“THE TRANSFER OF THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED HEREBY IS SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS PURSUANT TO ARTICLE IX OF THE CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF CRIMSON WINE GROUP, LTD. REPRINTED IN ITS ENTIRETY ON THE BACK OF THIS CERTIFICATE.”
With respect to uncertificated shares, the full text of such legend and Article IX of the Certificate of Incorporation may be recorded upon the books of the Corporation, sent to the registered holder thereof, or communicated to the registered holder by any other means in accordance with applicable law.
Except as otherwise provided by law or the Certificate of Incorporation (including the terms of any Preferred Stock provided for therein), the Board of Directors shall have full power to determine whether any, and, if any, what part of any, funds legally available for the payment of dividends shall be declared as dividends and paid to stockholders; the division of the whole or any part of such funds of the Corporation shall rest wholly within the lawful discretion of the Board of Directors, and it shall not be required at any time, against such discretion, to divide or pay any part of such funds among or to the stockholders as dividends or otherwise; and before payment of any dividend, there may be set aside out of any funds of the Corporation available for dividends such sum or sums as the Board of Directors from time to time, in its absolute discretion, thinks proper as a reserve or reserves to meet contingencies, or for equalizing dividends, or for repairing or maintaining any property of the Corporation, or for such other purpose as the Board of Directors shall think conducive to the interest of the Corporation, and the Board of Directors may modify or abolish any such reserve in the manner in which it was created. Dividends may be paid in cash, in property or in shares of the Corporation’s capital stock.
Any transaction, questioned in any lawsuit on the ground of lack of authority, defective or irregular execution, adverse interest of director, officer or stockholder, nondisclosure, miscomputation, or the application of improper principles or practices of accounting, may be ratified before or after judgment, by the Board of Directors or by the stockholders, and if so ratified shall have the same force and effect as if the questioned transaction had been originally duly authorized. Such ratification shall be binding upon the Corporation and its stockholders and shall constitute a bar to any claim or execution of any judgment in respect of such questioned transaction.
ARTICLE IX
CORPORATE SEAL
The corporate seal shall have inscribed thereon the name of the Corporation and the year of its incorporation, and shall be in such form and contain such other words and/or figures as the Board of Directors shall determine. The corporate seal may be used by printing, engraving, lithographing, stamping or otherwise making, placing or affixing, or causing to be printed, engraved, lithographed, stamped or otherwise made, placed or affixed, upon any paper or document, by any process whatsoever, an impression, facsimile or other reproduction of said corporate seal. Affixing the corporate seal shall not be required for the validity of any contract or agreement, deed, promissory note or other document executed and delivered by the Corporation, except as otherwise required by law.
ARTICLE X
FISCAL YEAR
The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be fixed, and shall be subject to change, by the Board of Directors.
ARTICLE XI
WAIVER OF NOTICE
Whenever notice is required to be given by these Bylaws or by the Certificate of Incorporation or by law, the person or persons entitled to said notice may consent in writing, whether before or after the time stated therein, to waive such notice requirement. Notice shall also be deemed waived by any person who attends a meeting without protesting prior thereto or at its commencement, the lack of notice to him.
ARTICLE XII
BANK ACCOUNTS, DRAFTS, CONTRACTS, ETC.
SECTION 1.Bank Accounts and Drafts. In addition to such bank accounts as may be authorized by the Board of Directors, the chief financial officer, the Treasurer or any person designated by said chief financial officer or Treasurer, whether or not an employee of the Corporation, may authorize such bank accounts to be opened or maintained in the name and on behalf of the Corporation as such person may deem necessary or appropriate, payments from such bank accounts to be made upon and according to the check of the Corporation in accordance with the written instructions of said chief financial officer, or other person so designated by the Treasurer.
SECTION 2.Contracts. The Board of Directors may authorize any person or persons, in the name and on behalf of the Corporation, to enter into or execute and deliver any and all deeds, bonds, mortgages, contracts and other obligations or instruments, and such authority may be general or confined to specific instances. Except as otherwise provided by the Board of
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Directors or the Chief Executive Officer, any officer of the Corporation may execute and deliver any deed, bond, mortgage, contract or other obligation or instrument on behalf of the Corporation.
