Company: IPGP
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: S-3ASR
Source: 0001111928-25-000025
Chunk: 17

Company: IPG PHOTONICS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: S-3ASR
Chunk 17
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, indemnity to officers, directors, and other corporate agents.

Article VIII of our Restated Certificate of Incorporation (“Certificate of Incorporation”) provides that no director or officer of our company shall be personally liable to us or our stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duty as a director. This provision does not eliminate or limit the liability of any of our directors or officers (1) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to us or our stockholders, (2) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (3) in respect of unlawful dividend payments or stock redemptions or repurchases or (4) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. In addition, our Certificate of Incorporation provides that if the Delaware General Corporation Law is amended to authorize the further elimination or limitation of the liability of directors, then the liability of a director of our company shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as so amended.

Article VIII of the Certificate of Incorporation further provides that any repeal or modification of such article by our stockholders or an amendment to the Delaware General Corporation Law will not adversely affect any right or protection existing at the time of such repeal or modification with respect to any acts or omissions occurring before such repeal or modification of a director serving at the time of such repeal or modification.

Article VI of the Certificate of Incorporation and Section X of our Amended and Restated Bylaws (“Bylaws”) provide that, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law as it presently exists or may hereafter be amended, we will indemnify any person (Covered Person) who was or is made or is threatened to be made a party or is otherwise involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (proceeding), by reason of the fact that he or she, or a person for whom he or she is the legal representative, is or was a director or officer of the company or, while a director or officer of the company, is or was serving at the request of the company as a director, officer, employee or agent of another company or of a partnership, joint venture, trust, enterprise or nonprofit entity, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, against all liability and loss suffered and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) reasonably incurred by such Covered Person. However, we will be required to indemnify a Covered Person in