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| EX-31.2 - EXHIBIT 31.2 - Globalstar, Inc. | gsat-20160630x10qxex312.htm |
| 10-Q - GSAT-2016.06.30-10Q - Globalstar, Inc. | gsat-20160630x10q.htm |
| EX-32.2 - EXHIBIT 32.2 - Globalstar, Inc. | gsat-20160630x10qxex322.htm |
| EX-32.1 - EXHIBIT 32.1 - Globalstar, Inc. | gsat-20160630x10qxex321.htm |
| EX-31.1 - EXHIBIT 31.1 - Globalstar, Inc. | gsat-20160630x10qxex311.htm |
| EX-10.1 - EXHIBIT 10.1 - Globalstar, Inc. | gsat-20160630xex101.htm |
Exhibit 3.1
SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED
BYLAWS
OF
GLOBALSTAR, INC.
ARTICLE I
OFFICES
Section 1. Registered Office. Globalstar, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Corporation”), shall maintain a registered office in the State of Delaware at such location as shall from time to time be determined by the Board of Directors of the Corporation (the “Board”).
Section 2. Other Offices. The Corporation may also have offices at such other locations both within and without the State of Delaware as the Board may from time to time determine.
ARTICLE II
STOCKHOLDERS
Section 1. Annual Meeting. The annual meeting of the stockholders shall be held on the third Tuesday in May in each year at such place (if any) and time as determined by the Board, or on such other date and at such other place and time as determined by the Board, for the purpose of electing directors and conducting such other proper business as may come before the meeting. Written notice of the annual meeting stating the place, date and hour of the meeting shall be given to each stockholder entitled to vote at such meeting not less than twenty (20) nor more than sixty (60) days before the date of the meeting. If mailed such notice shall be deemed to be given when deposited in the United States mail, postage prepaid, directed to the stockholder at such stockholder’s address as it appears on the records of the Corporation.
Section 2. Special Meetings. Unless otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, special meetings of the stockholders, for any purpose or purposes, may be called only by the Board. Notice of a special meeting stating the place, date and hour of the meeting and the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called, shall be given not less than ten (10) nor more than sixty (60) days before the date of the meeting to each stockholder entitled to vote at such meeting. Business transacted at any special meeting of the stockholders shall be limited to the purpose(s) stated in the notice.
Section 3. Quorum and Vote Required for Action. The holders of a majority of the capital stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at any meeting of the stockholders shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business except as otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws. If the vote of a class or series is required, the presence of the holders of a majority of the capital stock of such class or series also shall be required to constitute a quorum. If, however, a quorum shall not be present or represented at any meeting of the stockholders, the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, present in person or represented by proxy, shall have power to adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum shall be present or represented. At the adjourned meeting at which a quorum shall be present or represented, any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as originally notified. If the adjournment is for more than thirty (30) days, or if after the adjournment a new record date is fixed for the adjourned meeting, a notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting.
Except as otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or the rules and regulations of any stock exchange applicable to the Corporation, if a quorum is present at any meeting, the vote of the holders of a majority of the capital stock having voting power present in person or represented by proxy at that meeting shall decide any question brought before the meeting. If the vote of a class or series is required on any question, the vote of the holders of a majority of the capital stock of such class or series also shall be required to decide that question.
Section 4. Voting of Shares. Except as provided in the Certificate of Incorporation or by law, at every meeting of the stockholders, each stockholder shall be entitled to one (1) vote in person or by proxy for each share of the capital stock having voting power held by such stockholder, but no proxy may be voted after three (3) years from its date, unless the proxy provides for a longer period. Any proxy shall be in writing and shall be filed with the Secretary of the Corporation before or at the time of the meeting.
Section 5. Action in Lieu of a Meeting. Any action that is required to be or that may be taken at any annual or special meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation may be taken without a meeting if and to the extent permitted by the Certificate of Incorporation.
Section 6. Place of Meetings. Meetings of the stockholders shall be held at such place (if any) within or without of the State of Delaware as is designated by the Board.
Section 7. Stockholders May Participate in Other Activities. Stockholders and their affiliates and directors, either individually or with others, may participate in other business ventures of every kind, whether or not such other business ventures compete with the Corporation. No stockholder, acting in the capacity of a stockholder, shall be obligated to offer to the Corporation or to the other stockholders any opportunity to participate in any other business venture. Neither the Corporation nor the other stockholders shall have any right to any income or profit derived from any other business venture of a stockholder.
