UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

June 8, 2009 (June 4, 2009)

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)

 

 

DOMTAR CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

DELAWARE   001-33164   20-5901152
(State or other jurisdiction   (Commission File Number)   (IRS Employer
of incorporation)     Identification No.)

395 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West

Montreal, Quebec

Canada H3A 1L6

(Address and zip code of principal executive offices)

(514) 848-5400

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

N/A

(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:

 

¨ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

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Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.

(a) On June 4, 2009, the Company filed a Certificate of Amendment of the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, to become effective at 6:01 p.m. (EDT) on June 10, 2009 (the “Effective Time”), to effect the previously announced 1-for-12 reverse stock split of its common stock, par value $0.01 per share. As a result of the reverse stock split, every 12 shares of the Company’s common stock that are issued and outstanding at the Effective Time, will be automatically combined into one issued and outstanding share, without any change in the par value of such shares, subject to the elimination of fractional shares. A copy of the Certificate of Amendment is attached hereto as Exhibit 3.1 and incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d) Exhibits

 

Exhibit 3.1:   Certificate of Amendment of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Domtar Corporation

 

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SIGNATURES

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.

 

DOMTAR CORPORATION

(Registrant)

By:   /s/ Razvan L. Theodoru
 

Name:   Razvan L. Theodoru

Title:     Vice-President and Secretary

Date:     June 8, 2009

 

 

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Exhibit Index

 

Exhibit No.

 

Exhibit

Exhibit 3.1:   Certificate of Amendment of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Domtar Corporation

 

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Exhibit 3.1

CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

OF THE

AMENDED AND RESTATED

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

DOMTAR CORPORATION

Pursuant to Section 242 of the General

Corporation Law of the State of Delaware

Domtar Corporation (the “ Corporation ”), a corporation organized and existing under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “ DGCL ”), hereby certifies as follows:

FIRST: The name of the Corporation is Domtar Corporation.

SECOND: This Certificate of Amendment to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation was duly adopted in accordance with Section 242 of the DGCL. The Board of Directors duly adopted resolutions setting forth and declaring advisable this Certificate of Amendment to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation and directed that the proposed amendment be considered by the stockholders of the Corporation at the Corporation’s annual meeting of stockholders of the Corporation on May 29, 2009 (the “Annual Meeting”). At the Annual Meeting, the necessary number of shares were voted in favor of the proposed amendment. The stockholders of the Corporation duly adopted this Certificate of Amendment to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation.

THIRD: The text of Article II of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation is hereby amended by adding the following to the end of Section 2.04:

(e) Reverse Stock Split . Upon the filing and effectiveness (the “Effective Time”) pursuant to the DGCL of this Certificate of Amendment of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, each 12 shares of the Corporation’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Old Common Stock”), issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall automatically be reclassified as and combined into one (1) validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable share of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Corporation (“New Common Stock”) without any further action by the Corporation or the holder thereof, subject to the treatment of fractional share interests as described below (the “Reverse Stock Split”). No fractional shares of New Common Stock or certificates representing fractional shares of New Common Stock shall be


issued in connection with the Reverse Stock Split. Stockholders who otherwise would be entitled to receive fractional shares of New Common Stock shall be entitled to receive cash (without interest) from the Corporation’s transfer agent in lieu of such fractional share interests, upon receipt by the Corporation’s transfer agent of the stockholder’s properly completed and duly executed transmittal letter and, where shares are held in certificated form, the surrender of the stockholder’s Old Certificates (as defined below), in an amount equal to the proceeds attributable to the sale of such fractional shares following the aggregation and sale by the Corporation’s transfer agent of all fractional shares otherwise issuable. Each certificate that immediately prior to the Effective Time represented shares of Old Common Stock (“Old Certificates”), shall thereafter represent that number of shares of New Common Stock into which the shares of Old Common Stock represented by the Old Certificate shall have been combined, subject to the elimination of fractional share interests as described above.

FOURTH: This Certificate of Amendment shall become effective at 6:01 p.m. (EDT) on June 10, 2009.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Certificate of Amendment of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation to be executed by an authorized officer of the Corporation on this 4 th day of June, 2009.

 

DOMTAR CORPORATION
By:   /s/ Razvan. L. Theodoru
 

Name: Razvan L. Theodoru

Title:   Vice President and Secretary