Exhibit 3.1
AMENDED AND RESTATED
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
CAL DIVE INTERNATIONAL, INC.
CAL DIVE INTERNATIONAL, INC., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Corporation”), does hereby certify as follows:
1. The name of the Corporation is Cal Dive International, Inc. The Corporation was originally incorporated under the name “CAL DIVE GOM INC.” and the original Certificate of Incorporation was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on February 3, 2006. An amendment to the original Certificate of Incorporation changing the Corporation’s name to “Cal Dive International, Inc.” was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on March 3, 2006.
2. This Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (this “Certificate of Incorporation”) was duly adopted in accordance with Section 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. Pursuant to Sections 242 and 228 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, the amendments and restatement herein set forth have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors and the sole stockholder of the Corporation.
3. Pursuant to Section 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, this Certificate of Incorporation amends and integrates and restates the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation of this Corporation.
The text of this Certificate of Incorporation is hereby amended and restated to read in its entirety as follows:
ARTICLE I
NAME
The name of the corporation (which is hereinafter referred to as the “Corporation”) is:
Cal Dive International, Inc.
ARTICLE II
REGISTERED OFFICE AND AGENT
The address of the Corporation’s registered office in the State of Delaware is The Corporation Trust Company, Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, County
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of New Castle, Delaware 19801. The name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.
ARTICLE III
PURPOSE
The purpose of the Corporation shall be to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized and incorporated under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
ARTICLE IV
CAPITAL STOCK
SECTION 1. The Corporation shall be authorized to issue two hundred forty-five million (245,000,000) shares of capital stock, of which two hundred forty million (240,000,000) shares shall be shares of Common Stock, par value $.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), and five million (5,000,000) shares shall be shares of Preferred Stock, par value $.01 per share (the “Preferred Stock”).
SECTION 2. Shares of Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more series. The Board of Directors is hereby authorized by resolution or resolutions to provide, out of the unissued shares of Preferred Stock, for series of Preferred Stock and, with respect to each such series, to fix the voting powers, if any, designations, preferences and the relative, participating, optional or other special rights, if any, and any qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of any such series, and to fix the number of shares constituting such series, and to increase or decrease the number of shares of any such series (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding). The authority of the Board of Directors with respect to each series of Preferred Stock shall include, but not be limited to, determination of the following:
(1) | the designation of the series, which may be by distinguishing number, letter or title; | ||
(2) | the number of shares of the series, which number the Board of Directors may thereafter increase or decrease (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding); | ||
(3) | whether dividends, if any, shall be cumulative or noncumulative and the dividend rate of the series; | ||
(4) | dates at which dividends, if any, shall be payable; | ||
(5) | the redemption rights and price or prices, if any, for shares of the series; | ||
(6) | the terms and amount of any sinking fund provided for the purchase or redemption of shares of the series; |
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(7) | the amounts payable on, and the preferences, if any, of shares of the series in the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the affairs of the Corporation; | ||
(8) | whether the shares of the series shall be convertible into shares of any other class or series, or any other security, of the Corporation or any other entity, and, if so, the specification of such other class or series of such other security, the conversion price or prices or rate or rates, any adjustments thereof, the date or dates at which such shares shall be convertible and all other terms and conditions upon which such conversion may be made; | ||
(9) | restrictions on the issuance of shares of the same series or of any other class or series; and | ||
(10) | the voting rights, if any, of the holders of shares of the series. |
SECTION 3. The following is a statement of the voting powers, preferences and relative participating, optional or other special rights, and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions of the Common Stock:
(1) | Subject to the other provisions of this Certificate of Incorporation and the provisions of any Certificate of Designations (as defined in ARTICLE XIII), the holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive such dividends and other distributions, in cash, stock of any entity or property of the Corporation, when and as may be declared thereon by the Board of Directors from time to time out of assets or funds of the Corporation legally available therefor. | ||
(2) | Except as may be otherwise required by law or by this Certificate of Incorporation and subject to any voting rights that may be granted to holders of Preferred Stock pursuant to the provisions of any Certificate of Designations, all rights to vote and all voting power of the capital stock of the Corporation, whether for the election of directors or any other matter submitted to a vote of stockholders of the Corporation, shall be vested exclusively in the holders of Common Stock. | ||
(3) | In the event of any dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the affairs of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, after payment in full of the amounts required to be paid to the holders of Preferred Stock pursuant to the provisions of any Certificate of Designations, the remaining assets and funds of the Corporation shall be distributed pro rata to the holders of Common Stock. For purposes of this paragraph (3), the voluntary sale, conveyance, lease, license, exchange or transfer (for cash, shares of stock, securities or other consideration) of all or substantially all of the assets of the Corporation or a consolidation or merger of the Corporation with one or more other entities (whether or not the Corporation is the entity surviving such consolidation or merger) shall not be deemed to be a liquidation, dissolution or winding up, voluntary or involuntary. |
SECTION 4. No stockholder shall be entitled to exercise any right of cumulative voting.
