EX-3.1 2 tm2230653d5_ex3-1.htm EXHIBIT 3.1

 

Exhibit 3.1

 

FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

 

OF

 

LOGICBIO THERAPEUTICS, INC.

 

FIRST: The name of the corporation is LogicBio Therapeutics, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as the “Corporation”).

 

SECOND: The address of the Corporation’s registered office in the State of Delaware is Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, Delaware 19801. The name of its registered agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.

 

THIRD: 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 (as the same now exists or may hereafter be amended, the “DGCL”).

 

FOURTH: The total number of shares of capital stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is 100 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”). Each holder of Common Stock shall have one vote in respect of each share of Common Stock held by such holder of record on the books of the Corporation on all matters on which stockholders of the Corporation are entitled to vote.

 

FIFTH: In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by the law of the State of Delaware, the directors of the Corporation shall have power to adopt, amend or repeal any or all of the Bylaws of the Corporation, except as may otherwise be provided in the Bylaws of the Corporation.

 

SIXTH: Elections of directors need not be by written ballot, except as may otherwise be provided in the Bylaws of the Corporation.

 

SEVENTH:

 

(1)       To the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, no director or officer of the Corporation shall be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director or officer, as applicable. No amendment or repeal of this Article SEVENTH shall adversely affect any right or protection of a director or officer of the Corporation hereunder in respect of any act or omission occurring prior to such amendment or repeal.

 

(2)        The Corporation shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law as it presently exists or may hereafter be amended, any person (an “Indemnitee”) who was or is made, or is threatened to be made, a party or is otherwise involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (a “Proceeding”), by reason of the fact that he or she, or a person for whom he or she is the legal representative, is or was a director of the Corporation or an officer of the Corporation elected by the board of directors or, while a director of the Corporation or an officer of the Corporation elected by the board of directors, is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee, member, trustee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust, nonprofit entity or other enterprise (including service with respect to employee benefit plans) (any such entity, an “Other Entity”), against all liability and loss suffered (including expenses (including attorneys’ fees and expenses), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such Indemnitee in connection with such Proceeding). Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, the Corporation shall be required to indemnify an Indemnitee in connection with a Proceeding (or part thereof) commenced by such Indemnitee only if the commencement of such Proceeding (or part thereof) by the Indemnitee was authorized by the board of directors or the Proceeding (or part thereof) relates to the enforcement of the Corporation’s obligations under this Article SEVENTH.

 

 

 

(3)        The Corporation shall to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law pay, on an as-incurred basis, all expenses (including attorneys’ fees and expenses) actually and reasonably incurred by an Indemnitee in defending any proceeding, which may be indemnifiable pursuant to this Article SEVENTH, in advance of its final disposition. Such advancement shall be unconditional, unsecured and interest free and shall be made without regard to Indemnitee’s ability to repay any expenses advanced; provided, however, that, to the extent required by law, such payment of expenses in advance of the final disposition of the Proceeding shall be made only upon receipt of an unsecured undertaking by the Indemnitee to repay all amounts advanced if it should be ultimately determined that the Indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified under this Article SEVENTH or otherwise.

 

(4)        If a claim for indemnification (following the final disposition of such proceeding) or advancement of expenses under this Article SEVENTH is not paid in full within sixty (60) days after a written claim therefor by the Indemnitee has been received by the Corporation, the Indemnitee may file suit to recover the unpaid amount of such claim and, if successful in whole or in part, shall be entitled to be paid the expense of prosecuting such claim to the fullest extent permitted by law. In any such action the Corporation shall have the burden of proving that the Indemnitee is not entitled to the requested indemnification or advancement of expenses under applicable law.

 

(5)        The Corporation shall have the power to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, trustee, employee, member or agent of the Corporation, or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, trustee, employee, member or agent of an Other Entity, against any liability asserted against the person and incurred by the person in any such capacity, or arising out of his or her status as such, whether or not the Corporation would have the power or the obligation to indemnify such person against such liability under the provisions of this Article SEVENTH or the DGCL.

