Common Stock Certificate for Polypore International, Inc.
This document certifies ownership of fully paid and non-assessable common shares of Polypore International, Inc., a Delaware corporation. The shares are transferable on the company's books by the holder or an authorized attorney upon proper endorsement and surrender of the certificate. The certificate is subject to the company's Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and must be countersigned by the transfer agent and registered by the registrar to be valid. If lost or destroyed, a replacement requires a bond of indemnity.
Exhibit 4.2
NUMBER
PPO
POLYPORE INTERNATIONAL, INC.
INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE
COMMON SHARES
SHARES
THIS CERTIFICATE IS TRANSFERABLE IN NEW YORK, NY
CUSIP 73179V 10 3
SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS
THIS CERTIFIES THAT
is the owner of
FULLY PAID AND NON-ASSESSABLE COMMON SHARES OF $.01 PAR VALUE OF POLYPORE INTERNATIONAL, INC. transferable only on the books of the Corporation by the holder hereof in person or by duly authorized attorney upon surrender of this Certificate properly endorsed. This Certificate and the shares represented hereby are issued and shall be held subject to all of the provisions of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, and all amendments thereto, to all of which the holder by acceptance hereof assents. This Certificate is not valid until countersigned by the Transfer Agent and registered by the Registrar.
Witness the facsimile seal of the Corporation and the facsimile signatures of its duly authorized officers.
Dated
COUNTERSIGNED AND REGISTERED: AMERICAN STOCK TRANSFER & TRUST COMPANY (NEW YORK, NY) TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR
BY
AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE
[SIGNATURE]
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, TREASURER AND SECRETARY
[SIGNATURE]
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND PRESIDENT
[SEAL]
[LOGO]
POLYPORE INTERNATIONAL, 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 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
TEN ENT - as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN - as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT - Custodian (Cust) (Minor) under Uniform Gifts 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 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 Company 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.