Section 8. Record Date. For the purpose of determining stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of the stockholders or any adjournment thereof, or in order to make a determination of stockholders for any other purpose, the Board may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board, and which record date: (a) in the case of determining the stockholders entitled to vote at any meeting of stockholders or adjournment thereof, unless otherwise required by law, shall not be more than sixty (60) nor less than ten (10) days before the date of such meeting;
(b) in the case of determining the stockholders entitled to express consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, if action by written consent is then permitted by the Certificate of Incorporation, shall not be more than ten (10) days from the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board of Directors; and (c) in the case of any other action, shall not be more than sixty (60) days prior to such other action. If no record date is fixed: (x) the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall be at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held; (y) the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to express consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, if action by written consent is then permitted by the Certificate of Incorporation, when no prior action of the Board of Directors is required by law, shall be the first date on which a signed written consent setting forth the action taken or proposed to be taken is delivered to the Corporation in accordance with applicable law, or, if prior action by the Board of Directors is required by law, shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board of Directors adopts the resolution taking such prior action; and (z) the record date for determining the stockholders for any other purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board adopts the resolution relating thereto. When a determination of stockholders entitled to vote at any meeting of the stockholders has been made as provided in this Section 2.8, the determination shall apply to any adjournment thereof unless a new record date is fixed by the Board.
Section 9. List of Stockholders. The Secretary shall prepare and make a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at any meeting of the stockholders, arranged in alphabetical order, and showing the address of each stockholder and the number of shares registered in the name of each stockholder. Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder, for any purpose germane to the meeting, during ordinary business hours at the principal place of business of the Corporation. The list shall also be produced and kept at the time and place of the meeting during the whole time thereof and may be inspected by any stockholder who is present. The stock ledger shall be the only evidence as to who are the stockholders entitled to examine the stock ledger, the list of stockholders or the books of the Corporation, or to vote in person or by proxy at any meeting of the stockholders.
Section 10. Organization. Meetings of the stockholders shall be presided over by the Chairman of the Board, or in his absence by the Vice Chairman of the Board, if any, or in his absence by the President, or in his absence by a Vice President, or in the absence of the foregoing persons by a chairman designated by the Board, or in the absence of such designation by a chairman chosen at the meeting. The Secretary or any Assistant Secretary shall act as secretary of the meeting, but in his absence the chairman of the meeting may appoint any person to act as secretary of the meeting. The chairman of the meeting shall announce at the meeting the opening and the closing of the polls for each matter upon which the stockholders will vote.
Section 11. Conduct of Meetings. The Board may adopt by resolution such rules and regulations for the conduct of meetings of the stockholders as it shall deem appropriate. Except to the extent inconsistent with such rules and regulations as have been adopted by the Board, the chairman of any meeting of the stockholders shall have the right and authority to prescribe such rules, regulations and procedures and to do all such acts as, in the judgment of such chairman, are appropriate for the proper conduct of the meeting. Such rules, regulations or procedures, whether adopted by the Board or prescribed by the chairman of the meeting, may include, without limitation, the following: (a) the establishment of an agenda or order of business for the meeting:
(b) rules and procedures for maintaining order at the meeting and the safety of those present; (c) limitations on attendance at or participation in the meeting to stockholders of record of the corporation, their duly authorized and constituted proxies or such other persons as the chairman of the meeting shall determine; (d) restrictions on entry to the meeting after the time fixed for the commencement thereof; and (e) limitations on the time allotted to questions or comments by participants. Unless and to the extent determined by the Board or the chairman of the meeting, meetings of the stockholders shall not be required to be held in accordance with the rules of parliamentary procedure.
ARTICLE III
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Section 1. Powers. The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed under the direction of the Board, except to the extent that the Board shall delegate its authority, powers and duties to one or more committees of its members.
The Board may exercise all such powers of the Corporation and do all such lawful acts and things as are not by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws directed or required to be exercised, done or approved by the stockholders of the Corporation.
Section 2. Composition, Classes, Election, and Term of Office. The Board shall be comprised of seven (7) directors. The directors shall be divided three (3) classes designated “Class A,” “Class B,” and “Class C” (each a “Class,” and collectively, the “Classes”). Class A and Class B shall have two (2) directors and Class C shall have three (3) directors.
