The Secretary, or, in his absence, an
Assistant Secretary, shall act as secretary to each committee of the Board, or a committee of the
Board may, in its discretion, appoint its own secretary.
4.7 Vacancies. Except as otherwise provided in the Restated Certificate, any vacancy in any
committee of the Board shall be filled by a majority of the Directors then in office.
4.8 Executive Committee.
(a) In addition to any requirements set forth in the Restated Certificate, an Executive
Committee shall be appointed, to consist of the Chairman, ex officio, and two or more other
Directors; provided, however, that at least a majority of the Executive Committee shall consist of
Directors who are neither officers nor employees of the Corporation or of any of its affiliated
corporations.
(b) Subject to the provisions of the GCL, the Executive Committee shall have and may exercise
all the powers of the Board in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation,
including, without limitation, the power to authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to
all papers that may require it, but excluding any powers granted by the Board to any other
committee of the Board; provided, that neither the Executive Committee nor any other committee of
the Board shall be authorized to (i) elect any officer designated as such in Section 5.1 or to fill
any vacancy in any such office, (ii) designate the Chief Executive Officer, (iii) fill any vacancy
in the Board or any newly created Directorship, (iv) amend these Restated Bylaws or (v) take any
action that under these Restated Bylaws is required to be taken by vote of a specified proportion
of the entire Board or of the Directors at the time in office.
(c) Subject to any provision in the Restated Certificate or the GCL, any action herein
authorized to be taken by the Executive Committee and which is duly taken by it in accordance
herewith shall have the same effect as if such action were taken by the Board.
ARTICLE 5
Officers, Employees and Agents:
Powers And Duties
5.1 Officers. The officers of the Corporation, who shall be elected by the Board, may be a
Chairman of the Board (who shall be a Director),a Treasurer and one or more Assistant Treasurers,
and shall be a Chief Executive Officer (who shall be a Director), a President, one or more Vice
Presidents, a General Counsel, a Secretary and one or more Assistant Secretaries. The Board may
also elect such other officers and select such other employees or agents as, from time to time, may
appear to be necessary or advisable in the conduct of the affairs of the Corporation. Any officer
may also be elected to another office or offices.
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5.2 Term of Office. Subject to the provisions of the Restated Certificate, so far as
practicable, each officer shall be elected at the organization meeting of the Board in each year,
and shall hold office until the organization meeting of the Board in the next subsequent year and
until his successor is chosen or until his earlier death, resignation or removal in the manner
hereinafter provided.
5.3 Removal of Officers. Any officer may be removed at any time, either for or without cause,
by the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the votes entitled to be cast by the entire
Board, at any meeting called for that purpose.
5.4 Vacancies. If any vacancy occurs in any office, the Board may elect a successor to fill
such vacancy for the remainder of the term.
5.5 Chief Executive Officer. The Chief Executive Officer shall have general and active
control of the business and affairs of the Corporation. He shall have general power (a) to execute
bonds, deeds and contracts in the name of the Corporation, (b) to affix the corporate seal, (c) to
sign stock certificates, (d) subject to the provisions of the Restated Certificate, these Restated
Bylaws and the approval of the Board, to select all employees and agents of the Corporation whose
selection is not otherwise provided for and to fix the compensation thereof, (e) to remove or
suspend any employee or agent who shall not have been selected by the Board, (f) to suspend for
cause, pending final action by the Board any employee or agent who shall have been selected by the
Board and (g) to exercise all the powers usually and customarily performed by the chief executive
officer of a corporation.
5.6 Chairman of the Board.
(a) The Board may elect a Director as Chairman of the Board.
(b) The Chairman shall preside at all meetings of Stockholders and of the Board at which he
may be present. The Chairman shall have such other powers and duties as he may be called upon by
the Board to perform.
5.7 President. The President, if not designated as Chief Executive Officer of the
Corporation, shall perform such duties as are delegated by the Board, the Chairman or the Chief
Executive Officer. In the event of an absence, disability or vacancy in the office of the Chief
Executive Officer, the President shall act in the place of the Chief Executive Officer with
authority to exercise all his powers and perform his duties.
5.8 Vice Presidents and Other Officers. The several Vice Presidents and other elected
officers, including, without limitation, the General Counsel, shall perform all such duties and
services as shall be assigned to or required of them, from time to time, by the Board, or the Chief
Executive Officer, respectively. In the event of the absence or disability of both the Chairman
and the Chief Executive Officer, the President may designate one of the several Vice Presidents to
act in his place with authority to exercise all of his powers and perform his duties, provided that
the Board may change such designation, or if the President fails or is unable to make such
designation, the Board may make such designation at a regular or special meeting called for that
purpose.
