Company: SNPS
Filing Date: 2025-07-17
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001140361-25-026144
Chunk: 8

Company: SYNOPSYS INC
Filing Date: 2025-07-17
Form: 425
Chunk 8
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 authorize and
              cause to be executed mortgages and liens upon all or any part of the property of the Company; to determine the use and disposition of any surplus or net profits; and to fix the times for the declaration and payment of dividends.

### ARTICLE NINE
The directors in their discretion may submit any contract or act for approval or ratification at any annual meeting of the stockholders or at any meeting of the
              stockholders called for the purpose of considering any such act or contract, and any contract or act that shall be approved or be ratified by the vote of the holders of a majority of the stock of the Company as is represented in person or by
              proxy at such meeting and entitled to vote thereat (provided that a lawful quorum of stockholders be there represented in person or by proxy) shall be as valid and as binding upon the Company and upon all the stockholders as though it had
              been approved or ratified by every stockholder of the Company, whether or not the contract or act would otherwise be open to legal attack because of directors’ interest or for any other reason.

### ARTICLE TEN
In addition to the powers and authorities hereinbefore or by statute expressly conferred upon them, the directors are hereby empowered to exercise all such powers and
              do all such acts and things as may be exercised or done by the Company; provided , however, that any act or thing of the directors is subject to the statutes of the DGCL, this Certificate and any Bylaws from time to time made
              by the stockholders; provided , further , that no Bylaws so made shall invalidate any prior act or thing of the directors which would have been valid if such Bylaw had not been made.

### ARTICLE ELEVEN
The Company shall, to the full extent permitted by Section 145 of the DGCL, as may be amended from time to time, indemnify all persons whom it may indemnify pursuant
              thereto.

### ARTICLE TWELVE
Section 203 of the DGCL shall not apply to the Company.

### ARTICLE THIRTEEN
Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between the Company and its creditors or any class of them, and/or between the Company and its stockholders or any
              class of them, any court of equitable jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary way of the Company or of any creditor or stockholder thereof, or on the application of any receiver or receivers appointed
              for the Company under Section 291 of the