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PHH CORPORATION AMENDED AND RESTATED 2005 EQUITY AND INCENTIVE PLAN

Equity Incentive Plan Agreement

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Title: PHH CORPORATION AMENDED AND RESTATED 2005 EQUITY AND INCENTIVE PLAN
Date: 6/22/2009
Industry: Consumer Financial Services     Sector: Financial

PHH CORPORATION AMENDED AND RESTATED 2005 EQUITY AND INCENTIVE PLAN, Parties: phh corporation
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Exhibit 10.1

PHH CORPORATION

AMENDED AND RESTATED

2005 EQUITY AND INCENTIVE PLAN

 


 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section

 

Page

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.

 

Purpose; Types of Awards; Construction.

 

 

3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.

 

Definitions.

 

 

3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.

 

Administration.

 

 

8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.

 

Eligibility.

 

 

9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.

 

Stock Subject to the Plan.

 

 

9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6.

 

Specific Terms of Awards.

 

 

10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.

 

Change in Control Provisions.

 

 

17

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8.

 

General Provisions.

 

 

17

 

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PHH CORPORATION

AMENDED AND RESTATED

2005 EQUITY AND INCENTIVE PLAN

1.

 

Establishment, Purpose; Types of Awards; Construction .

PHH Corporation (the “Company”) hereby establishes the PHH Corporation Amended and Restated 2005 Equity and Incentive Plan (the “Plan”), as set forth herein. The Plan is an amendment and restatement and continuation of the PHH Corporation 2005 Equity and Incentive Plan (the “Prior Plan”). The purposes of the Plan are to afford an incentive to non-employee directors, selected officers and other employees, advisors and consultants of the Company, or any Parent or Subsidiary of the Company that now exists or hereafter is organized or acquired, to continue as non-employee directors, officers, employees, advisors or consultants, as the case may be, to increase their efforts on behalf of the Company and its Subsidiaries and to promote the success of the Company’s business. The Plan provides for the grant of Options (including “incentive stock options” and “nonqualified stock options”), stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units and other stock- or cash-based awards. The Plan is designed with the intention that Awards granted hereunder will comply with the requirements for “performance-based compensation” under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), and the Plan and Awards shall be interpreted in a manner consistent with such requirements. The Company also intends that the Plan comply with Section 409A of the Code and the Plan shall be so construed. The provisions of the Prior Plan continue to control with respect to any Awards outstanding thereunder prior to the date of stockholder approval of this Plan, including to the extent necessary to avoid establishment of a new measurement date for financial accounting purposes and to preserve the status of any options that are intended to qualify as incentive stock options within the meaning of Section 422 of the Code.

2.

 

Definitions .

For purposes of the Plan, the following terms shall be defined as set forth below:

 

(a)

 

“Annual Incentive Program” means the program described in Section 6(c) hereof.

 

 

(b)

 

“Award” means any Option, SAR, Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Unit or Other Stock-Based Award or Other Cash-Based Award granted under the Plan.

 

 

(c)

 

“Award Agreement” means any written agreement, contract, or other instrument or document evidencing an Award.

 

 

(d)

 

“Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company.

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(e)

 

“Change in Control” means a change in control of the Company, which will be deemed to have occurred if:

 

(i)

 

any “person,” as such term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act (other than (A) the Company, (B) any trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of the Company, and (C) any corporation owned, directly or indirectly, by the stockholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of Stock), is or becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing 30% or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding voting securities (excluding any person who becomes such a beneficial owner in connection with a transaction immediately following which the individuals who comprise the Board immediately prior thereto constitute at least a majority of the Board, the entity surviving such transaction or, if the Company or the entity surviving the transaction is then a subsidiary, the ultimate parent thereof);

 

 

(ii)

 

the following individuals cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the number of directors then serving: individuals who, on the Effective Date, constitute the Board and any new director (other than a director whose initial assumption of office is in connection with an actual or threatened election contest, including but not limited to a consent solicitation, relating to the election of directors of the Company) whose appointment or election by the Board or nomination for election by the Company’s stockholders was approved or recommended by a vote of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the directors then still in office who either were directors on the Effective Date or whose appointment, election or nomination for election was previously so approved or recommended;

 

 

(iii)

 

there is consummated a merger or consolidation of the Company or any direct or indirect subsidiary of the Company with any other corporation, other than a merger or consolidation immediately following which the individuals who comprise the Board immediately prior thereto constitute at least a majority of the Board, the entity surviving such merger or consolidation or, if the Company or the entity surviving such merger is then a subsidiary, the ultimate parent thereof; or

 

 

(iv)

 

the stockholders of the Company approve a plan of complete liquidation of the Company or there is consummated an agreement for the sale or disposition by the Company of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets (or any transaction having a similar effect), other than a sale or disposition by the Company of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets to an entity, immediately following which the individuals who comprise the Board immediately prior thereto constitute at least a majority of the board of directors of the entity to which such assets are sold or disposed of or, if such entity is a subsidiary, the ultimate parent thereof.

