Exhibit 10.6
AMENDED AND RESTATED EMPLOYMENT
AGREEMENT
AGREEMENT, dated effective as of
July 28, 2008, by and between BT Triple Crown Merger Co., Inc.
(“MergerSub”, together with its successors, the
“Company”), CC Media Holdings, Inc.
(“Holdings”) and Mark P. Mays
(“Executive”).
WHEREAS, Clear Channel
Communications, Inc., a Texas corporation and Executive previously
entered into that certain Employment Agreement dated as of
March 10, 2005 (the “Existing Agreement”);
and
WHEREAS, Clear Channel
Communications, Inc. has entered into an Agreement and Plan of
Merger dated as of November 16, 2006, and amended on
April 18, 2007, May 17, 2007 and May 13, 2008
(the “Merger Agreement”), pursuant to which, on the
terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein, MergerSub
shall merge within and into Clear Channel Communications, Inc.,
with Clear Channel Communications, Inc. surviving such merger at
and after the Effective Time (as defined in the Merger Agreement),
and Holdings shall, on the date of consummation of the transactions
contemplated under the Merger Agreement, be the ultimate parent
holding company of the Company; and
WHEREAS, the Company and Executive
desire to amend and restate the terms of the Existing Agreement
between the Company and Executive, to be effective as of the
Effective Time.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of
the premises and the mutual covenants set forth below, the parties
hereby amend and restate the Existing Agreement effective as of the
Effective Time as follows:
1. Employment . The Company
hereby agrees to continue to employ Executive as the Chief
Executive Officer, and Executive hereby accepts such continued
employment, on the terms and conditions hereinafter set
forth.
2. Term . The period of
employment of Executive by the Company under this Agreement (the
“Employment Period”) shall commence on the date upon
which the Effective Time occurs (the “Effective Date”)
and shall have an original term of five (5) years, and shall
be automatically extended thereafter for successive terms of one
year each, unless either party provides notice to the other at
least twelve months prior to the expiration of the original or any
extension term that the Agreement is not to be extended. The
Employment Period may be sooner terminated by either party in
accordance with Section 6 of this Agreement.
3. Position and Duties .
During the Employment Period, Executive shall serve as Chief
Executive Officer of the Company, and shall report solely and
directly to the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of
Holdings. Executive shall have those powers and duties normally
associated with the position of Chief Executive Officer of entities
comparable to the Company and such other powers and duties as may
be prescribed by the Board; provided, that such other powers and
duties are consistent with Executive’s position as Chief
Executive Officer. Executive shall devote as much of his working
time, attention and energies during normal business hours (other
than absences due to illness or vacation) to satisfactorily perform
his duties for the
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Company. Notwithstanding the above, Executive
shall be permitted, to the extent such activities do not
substantially interfere with the performance by Executive of his
duties and responsibilities hereunder or violate Section 11
hereof, to (i) manage Executive’s personal, financial
and legal affairs, (ii) serve on civic or charitable boards or
committees or on the Board of Directors of Live Nation Inc. and its
committees (it being expressly understood and agreed that
Executive’s continuing to serve on any such boards and/or
committees on which Executive is serving, or with which Executive
is otherwise associated, as of the Effective Date shall be deemed
not to interfere with the performance by Executive of his duties
and responsibilities under this Agreement), and (iii) deliver
lectures or fulfill speaking engagements. During the Employment
Period, for so long as Executive remains an officer of the Company,
(i) Executive shall also serve as a member of the Board of the
Company, and (ii) Executive shall also serve as Chief
Executive Officer of Holdings and as a member of the Board of
Holdings.
4. Place of Performance . The
principal place of employment of Executive shall be at the
Company’s principal executive offices in San Antonio,
Texas.
5. Compensation and Related
Matters .
