Exhibit 10.15
AMYLIN PHARMACEUTICALS,
INC.
AMENDED AND
RESTATED
OFFICER CHANGE IN
CONTROL
SEVERANCE BENEFIT
PLAN
SECTION 1.
INTRODUCTION
This Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Amended
and Restated Officer Change in Control Severance Benefit Plan (the
“ Plan ”) is designed to provide
separation pay and benefits to Covered Employees, as such term is
defined below, and hereby amends and restates through
November 1, 2008 the Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Amended
and Restated Officer Change in Control Severance Benefit Plan that
was originally established effective February 8, 2001, and
last amended and restated on August 6, 2007 (the “
Prior Plan ”). This document constitutes
the written instrument under which the Plan is maintained and
supersedes any prior plan or practice of the Company that provides
for the payment of severance benefits to Covered Employees in the
form of cash and equity related benefits, including but not limited
to the Prior Plan, except to the extent Covered Employees are
parties to written agreements with the Company that expressly
contemplate that such persons are also eligible to participate in
the Plan. .
SECTION 2.
DEFINITIONS
For purposes of this Plan, the following terms
shall have the meanings set forth below:
(a)
“Affiliate” means any corporation (other than the Company)
in an “unbroken chain of corporations” beginning with
the Company, if each of the corporations other then the last
corporation in the unbroken chain owns stock possessing fifty
percent (50%) or more of the total combined voting power of all
classes of stock in one of the other corporations in such
chain.
(b)
“Board”
means the Board of Directors of the
Company
(c)
“Cause”
means, with respect to a Covered
Employee, that, in the reasonable determination of the Company,
such Covered Employee has (i) been convicted of or pleaded
guilty or nolo contendere to a felony or any crime involving
moral turpitude or dishonesty; (ii) participated in a fraud or
act of dishonesty against the Company; (iii) willfully and
materially breached a Company policy; (iv) intentionally
damaged the Company’s property; (v) willfully and
materially breached such Covered Employee’s Proprietary
Information and Inventions Agreement with the Company;
(vi) engaged in conduct that demonstrates gross unfitness to
serve; or (vii) repeatedly failed to satisfactorily perform
job duties to which such Covered Employee previously agreed in
writing. The conduct described under clauses (iii), (vi) and
(vii) above will only constitute Cause if such conduct is not
cured within 90 days after the Covered Employee’s receipt of
written notice from the Company or the Board specifying the
particulars of the conduct that may constitute Cause.
(d)
“Change in
Control” means the
occurrence of any of the following:
(i)
any “person,” as such
term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the
Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended from time to time,
and any successor statute
(the “Exchange Act”) (other than the
Company, a subsidiary, an Affiliate, or a Company employee benefit
plan, including any trustee of such plan acting as trustee) is or
becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in
Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of
securities of the Company representing 50% or more of the combined
voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities
other than by virtue of a merger, consolidation or similar
transaction;
(ii)
there is consummated a sale or other
disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the
Company (other than a sale to an entity where at least 50% of the
combined voting power of the voting securities of such entity are
owned by the stockholders of the Company in substantially the same
proportions as their ownership of the Company immediately prior to
such sale);
(iii)
there is consummated a merger,
consolidation or similar transaction involving (directly or
indirectly) the Company and, immediately after the consummation of
such transaction, the stockholders immediately prior to the
consummation of such transaction do not own, directly or
indirectly, outstanding voting securities representing more than
50% of the combined outstanding voting power of the surviving
entity in such transaction or more than 50% of the combined
outstanding voting power of the parent of the surviving entity in
such transaction.
(e)
“Company”
means Amylin
Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation and its
Affiliates, or following a Change in Control, the surviving entity
resulting from such transaction.
(f)
“Compensation
Committee” means
the Compensation Committee of the Board.