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ARTICLE V
CORPORATE OPPORTUNITIES AND CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
SECTION 1. This ARTICLE V anticipates the possibility that (1) Helix may be a controlling, majority or significant stockholder of the Corporation, (2) certain Helix Officials may also serve as Corporation Officials, (3) the Corporation Entities and the Helix Entities may, from time to time, (a) engage in the same, similar or related activities or lines of business or other business activities that overlap or compete with those of the other and (b) have an interest in the same areas of corporate opportunities, and (4) benefits may be derived by the Corporation Entities through their continued contractual, corporate and business relations with the Helix Entities. The provisions of this ARTICLE V shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, define the conduct of certain affairs of the Corporation Entities and Corporation Officials as they may involve the Helix Entities, and the powers, rights, duties and liabilities of the Corporation Entities and Corporation Officials in connection therewith. Capitalized terms used and not previously defined in this Certificate of Incorporation are defined, and shall have the meaning ascribed thereto, in ARTICLE XIII.
SECTION 2. No contract, agreement, arrangement or transaction (or any amendment, modification or termination thereof) entered into between any Corporation Entity, on the one hand, and any Helix Entity, on the other hand, before the Corporation ceased to be a wholly owned subsidiary of Helix shall be void or voidable or be considered unfair to the Corporation or any Corporation Affiliate for the reason that any Helix Entity is a party thereto, or because any Helix Official is a party thereto, or because any Helix Official was present at or participated in any meeting of the Board of Directors, or committee thereof, of the Corporation, or the board of directors, or committee thereof, of any Corporation Affiliate, that authorized the contract, agreement, arrangement or transaction (or any amendment, modification or termination thereof), or because his, her or their votes were counted for such purpose. No such contract, agreement, arrangement or transaction (or the amendment, modification or termination thereof) or the performance thereof by any Corporation Entity shall be considered to be contrary to any fiduciary duty owed to any of the Corporation Entities or to any of their respective stockholders by any Helix Entity or by any Corporation Official (including any Corporation Official who may have been a Helix Official) and each such Corporation Official shall be deemed to have acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation Entities, and shall be deemed not to have breached his or her duties of loyalty to the Corporation Entities and their respective stockholders, and not to have derived an improper personal benefit therefrom. No Corporation Official shall have or be under any fiduciary duty to any Corporation Entity or its stockholders to refrain from acting on behalf of any such Corporation Entity (or on behalf of any Helix Entity if such Corporation Official is also a Helix Official) in respect of any such contract, agreement, arrangement or transaction (or the amendment, modification, or termination thereof) or to refrain from performing any such contract, agreement, arrangement or transaction (or the amendment, modification or termination thereof) in accordance with its terms.
SECTION 3. The Corporation may from time to time enter into and perform, and cause or permit any Corporation Affiliate to enter into and perform, one or more agreements (or amendments or modifications to pre-existing agreements) with any one or more of the Helix
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Entities pursuant to which any one or more Corporation Entities, on the one hand, and any one or more of the Helix Entities, on the other hand, agree to engage in transactions of any kind or nature, or agree to compete, or to refrain from competing or to limit or restrict their competition, with each other (or with any one or more other Helix Entities or Corporation Entities, respectively), including to allocate and to cause Corporation Officials and Helix Officials (including any person who is both a Corporation Official and a Helix Official) to allocate or refer opportunities between such Corporation Entities and Helix Entities. To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither any such agreement, nor the performance thereof by any Corporation Entity or any Helix Entity, shall be considered contrary to (1) any fiduciary duty that any Helix Entity may owe to any Corporation Entity, or its stockholders, by reason of any Helix Entity being, directly or indirectly, a controlling, majority or significant stockholder of any such Corporation Entity or participating in the control of any such Corporation Entity or (2) any fiduciary duty that any Corporation Official who is also a Helix Official may owe to any Corporation Entity or its stockholders. To the fullest extent permitted by law, no Helix Entity, by reason of being, directly or indirectly, a controlling, majority or significant stockholder of any Corporation Entity or participant in control of any Corporation Entity, shall have or be under any fiduciary duty to refrain from entering into any agreement or participating in any transaction referred to above, and no Corporation Official who is also a Helix Official shall have or be under any fiduciary duty to any Corporation Entity, or its stockholders, to refrain from acting on behalf of any Corporation Entity or any Helix Entity in respect of any such agreement or transaction or performing any such agreement in accordance with its terms.
