EX-3.1 2 ea171071ex3-1_evoacq.htm AMENDMENT TO AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

Exhibit 3.1

 

CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

 

TO THE

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED

 

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

 

OF

 

EVO ACQUISITION CORP.

 

Evo Acquisition Corp. (the “Corporation”), a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, does hereby certify as follows:

 

1. The text of Section 9.1(b) of Article IX of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation is hereby amended and restated to read in its entirety as follows:

 

“(b) Immediately after the Offering, a certain amount of the net offering proceeds received by the Corporation in the Offering (including the proceeds of any exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option) and certain other amounts specified in the Corporation’s registration statement on Form S-1, as initially filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on January 20, 2021, as amended (the “Registration Statement”), shall be deposited in a trust account (the “Trust Account”), established for the benefit of the Public Stockholders (as defined below) pursuant to a trust agreement described in the Registration Statement. Except for the withdrawal of interest to pay taxes (less up to $100,000 interest to pay dissolution expenses), none of the funds held in the Trust Account (including the interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account) will be released from the Trust Account until the earliest to occur of (i) the completion of the Business Combination, (ii) the redemption of 100% of the Offering Shares (as defined below) if the Corporation is unable to complete its Business Combination by February 8, 2023, which period may be extended for up to six successive periods of one month each (provided that any such extension may not be to a date later than August 8, 2023), as may be determined by the Board, in its sole discretion, and included in a public announcement (or, 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 “Deadline Date”) and (iii) the redemption of shares in connection with a vote seeking to amend any provisions of this Amended and Restated Certificate (a) to modify the substance or timing of the Corporation’s obligation to provide for the redemption of the Offering Shares in connection with the Business Combination or to redeem 100% of such shares if the Corporation has not consummated the Business Combination by the Deadline Date or (b) with respect to any other material provisions relating to stockholders’ rights or pre-Business Combination activity (as described in Section 9.7). Holders of shares of Common Stock included as part of the units sold in the Offering (the “Offering Shares”) (whether such Offering Shares were purchased in the Offering or in the secondary market following the Offering and whether or not such holders are the Sponsor or officers or directors of the Corporation, or affiliates of any of the foregoing) are referred to herein as “Public Stockholders.””

 

2. The foregoing amendment to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation was duly adopted by the Board of Directors of the Corporation and by the requisite vote of the stockholders entitled to vote thereon in accordance with the provisions of Section 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

 

 

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Evo Acquisition Corp. has caused this Certificate of Amendment to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be duly executed and acknowledged in its name and on its behalf by an authorized officer as of this  23  day of December, 2022.

 

  EVO ACQUISITION CORP.
   
  BY: /s/ Adrian Brindle
  NAME: Adrian Brindle
  TITLE: Chief Financial Officer