Exhibit 2.1
Delaware
The First State
I, JEFFREY W. BULLOCK, SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, DO HEREBY CERTIFY THE ATTACHED IS A TRUE AND CORRECT COPY OF THE CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF “RENTALIST, INC.”, FILED IN THIS OFFICE ON THE NINETEENTH DAY OF JUNE, A.D. 2018, AT 10:49 O`CLOCK A.M.
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6938266 8100 | Authentication: 203049630 |
SR# 20185623126 | Date: 07-12-18 |
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You may verify this certificate online at corp.delaware.gov/authver.shtml | |
State of Delaware Secretary of State Division of Corporations Delivered 10:49 AM 06119/2018 | CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION | |
FILED 10:49 AM 06/19/2018 SR 20185231559 - File Number 6938266 | OF | |
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The undersigned, for the purpose of organizing a corporation for conducting the business and promoting the purposes hereinafter stated, under the provisions of and subject to the requirements of the laws of the State of Delaware (particularly Chapter 1, Title 8 of the Delaware Code and the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, and known, identified and referred to as the “DGCL”), hereby certifies that:
ARTICLE I
The name of the corporation is Rentalist, Inc. (the “Corporation”).
ARTICLE II
The registered office of the Corporation in the State of Delaware is 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, County of New Castle, Delaware 19808. The name of the registered agent at that address is Corporation Service Company.
ARTICLE III
The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful acts or activities for which corporations may be organized under the DGCL.
ARTICLE IV
A. CLASSES OF STOCK.
The aggregate number of shares of stock that the Corporation shall have the authority to issue shall be 5,000,000 shares, consisting of (i) 2,500,000 shares of Class A Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Class A Common Stock”), and (ii) 2,500,000 shares of Class B Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Class B Common Stock”).
B. VOTING RIGHTS.
The holders of the Class A Common Stock are entitled to one vote for each share of Class A Common Stock held at all meetings of stockholders (and written actions in lieu of meetings). There shall be no cumulative voting. The number of authorized shares of Class A Common Stock may be increased or decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding) by the affirmative vote of the holders of shares of capital stock of the Corporation representing a majority of the votes represented by all outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock.
Except as otherwise required under the DGCL, no voting rights are attributable to the shares of Class B Common Stock.
ARTICLE V
The Corporation is to have perpetual existence.
ARTICLE VI
In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute, the Board of Directors of the Corporation (the “Board”) is expressly authorized to make, alter or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation (the “Bylaws”).
ARTICLE VII
A meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation may be held within or without the State of Delaware, as the Bylaws may provide. The books of the Corporation may be kept (subject to any provisions contained in applicable statutes) outside the State of Delaware at such place or places as may be designated from time to time by the Board or in the Bylaws of the Corporation.
ARTICLE VIII
The Corporation shall indemnify each of the Corporation’s directors and officers in each and every situation where, under Section 145 of the DGCL, as amended from time to time (“Section 145”), the Corporation is permitted or empowered to make such indemnification. The Corporation may, in the sole discretion of the Board, indemnify any other person who may be indemnified pursuant to Section 145 to the extent the Board deems advisable, as permitted by Section 145. The Corporation shall promptly make or cause to be made any determination required to be made pursuant to Section 145.
The directors of the Corporation shall be entitled to the benefits of all limitations on the liability of directors generally that are now or hereafter become available under the DGCL. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, no person shall be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, provided that the foregoing shall not eliminate or limit the liability of a director (i) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the DGCL or, (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. If the DGCL is subsequently amended to further eliminate or limit the liability of a director, then a director of the Corporation, in addition to the circumstances in which a director is not personally liable as set forth in the preceding sentence, shall not be liable to the fullest extent permitted by the amended DGCL. For purposes of this Article VIII, “fiduciary duty as a director” shall include any fiduciary duty arising out of serving at the Corporation’s request as a director of another corporation, partnership, joint venture or other enterprise, and “personal liability to the Corporation or its stockholders” shall include any liability to such other corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, and any liability to the Corporation in its capacity as a security holder, joint venturer, partner, beneficiary,
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creditor or investor of or in any such other corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise.
Neither any amendment nor repeal of this Article VIII, nor the adoption of any provision of this Certificate of Incorporation inconsistent with this Article VIII, shall eliminate or reduce the effect of this Article VIII in respect of any matter occurring, or any cause of action, suit or claim that, but for this Article VIII, would accrue or arise, prior to such amendment, repeal or adoption of an inconsistent provision.
ARTICLE IX
The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained herein, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by statute, and all rights conferred upon the stockholders of the Corporation herein are granted subject to this reservation.
ARTICLE X
Unless the Board otherwise approves, in accordance with Section 141 of the DGCL, this Certificate of Incorporation and the Bylaws of the Corporation, to the solicitor of an alternate forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (or, if the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware does not have jurisdiction, the Superior Court of the State of Delaware, or, if the Superior Court of the State of Delaware also does not have jurisdiction, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware) shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, be the sole and exclusive forum for (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Corporation, (ii) any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any director, officer or other employee of the Corporation to the Corporation or the Corporation’s stockholders, (iii) any action asserting a claim against the Corporation arising pursuant to any provision of the DGCL or this Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws, (iv) any action to interpret, apply, enforce or determine the validity of this Certificate of Incorporation or the Bylaws, or (v) any action asserting a claim against the Corporation governed by the internal affairs doctrine (each, a “Covered Proceeding”).
If any action the subject matter of which is a Covered Proceeding is filed in a court other than the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, or, where permitted in accordance with the paragraph above, the Superior Court of the State of Delaware or the United States District Court for the District of Delaware (each, a “Foreign Action”) in the name of any person or entity (a “Claiming Party”) without the prior approval of the Board in the manner described in the paragraph above, such Claiming Party shall be deemed to have consented to (i) the personal jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, or, where applicable, the Superior Court of the State of Delaware and the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, in connection with any action brought in any such courts to enforce the paragraph above (an “Enforcement Action”) and (ii) having service of process made upon such Claiming Party in any such Enforcement Action by service upon such Chiming Party’s counsel in the Foreign Action as agent for such Claiming Party.
Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in the shares of capital stock of the Corporation shall be deemed to have notice of and consented to the
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provisions of this Article X and waived any argument relating to the inconvenience of the forums reference above in connection with any Covered Proceeding.
ARTICLE XI
If any provision or provisions of this Certificate of Incorporation shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable as applied to any circumstance for any reason whatsoever: (i) the validity, legality and enforceability of such provisions in any other circumstance and of the remaining provisions of this Certificate of Incorporation (including, without limitation, each portion of any paragraph of this Certificate of Incorporation 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 (ii) to the fullest extent possible, the provisions of this Certificate of Incorporation (including, without limitation, each such portion of any paragraph of this Certificate of Incorporation containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall be construed so as to permit the Corporation to protect its directors, officers, employees and agents from personal liability in respect of their good faith service to or for the benefit of the Corporation to the fullest extent permitted by law.
ARTICLE XII
The name and post office address of the incorporator of the Corporation is: Christopher Dima, 1 N. Church Street, 3rd Floor, West Chester, Pennsylvania 19380.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Certificate of Incorporation has been signed under the seal of the Corporation this 19th day of June, 2018.
| RENTALIST, INC. |
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| By: | /s/ Christopher Dima |
| | Christopher Dima, Incorporator |