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SKECHERS U.S.A., INC.
2008 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
Skechers U.S.A., Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), hereby adopts the Skechers U.S.A., Inc. 2008 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “ Plan ”), effective as of the Effective Date (as defined herein).
| 1. | Purpose . The purposes of the Plan are as follows: |
(a) To assist employees of the Company and its Designated Subsidiaries (as defined below) in acquiring a stock ownership interest in the Company pursuant to a plan which is intended to qualify as an “employee stock purchase plan” within the meaning of Section 423(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
(b) To help employees provide for their future security and to encourage them to remain in the employment of the Company and its Designated Subsidiaries.
| 2. | Definitions . |
(a) “ Administrator ” shall mean the administrator of the Plan, as determined pursuant to Section 14 hereof.
(b) “ Board ” shall mean the Board of Directors of the Company.
(c) “ Code ” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
(d) “ Committee ” shall mean the committee appointed to administer the Plan pursuant to Section 14 hereof.
(e) “ Common Stock ” shall mean the Class A Common Stock of the Company, $0.001 par value per share, and such other securities that may be substituted for Common Stock pursuant to Section 19 hereof.
(f) “ Company ” shall mean Skechers U.S.A., Inc., a Delaware corporation, or any successor thereto.
(g) “ Compensation ” shall mean all base straight time gross earnings including commissions, payments for overtime, incentive payments and performance bonuses.
(h) “ Designated Subsidiary ” shall mean any Subsidiary which has been designated by the Administrator from time to time in its sole discretion as eligible to participate in the Plan. The Administrator may designate, or terminate the designation of, a subsidiary as a Designated Subsidiary without the approval of the stockholders of the Company.
(i) “ Effective Date ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 23.
(j) “ Eligible Employee ” shall mean an Employee of the Company or a Designated Subsidiary: (i) who does not, immediately after the option is granted, own stock possessing five percent (5%) or more of the total combined voting power or value of all classes of stock of the Company, a Parent or a Subsidiary (as determined under Section 423(b)(3) of the Code); and (ii) whose customary employment is for more than five (5) months in any calendar year. For purposes of clause (i), the rules of Section 424(d) of the Code with regard to the attribution of stock ownership shall apply in determining the stock ownership of an individual, and stock which an Employee may purchase under outstanding options shall be treated as stock owned by the Employee. For purposes of the Plan, the employment relationship shall be treated as continuing intact while the individual is on sick leave or other leave of absence approved by the Company or Designated Subsidiary and meeting the requirements of Treasury Regulation Section 1.421-7(h)(2). Where the period of leave exceeds ninety (90) days and the individual’s right to reemployment is not guaranteed either by statute or by contract, the employment relationship shall be deemed to have terminated on the ninety-first (91 st ) day of such leave.
(k) “ Employee ” shall mean any person who renders services to the Company or a Subsidiary in the status of an employee within the meaning of Code Section 3401(c). “Employee” shall not include any director of the Company or a Subsidiary who does not render services to the Company or a Subsidiary in the status of an employee within the meaning of Code Section 3401(c).
(l) “ Enrollment Date ” shall mean the first Trading Day of each Offering Period.
(m) “ Exercise Date ” shall mean the last Trading Day of each Purchase Period.
(n) “ Fair Market Value ” shall mean, as of any date, the value of Common Stock determined as follows:
(i) If the Common Stock is traded on an exchange, its Fair Market Value shall be the closing sales price for a share of Common Stock as reported in The Wall Street Journal (or such other source as the Administrator may deem reliable for such purposes) for such date, or if no sale occurred on such date, the first trading date immediately prior to such date during which a sale occurred;
(ii) If the Common Stock is not traded on an exchange but is quoted on a quotation system, its Fair Market Value shall be the mean between the closing representative bid and asked prices for the Common Stock on such date, or if no sale occurred on such date, the first date immediately prior to such date on which sales prices or bid and asked prices, as applicable, are reported by such quotation system; or
(iii) In the absence of an established market for the Common Stock, the Fair Market Value thereof shall be determined in good faith by the Administrator.
(o) “ Offering Period ” shall mean each period of approximately six (6) months commencing on any January 1 or July 1 and terminating on the last Trading Day on or before the next occurring June 30 or December 31, as applicable. The first Offering Period under the Plan shall commence on January 1, 2008 and end on the last Trading Day on or before June 30, 2008. The duration and timing of Offering Periods may be changed pursuant to Section 4 of this Plan, but in no event may an Offering Period have a duration in excess of twenty-seven (27) months.
