EXHIBIT 10(r)(i)
CHANGE IN CONTROL
AGREEMENT
dated as of December 1,
2006
between The Brink’s
Company
a Virginia corporation (the
“Company”)
and Matthew A. P. Schumacher (the
“Executive”)
The Company and
the Executive agree as follows:
SECTION
1.
Definitions . As used in this
Agreement:
(a) “Affiliate”
has the meaning ascribed thereto in Rule 12b-2 pursuant to the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
“Act”).
(b) “Board” means the Board of Directors of
the Company.
(i) an act or acts of dishonesty on
the Executive’s part which are intended to result in the
Executive’s substantial personal enrichment at the expense of
the Company or
(ii) repeated material violations by
the Executive of the Executive’s obligations under Section 3
which are demonstrably willful and deliberate on the
Executive’s part and which have not been cured by the
Executive within a reasonable time after written notice to the
Executive specifying the nature of such violations.
(d) “Change
in Control” shall mean the occurrence of:
(i) the approval of the shareholders
of the Company (or if such approval is not required, the approval
of the Board) of (A) any consolidation or merger of the Company in
which the Company is not the continuing or surviving corporation or
pursuant to which the Company’s common stock would be
converted into cash, securities or other property, other than a
consolidation or merger in which holders of the total voting power
in the election of directors of the Company of the Company’s
common stock outstanding (exclusive of shares held by the
Company’s Affiliates)(the “Total Voting Power”)
immediately prior to the consolidation or merger will have the same
proportionate ownership of the total voting power in the election
of directors of the surviving corporation immediately after the
consolidation or merger, or (B) any sale, lease, exchange or other
transfer (in one transaction or a series of transactions) of all or
substantially all the assets of the Company;
(ii) any “person” (as
defined in Section 13(d) of the Act) other than the Company, its
Affiliates or an employee benefit plan or trust maintained by the
Company or its affiliates, becoming the “beneficial
owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Act), directly or
indirectly, of more than 20% of the Total Voting Power;
or
(iii) at any time during a period of two
consecutive years, individuals who at the beginning of such period
constituted the Board ceasing for any reason to constitute at least
a majority thereof, unless the election by the Company’s
shareholders of each new director during such two-year period was
approved by a vote of at least two-thirds of the directors then
still in office who were directors at the beginning of such
two-year period; provided, however, that no Change in Control shall
be deemed to occur unless circumstances and events that would
otherwise constitute a Change in Control occur prior to January 1,
2008.
(i) without the
Executive’s express written consent and excluding for this
purpose
an isolated,
insubstantial and inadvertent action not taken in bad faith and
which is remedied by the Company or its Affiliates promptly after
receipt of notice there of given by the Executive, (A) the
assignment to the Executive of any duties inconsistent with the
Executive’s position, duties or responsibilities as
contemplated by Section 3(a) hereof, or (B) any failure by the
Company to comply with any of the provisions of Section 3(b)
hereof;
(ii) without
the Executive’s express written consent, the Company’s
requiring the
Executive’s work location to be other than
as set forth in Section 3(a)(i);
(iii) any
failure by the Company to comply with and satisfy Section 9(a);
or
(iv) any breach by the Company of any other
material provision of this Agreement.
(f) “Incapacity”
means any physical or mental illness or disability of the Executive
which continues for a period of six consecutive months or more and
which at any time after such six-month period the Company shall
reasonably determine renders the Executive incapable of performing
his or her duties during the remainder of the Employment Period (as
defined below).
(g) “Operative
Date” means the date on which a Change in Control shall have
occurred.
SECTION
2. Employment Period . The Company
hereby agrees to continue the Executive in its employ, and the
Executive hereby agrees to remain in the employ of the Company
subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, for the
period commencing on the Operative Date and ending on the date
twelve months thereafter (the “Employment
Period”).
SECTION
3. Terms of Employment . (a)
Position and Duties . (i) During the Employment
Period: (A) the Executive’s position, duties and
responsibilities shall be at least commensurate in all material
respects with the most significant of those held, exercised and
assigned immediately prior to the Operative Date, and (B) the
Executive’s services shall be performed at the location at
which the Executive was based on the Operative Date and the Company
shall not require the Executive to travel on Company business to a
substantially greater extent than required immediately before the
Operative Date, except for travel and temporary assignments which
are reasonably required for the full discharge of the
Executive’s responsibilities and which are consistent with
the Executive’s being so based.
(ii) During the Employment Period, and excluding
any periods of vacation and sick leave to which the Executive is
entitled, the Executive agrees to devote reasonable attention and
time during normal business hours to the business and affairs of
the Company and, to the extent necessary to discharge the
responsibilities assigned to the Executive hereunder, to use the
Executive’s reasonable best efforts to perform faithfully and
efficiently such responsibilities.
(b)
Compensation . (i) Salary and Bonus
. During the Employment Period the Executive will
receive compensation at an annual rate equal to the sum of (A) a
salary (“Annual Base Salary”) not less than the
Executive’s annualized salary in effect immediately prior to
the Operative Date, plus (B) a bonus (“Annual Bonus”)
not less than the aggregate amount of the Executive’s highest
bonus award applicable under the Key Employees Incentive Plan
(“KEIP”), the Management Employees Incentive Plan
(“MEIP”), or any substitute or successor plan for the
last three calendar years preceding the Operative
Date. In determining the Annual Bonus, for any of the
last three calendar years preceding the Operative Date in which the
Executive did not participate in either the KEIP or the MEIP, the
Executive shall be deemed to have received a bonus amount equal to
the Executive’s target award under the Plan in which the
Executive is participating on the first day of the Employment
Period.
(ii) Welfare
Benefit Plans . While employed by the Company during
the Employment Period, the Executive and/or the Executive’s
family or beneficiary, as the case may be, shall be eligible to
participate in and shall receive all benefits under welfare benefit
programs generally applicable to full-time employees of the
Company.
(iii)
Business Expenses . During the Employment Period
the Company shall, in accordance with policies then in effect with
respect to the payment of expenses, pay or reimburse the Executive
for all reasonable out-of-pocket travel and other expenses (other
than ordinary commuting expenses) incurred by the Executive in
performing services hereunder. All such expenses shall
be accounted for in such reasonable detail as the Company may
require.
(iv)
Vacations . The Executive shall be entitled to
periods of vacation not less than those to which the Executive was
entitled immediately prior to the Operative Date.
SECTION
4. Termination of Employment .
(a)
Death or Incapacity . The Executive’s
employment shall terminate automatically upon the Executive’s
death during the Employment Period.&nb