EX-3.24 AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
Published on September 11, 2009
Exhibit 3.24
AMENDMENT TO THE ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF NOVELIS DO BRASIL LTDA.
OF NOVELIS DO BRASIL LTDA.
CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/000103
NIRE 35.214.430.234
NIRE 35.214.430.234
Hereby:
NOVELIS INC., a company duly organized and existing pursuant to the laws of Canada, with domicile
at 3800 Royal Bank Plaza, South Tower, 200 Bay Street, P.O. Box 84, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
herein duly represented by its legal representative, Mr. ANTONIO TADEU COELHO NARDOCCI, identified
below;
ANTONIO TADEU COELHO NARDOCCI, Brazilian, married, engineer, holder of R.G. Identification Card No.
6.822.521 SSP/SP, registered in the Registry of Natural Persons of the Ministry of the Treasury
(CPF/MF) under No. 012.050.108-23, resident of and domiciled in the Capital of the State of São
Paulo, with offices at Avenida das Nações Unidas No. 12,551, 15o Andar, Torre
Empresarial World Trade Center of São Paulo, Brooklin Novo, CEP 04578-000,
and members representing all of the capital stock of NOVELIS DO BRASIL LTDA., a limited company,
with corporate domicile in the Capital of the State of São Paulo, at Avenida das Nações Unidas No.
12,551, 15o Andar, Torre Empresarial World Trade Center of São Paulo, Brooklin Novo, CEP
04578-000, registered in the National Registry of Legal Persons of the Ministry of the Treasury
(CNPJ/MF) under No. 60.561.800/0001-03, with its articles of incorporation filed with the Board of
Trade of the State of São Paulo under NIRE 35.214.430.234, in a meeting on May 13, 1997, and
previous corporate amendment recorded with the same body under No. 1303648/07-6, in a session on
August 28, 2007, have jointly agreed and contracted to change the Articles of Incorporation of the
Company pursuant to the following terms and conditions:
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1. | Affiliates or Establishments |
1.1 | Through the 1st Meeting of Members, held on 02/11/2008 and registered with the Board of Trade of the State of São Paulo under No. 0.268.415/080, in a session on April 24, 2008, the Company resolved to authorize the removal of the Administrative Office located at Av. do Contorno No. 8,000, Suite 702, Belo Horizonte MG, registered in the CNPJ/MF under No. 60.561.800/001347 and with NIRE No. 3190167769-3. | ||
1.2 | Through the 2nd Meeting of Members, held on 08/04/2008 and registered with the Board of Trade of the State of São Paulo under No. 271.942/083, in a session on August 19, 2008, the Company approved the opening of an Administrative Office for the energy department, located at Avenida do Contorno No. 8,000, Suite 802, Bairro Santo Agostinho, in Belo Horizonte MG. | ||
1.3 | Thus, the paragraph of Article 2nd of its Articles of Incorporation now read as follow: |
Paragraph In addition to its headquarters address described in the caput, the Company has on this date affiliates or establishments at the following addresses, with the following registrations in the CNPJ/MF: Rua Felipe Camarão, 414, Santo André SP CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/000294; Avenida Américo René Gianetti, s/n, Ouro Preto MF CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/003048; Fazenda Usina da Brecha, Guaraciaba MG CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/003200; Fazenda Usina do Salto, Ouro Preto MG CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/003390; Avenida Buriti, no. 1.087, Pindamonhangaba SP CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/004109; Estrada do Brito, s/n, Ponte Nova MG CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/005172; Via das Torres, s/n, Candeias BA CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/ 008600; Jazida Monjolo, s/n Distrito de Padre Viegas, Mariana MG CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/010508; Jazida Fazenda do Lopes, s/n, Caeté MG CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/010680; Mina Serra do Maquiné, s/n,Caeté MG CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/010761; Fazenda Gandarela e Mato Grosso, |
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s/n, Distrito de Conceição do Rio Acima, Santa Bárbara MG CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/010842; Depósito de Bauxita Acuruí, s/n, Itabirito MG CNPJ/ MF No. 60.561.800/010923; Mina Galo, s/n, Distrito de Cafarnaum, Faria Lemos MG CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/011067; Estrada de Miguel Rodrigues a Barroca, s/n Cachoeira do Brumado, Município de Mariana MG CNPJ/MF no. 60.561.800/000537; Fazenda da Vargem, Municipalidade de Santa Bárbara MG CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/000618; Fazenda Usina de Furquim, Município de Mariana MG CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/000880; Via Matoin, s/n, Aratu, Município de Candeias BA CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/008864; Estrada de acesso à Serra de Antonio Pereira, Município de Ouro Preto MG CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/001002; Mina Lagoa Seca, Estrada de Acesso à Mina Lagoa Seca, s/n, District of Acuruí, Município de Itabirito MG CNPJ/MF 60.561.800/001266 and Avenida do Contorno, No. 8.000, suite 802, Bairro Santo Agostinho, Belo Horizonte MG. |
2. | Administration |
2.1 The members resolve to change the management structure of the Company, with it now being
administered and represented by a President of Corporate Affairs, an Executive President, and a
Finance Director.
