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| 8-K - 8-K - YADKIN FINANCIAL Corp | form8-kspecialmeetingofsha.htm |
| EX-99.1 - EX 99.1 - YADKIN FINANCIAL Corp | pressreleasespecialmeeting.htm |
State of North Carolina
Department of the Secretary of State
ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT
OF
YADKIN VALLEY FINANCIAL CORPORATION
Pursuant to §55-10-06 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, the undersigned corporation hereby submits the following Articles of Amendment for the purpose of amending its Articles of Incorporation.
1. The name of the corporation is: YADKIN VALLEY FINANCIAL CORPORATION
2. The text of each amendment adopted is as follows:
Article II, as contained in the corporation's Amended Articles of Incorporation filed May 31, 2010, shall be deleted in its entirety and now reads as follows:
ARTICLE II
Section 2.1. Total Authorized Shares of Capital Stock. The Corporation shall have authority to issue a total of 101,000,000 shares of capital stock, divided into classes as follows:
Class | Number of Shares | Par Value |
Common Stock | 100,000,000 | $1.00 |
Preferred Stock | 1,000,000 | none |
Section 2.2. Common Stock. The Common Stock shall consist of two separate classes, of which 95,000,000 shares shall be designated as Voting Common Stock (“Voting Common Stock”) and 5,000,000 shares shall be designated as Non-Voting Common Stock (“Non-Voting Common Stock,” and together with Voting Common Stock, “Common Stock”).
Each holder of Voting Common Stock, as such, shall be entitled to one vote for each share of Voting Common Stock held of record by such holder on all matters on which shareholders generally are entitled to vote; provided, however, that except as otherwise required by law, holders of Voting Common Stock, as such, shall not be entitled to vote on any amendment to these Articles of Incorporation (including any amendment to designate the terms of any series of Preferred Stock) that relates solely to the terms of one or more outstanding series of Preferred Stock if the holders of such affected series are entitled, either separately or together with the holders of one or more other such series, to vote thereon pursuant to these Articles of Incorporation (including any amendment to designate the terms of any series of Preferred Stock) or pursuant to the North Carolina Business Corporation Act (“NCBCA”). The holders of Non-Voting Common Stock, as such, shall have no voting power and shall not be entitled to vote on any matter except as otherwise required by law or as otherwise expressly provided for herein.
Except as otherwise provided herein, Non-Voting Common Stock shall in all other respects carry the same rights and privileges as Voting Common Stock (including in respect of dividends and in respect of distributions upon any dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Corporation) and be treated the same as Voting Common Stock (including in any merger, consolidation, share exchange, reclassification or other similar transaction, as described in Section 2.4); provided that, if the Corporation shall in any manner split, subdivide or combine (including by way of a dividend payable in shares of Voting Common Stock or Non-Voting Common Stock) the outstanding shares of Voting Common Stock or Non-Voting Common Stock, the outstanding shares of the other such class of stock shall likewise be split, subdivided or combined in the same manner proportionately and on the same basis per share, and provided further, no dividend payable in Voting Common Stock shall be declared on the Non-Voting Common Stock and no dividend payable in Non-Voting Common Stock shall be declared on the Voting Common Stock, but instead, in the case of a stock dividend, each class of Common Stock shall receive such dividend in like stock. Notwithstanding the foregoing, and in addition to any other vote required by law, the affirmative vote of a majority of the outstanding shares of
Non-Voting Common Stock, voting separately as a class, shall be required to amend, alter or repeal (including by merger, consolidation or otherwise) any provision of these Articles of Incorporation that significantly and adversely affects the powers, preferences or rights of the Non-Voting Common Stock contained herein.
Section 2.3. Conversion of Common Stock. Any holder of Non-Voting Common Stock may convert any number of shares of Non-Voting Common Stock into an equal number of shares of Voting Common Stock at the option of the holder; provided, however, that each share of Non-Voting Common Stock will not be convertible in the hands of or at the election of the initial holder or any affiliate of such initial holder and will only be convertible by a transferee and in connection with or after a transfer to a third party unaffiliated with such initial holder and that complies with the transfer restrictions described in the next sentence. The Non-Voting Common Stock may only be transferred through one or more of the following alternatives (each, an “Approved Transfer”): (i) to an affiliate of the holder or to the Corporation, (ii) in a widespread public distribution, (iii) in a transfer to a person that would control more than 50% of any class of the Corporation's outstanding “voting securities” (as defined in the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended, and any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder) without any transfer from the transferor, or (iv) in a transfer in which no transferee (or group of associated transferees) would receive 2% or more of any class of voting securities of the Corporation outstanding at such time. The term “Convertible Holder” means a holder of Non-Voting Common Stock, other than the initial holder of such Non-Voting Common Stock or an affiliate thereof, who acquires one or more shares of Non-Voting Common Stock in an Approved Transfer.
