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)
         
Delaware
(State or other
jurisdiction of
incorporation)
  0-49992
(Commission File
Number)
  82-0543156
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)
     
4211 South 102 nd Street
Omaha, Nebraska
  68127
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)
Registrant’s 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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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 Ameritrade’s 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 Ameritrade’s 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.
Item 2.03   Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation Under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant
     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 Ameritrade’s 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.
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consolidations, subject to certain exceptions. The Ameritrade Financing Facility also restricts the payment of dividends on TD Ameritrade’s outstanding capital stock and repurchases or redemptions of TD Ameritrade’s 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 Ameritrade’s 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 Ameritrade’s stockholders to be taken at a duly called annual or special meeting of stockholders. TD Ameritrade’s 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 Ameritrade’s 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.
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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 Company’s 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 .
     The financial statements required by Item 9.01(a) of Form 8–K will be filed by amendment within 71 calendar days after the date this report on Form 8–K must be filed.
     (b)  Pro Forma Financial Information .
     The pro forma financial statements required by Item 9.01(b) of Form 8–K will be filed by amendment within 71 calendar days after the date this report on Form 8–K must be filed.
     (d)  Exhibits .
          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.
         
  TD AMERITRADE HOLDING CORPORATION
 
 
Date: January 27, 2006  By:   /s/ John R. MacDonald   
    Name:   John R. MacDonald   
    Title:   Executive Vice President, Chief Financial
Officer and Chief Administrative Officer 
 

 


 

         
EXHIBIT INDEX
     
Exhibit No.   Description
 
   
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.

 

 

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 Corporation’s 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 Corporation’s 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 Corporation’s 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 director’s, officer’s or stockholder’s 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 party’s 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 party’s 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) TD’s or such other party’s 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 Corporation’s 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.
     
/s/ Ellen L.S. Koplow
 
   
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

 


 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
                 
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ARTICLE I — OFFICES     1  
 
               
 
  1.1   Registered Office and Agent     1  
 
               
ARTICLE II — STOCKHOLDERS     1  
 
               
 
  2.1   Time and Place of Meetings     1  
 
  2.2   Annual Meetings     1  
 
  2.3   Special Meetings     1  
 
  2.4   Notice of Meetings     1  
 
  2.5   List of Stockholders     1  
 
  2.6   Quorum; Adjournments     2  
 
  2.7   Organization     2  
 
  2.8   Order of Business     2  
 
  2.9   Voting     2  
 
  2.10   Inspectors     3  
 
               
ARTICLE III — DIRECTORS     3  
 
               
 
  3.1   General Powers     3  
 
  3.2   Qualification and Tenure     3  
 
  3.3   Vacancies and Newly-Created Directorships     3  
 
  3.4   Place of Meetings     4  
 
  3.5   Meetings     4  
 
  3.6   Waiver of Notice; Business and Purpose     4  
 
  3.7   Quorum and Manner of Acting     4  
 
  3.8   Organization     4  
 
  3.9   Removal of Directors     5  
 
  3.10   Committees     5  
 
  3.11   Action without Meeting     6  
 
  3.12   Attendance by Telephone     6  
 
  3.13   Compensation     6  
 
               
ARTICLE IV — OFFICERS     6  
 
               
 
  4.1   Enumeration     6  
 
  4.2   Term of Office     7  
 
  4.3   Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors     7  
 
  4.4   Chief Executive Officer     7  
 
  4.5   President     7  
 
  4.6   Chief Operating Officer     7  
 
  4.7   Divisional President     8  
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(Continued)
                 
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  4.8   Vice President     8  
 
  4.9   Secretary     8  
 
  4.10   Assistant Secretary     8  
 
  4.11   Treasurer     8  
 
  4.12   Assistant Treasurer     9  
 
  4.13   Other Officers and Agents     9  
 
               
ARTICLE V — CERTIFICATES OF STOCK AND THEIR TRANSFER     9  
 
               
 
  5.1   Form     9  
 
  5.2   Transfer     9  
 
  5.3   Replacement     9  
 
  5.4   Registered Stockholders     10  
 
               
ARTICLE VI — INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS     10  
 
               
 
  6.1   Third Party Actions     10  
 
  6.2   Actions By or in the Right of the Corporation     10  
 
  6.3   Indemnity if Successful     11  
 
  6.4   Standard of Conduct     11  
 
  6.5   Expenses     11  
 
  6.6   Nonexclusivity     12  
 
  6.7   Insurance     12  
 
  6.8   Definitions     12  
 
  6.9   Severability     13  
 
  6.10   Amendment     13  
 
               
ARTICLE VII — NOMINATION OF DIRECTORS AND PRESENTATION OF BUSINESS AT STOCKHOLDER MEETINGS     13  
 
               
 
  7.1   General     13  
 
  7.2   Nominations of Directors and Proposals at Stockholder Meetings     13  
 
  7.3   Notice Procedures     14  
 
  7.4   Determination of Compliance     14  
 
               
ARTICLE VIII — GENERAL PROVISIONS     15  
 
               
 
  8.1   Fiscal Year     15  
 
  8.2   Corporation Seal     15  
 
  8.3   Notices and Mailing     15  
 
  8.4   Waiver of Notice     15  
 
  8.5   Construction & Interpretation     15  
 
               
ARTICLE IX — AMENDMENTS     15  
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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 Chairman’s 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 Secretary’s 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 Treasurer’s 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 Corporation’s 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 stockholder’s 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 Corporation’s 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 year’s 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 year’s 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 stockholder’s 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 stockholder’s 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 person’s 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 Corporation’s 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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