AMERICAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS
HOLDINGS, INC.
2005 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN (AS
AMENDED AND RESTATED)
(AS AMENDED THROUGH APRIL 30,
2009)
The
purpose of the American Medical Systems Holdings, Inc. 2005 Stock
Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) is to advance the interests
of American Medical Systems Holdings, Inc. (the
“Company”) and its stockholders by enabling the Company
and its Subsidiaries to attract and retain qualified individuals
through opportunities for equity participation in the Company, and
to reward those individuals who contribute to the achievement of
the Company’ economic objectives.
The
following terms will have the meanings set forth below, unless the
context clearly otherwise requires:
2.1
“Board” means the Board of Directors of the
Company.
2.2
“ Broker Exercise Notice ” means a written
notice pursuant to which a Participant, upon exercise of an Option,
irrevocably instructs a broker or dealer to sell a sufficient
number of shares or loan a sufficient amount of money to pay all or
a portion of the exercise price of the Option and/or any related
withholding tax obligations and remit such sums to the Company and
directs the Company to deliver stock certificates to be issued upon
such exercise directly to such broker or dealer or their
nominee.
2.3
“ Cause ” means (i) dishonesty, fraud,
misrepresentation, embezzlement or deliberate injury or attempted
injury, in each case related to the Company or any Subsidiary,
(ii) any unlawful or criminal activity of a serious nature,
(iii) any intentional and deliberate breach of a duty or
duties that, individually or in the aggregate, are material in
relation to the Participant’s overall duties, or
(iv) any material breach of any confidentiality, non-compete
or non-solicitation agreement entered into with the Company or any
Subsidiary.
2.4
“ Change in Control ” means an event described
in Section 14.1 of the Plan; provided, however, if
distribution of an Incentive Award subject to Section 409A of
the Code is triggered by a Change in Control, the term Change in
Control will mean a change in the ownership or effective control of
the Company, or in the ownership of a substantial portion of the
assets of the Company, as such term is defined in Section 409A
of the Code and the regulations and rulings issued
thereunder.
2.5
“ Code ” means the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended.
2.6
“ Committee ” means the group of individuals
administering the Plan, as provided in Section 3 of the
Plan.
2.7
“ Common Stock ” means the voting common stock
of the Company, par value $0.01 per share, or the number and kind
of shares of stock or other securities into which such Common Stock
may be changed in accordance with Section 4.3 of the
Plan.
2.8
“ Disability ” means the disability of the
Participant such as would entitle the Participant to receive
disability income benefits pursuant to the long term disability
plan of the Company or Subsidiary then covering the Participant or,
if no such plan exists or is applicable to the Participant, the
permanent and total disability of the Participant within the
meaning of Section 22(e)(3) of the Code; provided, however, if
distribution of an Incentive Award subject to Section 409A of
the Code is triggered by an Eligible Recipient’s Disability,
such term will mean that the Eligible Recipient is disabled as
defined by Section 409A of the Code and the regulations and
rulings issued thereunder.
2.9
“ Eligible Recipients ” means all employees
(including, without limitation, officers and directors who are also
employees) of the Company or any Subsidiary, and any non-employee
directors, consultants, advisors and independent contractors of the
Company or any Subsidiary. Nothwithstanding the foregoing, for
purposes of granting Incentive Stock Options, the term Eligible
Recipients shall be limited to all employees (including without
limitation, officers and directors who are also employees) of the
Company or any Subsidiary.
2.10
“ Exchange Act ” means the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended.
2.11
“ Fair Market Value ” means, with respect to the
Common Stock, as of any date: (i) the closing sale price of the
Common Stock as of such date during the regular daily trading
session, as reported on the Nasdaq National Market System or on any
national exchange (or, if no shares were traded or quoted on such
date, as of the next preceding date on which there was such a trade
or quote); or (ii) if the Common Stock is not so listed,
admitted to unlisted trading privileges, or reported on any
national exchange or on the Nasdaq National Market System, the mean
between the reported high and low sale prices as of such date
during the regular daily trading session, as reported by the Nasdaq
SmallCap Market, OTC Bulletin Board, the Bulletin Board Exchange
(BBX) or the National Quotation Bureaus, Inc., or other
comparable service (or, if no shares were traded or quoted on such
date, as of the next preceding date on which there was such a trade
or quote); or (iii) if the Common Stock is not so listed or
reported, such price as the Committee determines in good faith in
the exercise of its reasonable discretion.
