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| EXCEL - IDEA: XBRL DOCUMENT - Medidata Solutions, Inc. | Financial_Report.xls |
| EX-31.2 - CERTIFICATION OF CFO PURSUANT TO RULE 13A-14(A) OR 15D-14(A) - Medidata Solutions, Inc. | mdso-6302014xex312.htm |
| EX-32.2 - CERTIFICATION OF CFO PURSUANT TO RULE 13A-14(B) OR 15D-14(B) - Medidata Solutions, Inc. | mdso-6302014xex322.htm |
| 10-Q - 10-Q - Medidata Solutions, Inc. | mdso-6302014x10q.htm |
| EX-31.1 - CERTIFICATION OF CEO PURSUANT TO RULE 13A-14(A) OR 15D-14(A) - Medidata Solutions, Inc. | mdso-6302014xex311.htm |
| EX-32.1 - CERTIFICATION OF CEO PURSUANT TO RULE 13A-14(B) OR 15D-14(B) - Medidata Solutions, Inc. | mdso-6302014xex321.htm |
Exhibit 3.1
FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
MEDIDATA SOLUTIONS, INC.
a Delaware corporation
MEDIDATA SOLUTIONS, INC. (the “Corporation”), a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, does hereby certify that:
A.The name of the Corporation is Medidata Solutions, Inc. The date of the filing of the original Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware was April 12, 2000.
B.This Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (this “Certificate”) amends, restates and integrates the provisions of the Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation that was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on June 30, 2009, (the “Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate”), and was duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of Sections 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (“DGCL”) and by its stockholders at a meeting held in accordance with Section 211 of the DGCL.
C.The text of the Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to provide as herein set forth in full.
ARTICLE I
The name of this corporation is Medidata Solutions, Inc.
ARTICLE II
The address of the Corporation’s registered office in the State of Delaware is c/o Corporation Service Company, 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, 19808. The Corporation’s registered agent at that address is Corporation Service Company.
ARTICLE III
The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the DGCL.
ARTICLE IV
This Corporation is authorized to issue two classes of stock to be designated, respectively, “Common Stock” and “Preferred Stock.” The total number of shares of stock which the Corporation shall have the authority to issue is two hundred five million (205,000,000). The total number of shares of Common Stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is two hundred million (200,000,000), with a par value of $0.01 per share. Each share of Common Stock shall entitle the
holder thereof to one (1) vote on each matter submitted to a vote at any meeting of stockholders. The total number of shares of Preferred Stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is five million (5,000,000), with a par value of $0.01 per share.
The Board of Directors of the Corporation (the “Board of Directors”) is authorized, subject to any limitations prescribed by the law of the State of Delaware, to provide for the issuance of the shares of Preferred Stock in one or more series, and by filing a certificate pursuant to applicable law of the State of Delaware, to establish or change from time to time the number of shares of each such series. The Board of Directors is further authorized, subject to the limitations prescribed by law, to fix by resolution or resolutions the designations, powers, preferences and rights, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of any wholly unissued series of Preferred Stock, including without limitation, authority to fix by resolution or resolutions the dividend rights, dividend rate, conversion rights, voting rights, rights and terms of redemption (including sinking fund provisions), redemption price or prices, and liquidation preferences of any such series, and the number of shares constituting any such series and the designation thereof, or any of the foregoing.
The Board of Directors is further authorized to increase (but not above the total number of authorized shares of the class) or decrease (but not below the number of shares of any such series then outstanding) the number of shares of any series of Preferred Stock, the number of which is fixed by it, subsequent to the issuance of shares then outstanding, subject to the powers, preferences and rights, and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof stated in this Certificate or the resolution of the Board of Directors originally fixing the number of shares of such series. If the number of shares of any series is so decreased, then the shares constituting such decrease shall resume the status which they had prior to the adoption of the resolution originally fixing the number of shares of such series.
ARTICLE V
The Corporation is to have perpetual existence.
ARTICLE VI
1 The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of Directors. In addition to the powers and authority expressly conferred upon them by statute or by this Certificate or the Bylaws of the Corporation, the directors are hereby empowered to exercise all such powers and do all such acts and things as may be exercised or done by the Corporation.
2 In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute, the Board of Directors is expressly authorized to adopt, amend, alter or repeal the Bylaws of the Corporation. The affirmative vote of at least a majority of the Board of Directors then in office shall be required in order for the Board of Directors to adopt, amend, alter or repeal the Corporation’s Bylaws. The Corporation’s Bylaws may also be adopted, amended, altered or repealed by the stockholders of the Corporation in accordance with the Bylaws. No Bylaw hereafter legally amended, altered or repealed shall invalidate any prior act of the directors or officers of the Corporation that would have been valid if such Bylaw had not been amended, altered or repealed.
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3 Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless the Bylaws of the Corporation shall so provide.
4 No stockholder shall be permitted to cumulate votes at any election of directors.
5 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 stockholders of the Corporation and may not be effected by any action by written consent by such stockholders.
6 Subject to the rights of holders of any series of Preferred Stock then outstanding to elect additional directors under specified circumstances, the number of directors that constitute the whole Board of Directors shall be fixed exclusively in the manner designated in the Bylaws of the Corporation.
ARTICLE VII
1 To the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL as the same exists or as may hereafter be amended, 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. If the DGCL is amended to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors, then the liability of a director of the Corporation shall be eliminated to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, as so amended.
2 The Corporation shall have the power to indemnify, to the extent permitted by the DGCL, as it presently exists or may hereafter be amended from time to time, any employee or agent of the Corporation who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (a “Proceeding”) by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with any such Proceeding.
3 Neither any amendment or repeal of any Section of this Article VII, nor the adoption of any provision of this Certificate inconsistent with this Article VII, shall eliminate or reduce the effect of this Article VII, in respect of any matter occurring, or any Proceeding accruing or arising or that, but for this Article VII, would accrue or arise, prior to such amendment, repeal or adoption of an inconsistent provision.
ARTICLE VIII
Any director may be removed from the Board of Directors by the stockholders of the corporation only for cause, and in such case only by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the voting power of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of the corporation then entitled to vote in the election of directors. Vacancies occurring on the Board of Directors for
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any reason and newly created directorships resulting from an increase in the authorized number of directors may be filled only by a vote of a majority of the remaining members of the Board of Directors, although less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director, at any meeting of the Board of Directors. A person so elected by the Board of Directors to fill a vacancy or newly created directorship shall hold office until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until his or her successor shall be duly elected and qualified. No decrease in the number of directors constituting the Board of Directors shall shorten the term of any incumbent director.
ARTICLE IX
The Corporation reserves the right to amend or repeal any provision contained in this Certificate in the manner prescribed by the laws of Delaware and all rights conferred upon stockholders are granted subject to this reservation.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be signed by the undersigned officer a duly authorized officer of the Corporation, on July 30, 2014.
By: /s/ Michael Otner
Name: Michael Otner
Title: | EVP, General Counsel & Secretary |
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