Description of Capital Stock

As of December 31, 2019, MasTec, Inc. (the “Company” or “we” or “our”) had one class of securities, our common stock, registered under Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The following description of our common stock summarizes certain material terms and provisions of our common stock. It does not purport to be complete, however, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to Florida law and by the actual terms and provisions contained in our Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation and our Amended and Restated Bylaws, which are incorporated by reference as exhibits to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, of which this exhibit is a part.

We are authorized to issue up to 145,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.10 per share, and 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $1.00 per share. No shares of our preferred stock are issued and outstanding. The outstanding shares of our common stock are fully paid and nonassessable.

Voting Rights. Each share of our common stock entitles its owner to one vote on all matters submitted to a vote of our shareholders.

Dividend Rights. The holders of our common stock are entitled to receive dividends, when, as and if declared by our Board of Directors, in its discretion, from funds legally available for the payment of dividends.

Liquidating Rights. If we liquidate or dissolve, the owners of our common stock will be entitled to share proportionately in our assets, if any, legally available for distribution to shareholders, but only after we have paid all of our debts and liabilities.

Other Rights and Preferences. Our common stock has no preemptive rights, no sinking fund provisions and no subscription, redemption or conversion privileges, and it is not subject to any further calls or assessments by us. Our common stock does not have cumulative voting rights, which means that the holders of a plurality of the outstanding shares of our common stock voting for the election of directors can elect all members of our Board of Directors eligible for election in any year. Additionally, the vote or concurrence of our shareholders holding a majority in interest of our common stock is sufficient for certain other actions that require the vote or concurrence of shareholders.

As of December 31, 2019, Jorge Mas, our Chairman, and José Mas, our Chief Executive Officer, together with certain family partnerships and trusts, beneficially own approximately 23% of our issued and outstanding shares of common stock. Consequently, they have the power to control our management and affairs and are in a position to substantially influence:

The Mas family’s ability to exercise significant control over our management and affairs may discourage, delay or prevent a takeover attempt that you might consider in your best interest and that might result in you receiving a premium for your common stock.

Our Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation authorize our Board of Directors, without further shareholder approval, to:

The Board of Directors may establish a class or series of preferred stock with preferences, powers and rights (including voting rights) senior to the rights of the holders of our common stock. If we issue any of our preferred stock, it may have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a change in control.

Our common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the trading symbol “MTZ.”

Our Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation and our Amended and Restated Bylaws contain material provisions that may make the acquisition of control of us more difficult.

Business Combinations. Our Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation contain material provisions which may make it more difficult for a person or entity that is the holder of more than 10% of our outstanding voting stock to force us to approve a “business combination.” For purposes of this discussion, a “business combination” includes any:

Our Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation require at least 80% of the voting power of all of our outstanding shares entitled to vote in the election of directors, voting together as a single class, to vote in favor of a business combination with any person or entity that is directly or indirectly the holder of more than 10% of our outstanding voting stock in order for that transaction to be approved. This voting requirement may have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a change in control of us. However, this voting requirement is not applicable to business combinations if either: 

Classified Board of Directors and Related Provisions. Our Amended and Restated Bylaws provide that the number of our directors will be established from time to time by a majority vote of our Board of Directors or our shareholders. Our Amended and Restated Bylaws also provide that our Board of Directors will be divided into three classes of directors, with each class having a number of directors as nearly equal as possible to each other class and that directors will serve for staggered three-year terms. As a result, one-third of our Board of Directors will be elected each year. These classified board provisions could prevent a party who acquires control of a majority of our outstanding voting stock from obtaining control of the Board of Directors until the second annual shareholders meeting following the date on which the acquirer obtains its controlling interest. Additionally, our Board of Directors’ Governance Principles include a director majority vote policy. The majority vote policy is applicable solely to uncontested elections, which are those elections in which the number of nominees for election is less than or equal to the number of directors to be elected. Under the majority vote policy, any nominee for director who receives more “withheld” votes than “for” votes in an uncontested election must submit a written offer to resign as director. Any such resignation will be reviewed by our Nominating, Sustainability and Corporate Governance Committee, and, within 90 days after the election, the independent members of the Board of Directors will determine whether to accept, reject or take other appropriate action with respect to the resignation in furtherance of the best interests of us and our shareholders.

