UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
FORM 8-K
Current Report
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): January 23, 2006
TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Delaware
(State or other
jurisdiction of
incorporation)
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0-49992
(Commission File
Number)
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82-0543156
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)
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4211 South 102
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Street
Omaha, Nebraska
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68127
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(Address of principal executive offices)
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(Zip Code)
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Registrants telephone number, including area code: (402) 331-7856
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the
filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
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Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
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Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR
240.14d-2(b))
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Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR
240.13e-(c))
Item 1.01 Entry Into a Material Definitive Agreement
On January 23, 2006, Ameritrade Holding Corporation (Ameritrade) and certain of its
subsidiaries entered into financing facilities in an aggregate amount of $2.2 billion with a
syndicate of lenders including Citicorp North America, Inc., as administrative agent and collateral
agent (the Ameritrade Financing Facility). The Ameritrade Financing Facility consists of a
revolving loan facility and two term loan facilities to finance the payment of a portion of the
special dividend of Ameritrade of $6.00 per share (the Special Dividend) to each holder of common
stock of Ameritrade holding such common stock as of January 17, 2005 and to provide an additional
source of liquidity for Ameritrade and its subsidiaries following the closing of the acquisition of
the United States retail brokerage business of TD Waterhouse Group, Inc. (the TD Waterhouse
Transaction).
Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (Citigroup), an affiliate of Citicorp North America, Inc.,
acted as financial advisor to Ameritrade and the special committee of the Ameritrade board of
directors in connection with the TD Waterhouse Transaction. Citigroup earned total fees of $7.5
million in connection with such engagement. Ameritrade has also agreed to indemnify Citigroup
against specific liabilities and expenses relating to or arising out of its engagement.
Citigroup and its affiliates have also provided other advisory services to Ameritrade and its
affiliates including advising Ameritrade on its acquisition of National Discount Brokers
Corporation from Deutsche Bank in 2001 and on its acquisition of Datek in 2002, acting as a joint
bookrunner on a $543 million secondary offering of Ameritrade stock in 2003, executing secondary
market transactions for selling stockholders of Ameritrade in 2004 and executing derivative
structures in 2001 and 2003. Since January 1, 2003, Citigroup has received fees for investment
banking and financial advisory services provided to Ameritrade and its affiliates for services
related to Ameritrade of approximately $14.4 million, in the aggregate.
For more information about the Ameritrade Financing Facilities, see the disclosure under Item
2.03 of this Current Report on Form 8-K, which is incorporated by reference into this Item 1.01.
For more information about the TD Waterhouse Transaction, see Items 2.01, 3.03 and 5.03 of this
Current Report on Form 8-K, which are incorporated by reference into this Item 1.01.
Item 1.02 Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement
As discussed in Item 1.01 above, on January 23, 2006, Ameritrade and certain of its
subsidiaries entered into the Ameritrade Financing Facility. Concurrently with the effectiveness
of the Ameritrade Financing Facility, Ameritrade paid in full all outstanding obligations of
Ameritrade and its subsidiaries under that certain Third Amended and Restated Revolving Credit
Agreement, dated as of December 15, 2003, by and among Ameritrade Holding Corporation, as borrower,
First National Bank of Omaha, as agent, and financial institutions from time to time parties
thereto as revolving lenders, as amended (the Prior Credit Agreement), and the Prior Credit
Agreement and related loan documents were terminated.
Item 2.01 Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
On January 24, 2006, pursuant to the Agreement of Sale and Purchase, dated June 22, 2005, as
amended, between Ameritrade, and The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), Ameritrade purchased the United
States brokerage business of TD Waterhouse from TD in exchange for 196,300,000 shares of Ameritrade
common stock and $20,000 in cash. The shares represent approximately 32.5% of TD Ameritrades
post-transaction outstanding voting securities. In connection with the closing of the TD
Waterhouse Transaction, Ameritrade changed its name to TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation (TD
Ameritrade).
In connection with the completion of the TD Waterhouse Transaction, TD Ameritrade,
TD and affiliates of TD Ameritrade and TD entered into certain commercial agreements as described
in Ameritrades definitive proxy statement filed with the SEC on December 2, 2005. In addition,
pursuant to a stockholders agreement, dated as of June 22, 2005, among Ameritrade, TD, J. Joe
Ricketts and certain Ameritrade stockholders affiliated with Mr. Ricketts (the Stockholders
Agreement), TD will have the right to designate up to five of 12 TD Ameritrade directors.
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Item 2.03
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Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation Under an Off-Balance Sheet
Arrangement of a Registrant
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As
discussed in Item 1.01 above, on January 23, 2006, Ameritrade and certain of its
subsidiaries entered into the Ameritrade Financing Facility.
The Ameritrade Financing Facility provides for a $250 million term A loan facility (the Term
A Facility) and a $1.65 billion term B loan facility (the Term B Facility), each of which was
drawn in a single draw on January 23, 2006, and a $300 million revolving loan (the Revolving
Facility), to be drawn by TD Ameritrade from time to time in amounts not less than $1 million. The
maturity date of the Term A Facility is December 31, 2011. The maturity date of the Term B
Facility is December 31, 2012. The maturity date of the Revolving Facility is December 31, 2010.
Depending on the type of borrowing by TD Ameritrade, the applicable interest rate under the
Revolving Facility and the Term A Facility is calculated as a per annum rate equal to (a) LIBOR
plus an interest rate margin for LIBOR loans or (b) (i) the greater of (x) the prime rate or (y)
the federal funds effective rate plus 0.5% plus (ii) an interest rate margin for base rate loans.
With respect to the Revolving Facility and the Term A Facility the interest rate margin for LIBOR
loans is 1.50% if the consolidated leverage ratio of TD Ameritrade is
1.00 to 1.00 or higher, 1.25% if the
consolidated leverage ratio of TD Ameritrade is less than 1.75 to 1.00 but greater than or equal to
1.00 to 1.00, and 1.00% if the consolidated leverage ratio of TD Ameritrade is less than 1.00 to
1.00. The interest rate margin for base rate loans under the Revolving Facility and the Term A
Facility is 1.00% less than the interest rate margin for LIBOR loans. Depending on the type of
borrowing by TD Ameritrade, the applicable interest rate under the Term B Facility is calculated as
a per annum rate equal to (a) LIBOR plus 1.50 % or (b) (i) the greater of (x) the prime rate or (y)
the federal funds effective rate plus 0.5% plus (ii) 0.50%. As of January 23, 2006, there were no
revolving loans and $1.9 billion in term loans outstanding under the Ameritrade Financing Facility.
The Term A Facility and the Term B Facility contain provisions for prepayments from a portion
of excess cash flow and from the net cash proceeds of asset sales and debt issuances, subject to
certain exceptions.
The obligations under the Ameritrade Financing Facility are guaranteed by TD Ameritrades
material domestic subsidiaries, other than broker-dealer subsidiaries, with certain exceptions, and
are secured by a lien on substantially all of the assets of each guarantor, including a pledge of
the ownership interests in each first-tier broker-dealer subsidiary held by a guarantor and 65% of
the ownership interests in each first-tier foreign subsidiary held by a guarantor, with certain
exceptions. On January 24, 2006, concurrently with the closing of the TD Waterhouse Transaction,
TD Waterhouse was added as an additional guarantor to the Ameritrade Financing Facility and TD
Waterhouse granted a lien on substantially all of its assets (including its ownership interest in
each of its first-tier broker dealer subsidiaries) as additional security for the Ameritrade
Financing Facility.
The Ameritrade Financing Facility contains certain covenants that limit or restrict the
incurrence of liens, investments (including acquisitions), sales of assets, indebtedness and
mergers and
consolidations, subject to certain exceptions. The Ameritrade Financing Facility also
restricts the payment of dividends on TD Ameritrades outstanding capital stock and repurchases or
redemptions of TD Ameritrades outstanding capital stock, subject to certain exceptions. TD
Ameritrade is also required to maintain compliance with a consolidated leverage ratio covenant and
a consolidated interest coverage ratio covenant, and TD Ameritrades broker-dealer subsidiaries are
required to maintain compliance with a minimum regulatory net capital covenant.
Item 3.03 Material Modification to Rights of Security Holders.
On January 24, 2006, Ameritrade filed an amended and restated certificate of incorporation
with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware in connection with the closing of the TD
Waterhouse Transaction. A summary of the modifications to the rights of holders of TD Ameritrade
common stock, $0.01 par value per share, made in the amended and restated certificate of
incorporation is set forth below.
The amended and restated certificate of incorporation prohibits TD Ameritrade from adopting a
stockholder rights plan or other similar anti-takeover measure unless it (1) expressly excludes TD
and its affiliates and certain stockholders affiliated with J. Joe Ricketts from its operation to
the extent any of their actions would be permitted under the
Stockholders Agreement and (2) does
not impair any of the rights of TD and certain stockholders affiliated with J. Joe Ricketts under
the Stockholders Agreement.
The amended and restated certificate of incorporation increased the authorized shares of
common stock, $0.01 par value per share, from 650,000,000 to 1,000,000,000.
The amended and restated certificate of incorporation requires any action to be taken by TD
Ameritrades stockholders to be taken at a duly called annual or special meeting of stockholders.
TD Ameritrades prior certificate of incorporation permitted TD Ameritrade stockholders to act also
by written consent in lieu of a meeting, but the amended and restated certificate of incorporation
prohibits stockholder actions by written consent.
The amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that the board of directors of
TD Ameritrade will be comprised of twelve members. The amended and restated certificate of
incorporation further provides that, following the occurrence of certain terminations events set
forth in the Stockholders Agreement, the board of directors may fix and change the size of the TD
Ameritrade board.