SECTION 4. Except as otherwise agreed in writing between the Corporation and Helix, the Helix Entities shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, have no duty to refrain from (1) engaging in the same or similar activities or lines of business as any Corporation Entity, (2) doing business with any client, customer or vendor of any Corporation Entity or (3) employing or otherwise engaging or soliciting for such purpose, any officer, director or employee of any Corporation Entity. To the fullest extent permitted by law, no Helix Entity shall be deemed to have breached its fiduciary duties, if any, to any Corporation Entity, or its stockholders, solely by reason of engaging in any activity described in clauses (1) through (3) of the immediately preceding sentence. If any Helix Entity is offered, or acquires knowledge, of a potential transaction or business opportunity that is or may be a corporate opportunity for any Corporation Entity, the Corporation, on behalf of itself and each Corporation Affiliate, to the fullest extent permitted by law, renounces any interest or expectancy in such potential transaction or business opportunity and waives any claim that such potential transaction or business opportunity constituted a corporate opportunity that should have been presented to any Corporation Entity. In the case of any potential transaction or business opportunity in which the Corporation has renounced its interest and expectancy in the immediately preceding sentence, the Helix Entities shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, not be liable to any Corporation Entity, or its stockholders, for breach of any fiduciary duty as a direct or indirect stockholder of any Corporation Entity by reason of the fact that any one or more of the Helix Entities pursues or acquires such potential transaction or business opportunity for itself, directs such potential transaction or business opportunity to another person or entity, or otherwise does not communicate information regarding such potential transaction or business opportunity to the Corporation or any Corporation Affiliate.
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SECTION 5. (1) If a Corporation Official who is also a Helix Official is offered, or acquires knowledge, of a potential transaction or business opportunity that is or may be a corporate opportunity for any Corporation Entity, the Corporation, on behalf of itself and each Corporation Affiliate, to the fullest extent permitted by law except as provided in Section 5(3) of this ARTICLE V, renounces any interest or expectancy in such potential transaction or business opportunity and waives any claim that such potential transaction or business opportunity constituted a corporate opportunity that should have been presented to the Corporation or any such Corporation Affiliate.
(2) If a Corporation Official who is also a Helix Official is offered, or acquires knowledge, of a potential transaction or business opportunity that is or may be a corporate opportunity for any Corporation Entity in any manner, such Corporation Official shall have no duty to communicate or present such potential transaction or business opportunity to the Corporation or any Corporation Affiliate and shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, not be liable to any Corporation Entity, or its stockholders, for breach of any fiduciary duty as a Corporation Official including without limitation by reason of the fact that any one or more of the Helix Entities pursues or acquires such potential transaction or business opportunity for itself, directs such potential transaction or business opportunity to another person or entity, or otherwise does not communicate information regarding such potential transaction or business opportunity to the Corporation or any Corporation Affiliate.
(3) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 5, the Corporation does not renounce any interest or expectancy it may have in any corporate opportunity that is expressly offered to any Corporation Official in writing solely in his or her capacity as a Corporation Official.
SECTION 6. No amendment or repeal of this ARTICLE V shall apply to or have any effect on the liability or alleged liability of any Helix Entity or Corporation Official for or with respect to any corporate opportunity that such Helix Entity or Corporation Official was offered, or of which such Helix Entity or Corporation Official acquired knowledge prior to such amendment or repeal.
SECTION 7. In addition to, and notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this ARTICLE V, a potential transaction or business opportunity (1) that the Corporation Entities are not financially able, contractually permitted or legally able to undertake, or (2) that is, from its nature, not in the line of the Corporation Entities’ business, is of no practical advantage to any Corporation Entity or that is one in which no Corporation Entity has any interest or reasonable expectancy, shall not, in any such case, be deemed to constitute a corporate opportunity belonging to the Corporation, or any Corporate Affiliate, and the Corporation, on behalf of itself and each Corporation Affiliate, to the fullest extent permitted by law, hereby renounces any interest therein.