2.12
“ Good Reason ,” unless otherwise defined in an
agreement evidencing an Incentive Award, means the occurrence of
any of the following in connection with a Change in Control:
(i) a substantial diminution in the Participant’s
authority, duties or responsibilities as in effect prior to the
Change in Control, (ii) a reduction by the Company in the
Participant’s base salary, or an adverse change in the form
or timing of the payment thereof, as in effect immediately prior to
the Change in Control or as thereafter increased, or (iii) the
Company’s requiring the Participant to be based at any office
or location that is more than fifty (50) miles further from
the office or location thereof immediately preceding the Change in
Control; provided, however, Good Reason shall not include any of
the circumstances or events described above unless (A) the
Participant has first provided written notice of such circumstance
or event to the Company or its successor and the Company or such
successor has not corrected such circumstance or event within
thirty (30) days thereafter; and (B) the Participant has
not otherwise consented to the occurrence in writing.
2.13
“ Incentive Award ” means an Option, Stock
Appreciation Right, Restricted Stock Award, Stock Unit Award,
Performance Award or Stock Bonus granted to an Eligible Recipient
pursuant to the Plan.
2.14
“ Incentive Stock Option ” means a right to
purchase Common Stock granted to an Eligible Recipient pursuant to
Section 6 of the Plan that qualifies as an “incentive
stock option” within the meaning of Section 422 of the
Code.
2.15
“ Non-Statutory Stock Option ” means a right to
purchase Common Stock granted to an Eligible Recipient pursuant to
Section 6 of the Plan that does not qualify as an Incentive
Stock Option.
2.16
“ Option ” means an Incentive Stock Option or a
Non Statutory Stock Option.
2.17
“ Participant ” means an Eligible Recipient who
receives one or more Incentive Awards under the Plan.
2.18
“ Performance Criteria ” means the performance
criteria that may be used by the Committee in granting Incentive
Awards contingent upon achievement of performance goals, consisting
of net sales, operating income, income before income taxes, net
income, net income per share (basic or diluted), profitability as
measured by return ratios (including return on assets, return on
equity, return on investment and return on sales), cash flows,
market share, cost reduction goals, margins (including one or more
of gross, operating and net income margins), stock price, total
return to stockholders, economic value added, working capital and
strategic plan development and implementation. The Committee may
select one criterion or multiple criteria for measuring
performance, and the measurement may be based upon Company,
Subsidiary or business unit performance, either absolute or by
relative comparison to other companies or any other external
measure of the selected criteria.
2.19
“ Performance Award ” means a right granted to
an Eligible Recipient pursuant to Section 10 of the Plan to
receive an amount of cash, a number of shares of Common Stock, or a
combination of both, contingent upon achievement of Performance
Criteria or other objectives during a specified period.
2.20
“ Previously Acquired Shares ” means shares of
Common Stock that are already owned by the Participant.
2.21
“ Restricted Stock Award ” means an award of
Common Stock granted to an Eligible Recipient pursuant to
Section 8 of the Plan that are subject to restrictions on
transferability and a risk of forfeiture.
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2.22
“ Retirement ” means termination of employment
or service at age 55 or older and completion of at least ten years
of continuous service.
2.23
“ Securities Act ” means the Securities Act of
1933, as amended.
2.24
“ Stock Appreciation Right ” means a right
granted to an Eligible Recipient pursuant to Section 7 of the
Plan to receive a payment from the Company, in the form of shares
of Common Stock, cash or a combination of both, equal to the
difference between the Fair Market Value of one or more shares of
Common Stock and a specified exercise price of such
shares.
