EX-3.1 3 d590709dex31.htm EX-3.1 EX-3.1

Exhibit 3.1

THE COMPANIES LAW (AS AMENDED)

COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES

AMENDED AND RESTATED

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

OF

CHC GROUP LTD.

(ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION

DATED JANUARY 3, 2014

 

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THE COMPANIES LAW (AS AMENDED)

COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES

AMENDED AND RESTATED

MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION

OF

CHC GROUP LTD.

(ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION

DATED JANUARY 3, 2014)

 

1. The name of the company is CHC Group Ltd. (the “Company”).

 

2. The registered office of the Company will be situated at the offices of Intertrust Corporate Services (Cayman) Limited, 190 Elgin Avenue, George Town, Grand Cayman KY1-9005, Cayman Islands or at such other location as the Directors may from time to time determine.

 

3. The objects for which the Company is established are unrestricted and the Company shall have full power and authority to carry out any object not prohibited by any law as provided by Section 7(4) of the Companies Law (as amended) of the Cayman Islands (the “Law”).

 

4. The Company shall have and be capable of exercising all the functions of a natural person of full capacity irrespective of any question of corporate benefit as provided by Section 27(2) of the Law.

 

5. The Company will not trade in the Cayman Islands with any person, firm or corporation except in furtherance of the business of the Company carried on outside the Cayman Islands; provided that nothing in this section shall be construed as to prevent the Company effecting and concluding contracts in the Cayman Islands, and exercising in the Cayman Islands all of its powers necessary for the carrying on of its business outside the Cayman Islands.

 

6. The liability of the shareholders of the Company is limited to the amount, if any, unpaid on the shares respectively held by them.

 

7. The capital of the Company is US$200,000 divided into 1,500,000,000 ordinary shares of a nominal or par value of US$0.0001 each and 500,000,000 preferred shares of a nominal or par value of US$0.0001 each provided always that subject to the Law and the Articles of Association the Company shall have power to redeem or purchase any of its shares and to sub-divide or consolidate the said shares or any of them and to issue all or any part of its capital whether original, redeemed, increased or reduced with or without any preference, priority, special privilege or other rights or subject to any postponement of rights or to any conditions or restrictions whatsoever and so that unless the conditions of issue shall otherwise expressly provide every issue of shares whether stated to be ordinary, preference or otherwise shall be subject to the powers on the part of the Company hereinbefore provided.

 

8. The Company may exercise the power contained in Section 206 of the Law to deregister in the Cayman Islands and be registered by way of continuation in some other jurisdiction.

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

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TABLE A

     1   

INTERPRETATION

     1   

PRELIMINARY

     4   

SHARES

     5   

MODIFICATION OF RIGHTS

     5   

CERTIFICATES

     6   

FRACTIONAL SHARES

     6   

LIEN

     6   

CALLS ON SHARES

     6   

FORFEITURE OF SHARES

     7   

TRANSFER OF SHARES

     8   

TRANSMISSION OF SHARES

     8   

ALTERATION OF SHARE CAPITAL

     9   

REDEMPTION, PURCHASE AND SURRENDER OF SHARES

     9   

TREASURY SHARES

     10   

GENERAL MEETINGS

     10   

NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETINGS

     11   

PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS

     11   

VOTES OF SHAREHOLDERS

     14   

CORPORATIONS ACTING BY REPRESENTATIVES AT MEETINGS

     15   

DIRECTORS

     15   

ALTERNATE DIRECTOR

     17   

POWERS AND DUTIES OF DIRECTORS

     17   

BORROWING POWERS OF DIRECTORS

     18   

THE SEAL

     19   

 

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DISQUALIFICATION OF DIRECTORS

     19   

PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS

     19   

DIRECTORS’ INTERESTS

     21   

DIVIDENDS

     22   

ACCOUNTS, AUDIT AND ANNUAL RETURN AND DECLARATION

     23   

CAPITALISATION OF RESERVES

     23   

SHARE PREMIUM ACCOUNT

     24   

NOTICES

     24   

INDEMNITY

     25   

NON-RECOGNITION OF TRUSTS

     26   

WINDING UP

     26   

AMENDMENT OF ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

     27   

CLOSING OF REGISTER OR FIXING RECORD DATE

     27   

REGISTRATION BY WAY OF CONTINUATION

     27   

MERGERS AND CONSOLIDATION

     27   

DISCLOSURE

     28   

 

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COMPANIES LAW (AS AMENDED)

COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES

AMENDED AND RESTATED

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

(ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION

DATED JANUARY 3, 2014)

OF

CHC GROUP LTD.

TABLE A

The Regulations contained or incorporated in Table ‘A’ in the First Schedule of the Law shall not apply to CHC Group Ltd. (the “Company”) and the following Articles shall comprise the Articles of Association of the Company.

INTERPRETATION

 

1. In these Articles the following defined terms will have the meanings ascribed to them, if not inconsistent with the subject or context:

Articles” means these articles of association of the Company, as amended or substituted from time to time.

Branch Register” means any branch Register of such category or categories of Members as the Company may from time to time determine.

Chairman” means the person so elected from time to time as the chairman of the board of Directors.

Class” or “Classes” means any class or classes of Shares as may from time to time be issued by the Company.

Controlled Company” means a “controlled company” within the meaning of the listing standards of The New York Stock Exchange or NYSE.

 

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Designated Stock Exchange” means the primary securities exchange or interdealer quotation system on which any Shares are listed or quoted.

Directors” means the directors of the Company for the time being, or as the case may be, the directors assembled as a board or as a committee thereof.

Exchange Act” means the US Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

First Reserve” means 6922767 Holding (Cayman) Inc., an exempted company incorporated with limited liability under the laws of the Cayman Islands with registered number 204856.

First Reserve Designee” means each Person whom First Reserve shall actually nominate pursuant to Article 86 and who is thereafter elected, approved and appointed to serve as a Director.

First Reserve Group” means the funds and other entities associated with First Reserve Management, L.P or any of its affiliates.

Identified Person” means any director, officer, committee member or agent of both the Company and a member of the First Reserve Group.

IPO” means the underwritten initial public offering of the Shares of the Company.

Law” means the Companies Law (as amended) of the Cayman Islands.

Memorandum of Association” means the memorandum of association of the Company, as amended or substituted from time to time.

Non-Employee Director” has the meaning set forth in Article 127.

Office” means the registered office of the Company as required by the Law.

Officers” means the officers for the time being and from time to time of the Company.

Ordinary Resolution” means a resolution of the Company passed in accordance with the Law and these Articles, being a resolution:

 

  (a) passed by poll by a simple majority of the number of votes to which each Shareholder as, being entitled to do so, vote in person or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at a general meeting of the Company; or

 

  (b) approved in writing by all of the Shareholders entitled to vote at a general meeting of the Company in one or more instruments each signed by one or more of the Shareholders and the effective date of the resolution so adopted shall be the date on which the instrument, or the last of such instruments, if more than one, is executed, save that a resolution may only be approved in writing whilst the Company is a Controlled Company.

paid up” means paid up as to the par value in respect of the issue of any Shares and includes credited as paid up.

Person” means any natural person, firm, company, joint venture, partnership, corporation, association or other entity (whether or not having a separate legal personality) or any of them as the context so requires, other than in respect of a Director or Officer in which circumstances Person shall mean any person or entity permitted to act as such in accordance with the Law.

 

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Principal Register”, where the Company has established one or more Branch Registers pursuant to the Law and these Articles, means the Register maintained by the Company pursuant to the Law and these Articles that is not designated by the Directors as a Branch Register.

Principal Executive Office” means the Company’s corporate headquarters, not being the Office.

Register” means the register of Members of the Company required to be kept pursuant to the Law and includes any Branch Register(s) established by the Company in accordance with the Law.

Seal” means the common seal of the Company (if adopted) including any facsimile thereof.

Secretary” means any Person appointed by the Directors to perform any of the duties of the secretary of the Company.

Share” means a share in the capital of the Company. All references to “Shares” herein shall be deemed to be Shares of any or all Classes as the context may require. For the avoidance of doubt in these Articles the expression “Share” shall include a fraction of a Share.

Shareholder” or “Member” means a Person who is registered as the holder of Shares in the Register and includes each subscriber to the Memorandum of Association pending entry in the Register of such subscriber.

Shareholders Agreement” means the shareholders’ agreement between the Company, First Reserve, Horizon Alpha Limited, FR XI Co-Investment I, L.P. and FR XI Horizon Co-Investment II, L.P. dated on or about the date of these Articles (as amended, varied, modified, amended and restated or novated from time to time).

Share Premium Account” means the share premium account established in accordance with these Articles and the Law.

signed” means bearing a signature or representation of a signature affixed by mechanical means.

Special Resolution” means a special resolution of the Company passed in accordance with the Law and these Articles, being a resolution:

 

  (a) passed by poll by a majority of not less than two-thirds of the number of votes to which each Shareholder as, being entitled to do so, vote in person or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at a general meeting of the Company of which notice specifying the intention to propose the resolution as a special resolution has been duly given; or

 

  (b) at any time whilst the Company is a Controlled Company, approved in writing by all of the Shareholders entitled to vote at a general meeting of the Company in one or more instruments each signed by one or more of the Shareholders and the effective date of the special resolution so adopted shall be the date on which the instrument or the last of such instruments, if more than one, is executed.