The amended and restated certificate of incorporation requires the board of directors to
maintain, until the occurrence of certain events described in the amended and restated certificate
of incorporation, an outside independent directors committee composed solely of all of the outside
independent directors on the board of directors, which committee, among other things, will have the
authority at certain times to nominate or appoint new outside independent directors to the board of
directors by following the procedures set forth in the amended and restated certificate of
incorporation.
The amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that, prior to the occurrence
of certain termination events set forth in the Stockholders Agreement, the TD Ameritrade board of
directors will maintain a committee of the board comprised solely of all of the members of the
board of directors other than directors designated by TD under the Stockholders Agreement, for
purposes of making determinations relating to any acquisition by TD Ameritrade of a competing
business acquired by TD.
The amended and restated certificate of incorporation specifically allocates corporate
opportunities between TD Ameritrade and TD until such time as TD no longer beneficially owns voting
securities of TD Ameritrade representing at least 4.17% of the total voting power of all
outstanding TD Ameritrade voting securities and sets forth the procedure for allocating such
corporate opportunities. This provision for allocating corporate opportunities may only be amended
by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 80% of the voting power of TD Ameritrades
issued and outstanding capital stock entitled to vote on that matter, and any such amendment (or
any adoption of any inconsistent provision in the amended and restated certificate of
incorporation) will not apply to any matter occurring prior to such amendment or adoption.
The amended and restated certificate of incorporation also (1) changed the corporate name of
Ameritrade to TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation, (2) made changes to the provisions relating to
the calling of special meetings of stockholders, and (3) conformed certain procedures for the
nomination and removal of directors to the terms of the Stockholders Agreement.
Please see Item 5.03 below for a description of modifications to the rights of TD Ameritrade
common stockholders pursuant to the amended bylaws of TD Ameritrade.
Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws, Change in Fiscal Year.
Effective January 24, 2006, the bylaws of TD Ameritrade were amended in connection with the
closing of the TD Waterhouse Transaction.
The bylaws have been amended to provide (1) the TD Ameritrade board of directors with the
discretion to determine that any meeting of stockholders may be held solely by means of remote
communication, (2) that special meetings of the stockholders may only be called in accordance with
Article 5 of the amended and restated certificate of incorporation, and (3) that at all meetings of
stockholders for the election of directors at which a quorum is present, a plurality of the votes
cast shall be sufficient to elect. Prior to January 24, 2006, the bylaws did not give the board of
directors the discretion to determine that any meeting of stockholders may be held solely by means
of remote communication and the bylaws provided that special meetings of the stockholders could be
called by holders of 25% of the issued and outstanding capital stock of the Company entitled to
vote.
The bylaws have also been amended to (1) provide for the appointment of an outside independent
directors committee consisting of such members as may be required by the Stockholders Agreement,
(2) provide for the appointment of a non-TD directors committee consisting of such members as may
be required by the Stockholders Agreement, (3) eliminate the concept of an executive committee of
the board of directors, (4) provide for consents and waivers by the board of directors to be
conveyed by electronic transmission and (5) eliminate the nine member board provisions in a manner
consistent with the amended and restated certificate of incorporation.
The bylaws have also been amended to (1) provide that, so long as the corporate governance
provisions of the Stockholders Agreement remain in effect, any new chief executive officer of TD
Ameritrade may be appointed only with the approval of at least two-thirds of all of the directors
then serving on the board of directors, and (2) provide for the following additional positions:
vice chairman of the board of directors, a president, a chief operating officer, one or more
executive vice presidents and one or more senior vice presidents. Prior to the effectiveness of
the amended bylaws, no special voting requirements existed for the appointment of the chief
executive officer. Prior to January 24, 2005, the bylaws provided that the officers required to be
chosen by the board of directors included a chairman of the board, chief executive officer and a
secretary and a treasurer and certain other officers could be elected in the discretion of the
board of directors.
The bylaws have also been amended to provide that, so long as the corporate governance
provisions of the Stockholders Agreement remain in effect, any stockholder then entitled to
designate or nominate one or more directors of TD Ameritrade under the terms of the Stockholders
Agreement
may nominate persons for election as directors at any meeting of the stockholders without
complying with the advance notice provisions.
The bylaws have also been amended to provide that the chief executive officer appointment
provision may only be amended by (1) the unanimous vote of the board of directors or (2) the
affirmative vote of the holders of at least 80% in voting power of the shares of capital stock of
TD Ameritrade issued and outstanding and entitled to vote thereon.
On January 24, 2006, the Company filed an Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation
with the Secretary of State of Delaware. The Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation is
described in Item 3.03 above and was also described in the Companys definitive proxy statement
filed on December 5, 2005 in connection with proposal number 2 and all related sub-proposals
thereunder.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(a)
Financial Statements of Business Acquired
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The financial statements required by Item 9.01(a) of Form 8K will be filed by amendment
within 71 calendar days after the date this report on Form 8K must be filed.
(b)
Pro Forma Financial Information
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The pro forma financial statements required by Item 9.01(b) of Form 8K will be filed by
amendment within 71 calendar days after the date this report on Form 8K must be filed.
(d)
Exhibits
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3.1 Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, dated January 24, 2006.
3.2 Amended and Restated Bylaws of TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation, effective January 24,
2006.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly
caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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TD AMERITRADE HOLDING CORPORATION
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Date: January 27, 2006
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By:
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/s/ John R. MacDonald
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Name:
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John R. MacDonald
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Title:
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Executive Vice President, Chief Financial
Officer and Chief Administrative Officer
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EXHIBIT INDEX
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Exhibit No.
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Description
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3.1
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Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, dated January 24, 2006.
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3.2
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Amended and Restated Bylaws of TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation, effective
January 24, 2006.
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AMENDED AND RESTATED
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
AMERITRADE HOLDING CORPORATION
Ameritrade Holding Corporation, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the
State of Delaware, hereby certifies as follows:
The undersigned, Ellen L.S. Koplow hereby certifies that:
A. She is the duly elected and acting Secretary of Ameritrade Holding Corporation, a Delaware
corporation.
B. The Certificate of Incorporation of this corporation was originally filed under the name
Arrow Stock Holding Corporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on April 1,
2002.
C. Pursuant to Sections 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware,
this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation restates and integrates and further amends
in its entirety the Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the corporation.
D. The text of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation is hereby amended and restated in its
entirety to read as follows:
ARTICLE I
The name of the corporation is TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation (the Corporation).
ARTICLE II
The address of the Corporations registered office in the State of Delaware is Corporation
Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle. The name of the
Corporations registered agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.
ARTICLE III
The nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or promoted by 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 (the DGCL); provided, however, that prior to the
occurrence of a Termination Event (and, following a Specified Termination Event, during any
Post-Termination Period or, in the case of the R Parties, the earlier occurrence of the date on
which the directors of the Corporation designated by the R Parties pursuant to Section 4.1(b)(i) of
the Stockholders Agreement are required to resign as directors pursuant to Section 6.3(a) of the
Stockholders Agreement), the Corporation shall not adopt a stockholders rights plan or other
similar
antitakeover measure unless such plan or measure expressly excludes from its operation TD and
its Affiliates and the R Parties, to the extent any actions of such Persons (including the
acquisition of additional Voting Securities of the Corporation) would be permitted pursuant to the
terms of the Stockholders Agreement, and does not impair in any respect the rights of TD or any of
its Affiliates or the R Parties under the Stockholders Agreement, including their respective rights
under Articles II or III of the Stockholders Agreement.
ARTICLE IV
(a) The total number of shares of capital stock which the Corporation shall have authority to
issue is one billion one hundred million (1,100,000,000) shares, consisting of one billion
(1,000,000,000) shares of common stock, at $0.01 par value per share, and one hundred million
(100,000,000) shares of preferred stock, at $0.01 par value per share.
(b) Authority is hereby expressly granted to the Board of Directors to authorize the issuance
of one or more series of preferred stock and with respect to each such series to fix by resolution
or resolutions providing for the issuance of such series the designation of and number of shares
comprising such series, the voting powers, full or limited, if any, of the shares of such series
and the preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, and the
qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of such series.
ARTICLE V
(a) Special meetings of the stockholders of the Corporation, for any purpose or purposes, may
be called only as provided in this Article 5(a) Special meetings of stockholders of the Corporation
shall be called by the Secretary of the Corporation at the request in writing delivered to the
Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer or the Secretary of the Corporation
by stockholders owning of record 25% or more of the outstanding shares of common stock of the
Corporation. Any special meeting so requested shall be held on such date, at such time and for such
purpose or purposes as shall be set forth in the request; provided, that the request shall be
delivered not less than sixty and not more than ninety days before the date of the meeting. Special
meetings of the stockholders, for any purpose or purposes, also shall be called by the Secretary of
the Corporation at the direction of a majority of the directors of the Corporation. Business
transacted at special meetings shall be confined to the purpose or purposes stated in the notice of
meeting.
(b) Any action required or permitted to be taken by the stockholders of the Corporation can
only be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting of such holders and may not be effected
by written consent in lieu of a meeting.
ARTICLE VI
(a) Prior to the occurrence of a Termination Event (and following a Specified Termination
Event, during any Post-Termination Period), the Board of Directors of the Corporation shall be
comprised as follows:
(i) The number of directors which shall constitute the whole Board of Directors of the
Corporation shall be twelve (12).