The directors in office on the Effective Date (as defined in Section 9.4) shall divide themselves into the three Classes. The two Class A directors shall hold such office for an initial term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2007; the two (2) Class B directors shall hold such office for an initial term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2008; and the three (3) Class C directors shall hold such office for an initial term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2009. Each director in office on the Effective Date shall continue to hold such office for the term prescribed by the immediately preceding sentence until his or her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified, or until his or her death, resignation, or removal in the manner hereafter provided.
At each annual meeting of stockholders, the stockholders shall vote on the election of directors to fill the positions of the Class of directors whose terms have expired. Each director elected at an annual meeting of stockholders shall hold such office for a term of three (3) years until his or her successor has been duly elected and qualified, or until his or her death, resignation, or removal in the manner hereafter provided. The election of directors shall be by Class, and the directors to be elected to any such Class shall be elected by a plurality of the votes of the stockholders entitled to vote at each meeting for the election of directors in such Class. The terms of each Class of directors shall be staggered such that the expiration of the terms of any two or more Classes of directors shall not occur during the same calendar year.
Any director may resign at any time upon notice to the Corporation. Any newly created directorship or any vacancy occurring in the Board for any cause may be filled only by the remaining directors through less than a majority of the whole authorized number of directors by vote of a majority of those remaining in office, and each director so elected shall hold office until the expiration of the term of office of the director whom he or she has replaced or until his or her successor is elected and qualified. Directors may be removed with or without cause if and to the extent permitted by the Certificate of Incorporation.
Section 3. Chairman of the Board. The Board shall elect a Chairman of the Board. The Chairman shall have such duties, authority and obligations as may be given to him by these Bylaws or by the Board.
Section 4. Meetings. The Board shall meet not less often than quarterly and immediately following the annual meeting of the stockholders. A time and place for regular meetings of the Board may be established by the Board. Meetings of the Board may be held upon call of the Chairman of the Board or any four (4) directors. Members of the Board or any committee designated by the Board may participate in a meeting of the Board or committee by conference telephone or other communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and such participation in a meeting shall constitute presence in person at the meeting.
Section 5. Notice of Special Meetings. Notice of any special meeting of the Board shall be given at least three (3) days before the meeting in writing and by mail, facsimile transmission, electronic mail, personal delivery or private carrier, or telephonic means to each director at his or her business address or such other address as he or she may have advised the Secretary of the Corporation to use for such purpose. If hand delivered, notice shall be deemed to be given when delivered to such address or to the director to be notified. If mailed or sent by private carrier, such notice shall be deemed to be given five (5) business days after deposit in the United States mail, postage prepaid, of a letter addressed to the appropriate location. Notice given by telephonic means, electronic transmission or facsimile transmission shall be deemed to be given when actually received by the director to be notified.
Section 6. Quorum. The presence of a majority of the members of the Board then in office (present in person or by telephone) shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of the Board.
Section 7. Voting. Each director shall be entitled to one (1) vote. Except as otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the Board shall act by majority vote of those directors present and voting at any duly called meeting at which a quorum is present.
Section 8. Action without a Meeting. Any action which may be authorized or taken at a meeting of the Board may be authorized or taken without a meeting if all of the directors consent thereto in writing or by electronic transmission, and such writing(s) or electronic transmission(s) are filed with the minutes of proceedings of the Board.
Section 9. Organization. Meetings of the Board shall be presided over by the Chairman of the Board, if any, or in his or her absence by the Vice Chairman of the Board, if any, or in their absence by a chairman chosen at the meeting. The Secretary or any Assistant Secretary shall act as secretary of the meeting, but in his or her absence the chairman of the meeting may appoint any person to act as secretary of the meeting.
ARTICLE IV
COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD
Section 1. Number of Committees. The Board may by resolution establish one or more committees of the Board. To the extent permitted by law and provided in the resolution of the Board, any such committee shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the Board in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation. All committees shall report their activities to the Board upon request of the Chairman of the Board or the Corporate Secretary.
Section 2. Appointment; Vacancies; and Removal. The Board shall appoint the members of the committees established in this Article IV to serve for terms expiring at the regular meeting of the Board following the next succeeding annual election meeting, and the Board may, at any time, with or without cause, remove any member of a committee so appointed. Any vacancy occurring in a committee shall be filled by the Board for the remainder of the term.
Section 3. Committee Procedures. Each committee shall determine its own time and manner of conducting its meetings; the presence of a majority of the members of the committee shall constitute a quorum; and the vote of a majority of the members of a committee present at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the committee. A committee may act informally by written consent of all of its members.
