Company: QXO-PB
Filing Date: 2025-05-22
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001104659-25-052059
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Company: QXO, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-22
Form: 424B5
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 the voting rights described above; provided that the filling of each vacancy will not cause us to violate the corporate governance requirements of the New York Stock Exchange (or any other exchange or automated quotation system on which our securities may be listed or quoted) that requires listed or quoted companies to have a majority of independent directors.

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So long as any shares of Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock remain outstanding, we will not, without the affirmative vote or consent of the holders of at least two-thirds of the outstanding shares of Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock given in person or by proxy, either in writing or at a meeting:

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authorize or create, or increase the authorized amount of, any senior stock; or

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amend, alter or repeal the provisions of our Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or the certificate of designations for the shares of Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock so as to materially and adversely affect the rights, preferences, privileges or voting powers of the shares of Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock; or

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consummate a binding share exchange or reclassification involving the shares of Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock or a merger or consolidation of us with or into another entity, unless either (i) the shares of Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock remain outstanding and have rights, preferences, privileges and voting powers, taken as a whole, that are no less favorable to the holders thereof in any material respect than the rights, preferences, privileges and voting powers of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock immediately prior to such consummation, taken as a whole, or (ii) in the case of any such merger or consolidation with respect to which we are not the surviving or resulting entity, the shares of Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock are converted into or exchanged for preference securities of the surviving or resulting entity or its ultimate parent, and such preference securities have rights, preferences, privileges and voting powers, taken as a whole, that are no less favorable to the holders thereof in any material respect than the rights, preferences, privileges and voting powers of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock immediately prior to such consummation, taken as a whole;

provided, however , that (1) any increase in the amount of our authorized but unissued shares of preferred stock, (2) any increase in the amount of authorized or issued shares of Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock, (3) the creation and issuance, or an increase in the authorized or issued amount, of any series of junior stock or any other series of parity