(p) “ Parent ” means any corporation, other than the Company, in an unbroken chain of corporations ending with the Company if, at the time of the determination, each of the corporations other than the Company owns stock possessing 50% or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock in one of the other corporations in such chain.
(q) “ Per Period Limit ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7.
(r) “ Plan ” shall mean this Skechers U.S.A., Inc. 2008 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
(s) “ Purchase Period ” shall mean the approximately six (6) month period commencing on each Enrollment Date and ending with the next Exercise Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the first Purchase Period with respect to the initial Offering Period under the Plan shall commence on January 1, 2008 (or if such day is not a Trading Day, then on the first Trading Day thereafter) and end on the last Trading Day on or before June 30, 2008. Unless and until changed by the Administrator, each Purchase Period shall be for approximately the same six month interval as the corresponding Offering Period.
(t) “ Purchase Price ” shall mean 85% of the Fair Market Value of a share of Common Stock on the Enrollment Date or on the Exercise Date, whichever is lower; provided , however , that the Purchase Price may be adjusted by the Administrator pursuant to Section 19 hereof; provided , further , that the Purchase Price shall not be less than the par value of a share of Common Stock.
(u) “ Subsidiary ” shall mean any corporation, other than the Company, in an unbroken chain of corporations beginning with the Company if, at the time of the determination, each of the corporations other than the last corporation in an unbroken chain owns stock possessing 50% or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock in one of the other corporations in such chain.
(v) “ Trading Day ” shall mean a day on which national stock exchanges are open for trading.
3. Eligibility .
(a) Any Eligible Employee who shall be employed by the Company or a Designated Subsidiary on a given Enrollment Date for an Offering Period shall be eligible to participate in the Plan during such Offering Period, subject to the requirements of Section 5 hereof and the limitations imposed by Section 423(b) of the Code.
(b) Each person who, during the course of an Offering Period, first becomes an Eligible Employee subsequent to the Enrollment Date will be eligible to become a participant in the Plan on the first day of the first Purchase Period following the day on which such person becomes an Eligible Employee, subject to the requirements of Section 5 hereof and the limitations imposed by Section 423(b) of the Code.
(c) No Eligible Employee shall be granted an option under the Plan which permits his or her rights to purchase Common Stock under the Plan, and to purchase stock under all other employee stock purchase plans of the Company, any Parent or any Subsidiary subject to Section 423 of the Code, to accrue at a rate which exceeds $25,000 of fair market value of such stock (determined at the time the option is granted) for each calendar year in which the option is outstanding at any time. For purposes of the limitation imposed by this subsection, the right to purchase stock under an option accrues when the option (or any portion thereof) first becomes exercisable during the calendar year, the right to purchase stock under an option accrues at the rate provided in the option, but in no case may such rate exceed $25,000 of fair market value of such stock (determined at the time such option is granted) for any one calendar year, and a right to purchase stock which has accrued under an option may not be carried over to any option. This limitation shall be applied in accordance with Section 423(b)(8) of the Code and the Treasury Regulations thereunder.
4. Offering Periods . The Plan shall be implemented by consecutive Offering Periods which shall continue until the Plan expires or is terminated in accordance with Section 20 hereof. The Administrator shall have the power to change the duration of Offering Periods (including the commencement dates thereof) with respect to future offerings without stockholder approval if such change is announced at least five (5) days prior to the scheduled beginning of the first Offering Period to be affected thereafter.
5. Participation .
(a) An Eligible Employee may become a participant in the Plan for any Offering Period by completing a subscription agreement authorizing payroll deductions in a form acceptable to the Administrator and filing it with the Company’s payroll office fifteen (15) days (or such shorter or longer period as may be determined by the Administrator, in its sole discretion) prior to the applicable Enrollment Date.
(c) Each person who, during the course of an Offering Period, first becomes an Eligible Employee subsequent to the Enrollment Date may become a participant in the Plan for any subsequent Offering Period by completing a subscription agreement authorizing payroll deductions in a form acceptable to the Administrator and filing it with the Company’s payroll office fifteen (15) days (or such shorter or longer period as may be determined by the Administrator, in its sole discretion) prior to the Enrollment Date for the subsequent Offering Period with respect to which such Eligible Employee’s participation is to commence. The rights granted to such participant shall have the same characteristics as any rights originally granted during that Offering Period except that the first day of the Purchase Period in which such person initially participates in the Plan shall be the “Enrollment Date” for all purposes for such person, including determination of the Purchase Price.
