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Exhibit
10.1
MORGAN
STANLEY
SELECT EMPLOYEES’
CAPITAL ACCUMULATION PROGRAM
PLAN
DOCUMENT
AMENDED AND RESTATED AS OF
MAY 7, 2008
This plan document sets forth
the terms and conditions of the Morgan Stanley Select
Employees’ Capital Accumulation Program (“
SECAP ”). The plan document was amended and
restated as of May 7, 2008. Capitalized terms used herein
without definition have the meanings set forth in Section 24
or the applicable Term Sheet. The terms and conditions set forth in
this plan document shall govern each Applicable Account Value,
unless otherwise determined by the Administrator and set forth in
the applicable Term Sheet.
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Purposes; SECAP Generally. |
SECAP provides Eligible
Employees with the opportunity to express a preference to allocate
all or a portion of their Eligible Compensation to the program
until a later date. Subject to the terms and conditions of SECAP
set forth herein, Eligible Employees may request how their
Allocated Amounts shall be deemed allocated among the Notional
Investments available to Eligible Employees for purposes of
measuring the increase or decrease in the value of their Account.
Participation in SECAP is voluntary.
(a) Authority . SECAP
is sponsored by Morgan Stanley. The Chief Administrative Officer is
responsible for administering SECAP, including, without limitation,
adopting rules and procedures for determining Notional Investments
offered, determining the terms and conditions of SECAP for each
Allocation Year and interpreting SECAP provisions and any
Descriptive Materials. The Chief Administrative Officer may, in his
sole discretion, delegate some or all of his authority and
responsibilities pursuant to SECAP to the Executive Compensation
Department, a committee of the Firm and/or one or more officers of
the Firm. The Chief Administrative Officer and (to the extent that
the Chief Administrative Officer has delegated authority to
administer all or any portion of SECAP to the Executive
Compensation Department or any committee or officer), the Executive
Compensation Department or such committee or officer, are referred
to herein, insofar as they are acting pursuant to authority granted
or delegated pursuant to SECAP, as the “
Administrator ”. Each interpretation,
determination or other action made or taken pursuant to SECAP by
the Administrator from time to time shall be made or taken in its
sole discretion and shall be final, binding and conclusive on all
persons.
(b) No Liability . The
Administrator shall not be liable for anything whatsoever in
connection with the administration of SECAP, including, without
limitation, any interpretation, determination or other action taken
or not taken in administering SECAP, except the
Administrator’s own willful misconduct. In the performance of
its functions with respect to SECAP, the Administrator shall be
entitled to rely upon information and advice furnished by the
Firm’s officers, the Firm’s accountants, the
Firm’s counsel and any other party the Administrator deems
necessary, and the Administrator shall not be liable for any
interpretation, determination or other action taken or not taken in
reliance upon any such advice.
SECAP is maintained by Morgan
Stanley for the purpose of providing long-term compensation for a
select group of management or highly compensated employees, and a
Participant’s participation in SECAP in respect of any
Allocation Year shall depend, among other things, on the
Administrator’s determination, in its sole discretion, that
the Participant is a member of such select group. The eligibility
to participate in SECAP shall depend upon a Participant’s
satisfaction of the specified eligibility criteria for the
applicable Allocation Year to be established by the Administrator
in its sole discretion and set forth in the applicable Term
Sheet.
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Allocation Preference. |
For each Allocation Year,
Eligible Employees may submit an Allocation Preference with respect
to their Eligible Compensation in a manner prescribed by the
Administrator. The Administrator may set minimum and maximum
Allocated Amounts and the minimum dollar or percentage increments
of Eligible Compensation that may be allocated for each Allocation
Year. Allocation Preferences shall be made by a date specified by
the Administrator. An Eligible Employee may revoke an Allocation
Preference in a manner prescribed by the Administrator prior to the
applicable deadline. Following the expiration of the applicable
deadline, a Participant’s Allocation Preference is
irrevocable. If a Participant’s actual Eligible Compensation
is less than the amount the Participant requested to allocate to
SECAP pursuant to the Participant’s Allocation Preference,
then the amount the Participant requested to allocate shall be
reduced so that the Participant’s Allocated Amount equals the
amount of the Participant’s Eligible Compensation for that
Fiscal Year.