Following an Approved Transfer, a Convertible Holder may surrender to the Corporation (at the principal office of the Corporation) a certificate or certificates representing all or part of the Convertible Holder's shares of Non-Voting Common Stock and in such event each share of Non-Voting Common Stock represented by such certificate or certificates will convert into one share of Voting Common Stock; provided that, in connection with any transfer of shares of Non-Voting Common Stock pursuant to a transfer described in clause (ii), clause (iii) or clause (iv) of the definition of “Approved Transfer” above, upon the request of the transferor, the transferor shall be entitled to surrender to the Corporation shares of Non-Voting Common Stock to be so transferred, and, upon such surrender, the Corporation shall issue to the transferee, in lieu of shares of Non-Voting Common Stock surrendered, an equal number of shares of Voting Common Stock. Except as otherwise provided herein, each conversion of Non-Voting Common Stock shall be deemed to have been effected as of the close of business on the date on which the certificate or certificates representing such shares of Non-Voting Common Stock to be converted have been surrendered for conversion at the principal office of the Corporation. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, if a conversion of Non-Voting Common Stock is to be made in connection with a merger, reclassification or other transaction in which the shares of Voting Common Stock are exchanged for or changed into other stock or securities, cash and/or any other property or in any dissolution or liquidation, the conversion of any shares of Non-Voting Common Stock may, at the election of the holder thereof, be conditioned upon the consummation of such event or transaction, in which case such conversion shall not be deemed to be effective until such event or transaction has been consummated.
Upon a conversion pursuant to this Section 2.3, each converted share of Non-Voting Common Stock shall be retired. The Corporation shall from time to time reserve for issuance the number of shares of Voting Common Stock into which all outstanding shares of Non-Voting Common Stock may be converted.
Section 2.4. Mergers, Etc. In the event of any merger, consolidation, share exchange, reclassification or other similar transaction in which the shares of Voting Common Stock are exchanged for or changed into other stock or securities, cash and/or any other property, each share of Non-Voting Common Stock will at the same time be similarly exchanged or changed in an amount per whole share equal to the aggregate amount of stock, securities, cash and/or any other property (payable in kind), as the case may be, that each share of Voting Common Stock would be entitled to receive as a result of such transaction, provided that at the election of such holder, any securities issued with respect to the Non-Voting Common Stock shall be non-voting securities under the resulting corporation's organizational documents and the Corporation shall make appropriate provisions (in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the holders of a majority of the Non-Voting Common Stock then outstanding) and take such actions necessary to ensure that holders of the Non-Voting Common Stock shall retain securities with substantially the same privileges, limitations and relative rights as the Non-Voting Common Stock. Subject to the foregoing, in the event the holders of Voting Common Stock are provided the right to convert or exchange Voting Common Stock for stock or securities, cash and/or any other property, then the holders of the Non-Voting Common Stock shall be provided the same right based upon the number of shares of Voting Common Stock such holders would be entitled to receive if such shares of Non-Voting Common Stock were converted into shares of Voting Common Stock immediately prior to such offering. In the event that the Corporation offers to repurchase shares of Voting Common Stock from its shareholders generally, the Corporation shall offer to repurchase Non-Voting Common Stock pro rata based upon the number of shares of Voting Common Stock such holders would be entitled to receive if such shares were converted into shares of Voting Common Stock immediately prior to such repurchase. In the event of any pro rata subscription offer, rights offer or similar offer to holders of Voting Common Stock, the Corporation shall provide the holders of the Non-Voting Common Stock the right to participate based upon the number of shares of Voting Common Stock such holders would be entitled to receive if such shares were
converted into shares of Voting Common Stock immediately prior to such offering; provided that at the election of such holder, any shares issued with respect to the Non-Voting Common Stock shall be issued in the form of Non-Voting Common Stock rather than Voting Common Stock.
Section 2.5. Preferred Stock. The shares of Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time by the Corporation, and the Board of Directors may create and divide such shares into series within that class, and such shares and the shares of each such series shall have such voting powers, full or limited, or no voting powers, and such designations, preferences, limitations and relative rights (or qualifications, conditions or restrictions thereon) as the Board of Directors may and hereby is authorized to determine. This amendment does not modify or affect the authorization of the series of preferred stock that have already been authorized prior to the date of this amendment, including the Articles of Amendment effective July 24, 2009, the Articles of Amendment effective January 16, 2009, and the Articles of Amendment effective October 22, 2012.
3. If an amendment provides for an exchange, reclassification, or cancellation of issued shares, provisions for implementing the amendment, if not contained in the amendment itself, are as follows:
Not applicable.
4. The date of adoption of each amendment was as follows: December 20, 2012.
5. The amendment was approved by shareholder action, and such shareholder approval was obtained as required by Chapter 55 of the North Carolina General Statutes.
6. These articles will be effective upon filing.
This the 20th day of December, 2012.
YADKIN VALLEY FINANCIAL CORPORATION | ||||
By: | /s/ Joseph H. Towell | |||
Name: | Joseph H. Towell | |||
Title: | President and Chief Executive Officer | |||