(d) Payroll deductions for a participant shall commence on the first payroll following the Enrollment Date and shall end on the last payroll in the Offering Period to which such authorization is applicable, unless sooner terminated by the participant as provided in Section 10 hereof.
(e) During a leave of absence approved by the Company or a Subsidiary and meeting the requirements of Treasury Regulation Section 1.421-7(h)(2), a participant may continue to participate in the Plan by making cash payments to the Company on each pay day equal to the amount of the participant’s payroll deductions under the Plan for the pay day immediately preceding the first day of such participant’s leave of absence. If a leave of absence is unapproved or fails to meet the requirements of Treasury Regulation Section 1.421-7(h)(2), the participant will cease automatically to participate in the Plan. In such event, the Company will automatically cease to deduct the participant’s payroll under the Plan. The Company will pay to the participant his or her total payroll deductions for the Purchase Period, in cash in one lump sum (without interest), as soon as practicable after the participant ceases to participate in the Plan.
(f) A participant’s completion of a subscription agreement will enroll such participant in the Plan for each successive Purchase Period and each subsequent Offering Period on the terms contained therein until the participant either submits a new subscription agreement, withdraws from participation under the Plan as provided in Section 10 hereof or otherwise becomes ineligible to participate in the Plan.
(g) The subscription agreement(s) used in connection with the Plan shall be in a form prescribed by the Administrator, and the Administrator may, in its sole discretion, determine whether such agreement shall be submitted in written or electronic form.
6. Payroll Deductions .
(a) At the time a participant files his or her subscription agreement, he or she shall elect to have payroll deductions made on each pay day during the Offering Period in an amount from one percent (1%) to fifteen percent (15%) of the Compensation which he or she receives on each pay day during the Offering Period.
(b) All payroll deductions made for a participant shall be credited to his or her account under the Plan and shall be withheld in whole percentages only. A participant may not make any additional payments into such account.
(c) A participant may discontinue his or her participation in the Plan as provided in Section 10 hereof, or may increase or decrease the rate of his or her payroll deductions during the Offering Period by completing or filing with the Company a new subscription agreement authorizing a change in payroll deduction rate. The Administrator may, in its discretion, limit the number of participation rate changes during any Offering Period. The change in rate shall be effective with the first full payroll period following five (5) business days after the Company’s receipt of the new subscription agreement (or such shorter or longer period as may be determined by the Administrator, in its sole discretion).
(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent necessary to comply with Section 423(b)(8) of the Code and Section 3(c) hereof, a participant’s payroll deductions may be decreased to zero percent (0%) at any time during a Purchase Period.
(e) At the time the option is exercised, in whole or in part, or at the time some or all of the Company’s Common Stock issued under the Plan is disposed of, the participant must make adequate provision for the Company’s federal, state, or other tax withholding obligations, if any, which arise upon the exercise of the option or the disposition of the Common Stock. At any time, the Company may, but shall not be obligated to, withhold from the participant’s compensation the amount necessary for the Company to meet applicable withholding obligations, including any withholding required to make available to the Company any tax deductions or benefits attributable to the sale or early disposition of Common Stock by the Employee.
7. Grant of Option . On the Enrollment Date of each Offering Period, each Eligible Employee participating in such Offering Period shall be granted an option to purchase on each Exercise Date during such Offering Period (at the applicable Purchase Price) up to a number of shares of the Company’s Common Stock determined by dividing such participant’s payroll deductions accumulated prior to or on such Exercise Date and retained in the participant’s account as of the Exercise Date by the applicable Purchase Price; provided , however , that in no event shall a participant be permitted to purchase during each Offering Period more than that number of shares of Common Stock (subject to any adjustment pursuant to Section 19 hereof) determined by dividing $25,000 by the Fair Market Value of a share of Common Stock on the Enrollment Date (the “ Per Period Limit ”) and during each Purchase Period more than the Per Period Limit (for the avoidance of doubt, in the event that the Offering Period and Purchase Period are approximately the same length, the participant shall only be entitled to purchase an aggregate of the number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Per Period Limit); and provided , further , that such purchase shall be subject to the limitations set forth in Sections 3(c) and 13 hereof. The Administrator may, for future Offering Periods, increase or decrease, in its






