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ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT TO THE
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF
SMOKIN CONCEPTS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
These Articles of Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation were approved by the directors following the approval of certain amendments by the shareholders of Smokin Concepts Development Corporation (the “Corporation”). This attachment is incorporated into the foregoing Articles of Amendment.
1. | Article II of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation is hereby deleted and replaced in its entirety by the following: |
“ARTICLE II
Authorized Shares
Section 1: Number. The aggregate number of shares which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is One Hundred Eighteen Million Two Hundred Forty-Two Thousand Seven Hundred (118,242,700), of which One Hundred Million (100,000,000) shall be designated as shares of Common Stock of one class with unlimited voting rights with no par value, and Eighteen Million Two Hundred Forty-Two Thousand Seven Hundred (18,242,700) shall be designated as shares of Preferred Stock, to have such par value, classes and preferences as the Board of Directors may determine from time to time.
Section 2: Dividends. Dividends in cash, property or shares of the Corporation may be paid upon the stock, as and when declared by the Board of Directors, out of funds of the Corporation to the extent and in the manner permitted by law.”
2. | Article VI of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation is hereby deleted and replaced in its entirety by the following: |
“ARTICLE VI
Purposes
The purposes of the Corporation (through its subsidiaries) are:
1. | To develop, own, and operate restaurants and branding, such as Southern Hospitality and Bourbon Brothers, franchise Bourbon Brothers restaurants and extend the brand to product lines including but not limited to cigars, bourbon, pies, etc.; and |
2. | To provide restaurant management services to other businesses. |
For the purposes of the Corporation’s directors’ duties of loyalty, the investment and involvement by any directors and officers in any other business shall be considered outside the scope of the purposes of the Corporation, and not a corporate opportunity. Thus, directors and officers of the Corporation will not be deemed to have usurped a corporate opportunity by personally investing or being involved in other businesses, including real estate investments related to the Company. Similarly, the provision of management services to a restaurant by any officer or director shall not be deemed to be a usurpation of a corporate opportunity so long as the officer or director has a personal investment in such restaurant.”
CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION
of the
PREFERENCES, RIGHTS, LIMITATIONS, QUALIFICATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS
of the
SERIES A CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK
of
SMOKIN CONCEPTS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
SMOKIN CONCEPTS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (hereinafter the “Corporation”), a corporation organized and existing under the Colorado Business Corporation Act (the “CBCA”), hereby certifies that, pursuant to the authority conferred upon the Board of Directors of the Corporation (the “Board”) by its Articles of Incorporation and pursuant to the provisions of the CBCA, on January 22, 2014, the Board duly adopted the following resolution providing for the authorization of 18,242,700 shares of the Corporation’s Series A Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Series A Stock”):
RESOLVED, that pursuant to the authority vested in the Board by the Corporation’s Articles of Incorporation, the Board hereby establishes from the Corporation’s authorized class of preferred stock a new series to be known as “Series A Convertible Preferred Stock,” consisting of 18,242,700 shares, and hereby determines the designation, preferences, rights, qualifications, limitations and privileges of the Series A Stock to be as follows:
1. Designation and Amount. All of the 18,242,700 shares of the Company’s authorized preferred stock, $0.001 par value per share are designated as “Series A Convertible Preferred Stock,” with the rights and preferences set forth below.
2. Rank. The Series A Stock shall be paripassuto the Common Stock.
3. Voting Rights. The holders of outstanding shares of Series A Stock shall be entitled to notice of any shareholders’ meeting and to vote as a single class with the Common Stock upon any matter submitted for approval by the holders of Common Stock. Each share of Series A Stock shall have 25 votes per share.
4. Restrictions on Transfer. Holders of Series A Stock are prohibited from selling, transferring, assigning, or in any way alienating their shares of Series A Stock of the Corporation (“transfer”), or any right or interest in the them, whether voluntarily or by operation of law, or by gift or otherwise, to any person except another holder of Series A Stock. The term “transfer” shall include any sale, transfer, assignment or involuntary transfer made by a holder of Series A Stock, including (without limitation) any transfer or disposition of shares of Series A Stock under judicial order, legal process, execution, attachment, as a result of death of the holder of Series A Stock, or upon enforcement of a pledge, trust, or other security interest or other beneficial interest in the shares of Series A Stock, however arising, and notwithstanding the fact that the pledge, trust, security interest, or other beneficial interest may have initially been granted voluntarily. An involuntary transfer does not include a mere inchoate interest (such as, but not limited to, a dower right or a spousal interest in the appreciation of property) as to which the involuntary transferee has not expressly asserted a right thereto. The term “transfer” does not include the negotiation or signing of an agreement to merge, consolidate, sell all or substantially all of the Corporation’s assets or a similar transaction to which the Corporation is a party, or the completion of such an agreement following shareholder approval thereof.
5. Dividends. When any dividend or distribution is declared or paid by the Corporation on Common Stock, whether payable in cash, property, securities or rights to acquire securities, the holders of the Series A Stock will be entitled to participate with the holders of Common Stock in such dividend or distribution. At the time such dividend or distribution is payable to the holders of Common Stock, the Corporation will pay to each holder of Series A Stock such holder’s share of such dividend or distribution in an amount equal to the dividend or distribution per share of Common Stock payable at such time multiplied by the number of shares of Common Stock then obtainable upon conversion of such holder’s Series A Stock.
