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

January 24, 2020

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)

 

 

Ovintiv Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   333-234526   84-4427672

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

Suite 370 – 17th Street, Suite 1700

Denver, Colorado

(Address of principal executive offices)

   

80202

(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (303) 623-2300

Not Applicable

(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)

 

Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class

 

Trading Symbol(s)

 

Name of each exchange on which registered

Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share   OVV   New York Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company  ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  ☐

 

 

 


Introductory Note

Completion of Reorganization

On January 24, 2020, Encana Corporation (“Encana”) completed its previously announced reorganization transactions (the “Reorganization”), which included (i) a plan of arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act (the “CBCA”), pursuant to which, among other things, Encana completed a share consolidation on the basis of one post-consolidation share for each five pre-consolidation shares (the “Share Consolidation) and Ovintiv Inc. (“Ovintiv”) ultimately acquired all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Encana (“Encana Common Shares”) in exchange for shares of Ovintiv on a one-for-one basis and became the parent company of Encana and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Arrangement”) and (ii) following completion of the Arrangement, Ovintiv migrated out of Canada and became a Delaware corporation.

As a result of the Reorganization, former holders of Encana Common Shares hold one share of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of Ovintiv for each five Encana Common Shares owned immediately prior to the Reorganization, but the business, assets, liabilities, directors and officers of Ovintiv continue to be the same as the business, assets, liabilities, directors and officers of Encana immediately prior to the Reorganization.

The issuance of Ovintiv common stock pursuant to the Reorganization was registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-234526), which was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on December 11, 2019. For additional information regarding the Reorganization, please refer to the proxy statement/prospectus filed with the SEC on December 11, 2019 pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) under the Securities Act (the “Proxy Statement/Prospectus”).

Prior to the Reorganization, the Encana Common Shares were registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and listed on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (the “TSX”). The Encana Common Shares were suspended from trading on the NYSE and the TSX prior to the opening of trading on January 27, 2020 and Encana has requested that the NYSE file with the SEC a Form 25 to remove the Encana Common Shares from listing on the NYSE and registration under Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act.

Pursuant to Rule 12g-3(a) under the Exchange Act, Ovintiv is the successor issuer to Encana, Ovintiv’s common stock is deemed to be registered under Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act, and Ovintiv is subject to the periodic and current reporting requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. Ovintiv hereby reports this succession in accordance with Rule 12g-3(f) under the Exchange Act. Ovintiv’s common stock will begin trading on the NYSE and the TSX at the opening of trading on January 27, 2020 and will trade under the symbol “OVV.” The CUSIP number for Ovintiv’s common stock is 69047Q 102.

 

Item 1.01

Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

Effective upon the completion of the Reorganization, Ovintiv entered into indemnification agreements (the “Indemnification Agreements”) with Ovintiv’s directors and officers. With specified exceptions, these Indemnification Agreements provide for indemnification against all liability and loss suffered and expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement by any of these individuals in any action, suit or proceeding, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

The foregoing description of the Indemnification Agreements does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the form of Indemnification Agreement filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference into this Item 1.01.


Item 2.01

Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets.

The information set forth in the Introductory Note of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.01.

 

Item 3.01

Notice of Delisting or Failure to Satisfy a Continued Listing Rule or Standard; Transfer of Listing.

The information set forth in the Introductory Note of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 3.01.

 

Item 3.03

Material Modification to the Rights of Security Holders.

The information set forth in the Introductory Note and Item 5.03 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 3.03.

As a result of differences between Delaware law and the CBCA, there are differences between the rights of a stockholder of Ovintiv under Delaware law and the rights of a former holder of Encana Common Shares as a shareholder of Encana under the CBCA. In addition, there are differences between the organizational documents of Ovintiv and Encana. Information regarding these differences is included in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus under the heading “Comparison of Rights of Encana Shareholders and Ovintiv Stockholders” and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 5.01

Changes in Control of Registrant.

The information set forth in the Introductory Note of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 5.01. 

 

Item 5.02

Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

Directors and Officers

In connection with the completion of the Reorganization, the same persons serving as directors and officers of Encana immediately prior to the completion of the Reorganization became the directors and officers of Ovintiv. In addition, Ovintiv replicated the committees of its board of directors, and the membership thereof, which previously were in place for Encana. Information regarding Ovintiv’s directors and officers is included in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus under the heading “Information Concerning Ovintiv—Directors and Officers of Ovintiv” and is incorporated herein by reference.

Incentive Plans

In connection with the completion of the Reorganization, Encana assigned to Ovintiv, and Ovintiv assumed, all of Encana’s rights and obligations under (i) the Omnibus Incentive Plan of Encana Corporation, (ii) the Encana Corporation Employee Stock Option Plan, (iii) the Encana Corporation Employee Stock Appreciation Rights Plan, (iv) the Performance Share Unit Plan for Employees of Encana Corporation, (v) the Restricted Share Unit Plan for Employees of Encana Corporation, (vi) the Deferred Share Unit Plan for Employees of Encana Corporation, (vii) the Restricted Share Unit Plan for Directors of Encana Corporation, and (viii) the Deferred Share Unit Plan for Directors of Encana Corporation (collectively, the “Encana Incentive Plans”) and all awards and grants thereunder as a successor to Encana thereunder, and each outstanding Encana incentive award thereunder was exchanged for an Ovintiv incentive award that is subject to substantially the same terms and conditions as the exchanged Encana incentive award, except, in the case of equity-based Encana incentive awards, the security issuable upon exercise or settlement of the Ovintiv incentive award, as applicable, will be a share of Ovintiv common stock (or its cash equivalent) rather than an Encana Common Share (or its cash equivalent), all as adjusted for the Share Consolidation. A description of the treatment of the Encana Incentive Plans and Encana incentive awards is included in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus under the heading “The Reorganization—Effect of the Reorganization on the Encana Incentive Awards” and is incorporated herein by reference.


Item 5.03

Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws.

In connection with the Reorganization, Ovintiv filed a Certificate of Incorporation on January 24, 2020 with the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 3.1 (the “Certificate of Incorporation”) and incorporated herein by reference. In addition, Ovintiv adopted bylaws on January 24, 2020, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 3.2 (the “Bylaws”) and incorporated herein by reference. Exhibit 99.1 contains a description of Ovintiv’s capital stock, which description is incorporated by reference into this Item 5.03. Such description does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws.

 

Item 8.01

Other Events.

On January 24, 2020, Encana issued a news release announcing the completion of the Reorganization. A copy of the news release is attached as Exhibit 99.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

 

Item 9.01

Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.

 

Exhibit No.

  

Description

Exhibit 3.1    Ovintiv Certificate of Incorporation
Exhibit 3.2    Ovintiv Bylaws
Exhibit 4.1    Specimen Common Stock Certificate
Exhibit 10.1    Form of Indemnification Agreement
Exhibit 99.1    Description of Capital Stock
Exhibit 99.2    News Release dated January 24, 2020


EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit No.

  

Description

Exhibit 3.1    Ovintiv Certificate of Incorporation
Exhibit 3.2    Ovintiv Bylaws
Exhibit 4.1    Specimen Common Stock Certificate
Exhibit 10.1    Form of Indemnification Agreement
Exhibit 99.1    Description of Capital Stock
Exhibit 99.2   

News Release dated January 24, 2020


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.

Dated: January 24, 2020

 

OVINTIV INC.

(Registrant)

By:   /s/ Dawna I. Gibb
 

Name:  Dawna I. Gibb

 

Title:   Assistant Corporate Secretary

Exhibit 3.1

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OVINTIV INC.

The undersigned incorporator, in order to form a corporation under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”), certifies as follows:

ARTICLE I

Name

The name of the corporation is Ovintiv Inc. (the “Corporation”).

ARTICLE II

Address; Registered Office and Agent

The address of the Corporation’s registered office in the State of Delaware is 251 Little Falls Drive, City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, State of Delaware 19808; and the name of its registered agent at such address is Corporation Service Company.

ARTICLE III

Purposes

The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the DGCL.

ARTICLE IV

Capital Stock

4.1 Authorized Stock. The total number of shares of all classes of stock that the Corporation shall have authority to issue is 775,000,000 shares, consisting of (a) 750,000,000 shares of Common Stock, with the par value of $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), and (b) 25,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, with the par value of $0.01 per share (the “Preferred Stock”). The authorized number of shares of any class or series of stock may be increased or decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding) by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power of the stock of the Corporation entitled to vote, and no separate vote of such class or series of stock the authorized number of which is to be increased or decreased shall be necessary to effect such change.

The Board (as defined below) is hereby authorized, by resolution or resolutions thereof, to provide, out of the unissued shares of Preferred Stock, for one or more series of Preferred Stock and, with respect to each such series, to fix the number of shares constituting such series and the designations, powers, preferences, rights, qualifications, limitations and restrictions in respect of the shares of such series. The powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other rights of each series of Preferred Stock, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, may differ from those of any and all other series at any time outstanding.

 

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4.2 Voting. Except as may otherwise be provided in this Certificate of Incorporation or by the DGCL, each holder of Common Stock, as such, shall be entitled to one vote for each share of Common Stock held of record by such holder on all matters on which stockholders generally are entitled to vote. Except as may otherwise be provided in this Certificate of Incorporation (including any certificate filed with the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware establishing the terms of a series of Preferred Stock in accordance with the second paragraph of Section 4.1 (such certificate, a “Preferred Stock Designation”)) or by the DGCL, no holder of any series of Preferred Stock, as such, shall be entitled to any voting powers in respect thereof.

4.3 Dividends. Subject to applicable law and the rights, if any, of the holders of any outstanding series of Preferred Stock, dividends may be declared and paid on the Common Stock out of funds legally available therefor at such times and in such amounts as the Board in its discretion shall determine.

4.4 Dissolution, Liquidation or Winding Up. Upon the dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Corporation, subject to the rights, if any, of the holders of any outstanding series of Preferred Stock, the holders of the Common Stock shall be entitled to receive the assets of the Corporation available for distribution to its stockholders ratably in proportion to the number of shares of Common Stock held by them.

ARTICLE V

Name and Mailing Address of Incorporator

The name and mailing address of the incorporator are Joanne L. Alexander and c/o Ovintiv Inc., 370 - 17th Street, Suite 1700, Denver, Colorado 80202.

ARTICLE VI

Powers of Incorporators

The powers of the incorporator are to terminate upon the filing of this Certificate of Incorporation with the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware. The name and mailing address of each person who is to serve as an initial director of the Corporation until the first annual meeting of stockholders or until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified, are set forth below:

 

Name

  

Mailing Address

Peter A. Dea   

c/o Ovintiv Inc.
370 - 17th Street, Suite 1700

Denver, Colorado 80202

 

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Fred J. Fowler   

c/o Ovintiv Inc.
370 - 17th Street, Suite 1700

Denver, Colorado 80202

Howard J. Mayson   

c/o Ovintiv Inc.
370 - 17th Street, Suite 1700

Denver, Colorado 80202

Lee A. McIntire   

c/o Ovintiv Inc.
370 - 17th Street, Suite 1700

Denver, Colorado 80202

Margaret A. McKenzie   

c/o Ovintiv Inc.
370 - 17th Street, Suite 1700

Denver, Colorado 80202

Steven W. Nance   

c/o Ovintiv Inc.
370 - 17th Street, Suite 1700

Denver, Colorado 80202

Suzanne P. Nimocks   

c/o Ovintiv Inc.
370 - 17th Street, Suite 1700

Denver, Colorado 80202

Thomas G. Ricks   

c/o Ovintiv Inc.
370 - 17th Street, Suite 1700

Denver, Colorado 80202

Brian G. Shaw   

c/o Ovintiv Inc.
370 - 17th Street, Suite 1700

Denver, Colorado 80202

Douglas J. Suttles   

c/o Ovintiv Inc.
370 - 17th Street, Suite 1700

Denver, Colorado 80202

Bruce G. Waterman   

c/o Ovintiv Inc.
370 - 17th Street, Suite 1700

Denver, Colorado 80202

Clayton H. Woitas   

c/o Ovintiv Inc.
370 - 17th Street, Suite 1700

Denver, Colorado 80202

ARTICLE VII

Board of Directors

7.1 General. The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by, or under the direction of, the Board of Directors (the “Board”). Unless and except to the extent that the Bylaws of the Corporation (the “Bylaws”) shall so require, the election of directors need not be by written ballot.

7.2 Removal of Directors. Except for any directors elected by the holders of any series of Preferred Stock pursuant to the terms of any Preferred Stock Designation, any director or the entire Board may be removed from office at any time, with or without cause, by the holders of a majority of the voting power of the shares then entitled to vote at an election of directors generally.

 

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7.3 Vacancies and Newly Created Directorships. Subject to the rights of the holders of any one or more series of Preferred Stock then outstanding, newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized number of directors or any vacancies in the Board resulting from death, resignation, retirement, disqualification, removal or other cause shall be filled solely by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors then in office, even though less than a quorum of the Board, or by a sole remaining director. Any director so chosen shall hold office for a term expiring at the next annual meeting of stockholders and until his or her successor shall be elected and qualified.

7.4 Adoption, Amendment or Repeal of Bylaws. In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by the laws of the State of Delaware, the Board is expressly authorized to adopt, amend and repeal Bylaws, subject to the power of the stockholders of the Corporation to adopt, amend and repeal any Bylaws whether adopted by them or otherwise.

ARTICLE VIII

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted under the DGCL, as amended from time to time, no director of the Corporation shall be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director. Any amendment or repeal of this ARTICLE VIII shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a director of the Corporation hereunder in respect of any act or omission occurring prior to the time of such amendment or repeal.

ARTICLE IX

Indemnification

9.1 Right to Indemnification. The Corporation shall indemnify and hold harmless, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law as it presently exists or may hereafter be amended, any person (a “Covered 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 (a “Proceeding”), by reason of the fact that he or she, or a person for whom he or she is the legal representative, is or was a director or officer of the Corporation or, while a director or officer of the Corporation, is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another entity or enterprise, including any subsidiary of the Corporation and service with respect to employee benefit plans, against all liability and loss suffered and expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement (except for judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement in any action or suit by or in the right of the Corporation to procure a judgment in its favor) actually and reasonably incurred by such Covered Person. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, except as otherwise provided in Section 9.3, the Corporation shall be required to indemnify a Covered Person in connection with a Proceeding (or part thereof) commenced by such Covered Person only if the commencement of such Proceeding (or part thereof) by the Covered Person was authorized by the Board.

 

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9.2 Prepayment of Expenses. To the extent not prohibited by applicable law the Corporation shall pay the expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by a Covered Person in defending any Proceeding in advance of its final disposition; provided, however, that, to the extent required by the DGCL, such payment of expenses in advance of the final disposition of the Proceeding shall be made only upon receipt of an undertaking by the Covered Person to repay all amounts advanced if it should be ultimately determined that the Covered Person is not entitled to be indemnified under this ARTICLE IX or otherwise.

9.3 Claims. If a claim for indemnification or advancement of expenses under this ARTICLE IX is not paid in full within 30 days after a written claim therefor by the Covered Person has been received by the Corporation, the Covered Person may file suit to recover the unpaid amount of such claim and, if successful in whole or in part, shall be entitled to be paid the expense of prosecuting such claim. In any such action the Corporation shall have the burden of proving that the Covered Person is not entitled to the requested indemnification or advancement of expenses hereunder.

9.4 Nonexclusivity of Rights. The rights conferred on any Covered Person by this ARTICLE IX shall not be exclusive of any other rights that such Covered Person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of this Certificate of Incorporation, the Bylaws, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.

9.5 Other Sources. The Corporation’s obligation, if any, to indemnify or to advance expenses to any Covered Person who was or is serving at its request as a director, officer, employee or agent of another entity or enterprise shall be reduced by any amount such Covered Person actually receives as indemnification or advancement of expenses from such other entity or enterprise and that is not subject to repayment.

9.6 Amendment or Repeal. Any amendment or repeal of the foregoing provisions of this ARTICLE IX shall not adversely affect any right or protection hereunder of any Covered Person in respect of any act or omission occurring prior to the time of such amendment or repeal.

