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Exhibit 3.1

SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF THE SURVIVING CORPORATION

 

1.

The name of the corporation is: ABIOMED, Inc. (the “Corporation”).

 

2.

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

 

3.

The nature of the business or purpose to be conducted or promoted is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of Delaware.

 

4.

The total number of shares of stock, which the Corporation shall have authority to issue, is 100 shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share.

 

5.

The Corporation is to have perpetual existence.

 

6.

In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute, the board of directors is expressly authorized to adopt, amend or repeal the By-Laws of the Corporation.

 

7.

To the fullest extent that the laws of the State of Delaware, as they exist on the date hereof or as they may hereafter be amended, permit the limitation or elimination of the liability of directors or officers, no director or officer of the Corporation shall be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for damages for breach of any duty owed to the Corporation or its stockholders. Neither the amendment or repeal of this provision nor the adoption of any provision of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation which is inconsistent with this provision shall apply to or have any effect on the liability or alleged liability of any director or officer of the Corporation for or with respect to any act or omission of such director or officer occurring prior to such amendment, repeal or adoption.

 

8.

The Corporation may, to the fullest extent permitted by the laws of the State of Delaware, as they exist on the date hereof or as they may hereafter be amended, indemnify any and all persons whom it shall have power to indemnify under said laws, to the full extent provided in the Corporation’s By-Laws, from and against any and all of the expenses, liabilities or other matters referred to in or covered by said laws, and the indemnification provided for herein shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which a person indemnified may be entitled under any agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in his official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.

 

9.

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.