Exhibit
3.01
CERTIFICATE OF
DESIGNATIONS
OF
SERIES D JUNIOR PARTICIPATING
PREFERRED STOCK
OF
WPCS
INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
Pursuant
to Section 151 of the
General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware
The
undersigned, Andrew Hidalgo, Chief Executive Officer of WPCS International
Incorporated, a Delaware corporation (the “Corporation”) DOES
HEREBY CERTIFY that:
(A) the
Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, as amended, authorizes the
Corporation to issue twenty-five million (25,000,000) shares of common stock of
par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”) and
five million (5,000,000) shares of Preferred Stock of par value $0.0001 per
share; and
(B) the
Board of Directors of the Corporation adopted the following resolution on
February 24, 2010, at a special meeting of the Board of Directors of the
Corporation, and such resolution has not been rescinded or amended and is in
full force and effect as of the date hereof:
RESOLVED, that pursuant to the
authority conferred upon the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of WPCS
International Incorporated, a Delaware corporation (the “Corporation”), by the
provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation (as amended
from time to time, the “Certificate of
Incorporation”), there hereby is created, out of the five million
(5,000,000) shares of Preferred Stock, $0.0001 par value (the “Preferred Stock”),
authorized in Article iv of the Certificate of Incorporation, a series of
Preferred Stock of the Corporation consisting of One Hundred Thousand (100,000)
shares, having the following designations, preferences, relative, participating,
optional and other special rights, voting powers, qualifications, limitations
and restrictions:
SERIES D JUNIOR PARTICIPATING
PREFERRED STOCK
I. Designation and Amount. The
shares of such series shall be designated as “Series D Junior Participating
Preferred Stock” (the “Series D Preferred
Stock”) and the number of shares constituting such series shall be One
Hundred Thousand (100,000). Such number of shares may be increased or decreased
by resolution of the Board of Directors, provided that no decrease shall reduce
the number of shares of Series D Preferred Stock to a number less than that
of the shares then outstanding plus the number of shares reserved for issuance
upon the exercise of outstanding options, rights or warrants or upon the
conversion of any outstanding securities issued by the Corporation convertible
into Series D Preferred Stock.
II. Dividends
and Distributions.
(A) Subject
to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of
Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series D Preferred
Stock, the holders of shares of Series D Preferred Stock, in preference to the
holders of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share (or as such par value may be
changed from time to time), of the Corporation (the “Common Stock”) and of
any other junior stock, shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared
by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose,
quarterly dividends payable in cash on or about the last day of each of January,
April, July and October in each year (each such date being referred to herein as
a “Quarterly Dividend
Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date
after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of Series D Preferred
Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater
of (i) $0.10 or (ii) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter
set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and
1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash
dividends or other distributions, other than a dividend payable in shares of
Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by
reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the
immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the
first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or
fraction of a share of Series D Preferred Stock. If the Corporation shall at any
time on or after February 2, 2010 (the “Record Date”) declare
or pay any dividend on the Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, or
effect a subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares
of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend
in shares of Common Stock) into a greater or lesser number of shares of Common
Stock, then in each such case the amount to which holders of shares of Series D
Preferred Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii)
of the preceding sentence shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a
fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of which is the
number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such
event.
(B) The
Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series D Preferred
Stock as provided in paragraph (A) of this Section immediately after it
declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend
payable in shares of Common Stock); provided that, in the event no dividend or
distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock during the period
between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly
Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $0.10 per share on the Series D Preferred
Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend
Payment Date.
(C) Dividends
shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of Series D
Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date
of issue of such shares of Series D Preferred Stock, unless the date of issue of
such shares is prior to the record date for the first Quarterly Dividend Payment
Date, in which case dividends on such shares shall begin to accrue from the date
of issue of such shares, or unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend
Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of holders
of shares of Series D Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend
and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such
dividends shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend
Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends shall not bear interest. Dividends
paid on the shares of Series D Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total
amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares shall be
allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time
outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination
of holders of shares of Series D Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of
a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date shall be not more
than 60 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
III. Voting Rights. The holders of
shares of Series D Preferred Stock shall have the following voting
rights:
(A) Subject
to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, each share of Series D
Preferred Stock shall entitle the holder thereof to 1,000 votes on all matters
submitted to a vote of the stockholders of the Corporation. If the Corporation
shall at any time on or after the Record Date declare or pay any dividend on
Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, or effect a subdivision or
combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by
reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in shares of Common
Stock) into a greater or lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then in each
such case the number of votes per share to which holders of shares of Series D
Preferred Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event shall be adjusted
by multiplying such number by a fraction the numerator of which is the number of
shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event and the
denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were
outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(B) Except
as otherwise provided herein, in the Certificate of Incorporation, in any other
Certificate of Designations creating a series of Preferred Stock, or by law, the
holders of shares of Series D Preferred Stock and the holders of shares of
Common Stock and any other capital stock of the Corporation having general
voting rights shall vote together as one class on all matters submitted to a
vote of stockholders of the Corporation.