(g)
“Constructive
Termination” means,
with respect to a Covered Employee, that such Covered Employee
voluntarily terminates his or her employment with the Company
(A) after (1) any of the following are undertaken without
Cause and without such Covered Employee’s express written
consent; (2) the Covered Employee notifies the Company in
writing, within ninety (90) days after the occurrence of one of the
following events, which notice specifies the condition giving rise
to a Constructive Termination and that the Covered Employee intends
to terminate his employment no earlier than thirty (30) days after
the Company’s receipt of such notice; and (3) the
Company does not cure such condition within thirty (30) days
following its receipt of such notice or states unequivocally in
writing that it does not intend to attempt to cure such condition;
and (B) such voluntary termination occurs within thirty (30)
days following the end of the period within which the Company was
entitled to remedy the condition giving rise to a Constructive
Termination but failed to do so:
(i)
a material reduction by the Company
of such Covered Employee’s annual base salary as in effect
during the last regularly scheduled payroll period immediately
prior to the period commencing 90 days prior to the applicable
Change in Control (or as increased thereafter), unless such
reduction is made pursuant to an across-the-board reduction of the
base salaries of all similarly situated Covered Employee’s of
no more than ten percent (10%);
(ii)
such Covered Employee’s
relocation, or the relocation of the Company’s principal
executive offices if such Covered Employee’s principal office
is at such offices by
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more than fifty (50) miles from the location at
which such Covered Employee was performing his or her duties
immediately prior to the 90 day period preceding the applicable
Change in Control, except for required travel on the
Company’s business to an extent substantially consistent with
such Covered Employee’s business travel obligations
immediately prior to the commencement of such period;
(iii)
such Covered Employee’s
assignment during the period beginning ninety (90) days prior to
and ending thirteen (13) months after the applicable Change in
Control of any duties or responsibilities that results in a
material diminution in such Covered Employee’s authority,
duties or responsibilities from those in effect immediately prior
to the commencement of such period; provided, however, that with
respect only to those Covered Employees serving as the Chief
Executive Officer and/or Chief Financial Officer of the Company
immediately prior to the commencement of such period (each a
“ Key Executive ”), if (i) in the
case of the Key Executive so serving as Chief Executive Officer
(the “ CEO ”), such Key Executive shall no
longer report during such period directly to the Board of Directors
of the Company or, following such Change in Control, shall not
report directly to the board of directors of the publicly traded
entity that is, or is part of the controlled group that includes,
the successor or acquiring party in such Change in Control or
(ii) in the case of the Key Executive so serving as Chief
Financial Officer, there shall be a material diminution in the
authority, duties or responsibilities of the supervisor to whom
such Key Executive is required to report (including without
limitation by reason of such Key Executive continuing to report to
the CEO during such period but the CEO at any time during such
period no longer reporting directly to the Board of Directors of
the Company or, following such Change in Control, not reporting
directly to the board of directors of the publicly traded entity
that is, or is part of the controlled group that includes, the
successor or acquiring party in such Change in Control) and/or a
requirement that either such Key Executive or his or her supervisor
shall report to a corporate officer or employee instead of
reporting directly to the CEO), then, without limitation, in each
case such Key Executive shall be considered to have suffered a
material diminution in such Key Executive’s authority, duties
or responsibilities; or
(iv)
a material breach by the Company of
any provision of this Plan or any enforceable written agreement
between such Covered Employee and the Company.
(h)
“Covered
Employee” means a
person eligible to participate in the Plan as provided in
Section 3 herein.
(i)
“Covered
Termination” means
either a Constructive Termination or an Involuntary Termination
Without Cause.
(j)
“Disability” means the Covered Employee is prevented from
performing his duties hereunder by reason of any physical or mental
incapacity that results in the Covered Employee’s
satisfaction of all requirements necessary to receive benefits
under the Company’s long-term disability plan due to a total
disability.
(k)
“Executive
Officer” means an
officer who has been designated by the Company as an executive
officer who is subject to Section 16 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934.
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(l)
“Involuntary Termination
Without Cause” means with respect to a Covered Employee such
Covered Employee’s dismissal or discharge by the Company for
a reason other than for Cause. The termination of a Covered
Employee’s employment will not be deemed to be an
“Involuntary Termination Without Cause” if such Covered
Employee’s termination occurs as a result of such Covered
Employee’s death or Disability.