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(ii) Whenever the Outside Independent Directors Committee is authorized to nominate or appoint
an Outside Independent Director pursuant to Section 4.2 of the Stockholders Agreement, such
committee shall prepare, and provide to TD and the R Parties, a list of candidates for such
position. Within ten Business Days of their receipt of such list, each of TD and the R Parties may
notify the Outside Independent Directors Committee of any candidates included on such list which
such party rejects from consideration for such Outside Independent Director position, provided that
neither TD nor the R Parties may reject candidates without a reasonable basis for doing so. Failure
by either TD or the R Parties to so notify the Outside Independent Directors Committee of rejected
candidates within such ten Business Day period shall be deemed to be an approval by such party of
all candidates included in the list provided to such Person. The Outside Independent Directors
Committee shall then nominate or appoint for each such available Outside Independent Director
position a candidate included on the list provided to both TD and the R Parties and not rejected by
either TD or the R Parties. In exercising its right to nominate and appoint Outside Independent
Directors, the Outside Independent Directors Committee shall take all action available to it to
ensure that, at all times, at least three Outside Independent Directors qualify to serve as members
of the audit committee of the Board pursuant to Section 4350(d) of the NASDAQ National Marketplace
Rules (or any such successor or comparable provision or any comparable rule of any other applicable
securities exchange or automated inter-dealer quotation system on which the Common Stock is then
listed or quoted). Any action to be taken by the R Parties pursuant to this paragraph shall be
taken by the representative of the R Parties specified by them in writing to the Company and TD
from time to time pursuant to the Stockholders Agreement, who shall initially be J. Joe Ricketts.
(b) Following the occurrence of a Termination Event (or, if such Termination Event is a
Specified Termination Event, following the expiration of the Post-Termination Period), the number
of directors which shall constitute the whole Board of Directors of the Corporation shall be such
number as may be fixed and changed from time to time only by a resolution of the Board of
Directors.
(c) The directors shall be divided into three classes, designated as Class I, Class II and
Class III. Each class shall consist, as nearly as possible, of one-third of the total number of
directors constituting the entire Board of Directors of the Corporation.
(d) At the first annual meeting of stockholders of the Corporation following the effectiveness
of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the term of office of the Class I
directors shall expire and Class I directors shall be elected for a full term expiring at the third
succeeding annual meeting following such election. At the second annual meeting of stockholders of
the Corporation following the effectiveness of this Amended and Restated Certificate of
Incorporation, the term of office of the Class II directors shall expire and Class II directors
shall be elected for a full term expiring at the third succeeding annual meeting following such
election. At the third annual meeting of stockholders of the Corporation following the
effectiveness of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the term of office of the
Class III directors shall expire and Class III directors shall be elected for a full term expiring
at the third succeeding annual meeting following such election. At each succeeding annual meeting
of stockholders, directors shall be elected to succeed the directors of the class whose terms
expire at such annual meeting for a full term expiring at the third succeeding annual meeting
following such election. Each director shall
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serve until his successor is duly elected and qualified or until his earlier resignation or
removal pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Article 6.
(e) The holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Corporation may
remove directors of the Corporation at any time
(i) with cause; and
(ii) prior to the occurrence of a Termination Event (and, following a Specified Termination
Event, during any Post-Termination Period), without cause.
(f) Notwithstanding any provisions in the Corporations By-laws, prior to the occurrence of a
Termination Event (and, following a Specified Termination Event, during any Post-Termination
Period), any stockholder then entitled to designate or nominate one or more directors of the
Corporation under the terms of the Stockholders Agreement may nominate persons for election as
directors (to the extent such person is entitled to make such designation or nomination under the
terms of the Stockholders Agreement) at any meeting of the stockholders without complying with any
advance notice provisions in this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or the By-laws
of the Corporation. Each person so nominated will not be ineligible to be nominated or elected to
the Board of Directors by virtue of a failure to comply with any such advance notice provisions.
(g) (i) Prior to the occurrence of a Termination Event (and, following a Specified Termination
Event, during any Post-Termination Period), the Board of Directors shall maintain a committee of
the Board of Directors comprised solely of all of the Outside Independent Directors (the Outside
Independent Directors Committee). The Outside Independent Directors Committee shall, and shall
have the authority pursuant to Section 141(a) of the DGCL to, exercise and perform the powers and
duties otherwise conferred or imposed on the Board of Directors of the Corporation under the DGCL
to take all actions and make all determinations which the Stockholders Agreement provides shall be
taken or made by the Outside Independent Directors Committee, and to enforce the terms of the
Stockholders Agreement on behalf of the Corporation, in each case subject to and in accordance with
the provisions of the Stockholders Agreement.
(i) Prior to the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Board of Directors shall maintain a
committee of the Board of Directors comprised solely of all of the Directors other than the
directors designated by TD pursuant to Section 4.1(b)(ii) of the Stockholders Agreement (the
Non-TD Directors Committee). The Non-TD Directors Committee shall, and shall have the authority
pursuant to Section 141(a) of the DGCL to, exercise and perform the powers and duties otherwise
conferred or imposed on the Board of Directors of the Corporation under the DGCL to take all
actions and make all determinations which the Stockholders Agreement provides shall be taken or
made by the Non-TD Directors Committee, subject to and in accordance with the provisions of the
Stockholders Agreement.
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ARTICLE VII
(a) To the fullest extent permitted under the DGCL as it currently exists or as it may
hereafter be amended, a director of the Corporation shall have no personal liability to the
Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director.
(b) The Corporation shall indemnify, in accordance with and to the fullest extent now or
hereafter permitted by the DGCL, any person who is or was a party, or is or was threatened to be
made a party, to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil,
criminal, administrative or investigative (including, without limitation, an action by or in the
right of the Corporation), by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director or officer of
the Corporation (and the Corporation, in the sole discretion of the Board of Directors of the
Corporation, may so indemnify a person who is or was a party, or is or was threatened to be made a
party, to any such action, suit or proceeding by reason of the fact that he or she is or was an
employee or agent of the Corporation or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation in any
other capacity for or on behalf of the Corporation) against any liability or expense actually and
reasonably incurred by such person in respect thereof; provided, that the Corporation shall be
required to indemnify a director or officer of the Corporation in connection with an action, suit
or proceeding initiated by such person only if such action, suit or proceeding was authorized by
the Board of Directors of the Corporation. Such indemnification is not exclusive of any other right
to indemnification provided by the DGCL or otherwise. The right to indemnification conferred by
this Article 7(b) shall be deemed to be a contract between the Corporation and each person entitled
to the benefits referred to herein.
(c) No amendment or repeal (including by merger, consolidation or otherwise by operation of
law) of this Article 7 shall apply to or have any effect on the liability or alleged liability of
any director or officer of the Corporation, or on the rights of any director or officer under this
Article 7, for or with respect to any act or omission of such director or officer occurring prior
to such amendment or repeal.
ARTICLE VIII
(a) No director or stockholder of the Corporation, in such capacity, shall have any obligation
to the Corporation to refrain from competing with the Corporation, making investments in competing
businesses or otherwise engaging in any commercial activity that competes with the Corporation. The
Corporation shall not have any right, interest or expectancy with respect to any such particular
investments or activities undertaken by any of its directors or stockholders, such investments or
activities shall not be deemed wrongful or improper, and no such director or stockholder shall be
obligated to communicate, offer or present any potential transaction, matter or opportunity to the
Corporation even if such potential transaction, matter or opportunity is of a character that, if
presented to the Corporation, could be taken by the Corporation, so long as such transaction,
matter or opportunity did not arise by virtue of the director being a member of the Board of
Directors or an officer or an employee of the Corporation; provided that, in the case of a director
or officer covered by paragraph b of this Article 8, such director or officer shall have fully
satisfied and fulfilled the fiduciary duty of such director or officer to the Corporation and its
stockholders with respect to such potential transaction, matter or opportunity if such director or
officer acts in a manner consistent with the policy set forth in such paragraph.
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(b) (i) In the event that a director or officer of the Corporation who is also a director or
officer of TD acquires knowledge of a potential transaction, matter or opportunity which may be a
corporate opportunity for both the Corporation and TD, such director or officer of the Corporation
shall have fully satisfied and fulfilled the fiduciary duty of such director or officer to the
Corporation and its stockholders with respect to such corporate opportunity if such director or
officer acts in a manner consistent with the following policy.
(A) A corporate opportunity offered to any person who is an officer of the Corporation, and
who is also a director but not an officer of TD, shall belong to the Corporation;
(B) A corporate opportunity offered to any person who is a director but not an officer of the
Corporation, and who is also a director or officer of TD, shall belong to the Corporation if such
opportunity is expressly offered to such person in writing solely in his or her capacity as a
director of the Corporation, and otherwise shall belong to TD; and
(C) A corporate opportunity offered to any person who is an officer of both the Corporation
and TD shall belong to the Corporation if such opportunity is expressly offered to such person in
writing solely in his or her capacity as an officer of the Corporation, and otherwise shall belong
to TD.
(ii) For purposes of this Article 8(b) only:
(A) A director of the Corporation who is Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors
of the Corporation or of a committee thereof shall not be deemed to be an officer of the
Corporation by reason of holding such position (without regard to whether such position is deemed
an office of the Corporation under the By-laws of the Corporation), unless such Person is an
employee of the Corporation; and
(B) (x) The term Corporation shall mean the Corporation and its Subsidiaries, and (y) the
term TD shall mean TD and its Subsidiaries (other than the Corporation and its Subsidiaries if at
any time the Corporation would otherwise qualify as a Subsidiary of TD pursuant to the definition
thereof).
