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2008 INCENTIVE PLAN

Equity Incentive Plan Agreement

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Title: 2008 INCENTIVE PLAN
Governing Law: Delaware     Date: 8/7/2009
Industry: Software and Programming     Sector: Technology

2008 INCENTIVE PLAN, Parties: activision blizzard  inc.
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Exhibit 10.4

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED ACTIVISION BLIZZARD, INC.

 

2008 INCENTIVE PLAN

 

NOTICE OF PERFORMANCE SHARE AWARD

 

 

You have been awarded Performance Shares of Activision Blizzard, Inc. (the “Company”), as follows:

 

·                   Your name:  Thomas Tippl

 

·                   Total number of Performance Shares awarded:  80,000

 

·                   Date of Grant:  May 11, 2009

 

·                   Grant ID:  08001709

 

·                   Your Award of Performance Shares is governed by the terms and conditions set forth in:

 

·                   this Notice of Performance Share Award;

 

·                   the Performance Share Award Terms attached hereto as Exhibit A (the “Award Terms”); and

 

·                   the Company’s Amended and Restated 2008 Incentive Plan, the receipt of a copy of which you hereby acknowledge.

 

·                   Your Award of Performance Shares has been made in connection with your employment agreement with the Company or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates as a material inducement to your entering into or renewing employment with such entity pursuant to such agreement, and is also governed by any applicable terms and conditions set forth in such agreement.

 

·                   Schedule for Lapse of Restrictions :  Except as otherwise provided under the Award Terms, the Restrictions on the Performance Shares awarded to you will lapse in their entirety on February 15, 2010 if the non-GAAP earnings per share of the Company for the year ended December 31, 2009, as reported as such in the press release issued by the Company for that period, is greater than or equal to $0.68, provided you remain continuously employed by the Company or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates through such date.

 

·                   Please sign and return to the Company this Notice of Performance Share Award, which bears an original signature on behalf of the Company.  You are urged to do so promptly.

 



 

·                   If you wish to make an election to include the value of the Performance Shares in your taxable income for the current calendar year, you must complete and sign the Section 83(b) Election Form attached hereto as Exhibit B and both (1) file a copy of it with the Internal Revenue Service Center at which you file your federal income tax return and (2) return a copy of it to the Company, in each case no later than the 30 th  day after the Date of Grant .

 

·                   Please return all items to be returned to the Company to :

 

Activision Blizzard, Inc.
3100 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA  90405
Attn:  Stock Plan Administration

 

You should retain (1) the enclosed duplicate copy of this Notice of Performance Share Award for your records and (2) if applicable, two copies of your completed Section 83(b) Election Form, (a) one copy of which should be filed with the Internal Revenue Service Center at which you file your federal income tax return no later than 30 th  day after the Date of Grant as described above and (b) one copy of which should be submitted with your federal income tax return for the current calendar year.

 

Any capitalized term used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Award Terms.

 

 

ACTIVISION BLIZZARD, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Ann E. Weiser

 

Ann E. Weiser

 

Chief Human Resources Officer

 

 

 

Date:

May 15, 2009

 

 

ACCEPTED AND AGREED:

 

 

 

/s/ Thomas Tippl

 

Thomas Tippl

 

 

 

Date:

May 15, 2009

 

 

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EXHIBIT A

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED ACTIVISION BLIZZARD, INC.

 

2008 INCENTIVE PLAN

 

RESTRICTED SHARE AWARD TERMS

 

 

1.             Definitions .

 

(a)           For purposes of these Award Terms, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:

 

“Additional Shares” means any additional Common Shares issued in respect of Performance Shares in connection with any adjustment pursuant to Section 10 hereof.

 

“Award” means the award described on the Grant Notice.

 

“Common Shares” means the shares of common stock, par value $0.000001 per share, of the Company or any security into which such Common Shares may be changed by reason of any transaction or event of the type referred to in Section 10 hereof.

 

“Company” means Activision Blizzard, Inc. and any successor thereto.

 

“Company Group” means the Company or any of its subsidiaries or other affiliates.

 

“Company-Sponsored Equity Account” means an account that is created with the Equity Account Administrator in connection with the administration of the Company’s equity plans and programs, including the Plan.

 

“Date of Grant” means the Date of Grant of the Award set forth on the Grant Notice.

 

“Employment Agreement” means the employment agreement between the Holder and the Company Group, dated as of September 9, 2005, as amended from time to time.

 

“Employment Violation” means any material breach by Grantee of his or her employment agreement with the Company or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates for so long as the terms of such employment agreement shall apply to Grantee (with any breach of the post-termination obligations contained therein deemed to be material for purposes of these Award Terms).

 

“Equity Account Administrator” means the brokerage firm utilized by the Company from time to time to create and administer accounts for participants in the Company’s equity plans and programs, including the Plan.

 

“Grantee” means the recipient of the Award named on the Grant Notice.

 



 

“Grant Notice” means the Notice of Performance Share Award to which these Award Terms are attached as Exhibit A .