ARTICLE V
OFFICERS
Section 1. Composition of Officers. The officers of the Corporation shall consist of at least a Chairman of the Board, a President, and a Secretary and may include such other officers as are appointed by the Board, including but not limited to a Chief Executive Officer, one or more Vice Presidents, a Chief Financial Officer, a Treasurer, one or more Assistant Secretaries and one or more Assistant Treasurers. Any two or more offices may be held by the same person, except that the Secretary may not hold the office of President.
Section 2. Tenure and Appointment; Removal. All officers shall be appointed by the Board and shall hold office for one (1) year or until their successors are elected and qualified, or for such other period as the Board may designate. Any officer may be removed by the Board with or without cause.
Section 3. Powers and Duties. Each of the officers of the Corporation shall, unless otherwise ordered by the Board, have such powers and duties as customarily pertain to the respective office, and such further powers and duties as from time to time may be conferred by the Board, or by an officer delegated such authority by the Board.
ARTICLE VI
AMENDMENTS
Bylaws. As set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation, the Board shall have the power to adopt, amend or repeal these Bylaws, from time to time. These Bylaws may also be amended or repealed or new bylaws of the Corporation may be adopted, by the vote of the holders of at least 66 2/3% in voting power of the shares of the Corporation then entitled to vote in the election of the directors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Thermo Capital Partners, L.L.C. and its Affiliates (as defined in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder) (“Thermo”) owns beneficially a majority in voting power of the outstanding shares of the Corporation entitled to vote in the election of the directors, these Bylaws may be amended or repealed by the vote of the holders of a majority in voting power of the shares of the Corporation then entitled to vote in the election of the directors.
ARTICLE VII
CERTIFICATES OF STOCK AND THEIR TRANSFER
Section 1. Certificates. The interest of each stockholder of the Corporation shall be evidenced by certificates for shares of stock in such form as the Board of Directors may from time to time prescribe; provided that the Board of Directors may provide by resolution or resolutions that all or certain classes or series of the stock of the Corporation shall be represented by uncertificated shares. Notwithstanding the adoption of such a resolution by the Board of Directors, every holder of stock represented by certificates, and upon request every holder of uncertificated shares, shall be entitled to have a certificate or certificates for the holder’s shares of the Corporation. Such certificates shall be signed as permitted by law. Except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the rights and obligations of the holders of certificates representing stock of the same class and series shall be identical.
Section 2. Transfer. . Shares of stock of the Corporation represented by a certificate may be transferred on the books of the Corporation by delivery of the certificate accompanied either by an assignment in writing on the back of the certificate or by a written power of attorney to sell, assign, and transfer the same on the books of the Corporation, signed by the person identified on the certificate as the owner of the shares represented thereby. Upon receipt of proper transfer instructions from the registered owner of uncertificated shares, the transfer of the shares shall be recorded upon the books of the Corporation. Within a reasonable time after the issuance or transfer of uncertificated stock, the Corporation shall send to the registered owner thereof a written notice evidencing the shares and containing the information required to be set forth on a certificate for those shares by the Delaware General Corporation Law or, unless otherwise provided by the Delaware General Corporation Law, a statement that the Corporation will furnish without charge to each stockholder who so requests a statement of the powers, designations, preferences and relative participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of those preferences and/or rights. The person registered on the books of the Corporation as the owner of any shares shall be entitled to all the rights of ownership with respect to the shares.
Section 3. Lost Certificates. No certificate for shares or uncertificated shares of stock in the Corporation shall be issued in place of any certificate alleged to have been lost, destroyed or stolen, except on production of evidence of the loss, destruction or theft in a form as the Board of Directors or its designee may in its or his discretion require.
ARTICLE VIII
SEAL
The Corporation shall have no seal unless and until the Board adopts a seal in such form as the Board may designate or approve.
ARTICLE IX
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 1. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be the calendar year unless otherwise determined from time to time by the Board.
Section 2. Severability. If any provision of these Bylaws, or the application of any provision of these Bylaws to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the Bylaws and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected.
Section 3. Waiver of Notice of Meetings of Stockholders, Directors and Committees. Any waiver of notice, given by the person entitled to notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent to notice. Attendance of a person at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when the person 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. Neither the business to be transacted at nor the purpose of any regular or special meeting of the stockholders, directors, or members of a committee of directors need be specified in any written waiver of notice.
Section 4. Effective Date. These Amended and Restated Bylaws shall be effective upon the filing of the Corporation’s first Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation with the Delaware Secretary of State (the “Effective Date”).
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