Exhibit 4.1
INVESTMENT TECHNOLOGY GROUP,
INC.
2007 OMNIBUS EQUITY COMPENSATION
PLAN
Amended and Restated Effective May 12,
2009
INVESTMENT TECHNOLOGY GROUP,
INC.
2007 OMNIBUS EQUITY
COMPENSATION PLAN
1.
Purpose
The purpose of the Investment
Technology Group, Inc. 2007 Omnibus Equity Compensation Plan
(the “Plan”) is to provide (i) designated
employees of Investment Technology Group, Inc. (the
“Company”) and its subsidiaries, and
(ii) non-employee members of the board of directors of the
Company with the opportunity to receive grants of stock options,
stock units, stock awards, dividend equivalents and other
stock-based awards. The Company believes that the Plan will
encourage the participants to contribute materially to the growth
of the Company, thereby benefiting the Company’s
stockholders, and will align the economic interests of the
participants with those of the stockholders. The Plan was
originally effective on May 8, 2007 upon approval by the
stockholders of the Company. This amendment and restatement
will be effective May 12, 2009 if approved by the
Company’s stockholders as of such date.
The Investment Technology
Group, Inc. Non-Employee Directors Stock Option Plan (the
“Director Plan”), the Investment Technology
Group, Inc. Amended and Restated 1994 Stock Option and
Long-term Incentive Plan (the “1994 Plan”), the Amended
and Restated Investment Technology Group, Inc. Stock Unit
Award Program Subplan (the “SUA Subplan”), the Amended
and Restated Investment Technology Group, Inc.
Directors’ Retainer Fee Subplan (the “Directors’
Retainer Fee Subplan”), and the Amended and Restated
Investment Technology Group, Inc. Directors’ Equity
Subplan (the “Directors’ Equity Subplan”, and
collectively with the SUA Subplan and the Directors’ Retainer
Fee Subplan, the “Subplans”) were merged with and into
this Plan as of May 8, 2007. No additional grants will
be made thereafter under the Director Plan and the 1994 Plan.
Outstanding grants under the Director Plan, the 1994 Plan and the
Subplans as of May 8, 2007 will continue in effect according
to their terms as in effect on May 8, 2007 (subject to such
amendments as the Committee (as defined below) determines
appropriate, consistent with the terms of the Director Plan, the
1994 Plan or the Subplans, as applicable), and the shares with
respect to such outstanding grants will be issued or transferred
under this Plan. After May 8, 2007, the Subplans shall
continue in effect as subplans of the Plan and grants and/or
deferrals may continue to be made under the Subplans with shares
associated with such grants and/or deferrals being issued under
this Plan.
2.
Definitions
Whenever used in this Plan, the
following terms will have the respective meanings set forth
below:
(a)
“Board” means the Company’s Board of
Directors.
(b)
“Change in Control” means and shall be deemed to
have occurred:
(i)
if any person (within the meaning of the Exchange Act), other than
the Company or a Related Party, is or becomes the “beneficial
owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3
under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly,
of Voting Securities representing 35% percent or more of the total
voting power of all the then-outstanding Voting Securities;
or
(ii)
if the individuals who, as of the date hereof, constitute the
Board, together with those who first become directors subsequent to
such date and whose recommendation, election or nomination for
election to the Board was approved by a vote of at least a majority
of the directors then still in office who either were directors as
of the date hereof or whose recommendation, election or nomination
for election was previously so approved, cease for any reason to
constitute a majority of the members of the Board; or
(iii)
upon consummation of a merger, consolidation, recapitalization or
reorganization of the Company, reverse split of any class of Voting
Securities, or an acquisition of securities or assets by the
Company other than (i) any such transaction in which the
holders of outstanding Voting Securities immediately prior to the
transaction receive (or retain), with respect to such Voting
Securities, voting securities of the surviving or transferee entity
representing more than 50 percent of the total voting power
outstanding immediately after such transaction, with the voting
power of each such continuing holder relative to other such
continuing holders not substantially altered in the transaction, or
(ii) any such transaction which would result in a Related
Party beneficially owning more than 50 percent of the voting
securities of the surviving or transferee entity outstanding
immediately after such transaction; or
(iv)
upon consummation of the sale or disposition by the Company of all
or substantially all of the Company’s assets, other than any
such transaction which would result in a Related Party owning or
acquiring more than 50 percent of the assets owned by the Company
immediately prior to the transaction; or
(v)
if the stockholders of the Company approve a plan of complete
liquidation of the Company.
