EX-3.1 2 dex31.htm MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION OF REGISTRANT Memorandum of Association of Registrant

Exhibit 3.1

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BERMUDA

THE COMPANIES ACT 1981

MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION OF COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES

Section 7(1) and (2)

MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION

OF

                            Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited                            

(hereinafter referred to as “the Company”)

1. The liability of the members of the Company is limited to the amount (if any) for the time being unpaid on the shares respectively held by them.

2. We, the undersigned, namely,

 

Name and Address

   Bermudian Status
(Yes or No)
   Nationality    Number of Shares
Subscribed

Stephen James

Cedar House

41 Cedar Avenue

Hamilton HM 12, Bermuda

   No    Australian    1

Ruby L. Rawlins

Cedar House

41 Cedar Avenue

Hamilton HM 12, Bermuda

   Yes    British    1

Donna Outerbridge

Cedar House

41 Cedar Avenue

Hamilton HM 12, Bermuda

   Yes    British    1

Antoinette Simmons

Cedar House

41 Cedar Avenue

Hamilton HM 12, Bermuda

   Yes    British    1

do hereby respectively agree to take such number of shares of the Company as may be allotted to us respectively by the provisional directors of the Company, not exceeding the number of shares for which we have respectively subscribed, and to satisfy such calls as may be made by the directors, provisional directors or promoters of the Company in respect of the shares allotted to us respectively.


3. The Company is to be an exempted Company as defined by the Companies Act 1981.

4. The Company, with the consent of the Minister of Finance, has power to hold land situate in Bermuda not exceeding              in all, including the following parcels:-

Not Applicable

5. The authorised share capital of the Company is $12,000.00 divided into 12,000.00 shares of US$1.00 each. The minimum subscribed share capital of the Company is $12,000.00 in United States Currency.

6. The objects for which the Company is formed and incorporated are:-

As set forth in paragraphs (b) to (n) and (p) to (u) inclusive of the Second Schedule to the Companies Act 1981.

7. The Company has the powers set out in The Schedule annexed hereto.


Signed by each subscriber in the presence of at least one witness attesting the signature thereof -

 

/s/ Stephen James

  

/s/ Nicol Matthews

/s/ Ruby L. Rawlins

  

/s/ Nicol Matthews

/s/ Donna Outerbridge

  

/s/ Nicol Matthews

/s/ Antoinette Simmons

  

/s/ Nicol Matthews

(Subscribers)    (Witnesses)

SUBSCRIBED this 25th day of September 2000


STAMP DUTY (To be affixed)

Not Applicable


THE COMPANIES ACT

 

SECOND SCHEDULE

(section 11(2))

Subject to Section 4A, a company may by reference include in its memorandum any of the following objects, that is to say the business of -

(a) insurance and re-insurance of all kinds;

(b) packaging of goods of all kinds;

(c) buying, selling and dealing in goods of all kinds;

(d) designing and manufacturing of goods of all kinds;

(e) mining and quarrying and exploration for metals, minerals, fossil fuels and precious stones of all kinds and their preparation for sale or Use;

(f) exploring for, the drilling for, the moving, transporting and refining petroleum and hydro carbon products including oil and oil products;

(g) scientific research including the improvement, discovery and development of processes, inventions, patents and designs and the construction, maintenance and operation of laboratories and research centres;

(h) land, sea and air undertakings including the land, ship and air carriage of passengers, mails and goods of all kinds;

(i) ships and aircraft owners, managers, operators, agents, builders and repairers;

(j) acquiring, owning, selling, chartering, repairing or dealing in ships and aircraft;

(k) travel agents, freight contractors and forwarding agents;

(l) dock owners, wharfingers, warehousemen;

(m) ship chandlers and dealing in rope, canvas oil and ship stores of all kinds;

(n) all forms of engineering;

(o) developing, operating, advising or acting as technical consultants to any other enterprise or business;

(p) farmers, livestock breeders and keepers, graziers, butchers, tanners and processors of and dealers in all kinds of live and dead stock, wool, hides, tallow, grain, vegetables and other produce;

(q) acquiring by purchase or otherwise and holding as an investment inventions, patents, trade marks, trade names, trade secrets, designs and the like;

(r) buying, selling, hiring, letting and dealing in conveyances of any sort; and

(s) employing, providing, hiring out and acting as agent for artists, actors, entertainers of all sorts, authors, composers, producers, directors, engineers and experts or specialists of any kind;

(t) to acquire by purchase or otherwise and hold, sell, dispose of and deal in real property situated outside Bermuda and in personal property of all kinds wheresoever situated;

(u) to enter into any guarantee, contract of indemnity or suretyship and to assure, support or secure with or without consideration or benefit the performance of any obligations of any person or persons and to guarantee the fidelity of individuals filling or about to fill situations of trust or confidence;

(v) to be and carry on business of a mutual fund within the meaning of section 156A.

Provided that none of these objects shall enable the company to carry on restricted business activity as set out in the Ninth Schedule except with the consent of the Minister.

 

 

 


The Schedule

(referred to in Clause 7 of the Memorandum of Association)

(a) to borrow and raise money in any currency or currencies and to secure or discharge any debt or obligation in any manner and in particular (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) by mortgages of or charges upon all or any part of the undertaking, property and assets (present and future) and uncalled capital of the company or by the creation and issue of securities;

(b) to enter into any guarantee, contract of indemnity or suretyship and in particular (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) to guarantee, support or secure, with or without consideration, whether by personal obligation or by mortgaging or charging all or any part of the undertaking, property and assets (present and future) and uncalled capital of the company or by both such methods or in any other manner, the performance of any obligations or commitments of, and the repayment or payment of the principal amounts of and any premiums, interest, dividends and other moneys payable on or in respect of any securities or liabilities of, any person, including (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) any company which is for the time being a subsidiary or a holding company of the company or another subsidiary of a holding company of the company or otherwise associated with the company;

(c) to accept, draw, make, create, issue, execute, discount, endorse, negotiate and deal in bills of exchange, promissory notes, and other instruments and securities, whether negotiable or otherwise;

(d) to sell, exchange, mortgage, charge, let on rent, share of profit, royalty or otherwise, grant licences, easements, options, servitudes and other rights over, and in any other manner deal with or dispose of, all or any part of the undertaking, property and assets (present and future) of the company for any consideration and in particular (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) for any securities;

(e) to issue and allot securities of the company for cash or in payment or part payment for any real or personal property purchased or otherwise acquired by the company or any services rendered to the company or as security for any obligation or amount (even if less than the nominal amount of such securities) or for any other purpose;

(f) to grant pensions, annuities, or other allowances, including allowances on death, to any directors, officers or employees or former directors, officers or employees of the company or any company which at any time is or was a subsidiary or a holding company or another subsidiary of a holding company of the company or otherwise associated with the company or of any predecessor in business of any of them, and to the relations, connections or dependants of any such persons, and to other persons whose service or services have directly or indirectly been of benefit to the company or whom the company considers have any moral claim on the company or to their relations connections or dependants, and to establish or support any associations, institutions, clubs, schools, building and housing schemes, funds and trusts, and to make payment towards insurance or other arrangements likely to benefit any such persons or otherwise advance the interests of the company or of its members or for any national, charitable, benevolent, educational, social, public, general or useful object;

(g) subject to the provisions of Section 42 of the Companies Act 1981, to issue preference shares which at the option of the holders thereof are to be liable to be redeemed;

(h) to purchase its own shares in accordance with the provisions of Section 42A of the Companies Act 1981.