EXHIBIT 3.1

 

CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT TO THE

AMENDED AND RESTATED

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

DERMATA THERAPEUTICS, INC.

 

 

Pursuant to Section 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, Dermata Therapeutics, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Corporation”), does hereby certify as follows:

 

1. The name of the Corporation is Dermata Therapeutics, Inc. The Corporation was incorporated by the filing of its original Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on March 24, 2021 (the “Certificate of Incorporation”).

 

2. This Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate of Amendment”) amends the Certificate of Incorporation, as previously amended.

 

3. That a resolution was duly adopted on December 28, 2022 by the Board of Directors of the Corporation pursuant to Section 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware setting forth an amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation and declaring said amendment to be advisable. The stockholders of the Corporation duly approved said proposed amendment at a special meeting of stockholders held on February 8, 2023, in accordance with Section 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. The proposed amendment set forth as follows:

 

4. Article IV of the Certificate of Incorporation, as amended to date, be and hereby is further amended by adding the following paragraph immediately after the first paragraph of Section A of Article IV:

 

“Upon effectiveness (“Effective Time”) of this amendment to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, a one-for-sixteen reverse stock split (the “Reverse Split”) of the Corporation’s outstanding Common Stock shall become effective, pursuant to which each sixteen (16) shares of Common Stock outstanding and held of record by each stockholder of the Corporation (including treasury shares) immediately prior to the Effective Time (“Old Common Stock”) shall automatically, and without any action by the holder thereof, be reclassified and combined into one (1) validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable share of Common Stock (“New Common Stock”), subject to the treatment of fractional interests as described below and with no corresponding reduction in the number of authorized shares of our Common Stock. The Reverse Split shall also apply to any outstanding securities or rights convertible into, or exchangeable or exercisable for, Old Common Stock and all references to such Old Common Stock in agreements, arrangements, documents and plans relating thereto or any option or right to purchase or acquire shares of Old Common Stock shall be deemed to be references to the New Common Stock or options or rights to purchase or acquire shares of New Common Stock, as the case may be, after giving effect to the Reverse Split.

  

 

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No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued in connection with the reverse stock split. Stockholders of record who otherwise would be entitled to receive fractional shares, will be entitled to receive cash (without interest) in lieu of fractional shares, equal to such fraction multiplied by the average of the closing sales prices of our Common Stock on the exchange the Corporation is currently trading during regular trading hours for the five consecutive trading days immediately preceding the effective date of the Reverse Split (with such average closing sales prices being adjusted to give effect to the Reverse Split).

 

Each holder of record of a certificate or certificates for one or more shares of the Old Common Stock shall be entitled to receive as soon as practicable, upon surrender of such certificate, a certificate or certificates representing the largest whole number of shares of New Common Stock to which such holder shall be entitled pursuant to the provisions of the immediately preceding paragraphs. Each stock certificate that, immediately prior to the Effective Time, represented shares of Old Common Stock that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall, from and after the Effective Time, automatically and without the necessity of presenting the same for exchange, represent that number of whole shares of New Common Stock after the Effective Time into which the shares formerly represented by such certificate have been reclassified as well as the right to receive cash in lieu of fractional shares of New Common Stock after the Effective Time.”

 

5. All other provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation shall remain in full force and effect.

 

6. This Certificate of Amendment and the amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation effected hereby shall be effective as of 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time on March 14, 2023.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Certificate of Amendment to be signed by its Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer this 13th day of March, 2023.

 

 

 

DERMATA THERAPEUTICS, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Gerald T. Proehl

 

 

 

Name: Gerald T. Proehl

 

 

 

Title: Chief Executive Officer

 

  

 

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