6. Liquidation Rights. Upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, the holders of outstanding shares of Series A Stock will be entitled to be paid together with the holders of Common Stock on a pro rata basis with the Common Stock the net proceeds remaining from the liquidation of the Corporation and its assets, and the payment of all indebtedness and any liquidation preference on any securities that rank senior to the Common Stock, based on the number of shares of Common Stock into which the shares of Series A Stock is then convertible as set forth in Section 7 hereof.
7 ConversionRights.
a. The holder of any shares of the Series A Stock, may convert such shares of Series A Stock in whole, upon written notice to the Corporation by February 15th of each calendar year with conversion to take place on March 1st of each calendar year, subject to the terms set forth below. The Series A Stock may, or shall, be converted into shares of the Corporation’s authorized but unissued Common Stock on the following bases:
i. | At the option of the holder, each share of Series A Stock shall be convertible into one share of the Corporation’s Common Stock (the “conversion ratio”). |
ii. | No partial conversion of preferred shares shall take place. All shares of Series A Stock held by the shareholder shall be converted in whole with no partial conversions to take place. |
iii. | Upon any conversions on March 1st of each calendar year, any Series A Stock that is converted will be cancelled and not be available for reissuance. |
b. Mechanics of Conversion. No fractional shares of Common Stock shall be issued upon the conversion of the Series A Stock. If the number of shares to be issued to the holders of the Series A Stock is not a whole number, then the number of the shares shall be rounded up to the nearest whole number. Before any holder of Series A Stock shall be entitled to convert the same into full shares of Common Stock, and to receive certificates therefor, he shall either (x) surrender the certificate or certificates therefor, duly endorsed, at the office the transfer agent or (y) notify the Corporation that such certificates have been lost, stolen or destroyed and execute an agreement satisfactory to the Corporation to indemnify the Corporation from any loss incurred by it in connection with such certificates, and shall give written notice to the Corporation at such office that he elects to convert the same.
c. Adjustments for Subdivisions or Combinations of Common Stock. In the event the outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be subdivided (by stock split, by payment of a stock dividend or otherwise), into a greater number of shares of Common Stock, the conversion ratio of the Series A Stock in effect immediately prior to such subdivision shall, concurrently with the effectiveness of such subdivision, be proportionately increased. In the event the outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be combined (by reclassification or otherwise) into a lesser number of shares of Common Stock, the conversion ratio in effect immediately prior to such combination shall, concurrently with the effectiveness of such combination, be proportionately decreased.
d. Other Adjustments. If any event occurs of the type contemplated by the provisions of this Section 7 but not expressly provided for by such provisions (such as a stock dividend), then the Board of Directors of the Corporation will make an appropriate adjustment in the conversion ratio so as to protect the rights of the holders of Series A Stock.
e. Mandatory Conversion. Any transfer of Series A Stock not in accordance with Section 4 hereto shall result in the automatic conversion of all shares of Series A Stock held by the transferring shareholder to shares of Common Stock pursuant to this Section 7 as of the effective date of the non-permitted transfer. The effective date of the non-permitted transfer due to the shareholder’s death is the shareholder’s date of death. This mandatory conversion shall apply regardless of whether the non-permitted transfer was for less than all of the shares held by the transferee shareholder.
8. Severability. If any right, preference or limitation of the Series A Stock set forth herein is invalid, unlawful or incapable of being enforced by reason of any rule, law or public policy, all other rights, preferences and limitations set forth herein that can be given effect without the invalid, unlawful or unenforceable right, preference or limitation shall nevertheless remain in full force and effect, and no right, preference or limitation herein shall be deemed dependent upon any other such right, preference or limitation unless so expressed herein.
9. Amendment and Waiver. This Certificate of Designation shall not be amended, either directly or indirectly or through merger or consolidation with another entity, in any manner that would alter or change the powers, preferences or special rights of the holders of Series A Stock so as to affect them materially and adversely without the consent of a majority of the outstanding shares of Series A Stock. Subject to the preceding sentence, any amendment, modification or waiver of any of the terms or provisions of the Series A Stock shall be binding upon all holders of Series A Stock.
10. Replacement. Upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Corporation (an affidavit of the registered Holder shall be satisfactory) of the ownership and the loss, theft, destruction, or mutilation of any certificate evidencing shares of Series A Stock, and in the case of any such loss, theft or destruction upon receipt of indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Corporation (provided that if the Holder is a financial institution or other institutional investor its own agreement shall be satisfactory) or in the case of any such mutilation upon surrender of such certificate, the Corporation, at its expense, shall execute and deliver in lieu of such certificate a new certificate of like kind representing the number of shares of such Series A Stock represented by such lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated certificate and dated the date of such lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated certificate.
11. Notices. Any notice required by the provisions of this Certificate of Designation shall be in writing and shall be deemed effectively given: (i) upon personal delivery to the party to be notified; (ii) when sent by confirmed facsimile if sent during normal business hours of the recipient; if not, then on the next business day; (iii) five days after having been sent by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid; (iv) one day after deposit with a nationally recognized overnight courier, specifying next day delivery, with written verification of receipt; or (v) when sent by electronic mail (with confirmation of transmission) if sent during normal business hours of the recipient; if not, then on the next business day. All notices to the Corporation shall be addressed to the Corporation’s President at the Corporation’s principal place of business on file with the Secretary of State of the State of Colorado. All notices to shareholders shall be addressed to each holder of record at the address of such holder appearing on the books of the Corporation.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Certificate of Designation to be executed by Robert B. Mudd, Interim CEO and CFO of the Corporation, this 22nd day of January 2014.
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| By: | /s/ Robert B. Mudd | |
| Name: | Robert B. Mudd | |
| Title: | Interim CEO & CFO | |
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