Specimen Common Stock Certificate

EX-4.1 2 c96650a1exv4w1.txt SPECIMEN COMMON STOCK CERTIFICATE EXHIBIT 4.1 (FORM OF STOCK CERTIFICATE-FRONT SIDE) NUMBER SHARES AMERICAN COMMERCIAL LINES INC. INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE COMMON STOCK CUSIP 025195 20 7 SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS THIS CERTIFIES THAT IS THE OWNER OF FULLY PAID AND NON-ASSESSABLE SHARES OF THE COMMON STOCK OF AMERICAN COMMERCIAL LINES INC. , $0.01 par value per share, transferable only on the books of said Corporation in person or by attorney upon surrender of this Certificate properly endorsed. This Certificate is not valid until countersigned and registered by the Transfer Agent and Registrar. WITNESS the facsimile seal of the Corporation and the facsimile signatures of its duly authorized officers. Dated: MARK R. HOLDEN, PRESIDENT [SEAL] LISA L. FLEMING, SECRETARY COUNTERSIGNED AND REGISTERED: AMERICAN STOCK TRANSFER & TRUST COMPANY TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR BY AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE (FORM OF STOCK CERTIFICATE-BACK SIDE) AMERICAN COMMERCIAL LINES INC. The Corporation will furnish without charge to any stockholder upon request to the Corporation's principal office a full statement of the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional, or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights. 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 UNIF GIFT MIN ACT - .........Custodian.................... TEN ENT - as tenants by the entireties (Cust) (Minor) JT TEN - as joint tenants with right of under Uniform Gifts to Minors survivorship and not as tenants Act.................................... in common (State) UNIF TRF MIN ACT - ..........Custodian (until age........) (Cust) ................under Uniform Transfers (Minor) 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 Common Stock represented by the within Certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________________________________________________ Attorney to transfer the said shares on the books of the within named Corporation with 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) MUST 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. KEEP THIS CERTIFICATE IN A SAFE PLACE. IF IT IS LOST, STOLEN, MUTILATED OR DESTROYED, THE CORPORATION WILL REQUIRE A BOND OF INDEMNITY AS A CONDITION TO THE ISSUANCE OF A REPLACEMENT CERTIFICATE.