Exhibit 3.1
Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation
of
Illumina, Inc.
ARTICLE I
The name of this corporation is Illumina, Inc.
ARTICLE II
The address of the corporations registered office in the State of Delaware is 1209 Orange Street,
City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, Delaware 19801. The name of its registered agent at such
address is The Corporation Trust Company.
ARTICLE III
The purpose of the corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which a corporation
may be organized under the General Corporation Law of Delaware.
ARTICLE IV
The corporation is authorized to issue two classes of shares of stock, which shall be designated,
respectively, Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share, and Preferred Stock, $0.01 par value per
share. The total number of shares that the corporation is authorized to issue is 330,000,000
shares. The number of shares of Common Stock authorized is 320,000,000. The number of shares of
Preferred Stock authorized is 10,000,000.
The Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more series pursuant to a resolution
or resolutions providing for such issue duly adopted by the board of directors (authority to do so
being hereby expressly vested in the board). The board of directors is further authorized to
determine or alter the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions granted to or imposed upon
any wholly unissued series of Preferred Stock and to fix the number of shares of any series of
Preferred Stock and the designation of any such series of Preferred Stock. The board of directors,
within the limits and restrictions stated in any resolution or resolutions of the board of
directors originally fixing the number of shares constituting any series, may increase or decrease
(but not below the number of shares of any such series then outstanding) the number of shares of
any series subsequent to the issue of shares of that series.
The authority of the board of directors with respect to each such class or series shall include,
without limitation of the foregoing, the right to determine and fix:
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the distinctive designation of such class or series and the number of shares to
constitute such class or series; |
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the rate at which dividends on the shares of such class or series shall be declared and
paid, or set aside for payment, whether dividends at the rate so determined shall be
cumulative or accruing, and whether the shares of such class or series shall be entitled to
any participating or other dividends in addition to dividends at the rate so determined,
and if so, on what terms; |
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the right or obligation, if any, of the corporation to redeem shares of the particular
class or series of Preferred Stock and, if redeemable, the price, terms and manner of such
redemption; |
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the special and relative rights and preferences, if any, and the amount or amounts per
share that the shares of such class or series of Preferred Stock shall be entitled to
receive upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the
corporation; |
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the terms and conditions, if any, upon which shares of such class or series shall be
convertible into, or exchangeable for, shares of capital stock of any other class or
series, including the price or prices or the rate or rates of conversion or exchange and
the terms of adjustment, if any; |
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the obligation, if any, of the corporation to retire, redeem or purchase shares of such
class or series pursuant to a sinking fund or fund of a similar nature or otherwise, and
the terms and conditions of such obligation; |
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voting rights, if any, on the issuance of additional shares of such class or series or
any shares of any other class or series of Preferred Stock; |
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limitations, if any, on the issuance of additional shares of such class or series or
any shares of any other class or series of Preferred Stock; and |
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such other preferences, powers, qualifications, special or relative rights and
privileges thereof as the board of directors of the corporation, acting in accordance with
this Restated Certificate of Incorporation, may deem advisable and are not inconsistent
with law and the provisions of this Restated Certificate of Incorporation. |
ARTICLE V
The corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change, or repeal any provision contained in
this Certificate of Incorporation, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by statute, and all
rights conferred upon the stockholders herein are granted subject to this right.
ARTICLE VI
The corporation is to have perpetual existence.
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ARTICLE VII
1. Limitation of Liability. To the fullest extent permitted by the General Corporation
Law of the State of Delaware as the same exists or as may hereafter be amended, a director of the
corporation shall not be personally liable to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary
damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director.
2. Indemnification. The corporation shall indemnify to the fullest extent permitted by
law any person made or threatened to be made a party to an action or proceeding, whether criminal,
civil, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that such person or his or her
testator or interstate is or was a director or officer of the corporation, or any predecessor of
the corporation, or serves or served at any other enterprise as a director, officer or employee at
the request of the corporation or any predecessor to the corporation and may indemnify to the
fullest extent permitted by law any person made or threatened to be made a party to an action or
proceeding, whether criminal, civil, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that
such person or his or her testator or intestate is or was an employee of the corporation, or any
predecessor of the corporation, or serves or served at any other enterprise as a director, officer
or employee at the request of the corporation or any predecessor to the corporation.