9.7 Other Indemnification and Prepayment of Expenses. This ARTICLE IX shall not limit the right of the Corporation, to the extent and in the manner permitted by applicable law, to indemnify and to advance expenses to persons other than Covered Persons when and as authorized by appropriate corporate action.

ARTICLE X

Section 203

The Corporation shall not be governed by Section 203 of the DGCL.

 

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ARTICLE XI

Restriction on Stockholder Action by Written Consent

Except as otherwise provided for or fixed pursuant to ARTICLE IV or any Preferred Stock Designation relating to the rights of holders of any series of Preferred Stock, no action that is required or permitted to be taken by the stockholders of the Corporation at any annual or special meeting of stockholders may be effected by written consent of stockholders in lieu of a meeting of stockholders.

ARTICLE XII

Certificate Amendments

The Corporation reserves the right at any time, and from time to time, to amend or repeal any provision contained in this Certificate of Incorporation, and add other provisions authorized by the laws of the State of Delaware at the time in force, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by the DGCL; and all rights, preferences and privileges of whatsoever nature conferred upon stockholders, directors or any other persons whomsoever by and pursuant to this Certificate of Incorporation (as amended) are granted subject to the rights reserved in this ARTICLE XII.

ARTICLE XIII

Exclusive Forum

Unless the Corporation consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, and subject to applicable jurisdictional requirements, the sole and exclusive forum for (a) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Corporation, (b) any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any current or former director, officer or stockholder of the Corporation to the Corporation or the Corporation’s stockholders, (c) any action asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the DGCL, this Certificate of Incorporation or the Bylaws, or (d) any action asserting a claim governed by the internal affairs doctrine shall be the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (or, if the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware lacks jurisdiction over such action or proceeding, then another court of the State of Delaware or, if no court of the State of Delaware has jurisdiction, then the United States District Court for the District of Delaware). For the avoidance of doubt, this ARTICLE XIII does not purport to apply to suits brought to enforce a duty or liability created by the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder, or any other claim for which the United States federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction.

[Remainder of Page Intentionally Blank]

 

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WITNESS the signature of this Certificate of Incorporation this 24th day of January 2020.

 

/s/ Joanne L. Alexander
Incorporator
Name: Joanne L. Alexander

Exhibit 3.2

BYLAWS

of

OVINTIV INC.

(A Delaware Corporation)

 

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS    2
ARTICLE II STOCKHOLDERS    3
ARTICLE III DIRECTORS    12
ARTICLE IV COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD    29
ARTICLE V OFFICERS    29
ARTICLE VI GENERAL PROVISIONS    31

 

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ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

As used in these Bylaws, unless the context otherwise requires, the term:

1.1 “Assistant Secretary” means an Assistant Secretary of the Corporation.

1.2 “Board” means the Board of Directors of the Corporation.

1.3 “Bylaws” means these Bylaws of the Corporation, as amended from time to time.

1.4 “Canadian Encana Procedures” means the rules and procedures governing Encana Corporation prior to the effectiveness of the Domestication, including Encana Corporation’s organizational documents, the Canada Business Corporations Act, the Securities Act (Alberta) and any applicable rules and regulations thereunder.

1.5 “Certificate of Incorporation” means the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, as amended from time to time (including by any Preferred Stock Designation (as defined in the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation filed with the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on January 24, 2020)).

1.6 “Chair” means the Chair of the Board.

1.7 “Chief Executive Officer” means the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation.

1.8 “Corporation” means Ovintiv Inc., currently a Delaware corporation and, prior to the effectiveness of the Domestication, a corporation organized under the laws of Canada.

1.9 “DGCL” means the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as amended from time to time.

1.10 “Director” means an individual who is a duly elected or appointed, and then serving as a, member of the Board.

1.11 “Domestication” means the domestication of the Corporation (as then organized under the laws of Canada) from Canada as a corporation in the State of Delaware.

1.12 “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

1.13 “law” means any U.S. or non-U.S., federal, state or local law (statutory, common or otherwise), constitution, treaty, convention, ordinance, code, rule, regulation, order, injunction, judgment, decree, ruling or other similar requirement enacted, adopted, promulgated or applied by a governmental authority (including any department, court, agency or official, or non-governmental self-regulatory organization, agency or authority and any political subdivision or instrumentality thereof).

 

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1.14 “Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee” means the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board or such other committee of the Board that serves the same or similar function, in each case as such may be constituted or reconstituted from time to time.

1.15 “Office of the Corporation” means the executive office of the Corporation or any other offices at any other place or places where the Corporation is qualified to do business, as the Board may establish.

1.16 “President” means the President of the Corporation.

1.17 “Public Disclosure” of any date or other information means disclosure thereof by a news release reported by the Dow Jones News Services, Associated Press or comparable news service or in a document publicly filed by the Corporation with the SEC pursuant to Sections 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.

1.18 “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Corporation.

1.19 “Stockholder Associated Person” means with respect to any Stockholder, (i) any other beneficial owner of stock of the Corporation that are owned by such Stockholder and (ii) any person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with, the Stockholder or such beneficial owner. For purposes of this definition, “control” (including the terms “controlled by” and “under common control with”) means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.

1.20 “Stockholders” means the stockholders of the Corporation. All references in these Bylaws to a “Stockholder” or a “holder” of shares of the Corporation’s capital stock are to the record holder of such shares.

1.21 “Treasurer” means the Treasurer of the Corporation.

1.22 “Executive Vice-President” means an Executive Vice-President of the Corporation.

ARTICLE II

STOCKHOLDERS

2.1 Place of Meetings. Meetings of Stockholders may be held at such place, if any, either within or without the State of Delaware, or by means of remote communication, as may be designated by the Board from time to time.

 

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2.2 Annual Meetings; Stockholder Proposals.

(a) A meeting of Stockholders for the election of Directors and other business shall be held annually at such date and time as may be designated by the Board from time to time.

(b) At an annual meeting of the Stockholders, only business (other than business relating to the nomination or election of Directors which is governed exclusively by Section 3.3) that has been properly brought before the Stockholder meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 2.2 shall be conducted. To be properly brought before a meeting of Stockholders, such business must be brought before the meeting (i) by or at the direction of the Board or any committee thereof or (ii) by a Stockholder who (A) was a Stockholder of record of the Corporation when the notice required by this Section 2.2 is delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation and at the time of the meeting, (B) is entitled to vote at the meeting and (C) complies with the notice and other provisions of this Section 2.2. Subject to Section 2.2(i) and except with respect to nominations or elections of Directors, which are governed by Sections 3.3 and 3.5, Section 2.2(b)(ii) is the exclusive means by which a Stockholder may bring business before a meeting of Stockholders. Any business brought before a meeting in accordance with Section 2.2(b)(ii) is referred to as “Stockholder Business”.

(c) Subject to Section 2.2(i), at any annual meeting of Stockholders, all proposals of Stockholder Business must be made by timely written notice given by or on behalf of a Stockholder of record of the Corporation (the “Notice of Business”) and must otherwise be a proper matter for Stockholder action. To be timely, the Notice of Business must be delivered personally or mailed to, and received at the Office of the Corporation, addressed to the Secretary of the Corporation, by no earlier than 120 days and no later than 90 days before the first anniversary of the date of the prior year’s annual meeting of Stockholders; provided, however, if (i) the annual meeting of Stockholders is advanced by more than 30 days, or delayed by more than 60 days, from the first anniversary of the prior year’s annual meeting of Stockholders or (ii) no annual meeting was held during the prior year, the notice by the Stockholder to be timely must be received (A) no earlier than 120 days before such annual meeting and (B) no later than the later of 90 days before such annual meeting and the tenth day after the day on which the notice of such annual meeting was first made by mail or Public Disclosure; provided, further, in the case of the Corporation’s first annual meeting of Stockholders following the effectiveness of the Domestication (the “First Delaware Annual Meeting”), the date of the prior year’s annual meeting of Stockholders shall be deemed to be April 30, 2019. In no event shall an adjournment, postponement or deferral, or Public Disclosure of an adjournment, postponement or deferral, of a Stockholder meeting commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of the Notice of Business.

(d) The Notice of Business must set forth:

(i) the name and record address of each Stockholder proposing Stockholder Business (the “Proponent”), as they appear on the Corporation’s books;

(ii) the name and address of any Stockholder Associated Person;

 

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(iii) as to each Proponent and any Stockholder Associated Person, (A) the class or series and number of shares of stock of the Corporation directly or indirectly held of record and beneficially by the Proponent or Stockholder Associated Person, (B) the date such shares of stock were acquired, (C) a description of any agreement, arrangement, understanding or other relationship, direct or indirect, with respect to such Stockholder Business between or among the Proponent, any Stockholder Associated Person or any others (including their names) acting in concert with any of the foregoing, (D) a description of any agreement, arrangement, understanding or other relationship (including any derivative or short positions, profit interests, options, hedging transactions and borrowed or loaned shares) that has been entered into, directly or indirectly, as of the date of the Proponent’s notice by, or on behalf of, the Proponent or any Stockholder Associated Person, the effect or intent of which is to mitigate loss to, manage risk or benefit of share price changes for, or increase or decrease the voting power of the Proponent or any Stockholder Associated Person with respect to shares of stock of the Corporation and (E) a description in reasonable detail of any proxy (including revocable proxies), agreement, arrangement, understanding or other relationship pursuant to which the Proponent or any Stockholder Associated Person has a right to vote any shares of stock of the Corporation. The information specified in Section 2.2(d)(i)-(iii) is referred to herein as “Stockholder Information”;

(iv) a representation that each Proponent is a holder of record of stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at the meeting and intends to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to propose such Stockholder Business;

(v) a brief description of the Stockholder Business desired to be brought before the annual meeting, the text of the proposal (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and, if such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws, the language of the proposed amendment) and the reasons for conducting such Stockholder Business at the meeting;

(vi) any material interest of each Proponent and any Stockholder Associated Person in such Stockholder Business;

(vii) a representation as to whether the Proponent intends (A) to deliver a proxy statement and form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt such Stockholder Business or (B) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such Stockholder Business;

(viii) all other information that would be required to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) if the Proponents or Stockholder Associated Persons were participants in a solicitation subject to Section 14 of the Exchange Act; and

(ix) a representation that the Proponents shall provide any other information reasonably requested by the Corporation within the time period specified by Section 2.2(e).

(e) The Proponents shall also provide any other information reasonably requested by the Corporation within ten business days after such request.

 

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(f) In addition, the Proponent shall affirm as true and correct the information provided to the Corporation in the Notice of Business or at the Corporation’s request pursuant to Section 2.2(e) (and shall update or supplement such information as needed so that such information shall be true and correct) as of (i) the record date for the meeting, (ii) the date that is ten calendar days before the first anniversary date of the Corporation’s proxy statement released to Stockholders in connection with the previous year’s annual meeting (provided, in the case of the First Delaware Annual Meeting, the date the Corporation’s proxy statement was released to Stockholders in connection with the previous year’s annual meeting shall be deemed to be March 14, 2019) and (iii) the date that is the later of ten business days before the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof. Such affirmation, update and/or supplement must be delivered personally or mailed to, and received at the Office of the Corporation, addressed to the Secretary of the Corporation, by no later than (x) five business days after the applicable date specified in clause (i) or (ii) of the foregoing sentence (in the case of the affirmation, update and/or supplement required to be made as of those dates), and (y) not later than seven business days before the date for the meeting (in the case of the affirmation, update and/or supplement required to be made as of ten business days before the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof).

(g) The person presiding over the meeting shall, if the facts warrant, determine and declare to the meeting that business was not properly brought before the meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 2.2, and, if he or she should so determine, he or she shall so declare to the meeting and any such business not properly brought before the meeting shall not be transacted.

(h) If the Proponent (or a qualified representative of the Proponent) does not appear at the meeting of Stockholders to present the Stockholder Business such business shall not be transacted, notwithstanding that proxies in respect of such vote may have been received by the Corporation. For purposes of this Section 2.2, to be considered a qualified representative of the Stockholder, a person must be a duly authorized officer, manager or partner of such Stockholder or must be authorized by a writing executed by such Stockholder or an electronic transmission delivered by such Stockholder to act for such Stockholder as proxy at the meeting of Stockholders and such person must produce such writing or electronic transmission, or a reliable reproduction of the writing or electronic transmission, at the meeting of Stockholders.

(i) The notice requirements of this Section 2.2 shall be deemed satisfied with respect to Stockholder proposals that have been properly brought under Rule 14a-8 of the Exchange Act and that are included in a proxy statement that has been prepared by the Corporation to solicit proxies for such annual meeting. Further, nothing in this Section 2.2 shall be deemed to affect any rights of the holders of any series of preferred stock of the Corporation pursuant to any applicable provision of the Certificate of Incorporation. In addition, solely in respect of the First Delaware Annual Meeting, if any deadline or window by which or within which a Stockholder, Proponent or Stockholder Associated Person must take any action under this Section 2.2 occurs as of a date or period before the effectiveness of the Domestication, then such action shall be deemed satisfied to the extent such person complied with the applicable Canadian Encana Procedures; provided, however, if this Section 2.2 requires any action (including for all purposes of this sentence the provision to the Corporation of additional

 

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information) in addition to the requirements of the Canadian Encana Procedures, then (i) the Corporation may request that any such person take such actions as the Corporation reasonably determines are required by this Section 2.2 and were not required by the Canadian Encana Procedures and (ii) unless such person takes the actions so requested within ten business days after the Corporation’s request therefor, such person shall again be subject to all of the other provisions of this Section 2.2.

2.3 Special Meetings.

(a) Special meetings of Stockholders may be called at any time by, and only by, (i) the Board or (ii) solely to the extent required by Section 2.3(b), the Secretary. Business transacted at any special meeting of Stockholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the Corporation’s notice of the meeting.

(b) Subject to Section 2.3(d)-(f), a special meeting of Stockholders shall be called by the Secretary upon proper written request or requests (each, a “Meeting Request”) given by or on behalf of one or more Stockholders (each, a “Requesting Stockholder”) of record of at least 20% of the voting power of all outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Corporation (the “Required Percent”). The record date for determining Stockholders entitled to request a special meeting shall be the date on which the first Meeting Request for such special meeting was received by the Secretary in the manner required by the preceding sentence.

(c) To be in proper form, a Meeting Request shall be signed by the Requesting Stockholder or Requesting Stockholders submitting such Meeting Request, shall be delivered to and received by the Secretary at the Office of the Corporation by hand or by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, and shall set forth: (i) a statement of the specific purpose of the meeting and the matters proposed to be acted on at the meeting, the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting, and any material interest in such business of each such Requesting Stockholder; (ii) the name and address of each such Requesting Stockholder as it appears on the Corporation’s stock ledger; (iii) the number of shares of the Corporation’s Common Stock owned of record and beneficially by each such Requesting Stockholder; and (iv) as to each such Requesting Stockholder, the Stockholder Information (except that references to the “Proponent” and “Stockholder Business” in Section 2.2(d)(i)-(iii) shall instead refer, respectively, to each “Requesting Stockholder” and “the special meeting” for purposes of this paragraph). Except as otherwise provided in this Section 2.3(c), Section 2.2 (in the case of all matters to be considered at a special meeting of Stockholders other than Director nominations) and Section 3.3 (in the case of Director nominations) shall apply with respect to Stockholder-requested special meetings.

(d) A Requesting Stockholder may revoke its Meeting Request at any time by written revocation delivered to the Secretary, and if, following such revocation, there are un-revoked Meeting Requests from less than the Required Percent, the Board, in its discretion, may cancel the special meeting of the Stockholders.

(e) Except as provided in the next sentence, a special meeting requested by Stockholders shall be held at such date, time and place within or without the state of Delaware as may be fixed by the Board; provided, however, the date of any such special meeting shall be not more than 90 days after the receipt by the Secretary in the manner required by Section 2.3(c) of Meeting Requests from the Required Percent.