(c)
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended.
(d)
“Committee” means (i) with respect to
Grants to Employees, the Compensation Committee of the Board or
another committee appointed by the Board to administer the Plan,
(ii) with respect to Grants made to Non-Employee Directors,
the Board, and (iii) with respects to Grants that are intended
to be “qualified performance-based compensation” under
section 162(m) of the Code, a committee that consists of
two or more persons appointed by the Board, all of whom shall be
“outside directors” as defined under
section 162(m) of the Code and related Treasury
regulations.
(e)
“Company” means Investment Technology
Group, Inc. and any successor corporation.
(f)
“Company Stock” means the common stock of the
Company.
(g)
“Dividend Equivalent” means an amount determined
by multiplying the number of shares of Company Stock subject to a
Grant by the per-share cash dividend, or the per-share
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fair market value (as determined by the
Committee) of any dividend in consideration other than cash, paid
by the Company on its Company Stock.
(h)
“Employee” means an employee of the Employer
(including an officer or director who is also an
employee).
(i)
“Employer” means the Company and its
subsidiaries.
(j)
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended.
(k)
“Exercise Price” means the per share price at
which shares of Company Stock may be purchased under an Option, as
designated by the Committee.
(l)
“Fair Market Value,” unless otherwise required
by an applicable provision of the Code, as of any date, means the
closing sales price of the Common Stock as reported on the New York
Stock Exchange on the date of grant; provided, however, that at any
time that the Common Stock is not quoted on the New York Stock
Exchange on such trading days, Fair Market Value shall be
determined by the Committee in its discretion.
(m)
“Grant” means an Option, Stock Unit, Stock
Award, SAR, Dividend Equivalent or Other Stock-Based Award granted
under the Plan.
(n)
“Grant Agreement” means the written instrument
that sets forth the terms and conditions of a Grant, including all
amendments thereto.
(o)
“Incentive Stock Option” means an Option that is
intended to meet the requirements of an incentive stock option
under section 422 of the Code.
(p)
“Non-Employee Director” means a member of the
Board who is not an employee of the Employer.
(q)
“Nonqualified Stock Option” means an Option that
is not intended to be taxed as an incentive stock option under
section 422 of the Code.
(r)
“Option” means an option to purchase shares of
Company Stock, as described in Section 7.
(s)
“Other Stock-Based Award” means any Grant based
on, measured by or payable in, Company Stock (other than a Grant
described in Sections 7, 8, 9 or 10(a) of the Plan), as
described in Section 10(b).
(t)
“Participant” means an Employee or Non-Employee
Director designated by the Committee to participate in the
Plan.
(u)
“Person” means an individual, a partnership, a
corporation, a limited liability company, an association, a joint
stock company, an estate, a trust, a joint venture, an
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unincorporated organization or a governmental
entity or any department, agency or political subdivision
thereof.
(v)
“Plan” means this Investment Technology
Group, Inc. 2007 Omnibus Equity Compensation Plan, as in
effect from time to time.
(w)
“Related Party” means (a) a Subsidiary of
the Company; (b) an employee or group of employees of the
Company or any Subsidiary of the Company; (c) a trustee or
other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan
of the Company or any majority-owned Subsidiary of the Company; or
(d) a corporation owned directly or indirectly by the
stockholders of the Company in substantially the same proportion as
their ownership of Voting Securities.
(x)
“SAR” means a stock appreciation right as
described in Section 10(a).
(y)
“Stock Award” means an award of Company Stock as
described in Section 9.
(z)
“Stock Unit” means an award of a phantom unit
representing a share of Company Stock, as described in
Section 8.