(m)
“Payment Commencement
Date” means, with
respect to a Covered Termination, (i) if such Covered
Termination occurs prior to the effective date of the applicable
Change in Control, the later of (A) the effective date of such
Change in Control or (B) the effective date of the Release
required by Section 4(e) or (ii) if such Covered
Termination occurs on or after the effective date of the applicable
Change in Control, the later of (X) the date of such Covered
Termination or (Y) the effective date of the Release required
by Section 4(e).
(n)
“ Plan Administrator
” has the meaning as provided in Section 7.
(o)
“ Qualified Plan
” means a plan sponsored by the Company or an Affiliate that
is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the
Internal Revenue Code.
(p)
“Substantial Risk of
Forfeiture Lapse Date” means, with respect to a Covered Termination,
(i) if such Covered Termination occurs prior to the effective
date of the applicable Change in Control, the effective date of
such Change in Control, or (ii) if such Covered Termination
occurs on or after the effective date of the applicable Change in
Control, the date of such Covered Termination.
SECTION 3.
ELIGIBILITY AND
PARTICIPATION
A person is eligible to participate in the Plan
if (i) such person is an employee of the Company or an
Affiliate with the title of Vice-President or higher;
(ii) such person has not entered into a separate individual
“severance benefit” or “change in control
agreement” with the Company (excluding any plan or
arrangement, or any portion thereof, relating to equity
compensation) except to the extent such person is a party to a
written agreement with the Company that expressly contemplates that
such person is also eligible to participate in the Plan;
(iii) the Board has designated such person as eligible to
participate in the Plan; and (iv) such person’s
employment with the Company terminates due to either (A) an
Involuntary Termination at any time during the period beginning
ninety (90) days prior to and ending thirteen (13) months following
the effective date of a Change in Control, or (B) a
Constructive Termination for which the condition set forth in
Section 2(g)(i)-(iv), as applicable, giving rise to the right
to resign due to a Constructive Termination occurred at any time
during the period beginning ninety (90) days prior to and ending
thirteen (13) months following the effective date of a Change in
Control. The determination of whether an employee is a
Covered Employee shall be made by the Company, in its sole
discretion, and such determination shall be binding and conclusive
on all persons.
SECTION 4.
BENEFITS
Plan benefits will not affect a Covered
Employee’s rights to payment of any other compensation from
the Company that has been earned by the Covered Employee but has
not yet been paid at the time of the Covered Termination.
Provided that all conditions for receiving benefits
under
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the Plan are met, each Covered Employee is
eligible to receive the following benefits:
(a)
Salary Continuation
Payments. The
Company shall continue to pay the Base Salary of each Covered
Employee, as in effect on the date of the applicable Covered
Termination, for the number of months following the Payment
Commencement Date set forth in the following table based on the
most senior employment title of such Covered Employee in effect at
the time of such Covered Termination:
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Title
|
|
Base Salary
Continuation Period
|
|
|
Chief Executive Officer or
President
|
|
36 months
|
|
|
Executive Officer
|
|
24 months
|
|
|
Vice President other than Executive
Officer
|
|
18 months
|
|
Such amounts shall be paid to each such Covered
Employee in regular installments on the normal payroll dates of the
Company commencing with the first payroll period following the
Payment Commencement Date. Any salary continuation payments
that any Covered Employee receives hereunder shall be subject to
all required tax withholding.
“ Base Salary
” shall mean the Covered Employee’s base pay (excluding
incentive pay, premium pay, commissions, overtime, bonuses and
other forms of variable compensation), at the rate in effect during
the last regularly scheduled payroll period immediately preceding
the date of the Covered Termination, and prior to any reduction in
base salary that would permit such Covered Employee to voluntarily
terminate employment in a Constructive Termination pursuant to
Section 2(g)(i).
(b)
Bonus Payment.