2.25
“ Stock Bonus ” means an award of Common Stock
granted to an Eligible Recipient pursuant to Section 11 of the
Plan.
2.26
“ Stock Unit Award ” means a right granted to an
Eligible Recipient pursuant to Section 9 of the Plan to
receive the Fair Market Value of one or more shares of Common
Stock, payable in cash, shares of Common Stock, or a combination of
both, the payment, issuance, retention and /or vesting of which is
subject to the satisfaction of specified conditions, which may
include achievement of Performance Criteria or other
objectives.
2.27
“ Subsidiary ” means any entity in which the
Company has a “controlling interest” (as defined in
Treas. Reg. Sec. 1.409A-1(b)(5)(ii)(E)(1)), either directly or
through a chain of corporations or other entities in which each
corporation or other entity has a “controlling
interest” in another corporation or entity in the chain, as
determined by the Committee.
2.28
“ Tax Date ” means the date any withholding tax
obligation arises under the Code for a Participant with respect to
an Incentive Award.
3.1
The Committee . The Plan will be administered by the Board
or by a committee of the Board. So long as the Company has a class
of its equity securities registered under Section 12 of the
Exchange Act, any committee administering the Plan will consist
solely of two or more members of the Board who are “non
employee directors” within the meaning of Rule 16b 3
under the Exchange Act, who are “independent” as
required by the listing standards of the Nasdaq Stock Market (or
other applicable market or exchange on which the Company’s
Common Stock may be quoted or traded) and who are “outside
directors” within the meaning of Section 162(m) of the Code.
Such a committee, if established, will act by majority approval of
the members (unanimous approval with respect to action by written
consent), and a majority of the members of such a committee will
constitute a quorum. As used in the Plan, “Committee”
will refer to the Board or to such a committee, if established. To
the extent consistent with applicable corporate law of the
Company’s jurisdiction of incorporation, the Committee may
delegate to any officers of the Company the duties, power and
authority of the Committee under the Plan pursuant to such
conditions or limitations as the Committee may establish; provided,
however, that only the Committee may exercise such duties, power
and authority with respect to Eligible Recipients who are subject
to Section 16 of the Exchange Act or whose compensation in the
fiscal year may be subject to the limits on deductible compensation
pursuant to Section 162(m) of the Code. The Committee may exercise
its duties, power and authority under the Plan in its sole and
absolute discretion without the consent of any Participant or other
party, unless the Plan specifically provides otherwise. Each
determination, interpretation or other action made or taken by the
Committee pursuant to the provisions of the Plan will be conclusive
and binding for all purposes and on all persons, and no member of
the Committee will be liable for any action or determination made
in good faith with respect to the Plan or any Incentive Award
granted under the Plan.
3.2
Authority of the Committee .
(a) In accordance
with and subject to the provisions of the Plan, the Committee will
have the authority to determine all provisions of Incentive Awards
as the Committee may deem necessary or desirable and as consistent
with the terms of the Plan, including, without limitation, the
following: (i) the Eligible Recipients to be selected as
Participants; (ii) the nature and extent of the Incentive Awards to
be made to each Participant (including the number of shares of
Common Stock to be subject to each Incentive Award, any exercise
price, the manner in which Incentive Awards will vest or become
exercisable and whether Incentive Awards will be granted in tandem
with other Incentive Awards) and the form of written agreement, if
any, evidencing such Incentive Award; (iii) the time or times
when Incentive Awards will be granted; (iv) the duration of
each Incentive Award;
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and
(v) the restrictions and other conditions to which the payment
or vesting of Incentive Awards may be subject; provided, however,
that notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan: (A) any
Incentive Award other than an Option or Stock Appreciation Right
will not vest or become payable over a period of less than three
(3) years from the date of grant, if vesting or payment is
based solely upon the passage of time, and will have a performance
measurement period of not less than one (1) year, if vesting
or payment is based upon satisfaction of Performance Criteria or
other objectives; and (B) all Incentive Awards granted to
non-employee directors shall be granted pursuant to bona fide
formulas or policies established by the Committee from time to time
for the compensation of such directors, as a group, in respect of
service as a non-employee director, a member of a committee of the
Board or chair of the Board or a committee of the Board, and the
Committee shall not discriminate among individual non-employee
directors in granting or establishing the terms of Incentive Awards
(except to the extent such formulas or policies may be modified
from time to time). In addition, the Committee will have the
authority under the Plan in its sole discretion to pay the economic
value of any Incentive Award in the form of cash, Common Stock or
any combination of both.
