Company: HVIIR
Filing Date: 2025-12-23
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001493152-25-029121
Chunk: 608

Company: Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII
Filing Date: 2025-12-23
Form: S-4
Chunk 608
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 decrease shall be apportioned by the Board among the director classes so as to maintain the proportion of directors in each class as nearly equal as possible.

(b) Term. Except as set forth in Section 5.3(a)with respect to the initial terms of the initial directors in the director classes, a director’s term shall expire at the third annual meeting of the stockholders following his or her most recent election or re-election as such. Each director shall hold office until such director’s successor is elected and qualified, or until such director’s earlier death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal from office. Any director may resign at any time upon notice to the Corporation given in writing by any electronic transmission permitted in the Corporation’s Bylaws or in accordance with applicable law. In the event of any increase or decrease in the authorized number of directors each director then serving as such shall nevertheless continue as a director of the class of which he or she is a member.

(c) Limitation. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 5.3(a), Section 5.3(b), or Section 5.5, (i) if the stockholders do not re-elect (or elect, with respect to a director appointed by the Board pursuant to Section 5.5) a director upon the expiration of his or her then-current term, he or she shall nonetheless remain in office until the qualification of his or her successor and (ii) a director’s term shall end early upon his or her resignation, removal, or death.

Section 5.4 Election. At the Corporation’s annual meeting of the stockholders at which a quorum is present, the election of directors shall be determined by a plurality of the votes cast by the stockholders present, in person or represented by proxy, at the meeting and entitled to vote thereon. The immediately preceding sentence is subject to the rights of the holders of one or more series of Preferred Stock, voting separately by class or series, to elect directors pursuant to the terms of one or more series of Preferred Stock. Unless required by the Bylaws, the directors need not be elected by written ballot.

Section 5.5 Newly Created Directorships and Vacancies. Newly created directorships resulting from an increase in the number of directors and any vacancies on the Board resulting from a director’s resignation, removal, or death may be filled solely and exclusively by the vote of a majority of the remaining directors then in office (or, if applicable, the sole remaining director), even if such directors constitute less