 

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(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.3:

(i) A special meeting requested by Stockholders shall not be held if (A) the Board has called or calls for an annual meeting of Stockholders and the purpose of such annual meeting includes (among any other matters properly brought before the meeting) the purpose specified in the Meeting Request, (B) any Meeting Request necessary to reach the Required Percent was received by the Secretary during the period commencing 90 days prior to the first anniversary of the date of the prior year’s annual meeting of Stockholders and ending on the date of next annual meeting of Stockholders or (C) an annual or special meeting of Stockholders was held not more than 90 days before the first Meeting Request was received by the Secretary which included the purpose specified in such Meeting Request; and

(ii) Nothing herein shall prohibit the Board from including in the Corporation’s notice of any special meeting of Stockholders called by the Secretary additional matters to be submitted to the Stockholders at such meeting not included in the Meeting Request in respect of such meeting.

2.4 Record Date.

(a) For the purpose of determining the Stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of Stockholders or any adjournment thereof, unless otherwise required by the Certificate of Incorporation or the DGCL, the Board may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date on which the resolution fixing the record date was adopted by the Board and shall not be more than 60 or less than ten days before the date of such meeting. For the purposes of determining the Stockholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights, exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock or take any other lawful action, unless otherwise required by the Certificate of Incorporation or the DGCL, the Board may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date on which the resolution fixing the record date was adopted by the Board and shall not be more than 60 days prior to such action.

(b) If no such record date is fixed:

(i) The record date for determining Stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at a meeting of Stockholders shall be at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held; and

(ii) The record date for the purposes of determining the Stockholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights, exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock or take any other lawful action shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board adopts the resolution relating thereto.

 

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(c) When a determination of Stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of Stockholders has been made as provided in this Section 2.4, such determination shall apply to any adjournment thereof, unless the Board fixes a new record date for the adjourned meeting.

2.5 Notice of Meetings of Stockholders. Whenever under the provisions of the DGCL, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, Stockholders are required or permitted to take any action at a meeting, notice shall be given stating the place, if any, date and hour of the meeting, the means of remote communication, if any, by which Stockholders and proxy holders may be deemed to be present in person and vote at such meeting, and, in the case of a special meeting, the purposes for which the meeting is called. Unless otherwise provided by these Bylaws or the DGCL, notice of any meeting shall be given, not less than ten nor more than 60 days before the date of the meeting, to each Stockholder entitled to vote at such meeting as of the record date. If mailed, such notice shall be deemed to be given when deposited in the U.S. mail, with postage prepaid, directed to the Stockholder at the Stockholder’s address as it appears on the records of the Corporation. An affidavit of the Secretary, an Assistant Secretary or the transfer agent of the Corporation that the notice required by this Section 2.5 has been given shall, in the absence of fraud, be prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein. If a meeting is adjourned to another time or place, notice need not be given of the adjourned meeting if the time and place thereof are announced at the meeting at which the adjournment is taken. Any business that might have been transacted at the meeting as originally called may be transacted at the adjourned meeting. If, however, the adjournment is for more than 30 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.

2.6 Waivers of Notice. Whenever the giving of any notice to Stockholders is required by applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, a written waiver, signed by the Stockholder entitled to notice, or a waiver by electronic transmission by such Stockholder, whether before or after the event as to which such notice is required, shall be deemed equivalent to notice. Attendance by a Stockholder at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting except when the Stockholder attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business on the ground that the meeting has not been lawfully called or convened. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purposes of, any regular or special meeting of the Stockholders need be specified in any waiver of notice.

2.7 List of Stockholders. The Secretary shall prepare and make, at least ten days before every meeting of Stockholders, a complete, alphabetical list of the Stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, and showing the address of each Stockholder and the number of shares registered in the name of each Stockholder. Such list may be examined by any Stockholder, at the Stockholder’s expense, for any purpose germane to the meeting, for a period of at least ten days prior to the meeting, during ordinary business hours at the principal place of business of the Corporation or on a reasonably accessible electronic network as provided by applicable law. If the meeting is to be held at a place, the list shall also be produced and kept at the time and place of the meeting during the whole time of the meeting and may be inspected by any Stockholder who is present. If the meeting is held solely by means of remote communication, the list shall also be open for inspection as provided by applicable law. Except as provided by applicable law, the stock ledger shall be the only evidence as to who are the Stockholders entitled to examine the list of Stockholders or to vote in person or by proxy at any meeting of Stockholders.

 

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2.8 Quorum of Stockholders; Adjournment. Except as otherwise provided by these Bylaws, at each meeting of Stockholders the presence in person or represented by proxy of the holders of a majority of the voting power of all outstanding shares of stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at the meeting of Stockholders shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business at such meeting. In the absence of a quorum, the person presiding over the meeting in accordance with Section 2.11 or, in the absence of such person, the holders of a majority of the voting power of the shares of stock of the Corporation present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting, including an adjourned meeting, may adjourn such meeting to another time and place. Shares of its own stock belonging to the Corporation or to another corporation, if a majority of the shares entitled to vote in the election of directors of such other corporation is held, directly or indirectly, by the Corporation, shall neither be entitled to vote nor be counted for quorum purposes; provided, however, the foregoing shall not limit the right of the Corporation to vote stock, including but not limited to its own stock, held by it in a fiduciary capacity.

2.9 Voting; Proxies. At any meeting of Stockholders, all matters other than the election of directors (who shall be elected in the manner set forth in Section 3.2), except as otherwise provided by the Certificate of Incorporation, these Bylaws, the DGCL or any other applicable law, shall be decided by the affirmative vote of a majority of the voting power of shares of stock of the Corporation present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon. Each Stockholder entitled to vote at a meeting of Stockholders may authorize another person or persons to act for such Stockholder by proxy but no such proxy shall be voted or acted upon after three years from its date, unless the proxy provides for a longer period. A proxy shall be irrevocable if it states that it is irrevocable and if, and only so long as, it is coupled with an interest sufficient in law to support an irrevocable power. A Stockholder may revoke any proxy that is not irrevocable by attending the meeting and voting in person or by delivering to the Secretary a revocation of the proxy or by delivering a new duly authorized proxy bearing a later time or date.

2.10 Voting Procedures and Inspectors at Meetings of Stockholders. The Board, in advance of any meeting of Stockholders, shall appoint one or more inspectors, who may be employees of the Corporation, to act at the meeting and make a written report thereof. The Board may designate one or more persons as alternate inspectors to replace any inspector who fails to act. If no inspector or alternate is able to act at a meeting, the person presiding at the meeting shall appoint one or more inspectors to act at the meeting. Each inspector, before entering upon the discharge of his or her duties, shall take and sign an oath faithfully to execute the duties of inspector with strict impartiality and according to the best of his or her ability. The inspectors shall (a) ascertain the number of shares of stock of the Corporation outstanding and the voting power of each, (b) determine the shares of stock of the Corporation represented at the meeting and the validity of proxies and ballots, (c) count all votes and ballots, (d) determine and retain for a reasonable period a record of the disposition of any challenges made to any

 

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determination by the inspectors and (e) certify their determination of the number of shares of stock of the Corporation represented at the meeting and their count of all votes and ballots. The inspectors may appoint or retain other persons or entities to assist the inspectors in the performance of their duties. Unless otherwise provided by the Board, the date and time of the opening and the closing of the polls for each matter upon which the Stockholders will vote at a meeting shall be determined by the person presiding at the meeting and shall be announced at the meeting. No ballot, proxies, votes or any revocation thereof or change thereto shall be accepted by the inspectors after the closing of the polls unless the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware upon application by a Stockholder shall determine otherwise. In determining the validity and counting of proxies and ballots cast at any meeting of Stockholders, the inspectors may consider such information as is permitted by applicable law. No person who at such meeting is nominated for election to the Board may serve as an inspector at such election.

2.11 Conduct of Meetings; Adjournment. The Board may adopt such rules and procedures for the conduct of Stockholder meetings as it deems appropriate. At each meeting of Stockholders, the person designated by the Board or, in the absence of such designation, the Chair or, if the Chair is absent, the Chief Executive Officer or if the Chief Executive Officer is absent, the President or if the President is absent, the most senior Executive Vice-President present, shall preside over the meeting. Except to the extent inconsistent with the rules and procedures as adopted by the Board, the person presiding over the meeting of Stockholders shall have the right and authority to convene, adjourn and reconvene the meeting from time to time, to prescribe such additional rules and procedures and to do all such acts as, in the judgment of such person, are appropriate for the proper conduct of the meeting. Such rules and procedures, whether adopted by the Board or prescribed by the person presiding over the meeting, may include, (a) the establishment of an agenda or order of business for the meeting, (b) rules and procedures for maintaining order at the meeting and the safety of those present, (c) limitations on attendance at or participation in the meeting to Stockholders of record of the Corporation, their duly authorized and constituted proxies or such other persons as the person presiding over the meeting shall determine, (d) restrictions on entry to the meeting after the time fixed for the commencement thereof and (e) limitations on the time allotted to questions or comments by participants. The order of business at all meetings of Stockholders shall be as determined by the person presiding over the meeting. The person presiding over any meeting of Stockholders, in addition to making any other determinations that may be appropriate to the conduct of the meeting, may determine and declare to the meeting that a matter or business was not properly brought before the meeting and if such presiding person should so determine, he or she shall so declare to the meeting and any such matter or business not properly brought before the meeting shall not be transacted or considered. Unless and to the extent determined by the Board or the person presiding over the meeting, meetings of Stockholders shall not be required to be held in accordance with the rules of parliamentary procedure. The Secretary or, in his or her absence, one of the Assistant Secretaries or, in their absence, a person designated by the Secretary or one of the Assistant Secretaries, shall act as secretary of the meeting. If none of the persons above specified to act as the person presiding over the meeting or as secretary of the meeting shall be present, a person presiding over the meeting or a secretary of the meeting, as the case may be, shall be designated by the Board and, if the Board has not so acted, in the case of the designation of a person to act as secretary of the meeting, such person shall be designated by the person presiding over the meeting.

 

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ARTICLE III

DIRECTORS

3.1 General Powers. The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board. The Board may adopt such rules and procedures, not inconsistent with the Certificate of Incorporation, these Bylaws or applicable law, as it may deem proper for the conduct of its meetings and the management of the Corporation.

3.2 Number; Term of Office. The Board shall consist of one or more members, the number thereof to be determined from time to time by the Board. Except as provided in Section 3.7, each Director shall hold office until a successor is duly elected and qualified or until the Director’s earlier death, resignation, disqualification or removal. Each Director shall be elected by the vote of the majority of the votes cast with respect to the Director at any meeting for the election of Directors at which a quorum is present; provided that if as of a date that is 14 days in advance of the date the Corporation files its definitive proxy statement (regardless of whether or not thereafter revised or supplemented) with the SEC the number of nominees exceeds the number of Directors to be elected, the Directors shall be elected by the vote of a plurality of the shares represented in person or by proxy at any such meeting and entitled to vote on the election of Directors. For purposes of this Section 3.2, a majority of the votes cast means that (a) the number of votes cast “for” a Director must exceed the number of votes cast “against” that Director and (b) abstentions and broker non-votes are not counted as votes cast. Unless the plurality voting standard shall have applied to the election, any Director who is not elected by a majority of the votes cast shall, pursuant to Section 3.7, offer to tender his or her resignation to the Board. In that event, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee will make a recommendation to the Board on whether to accept or reject the resignation, or whether other action should be taken. The Board will act on the recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and publicly disclose its decision and the rationale behind it within 90 days after the date of the certification of the election results. The Director who offers to tender his or her resignation will be asked to recuse himself or herself from the Board’s and, if a member thereof, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee’s decision.

3.3 Nominations of Directors.

(a) Subject to Section 3.3(k) and Section 3.5, only persons who are nominated in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 3.3 are eligible for election as Directors.

(b) Nominations of persons for election to the Board may only be made at a meeting properly called for the election of Directors and only (i) by or at the direction of the Board or any committee thereof or (ii) by a Stockholder who (A) was a Stockholder of record of the Corporation when the notice required by this Section 3.3 is delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation and at the time of the meeting, (B) is entitled to vote for the election of Directors at the meeting and (C) complies with the notice and other provisions of this Section 3.3. Subject to

 

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Section 3.3(k) and Section 3.5, Section 3.3(b)(ii) is the exclusive means by which a Stockholder may nominate a person for election to the Board. Persons nominated in accordance with Section 3.3(b)(ii) are referred to as “Stockholder Nominees”. A Stockholder nominating persons for election to the Board is referred to as the “Nominating Stockholder”.

(c) Subject to Section 3.3(k), all nominations of Stockholder Nominees must be made by timely written notice given by or on behalf of a Stockholder of record of the Corporation (the “Notice of Nomination”). To be timely, the Notice of Nomination must be delivered personally or mailed to and received at the Office of the Corporation, addressed to the attention of the Secretary of the Corporation, by the following dates:

(i) in the case of the nomination of a Stockholder Nominee for election to the Board at an annual meeting of Stockholders, no earlier than 120 days and no later than 90 days before the first anniversary of the date of the prior year’s annual meeting of Stockholders; provided, however, if (A) the annual meeting of Stockholders is advanced by more than 30 days, or delayed by more than 60 days, from the first anniversary of the prior year’s annual meeting of Stockholders or (B) no annual meeting was held during the prior year, the notice by the Stockholder to be timely must be received (1) no earlier than 120 days before such annual meeting and (2) no later than the later of 90 days before such annual meeting and the tenth day after the day on which the notice of such annual meeting was first made by mail or Public Disclosure; provided, further, in the case of the First Delaware Annual Meeting, the date of the prior year’s annual meeting of Stockholders shall be deemed to be April 30, 2019, and

(ii) in the case of the nomination of a Stockholder Nominee for election to the Board at a special meeting of Stockholders, no earlier than 120 days before and no later than the later of 90 days before such special meeting and the tenth day after the day on which the notice of such special meeting was first made by mail or Public Disclosure; provided, however, if the special meeting is being called by the Secretary pursuant to Section 2.3(a)(ii), a Notice of Nomination by any Requesting Stockholder or Stockholder Associated Person of a Requesting Stockholder shall be included in such Requesting Stockholder’s Meeting Request.

(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, if the number of Directors to be elected to the Board at a meeting of Stockholders occurring after the annual meeting of Stockholders in 2020 is increased by the Board and there is no Public Disclosure by the Corporation naming the nominees for the additional directorships at least 100 days before the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting, a Notice of Nomination shall also be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for the additional directorships, if it shall be delivered personally and received at the Office of the Corporation, addressed to the attention of the Secretary of the Corporation, no later than the close of business on the tenth day following the day on which such Public Disclosure is first made by the Corporation.

(e) In no event shall an adjournment, postponement or deferral, or Public Disclosure of an adjournment, postponement or deferral, of an annual or special meeting of Stockholders commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of the Notice of Nomination.

 

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(f) The Notice of Nomination shall set forth:

(i) the Stockholder Information with respect to each Nominating Stockholder and Stockholder Associated Person (except that references to the “Proponent” in Section 2.2(d)(i)-(iii) shall instead refer to the “Nominating Stockholder” for purposes of this Section 3.3(f)(i));

(ii) a representation that each Stockholder nominating a Stockholder Nominee is a holder of record of stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at the meeting and intends to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to propose such nomination;

(iii) all information regarding each Stockholder Nominee and Stockholder Associated Person that would be required to be disclosed in a solicitation of proxies subject to Section 14 of the Exchange Act, the written consent of each Stockholder Nominee to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee and to serve if elected and a completed signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 3.4;

(iv) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among a Nominating Stockholder, Stockholder Associated Person or their respective associates, or others acting in concert therewith, including all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Rule 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the Nominating Stockholder, Stockholder Associated Person or any person acting in concert therewith, were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the Stockholder Nominee were a director or executive of such registrant;

(v) a representation as to whether the Nominating Stockholders intend (A) to deliver a proxy statement and form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve the nomination or (B) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such nomination;

(vi) all other information that would be required to be filed with the SEC if the Nominating Stockholders and Stockholder Associated Persons were participants in a solicitation subject to Section 14 of the Exchange Act;

(vii) as long as the Corporation is a “reporting issuer” under applicable Canadian securities law, any other information requested by the Corporation that is required to be disclosed under applicable Canadian law or would be required to be disclosed under applicable Canadian law if the Nominating Stockholders and Stockholder Associated Persons were participants in a solicitation subject to applicable Canadian law; and

(viii) a representation that the Nominating Stockholders shall provide any other information reasonably requested by the Corporation within the time period specified by Section 3.3(g).

