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EXHIBIT 4.1
DIODES INCORPORATED
SPECIMEN COMMON STOCK CERTIFICATE
DIODES INCORPORATED
NUMBER: NU 14834
INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE
SHARES: SPECIMEN
See reverse for certain definitions
CUSIP: 254543 10 1
This Certifies that: SPECIMEN
Is the registered owner of:
FULLY PAID AND NONASSESSABLE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK, $.66 2/3 PAR VALUE, OF
DIODES INCORPORATED
Transfer of which is registrable on the share register of the Corporation, upon
surrender of this Certificate properly endorsed. This Certificate is not valid
until countersigned by the Transfer Agent and registered by the Registrar.
WITNESS the seal of the Corporation and the signatures of its duly authorized
officers.
Dated:
/s/ Joseph Liu
Secretary
/s/ David Lin
President
DIODES INCORPORATED
CORPORATE SEAL
1968
DELAWARE
COUNTERSIGNED AND REGISTERED:
CONTINENTAL STOCK TRANSFER & TRUST COMPANY
(Jersey City, NJ)
TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR,
BY: SPECIMEN
AUTHORIZED OFFICER
Security-Columbian, United States Banknote Corporation
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The Corporation shall furnish without charge to each stockholder who so requests
a statement of the powers, designations, preferences and relative,
participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock of the
Corporation or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or
restrictions of such preferences and/or rights. Such requests shall be made to
the Corporation's Secretary at the principal office of the Corporation.
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)
UNIF TRF MIN ACT - ............... Custodian (until age ...............)
(Cust)
..................... under Uniform Transfers
(Minor)
to Minors Act .......................
(State)
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, ___________________ Hereby sell, assign and transfer unto
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE
SPECIMEN
(PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING 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
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X
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X
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Notice: 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.
Signature(s) Guaranteed
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By
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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.