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Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Change in Control shall not be deemed to have occurred by virtue of (x) a Public Offering or (y) the consummation of any transaction or series of integrated transactions immediately following which the holders of the Stock immediately prior to such transaction or series of transactions continue to have substantially the same proportionate ownership in an entity which owns all or substantially all of the assets of the Company immediately following such transaction or series of transactions. Solely to the extent necessary to comply with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code, a “Change in Control” as defined herein may occur only upon or as a result of a Change in Control that is also a “change in control event,” as defined in accordance with Section 1.409A-3(i)(5) of the Treasury Regulations.

 

(f)

 

“Committee” means the committee established by the Board to administer the Plan, the composition of which shall at all times satisfy the provisions of Rule 16b-3 and Section 162(m) of the Code.

 

 

(g)

 

“Company” means PHH Corporation, a Maryland corporation, or any successor corporation.

 

 

(h)

 

“Covered Employee” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 162(m)(3) of the Code.

 

 

(i)

 

“Effective Date” means, with respect to the Prior Plan, January 14, 2005, and, with respect to this Plan, the date of approval of the Plan by the stockholders of the Company.

 

 

(j)

 

“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

 

(k)

 

“Fair Market Value” means, with respect to Stock or other property, the fair market value of such Stock or other property determined by such methods or procedures as shall be established from time to time by the Committee. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee in good faith, the per share Fair Market Value of Stock as of a particular date shall mean (i) the closing sales price per share of Stock on the national securities exchange on which the Stock is principally traded (or, if there was no trading of the Stock on such date, the closing sales price for the last preceding date on which there was trading of the Stock on such exchange), or (ii) if the shares of Stock are then traded in an over-the-counter market, the average of the closing bid and asked prices for the shares of Stock in such over-the-counter market for the last preceding date on which there was a sale of such Stock in such market, or (iii) if the shares of Stock are not then listed on a national securities exchange or traded in an over-the-counter market, such value as the Committee, in its sole discretion, shall determine.

 

 

(l)

 

“Grantee” means a person who, as a non-employee director, officer or other employee of the Company or a Parent or Subsidiary of the Company, has been granted an Award under the Plan.

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(m)

 

“ISO” means any Option intended to be and designated as an incentive stock option within the meaning of Section 422 of the Code.

 

 

(n)

 

“Long Term Incentive Program” means the program described in Section 6(b) hereof.

 

 

(o)

 

“Non-Employee Director” means any director of the Company who is not also employed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

 

 

(p)

 

“NQSO” means any Option that is not designated as an ISO.

 

 

(q)

 

“Option” means a right, granted to a Grantee under Section 6(b)(i), to purchase shares of Stock. An Option may be either an ISO or an NQSO, provided that ISOs may be granted only to employees of the Company or a Parent or Subsidiary of the Company.

 

 

(r)

 

“Other Cash-Based Award” means cash awarded under the Annual Incentive Program or the Long Term Incentive Program, including cash awarded as a bonus or upon the attainment of Performance Goals or otherwise as permitted under the Plan.

 

 

(s)

 

“Other Stock-Based Award” means a right or other interest granted to a Grantee under the Annual Incentive Program or the Long Term Incentive Program that may be denominated or payable in, valued in whole or in part by reference to, or otherwise based on, or related to, Stock, including but not limited to (i) unrestricted Stock awarded as a bonus or upon the attainment of Performance Goals or otherwise as permitted under the Plan, and (ii) a right granted to a Grantee to acquire Stock from the Company containing terms and conditions prescribed by the Committee.

 

 

(t)

 

“Parent” means a “parent corporation,” whether now or hereafter existing, as defined in Section 424(e) of the Code.

 

 

(u)

 

“Performance Goals” means performance goals based on one or more of the following criteria, determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles where applicable: (i) pre-tax income or after-tax income; (ii) income or earnings including operating income, earnings before or after taxes, earnings before or after interest, depreciation, amortization, or extraordinary or special items; (iii) pre-tax income of the Company or any Subsidiary, or any division or business unit thereof, before or after non-controlling interest; (iv) net income excluding amortization of intangible assets, depreciation and impairment of goodwill and intangible assets and/or excluding charges attributable to the adoption of new accounting pronouncements; (v) earnings or book value per share (basic or diluted); (vi) return on assets (gross or net), return on investment, return on capital, or return on equity; (vii) return on revenues; (viii) cash flow, free cash flow, cash flow return on investment (discounted or otherwise), net cash provided by operations, or cash flow in excess of cost of capital; (ix) economic value created; (x) operating margin or profit margin; (xi) stock price or total stockholder

