BYE-LAWS OF

GP INVESTMENTS, LTD.

Amended and Restated on 23 April 2007

As further Amended on 11 February 2008

As further Amended on 30 April 2010

Amended and Restated on 28 July 2011

As further Amended on 28 April 2014

As further Amended as of 30 April 2015

As further Amended as of 30 April 2019

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

26.

Attendance and Security at

Meetings of the Board of

Interpretation

General Meetings

Directors

1.

Definitions

27.

Quorum at General Meetings

52.

Board Meetings

28.

Chairman to Preside

53.

Notice of Board Meetings

Shares

29.

Voting on Resolutions

54.

Participation in Meetings by

2.

Power to Issue Shares

30.

Power to Demand Vote on

Telephone

3.

Power of the Company to

Poll

55.

Quorum at Board Meetings

Purchase its Shares

31.

Voting by Joint Holders of

56.

Board to Continue in Event

4.

Rights Attaching to Shares

Shares

of Vacancy

5.

Calls on Shares

32.

Instrument of Proxy

57.

Chairman to Preside

6.

Prohibition on Financial

33.

Representation of Corporate

58.

Written Resolutions

Assistance

Member

59.

Validity of Prior Acts of the

7.

Forfeiture of Shares

34.

Adjournment of General

Board

8.

Share Certificates

Meeting

9.

Fractional Shares

35.

Written Resolutions

Corporate Records

36.

Directors' Attendance at

60.

Minutes

Registration of Shares

General Meetings

61.

Place Where Corporate

10.

Register of Members

Records Kept

11.

Registered Owner Absolute

Directors and Officers

62.

Form and Use of Seal

Owner

37.

Election and Term of

12.

Transfer of Registered Shares

Directors

Accounts

13.

Transmission of Registered

38.

Alternate Directors

63.

Books of Account

Shares

39.

Removal of Directors

64.

Financial Year End

40.

Vacancy in the Office of

Alteration of Share Capital

Director

Audits

14.

Power to Alter Capital

41.

Remuneration of Directors

65.

Annual Audit

15.

Variation of Rights Attaching

42.

Defect in Appointment of

66.

Appointment of Auditors

to Shares

Director

67.

Remuneration of Auditors

43.

Directors to Manage

68.

Duties of Auditors

Dividends and Capitalisation

Business

69.

Access to Records

16.

Dividends

44.

Powers of the Board of

70.

Financial Statements

17.

Power to Set Aside Profits

Directors

71.

Distribution of Auditors

18.

Method of Payment

45.

Register of Directors and

Report

19.

Capitalisation

Officers

72.

Vacancy in the Office of

46.

Officers and Chairman of the

Auditor

Meetings of Members

Board

20.

Annual General Meetings

47.

Appointment of Officers

Voluntary Winding-Up and

21.

Special General Meetings

48.

Duties of Officers

Dissolution

22.

Requisitioned General

49.

Remuneration of Officers

73.

Winding-Up

Meetings

50.

Conflicts of Interest

23.

Notice

51.

Indemnification and

Changes to Constitution

24.

Giving Notice

Exculpation of Directors and

74.

Changes to Bye-laws

25.

Postponement or

Officers

75.

Discontinuance

Cancellation of General

Meeting

Preemptive Rights

76.

Preemptive Rights

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INTERPRETATION

1. Definitions

1.1 In these Bye-laws, the following words and expressions shall, where not inconsistent with the context, have the following meanings, respectively:

Act

the Companies Act 1981 as amended from time to time;

affiliate

with respect to any Person, any other Person directly or

indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or

indirect common control with such Person;

Alternate Director

an alternate director appointed in accordance with these

Bye-laws;

Auditor

includes an individual or partnership;

Board

the board of directors appointed or elected pursuant to these

Bye-laws and acting by resolution in accordance with the

Act and these Bye-laws or the directors present at a

meeting of directors at which there is a quorum;

Business Day

any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or day on which

banking institutions in New York, New York, U.S.A., São

Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil or Hamilton, Bermuda are not

required to be open;

Class A Shares

the Class A Shares of the Company as defined in Bye-law

4.2;

Class B Directors

the Class B Directors as defined in Bye-law 37.1;

Class B Shares

the Class B Shares of the Company as defined in Bye-law

4.3;

Code

United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended;

Committee Nominated

Directors

as such term is defined in Bye-law 37.1;

Company

the company for which these Bye-laws are approved and

confirmed;

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control

(including, with correlative meanings, the terms

"controlling," "controlled by" and "under common control

with"), as used with respect to any Person, shall mean the

possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or

cause the direction of the management or policies of such

Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities,

by agreement or otherwise; provided, however, that

beneficial ownership of more than 50% of the voting

securities of a Person shall be deemed to be control;

Controlling Shareholder

Partners Holdings and any Person that holds a voting

interest in Partners Holdings;

Director

a director of the Company and shall include an Alternate

Director;

ERISA

United States Employee Retirement Income Security Act of

1974, as amended, and the rules and regulations

promulgated thereunder;

ERISA Person

any Person which is, or is acting on behalf of, a Plan;

Governmental Entity

in any applicable jurisdiction, any federal, provincial, state

or local government, any governmental, regulatory or

administrative authority, agency or commission, or any

court or tribunal, or judicial or arbitral body;

Immediate Family

with respect to any individual, shall mean the spouse,

sibling, child, step child, grandchild, niece, nephew or

parent of such Person or the spouse thereof;

Independent Director

an individual who is duly appointed or elected as a member

of the Board and who is not, and has never been for any

part of the last three calendar years (or in the case of (iv)

below, for any part of the past two years), and will not

while serving as a Director, be any of the following:

(i) a manager, director, officer or employee of the

Company or any of its affiliates (other than as (a) an

Independent Director of the Company or an affiliate of the

Company or (b) a member of the Company's advisory body

constituted as the advisory board, provided that such

member has not served as a manager, director, officer or

employee of the Company or any of its affiliates);

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(ii) a Person who has received any money, compensation or other payment from the Company or any affiliate of the Company (including, without limitation, any creditor, supplier or service provider to the Company or any of its affiliates), except for (A) any Person who has received any fees or compensation by virtue of being (x) an Independent Director or (y) a member of the Company's advisory body constituted as the advisory board, provided that such member has not served as a manager, director, officer or employee of the Company or any of its affiliates, (B) any Person that has received any dividends or other distributions as a registered holder of Class A Shares, Class B Shares or holder of Brazilian Depositary Shares or (C) any Person who has been appointed an Independent Director prior to the Offering Date who has received any fees or compensation from the Company;

(iii)

a Controlling Shareholder or a Person that holds more

than 10% of the issued and outstanding Class B Shares or

any member, partner, equityholder, manager, director,

officer or employee of such Person;

(iv)

a member, partner, equityholder, manager, director,

officer or employee of the Company's current or former

Auditor;

(v)

a Person that (A) has a conflicting interest with the

Company as determined by the Nomination and

Compensation Committee in good faith, (B) is a manager,

director, officer or employee of a competitor of the

Company or (C) is a controlling shareholder of a

competitor of the Company or a manager, director, officer

or employee thereof; or

(vi)

the Immediate Family of any Person described in (i)

through (v) above.

Initial Offering

the first offering by the Company (or its successor entity)

of Class A Shares (or successor or similar equity interests);

Member

the person registered in the Register of Members as the

holder of shares in the Company and, when two or more

persons are so registered as joint holders of shares, means

the

person whose name stands first in the Register of

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