(iii) In furtherance of the foregoing, the Corporation renounces any interest or expectancy
in, or in being offered the opportunity to participate in, any corporate opportunity covered by,
but not allocated to it pursuant to, this Article 8(b) to the fullest extent permitted by Section
122(17) of the DGCL (or any successor provision).
(iv) In the event that TD acquires knowledge of a potential transaction or matter which may be
a corporate opportunity for both TD and the Corporation, TD shall have no duty to communicate or
offer such corporate opportunity to the Corporation and shall not be liable to the Corporation or
its stockholders for breach of any fiduciary duty as a stockholder of the Corporation by reason of
the fact that TD pursues or acquires such corporate opportunity for itself, directs such corporate
opportunity to another Person, or does not communicate information regarding such corporate
opportunity to the Corporation, and the Corporation hereby renounces, to the fullest extent
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permitted by Section 122(17) of the DGCL (or any successor provision), any interest or
expectancy in such corporate opportunity.
(v) The provisions of this Article 8(b) shall terminate upon the first date that TD no longer
Beneficially Owns Voting Securities representing at least 4.17% of the Total Voting Power.
(c) The provisions of this Article 8 shall in no way limit or eliminate a directors,
officers or stockholders duties, responsibilities and obligations with respect to any proprietary
information of the Corporation, including the duty to not disclose or use such proprietary
information improperly or to obtain therefrom an improper personal benefit. Except as otherwise set
forth in this Article 8, this Article 8 shall not limit or eliminate the fiduciary duties of any
director or officer or otherwise be deemed to exculpate any director or officer from any breach of
his or her fiduciary duties to the Corporation.
(d) For the avoidance of doubt, nothing contained in this Article 8 amends or modifies, or
will amend or modify, in any respect any written contractual arrangement between any stockholders
of the Corporation or any of their respective Affiliates, on the one hand, and the Corporation and
any of its Affiliates, on the other hand.
(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Amended and Restated
Certificate of Incorporation, this Article 8 may only be amended (including by merger,
consolidation or otherwise by operation of law) by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least
80% in voting power of the shares of capital stock of the Corporation issued and outstanding and
entitled to vote thereon.
(f) Neither the termination, alteration, amendment or repeal (including by merger,
consolidation or otherwise by operation of law) of this Article 8 nor the adoption of any provision
of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation inconsistent with this Article 8 shall
eliminate or reduce the effect of this Article 8 in respect of any matter occurring, or any cause
of action, suit or claim that, but for this Article 8, would accrue or arise, prior to such
termination, alteration, amendment, repeal or adoption.
ARTICLE IX
Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between the Corporation and its creditors or
any class of them and/or between the 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 the Corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof or on the application of any
receiver or receivers appointed for the Corporation under §291 of Title 8 of the DGCL 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 DGCL, 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 directs. 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 the Corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and
to any reorganization
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of the Corporation as a 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 the Corporation, as the case may be, and also on the
Corporation.
ARTICLE X
For purposes of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation:
(a) Affiliate means, with respect to any Person, any other Person that directly, or
indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by or is under common
control with, such specified Person; provided, however, that solely for purposes of this Amended
and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth
herein, (A) neither the Corporation nor any of its Subsidiaries shall be deemed to be a Subsidiary
or Affiliate of any R Party or TD and (B) no R Party or TD shall be deemed to be an Affiliate of
each other or of the Corporation solely by virtue of (i) such partys ownership of common stock of
the Corporation or its being a party to the Stockholders Agreement, (ii) the election of directors
designated by such party or nominated by such party for election to the Board of Directors or (iii)
any other action taken by such partys or its respective Affiliates which is expressly required or
contemplated under the Stockholders Agreement, in each case in accordance with the terms and
conditions of, and subject to the limitations and restrictions set forth in, the Stockholders
Agreement (and irrespective of the characteristics of the aforesaid relationships and actions under
applicable law or accounting principles).
(b) Beneficial Ownership by a Person of any securities includes ownership by any Person who,
directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or
otherwise, has or shares (i) voting power which includes the power to vote, or to direct the voting
of, such security; and/or (ii) investment power which includes the power to dispose, or to direct
the disposition, of such security; and shall otherwise be interpreted in accordance with the term
beneficial ownership as defined in Rule 13d-3 adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission under the Exchange Act; provided that (x) for purposes of determining Beneficial
Ownership, a Person shall be deemed to be the Beneficial Owner of any securities which may be
acquired by such Person pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or understanding or upon the
exercise of conversion rights, exchange rights, warrants or options, or otherwise (irrespective of
whether the right to acquire such securities is exercisable immediately or only after the passage
of time, including the passage of time in excess of 60 days, the satisfaction of any conditions,
the occurrence of any event or any combination of the foregoing), except that in no event will TD
be deemed to Beneficially Own any securities which it has the right to acquire pursuant to Section
2.2 of the Stockholders Agreement unless, and then only to the extent that, TD shall have actually
exercised such right and (y) solely for purposes of this Amended and Restated Certificate of
Incorporation, notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, TD shall not be deemed to
have Beneficial Ownership of securities owned by another party to the Stockholders Agreement,
solely by virtue of (A) TDs or such other partys status as a party to the Stockholders Agreement,
(B) the voting agreements contained and proxies contained in the Stockholders Agreement or (C) any
other action taken by TD, such other party or any of their respective Affiliates which is
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expressly required or contemplated under the Stockholders Agreement, in each case in
accordance with the terms and conditions of, and subject to the limitations and restrictions set
forth in, the Stockholders Agreement (and irrespective of the characteristics of the aforesaid
relationships and actions under applicable law or accounting principles). For purposes of this
Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, a Person shall be deemed to Beneficially Own any
securities Beneficially Owned by its Affiliates or any Group of which such Person or any such
Affiliate is or becomes a member; provided, however, that shares of common stock of the Corporation
subject to options granted under Corporation benefit plans or shares of common stock of the
Corporation (including derivative interests therein) otherwise issued under benefit plans of the
Corporation to any Person who, at the time of the grant or issuance, was an officer or director of
the Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries shall not be deemed to be Beneficially Owned by TD or
any of its Affiliates. The terms Beneficially Own and Beneficially Owned shall have correlative
meanings.
(c) Business Day shall mean any day that is not a Saturday, a Sunday or other day on which
banks are required or authorized by law to be closed in New York, New York, USA or Toronto,
Ontario, Canada.
(d) control (including the terms controlled by and under common control with), with
respect to the relationship between or among two or more Persons, means the possession, directly or
indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the affairs or management of a Person,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, as trustee or executor, by contract or any
other means.
(e) Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder (or under any successor statute).
(f) Group shall have the meaning assigned to it in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act;
provided, however, that solely for purposes of this Amended and Restated Certificate of
Incorporation, notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, none of TD or any R Party
or any of their respective Affiliates shall be deemed to be a member of a Group with each other or
each others Affiliates, in each case solely by virtue of the existence of the Stockholders
Agreement or any action taken by a party thereto or any of its Affiliates which is expressly
required or contemplated under the Stockholders Agreement, in each case in accordance with the
terms and conditions of, and subject to the limitations and restrictions set forth in, the
Stockholders Agreement (and irrespective of the characteristics of the aforesaid relationships and
actions under applicable law or accounting principles).
(g) Outside Independent Directors means the individuals designated as such pursuant to
Sections 4.1 and 4.2 of the Stockholders Agreement and then serving as directors of the
Corporation.
(h) Person means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, limited or general
partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization,
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any other entity or any Group
comprised of two or more of the foregoing.
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(i) Post-Termination Period means, following the date of a Specified Termination Event, the
period of the shortest of (A) the period from the date of such Specified Termination Event until
the first anniversary thereof, (B) the period from the date of such Specified Termination Event to
the occurrence of a Termination Event of the type described in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) of
Section 6.3(c) of the Stockholders Agreement and (C) the period from the date of such Specified
Termination Event until the consummation of a transaction by TD or its Affiliates or the R Parties
meeting the requirements of clause (i) of Section 6.3(d) of the Stockholders Agreement. The
Corporation shall make a public announcement promptly following the expiration of any
Post-Termination Period.
(j) R Party means each of the Persons listed on Schedule A to the Stockholders Agreement
under the heading R Parties and any other Person who subsequently becomes bound by the
Stockholders Agreement as an R Party as permitted by the terms of the Stockholders Agreement, in
each case for so long as such Person remains a party to the Stockholders Agreement.
(k) Specified Termination Event means a Termination Event of the type described in clauses
(iv), (v) or (vi) of Section 6.3(c) of the Stockholders Agreement. The Corporation shall make a
public announcement promptly following the occurrence of a Specified Termination Event.
(l) Stockholders Agreement means the Stockholders Agreement, dated as of June 22, 2005, by
and among the Corporation, TD and the R Parties, as such agreement may be amended, supplemented or
modified from time to time.
(m) Subsidiary means, with respect to any Person, any corporation or other organization,
whether incorporated or unincorporated, (i) of which such Person or any other Subsidiary of such
Person is a general partner (excluding partnerships, the general partnership interests of which
held by such Person or any Subsidiary of such Person do not have a majority of the voting interests
in such partnership), or (ii) at least a majority of the securities or other interests of which
having by their terms ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors or others
performing similar functions with respect to such corporation or other organization is directly or
indirectly owned or controlled by such Person or by any one or more of its Subsidiaries, or by such
Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries.
(n) Termination Event means the first to occur of any of the events listed in clauses
(i)-(vi) of Section 6.3(c) of the Stockholders Agreement. The Corporation shall make a public
announcement promptly following the occurrence of a Termination Event.
