EXHIBIT 10.5
THE ALLSTATE
CORPORATION
EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN FOR
NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS
As Amended and Restated effective
as of September 15, 2008
I.
Purpose.
The purpose of The Allstate
Corporation Equity Incentive Plan for Non-Employee Directors (the
“ Plan ”) is to promote the interests of The
Allstate Corporation (the “ Company ”) by
providing an inducement to obtain and retain the services of
qualified persons as members of the Company’s Board of
Directors (the “ Board ”) and to align more
closely the interests of such persons with the interests of the
Company’s stockholders by providing a significant portion of
the compensation provided to such persons in the form of equity
securities of the Company.
II.
Administration.
The Plan shall be administered by
the Committee. The Committee shall have full power to
construe and interpret the Plan and Shares, RSUs and Options
granted hereunder, to establish and amend rules for its
administration and to correct any defect or omission and to
reconcile any inconsistency in the Plan or in any Share, RSU or
Option granted hereunder to the extent the Committee deems
desirable to carry the Plan or any Share, RSU or Option granted
hereunder into effect. Any decisions of the Committee in the
administration of the Plan shall be final and conclusive. The
Committee may authorize any one or more of its members, the
secretary of the Committee or any officer of the Company to execute
and deliver documents on behalf of the Committee. Each member
of the Committee, and, to the extent provided by the Committee, any
other person to whom duties or powers shall be delegated in
connection with the Plan, shall incur no liability with respect to
any action taken or omitted to be taken in connection with the Plan
and shall be fully protected in relying in good faith upon the
advice of counsel, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable
law.
III.
Eligibility.
Each Non-Employee Director shall be
eligible to participate in the Plan.
IV.
Limitation on Aggregate
Shares.
A.
Maximum Number of
Shares . The
aggregate maximum number of Shares that may be granted pursuant to
the Plan or delivered upon settlement of RSUs or upon exercise of
Options granted pursuant to the Plan shall be 580,000 Shares.
Such maximum number of Shares is subject to adjustment under the
provisions of Section IV.B. The Shares to be granted
pursuant to the Plan or delivered upon settlement of RSUs or upon
exercise of Options may be either (i) authorized but unissued
Shares or (ii) Shares previously issued which have been
reacquired by
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the Company (“Treasury
Shares”); provided, however, that on or after June 1,
2001, only Treasury Shares shall be granted pursuant to the Plan or
delivered upon settlement of RSUs or exercise of Options (other
than upon exercise of Options granted prior to such date). In
the event any RSU, Option or Reload Option shall, for any reason,
terminate or expire or be surrendered without having been exercised
in full or without all Shares subject thereto having been
delivered, the Shares subject to such RSU, Option or Reload Option
but not delivered or purchased thereunder shall be available for
future RSUs, Options or Reload Options to be granted under the
Plan.
B.
Adjustment
. The maximum number of Shares
referred to in Section IV.A of the Plan, the number of RSUs
granted pursuant to Section VI of the Plan, the number of
Shares subject to outstanding RSUs granted under Section VI of
the Plan, the number of Options granted pursuant to
Section VII of the Plan, and the option price and the number
of Shares which may be purchased under any outstanding Option
granted under Section VII of the Plan shall be proportionately
adjusted for (i) any increase or decrease in the number of
issued and outstanding Shares as the result of (a) the
declaration and payment of a dividend payable in Common Stock, or
the division of the Common Stock outstanding at the date hereof (or
the date of the grant of any such outstanding Option or RSU, as
applicable) into a greater number of Shares without the receipt of
consideration therefore by the Company, or any other increase in
the number of such Shares of the Company outstanding at the date
hereof (or the date of the grant of any such outstanding Option or
RSU, as applicable) which is effective without the receipt of
consideration therefore by the Company (exclusive of any Shares
granted by the Company to employees of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries without receipt of separate consideration by the
Company), or (b) the consolidation of the Shares outstanding
at the date hereof (or the date of the grant of any such
outstanding Option or RSU, as applicable) into a smaller number of
Shares without the payment of consideration thereof by the Company,
or any other decrease in the number of such Shares outstanding at
the date hereof (or the date of the grant of any such outstanding
Option or RSU, as applicable) effected without the payment of
consideration by the Company or (ii) to the extent not
addressed in (i), any equity restructuring (within the meaning of
Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 (revised 2004)) that
causes the per share value of the Common Stock to change;
provided , however , that the total option price for
all Shares which may be purchased upon the exercise of any Option
granted pursuant to the Plan (computed by multiplying the number of
Shares originally purchasable thereunder, reduced by the number of
such Shares which have theretofore been purchased thereunder, by
the original option price per share before any of the adjustments
herein provided for) shall not be changed.