2.2 The Presidents shall use the name President, followed or not by the expression identifying
their main area of action in the Company, respectively, President of Corporate Affairs and
Executive President.
2.3 In virtue of the changes above, the members resolve to change Article 6th of
the Companys Articles of Incorporation, which shall now have the following wording:
Article 6th The Company shall be administered and represented by at least one
of the three Administrators, two of whom are Presidents and one a Finance Director, who
shall be residents of the Country, shareholders or not, named by all members, or even by one
or more agents named for such purpose. The Presidents shall use the title of President,
followed or not by
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the expression identifying their main area of action in the Company, respectively, President
of Corporate Affairs and Executive President.
Paragraph First The acts listed below shall be performed in the following order: (i) by
any of the Presidents; (ii) by the Finance Director; (iii) by the agent or agents named
pursuant to the caput.
a) acquisition, alienation, or encumbrance of any chattels or real properties, as well as
rights related thereto;
b) naming, hiring, contracting, suspension, and dismissal of employees and managers of the
Company, determining functions, compensation, and other conditions under which their
services shall be provided;
c) setting the general and administrative expenditures of the Company;
d) opening, transacting in, and closing bank checking accounts, regardless of the amount
involved;
e) deciding on the use or investment of all available funds owned by the Company;
f) taking out loans, granting any guaranties to creditors, real or personal, on the assets
and rights of the Company;
g) issuing, signing, accepting, endorsing, and negotiating checks, bills of exchange,
promissory notes, as well as other negotiable instruments of any nature;
h) obtaining, controlling, and disposing of raw materials and supplies of any nature, being
thus authorized to sign agreements, statements, letters of intent, and any other document
necessary to perform those transactions;
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i) signing contracts of any nature for the sale of the products produced by the Company,
being thus authorized to take all measures necessary for sales, in domestic and foreign
markets, signing any statements, forms, and/or other documents required for such
transactions;
j) signing contracts of any nature for the acquisition of any products, being thus
authorized to take all measures necessary for purchases, in domestic and foreign markets,
signing any statements, forms, and/or other documents required for those transactions;
l) granting powers of attorney to attorneys, to represent the Company judicially or
extrajudicially, with powers to subrogate, settle, and make agreements;
m) contracting, altering, and canceling insurance which covers risks of any nature;
n) convening and presiding over General Meetings;
o) acquiring interests in the capital of other companies; and
p) other acts of administration, even if not expressly indicated above.
Paragraph Second Any of the Presidents, or the Finance Director, or the agent or agents
named pursuant to the caput, are responsible for representing the Company before any
Federal, State, and Municipal public departments, Autarchies, Boards of Trade, Employee
Unions and Employer Associations, consumer protection bodies, public service companies and
any other bodies of Direct and Indirect Public Administration.
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Paragraph Third The Administrators elected, upon taking office, shall declare, under
penalty of law, that they have not been convicted of any crime whose penalty prohibits the
exercise of the administration of the Company, under the terms stipulated in Article 1,011,
paragraph 1st of the Civil Code.
Paragraph Fourth The powers of the Administrators shall be determined by the owners of
shares corresponding to at least 75% (seventy-five percent) of the capital stock.
2.4 The members further resolve to change Articles 8th and 9th of the
Companys Articles of Incorporation, which shall now apply with the following wording:
Article 8th Without prejudice to the precepts of Article 9th, the
Presidents, the Finance Director, and the agents cited in Article 6th shall have
joint and several powers of attorney to grant powers of attorney on behalf of the Company to
third parties, with specific powers to execute the acts cited in Paragraphs First and Second
of Article 6th, above.
Paragraph First Except for ad judicia powers of attorney, the powers of attorney cited
in the caput of this Article shall have an effective period of up to 1 (one) year.
Paragraph Second The powers of attorney cited in the caput of this Article may be
subrogated, with or without reservation of equal powers of attorney, to third parties,
unless there is an express prohibition thereof.
