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Exhibit 4.4

DESCRIPTION OF THE REGISTRANT’S SECURITIES 
REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 12 OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 
As of February 19, 2021, Mueller Industries, Inc. had one class of securities registered under Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended: Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share (the “Common Stock”).
The following summary describes our Common Stock and the material provisions of our Restated Certificate of Incorporation, dated February 8, 2007 (the “Certificate of Incorporation”), and our Amended and Restated By-laws, effective as of January 15, 2016 (the “Bylaws”).  Because the following is only a summary, it does not contain all of the information that may be important to you, and is qualified in its entirety by the full text of our Certificate of Incorporation and our Bylaws, copies of which are on file with the SEC and included as exhibits to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019.  You should refer to the text of these documents for a complete description.  Unless the context requires otherwise, references in this exhibit to “Mueller,” the “Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Mueller Industries, Inc. together with its consolidated subsidiaries. 
We are authorized to issue 1,000,000 shares of capital stock, of which:
•100,000,000 shares, par value $0.01 per share, are designated as Common Stock; and
•5,000,000 shares, par value $1.00 per share, are designated as Preferred Stock
As of February 19, 2021, we had outstanding 57,115,648 shares of Common Stock, excluding 23,067,356 treasury shares, and no shares of Preferred Stock. 
Common Stock 
Voting Rights 
Except as otherwise provided for in our Certificate of Incorporation, holders of our Common Stock are entitled to one (1) vote per share on all matters submitted to our stockholders for a vote.  Our Common Stock does not have cumulative voting rights.
Dividends 
Subject to the rights of holders of outstanding shares of Preferred Stock, the holders of Common Stock are entitled to receive dividends, if any, as may be declared from time to time by the Board of Directors in its discretion out of funds legally available for the payment of dividends.   
Liquidation 
Upon our liquidation, dissolution or winding-up, the holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to share ratably in all assets remaining after the payment of any liabilities and the liquidation preferences of any outstanding shares of Preferred Stock.   
No Preemptive, Redemption or Conversion Rights
Our Common Stock is not subject to redemption or sinking fund provisions and does not have any conversion rights.  Our Common Stock does not have preemptive or other rights to subscribe for additional shares of any class of our capital stock.
Voting Rights for the Election of Directors 
Our Board of Directors is not classified.  Our Bylaws provide that our Board of Directors may consist of one (1) or more members, and that, until such time as our Board of Directors determines otherwise, the number of directors shall be nine (9).
Our Bylaws provide that directors are elected at the annual meeting of the stockholders at which a quorum is present, and the persons receiving a plurality of the votes cast shall be so elected.  Our Certificate of Incorporation does not provide for cumulative voting in the election of directors.
Our Board of Directors has the ability to fill vacancies on our Board of Directors.

Exhibit 4.4

Special Stockholder Meetings 
Our Bylaws provide that special meetings of the stockholders may be called only by our Chairman or our Chief Executive Officer.  Special meetings may be called by the Chairman only upon written request of a majority of the Entire Board of Directors (as defined below).
“Entire Board of Directors” means the total number of directors which the Company would have if there were no vacancies.Document

Exhibit 10.8

2021 INCENTIVE PLAN FOR CERTAIN KEY EMPLOYEES

The Company has a discretionary annual incentive program under which exempt salaried employees may earn cash payments based on a percentage of base annual salary.  The actual percent is based on a variety of guidelines including performance levels of the respective business units primarily measured by operating income subject to certain adjustments.

The payment to an employee is based upon (i) their assigned grade level, (ii) actual company earnings achieved relative to a pre-determined target, which is adjusted upward if company performance exceeds target and reduced if company performance is less than target, and (iii) base salary paid during the fiscal year.Document

EXHIBIT 10.6(d)(iii)

February 23, 2021
Mr. Clifford Skelton
c/o Conduent
100 Campus Drive, Suite 200
Florham Park, NJ 07932 

Dear Cliff:

I am pleased to present to you modified terms to your compensation. Reference is made to: (i) the offer letter, dated May 21, 2019, between Conduent Incorporated (“Conduent”) and you (the “Offer Letter”), (ii) the promotion letter, dated August 6, 2019, between Conduent and you (the “Promotion Letter”), and (iii) the modification letter, dated February 25, 2020 between Conduent and you (the “2020 Letter”). Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the 2020 Letter. This letter modifies certain terms of the 2020 Letter as follows:

1. Your base salary, as set forth in the “Annual Base Salary” section of the 2020 Letter shall be increased, effective as of the date hereof, from $750,000 to $775,000.

2. Your APIP Target, as set forth in the “Annual Performance Incentive Plan” section of the 2020 Letter shall be increased, beginning with APIP for calendar year 2021, from 125% to 135%. For clarity: (i) the APIP payment not yet paid to you in respect of calendar year 2020 shall not be affected by the foregoing, and (ii) your APIP Target for 2021 shall be 135% of $775,000, subject to your continued employment as set forth in the APIP documentation.

