Attached files

file filename
EX-3.3 - EXHIBIT 3.3 - LIGHTING SCIENCE GROUP CORPex3-3.htm
EX-10.53 - EXHIBIT 10.53 - LIGHTING SCIENCE GROUP CORPex10-53.htm
EX-10.54 - EXHIBIT 10.54 - LIGHTING SCIENCE GROUP CORPex10-54.htm
EXCEL - IDEA: XBRL DOCUMENT - LIGHTING SCIENCE GROUP CORPFinancial_Report.xls
EX-31.1 - EXHIBIT 31.1 - LIGHTING SCIENCE GROUP CORPex31-1.htm
EX-21.1 - EXHIBIT 21.1 - LIGHTING SCIENCE GROUP CORPex21-1.htm
EX-23.1 - EXHIBIT 23.1 - LIGHTING SCIENCE GROUP CORPex23-1.htm
EX-10.55 - EXHIBIT 10.55 - LIGHTING SCIENCE GROUP CORPex10-55.htm
EX-10.57 - EXHIBIT 10.57 - LIGHTING SCIENCE GROUP CORPex10-57.htm
10-K - FORM 10-K - LIGHTING SCIENCE GROUP CORPlscg20141231_10k.htm
EX-32.1 - EXHIBIT 32.1 - LIGHTING SCIENCE GROUP CORPex32-1.htm
EX-10.56 - EXHIBIT 10.56 - LIGHTING SCIENCE GROUP CORPex10-56.htm

Exhibit 3.1

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
LIGHTING SCIENCE GROUP CORPORATION

 

Lighting Science Group Corporation (the “Corporation”), a corporation organized and existing under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”), hereby certifies as follows:

 

1.      The name of the Corporation is Lighting Science Group Corporation.

 

2.     The Corporation was originally incorporated in the State of Delaware on June 16, 1988, under the name Neo Corp.

 

3.     This Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation (the “Certificate of Incorporation”) has been duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of Sections 242 and 245 of the DGCL and restates, integrates and further amends the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation.

 

4.      The text of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation is hereby amended and restated to read in its entirety as follows:

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
LIGHTING SCIENCE GROUP CORPORATION

 

FIRST: The name of the corporation (hereinafter called the “Corporation”) is

 

Lighting Science Group Corporation

 

SECOND: The address, including street, number, city, and county, of the registered office of the Corporation in the State of Delaware is 1675 South State Street, Suite B, Dover, Kent County, Delaware 19901, and the name of the registered agent of the Corporation in the State of Delaware is Capitol Services, Inc.

 

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.

 

FOURTH: The total number of shares of stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is Five Hundred Million (500,000,000), consisting of Four Hundred Seventy Five Million (475,000,000) shares of Common Stock, all of a par value of $0.001, and Twenty Five Million (25,000,000) shares of Preferred Stock, all of a par value of $0.001.

 

The Board of Directors is authorized, subject to limitations prescribed by law, to provide for the issuance of the shares of Preferred Stock in series, and by filing a certificate pursuant to the applicable law of the State of Delaware, to establish from time to time the number of shares to be included in each such series, and to fix the designation, powers, preferences and rights of the shares of each such series and any qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof. The holders of Common Stock, as such, shall not be entitled to vote on any amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation 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 the Certificate of Incorporation or pursuant to the DGCL.

 

Pursuant to the authority conferred by this Article Fourth, the following series of Preferred Stock have been designated, each such series consisting of such number of shares, with such voting powers and with such designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, and qualifications, limitations or restrictions therefor as are stated and expressed in Exhibits A and B attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference:

 

Exhibit A:     Series H Convertible Preferred Stock

  

 
 

 

 

Exhibit B:     Series I Convertible Preferred Stock

 

FIFTH: The Corporation is to have perpetual existence.

 

SIXTH: Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between this Corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between this Corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary way of this Corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof or on the application of any receiver or receivers appointed for this Corporation under section 291 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code or on the application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed for this Corporation under Section 279 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such manner as the said court directs. If a majority in number representing three-fourths in value of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of this Corporation as consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by the court to which the said application has been made, be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the stockholders or class of stockholders, of this Corporation, as the case may be, and also on this Corporation.

 

SEVENTH: For the management of the business and for the conduct of the affairs of the Corporation, and in further definition, limitation and regulation of the powers of the Corporation and of its directors and of its stockholders or any class thereof, as the case may be, it is further provided:

 

The management of the business and the conduct of the affairs of the Corporation shall be vested in its Board of Directors. The number of directors which shall constitute the whole Board of Directors shall be fixed by, or in the manner provided in, the Bylaws. No election of directors need be by written ballot. The Board of Directors is expressly empowered to adopt, amend or repeal By-Laws of the Corporation.

 

Whenever the Corporation shall be authorized to issue only one class of stock, each outstanding share shall entitle the holder thereof to notice of, and the right to vote at, any meeting of stockholders. Whenever the Corporation shall be authorized to issue more than one class of stock, no outstanding share of any class of stock which is denied voting power under the provisions of the certificate of incorporation shall entitle the holder thereof to the right to vote at any meeting of stockholders except as the provisions of paragraph (2) of subsection (b) of section 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware shall otherwise require; provided, that no share of any such class which is otherwise denied voting power shall entitle the holder thereof to vote upon the increase or decrease in the number of authorized shares of said class.

 

Each outstanding share of Common Stock shall entitle the holder thereof to one vote on each matter properly submitted to the stockholders of the Corporation for their vote; provided, however, that, except as otherwise required by law, holders of Common Stock shall not be entitled to vote on any amendment to this Certificate of Incorporation (including any Preferred Stock Designation relating to 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 as a class with the holders of one or more other such series, to vote thereon pursuant to this Certificate of Incorporation (including any Preferred Stock Designation relating to any series of Preferred Stock).

 

EIGHTH: The personal liability of the directors of the Corporation is hereby eliminated to the fullest extent permitted by paragraph (7) of subsection (b) of section 102 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as the same be amended and supplemented.

 

NINTH: The Corporation shall, to the fullest extent permitted by Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as the same may be amended and supplemented, indemnify, and advance expenses to, any and all persons whom it shall have power to indemnify under said section from and against any and all of the expenses, liabilities or other matters referred to in or covered by said section, and the indemnification provided for herein shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those indemnified may be entitled under any By-Law, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in his official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.

  

 
 

 

 

TENTH: Unless the Corporation consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware shall be the sole and exclusive forum for (a) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Corporation, (b) any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation to the Corporation or the Corporation’s stockholders, (c) any action asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the DGCL, or (d) any action asserting a claim governed by the internal affairs doctrine, in each such case subject to such Court of Chancery having personal jurisdiction over the indispensable parties named as defendants therein. Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in shares of capital stock of the Corporation shall be deemed to have notice of and consented to the provisions of this Article TENTH.

 

ELEVENTH: From time to time any of the provisions of this certificate of incorporation may be amended, altered or repealed, and other provisions authorized by the laws of the State of Delaware at the time in force may be added or inserted in the manner and at the time prescribed by said laws, and all rights at any time conferred upon the stockholders of the Corporation by this certificate of incorporation are granted subject to the provisions of this Article ELEVENTH.

 

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Lighting Science Group Corporation has caused this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be signed by its Chief Financial Officer this 30th day of May, 2013.

 

 

 

By: 

/s/ Thomas C. Shields       

 

Name: Thomas C. Shields 

 

Title: Chief Financial Officer