Exhibit 10.35
OSI RESTAURANT PARTNERS,
LLC
HCE DEFERRED COMPENSATION
PLAN
OSI Restaurant Partners, LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company, on behalf of itself and its Subsidiaries (the
"Company"), hereby establishes this HCE Deferred Compensation Plan
(the "Plan"), effective October 1, 2007, for the purpose of
attracting, retaining and rewarding high quality executives and
promoting in its key executives increased efficiency and an
interest in the successful operation of the Company. The benefits
provided under the Plan shall be provided in consideration for
services to be performed after the effective date of the Plan, but
prior to the executive's retirement. The Plan is intended and shall
be interpreted to comply in all respects with Internal Revenue Code
("Code") Section 409A and those provisions of the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"),
applicable to an unfunded plan maintained primarily to provide
deferred compensation benefits for a select group of "management or
highly compensated employees."
ARTICLE 1
Definitions
1.1
Account(s)
shall mean the bookkeeping account or accounts established for a
particular Participant pursuant to Article 3 of the
Plan.
1.2
Administrator shall mean the person or persons appointed by
the Company to administer the Plan pursuant to Article 8 of the
Plan.
1.3
Base Salary shall mean the Participant's base annual salary
excluding incentive and discretionary bonuses and other non-regular
forms of compensation, before reductions for contributions to or
deferrals under any pension, deferred compensation or benefit plans
sponsored by the Company.
1.4
Beneficiary shall mean the person or entity designated as
such in accordance with Article 7 of the Plan.
1.5
Bonus shall mean any amount paid to the Participant by the
Company in the form of a discretionary or incentive compensation or
any other bonus designated by the Administrator before reductions
for contributions to or deferrals under any pension, deferred
compensation or benefit plans sponsored by the Company.
1.6
Code shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, , as
amended, and Treasury regulations and applicable authorities
promulgated thereunder.
1.7
Company shall mean OSI Restaurant Partners, LLC acting on
behalf of itself and designated Subsidiaries. Any action required
by the Company under the terms of the Plan may be taken by the
Administrator or such other person(s) or entity(ies) duly
authorized by OSI Restaurant Partners, LLC to act on its
behalf.
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Company
Contribution(s) shall mean the contributions by the Company to
a Participant's Account pursuant to Article 2 of the
Plan.
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1.9
Company Contribution Account shall mean an Account
established for a Company Contribution pursuant to Section
3.1.
1.10
Crediting Rate shall mean the notional gains and
losses credited on the Participant's Account balance pursuant to
Section 3.3 of the Plan.
1.11
Disabled, or Disability shall mean, consistent with the
requirements of Code Section 409A, that the Participant (i) is
unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of
any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can
be expected to result in death or can be expected to last for a
continuous period of not less than 12 months, or (ii) is, by reason
of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which
can be expected to result in death or can be expected to last for a
continuous period of not less than 12 months, receiving income
replacement benefits for a period of not less than three months
under an accident and health plan covering employees of the
Participant's employer. The Administrator may require that the
Participant submit evidence of such qualification for disability
benefits in order to determine Disability under this
Plan.
1.12
Eligible Employee shall mean a key management level or
highly compensated employee of the Company who is designated by the
Administrator to be eligible to participate in the Plan.
1.13
ERISA shall mean the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974, as amended, including Department of Labor and
Treasury regulations and applicable authorities promulgated
thereunder.
1.14
Participant shall mean an Eligible Employee who has elected
to participate and has executed a Participation Election Form
pursuant to Article 2 of the Plan.
1.15
Participation Election Farm shall mean the written agreement
to make a deferral submitted by the Participant to the
Administrator on a timely basis pursuant to Article 2 of the Plan.
The Participant Election Form may take the form of an electronic
communication followed by appropriate written confirmation
according to specifications established by the
Administrator.
1.16
Plan Year shall mean the calendar year
1.17
Retirement
Account shall mean an Account established pursuant to Section
3.1 which is scheduled to commence on Termination of
Employment.
1.18
Scheduled Distribution shall mean a distribution elected by
the Participant pursuant to Article 4 of the Plan.
1.19
Scheduled Distribution Account shall mean an Account
established pursuant to Sections 3.2 which is scheduled to commence
distribution an a scheduled date elected under Section
4.1.
