EX-99.A.23 4 exa23-int.htm ARTICLES SUPPLEMENTARY

Exhibit (a)(23)

 

DEUTSCHE DWS INTERNATIONAL FUND, INC.

ARTICLES SUPPLEMENTARY

 

Deutsche DWS International Fund, Inc., a Maryland corporation registered as an open-end investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (which is hereinafter called the “Corporation”), hereby certifies to the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of Maryland that:

 

FIRST: Pursuant to the authority expressly vested in the Board of Directors of the Corporation by the Charter of the Corporation and Sections 2-208, 2-208.1 and 2-105(c) of the Maryland General Corporation Law, the Board of Directors has designated and classified 50,000,000 of the authorized but undesignated shares of the capital stock of the Corporation as additional shares of the Corporation’s DWS Emerging Markets Equity Fund Series, with such 50,000,000 shares being designated as a new Class of the Corporation’s DWS Emerging Markets Equity Fund Series, such Class being designated as the “Class R6” shares of the DWS Emerging Markets Equity Fund Series.

 

SECOND: (a) Immediately prior to the filing of these Articles Supplementary, the Corporation had the authority to issue 2,947,923,888 shares of capital stock, with a par value of $0.01 per share, for an aggregate par value of $29,479,238.88, which shares were designated and classified into the following Series, which Series were subdivided into the following Classes:

  

Series Classes Number of Shares
     
DWS CROCI® International Fund   470,595,597
     
  Class A shares 100,000,000
  Class C shares   20,000,000
  Class S shares 200,595,597
  Institutional Class shares   50,000,000
  Class R6 shares   50,000,000
  Class T shares   50,000,000
     
DWS Emerging Markets Equity Fund   320,000,000
     
  Class A shares   50,000,000
  Class C shares   20,000,000
  Class S shares 100,000,000
  Institutional Class shares 100,000,000
  Class T shares   50,000,000

 

 

DWS Global Macro Fund   300,000,000
     
  Class A shares   50,000,000
  Class C shares   50,000,000
  Class R shares   50,000,000
  Class S shares   50,000,000
  Institutional Class shares   50,000,000
  Class T shares   50,000,000
     
DWS Latin America Equity Fund   270,000,000
     
  Class A shares   50,000,000
  Class C shares   20,000,000
  Class S shares 100,000,000
  Institutional Class shares   50,000,000
  Class T shares   50,000,000
     
DWS World Dividend Fund   370,000,000
     
  Class A shares   50,000,000
  Class C shares   20,000,000
  Class S shares 100,000,000
  Institutional Class shares 100,000,000
  Class R6 shares   50,000,000
  Class T shares   50,000,000
     
Undesignated   1,217,328,291

 

(b) Immediately after the filing of these Articles Supplementary, the Corporation will continue to have the authority to issue 2,947,923,888 shares of capital stock, with a par value of $0.01 per share, for an aggregate par value of $29,479,238.88, which shares will be designated and classified into the following Series, which Series will be subdivided into the following Classes:

 

Series Classes Number of Shares
     
DWS CROCI® International Fund   470,595,597
     
  Class A shares 100,000,000
  Class C shares   20,000,000
  Class S shares 200,595,597
  Institutional Class shares   50,000,000
  Class R6 shares   50,000,000
  Class T shares   50,000,000

 

 

DWS Emerging Markets Equity Fund   370,000,000
     
  Class A shares   50,000,000
  Class C shares   20,000,000
  Class R6   50,000,000
  Class S shares 100,000,000
  Institutional Class shares 100,000,000
  Class T shares   50,000,000
     
DWS Global Macro Fund   300,000,000
     
  Class A shares   50,000,000
  Class C shares   50,000,000
  Class R shares   50,000,000
  Class S shares   50,000,000
  Institutional Class shares   50,000,000
  Class T shares   50,000,000
     
DWS Latin America Equity Fund   270,000,000
     
  Class A shares   50,000,000
  Class C shares   20,000,000
  Class S shares 100,000,000
  Institutional Class shares   50,000,000
  Class T shares   50,000,000
     
DWS World Dividend Fund   370,000,000
     
  Class A shares   50,000,000
  Class C shares   20,000,000
  Class S shares 100,000,000
  Institutional Class shares 100,000,000
  Class R6 shares   50,000,000
  Class T shares   50,000,000
     
Undesignated   1,167,328,291

 

THIRD: A description of the “Class R6” shares of the Corporation’s DWS Emerging Markets Equity Fund Series, including the preferences, conversion or other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends, qualifications and the terms or conditions of redemption of such shares, as set by the Board of Directors of the Corporation, is as follows:

 

(a) Except as provided in the Charter of the Corporation and except as described in (b) below, the “Class R6” shares of the Corporation’s DWS Emerging Markets Equity Fund Series shall be identical in all respects, and shall have the same preferences, conversion and other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends, qualifications and terms

 
 

and conditions of redemption as, as applicable, the “Class A”, “Class C”, “Class S”, “Institutional Class”, and “Class T” shares of the Corporation’s DWS Emerging Markets Equity Fund Series.

 

(b) Each “Class R6” share of the Corporation’s DWS Emerging Markets Equity Fund Series may be issued and sold subject to such sales loads or charges, whether initial, deferred or contingent, or any combination thereof, or any other type of sales load or charge; to such expenses and fees (including, without limitation, distribution expenses, administrative expenses under an administrative or service agreement, plan or other arrangement, and other administrative, record keeping, redemption, service or other fees, however designated); to such account size requirements; and to such other rights and provisions; which may the same or different from each of the other classes of the Corporation’s DWS Emerging Markets Equity Fund Series, all as the Board of Directors may from time to time establish in accordance with the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and other applicable law.

 

FOURTH: Except as otherwise provided by the express provisions of these Articles Supplementary, nothing herein shall limit, by inference or otherwise, the discretionary right of the Board of Directors of the Corporation to classify and reclassify and issue any unissued shares of the Corporation’s capital stock and to fix or alter all terms thereof to the full extent provided by the Charter of the Corporation.

 

FIFTH: The Board of Directors of the Corporation, acting at a meeting duly called and held on July 11, 2018, duly authorized and adopted resolutions designating and classifying the capital stock of the Corporation as set forth in these Articles Supplementary.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Deutsche DWS International Fund, Inc. has caused these Articles Supplementary to be signed and acknowledged in its name and on its behalf by its President and attested to by its Secretary on this 11th day of July, 2018; and its President acknowledges that these Articles Supplementary are the act of Deutsche DWS International Fund, Inc., and she further acknowledges that, as to all matters or facts set forth herein which are required to be verified under oath, such matters and facts are true in all material respects to the best of her knowledge, information and belief, and that this statement is made under the penalties for perjury.

 

ATTEST:   DEUTSCHE DWS INTERNATIONAL FUND, INC.
     
     
     
/s/ John Millette   /s/ Hepsen Uzcan
Name: John Millette   Name: Hepsen Uzcan
Position: Secretary   Position: President