3. Your LTIP target annual award, as set forth in the “Long-Term Incentive Plan” section of the 2020 Letter, shall be increased, beginning with the grant expected in 2021, from $3,000,000 to $4,000,000.

Except for those sections of the 2020 Letter specifically modified hereby, the provisions of the Offer Letter, the Promotion Letter, and the 2020 Letter shall continue to apply and are not modified by this letter.

Sincerely,

Conduent, Inc.

/s/ Christopher Kujawą
____________________
By: Christopher Kujawa

I agree to and accept this change:

/s/ Cliff Skelton    February 23, 2021
            
Cliff Skelton    DateDocument

Exhibit 4.3

DESCRIPTION OF THE REGISTRANT’S SECURITIES
REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 12 OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (“Ligand,” “we,” “our” and “us”) has one class of securities registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended: our common stock. 
Description of Common Stock
General
The following summary of the terms of our common stock does not purport to be complete and is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended (the “certificate of incorporation”), and the Amended and Restated Bylaws, as amended (the “bylaws”), which are filed as exhibits to our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and are incorporated by reference herein. 
Under our certificate of incorporation, the total number of shares of all classes of stock that we have authority to issue is 65,000,000, consisting of 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.001 per share, and 60,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share.
Common Stock
Voting Rights
    The holders of our common stock are entitled to one vote for each share held of record on all matters submitted to a vote of the stockholders, including the election of directors, and do not have cumulative voting rights. Accordingly, the holders of a majority of the shares of common stock entitled to vote in any election of directors can elect all of the directors standing for election, if they so choose. 
Dividends
    Subject to limitations under Delaware law and preferences that may be applicable to any then outstanding preferred stock, holders of common stock are entitled to receive ratably those dividends, if any, as may be declared by our board of directors out of legally available funds. 
Liquidation 
    Upon our liquidation, dissolution or winding up, the holders of common stock will be entitled to share ratably in the net assets legally available for distribution to stockholders after the payment of all of our debts and other liabilities of our company, subject to the prior rights of any preferred stock then outstanding. 
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Rights and Preferences
    Holders of common stock have no preemptive or conversion rights or other subscription rights and there are no redemption or sinking funds provisions applicable to the common stock.
Fully Paid and Nonassessable
    All outstanding shares of our common stock are fully paid and nonassessable and the shares of common stock offered hereby will be fully paid and nonassessable. 
Anti-Takeover Effects of Provisions of Our Certificate of Incorporation, Our Bylaws and Delaware Law 
    Some provisions of Delaware law, our certificate of incorporation and our bylaws contain provisions that could make the following transactions more difficult: acquisition of us by means of a tender offer; acquisition of us by means of a proxy contest or otherwise; or removal of our incumbent officers and directors. It is possible that these provisions could make it more difficult to accomplish or could deter transactions that stockholders may otherwise consider to be in their best interest or in our best interests, including transactions that might result in a premium over the market price of our shares. 
    These provisions, summarized below, are expected to discourage coercive takeover practices and inadequate takeover bids. These provisions are also designed to encourage persons seeking to acquire control of us to first negotiate with our board of directors. We believe that the benefits of increased protection of our potential ability to negotiate with the proponent of an unfriendly or unsolicited proposal to acquire or restructure us outweigh the disadvantages of discouraging these proposals because negotiation of these proposals could result in an improvement of their terms. 
Undesignated Preferred Stock 
    The ability to authorize undesignated preferred stock makes it possible for our board of directors to issue preferred stock with voting or other rights or preferences that could impede the success of any attempt to change control of us. These and other provisions may have the effect of deferring hostile takeovers or delaying changes in control or management of our company. 
Requirements for Advance Notification of Stockholder Nominations and Proposals 
    Our bylaws establish advance notice procedures with respect to stockholder proposals and the nomination of candidates for election as directors, other than nominations made by or at the direction of the board of directors or a committee of the board of directors.  These provisions could have the effect of delaying until the next stockholder meeting stockholder actions that are favored by the holders of a majority of our outstanding voting securities.
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Elimination of Stockholder Action by Written Consent 
    Our certificate of incorporation eliminates the right of stockholders to act by written consent without a meeting. 
Special Meetings
    Our bylaws state that a special meeting of the stockholders may be called by our president and shall be called by our president or secretary upon written request from our board of directors or upon a written request from stockholders owning at least 10% of the entire capital stock of the company issued and outstanding and entitled to vote. 
Delaware Anti-Takeover Statute 
We are subject to Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law. This statute regulating corporate takeovers prohibits a Delaware corporation from engaging in any business combination with any interested stockholder for three years following the date that the stockholder became an interested stockholder, unless:
•prior to the date of the transaction, the Board approved either the business combination or the transaction which resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder;
•the interested stockholder owned at least 85% of the voting stock of the corporation outstanding at the time the transaction commenced, excluding for purposes of determining the number of shares outstanding (a) shares owned by persons who are directors and also officers and (b) shares owned by employee stock plans in which employee participants do not have the right to determine confidentially whether shares held subject to the plan will be tendered in a tender or exchange offer; or
