Exhibit 1.10
BY-LAWS
OF
BUHRMANN
SWAPS, INC.
(herein called the Corporation)
ARTICLE
I.
STOCKHOLDERS
Section
1.01 Annual Meeting. The Board of Directors by resolution shall
designate the time, place and date (which shall be, in the case of the first
annual meeting, not more than thirteen (13) months after the organization of
the Corporation and, in the case of all other annual meetings, not more than
thirteen (13) months after the date of the last annual meeting) of the annual
meeting of the stockholders for the election of directors and the transaction
of such other business as may come before it.
Section
1.02 Special Meetings. Special meetings of the stockholders, for any
purpose or purposes, may be called at any time by the President or any Vice
President or by resolution of the Board of Directors. Special meetings of stockholders shall be
held at such place, within or without the State of Delaware, as shall be fixed
by the person or persons calling the meeting and stated in the notice or waiver
of notice of the meeting.
Section
1.03 Notice of Meetings of
Stockholders. Whenever stockholders
are required or permitted to take any action at a meeting, written notice of
the meeting shall be given (unless that notice shall be waived or unless the meeting
is to be dispensed with in accordance Section 1.09 hereof) which shall state
the place, date and hour of the meeting and, in the case of a special meeting,
the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called. The written notice of any meeting shall be
given, personally or by mail, not less than ten (10) nor more than sixty (60)
days before the date of the meeting to each stockholder entitled to vote at
such meeting. If mailed, such notice is
given when deposited in the United States mail, postage prepaid, directed to
the stockholder at his address as it appears on the records of the Corporation.
When a meeting is adjourned to another time
or place, notice need not be given of the adjourned meeting if the time and
place thereof are announced at the meeting at which the adjournment is taken. At the adjourned meeting the Corporation may
transact any business which might have been transacted at the original meeting. If the adjournment is for more than thirty
(30) days, or if after the adjournment a new record date is fixed for the
adjourned meeting, a notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each
stockholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting.
Section
1.04 Quorum. At all meetings of the stockholders, the
holders of one-third (1/3) of the stock issued and outstanding and entitled to
vote thereat, present in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of any business. When a
quorum is once present to organize a meeting, it is not broken by the
subsequent withdrawal of any stockholders.
The stockholders present may adjourn the
meeting despite the absence of a quorum and at any such adjourned meeting at
which the requisite amount of voting stock shall be represented, the
Corporation may transact any business which might have been transacted at the
original meeting had a quorum been there present.
Section
1.05 Method of Voting. The vote upon any question before the meeting
need not be by ballot. All elections and
all other questions shall be decided by a plurality of the votes cast, at a
meeting at which a quorum is present, except as expressly provided otherwise by
the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware or the Certificate of
Incorporation of the Corporation.
Section
1.06 Voting Rights of Stockholders
and Proxies. Each stockholder of
record entitled to vote in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware,
the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation or these By-laws, shall at
every meeting of the stockholders be entitled to one (1) vote in person or by
proxy for each share of stock entitled to vote standing in his name on the
books of the Corporation, but no proxy shall be voted on after three (3) years
from its date, unless the proxy provides for a longer period.
Section
1.07 Ownership of its Own
Stock. Shares of its own capital
stock belonging to the Corporation or to another corporation, if a majority of
the shares entitled to vote in the election of directors of such other
corporation is held, directly or indirectly, by the Corporation, shall neither
be entitled to vote nor be counted for quorum purposes. Nothing in this Section shall be construed as
limiting the right of the Corporation to vote stock, including but not limited
to its own stock, held by it in a fiduciary capacity.
Section
1.08 Fixing Date for
Determination of Stockholders of Record.