(b) Subject to
Section 3.2(d), the Committee will have the authority under
the Plan to amend or modify the terms of any outstanding Incentive
Award in any manner, including, without limitation, the authority
to modify the number of shares or other terms and conditions of an
Incentive Award, extend the term of an Incentive Award, accelerate
the exercisability or vesting or otherwise terminate any
restrictions relating to an Incentive Award, accept the surrender
of any outstanding Incentive Award or, to the extent not previously
exercised or vested, authorize the grant of new Incentive Awards in
substitution for surrendered Incentive Awards; provided, however
that (A) the Committee shall not be authorized to accelerate
the vesting or payment of any Incentive Award or terminate or waive
any restrictions relating to an Incentive Award without prior
approval of the Company’s stockholders, except in connection
with the Participant’s death, Disability or Retirement, or in
connection with a Change in Control; (B) the amended or
modified terms are permitted by the Plan as then in effect; and
(C) any Participant adversely affected by such amended or
modified terms has consented to such amendment or
modification.
(c) In the event
of (i) any reorganization, merger, consolidation,
recapitalization, liquidation, reclassification, stock dividend,
stock split, combination of shares, rights offering, extraordinary
dividend or divestiture (including a spin off) or any other change
in corporate structure or shares; (ii) any purchase,
acquisition, sale, disposition or write-down of a significant
amount of assets or a significant business; (iii) any change
in accounting principles or practices, tax laws or other such laws
or provisions affecting reported results; (iv) any uninsured
catastrophic losses or extraordinary non-recurring items as
described in Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 30 or in
management’s discussion and analysis of financial performance
appearing in the Company’s annual report to stockholders for
the applicable year; or (v) any other similar change, in each
case with respect to the Company or any other entity whose
performance is relevant to the grant or vesting of an Incentive
Award, the Committee (or, if the Company is not the surviving
corporation in any such transaction, the board of directors of the
surviving corporation) may, without the consent of any affected
Participant, amend or modify the vesting criteria (including
Performance Criteria) of any outstanding Incentive Award that is
based in whole or in part on the financial performance of the
Company (or any Subsidiary or division or other subunit thereof) or
such other entity so as equitably to reflect such event, with the
desired result that the criteria for evaluating such financial
performance of the Company or such other entity will be
substantially the same (in the sole discretion of the Committee or
the board of directors of the surviving corporation) following such
event as prior to such event; provided, however, that the amended
or modified terms are permitted by the Plan as then in effect,
including the limitations in Section 3.2(a) and
3.2(b).
(d)
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan other than
Section 4.3, the Committee may not, without prior approval of
the Company’s stockholders, seek to effect any re-pricing of
any previously granted, “underwater” Option or Stock
Appreciation Right by: (i) amending or modifying the terms of
the Option or Stock Appreciation Right to lower the exercise price;
(ii) canceling the underwater Option or Stock Appreciation
Right and granting either (A) replacement Options or Stock
Appreciation Rights having a lower exercise price;
(B) Restricted Stock Awards; or (C) Stock Unit Awards,
Performance Awards or Stock Bonuses in exchange; or
(iii) repurchasing the underwater Options or Stock
Appreciation Rights and granting new Incentive Awards under this
Plan. For purposes of this Section 3.2(d), Options and Stock
Appreciation Rights will be deemed to be “underwater”
at any time when the Fair Market Value of the Common Stock is less
than the exercise price of the Option or Stock Appreciation
Right.