Article 9th If a vacancy, absence, or impediment of one of the Presidents
occurs, he will be substituted by the other President. If a vacancy, absence, or impediment
of the two Presidents occurs, they shall be substituted by the Finance Director. If a
vacancy, absence, or impediment of the two Presidents and the Finance Director occurs, they
will be substituted by the agent or agents cited in the caput of Article 6th,
until the vacancy is filled, or the absence or impediment of any of the aforementioned
ceases.
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5. | Consolidation and Ratification of the Articles of Incorporation |
5.1 The members resolve to ratify all the other clauses of the Companys articles of
incorporation, which remain unaltered by this instrument.
5.2 In virtue of the aforementioned alterations, the members resolve to consolidate the
Companys articles of incorporation, which shall come to have the following new wording:
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
Chapter I Company Name, Domicile, Corporate Objective, and Duration
Article 1st The limited company established under the business name Novelis do Brasil
Ltda. is governed by the precepts of these articles and by the precepts stipulated in Articles 1042
to 1087 of Law 10,406, of January 10, 2002, and supplementarily by the precepts stipulated in
Articles 997 to 1,038 of the same Law 10,406, of January 10, 2002, and further by Law 6,404, of
December 15, 1976, as subsequently amended, having been transformed into a limited company by
virtue of the Regular and Special Meetings held on April 24, 1997.
Article 2nd The Company has its domicile and forum in the Capital of the State of São
Paulo, at Avenida das Nações Unidas, 12,551, 15o Andar, Torre Empresarial World Trade
Center de São Paulo, Brooklin Novo, which premises are registered in the CNPJ/MF under NO.
60.561.800/000103, where its administrative office operates and where management of the Company is
undertaken, and it may open affiliates, agencies, or representative offices in any location within
the Country or abroad.
Paragraph Beyond its headquarters address described in the caput, the Company has on this date
affiliates or establishments at the following addresses, with the following registrations in the
CNPJ/MF: Rua Felipe Camarão, 414, Santo André SP CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/000294; Avenida
Américo René Gianetti, s/n, Ouro Preto MF CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/003048; Fazenda Usina da
Brecha, Guaraciaba MG CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/003200; Fazenda Usina do Salto, Ouro Preto
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MG CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/003390; Avenida Buriti, no 1.087, Pindamonhangaba SP CNPJ/MF No.
60.561.800/004109; Estrada do Brito, s/n, Ponte Nova MG CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/005172; Via
das Torres, s/n, Candeias BA CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/ 008600; Jazida Monjolo, s/n, Distrito de
Padre Viegas, Mariana MG CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/010508; Jazida Fazenda do Lopes, s/n, Caeté MG
CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/010680; Mina Serra do Maquiné, s/n, Caeté MG CNPJ/MF No.
60.561.800/010761; Fazenda Gandarela e Mato Grosso, s/n, District of Conceição do Rio Acima, Santa
Bárbara MG CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/010842; Depósito de Bauxita Acuruí, s/n, Itabirito MG
CNPJ/ MF No. 60.561.800/010923; Mina Galo, s/n Distrito de Cafarnaum, Faria Lemos MG CNPJ/MF
No. 60.561.800/011067; Estrada de Miguel Rodrigues to Barroca, s/n, Cachoeira do Brumado,
Município de Mariana MG CNPJ/MF no. 60.561.800/000537; Fazenda da Vargem, Município de Santa
Bárbara MG CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/000618; Fazenda Usina de Furquim, Município de Mariana MG
CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/000880; Via Matoin, s/n , Aratu, Município de Candeias BA CNPJ/MF No.
60.561.800/008864; Estrada de acesso à Serra de Antonio Pereira, Município de Ouro Preto MG
CNPJ/MF No. 60.561.800/001002; Mina Lagoa Seca, Estrada de Acesso à Mina Lagoa Seca, s/n ,
Distrito de Acuruí, Município de Itabirito MG CNPJ/MF 60.561.800/001266 and Avenida do
Contorno, No. 8.000, suite 802, Bairro Santo Agostinho, Belo Horizonte MG.
