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OSI RESTAURANT PARTNERS, LLC HCE DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN

Employee Benefits Plan Agreement

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Title: OSI RESTAURANT PARTNERS, LLC HCE DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
Governing Law: Florida     Date: 3/31/2009
Industry: Restaurants     Sector: Services

OSI RESTAURANT PARTNERS, LLC HCE DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN, Parties: osi restaurant partners  llc
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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.

 

1.8  

       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


 
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