Total Number of Directors” means the total number of Directors of the Company from time to time.

Treasury Shares” means Shares that were previously issued but were purchased, redeemed, surrendered or otherwise acquired by the Company and not cancelled.

 

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US” means the United States of America.

 

2. In these Articles, save where the context requires otherwise:

 

  (a) words importing the singular number shall include the plural number and vice versa;

 

  (b) words importing the masculine gender only shall include the feminine gender and any Person as the context may require;

 

  (c) the word “may” shall be construed as permissive and the word “shall” shall be construed as imperative;

 

  (d) reference to a dollar or dollars or USD (or $) and to a cent or cents is reference to dollars and cents of the United States of America;

 

  (e) reference to a statutory enactment shall include reference to any amendment or re-enactment thereof for the time being in force;

 

  (f) reference to any determination by the Directors shall be construed as a determination by the Directors in their sole and absolute discretion and shall be applicable either generally or in any particular case; and

 

  (g) reference to “in writing” shall be construed as written or represented by any means reproducible in writing, including any form of print, lithograph, email, facsimile, photograph or telex or represented by any other substitute or format for storage or transmission for writing or partly one and partly another.

 

3. Subject to the preceding Articles, any words defined in the Law shall, if not inconsistent with the subject or context, bear the same meaning in these Articles.

PRELIMINARY

 

4. The business of the Company may be commenced at any time after incorporation.

 

5. The Office shall be at such address in the Cayman Islands as the Directors may from time to time determine. The Company may in addition establish and maintain such other offices and places of business and agencies in such places as the Directors may from time to time determine.

 

6. The expenses incurred in the formation of the Company and in connection with the offer for subscription and issue of Shares shall be paid by the Company. Such expenses may be amortised over such period as the Directors may determine and the amount so paid shall be charged against income and/or capital in the accounts of the Company as the Directors shall determine.

 

7. The Directors shall keep, or cause to be kept, the Register at such place or (subject to compliance with the Law, these Articles and the Designated Stock Exchange) places as the Directors may from time to time determine. In the absence of any such determination, the Register shall be kept at the Office. The Directors may keep, or cause to be kept, one or more Branch Registers as well as the Principal Register in accordance with the Law, provided always that a duplicate of such Branch Register(s) shall be maintained with the Principal Register in accordance with the Law.

 

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SHARES

 

8. Subject to these Articles, all Shares for the time being unissued shall be under the control of the Directors who may:

 

  (a) issue, allot and dispose of the same to such Persons, in such manner, on such terms and having such rights and being subject to such restrictions as they may from time to time determine; and

 

  (b) grant options with respect to such Shares and issue warrants or similar instruments with respect thereto;

and, for such purposes, the Directors may reserve an appropriate number of Shares for the time being unissued. No Share may be issued to bearer.

 

9. The Directors, may authorise the division of Shares into any number of Classes, sub-classes, or series of ordinary or preferred Shares and the different Classes, sub-classes or series of ordinary or preferred Shares shall be authorised, established and designated (or re-designated as the case may be) and the variations in the relative rights (including, without limitation, voting, dividend, redemption rights, conversion rights and liquidation perferences), restrictions, preferences, privileges and payment obligations as between the different Classes (if any) or series may be fixed and determined by the Directors.

 

10. The Company may insofar as may be permitted by law, pay a commission to any Person in consideration of his subscribing or agreeing to subscribe whether absolutely or conditionally for any Shares. Such commissions may be satisfied by the payment of cash or the lodgement of fully or partly paid-up Shares or partly in one way and partly in the other. The Company may also pay such brokerage as may be lawful on any issue of Shares.

 

11. The Directors may refuse to accept any application for Shares, and may accept any application in whole or in part, for any reason or for no reason.

MODIFICATION OF RIGHTS

 

12. Whenever the capital of the Company is divided into different Classes the special rights attached to any such Class may, subject to any rights or restrictions for the time being attached to any Class, only be materially adversely varied, modified or abrogated with the consent in writing of the holders of not less than two-thirds of the issued Shares of the relevant Class, or with the sanction of a resolution passed at a separate meeting of the holders of the Shares of such Class by a majority of two-thirds of the votes cast at such a meeting. To every such separate meeting all the provisions of these Articles relating to general meetings of the Company or to the proceedings thereat shall, mutatis mutandis, apply, except that the necessary quorum shall be one or more Persons at least holding or representing by proxy one-third in nominal or par value amount of the issued Shares of the relevant Class (but so that if at any adjourned meeting of such holders a quorum as above defined is not present, those Shareholders who are present shall form a quorum) and that, subject to any rights or restrictions for the time being attached to the Shares of that Class, every Shareholder of the Class shall on a poll have one vote for each Share of the Class held by him. For the purposes of this Article the Directors may treat all the Classes or any two or more Classes as forming one Class if they consider that all such Classes would be affected in the same way by the proposals under consideration, but in any other case shall treat them as separate Classes.

 

13.

The rights conferred upon the holders of the Shares of any Class issued with preferred or other special rights shall not, subject to any rights or restrictions for the time being attached to the Shares of that Class, be deemed to be varied, modified or abrogated by, inter alia, the creation,

 

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  allotment or issue of further Shares ranking in preference or priority in any way to, pari passu with or subsequent to them or the redemption or purchase of any Shares of any Class by the Company.

CERTIFICATES

 

14. No Person shall be entitled to a certificate for any or all of his Shares, unless the Directors shall determine otherwise and then in the form and subject to any legends that the Directors deem necessary in their sole discretion.

FRACTIONAL SHARES

 

15. The Directors may issue fractions of a Share and, if so issued, a fraction of a Share shall be subject to and carry the corresponding fraction of liabilities (whether with respect to nominal or par value, premium, contributions, calls or otherwise), limitations, preferences, privileges, qualifications, restrictions, rights (including, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, voting and participation rights) and other attributes of a whole Share. If more than one fraction of a Share of the same Class is issued to or acquired by the same Shareholder such fractions shall be accumulated.

LIEN

 

16. The Company has a first and paramount lien on every Share (whether or not fully paid) for all amounts (whether presently payable or not) payable at a fixed time or called in respect of that Share. The Company also has a first and paramount lien on every Share (whether or not fully paid) registered in the name of a Person indebted or under liability to the Company (whether he is the sole registered holder of a Share or one of two or more joint holders) for all amounts owing by him or his estate to the Company (whether or not presently payable). The Directors may at any time declare a Share to be wholly or in part exempt from the provisions of this Article. The Company’s lien on a Share extends to any amount payable in respect of it.

 

17. The Company may sell, in such manner as the Directors in their absolute discretion think fit, any Share on which the Company has a lien, but no sale shall be made unless an amount in respect of which the lien exists is presently payable nor until the expiration of fourteen days after a notice in writing, demanding payment of such part of the amount in respect of which the lien exists as is presently payable, has been given to the registered holder for the time being of the Share, or the Persons entitled thereto by reason of his death or bankruptcy.

 

18. For giving effect to any such sale the Directors may authorise some Person to transfer the Shares sold to the purchaser thereof. The purchaser shall be registered as the holder of the Shares comprised in any such transfer and he shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, nor shall his title to the Shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in reference to the sale.

 

19. The proceeds of the sale after deduction of expenses, fees and commission incurred by the Company shall be received by the Company and applied in payment of such part of the amount in respect of which the lien exists as is presently payable, and the residue shall (subject to a like lien for sums not presently payable as existed upon the Shares prior to the sale) be paid to the Person entitled to the Shares immediately prior to the sale.

CALLS ON SHARES

 

20. The Directors may from time to time make calls upon the Shareholders in respect of any moneys unpaid on their Shares, and each Shareholder shall (subject to receiving at least fourteen days’ notice specifying the time or times of payment) pay to the Company at the time or times so specified the amount called on such Shares.

 

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21. The joint holders of a Share shall be jointly and severally liable to pay calls in respect thereof.

 

22. If a sum called in respect of a Share is not paid before or on the day appointed for payment thereof, the Person from whom the sum is due shall pay interest upon the sum at the rate of eight percent per annum from the day appointed for the payment thereof to the time of the actual payment, but the Directors shall be at liberty to waive payment of that interest wholly or in part.

 

23. The provisions of these Articles as to the liability of joint holders and as to payment of interest shall apply in the case of non-payment of any sum which, by the terms of issue of a Share, becomes payable at a fixed time, whether on account of the amount of the Share, or by way of premium, as if the same had become payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.

 

24. The Directors may make arrangements on the issue of partly paid Shares for a difference between the Shareholders, or the particular Shares, in the amount of calls to be paid and in the times of payment.

 

25. The Directors may, if they think fit, receive from any Shareholder willing to advance the same all or any part of the moneys uncalled and unpaid upon any partly paid Shares held by him, and upon all or any of the moneys so advanced may (until the same would, but for such advance, become presently payable) pay interest at such rate (not exceeding without the sanction of an Ordinary Resolution, eight percent per annum) as may be agreed upon between the Shareholder paying the sum in advance and the Directors.