(a) Base Salary
and Bonus . During the Employment Period, the Company shall pay
Executive a base salary at the rate of not less than $895,000 per
year (“Base Salary”). Executive’s Base Salary
shall be paid in approximately equal installments in accordance
with the Company’s customary payroll practices. The
Compensation Committee of the Board of Holdings (the
“Compensation Committee”) shall review
Executive’s Base Salary for increase (but not decrease) no
less frequently than annually and consistent with the executive
compensation practices and guidelines of the Company and Holdings.
If Executive’s Base Salary is increased by the Company, such
increased Base Salary shall then constitute the Base Salary for all
purposes of this Agreement. In addition to Base Salary, Executive
shall be eligible to receive an annual bonus (the
“Performance Bonus”). Unless the Board of Holdings and
Executive mutually agree otherwise, the amount of the Performance
Bonus shall be determined by the Board of Directors of Holdings
(which may act through its Compensation Committee) in its sole
discretion, provided, however, that in any year during the
Employment Period in which the Company achieves at least eighty
percent (80%) of the budgeted OIBDAN for the given year (the
“Target OIBDAN”), as set forth in the Management Plan
previously presented to the Sponsor Group 1 (as defined in the Stockholders
Agreement, dated as of July 29, 2008, by and among the
Mergersub, Holdings, the Executive, and other stockholders of
Holdings (the “Stockholders Agreement”)) and consistent
with the requirements of Section 162(m) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), to the
extent applicable, such Performance Bonus shall be no less than
$6,625,000. The Management Plan will be subject to equitable
adjustment by the Compensation Committee of Holdings to take into
account material acquisitions, dispositions and other material
extraordinary events; provided, that the parties hereto will use
their reasonable best efforts to facilitate the payment of the
bonuses hereunder on a basis that is consistent with such payments
qualifying for the performance-based compensation exception under
Section 162(m) of the Code and the regulations thereunder. If
the Company does not achieve the Target OIBDAN in any given year,
the amount of the Performance Bonus, if any, shall be determined by
the Board of Holdings
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Presented on
May 17, 2007.
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in its sole discretion. The
Performance Bonus, if any, shall be payable in one lump sum between
January 1 and March 15 of the year following the year for
which the Performance Bonus was earned.
(b) Expenses and Perquisites
. The Company shall promptly reimburse Executive for all reasonable
business expenses upon the presentation of reasonably itemized
statements of such expenses, in accordance with the Company’s
policies and procedures now in force or as such policies and
procedures may be modified generally with respect to senior
executive officers of the Company. In addition, during the
Employment Period, Executive shall be entitled to, at the sole
expense of the Company:
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(i)
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the use of an
automobile appropriate to his position and no less qualitative than
the automobile provided to him immediately prior to the date of
this Agreement; and
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(ii)
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use of a
Company-provided aircraft for personal travel, in accordance with
Company policy as in effect on November 16, 2006 (the
“Aircraft Benefit”).
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(c) Vacation . Executive
shall be entitled to the number of weeks of paid vacation per year
that he was eligible for immediately prior to the date of this
Agreement, but in no event less than four (4) weeks annually.
Unused vacation may be carried forward from year to year. Vacation
shall otherwise be governed by the policies of the Company, as in
effect from time to time. In addition to vacation, Executive shall
be entitled to the number of sick days and personal days per year
that other senior executive officers of the Company with similar
tenure are entitled to under the Company’s
policies.
(d) Services Furnished .
During the Employment Period, the Company shall furnish Executive
with office space, stenographic and secretarial assistance and such
other facilities and services no less favorable than what he was
receiving immediately prior to the date of this Agreement or, if
better, as provided to other senior executive officers of the
Company (other than the Chairman Emeritus).