(g) The Nominating Stockholders shall also provide any other information reasonably requested by the Corporation within ten business days after such request.

 

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(h) In addition, the Nominating Stockholder shall affirm as true and correct the information provided to the Corporation in the Notice of Nomination or at the Corporation’s request pursuant to Section 3.3(g) (and shall update or supplement such information as needed so that such information shall be true and correct) as of (i) the record date for the meeting, (ii) the date that is ten calendar days before the first anniversary date of the Corporation’s proxy statement released to Stockholders in connection with the previous year’s annual meeting (in the case of an annual meeting) (provided, that, in the case of the First Delaware Annual Meeting, the date the Corporation’s proxy statement was released to Stockholders in connection with the previous year’s annual meeting shall be deemed to be March 14, 2019) or, in the case of a special meeting, 50 days before the date of the special meeting and (iii) the date that is ten business days before the date of the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof. Such affirmation, update and/or supplement must be delivered personally or mailed to, and received at the Office of the Corporation, addressed to the Secretary of the Corporation, by no later than (1) five business days after the applicable date specified in clause (i) or (ii) of the foregoing sentence (in the case of the affirmation, update and/or supplement required to be made as of those dates), and (2) not later than seven business days before the date for the meeting (in the case of the affirmation, update and/or supplement required to be made as of ten business days before the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof).

(i) The person presiding over the meeting shall, if the facts warrant, determine and declare to the meeting that the nomination was not made in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 3.3, and, if he or she should so determine, he or she shall so declare to the meeting and the defective nomination shall be disregarded.

(j) If the Nominating Stockholder (or a qualified representative of the Nominating Stockholder) does not appear at the applicable Stockholder meeting to nominate the Stockholder Nominees, such nomination shall be disregarded and such business shall not be transacted, notwithstanding that proxies in respect of such vote may have been received by the Corporation. For purposes of this Section 3.3, to be considered a qualified representative of the Nominating Stockholder, a person must be a duly authorized officer, manager or partner of such Stockholder or must be authorized by a writing executed by such Stockholder or an electronic transmission delivered by such Stockholder to act for such Stockholder as proxy at the meeting of Stockholders and such person must produce such writing or electronic transmission, or a reliable reproduction of the writing or electronic transmission, at the meeting of Stockholders.

(k) Nothing in this Section 3.3 shall be deemed to affect any rights of the holders of any series of preferred stock of the Corporation pursuant to any applicable provision of the Certificate of Incorporation. In addition, solely in respect of the First Delaware Annual Meeting, if any deadline or window by which or within which a Stockholder, Nominating Stockholder, Stockholder Associated Person or Stockholder Nominee must take any action under this Section 3.3 occurs as of a date or period before the effectiveness of the Domestication, then such action shall be deemed satisfied to the extent such person complied with the applicable Canadian Encana Procedures; provided, however, if this Section 3.3 requires action (including for all purposes of this sentence the provision to the Corporation of additional information) in addition to the requirements of the Canadian Encana Procedures, then (i) the Corporation may request that any such person take such actions as the Corporation reasonably determines are required by this Section 3.3 and were not required by the Canadian Encana Procedures and (ii) unless such person takes the actions so requested within ten business days after the Corporation’s request therefor, such person shall again be subject to all of the other provisions of this Section 3.3.

 

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3.4 Nominee Qualifications. To be eligible to be a nominee for election or reelection as a Director (other than a Preferred Stock Director (as defined below)), the nominee must deliver (in accordance with the time periods prescribed for delivery of notice under Section 3.3 (in the case of a Stockholder Nominee) or in accordance with any time periods required from time to time by any resolution, policy or guideline of the Board or Corporation generally applicable to all Directors (in the case of a person nominated by or at the direction of the Board or any committee thereof) (any such policy, a “General Board Policy”)) to the Secretary at the Office of the Corporation (a) a completed and signed written questionnaire with respect to the background and qualification of such person and the background of any other person or entity on whose behalf the nomination is being made (which questionnaire shall be provided by the Secretary upon written request), (b) information as necessary to permit the Board to determine if such nominee (i) is independent under applicable listing standards, applicable law, any applicable rules of the SEC and any publicly disclosed standards used by the Board in determining and disclosing the independence of the Directors, (ii) qualifies as an “outside director” for the purposes of Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code (or any successor provision), (iii) is not or has not been, within the past three years, an officer or director of a competitor, as defined in Section 8 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914, as amended, or (iv) is not a named subject of a pending criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations and other minor offenses) or has been convicted in a criminal proceeding within the past ten years, (c) a written representation and agreement (in the form provided by the Secretary upon written request) that such person (i) is not and will not become a party to (A) any agreement, arrangement or understanding with, and has not given any commitment or assurance to, any person or entity as to how such person will act or vote as a Director on any issue or question (a “Voting Commitment”) that has not been disclosed to the Corporation or (B) any Voting Commitment that could limit or interfere with such person’s ability to comply with such person’s fiduciary duties as a Director under applicable law, (ii) is not and will not become a party to any agreement, arrangement or understanding with any person or entity other than the Corporation with respect to any direct or indirect compensation, reimbursement or indemnification in connection with service or action as a Director that has not been disclosed to the Corporation, (iii) will comply with all applicable corporate governance, conflict of interest, confidentiality and stock ownership and trading and other policies and guidelines of the Corporation that are applicable to Directors and (iv) currently intends to serve as a Director for the full term for which he or she is standing for election and (d) such person’s written consent to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee for election as a Director and to serving as a Director if elected. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a nominee who is an incumbent Director standing for reelection (regardless of whether nominated (i) by or at the director of the Board or any committee thereof or (ii) by a Nominating Stockholder), the questionnaire, information, representation and agreement and consent required by the foregoing clauses (a)-(d) shall be required only as frequently (which may be less frequently than annually) as required by an applicable General Board Policy.

 

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3.5 Proxy Access for Director Nominations.

(a) Subject to the provisions of this Section 3.5, for an annual meeting of Stockholders, the Corporation shall include in its proxy statement and in its form of proxy for such annual meeting, in addition to any persons nominated for election by or at the direction of the Board (or any committee thereof), the name and the Required Information (as defined in Section 3.5(b)) of any person nominated for election to the Board who satisfies the eligibility requirements in this Section 3.5 (a “Proxy Access Nominee”) and who is identified in a proper written notice (the “Proxy Access Notice”) that complies with, and is timely delivered pursuant to, this Section 3.5 by an Eligible Stockholder (as defined in Section 3.5(d)), in each case as determined by the Board. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 3.5, the Corporation may omit from its proxy materials any information or Supporting Statement (as defined in Section 3.5(c)) (or portions thereof) that it, in good faith, believes (i) would violate any applicable law or regulation or (ii) directly or indirectly impugns the character, integrity or personal reputation of, or directly or indirectly makes charges concerning improper, illegal or immoral conduct or associations, without factual foundation, with respect to any person or entity.

(b) For the purposes of this Section 3.5, the “Required Information” that the Corporation shall include in its proxy statement is (i) the information concerning the Proxy Access Nominee and the Eligible Stockholder that the Corporation determines is required to be disclosed in the Corporation’s proxy statement by the applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder and (ii) if the Eligible Stockholder so elects, a Supporting Statement. Nothing in this Section 3.5 shall limit the Corporation’s ability to solicit against or for, and include in its proxy materials its own statements relating to, any Eligible Stockholder or Proxy Access Nominee.

(c) For each of its Proxy Access Nominees, the Eligible Stockholder may, at its option, provide to the Secretary, at the time the Proxy Access Notice is provided, one written statement, not to exceed 500 words, in support of such Proxy Access Nominee’s candidacy (a “Supporting Statement”). Only one Supporting Statement may be submitted by an Eligible Stockholder (including any group of persons together constituting an Eligible Stockholder) for each Proxy Access Nominee.

(d) For the purposes of this Section 3.5, an “Eligible Stockholder” is one or more persons who:

(i) own and have owned (in each case, as defined in Section 3.5(h)) continuously for at least three years prior to the date the Proxy Access Notice is received at the Office of the Corporation (the “Minimum Holding Period”) a number of shares of stock of the Corporation that represents at least 3.0% of the voting power of all shares of stock of the Corporation issued and outstanding and entitled to vote in the election of directors (excluding Preferred Directors, if any) as of the most recent date for which such amount is set forth in any Public Disclosure made by the Corporation prior to the date the Proxy Access Notice is received at the Office of the Corporation (the “Required Shares”); provided that, until the third anniversary of the Domestication, the definitions of Minimum Holding Period and Required Shares shall be deemed to include common shares of Encana Corporation issued and outstanding prior to the Domestication that were exchanged for shares of capital stock of the Corporation as part of the Domestication;

 

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(ii) continues to own the Required Shares through the date of the annual meeting of Stockholders; and

(iii) satisfies all other requirements of, and complies with all applicable procedures set forth in, this Section 3.5;

provided, that the aggregate number of record stockholders and beneficial owners whose stock ownership is counted for the purposes of satisfying the foregoing ownership requirement shall not exceed 20. Two or more funds that are part of the same Qualifying Fund Group (as defined in Section 3.5(e)) shall be treated as one record stockholder or beneficial owner for purposes of determining the aggregate number of record stockholders and beneficial owners in this paragraph and shall be treated as one person for the purpose of determining ownership in accordance with Section 3.5(h). No record stockholder (other than a Custodian Holder (as defined below)) or beneficial owner may be a member of more than one group constituting an Eligible Stockholder with respect to any annual meeting of Stockholders, and no shares may be attributed to more than one Eligible Stockholder or group constituting an Eligible Stockholder. If any person (other than a Custodian Holder) purports to be a member of more than one group constituting an Eligible Stockholder, such person shall only be deemed to be a member of the group that has the largest ownership position (as reflected in the applicable Proxy Access Notice).

(iv) Whenever the Eligible Stockholder consists of a group of persons (including a group of funds that are part of the same Qualifying Fund Group), each provision in this Section 3.5 that requires the Eligible Stockholder to provide any written statements, representations, undertakings, agreements or other instruments or to meet any other conditions shall be deemed to require each such person (including each individual fund) that is a member of such group (other than a Custodian Holder) to provide such statements, representations, undertakings, agreements or other instruments and to meet such other conditions (except that the members of such group may aggregate the shares that each member has owned continuously for the Minimum Holding Period in order to meet the 3.0% ownership requirement of the “Required Shares” definition).

(e) For the purposes of this Section 3.5, a “Qualifying Fund Group” means two or more funds that are (i) under common management and investment control, (ii) under common management and funded primarily by the same employer or (iii) a “group of investment companies,” as such term is defined in Section 12(d)(1)(G)(ii) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

(f) For the purposes of this Section 3.5, a “Custodian Holder,” with respect to any Eligible Stockholder, means any broker, bank or custodian (or similar nominee) who (i) is acting solely as a nominee on behalf of a beneficial owner and (ii) does not own (as defined in Section 3.5(h)) any of the shares comprising the Required Shares of the Eligible Stockholder. For the avoidance of doubt, Required Shares will qualify as such if and only if the beneficial owner of such shares as of the date of the Proxy Access Notice has itself beneficially owned such shares continuously for the Minimum Holding Period and through the date of the annual meeting of Stockholders (in addition to the other applicable requirements being met).

 

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(g) For the purposes of this Section 3.5, “affiliate” shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the rules and regulations promulgated under the Exchange Act.

(h) For the purposes of this Section 3.5:

(i) A person shall be deemed to “own” only those outstanding shares of stock of the Corporation as to which the person possesses both the full voting and investment rights pertaining to such shares and the full economic interest in (including the opportunity for profit and risk of loss on) such shares; provided, that the number of shares of stock of the Corporation a person “owns” shall not include any shares:

(A) sold by such person or any of its affiliates in any transaction that has not been settled or closed;

(B) borrowed by such person or any of its affiliates for any purpose or purchased by such person or any of its affiliates pursuant to an agreement to resell; or

(C) subject to any option, warrant, forward contract, swap, contract of sale, other derivative or similar agreement entered into by such person or any of its affiliates, whether any such instrument or agreement is to be settled with shares or with cash based on the notional amount or value of outstanding shares of the Corporation, in any such case which instrument or agreement has, or is intended to have, or if exercised would have, the purpose or effect of:

(1) reducing in any manner, to any extent or at any time in the future, such person’s or any of its affiliates’ full right to vote or direct the voting of any such shares; or

(2) hedging, offsetting or altering to any degree gain or loss arising from the full economic ownership of such shares by such person or any of its affiliates.

(ii) A person shall “own” shares held in the name of a nominee (including a Custodian Holder) or other intermediary so long as the person retains the right to instruct how the shares are voted with respect to the election of directors and the right to direct the disposition thereof and possesses the full economic interest in the shares. A person’s ownership of shares shall be deemed to continue during any period in which the person has:

(A) delegated any voting power by means of a proxy, power of attorney or other instrument or arrangement that is revocable at any time by the person without condition; or

(B) loaned such shares; provided that the person has the power to recall such loaned shares on not more than five business days’ notice and has recalled such loaned shares as of the date of the annual meeting of Stockholders.

(iii) The terms “owned,” “owning” and other variations of the word “own” shall have correlative meanings.

 

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(iv) The final determination of whether outstanding shares of stock of the Corporation are “owned” for the purposes of this Section 3.5 shall be made by the Board.

(i) To be timely under this Section 3.5, the Proxy Access Notice must be received by the Secretary at the Office of the Corporation no earlier than 150 days and no later than 120 days before the first anniversary of the filing date of the Corporation’s definitive proxy statement for the prior year’s annual meeting of Stockholders; provided, however, if the date of the annual meeting is advanced by more than 30 days prior to, or delayed by more than 60 days after, the first anniversary of the prior year’s annual meeting of Stockholders, or if no annual meeting was held in the preceding year, then, for the Proxy Access Notice to be timely, it must be received by the Secretary at the Office of the Corporation (i) no earlier than 150 days before such annual meeting and (ii) no later than the close of business on the later of 120 days before such annual meeting and the tenth day after the day on which the notice of such annual meeting was first made by mail or Public Disclosure; provided, further, in the case of the First Delaware Annual Meeting, the filing date of the Corporation’s definitive proxy statement for the prior year’s annual meeting of Stockholders shall be deemed to be March 14, 2019. In no event shall an adjournment, postponement or deferral, or Public Disclosure of an adjournment, postponement or deferral, of an annual meeting of Stockholders commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of the Proxy Access Notice pursuant to this Section 3.5.