SECTION 8. Anything in this Certificate of Incorporation to the contrary notwithstanding, the provisions of Sections 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of this ARTICLE V shall automatically terminate, expire and have no further force and effect from and after the date on which both (1) the Helix Entities collectively cease to be the beneficial owner of shares
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representing at least 20% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock and (2) no Corporation Official is also a Helix Official.
ARTICLE VI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
SECTION 1. Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock to elect directors under specified circumstances, the number of directors of the Corporation shall be fixed, and may be increased or decreased from time to time, exclusively by resolution adopted by a majority of the entire Board of Directors.
SECTION 2. Unless and except to the extent that the Bylaws of the Corporation shall so require, the election of directors of the Corporation need not be by written ballot.
SECTION 3. The directors, other than those who may be elected by the holders of any series of Preferred Stock under specified circumstances, shall be apportioned, with respect to the time for which they severally hold office, into three classes, as nearly equal in number as possible and designated Class I, Class II and Class III. Class I shall be initially elected for a term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2007, Class II shall be initially elected for a term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2008, and Class III shall be initially elected for a term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2009. Members of each class shall hold office until their successors are elected and qualified. At each succeeding annual meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation, the successors of the class of directors whose term expires at that meeting shall be elected for a term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders held in the third year following the year of their election. In case of any increase or decrease, from time to time, in the number of directors, other than those who may be elected by the holders of any series of Preferred Stock under specified circumstances, the number of directors added to or eliminated from each class shall be apportioned so that the number of directors in each class thereafter shall be as nearly equal as possible.
SECTION 4. Except as otherwise provided by any Certificate of Designations, any director or the entire Board of Directors may be removed from office at any time with or without cause, but only by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the total voting power of the Voting Stock;provided, however, that, from and after the date that the Helix Entities collectively cease to be the beneficial owner of shares representing at least a majority of the total voting power of the Voting Stock, any director or the entire Board of Directors may be removed from office only for cause and only by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 80% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock.
SECTION 5. Except as otherwise provided by any Certificate of Designations, newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized number of directors or any vacancies in the Board of Directors resulting from death, resignation, retirement, disqualification, removal from office or other cause shall be filled solely by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors then in office, even though less than a quorum of the Board of Directors, or by the sole remaining director;provided, however,that, until the Helix Entities collectively cease to be the beneficial owner of shares representing at least a majority of
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the total voting power of the Voting Stock, if such vacancy was caused by an action of the stockholders, such vacancy shall be filled only by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the total voting power of the Voting Stock. Any director so chosen shall hold office until his or her successor shall be elected and qualified and, if the Board of Directors at such time is classified, until the next election of the class for which such director shall have been chosen. No decrease in the number of directors shall shorten the term of any incumbent director.
ARTICLE VII
BYLAWS
In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by law, the Board of Directors is expressly authorized and empowered to adopt, amend and repeal the Bylaws of the Corporation at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors or by written consent, subject to the power of the stockholders of the Corporation to adopt, amend or repeal any Bylaws. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Certificate of Incorporation or any provision of law that might otherwise permit a lesser vote or no vote, but in addition to any affirmative vote of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock required by law, by this Certificate of Incorporation or by any Certificate of Designations, the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the total voting power of the Voting Stock, voting together as a single class, shall be required for the stockholders of the Corporation to alter, amend or repeal any provision of the Bylaws, or to adopt any new Bylaw;provided, however,that, from and after the date that the Helix Entities collectively cease to be the beneficial owner of shares representing at least a majority of the total voting power of the Voting Stock, the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 80% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock, voting together as a single class, shall be required for the stockholders of the Corporation to alter, amend or repeal, or adopt any Bylaw inconsistent with, the following provisions of the Bylaws: Sections 2.1, 2.2, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.8, 2.9 and 2.11 of ARTICLE II; Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.9 and 3.11 of ARTICLE III; Section 6.9 of ARTICLE VI; and Section 8.1 of ARTICLE VIII, or in each case, any successor provision (including, without limitation, any such article or section as renumbered as a result of any amendment, alteration, change, repeal or adoption of any other Bylaw).
