EX-4.2 SPECIMEN COMMON STOCK CERTIFICATE



 







Exhibit 4.2




[Founders’ Common Stock and Co-Investment Common Stock Legend



THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS SHARE CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION, AND
MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED IN VIOLATION OF SUCH ACT AND LAWS, OR AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION
THEREFROM.



THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS SHARE CERTIFICATE ARE SUBJECT TO ADDITIONAL RESTRICTIONS ON
TRANSFER AND OTHER AGREEMENTS SET FORTH IN THE LETTER AGREEMENT DATED AS OF           
    , 2006, BY AND
BETWEEN THE HOLDER AND CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC. COPIES OF SUCH AGREEMENT MAY BE OBTAINED BY
THE HOLDER HEREOF AT THE COMPANY’S PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS WITHOUT CHARGE.]




SPECIMEN COMMON STOCK CERTIFICATE




			
	NUMBER

                    C
	 	                    SHARES
	 
	 	CUSIP                     






FREEDOM ACQUISITION HOLDINGS, INC.




INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE




COMMON STOCK




SEE REVERSE FOR

CERTAIN DEFINITIONS



THIS CERTIFIES THAT                                                            



IS THE OWNER OF                                                             




FULLY PAID AND NON-ASSESSABLE SHARES OF THE PAR VALUE OF

$0.0001 EACH OF THE COMMON STOCK OF




FREEDOM ACQUISITION HOLDINGS, INC.



transferable on the books of the Corporation in person or by duly authorized attorney upon
surrender of this certificate properly endorsed. This certificate is not valid unless countersigned
by the Transfer Agent and registered by the Registrar. Witness the seal of the Corporation and the
facsimile signatures of its duly authorized officers.




     Dated:



	 	 	 
	 

	 	 
	President	 	Secretary





 









 







	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Countersigned and Registered:	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By:
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 
	 	 
	 

	 	Continental Stock Transfer &

Trust Company
	 	Registrar






CORPORATE SEAL

2006

DELAWARE




FREEDOM ACQUISITION HOLDINGS, INC.




 









 





     The Corporation will furnish without charge to each stockholder who so requests the powers,
designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each
class of stock or series thereof of the Corporation and the qualifications, limitations, or
restrictions of such preferences and/or rights. This certificate and the shares represented
thereby are issued and shall be held subject to all the provisions of the Certificate of
Incorporation and all amendments thereto and resolutions of the Board of Directors providing for
the issue of shares of Common Stock (copies of which may be obtained from the secretary of the
Corporation), to all of which the holder of this certificate by acceptance hereof assents.



     The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this certificate,
shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or
regulations:


TEN COM  —  as tenants in common

TEN ENT  —  as tenants by the entireties

JT TEN  —  as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common




	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	UNIF GIFT MIN ACT -

	 	 	 	 	 	Custodian
	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	(Cust)
	 	 	 	(Minor)	 	 
	 	 	under Uniform Gifts to Minors	 	 
	 

	 	Act	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	(State)
	 	 






Additional Abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.




     For value received,                                          hereby sell, assign and transfer unto



	 	 	 
	PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR
	 	 
	OTHER
	 	 
	IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE
	 	 
	 
	 	 
	 


	 	 
	 
	 	 
	 


	 	 





 




(PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, OF ASSIGNEE)





 



 



 




shares
of the capital stock represented by the within Certificate,
and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint





 




Attorney
to transfer the said stock on the books of the within named
Corporation will full power of substitution in the premises.




	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Dated
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	NOTICE:
	 	The signature to this assignment
must correspond with the name as written
upon the face of the certificate in
every particular, without alteration or
enlargement or any change whatever.






 









 





Signature(s) Guaranteed:



 









THE SIGNATURE(S) SHOULD BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE
GUARANTOR INSTITUTION (BANKS, STOCKBROKERS, SAVINGS AND LOAN
ASSOCIATIONS AND CREDIT UNIONS WITH MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED
SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM, PURSUANT TO S.E.C.
RULE 17Ad-15).



The holder of this certificate shall be entitled to receive
funds from the trust fund only in the event of the
Corporation’s liquidation or if the holder seeks to convert
his respective shares into cash upon a business combination
which he voted against and which is actually completed by the
Corporation. In no other circumstances shall the holder have
any right or interest of any kind in or to the trust fund.