Pre-Effective Amendment to Registration Statement (General Form) — Form S-1
Filing Table of Contents
Document/Exhibit Description Pages Size
1: S-1/A Registration Statement 191 905K
2: EX-1.1 Underwriting Agreement 30 167K
3: EX-3.1 Articles of Incorporation/Organization or By-Laws 8 20K
4: EX-3.2 Articles of Incorporation/Organization or By-Laws 8 34K
5: EX-4.1 Instrument Defining the Rights of Security Holders 3 11K
6: EX-4.4 Instrument Defining the Rights of Security Holders 6 21K
7: EX-4.9 Instrument Defining the Rights of Security Holders 3 16K
8: EX-5.1 Opinion re: Legality 2 12K
11: EX-10.10 Material Contract 11 47K
9: EX-10.8 Material Contract 20 80K
10: EX-10.9 Material Contract 9 36K
12: EX-21.1 Subsidiaries of the Registrant 1 7K
13: EX-23.1 Consent of Experts or Counsel 1 10K
14: EX-23.3 Consent of Experts or Counsel 1 7K
15: EX-23.5 Consent of Experts or Counsel 1 8K
EX-3.1 — Articles of Incorporation/Organization or By-Laws
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Exhibit 3.1
AMENDED AND RESTATED
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
ALASKA COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS GROUP, INC.
(originally incorporated on October 13, 1998
under the name ALEC Holdings, Inc.)
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ARTICLE I
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The name of the corporation (which is hereinafter referred to as the
"Corporation") is:
Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc.
ARTICLE II
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The address of the Corporation's registered office in the State of
Delaware is The Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street in the City of
Wilmington, County of New Castle. The name of the Corporation's registered agent
at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.
ARTICLE III
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The purpose of the Corporation shall be to engage in any lawful act or
activity for which corporations may be organized and incorporated under the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
ARTICLE IV
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Section 1. The Corporation shall be authorized to issue 150,000,000
shares of capital stock, of which 145,000,000 shares shall be shares of Common
Stock, $.01 par value per
share ("Common Stock"), and 5,000,000 shares shall be shares of Preferred Stock,
$.01 par value per share ("Preferred Stock").
Section 2. Except as otherwise provided by law, or as otherwise
provided in or pursuant to this Article IV, the Common Stock shall have the
exclusive right to vote for the election of directors and for all other
purposes. Each share of Common Stock shall have one vote, and the Common
Stock shall vote together as a single class.
Section 3. The Board of Directors of the Corporation (the "Board") is
expressly authorized to provide for the issuance of all or any shares of the
Preferred Stock, in one or more series, and to fix for each such series such
voting powers, full or limited, or no voting powers, and such designations,
preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, and
such qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, as shall be stated and
expressed in the resolution or resolutions adopted by the Board providing for
the issue of such series (a "Preferred Stock Designation") and as may be
permitted by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. The number of
authorized shares of Preferred Stock may be increased or decreased (but not
below the number of shares thereof then outstanding) by the affirmative vote of
the holders of a majority of the voting power of all of the then outstanding
shares of the capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the
election of directors, voting together as a single class, without a separate
vote of the holders of the Preferred Stock, or any series thereof, unless a vote
of any such holders is required pursuant to any Preferred Stock Designation.
ARTICLE V
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Unless and except to the extent that the By-Laws of the Corporation
shall so require, the election of directors of the Corporation need not be by
written ballot.
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ARTICLE VI
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In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by law,
the Board is expressly authorized and empowered to make, alter, amend and repeal
the By-Laws of the Corporation by a majority vote of the directors present at
any meeting at which a quorum is present, or by written consent in accordance
with the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
ARTICLE VII
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The Corporation reserves the right at any time from time to time to
amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this Amended and
Restated Certificate of Incorporation, and any 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 whatsoever nature conferred upon stockholders, directors or
any other persons whomsoever by and pursuant to this Amended and Restated
Certificate of Incorporation in its present form or as hereafter amended are
granted subject to the right reserved in this Article.
ARTICLE VIII
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Section 1. ELIMINATION OF CERTAIN LIABILITY OF DIRECTORS. A director
of the Corporation shall not be personally liable to the Corporation or its
stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director,
except for liability (i ) for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to
the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good
faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law,
(iii) under Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or (iv) for any
transaction from which
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the director derived an improper personal benefit. If the Delaware General
Corporation Law is amended to authorize corporate action further eliminating or
limiting the personal liability of directors, then the liability of a director
of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent
permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as so amended.