(o) TD means The Toronto-Dominion Bank, a Canadian chartered bank, and any successor thereto
(whether by operation of law in a merger, amalgamation, plan of arrangement or consolidation or
otherwise).
(p) Total Voting Power means the total number of votes entitled to be cast by the holders of
the outstanding common stock of the Corporation and any other securities entitled, in the ordinary
course, to vote generally in the election of directors of the Corporation and not solely upon the
occurrence and during the continuation of certain specified events.
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(q) Voting Securities means, at any time, shares of any class of capital stock or other
securities of the Corporation, including the common stock of the Corporation, which are then
entitled to vote generally in the election of directors and not solely upon the occurrence and
during the continuation of certain specified events, and any securities convertible into or
exercisable or exchangeable for such shares of capital stock (whether or not currently so
convertible, exercisable or exchangeable or only upon the passage of time, the occurrence of
certain events or otherwise).
ARTICLE XI
In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by the DGCL, the Board of
Directors is expressly authorized to adopt, alter, amend or repeal the By-laws of the Corporation;
provided that the Board of Directors may only alter, amend or repeal (including in connection with
a merger, consolidation or otherwise by operation of law) Section 4(b) of Article IV of the By-Laws
by unanimous vote of all directors then serving.
ARTICLE XII
The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change, add to or repeal any provision
contained in this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, in the manner now or hereafter
prescribed herein and by the DGCL, and all rights conferred herein upon stockholders of the
Corporation are granted subject to this reservation.
The foregoing Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation has been duly adopted by this
Corporations Board of Directors and stockholders in accordance with the applicable provision of
Sections 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
Executed in Columbia, Maryland on January 24, 2006.
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Ellen L.S. Koplow, Secretary
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AMENDED AND RESTATED
BY-LAWS
OF
TD AMERITRADE HOLDING CORPORATION
Dated
as of January 24, 2006
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ARTICLE I OFFICES
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1.1
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Registered Office and Agent
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ARTICLE II STOCKHOLDERS
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2.1
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Time and Place of Meetings
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Annual Meetings
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2.3
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Special Meetings
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2.4
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Notice of Meetings
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List of Stockholders
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Quorum; Adjournments
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Organization
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Order of Business
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Voting
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Inspectors
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ARTICLE III DIRECTORS
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General Powers
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Qualification and Tenure
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Vacancies and Newly-Created Directorships
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Place of Meetings
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Meetings
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Quorum and Manner of Acting
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Organization
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Enumeration
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President
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ARTICLE V CERTIFICATES OF STOCK AND THEIR TRANSFER
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Replacement
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Insurance
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Severability
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ARTICLE VII NOMINATION OF DIRECTORS AND PRESENTATION OF BUSINESS AT STOCKHOLDER MEETINGS
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AMENDED AND RESTATED
BY-LAWS OF
TD AMERITRADE HOLDING CORPORATION
ARTICLE I OFFICES
1.1
Registered Office and Agent
. The registered office of the Corporation in the State of
Delaware is 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle. The name of the
registered agent of the Corporation at such address is The Corporation Trust Company. The
Corporation may also have offices at such other places both within and without the State of
Delaware as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine or the business of the
Corporation may require.
ARTICLE II STOCKHOLDERS
2.1
Time and Place of Meetings
. All meetings of the stockholders for the election of
directors or for any other purpose shall be held at such time and place (if any), within or without
the State of Delaware, as shall be designated by the Board of Directors. In the absence of a
designation of a place for any such meeting by the Board of Directors, each such meeting shall be
held at the principal office of the Corporation. In lieu of holding a meeting of stockholders at a
designated place, the Board of Directors, may, in its sole discretion, determine that any meeting
of stockholders may be held solely by means of remote communication.
2.2
Annual Meetings
. An annual meeting of stockholders shall be held for the purpose of
electing directors and transacting such other business as may properly be brought before the
meeting. The date of the annual meeting shall be determined by the Board of Directors.
2.3
Special Meetings
. Special meetings of the stockholders of the Corporation or of the
holders of any one or more classes of the capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote as a
class or classes with respect to any matter may be called only in accordance with Article 5(a) of
the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation (the Certificate of
Incorporation).
2.4
Notice of Meetings
. Except as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law, notice
of each meeting of the stockholders stating the place, date and time of the meeting shall be given,
not less than ten nor more than sixty days before the date of the meeting, to each stockholder
entitled to vote at such meeting. The notice of any special meeting of stockholders shall state the
purpose or purposes for which the
meeting is called. Business transacted at any special meeting of stockholders shall be limited
to the purposes stated in the notice. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of,
an annual or special meeting of stockholders need be specified in any waiver of notice.
2.5
List of Stockholders
. The officer who has charge of the stock ledger of the Corporation
shall prepare and make, at least ten days before each meeting of stockholders, a complete list of
the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, arranged in alphabetical order,
showing the
address of and the number of shares registered in the name of each stockholder. Such list shall be
open to the examination of any stockholder of record, for any purpose germane to the meeting,
during ordinary business hours, for a period of at least ten days prior to the meeting as required
by applicable law. If the meeting is to be held at a place, then the list shall be produced and
kept at the time and place of the meeting during the whole time thereof, and may be inspected by
any stockholder of record who is present.
2.6
Quorum; Adjournments
. The holders of a majority in voting power of the stock issued and
outstanding and entitled to vote thereat, present in person or represented by proxy, shall
constitute a quorum at all meetings of the stockholders for the transaction of business, except as
otherwise required by these By-Laws, the Certificate of Incorporation, or the Delaware General
Corporation Law as from time to time in effect (the Delaware Law). If a quorum is not
represented, the holders of the stock present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and
entitled to vote thereat shall have power, by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority in
voting power of such stock, to adjourn the meeting to another time and/or place, without notice
other than announcement at the meeting, except as hereinafter provided, until a quorum shall be
present or represented. At such adjourned meeting, at which a quorum shall be present or
represented, any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the original
meeting. If the adjournment is for more than thirty days, or if after the adjournment a new record
date is fixed for the adjourned meeting, a notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each
stockholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting. Withdrawal of stockholders from any meeting
shall not cause the failure of a duly constituted quorum at such meeting.
2.7
Organization
. At each meeting of stockholders, the Chairman of the Board of Directors or,
in his absence, the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, or in his absence, the Chief Executive
Officer shall act as chairman of the meeting. The Secretary or, in his absence or inability to act,
the person whom the chairman of the meeting shall appoint secretary of the meeting, shall act as
secretary of the meeting and keep the minutes thereof.
2.8
Order of Business
. The order of business at all meetings of the stockholders shall be as
determined by the chairman of the meeting.
2.9
Voting
.
(a) At all meetings of the stockholders, each stockholder shall be entitled to vote, in
person, or by proxy appointed in an instrument in writing subscribed by the stockholder or
otherwise appointed in accordance with Section 212 of the Delaware Law, each share of voting stock
owned by such stockholder of record on the record date for the meeting. Each stockholder shall be
entitled to one vote for each share of voting stock held by such stockholder, unless otherwise
provided in the Delaware Law or the Certificate of Incorporation.
(b) When a quorum is present at any meeting, the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority
in voting power of the stock having voting power present in person or represented by proxy and
voting shall decide any question brought before such meeting, unless the question is one upon
which, by express provision of law, of the rules or regulations of any securities exchange
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applicable to the Corporation or its securities, of these By-Laws or of the Certificate of
Incorporation, a different vote is required, in which case such express provision shall govern and
control the decision of such question. Any stockholder who is in attendance at a meeting of
stockholders either in person or by proxy, but who abstains from the vote on any matter, shall not
be deemed present or represented and voting at such meeting for purposes of the preceding sentence
with respect to such vote, but shall be deemed present or represented at such meeting for all other
purposes. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at all meetings of stockholders for the election of
directors at which a quorum is present, a plurality of the votes cast shall be sufficient to elect
any director.
2.10
Inspectors
. The Board of Directors may, in advance of any meeting of stockholders,
appoint one or more inspectors to act at such meeting or any adjournment thereof. If any of the
inspectors so appointed shall fail to appear or act, the chairman of the meeting shall, or if
inspectors shall not have been appointed, the chairman of the meeting shall (to the extent required
by applicable law), appoint one or more inspectors. Each inspector, before entering upon the
discharge of his duties, shall take and sign an oath faithfully to execute the duties of inspector
at such meeting with strict impartiality and according to the best of his ability. The inspectors
shall determine the number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation outstanding and the voting
power of each, the number of shares represented at the meeting, the existence of a quorum, the
validity and effect of proxies, and shall receive votes, ballots or consents, hear and determine
all challenges and questions arising in connection with the right to vote, count and tabulate all
votes, ballots or consents, determine the results, and do such acts as are proper to conduct the
election or vote with fairness to all stockholders. On request of the chairman of the meeting, the
inspectors shall make a report in writing of any challenge, request or matter determined by them
and shall execute a certificate of any fact found by them. No director or candidate for the office
of director shall act as an inspector of an election of directors. Inspectors need not be
stockholders.
ARTICLE III DIRECTORS
3.1
General Powers
. Subject to the Certificate of Incorporation, the business and affairs of the Corporation
shall be managed and controlled by or under the direction of its Board of Directors, which may
exercise all such powers of, and do all such acts and things as may be done by, the Corporation and
do all such lawful acts and things as are not by law or by the Certificate of Incorporation or by
these By-Laws directed or required to be exercised or done by the stockholders.