(aa)
“Subsidiary” or “Subsidiaries”
means, with respect to any Person, any corporation, partnership,
limited liability company, association or other business entity of
which (a) if a corporation, fifty (50) percent or more of the
total voting power of shares of stock entitled (without regard to
the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of
directors, managers or trustees thereof is at the time owned or
controlled, directly or indirectly, by that Person or one or more
of the other Subsidiaries of that Person or combination thereof; or
(b) if a partnership, limited liability company, association
or other business entity, fifty (50) percent or more of the
partnership or other similar ownership interest thereof is at the
time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by any Person or
one or more Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination
thereof. For purposes of this definition, a Person or Persons
will be deemed to have a fifty (50) percent or more ownership
interest in a partnership, limited liability company, association
or other business entity if such Person or Persons are allocated
fifty (50) percent or more of partnership, limited liability
company, association or other business entity gains or losses or
control the managing director or member or general partner of such
partnership, limited liability company, association or other
business entity.
(bb)
“Voting Securities or Security” means any
securities of the Company which carry the right to vote generally
in the election of directors.
3.
Administration
(a)
Committee . The Plan shall be administered and
interpreted by the Compensation Committee of the Board or another
committee appointed by the Board to administer the Plan with
respect to grants to Employees. The Plan shall be
administered and interpreted by the Board with respect to grants to
Non-Employee Directors. The Board or committee, as
applicable, that has authority with respect to a specific Grant
shall be referred to as the
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“Committee” with respect to that
Grant. Ministerial functions may be performed by an
administrative committee comprised of Company employees appointed
by the Committee.
(b)
Committee Authority . The Committee shall have the
sole authority to (i) determine the Participants to whom
Grants shall be made under the Plan, (ii) determine the type,
size and terms and conditions of the Grants to be made to each such
Participant, (iii) determine the time when the grants will be
made and the duration of any applicable exercise or restriction
period, including the criteria for exercisability and the
acceleration of exercisability, (iv) amend the terms and
conditions of any previously issued Grant, subject to the
provisions of Section 18 below, and (v) deal with any
other matters arising under the Plan.
(c)
Committee Determinations . The Committee shall have
full power and express discretionary authority to administer and
interpret the Plan, to make factual determinations and to adopt or
amend such rules, regulations, agreements and instruments for
implementing the Plan and for the conduct of its business as it
deems necessary or advisable, in its sole discretion. The
Committee’s interpretations of the Plan and all
determinations made by the Committee pursuant to the powers vested
in it hereunder shall be conclusive and binding on all persons
having any interest in the Plan or in any awards granted hereunder.
All powers of the Committee shall be executed in its sole
discretion, in the best interest of the Company, not as a
fiduciary, and in keeping with the objectives of the Plan and need
not be uniform as to similarly situated Participants.
4.
Grants
(a)
Grants under the Plan may consist of Options as described in
Section 7, Stock Units as described in Section 8, Stock
Awards as described in Section 9, and SARs or Other
Stock-Based Awards as described in Section 10. All
Grants shall be subject to such terms and conditions as the
Committee deems appropriate and as are specified in writing by the
Committee to the Participant in the Grant Agreement.
(b)
All Grants shall be made conditional upon the Participant’s
acknowledgement, in writing or by acceptance of the Grant, that all
decisions and determinations of the Committee shall be final and
binding on the Participant, his or her beneficiaries and any other
person having or claiming an interest under such Grant.
Grants under a particular Section of the Plan need not be
uniform as among the Participants.
5.
Shares Subject to the
Plan
(a)
Shares Authorized . The total aggregate number of
shares of Company Stock that may be issued under the Plan is the
sum of the following (i) 1,300,000 new shares of Company Stock
plus (ii) that number of shares of Company Stock subject to
outstanding grants under the Plan as of May 12, 2009 plus
(iii) that number of shares remaining available for issuance
under the Plan but not subject to previously exercised, vested or
paid grants as of May 12, 2009; provided that of the total
number of shares of Company Stock described in (i), 50,000 shares
shall be used solely to grant Options.
