EX-1.8 3 a2106757zex-1_8.txt EXHIBIT 1.8 EXHIBIT 1.8 For Ministry Use Ontario Corporation Number A l'usage exclusif du ministere Numero de la societe en Ontario 1201522 [LOGO] Ministry of Ministere des Services Consumer and aux consommateurs Ontario Business Services et aux entreprises C E R T I F I C A T E C E R T I F I C A T This is to certify that these articles Ceci certifie que les presents status are effective on entrent en vigueur le N O V E M B E R 2 0 N O V E M B R E, 2 0 0 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /s/ ILLEGIBLE Director / Directrice Business Corporations Act / Loi sur les societes par actions -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Form 5 RESTATED ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION Business STATUTS CONSTITUTIFS MIS A JOUR Corporations Act 1. The name of the corporation is: Denomination sociale de la societe : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Formule 5 C E L E S T I C A I N C . Loi sur les ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ societes par ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ actions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Date of incorporation / amalgamation: Date de la constitution ou de la fusion : 27/SEP/1996 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Day, Month, Year)/(jour, mois, annee) 3. The address of the registered office is: Adresse du siege social : 12 Concorde Place, 7th Floor ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Street and No. or R.R. No. and, if multi-office building, give Room No.) (Rue et numero ou numero de la R.R. et, s'il s'agit d'un edifice a bureaux, numero du bureau) Toronto, Ontario M 3 C 3 R 8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Name of Municipality or Post Office)/(Nom de la municipalite ou du bureau de poste) (Postal Code)/(Code postal) 4. Number (or minimum and maximum number) of Nombre (ou nombres minimal et maximal) directors is: d'administrateurs : A minimum of 3 directors and a maximum of 20 directors. 5. The director(s) is/are: Administrateur(s) : Resident Address for Service, giving Street and No. (or R.R. No.), Canadian First name, initials and surname Municipality and Postal Code State Prenom, initiales et nom de famille Domicile elu, y compris la rue et le numero (ou le numero Yes or No de la R.R.), le nom de la municipalite et le code postal Resident canadien Oui/Non ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert L. Crandall 5243 Park Lane No Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. 75220 Mark L. Hilson 12 Kingsway Crescent Yes Document Toronto, Ontario M8X 2R1 prepared by Davies Ward Anthony R. Melman 11 Dewbourne Avenue Yes Phillips & Toronto, Ontario M5P 1Z3 Vineberg LLP Toronto, Ontario, Eugene V. Polistuk 11 Klaimen Court Yes Canada Aurora, Ontario L4G 6M1 SoftDocs-R- 3.11 Wordprocessor Interface SoftDocs is a registered trade mark of StyleUs Corporation, Toronto, Canada. OBCA Form 5 1/1999
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5. CONTINUED Form 5 Business Corporations Act Richard S. Love 28100 - Story Hill Lane No Los Altos Hills, California, U.S.A. 94022 Formule 5 Loi sur les Roger L. Martin 57 Highland Avenue Yes societes par Toronto, Ontario M4W 2A2 actions Anthony P. Puppi 433 Stephanie Boulevard Yes Woodbridge, Ontario L4L 1A6 Gerald W. Schwartz 37 Cluny Drive Yes Toronto, Ontario M4W 2P9 Don Tapscott 65 Highland Avenue Yes Toronto, Ontario M4W 2A2 William Etherington 912-38 Avenue Road Yes Toronto, Ontario M5R 2G2 Michio Naruto 3-8, Kamisaginomiya 2-Chome No Tokyo, Japan 165-0031 Document prepared by Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Toronto, Ontario, Canada SoftDocs-R- 3.11 Wordprocessor Interface SoftDocs is a registered trade mark of StyleUs Corporation, Toronto, Canada. OBCA Form 5 1/1999
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6. Restrictions, if any, on business the Limites, s'il y a lieu, imposees aux activites Form 5 corporation may carry on or on powers commerciales ou aux pouvoirs de la societe : Business the corporation may exercise. Corporations Act None Formule 5 Loi sur les societes par actions 7. The classes and any maximum number of Categories et nombre maximal, s'il y a lieu, d'actions shares that the corporation is que la societe est autorisee a emettre : authorized to issue: (i) an unlimited number of shares of a class designated as subordinate voting shares ("Subordinate Voting Shares"); (ii) an unlimited number of shares of a class designated as multiple voting shares ("Multiple Voting Shares"); and (iii) an unlimited number of Preferred Shares, issuable in series. Document prepared by Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Toronto, Ontario, Canada SoftDocs-R- 3.11 Wordprocessor Interface SoftDocs is a registered trade mark of StyleUs Corporation, Toronto, Canada. OBCA Form 5 1/1999