SECTION 3.Proxies; Powers of Attorney; Other Instruments. The Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, any Vice President or the Secretary or any other person designated by the Board of Directors shall have the power and authority to execute and deliver proxies, powers of attorney and other instruments on behalf of the Corporation in connection with the rights and powers incident to the ownership of stock by the Corporation. The Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, any Vice President or the Secretary or any other person authorized by proxy or power of attorney executed and delivered by any of them on behalf of the Corporation may attend and vote at any meeting of stockholders of any company in which the Corporation may hold stock, and may exercise on behalf of the Corporation any and all of the rights and powers incident to the ownership of such stock at any such meeting, or otherwise as specified in the proxy or power of attorney so authorizing any such person. The Board of Directors, from time to time, may confer like powers upon any other person.
ARTICLE XIII
INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS, AND INSURANCE
SECTION 1.Indemnification of Directors and Officers. The Corporation shall indemnify and hold harmless, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law as it presently 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), any person (a “Covered Person”) who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to, or is otherwise involved in, any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, regulatory, arbitral or investigative in nature (a “proceeding”), by reason of the fact that such Covered Person, his or her testator or intestate, or a person for whom he or she is the legal representative, is or was, at any time during which these Bylaws are in effect or any time prior thereto (whether or not such Covered Person continues to serve in such capacity at the time any indemnification or payment of expenses pursuant hereto is sought or at the time any proceeding relating thereto exists or is brought), a director or officer of the Corporation, or has or had agreed to become a director of the Corporation (including, for the purposes of this Article XIII, any predecessor of the Corporation absorbed by the Corporation in a consolidation, merger or reorganization), or while a director or officer of the Corporation is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, trustee, employee or agent of another corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, employee benefit plan, trust, nonprofit entity or other enterprise, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer, trustee, employee or agent or in any other capacity while serving as a director, officer, trustee, employee or agent, against all liability and loss suffered (including, without limitation, any judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties and amounts paid in settlement) and expenses (including attorneys’ fees and disbursements), actually and reasonably incurred by such Covered Person in connection with such proceeding to the fullest extent permitted by law, and
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such indemnification shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, trustee, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of such person’s heirs, executors and administrators, and the Corporation may enter into agreements with any such person for the purpose of providing for such indemnification. For purposes of this Article XIII, a director or officer of the Corporation serving as a director, officer, trustee, employee or agent or in any other capacity while serving as a director, officer, trustee, employee or agent of a company of which the Corporation owns, directly or indirectly, a majority of the shares or other interests entitled to vote in the selection of its directors or the members of a comparable governing body or of an employee benefit plan of the Corporation or of any such company shall be deemed to have served in such capacity at the request of the Corporation and actions taken or omitted by a Covered Person on behalf of such an employee benefit plan of the Corporation or of any direct or indirect subsidiary of the Corporation, if done in good faith and in a manner that he or she reasonably believed was in the best interests of the employee benefit plan or its participants or beneficiaries, shall be deemed to have been done in a manner not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation and actions taken or omitted on behalf of a direct or indirect subsidiary of the Corporation (even if not wholly owned by the Corporation), if done in good faith and in a manner that he or she reasonably believed to be in the best interests of the subsidiary or its owners, shall be deemed to have been done in a manner not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, and, in each case, with respect to any criminal proceeding, if he or she had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful. Except as otherwise provided in this Article XIII, and other than proceedings to enforce rights conferred by the Certificate of Incorporation or this Article XIII, the Corporation shall be required to indemnify a person in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such person (other than proceedings to enforce rights conferred by the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation or these Bylaws) only if the proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors. The right to indemnification conferred in this Article XIII shall include the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses (including attorneys’ fees and disbursements) incurred by a Covered Person in defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition, such advances to be paid by the Corporation within a reasonable period after the receipt by the Corporation of a statement or statements from the claimant requesting such advance or advances from time to time (and subject to filing a written request for indemnification pursuant to Section 2 of this Article XIII);provided,however, that the payment of such expenses shall be made only upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the Covered Person to repay all amounts advanced if it shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right of appeal that the Covered Person is not entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation for such expenses under this Article XIII or otherwise.
SECTION 2.Request for Indemnification or Advancement. To obtain advancement or indemnification under this Article XIII, a claimant first shall submit to the Corporation a written request, including such documentation and information as is reasonably available to the claimant and is reasonably necessary to determine whether and to what extent the claimant is entitled to advancement or indemnification and the Board of Directors, by a vote of a majority of Directors not interested in the matter, shall determine the claimant’s entitlement thereto. If it is so determined that the claimant is entitled to indemnification, payment to the claimant shall be made within a reasonable period after such determination.