The Company shall pay to each
Covered Employee a percentage of such Covered Employee’s
Maximum Potential Bonus (defined below) as set forth in the
following table based on the most senior employment title of such
Covered Employee in effect at the time of the applicable Covered
Termination:
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|
Title
|
|
Percentage of
Maximum Bonus Potential
|
|
|
Chief Executive Officer or
President
|
|
300
|
%
|
|
Executive Officer
|
|
200
|
%
|
|
Vice President other than Executive
Officer
|
|
100
|
%
|
“Maximum Potential Bonus”
means:
(i) if, on or prior to the date
of the Covered Termination, the Compensation Committee shall have
approved an Executive Cash Bonus Plan or similar plan applicable to
such Covered Employee and related Company and/or Covered Employee
individual performance goals thereunder (collectively,
“Cash Bonus Plan” ) applicable for the year in
which such Covered Termination occurs, the maximum full year cash
bonus payable to such Covered Employee under such Cash Bonus Plan
as if 100% of all such performance goals were attained for such
year;
(ii) if, on or prior to the
date of the Covered Termination, the Compensation Committee shall
not have approved a Cash Bonus Plan applicable to such Covered
Employee for the year in which such Covered Termination occurs, but
a Cash Bonus Plan applicable to such Covered Employee exists for
the year immediately preceding the year in which such Covered
Termination occurs, the maximum full year cash bonus payable to
such Covered Employee under the Cash Bonus Plan in effect for such
immediately preceding year as if 100% of all applicable performance
goals were attained; or
(iii) if, on or prior to the
date of the Covered Termination, the Compensation Committee shall
not have approved a Cash Bonus Plan applicable to such Covered
Employee for either the year in which such Covered Termination
occurs or the immediately preceding year, the largest maximum full
year cash bonus payable to any other Company officer with an
employment title equivalent to or below the employment title of
such Covered Employee as of the date of the Covered Termination,
under either a Cash Bonus Plan in effect for the year of such
Covered Termination or the immediately preceding the year as if
100% of all applicable performance goals were attained.
Any such bonus payment pursuant to this
Section 4(b) shall be in a single lump sum to be paid
within ten (10) days following the Payment Commencement
Date. Any bonus payments that any Covered Employee receives
shall be subject to all required tax withholding.
(c)
COBRA Premium Benefits
. If a Covered Employee is
eligible to elect continued group health plan coverage under
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (“
COBRA ”) following a Covered Termination,
regardless of whether the Covered Employee makes an election for
continued COBRA coverage, the Company shall pay a single
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lump sum payment equal to 140% of the full
amount of the Covered Employee’s COBRA premiums for the
Covered Employee’s continued coverage under the
Company’s group health plans, including the cost of coverage
for the Covered Employee’s eligible dependents, for a period
of eighteen (18) months. For purposes of this
Section 4(c), references to COBRA premiums shall not include
any amounts payable by the Covered Employee under an Internal
Revenue Code Section 125 health care reimbursement plan.
Any such payment that such Covered Employee receives shall be
subject to all required tax withholding and shall be paid in a
single lump sum within ten (10) days following the Payment
Commencement Date.
(d)
Equity Award Vesting Acceleration
Benefits.
Effective as of the date of the Covered Employee’s Covered
Termination: (i) the vesting and exercisability of all
outstanding options to purchase the Company’s common stock
that are held by the Covered Employee on such date shall be
accelerated in full as of the date of such Covered Termination,
(ii) any reacquisition or repurchase rights held by the
Company in respect of common stock issued pursuant to any other
stock award granted to the Covered Employee by the Company shall
lapse in full as of the date of such Covered Termination, and
(iii) the vesting of any other stock awards granted to the
Covered Employee by the Company, and any issuance of shares
triggered by the vesting of such stock awards, shall be accelerated
in full as of the date of such Covered
Termination. If the Covered Termination occurs prior to
the effective date of the applicable Change in Control, such
vesting acceleration shall be deemed effective as of the date of
the Covered Termination. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this
Section 4(d) shall not apply to stock awards issued under
or held in any Qualified Plan.