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8. Rights, privileges, restrictions and Droits, privileges, restrictions et conditions, s'il y a conditions (if any) attaching to each lieu, rattaches a chaque categorie d'actions et pouvoirs Form 5 class of shares and directors des administrateurs relatifs a chaque categorie d'actions Business authority with respect to any class qui peut etre emise en serie : Corporations of shares which may be issued in Act series: Formule 5 Loi sur les 7.1 RIGHTS ATTACHING TO SUBORDINATE VOTING SHARES AND MULTIPLE VOTING SHARES societes par actions The Multiple Voting Shares and the Subordinate Voting Shares of the Corporation shall carry and have attached thereto the following rights, privileges, restrictions and conditions: (a) DIVIDENDS. Subject to the prior rights of the holders of Preferred Shares, the holders of Subordinate Voting Shares and Multiple Voting Shares shall be entitled to receive dividends, and the Corporation shall pay dividends on the Subordinate Voting Shares and the Multiple Voting Shares, as and when declared by the board of directors of the Corporation (the "Board"), in such amount and in such form as the Board may from time to time determine. Except as hereinafter provided with respect to dividends consisting of Subordinate Voting Shares and Multiple Voting Shares, all dividends that the Board may declare from time to time on the Subordinate Voting Shares and the Multiple Voting Shares shall be declared and paid in an equal amount per share on all Subordinate Voting Shares and Multiple Voting shares then outstanding. Dividends consisting of Subordinate Voting Shares and Multiple Voting Shares shall be declared by the Board and shall be paid by the Corporation only as follows: (i) dividends consisting of Subordinate Voting Shares shall only be declared and paid to holders of Subordinate Voting Shares and dividends consisting of Multiple Voting Shares shall only be declared and paid to holders of Multiple Voting Shares; and (ii) the number of Multiple Voting Shares declared and paid as a dividend with respect to each outstanding Multiple Voting Share shall be equal to the number of Subordinate Voting Shares declared and paid as a dividend with respect to each outstanding Subordinate Voting Share. (b) VOTING RIGHTS. The holders of Subordinate Voting Shares and Multiple Voting Shares shall be entitled to receive notice of and to attend all meetings of shareholders of the Corporation and to vote together at all such meetings, except meetings at which only the holders of one class or series of shares are entitled to vote separately as a class or series, as the case may be. At any meeting at which the holders of Subordinate Voting Shares and the holders of Multiple Voting Shares are entitled to vote together, the Subordinate Voting Shares shall carry one vote per share and the Multiple Voting Shares shall carry 25 votes per share. The holders of Multiple Voting Shares shall be entitled to one vote per share held at any meeting of holders of Multiple Voting Shares at which they are entitled to vote separately as a class. The holders of Subordinate Voting Shares shall be entitled to one vote per share at any meeting of holders of Subordinate Voting Shares at which they are entitled to vote separately as a class. (c) CONVERSION OF MULTIPLE VOTING SHARES (i) Each Multiple Voting Share shall be convertible at any time at the option of the holder thereof into one Subordinate Voting Share. (ii) Multiple Voting Shares will be converted autmatically into Subordinate Voting Shares Document upon any transfer thereof, except (A) a transfer to Onex Corporation ("Onex") or any prepared by affiliate of Onex or (B) a transfer of 100% of the outstanding Multiple Voting Shares Davies Ward to a purchaser who has offered to purchase all of the outstanding Subordinate Voting Phillips & Shares for a per share consideration identical to, and otherwise on the same terms Vineberg LLP as, that offered for the Multiple Voting Shares, provided that the Toronto, Ontario, Canada SoftDocs-R- 3.11 Wordprocessor Interface SoftDocs is a registered trade mark of StyleUs Corporation, Toronto, Canada. OBCA Form 5 1/1999
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8. CONTINUED Form 5 Multiple Voting Shares held by such purchaser thereafter shall be subject to the provisions of Business provisions of this subparagraph (c) as if all references to Onex in this subparagraph Corporations (c) were references to such purchaser. Act Formule 5 (iii) If any holder of Multiple Voting Shares ceases to be an affiliate of Onex, the Multiple Loi sur les Voting Shares held by such holder shall convert automatically into Subordinate Voting societes par Shares on a one-for-one basis. actions (iv) If Onex and its affiliates, collectively, cease to have the right, in all cases, to exercise the votes attached to, or to direct the voting of, any of the Multiple Voting Shares held by Onex and its affiliates, such Multiple Voting Shares shall convert automatically into Subordinate Voting Shares on a one-for-one