EX-3.1 2 d687503dex31.htm EX-3.1 EX-3.1

Exhibit 3.1

AMENDED AND RESTATED

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

BLACK BOX CORPORATION

(a Delaware corporation)

ARTICLE 1

NAME

The name of the corporation is Black Box Corporation (the “Corporation”).

ARTICLE 2

REGISTERED OFFICE AND AGENT

The address of the Corporation’s registered office in the State of Delaware is 9 E. Loockerman Street, Suite 311, Dover, Kent County, Delaware 19901, and the name of its registered agent at such address is Registered Agent Solutions, Inc.

ARTICLE 3

PURPOSE AND POWERS

The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “Delaware General Corporation Law”). The Corporation shall have all powers that may now or hereafter be lawful for a corporation to exercise under the Delaware General Corporation Law.

ARTICLE 4

CAPITAL STOCK

 

  4.1

Authorized Shares

The total number of shares of all classes of stock that the Corporation shall have the authority to issue is one thousand (1,000), all of which shall be Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”).

 

  4.2

Common Stock

4.2.1 Relative Rights

Each share of Common Stock shall have the same relative rights as and be identical in all respects to all other shares of Common Stock.


4.2.2 Dividends

Dividends may be paid on Common Stock out of any assets legally available for the payment of dividends thereon, when and as declared by the Board of Directors of the Corporation.

4.2.3 Dissolution, Liquidation or Winding Up

In the event of any dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, the holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to participate in the distribution of any assets of the Corporation remaining after the Corporation shall have paid, or provided for payment of, all debts and liabilities of the Corporation.

4.2.4 Voting Rights

The holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to vote on each matter on which the stockholders of the Corporation shall be entitled to vote (including, without limitation, the election of one or more directors), and each such holder shall be entitled to one vote for each share of Common Stock held by such holder.

ARTICLE 5

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

  5.1

Number; Election

The number of directors of the Corporation shall be such number as from time to time shall be fixed by, or in the manner provided in, the bylaws of the Corporation. Unless and except to the extent that the bylaws of the Corporation shall otherwise require, the election of directors of the Corporation need not be by written ballot. Except as otherwise provided in this Certificate of Incorporation, each director of the Corporation shall be entitled to one vote per director on all matters voted or acted upon by the Board of Directors.

 

  5.2

Management of Business and Affairs of the Corporation

The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of Directors.

 

  5.3

Limitation of Liability

No director of the Corporation shall be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, provided that this provision shall not eliminate or limit the liability of a director (a) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (b) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (c) under Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or (d) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. If the Delaware General Corporation Law hereafter is amended to authorize the further elimination or limitation of the liability of directors, then the liability of a director of the Corporation, in addition to the limitation on personal liability provided herein, shall

 

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be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the amended Delaware General Corporation Law. Any repeal or modification of this Article 5.3 shall be prospective only and shall not adversely affect any right or protection of, or any limitation on the liability of, a director of the Corporation existing at, or arising out of the facts or incidents occurring prior to, the effective date of such repeal or modification. For purposes of this Article 5.3, “fiduciary duty as a director” also shall include any fiduciary duty arising out of serving at the Corporation’s request as a director of another corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture or other enterprise, and “liable to the Corporation or its stockholders” also shall include any liability to such other corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, and any liability to the Corporation in its capacity as a security holder, joint venturer, partner, member, beneficiary, creditor or investor of or in any such other corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust or other enterprise.

 

  5.4

Indemnification

The Corporation shall indemnify and advance expenses to any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to, or testifies in, any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative in nature, by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, employee benefit plan, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding to the full extent permitted by law, and the Corporation may adopt by-laws or enter into agreements with any such person for the purpose of providing for such indemnification.

ARTICLE 6

AMENDMENT OF BYLAWS

In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by the Delaware General Corporation Law, the Board of Directors of the Corporation is expressly authorized and empowered to adopt, amend and repeal the bylaws of the Corporation.

ARTICLE 7

RESERVATION OF RIGHT TO AMEND CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this Certificate of Incorporation, and other provisions authorized by the laws of the State of Delaware at the time in force may be added or inserted, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by law, and all rights, preferences and privileges of any nature conferred upon stockholders, directors or any other persons by and pursuant to this Certificate of Incorporation in its present form or as hereafter amended are granted subject to the rights reserved in this Article 7.

 

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ARTICLE 8

SEVERABILITY

In the event that any provision of this Certificate of Incorporation (including any provision within a single article, paragraph or sentence) is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, void or otherwise unenforceable, the remaining provisions are severable and shall remain enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law.

 

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