(j) To be in proper written form, the Proxy Access Notice must include or be accompanied by the following:

(i) a written statement by the Eligible Stockholder certifying as to the number of shares of stock of the Corporation it owns and has owned continuously for the Minimum Holding Period, and the Eligible Stockholder’s agreement to provide (a) within five business days following the later of the record date for the annual meeting of Stockholders or the date on which notice of the record date is first publicly disclosed, a written statement by the Eligible Stockholder certifying as to the number of shares of stock of the Corporation it owns and has owned continuously through the record date and (b) prompt notice if the Eligible Stockholder ceases to own a number of shares of stock of the Corporation at least equal to the Required Shares prior to the date of the annual meeting of Stockholders;

(ii) if the Eligible Stockholder is not a record stockholder of the Required Shares, proof that the Eligible Stockholder owns, and has owned continuously for the Minimum Holding Period, the Required Shares, in a form that would be deemed by the Corporation to be acceptable pursuant to Rule 14a-8(b)(2) under the Exchange Act (or any successor rule) for purposes of a shareholder proposal;

(iii) a copy of the Schedule 14N that has been or is concurrently being filed with the SEC as required by Rule 14a-18 under the Exchange Act;

(iv) as to the Eligible Stockholder and each Proxy Access Nominee, the information required by Section 2.2(d)(iii)(D)-(E) (except that the references to the “Proponent” and to “any Stockholder Associated Person” in such clauses shall instead refer, respectively, to the “Eligible Stockholder” and “each Proxy Access Nominee” for purposes of this paragraph);

 

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(v) as to each Proxy Access Nominee:

(A) the items specified in Section 3.3(f)(iii) (including the questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 3.4) (except that the references to “Stockholder Nominee” in such sections shall instead refer to “Proxy Access Nominee,” and the reference to the “Stockholder Associated Person” may be disregarded, for purposes of this paragraph) and an executed agreement, in a form deemed satisfactory by the Board or its designee (which form shall be provided by the Corporation reasonably promptly upon written request therefor), pursuant to which such Proxy Access Nominee agrees not to be named in any other person’s proxy statement or form of proxy;

(B) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among the Eligible Stockholder, such Proxy Access Nominee or their respective associates (as defined in Rule 14a-1 under the Exchange Act), or others acting in concert therewith, including all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Rule 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the Eligible Stockholder or its affiliates or any person acting in concert therewith were the registrant for purposes of such rule and the person were a director or executive of such registrant; and

(C) any other information relating to the Proxy Access Nominee that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with the solicitation of proxies for election of directors pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder;

(vi) an executed agreement, in a form deemed satisfactory by the Board or its designee (which form shall be provided by the Corporation reasonably promptly upon written request therefor), pursuant to which the Eligible Stockholder:

(A) represents that it intends to continue to hold the Required Shares through the date of, and to vote the Required Shares at, the annual meeting of Stockholders;

(B) represents that it acquired the Required Shares in the ordinary course of business and not with the intent to change or influence control of the Corporation, and does not presently have such intent;

(C) represents and agrees that it has not nominated and will not nominate for election to the Board at the annual meeting of Stockholders any person other than the Proxy Access Nominee(s) it is nominating pursuant to this Section 3.5;

(D) represents and agrees that it is not currently engaged as of the date of the agreement, and will not engage, in, and is not currently as of the date of the agreement, and will not be, a “participant” in another person’s, “solicitation” within the meaning of Rule 14a-1(l) under the Exchange Act in support of the election of any individual as a director at the annual meeting other than its Proxy Access Nominee(s) or a nominee of the Board;

 

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(E) represents and agrees that it has not distributed and will not distribute to any Stockholder any form of proxy for the annual meeting other than the form distributed by the Corporation;

(F) represents and agrees that it is currently in compliance as of the date of the agreement, and will comply, with all laws and regulations (including, without limitation, Rule 14a-9(a) under the Exchange Act) applicable to solicitations and the use, if any, of soliciting material in connection with the annual meeting;

(G) agrees to assume all liability stemming from any legal or regulatory violation arising out of the Eligible Stockholder’s communications with the Stockholders or out of the information that the Eligible Stockholder provided to the Corporation, in each case, in connection with the nomination or election of Proxy Access Nominee(s) at the annual meeting;

(H) agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Corporation and each of its directors, officers and employees individually against any liability, loss, damages, expenses or other costs (including attorney’s fees) incurred in connection with any threatened or pending action, suit or proceeding, whether legal, administrative or investigative, against the Corporation or any of its directors, officers or employees arising out of any legal or regulatory violation referenced in clause (G) above or any failure or alleged failure of the Eligible Stockholder or its Proxy Access Nominee(s) to comply with, or any breach or alleged breach by the Eligible Stockholder or its Proxy Access Nominee(s) of, the requirements of this Section 3.5; and

(I) agrees to file with the SEC any written solicitation of the Stockholders relating to the meeting at which its Proxy Access Nominee(s) will be nominated, regardless of whether any such filing is required under Regulation 14A of the Exchange Act or whether any exemption from filing is available for such solicitation or other communication under Regulation 14A of the Exchange Act;

(vii) in the case of a nomination by a group of persons together constituting an Eligible Stockholder, the designation by all group members of one member of the group that is authorized to receive communications, notices and inquiries from the Corporation and to act on behalf of all members of the group with respect to all matters relating to the nomination under this Section 3.5 (including withdrawal of the nomination); and

(viii) in the case of a nomination by a group of persons together constituting an Eligible Stockholder in which two or more funds that are part of the same Qualifying Fund Group are counted as one record stockholder or beneficial owner for purposes of qualifying as an Eligible Stockholder, documentation reasonably satisfactory to the Corporation that demonstrates that the funds are part of the same Qualifying Fund Group.

(k) In addition to the information required pursuant to Section 3.5(j) or any other provision of these Bylaws, (i) the Corporation may require any proposed Proxy Access Nominee to furnish any other information (a) that may reasonably be required by the Corporation to determine whether the Proxy Access Nominee would be independent under the Independence

 

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Standards (as defined in Section 3.5(l)), (b) that could be material to a reasonable Stockholder’s understanding of the independence, or lack thereof, of such Proxy Access Nominee, (c) that may reasonably be required by the Corporation to determine the eligibility of such Proxy Access Nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation or (d) as may otherwise be reasonably requested, and (ii) the Corporation may require the Eligible Stockholder to furnish any other information that may reasonably be required by the Corporation to verify the Eligible Stockholder’s continuous ownership of the Required Shares for the Minimum Holding Period or other compliance with this Section 3.5.

(l) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 3.5, the Corporation shall not be required pursuant to this Section 3.5 to include a Proxy Access Nominee in its proxy materials for any annual meeting of Stockholders, or, if the proxy statement already has been filed, to allow the nomination of a Proxy Access Nominee, notwithstanding that proxies in respect of such vote may have been received by the Board, if the Board determines that:

(i) such Proxy Access Nominee would not:

(A) be an independent director under the applicable rules and listing standards of the principal U.S. or Canadian securities exchanges upon which the stock of the Corporation is listed or traded, any applicable rules of the SEC or any other regulatory body with jurisdiction over the Corporation, or any publicly disclosed standards used by the Board in determining and disclosing the independence of the Corporation’s directors;

(B) satisfy the audit, compensation or other board committee independence requirements under the applicable rules and listing standards of the principal U.S. or Canadian securities exchanges upon which the stock of the Corporation is listed or traded, any applicable rules of the SEC or any other regulatory body with jurisdiction over the Corporation, or any publicly disclosed standards used by the Board in determining and disclosing the independence of the Corporation’s committee members; or

(C) be a “non-employee director” under Exchange Act Rule 16b-3 or an “outside director” for the purposes of Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (or any successor provision) (the matters referred to in the foregoing clauses (A) to (C) collectively, the “Independence Standards”);

(ii) the election of such Proxy Access Nominee as a member of the Board would cause the Corporation to be in violation of the Certificate of Incorporation, these Bylaws, or any applicable law, rule or regulation (including rules and listing standards of applicable securities exchanges);

(iii) such Proxy Access Nominee is, or has been within the past three years, an officer or director of a competitor, as defined in Section 8 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914, as amended;

(iv) such Proxy Access Nominee is a named subject of a pending criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations and other minor offenses) or has been convicted in such a criminal proceeding within the past ten years;

 

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(v) such Proxy Access Nominee is subject to any order of the type specified in Rule 506(d) of Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended;

(vi) such Proxy Access Nominee otherwise becomes ineligible for inclusion in the Corporation’s proxy materials pursuant to this Section 3.5 or otherwise becomes ineligible, not qualified or unavailable for election at the annual meeting of Stockholders, in each case as determined by the Board, or the person presiding over the annual meeting;

(vii) such Proxy Access Nominee or the applicable Eligible Stockholder (or any member of any group of persons that together is such Eligible Stockholder) provided information to the Corporation in connection with such nomination that was untrue in any material respect or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make any statement made, in light of the circumstances under which it was made, not misleading;

(viii) such Proxy Access Nominee or the applicable Eligible Stockholder (or any member of any group of persons that together is such Eligible Stockholder) otherwise breaches or fails to comply with its representations, undertakings or obligations pursuant to these Bylaws, including, without limitation, this Section 3.5; or

(ix) the Eligible Stockholder ceases to be an Eligible Stockholder for any reason, including but not limited to not owning the Required Shares through the date of the applicable annual meeting.

For the purpose of this subsection (l), the occurrence of clauses (i) through (vi) and, to the extent related to a breach or failure by the Proxy Access Nominee, clauses (vii) and (viii) will result in the exclusion from the proxy materials pursuant to this Section 3.5 of the specific Proxy Access Nominee to whom the ineligibility applies and any related Supporting Statement or, if the proxy statement for the applicable annual meeting of Stockholders already has been filed, will result in such Proxy Access Nominee not being eligible or qualified for election at such annual meeting of Stockholders, and, in either case, no other nominee may be substituted by the Eligible Stockholder that nominated such Proxy Access Nominee. The occurrence of clause (ix) and, to the extent related to a breach or failure by an Eligible Stockholder (or any member of any group of persons that together is such Eligible Stockholder), clauses (vii) and (viii) will result in the shares owned by such Eligible Stockholder (or such member of any group of persons that together is such Eligible Stockholder) being excluded from the Required Shares and, if as a result the persons who together nominated the Proxy Access Nominee shall no longer constitute an Eligible Stockholder, will result in the exclusion from the proxy materials pursuant to this Section 3.5 of all of such persons’ Proxy Access Nominees and any related Supporting Statements or, if the proxy statement for the applicable annual meeting of Stockholders already has been filed, will result in such Proxy Access Nominees not being eligible or qualified for election at such annual meeting of Stockholders.

 

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(m) Permitted Number of Proxy Access Nominees.

(i) The maximum number of Proxy Access Nominees nominated by all Eligible Stockholders that will appear in the Corporation’s proxy materials with respect to an annual meeting of Stockholders shall not exceed the greater of (i) two or (ii) 20% of the number of directors in office and subject to election by the holders of Common Stock as of the last day on which a Proxy Access Notice may be delivered pursuant to this Section 3.5 with respect to the annual meeting, or if the number of directors calculated in this clause (ii) is not a whole number, the closest whole number below 20% (such number, determined pursuant to clause (i) or clause (ii), as applicable, the “Permitted Number”); provided, however, if one or more vacancies on the Board for any reason occur after the deadline in Section 3.5(i) for delivery of the Proxy Access Notice and before the date of the applicable annual meeting of Stockholders and the Board resolves to reduce the size of the Board in connection therewith such that the number of directors subject to election by the holders of Common Stock is reduced, the Permitted Number shall be calculated based on the number of directors in office as so reduced. The Permitted Number shall also be reduced by (a) the number of director candidates who will be included in the Corporation’s proxy materials with respect to such annual meeting of Stockholders as nominees unopposed (by the Corporation) or recommended by the Board pursuant to an agreement, arrangement or other understanding with a Stockholder or group of Stockholders (other than any such agreement, arrangement or understanding entered into in connection with an acquisition of stock from the Corporation by such Stockholder or group of Stockholders), other than any such director candidate who at the time of the annual meeting shall have served as a director continuously as a nominee of the Board for at least two annual terms immediately preceding the applicable annual meeting of Stockholders, provided that the Permitted Number after such reduction with respect to this clause (a) will in no event be less than one, (b) the number of incumbent director candidates who were previously elected to the Board as Proxy Access Nominees at any of the preceding two annual meetings of Stockholders pursuant to this Section 3.5 and whose re-election at the upcoming annual meeting is being recommended by the Board and (c) the number of director candidates whose names were submitted for inclusion in the Corporation’s proxy materials pursuant to this Section 3.5 for the upcoming annual meeting of Stockholders, but who were thereafter nominated for election at such meeting by the Board.

(ii) If the number of Proxy Access Nominees submitted by Eligible Stockholders pursuant to this Section 3.5 exceeds the Permitted Number, each Eligible Stockholder will select one Proxy Access Nominee for inclusion in the Corporation’s proxy materials until the Permitted Number is reached, going in order of the amount (largest to smallest) of shares of Common Stock of the Corporation each Eligible Stockholder disclosed as owned in its respective Proxy Access Notice submitted to the Corporation. If the Permitted Number is not reached after each Eligible Stockholder has selected one Proxy Access Nominee, this selection process will continue as many times as necessary, following the same order each time, until the Permitted Number is reached. After reaching the Permitted Number of Proxy Access Nominees, if any Proxy Access Nominee who satisfies the eligibility requirements in this Section 3.5 thereafter (a) is nominated by the Board for election at the upcoming annual meeting of Stockholders, (b) is not submitted for director election for any reason (including the failure to comply with or satisfy the eligibility requirements in this Section 3.5) other than due to a failure by the Corporation to include such Proxy Access Nominee in the Corporation’s proxy materials in violation of this Section 3.5, (c) withdraws his or her nomination (or his or her nomination is withdrawn by the applicable Eligible Stockholder) or (d) becomes unwilling to serve on the Board, then, in each such case, no other nominee or nominees shall be included in the Corporation’s proxy materials or otherwise submitted for director election pursuant to this Section 3.5 in substitution for such Proxy Access Nominee with respect to the annual meeting of Stockholders.

 

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(iii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 3.5, the Corporation shall not be required to include any Proxy Access Nominees in its proxy materials pursuant to this Section 3.5 for any annual meeting of Stockholders for which the Secretary of the Corporation receives a notice that a Stockholder intends to nominate one or more persons for election to the Board pursuant to clause (ii) of the first sentence of Section 3.3(b).

(n) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 3.5, unless otherwise required by law or otherwise determined by the person presiding over the meeting, if none of (i) the Eligible Stockholder or (ii) a Qualified Representative (as defined below) of the Eligible Stockholder appears at the annual meeting of Stockholders to present such Eligible Stockholder’s Proxy Access Nominee(s), such nomination or nominations shall be disregarded and conclusively deemed withdrawn, notwithstanding that proxies in respect of the election of the Proxy Access Nominee(s) may have been received by the Corporation. A “Qualified Representative” of an Eligible Stockholder means a person that is a duly authorized officer, manager or partner of such Eligible Stockholder or is authorized by a writing (i) executed by such Eligible Stockholder, (ii) delivered (or a reliable reproduction or electronic transmission of the writing is delivered) by such Eligible Stockholder to the Corporation prior to the taking of the action taken by such person on behalf of such Eligible Stockholder and (iii) stating that such person is authorized to act for such Eligible Stockholder with respect to the action to be taken.

(o) Any information required by this Section 3.5 to be provided to the Corporation must be updated and supplemented by the Eligible Stockholder or Proxy Access Nominee, as applicable, by delivery to the Secretary (i) no later than ten days after the record date for determining the Stockholders entitled to vote at the annual meeting of Stockholders, of such information as of such record date and (ii) no later than five days before the annual meeting of Stockholders, of such information as of the date that is ten days before the annual meeting of Stockholders. Further, in the event that any information or communications provided (pursuant to this Section 3.5 or otherwise) by the Eligible Stockholder or the Proxy Access Nominee to the Corporation or its Stockholders ceases to be true and correct in any respect or omits a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, each Eligible Stockholder or Proxy Access Nominee, as the case may be, shall promptly notify the Secretary of any such inaccuracy or omission in such previously provided information and of the information that is required to make such information or communication true and correct. For the avoidance of doubt, the requirement to update, supplement and correct such information shall not permit any Eligible Stockholder or other person to change or add any proposed Proxy Access Nominee or be deemed to cure any defects or limit the remedies (including without limitation under these Bylaws) available to the Corporation relating to any defect (including any inaccuracy or omission).

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(q) Solely in respect of the First Delaware Annual Meeting, if any deadline or window by which or within which a Stockholder, Eligible Stockholder, Proxy Access Nominee or Qualifying Fund Group must take any action under this Section 3.5 occurs as of a date or period before the effectiveness of the Domestication, then such action shall be deemed satisfied to the extent such person complied with the applicable Canadian Encana Procedures; provided, however, if this Section 3.5 requires additional action (including for all purposes of this sentence the provision to the Corporation of additional information) than the requirements of such Canadian Encana Procedures, then (i) the Corporation may request that any such person take such actions as the Corporation reasonably determines are required by this Section 3.5 and were not required by the Canadian Encana Procedures and (ii) unless such person takes the actions so requested within ten business days after the Corporation’s request therefor, such person shall again be subject to all of the other provisions of this Section 3.5. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 3.5(q), from and after the effectiveness of the Domestication, the meanings of Eligible Stockholder, Minimum Holding Period and Required Shares, and the number of persons who may constitute an Eligible Stockholder, shall be governed exclusively by Section 3.5(a)-(p) and not by any contrary Canadian Encana Procedures.