3. Amendments. Neither any amendment nor repeal of this Article VII, nor the adoption
of any provision of the corporations Certificate of Incorporation inconsistent with this Article
VII, shall eliminate or reduce the effect of this Article VII, in respect of any matter occurring,
or any action or proceeding accruing or arising or that, but for this Article VII, would accrue or
arise, prior to such amendment, repeal, or adoption of an inconsistent provision.
ARTICLE VIII
In the event any shares of Preferred Stock shall be redeemed or converted pursuant to the terms
hereof, the shares so converted or redeemed shall not revert to the status of authorized but
unissued shares, but instead shall be canceled and shall not be re-issuable by the corporation.
ARTICLE IX
Holders of stock of any class or series of the corporation shall not be entitled to cumulate their
votes for the election of directors or any other matter submitted to a vote of the stockholders,
unless such cumulative voting is required pursuant to Sections 214 of the Delaware General
Corporation Law, in which event each such holder shall be entitled to as many votes as shall equal
the number of votes which (except for this provision as to cumulative voting) such holder would be
entitled to cast for the election of directors with respect to his shares of stock multiplied by
the number of directors to be elected by him, and the holder may cast all of such votes for a
single director or may distribute them among the number of directors to be voted for, or for any
two or more of them as such holder may see fit, so long as the name of the candidate for director
shall have been placed in nomination prior to the voting and the stockholder, or any other holder
of the same class or series of stock, has given notice at the meeting prior to the voting of the
intention to cumulate votes.
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1. Number of Directors. The number of directors which constitutes the whole Board of
Directors of the corporation shall be designated in the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the
corporation. The directors shall be divided into three classes with the term of office of the first
class (Class I) to expire at the annual meeting of the stockholders held in 2001; the term of
office of the second class (Class II) to expire at the annual meeting of stockholders held in 2002;
the term of office of the third class (Class III) to expire at the annual meeting of stockholders
held in 2003; and thereafter for each such term to expire at each third succeeding annual meeting
of stockholders after such election.
2. Election of Directors. Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless
the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the corporation shall so provide.
ARTICLE X
In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute, the Board of Directors is
expressly authorized to make, alter, amend or repeal the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the
corporation.
ARTICLE XI
No action shall be taken by the stockholders of the corporation except at an annual or special
meeting of the stockholders called in accordance with the Amended and Restated Bylaws, no special
meetings of the stockholders shall be called by stockholders without approval of the Board of
Directors, and no action, including the removal of directors without cause shall be taken by
stockholders by written consent. The affirmative vote of sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66
2/3%) of the then outstanding voting securities of the corporation, voting
together as a single class, shall be required for the amendment, repeal or modification of the
provisions of Article IX, Article X or Article XII of this Amended and Restated Certificate of
Incorporation or Sections 2.3 (Special Meeting), 2.4 (Notice of Stockholders Meeting), 2.4
(Advanced Notice of Stockholder Nominees and Stockholder Business), 2.8 (Voting), or 2.10
(Stockholder Action by Written Consent Without a Meeting), or 3.2 (Number of Directors) of the
corporations Amended and Restated Bylaws.
ARTICLE XII
Meetings of stockholders may be held within or without the State of Delaware, as the Amended and
Restated Bylaws may provide. The books of the corporation may be kept (subject to any provision
contained in the statutes) outside of the State of Delaware at such place or places as may be
designated from time to time by the Board of Directors or in the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the
corporation.
ARTICLE XIII
This Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation shall be effective as of the date of the
closing of the Corporations initial public offering.
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In Witness Whereof, Illumina, Inc. has caused this instrument to be executed by Jay
T. Flatley, its President and Chief Executive Officer, on this September 16, 2008, which execution
shall constitute an affirmation, under penalties of perjury, that this instrument is the act and
deed of Illumina, Inc. and that the facts stated herein are true.
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/s/ Jay T. Flatley
Jay T. Flatley
President and Chief Executive Officer
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