(C) (i) If
at any time dividends on any Series D Preferred Stock shall be in arrears in an
amount equal to six (6) quarterly dividends thereon, the occurrence of such
contingency shall mark the beginning of a period (herein called a “default period”)
which shall extend until such time when all accrued and unpaid dividends for all
previous quarterly dividend periods and for the current quarterly dividend
period on all shares of Series D Preferred Stock then outstanding shall have
been declared and paid or set apart for payment. During each default period, all
holders of all series of voting Preferred Stock (collectively, the “Voting Preferred
Stock”) (including holders of the Series D Preferred Stock) with
dividends in arrears in an amount equal to six (6) quarterly dividends
thereon, voting as a class, irrespective of series, shall have the right to
elect one (1) Director.
(ii) During
any default period, such voting right of the holders of Series D Preferred Stock
may be exercised initially at a special meeting called pursuant to subparagraph
(iii) of this Section III(c)
or at any annual meeting of the stockholders, and thereafter at annual meetings
of stockholders, provided that such voting right shall not be exercised unless
the holders of twenty-five percent (25%) in number of shares of Voting Preferred
Stock outstanding shall be present in person or by proxy. The absence of a
quorum of the holders of Common Stock shall not affect the exercise by the
holders of Voting Preferred Stock of such voting right. At any meeting at which
the holders of Voting Preferred Stock shall exercise such voting right initially
during an existing default period, they shall have the right, voting as a class,
to elect a Director to fill such vacancy, if any, in the Board of Directors as
may then exist up to one (1) Director or, if such right is exercised at an
annual meeting, to elect one (1) Director. If the number which my be so elected
at any special meeting does not amount to the required number, the holders of
Voting Preferred Stock shall have the right to make such increase in the number
of Directors as shall be necessary to permit the election by them of the
required number. After the holders of the Voting Preferred Stock shall have
exercised their right to elect a Director in any default period and during the
continuance of such period, the number of Directors shall not be increased or
decreased except by vote of the holders of Voting Preferred Stock as herein
provided or pursuant to the rights of any equity securities ranking senior to or
pari passu with the
Series D Preferred Stock.
(iii) Unless
the holders of Voting Preferred Stock shall, during an existing default period,
have previously exercised their right to elect a Director, the Board of
Directors may order, or any stockholder or stockholders owning in the aggregate
not less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the total number of shares of Voting
Preferred Stock outstanding, irrespective of series, may request, the calling of
a special meeting of the holders of Voting Preferred Stock, which meeting shall
thereupon be called by the President, a Vice President or the Secretary of the
Corporation. Notice of such meeting and of any annual meeting at which holders
of Voting Preferred Stock are entitled to vote pursuant to this paragraph
(c)(iii), shall be given to each holder of record of Voting Preferred Stock by
mailing a copy of such notice to such holder at the last address as the same
appears on the books of the Corporation. Such meeting shall be called for a time
not earlier than 20 days and not later than 60 days after such order
or request or in default of the calling of such meeting within 60 days
after such order or request, such meeting may be called on similar notice by any
stockholder or stockholders owning in the aggregate not less than twenty-five
percent (25%) of the total number of shares of Voting Preferred Stock
outstanding. Notwithstanding the provisions of this paragraph (c)(iii), no such
special meeting shall be called during the period within 60 days
immediately preceding the date fixed for the next annual meeting of the
stockholders.