3.6 Newly Created Directorships and Vacancies. Subject to the rights of holders of any series of Preferred Stock to elect Directors under specific circumstances (“Preferred Stock Directors”), any newly created directorships resulting from an increase in the authorized number of Directors and any vacancies occurring in the Board, may be filled solely by the affirmative votes of a majority of the remaining members of the Board, although less than a quorum, or a sole remaining Director. A Director so elected shall be elected to hold office until the earlier of the expiration of the term of office of the Director whom he or she has replaced, a successor is elected and qualified or the Director’s earlier death, resignation, disqualification or removal.

3.7 Resignation. Any Director may resign at any time by notice given in writing or by electronic transmission to the Corporation. Such resignation shall take effect at the time of receipt of such notice or at such later time, or such later time determined upon the happening of an event, as is therein specified.

3.8 Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board may be held without notice at such times and at such places as may be determined from time to time by the Board.

3.9 Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board may be held at such times and at such places as may be determined by the Chair or the Chief Executive Officer on at least 24 hours’ notice to each Director given by one of the means specified in Section 3.12 hereof other than by mail or on at least three days’ notice if given by mail. Special meetings shall be called by the Chair, Chief Executive Officer or Secretary in like manner and on like notice on the written request of any two or more Directors.

3.10 Telephone Meetings. Board or Board committee meetings may be held by means of telephone conference or other communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other. Participation by a Director in a meeting pursuant to this Section 3.10 shall constitute presence in person at such meeting.

 

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3.11 Adjourned Meetings. A majority of the Directors present at any meeting of the Board, including an adjourned meeting, whether or not a quorum is present, may adjourn and reconvene such meeting to another time and place. At least 24 hours’ notice of any adjourned meeting of the Board shall be given to each Director whether or not present at the time of the adjournment; provided, however, notice of the adjourned meeting need not be given if (a) the adjournment is for 24 hours or less and (b) the time, place, if any, and means of remote communication, if any, are announced at the meeting at which the adjournment is taken. Any business may be transacted at an adjourned meeting that might have been transacted at the meeting as originally called.

3.12 Notice Procedure. Subject to Sections 3.9 and 3.13 hereof, whenever notice is required to be given to any Director by applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, such notice shall be deemed given effectively if given in person or by telephone, mail addressed to such Director at such Director’s address as it appears on the records of the Corporation, telecopy or by other means of electronic transmission.

3.13 Waiver of Notice. Whenever the giving of any notice to Directors is required by applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, a written waiver signed by the Director, or a waiver by electronic transmission by such Director, whether before or after such notice is required, shall be deemed equivalent to notice. Attendance by a Director at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting except when the Director attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business on the ground that the meeting was not lawfully called or convened. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special Board or committee meeting need be specified in any waiver of notice.

3.14 Organization. At each meeting of the Board, the Chair or, in his or her absence, another Director selected by the Board shall preside. The Secretary or a person designated by the Secretary shall act as secretary at each meeting of the Board. If the Secretary or a person designated by the Secretary is absent from any meeting of the Board, an Assistant Secretary shall perform the duties of secretary at such meeting; and in the absence from any such meeting of the Secretary or a person designated by the Secretary and all Assistant Secretaries, the person presiding at the meeting may appoint any person to act as secretary of the meeting.

3.15 Quorum of Directors. The presence of a majority of the total number of Directors then in office shall be necessary and sufficient to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of the Board; provided, however, in no case shall a quorum consist of less than one-third of the total number of Directors that the Corporation would have if there were no vacancies on the Board.

3.16 Action by Majority Vote. Except as otherwise expressly required by these Bylaws or the Certificate of Incorporation, the vote of a majority of the Directors present at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the Board.

3.17 Action Without Meeting. Unless otherwise restricted by these Bylaws, any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board or of any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting if all Directors or members of such committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing or by electronic transmission, and the writings or electronic transmissions are filed with the minutes of proceedings of the Board or committee.

 

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ARTICLE IV

COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD

The Board may designate one or more committees in accordance with Section 141(c) of the DGCL. Unless the Board provides otherwise, at all meetings of such committee, a majority of the then authorized number of members of the committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and the vote of a majority of the members of the committee present at any meeting at which there is a quorum shall be the act of the committee. Each committee shall keep regular minutes of its meetings. Unless the Board provides otherwise, each committee designated by the Board may make, alter and repeal rules and procedures for the conduct of its business. In the absence of such rules and procedures, each committee shall conduct its business in the same manner as the Board conducts its business pursuant to Article III.

ARTICLE V

OFFICERS

5.1 Positions; Election. The officers of the Corporation shall be such as the Board from time to time determines to be advisable and, in particular, may include a Chair, a Chief Executive Officer, a President, one or more Executive Vice-Presidents (to which title may be added words indicating seniority or function), a Secretary, a Treasurer (who may also be Executive Vice-Presidents), and any other officers, including assistants to any of the foregoing, as the Board may elect from time to time, who shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as shall be determined by the Board from time to time. Except as provided in Section 5.4, the same person may hold more than one office.

5.2 Term of Office. Each officer of the Corporation shall hold office until such officer’s successor is elected and qualified or until such officer’s earlier death, resignation or removal. Any officer may resign at any time upon written notice to the Corporation. Such resignation shall take effect at the time of receipt of such notice or at such later time, or such later determined upon the happening of an event, as is therein specified. The resignation of an officer shall be without prejudice to the contract rights of the Corporation, if any. Any officer may be removed at any time with or without cause by the Board. Any vacancy occurring in any office of the Corporation may be filled by the Board. The election or appointment of an officer shall not of itself create contract rights.

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5.4 Chief Executive Officer. The Board may designate an officer as Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation who, as such, shall, subject to the authority of the Board, have general supervision over the business of the Corporation. The Chair and the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation shall not be the same person, except in the event of the death, resignation or removal of the Chair or the Chief Executive Officer, until such time as a permanent successor is appointed as Chair or Chief Executive Officer, as the case may be.

5.5 President. The Board may designate an officer as President, who, as such, shall have the powers and duties as the Board or the Chief Executive Officer may specify.

5.6 Executive Vice-Presidents. Executive Vice-Presidents shall have the duties incident to the office of Executive Vice-President and any other duties that may from time to time be assigned to the Executive Vice-President by the President, Chief Executive Officer or the Board. Any Executive Vice-President may sign and execute in the name of the Corporation deeds, mortgages, bonds, contracts or other instruments, except in cases in which the signing and execution thereof shall be expressly delegated by the Board or by these Bylaws to some other officer or agent of the Corporation, or shall be required by applicable law otherwise to be signed or executed.

5.7 Secretary. The Secretary shall attend and be the Secretary of all meetings of the Board, committees of the Board (unless another person is designated to act as secretary of such meeting or meetings by any such committee), and Stockholders and the Secretary or such other designated person in the case of meetings of any committees of the Board shall maintain minutes of all proceedings thereat. The Secretary shall give, or cause to be given as and when instructed, all notices to Stockholders, directors, officers, auditors and members of committees of the Board and shall be custodian of the corporate seal (if any) and records of the Corporation, except when another officer has been appointed for that purpose, and the Secretary shall have such other powers and duties as the Board or the Chief Executive Officer may specify.

5.8 Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have the care and custody of all funds and securities of the Corporation and shall deposit or cause to be deposited all moneys with the Corporation’s bankers, or otherwise deal with the same, including the short term investment of moneys, as designated by the Board, provided that the Treasurer may from time to time arrange for the temporary deposit of moneys of the Corporation in banks, trust companies or other financial institutions not so designated by the Board for the purpose of facilitating transfer thereof to the credit of the Corporation in a bank, trust company or other financial institution so designated. The books and accounts shall at all times be open to inspection and examination by the Board, by any committee of the Board, by the Chief Executive Officer or by any person appointed by the Board for that purpose. The Treasurer shall sign or countersign such instruments as require his or her signature and shall perform all duties incident to his or her office. The Treasurer shall have such other powers and duties as the Board or the Chief Executive Officer may specify.

5.9 Assistant Secretaries and Assistant Treasurers. Assistant Secretaries and Assistant Treasurers shall perform such duties as shall be assigned to them by the Secretary or by the Treasurer, respectively, or by the Board or the Chief Executive Officer.

 

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5.10 Actions with Respect to Securities of Other Entities. All stock and other securities of other entities owned or held by the Corporation for itself, or for other parties in any capacity, shall be voted (including by written consent), and all proxies with respect thereto shall be executed, by the person or persons authorized to do so by resolution of the Board or, in the absence of such authorization, by the Chair, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Executive Vice-President, the Secretary, the Treasurer, any Assistant Secretary or any Assistant Treasurer.

ARTICLE VI

GENERAL PROVISIONS

6.1 Certificates Representing Shares. The shares of stock of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates, provided that the Board may provide by resolution or resolutions that some or all of any or all classes or series of its stock shall be uncertificated shares. If shares are represented by certificates, such certificates shall be in the form approved by the Board. Every holder of stock represented by certificates shall be entitled to have a certificate signed by, or in the name of, the Corporation by any two authorized officers of the Corporation. Any or all such signatures may be facsimiles. Although any officer, transfer agent or registrar whose manual or facsimile signature is affixed to such a certificate ceases to be such officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate has been issued, it may nevertheless be issued by the Corporation with the same effect as if such officer, transfer agent or registrar were still such at the date of its issue.

6.2 Transfer and Registry Agents. The Corporation may from time to time maintain one or more transfer offices or agents and registry offices or agents at such place or places as may be determined from time to time by the Board.

6.3 Lost, Stolen or Destroyed Certificates. The Corporation may issue a new certificate of stock in the place of any certificate theretofore issued by it, alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed, and the Corporation may require the owner of the lost, stolen or destroyed certificate or his legal representative to give the Corporation a bond sufficient to indemnify it against any claim that may be made against it on account of the alleged loss, theft or destruction of any such certificate or the issuance of such new certificate.

6.4 Form of Records. Any records administered by or on behalf of the Corporation in the regular course of its business, including its stock ledger, books of account, and minute books, may be kept on, or by means of, or be in the form of, any information storage device, method, or one or more electronic networks or databases (including one or more distributed electronic networks or databases); provided that the records so kept can be converted into clearly legible paper form within a reasonable time, and, with respect to the stock ledger, that the records so kept (i) can be used to prepare the list of stockholders specified in Sections 219 and 220 of the DGCL, (ii) record the information specified in Sections 156, 159, 217(a) and 218 of the DGCL and (iii) record transfers of stock as governed by Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code as enacted in the State of Delaware, 6 Del. C. §§8-101 et seq. The Corporation shall convert any records so kept into clearly legible paper form upon the request of any person entitled to inspect such records pursuant to any provision of the DGCL.

 

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6.5 Seal. The Corporation may have a corporate seal, which shall be in such form as may be approved from time to time by the Board. The seal may be used by causing it or a facsimile thereof to be impressed or affixed or otherwise reproduced.

6.6 Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be determined by the Board.

6.7 Amendments. These Bylaws may be amended or repealed and new Bylaws may be adopted by the Board, but the Stockholders may make additional Bylaws and may alter and repeal any Bylaws whether such Bylaws were originally adopted by them or otherwise.

6.8 Conflict with Applicable Law or Certificate of Incorporation. These Bylaws are adopted subject to the DGCL and the Certificate of Incorporation. Whenever these Bylaws may conflict with the DGCL or the Certificate of Incorporation, such conflict shall be resolved in favor of the DGCL or the Certificate of Incorporation, as applicable.

 

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Exhibit 4.1

 

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Xxxxxxxxxx OVINTIV INC.
INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE xxxxxxxxxx CUSIP 69047Q 10 2 SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS This Certifies That is the owner of SPECIMEN
Countersigned:
AMERICAN STOCK TRANSFER TRUST& COMPANY, LLC (NEW YORK, NY) OR BY AST Trust Company Co(Canada) -Transfer Agent By Authorized Signature Fully Paid and Non-Assessable Shares of Common Stock, $0.01 Par Value, of
OVINTIV INC. transferable on the books of this Corporation in person or by attorney upon surrender of this Certificate duly endorsed or assigned. This Certificate and the shares represented hereby are subject to the laws of the State of Delaware, and to the Certificate of Incorporation and the Bylaws of the Corporation, as now or hereafter amended. This Certificate is not valid until countersigned by the Transfer Agent. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Certificate to be signed by the facsimile signatures of its duly authorized officers and to be sealed with the facsimile seal of the Corporation.
Dated: VINTIV IN
O C.
RPORA
O T
C E
DELAWAR E
CORPORATE SECRETARY CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Mountain Financial Print & Design, LLc


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OVINTIV INC.
AMERICAN STOCK TRANSFER & TRUST COMPANY, LLC TRANSFER FEE: AS REQUIRED
The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:
TEN COM - as tenants in common TEN ENT— as tenants by the entireties JT TEN — as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT—
Custodian (Cust)
(Minor) under Uniform Gifts to Minors
Act (State)
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, hereby sell, assign and transfer unto
PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS INCLUDING POSTAL ZIP CODE OF ASSIGNEE
Shares of the Common Stock represented by the within Certificate and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint
Attorney to transfer the said stock on the books of the within-named Corporation, with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated: 20,
Signature: X
Signature(s) Guaranteed:
Signature: X
THE SIGNATURE(S) TO THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST CORRESPOND WITH THE NAME(S) AS WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF THE CERTIFICATE IN EVERY PARTICULAR, WITHOUT ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT OR ANY CHANGE WHATEVER. THE SIGNATURE(S) SHOULD BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION (Banks, Stockbrokers,
Savings and Loan Associations and Credit Unions) WITH MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM, PURSUANT TO S.E.C. RULE 17Ad-15.

Exhibit 10.1

FORM OF DIRECTOR AND OFFICER INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT

THIS INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”) is effective as of the 24th day of January, 2020 between Ovintiv Inc. (the “Corporation”), and _________________ (the “Indemnified Party”).

RECITALS:

A.    The Board of Directors of the Corporation (the “Board”) considers it in the best interests of the Corporation to assure the Indemnified Party of reasonable protection through indemnification against certain risks arising out of service to, and activities on behalf of, the Corporation to the extent permitted by law.

B.    The Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation contemplates that the Indemnified Party may be indemnified in certain circumstances.

NOW THEREFORE in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein and other good and valuable consideration (the receipt and sufficiency of which are acknowledged), the parties agree as follows:

1.    Interpretation

1.1    Definitions. In this Agreement, the following terms have the following meaning:

Agreement” means this indemnification agreement, as it may be amended or restated from time to time and the words “Article” and “Section” followed by a number mean and refer to the specified article or section of this indemnification agreement.

Business Day” means any day, other than a Saturday, Sunday or statutory holiday in Denver, Colorado.

DGCL” means the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as amended from time to time and every statute that may be substituted therefor, and in the case of such amendment or substitution, any reference to the DGCL in this Agreement refers to the amended or substituted provisions therefor.

Losses” means all costs, charges, expenses (including other out-of-pocket expenses for attending discoveries, trials, hearings and meetings to prepare for those proceedings), losses, damages, Taxes, fees (including any legal, professional or advisory fees or disbursements reasonably incurred), awards, settlements, liabilities, fines, penalties, statutory obligations or amounts paid to settle or dispose of a claim or satisfy a judgment, in each case, which the Indemnified Party may reasonably suffer, sustain, incur or be required to pay in respect of a threatened, pending or completed Proceeding.

Proceeding” means a claim, demand, suit, proceeding, inquiry, hearing, discovery or investigation, of whatever nature or kind, whether threatened, reasonably anticipated, pending, commenced, continuing or completed, and any appeal, and whether or not brought by the Corporation or other entity described in Section 3.3, as applicable.

Taxes” includes any assessment, reassessment, claim or other amount for taxes, charges, duties, levies, imposts or similar amounts, including any interest and penalties in respect thereof, but excludes taxes on any fees, salary or other form of director or officer compensation the Indemnified Party receives.

