EX-3.1 2 ea020496501ex3-1_aquaron.htm AMENDMENT TO THE AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF AQUARON ACQUISITION CORP. DATED APRIL 30, 2024

Exhibit 3.1

 

CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT TO THE
AMENDED AND RESTATED
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
AQUARON ACQUISITION CORP.

 

Aquaron Acquisition Corp., a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, by its Chief Executive Officer, hereby certifies as follows:

 

1.The name of the corporation is Aquaron Acquisition Corp.

 

2.The date of filing of the corporation’s original Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware was March 11, 2021 (and it was thereafter amended by a Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation on June 3, 2021 and June 29, 2023) and the date of filing the corporation’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware was August 9, 2022, which later was amended and restated by filing the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on October 4, 2022 (the “Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation”).

 

3.The Board of Directors of the corporation has duly adopted resolutions setting forth proposed amendments to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, declaring said amendment to be advisable and in the best interests of the corporation and its stockholders and authorizing the appropriate officers of the corporation to solicit the consent of the stockholders therefor, which resolutions setting forth the proposed amendment are substantially as follows:

 

RESOLVED, that Article Sixth (E) of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation are hereby amended and restated in the entirety as follows:

 

“E. In the event that the Corporation does not consummate a Business Combination by May 6, 2024, or if the Corporation shall, in its sole discretion determine, elect to extend the amount of time to complete a Business Combination on a monthly basis up to twelve times to May 6, 2025 (the later such date actually extended being referred to as or, in each case if the Office of the Delaware Division of Corporations shall not be open for business (including filing of corporate documents) on such date the next date upon which the Office of the Delaware Division of Corporations shall be open, the “Termination Date”), the Corporation shall (i) cease all operations except for the purposes of winding up, (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter redeem 100% of the IPO Shares for cash for a redemption price per share as described below (which redemption will completely extinguish such holders’ rights as stockholders, including the right to receive further liquidation distributions, if any), subject to applicable law, and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to approval of the Corporation’s then stockholders and subject to the requirements of the GCL, including the adoption of a resolution by the Board of Directors pursuant to Section 275(a) of the GCL finding the dissolution of the Corporation advisable and the provision of such notices as are required by said Section 275(a) of the GCL, dissolve and liquidate the balance of the Corporation’s net assets to its remaining stockholders, as part of the Corporation’s plan of dissolution and liquidation, subject (in the case of (ii) and (iii) above) to the Corporation’s obligations under the GCL to provide for claims of creditors and other requirements of applicable law. In such event, the per share redemption price shall be equal to a pro rata share of the Trust Account plus any pro rata interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to the Corporation to pay its taxes divided by the total number of IPO Shares then outstanding.”

 

4.That thereafter, said amendment was duly adopted by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the stock entitled to vote at a meeting of stockholders in accordance with the provisions of Section 242 of the DGCL.

 

 

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the corporation has caused this Certificate of Amendment to be signed this day of April 30, 2024.

 

  /s/ Yi Zhou
  Name: Yi Zhou
  Title: Chief Executive Officer