(b) Amendments to the Certificate of Incorporation. The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal (whether directly, by the filing of a certificate of designations, powers, preferences, rights or privileges, by a Business Combination Transaction or otherwise) any provision contained in this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by the DGCL, and all rights conferred upon stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, and notwithstanding that a lesser percentage may be permitted from time to time by applicable law, no provision of paragraphs (e) of Article IV, Article V, Article VI, paragraphs (a) and (b) of Article VII, Article VIII, Article IX and Article X may be altered, amended or repealed (whether directly, by the filing of a certificate of designations, powers, preferences, rights or privileges, by a Business Combination Transaction or otherwise) in any respect, nor may any provision or bylaw inconsistent therewith be adopted, unless, in addition to any other vote required by this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or otherwise required by law, such alteration, amendment, repeal or adoption is approved by: (i) the affirmative vote of the holders of at least sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66 2/3%) of the voting power of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class, at a meeting of the stockholders called for that purpose and (ii) in the case of any such alteration, amendment or repeal of Article VIII or Article IX, for so long as a Principal Stockholder has the right to designate a director for nomination to the Board of Directors pursuant to the Stockholders Agreement, the consent of such Principal Stockholder.
ARTICLE IX — RENOUNCEMENT OF CORPORATE OPPORTUNITY
(a) Scope. The provisions of this Article IX are set forth to define, to the extent permitted by applicable law, the duties of Exempted Persons (as defined below) to the Corporation and, to the extent applicable, to its stockholders, with respect to certain classes or categories of business opportunities. “Exempted Persons” means Bon Secours Mercy Health Innovations LLC and Golden Gate Private Equity, Inc., and all of Golden Gate Private Equity, Inc.’s and Bon Secours Mercy Health Innovations, LLC’s respective partners, shareholders, members, Affiliates, associated investment funds, directors, officers, fiduciaries, managers, controlling persons, employees and agents and each of the partners, shareholders, members, Affiliates, associated investment funds, directors, officers, fiduciaries, managers, controlling persons, employees and agents of each of the foregoing, excluding the Corporation and its subsidiaries and any such person that would qualify as an Exempted Person solely by reason of its affiliation or service relationship with the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries.
(b) Competition and Allocation of Corporate Opportunities. The Exempted Persons shall not have any fiduciary duty or other duty to refrain from engaging directly or indirectly in the same or similar business activities or lines of business as the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries or to refrain from taking any business opportunity in the same or similar line of business as the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Corporation, on behalf of itself and its subsidiaries, renounces any interest or expectancy of the Corporation and its subsidiaries in, or in being offered an opportunity to
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