(e) Welfare, Pension and
Incentive Benefit Plans . During the Employment Period, subject
to the terms of the applicable plan documents and generally
applicable Company policies, Executive (and his spouse and
dependents to the extent provided therein) shall be entitled to
participate in and be covered under all the welfare benefit plans
or programs maintained by the Company from time to time for the
benefit of its senior executives (other than benefits maintained
exclusively for the Chairman Emeritus), including, without
limitation, all medical, hospitalization, dental, disability,
accidental death and dismemberment and travel accident insurance
plans and programs. During the Employment Period, the Company shall
provide to Executive (and his spouse and dependents to the extent
provided under the applicable plans or programs) the same type and
substantially equivalent levels of participation and employee
benefits (other than severance pay plans and, except with the
express consent of the Board of Holdings, incentive bonus programs
other than as explicitly set forth in Section 5(a) hereof) as
are being provided to other senior executives (and their spouses
and dependents to the extent provided under the applicable plans or
programs) on the Effective Date, subject to modifications affecting
all senior executive officers.
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(f) Equity Incentive Award.
At or promptly following the Effective Time, the Company will grant
Executive an equity incentive award pursuant to a new equity
incentive plan in the form of the Clear Channel 2008 Executive
Incentive Plan attached hereto as Exhibit A and related
restricted stock and stock option award agreements in substantially
the forms attached hereto as Exhibits B and C ,
respectively. Executive shall not be eligible to receive any stock
options, restricted stock or other equity of the Company or
Holdings, whether under an equity incentive plan or otherwise,
except as expressly provided for in this Agreement or as expressly
authorized for him individually by the Board of
Holdings.
(g) Equity Rollover.
Effective as of the Effective Date, Executive will exchange 732,859
shares of Company common stock previously issued to him and the
currently held options to acquire shares of Company common stock
(“Old Options”) that are identified on Exhibit
D, all on the terms and subject to the conditions of a Rollover
Option Agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit E-1
, the Notice of Restricted Stock Rollover Agreement in the form
attached hereto as Exhibit E-2 , and the Stock Rollover
Agreement substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit
E-3 . The total value (based on, with respect to shares of
Company common stock, the Cash Consideration (as defined under the
Merger Agreement), and with respect to the Old Options, the excess
of the Cash Consideration over the per share exercise price) by of
all of the foregoing will not exceed $10 million.
6. Termination .
Executive’s employment hereunder may be terminated during the
Employment Period under the following circumstances:
(a) Death . Executive’s
employment hereunder shall terminate upon his death.
(b) Disability . If, as a
result of Executive’s incapacity due to physical or mental
illness, Executive shall have been substantially unable to perform
his duties hereunder notwithstanding the provision of reasonable
accommodation for a period of six (6) consecutive months, and
within thirty (30) days after written Notice of Termination is
given after such six (6) month period Executive shall not have
returned to the substantial performance of his duties on a
full-time basis, the Company shall have the right to terminate
Executive’s employment hereunder for
“Disability”, and such termination in and of itself
shall not be, nor shall it be deemed to be, a breach of this
Agreement.
(c) Cause . The Company shall
have the right to terminate Executive’s employment for Cause
by providing Executive with a written Notice of Termination, and
such termination in and of itself shall not be, nor shall it be
deemed to be, a breach of this Agreement. For purposes of this
Agreement, “Cause” shall mean:
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Executive’s willful and continued failure
to perform his material duties with respect to the Company or its
Affiliates which, if curable, continues beyond ten business days
after a written demand for substantial performance is delivered to
Executive by the Company; or
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Willful or intentional engaging
by Executive in material misconduct that causes material and
demonstrable injury,
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monetarily or otherwise, to the
Company, the Sponsor Group (as defined in the Stockholders
Agreement) or any of their respective Affiliates; or
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(iii)
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Executive’s conviction of, or a plea of
nolo contendre to, a crime constituting (A) a felony
under the laws of the United States or any state thereof; or
(B) a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude that causes
material and demonstrable injury, monetarily or otherwise, to the
Company, the Sponsor Group or any of their respective Affiliates;
or
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Executive’s committing or engaging in any
act of fraud, embezzlement, theft or other act of dishonesty
against the Company or its Affiliates that causes material and
demonstrable injury, monetarily or otherwise, to the Company, the
Sponsor Group or any of their respective Affiliates; or
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Executive’s breach of any provision of
Section 11 hereof that causes material and demonstrable
injury, monetarily or otherwise, to the Company, the Sponsor Group
or any of their respective Affiliates.