Article 3rd The objective of the Company is: a) to produce, transform, purchase,
sell, import, and export, on its own behalf or on that of third parties, aluminum and any and all
metals and materials, chemical, electrochemical, electrometallurgical or metallurgical products, as
well as to engage in the industry and trade of such products, subproducts, and derivatives; b) to
produce, manufacture, sell, import, export, on its own behalf or in that of third parties,
packaging in general, of aluminum and other materials, associated or not, for any purposes; c) to
manufacture, purchase, sell, import, and export materials, machines, equipment, tools, pieces and
accessories, on its own behalf or that of third parties; d) to represent national or foreign
companies; e) to participate in other companies as a member, shareholder, or unit holder,
undertaking all the acts convenient for the
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protection and development of such participations; f) to generate and distribute electricity for
its own consumption or sale, in whole or in part, by building and maintaining plants and the
facilities thereof, through a concession or authorization from the competent authorities; g) to
promote and exploit, on its own behalf or that of third parties, the business and research
activities and mining of any and all substances, as well as the transportation, processing,
refining, transformation, and any other industrial process to profit from products resulting from
mining activities.
Article 4th The term of duration of the Company is indeterminate, its activities having
commenced on December 31, 1940.
Chapter II Capital Stock and Units of Capital
Article 5th The capital stock of the Company is R$ 120,131,000.00 (one hundred and
twenty million, one hundred and thirty-one thousand reais) divided into 120,131,000 (one hundred
and twenty million one hundred and thirty-one thousand) equal units of capital, with a par value of
R$ 1.00 (one real) each, fully subscribed to and integrated, in national currency and assets, and
distributed between the members as follows:
Member | Units of Capital | Value (R$) | ||||||
NOVELIS INC. |
120,130,999 | 120,130,999.00 | ||||||
ANTONIO TADEU COELHO NARDOCCI |
1 | 1.00 | ||||||
Total |
120,131,000 | 120,131,000.00 |
Paragraph First The liability of each member is, pursuant to the law, restricted to the value of
his units of capital, but all are jointly and severally liable for paying for paying in for the
capital stock.
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Paragraph Second The 120,130,999 (one hundred and twenty million, one hundred and thirty
thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine) units of capital, representing the capital stock of the
Company, owned by the member Novelis Inc., identified above, are pledged to LaSalle Business
Credit, LLC and UBS AG Stamford Branch, under the terms of the following agreements: (i) Quota
Pledge Agreement, entered into by and between the Company, Novelis Inc., and LaSalle Business
Credit, LLC, on July 6, 2007; and (ii) Quota Pledge Agreement, entered into by and between the
Company, Novelis Inc., and UBS AG Stamford Branch, on July 6, 2007.
Paragraph Third The 120,130,999 (one hundred and twenty million, one hundred and thirty thousand,
nine hundred and ninety-nine) units of capital shall remain pledged during the term of the
agreements cited in items (i) and (ii) of Paragraph Second of this Clause.
Paragraph Fourth The units of capital pledged shall grant Novelis, Inc., identified above, sole
and exclusively ownership of the right to vote and receive dividends on such units of capital.
Paragraph Fifth The exercise of the right to vote by Novelis Inc., identified above, shall be
independent of the consent of LaSalle Business Credit, LLC, or of UBS AG Stamford Branch,
identified above, in their capacities as secured creditors.
Chapter III Administration
Article 6th The Company shall be administered and represented by at least one of the
three Administrators, two of whom are Presidents and one Finance Director, who shall be residents
of the Country, shareholders or not, named by all members, or even by one or more agents named for
such purpose. The Presidents shall use the title of President, followed or not by the expression
identifying their main area of action in the Company, respectively, President of Corporate Affairs
and Executive President.
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Paragraph First The acts listed below shall be performed in the following order: (i) by any of
the Presidents; (ii) by the Finance Director; (iii) by the agent or agents named pursuant to the
caput.
a) acquisition, alienation, or encumbrance of any chattels or real properties, as well as rights
related thereto;
b) naming, hiring, contracting, suspension, and dismissal of employees and managers of the Company,
determining functions, compensation, and other conditions under which their services shall be
provided;
c) setting the general and administrative expenditures of the Company;
d) opening, transacting in, and closing bank checking accounts, regardless of the amount involved;
e) deciding on the use or investment of all available funds owned by the Company;
f) taking out loans, granting any guaranties to creditors, real or personal, on the assets and
rights of the Company;
g) issuing, signing, accepting, endorsing, and negotiating checks, bills of exchange, promissory
notes, as well as other negotiable instruments of any nature;
h) obtaining, controlling, and disposing of raw materials and supplies of any nature, being thus
authorized to sign agreements, statements, letters of intent, and any other document necessary to
perform those transactions;
i) signing contracts of any nature for the sale of the products produced by the Company, being thus
authorized to take all measures necessary for sales, in domestic and foreign markets, signing any
statements, forms, and/or other documents required for such transactions;
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j) signing contracts of any nature for the acquisition of any products, being thus authorized to
take all measures necessary for purchases, in domestic and foreign markets, signing any statements,
forms, and/or other documents required for those transactions;
l) granting powers of attorney to attorneys, to represent the Company judicially or
extrajudicially, with powers to subrogate, settle, and make agreements;
m) contracting, altering, and canceling insurance which covers risks of any nature;
n) convening and presiding over General Meetings;
o) acquiring interests in the capital of other companies; and
p) other acts of administration, even if not expressly indicated above.
