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EXHIBIT 3.2
AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
PEOPLEPC INC.
PeoplePC Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the
State of Delaware (the "Corporation"), hereby certifies that:
A. The name of this corporation is PeoplePC Inc..
B. The date of filing of the Corporation's original Certificate of
Incorporation with the Secretary of State of Delaware was March 2, 1999.
C. Pursuant to Sections 242 and 245 of the Delaware General Corporation
Law, this Restated Certificate of Incorporation restates, integrates and amends
the provisions of the Corporation's Amended and Restated Certificate of
Incorporation as follows:
FIRST: The name of the corporation is PeoplePC Inc.
SECOND: The address of the Corporation's registered office in the
State of Delaware is Corporation Service Company, 1013 Centre Road, County of
New Castle, Wilmington, Delaware 19801. The name of its registered agent at such
address is Corporation Service Company.
THIRD: The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act
or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
FOURTH: The Corporation is authorized to issue two classes of shares
to be designated, respectively, Common Stock and Preferred Stock. The total
number of shares of Common Stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is
500,000,000, with a par value of $0.0001 per share, and the total number of
shares of Preferred Stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is
50,000,000, with a par value of $0.0001 per share.
The Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more series.
The Board of Directors is hereby authorized, subject to limitations prescribed
by law, to fix by resolution or resolutions the designations, powers,
preferences and rights, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions
thereof, of any wholly unissued series of Preferred Stock, including without
limitation authority to fix by resolution or resolutions the dividend rights,
dividend rate, conversion rights, voting rights, rights and terms of redemption
(including sinking fund provisions), redemption price or prices, and liquidation
preferences of any such series, and the number of shares constituting any such
series and the designation thereof, or any of the foregoing.
The Board of Directors is further authorized to increase (but not above the
total number of authorized shares of the class) or decrease (but not below the
number of shares of any such series then outstanding) the number of shares of
any series, the number of which was fixed by it,
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subsequent to the issuance of shares of such series then outstanding, subject to
the powers, preferences and rights, and the qualifications, limitations and
restrictions thereof stated in the Certificate of Incorporation or the
resolution of the Board of Directors originally fixing the number of shares of
such series. If the number of shares of any series is so decreased, then the
shares constituting such decrease shall resume the status which they had prior
to the adoption of the resolution originally fixing the number of shares of such
series.
FIFTH: The Corporation is to have perpetual existence.
SIXTH: Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless a
stockholder demands election by written ballot at the meeting and before voting
begins or unless the Bylaws of the Corporation shall so provide.
SEVENTH: The management of the business and the conduct of the affairs
of the Corporation shall be vested in its Board of Directors. The number of
directors constituting the whole Board of Directors shall be designated in the
Bylaws of the Corporation.
The Board of Directors shall be divided into three classes designated as
Class I, Class II, and Class III, respectively. Directors shall be assigned to
each class in accordance with a resolution or resolutions adopted by the Board
of Directors. At the first annual meeting of stockholders following the date
hereof, the term of office of the Class I directors shall expire, and Class I
directors shall be elected for a full term of three years. At the second annual
meeting of stockholders following the date hereof, the term of office of the
Class II directors shall expire, and Class II directors shall be elected for a
full term of three years. At the third annual meeting of stockholders following
the date hereof, the term of office of the Class III directors shall expire, and
Class III directors shall be elected for a full term of three years. At each
succeeding annual meeting of stockholders, directors shall be elected for a full
term of three years to succeed the directors of the class whose terms expire at
such annual meeting.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Article, each director
shall serve until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified or until
his or her death, resignation, or removal. No decrease in the number of
directors constituting the Board of Directors shall shorten the term of any
incumbent director.
Any vacancies on the Board of Directors resulting from death, resignation,
disqualification, removal, or other causes shall be filled by either (i) the
affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power of the then-
outstanding shares of voting stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally
in the election of directors (the "Voting Stock") voting together as a single
class; or (ii) by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors
then in office, even though less than a quorum of the Board of Directors. Newly
created directorships resulting from any increase in the number of directors
shall, unless the Board of Directors determines by resolution that any such
newly created directorship shall be filled by the stockholders, be filled only
by the affirmative vote of the directors then in office, even though less than a
quorum of the Board of Directors. Any director elected in accordance with the
preceding sentence shall hold office for the remainder of the
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full term of the class of directors in which the new directorship was created or
the vacancy occurred and until such director's successor shall have been elected
and qualified.