In the event of a change in the
Common Stock as presently constituted which is limited to a change
of the Company’s authorized shares with a par value into the
same number of shares with a different par value or without par
value, the shares resulting from any such change will be deemed to
be the Common Stock within the meaning of this Plan and no
adjustment will be required pursuant to this
Section IV.B.
The foregoing adjustments shall be
made by the Committee, whose determination in that respect shall be
final, binding and conclusive. Except as expressly provided
in this Section IV.B,
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a Non-Employee Director shall have
no rights by reason of any subdivision or consolidation of shares
of stock of any class or the payment of any stock dividend or any
other increase or decrease in the number of shares of stock of any
class.
V.
Definitions.
The following terms shall have the
meanings set forth below when used herein:
“
Change of Control ” means, except as otherwise
provided at the end of this Section, the occurrence of any one or
more of the following:
(a)
(Voting Power) any Person or
group (as such term is defined in Treasury Regulation
Section 1.409A-3(i)(5)(v)(B)), other than a Subsidiary or any
employee benefit plan (or any related trust) of the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries, acquires or has acquired during the 12-month
period ending on the date of the most recent acquisition by such
Person or Persons, ownership of stock of the Company possessing 30%
or more of the combined voting power of all Voting Securities of
the Company (such a Person or group that is not a Similarly Owned
Company (as defined below), a “ More than 30% Owner
”), except that no Change of Control shall be deemed to have
occurred solely by reason of such ownership by a corporation with
respect to which both more than 70% of the common stock of such
corporation and Voting Securities representing more than 70% of the
combined voting power of the Voting Securities of such corporation
are then owned, directly or indirectly, by the Persons who were the
direct or indirect owners of the common stock and Voting Securities
of the Company immediately before such acquisition in substantially
the same proportions as their ownership, immediately before such
acquisition, of the common stock and Voting Securities of the
Company, as the case may be (a “ Similarly Owned
Company ”); or
(b) (Majority Ownership) any
Person or group (as such term is defined in Treasury Regulation
Section 1.409A-3(i)(5)(v)(B)), other than a Subsidiary or any
employee benefit plan (or any related trust) of the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries, acquires ownership of more than 50% of the
voting power of all Voting Securities of the Company or of the
total fair market value of the stock of the Company (such a Person
or group that is not a Similarly Owned Company, a “
Majority Owner ”), except that no Change of Control
shall be deemed to have occurred solely by reason of such ownership
by a Similarly Owned Company ; or
(c) (Board Composition) a
majority of the members of the Board is replaced during any
12-month period by directors whose appointment or election is not
endorsed by a majority of the members of the Board before the date
of the appointment or election (“ Board Turnover
”); or
(d) (Reorganization) the
consummation of a merger, reorganization, consolidation, or similar
transaction, or of a plan or agreement for the sale or other
disposition of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets
of the Company, or a plan of liquidation of the Company (any of the
foregoing, a “ Reorganization Transaction ”)
that, does not qualify as an Exempt Reorganization
Transaction.
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Notwithstanding anything contained
herein to the contrary: (i) no transaction or event
shall constitute a Change of Control for purposes of this Plan
unless the transaction or event constituting the Change of Control
also constitutes a change in the ownership of a corporation (as
defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-3(i)(5)(v)), a
change in effective control of a corporation (as defined in
Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-3(i)(5)(vi)) or a change in
the ownership of a substantial portion of the assets of a
corporation (as defined in Treasury Regulation
Section 1.409A-3(i)(5)(vii)); and (ii) no sale or
disposition of one or more Subsidiaries (“Sale
Subsidiary”) or the assets thereof shall constitute a Change
of Control for purposes of this Plan if the investments in and
advances by the Company and its Subsidiaries (other than the Sale
Subsidiaries) to such Sale Subsidiary as of immediately prior to
the sale or disposition determined in accordance with Generally
Accepted Accounting Principles (“GAAP”) (but after
intercompany eliminations and net of the effect of intercompany
reinsurance) are less than 51% of the Consolidated Total
Shareholders’ Equity of the Company as of immediately prior
to the sale or disposition. Consolidated Total
Shareholders’ Equity means, at any date, the total
shareholders’ equity of the Company and its Subsidiaries at
such date, as reported in the consolidated financial statements
prepared in accordance with GAAP.
“ Code ” means
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“ Committee ”
means the Nominating and Governance Committee of the Board, any
successor committee of the Board performing similar functions or,
in the absence of such a committee, the Board.
“ Common Stock ”
means the Common Stock, par value $.01 per share, of the
Company.
“ Disability ”
means a condition which renders a Non-Employee Director disabled
within the meaning of Code Section 409A(a)(2)(C).