ARTICLE VIII
AMENDMENT OF CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
The Corporation reserves the right at any time from time to time to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this Certificate of Incorporation, and any other provisions authorized by the laws of the State of Delaware at the time in force may be added or inserted, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by law. All rights, preferences and privileges of whatsoever nature conferred upon stockholders, directors or any other persons or entities whomsoever by and pursuant to this Certificate of Incorporation in its present form or as hereafter amended are granted subject to the right reserved in this ARTICLE VIII. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Certificate of Incorporation or any provision of law that might otherwise permit a lesser vote or no vote, but in addition to any affirmative vote of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock required by law, by this Certificate of Incorporation or by any Certificate of Designations, the affirmative vote of a majority of the total voting power of
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the Voting Stock, voting together as a single class, shall be required to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision of this Certificate of Incorporation, or to adopt any new provision of this Certificate of Incorporation;provided, however,that, from and after the date that the Helix Entities collectively cease to be the beneficial owner of shares representing at least a majority of the total voting power of the Voting Stock, the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 80% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock, voting together as a single class, shall be required to amend, alter, change or repeal, or adopt any provision inconsistent with, ARTICLE V, ARTICLE VI, ARTICLE VII, ARTICLE IX, ARTICLE X and this sentence of this Certificate of Incorporation, or in each case, any successor provision (including, without limitation, any such article or section as renumbered as a result of any amendment, alteration, change, repeal or adoption of any other provision of this Certificate of Incorporation). Any repeal or modification of ARTICLE V or ARTICLE IX shall not adversely affect any right or protection of any person existing thereunder with respect to any act or omission occurring prior to such repeal or modification.
ARTICLE IX
LIMITATIONS ON LIABILITY AND INDEMNIFICATION
OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS
SECTION 1.Elimination of Certain Liability of Directors. 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, except to the extent such exemption from liability or limitation thereof is not permitted under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware as the same exists at the time of the alleged breach.
SECTION 2.Indemnification and Insurance.
(a) Right to Indemnification. Each person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (hereinafter a “proceeding”), by reason of the fact that he or she, or a person of whom he or she is the legal representative, is or was a director or officer of the Corporation, or while a director or officer of the Corporation is or was serving, at the request of the Corporation, as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to employee benefit plans maintained or sponsored by the Corporation, whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer, employee or agent or in any other capacity while serving as a director or officer, employee or agent, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent authorized by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that such amendment permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights than said law permitted the Corporation to provide prior to such amendment), against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines, amounts paid or to be paid in settlement, and excise taxes or penalties arising under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) reasonably incurred or suffered by such person in connection therewith and such indemnification shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of his or her
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heirs, executors and administrators;provided,however, that the Corporation shall indemnify any such person seeking indemnification in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such person only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors. The right to indemnification conferred in this Section shall be a contract right. The Corporation may, by action of the Board of Directors, provide indemnification to employees and agents of the Corporation with the same scope and effect as the foregoing indemnification of director and officers.
(b) Non-Exclusivity of Rights. The right to indemnification conferred in this Section shall not be exclusive of any other right that any person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of this Certificate of Incorporation, Bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.
(c) Insurance. The Corporation may maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect itself and any director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any such expense, liability or loss, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
ARTICLE X
STOCKHOLDER ACTION
Any action required or permitted to be taken by stockholders at any annual or special meeting of stockholders may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, if a consent or consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by the holders of outstanding capital stock having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all shares of capital stock entitled to vote thereon were present and voted;provided,however, that except as otherwise provided by any Certificate of Designations, from and after the date that the Helix Entities collectively cease to be the beneficial owner of shares representing at least a majority of the total voting power of the Voting Stock, any action required or permitted to be taken by stockholders may be effected only at a duly called annual or special meeting of stockholders and may not be effected by a written consent or consents of stockholders in lieu of such a meeting.
Except as otherwise required by law or provided by any Certificate of Designations, special meetings of stockholders of the Corporation may be called only by (1) Helix, so long as the Helix Entities, collectively, are the beneficial owners of at least a majority of the total voting power of the Voting Stock, or (2) the Chairman of the Board of Directors or the Board of Directors pursuant to a resolution approved by a majority of the entire Board of Directors and any other power of stockholders to call a special meeting is specifically denied. No business other than that stated in the notice of a special meeting of stockholders shall be transacted at such special meeting.