No action shall be taken by the stockholders of the Corporation except at
an annual or special meeting of the stockholders called in accordance with the
Bylaws and no action shall be taken by the stockholders by written consent.
Any director may be removed from office by the stockholders of the
corporation only for cause.
The affirmative vote of sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66-2/3%) of the
voting power of the then outstanding shares of Voting Stock, voting together as
a single class, shall be required for the adoption, amendment or repeal of the
following sections of the Corporation's Bylaws by the stockholders of the
Corporation: Section 1.1 (Annual Meeting), 1.2 (Advance Notice Procedures), 1.3
(Special Meetings), 1.4 (Notice of Meetings), 1.11 (Action by Written Consent),
2.2 (Number and Qualifications of Directors), 2.3 (Election and Term of Office
of Directors), 2.4 (Resignation and Vacancies of Directors), 2.5 (Removal of
Directors), 2.6 (Regular Meetings of Directors), and 7.7 (Supermajority Voting).
EIGHTH: A. To the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General
Corporation Law as the same exists or as may hereafter be amended, a director of
the Corporation or any subsidiary of the Corporation shall not be personally
liable to the Corporation or its stockholders and shall otherwise be indemnified
by the Corporation for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a
director of the Corporation, any predecessor of the Corporation or any
subsidiary of the Corporation.
B. The Corporation shall indemnify to the fullest extent
permitted by law any person made or threatened to be made a party to an action
or proceeding, whether criminal, civil, administrative or investigative, by
reason of the fact that he, his testator or intestate is or was a director or
officer of the Corporation, any predecessor of the Corporation or any subsidiary
of the Corporation or serves or served at any other enterprise as a director or
officer at the request of the Corporation, any predecessor to the Corporation or
any subsidiary of the Corporation.
C. Neither any amendment nor repeal of this Article EIGHTH,
nor the adoption of any provision of the Corporation's Certificate of
Incorporation inconsistent with this Article EIGHTH, shall eliminate or reduce
the effect of this Article EIGHTH, in respect of any matter occurring, or any
action or proceeding accruing or arising or that, but for this Article EIGHTH,
would accrue or arise, prior to such amendment, repeal, or adoption of an
inconsistent provision.
NINTH: Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Certificate of
Incorporation or any provision of law which might otherwise permit a lesser vote
or no vote, but in addition to any affirmative vote of the holders of any
particular class or series of the Voting Stock required by law, this Certificate
of Incorporation or any rights of designation of Preferred Stock conferred on
the Board of Directors pursuant to Article FOURTH, the affirmative vote of the
holders of at least sixty-
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six and two-thirds percent (66-2/3%) of the voting power of all of the then-
outstanding shares of the Voting Stock, voting together as a single class, shall
be required to alter, amend or repeal Article SEVENTH, this Article NINTH, or
Article FOURTEENTH.
TENTH: Except as provided in Article EIGHTH, the Corporation
reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in
this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, in the manner now or
hereafter prescribed by statute, and all rights conferred upon the stockholders
herein are granted subject to this right.
ELEVENTH: In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred
by statute, the Board of Directors is expressly authorized to make, alter, amend
or repeal the Bylaws of the Corporation.
TWELFTH: Meetings of stockholders may be held within or without the
State of Delaware, as the Bylaws may provide. The books of the Corporation may
be kept (subject to any provision contained in the statutes) outside of the
State of Delaware at such place or places as may be designated from time to time
by the Board of Directors or in the Bylaws of the Corporation.
THIRTEENTH: Advance written notice of new business and stockholder
nominations for the election of directors shall be given in the manner and to
the extent provided in the Bylaws of the Corporation.
FOURTEENTH: Stockholders shall not be entitled to cumulative voting
rights for the election of directors.
This Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation has been duly
adopted by the stockholders of the Corporation in accordance with the provisions
of Sections 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware,
as amended.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, PeoplePC Inc. has caused this Amended and Restated
Certificate of Incorporation to be signed by Nick Grouf, its President, and
attested by Glen Kohl, its Secretary, this ____ day of August, 2000.
PEOPLEPC INC.
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Nick Grouf, President
Attested:
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Glen Kohl, Secretary
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