(e)
Conditions to Receipt of
Benefits. In
order to be eligible to receive any benefits under the Plan, a
Covered Employee also must satisfy each of the following
conditions:
(i)
The Covered Employee or his or her
representative must execute a general waiver and release of claims
in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A,
Exhibit B or Exhibit C, as appropriate (the “
Release ”), within the time period set forth
therein, but in no event later than (i) if a Change in Control
shall have occurred prior to such Covered Termination, forty-five
(45) days following termination of employment or (ii) if a
Change in Control shall not have occurred prior to such Covered
Termination, the later of (A) forty-five (45) days following
termination of employment or (B) ten (10) days following
the effective date of such Change in Control, and such release must
become effective in accordance with its terms. The Company,
in its discretion, may modify the form of the required Release at
any time to comply with applicable law and shall determine the form
of the required Release, which may be incorporated into a
termination agreement or other agreement with the Covered
Employee.
(ii)
Following any notification of
Involuntary Termination Without Cause by the Company, the Covered
Employee must reasonably satisfactorily perform his or her assigned
job duties until the date set by the Company for the termination of
employment, which date may not exceed thirty (30) days following
such notification.
(f)
Termination of
Benefits. With
respect to each Covered Employee, benefits under this Plan shall
terminate immediately if such Covered Employee, at any time,
violates any provision of the Proprietary Information and
Inventions Agreement or any other proprietary information,
confidentiality or non-solicitation obligation to the
Company.
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(g)
Non-Duplication of
Benefits. No
Covered Employee is eligible to receive benefits under this Plan
more than one time.
(h)
Offset for
Indebtedness. If a
Covered Employee is indebted to the Company at his or her
termination date, the Company reserves the right to offset any
salary continuation severance payments or other payments under the
Plan by the amount of such indebtedness. Additionally, if a
Covered Employee is subject to withholding for taxes related to any
non-Plan benefits, the Company may offset any salary continuation
severance payments or other payments under the Plan by the amount
of such withholding taxes.
(i)
Certain
Reductions. The
Company, in its sole discretion, shall have the authority to reduce
a Covered Employee’s benefits under this Plan, in whole or in
part, by any other severance benefits, pay in lieu of notice, or
other similar benefits payable to the Covered Employee by the
Company or an Affiliate of the Company that become payable in
connection with the Covered Employee’s termination of
employment pursuant to any applicable legal requirement, including,
without limitation, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining
Notification Act, the California Plant Closing Act, or any other
similar state law, and the Plan Administrator shall so construe and
implement the terms of the Plan; provided, however, that
notwithstanding the foregoing and any other provision in the Plan
to the contrary, such reductions shall in no event reduce the cash
severance benefits provided under this Plan to less than two
(2) weeks of Base Salary (as such term is defined
above). The Company’s decision to apply such reductions
to any particular Covered Employee and the amount of such
reductions shall in no way obligate the Company to apply the same
reductions in the same amounts to any other Covered Employee, even
if similarly situated. In the Company’s sole
discretion, such reductions may be applied on a retroactive basis,
with salary continuation severance payments or other severance
benefits previously paid being re-characterized as payments
pursuant to the Company’s statutory obligation.
(j)
Deferred Compensation.
Notwithstanding anything to
the contrary set forth herein, any payments and benefits provided
under this Plan (the “ Severance Benefits
”) that constitute “deferred compensation” within
the meaning of Section 409A of the Code and the regulations
and other guidance thereunder and any state law of similar effect
(collectively “ Section 409A ”)
shall not commence in connection with a Covered Employee’s
termination of employment unless and until the Covered Employee has
also incurred a “separation from service” (as such term
is defined in Treasury Regulation
Section 1.409A-1(h) (“ Separation From
Service ”), unless the Company reasonably determines
that such amounts may be provided to the Covered Employee without
causing the Covered Employee to incur the additional 20% tax under
Section 409A. Severance Benefits payable under the Plan
on or before March 15 of the calendar year following the
calendar year including the Substantial Risk of Forfeiture Lapse
Date are intended to constitute separate payments for purposes of
Section 1.409A-2(b)(2) of the Treasury Regulations and
thus will be payable pursuant to the “short-term
deferral” rule set forth in
Section 1.409A-1(b)(4) of the Treasury Regulations.
Severance Benefits payable under the Plan after March 15 of
the calendar year following the calendar year including the
Substantial Risk of Forfeiture Lapse Date are intended to
constitute separate payments for purposes of
Section 1.409A-2(b)(2) of the Treasury Regulations made
upon an involuntary termination from service