Any repeal or modification of the foregoing paragraph by the
stockholders of the Corporation shall not adversely affect any right or
protection of a director of the Corporation existing at the time of such repeal
or modification.
Section 2. INDEMNIFICATION AND INSURANCE.
(a) RIGHT TO INDEMNIFICATION. Each person who was or is made a party
or is threatened to be made a party to or is involved in any threatened, pending
or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative
or investigative (hereinafter a "proceeding"), by reason of the fact that he or
she, or a person of whom he or she is the legal representative, is or was a
director or officer of the Corporation or is or was serving at the request of
the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation
or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service
with respect to employee benefit plans, whether the basis of such proceeding is
alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer, employee or agent
or in any other capacity while serving as a director, officer, employee or
agent, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest
extent authorized by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as
the same exists or may hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such
amendment, to the fullest extent permitted by law, only to the extent that such
amendment permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights than
said law permitted the Corporation to provide prior to such
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amendment), against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys' fees,
judgments, fines, amounts paid or to be paid in settlement, and excise taxes or
penalties arising under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
reasonably incurred or suffered by such person in connection therewith and such
indemnification shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director,
officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of his or her heirs,
executors and administrators; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that, except as provided in
paragraph (b) hereof, the Corporation shall indemnify any such person seeking
indemnification in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by
such person only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the
Board. The right to indemnification conferred in this Section shall be a
contract right and shall include the right to be paid by the Corporation the
expenses incurred in defending any such proceeding in advance of its final
disposition; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that, if the General Corporation Law of the
State of Delaware requires, the payment of such expenses incurred by a director
or officer in his or her capacity as a director or officer (and not in any other
capacity in which service was or is rendered by such person while a director or
officer, including, without limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) in
advance of the final disposition of a proceeding, shall be made only upon
delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking, by or on behalf of such director
or officer, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be
determined that such director or officer is not entitled to be indemnified under
this Section or otherwise. The Corporation may, by action of the Board, provide
indemnification to employees and agents of the Corporation with the same scope
and effect as the foregoing indemnification of directors and officers.
(b) RIGHT OF CLAIMANT TO BRING SUIT. If a claim under paragraph (a) of
this Section is not paid in full by the Corporation within thirty days after a
written claim has been
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received by the Corporation, the claimant may at any time thereafter bring suit
against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim and, if
successful in whole or in part, the claimant shall be entitled to be paid also
the expense of prosecuting such claim. It shall be a defense to any such action
(other than an action brought to enforce a claim for expenses incurred in
defending any proceeding in advance of its final disposition where the required
undertaking, if any is required, has been tendered to the Corporation) that the
claimant has not met the standards of conduct which make it permissible under
the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware for the Corporation to
indemnify the claimant for the amount claimed, but the burden of proving such
defense shall be on the Corporation. Neither the failure of the Corporation
(including its Board, independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) to have
made a determination prior to the commencement of such action that
indemnification of the claimant is proper in the circumstances because he or she
has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in the General Corporation
Law of the State of Delaware, nor an actual determination by the Corporation
(including its Board, independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) that the
claimant has not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall be a defense to
the action or create a presumption that the claimant has not met the applicable
standard of conduct.
(c) NON-EXCLUSIVITY OF RIGHTS. The right to indemnification and the
payment of expenses incurred in defending a proceeding in advance of its final
disposition conferred in this Section shall not be exclusive of any other right
which any person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of
the Certificate of Incorporation, By-law, agreement, vote of stockholders or
disinterested directors or otherwise.
(d) INSURANCE. The Corporation may maintain insurance, at its expense,
to protect itself and any director, officer, employee or agent of the
Corporation or another corporation,
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partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any such expense,
liability or loss, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to
indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
ARTICLE IX
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The Corporation shall not be governed by Section 203 of the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Amended and Restated Certificate of
Incorporation, which restates and integrates and further amends the provisions
of the Certificate of Incorporation of this Corporation, as amended, and which
has been duly adopted in accordance with Sections 242 and 245 of the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, has been executed by its duly
authorized officer this 9th day of November 1999.
ALASKA COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS GROUP, INC.
By: /s/ Michael E. Holmstrom
_______________________________________________
Name: Michael E. Holmstrom
Title: Senior Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
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