3.2
Qualification and Tenure
. The members of the Board of Directors shall be elected at the
annual meeting of the stockholders, except as provided in the Certificate of Incorporation or
Section 3 of this Article III, and each director elected shall hold office until his or her
successor is elected and qualified or until his or her earlier death, termination, resignation or
removal from office. Directors need not be stockholders.
3.3
Vacancies and Newly-Created Directorships
. Subject to the Certificate of Incorporation,
vacancies and newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the number of directors
may be filled by a majority of the directors then in office, although less than a quorum, or by a
sole remaining director, or by the stockholders, and each director so chosen shall hold office
until his or her successor is elected and qualified or until his or her earlier death, termination,
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resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal from office. If there are no directors in
office, then an election of directors may be held in the manner provided by the Delaware Law.
3.4
Place of Meetings
. The Board of Directors may hold meetings, both regular and special,
either within or without the State of Delaware.
3.5
Meetings
. The Board of Directors shall hold a regular meeting, to be known as the annual
meeting, immediately following each annual meeting of the stockholders. Other regular meetings of
the Board of Directors shall be held at such time and place as shall from time to time be
determined by the Board of Directors. No notice of regular meetings need be given, other than by
announcement at the immediately preceding regular meeting. Special meetings of the Board of
Directors may be called by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Vice Chairman of the Board
of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer or by the Secretary on the written request of a
majority of the Board of Directors. Notice of any special meeting of the Board of Directors shall
be given at least one day prior thereto, either in writing or by electronic transmission, or
telephonically if confirmed promptly in writing or by electronic transmission, to each director at
the address shown for such director on the records of the Corporation.
3.6
Waiver of Notice; Business and Purpose
. Notice of any meeting of the Board of Directors may be waived in writing signed by the
person or persons entitled to such notice, or a waiver by electronic transmission by the person
entitled to notice, either before or after the time of the meeting. The attendance of a director at
any meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except where a director attends a
meeting for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business because the meeting
is not lawfully called or convened and at the beginning of the meeting records such objection with
the person acting as secretary of the meeting and does not thereafter vote on any action taken at
the meeting. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special
meeting of the Board of Directors need be specified in the notice or waiver of notice of such
meeting, or any waiver by electronic transmission, unless specifically required by the Delaware
Law.
3.7
Quorum and Manner of Acting
. At all meetings of the Board of Directors a majority of the
total number of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. If a quorum
shall not be present at any meeting of the Board of Directors, the directors present thereat may
adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until
a quorum shall be present. The act of a majority of the directors present at any meeting at which
there is a quorum shall be the act of the Board of Directors, except as may be otherwise
specifically provided by the Delaware Law or by the Certificate of Incorporation or these By-Laws.
3.8
Organization
. The Chairman of the Board of Directors shall act as chairman at all
meetings of the Board of Directors. If the Chairman of the Board of Directors is not present, the
Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, shall act as chairman of such meeting of the Board of
Directors, and if the Chairman of the Board of Directors and the Vice Chairman of the Board of
Directors, are not present, a director chosen by a majority of the directors present shall act as
chairman at such meeting of the Board of Directors.
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3.9
Removal of Directors
. Unless otherwise prescribed by the Certificate of Incorporation,
any director may be removed, either with or without cause, at any time, by stockholders owning a
majority in voting power of the stock of the Corporation issued and outstanding and entitled to
vote.
3.10
Committees
.
(a) The Board of Directors, by resolution adopted by the Board of Directors, may create one or
more committees and appoint two or more directors to serve on such committee or committees. Each
director appointed to serve on any such committee shall serve, unless the resolution designating
the respective committee is sooner amended or rescinded by the Board of Directors, until the next
annual meeting of the Board of Directors or until their respective successors are designated. The
Board of Directors, by resolution adopted by a majority of the whole Board, may
also designate additional directors as alternate members of any committee to serve as members
of such committee in the place and stead of any regular member or members thereof who may be unable
to attend a meeting or otherwise unavailable to act as a member of such committee. In the absence
or disqualification of a member and all alternate members designated to serve in the place and
stead of such member, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified
from voting, whether or not such member or members constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint
another director to act at the meeting in the place and stead of such absent or disqualified
member.
(b) There shall be appointed an Outside Independent Directors Committee consisting of such
number of members as may be required by the Stockholders Agreement dated as of June 22, 2005 by and
among the Corporation, The Toronto-Dominion Bank and the other stockholders of the Corporation
party thereto (the Stockholders Agreement), as such agreement may be amended or supplemented from
time to time, having such power and authority as may be set forth or contemplated in the
Certificate of Incorporation. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in these By-laws,
the Board may amend this Section 10(b) of this Article III (including in connection with a merger
or consolidation or otherwise by operation of law) only with the approval of the Outside
Independent Directors Committee.
(c) There shall be appointed a Non-TD Directors Committee consisting of such number of members
as may be required by the Stockholders Agreement, as such agreement may be amended or supplemented
from time to time, having such power and authority as may be set forth or contemplated in the
Certificate of Incorporation. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in these By-laws,
the Board may amend this Section 10(c) of this Article III (including in connection with a merger
or consolidation or otherwise by operation of law) only with the approval of the Non-TD Directors
Committee.
(d) No committee may take any action that is expressly required by the Delaware Law or the
Certificate of Incorporation or these By-Laws to be taken by the Board of Directors and not by a
committee thereof. Each committee shall keep a record of its acts and proceedings, which shall form
a part of the records of the Corporation in the custody of the Secretary, and all actions of
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each
committee, shall be reported to the Board of Directors at the next meeting of the Board of
Directors.
(e) Meetings of committees may be called at any time by the chairman of the respective
committee or by the Secretary on the written request of a majority of the Board of Directors. A
majority of the members of the committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business
and, except as expressly limited by this section, the act of a majority of the members present at
any meeting at which there is a quorum shall be the act of such committee. Except as expressly
provided in this section or in the resolution designating the committee, a majority of the members
of any such committee may select its chairman, fix its rules of procedure, fix the time and place
of its meetings and specify what notice of meetings, if any, shall be given.
3.11
Action without Meeting
. Unless otherwise specifically prohibited by the Certificate of Incorporation or these
By-Laws, any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board of Directors or
of any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting, if all members of the Board of Directors
or such committee, as the case may be, execute a consent thereto in writing or by electronic
transmission setting forth the action so taken, and the writing or writings or electronic
transmission or transmissions are filed with the minutes of proceedings of the Board of Directors
or such committee.
3.12
Attendance by Telephone
. Members of the Board of Directors, or any committee thereof,
may participate in and act at any meeting of the Board of Directors, or such committee, as the case
may be, through the use of a conference telephone or other communications equipment by means of
which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other. Participation in such meeting
shall constitute attendance and presence in person at the meeting of the person or persons so
participating.
3.13
Compensation
. Directors may be paid such compensation for their services and such
reimbursement for expenses of attendance at meetings as the Board of Directors may from time to
time determine. These payments shall not preclude any director from serving the Corporation in any
other capacity and receiving compensation therefor.
ARTICLE IV OFFICERS
4.1
Enumeration
. The officers of the Corporation shall be chosen by the Board of Directors
and shall include a Chairman of the Board of Directors, a Chief Executive Officer, a President, a
Secretary and a Treasurer. The Board of Directors may also elect a Chief Financial Officer, a Chief
Operating Officer, one or more Divisional Presidents, one or more Executive Vice Presidents, one or
more Senior Vice Presidents, one or more Vice Presidents, one or more Assistant Secretaries and
Assistant Treasurers and such other officers and agents as it may deem appropriate. Any number of
offices may be held by the same person. No officer need be a stockholder. The Corporation shall
also have a Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, who shall be considered an officer of the
Corporation only if he holds another position at the Corporation that is an officer position.
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4.2
Term of Office
. Subject to the Certificate of Incorporation, the officers of the
Corporation shall be elected at the annual meeting of the Board of Directors and shall hold office
until their successors are elected and qualified, or until their earlier death, termination,
resignation or removal from office, and any officer or agent of the Corporation may be removed at
any time by the Board of Directors, with or without cause. Any vacancy in any office because of
death, resignation, termination, removal, disqualification or otherwise, may be filled by the Board
of Directors for the unexpired portion of the term.
4.3
Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors
. The Chairman of the Board of
Directors shall be a member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation. The Chairman of the Board
of Directors shall oversee the overall strategic business management of the Corporation and shall
have such other functions, authority and duties as customarily appertain to the office of the
chairman of a business corporation or as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors. The Vice
Chairman of the Board of Directors, in the absence of the Chairman of the Board of Directors or in
the event of the Chairmans inability or refusal to act, shall have the authority to perform the
duties of the Chairman of the Board of Directors and such other duties as may from time to time be
prescribed by the Board of Directors.
4.4
Chief Executive Officer
.
(a) The Chief Executive Officer shall be the chief executive officer of the Corporation and,
as such, shall have general supervision, direction and control of the business and affairs of the
Corporation, subject to the control of the Board of Directors, and shall have such other functions,
authority and duties as customarily appertain to the office of the chief executive of a business
corporation or as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors.
(b) Prior to the occurrence of a Termination Event (and, following a Specified Termination
Event, during any Post-Termination Period) (as such terms are defined in the Certificate of
Incorporation), any Chief Executive Officer (other than the Chief Executive Officer in office as of
the date of the effectiveness of this Section 4(b) of this Article IV) may be appointed only with
the approval of at least two-thirds of all of the directors then serving on the Board of Directors.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in these By-laws, this Section 4(b) of this
Article IV may only be amended (including by merger, consolidation or otherwise) by (i) unanimous
vote of the Board of Directors or (ii) the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 80% in
voting power of the shares of capital stock of the Corporation issued and outstanding and entitled
to vote thereon.