5.9 Secretary. The Secretary shall attend to the giving of notice of all meetings of
Stockholders and the Board and shall keep and attest true records of all proceedings thereat. He
shall have charge of the corporate seal and have authority to attest any and all instruments or
writings to which the same may be affixed. He shall keep and account for all books, documents,
papers and records of the Corporation, except those which are directed to be in charge of the
Treasurer. He shall have authority to sign stock certificates and shall generally perform all the
duties usually appertaining to the office of secretary of a corporation. In the absence of the
Secretary, an Assistant Secretary or Secretary pro tempore shall perform his duties.
5.10 Treasurer. The Treasurer, if any, shall be responsible for the collection, receipt,
care, custody and disbursement of the funds of the Corporation and shall deposit or cause to be
deposited all funds of the Corporation in and with such depositories as the Board shall, from time
to time, direct. He shall have the care and custody of all securities owned by the Corporation,
and shall deposit such securities with such banks or in such safe deposit vaults, and under such
controls, as the Board shall, from time to time, direct. He shall disburse funds of the
Corporation on the basis of vouchers properly approved for payment by the controller of the
Corporation or his duly authorized representative. He shall be responsible for the maintenance of
detailed records of cash and security transactions and shall prepare such reports thereof as may be
required. He shall have the power to sign stock certificates and to endorse for deposit or
collection or otherwise all checks, drafts, notes, bills of exchange or other commercial paper
payable to the Corporation and to give proper receipts or discharges therefor. He shall have such
other duties as are
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commonly incidental to the office of treasurer of a corporation. In the absence of the
Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer shall perform his duties.
5.11 Additional Powers and Duties. In addition to the foregoing especially enumerated duties
and powers, the officers of the Corporation shall perform such other duties and exercise such
further powers as may be provided in these Restated Bylaws or as the Board may, from time to time,
determine or as may be assigned to them by any competent superior officer.
5.12 Compensation. Except as otherwise provided in the Restated Certificate, the compensation
of all officers of the Corporation shall be fixed, from time to time, by the Board.
ARTICLE 6
Stock And Transfers Of Stock
6.1 Stock Certificates. The Common Stock shall be uncertificated. The shares of the
Corporation other than the Common Stock shall be represented by certificates or shall be
uncertificated. The Board shall have the power and authority to make such rules and regulations as
it may deem expedient concerning the issue, transfer and registration of uncertificated shares or
certificates for shares of stock of the Corporation. Each certificate shall be signed by the
Chairman or the President or a Vice President, and by the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer, or
the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, certifying the number of certificated shares owned by such
Stockholder in the Corporation. Any or all of the signatures on the certificate may be a
facsimile. In case any officer, Transfer Agent or Registrar who has signed or whose facsimile
signature has been placed upon a certificate shall cease to be such officer, Transfer Agent or
Registrar before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the Corporation with the same
effect as if he were such officer, Transfer Agent or Registrar at the date of issuance.
6.2 Transfer Agents and Registrars. The Board may, in its discretion, appoint responsible
banks or trust companies as the Board may deem advisable, from time to time, to act as Transfer
Agents and Registrars of the stock of the Corporation; and, when such appointments shall have been
made, no stock certificate shall be valid until countersigned by one of such Transfer Agents and
registered by one of such Registrars.
6.3 Transfers of Stock. Except as otherwise provided in the Restated Certificate, and subject
to any other transfer restriction applicable thereto, shares of stock may be transferred by
delivery of the certificates therefor, accompanied either by an assignment in writing on the back
of the certificates or by written power of attorney to sell, assign and transfer the same, signed
by the record holder thereof; but no transfer shall affect the right of the Corporation to pay any
dividend upon the stock to the holder of record thereof, or to treat the holder of record as the
holder in fact thereof for all purposes, and no transfer shall be valid, except between the parties
thereto, until such transfer shall have been made upon the books of the Corporation. No transfer
of stock in violation of the provisions of Article Fourth, Part IV, Sections 4 and 5 of the
Restated Certificate shall be valid as against the Corporation for any purpose.