“ Dividend Equivalent
Right ” means an unfunded and unsecured promise to pay a
cash amount equal to the regular cash dividends that would be paid
on a Share of Common Stock underlying a Restricted Stock Unit if
such Share had been delivered pursuant to the Restricted Stock Unit
award.
“ Election Shares
” means any Shares issued to a Non-Employee Director pursuant
to the election of such person to receive such Shares in lieu of
cash compensation made in accordance with
Section VIII.B.
“ ERISA ” means
the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended.
“ Exchange Act ”
means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“ Exempt Reorganization
Transaction ” means a Reorganization Transaction (as that
term is defined in subpart (d) of the definition of Change of
Control) that fails to result in (a) any Person or group (as
such term is defined in Treasury Regulation
Section 1.409A-3(i)(5)(v)(B))
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becoming a More than 30% Owner (as
that term is defined in subpart (a) of the definition of
Change of Control) or a Majority Owner (as that term is defined in
subpart (b) of the definition of Change of Control),
(b) Board Turnover (as that term is defined in subpart
(c) of the definition of Change of Control), or (c) a
sale or disposition to any Person or group (as such term is defined
in Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-3(i)(5)(v)(B)) of the
assets of the Company that have a total Gross Fair Market Value
equal to at least forty percent (40%) of the total Gross Fair
Market Value of all of the assets of the Company immediately before
such transaction.
“ Fair Market Value
” means the price at which a share of the Stock was last sold
in the principal United States market for the Stock as of the date
for which fair market value is being determined.
“ Gross Fair Market
Value ” means the value of the assets of the Company, or
the value of the assets being disposed of, determined without
regard to any liabilities associated with such assets.
“ Initial Election Date
” means, for each Non-Employee Director, the later to occur
of (i) the date the Plan is approved and adopted by the
Company’s stockholders pursuant to Section XIII of the
Plan, and (ii) the date of such member’s initial
election or appointment to the Board.
“ Non-Employee Director
” means each member of the Board who is not an officer or
employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
“ Option ” means
an option to purchase shares of Common Stock.
“ Person ” means
any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, joint venture,
limited liability company, trust, unincorporated organization,
association, corporation, institution, public benefit corporation,
entity or government instrumentality, division, agency, body or
department.
“ Restricted Stock Unit
” or “RSU” means a restricted stock unit award,
which represents an unfunded and unsecured promise to deliver a
Share of Common Stock in accordance with
Article VI.
“ Shares ” means
shares of Common Stock.
“ Subsidiary ”
means any partnership, corporation, association, limited liability
company, joint stock company, trust, joint venture, unincorporated
organization or other business entity of which (i) if a
corporation, a majority 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 the Company or one or more of the other Subsidiaries
of the Company or a combination thereof, or (ii) if a
partnership, association, limited liability company, joint stock
company, trust, joint venture, unincorporated organization or other
business entity, a majority of the partnership or other similar
equity ownership interest thereof is at the time owned or
controlled, directly or indirectly,
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by the Company or one or more
Subsidiaries of the Company or a combination thereof. For
purposes hereof, the Company or a Subsidiary shall be deemed to
have a majority ownership interest in a partnership, association,
limited liability company, joint stock company, trust, joint
venture, unincorporated organization or other business entity if
the Company or such Subsidiary shall be allocated a majority of
partnership, association, limited liability company, joint stock
company, trust, joint venture, unincorporated organization or other
business entity gains or losses or shall be or control the managing
director, the trustee, the manager or the general partner of such
partnership, association, limited liability company, joint stock
company, trust, joint venture, unincorporated organization or other
business entity.
“ Voting Securities
” means securities of a corporation that are entitled to vote
generally in the election of directors of such
corporation.
VI.
Formula Restricted Stock Unit
Grants for Non-Employee Directors.
A.
Annual Grant of Restricted Stock
Units . Beginning
December 1, 2004, on December 1 of each year 2,000 RSUs
shall automatically be granted to each Non-Employee Director
serving on the Board on such date who has served in such capacity
since June 1 of such year. If any person serving as a
Non-Employee Director on June 1 of 2004 or any subsequent year
ceases to serve as a director of the Company prior to
December 1 of such year, such director shall be automatically
granted on his or her last day of service a number of RSUs equal to
(i) 2,000 multiplied by (ii) a fraction, the
numerator of which is the number of full calendar months such
Non-Employee Director has served on the Board during the period
beginning on such June 1 and ending on such director’s
last date of service and the denominator of which is 6.
B.
Grant for Newly Appointed
Directors . If
after June 1, 2004 a Non-Employee Director is initially
elected or appointed to the Board effective on any date other than
June 1, such Non-Employee Director shall automatically be
granted, on the June 1 following the date he or she joins the
Board (or such earlier dat