4.5
President
. The President shall perform such duties and shall have such powers as are
prescribed by these By-laws and as the Board of Directors may from time to time prescribe. The
Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation shall serve as President, unless the Board of Directors
appoints another individual to serve as President.
4.6
Chief Operating Officer
. When and if elected, the Chief Operating Officer shall be the
chief operating officer of the Corporation and shall have such functions, authority and duties as
may from time to time be prescribed by the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer.
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4.7
Divisional President
. When and if elected, each Divisional President shall be the chief operating officer of the
designated division of the Corporation and shall have such functions, authority and duties as may
from time to time be prescribed by the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer or the
Chief Operating Officer.
4.8
Vice President
. Each Vice President, whether designated as Executive or Senior or without
such additional title, shall perform such duties and have such other powers as may from time to
time be prescribed by the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer.
4.9
Secretary
. The Secretary shall: (a) keep a record of all proceedings of the stockholders,
the Board of Directors and any committees thereof in one of more books provided for that purpose;
(b) give, or cause to be given, all notices that are required by law or these By-Laws to be given
by the Secretary; (c) be custodian of the corporate records and, if the Corporation has a corporate
seal, of the seal of the Corporation; (d) have authority to affix the seal of the Corporation to
all instruments the execution of which requires such seal and to attest such affixing of the seal;
(e) keep a register of the post office address of each stockholder which shall be furnished to the
Secretary by such stockholder; (f) sign, with the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the President
or any Vice President, or any other officer thereunto authorized by the Board of Directors (to the
extent permitted by the Delaware Law), any certificates for shares of the Corporation, or any
deeds, mortgages, bonds, contracts or other instruments which the Board of Directors has authorized
to be executed by the signature of more than one officer; (g) have general charge of the stock
transfer books of the Corporation; (h) have authority to certify as true and correct, copies of the
By-Laws, or resolutions of the stockholders, the Board of Directors and committees thereof, and of
other documents of the Corporation; and (i) in general, perform the duties incident to the office
of secretary and such other duties as from time to time may be prescribed by the Board of Directors
or the Chairman of the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may give general authority to any
other officer to affix the seal of the Corporation and to attest such affixing of the seal.
4.10
Assistant Secretary
. The Assistant Secretary, if any, or if there shall be more than
one, each Assistant Secretary, in the absence of the Secretary or in the event of the Secretarys
inability or refusal to act, shall have the authority to perform the duties of the Secretary,
subject to such limitations thereon as may be imposed by the Board of Directors, and such other
duties as may from time to time be prescribed by the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive
Officer or the Secretary.
4.11
Treasurer
. The Treasurer shall be the principal accounting and financial officer of the
Corporation. The Treasurer shall: (a) have charge of and be responsible for the maintenance of
adequate books of account for the Corporation; (b) have charge and custody of all funds and
securities of the Corporation, and be responsible therefor and for the receipt and disbursement
thereof; and (c) perform the duties incident to the office of treasurer and such other duties as may from time
to time be prescribed by the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer. The Treasurer may
sign, with the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the President or any Vice President, or any
other officer thereunto authorized by the Board of Directors (to the extent permitted by the
Delaware Law), certificates for shares of the Corporation. If required by the Board
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of Directors,
the Treasurer shall give a bond for the faithful discharge of his or her duties in such sum and
with such surety or sureties as the Board of Directors may determine.
4.12
Assistant Treasurer
. The Assistant Treasurer, if any, or if there shall be more than
one, each Assistant Treasurer, in the absence of the Treasurer or in the event of the Treasurers
inability or refusal to act, shall have the authority to perform the duties of the Treasurer,
subject to such limitations thereon as may be imposed by the Board of Directors, and such other
duties as may from time to time be prescribed by the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive
Officer or the Treasurer.
4.13
Other Officers and Agents
. Any officer or agent who is elected or appointed from time to
time by the Board of Directors and whose duties are not specified in these By-Laws shall perform
such duties and have such powers as may from time to time be prescribed by the Board of Directors
or the Chief Executive Officer.
ARTICLE V CERTIFICATES OF STOCK AND THEIR TRANSFER
5.1
Form
. The shares of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates in such form as
the Board of Directors may approve; provided, the Board of Directors may provide by resolution or
resolutions that some or all of any or all classes or series of the Corporations stock shall be
uncertificated shares. Each certificate for shares shall be consecutively numbered or otherwise
identified. Certificates of stock in the Corporation, shall be signed by or in the name of the
Corporation by the Chairman of the Board, the President or a Vice President and by the Treasurer or
an Assistant Treasurer or the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Corporation. Where a
certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent, other than the Corporation or an employee of the
Corporation, or by a registrar, the signatures of one or more officers of the Corporation may be
facsimiles. In case any officer, transfer agent or registrar who has signed or whose facsimile
signature has been placed upon a certificate shall have ceased to be such officer, transfer agent
or registrar before such certificate is issued, the certificate may be issued by the Corporation
with the same effect as if such officer, transfer agent or registrar were such officer, transfer
agent or registrar at the date of its issue.
5.2
Transfer
. Upon surrender to the Corporation or the transfer agent of the Corporation of a
certificate for shares duly endorsed or accompanied by proper evidence of succession, assignment or
authority to transfer, it shall be the duty of the Corporation, subject to any applicable
restrictions on transfer, to issue a new certificate of stock or uncertificated shares in place of any certificate
theretofore issued by the Corporation to the person entitled thereto, cancel the old certificate
and record the transaction in its stock transfer books.
5.3
Replacement
. In case of the loss, destruction, mutilation or theft of a certificate for
any stock of the Corporation, a new certificate of stock or uncertificated shares in place of any
certificate theretofore issued by the Corporation may be issued upon the surrender of the mutilated
certificate or, in the case of loss, destruction or theft of a certificate, upon satisfactory proof
of such loss, destruction or theft and upon such terms as the Board of Directors may prescribe. The
Board of Directors may in its discretion require the owner of the lost, destroyed or stolen
certificate, or his
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legal representative, to give the Corporation a bond, in such sum and in such
form and with such surety or sureties as it may direct, to indemnify the Corporation against any
claim that may be made against it with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost,
destroyed or stolen.
5.4
Registered Stockholders
. The Corporation shall be entitled to recognize the exclusive
right of a person registered on its records as the owner of shares of stock to receive dividends
and to vote as such owner, shall be entitled to hold liable for calls and assessments a person
registered on its records as the owner of shares of stock, and shall not be bound to recognize any
equitable or other claim to or interest in such share or shares of stock on the part of any other
person, whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, except as otherwise provided
by the Delaware Law.
ARTICLE VI INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS,
OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS
6.1
Third Party Actions
. The Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or
is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending, or completed action, suit or
proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, or investigative, including all appeals (other
than an action, suit or proceeding by or in the right of the Corporation) by reason of the fact
that he is or was a director, officer, employee, or member of any committee of the Board of
Directors of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director,
manager, officer or employee of another corporation, limited liability company or other enterprise
(and the Corporation, in the discretion of the Board of Directors, may so indemnify a person by
reason of the fact that he is or was an agent of the Corporation or is or was serving at the
request of the Corporation in any other capacity for or on behalf of the Corporation), to the
fullest extent permitted by law, including indemnifying such person against expenses (including
attorneys fees), judgments, decrees, fines, penalties, and amounts paid in settlement actually and
reasonably incurred by him in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if he acted in good
faith and in a manner which he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of
the Corporation and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to
believe his conduct was unlawful; provided, the Corporation shall be required to indemnify such
officer, director, employee or member of any committee of the Board of Directors, or such person serving at the request of the Corporation as a director,
manager, officer or employee of another corporation, limited liability company or other enterprise,
in connection with an action, suit or proceeding initiated by such person only if such action, suit
or proceeding was authorized by the Board of Directors. The termination of any action, suit or
proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its
equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith or
in a manner which he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the
Corporation and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe
that his conduct was unlawful.
6.2
Actions By or in the Right of the Corporation
. The Corporation shall indemnify any person
who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending, or completed
action or suit, including all appeals, by or in the right of the Corporation to procure a judgment
in its favor by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer, employee or member
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of any committee of the Board of Directors of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the
Corporation as a director, manager, officer or employee of another corporation, limited liability
company or other enterprise (and the Corporation, in the discretion of the Board of Directors, may
so indemnify a person by reason of the fact that he is or was an agent of the Corporation or is or
was serving at the request of the Corporation in any other capacity for or on behalf of the
Corporation), to the fullest extent permitted by law, including indemnifying such person against
expenses (including attorneys fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with the
defense or settlement of such action or suit if he acted in good faith and in a manner he
reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, except that
no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person
shall have been finally adjudged to be liable to the Corporation unless and only to the extent that
the court in which such action or suit was brought, or any other court of competent jurisdiction,
shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability, but in view of all
the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such
expenses as such court shall deem proper. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Corporation shall be
required to indemnify such officer, director, employee or member of any committee of the Board of
Directors, or such person who is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director,
manager, officer or employee of another corporation, limited liability company or other enterprise
in connection with an action, suit or proceeding initiated by such person only if such action, suit
or proceeding was authorized by the Board of Directors.
6.3
Indemnity if Successful
. To the extent that a present or former director, officer,
employee or agent of the Corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of
any action, suit or proceeding pursuant to which he is entitled to indemnification in Section 1 or
2 of this Article VI, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, he shall be indemnified
against expenses (including attorneys fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection
therewith.
