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EX-4.2 6 a2179424zex-4_2.htm EXHIBIT 4.2

Exhibit 4.2

 

 

NUMBER

 

SHARES

C

 

SEE REVERSE FOR
CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

 

 

CUSIP 429086 30 9

 

HICKS ACQUISITION COMPANY I, INC.

 

INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE

 

COMMON STOCK

 

This Certifies that 

 

 

is the owner of 

 

 

 

FULLY PAID AND NON-ASSESSABLE SHARES OF THE PAR VALUE OF $.0001 EACH OF THE COMMON STOCK OF

 

HICKS ACQUISITION COMPANY I, INC.

 

transferable on the books of the Corporation in person or by duly authorized attorney upon surrender of this certificate properly endorsed.

 

The Corporation will be forced to liquidate if it is unable to complete a business combination by           , 2009, all as more fully described in the Corporation’s final prospectus dated             , 2007.

 

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.

 

 

 

[Corporate Seal]

 

 

Secretary

 

Delaware

 

President

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Hicks Acquisition Company I, 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 Preferred 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

 

UNIF GIFT MIN ACT– 

 

Custodian 

 

TEN ENT

–

as tenants by the entireties

 

 

(Cust)

 

(Minor)

JT TEN

–

as joint tenants with right of survivorship

 

 

under Uniform Gifts to Minors

 

 

and not as tenants in common

 

 

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 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 I7Ad-l5).

 

 

The holder of this certificate shall be entitled to receive funds from the trust fund only in the event of the Company’s liquidation upon failure to consummate a business combination 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 Company. In no other circumstances shall the holder have any right or interest of any kind in or to the trust fund.