Paragraph Second Any of the Presidents, or the Finance Director, or the agent or agents named
pursuant to the caput, are responsible for representing the Company before any Federal, State, and
Municipal public departments, Autarchies, Boards of Trade, Employee Unions and Employer
Associations, consumer protection bodies, public service companies and any other bodies of Direct
and Indirect Public Administration.
Paragraph Third The Administrators elected, upon taking office, shall declare, under penalty of
law, that they have not been convicted of any crime whose penalty prohibits the exercise of the
administration of the Company, under the terms stipulated in Article 1,011, paragraph
1st of the Civil Code.
Paragraph Fourth The powers of the Administrators shall be determined by the owners of units of
capital corresponding to at least 75% (seventy-five percent) of the capital stock.
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Article 7th The term of office of Administrators shall be 1 (one) year, calculated
from the date of the decision to name them, through the date of the next decision, reelection being
possible.
Article 8th Without prejudice to the precepts of Article 9th, the
Presidents, the Finance Director, and the agents cited in Article 6th shall have joint
and several powers of attorney to grant powers of attorney on behalf of the Company to third
parties, with specific powers of attorney to execute the acts cited in Paragraphs First and Second
of Article 6th, above.
Paragraph First Except for ad judicia powers of attorney, the powers of attorney cited in the
caput of this Article shall have an effective period of up to 1 (one) year.
Paragraph Second The powers of attorney cited in the caput of this Article may be subrogated,
with or without reservation of equal powers of attorney, to third parties, unless there is an
express prohibition thereof.
Article 9th If a vacancy, absence, or impediment of one of the Presidents occurs, he
will be substituted by the other President. If a vacancy, absence, or impediment of the two
Presidents occurs, they shall be substituted by the Finance Director. If a vacancy, absence, or
impediment of the two Presidents and the Finance Director occurs, they will be substituted by the
agent or agents cited in the caput of Article 6th, until the vacancy is filled, the
absence or impediment of any of the aforementioned ceases.
Article 10 Any act by any of the administrators, agents, or officials of the Company, which
implies an obligation or liability alien to the corporate objective of the Company, is expressly
prohibited, and shall be null and void.
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Chapter IV Meetings of Members
Article 11 The Regular Meeting of Members shall be held annually, within the first four months
after the end of the corporate fiscal year, in order to decide on the election of the
administrators, as well as to receive the reports from the administrators, to decide on the balance
sheet and profit and loss statement, as well as to deal with other matters in the interest of the
Company.
Article 12 Corporate decisions shall be made in a Meeting of Members, the Minutes of Resolutions
and Instruments Amending the Articles of Incorporation signed by the members participating in the
Meeting being valid for recording and other legal effects when signed by such members as
participate in the Meeting sufficient for the validity of the decisions, but without prejudice to
such as wish to sign them, in the presence of two witnesses, the first copy being recorded in the
Public Registry of Business Companies and the second copy filed at the domicile of the Company
together with the record of the filing, the following being expressly waived: (i) filing in the
Commercial Registry of Minutes of Meetings not designed to produce effects to third parties; and
(ii) the opening of a minutes book.
Paragraph First The designation of nonmember administrators when the capital stock is not fully
paid in depends on a unanimous decision by the members.
Paragraph Second The following depend on a decision of members holding units of capital
corresponding to at least 75% (seventy-five percent) of the capital stock: (i) a change to the
articles of incorporation; (ii) transformation, incorporation, merger, dissolution, liquidation, or
cessation of the state of liquidation of the Company; (iii) the removal of the administrator; (iv)
the decision on the compensation of the administrators; (v) a request for bankruptcy or insolvency
of the Company; (vi) the assignment of units of capital to third parties; (vii) approval of
Managements reports; (viii) the naming and removal of liquidators and the judgment of their
reports; and (ix) the naming of nonmember administrator when the capital stock is fully paid in, or
the indication of member administrators.