1.20
Settlement Date shall mean the date by which a lump sum
payment shall be made or the date by which installment payments
shall commence. Unless otherwise specified, the
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Settlement Date
shall be the later of (i) January of the Plan Year following the
Plan year in which the event triggering payout occurs or (ii)
ninety (90) days following Termination of Employment. If the
event triggering payout is death, the Administrator shall be
provided with the documentation reasonably necessary to establish
the fact of the Participant's death. Notwithstanding the foregoing
or any other provision of the Plan, in the event that at the time
of payout any stock of the Company is publicly traded on an
established securities market and the Participant is a "key
employee" (as defined in Code Section 416(i) (without regard to
paragraph (5) thereof) of the Company, the Settlement Date
following a Termination of Employment shall be no earlier than the
earlier of (i) the last day of the sixth (6th) complete calendar
month following the Participant's Termination of Employment, or
(ii) the Participant's death, consistent with the provisions of
Code Section 409A. Any payments delayed by reason of the preceding
sentence shall be caught up and paid in a single lump sum on the
first day such payment is permissible consistent with the
provisions of Code Section 409A.
1.21
Subsidiaries shall mean a majority owned subsidiaries or
other entities in which OSI Restaurant Partners, LLC. or any of its
majority owned subsidiaries owns a majority partnership or other
equity interest or serves as general partner, as may from time to
time be designated as participating employers in the Plan by the
Administrator and on behalf of which OSI Restaurant Partners, LLP.
and the Administrator shall act as agents for purposes of adoption,
amendment and administration of the Plan and all associated matters
or documentation.
1.22
Termination of Employment shall mean, with
respect to a given Participant, the date when, for any reason,
including by reason of Retirement, death or Disability, the level
of services provided by such Participant to the Company (or any
affiliate under common ownership aggregated with the Company for
purposes of Code Section 409A) in any capacity has permanently
decreased to a level equal to no more than 20 percent of the
average level of services performed by such Participant for the
Company during the immediately preceding 36-month period (or the
Participant's full period of services to the Company if a lesser
period).
1.23
Unforeseeable Emergency shall mean a severe financial
hardship to the Participant resulting from an illness or accident
involving the Participant, the Participant's spouse, or the
Participant's dependent (as defined in Code Section 152 (a)), loss
of the Participant's property due to casualty, or other similar
extraordinary and unforeseeable circumstance arising as a result of
events beyond the control of the Participant (but shall in all
events correspond to the meaning of the term "unforeseeable
emergency" in Code Section 409A).
1.24
Valuation Date shall mean either (i) the date through which
earnings are credited or (ii) the date on which the value of an
Account balance is established, and shall be as close to the payout
or other event triggering valuation as is administratively
feasible; provided, however, that in no event shall the Valuation
Date occur earlier than the last day of the month preceding the
month in which the payout or other event triggering valuation
occurs.
1.25
Years of Participation shall mean the cumulative consecutive
Plan Years the Participant has participated in the Plan, beginning
with the first complete Plan Year coinciding with or beginning
after the Participant's election to participate in the Plan. A
Participant shall be considered a Participant in the Plan for
purposes of accumulating Years of Participation at all
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1.26
Years of Service shall mean the cumulative consecutive years
of continuous full-time employment with the Company, beginning on
the first day of the calendar year in which the Participant first
began service with the Company and counting each anniversary
thereof.
ARTICLE 2
Participation
2.1
Elective Deferral . Each year a Participant may elect to
defer any whole percentage between five percent (5%) and ninety
percent (90%) of Base Salary and/or any whole percentage between
five percent (5%) and one hundred percent (100%) of Bonus or in
excess of a specified dollar amount of Bonus earned by the
Participant for the applicable Plan Year. The Administrator may
further limit the minimum or maximum amount deferred by an
Participant or group of Participants, or waive the foregoing limits
for any Participant or group of Participants, for any
reason.
