Company: HVIIR
Filing Date: 2025-12-23
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001493152-25-029121
Chunk: 607

Company: Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII
Filing Date: 2025-12-23
Form: S-4
Chunk 607
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 and conditions of such rights, warrants, or options; provided, however, that the consideration to be received for any shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise thereof may not be less than the par value thereof.

<div align='center'>ARTICLE V

BOARD OF DIRECTORS</div>

Section 5.1 Board Powers. The Board shall manage and direct the business and affairs of the Corporation. The Board is empowered to exercise all such powers and to do all such acts as may be exercised or done by the Corporation. This grant of power to the Board does not limit any of the powers expressly given to the Board under, but is subject to any conflicting provision of, the DGCL (to the extent that such provision is non-waivable), this Certificate, and the Bylaws; provided, however, that a provision or a modification of a provision of the Bylaws adopted by the stockholders shall not invalidate any prior act of the Board that would have been valid if such addition or modification of a provision to the Bylaws had not been adopted.

Section 5.2 Number. As of the Effective Date, the number of directors constituting the Board shall be seven (7). Other than those, if any, who may be elected by the holders of one or more series of the Preferred Stock voting separately by class or series, this number may be increased or decreased at any time and from time to time by the written resolution of the Board. However, in no event may a decrease in the number of directors constituting the Board shorten the term of any incumbent director or result in there being less than one director.

Section 5.3 Classification; Term.

(a) Classification and Initial Term. The Board shall be classified into three classes: Class I, Class II, and Class III. As of the date hereof, the number of directors in Class I shall be two (2), the number of directors in Class II shall be two (2), and the number of directors in Class III shall be three (3). The initial terms of the initial Class I directors shall expire at the first annual meeting of the stockholders following the effectiveness of this Certificate. The initial terms of the initial Class II directors shall expire at the second annual meeting of the stockholders following the effectiveness of this Certificate. The initial terms of the initial Class III directors shall expire at the third annual meeting of the stockholders following the effectiveness of this Certificate. If the number of directors constituting the Board is changed pursuant to Section 5.2, any resulting increase or