Exhibit 10.7
AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO LETTER
AGREEMENT OF EMPLOYMENT
Amendment (this “
Amendment ”), made as of this December 22, 2006, by
and among Lerner New York, Inc. (the “ Company
”) and Sandra Brooslin Viviano (“ Executive
”).
R E C I T A L S
WHEREAS, Executive is party to that
certain Letter Agreement of Employment between the Company and
Executive dated March 13, 2006 (the “ Agreement
”).
WHEREAS, the Company and Executive
wish to amend the Agreement in order to clarify treatment of
certain payments under the Agreement in order to make them
compliant with Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended.
NOW, THEREFORE, for good and
valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are
hereby acknowledged, the parties agree to the following:
1.
Amendment
.
(a)
The current
Section 7 of the Agreement will be renumbered Section
7.1 .
(b)
A new Section
7.2 shall be added to the Agreement immediately following
Section 7.1 as follows:
“ Severance Pay of Key
Employee . If on the date of your termination of
employment by the Company: (i) a distribution of compensation to
which you become entitled under this Agreement upon your
termination of employment (including but not limited to severance
or other termination benefits) would be “nonqualified
deferred compensation” within the meaning of Section 409A of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the
“Code”), and the Treasury Regulations issued
thereunder, including Proposed Regulation Section
1.409A-1(b)(9)(iii) (or any successor provision), which describes
certain separation pay arrangements that do not provide for
the deferral of compensation, and (ii) you are a “key
employee”, as defined in Code Section 416(i) without regard
to paragraph (5) thereof, then such distribution shall not be made
before the date which is six months after the date of
you