EXHIBIT 3.2
RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
JENNER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Jenner Technologies, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Delaware, hereby certifies as follows:
A. The name of the Corporation is Jenner Technologies, Inc.. The
Corporation was originally incorporated under the same name and the original
Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation was filed with the Delaware
Secretary of State on January 23, 1997.
B. Pursuant to Sections 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of
the State of Delaware, this Restated Certificate of Incorporation restates and
amends the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation of this Corporation.
C. The text of the Certificate of Incorporation is hereby amended and
restated in its entirety
to read as follows:
ARTICLE I
The name of the corporation is Jenner Technologies, Inc. (the
"Corporation").
ARTICLE II
The address of the Corporation's registered office in the State of
Delaware is 1209 Orange Street, City of Wilmington, County of New Castle,
Delaware 19801. The name of its registered agent at such address is The
Corporation Trust Company.
ARTICLE III
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 Delaware.
ARTICLE IV
The Corporation is authorized to issue two classes of shares of stock
to be designated, respectively, Common Stock, $0.001 par value, and Preferred
Stock, $0.001 par value. The total number of shares that the Corporation is
authorized to issue is 35,000,000 shares. The number of shares of Common Stock
authorized is 30,000,000. The number of shares of Preferred Stock authorized is
5,000,000.
The Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more
series pursuant to a resolution or resolutions providing for such issue duly
adopted by the Board of Directors (authority to do so being hereby expressly
vested in the board). The Board of Directors is further authorized to determine
or alter the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions granted to or
imposed upon any wholly unissued series of Preferred Stock and to fix the number
of shares of any series of Preferred Stock and the designation of any such
series of Preferred Stock. The Board of Directors, within the limits and
restrictions stated in any resolution or resolutions of the Board of Directors
originally fixing the number of shares constituting any series, may increase or
decrease (but not below the number of shares in any such series then
outstanding) the number of shares of any series subsequent to the issue of
shares of that series.
The authority of the Board of Directors with respect to each such class
or series shall include, without limitation of the foregoing, the right to
determine and fix:
(a) the distinctive designation of such class or series and
the number of shares to constitute such class or series;
(b) the rate at which dividends on the shares of such class or
series shall be declared and paid, or set aside for payment, whether dividends
at the rate so determined shall be cumulative or accruing, and whether the
shares of such class or series shall be entitled to any participating or other
dividends in addition to dividends at the rate so determined, and if so, on what
terms;
(c) the right or obligation, if any, of the corporation to
redeem shares of the particular class or series of Preferred Stock and, if
redeemable, the price, terms and manner of such redemption;
(d) the special and relative rights and preferences, if any,
and the amount or amounts per share, which the shares of such class or series of
Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive upon any voluntary or involuntary
liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation;
(e) the terms and conditions, if any, upon which shares of
such class or series shall be convertible into, or exchangeable for, shares of
capital stock of any other class or series, including the price or prices or the
rate or rates of conversion or exchange and the terms of adjustment, if any;
(f) the obligation, if any, of the corporation to retire,
redeem or purchase shares of such class or series pursuant to a sinking fund or
fund of a similar nature or otherwise, and the terms and conditions of such
obligation;
(g) voting rights, if any, on the issuance of additional
shares of such class or series or any shares of any other class or series of
Preferred Stock;
(h) limitations, if any, on the issuance of additional shares
of such class or series or any shares of any other class or series of Preferred
Stock; and
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(i) such other preferences, powers, qualifications, special or
relative rights and privileges thereof as the Board of Directors of the
corporation, acting in accordance with this Restated Certificate of
Incorporation, may deem advisable and are not inconsistent with law and the
provisions of this Restated Certificate of Incorporation.
ARTICLE V
The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change, or repeal
any provision contained in this Certificate of Incorporation, in the manner now
or hereafter prescribed by statute, and all rights conferred upon the
stockholders herein are granted subject to this right.
ARTICLE VI
The Corporation is to have perpetual existence.
ARTICLE VII
1. Limitation of Liability. To the fullest extent permitted by the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware as the same exists or as may
hereafter be amended, a director of the Corporation shall not be personally
liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of
fiduciary duty as a director.
2. Indemnification. The Corporation may indemnify to the fullest extent
permitted by law any person made or threatened to be made a party to an action
or proceeding, whether criminal, civil, administrative or investigative, by
reason of the fact that such person or his or her testator or intestate is or
was a director, officer or employee of the Corporation, or any predecessor of
the Corporation, or serves or served at any other enterprise as a director,
officer or employee at the request of the Corporation or any predecessor to the
Corporation.
3. Amendments. Neither any amendment nor repeal of this Article VII,
nor the adoption of any provision of the Corporation's Certificate of
Incorporation inconsistent with this Article VII, shall eliminate or reduce the
effect of this Article VII, in respect of any matter occurring, or any action or
proceeding accruing or arising or that, but for this Article VII, would accrue
or arise, prior to such amendment, repeal, or adoption of an inconsistent
provision.
ARTICLE VIII
In the event any shares of Preferred Stock shall be redeemed or
converted pursuant to the terms hereof, the shares so converted or redeemed
shall not revert to the status of authorized but unissued shares, but instead
shall be canceled and shall not be re-issuable by the Corporation.
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ARTICLE IX
Holders of stock of any class or series of this corporation shall not
be entitled to cumulate their votes for the election of directors or any other
matter submitted to a vote of the stockholders.
ARTICLE X
1. Number of Directors. The number of directors which constitutes the
whole Board of Directors of the corporation shall be designated in the Bylaws of
the corporation.
2. Election of Directors. Elections of directors need not be by written
ballot unless the Bylaws of the corporation shall so provide.
ARTICLE XI
In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by
statute, the Board of Directors is expressly authorized to make, alter, amend or
repeal the Bylaws of the corporation.
ARTICLE XII
No action shall be taken by the stockholders of the corporation except
at an annual or special meeting of the stockholders called in accordance with
the Bylaws and no action shall be taken by the stockholders by written consent.
The affirmative vote of sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66 2/3%) of the then
outstanding voting securities of the corporation, voting together as a single
class, shall be required for the amendment, repeal or modification of the
provisions of Article IX, Article X or Article XII of this Restated Certificate
of Incorporation or Sections 2.3 (Special Meeting), 2.5 (Advance Notice of
Stockholder Nominees and Stockholder Business), 2.9 (Voting) or 2.12
(Stockholder Action by Written Consent Without a Meeting) of the Corporation's
Bylaws.
ARTICLE XIII
Meetings of stockholders 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 provision contained in the statutes) outside of the State of
Delaware at such place or places as may be designated from time to time by the
Board of Directors or in the Bylaws of the Corporation.
In witness whereof, the Corporation has caused this Certificate to be
signed by Anthony E. Maida III, its Chief Executive Officer, as of
_________________, 1997.
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Anthony E. Maida III, Chief Executive Officer
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