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Paragraph Third Votes in corporate decisions shall be counted in accordance with the number of
each members shares.
Article 13 Meetings of Members shall be convened by the administrators, or by members when the
administrators delay in convening for more than 60 (sixty) days.
Paragraph First Notification for the Meeting shall be made through internal correspondence,
email, or fax, which shall include the place, day, and time of the Meeting, as well as the matters
to be discussed, the publication of the notification in a newspaper being expressly waived.
Paragraph Second The attendance of all members, or their statement that they are aware of the
place, date, time, and order of the day, shall obviate prior notification.
Paragraph Third A Meeting of Members becomes dispensable when all the members decide, in writing,
on the matter which will be the subject of the Meeting.
Chapter V Corporate Fiscal Year, Financial Statements, and Dividends
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The corporate fiscal year commences on January 1 and ends on December 31 of the same
year.
Article 15 At the end of each fiscal year, the balance sheet and the accumulated profit and loss
statement, the statement of results for the fiscal year and the statement of the origins and
applications of funds shall be prepared, based on the Companys corporate books and current law,
submitting them thereafter for approval by the Members.
Paragraph First The net profit calculated in each fiscal year shall have the application
determined by the Members. The distribution shall always be in proportion to shares held.
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Paragraph Second At the end of each 6-month period the semiannual balance sheet shall be issued,
and the members may decide on an interim dividend against the profit calculated on that balance
sheet.
Paragraph Third The members may also declare intermediary dividends against the accumulated
profit or retained earnings on the last annual or semiannual balance sheet.
Paragraph Fourth The Company may also issue a balance sheet in shorter periods, it being
incumbent upon the members to decide on the distribution of the profit obtained on those balance
sheets or incorporate them into the capital, pursuant to the percepts of Paragraph First of Article
204 of Law No. 6,404, of December 15, 1976.
Chapter VI General Precepts
Article 16 The Company shall enter into liquidation in legal cases, and the method of liquidation
and the liquidator shall be determined unanimously by the members in a Meeting of Members.
Article 17 Under the terms stipulated in Art. 1,085 of Law 10,406 of January 10, 2002, a member
may be terminated from the Company for Just Cause through a decision by members holding units of
capital representing the majority of the capital stock, in a Meeting of Members especially convened
to that end, notifying the member to be terminated within a maximum period of 15 (fifteen) days
before the date of the Meeting.
Paragraph First For the effects of the stipulations of this Article, Just Cause shall be defined
as: (i) performing acts of undeniable gravity; (ii) jeopardizing the existence or continuity of
the Company; (iii) performing a business activity competing with the Company; (iv) associating with
or establishing a company in the same line of business as the Company, but which does not belong to
its economic group; (v) being dismissed for just cause by the Company, if an employee thereof; (vi)
being convicted of a bankruptcy crime, prevarication, bribery or subornation, graft, embezzlement;
or against the
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popular economy, against the national financial system, against antitrust law, against consumer
relations, public authority, or property.
Article 18 The death of any member shall not dissolve the Company, but rather the units of
capital appertaining to him shall return to the capital of the majority shareholder which, based on
the last balance sheet of the Company, shall pay the estate, and, third-party shareholders may be
admitted at the discretion of the remaining members.
Article 19 For all matters derived from this agreement, the forum of São Paulo, Capital, is
hereafter chosen, to the exclusion of all others.
The parties sign this instrument in 3 (three) copies of the same tenor and form, in the presence of
2 (two) witnesses.
Sao Paulo, August 20, 2008.
/s/ Antonio Tadeu Coelho Nardocci
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/s/ Antonio Tadeu Coelho Nardocci | |||||||
NOVELIS INC.
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Antonio Tadeu Coelho Nardocci | |||||||
by: Antonio Tadeu Coelho Nardocci | ||||||||
Witnesses: |
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1. /s/ Carina Cunto Ruiz
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2. | /s/ Lazara Damaris Baltazar Carvalho | ||||||
Name: Carina Cunto Ruiz | Name: Lazara Damaris Baltazar Carvalho | |||||||
RG: 29.144.663-2 SSP/SP | RG: 17.539.112-9 SSP/SP | |||||||
[stamp:] [seal] | department of the treasury | |||||||
board of trade of the state | ||||||||
of sao paulo | ||||||||
certificate of record | /s/ Silva F. Correa jucesp | |||||||
under number | silva f. correa | |||||||
317.164/08-9 | secretary general |
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