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(e) In addition to
the authority of the Committee under Section 3.2(b) and
notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, the Committee may,
in its sole discretion, amend the terms of the Plan or Incentive
Awards with respect to Participants resident outside of the United
States or employed by a non-U.S. Subsidiary in order to comply with
local legal requirements, to otherwise protect the Company’s
or Subsidiary’s interests, or to meet objectives of the Plan,
and may, where appropriate, establish one or more sub-plans
(including the adoption of any required rules and regulations) for
the purposes of qualifying for preferred tax treatment under
foreign tax laws. The Committee shall have no authority, however,
to take action pursuant to this Section 3.2(e): (i) to
reserve shares or grant Incentive Awards in excess of the
limitations provided in Section 4.1; (ii) to effect any
re-pricing in violation of Section 3.2(d); (iii) to grant
Options having an exercise price less than 100% of the Fair Market
Value of one share of Common Stock on the date of grant in
violation of Section 6.2; or (iv) for which stockholder
approval would then be required pursuant to
Section 19.
(f)
Notwithstanding anything in this Plan to the contrary, the
Committee will determine whether an Incentive Award is subject to
the requirements of Section 409A of the Code and, if
determined to be subject to Section 409A of the Code, the
Committee will make such Incentive Award subject to such written
terms and conditions determined necessary or desirable to cause
such Incentive Award to comply in form with the requirements of
Section 409A of the Code. Further, the Plan, as it relates to
Incentive Awards that are subject to Section 409A of the Code,
will be administered in a manner that is intended to comply with
the requirements of Section 409A of the Code and any
regulations or rulings issued thereunder.
4. Shares
Available for Issuance .
4.1
Maximum Number of Shares Available; Certain Restrictions on
Awards . Subject to adjustment as provided in Section 4.3
of the Plan, the maximum number of shares of Common Stock that will
be available for issuance under the Plan will be the sum
of:
(b) the number of
shares subject to outstanding options under the Company’s
2000 Equity Incentive Plan as of the Effective Date which are not
thereafter issued or which have been issued but are subsequently
forfeited and which would otherwise have been available for further
issuance under such plan, assuming, however, that the provisions of
Section 4.2 of the Plan applied thereto;
(c) the number of
shares issued or Incentive Awards granted under the Plan in
connection with the settlement, assumption or substitution of
outstanding awards or obligations to grant future awards as a
condition of the Company and/or any Subsidiary(ies) acquiring,
merging or consolidating with another entity; and
(d) the number of
shares that are unallocated and available for grant under a stock
plan assumed by the Company or any Subsidiary(ies) in connection
with the merger, consolidation, or acquisition of another entity by
the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries, based on the applicable
exchange ratio and other transaction terms, but only to the extent
that such shares may be utilized by the Company or its Subsidiaries
following the transaction pursuant to the rules and regulations of
the Nasdaq Stock Market (or other applicable market or exchange on
which the Company’s Common Stock may be quoted or
traded).
The shares
available for issuance under the Plan may, at the election of the
Committee, be either treasury shares or shares authorized but
unissued, and, if treasury shares are used, all references in the
Plan to the issuance of shares will, for corporate law purposes, be
deemed to mean the transfer of shares from treasury.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Plan to the contrary,
(i) no Participant in the Plan may be granted Options and
Stock Appreciation Rights relating to more than 1,500,000 shares of
Common Stock in the aggregate during any calendar year;
(ii) no Participant in the Plan may be granted Restricted
Stock Awards, Stock Unit Awards, Performance Awards and Stock
Bonuses relating to more than 500,000 shares of Common Stock in the
aggregate during any calendar year; (iii) no Participant in
the Plan may be granted Incentive Awards denominated in cash in an
amount in excess of $1,000,000 in the aggregate during any calendar
year; and (iv) no more than 11,600,000 shares of Common Stock
may be issued pursuant to the exercise of Incentive Stock Options
granted under the Plan. All of the foregoing share limits are
subject, in each case, to adjustment as provided in
Section 4.3 of the Plan. In addition, the limits set forth in
clauses (i) and (ii) above will not apply to Incentive
Awards granted as a result of the Company’s assumption or
substitution of like awards issued by any acquired, merged or
consolidated entity pursuant to the applicable transaction terms,
and the limit in clause (iv) above will not apply to any Incentive
Stock Options
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that are
assumed or substituted pursuant to the applicable provisions of the
Code in connection with any acquisition, consolidation or
merger.