6.4
Standard of Conduct
. Except in a situation governed by Section 3 of this Article VI, any indemnification under
Section 1 or 2 of this Article VI (unless ordered by a court) shall be made by the Corporation only
as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the present or
former director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation is proper in the circumstances
because he has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in Section 1 or 2, as applicable,
of this Article VI. Such determination shall be made, with respect to a person who is a director or
officer at the time of such determination: (a) by a majority vote of directors who are not parties
to such action, suit or proceeding, even though less than a quorum; (b) by a committee of such
directors designated by majority vote of such directors, even though less than a quorum; (c) if
there are no such directors, or if such directors so direct, by independent legal counsel in a
written opinion; or (d) by the stockholders. The determination to be made that indemnification is
proper with respect to a person who is a former director or officer, or an employee or agent of the
Corporation, shall be made by a majority of the Board of Directors.
6.5
Expenses
. Expenses (including attorneys fees) of each present or former officer,
director, employee, or member of any committee of the Board of Directors of the Corporation, or a
person who is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, manager, officer or
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employee of another corporation, limited liability company or other enterprise hereunder
indemnified, actually and reasonably incurred in defending any civil, criminal, administrative or
investigative action, suit or proceeding or threat thereof shall be paid by the Corporation (and
such expenses of any present or former agent of the Corporation or a person who is or was serving
at the request of the Corporation in any other capacity for or on behalf of the Corporation may, at
the discretion of the Board of Directors, be so paid) in advance of the final disposition of such
action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such person to repay
such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that he is not entitled to be indemnified by the
Corporation as authorized in this Article VI and, in the case of any present or former agent of the
Corporation or a person who is or was serving at the request of the Corporation in a capacity
(other than as a director, manager, officer or employee) for another corporation, limited liability
company or other enterprise, shall be so paid by the Corporation upon the receipt of the aforesaid
undertaking and such terms and conditions, if any, as the Board of Directors deems appropriate.
6.6
Nonexclusivity
. The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted
pursuant to, other Sections of this Article VI shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to
which those seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may now or hereafter be entitled
under any law, by-law, 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.
6.7
Insurance
. The Corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person
who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, or is or was serving at
the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership,
joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against him and incurred by
him in any such capacity, or arising out of his status as such, whether or not the Corporation
would have the power to indemnify him against such liability under the provisions of the Delaware
Law.
6.8
Definitions
. For purposes of this Article, references to the Corporation shall include,
in addition to the resulting corporation, any constituent corporation (including any constituent of
a constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had
continued, would have had the power and authority to indemnify any or all of its directors,
officers, employees and agents, so that any person who was a director, officer, employee or agent
of such constituent corporation, or was serving at the request of such constituent corporation in
any other capacity, shall stand in the same position under the provisions of this Article with
respect to the resulting or surviving corporation as such person would have had with respect to
such constituent corporation if its separate existence had continued as such corporation was
constituted immediately prior to such merger.
For purposes of this Article, references to other capacities shall include serving as a
trustee or agent for any employee benefit plan; references to fines shall include any excise
taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit plan; and references to serving at
the request of the Corporation shall include (1) any service as a director, officer, employee or
agent of the Corporation which imposes duties on, or involves services by such director, officer,
employee, or
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agent with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants, or beneficiaries, or
(2) any service as a director, manager, officer, or employee of another corporation, limited
liability company, or other enterprise of which a majority of the equity interests entitled to vote
in the election of directors or managers is held directly or indirectly by the Corporation. A
person who acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in the best
interests of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be deemed to have
acted in a manner not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation as referred to in this
Article.
For purposes of this Article, references to committees include committees, some or all
members of which are not directors, that the Corporation may establish from time to time.
6.9
Severability
. If any provision hereof is invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction,
the other provisions hereof shall remain in full force and effect in such jurisdiction, and the
remaining provisions hereof shall be liberally construed to effectuate the provisions hereof, and
the invalidity of any provision hereof in any jurisdiction shall not affect the validity or
enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction.
6.10
Amendment
. The right to indemnification conferred by this Article VI shall be deemed to
be a contract between the Corporation and each person entitled to the benefits referred to therein
until amended or repealed (including by merger, consolidation or otherwise by operation of law), but no
amendment to or repeal of these provisions shall apply to or have any effect on the right to
indemnification of any person with respect to any liability or alleged liability of such person for
or with respect to any act or omission of such person occurring prior to such amendment or repeal.
ARTICLE VII NOMINATION OF DIRECTORS AND PRESENTATION
OF BUSINESS AT STOCKHOLDER MEETINGS
7.1
General
.
(a) Except as provided below, only such persons who are nominated in accordance with the
procedures set forth in this Article VII shall be eligible to serve as directors and only such
business as shall have been brought before the meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth
in this Article VII shall be conducted at a meeting of stockholders.
(b) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, prior to the occurrence of a Termination
Event (and, following a Specified Termination Event, during any Post-Termination Period), any
stockholder then entitled to designate or nominate one or more directors of the Corporation under
the terms of the Stockholders Agreement (as defined in the Certificate of Incorporation) may
nominate persons for election as directors at any meeting of the stockholders without complying
with the advance notice provisions of this Article VII. Each person so nominated will not be
ineligible to be nominated or elected to the Board of Directors by virtue of a failure to comply
with any such advance notice provisions.
7.2
Nominations of Directors and Proposals at Stockholder Meetings
. Nominations of persons
for election to the Board of Directors and the proposal of business to be considered by the
stockholders may be made at a meeting of stockholders (a) by or at the direction of the Board of
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Directors or (b) by any stockholder who is a stockholder of record at the time of the giving of
notice provided for in this Article VII, who is entitled to vote at the meeting of stockholders and
who complies with the notice procedures set forth in Section 3. In addition, a stockholder may
nominate a person to be a director only if such stockholder would be entitled to vote for such
person in the election for such director.
7.3
Notice Procedures
.
(a) For nominations or other business to be properly brought by a stockholder before an annual
meeting of stockholders pursuant to subsection (b) of Section 2 of this Article VII, the
stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary. To be timely, a
stockholders notice shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the
Corporation not less than 90 days nor more than 120 days prior to the anniversary of the
Corporations annual meeting of the preceding year; provided, that in the event that the date of
the annual meeting is advanced or delayed by more than 30 days from the date of the preceding
years annual meeting, notice by the stockholder must be so delivered not less than 90 days nor
more than 120 days prior to the date of the current years annual meeting.
(b) For nominations or other business to be properly brought by a stockholder before a special
meeting of stockholders pursuant to subsection (b) of Section 2 of this Article VII, the
stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation.
To be timely, a stockholders notice shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation at the
principal executive offices of the Corporation not earlier than the 90th day prior to such special
meeting and not later than the close of business on the 60th day prior to such special meeting.
(c) Each stockholders notice shall set forth (i) as to each person whom the stockholder
proposes to nominate for election or reelection as a director all information relating to such
person that is required to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of directors, or
is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended (including such persons written consent to being named in the proxy statement as
a nominee and to serving as a director if elected); (ii) as to any other business that the
stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, a brief description of the business desired to be
brought before the meeting, the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any
material interest in such business of such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose
behalf the proposal is made; and (iii) as to the stockholder giving the notice and the beneficial
owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made (A) the name and address of such
stockholder as they appear on the Corporations books, and of such beneficial owner, and (B) the
class and number of shares of stock of the Corporation that are owned beneficially and of record by
such stockholder and such beneficial owner.
7.4
Determination of Compliance
. The chairman of the meeting of stockholders shall have the
power and duty to determine whether a nomination or any business proposed to be brought before the
meeting was made in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article VII and, if any
proposed nomination or business is not in compliance with this Article VII, to declare that such
defective nomination or proposal shall be disregarded.
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ARTICLE VIII GENERAL PROVISIONS
8.1
Fiscal Year
. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be fixed from time to time by
resolution of the Board of Directors.
8.2
Corporation Seal
. The corporate seal, if any, of the Corporation shall be in such form as
may be approved from time to time by the Board of Directors. The seal may be used by causing it or
a facsimile thereof to be impressed or affixed or in any other manner reproduced.
8.3
Notices and Mailing
. Except as otherwise provided in the Act, the Certificate of
Incorporation or these By-Laws, all notices required to be given by any provision of these By-Laws
shall be deemed to have been given (a) when received, if given in person, (b) when transmitted, if
sent by telex, facsimile or other electronic transmission, (c) one day after delivery, properly
addressed, to a reputable courier for same day or overnight delivery or (d) three days after being
deposited, properly addressed, in the U.S. Mail, certified or registered mail, postage prepaid.
8.4
Waiver of Notice
. Whenever any notice is required to be given under the Delaware Law or
the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation or these By-Laws, a waiver thereof in writing,
signed by the person or persons entitled to said notice, or a waiver by electronic transmission by
the person entitled to notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed
equivalent to notice.
8.5
Construction & Interpretation
. In these By-laws, unless a clear contrary intention
appears, the singular number includes the plural number and vice versa, and reference to either
gender includes the other gender.
ARTICLE IX AMENDMENTS
These By-Laws may be altered, amended or repealed, or new By-Laws may be adopted, by the Board
of Directors (subject, in the case of any amendment to Sections 10(b) and 10(c) of Article III and
Section 4(b) of Article IV, to the respective express requirements set forth therein). The fact
that the power to amend, alter, repeal or adopt the By-Laws has been conferred upon the Board of
Directors shall not divest the stockholders of the same powers.
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