Exhibit 3.1
AMENDED AND RESTATED
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
STEVEN MADDEN, LTD.
Steven Madden, Ltd., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, hereby certifies as follows:
| | 1. | The name of the corporation is Steven Madden, Ltd., which was the name under which the corporation was originally incorporated. The corporation was originally incorporated under the laws of the State of New York on July 9, 1990, and reincorporated under the same name in Delaware on November 10, 1998. |
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| | 2. | This Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, which restates, integrates, and further amends the certificate of incorporation of the corporation, has been duly adopted by the corporation in accordance with Sections 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware and has been adopted by the requisite vote of the stockholders of the corporation. |
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| | 3. | The certificate of incorporation of the corporation is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows: |
FIRST: The name of the corporation (hereinafter called the “corporation”) is Steven Madden, Ltd.
SECOND: The address, including street, number, city, and county, of the registered office of the corporation in the State of Delaware is 850 New Burton Road, Suite 201, Dover, Delaware 19904; and the name of the registered agent of the corporation in the State of Delaware at such address is Cogency Global Inc., in the County of Kent.
THIRD: The purpose of the corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
FOURTH: The total number of shares of all classes of stock which the corporation shall have authority to issue is two hundred fifty million (250,000,000) shares, consisting of two hundred forty-five million (245,000,000) shares of common stock, $0.0001 par value per share, and five million (5,000,000) shares of preferred stock, $0.0001 par value per share.
The shares of Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more series, in any manner permitted by law, as determined from time to time by the Board of Directors, and stated in the resolution or resolutions providing for the issuance of such shares adopted by the Board of Directors pursuant to authority hereby vested in it. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, shares in such series shall have such voting powers, full or limited, or no voting powers, and shall have such designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional, or other special rights, and qualifications, limitations, or restrictions thereof, permitted by law, as shall be stated in the resolution or resolutions providing for the issuance of such shares adopted by the Board of Directors pursuant to authority hereby vested in it. The number of shares of any such series so set forth in such resolution or resolutions may be increased (but not above the total number of authorized shares of Preferred Stock) or decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding) by further resolution or resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors pursuant to authority hereby vested in it.
No holder of any of the shares of the stock of the corporation, whether now or hereafter authorized and issued, shall be entitled as of right to purchase or subscribe for any unissued stock
of any class, or any additional shares of any class to be issued by reason of any increase of the authorized capital stock of any class of the corporation, or bonds, certificates of indebtedness, debentures, or other securities convertible into stock of any class of the corporation, or carrying any right to purchase stock of any class of the corporation, but any such unissued stock or any such additional authorized issue of any stock or of other securities convertible into stock, or carrying any right to purchase stock, may be issued and disposed of pursuant to resolution of the Board of Directors to such persons, firms, corporations, or associations, and upon such terms, as may be deemed advisable by the Board of Directors in the exercise of its discretion.
FIFTH: The corporation is to have perpetual existence.
SIXTH: Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between this corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between this corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary way of this corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof or on the application of any receiver or receivers appointed for this corporation under § 291 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code or on the application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed for this corporation under § 279 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such manner as the said court directors. If a majority in number representing three fourths in value of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of this corporation as consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by the court to which the said application has been made, be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the stockholders or class of stockholders, of this corporation, as the case may be, and also on this corporation.
SEVENTH: For the management of the business and for the conduct of the affairs of the corporation, and in further definition, limitation, and regulation of the powers of the corporation and of its directors and of its stockholders or any class thereof, as the case may be, it is further provided:
1. The management of the business and the conduct of the affairs of the corporation shall be vested in its Board of Directors. The number of directors which shall constitute the whole Board of Directors shall be fixed by, or in the manner provided in, the Bylaws. The phrase “whole Board” and the phrase “total number of directors” shall be deemed to have the same meaning, to wit, the total number of directors which the corporation would have if there were no vacancies. No election of directors need be by written ballot.
2. After the original or other Bylaws of the corporation have been adopted, amended, or repealed, as the case may be, in accordance with the provisions of § 109 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, and, after the corporation has received any payment for any of its stock, the power to adopt, amend, or repeal the Bylaws of the corporation may be exercised by the Board of Directors of the corporation; provided, however, that any provision for the classification of directors of the corporation for staggered terms pursuant to the provisions of subsection (d) of § 141 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware shall be set forth in an initial Bylaw or in a Bylaw adopted by the stockholders entitled to vote of the corporation unless provisions for such classification shall be set forth in this certificate of incorporation.
3. Whenever the corporation shall be authorized to issue only one class of stock, each outstanding share shall entitle the holder thereof to notice of, and the right to vote at, any meeting of stockholders. Whenever the corporation shall be authorized to issue more than one class of stock, no outstanding share of any class of stock which is denied voting power under the provisions of the certificate of incorporation shall entitle the holder thereof to the right to vote at any meeting of stockholders except as the provisions of paragraph (2) of subsection (b) of § 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware shall otherwise require; provided, that no share of any such class which is otherwise denied voting power shall entitle the holder thereof to vote upon the increase or decrease in the number of authorized shares of said class.
EIGHTH: To the fullest extent permitted by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as the same presently exists or may hereafter be amended, no director or officer shall be personally liable to the Corporation or to any stockholder for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director or officer, except for any matter in respect of which (a) such director shall be liable under Section 174 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware or any amendment thereto or successor provision thereto, (b) such officer shall be liable in any action by or in the right of the corporation, or (c) such director or officer shall be liable by reason that, in addition to any and all other requirements for liability, that person (A) shall have breached their duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (B) shall not have acted in good faith or, in failing to act, shall not have acted in good faith, (C) shall have acted in a manner involving intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law or, in failing to act, shall have acted in a manner involving intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law or (D) shall have derived an improper personal benefit.
Any repeal or modification of this Article EIGHTH shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a director or officer with respect to any act or omission occurring prior to such repeal or modification. If the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware is amended after the date of incorporation to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors or officers, then the liability of a director or officer of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as so amended.
NINTH: The corporation shall, to the fullest extent permitted by the provisions of § 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as the same may be amended and supplemented, indemnify any and all persons whom it shall have power to indemnify under said section from and against any and all of the expenses, liabilities, or other matters referred to in or covered by said section, and the indemnification provided for herein shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those indemnified may be entitled under any Bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in his official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee, or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors, and administrators of such a person.
TENTH: From time to time any of the provisions of this certificate of incorporation may be amended, altered, or repealed, and other provisions authorized by the laws of the State of Delaware at the time in force may be added or inserted in the manner and at the time prescribed by said laws, and all rights at any time conferred upon the stockholders of the corporation by this certificate of incorporation are granted subject to the provisions of this Article TENTH.
| | 4. | That the foregoing amendment and restatement was approved by the holders of the requisite number of shares of this corporation in accordance with the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. |
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| | 5. | That this Certificate of Incorporation, which restates and integrates and further amends the provisions of this corporation’s Certificate of Incorporation, has been duly adopted in accordance with Sections 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. |
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation has been executed by a duly authorized officer of this corporation on this 23rd day of May, 2024.
| | | /s/ Lisa Keith |
| | By: | Lisa Keith, Executive Vice President – General Counsel |