 

(6)        The rights conferred on any Indemnitee by this Article SEVENTH are not exclusive of other rights arising under any bylaw, agreement, vote of directors or stockholders or otherwise, and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs and legal representatives of such Indemnitee. This Article SEVENTH shall not limit the right of the Corporation, to the extent and in the manner permitted by law, to indemnify and to advance expenses to Indemnitees or persons other than Indemnitees when and as authorized by appropriate corporate action, including by separate agreement with the Corporation.

 

 

 

(7)        Subject to any written agreement between the Indemnitee and the Corporation to the contrary, the Corporation’s obligation, if any, to indemnify or to advance expenses to any Indemnitee who was or is serving at the Corporation’s request as a director, officer, employee or agent of an Other Entity shall be reduced by any amount such Indemnitee may collect as indemnification or advancement of expenses from such Other Entity.

 

(8)        Any right to indemnification or to advancement of expenses of any Indemnitee arising hereunder shall not be eliminated or impaired by an amendment to or repeal of this Article SEVENTH after the occurrence of the act or omission that is the subject of the civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit, proceeding or other matter for which indemnification or advancement of expenses is sought.

 

(9)        Indemnitees who after the date of the adoption of this Article SEVENTH become or remain an Indemnitee described in this Article SEVENTH will be conclusively presumed to have relied on the rights to indemnity, advancement of expenses and other rights contained in this Article SEVENTH in entering into or continuing their service. The rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses conferred in this Article SEVENTH will apply to claims made against any Indemnitee described in this Article SEVENTH arising out of acts or omissions that occurred or occur either before or after the adoption of this Article SEVENTH in respect of service as a director or officer of the Corporation or other service described in this Article SEVENTH.

 

(10)        In the event that any proceeding to which an Indemnitee is a party is resolved in any manner other than by adverse judgment against the Indemnitee (including settlement of such proceeding with or without payment of money or other consideration) it shall be presumed that the Indemnitee has been successful on the merits or otherwise in such proceeding for purposes of Section 145(c) of the DGCL. Anyone seeking to overcome this presumption shall have the burden of proof and the burden of persuasion by clear and convincing evidence.

 

(11)        For purposes of this Article SEVENTH, references to the “Corporation” shall include, in addition to the resulting corporation, any constituent corporation (including any constituent of a constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had continued, would have had power and authority to indemnify its directors, officers and employees or agents, so that any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of such constituent corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such constituent corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, shall stand in the same position under this Article SEVENTH with respect to the resulting or surviving corporation as he or she would have with respect to such constituent corporation if its separate existence had continued.

 

(12)        If this Article SEVENTH or any portion hereof shall be invalidated on any ground by any court of competent jurisdiction, then the Corporation shall nevertheless indemnify and advance expenses to each person entitled to indemnification under this Article SEVENTH to the fullest extent permitted by any applicable portion of this Article SEVENTH that shall not have been invalidated and to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

 

 

 

EIGHTH: The number of directors that shall constitute the whole board of directors of the Corporation shall be fixed from time to time by, or in the manner provided in, the Bylaws of the Corporation (or in an amendment thereof duly adopted by the Board of Directors of the Corporation or by the stockholders of the Corporation).

 

NINTH: The Corporation reserves the right to amend, repeal and/or add to the provisions of this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation in any manner now or hereafter permitted by the DGCL and all rights conferred upon directors, officers, employees or agents hereby are subject to this reservation.

 

TENTH: Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between this Corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between this Corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary way of this Corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof or on the application any receiver or receivers appointed for this Corporation under the provisions of Section 291 of the DGCL or on the application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed for this Corporation under the provisions of Section 279 of the DGCL order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such manner as the said court directs. If a majority in number representing three-fourths in value of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of this Corporation as a consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by the court to which the said application has been made, be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the stockholders or class of stockholders, of this Corporation, as the case may be, and also on this Corporation.