basis. (v) If at any time the number of outstanding Multiple Voting Shares shall represent less than 5% of the aggregate number of the outstanding Multiple Voting Shares and Subordinate Voting Shares, all of the outstanding Multiple Voting Shares shall automatically be converted at such time into Subordinate Voting Shares on one-for-one basis. (vi) For the purposes of this subparagraph (c), (A) "Onex" includes any successor corporation resulting from an amalgamation, merger, arrangement, sale of all or substantially all of the assets, or other business combination or reorganization involving Onex, provided that such successor corporation beneficially owns directly or indirectly all Multiple Voting Shares beneficially owned directly or indirectly by Onex immediately prior to such transaction, and is controlled by the same person or persons as controlled Onex prior to the cosummation of such transaction; (B) a corporation shall be deemed to be a subsidiary of another corporation if, but only if, (1) it is controlled by that other, or that other and one or more corporations each of which is controlled by that other, or two or more corporations each of which is controlled by that other, or (2) it is a subsidiary of a corporation that is that other's subsidiary; (C) "affiliate" means a subsidiary of Onex or a corporation controlled by the same person or company that controls Onex; (D) "control" means beneficial ownership of, or control or direction over, securities carrying more than 50% of the votes that may be cast to elect directors if those votes, if cast, could elect more than 50% of the directors; and (E) a person is deemed to beneficially own any security which is beneficially owned by a corporation controlled by such person. (d) MODIFICATION, SUB-DIVISION AND CONSOLIDATION. Any modification to the provisions attaching to either the Subordinate Voting Shares or the Multiple Voting Shares shall require the separate affirmative vote of two-thirds of the votes cast by the holders of Subordinate Voting Shares and Multiple Voting Shares, respectively, voting as a separate class. The Corporation may not subdivide or consolidate the Subordinate Voting Shares or the Multiple Voting Shares without at the same time proportionately subdividing or consolidating the shares of the other class. Document (e) RIGHTS ON DISSOLUTION. In the event of the liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of prepared by the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, or any other distribution of the Davies Ward assets of the Corporation among its shareholders for the purpose of winding up its Phillips & affairs, subject to the prior rights of the holders of Preferred Shares, the holders Vineberg LLP of the Subordinate Voting Shares and Multiple Voting Shares then outstanding shall be Toronto, Ontario, entitled to receive the remaining property and assets of the Corporation rateably Canada according to the number of shares of both class of shares held by each holder. SoftDocs-R- 3.11 Wordprocessor Interface SoftDocs is a registered trade mark of StyleUs Corporation, Toronto, Canada. OBCA Form 5 1/1999
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8. CONTINUED Form 5 7.2 PREFERRED SHARES Business Corporations The Preferred Shares shall be attached thereto, as a class, the following rights, Act privileges, restrictions and conditions: Formule 5 (a) ISSUABLE IN SERIES. The Board may issue the Preferred Shares at any time or from time to Loi sur les time in one or more series. societes par actions (b) BOARD TO FIX TERMS OF EACH SERIES. Before the issuance of shares of any such series, the Board shall (i) fix the number of shares in such series, (ii) determine, subject to the provisions attaching to the Preferred Shares as a class, the designation of, and the rights, privileges, restrictions and conditions attaching to, the Preferred Shares of such series (including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the rate or amount of dividends or the method of calculating dividends, the dates of payment thereof, the price and terms and conditions of any purchase for cancellation, retraction or redemption rights, voting rights (subject to section 8 hereof), any conversion or exchange rights and any sinking fund, or other provisions) and (iii) send to the Director under the BUSINESS CORPORATIONS ACT (Ontario), as the same may be amended, re-enacted or replaced from time to time (the "Act"), articles of amendment in the prescribed form setting out such number, designation, rights, privileges, restrictions and conditions. (c) RANKING. The Preferred Shares of each series shall rank as to dividends (to the extent, if any, that cumulative dividends are provided for in the provisions attaching thereto as a series) and capital on a parity with the Preferred Shares of every other series. The Preferred Shares of each series shall rank as to dividends and capital senior to the Subordinate Voting Shares and the Multiple Voting