The Administrator may revoke
a Participant’s Allocation Preference or reduce a
Participant’s Allocated Amount below the amount a Participant
requested to allocate in any Allocation Year, provided that any
such revocation or reduction shall be made by the Allocation
Preference deadline applicable to the Participant unless making
such revocation or reduction at a later time would not result in
the imposition of interest or additional tax under
Section 409A.
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(a) Credits and Charges to
a Participant’s Account . A Participant’s Allocated
Amount shall be credited to the Participant’s Account as of a
date determined by the Administrator, which crediting date shall
occur on, or as soon as administratively practicable after, the
date on which such amount would otherwise have been paid to the
Participant. A Participant’s Account shall also be credited
(or debited) with returns on the Participant’s Notional
Investments following the date on which the Participant’s
Allocated Amounts are credited. A Participant’s Account shall
be charged with any amounts distributed to the Participant or any
of the Participant’s Beneficiaries. All payments shall be
debited from the portion of the Participant’s Account deemed
allocated to Notional Investment(s) designated by the Administrator
as set forth in Section 6(f).
(b) Allocation of Notional
Investments . A Participant’s Account Value shall be
deemed allocated in minimum allocations established by the
Administrator from time to time among one or more Notional
Investments. A Participant may request (i) how their Allocated
Amounts shall be deemed allocated among the Notional Investments
and (ii) that the Administrator change the deemed allocation
of the Account Value among the Notional Investments, in each case,
in accordance with procedures and at such times as established by
the Administrator from time to time; provided ,
however , that the Administrator has absolute discretion as
to whether to accept, either in whole or in part, the request and
may determine, and may change from time to time: (a) the
frequency of reallocations; (b) the minimum percentage of the
Account Value that is required, and the maximum percentage of the
Account Value that is permitted, to be allocated to any single
Notional Investment; (c) the minimum percentage of the Account
Value that is required to be allocated to one or more money market
fund(s) or other Referenced Funds (defined below) available as
Notional Investments; and (d) the Notional Investments
available to Participants in accordance with Section 5(e). No
reallocation that a Participant requests shall be honored to the
extent that it would conflict with the allocation requirements that
the Administrator may establish from time to time.
(c) Allocations
Generally . Allocations among Notional Investments will be made
exclusively for the purpose of determining a Participant’s
Account Value from time to time in accordance with SECAP. A
Participant’s Account Value will not be invested in the
fund(s) or other investment vehicle(s) to which that Notional
Investment relates (each, a “ Referenced Fund
”). Participants will not become direct investors in any of
the Referenced Funds by virtue of their participation in
SECAP.
(d) Determination of
Account Value . The Administrator shall from time to time
calculate each Participant’s Account Value based on the
Participant’s Allocated Amounts and the deemed allocation of
the Participant’s Account among the Notional Investments
available to the Participant. Such calculation will be based on the
best information available to the Administrator as of the date of
determination, which information may include estimates. Subject to
the terms and conditions of SECAP, the rate of return of any
Notional Investment over the relevant measurement period will track
the performance of the Referenced Funds, provided that the Firm can
adjust the rate of return to reflect costs incurred by the Firm as
described in Section 5(g). Following the
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commencement of distribution of a
Participant’s Account Value to the Participant, the
Administrator shall continue to calculate the Participant’s
Account Value from time to time in the manner described above,
taking into account distributions from the Participant’s
Account. The Firm’s valuation of a Participant’s
Account Value shall be conclusive and binding.
(e) Selection of Notional
Investments; Conflicts of Interest .