 

“Look-back Period” means, with respect to any Employment Violation by Grantee, the period beginning on the date which is 12 months prior to the date of such Employment Violation by Grantee and ending on the date of computation of the Recapture Amount with respect to such Employment Violation.

 

“Performance Shares” means Common Shares subject to the Award (including any Additional Shares) as to which the Restrictions have not lapsed and which have not been forfeited to the Company in accordance with the Grant Notice and these Award Terms.

 

“Plan” means the Amended and Restated Activision Blizzard, Inc. 2008 Incentive Plan, as amended from time to time.

 

“Recapture Amount” means, with respect to any Employment Violation by Grantee, the gross gain realized or unrealized by Grantee upon all lapses of the Restrictions during the Look-back Period with respect to such Employment Violation, which gain shall be calculated as the sum of:

 

(i)            if Grantee has received any Vested Shares during such Look-back Period and sold such Vested Shares, an amount equal to the product of (A) the sales price per Vested Share times (B) the number of such Vested Shares sold at such sales price; plus

 

(ii)           if Grantee has received any Vested Shares during such Look-back Period and not sold such Vested Shares, an amount equal to the product of (A) the greatest of the following: (1) the Market Value per Share of Common Shares on the date the Restrictions lapsed with respect to such Vested Shares, (2) the arithmetic average of the per share closing sales prices of Common Shares as reported on NASDAQ for the 30 trading day period ending on the trading day immediately preceding the date of the Company’s written notice of its exercise of its rights under Section 14 hereof, or (3) the arithmetic average of the per share closing sales prices of Common Shares as reported on NASDAQ for the 30 trading day period ending on the trading day immediately preceding the date of computation, times (B) the number of such Vested Shares which were not sold.

 

“Restricted Book Entry” means a book entry on the Company’s stock register maintained by its transfer agent and registrar, which book entry shall bear a notation regarding the Restrictions as set forth in Section 15(a) hereof and, if appropriate, a notation regarding securities law restrictions as set forth in Section 15(b) hereof.

 

“Restrictions” means the restrictions set forth in Section 2 hereof.

 

“Section 409A” means Section 409A of the Code and the guidance and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

“Section 83(b) Election” means an election under Section 83(b) of the Code, or any successor provision thereto, to include the value of the Performance Shares in taxable income for the calendar year in which the Award is granted.

 

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“Term Sheet” means the Corporate Governance Term Sheet approved by the Delaware Court of Chancery in connection with the settlement of In re Activision, Inc. Shareholder Derivative Litigation , C.D. Cal. Case No. CV06-4771 MRP (JTLx); In re Activision Shareholder Derivative Litigation , L.A.S.C. Case No. SC090343.

 

“Vested Shares” means Common Shares subject to the Award (including any Additional Shares) as to which the Restrictions have lapsed in accordance with Section 3 or 4 hereof.

 

“Withholding Taxes” means any taxes, including, but not limited to, social security and Medicare taxes and federal, state and local income taxes, required to be withheld under any applicable law.

 

(b)           Any capitalized term used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Plan.

 

2.             Restrictions .  None of the Common Shares subject to the Award (including any Additional Shares), or any right or privilege pertaining thereto, may be sold, assigned, transferred, pledged, hypothecated or otherwise disposed of or encumbered in any way not expressly permitted by these Award Terms, or subjected to execution, attachment or similar process, unless and until such restrictions thereon lapse pursuant to Section 3 or 4 hereof.  Any attempt to sell, assign, transfer, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise dispose of or encumber any such Common Shares, or any right or privilege pertaining thereto, in any way not expressly permitted by these Award Terms before such restrictions thereon lapse pursuant to Section 3 or 4 hereof shall be null and void and of no force and effect.

 

3.             Lapse of Restrictions .  Except as otherwise set forth in these Award Terms, the Restrictions shall lapse in accordance with the “Schedule for Lapse of Restrictions” set forth on the Grant Notice.

 

4.             Termination of Employment .  In the event that Grantee’s employment is terminated for any reason prior to February 15, 2010, as of the date of such termination of employment the Restrictions shall cease to lapse and all Performance Shares shall immediately be forfeited to the Company without payment of consideration by the Company.

 

5.             Tax Withholding .  The Company shall have the right to require Grantee to satisfy any Withholding Taxes resulting from the lapse of the Restrictions, from any Section 83(b) Election or otherwise in connection with the Award at the time such Withholding Taxes become due.  The Company shall determine the method or methods Grantee may use to satisfy any Withholding Taxes contemplated by this Section 5, which may include any of the following:  (a) by delivery to the Company of a bank check or certified check or wire transfer of immediately available funds; (b) through the delivery of irrevocable written instructions, in a form acceptable to the Company, that the Company withhold Vested Shares otherwise then deliverable having a value equal to the aggregate amount of the Withholding Taxes (valued in the same manner used in computing the amount of such Withholding Taxes); or (c) by any combination of (a) and (b) above.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, (i) the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates shall have the right to withhold from Grantee’s compensation any

 

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Withholding Taxes contemplated by this Section 5 and (ii) the Company shall have no obligation to deliver any Vested Shares unless and until a


 
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