In order to determine the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote
at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, or to express
consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, or entitled to
receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any
rights, or entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion
or exchange of stock, or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the Board
of Directors may fix, in advance, a record date, which shall not be more than
sixty (60) nor less than ten (10) days before the date of such meeting, nor
more than sixty (60) days prior to any other action. If the Board of Directors fixes no record
date, the record date shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of
the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
Section
1.09 Consent in Lieu of
Meeting. Any corporate action, with
respect to which the vote of the stockholders at a meeting thereof is required
or permitted by any provision of the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware, the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, or these
By-laws, may be taken without that vote and meeting, and that vote and meeting
may be dispensed with, if that corporate action has been consented to in
writing by the holders of a majority (or, if with respect to a particular
corporate action the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, the
Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation or these By-laws specifies a
greater percentage, by the holders of that percentage) of the stock that would
have been entitled to vote upon that action if a meeting were held. Prompt notice shall be given to all
stockholders of the taking of any corporate action pursuant to the provisions
of that
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paragraph unless that action
has been consented to in writing by the holders of all of the stock that would
have been entitled to vote upon that action if a meeting were held.
ARTICLE II.
DIRECTORS
Section
2.01 Management of
Business. Its Board of Directors
shall manage the business of the Corporation.
The Board of Directors, in addition to the powers and authority
expressly conferred upon it herein, by statute, by the Certificate of
Incorporation of the Corporation or otherwise, is hereby empowered to exercise
all such powers as may be exercised by the Corporation, except as expressly
provided otherwise by the statutes of the State of Delaware, by the Certificate
of Incorporation of the Corporation or by these By-laws.
Without prejudice to the generality of the
foregoing, the Board of Directors, by resolution or resolutions, may create and
issue, whether or not in connection with the issue and sale of any shares of
stock or other securities of the Corporation, rights or options entitling the
holders thereof to purchase from the Corporation any shares of its capital
stock of any class or classes or any other securities of the Corporation, such
rights or options to be evidenced by or in such instrument or instruments as
shall be approved by the Board of Directors.
The terms upon which, including the time or times, which may be limited
or unlimited in duration, at or within which, and the price or prices at which,
any such rights or options may be issued and any such shares or other
securities may be purchased from the Corporation upon the exercise of any such
right or option shall be such as shall be fixed and stated in the resolution or
resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors providing for the creation and
issue of such rights or options, and, in every case, set forth or incorporated
by reference in the instrument or instruments evidencing such rights or options. In the absence of actual fraud in the
transaction, the judgment of the directors as to the consideration for the
issuance of such rights or options and the sufficiency thereof shall be
conclusive. In case the shares of stock
of the Corporation to be issued upon the exercise of such rights or options
shall be shares having a par value, the price or prices so to be received
therefor shall not be less than the par value thereof. In case the shares of stock so to be issued
shall be shares of stock without par value, the consideration therefor shall be
determined in the manner provided in Section 153 of the General Corporation Law
of the State of Delaware.
Section
2.02 Qualifications and
Number of Directors. Directors need
not be stockholders. The number of
directors which shall constitute the whole Board of Directors shall be one (1),
but this number may be increased and subsequently again from time to time
increased or decreased by an amendment to these By-laws, but in no case shall
the number be less than one (1).
Section
2.03 Election and Term. The directors shall be elected at the annual
meeting of the stockholders, and each director shall be elected to hold office
until his successor shall be elected and qualified, or until his earlier
resignation or removal.
Section
2.04 Resignations. Any director of the Corporation may resign at
any time by giving written notice to the Corporation. Such resignation shall take effect at the
time specified therein, if any, or if no time is specified therein, then upon
receipt of such notice by the
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Corporation; and, unless
otherwise provided therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be
necessary to make it effective.
Section
2.05 Vacancies and Newly
Created Directorships. Vacancies and
newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized
number of directors may be filled by a majority of the directors then in
office, by a sole remaining director or by the stockholders of the Corporation,
and the director or directors so chosen shall hold office until their
respective successors shall be elected and qualified, or until their earlier
resignation or removal. When one (1) or
more directors shall resign from the Board of Directors, effective at a future date,
a majority of the directors then in office, including those who have so
resigned, shall have power to fill such vacancy or vacancies, the vote thereon
to take effect when such resignation or resignations shall become effective,
and each director so chosen shall hold office as herein provided in the filling
of other vacancies.
