EX-99.(A)(IV) 2 d623857dex99aiv.htm ARTICLES SUPPLEMENTARY, DATED MARCH 27, 2019 Articles Supplementary, dated March 27, 2019

Exhibit (a)(iv)

COHEN & STEERS MLP & ENERGY OPPORTUNITY FUND, INC.

ARTICLES SUPPLEMENTARY

Cohen & Steers MLP & Energy Opportunity Fund, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Corporation”) registered as an open-end management investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, hereby certifies to the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of Maryland that:

FIRST: The two hundred million (200,000,000) shares of common stock, par value one-tenth of one cent ($.001) per share (the “Common Stock”), classified as Class T Common Stock, that the Corporation has authority to issue are hereby reclassified as additional shares of Class I Common Stock, having the preferences, conversion and other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends and other distributions, qualifications and terms and conditions of redemption of such class of Common Stock as set forth in the charter of the Corporation.

SECOND: Immediately before the reclassification of shares as set forth in Article FIRST hereof, the Corporation was authorized to issue one billion four hundred million (1,400,000,000) shares of stock, all of which were shares of Common Stock, having an aggregate par value of one million four hundred thousand dollars ($1,400,000), classified in seven classes as follows:

 

    CLASS   SHARES
       
 

Class A Common Stock

  200,000,000
 

Class C Common Stock

  200,000,000
 

Class F Common Stock

  200,000,000
 

Class I Common Stock

  200,000,000
 

Class R Common Stock

  200,000,000
 

Class T Common Stock

  200,000,000
 

Class Z Common Stock

  200,000,000

THIRD: As hereby reclassified, the total number of shares of stock which the Corporation has authority to issue is one billion four hundred million (1,400,000,000) shares of stock, all of which are shares of Common Stock, having an aggregate par value of one million four hundred thousand dollars ($1,400,000), classified in six classes as follows:

 

    CLASS   SHARES
       
 

Class A Common Stock

  200,000,000
 

Class C Common Stock

  200,000,000
 

Class F Common Stock

  200,000,000
 

Class I Common Stock

  400,000,000
 

Class R Common Stock

  200,000,000
 

Class Z Common Stock

  200,000,000


FOURTH: The Board of Directors of the Corporation reclassified the shares of Class T Common Stock under the authority contained in the charter of the Corporation.

FIFTH: These Articles Supplementary have been approved by the Board of Directors in the manner and by the vote required by law. These Articles Supplementary do not increase the total number of authorized shares of stock of the Corporation.

SIXTH: The undersigned officer of the Corporation acknowledges these Articles Supplementary to be the corporate act of the Corporation and, as to all matters or facts required to be verified under oath, the undersigned officer acknowledges that, to the best of his knowledge, information and belief, these matters and facts are true in all material respects and that this statement is made under the penalties for perjury.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Cohen & Steers MLP & Energy Opportunity Fund, Inc. has caused these Articles Supplementary to be signed in its name and on its behalf by its President and attested to by its Secretary on this 27th day of March, 2019.

 

WITNESS:     COHEN & STEERS  
    MLP & ENERGY OPPORTUNITY FUND, INC.  
By: /s/ Dana A. DeVivo                    By: /s/ Adam M. Derechin                
Dana A. DeVivo            Adam M. Derechin  
Secretary and Chief Legal Officer            President and Chief Executive Officer  

 

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