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SECTION 3.Preservation of Other Rights. The right to indemnification and the payment of expenses incurred in defending a proceeding in advance of its final disposition conferred on any Covered Person by this Article XIII, (a) shall not be exclusive of, and the Corporation is authorized to honor or provide, any other right that such Covered Person may have or hereafter acquire, which other right may provide indemnification and advancement in excess of the indemnification and advancement otherwise permitted by the DGCL, subject only to limits created by applicable Delaware law (statutory or non-statutory) with respect to actions for breach of duty to the Corporation, its stockholders and others, and (b) cannot be terminated by the Corporation, the Board of Directors or the stockholders of the Corporation with respect to a Covered Person’s service occurring prior to the date of such termination. The Corporation may enter into agreements providing for indemnity of or advancement of expenses to a director or officer containing such provisions further to or alternative to the provisions of this Article XIII as the Board of Directors determines is in the best interests of the Corporation. However, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Corporation’s obligation to indemnify or to advance expenses to any Covered Person who was or is serving at its request as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, employee benefit plan, trust, nonprofit entity, or other enterprise shall be reduced by any amount such person has collected as indemnification from such other corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, employee benefit plan, trust, nonprofit entity, or other enterprise; and, in the event the Corporation has fully paid such expenses, the Covered Person shall return to the Corporation any amounts subsequently received from such other source of indemnification.
SECTION 4.Contract Rights; Survival. The rights conferred upon Covered Persons in this Article XIII shall be contract rights that vest at the time of such person’s service to or at the request of the Corporation and such rights shall continue as to a Covered Person who has ceased to be a director, officer, trustee, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the indemnitee’s heirs, executors and administrators. Any repeal, other termination, amendment, alteration or modification of the provisions of this Article XIII that in any way diminishes, limits, restricts, adversely affects or eliminates any right of an indemnitee or such person’s successors to indemnification, advancement of expenses or otherwise shall be prospective only and shall not in any way diminish, limit, restrict, adversely affect or eliminate any such right with respect to any actual or alleged act or or omission occurring prior thereto while such a person was a director or officer of the Corporation or any actual or alleged state of facts, occurrence, action or omission then or previously existing, or any action, suit or proceeding previously or thereafter brought or threatened based in whole or in part upon any such actual or alleged state of facts, occurrence, action or omission.
SECTION 5.Indemnification of and Advancement of Expenses to Other Persons. This Article XIII shall not limit the right of the Corporation, to the extent and in the manner permitted by law, to indemnify and advance expenses (on substantially similar terms and subject to the same obligations as those set forth in Sections 1 and 2 of this Article XIII) to persons other than Covered Persons when and as authorized by the Board of Directors.
SECTION 6.Insurance. The Corporation may purchase and maintain insurance, at its expense, on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, or is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation,
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limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise against any liability, expense or loss asserted against such person and incurred by such person in such capacity, or arising out of such person’s status as such, whether or not the Corporation would have the power or the obligation to indemnify such person against such liability, expense or loss under the DGCL. To the extent that the Corporation maintains any policy or policies providing such insurance, each such person shall be covered by such policy or policies in accordance with its or their terms to the maximum extent of the coverage thereunder for any such person.
SECTION 7.Interpretation. If any provision or provisions of this Article XIII shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason whatsoever: (a) the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Article XIII (including, without limitation, each portion of any paragraph of this Article XIII containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that is not itself held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby; and (b) to the fullest extent possible, the provisions of this Article XIII (including, without limitation, each such portion of any paragraph of this Article XIII containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall be construed so as to give effect to the intent manifested by the provision held invalid, illegal or unenforceable.
ARTICLE XIV
AMENDMENTS
The Board of Directors shall have power to adopt, amend, modify or repeal these Bylaws. The stockholders of the Corporation shall have the power to adopt, amend, modify or repeal these Bylaws at a duly called meeting of the stockholders;provided, that notice of the proposed adoption, amendment, modification or repeal was given in the notice of the meeting.
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Crimson Wine Group, Ltd.
a Delaware corporation
CERTIFICATE OF ADOPTION OF
AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS
The undersigned hereby certifies that he or she is the duly elected and qualified, Vice President & Treasurer of Crimson Wine Group, Ltd., a Delaware corporation, and that the foregoing Amended and Restated Bylaws were adopted as the Corporation’s bylaws effective as of February 1, 2013 by the Corporation’s Board of Directors.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set such person’s hand this 1st day of February, 2013.
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| By: | /s/ Patrick DeLong |
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| Name: | Patrick DeLong |
| Title: | Vice President & Treasurer |
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