Section
2.06 Quorum of Directors. At all meetings of the Board of Directors, a
majority of the directors, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of
business and the act of a majority of the directors present at any meeting at
which there is a quorum shall be the act of the Board of Directors, except as
provided in Sections 2.05 and 2.10 hereof
Section
2.07 Annual Meeting. The newly elected Board of Directors shall
meet immediately following the adjournment of the annual meeting of
stockholders in each year at the same place, within or without the State of
Delaware, and no notice of such meeting shall be necessary.
Section
2.08 Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors
may be held at such time and place, within or without the State of Delaware, as
shall from time to time be fixed by the Board and no notice thereof shall be
necessary.
Section
2.09 Special Meetings. Special meetings may be called at any time by
the President, any Vice President or the Secretary or by resolution of the
Board of Directors. Special meetings
shall be held at such place, within or without the State of Delaware, as shall
be fixed by the person or persons calling the meeting and stated in the notice
or waiver of notice of the meeting. Special
meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held upon notice to the directors
or waiver thereof.
Unless waived, notice of each special meeting
of the directors, stating the time and place of the meeting, shall be given to
each director by delivered letter, by telegram or by personal communication
either over the telephone or otherwise, in each such case not later than the
second day prior to the meeting, or by mailed letter deposited in the United
States mail with postage thereon prepaid not later than the seventh day prior
to the meeting. Notices of special
meetings of the Board of Directors and waivers thereof need not state the
purpose or purposes of the meeting.
Section
2.10 Action Without a
Meeting. Any action required or
permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board of Directors or of any
committee thereof may be taken without a meeting if all members of the Board of
Directors, as the case may be, consent thereto in a writing
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or writings and the writing or
writings are filed with the minutes of proceedings of the Board of Directors.
Section
2.11 Compensation. Directors shall receive such fixed sums and
expenses of attendance for attendance at each meeting of the Board of Directors
and/or such salary as may be determined from time to time by the Board of
Directors; provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to
preclude any director from serving the Corporation in any other capacity and
receiving compensation therefor.
ARTICLE
III.
OFFICERS
Section
3.01 Number. The Board of Directors shall choose the
officers of the Corporation. The
officers shall be a President, a Secretary and a Treasurer, and such number of
Vice Presidents, Assistant Secretaries and Assistant Treasurers, and such other
officers, if any, as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine. The Board of Directors may choose such other
agents, as it shall deem necessary. The
same person may hold any number of offices.
Section
3.02 Terms of Office. Each officer shall hold his office until his
successor is chosen and qualified or until his earlier resignation or removal. Any officer may resign at any time upon
written notice to the Corporation.
Section
3.03 Removal. The Board of Directors may remove any officer
from office at any time with or without cause.
Section
3.04 Authority. The Secretary shall record all of the
proceedings of the meetings of the stockholders and directors in a book to be
kept for that purpose, and shall have the authority, perform the duties and
exercise the powers in the management of the Corporation usually incident to
the office held by him, and/or such other authority, duties and powers as may
be assigned to him from time to time by the Board of Directors or the President. The other officers, and agents, if any, shall
have the authority, perform the duties and exercise the powers in the
management of the Corporation usually incident to the offices held by them,
respectively, and/or such other authority, duties and powers as may be assigned
to them from time to time by the Board of Directors.
ARTICLE
IV.
CAPITAL
STOCK
Section
4.01 Stock Certificates. Every holder of stock in the Corporation
shall be entitled to have a certificate signed by, or in the name of the
Corporation by, the Chairman or Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors, or the
President or a Vice President, and by the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer,
or the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of the Corporation, certifying the
number of shares owned by him in the Corporation.
