Exhibit 3.1
CERTIFICATE OF DETERMINATION
OF
POINT.360
Haig S. Bagerdjian and Alan R. Steel hereby certify that:
1. They are the duly elected and acting President and Chief Financial
Officer, respectively, of Point.360, a California corporation (the
"Corporation").
2. The number of shares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock
of the Corporation is 400,000, none of which has been issued.
3. The Board of Directors of the Corporation has duly adopted the
following recitals and resolutions.
WHEREAS, the Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation
authorize the Preferred Stock of the Corporation to be issued in series and
authorize the Board of Directors of the Corporation to determine 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 and
designation of any such series; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Corporation desires, pursuant to
its authority as aforesaid, to determine and fix the rights, preferences,
privileges and restrictions relating to a series of Series A Junior
Participating Preferred Stock and the number of shares constituting and the
designation of said series;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Directors hereby fixes
and determines the designation of, the number of shares constituting, and the
rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions relating to, said series of
Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock as follows:
Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock.
Section 1. Designation, Par Value and Amount. The shares of such series
shall be designated as "Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock"
(hereinafter referred to as "Series A Preferred Stock") and shall be without par
value, and the number of shares constituting such series shall be 400,000.
Section 2. Dividends and Distributions.
(a) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any
shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares
of Series A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends, the holders of shares of
Series A Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared
by the Board of Directors out of assets legally available for the purpose,
quarterly dividends payable in cash on the first business day of November,
February, May and August in each year (each such date being referred to herein
as a "Quarterly Dividend Payment Date"), commencing on the first Quarterly
Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share
of Series A Preferred Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest
cent) equal to the greater of (a) $1.00 or (b) subject to the provision for
adjustment hereinafter set forth, 100 times the aggregate per share amount of
all cash dividends, and 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in
kind) of all non-cash dividends or other distributions, other than a dividend
payable in shares of Common Stock, without par value, Common Stock, of the
Corporation (the "Common Stock") or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of
Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock
since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, or, with
respect to the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance
of any share or fraction of a share of Series A Preferred Stock.
(b) The Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the
Series A Preferred Stock as provided in paragraph (a) above immediately after it
declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend
payable in shares of Common Stock); provided that, in the event no dividend or
distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock during the period
between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly
Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series -A Preferred
Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend
Payment Date.
(c) Dividends shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding
shares of Series A Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next
preceding the date of issue of such shares of Series A Preferred Stock, unless
the date of issue of such shares is before the record date for the first
Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares shall
begin to accrue from the date of issue of such shares, or unless the date of
issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date
for the determination of holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock entitled
to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date,
in either of which events such dividends shall begin to accrue and be cumulative
from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends shall
not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series A Preferred Stock in
an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and
payable on such shares shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis
among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a
record date for the determination of holders of shares of Series A Preferred
Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared
thereon, which record date shall be not more than 60 days before the date fixed
for the payment thereof.
Section 3. Voting Rights. The holders of shares of Series A Preferred
Stock shall have the following voting rights:
(a) Except as provided in paragraph C of this Section 3 and subject to
the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, each share of Series A
Preferred Stock shall entitle the holder thereof to 100 votes on all matters
submitted to a vote of the shareholders of the Corporation.
(b) Except as otherwise provided herein or by law, the holders of shares
of Series A Preferred Stock and the holders of shares of Common Stock shall vote
together as one class on all matters submitted to a vote of shareholders of the
Corporation.
(c) (i) If, on the date used to determine shareholders of record for any
meeting of shareholders for the election of directors, a default in preference
dividends (as defined in subparagraph (v) below) on the Series A Preferred Stock
shall exist, the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock shall have the right,
voting as a class as described in subparagraph (ii) below, to elect two
directors, and the holders of shares of Common Stock shall have the right to
elect the remaining directors. Such right may be exercised at any meeting of
shareholders for the election of directors until all such cumulative dividends
(referred to above) shall have been paid in full or until non-cumulative
dividends have been paid regularly for at least one year.
(ii) The right of the holders of Series A Preferred Stock to elect two
directors, as described above, shall be exercised as a class concurrently with
the rights of holders of any other series of Preferred Stock upon which voting
rights to elect such directors have been conferred and are then exercisable. The
Series A Preferred Stock and any additional series of Preferred Stock which the
Corporation may issue and which may provide for the right to vote with the
foregoing series of Preferred Stock are collectively referred to herein as
"Voting Preferred Stock."
(iii) Each director elected by the holders of shares of Voting Preferred
Stock shall be referred to herein as a "Preferred Director." A Preferred
Director so elected shall continue to serve as such director for a term of one
year, except that upon any termination of the right of all of such holders to
vote as a class for Preferred Directors, the term of office of such directors
shall terminate. Any Preferred Director may be removed by, and shall not be
removed except by, the approval the outstanding shares of Voting Preferred Stock
then entitled to vote for the election of directors, subject to Sections 302,
303 and 304 of the General Corporation Law of the State of California.
(iv) So long as a default in any preference dividends on the Series A
Preferred Stock shall exist or the holders of any other series of Voting
Preferred Stock shall be entitled to elect Preferred Directors, any vacancy in
the office of a Preferred Director may only be filled by the vote or written
consent of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Voting
Preferred Stock then entitled to vote for the election of directors, present (in
person or by proxy) and voting together as a single class. Each director so
elected to fill a vacancy shall be deemed, for all purposes hereof, to be a
Preferred Director.