FORFEITURE OF SHARES

 

26. If a Shareholder fails to pay any call or instalment of a call in respect of any Shares on the day appointed for payment, the Directors may, at any time thereafter during such time as any part of such call or instalment remains unpaid, serve a notice on him requiring payment of so much of the call or instalment as is unpaid, together with any interest which may have accrued.

 

27. The notice shall name a further day (not earlier than the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the notice) on or before which the payment required by the notice is to be made, and shall state that in the event of non-payment at or before the time appointed the Shares in respect of which the call was made will be liable to be forfeited.

 

28. If the requirements of any such notice as aforesaid are not complied with, any Share in respect of which the notice has been given may at any time thereafter, before the payment required by notice has been made, be forfeited by a resolution of the Directors to that effect.

 

29. A forfeited Share may be sold or otherwise disposed of on such terms and in such manner as the Directors think fit, and at any time before a sale or disposition the forfeiture may be cancelled on such terms as the Directors think fit.

 

30. A Person whose Shares have been forfeited shall cease to be a Shareholder in respect of the forfeited Shares, but shall, notwithstanding, remain liable to pay to the Company all moneys which at the date of forfeiture were payable by him to the Company in respect of the Shares forfeited, but his liability shall cease if and when the Company receives payment in full of the amount unpaid on the Shares forfeited.

 

31. A statutory declaration in writing that the declarant is a Director, and that a Share has been duly forfeited on a date stated in the declaration, shall be conclusive evidence of the facts in the declaration as against all Persons claiming to be entitled to the Share.

 

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32. The Company may receive the consideration, if any, given for a Share on any sale or disposition thereof pursuant to the provisions of these Articles as to forfeiture and may execute a transfer of the Share in favour of the Person to whom the Share is sold or disposed of and that Person shall be registered as the holder of the Share, and shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, if any, nor shall his title to the Shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in reference to the disposition or sale.

 

33. The provisions of these Articles as to forfeiture shall apply in the case of non-payment of any sum which by the terms of issue of a Share becomes due and payable, whether on account of the amount of the Share, or by way of premium, as if the same had been payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.

TRANSFER OF SHARES

 

34. The instrument of transfer of any Share shall be in any usual or common form prescribed by the Designated Stock Exchange or such other form as the Directors may, in their absolute discretion, approve and be executed by or on behalf of the transferor and if in respect of a nil or partly paid up Share, or if so required by the Directors, shall also be executed on behalf of the transferee and shall be accompanied by the certificate (if any) of the Shares to which it relates and such other evidence as the Directors may reasonably require to show the right of the transferor to make the transfer. The transferor shall be deemed to remain a Shareholder until the name of the transferee is entered in the Register in respect of the relevant Shares.

 

35. Subject to the terms of issue thereof, the Directors may in their absolute discretion decline to register any transfer of Shares that are not fully paid-up Shares without assigning any reason therefor.

 

36. The registration of transfers may be suspended at such times and for such periods as the Directors may from time to time determine.

 

37. All instruments of transfer that are registered shall be retained by the Company, but any instrument of transfer that the Directors decline to register shall (except in any case of fraud) be returned to the Person depositing the same.

TRANSMISSION OF SHARES

 

38. The legal personal representative of a deceased sole holder of a Share shall be the only Person recognised by the Company as having any title to the Share. In the case of a Share registered in the name of two or more holders, the survivors or survivor, or the legal personal representatives of the deceased holder of the Share, shall be the only Person recognised by the Company as having any title to the Share.

 

39. Any Person becoming entitled to a Share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a Shareholder shall upon such evidence being produced as may from time to time be required by the Directors, have the right either to be registered as a Shareholder in respect of the Share or, instead of being registered himself, to make such transfer of the Share as the deceased or bankrupt Person could have made; but the Directors shall, in either case, have the same right to decline or suspend registration as they would have had in the case of a transfer of the Share by the deceased or bankrupt Person before the death or bankruptcy.

 

40. A Person becoming entitled to a Share by reason of the death or bankruptcy of a Shareholder shall be entitled to the same dividends and other advantages to which he would be entitled if he were the registered Shareholder, except that he shall not, before being registered as a Shareholder in respect of the Share, be entitled in respect of it to exercise any right conferred by membership in relation to meetings of the Company.

 

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ALTERATION OF SHARE CAPITAL

 

41. The Company may from time to time by Ordinary Resolution increase the share capital by such sum, to be divided into Shares of such Classes and amount, as the resolution shall prescribe.

 

42. The Company may by Ordinary Resolution:

 

  (a) consolidate and divide all or any of its share capital into Shares of a larger amount than its existing Shares;

 

  (b) convert all or any of its paid up Shares into stock and reconvert that stock into paid up Shares of any denomination;

 

  (c) subdivide its existing Shares, or any of them into Shares of a smaller amount provided that in the subdivision the proportion between the amount paid and the amount, if any, unpaid on each reduced Share shall be the same as it was in case of the Share from which the reduced Share is derived; and

 

  (d) cancel any Shares that, at the date of the passing of the resolution, have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any Person and diminish the amount of its share capital by the amount of the Shares so cancelled.

 

43. The Company may by Special Resolution reduce its share capital and any capital redemption reserve in any manner authorised by law.

REDEMPTION, PURCHASE AND SURRENDER OF SHARES

 

44. Subject to the Law, the Company may:

 

  (a) issue Shares on terms that they are to be redeemed or are liable to be redeemed at the option of the Company or the Shareholder on such terms and in such manner as the Directors may determine;

 

  (b) purchase its own Shares (including any redeemable Shares) on such terms and in such manner as the Directors may determine and agree with the Shareholder;

 

  (c) make a payment in respect of the redemption or purchase of its own Shares in any manner authorised by the Law, including out of its capital; and

 

  (d) accept the surrender for no consideration of any paid up Share (including any redeemable Share) on such terms and in such manner as the Directors may determine.

 

45. Any Share in respect of which notice of redemption has been given shall not be entitled to participate in the profits of the Company in respect of the period after the date specified as the date of redemption in the notice of redemption.

 

46. The redemption, purchase or surrender of any Share shall not be deemed to give rise to the redemption, purchase or surrender of any other Share.

 

47. The Directors may when making payments in respect of redemption or purchase of Shares, if authorised by the terms of issue of the Shares being redeemed or purchased or with the agreement of the holder of such Shares, make such payment either in cash or in specie.

 

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TREASURY SHARES

 

48. Shares that the Company purchases, redeems or acquires (by way of surrender or otherwise) may, at the option of the Company, be cancelled immediately or held as Treasury Shares in accordance with the Law. In the event that the Directors do not specify that the relevant Shares are to be held as Treasury Shares, such Shares shall be cancelled.

 

49. No dividend may be declared or paid, and no other distribution (whether in cash or otherwise) of the Company’s assets (including any distribution of assets to members on a winding up) may be declared or paid in respect of a Treasury Share.

 

50. The Company shall be entered in the Register as the holder of the Treasury Shares provided that:

 

  (a) the Company shall not be treated as a member for any purpose and shall not exercise any right in respect of the Treasury Shares, and any purported exercise of such a right shall be void;

 

  (b) a Treasury Share shall not be voted, directly or indirectly, at any meeting of the Company and shall not be counted in determining the total number of issued shares at any given time, whether for the purposes of these Articles or the Law, save that an allotment of Shares as fully paid bonus shares in respect of a Treasury Share is permitted and Shares allotted as fully paid bonus shares in respect of a treasury share shall be treated as Treasury Shares.

 

51. Treasury Shares may be disposed of by the Company on such terms and conditions as determined by the Directors.

GENERAL MEETINGS

 

52. General meetings of the Company shall be either an annual general meeting or an extraordinary general meeting.

 

53. An annual general meeting of the Company shall be held once in each calendar year at such time and place as may be determined by the Directors.

 

54. Each general meeting, other than an annual general meeting, shall be called an extraordinary general meeting.

 

55. Only a majority of the board of Directors or the Chairman may, convene an annual general meeting of the Company, which shall be held at such times and places as may be determined by the persons convening such meeting.

 

56. The Directors may cancel or postpone any duly convened general meeting at any time prior to such meeting, except for general meetings requisitioned by the Shareholders in accordance with these Articles, for any reason or for no reason at any time prior to the time for holding such meeting or, if the meeting is adjourned, the time for holding such adjourned meeting. The Directors shall give Shareholders notice in writing of any cancellation or postponement. A postponement may be for a stated period of any length or indefinitely as the Directors may determine.

 

57. Extraordinary general meetings may be called by the Chairman or a majority of the board of Directors which shall be held at such times and in any location as may be determined by the persons convening such meeting.

 

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58. On the requisition of Shareholders holding not less than fifty percent of the issued and outstanding Shares as of the date the requisition is delivered to the secretary of the Company, requisition an extraordinary general meeting of the Company and the Directors shall forthwith proceed to convene an extraordinary general meeting of the Company. To be effective, the shareholders requisition shall set out all information required from each relevant Shareholder pursuant to Article 72 (as applicable), be in writing, and be signed by the Shareholders requesting such meetings. The requisition may consist of several documents in like form each signed by one or more Shareholders.