(i) The Administrator shall
choose the Notional Investments available under SECAP. Notional
Investments available from time to time will be indicated on the
Executive Compensation website or through other means that the
Administrator shall determine and communicate to Participants from
time to time. The Firm may provide a Participant with a description
of the Referenced Funds and their historical returns, but the Firm
is not responsible for actions, statements or performance of the
Referenced Funds.
(ii) The Administrator will
choose the Notional Investments available under SECAP based on a
variety of factors. Participants should be aware of the existence
of actual and potential conflicts of interest with the Firm and are
considered to waive any claim with respect to the existence of any
conflict of interest. The Administrator may require each
Participant to affirmatively make such acknowledgment and
waiver.
(iii) The performance of each
Notional Investment shall reflect all of the fees and costs of the
Referenced Fund, including, without limitation, brokerage and other
fees, which the Referenced Fund may pay to the Firm if the Firm
provides such services to the Referenced Fund. The Firm may also
act as the investment advisor or provide other services to the
Referenced Fund and receive fees for providing these services. Fees
paid by a Referenced Fund will reduce the performance of the
Referenced Fund (and accordingly the performance of the Notional
Investment) and, therefore, will reduce the Firm’s payout
obligations to Participants.
(f) Right to Change
Notional Investments and Allocations Thereto . The
Administrator may, from time to time in its sole discretion, change
the Notional Investments available to Participants or allocate a
Participant’s Account to different Notional Investments than
those selected by the Participant. Among other things, this means
that the Firm has the absolute right to replace a
Participant’s Notional Investments (including in connection
with hedge funds, hedge fund indices and other alternative
Referenced Funds offered as Notional Investments under SECAP) with
different Notional Investments and in connection therewith impose
additional costs and investment conditions and restrictions on the
Notional Investments (including restrictions on a
Participant’s ability to allocate into, or reallocate away
from, a Notional Investment). Nothing in the Descriptive Materials
shall be construed to confer on a Participant the right to continue
to have any particular Notional Investment option available for
purposes of measuring the value of the Participant’s
Account.
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(g) Amounts at Risk .
The value of a Participant’s Account is subject to risk at
all times based upon the performance of the Notional Investments to
which the Participant’s Account is allocated. If the value of
the Referenced Funds offered as Notional Investments decreases in
the future, the value of the Participant’s Account may be
lower than the Participant’s original Allocated Amounts.
Although a Participant will not be an investor in the Referenced
Funds corresponding to the allocated Notional Investments, the
value of a Participant’s Account will be determined by
reference to the gains and losses attributable to the performance
of the allocated Notional Investments. To the extent that the Firm
incurs any costs in connection with such Notional Investments or
the administration of SECAP, including in connection with
activities the Firm undertakes in its discretion to target the
return and liquidity on such Notional Investments, the Firm has the
right to adjust the return on a Participant’s Notional
Investments to reflect these costs. Participants will be subject to
the risks of the Referenced Funds corresponding to Notional
Investments to the same extent as actual investors in such
Referenced Funds. The Firm may provide Participants with a
description of the Referenced Funds corresponding to Notional
Investments and those Referenced Funds’ historical returns,
but the Firm is not responsible for actions, statements or
performance of the Referenced Funds corresponding to Notional
Investments. Payment of the Participant’s Account is also
subject to the risks associated with the Participant’s status
as an unsecured general creditor of Morgan Stanley as described in
Section 9.
(h) Administration
Fees . Allocated Amounts may be subject to a one-time set-up
fee and Account Values may be subject to a quarterly administration
fee (collectively, the “ Administration Fees
”) as determined by the Administrator from time to time and
communicated to Participants. The Administration Fees are separate
from any fees applicable to the Notional Investments and the
related Referenced Funds, which are reflected in the net returns
credited to a Participant’s Account. Without limiting the
generality of the two preceding sentences, in connection with hedge
funds, hedge fund indices and other alternative Notional
Investments offered under SECAP, to the extent that offering such
Notional Investments through SECAP results in unpredictable
expenses or costs to the Firm, the Firm has the absolute right to
impose additional fees on a Participant’s Account
Value.
