AMENDED AND RESTATED

ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

OF

SOUTHERN FIRST BANCSHARES, INC.

(as amended effective May 30, 2024)

(restated for purposes of Item 601(b)(3) of Regulation S-K only)

ARTICLE ONE

NAME

The name of the corporation is Southern First Bancshares, Inc. (the “Corporation”).

ARTICLE TWO

ADDRESS AND REGISTERED AGENT

The street address of the registered office of the Corporation shall be 6 Verdae Boulevard, Greenville, South Carolina 29607. The name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address shall be R. Arthur Seaver.

ARTICLE THREE

CAPITALIZATION

The Corporation shall have the authority, exercisable by its board of directors, to issue up to 20,000,000 shares of voting common stock, par value $.01 per share, and to issue up to 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $.01 per share. The board of directors shall have the authority to specify the preferences, limitations and relative rights of each class of preferred stock.

ARTICLE FOUR

PREEMPTIVE RIGHTS

The shareholders shall not have any preemptive rights to acquire additional stock in the Corporation.

ARTICLE FIVE

NO CUMULATIVE VOTING RIGHTS

The Corporation elects not to have cumulative voting, and no shares issued by this Corporation may be cumulatively voted for directors of the Corporation (or for any other decision).

ARTICLE SIX

LIMITATION ON DIRECTOR LIABILITY

No director of the Corporation shall be personally liable to the Corporation or its shareholders for monetary damages for breach of the duty of care or any other duty as a director, except that such liability shall not be eliminated for:

(i) any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its shareholders;

(ii) acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve gross negligence, intentional misconduct, or a knowing violation of law;

(iii) liability imposed under Section 33-8-330 (or any successor provision or redesignation thereof) of the Act; and

(iv) any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.

If at any time the Act shall have been amended to authorize the further elimination or limitation of the liability of a director, then the liability of each director of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the Act, as so amended, without further action by the shareholders, unless the provisions of the Act, as amended, require further action by the shareholders.

Any repeal or modification of the foregoing provisions of this Article Six shall not adversely affect the elimination or limitation of liability or alleged liability pursuant hereto of any director of the Corporation for or with respect to any alleged act or omission of the director occurring prior to such a repeal or modification.

ARTICLE SEVEN

CONTROL SHARE ACQUISITIONS

The provisions of Title 35, Chapter 2, Article 1 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina shall not apply to control share acquisitions of shares of the Corporation.

ARTICLE EIGHT

CLASSIFIED BOARD OF DIRECTORS

At the annual meeting of shareholders that is held in calendar year 2023, the Class III directors shall be elected for a term expiring at the annual of meeting of shareholders that is held in calendar year 2026 and until such directors’ successors have been elected and qualified. At the annual meeting of shareholders that is held in calendar year 2024, the Class I directors shall be elected for a term expiring at the annual meeting of shareholders that is held in calendar year 2025 and until such directors’ successors shall have been elected and qualified. At the annual meeting of shareholders that is held in calendar year 2025, the Class I and Class II directors shall be elected for a term expiring at the annual meeting of shareholders that is held in calendar year 2026 and until such directors’ successors shall have been elected and qualified. At each annual shareholders’ meeting held thereafter, all directors shall be elected for terms expiring at the next annual meeting of shareholders and until such directors’ successors shall have been elected and qualified. Each director, except in the case of his earlier death, written resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal, shall serve for the duration of his term, as staggered, and thereafter until his successor shall have been elected and qualified.

ARTICLE NINE

CONSIDERATION OF OTHER CONSTITUENCIES

In discharging the duties of their respective positions and in determining what is in the best interests of the Corporation, the board of directors, committees of the board of directors, and individual directors, in addition to considering the effects of any actions on the Corporation and its shareholders, may consider the interests of the employees, customers, suppliers, creditors, and other constituencies of the Corporation and its subsidiaries, the communities and geographical areas in which the Corporation and its subsidiaries operate or are located, and all other factors such directors consider pertinent. This provision solely grants discretionary authority to the board of directors and shall not be deemed to provide to any other constituency any right to be considered.