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ARTICLE XI
SECTION 203 OF THE GENERAL CORPORATION LAW
None of the Helix Entities shall be deemed to be an “interested stockholder” within the meaning of Section 203 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware until both of the following events take place: (a) the first date on which the Helix Entities as a group beneficially own shares representing less than 15% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock and (b) such subsequent date as the Helix Entities as a group beneficially own shares representing at least 15% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock.
ARTICLE XII
CITIZENSHIP OF OFFICERS, DIRECTORS AND STOCKHOLDER
SECTION 1.Purpose. The purpose of this ARTICLE XII is to limit ownership and control of any class of capital stock of the Corporation by Non-U.S. Citizens, and to limit the Non-U.S. Citizen status of certain officers and directors, in order to assure that the Corporation remains in continuous compliance with the citizenship requirements of the Shipping Act, 1916, as amended, the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, as amended, the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, and the regulations promulgated thereunder, as such laws and regulations may be amended from time to time (collectively, the “Maritime Laws”).
SECTION 2.Certain Definitions. For the purpose of this ARTICLE XII:
(1) | The term “Non-U.S. Citizen” shall mean (1) any Person who is not a United States citizen qualified to engage in coastwise trade within the meaning of the Maritime Laws; (2) any foreign government or representative thereof; (3) any corporation, the chief executive officer, by whatever title, or chairman of the board of directors of which is a Non-U.S. Citizen, or of which more than a minority of the number of directors necessary to constitute a quorum are Non-U.S. Citizens; (4) any Person organized under the laws of any foreign government; (5) any corporation of which a 25% or greater interest is owned beneficially or of record, or may be voted by, one or more Non-U.S. Citizens, or which by any other means whatsoever is controlled by or in which control is permitted to be exercised by one or more Non-U.S. Citizens (the Board of Directors being authorized to determine reasonably the meaning of “control” for purposes of this ARTICLE XII); (6) any partnership, limited liability company, association or other entity of which a 25% or greater interest is owned by Non-U.S. Citizens, or which is controlled by one or more Non-U.S. Citizens; (7) any partnership in which any of the general partners are Non-U.S. Citizens; (8) any trust not domiciled in or existing under U.S. law, or having a Non-U.S. Citizen as trustee, or having greater than 25% of trust assets held for the benefit of Non-U.S. Citizens; (9) any joint venture not organized under U.S. law or of which any co-venturer is a Non-U.S. Citizen; or (10) any Person who acts as representative of or fiduciary for any Person described in clauses (1) through (9) of this paragraph; |
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(2) | the term “Permitted Percentage” shall mean a percentage two percentage points less than the percentage that would cause the Corporation to no longer qualify as a U.S. Citizen qualified to engage in coastwise trade under the Maritime Laws; and | ||
(3) | the term “Person” shall mean an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association or other entity. |
SECTION 3.Restriction on Transfer. Any transfer, or attempted or purported transfer, of any shares of the capital stock of the Corporation or any interest therein or right thereof, which would (1) result in the ownership or control by one or more Non-U.S. Citizens of an aggregate percentage of the outstanding capital stock of the Corporation in excess of the Permitted Percentage, or (2) result in the ownership or control by one or more Non-U.S. Citizens of an aggregate percentage of the voting power of the outstanding capital stock of the Corporation in excess of the Permitted Percentage, will, until such excess no longer exists, be void and ineffective as against the Corporation and the Corporation will not recognize, to the extent of such excess, the purported transferee as a stockholder of the Corporation for any purpose other than the transfer of such excess to a person who is not a Non-U.S. Citizen;provided, however, that the Board of Directors may in its discretion determine that such shares, to the extent of such excess, shall be deemed to be Non-U.S. Citizen owned shares for the purposes of this ARTICLE XII. The Board of Directors is hereby authorized to effect any and all other measures reasonably necessary or desirable (consistent with applicable law and the provisions of this Certificate of Incorporation) to fulfill the purpose and implement the provisions of this ARTICLE XII, including without limitation, obtaining, as a condition precedent to the transfer of shares on the records of the Corporation, representations and other proof as to the identity of existing or prospective stockholders and persons on whose behalf shares of the capital stock of the Corporation or any interest therein or right thereof are or are to be held or establishing and maintaining a dual stock certificate system under which different forms of stock certificates representing outstanding shares of the capital stock of the Corporation are issued to the holders of record of the shares represented thereby to indicate whether or not such shares or any interest therein or right thereof are owned or controlled by a Non-U.S. Citizen.