4.2
Accounting for Incentive Awards . Shares of Common Stock
that are issued under the Plan or that are potentially issuable
pursuant to outstanding Incentive Awards will be applied to reduce
the maximum number of shares of Common Stock remaining available
for issuance under the Plan; provided, however, that the total
number of shares that may be issued under the Plan shall be reduced
by one additional share for each share issued pursuant to an
Incentive Award other than an Option or a Stock Appreciation Right,
or potentially issuable pursuant to an outstanding Incentive Award
other than an Option or a Stock Appreciation Right. All shares so
subtracted from the amount available under the Plan with respect to
an Incentive Award that lapses, expires, is forfeited (including
issued shares forfeited under a Restricted Stock Award) or for any
reason is terminated unexercised or unvested or is settled or paid
in cash or any form other than shares of Common Stock will
automatically again become available for issuance under the Plan;
provided, however, that (i) any shares which would have been issued
upon any exercise of an Option but for the fact that the exercise
price was paid by a “net exercise” pursuant to
Section 6.4(b) or the tender or attestation as to ownership of
Previously Acquired Shares will not again become available for
issuance under the Plan; and (ii) shares covered by a Stock
Appreciation Right, to the extent exercised, will not again become
available for issuance under the Plan. Furthermore, shares withheld
for the payment of taxes in connection with an Incentive Award will
not again become available for issuance under the Plan.
4.3
Adjustments to Shares and Incentive Awards . In the event of
any reorganization, merger, consolidation, recapitalization,
liquidation, reclassification, stock dividend, stock split,
combination of shares, rights offering, divestiture or
extraordinary dividend (including a spin off) or any other change
in the corporate structure or shares of the Company, the Committee
(or, if the Company is not the surviving corporation in any such
transaction, the board of directors of the surviving corporation)
will make appropriate adjustment (which determination will be
conclusive) as to the number and kind of securities or other
property (including cash) available for issuance or payment under
the Plan and, in order to prevent dilution or enlargement of the
rights of Participants, (a) the number and kind of securities
or other property (including cash) subject to outstanding Incentive
Awards, and (b) the exercise price of outstanding Options and
Stock Appreciation Rights.
Participants
in the Plan will be those Eligible Recipients who, in the judgment
of the Committee, have contributed, are contributing or are
expected to contribute to the achievement of economic objectives of
the Company or its Subsidiaries. Eligible Recipients may be granted
from time to time one or more Incentive Awards, singly or in
combination or in tandem with other Incentive Awards, as may be
determined by the Committee in its sole discretion. Incentive
Awards will be deemed to be granted as of the date specified in the
grant resolution of the Committee, which date will be the date of
any related agreement with the Participant.
6.1
Grant . An Eligible Recipient may be granted one or more
Options under the Plan, and such Options will be subject to such
terms and conditions, consistent with the other provisions of the
Plan, as may be determined by the Committee in its sole discretion.
The Committee may designate whether an Option is to be considered
an Incentive Stock Option or a Non Statutory Stock Option. To the
extent that any Incentive Stock Option granted under the Plan
ceases for any reason to qualify as an “incentive stock
option” for purposes of Section 422 of the Code, such
Incentive Stock Option will continue to be outstanding for purposes
of the Plan but will thereafter be deemed to be a Non Statutory
Stock Option.
6.2
Exercise Price . The per share price to be paid by a
Participant upon exercise of an Option will be determined by the
Committee in its discretion at the time of the Option grant,
provided that such price will not be less than 10
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