 

59. If the Directors do not convene such meeting within 45 days of the date of the requisition, the requisitionists themselves may convene the extraordinary general meeting in the same manner, as nearly as possible, as that in which general meetings may be convened by the Directors, and all reasonable expenses incurred by the requisitionists as a result of the failure of the Directors to convene the general meeting shall be reimbursed to them by the Company.

NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETINGS

 

60. Notice of each general meeting shall be given not fewer than ten (10) nor more than one hundred and twenty (120) clear days’ notice in writing counting from the date service is deemed to take place as provided in these Articles specifying the place, the day and the hour of the meeting and the general nature of the business, shall be given in the manner hereinafter provided or in such other manner (if any) as may be prescribed by the Company by Ordinary Resolution to such Persons as are, under these Articles, entitled to receive such notices from the Company, but with the consent of all the Shareholders entitled to receive notice of some particular meeting and attend and vote thereat, that meeting may be convened by such shorter notice or without notice and in such manner as those Shareholders may think fit.

 

61. The accidental omission to give notice of a meeting to or the non-receipt of a notice of a meeting by any Shareholder shall not invalidate the proceedings at any meeting.

PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS

 

62. No business shall be transacted at any general meeting unless a quorum of Shareholders is present at the time when the meeting proceeds to business. Save as otherwise provided by Article 63 and any other provision of these Articles, one or more Shareholders holding at least a majority of the issued and outstanding Shares present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote at that meeting shall form a quorum.

 

63. At any general meeting, including an adjourned meeting, at which a Special Resolution is proposed to be passed to amend the Memorandum of Association and/or Articles as provided for by Article 158, whilst First Reserve holds at least 5% of the issued and outstanding Shares at the relevant record date of the meeting a quorum at that meeting shall only be present if First Reserve or a representative of First Reserve is present at the time when the meeting proceeds to business and remains present throughout such meeting.

 

64. If within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week, at the same time and place. If at the adjourned meeting a quorum is not present in accordance with the terms of Article 62 and 63 (as relevant) the meeting shall be discontinued.

 

65. If the Directors wish to make this facility available for a specific general meeting or all general meetings of the Company, participation in any general meeting of the Company may be by means of a telephone or similar communication equipment by way of which all Persons participating in such meeting can communicate with each other and such participation shall be deemed to constitute presence in person at the meeting.

 

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66. The Chairman shall preside as chairperson at every general meeting of the Company.

 

67. If there is no such Chairman, or if at any general meeting he is not present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting or is unwilling to act as chairperson, any Director or Person nominated by the Directors shall preside as chairperson, failing which the Shareholders present in person or by proxy shall choose any Person present to be chairperson of that meeting.

 

68. The chairperson may adjourn a meeting from time to time and from place to place either:

 

  (a) with the consent of any general meeting at which a quorum is present (and shall if so directed by the meeting); or

 

  (b) without the consent of such meeting if, in his sole opinion, he considers it necessary to do so to:

 

  (i) secure the orderly conduct or proceedings of the meeting; or

 

  (ii) give all persons present in person or by proxy and having the right to speak and / or vote at such meeting, the ability to do so,

but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place. When a meeting, or adjourned meeting, is adjourned for fourteen days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given in the manner provided for the original meeting. Save as aforesaid, it shall not be necessary to give any notice of an adjournment or of the business to be transacted at an adjourned meeting.

 

69. At any general meeting a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided by poll in such manner as the chairperson directs, and the result of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting.

 

70. Save in relation to the nomination and election of Directors as set out in Articles 86 to 89, for any business to be properly brought before an annual general meeting by a Shareholder, it must be a proper matter for Shareholder action by law, and the Shareholder must have given timely notice thereof to the secretary of the Company. For notice to be timely, any business being brought by a Shareholder before an annual general meeting shall be in writing and must be received by the secretary of the Company not fewer than ninety days nor one hundred and twenty days prior to the one-year anniversary of the date of the preceding year’s annual general meeting as first specified in the Company’s notice of meeting (without regard to any postponement or adjournments of such meeting after such notice was first sent), provided, however, that if no annual general meeting was held in the previous year or the date of the annual general meeting is more than thirty days earlier or later than such anniversary date, notice by the Shareholder to be timely must be received not later than the close of business on the later of the 90th day prior to the general meeting or the 10th day following the date on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made. In no event shall the public announcement of an adjournment or postponement of an annual general meeting commence a new time period (or extent any time period) for the giving of Shareholder’s notice as described above.

 

71. For business to be properly brought before an extraordinary general meeting by a Shareholder, the business must be limited to the objects or purposes set forth in a requisition provided under Article 58.

 

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72. A Shareholder’s notice to the secretary of the Company as required under Articles 58 and 70 shall set forth as to each matter the Shareholder proposes to bring before the meeting:

 

  (a) A brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting and the text of the proposal or business, including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and, in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Memorandum of Association or the Articles, the language of the proposed amendment;

 

  (b) As to the Shareholders giving the notice, the beneficial owners, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is being made and any of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith (each a “Proposing Person”), the name and address, as they appear on the Company’s books, of the Shareholders proposing such business and of any other Proposing Person;

 

  (c) A representation that the Shareholders are the holder of record of Shares entitled to vote at the meeting on the date of such notice and intends to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to propose the business specified in the notice;

 

  (d) Any material interest of the Shareholders and any other Proposing Person in such business;

 

  (e) The following information regarding the ownership interests of the Shareholders and any other Proposing Person which shall be supplemented in writing by the Shareholders not later than ten days after the record date for voting at the meeting to disclose such interests as of such record date:

 

  (i) the class or series and number of Shares that are owned beneficially and of record by the Shareholders and any other Proposing Person;

 

  (ii) any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to any class or series of Shares or with a value derived in whole or in part from the value of any class or series of Shares, any derivative or synthetic arrangement having the characteristics of a long position in any class or series of Shares, or any contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions designed to produce economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially to the ownership of any class or series of Shares, including due to the fact that the value of such contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions is determined by reference to the price, value or volatility of any class or series of Shares, whether or not such instrument, contract or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of Shares, through the delivery of cash or other property, or otherwise, and without regard to whether the Shareholders of record or any other Proposing Person may have entered into transactions that hedge or mitigate the economic effect of such instrument, contract or right (a “Derivative Instrument”) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such Shareholders or other Proposing Person, and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or Share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of Shares;

 

  (iii) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such Shareholders or other Proposing Person have a right to vote any Shares of any security of the Company;

 

  (iv)

any agreement, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, including any repurchase or similar so-called “stock borrowing” agreement or arrangement, engaged in, directly or indirectly, by such Shareholders or other Proposing Person, the purpose or effect of which is to mitigate loss to, reduce the economic risk (of ownership or otherwise) of any class or series of the Shares by, manage the risk of Share price changes for, or increase or decrease the voting power of,

 

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  such Shareholders or other Proposing Person with respect to any class or series of the Shares, or which provides, directly or indirectly, the opportunity to profit or Share in any profit derived from any decrease in the price or value of any class or series of the Shares (“Short Interests”);

 

  (v) any rights to dividends on the Shares owned beneficially by such Shareholders or other Proposing Person that are separated orseparable from the underlying Shares;

 

  (vi) any proportionate interest in Shares or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such Shareholders or other Proposing Person is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner;

 

  (vii) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) to which such Shareholders or other Proposing Person is entitled based on any increase or decrease in the value of Shares or Derivative Instruments, if any, as of the date of such notice, including, without limitation, any such interests held by shareholders of such Shareholder’s or other Proposing Person’s immediate family sharing the same household;

 

  (viii) any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments or Short Interests in any principal competitor of the Company held by such Shareholders or other Proposing Person;

 

  (ix) any direct or indirect interest of such Shareholders or other Proposing Person in any contract with the Company, any affiliate of the Company or any principal competitor of the Company (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement);

 

  (f) any other information relating to such Shareholders or other Proposing Person, if any, that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of Directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act.

 

73. Unless otherwise required by law, if the Shareholders (or a qualified representative of the Shareholder) do not appear at the annual general meeting to present the proposed business, such proposed business shall not be transacted, notwithstanding that proxies in respect of such vote may have been received by the Company.

VOTES OF SHAREHOLDERS

 

74. Subject to any rights and restrictions for the time being attached to any Share, on a poll every Shareholder and every Person representing a Shareholder by proxy shall have one vote for each Share of which he or the Person represented by proxy is the holder.

 

75. In the case of joint holders the vote of the senior who tenders a vote whether in person or by proxy shall be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holders and for this purpose seniority shall be determined by the order in which the names stand in the Register.

 

76. A Shareholder of unsound mind, or in respect of whom an order has been made by any court having jurisdiction in lunacy, may vote in respect of Shares carrying the right to vote held by him, by his committee, or other Person in the nature of a committee appointed by that court, and any such committee or other Person, may vote in respect of such Shares by proxy.

 

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77. No Shareholder shall be entitled to vote at any general meeting of the Company unless all calls, if any, or other sums presently payable by him in respect of Shares carrying the right to vote held by him have been paid.