1.2    Other Defined Terms. Words and expressions defined in the DGCL have the same meanings when used herein.


1.3    Gender and Number. Any reference in this Agreement to gender includes all genders and words importing the singular include the plural and vice versa.

1.4    Certain Phrases. In this Agreement:

1.4.1    the words “including” and “includes” mean “including (or includes) without limitation”; and

1.4.2    in the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, unless otherwise expressly stated, the word “from” means “from and including” and if the last day of any such period is not a Business Day, such period will end on the next Business Day.

1.5    Headings, etc. The division of this Agreement into Articles and Sections and the insertion of headings are for convenient reference only and are not to affect or be used in the construction or interpretation of this Agreement.

2.    Indemnification. The Corporation will, subject to Section 3, indemnify and save harmless the Indemnified Party and the heirs and legal representatives of the Indemnified Party to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law:

2.1    from and against all Losses sustained or incurred by the Indemnified Party in respect of any civil, criminal, administrative, investigative or other Proceeding to which the Indemnified Party is involved in by reason of being or having been a director or officer of the Corporation or other entity described in Section 3.3, as applicable; and

2.2    from and against all Losses sustained or incurred by the Indemnified Party as a result of serving as a director or officer of the Corporation in respect of any act, matter, deed or thing whatsoever made, done, committed, omitted, permitted or acquiesced in by the Indemnified Party as director or officer of the Corporation or other entity described in Section 3.3, as applicable, whether before or after the effective date of this Agreement and whether or not related to a Proceeding.

3.    Entitlement to Indemnification

3.1    The rights provided to an Indemnified Party hereunder will, subject to applicable law, apply without reduction to an Indemnified Party provided that: (a) the Indemnified Party acted honestly and in good faith with the view to the best interests of the Corporation or other entity described in Section 3.3, as applicable; and (b) in the case of a criminal or administrative action or Proceeding that is enforced by a monetary penalty, the Indemnified party had reasonable grounds for believing that his conduct was lawful.

3.2    This indemnity will not apply to: (a) claims initiated by the Indemnified Party against the Corporation or any other entity described in Section 3.3, as applicable, except for claims relating to the enforcement of this Agreement; (b) claims initiated by the Indemnified Party against any other person or entity unless the Corporation or other entity described in Section 3.3, as applicable, has joined with the Indemnified Party in or consented to the initiation of that Proceeding, and (c) claims by the Corporation for the forfeiture and recovery by the Corporation of bonuses or other compensation received by the Indemnified Party from the Corporation due to the Indemnified Party’s violation of applicable securities or other laws. To the extent prior court or other approval is required in connection with any indemnification obligation of the Corporation hereunder, the Corporation will seek and use all reasonable efforts to obtain that approval as soon as reasonably possible in the circumstances.

3.3    The indemnities in this Agreement also apply to an Indemnified Party in respect to his service at the Corporation’s request as: (a) an officer or director of another corporation; or (b) a similar role with another entity, including a partnership, trust, joint venture or other unincorporated entity.

3.4    In respect of a Proceeding by or on behalf of the Corporation or other entity described in Section 3.3, as applicable, to procure a judgment in its favour to which the Indemnified Party is made a party because of the Indemnified Party’s association with the Corporation or other entity described in Section 3.3, as applicable, the Corporation shall, at the Indemnified Party’s request and at the Corporation’s cost, promptly make an application for approval of a court of competent jurisdiction to indemnify the Indemnified Party against all Losses in connection with such Proceeding.

 

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4.    Presumptions/Knowledge. The knowledge and/or actions, or failure to act, of any other director, officer, agent or employee of the Corporation or any other entity will not be imputed to the Indemnified Party for any purposes of determining the right to indemnification under this Agreement.

5.    Notice by Indemnified Party. As soon as is practicable, upon the Indemnified Party becoming aware of any Proceeding which may give rise to indemnification under this Agreement other than a Proceeding commenced by the Corporation, the Indemnified Party will give written notice to the Corporation. Failure to give notice in a timely fashion will not disentitle the Indemnified Party to indemnification, except and only to the extent that the Corporation demonstrates that the failure results in the forfeiture by the Corporation of substantive rights or defenses. Upon receipt of such notice, the Corporation will give prompt notice of the Proceeding to any applicable insurer from whom the Corporation has purchased insurance that may provide coverage to the Indemnified Party in respect of the Proceeding.

6.    Investigation by Corporation. The Corporation may conduct any investigation it considers appropriate of any Proceeding of which it receives notice under Section 5, and will pay all costs of that investigation. Upon receipt of reasonable notice from the Corporation, the Indemnified Party will, acting reasonably, co-operate fully with the investigation provided that the Indemnified Party will not be required to provide assistance that would reasonably prejudice: (a) his defence; (b) his ability to fulfill his business obligations; or (c) his business and/or personal affairs. The Indemnified Party will, for the period of time that he cooperates with the Corporation with respect to an investigation, be compensated by the Corporation at the rate per day (or partial day) equivalent to the per diem that is payable by the Corporation to members of the Board in connection with their attendance at Board meetings, including a reimbursement for travelling and other expenses properly incurred by the Indemnified Party in connection therewith, such expenses to be reimbursed in the same manner as similar expenses for attendance at Board meetings are reimbursed. The Indemnified Party will not be entitled to the per diem if he is employed as an officer of the Corporation on such day.

7.    Defence of Action. Promptly after receiving written notice of any Proceeding or threatened Proceeding from the Indemnified Party, the Corporation shall, except as specified in Section 8, assume conduct of the defence thereof in a timely manner and retain counsel on behalf of the Indemnified Party, provided that such counsel is reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Party, to represent the Indemnified Party in respect of the Proceeding. In the event the Corporation assumes conduct of the defence on behalf of the Indemnified Party, the Indemnified Party hereby consents to the conduct thereof and of any action taken by the Corporation, in good faith, in connection therewith. The Indemnified Party shall fully cooperate in such defence including, without limitation, the provision of documents, attending examinations for discovery, making affidavits, meeting with counsel, testifying and divulging to the Corporation and its insurers all information reasonably required to defend or prosecute the Proceeding.

8.    Right to Independent Legal Counsel. If the Indemnified Party is named as a party or a witness to any Proceeding, or the Indemnified Party is questioned on any of his actions, omissions or activities are in any way investigated, reviewed or examined in connection with or in anticipation of any actual or potential Proceeding, the Indemnified Party will be entitled to retain independent legal counsel at the Corporation’s expense to act on the Indemnified Party’s behalf to provide initial assessment to the Indemnified Party of the appropriate course of action for the Indemnified Party. The Indemnified Party will not be entitled to continued representation by independent counsel at the Corporation’s expense beyond the initial assessment unless (i) the parties reasonably agree that there is conflict of interest between the Corporation and the Indemnified Party, on the one hand, and the Corporation, on the other hand, and the Indemnified Party shall have been advised by its counsel that representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to the actual or potential differing interests between them or (ii) the Corporation has not appointed counsel pursuant to Section 7 in a timely manner.

 

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9.    Partial Indemnification. If it is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction that the Indemnified Party is entitled under any provisions of this Agreement to indemnification by the Corporation for some or a portion of the Losses incurred in respect of any claim but not for the total amount thereof, the Corporation shall nevertheless indemnify the Indemnified Party for the portion thereof to which the Indemnified Party is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be so entitled.

10.    Payment for Expenses of a Witness. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, to the extent that the Indemnified Party is, by reason of the fact that the Indemnified Party is or was a director or officer of the Corporation or another entity, or acting in a capacity similar to an officer or director of another entity, at the Corporation’s request, a witness or participant other than as a named party in a Proceeding, the Corporation will pay to the Indemnified Party all out-of-pocket Expenses actually incurred by or on behalf of the Indemnified Party in connection therewith. The Indemnified Party will also be compensated by the Corporation at the rate per day (or partial day) equivalent to the per diem that is payable by the Corporation to members of the Board in connection with their attendance at Board meetings provided that the Indemnified Party will not be entitled to the per diem if he is a full-time employee of the Corporation on such day.

11.    Losses Advances. Subject to applicable law, the Corporation will, upon request by the Indemnified Party, make advances (“Losses Advances”) to the Indemnified Party of all Losses for which the Indemnified Party seeks indemnification under this Agreement before the final disposition of the relevant Proceeding. Losses Advances may include anticipated Losses. In connection with such requests, the Indemnified Party will provide the Corporation with a written affirmation of the Indemnified Party’s good faith belief that the Indemnified Party is legally entitled to indemnification in accordance with this Agreement, along with sufficient particulars of the Losses to be covered by the proposed Losses Advance to enable the Corporation to make an assessment of its reasonableness. The Indemnified Party’s entitlement to such Losses Advance will include those Losses incurred in connection with any Proceeding by the Indemnified Party against the Corporation seeking an adjudication or award pursuant to this Agreement. The Corporation will make payment to the Indemnified Party within 10 days after the Corporation has received the foregoing information from the Indemnified Party. All Losses Advances for which indemnification is sought must relate to Losses anticipated within a reasonable time of the request.

The Indemnified Party will repay to the Corporation all Losses Advances not actually required and will repay all Losses Advances if it is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction that the conditions of Section 3 are not met. If requested by the Corporation, the Indemnified Party will provide a written undertaking to the Corporation confirming the Indemnified Party’s obligations under the preceding sentence as a condition to receiving a Losses Advance.

12.    Indemnification Payments. Subject to Section 3 and with the exception of Losses Advances which are governed by Section 11, the Corporation will pay to the Indemnified Party any amounts to which the Indemnified Party is entitled hereunder promptly upon the Indemnified Party providing the Corporation with reasonable details of the claim. The Corporation will, forthwith after any request for payment to or for an Indemnified Party, seek any court approval that may be required to permit payment. If the conditions of Section 3 are not met, the Corporation will not be required to pay the Indemnified Party any amounts pursuant to this indemnification and, further, the Indemnified Party will repay all amounts paid thereto by the Corporation pursuant to this indemnification.

13.    Settlement. The parties will act reasonably in pursuing the settlement of any Proceeding. The Corporation may not negotiate or effect a settlement of claims against the Indemnified Party without the consent of the Indemnified Party, acting reasonably. The Indemnified Party may negotiate a proposed settlement without the consent of the Corporation. The Corporation will consider in good faith in the best interests of the Corporation whether or not to consent to any such proposed settlement and will advise the Indemnified Party of its determination on a timely basis. If the Corporation advises the Indemnified Party that it does not consent to the settlement provided the settlement is expressly stated to be made by the Indemnified Party on his own behalf without any admission of liability by the Indemnified Party and/or the Corporation, the Indemnified Party may nonetheless effect the settlement, but the Corporation will not be liable for indemnification under this Agreement with respect to any such settlement.

 

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14.    Directors’ & Officers’ Insurance. The Corporation will ensure that its liabilities under this Agreement, and the potential liabilities of the Indemnified Party that are subject to indemnification by the Corporation pursuant to this Agreement, are, at all times while the Indemnified Party is a director or officer of the Corporation or other entity described in Section 3.3, as applicable, and for a period of 6 years thereafter, supported by a directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policy (the “Policy”) with terms and conditions reasonably appropriate for a public company of a similar size and scope as the Corporation, without regard to the financial circumstances of the Corporation. As may be required by the Policy, the Corporation will immediately notify the Policy’s insurers of any occurrences or situations that could potentially trigger a claim under the Policy and will promptly advise the Indemnified Party that the insurers have been notified of the potential claim. If the Corporation is sold or enters into any business combination or other transaction as a result of which the Policy is terminated and not replaced with a substantially similar policy equally applicable to the Indemnified Party, the Corporation will cause run off “tail” insurance to be purchased for the benefit of the Indemnified Party with substantially the same coverage for the balance of the 6-year term set out in Section 24 without any gap in coverage. The Corporation will provide to the Indemnified Party a copy of each policy of insurance providing the coverage contemplated by this Section promptly after coverage is obtained, and evidence of each annual renewal thereof, and will promptly notify the Indemnified Party if the insurer cancels, makes material changes to coverage or refuses to renew coverage (or any part of the coverage).

14.1    Deductible. If for any reason whatsoever, the Policy insurer asserts that the Indemnified Party is subject to a deductible under any existing or future Policy purchased and maintained by the Corporation for the benefit of the Indemnified Party, the Corporation shall pay the deductible for and on behalf of the Indemnified Party.

14.2    No Double Recovery. The Corporation shall not be obligated to pay the Indemnified Party for any Losses which have been paid on behalf of the Indemnified Party under any insurance policy maintained by the Corporation or otherwise.

14.3    Subrogation. To the extent permitted by law, the Corporation shall be subrogated to all rights which Indemnified Party may have under all policies of insurance or other contracts pursuant to which Indemnified Party may be entitled to reimbursement of, or indemnification in respect of, any Losses borne by the Corporation pursuant to this Agreement.

15.    Arbitration. Except as otherwise required by applicable law, all disputes, disagreements, controversies or claims arising out of or relating to this Agreement, including, without limitation, with respect to its formation, execution, validity, application, interpretation, performance, breach, termination or enforcement will be determined by arbitration to be conducted before a single arbitrator pursuant to the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association, which will include the arbitrator determining, based on the outcomes of the arbitration, the breakdown between the Corporation and the Indemnified Party of the costs for conducting the arbitration.

16.    Tax Adjustment. Should any payment made pursuant to this Agreement, including the payment of insurance premiums or any payment made by an insurer under an insurance policy, be deemed to constitute a taxable benefit or otherwise be or become subject to any tax or levy, then the Corporation will pay any amount necessary to ensure that the amount received by or on behalf of the Indemnified Party, after the payment of or withholding for tax, fully reimburses the Indemnified Party for the actual cost, expense or liability incurred by or on behalf of the Indemnified Party. However, the foregoing sentence will not apply to any compensation paid as per diem to the Indemnified Party pursuant to Sections 6 or 10.

17.    Cost of Living Adjustment. The per diem payable pursuant to Sections 6 and 10 will be adjusted to reflect changes from the date of this Agreement in the All Items of the United States Consumer Price Index, published by the United States Department of Labor or any successor index or government agency in the event that such per diem would otherwise be less than the as adjusted amount.

 

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18.    Governing Law. The Agreement and the legal relations among the parties shall be governed by, and construed and enforced in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict of laws rules that would result in the application of the laws of another jurisdiction.

19.    Priority and Term. The Agreement will supersede any previous agreement between the Corporation and the Indemnified Party dealing with this subject matter, and will be deemed to be effective as of the date that is earlier of (a) the date on which the Indemnified Party first became a director or officer of the Corporation; or (b) the date on which the Indemnified Party first served, at the Corporation’s request, as a director or officer, or an individual acting in a capacity similar to a director or officer, of another entity.

20.    Severability. If any term or other provision of this Agreement is invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced by any rule or law, or public policy, all other conditions and provisions of this Agreement will nevertheless remain in full force and effect so long as the economic or legal substance of this Agreement is not affected in any manner materially adverse to either party. Upon such determination that any term or other provision is invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced, the parties hereto will negotiate in good faith to modify this Agreement so as to effect the original intent of the parties as closely as possible in an acceptable manner to the end that the provisions of this Agreement are fulfilled to the fullest extent possible.

21.    Binding Effect; Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall bind and enure to the benefit of the successors, heirs, executors, personal and legal representatives and permitted assigns of the parties hereto, including any direct or indirect successor by purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise to all or substantially all the business or assets of the Corporation. The Corporation shall require and cause any successor (whether direct or indirect, and whether by purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise) to all or substantially all of the business or assets of the Corporation, by written agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Party, expressly to assume and agree to perform this Agreement in the same manner and to the same extent that the Corporation would be required to perform if no such succession had taken place. Subject to the requirements of this Section 21, this Agreement may be assigned by the Corporation to any successor (whether direct or indirect, and whether by purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise) to all or substantially all of the business or assets of the Corporation. This Agreement may not be assigned by the Indemnified Party without the prior written consent of the Corporation.

22.    Covenant. The Corporation hereby covenants and agrees that it will not take any action, including, without limitation, the enacting, amending or repealing of any by-law, which would in any manner adversely affect or prevent the Corporation’s ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement.