Our shareholders may remove any of our directors or our entire Board of Directors if the votes in favor of removal constitute at least a majority of all of our outstanding voting stock entitled to vote. However, our Amended and Restated Bylaws also provide that our shareholders may only remove our directors for “cause” and only by a vote at a meeting that is called for the purpose of removing the director or directors. Our Amended and Restated Bylaws define “cause” as failing to substantially perform one’s duties to us (other than as a result of incapacity due to physical or mental illness) or willfully engaging in gross misconduct injurious to us. If there is a vacancy on our Board of Directors, a majority of either our remaining directors or our shareholders may fill the vacancy.

Shareholder Action By Written Consent. Our Amended and Restated Bylaws provide that any actions which our shareholders may take at a shareholders’ meeting can be taken by written consent in lieu of a meeting.

In order to effect a shareholder action by written consent in lieu of a meeting, holders of our outstanding voting stock, having at least the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize the action at a shareholders’ meeting, must sign a written consent which states the action to be taken. If our shareholders take any action by written consent in lieu of a meeting, we must notify all of our shareholders that did not consent to the action in writing within 10 days after receiving the written consent and describe the action to them and whether dissenters’ rights are available.

Indemnification. Our Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation and/or Amended and Restated Bylaws provide that we will indemnify each of our directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by law. Our Amended and Restated Bylaws

permit us to purchase insurance on behalf of our directors, officers, employees and agents and directors, officers, employees or agents of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, serving as such at our request, against liabilities that they may incur in those capacities, whether or not we would have the power to indemnify them against such liabilities.

As a Florida corporation, we are subject to certain anti-takeover provisions that apply to public corporations under Florida law. Pursuant to Section  ###-###-#### of the Florida Business Corporation Act, or the Florida Act, a publicly held Florida corporation may not engage in a broad range of business combinations or other extraordinary corporate transactions with an interested shareholder for a period of three years following the time that such shareholder became an interested shareholder unless (A) prior to the time that such shareholder became an interested shareholder, the board of directors approved the affiliated transaction or the transaction which resulted in the shareholder becoming an interested shareholder, (B) upon consummation of the transaction which resulted in the shareholder becoming an interested shareholder, the interested shareholder owned at least 85% of the voting shares of the corporation outstanding at the time the transaction commenced, excluding for purposes of determining the voting shares outstanding, but not the outstanding voting shares owned by the interested shareholder, those shares owned by persons who are directors and also officers and 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 (C) at or subsequent to the time that such shareholder became an interested shareholder, the affiliated transaction is approved by the board of directors and authorized at an annual or special meeting of shareholders, and not by written consent, by the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the voting shares of the corporation (excluding shares held by the interested shareholder), unless: 

An interested shareholder is defined as a person who together with affiliates and associates beneficially owns more than 15% of a corporation’s outstanding voting shares. We have not made an election in our Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation to opt out of Section  ###-###-####.

In addition, we are subject to Section  ###-###-#### of the Florida Act which prohibits the voting of shares in a publicly held Florida corporation that are acquired in a control share acquisition unless (i) our Board of Directors approved such acquisition prior to its consummation or (ii) after such acquisition, in lieu of prior approval by our Board of Directors, the holders of a majority of the corporation’s voting shares, exclusive of shares owned by officers of the corporation, employee directors or the acquiring party, approve the granting of voting rights as to the shares acquired in the control share acquisition. A control share acquisition is defined as an acquisition that immediately thereafter entitles the acquiring party to 20% or more of the total voting power in an election of directors.