 

78. On a poll, votes may be given either personally or by proxy.

 

79. The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing under the hand of the appointor or of his attorney duly authorised in writing or, if the appointor is a corporation, either under Seal or under the hand of an Officer or attorney duly authorised. A proxy need not be a Shareholder.

 

80. An instrument appointing a proxy may be in any usual or common form or such other form as the Directors may approve.

 

81. The instrument appointing a proxy shall be deposited at the Office or at such other place as is specified for that purpose in the notice convening the meeting no later than the time for holding the meeting or, if the meeting is adjourned, the time for holding such adjourned meeting.

 

82. While the Company is a Controlled Company, a resolution in writing signed by all the Shareholders for the time being entitled to receive notice of and to attend and vote at general meetings of the Company (or being corporations by their duly authorised representatives) shall be as valid and effective as if the same had been passed at a general meeting of the Company duly convened and held.

CORPORATIONS ACTING BY REPRESENTATIVES AT MEETINGS

 

83. Any corporation which is a Shareholder or a Director may by resolution of its directors or other governing body authorise such Person as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any meeting of the Company or of any meeting of holders of a Class or of the Directors or of a committee of Directors, and the Person so authorised shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the corporation which he represents as that corporation could exercise if it were an individual Shareholder or Director.

DIRECTORS

 

84. The initial Directors shall be:

 

  (a) William Amelio;

 

  (b) Jonathan Lewis;

 

  (c) William E. Macaulay;

 

  (d) John Mogford;

 

  (e) Dod E. Wales;

 

  (f) Jeffrey K. Quake; and

 

  (g) Francis S. Kalman.

 

  85. Any Shareholder other than First Reserve which holds more than 15% of the issued and outstanding Shares (unless the Exchange Act and proxy rules provide otherwise) may each nominate 1 (one) Person to be appointed as a Director to the board by way of notification of such nomination to the Directors of the Company and such nomination will be included in the notice of meeting in accordance with Article 89.

 

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86. Notwithstanding any provision of these Articles to the contrary, First Reserve shall have the right, but not the obligation, to nominate at any time Persons to be appointed as Directors to the board by way of notification of such nomination to the Directors of the Company and such nomination will be included in the notice of meeting in accordance with Article 89 such that, taking into account any Director continuing to serve as such without the need for re-election, the number of First Reserve Designees serving as Directors of the Company will be equal to: (i) if First Reserve holds 50% or more of the total issued and outstanding Shares as of the record date for such meeting, the lowest whole number that is greater than 50% of the Total Number of Directors; (ii) if First Reserve holds at least 40% (but less than 50%) of the total issued and outstanding Shares as of the record date for such meeting, the lowest whole number that is greater than 40% of the Total Number of Directors; (iii) if First Reserve holds at least 30% (but less than 40%) of the total issued and outstanding Shares as of the record date for such meeting, the lowest whole number that is greater than 30% of the Total Number of Directors; (iv) if First Reserve holds at least 20% (but less than 30%) of the total issued and outstanding Shares as of the record date for such meeting, the lowest whole number that is greater than 20% of the Total Number of Directors; and (v) if the First Reserve holds at least 5% (but less than 20%) of the total issued and outstanding Shares as of the record date for such meeting, the lowest whole number that is greater than 10% of the Total Number of Directors.

 

87. Subject to Article 88, the Directors shall have power at any time and from time to time to appoint any Person to be a Director, either as a result of a casual vacancy or as an additional Director, subject to the maximum number (if any) imposed by the Directors.

 

88. In the event that a vacancy is created at any time by the death, disability, retirement or resignation of any First Reserve Designee, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause such vacancy to be filled, as soon as possible, by a new designee of First Reserve, and the Company shall take, to the fullest extent permitted by law, at any time and from time to time, all actions necessary to accomplish the same. A Director appointed to fill a vacancy in accordance with this Article shall be of the same Class of Director as the Director he or she replaced and the term of such appointment shall terminate in accordance with that Class of Director.

 

89. The Directors of the Company will ensure that the First Reserve Designees or other person nominated in accordance with Articles 85 or 86 included in the notice of meeting for the next available annual general meeting, noting that an annual general meeting will only be the next available annual general meeting if the advance notice requirements in Article 60 can be complied with.

 

90. Subject to Article 93, the Company may by Ordinary Resolution appoint any Person to be a Director.

 

91. Subject to these Articles, a Director shall hold office the expiry of their term as contemplated by Article 96 or, until such time as he or she vacates office in accordance with Article 112.

 

92. Subject to Article 93, the Directors may from time to time fix the maximum and minimum number of Directors to be appointed but unless such numbers are fixed as aforesaid the minimum number of Directors shall be one and the maximum number of Directors shall be unlimited.

 

93. For so long as First Reserve holds at least 5% of the Shares any change to the Total Number of Directors is subject to First Reserve’s prior written consent to such change being received by the Directors.

 

94. The remuneration of the Directors may be determined by the compensation committee of the Company.

 

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95. There shall be no shareholding qualification for Directors unless determined otherwise by Ordinary Resolution.

 

96. The Directors shall be divided into a maximum of three classes designated as Class I Directors, Class II Directors and Class III Directors. Directors shall be assigned to each class in accordance with a resolution or resolutions of the Directors. The Class I Directors shall serve as Directors of the Company from and after the closing of the IPO until the annual general meeting taking place in 2014 or until their successors are elected and qualified. The Class II Directors shall serve as Directors of the Company from and after the closing of the IPO until the annual general meeting taking place in 2015 or until their successors are elected and qualified. The Class III Directors shall serve as Directors of the Company from and after the closing of the IPO until the annual general meeting taking place in 2016. At each succeeding annual general meeting, Directors shall be elected for a full term of three years to succeed the Directors of the class whose terms expire at such annual general meeting. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Article 96, each Director shall hold office until the expiration of his term or otherwise in accordance Article 112. Such initial designation to be made by the directors of the Company.

ALTERNATE DIRECTOR

 

97. Any Director may in writing appoint another Person to be his alternate and, save to the extent provided otherwise in the form of appointment, such alternate shall have authority to sign written resolutions on behalf of the appointing Director, but shall not be authorised to sign such written resolutions where they have been signed by the appointing Director, and to act in such Director’s place at any meeting of the Directors. Every such alternate shall be entitled to attend and vote at meetings of the Directors as the alternate of the Director appointing him and where he is a Director to have a separate vote in addition to his own vote. A Director may at any time in writing revoke the appointment of an alternate appointed by him. Such alternate shall not be an Officer solely as a result of his appointment as an alternate other than in respect of such times as the alternate acts as a Director. The remuneration of such alternate shall be payable out of the remuneration of the Director appointing him and the proportion thereof shall be agreed between them.

 

98. Any Director may appoint any Person, whether or not a Director, to be the proxy of that Director to attend and vote on his behalf, in accordance with instructions given by that Director, or in the absence of such instructions at the discretion of the proxy, at a meeting or meetings of the Directors which that Director is unable to attend personally. The instrument appointing the proxy shall be in writing under the hand of the appointing Director and shall be in any usual or common form or such other form as the Directors may approve, and must be lodged with the chairman of the meeting of the Directors at which such proxy is to be used, or first used, prior to the commencement of the meeting.

POWERS AND DUTIES OF DIRECTORS

 

99. Subject to the Law, these Articles and to any resolutions passed in a general meeting, the business of the Company shall be managed by the Directors, who may pay all expenses incurred in setting up and registering the Company and may exercise all powers of the Company. No resolution passed by the Company in general meeting shall invalidate any prior act of the Directors that would have been valid if that resolution had not been passed.

 

100.

The Directors may from time to time appoint any Person, whether or not a Director to hold such office in the Company as the Directors may think necessary for the administration of the Company, including but not limited to, the office of president, one or more vice-presidents, treasurer, assistant treasurer, manager or controller, and for such term and at such remuneration (whether by way of salary or commission or participation in profits or partly in one way and partly in another), and with such powers and duties as the Directors may think fit. Any Person so appointed by the Directors may be removed by the Directors or by the Company by Ordinary

 

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  Resolution. The Directors may also appoint one or more of their number to the office of managing director upon like terms, but any such appointment shall ipso facto terminate if any managing director ceases from any cause to be a Director, or if the Company by Ordinary Resolution resolves that his tenure of office be terminated.

 

101. The Directors may appoint any Person to be a Secretary (and if need be an assistant Secretary or assistant Secretaries) who shall hold office for such term, at such remuneration and upon such conditions and with such powers as they think fit. Any Secretary or assistant Secretary so appointed by the Directors may be removed by the Directors or by the Company by Ordinary Resolution.

 

102. The Directors may delegate any of their powers to committees consisting of such member or members of their body as they think fit; any committee so formed shall in the exercise of the powers so delegated conform to any regulations that may be imposed on it by the Directors.

 

103. The Directors may from time to time and at any time by power of attorney (whether under Seal or under hand) or otherwise appoint any company, firm or Person or body of Persons, whether nominated directly or indirectly by the Directors, to be the attorney or attorneys or authorised signatory (any such person being an “Attorney” or “Authorised Signatory”, respectively) of the Company for such purposes and with such powers, authorities and discretion (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by the Directors under these Articles) and for such period and subject to such conditions as they may think fit, and any such power of attorney or other appointment may contain such provisions for the protection and convenience of Persons dealing with any such Attorney or Authorised Signatory as the Directors may think fit, and may also authorise any such Attorney or Authorised Signatory to delegate all or any of the powers, authorities and discretion vested in him.