•on or subsequent to the date of the transaction, the business combination is approved by the Board and authorized at an annual or special meeting of stockholders, and not by written consent, by the affirmative vote of at least 66 2/3% of the outstanding voting stock which is not owned by the interested stockholder.
Section 203 defines a business combination to include:
•any merger or consolidation involving the corporation and the interested stockholder;
•any sale, transfer, pledge or other disposition involving the interested stockholder of 10% or more of the assets of the corporation;
•subject to exceptions, any transaction that results in the issuance or transfer by the corporation of any stock of the corporation to the interested stockholder;
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•any transaction involving the corporation that has the effect of increasing the proportionate share of the stock of any class or series of the corporation beneficially owned by the interested stockholder; or
•the receipt by the interested stockholder of the benefit of any loans, advances, guarantees, pledges or other financial benefits provided by or through the corporation.
In general, Section 203 defines an interested stockholder as an entity or person beneficially owning 15% or more of the outstanding voting stock of the corporation and any entity or person affiliated with or controlling or controlled by such entity or person.
Exclusive Forum Selection
    Our bylaws provide that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware is the exclusive forum for (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf, (ii) any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by our directors, officers or other employees to us or our stockholders, (iii) any action asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the General Corporation Law of Delaware or our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or amended and restated bylaws, or (iv) any action asserting a claim governed by the internal affairs doctrine.  To the extent that any such claims may be based upon federal law claims, Section 27 of the Exchange Act creates exclusive federal jurisdiction over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations thereunder. Furthermore, Section 22 of the Securities Act provides for concurrent jurisdiction for federal and state courts over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder, and as such, the exclusive jurisdiction clauses set forth above would not apply to such suits. The choice of forum provisions in our bylaws may limit a stockholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with us or our directors, officers or other employees, which may discourage such lawsuits against us and our directors, officers and other employees. By agreeing to these provisions, however, stockholders will not be deemed to have waived our compliance with the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations thereunder. Furthermore, the enforceability of similar choice of forum provisions in other companies’ certificates of incorporation and bylaws has been challenged in legal proceedings, and it is possible that a court could find these types of provisions to be inapplicable or unenforceable. 
Fair Market Value Provision 
    Our certificate of incorporation contains a fair market value provision that requires the approval of the holders of 66 2/3% of our outstanding voting stock as a condition to a merger or certain other business transactions with, or proposed by, any person that beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, 15% or more of our voting stock (an “Interested Stockholder”), except in cases where a majority of the Continuing Directors (as defined below) approve the transaction or certain minimum price criteria and other procedural requirements are met. A “Continuing Director” is (i) a director who was originally elected upon incorporation of Ligand, (ii) a director who is not an Interested Stockholder or affiliated with an Interested Stockholder, or (iii) a 
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director whose nomination or election to our board of directors is recommended or approved by a majority of the Continuing Directors. The minimum price criteria are recommended or approved by a majority of the Continuing Directors. The minimum price criteria generally require that, in a transaction in which stockholders are to receive payments, holders of our common stock must receive, on the consummation date of the transaction, a value equal to the higher of (A) the highest price paid by the Interested Stockholder for common stock during the prior two years and (B) the highest closing sale price of common stock during the 30-day period before (1) the announcement of the transaction or (2) the date on which the Interested Stockholder became an Interested Stockholder, whichever is higher.  In addition, such payment must be made in cash or in the type of consideration paid by the Interested Stockholder for the greatest portion of its shares. Our board of directors believes that this fair market value provision helps assure that all our stockholders will be treated similarly if certain kinds of business transactions are effected. However, this fair market value provision may make it more difficult to accomplish certain transactions that are opposed by the incumbent board of directors and that could be beneficial to stockholders.
Amendment of Charter Provisions 
    The amendment of any of the above provisions, except for the provision making it possible for our board of directors to issue preferred stock, would require approval by holders of at least 66 2/3% of our then outstanding common stock. 
    The provisions of Delaware law, our certificate of incorporation and our bylaws could have the effect of discouraging others from attempting hostile takeovers and, as a consequence, they may also inhibit temporary fluctuations in the market price of our common stock that often result from actual or rumored hostile takeover attempts. These provisions may also have the effect of preventing changes in our management. It is possible that these provisions could make it more difficult to accomplish transactions that stockholders may otherwise deem to be in their best interests. 
Amendment of Bylaws
    The affirmative vote of the holders of at least the majority of the total voting power of all outstanding shares of our voting stock is required for stockholders to amend our bylaws. This provision makes it more difficult to circumvent the anti-takeover provisions of our bylaws. Our board of directors is authorized to make, amend, supplement or repeal our bylaws; provided that no amendment or supplement to the bylaws adopted by the board of directors may vary or conflict with any amendment or supplement duly adopted by the stockholders. 
Listing
Our common stock is listed for trading on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol “LGND.”
Transfer Agent and Registrar
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    The transfer agent and registrar for our common stock is Computershare Trust Company N.A.
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