ORION ENERGY SYSTEMS, INC - Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.3 to the Companys Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Reg. No.333-145569)).
EXHIBIT 3.3
AMENDED AND RESTATED
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
ORION ENERGY SYSTEMS, INC.
These Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation supersede and take the place of the
heretofore existing Articles of Incorporation and any amendments thereto.
ARTICLE I. NAME
The name of the Corporation is Orion Energy Systems, Inc.
ARTICLE II. PURPOSES
The Corporation is organized under the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law. The purposes for
which this Corporation is organized are to engage in any lawful activity within the purposes for
which corporations may be organized under the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law.
ARTICLE III. DURATION
The period of existence shall be perpetual.
ARTICLE IV. CAPITAL STOCK
The total number of shares of all classes of capital stock which the Corporation shall have
authority to issue is two hundred thirty million (230,000,000) shares, consisting of: (i) two
hundred million (200,000,000) shares of a class designated as Common Stock, with no par value per
share; and (ii) thirty million (30,000,000) shares of a class designated as Preferred Stock, with
a par value of one cent ($.0l) per share
Any and all such shares of Common Stock and all Preferred Stock may be issued for such
consideration, not less than the par value thereof, as shall be fixed from time to time by the
Board of Directors. Any and all of the shares so issued, the full consideration for which has been
paid or delivered, shall be deemed fully paid capital stock and shall not be liable to any further
call or assessment thereon, and the holders of such shares shall not be liable for any further
payments.
The designation, relative rights, preferences and limitations of the shares of each class and
the authority of the Board of Directors of the Corporation to establish and to designate series of
the Preferred Stock and to fix the variations in the relative rights, preferences and limitations
as between such series, shall be as set forth herein.
4.1 Common Stock.
(a) General. The designations, powers, preferences, rights, qualifications,
limitations, restrictions and relative rights of the Common Stock are as set forth in this Section
4.1. Except as otherwise required by the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law, all shares of
Common Stock will be identical in all respects and will entitle the holders thereof to the
same rights, preferences and powers, subject to the same qualifications, limitations and
restrictions, as set forth herein. The dividend and liquidation rights of the holders of Common
Stock are subject to and qualified by the rights of the holders of the Preferred Stock. Fractional
shares of Common Stock may be issued.
(b) Voting Rights. Except as otherwise required by the Wisconsin Business Corporation
Law and except as may be determined by the Board of Directors with respect to the Preferred Stock
pursuant to Section 4.2 of this Article IV, only the holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to
vote for the election of directors of the Corporation and for all other corporate purposes. With
respect to all matters upon which shareholders are entitled to vote or to which shareholders are
entitled to give consent, the holders of Common Stock will be entitled to one (1) vote for each
share of Common Stock held by such holder. There will be no cumulative voting.
(c) Dividends. The holders of Common Stock will be entitled to receive such dividends
as the Board of Directors of the Corporation may declare from time to time from funds legally
available therefor and subject to any preferential dividend rights of the Preferred Stock as
described in Section 4.2.
(d) Liquidation. In case of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or
winding up of the Corporation, the holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive on a pro
rata basis the proceeds of any remaining assets of the Corporation, subject to any preferential
liquidation rights of the Preferred Stock.
(e) Preemptive Rights. Except as may be granted in a written agreement with the
Corporation, the holders of Common Stock have no preemptive or preferential right to purchase or
subscribe for, or otherwise acquire, any shares of Common Stock, Preferred Stock or any other class
or series of capital stock of the Corporation.
4.2 Preferred Stock.
(a) Series and Variations Between Series. The Board of Directors of the Corporation
is authorized, subject to limitations prescribed by the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law and the
provisions of this Section 4.2, to provide for the issuance of the Preferred Stock in series, to
establish or change the number of shares to be included in each such series and to fix the
designation, relative rights, preferences and limitations of the shares of each such series. The
authority of the Board of Directors of the Corporation with respect to each series shall include,
but not be limited to, determination of the following:
(i) The number of shares constituting that series and the distinctive designations of
that series;
(ii) The dividend rate or rates on the shares of that series and/or the method of
determining such rate or rates and the timing of dividend payments on the shares of such
series;
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(iii) Whether and to what extent the shares of that series shall have voting rights;
(iv) Whether the shares of that series shall be convertible into shares of stock of any
other series, and, if so, the terms and conditions of such conversion, including the price
or prices and the rate or rates of conversion and the terms of adjustment thereof;
(v) Whether or not the shares of that series shall be redeemable, and, if so, the terms
and conditions of such redemption, including the date or dates upon or after which they
shall be redeemable and the amount per share payable in case of redemption, which amount may
vary under different conditions and at different redemption dates;
(vi) The rights of the shares of that series in the event of any voluntary or
involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation;
(vii) The obligation, if any, of the Corporation to retire shares of that series
pursuant to a sinking fund; and
(viii) Any other relative rights, preferences and limitations of that series.
Subject to the designations, relative rights, preferences and limitations provided pursuant to
this Section 4.1, each share of Preferred Stock shall be of equal rank with each other share of
Preferred Stock.
ARTICLE V. REGISTERED AGENT
The address of the Corporations initial registered office is 25 West Main Street, Madison,
Wisconsin 53703, and the name of the registered agent at such address is CSC-Lawyers Incorporating
Service Company.
ARTICLE VI. BOARD OF DIRECTORS
6.1 Board of Directors. The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed
by or under the direction of a Board of Directors. The general powers, number and classification
of directors shall be as set forth in Sections 1, 2 and 3 of Article III of the By-Laws of the
Corporation (and as such sections shall exist from time to time). Notwithstanding any other
provisions of these Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation or the By-Laws of the
Corporation (and notwithstanding the fact that a lesser affirmative vote may be specified by law),
the affirmative vote of shareholders possessing at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the voting
power of the then outstanding shares of all classes of stock of the Corporation generally
possessing voting rights in elections of directors, considered for this purpose as one class, shall
be required to amend, alter, change or repeal, or to adopt any provision inconsistent with, such
Sections 1, 2 and 3 of Article III of the By-Laws, or any
provision thereof; provided, however,
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that the Board of Directors, by a resolution adopted by the
Requisite Vote (as defined herein), may amend, alter, change or repeal, or adopt any provision
inconsistent with, Sections 1, 2 and 3 of Article III of the By-Laws, or any provision thereof,
without the vote of the shareholders. As used herein, the term Requisite Vote shall mean the
affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the directors then in office plus one director.
6.2 Election by Holders of Preferred Stock. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any
provisions of the Corporations By-Laws, whenever the holders of outstanding shares of one or more
series of Preferred Stock are entitled to elect a director or directors of the Corporation
separately as a series or together with one or more other series pursuant to a resolution of the
Board of Directors providing for the establishment of such series, the election, term of office,
removal and filling of vacancies in respect of such director or directors shall be governed by the
resolution of the Board of Directors so providing for the establishment of such series and by
applicable law, and such directors so elected shall not be divided into classes unless expressly
provided by the terms of the applicable series.
6.3 Amendments to Article VI. Notwithstanding any other provisions of these Amended
and Restated Articles of Incorporation (and notwithstanding the fact that a lesser affirmative vote
may be specified by law), the affirmative vote of shareholders possessing at least seventy-five
percent (75%) of the voting power of the then outstanding shares of all classes of stock of the
Corporation generally possessing voting rights in elections of directors, considered for this
purpose as one class, shall be required to amend, alter, change or repeal, or adopt any provision
inconsistent with, the provisions of this Article VI.
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