(i) Other Allocations
. If a Participant becomes eligible to participate in SECAP or a
program similar to SECAP for any subsequent Fiscal Year, or if a
Participant has already allocated amounts pursuant to another
long-term compensation plan, the Firm may, for administrative
convenience, maintain a single Account to record allocations by the
Participant (and amounts credited or debited to such allocations)
under SECAP and any similar programs for other Fiscal Years. The
portion of a Participant’s Account corresponding to each
Fiscal Year’s Allocated Amount shall be governed by the terms
and conditions applicable to each such Fiscal Year’s
Allocated Amount.
(a) Form of Payment .
Unless the Administrator determines otherwise in its sole
discretion, all payments under SECAP to a Participant (or a
Participant’s
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Beneficiary) shall be made in the
Participant’s (or Beneficiary’s) local currency.
Participants shall have no right to any other form of
payment.
(b) Distribution
Commencement Date .
(i) At the time a Participant
submits an Allocation Preference, the Participant must also select
a Preferred Distribution Commencement Date. A Participant will be
required to select a separate Preferred Distribution Commencement
Date governing the Applicable Account Value for each Fiscal Year in
which the Participant participates in SECAP. Except as otherwise
provided in this Section 6, distributions in respect of the
Applicable Account Value shall commence on the Distribution
Commencement Date. Notwithstanding a Distribution Commencement
Date, if, on any date on which the Firm would otherwise make a
distribution to the Participant, the Firm considers the Participant
to be one of its executive officers and the Participant’s
compensation may not be fully deductible by virtue of
Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code, the following
shall apply:
(1) Distributions in respect
of the Participant’s Applicable Account Value corresponding
to an Allocation Year prior to 2005 will be delayed until the Firm
no longer considers the Participant to be an executive officer or
such earlier date as the Firm may determine, in its sole
discretion, an earlier payment is likely to be deductible to the
Firm; and
(2) Subject to
Section 6(h) below, distributions in respect of the
Participant’s Applicable Account Value corresponding to the
Allocation Year 2005 and any subsequent Allocation Year shall be
delayed until the Participant’s termination of employment
with the Firm.
(ii) Subject to
Section 6(b) and 6(h) and notwithstanding any Distribution
Commencement Date, in no event shall distributions in respect of a
Participant’s Applicable Account Value commence earlier than
the applicable Vesting Date or later than:
(1) For Applicable Account
Values corresponding to Allocation Years prior to 2005, the later
of (A) January 2 of the year following the year in which
the Participant turns 65 and (B) January 2 of the year
following the year in which the Participant’s employment with
the Firm terminates;
(2) For Applicable Account
Values corresponding to Allocation Year 2005 and
2006, January 2 of the year following the year in which
the Participant turns 65; and
(3) For Applicable Account
Values corresponding to Allocation Year 2007 and later Allocation
Years, the date specified in the applicable Term Sheet as the last
date on which distributions of the Participant’s Applicable
Account Value may commence.
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(c) Payment Options .
Subject to the other terms and conditions of SECAP, at the time a
Participant submits an Allocation Preference the Participant will
also select a Preferred Distribution Method for the Applicable
Account Value. Participants may select a Preferred Distribution
Method of either one lump sum or two to ten annual
installments.
(d) Payment of
Installments . If the Distribution Method for the Applicable
Account Value is annual installments, the undistributed portion of
the Applicable Account Value shall remain in the
Participant’s Account following payment of each installment
and will be credited (or debited) with future returns from the
Notional Investments to which the Participant’s Applicable
Account Value is allocated. As a result, the amount of each
installment payment may vary, depending on the future rate of
return applied to the Participant’s Account. The amount of
each annual installment shall equal “(1/A) x B”, where
“A” equal
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