 

104. The Directors may from time to time provide for the management of the affairs of the Company in such manner as they shall think fit and the provisions contained in the three next following Articles shall not limit the general powers conferred by this Article.

 

105. The Directors from time to time and at any time may establish any committees (including without limitation an audit committee, a compensation committee and a nominating and corporate governance committee), local boards or agencies for managing any of the affairs of the Company and may appoint any Person to be a member of such committees or local boards and may appoint any managers or agents of the Company and may fix the remuneration of any such Person.

 

106. The Directors from time to time and at any time may delegate to any such committee, local board, manager or agent any of the powers, authorities and discretions for the time being vested in the Directors and may authorise the members for the time being of any such local board, or any of them to fill any vacancies therein and to act notwithstanding vacancies and any such appointment or delegation may be made on such terms and subject to such conditions as the Directors may think fit and the Directors may at any time remove any Person so appointed and may annul or vary any such delegation, but no Person dealing in good faith and without notice of any such annulment or variation shall be affected thereby.

 

107. Any such delegates as aforesaid may be authorised by the Directors to sub-delegate all or any of the powers, authorities, and discretion for the time being vested in them.

BORROWING POWERS OF DIRECTORS

 

108. The Directors may exercise all the powers of the Company to borrow money and to mortgage or charge its undertaking, property and uncalled capital or any part thereof, or to otherwise provide for a security interest to be taken in such undertaking, property or uncalled capital, and to issue debentures, debenture stock and other securities whenever money is borrowed or as security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or of any third party.

 

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THE SEAL

 

109. The Seal shall not be affixed to any instrument except by the authority of a resolution of the Directors provided always that such authority may be given prior to or after the affixing of the Seal and if given after may be in general form confirming a number of affixings of the Seal. The Seal shall be affixed in the presence of a Director or a Secretary (or an assistant Secretary) or in the presence of any one or more Persons as the Directors may appoint for the purpose and every Person as aforesaid shall sign every instrument to which the Seal is so affixed in their presence.

 

110. The Company may maintain a facsimile of the Seal in such countries or places as the Directors may appoint and such facsimile Seal shall not be affixed to any instrument except by the authority of a resolution of the Directors provided always that such authority may be given prior to or after the affixing of such facsimile Seal and if given after may be in general form confirming a number of affixings of such facsimile Seal. The facsimile Seal shall be affixed in the presence of such Person or Persons as the Directors shall for this purpose appoint and such Person or Persons as aforesaid shall sign every instrument to which the facsimile Seal is so affixed in their presence and such affixing of the facsimile Seal and signing as aforesaid shall have the same meaning and effect as if the Seal had been affixed in the presence of and the instrument signed by a Director or a Secretary (or an assistant Secretary) or in the presence of any one or more Persons as the Directors may appoint for the purpose.

 

111. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Secretary or any assistant Secretary shall have the authority to affix the Seal, or the facsimile Seal, to any instrument for the purposes of attesting authenticity of the matter contained therein but which does not create any obligation binding on the Company.

DISQUALIFICATION OF DIRECTORS

 

112. The office of Director shall be vacated, if the Director:

 

  (a) becomes bankrupt or makes any arrangement or composition with his creditors;

 

  (b) dies or is found to be or becomes of unsound mind;

 

  (c) resigns his office by notice in writing to the Company;

 

  (d) is removed from office for cause by Special Resolution;

 

  (e) is removed from office by notice addressed to him at his last known address and signed by all of his co-Directors (not being less than two in number); or

 

  (f) is removed from office pursuant to any other provision of these Articles.

PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS

 

113. The Directors may meet together (either within or outside the Cayman Islands) for the despatch of business, adjourn, and otherwise regulate their meetings and proceedings as they think fit. Questions arising at any meeting shall be decided by a majority of votes. In case of an equality of votes the chairman shall have a second or casting vote. A Director may, and a Secretary or assistant Secretary on the requisition of a Director shall, at any time summon a meeting of the Directors.

 

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114. A Director may participate in any meeting of the Directors, or of any committee appointed by the Directors of which such Director is a member, by means of telephone or similar communication equipment by way of which all Persons participating in such meeting can communicate with each other and such participation shall be deemed to constitute presence in person at the meeting.

 

115. The quorum necessary for the transaction of the business of the Directors may be fixed by the Directors, and unless so fixed, if there be two or more Directors the quorum shall be two, and if there be one Director the quorum shall be one. A Director represented by proxy or by an alternate Director at any meeting shall be deemed to be present for the purposes of determining whether or not a quorum is present.

 

116. A Director who is in any way, whether directly or indirectly, interested in a contract or proposed contract with the Company shall declare the nature of his interest at a meeting of the Directors. A general notice given to the Directors by any Director to the effect that he is to be regarded as interested in any contract or other arrangement which may thereafter be made with that company or firm shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of interest in regard to any contract so made. A Director may vote in respect of any contract or proposed contract or arrangement notwithstanding that he may be interested therein and if he does so his vote shall be counted and he may be counted in the quorum at any meeting of the Directors at which any such contract or proposed contract or arrangement shall come before the meeting for consideration.

 

117. A Director may hold any other office or place of profit under the Company (other than the office of auditor) in conjunction with his office of Director for such period and on such terms (as to remuneration and otherwise) as the Directors may determine and no Director or intending Director shall be disqualified by his office from contracting with the Company either with regard to his tenure of any such other office or place of profit or as vendor, purchaser or otherwise, nor shall any such contract or arrangement entered into by or on behalf of the Company in which any Director is in any way interested, be liable to be avoided, nor shall any Director so contracting or being so interested be liable to account to the Company for any profit realised by any such contract or arrangement by reason of such Director holding that office or of the fiduciary relation thereby established. A Director, notwithstanding his interest, may be counted in the quorum present at any meeting of the Directors whereat he or any other Director is appointed to hold any such office or place of profit under the Company or whereat the terms of any such appointment are arranged and he may vote on any such appointment or arrangement.

 

118. Any Director may act by himself or his firm in a professional capacity for the Company, and he or his firm shall be entitled to remuneration for professional services as if he were not a Director; provided that nothing herein contained shall authorise a Director or his firm to act as auditor to the Company.

 

119. The Directors shall cause minutes to be made in books or loose-leaf folders provided for the purpose of recording:

 

  (a) all appointments of Officers made by the Directors;

 

  (b) the names of the Directors present at each meeting of the Directors and of any committee of the Directors; and

 

  (c) all resolutions and proceedings at all meetings of the Company, and of the Directors and of committees of Directors.

 

120. When the chairman of a meeting of the Directors signs the minutes of such meeting the same shall be deemed to have been duly held notwithstanding that all the Directors have not actually come together or that there may have been a technical defect in the proceedings.

 

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121. A resolution in writing signed by all the Directors or all the members of a committee of Directors entitled to receive notice of a meeting of Directors or committee of Directors, as the case may be (an alternate Director, subject as provided otherwise in the terms of appointment of the alternate Director, being entitled to sign such a resolution on behalf of his appointer), shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a duly called and constituted meeting of Directors or committee of Directors, as the case may be. When signed a resolution may consist of several documents each signed by one or more of the Directors or his duly appointed alternate.

 

122. The continuing Directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body but if and for so long as their number is reduced below the number fixed by or pursuant to these Articles as the necessary quorum of Directors, the continuing Directors may act for the purpose of increasing the number, or of summoning a general meeting of the Company, but for no other purpose.

 

123. The Directors may elect a chairman of their meetings and determine the period for which he is to hold office but if no such chairman is elected, or if at any meeting the chairman is not present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting, the Directors present may choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.

 

124. Subject to any regulations imposed on it by the Directors, a committee appointed by the Directors may elect a chairman of its meetings. If no such chairman is elected, or if at any meeting the chairman is not present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting, the committee members present may choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.

 

125. A committee appointed by the Directors may meet and adjourn as it thinks proper. Subject to any regulations imposed on it by the Directors, questions arising at any meeting shall be determined by a majority of votes of the committee members present and in case of an equality of votes the chairman shall have a second or casting vote.

 

126. All acts done by any meeting of the Directors or of a committee of Directors, or by any Person acting as a Director, shall notwithstanding that it be afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of any such Director or Person acting as aforesaid, or that they or any of them were disqualified, be as valid as if every such Person had been duly appointed and was qualified to be a Director.

DIRECTORS’ INTERESTS

 

127. To the maximum extent permissible by applicable law and notwithstanding any provision of these Articles to the contrary, no Identified Person nor any Director who is not employed as an employee of the Company (each a “Non-Employee Director”) will have any duty to refrain from, on such Person’s own behalf or on behalf of any other Person:

 

  (a) engaging directly or indirectly in the same or similar business activities or lines of business in which the Company or any of its affiliates now engages or proposes to engage; or

 

  (b) otherwise competing with the Company or any of its affiliates.