(v) For purposes hereof, a "default in preference dividends" on the
Series A Preferred Stock shall be deemed to have occurred whenever the amount of
cumulative and unpaid dividends on the Series A Preferred Stock shall be
equivalent to six full quarterly dividends or more (whether or not consecutive),
and, having so occurred, such default shall be deemed to exist thereafter until,
but only until, all cumulative dividends on all shares of the Series A Preferred
Stock then outstanding shall have been paid through the last Quarterly Dividend
Payment Date or until, but only until, non-cumulative dividends have been paid
regularly for at least one year.
Section 4. Certain Restrictions.
(a) Whenever quarterly dividends or other dividends or distributions
payable on the Series A Preferred Stock as provided in Section 2 are in arrears,
thereafter and until all accrued and unpaid dividends and distributions, whether
or not declared, on shares of Series A Preferred Stock outstanding shall have
been paid in full, the Corporation shall not
(i) declare or pay dividends, or make any other distributions, on any
shares of stock ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation,
dissolution or winding up) to the Series A Preferred Stock;
(ii) declare or pay dividends, or make any other distributions, on any
shares of stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation,
dissolution or winding up) with the Series A Preferred Stock, except dividends
paid ratably on the Series A Preferred Stock and all such parity stock on which
dividends are payable or in arrears in proportion to the total amounts to which
the holders of all such shares are then entitled;
(iii) redeem or purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (except
as provided in (iv) below) shares of any stock ranking junior (either as to
dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) to the Series A
Preferred Stock, provided that the Corporation may at any time redeem, purchase
or otherwise acquire shares of any such junior stock in exchange for shares of
any stock of the Corporation ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon
dissolution, liquidation or winding up) to the Series A Preferred Stock;
(iv) redeem or purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any
shares of Series A Preferred Stock, or any shares of stock ranking on a parity
(either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) with the
Series A Preferred Stock, except in accordance with a purchase offer made in
writing or by publication (as determined by the Board of Directors) to all
holders of such shares upon such terms as the Board of Directors, after
consideration of the respective annual dividend rates and other relative rights
and preferences of the respective series and classes, shall determine in good
faith will result in fair and equitable treatment among the respective series or
classes.
(b) The Corporation shall not permit any subsidiary of the Corporation
to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of stock of the
Corporation unless the Corporation could, under paragraph (a) of this Section 4,
purchase or otherwise acquire such shares at such time and in such manner.
Section 5. Reacquired Shares. Any shares of Series A Preferred Stock
purchased or otherwise acquired by the Corporation in any manner whatsoever
shall be retired and cancelled promptly after the acquisition thereof. All such
shares shall upon their cancellation become authorized but unissued shares of
Preferred Stock and may be reissued as part of a new series of Preferred Stock.
Section 6. Liquidation, Dissolution or Winding Up.
(a) Subject to the prior and superior rights of holders of any shares of
any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series
A Preferred Stock with respect to rights upon liquidation, dissolution or
winding up (voluntary or otherwise), no distribution shall be made to the
holders of shares of stock ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon
liquidation, dissolution or winding up) to the Series A Preferred Stock unless,
prior thereto, the holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall have
received $100 per share, plus an amount equal to accrued and unpaid dividends
and distributions thereon, whether or not declared, to the date of such payment
(the "Series A Liquidation Preference"). Following the payment of the full
amount of the Series A Liquidation Preference, holders of Series A Preferred
Stock and holders of Common Stock shall receive their ratable and proportionate
share of the remaining assets to be distributed in the ratio of the "Adjustment
Number" to 1 with respect to such Series A Preferred Stock and Common Stock, on
a per share basis, respectively. The "Adjustment Number" shall an amount per
share equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the Series A Liquidation
Preference by (ii) 100.
(b) In the event, however, that there are not sufficient assets
available to permit payment in full of the Series A Liquidation Preference and
the liquidation preferences of all other series of preferred stock, if any,
which rank on a parity with the Series A Preferred Stock, then such remaining
assets shall be distributed ratably to the holders of Series A Preferred Stock
and the holders of such parity shares in proportion to their respective
liquidation preferences.
Section 7. Consolidation, Merger, etc. In case the Corporation shall
enter into any consolidation, merger, combination or other transaction in which
the shares of Common Stock are exchanged for or changed into other stock or
securities, cash and/or any other property, then in any such case the shares of
Series A Preferred Stock shall at the same time be similarly exchanged or
changed in an amount per share (subject to the provision for adjustment
hereinafter set forth) equal to 100 times the aggregate amount of stock,
securities, cash and/or any other property (payable in kind), as the case may
be, into which or for which each share of Common Stock is changed or exchanged.
Section 8. No Redemption. The shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall
not be redeemable.
Section 9. Ranking. The Series A Preferred Stock shall rank junior to
all other series of the Corporation's Preferred Stock as to the payment of
dividends and the distribution of assets, unless the terms of any such series
shall provide otherwise.
Section 10. Amendment. The Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation
shall not be further amended in any manner which would materially alter or
change the powers, preferences or special rights of the Series A Preferred Stock
so as to affect them adversely without the affirmative vote of the holders of a
majority or more of the outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock, voting
separately as a class.
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We further declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State
of California that the matters set forth in this certificate are true and
correct of our own knowledge.
Dated: November 17, 2004
/s/ Haig S. Bagerdjian
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Haig S. Bagerdjian, President
We further declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State
of California that the matters set forth in this certificate are true and
correct of our own knowledge.
Dated: November 17, 2004
/s/ Alan R. Steel
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Alan R. Steel, Chief Financial Officer