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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