 

128. To the maximum extent permissible by applicable law and subject to these Articles, the Company renounces any interests or expectancy in, or any right to be offered an opportunity to participate in, any business opportunities that are from time to time presented to or developed by an Non-Employee Director or any affiliate of any Non-Employee Director, unless the business opportunity is expressly offered to such Director in his or her capacity as a Director of the Company.

 

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129. To the maximum extent permissible by applicable law and subject to these Articles, in the event that First Reserve Group, any Identified Person or a Non-Employee Director acquires knowledge of a potential transaction or other business opportunity, neither First Reserve Group, any Identified Person or Non-Employee Director will have any duty to communicate or offer such transaction or business opportunity to the Company or any of the Company’s affiliates and First Reserve Group, such Identified Person or Non-Employee Director may take any such opportunity for himself, herself or itself, or offer it to another Person or entity unless the business opportunity is expressly offered to such Identified Person or Non-Employee Director in his or her capacity as a director of the Company. First Reserve Group’s, an Identified Person’s or Non-Employee Director’s taking or developing, or offering or transferring to another Person or entity, any potential transaction or business or investment opportunity that has been renounced by the Company, whether pursuant to these Articles or otherwise, shall not constitute an act or omission committed in bad faith or as the result of active or deliberate dishonesty, and any benefit received, directly or indirectly, by First Reserve Group, an Identified Person or Non-Employee Director as the result of the taking or developing, or the offering or transferring to another Person or entity, of any such potential transaction or business or investment opportunity shall not constitute receipt of an improper benefit, or an improper personal benefit, in money, property, services or otherwise.

 

130. To the maximum extent permissible by applicable law and subject to these Articles, any Identified Person and any Non-Employee Director may acquire, hold and dispose of Shares for his or her own account or for the account of others, and exercise all of the rights of a Shareholder to the same extent and in the same manner as if he or she were not a Director of the Company.

 

131. To the maximum extent permissible by applicable law and subject to these Articles, any Identified Person and any Non-Employee Director, in his or her personal capacity or in his or her capacity as a director, officer, trustee, shareholder, partner, member, equity owner, manager, advisor or employee of any other person may have business interests and engage, directly or indirectly, in business activities that are similar to those of the Company or compete with the Company or involve a business opportunity that the Company could seize and develop.

DIVIDENDS

 

132. Subject to any rights and restrictions for the time being attached to any Shares, or as otherwise provided for in the Law and these Articles, the Directors may from time to time declare dividends (including interim dividends) and other distributions on Shares in issue and authorise payment of the same out of the funds of the Company lawfully available therefor.

 

133. Subject to any rights and restrictions for the time being attached to any Shares, the Company by Ordinary Resolution may declare dividends, but no dividend shall exceed the amount recommended by the Directors.

 

134. The Directors may, before recommending or declaring any dividend, set aside out of the funds legally available for distribution such sums as they think proper as a reserve or reserves which shall, in the absolute discretion of the Directors be applicable for meeting contingencies, or for equalising dividends or for any other purpose to which those funds may be properly applied and pending such application may in the absolute discretion of the Directors, either be employed in the business of the Company or be invested in such investments as the Directors may from time to time think fit.

 

135. Any dividend may be paid in any manner as the Directors may determine. If paid by cheque it will be sent through the post to the registered address of the Shareholder or Person entitled thereto, or in the case of joint holders, to any one of such joint holders at his registered address or to such Person and such address as the Shareholder or Person entitled, or such joint holders as the case may be, may direct. Every such cheque shall be made payable to the order of the Person to whom it is sent or to the order of such other Person as the Shareholder or Person entitled, or such joint holders as the case may be, may direct.

 

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136. The Directors when paying dividends to the Shareholders in accordance with the foregoing provisions of these Articles may make such payment either in cash or in specie.

 

137. Subject to any rights and restrictions for the time being attached to any Shares, all dividends shall be declared and paid according to the amounts paid up on the Shares, but if and for so long as nothing is paid up on any of the Shares dividends may be declared and paid according to the par value of the Shares.

 

138. If several Persons are registered as joint holders of any Share, any of them may give effectual receipts for any dividend or other moneys payable on or in respect of the Share.

 

139. No dividend shall bear interest against the Company.

ACCOUNTS, AUDIT AND ANNUAL RETURN AND DECLARATION

 

140. The books of account relating to the Company’s affairs shall be kept in such manner as may be determined from time to time by the Directors.

 

141. The books of account shall be kept at the Office, or at such other place or places as the Directors think fit, and shall always be open to the inspection of the Directors.

 

142. The Directors may from time to time determine whether and to what extent and at what times and places and under what conditions or regulations the accounts and books of the Company or any of them shall be open to the inspection of Shareholders not being Directors, and no Shareholder (not being a Director) shall have any right of inspecting any account or book or document of the Company except as conferred by law or authorised by the Directors or by Ordinary Resolution.

 

143. The accounts relating to the Company’s affairs shall only be audited if the Directors so determine, in which case the financial year end and the accounting principles will be determined by the Directors.

 

144. The Directors in each year shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, an annual return and declaration setting forth the particulars required by the Law and deliver a copy thereof to the Registrar of Companies in the Cayman Islands.

CAPITALISATION OF RESERVES

 

145. Subject to the Law and these Articles, the Directors may:

 

  (a) resolve to capitalise an amount standing to the credit of reserves (including a Share Premium Account, capital redemption reserve and profit and loss account), whether or not available for distribution;

 

  (b) appropriate the sum resolved to be capitalised to the Shareholders in proportion to the nominal amount of Shares (whether or not fully paid) held by them respectively and apply that sum on their behalf in or towards:

 

  (i) paying up the amounts (if any) for the time being unpaid on Shares held by them respectively, or

 

  (ii) paying up in full unissued Shares or debentures of a nominal amount equal to that sum,

 

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and allot the Shares or debentures, credited as fully paid, to the Shareholders (or as they may direct) in those proportions, or partly in one way and partly in the other, but the Share Premium Account, the capital redemption reserve and profits which are not available for distribution may, for the purposes of this Article, only be applied in paying up unissued Shares to be allotted to Shareholders credited as fully paid;

 

  (c) make any arrangements they think fit to resolve a difficulty arising in the distribution of a capitalised reserve and in particular, without limitation, where Shares or debentures become distributable in fractions the Directors may deal with the fractions as they think fit;

 

  (d) authorise a Person to enter (on behalf of all the Shareholders concerned) into an agreement with the Company providing for either:

 

  (i) the allotment to the Shareholders respectively, credited as fully paid, of Shares or debentures to which they may be entitled on the capitalisation, or

 

  (ii) the payment by the Company on behalf of the Shareholders (by the application of their respective proportions of the reserves resolved to be capitalised) of the amounts or part of the amounts remaining unpaid on their existing Shares,

and any such agreement made under this authority being effective and binding on all those Shareholders; and

 

  (e) generally do all acts and things required to give effect to any of the actions contemplated by this Article.

SHARE PREMIUM ACCOUNT

 

146. The Directors shall in accordance with the Law establish a Share Premium Account and shall carry to the credit of such account from time to time a sum equal to the amount or value of the premium paid on the issue of any Share.

 

147. There shall be debited to any Share Premium Account on the redemption or purchase of a Share the difference between the nominal value of such Share and the redemption or purchase price provided always that at the discretion of the Directors such sum may be paid out of the profits of the Company or, if permitted by the Law, out of capital.

NOTICES

 

148. Any notice or document may be served by the Company or by the Person entitled to give notice to any Shareholder either personally, or by posting it airmail or air courier service in a prepaid letter addressed to such Shareholder at his address as appearing in the Register, or by electronic mail to any electronic mail address such Shareholder may have specified in writing for the purpose of such service of notices, or by facsimile should the Directors deem it appropriate. In the case of joint holders of a Share, all notices shall be given to that one of the joint holders whose name stands first in the Register in respect of the joint holding, and notice so given shall be sufficient notice to all the joint holders.

 

149. Any Shareholder present, either personally or by proxy, at any meeting of the Company shall for all purposes be deemed to have received due notice of such meeting and, where requisite, of the purposes for which such meeting was convened.

 

150. Any notice or other document, if served by:

 

  (a) post, shall be deemed to have been served five clear days after the time when the letter containing the same is posted;

 

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  (b) facsimile, shall be deemed to have been served upon production by the transmitting facsimile machine of a report confirming transmission of the facsimile in full to the facsimile number of the recipient;

 

  (c) recognised courier service, shall be deemed to have been served 48 hours after the time when the letter containing the same is delivered to the courier service; or

 

  (d) electronic mail, shall be deemed to have been served immediately upon the time of the transmission by electronic mail.

In proving service by post or courier service it shall be sufficient to prove that the letter containing the notice or documents was properly addressed and duly posted or delivered to the courier service.

 

151. Any notice or document delivered or sent in accordance with the terms of these Articles shall notwithstanding that such Shareholder be then dead or bankrupt, and whether or not the Company has notice of his death or bankruptcy, be deemed to have been duly served in respect of any Share registered in the name of such Shareholder as sole or joint holder, unless his name shall at the time of the service of the notice or document, have been removed from the Register as the holder of the Share, and such service shall for all purposes be deemed a sufficient service of such notice or document on all Persons interested (whether jointly with or as claiming through or under him) in the Share.