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(b)
Source of Shares; Share Counting . Shares issued under
the Plan may be authorized but unissued shares of Company Stock or
reacquired shares of Company Stock, including shares purchased by
the Company on the open market for purposes of the Plan. If
and to the extent Options or SARs granted under the Plan (including
options granted under the Director Plan, the 1994 Plan and the
Subplans) terminate, expire, or are canceled, forfeited, exchanged
or surrendered without having been exercised, and if and to the
extent that any Stock Awards, Stock Units, or Other Stock-Based
Awards (including any stock awards, stock units or other-stock
based awards granted under the Director Plan, the 1994 Plan and the
Subplans) are forfeited or terminated, or otherwise are not paid in
full, the shares reserved for such Grants shall again be available
for purposes of the Plan. Shares of Company Stock surrendered
in payment of the Exercise Price of an Option shall again be
available for purposes of the Plan. To the extent any Grants
are paid in cash, and not in shares of Company Stock, any shares
previously subject to such Grants shall again be available for
issuance or transfer under the Plan.
(c)
Individual Limits . All Grants under the Plan shall be
expressed in shares of Company Stock. The maximum aggregate
number of shares of Company Stock with respect to which all Grants
may be made under the Plan to any individual during any calendar
year shall be 1,000,000 shares, subject to adjustment as described
in subsection (d) below. A Participant may not accrue
Dividend Equivalents during any calendar year in excess of
$1,000,000. The individual limits of this subsection
(c) shall apply without regard to whether the Grants are to be
paid in Company Stock or cash. All cash payments (other than
with respect to Dividend Equivalents) shall equal the Fair Market
Value of the shares of Company Stock to which the cash payments
relate.
(d)
Adjustments . If there is any change in the number or
kind of shares of Company Stock outstanding by reason of a stock
dividend, spinoff, stock split or reverse stock split, or by reason
of a combination, reorganization, recapitalization or
reclassification affecting the outstanding Company Stock as a class
without the Company’s receipt of consideration, the maximum
number of shares of Company Stock available for Grants, the maximum
number of shares of Company Stock that any individual participating
in the Plan may be granted in any year, the number of shares
covered by outstanding Grants, the kind of shares issued under the
Plan and outstanding Grants, and the price per share of outstanding
Grants shall be equitably adjusted by the Committee, as the
Committee deems appropriate, to reflect any increase or decrease in
the number of, or change in the kind or value of, issued shares of
Company Stock to preclude, to the extent practicable, the
enlargement or dilution of rights and benefits under Grants;
provided, however, that any fractional shares resulting from such
adjustment shall be eliminated. In addition, the Committee
shall have discretion to make the foregoing equitable adjustments
in any circumstances in which an adjustment is not mandated by this
subsection (d) or applicable law, including in the event of a
Change in Control. Any adjustments to outstanding Grants
shall be consistent with section 409A or 422 of the Code, to the
extent applicable. Any adjustments determined by the
Committee shall be final, binding and conclusive.
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6.
Eligibility for
Participation
(a)
Eligible Persons . All Employees, including Employees
who are officers or members of the Board, and all Non-Employee
Directors shall be eligible to participate in the Plan.
(b)
Selection of Participants . The Committee shall select
the Employees and Non-Employee Directors to receive Grants and
shall determine the number of shares of Company Stock subject to
each Grant.
7.
Options
(a)
General Requirements . The Committee may grant Options to an
Employee or Non-Employee Director upon such terms and conditions as
the Committee deems appropriate under this Section 7.
The Committee shall determine the number of shares of Company Stock
that will be subject to each Grant of Options to Employees and
Non-Employee Directors.
(b)
Type of Option, Price and Term .
(i)
The Committee may grant Incentive Stock Options or Nonqualified
Stock Options or any combination of the two, all in accordance with
the terms and conditions set forth herein. Incentive Stock
Options may be granted only to Employees of the Company or its
parents or subsidiaries, as defined in section 424 of the
Code. Nonqualified Stock Options may be granted to Employees
or Non-Employee Directors.
(ii)
The Exercise Price of Company Stock subject to an Option shall be
determined by the Committee and may be equal to or greater than the
Fair Market Value of a share of Company Stock on the date the
Option is granted. However, an Incentive Stock Option may not
be granted to an Employee who, at the time of grant, owns stock
possessing more than 10% of the total combined voting power of all
classes of stock of the Company or any parent or subsidiary, as
defined in section 424 of the Code, un