(iv) In
any default period, the holders of Common Stock, and other classes of stock of
the Corporation if applicable, shall continue to be entitled to elect the whole
number of Directors until the holders of Voting Preferred Stock shall have
exercised their right to elect one (1) Director voting as a class, after
the exercise of which right (A) the Director so elected by such holders of
Voting Preferred Stock shall continue in office until his or her successor shall
have been elected by such holders or until the expiration of the default period,
and (B) any vacancy of the Board of Directors may (except as provided in
paragraph (c)(ii) of this Section III) be
filled by vote of a majority of the remaining Directors theretofore elected by
the holders of the class of stock which elected the Director whose office shall
have become vacant. References in this paragraph (c) to Directors elected
by the holders of a particular class of stock shall include Directors elected by
such Directors to fill vacancies as provided in clause (B) of the preceding
sentence.
(v) Immediately
upon the expiration of a default period, (A) the right of the holders of
Voting Preferred Stock as a class to elect a Director shall cease, (B) the
term of any Director elected by the holders of Voting Preferred Stock as a class
shall terminate, and (C) the number of Directors shall be such number as
may be provided for in the Certificate of Incorporation or the Bylaws of the
Corporation irrespective of any increase made pursuant to the provisions of
paragraph (c)(ii) of this Section III
(such number being subject, however, to change thereafter in any manner provided
by law or in this Certificate of Incorporation or the Bylaws of the
Corporation). Any vacancies in the Board of Directors effected by the provisions
of clauses (B) and (C) in the preceding sentence may be filled by a
majority of the remaining Directors.
(D) Except
as set forth herein, holders of Series D Preferred Stock shall have no special
voting rights and their consent shall not be required (except to the extent they
are entitled to vote with holders of Common Stock as set forth herein) for
taking any corporate action.
IV. Certain
Restrictions.
(A) Whenever
quarterly dividends or other dividends or distributions payable on the Series D
Preferred Stock as provided in Section II are
in arrears, thereafter and until all accrued and unpaid dividends and
distributions, whether or not declared, on shares of Series D Preferred Stock
outstanding shall have been paid in full, the Corporation shall
not:
(i) declare
or pay dividends on or make any other distributions on any shares of stock
ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or
winding up) to the Series D Preferred Stock;
(ii) declare
or pay dividends on or make any other distributions on any shares of stock
ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or
winding up) with the Series D Preferred Stock, except dividends paid ratably on
the Series D Preferred Stock and all such parity stock on which dividends are
payable or in arrears in proportion to the total amounts to which the holders of
all such shares are then entitled;
(iii) redeem
or purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration shares of any stock ranking
junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up)
to the Series D Preferred Stock, provided that the Corporation may at any time
redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire shares of any such junior stock in
exchange for shares of any stock of the Corporation ranking junior (either as to
dividends or upon dissolution, liquidation or winding up) to the Series D
Preferred Stock; or
(iv) redeem
or purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of Series D
Preferred Stock, or any shares of stock ranking on a parity with the Series D
Preferred Stock, except in accordance with a purchase offer made in writing or
by publication (as determined by the Board of Directors) to all holders of such
shares upon such terms as the Board of Directors, after consideration of the
respective annual dividend rates and other relative rights and preferences of
the respective series and classes, shall determine in good faith will result in
fair and equitable treatment among the respective series or
classes.
(B) The
Corporation shall not permit any Subsidiary of the Corporation to purchase or
otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of stock of the Corporation
unless the Corporation could, under paragraph (A) of this Section IV,
purchase or otherwise acquire such shares at such time and in such
manner.
V. Reacquired Shares. Any shares
of Series D Preferred Stock purchased or otherwise acquired by the Corporation
in any manner whatsoever shall be retired and cancelled promptly after the
acquisition thereof. All such shares shall upon their cancellation become
authorized but unissued shares of Preferred Stock and may be reissued as part of
a new series of Preferred Stock subject to the conditions and restrictions on
issuance set forth herein, in the Certificate of Incorporation, or in any other
Certificate of Designations creating a series of Preferred Stock or any similar
stock or as otherwise required by law.