Shares. (d) RIGHTS ON DISSOLUTION. In the event of the liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, or any other distribution of the assets of the Corporation among its shareholders for the purpose of winding up its affairs, the holders of the Preferred Shares of each series shall be entitled to receive from the assets of the Corporation in respect of each such share held a sum equal to the amount in the stated capital account for such series divided by the number of shares in such series then outstanding, together with any accrued (in the case of cumulative dividends) or declared (in the case of non-cumulative dividends) and unpaid dividends thereon, before any amount shall be paid or any assets of the Corporation shall be distributed to the holders of Subordinate Voting Shares or Multiple Voting Shares. Upon the receipt of such sum by the holders of the Preferred Shares of each series, such holders shall not be entitled to share in the distribution of the remaining assets of the Corporation and their Preferred Shares shall be cancelled. Document prepared by Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Toronto, Ontario, Canada SoftDocs-R- 3.11 Wordprocessor Interface SoftDocs is a registered trade mark of StyleUs Corporation, Toronto, Canada. OBCA Form 5 1/1999
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9. The issue, transfer or ownership of L'emission, le transfert ou la propriete d'actions shares is/is not restricted and the est/n'est pas restreint. Les restrictions, s'il y a Form 5 restrictions (if any) are as lieu, sont les suivantes : Business follows: Corporations Act The Corporation shall not create any class or series of shares, or issue any shares of any class or series (other than Subordinate Voting Shares) having the right to vote generally on all matters Formule 5 that may be submitted to a vote of shareholders (except matters for which applicable law requires Loi sur les the approval of holders of another class or series of shares voting separately as a class or societes par series) without the separate affirmative vote of two-thirds of the votes cast by the holders of actions Subordinate Voting Shares and Multiple Voting Shares, respectively, voting as separate classes. 10. Other provisions, if any: Autres dispositions, s'il y a lieu : The board of directors of the Corporation may, without authorization of the shareholders of the Corporation, from time to time, in such amounts and on such terms as it deems expedient: (a) borrow money upon the credit of the Corporation; (b) issue, reissue, sell or pledge debt obligations of the Corporation; (c) give a guarantee on behalf of the Corporation to secure performance of an obligation of any person; and (d) charge, mortgage, hypothecate, pledge or otherwise create a security interest in all or any of the currently owned or subsequently acquired real and personal, movable and immovable, property of the Corporation, including book debts, rights, powers, franchises and undertaking, to secure any obligation of the Corporation. The board of directors may from time to time by resolution delegate to a committee of directors or to one or more of the directors or officers of the Corporation all or any of the powers Document hereby conferred upon the board to such extent and in such manner as the board shall determine at prepared by the time of each such delegation. Nothing in this section shall limit or restrict the borrowing of Davies Ward money by the Corporation on bills of exchange or promissory notes made, drawn, accepted or endorsed Phillips & by or on behalf of the Corporation. Vineberg LLP Toronto, Ontario, Canada SoftDocs-R- 3.11 Wordprocessor Interface SoftDocs is a registered trade mark of StyleUs Corporation, Toronto, Canada. OBCA Form 5 1/1999
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Form 5 Business Corporations Act Formule 5 Loi sur les societes par actions 11. These restated articles of Les presents statuts constitutifs mis a jour enoncent incorporation correctly set out the correctement les dispositions corresondantes des statuts corresponding provisions of the constitutifs telles qu'elles sont modifiees et articles of incorporation as amended remplacent les statuts constitutifs et les and supersede the original articles modifications qui y ont ete apportees. of incorporation and all the amendments thereto. These articles are signed in duplicate. Les presents statuts sont signes en double exemplaire. CELESTICA INC. --------------------------------------------------------- (Name of Corporation) (Denomination sociale de la societe) Document prepared by Davies Ward By/Par : /s/ Elizabeth L. DelBianco Phillips & ------------------------------------------------ Vineberg LLP (Signature) (Description of Office) Toronto, Ontario, (Signature) (Fonction) Canada Elizabeth L. DelBianco, Secretary SoftDocs-R- 3.11 Wordprocessor Interface SoftDocs is a registered trade mark of StyleUs Corporation, Toronto, Canada. OBCA Form 5 1/1999