2.2
Participation Election Form . In order to make a deferral,
an Eligible Executive must submit a Participation Election Form to
the Administrator during the enrollment period established by the
Administrator prior to the beginning of the Plan Year during which
the services are performed for which such Base Salary or Bonus are
earned. Notwithstanding the foregoing, within 30 days after an
Eligible Executive first becomes eligible to participate in the
Plan (if the Eligible Executive is not already participating in any
Company sponsored deferral arrangement which is aggregated with
this Plan for purposes of Code Section 409A) the Administrator may
establish a special enrollment period for such Eligible Executive
to allow deferrals of Base Salary or Bonus attributable to services
performed during the balance of such Plan Year. Each Participant
shall be required to submit a new Participant Election Form on a
timely basis each Plan Year in order to make a deferral election
for such subsequent Plan Year. An election to defer Base Salary or
Bonus shall be irrevocable upon termination of the enrollment
period except as provided in Section 5.6 in the event the
Participant becomes Disabled or Section 5.5 in the case of an
Unforeseeable Emergency.
2.3
Elections Regarding Time and Form of Payout . At the time
that a Participant makes a deferral election with respect to a Plan
Year, the Participant shall also designate the time and form that
such deferral shall be distributed (together with any discretionary
Company Contributions made for such Plan Year pursuant to Section
2.4 and all notional earnings on the deferral and any Company
Contributions). All elections must provide for distribution to be
made at a time and in a form that is consistent with the
distribution options made available under the Plan. Except as
expressly provided herein, an election with respect to the time and
form of benefit payouts may not be changed, nor may any
distribution be accelerated. A subsequent election that delays
payment or changes the form of payment is permitted only if
all of the following requirements are met:
(1)
the new election does not take effect until at least twelve
(12) months after the date on which the new election is
made;
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(3) in
the case of payments made according to a Scheduled
Distribution, the new election is not made less than
twelve (12) months before the date on which payment would have been
made (or, in the case of installment payments, the first
installment payment would have been made) absent the new
election.
Election
changes made pursuant to this Section shall be made on written
forms provided by the Administrator, and in accordance with rules
established by the Administrator and shall comply with all
requirement of Code Section 409A and applicable Treasury
Regulations.
2.4
Company Contributions . From time to time, the Company may
make a discretionary Company Contribution to the Plan on behalf of
an Eligible Employee or existing Participant. Company Contributions
shall be made in the complete and sole discretion of the Company.
Company Contributions shall be notional credits to the Accounts of
Participants, with the amount actually credited to the Account
being net of all employment taxes required to be withheld on the
Company Contribution, as conclusively determined by the
Administrator. Company Contributions shall vest at the time or
according to the schedule specified by the Administrator at the
time the contributions is made. No Participant or other employee of
the Company shall have a right to receive a Company Contribution in
any particular year or in any particular amount based on the fact
that Company Contributions are made at such time or in such amount
on behalf of another Participant.
ARTICLE 3
Accounts
3.1
Participant Accounts . A separate Retirement Account or
Scheduled Distribution Account shall be maintained for each Plan
Year for which a Participant has made a deferral election pursuant
to this Plan, and shall be credited with the Participant's
deferrals directed by the Participant to such Account at the time
such amounts would otherwise have been paid to the Participant. A
separate Account shall be maintained for each Company Contribution
made on behalf of each Participant and shall be credited with the
Company Contribution at the time specified by the Administrator.
Accounts shall be deemed to be credited with notional gains or
losses as provided in Section 3.3 from the date the deferral or the
Company Contribution is credited to an Account through the
Valuation Date.
3.2
Vesting of Accounts . All voluntary deferrals and notional
earnings thereon credited to a Participant's Accounts shall be
fully vested at all times. Company Contributions and earnings
thereon shall vest as specified by the Administrator at the time
the Company Contributions is made.
3.3
Crediting Rate . The Crediting Rate on amounts in a
Participant's Account shall be based on the Participant's choice
among the investment alternatives made available from time to time
by the Administrator. The Administrator shall establish a procedure
by which a
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Participant may
elect to have the Crediting Rate based on one or more investment
alternatives and by which the Participant may change investment
elections daily and may rebalance Account investments monthly.
Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, the Administrator may
impose the following restrictions on changing investment elections
daily and/or rebalancing Account investments monthly: (i) in the
case of any investment alternative that guarantees a fixed interest
return, limitations on the ability to transfer out of such
investment alternative and nonrecognition of that investment
alternative in im