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Whether “Cause” exists
shall be determined by at least a majority of the members of the
Board of the Company at a meeting of the Board called and held for
such purpose, provided that at least a majority of the members of
the Board of Holdings has determined prior to such meeting that
Cause exists.
(d) Good Reason . Executive
may terminate his employment for “Good Reason” by
providing the Company with a written Notice of Termination. The
following events, without the written consent of Executive, shall
constitute “Good Reason”:
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(i)
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Reduction in
Executive’s Base Salary or annual incentive compensation
opportunity, other than any isolated, insubstantial and inadvertent
failure by the Company that is not in bad faith and is cured within
ten (10) business days after Executive gives the Company
notice of such event; or
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(ii)
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Substantial
diminution in Executive’s title, duties and responsibilities,
other than any isolated, insubstantial and inadvertent failure by
the Company that is not in bad faith and is cured within ten
(10) business days after Executive gives the Company notice of
such event; or
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(iii)
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Failure by the
Company to provide the Aircraft Benefit or any material breach of
its obligations to provide such Benefit, which is other than
insubstantial, inadvertent, not in bad faith and is not repeated;
or
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(iv)
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Transfer of
Executive’s primary workplace outside the city limits of San
Antonio, Texas;
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Executive expressly acknowledges and
agrees that the Company’s provision of notice of non-renewal
of the Agreement pursuant to Section 2 hereof, alone or in
combination with the transition of Executive’s duties to
another employee during the notice period, shall not constitute
Good Reason.
Executive expressly waives any
rights he might otherwise have, under the Existing Agreement or
otherwise, to resign for Good Reason or otherwise receive any
compensation in the nature of severance or separation pay or
benefits as a result of the transaction contemplated by the Merger
Agreement (the “Transaction”).
(e) Without Cause . The
Company shall have the right to terminate Executive’s
employment hereunder without Cause by providing Executive with a
Notice of Termination at least thirty (30) days prior to such
termination, and such termination shall not in and of itself be,
nor shall it be deemed to be, a breach of this Agreement. In the
event of termination pursuant to this Section 6(e), the Board
of the Company may elect to waive the period of notice, or any
portion thereof, and, if the Board so elects, the Company will pay
Executive his Base Salary for the initial thirty (30) days of
the notice period or for any lesser remaining portion of such
period, payable in accordance with the regular payroll practices of
the Company.
(f) Without Good Reason .
Executive shall have the right to terminate his employment
hereunder without Good Reason by providing the Company with a
Notice of Termination at least thirty (30) days prior to such
termination, and such termination shall not in and of itself be,
nor shall it be deemed to be, a breach of this Agreement. In the
event of termination pursuant to this Section 6(f), the Board
of the Company may elect to waive the period of notice, or any
portion thereof, and, if the Board so elects, the Company will pay
Executive his Base Salary for the initial thirty (30) days of
the notice period or for any lesser remaining portion of such
period, payable in accordance with the regular payroll practices of
the Company.
7. Termination Procedure
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(a) Notice of Termination .
Any termination of Executive’s employment by the Company or
by Executive during the Employment Period (other than termination
pursuant to Section 6(a)) shall be communicated by written
Notice of Termination to the other party hereto in accordance with
Section 15. For purposes of this Agreement, a “Notice of
Termination” shall mean a notice which indicates the specific
termination provision in this Agreement relied upon, and sets forth
in reasonable detail the facts and circumstances claimed to provide
a basis for termination of Executive’s employment under the
provision so indicated.
(b) Date of Termination .
