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Exhibit 3.1

AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

EPOCH HOLDING CORPORATION

 

FIRST: The name of the corporation (which is hereinafter referred to as the “Corporation”) is Epoch Holding Corporation.

SECOND: The name and address of the registered agent in the State of Delaware is The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware 19801.

THIRD: The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as from time to time amended.

FOURTH: The total number of shares of capital stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is 61,000,000 (SIXTY-ONE MILLION), all of which shares shall be Common Stock having a par value per share of $0.01.

FIFTH: In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by law, subject to any limitations contained elsewhere in this certificate of incorporation, bylaws of the Corporation may be adopted, amended or repealed by a majority of the board of directors of the Corporation, but any bylaws adopted by the board of directors may be amended or repealed by the stockholders entitled to vote thereon. Election of directors need not be by written ballot.

SIXTH: (a) No director of the Corporation shall 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 director’s 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 General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.

(b)     Except as may otherwise be specifically provided in this Certificate of Incorporation, no provision of this Certificate of Incorporation is intended by the Corporation to be construed as limiting, prohibiting, denying or abrogating any of the general or specific powers or rights conferred under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware upon the Corporation, upon its stockholders, bondholders and security holders, and upon its directors, officers and other corporate personnel, including, in particular, the power of the Corporation to furnish indemnification to directors and officers in the capacities defined and prescribed by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware and the defined and prescribed rights of said persons to indemnification as the same are conferred under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. The Corporation shall, to the fullest extent permitted by the laws of the State of Delaware,


including, but not limited to Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as the same may be amended and supplemented, indemnify any and all directors and officers of the Corporation and may, in the discretion of the board of directors, indemnify any and all other persons whom it shall have power to indemnify under said Section or otherwise under Delaware law from and against any and all of the expenses, liabilities or other matters referred to or covered by said Section. The indemnification provisions contained in the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those indemnified may be entitled under any by-law, agreement, resolution of stockholders or disinterested directors, or otherwise, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent, both as to action in his official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such person.