Section
4.02 Transfers. Stock of the Corporation shall be
transferable in the manner prescribed by the laws of the State of Delaware.
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Section
4.03 Registered Holders. Prior to due presentment for registration of
transfer of any security of the Corporation in registered form, the Corporation
shall treat the registered owner as the person exclusively entitled to vote, to
receive notifications and to otherwise exercise all the rights and powers of an
owner, and shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to, or
interest in, any security, whether or not the Corporation shall have notice
thereof, except as otherwise provided by the laws of the State of Delaware.
Section
4.04 New Certificates. The Corporation shall issue a new certificate
of stock in the place of any certificate theretofore issued by it, alleged to
have been lost, stolen or destroyed, if the owner: (i) so requests before the Corporation has
notice that the shares of stock represented by that certificate have been
acquired by a bona fide purchaser; (ii) files with the Corporation a bond
sufficient (in the judgment of the directors) to indemnify the Corporation
against any claim that may be made against it on account of the alleged loss or
theft of that certificate or the issuance of a new certificate; and (iii)
satisfies any other requirements imposed by the directors that are reasonable
under the circumstances. A new
certificate may be issued without requiring any bond when, in the judgment of
the directors, it is proper so to do.
ARTICLE
V.
INDEMNIFICATION
Section
5.01 The Corporation shall
indemnify its officers, directors, employees and agents to the fullest extent
permitted by the General Corporation Law of Delaware.
ARTICLE
VI.
MISCELLANEOUS
Section
6.01 Offices. The registered office of the Corporation in
the State of Delaware shall be at 9 East Loockerman Street, Dover, Delaware
19901. The Corporation may also have
offices at other places within and/or without the State of Delaware.
Section
6.02 Seal. The corporate seal shall have inscribed
thereon the name of the Corporation, the year of its incorporation and the words
Corporate Seal Delaware.
Section
6.03 Checks. All checks or demands for money shall be
signed by such person or persons as the Board of Directors may from time to
time determine.
Section
6.04 Fiscal Year. The fiscal year shall begin the first day of
January in each year and shall end on the thirty-first day of December of such
year.
Section
6.05 Waivers of Notice;
Dispensing with Notice. Whenever any
notice whatever is required to be given under the provisions of the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, of the Certificate of Incorporation
of the Corporation, or of these By-laws, a waiver thereof in writing, signed by
the person or persons entitled to said notice, whether before or after the time
stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent thereto. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor
the purpose of, any regular or special meeting of the stockholders need be
specified in any written waiver of notice.
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Attendance of a person at a meeting of
stockholders shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when
the stockholder attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the
beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the
meeting is not lawfully called or convened.
Whenever any notice whatever is required to
be given under the provisions of the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware, of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, or of these
By-laws, to any person with whom communication is made unlawful by any law of
the United States of America, or by any rule, regulation, proclamation or
executive order issued under any such law, then the giving of such notice to
such person shall not be required and there shall be no duty to apply to any
governmental authority or agency for a license or permit to give such notice to
such person; and any action or meeting which shall be taken or held without
notice to any such person or without giving or without applying for a license
or permit to give any such notice to any such person with whom communication is
made unlawful as aforesaid, shall have the same force and effect as if such
notice had been given as provided under the provisions of the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, or under the provisions of the
Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation or of these By-laws. In the event that the action taken by the
Corporation is such as to require the filing of a certificate under any of the
other sections of Title 8 of the Delaware Code, the certificate shall state, if
such is the fact and if notice is required, that notice was given to all
persons entitled to receive notice except such persons with whom communication
is unlawful.
Section
6.06 Amendment of By-laws. These By-laws may be altered, amended or
repealed at any meeting of the Board of Directors.
Section
6.07 Section Headings and
Statutory References. The headings
of the Articles and Sections of these By-laws, have been inserted for
convenience of reference only and shall not be deemed to be a part of these
By-laws.
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