6.4 Lost Certificates. In case any certificate of stock shall be lost, stolen or destroyed,
the Board, in its discretion, may authorize the issuance of a substitute certificate in place of
the certificate lost, stolen or destroyed and may cause such substitute certificate to be
countersigned by the appropriate Transfer Agent (if any) and registered by the appropriate
Registrar (if any), provided that, in each such case, the applicant for a substitute certificate
shall furnish to the Corporation and to such of its Transfer Agents and Registrars as may require
the same, evidence to their satisfaction, in their discretion, of the loss, theft or destruction of
such certificate and of the ownership thereof, and also such security or indemnity as may be
required by them.
6.5 Record Date.
(a) In order that the Corporation may determine the Stockholders entitled to notice of or to
vote at any meeting of Stockholders or any adjournment thereof, or, subject to applicable law, to
express consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, or entitled to receive payment of
any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights, or entitled to exercise any rights
in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock or for the purpose of any other lawful
action, the Board is authorized, from time to time, to fix, in advance, a record date, which shall
not be more than sixty (60) nor less than ten (10) days before the date of such meeting, nor more
than sixty (60) days prior to any other action.
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(b) A determination of Stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of
Stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the Board may
fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting.
ARTICLE 7
Miscellaneous
7.1 Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be the calendar year.
7.2 Surety Bonds. The Treasurer, each Assistant Treasurer and such other officers or agents
of the Corporation as the Board may direct, from time to time, shall be bonded for the faithful
performance of their duties in such amounts and by such surety companies as the Board may
determine. The premiums on such bonds shall be paid by the Corporation and the bonds so furnished
shall be in the custody of the Chief Executive Officer or the chief financial officer.
7.3 Signature of Negotiable Instruments. All bills, notes, checks or other instruments for
the payment of money shall be signed or countersigned by such officer or officers and in such
manner as, from time to time, may be prescribed by resolution (whether general or special) of the
Board.
7.4 Subject to Law and Restated Certificate. All powers, duties and responsibilities provided
for in these Restated Bylaws, whether or not explicitly so qualified, are qualified by the
provisions of the Restated Certificate and all applicable laws.
7.5 Voting of Stocks. Unless otherwise ordered by the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the
Board, President and General Counsel shall each have full power and authority, in the name of and
on behalf of the Corporation, to attend, act and vote at any meeting of stockholders of a
corporation in which the Corporation may hold stock, and, in connection with any such meeting,
shall posses and may exercise any and all rights and powers incident to the ownership of such stock
which, as the owner thereof, the Corporation might possess and exercise. The Board of Directors
from time to time may confer like powers upon any other person or persons.
7.6 Rights Plan. The Board shall not adopt a Rights Plan without the approval of the
Stockholders; provided that the Board may determine to adopt a Rights Plan without first submitting
it to a vote of the Stockholders if, under the circumstances then existing, the Board, including a
majority of the independent Directors (as determined in accordance with NASDAQ listing standards),
in the exercise of its fiduciary responsibilities, determines that it is in the best interest of
the Stockholders to adopt a Rights Plan without the delay in adoption that would come from the time
reasonably anticipated to seek Stockholder approval. In the event that the Board adopts a Rights
Plan as contemplated by the foregoing sentence, the Board shall submit such Rights Plan to the
Stockholders for ratification within 365 days of the date of adoption by the Board and, if such
ratification is not obtained within such 365 day period, such Rights Plan will automatically
expire. Any such Rights Plan so adopted by the Board, notwithstanding its ratification by the
Stockholders, shall include a provision requiring a committee of the Board comprised solely of
independent Directors to review the Rights Plan at least every three years and report to the Board
as to whether it recommends that the Board modify or terminate such Rights Plans, which review will
be supported by a report and recommendation from investment bankers and attorneys engaged by the
Committee, based on an evaluation of the Corporations performance, markets and developments in
relevant corporate law. This Section 7.6 shall automatically sunset and be deemed to be of no
further force and effect on the date that is two years after the Effective Date (Sunset Date).
This Section 7.6 may not be amended prior to the Sunset Date without approval of the Stockholders.
ARTICLE 8
Amendments
8.1 Amendment of these Restated Bylaws. Except as herein otherwise expressly provided, these
Restated Bylaws may be altered or repealed and new bylaws, not inconsistent with any provision of
the Restated Certificate or applicable law, may be adopted, either (a) by the affirmative vote of
at least a majority of the votes entitled to be cast by the entire Board, or (b) by the affirmative
vote of the holders of at least a majority in voting power of the stock entitled to vote thereon,
at an annual meeting of Stockholders, or at a special meeting thereof, the notice of which meeting shall include the form of the proposed amendment or supplement to or modification of these Restated Bylaws or of the proposed new bylaws, or a summary thereof.
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