SECTION 4.Suspension of Rights. If any shares in excess of the Permitted Percentage of the outstanding capital stock of the Corporation are owned or controlled by one or more Non-U.S. Citizens, or if any shares in excess of the Permitted Percentage of the voting power of the outstanding capital stock of the Corporation are owned or controlled by one or more Non-U.S. Citizens, any such excess shares determined in accordance with this Section 4, will, until such excess no longer exists, not be entitled (1) to receive any rights with respect to any dividends or distributions of assets declared payable or paid to the holders of the capital stock of the Corporation during such period or (2) to vote with respect to any matter submitted to stockholders of the Corporation. If the percentage of capital stock or voting power of capital stock owned or controlled by Non-U.S. Citizens is in excess of the Permitted Percentage, the shares deemed included in such excess for purposes of this Section 4 will be those shares owned or controlled by Non-U.S. Citizens that the Board of Directors determines became so owned or controlled most recently.
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SECTION 5.Citizenship of Officers and Directors. Except as otherwise permitted by or consistent with the Maritime Laws, (1) at no time shall more than a minority of the number of directors of the Corporation necessary to constitute a quorum be Non-U.S. Citizens, and (2) at no time shall the chairman of board or the chief executive officer of the Corporation be a Non-U.S. Citizen.
ARTICLE XIII
CERTAIN DEFINITIONS
For purposes of this Certificate of Incorporation:
(1) | The terms “beneficial owner” and “beneficial ownership” shall have the meaning ascribed to such terms in Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and shall be determined in accordance with such rule; | ||
(2) | the term “Certificate of Designations” shall mean the resolution or resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors designating the rights, powers and preferences of any series of Preferred Stock and the Certificate of Designations filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware by the Corporation with respect thereto; | ||
(3) | the term “corporate opportunity” shall include, but not be limited to, business opportunities that (a) the Corporation or any Corporation Affiliate is financially able to undertake, (b) are, from their nature, in the line of the Corporation’s or any Corporation Affiliate’s business, and (c) are of practical advantage to the Corporation or any Corporation Affiliate and ones in which the Corporation or any Corporation Affiliate, but for the provisions of ARTICLE V, would have an interest or a reasonable expectancy; | ||
(4) | the term “Corporation Affiliate” shall mean (a) any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, association or other entity of which the Corporation is the beneficial owner (directly or indirectly) of 20% or more of the outstanding voting stock, voting power, partnership interests or similar voting interests or (b) any other corporation, partnership, joint venture, association or other entity that (directly or indirectly) is controlled by the Corporation; | ||
(5) | the term “Corporation Entity” shall mean any one or more of the Corporation and the Corporation Affiliates; | ||
(6) | the term “Corporation Official” shall mean each person who is a director or an officer (or both) of the Corporation or one or more Corporation Affiliates; | ||
(7) | the term “Helix” shall mean Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc., a Minnesota corporation; |
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(8) | the term “Helix Affiliate” shall mean, other than the Corporation or any Corporation Affiliate, (a) any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, association or other entity of which Helix is the beneficial owner (directly or indirectly) of 20% or more of the outstanding voting stock, voting power, partnership interests or similar voting interests or (b) any other corporation, partnership, joint venture, association or other entity that (directly or indirectly) is controlled by Helix, controls Helix or is under common control with Helix; | ||
(9) | the term “Helix Entity” shall mean any one or more of Helix and the Helix Affiliates; | ||
(10) | the term “Helix Official” shall mean each person who is a director or an officer (or both) of Helix or one or more Helix Affiliates; | ||
(11) | the term “transfer” shall mean any sale, assignment, pledge, hypothecation, transfer or other disposition or encumbrance of a share of the Corporation’s capital stock, or any beneficial interest therein; and | ||
(12) | the term “Voting Stock” shall mean all classes of the then outstanding capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors. |
For purpose of the foregoing definitions, the term “control” (including the terms “controlling,” “controlled by” and “under common control with”) means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of an entity, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract, or otherwise.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Cal Dive International, Inc. has caused this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be executed by Lisa Manget Buchanan, its Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary this 11th day of December, 2006.
/s/ Lisa Manget Buchanan | ||||
Lisa Manget Buchanan | ||||
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary | ||||
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