 

152. Notice of every general meeting of the Company shall be given to:

 

  (a) all Shareholders holding Shares with the right to receive notice and who have supplied to the Company an address for the giving of notices to them; and

 

  (b) every Person entitled to a Share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a Shareholder, who but for his death or bankruptcy would be entitled to receive notice of the meeting.

No other Person shall be entitled to receive notices of general meetings.

INDEMNITY

 

153.

Every Director (including for the purposes of this Article any alternate Director appointed pursuant to the provisions of these Articles), Secretary, assistant Secretary, other Officer (but not including the Company’s auditors) or member of any committee constituted pursuant to the provisions of these Articles, the personal representatives of the same, employee or agent of the Company (each an “Indemnified Person”) shall be indemnified and held harmless against all actions, proceedings, costs, charges, expenses, losses, damages or liabilities incurred or sustained by such Indemnified Person, in or about the conduct of the Company’s business or affairs (including as a result of any mistake of judgment) or in the execution or discharge of his duties, powers, authorities or discretions, including without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, any costs, expenses, losses or liabilities incurred by such Indemnified Person in defending (whether successfully or otherwise) any civil proceedings concerning the Company or its affairs in any court whether in the Cayman Islands or elsewhere and against and from any and all amounts paid by such Indemnified Person with the Company’s approval, in settlement thereof, or paid by such Indemnified Person in satisfaction of any judgment in any such action, suit or proceeding against such Indemnified Person, and the Company shall advance to such Indemnified Person any such expenses promptly upon written request (which request shall include an undertaking by the Indemnified Person to repay the amount of such advance if it shall ultimately be determined as provided in this Article 153 that the Indemnified Person is not entitled to be indemnified) provided that the Company shall have the right, at its own expense, to assume and defend any

 

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  such action, suit or proceeding and once the Company gives notice of its intent to assume the defense, the Company shall have sole control over such defense with counsel of the Company’s choice. The foregoing rights of indemnification shall not be available to an Indemnified Person to the extent that a final judgment or other final adjudication (in either case not subject to further appeal) binding upon such Indemnified Person determines that the acts or omissions or determinations of such Indemnified Person giving rise to the indemnification claim resulted from such Indemnified Person’s own dishonesty, fraud, willful default or knowing or reckless breach of duty or that such right of indemnification is otherwise prohibited by law or by these Articles. The foregoing right of indemnification shall not be exclusive of or otherwise supersede any other rights of indemnification to which such Indemnified Person may be entitled under these Articles, individual indemnification agreement or contract or otherwise, or any other power that the Company may have to indemnify such Indemnified Person or hold them harmless.

 

154. No Indemnified Person shall be liable:

 

  (a) for the acts, receipts, neglects, defaults or omissions of any other Director or Officer or agent of the Company; or

 

  (b) for any loss on account of defect of title to any property of the Company; or

 

  (c) on account of the insufficiency of any security in or upon which any money of the Company shall be invested; or

 

  (d) for any loss incurred through any bank, broker or other similar Person; or

 

  (e) for any loss occasioned by any negligence, default, breach of duty, breach of trust, error of judgement or oversight on such Indemnified Person’s part; or

 

  (f) for any loss, damage or misfortune whatsoever which may happen in or arise from the execution or discharge of the duties, powers, authorities, or discretions of such Indemnified Person’s office or in relation thereto;

unless the same shall happen through such Indemnified Person’s own dishonesty, wilful default, knowing or reckless breach of duty or fraud as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction.

NON-RECOGNITION OF TRUSTS

 

155. Subject to the proviso hereto, no Person shall be recognised by the Company as holding any Share upon any trust and the Company shall not, unless required by law, be bound by or be compelled in any way to recognise (even when having notice thereof) any equitable, contingent, future or partial interest in any Share or (except only as otherwise provided by these Articles or as the Law requires) any other right in respect of any Share except an absolute right to the entirety thereof in each Shareholder registered in the Register, provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall be entitled to recognise any such interests as shall be determined by the Directors.

WINDING UP

 

156. If the Company shall be wound up the liquidator shall apply the assets of the Company in such manner and order as he thinks fit in satisfaction of creditors’ claims.

 

157.

If the Company shall be wound up, the liquidator may, with the sanction of an Ordinary Resolution divide amongst the Shareholders in specie or kind the whole or any part of the assets of the Company (whether they shall consist of property of the same kind or not) and may, for such purpose set such value as he deems fair upon any property to be divided as aforesaid and may

 

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  determine how such division shall be carried out as between the Shareholders or different Classes. The liquidator may, with the like sanction, vest the whole or any part of such assets in trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of the Shareholders as the liquidator, with the like sanction shall think fit, but so that no Shareholder shall be compelled to accept any assets whereon there is any liability.

AMENDMENT OF MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

 

158. Subject to the Law and the rights attaching to the various Classes and noting the terms of Article 63 where applicable, the Company may at any time and from time to time by Special Resolution alter or amend these Articles or the Memorandum of Association in whole or in part.

CLOSING OF REGISTER OR FIXING RECORD DATE

 

159. For the purpose of determining those Shareholders that are entitled to receive notice of, attend or vote at any meeting of Shareholders or any adjournment thereof, or those Shareholders that are entitled to receive payment of any dividend, or in order to make a determination as to who is a Shareholder for any other purpose, the Directors may provide that the Register shall be closed for transfers for a stated period which shall not exceed in any case 40 days. If the Register shall be so closed for the purpose of determining those Shareholders that are entitled to receive notice of, attend or vote at a meeting of Shareholders the Register shall be so closed for at least ten (10) days immediately preceding such meeting and the record date for such determination shall be the date of the closure of the Register.

 

160. In lieu of or apart from closing the Register, the Directors may fix in advance a date as the record date for any such determination of those Shareholders that are entitled to receive notice of, attend or vote at a meeting of the Shareholders and for the purpose of determining those Shareholders that are entitled to receive payment of any dividend the Directors may, at or within 90 days prior to the date of declaration of such dividend, fix a subsequent date as the record date for such determination.

 

161. If the Register is not so closed and no record date is fixed for the determination of those Shareholders entitled to receive notice of, attend or vote at a meeting of Shareholders or those Shareholders that are entitled to receive payment of a dividend, the date on which notice of the meeting is posted or the date on which the resolution of the Directors declaring such dividend is adopted, as the case may be, shall be the record date for such determination of Shareholders. When a determination of those Shareholders that are entitled to receive notice of, attend or vote at a meeting of Shareholders has been made as provided in this Article, such determination shall apply to any adjournment thereof.

REGISTRATION BY WAY OF CONTINUATION

 

162. The Company may by Special Resolution resolve to be registered by way of continuation in a jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands or such other jurisdiction in which it is for the time being incorporated, registered or existing. In furtherance of a resolution adopted pursuant to this Article, the Directors may cause an application to be made to the Registrar of Companies to deregister the Company in the Cayman Islands or such other jurisdiction in which it is for the time being incorporated, registered or existing and may cause all such further steps as they consider appropriate to be taken to effect the transfer by way of continuation of the Company.

MERGERS AND CONSOLIDATION

 

163. The Company may by Special Resolution resolve to merge or consolidate the Company in accordance with the Law.

 

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DISCLOSURE

 

164. The Directors, the Company, or any authorised service providers of the Company (including the Officers, the Secretary and the registered office agent of the Company), shall be entitled to disclose to any regulatory or judicial authority, or to any stock exchange on which the Shares may from time to time be listed, any information regarding the affairs of the Company including, without limitation, information contained in the Register and books of the Company.

 

165. The Directors, the Company, or any authorised service providers of the Company (including the Officers, the Secretary and the registered office agent of the Company), may and may cause its subsidiaries to permit First Reserve, Horizon Alpha Limited, FR XI Co-Investment I, L.P. and FR XI Horizon Co-Investment II, L.P. (and their successors and assigns) (the “First Reserve Entities”) and their designated representatives, at reasonable times and upon reasonable prior notice to the Company, to review the books and records of the Company or any of such subsidiaries and to discuss the affairs, finances and condition of the Company or any of its subsidiaries with its Directors and Officers of the Company or any such subsidiary, provided however that the Company shall not be required to disclose any privileged information of the Company so long as the Company has used commercially reasonable efforts to enter into an arrangement pursuant to which it may provide such information to First Reserve and the First Reserve Entities without the loss of any such privilege.

 

166. The Company may deliver or cause to be delivered to First Reserve and the First Reserve Entities at their request:

 

  (a) operating and capital expenditure budgets and period information packages relating to the operations and cash flows of the Company and its subsidiaries that are provided to the board of Directors of the Company or the board of directors of the Company’s subsidiaries;

 

  (b) to the extent otherwise prepared by the Company, such other reports and information as may be reasonably requested by First Reserve or the First Reserve Entities, provided however that the Company shall not be required to disclose any privileged information of the Company so long as the Company has used commercially reasonable efforts to enter into an arrangement pursuant to which it may provide such information to the First Reserve and the First Reserve Entities without the loss of any such privilege; and

 

  (c) any other information as is permitted to be disclosed under the Shareholders Agreement.

 

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