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return; (xii) income or earnings from continuing operations; (xiii) cost targets, reductions and savings, expense management, productivity and efficiencies; and (xiv) strategic business criteria, consisting of one or more objectives based on meeting specified market penetration or market share, geographic business expansion, customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, human resources management, supervision of litigation, information technology, and goals relating to divestitures, joint ventures and similar transactions. Where applicable, the Performance Goals may be expressed in terms of attaining a specified level of the particular criterion or the attainment of a percentage increase or decrease in the particular criterion, and may be applied to one or more of the Company or a Parent or Subsidiary of the Company, or a division or strategic business unit of the Company, all as determined by the Committee. The Performance Goals may include a threshold level of performance below which no payment will be made (or no vesting will occur), levels of performance at which specified payments will be paid (or specified vesting will occur), and a maximum level of performance above which no additional payment will be made (or at which full vesting will occur). Each of the foregoing Performance Goals shall be evaluated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, where applicable, and shall be subject to certification by the Committee. The Committee shall have the authority to make equitable adjustments to the Performance Goals in recognition of unusual or non-recurring events affecting the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary of the Company or the financial statements of the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary of the Company, in response to changes in applicable laws or regulations, or to account for items of gain, loss or expense determined to be extraordinary or unusual in nature or infrequent in occurrence or related to the disposal of a segment of a business or related to a change in accounting principles.

 

 

(v)

 

“Plan” means this PHH Corporation Amended and Restated 2005 Equity and Incentive Plan, as it may be amended from time to time.

 

 

(w)

 

“Plan Year” means a calendar year.

 

 

(x)

 

“Public Offering” means an offering of equity securities of the Company that is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

 

(y)

 

“Restricted Stock” means an Award of shares of Stock to a Grantee under Section 6(b)(iii) that may be subject to certain restrictions and to a risk of forfeiture.

 

 

(z)

 

“Restricted Stock Unit” or “RSU” means a right granted to a Grantee under Section 6(b)(iv) to receive Stock or cash at the end of a specified period, which right may be conditioned on the satisfaction of specified performance or other criteria. To the extent provided in an Award Agreement or as otherwise set forth herein, RSUs may include dividend equivalent rights.

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(aa)

 

“Rule 16b-3” means Rule 16b-3, as from time to time in effect promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission under Section 16 of the Exchange Act, including any successor to such Rule.

 

 

(bb)

 

“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

 

(cc)

 

“Stock” means shares of the common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company.

 

 

(dd)

 

“Stock Appreciation Right” or “SAR” means the right, granted to a Grantee under Section 6(b)(ii), to be paid an amount measured by the appreciation in the Fair Market Value of Stock from the date of grant to the date of exercise of the right.

 

 

(ee)

 

“Subsidiary” means any corporation, limited partnership, limited liability company or other entity (other than the Company) in or of which the Company owns, directly or indirectly, at the time the relevant Award is granted, an equity interest possessing 50 percent or more of the total combined voting power of all equity interests of such entity; provided, however , that with respect to any Grantee who has participated in the Plan for a period of at least one year, if such Grantee is transferred by the Company or a Subsidiary to another entity in or of which the Company owns, directly or indirectly, less than 50 percent of the total combined voting power of all equity interests in or of such entity, such entity shall be treated as a Subsidiary solely for purposes of determining whether such Grantee has incurred a termination of employment with respect to any Awards outstanding as of the date of such transfer; and, provided further , that for purposes of ISOs granted pursuant to the Plan, the term ‘Subsidiary’ means a ‘subsidiary corporation,’ whether now or hereafter existing, as defined in Section 424(f) of the Code.

 

3.

 

Administration .

The Plan shall be administered by the Board or by such Committee that the Board may appoint for this purpose. If a Committee is appointed to administer the Plan, all references herein to the “Committee” shall be references to such Committee. If no Committee is appointed by the Board to administer the Plan, all references herein to the “Committee” shall be references to the Board. The Committee shall have the authority in its discretion, subject to and not inconsistent with the express provisions of the Plan, to administer the Plan and to exercise all the powers and authorities either specifically granted to it under the Plan or necessary or advisable in the administration of the Plan, including, without limitation, the authority to grant Awards; to determine the persons to whom and the time or times at which Awards shall be granted; to determine the type and number of Awards to be granted, the number of shares of Stock to which an Award may relate and the terms, conditions, restrictions and performance criteria relating to any Award; to determine Performance Goals no later than such time as required to ensure that an underlying Award which is intended to comply with the requirements of Section 162(m) of the Code so complies; and to determine whether, to what extent, and under what circumstances an Award may be settled, cancelled, forfeited, exchanged, or surrendered; to make adjustments in

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the terms and conditions of, and the Performance Goals (if any) included in, Awards; to construe and interpret the Plan and any Award or Loan; to prescribe, amend and rescind rules and regulations relating to the Plan; to determine the terms and provisions of the Award Agreements (which need not be identical for each Grantee); and to make all other determinations deemed necessary or advisable for the administration of the Plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither the Board, the Committee nor their respective delegates shall have the authority to reprice (or cancel and regrant) any Option or, if applicable, other Award at a lower exercise, base or purchase price without first obtaining the approval of the Company’s stockholders.

The Committee may appoint a chairperson and a secretary and may make such


 
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