“Date of Termination” shall mean (i) if
Executive’s employment is terminated by his death, the date
of death, (ii) if Executive’s employment is terminated
pursuant to Section 6(b), thirty (30) days after Notice
of Termination (provided that Executive shall not have returned to
the substantial performance of his duties on a full-time basis
during such thirty (30) day period), and (iii) if
Executive’s employment is terminated for any other reason,
the date on which a Notice of Termination is given or any later
date set forth in such Notice of Termination.
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8. Compensation Upon Termination
or During Disability . In the event Executive is disabled or
his employment terminates during the Employment Period, the Company
shall provide Executive with the payments and benefits set forth
below; provided, however, that any obligation of the Company to
Executive under Section 8(a), other than for Final
Compensation, is expressly conditioned upon Executive signing and
returning to the Company a timely and effective release of claims
in the form attached hereto as Exhibit F (by the deadline
specified therein (any such release submitted by such deadline, the
“Executive Release of Claims”)) and delivering it to
the Company within thirty (30) days of the date of his
separation from service. Following the Company’s receipt of a
timely and effective Release of Claims, the Company and Holdings
shall execute a release of claims in favor of Executive in the form
attached hereto as Exhibit G (the “Company Release of
Claims”). The Executive Release of Claims required for
separation benefits in accordance with Section 8(a) creates
legally binding obligations on the part of Executive, and the
Company and its Affiliates therefore advise Executive and his
beneficiary or legal representative, as applicable, to seek the
advice of an attorney before signing it.
(a) Termination By the Company
Without Cause or By Executive for Good Reason . If
Executive’s employment is terminated by the Company without
Cause or by Executive for Good Reason:
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(i)
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the Company
shall pay to Executive his Base Salary, Bonus and unused vacation
pay accrued or prorated through the Date of Termination, and shall
reimburse Executive pursuant to Section 5(b) for reasonable
business expenses incurred but not paid prior to such termination
of employment (together, “Final Compensation”). The
Base Salary and vacation components of Final Compensation shall be
paid in a lump sum as soon as practicable following the Date of
Termination, but in no event later than two and a half months
following the end of the taxable year including the Date of
Termination. The Bonus component of Final Compensation shall be
calculated by multiplying the amount of the Performance Bonus (if
any) Executive would have earned had he remained employed for the
full year in which the Date of Termination occurs by a fraction,
the numerator of which is the number of days during such year that
Executive was employed and the denominator of which is 365, and
shall be paid at the times bonuses for the year in which the Date
of Termination occurs are paid to executives of the Company
generally, but in no event later than two and a half months
following the end of the taxable year in which the Date of
Termination occurs;
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provided
Executive signs and returns a timely and effective Release of
Claims, the Company shall pay to Executive a lump-sum cash payment
equal to three (3) times the sum of (A) Executive’s
Base Salary and (B) the Bonus paid to Executive for the year
prior to the year in which termination occurs; and
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provided
Executive signs and returns a timely and effective Release of
Claims, the Company shall maintain in full force and effect, for
the continued benefit of the Executive and his eligible dependents,
for a period of three (3) years following the Date of
Termination the medical and hospitalization insurance programs in
which the Executive and his dependents were participating
immediately prior to the Date of Termination, at the level in
effect and upon substantially the same terms and conditions
(including without limitation contributions required by Executive
for such benefits) as existed immediately prior to the Date of
Termination; provided, that if Executive or his dependents cannot
continue to participate in the Company plans and programs providing
these benefits, the Company shall arrange to provide Executive and
his dependents with the economic equivalent of such benefits which
they otherwise would have been entitled to receive under such plans
and programs (the “Continued Benefits”), provided, that
such Continued Benefits shall terminate on the date or dates
Executive receives equivalent coverage and benefits, without
waiting period or pre-existing condition limitations, under the
plans and programs of a subsequent employer. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in this Section 8(a)(iii), the
aggregate value (as the same would be determined under
Section 280G of the Code) of the Continued Benefits shall in
no event exceed Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000) (the
“Aggregate Cap”); a
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