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Exhibit 3.1

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

NORDICUS PARTNERS CORPORATION

 

The undersigned, Henrik Rouf, hereby certifies that:

 

1. He is the duly elected and acting President and Chief Executive Officer of Nordicus Partners Corporation, a Delaware corporation.

 

2. The Certificate of Incorporation of this corporation was originally filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware under the name CardioTech International, Inc., on October 25, 2007.

 

3. The Board of Directors duly adopted resolutions proposing to amend and restate the Certificate of Incorporation of this corporation, declaring said amendment and restatement to be advisable and in the best interests of this corporation and its stockholders, and authorizing the appropriate officers of this corporation to solicit the consent of the stockholders therefor.

 

4. The Certificate of Incorporation of this corporation shall be amended and restated to read in full as follows:

 

ARTICLE I

 

The name of this corporation is Nordicus Partners Corporation (the “Corporation”).

 

ARTICLE II

 

The address of the Corporation’s registered office in the State of Delaware is 108 W. 13th Street, Suite 100, in the City of Wilmington in the County of New Castle, in the State of Delaware 19801. The name of its registered agent at that address is Vcorp Agent Services, Inc.

 

ARTICLE III

 

The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the Delaware General Corporation Law.

 

ARTICLE IV

 

(A) Classes of Stock. The Corporation is authorized to issue two classes of stock to be designated, respectively, “Common Stock” and “Preferred Stock.” The total number of shares of all capital stock which the Corporation is authorized to issue is 55,000,000 shares, each with a par value of $0.001 per share. The total number of shares of Common Stock authorized to be issued is 50,000,000, all of which are designated “Common Stock.” The total number of shares of Preferred Stock authorized to be issued is 5,000,000, of which 500,000 shares are designated “are designated “Series A Preferred Stock.”

 

(B) Common Stock. Except as otherwise required by law or as otherwise provided in any Preferred Stock Designation (defined below), the holders of the Common Stock shall exclusively possess all voting power and each share of Common Stock shall have one vote.

 

(C) Preferred Stock. The Board of Directors is expressly granted authority to issue shares of the Preferred Stock, in one or more series, and to fix for each such series such voting powers, full or limited, and such designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights and such qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof as shall be stated and expressed in the resolution or resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors providing for the issue of such series (a “Preferred Stock Designation”) and as may be permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law. The number of authorized shares of Preferred Stock may be increased or decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding) by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power of all of the then outstanding shares of the capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class, without a separate vote of the holders of the Preferred Stock, or any series thereof, unless a vote of any such holders is required pursuant to any Preferred Stock Designation.

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE V

 

Except as otherwise provided in this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or Article VII of the Bylaws of the Corporation, a majority of the Directors then in office is expressly authorized to make, alter or repeal the Bylaws of the Corporation.

 

ARTICLE VI

 

Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless otherwise provided in the Bylaws of the Corporation. Subject to the other provisions of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the authorized number of directors shall be set forth in the Bylaws of the Corporation.

 

ARTICLE VII

 

(A) To the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as the same exists or as may hereafter be amended, a director of the Corporation shall not be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director.

 

(B) The Corporation shall indemnify to the fullest extent permitted by law any person made or threatened to be made a party to an action or proceeding, whether criminal, civil, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that he, his testator or intestate is or was a director or officer of the Corporation or any predecessor of the Corporation, or serves or served at any other enterprise as a director or officer at the request of the Corporation or any predecessor to the Corporation.

 

(C) Neither any amendment nor repeal of this Article VII, nor the adoption of any provision of the Corporation’s Certificate of Incorporation inconsistent with this Article VII, shall eliminate or reduce the effect of this Article VII in respect of any matter occurring, or any action or proceeding accruing or arising or that, but for this Article VII, would accrue or arise, prior to such amendment, repeal or adoption of an inconsistent provision.

 

ARTICLE VIII

 

Meetings of stockholders may be held within or without the State of Delaware, as the Bylaws of this Corporation may provide. The books of the Corporation may be kept (subject to any provision contained in the statutes) outside the State of Delaware at such place or places as may be designated from time to time by a majority of the Directors then in office or in the Bylaws of this Corporation.

 

ARTICLE IX

 

Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between this Corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between this Corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable jurisdiction within the State of Delaware, may, on the application in a summary way of this Corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof or on the application of any receiver or receivers appointed for this Corporation under the provisions of Section 291 of Title 8 of the DGCL or on the application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed for this Corporation under the provisions of Section 279 of Title 8 of the DGCL, order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such manner as the said court directs. If a majority in number representing three-fourths in value of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of this Corporation as consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by the court to which the said application has been made, be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, and also on this Corporation.

 

ARTICLE X

 

The liability of the Corporation’s directors to the Corporation or its stockholders shall be eliminated to the fullest extent permitted by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as the same may be amended and supplemented. No amendment to or repeal of this Article X shall apply to or have any effect on the liability or alleged liability of any director of the Corporation for or with respect to any acts or omissions of such director occurring prior to such amendment or repeal.

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE XI

 

The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this Certificate of Incorporation in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by law, and all rights and powers conferred herein on stockholders, directors and officers are subject to this reserved power.

 

The foregoing Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation has been duly adopted by this Corporation’s Board of Directors and stockholders in accordance with the applicable provisions of Sections 228, 242 and 245 of the Delaware General Corporation Law.

 

Executed at Los Angeles, California, on September 8, 2023.

 

   
  /s/ Henrik Rouf
  Henrik Rouf, President and Chief Executive Officer