Exhibit 3.1
CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATIONS OF
SERIES B CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK,
PAR VALUE $0.01,
OF
COTY INC.
Pursuant to Section 151 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (as amended, supplemented or restated from time to time, the “DGCL”), COTY INC., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Company”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 103 of the DGCL, DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:
That, the Certificate of Amendment to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, as filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware (the “Certificate of Amendment”), authorizes the issuance of 1,020,000,000 shares of capital stock, consisting of 1,000,000,000 shares of class A common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Class A Common Stock”), and 20,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Preferred Stock”);
That, subject to the provisions of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, as filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware (as amended by the Certificate of Amendment, the “Certificate of Incorporation”), the board of directors of the Company (the “Board”) is authorized to fix by resolution or resolutions the designations and the powers, including voting powers, if any, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, if any, and qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of any series of Preferred Stock, and to fix the number of shares constituting any such series.
That, pursuant to the authority conferred upon the Board by the Certificate of Incorporation, the Board, on May 26, 2020, adopted the following resolution designating a new series of Preferred Stock as “Series B Convertible Preferred Stock”:
RESOLVED, that, pursuant to the authority vested in the Board in accordance with the provisions of Article Fourth of the Certificate of Incorporation and the provisions of Section 151 of the DGCL, a series of Preferred Stock of the Company is hereby authorized, and the number of shares to be included in such series, and voting powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions of the shares of Preferred Stock included in such series, shall be as follows:
SECTION 1.Designationand Number of Shares. The shares of such series of Preferred Stock shall be designated as “Series B Convertible Preferred Stock” (the “Series BPreferred Stock”). The number of authorized shares constituting the Series B Preferred Stock shall be 1,000,000. That number from time to time may be increased or decreased (but not below the number of shares of Series B Preferred Stock then outstanding) by further resolution duly adopted by the Board, or any duly authorized committee thereof and by the filing of a certificate pursuant to the provisions of the DGCL stating that such increase or decrease, as applicable, has been so authorized. The Company shall not have the authority to issue fractional shares of Series B Preferred Stock.