23.    Parties to Provide Information and Co-operate. The Corporation and the Indemnified Party shall from time to time provide such information and co-operate with the other as the other may reasonably request in respect of all matters under this Agreement.

24.    Survival. The obligations of the Corporation under this Agreement, other than Section 14, will continue under the later of: (a) 10 years after the Indemnified Party ceases to be a director or officer of the Corporation or other entity described in Section 3.3, as applicable; and (b) with respect to any Proceeding commenced prior to the expiration of such 10-year period with respect to which the Indemnified Party is entitled to claim indemnification hereunder, one year after the final termination of that Proceeding. The obligations of the Corporation under Section 14 of this Agreement will continue for 6 years after the Indemnified Party ceases to be a director or officer of the Corporation or other entity described in Section 3.3, as applicable.

25.    Acknowledgement. The Indemnified Party acknowledges that he has been advised to obtain independent legal advice with respect to entering into this Agreement, that he has obtained such independent legal advice or has decided not to seek such advice, and that he is entering into this Agreement with full knowledge of its contents, of his own free will and with capacity and authority to do so.

26.    Confidentiality. The Indemnified Party shall keep this Agreement confidential and shall not disclose it or any of its terms to any other person except and only to the extent required by applicable law.

 

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27.    Insolvency. The liability of the Corporation under this Agreement shall not be affected, discharged, impaired, mitigated or released by reason of the discharge or release of the Indemnified Party in any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding of creditors. The rights of the Indemnified Party under this Agreement shall not be prejudiced or impaired by permitting or consenting to any assignment in bankruptcy, receivership, insolvency or any other creditor’s proceedings of or against the Corporation or other entity as described in Section 3.3, as applicable, or by the winding-up or dissolution of the Corporation or the other entity.

28.    Multiple Proceedings. No action or proceeding brought or instituted under this Agreement and no recovery pursuant thereto shall be a bar or defence to any further action or proceeding which may be brought under this Agreement.

29.    Notices. Any notice, consent, waiver or other communication given under this Agreement must be in writing and may be given by delivering it (whether in person, by courier service or other personal method of delivery) or sending it by e-mail or other similar form of electronic record transmission:

to the Indemnified Party at:

[Address]

Attention:

E-Mail:

to the Corporation at:

370 17th St, Suite 1700

Denver, CO 80202

United States

Attention: Chief Executive Officer

Any such communication is deemed to have been delivered on the date of personal delivery or transmission, as the case may be, if such day is a Business Day and such delivery or transmission was received by the recipient party prior to 5 p.m. (Denver time) and otherwise on the next Business Day. Any party may change its address for service by notice given in accordance with the foregoing and any subsequent notice must be sent to such party at its changed address.

30.    Amendments. This Agreement may only be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified by written agreement of the parties.

31.    Waiver. The failure or delay by a party in enforcing or insisting upon strict performance of any of the provisions of this Agreement does not constitute a waiver of such provision or in any way affect the validity or enforceability of this Agreement or deprive a party of the right, at any time or from time to time, to enforce or insist upon strict performance of that provision or any other provision of this Agreement. Any waiver by a party of any provision of this Agreement is effective only if in writing and signed by a duly authorized representative of such party.

32.    Time of the Essence. Time is of the essence of this Agreement.

33.    Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of separate counterparts (including by electronic means) and all such signed counterparts will together constitute one and the same agreement.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties have executed and delivered this Agreement.

 

OVINTIV INC.
By:    
 

Name:   

 

Title:   

By:    
  [Director/Officer]

 

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Exhibit 99.1

DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK

The following is a summary of the material terms of the capital stock of Ovintiv Inc. (“Ovintiv”), a Delaware Corporation. Because it is only a summary, it may not contain all of the information that may be important to you and is subject to, and qualified by reference to, the terms and provisions of Ovintiv’s certificate of incorporation (the “Certificate of Incorporation”) and bylaws (the “Bylaws”), copies of which are incorporated herein by reference, and the laws of the state of Delaware.

The Certificate of Incorporation authorizes 750,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, and 25,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.01 per share.

Common Stock

Stock Exchange Listings

The shares of common stock of Ovintiv are listed on the NYSE and the TSX under the symbol “OVV”.

Voting Rights

Each holder of shares of common stock is entitled to one vote for each share on all matters submitted to a vote of the stockholders, including the election of directors. Accordingly, holders of a majority of the voting shares are able to elect all of the directors of Ovintiv, subject to the rights, if any, of holders any series of preferred stock to elect additional directors under specific circumstances.

Dividends

Subject to preferences that may be applicable to any then outstanding shares of any series of preferred stock, holders of shares of common stock are entitled to receive dividends, if any, as may be declared from time to time by Ovintiv’s board of directors (the “Board of Directors”) out of legally available funds. Declaration and payment of any dividend will be subject to the discretion of the Board of Directors and may be paid in cash, in property or in shares of common stock.

Liquidation

In the event of Ovintiv’s liquidation, dissolution or winding up, holders of shares of common stock are entitled to share ratably in the net assets legally available for distribution to stockholders after the payment of all of Ovintiv’s debts and other liabilities and the satisfaction of any liquidation preference or other similar rights granted to the holders of any then outstanding shares of any series of preferred stock.

Rights and Preferences

Holders of shares of common stock have no pre-emptive, conversion, subscription or other rights, and there are no redemption or sinking fund provisions applicable to shares of common stock. The rights, preferences and privileges of the holders of shares of common stock are subject to and may be adversely affected by the rights of the holders of shares of any series of preferred stock that Ovintiv may designate in the future.

Fully Paid and Non-Assessable

All outstanding shares of common stock are fully paid and non-assessable and any additional common stock that Ovintiv may issue will, when issued, be fully paid and non-assessable.


Uncertificated Shares

Holders of shares of common stock of Ovintiv do not have the right to require Ovintiv to issue certificates for their shares.

Transfer Agent and Registrar

The transfer agent and registrar for the shares of common stock is American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC (“AST”). AST’s address is 6201 15th Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, 11219. AST, at its Canadian office, at AST Trust Company (Canada), P.O. Box 700, Station B, Montreal, QC H3B 3K3, acts as co-transfer agent.

Preferred Stock

The Certificate of Incorporation authorizes the Board of Directors from time to time to issue shares of preferred stock in one or more series and, with respect to each such series, to fix the number of shares constituting such series and the designations, powers, preferences, rights, qualifications, limitations and restrictions in respect of the shares of such series, without vote or action by the Ovintiv stockholders.

As of January 24, 2020 no shares of preferred stock were outstanding.

Annual Stockholder Meetings

The Bylaws provide that annual stockholder meetings will be held at a date, place (if any) and time, as exclusively selected by the Board of Directors. To the extent permitted under applicable law, Ovintiv may, but is not obligated to, conduct annual stockholder meetings by remote communications, including by webcast.

Anti-Takeover Effects of Provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws and Delaware Law

Some provisions of Delaware law and the Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws could make the following transactions difficult: acquisition of Ovintiv by means of a tender offer, merger or otherwise, or removal of incumbent officers and directors of Ovintiv by means of a proxy contest or otherwise. It is possible that these provisions could make it more difficult to accomplish or could deter transactions that stockholders may otherwise consider to be in their best interest or in the best interests of Ovintiv, including transactions that might result in a premium over the market price for shares of common stock.

These provisions, summarized below, are expected to discourage coercive takeover practices and inadequate takeover proposals. These provisions are also designed to encourage persons seeking to acquire control of Ovintiv to first negotiate with the Board of Directors. Ovintiv believes that the benefits of Ovintiv’s potential ability to negotiate with the proponent of an unfriendly or unsolicited proposal to acquire or restructure Ovintiv outweigh the disadvantages of discouraging these proposals because negotiation of these proposals could result in an improvement of their terms.

Undesignated Preferred Stock

The ability to authorize undesignated preferred stock will make it possible for the Board of Directors to issue shares of preferred stock with voting or other rights or preferences that could impede the success of any attempt to change control of Ovintiv. Such provision may have the effect of deterring hostile takeovers or delaying changes in control or management of Ovintiv.

Special Stockholder Meetings

The Bylaws provide that a special meeting of stockholders may be called only by the Board of Directors or by one or more stockholders of record holding at least 20% of the voting power of all outstanding shares of common stock. This may limit the ability of Ovintiv stockholders to take action between annual meetings without the prior approval of the Board of Directors.


Restriction on Stockholder Action by Written Consent

The Certificate of Incorporation does not permit stockholders to take action by written consent. This restriction forces stockholder action to be taken at annual and special meetings of Ovintiv stockholders and could delay the ability of stockholders to force consideration of a stockholder proposal or take action, including the removal of directors.

Requirements for Advance Notification of Stockholder Nominations and Proposals and Proxy Access

The Bylaws establish advance notice procedures with respect to stockholder proposals, the nomination of candidates for election as directors, other than nominations made by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or a committee of the Board of Directors and the inclusion of any such nominees in the proxy materials of Ovintiv.

Composition of the Board of Directors; Election and Removal of Directors

The Board of Directors consists of one or more members, the number thereof to be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors. As of January 24, 2020, the Board of Directors had 12 members. The directors of Ovintiv are elected until the expiration of the term for which they are elected and until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified. At each annual meeting of Ovintiv, directors will be elected to one-year terms that expire at the next annual meeting of stockholders.

Subject to the rights, if any, of holders of any series of preferred stock with respect to removal without cause of directors elected by such holders, the directors of Ovintiv may be removed with or without cause at any time by the holders of a majority of the voting power of Ovintiv’s then-outstanding common stock.

Directors on the Board of Directors will be elected by the vote of the majority of the votes cast with respect to the director at any meeting for the election of directors at which a quorum is present, except if, as of the date that is 14 days before Ovintiv files its definitive proxy statement (regardless of whether or not thereafter revised or supplemented) with the SEC, the number of director nominees exceeds the number of directors to be elected, in which case directors on the Board of Directors will be elected by the vote of a plurality of the shares represented in person or by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote on the election of directors. Unless plurality voting shall have applied to the election, any director who receives a greater number of “against” votes than votes “for” election shall offer to tender his or her resignation to the Board of Directors. In that event, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board of Directors will make a recommendation to the Board of Directors on whether to accept or reject the resignation, or whether other action should be taken. The Board of Directors will act on such recommendation within 90 days following certification of the election results.

Exclusive Forum

The Certificate of Incorporation provides that, unless Ovintiv consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, and subject to applicable jurisdictional requirements, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware will be the exclusive forum (or if the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware lacks jurisdiction, then another court of the State of Delaware or, if no court of the State of Delaware has jurisdiction, then the United States District Court for the District of Delaware) for: (a) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of Ovintiv; (b) any action asserting a breach of fiduciary duty owed by any current or former director, officer or stockholder of Ovintiv to Ovintiv or Ovintiv’s stockholders; (c) any action asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”); or (d) any action asserting a claim governed by the internal affairs doctrine. The exclusive forum provision does not purport to apply to suits brought to enforce a duty or liability created by the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder, or any other claim for which the United States federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction.


Such provision may limit the ability of an Ovintiv stockholder to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with directors, officers or other matters pertaining to Ovintiv’s internal affairs, and may discourage lawsuits with respect to such claims.

Business Combinations Involving Interested Stockholders

In general, Section 203 of the DGCL (“Section 203”) prohibits a publicly held Delaware corporation from engaging in a business combination with an interested stockholder for a period of three years following the date that such person became an interested stockholder, unless the business combination or the transaction in which such person became an interested stockholder is approved in a prescribed manner. Generally, a “business combination” is defined to include a merger, consolidation, a sale of assets and other transactions resulting in a financial benefit to the interested stockholder. Generally, an “interested stockholder” is a person that owns (or is an affiliate or associate of the corporation and within the prior three years did own) 15% or more of a corporation’s voting stock, and the affiliates and associates of any such person.

These restrictions do not apply if, among other things, the corporation’s certificate of incorporation contains a provision expressly electing not to be governed by Section 203. The Certificate of Incorporation opts out of Section 203.

Limitations of Liability and Indemnification Matters

The Certificate of Incorporation contains provisions that limit the liability of the directors of Ovintiv for monetary damages to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law. Consequently, Ovintiv directors will not be personally liable to Ovintiv or its stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duties as directors, except liability for:

 

   

any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to Ovintiv or its stockholders;

 

   

any act or omission not in good faith or that involves intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law;

 

   

willful or negligent declaration and payment of unlawful dividends, or unlawful share purchases or redemptions; or

 

   

any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.

The Certificate of Incorporation provides that Ovintiv is required to indemnify its directors and officers, in each case to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law. The Certificate of Incorporation also obligates Ovintiv to advance expenses incurred by a director or officer in advance of the final disposition of any action or proceeding. In addition, Ovintiv has entered into agreements with Ovintiv directors and officers to indemnify such directors and officers. With specified exceptions, these agreements provide for indemnification against all liability and loss suffered and expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement by any of these individuals in any action, suit or proceeding, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. In addition, Ovintiv maintains directors’ and officers’ liability insurance.

The limitation of liability and indemnification provisions in the Certificate of Incorporation may discourage stockholders from bringing a lawsuit against Ovintiv directors and officers for breach of their fiduciary duty. They may also reduce the likelihood of derivative litigation against Ovintiv directors and officers, even though an action, if successful, might benefit Ovintiv and its stockholders. Furthermore, a stockholder’s investment may be adversely affected to the extent that Ovintiv pays the costs of settlement or damages.

Exhibit 99.2

 

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Encana Completes Reorganization and Establishes Corporate Domicile in the U.S.

Company to begin trading on NYSE and TSX as Ovintiv on January 27, 2020

CALGARY, January 24, 2020 — Encana Corporation (NYSE, TSX: ECA) announced today they have completed a previously announced series of reorganization transactions (collectively, the “Reorganization”), resulting in the company: (i) establishing its corporate domicile in the U.S.; (ii) rebranding under the name Ovintiv Inc. (“Ovintiv”); and (iii) completing a consolidation and share exchange for effectively one share of common stock of Ovintiv for every five common shares of Encana. The Company received very strong securityholder support with more than 90% of votes cast in favor of the Reorganization.

Pursuant to the Reorganization, registered holders of Encana will be entitled to receive their shares of Ovintiv by submitting a properly completed Letter of Transmittal. The Letter of Transmittal was previously mailed to registered Encana shareholders and is also available on Encana’s website at www.encana.com, on Encana’s SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com and on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Beneficial shareholders of Encana will receive their shares of common stock of Ovintiv through the broker, financial institution or other nominee through which their common shares of Encana are held.

The shares of common stock of Ovintiv will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (the “TSX”) at the opening of trading January 27, 2020, and will trade under the symbol “OVV” on a post-consolidation basis. The common shares of Encana will be suspended from trading on the NYSE and the TSX prior to the opening of trading January 27, 2020.

Financial and Legal Advisors

Citi acted as financial advisors to Encana. Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP acted as Canadian corporate counsel, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP acted as U.S. corporate counsel, Felesky Flynn LLP acted as Canadian tax counsel and Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, acted as U.S. tax counsel to Encana.

ADVISORY REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS – This news release contains forward-looking statements or information (collectively, “FLS”) within the meaning of applicable securities legislation, including Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. FLS include: the anticipated benefits of the Reorganization that includes, among other things, the U.S. domestication; and expectations with respect to de-listing of the Encana common shares from the NYSE and TSX. FLS involve assumptions, risks and uncertainties that may cause such statements not to occur or results to differ materially. Risks and uncertainties include: risks that the description of the transactions in external communications may not properly reflect the underlying legal and tax principles of the reorganization; and other risks and uncertainties as described in Encana’s Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and as described from time to time in Encana’s other periodic filings as filed on SEDAR and EDGAR. Although Encana believes such FLS are reasonable, there can be no assurance they will prove to be correct. The above assumptions, risks and uncertainties are not exhaustive. FLS are made as of the date hereof and, except as required by law, Encana undertakes no obligation to update or revise any FLS.

Further information on Encana Corporation is available on the company’s website, www.encana.com, or by contacting:

 

Investor contact:

(281) 210-5110

(403) 645-3550

  

Media contact:

(281) 210-5253

SOURCE: Encana Corporation

 

 

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