VI. Liquidation, Dissolution or Winding
Up. Upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation,
no distribution shall be made:
(A) Upon
any liquidation (voluntary or otherwise), dissolution or winding up of the
Corporation, no distribution shall be made to the holders of shares of stock
ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or
winding up) to the Series D Preferred Stock unless, prior thereto, the holders
of shares of Series D Preferred Stock shall have received $1,000.00 per share,
plus an amount equal to accrued and unpaid dividends and distributions thereon,
whether or not declared, to the date of such payment (the “Series D Liquidation
Preference”). Following the payment of the full amount of the Series D Liquidation
Preference, no additional distributions shall be made to the holders of shares
of Series D
Preferred Stock unless, prior thereto, the holders of shares of Common Stock
shall have received an amount per share (the “Common Adjustment”) equal to the
quotient obtained by dividing (i) the Series D Liquidation
Preference by (ii) 1,000 (as appropriately adjusted as set forth in
subparagraph (C) below to reflect such events as stock splits, stock
dividends and recapitalizations with respect to the Common Stock) (such number
in clause (ii), the “Adjustment Number”).
Following the payment of the full amount of the Series D Liquidation
Preference and the Common Adjustment in respect of all outstanding shares of
Series D
Preferred Stock and Common Stock, respectively, holders of Series D Preferred
Stock and holders of shares of Common Stock shall receive their ratable and
proportionate share of the remaining assets to be distributed in the ratio of
the Adjustment Number to 1 with respect to such Preferred Stock and Common
Stock, on a per share basis, respectively.
(B) If,
however, there are not sufficient assets available to permit payment in full of
the Series D
Liquidation Preference and the liquidation preferences of all other series of
Preferred Stock, if any, which rank on a parity with the Series D Preferred
Stock, then such remaining assets shall be distributed ratably to the holders of
such parity shares in proportion to their respective liquidation preferences.
If, however, there are not sufficient assets available to permit payment in full
of the Common Adjustment, then such remaining assets shall be distributed
ratably to the holders of Common Stock.
(C) If
the Corporation shall at any time after the Record Date (i) declare any dividend
on Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivide the
outstanding Common Stock, or (iii) combine the outstanding Common Stock
into a small number of shares, then in each such case the Adjustment Number in
effect immediately prior to such event shall be adjusted by multiplying such
Adjustment Number by a fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares
of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of
which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately
prior to such event.
VII. Consolidation, Merger, etc. If
the Corporation shall enter into any consolidation, merger, combination or other
transaction in which the shares of Common Stock are exchanged for or changed
into other stock or securities, cash and/or any other property, then in any such
case the shares of Series D Preferred
Stock shall at the same time be similarly exchanged or changed in an amount per
share (subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth) equal to
1,000 times the aggregate amount of stock, securities, cash and/or any other
property (payable in kind), as the case may be, into which or for which each
share of Common Stock is changed or exchanged. In the event the Corporation
shall at any time after the Record Date declare or pay any dividend on Common
Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, or effect a subdivision or combination
or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification
or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in shares of Common Stock) into a
greater or lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then in each such case the
amount set forth in the preceding sentence with respect to the exchange or
change of shares of Series D Preferred
Stock shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction the numerator
of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after
such event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock
that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
VIII. No Redemption. The shares of
Series D
Preferred Stock shall not be redeemable.
IX. Rank. The Series D Preferred
Stock shall rank, with respect to the payment of dividends and the distribution
of assets, junior to all other series of the Preferred Stock, whether designated
or issued before or after the date of this Certificate of Designations, unless
the terms of any such series shall provide otherwise.
X. Fractional Shares. The Series D Preferred
Stock may be issued in fractions of a share that shall entitle the holder, in
proportion to such holder’s fractional shares, to exercise voting rights,
receive dividends, participate in distributions and have the benefit of all
other rights of holders of the Series D Preferred
Stock.
XI. Amendment. The Certificate of
Incorporation shall not be amended in any manner that would materially alter or
change the powers, preferences or special rights of the Series D Preferred
Stock so as to affect them adversely without the affirmative vote of the holders
of two-thirds of the outstanding shares of Series D Preferred
Stock, voting together as a single series.
[Remainder
of Page Left Intentionally Blank]
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Certificate of Designations of
Series D Junior
Participating Preferred Stock of WPCS International Incorporated to be signed by
its Chief Executive Officer on this 25th day of February, 2010.
|
|
|
|
|
|
WPCS
INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
By:
|
/s/
ANDREW HIDALGO
|
|
|
|
Name:
|
Andrew
Hidalgo
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Chief
Executive Officer
|
|
7