Exhibit 10.1
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE GROUP,
INC.
THIRD AMENDED AND
RESTATED
EQUITY INCENTIVE
PLAN
This plan shall be known
as the Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc. Third Amended and Restated
Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). The purpose of the
Plan shall be to promote the long-term growth and profitability of
Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc. (the “Company”) and its
Subsidiaries by (i) providing certain directors, officers and
employees of, and certain other individuals who perform services
for, or to whom an offer of employment has been extended by, the
Company and its Subsidiaries with incentives to maximize
stockholder value and otherwise contribute to the success of the
Company and (ii) enabling the Company to attract, retain and
reward the best available persons for positions of responsibility.
Grants of incentive or non-qualified stock options, stock
appreciation rights (“SARs”), restricted stock units,
restricted stock, performance awards or any combination of the
foregoing may be made under the Plan.
(a) “Board of
Directors” and “Board” mean the board of
directors of the Company.
(b) “Cause” shall,
with respect to any participant, have the equivalent meaning as the
term “cause” or “for cause” in any
employment, consulting, or independent contractor’s agreement
between the participant and the Company or any Subsidiary, or in
the absence of such an agreement that contains such a defined term,
shall mean the occurrence of one or more of the following
events:
(i) Conviction of
any felony or any crime or offense lesser than a felony involving
the property of the Company or a Subsidiary; or
(ii) Deliberate or
reckless conduct that has caused demonstrable and serious injury to
the Company or a Subsidiary, monetary or otherwise, or any other
serious misconduct of such a nature that the participant’s
continued relationship with the Company or a Subsidiary may
reasonably be expected to adversely affect the business or
properties of the Company or any Subsidiary; or
(iii) Willful
refusal to perform or reckless disregard of duties properly
assigned, as determined by the Company; or
(iv) Breach of duty
of loyalty to the Company or a Subsidiary or other act of fraud or
dishonesty with respect to the Company or a Subsidiary.
For purposes of this
Section 2(b), any good faith determination of
“Cause” made by the Committee shall be binding and
conclusive on all interested parties.
(c) “Change
in Control” means the occurrence of one of the following
events:
(i) if any
“person” or “group” as those terms are used
in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act or any
successors thereto, other than an Exempt Person, is or becomes the
“beneficial owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under
the Exchange Act or any successor thereto), directly or indirectly,
of securities of the Company representing more than 50% of either
the then outstanding shares or the combined voting power of the
then outstanding securities of the Company; or
(ii) during any
period of two consecutive years, individuals who at the beginning
of such period constitute the Board and any new directors whose
election by the Board or nomination for election by the
Company’s stockholders was approved by at least two-thirds of
the directors then still in office who either were directors at the
beginning of the period or whose election was previously so
approved, cease for any reason to constitute a majority
thereof; or
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(iii) the
consummation of a merger or consolidation of the Company with any
other corporation or other entity, other than a merger or
consolidation which would result in all or a portion of the voting
securities of the Company outstanding immediately prior thereto
continuing to represent (either by remaining outstanding or by
being converted into voting securities of the surviving entity)
more than 50% of the combined voting power of the voting securities
of the Company or such surviving entity outstanding immediately
after such merger or consolidation; or
(iv) the
consummation of a plan of complete liquidation of the Company or an
agreement for the sale or disposition by the Company of all or
substantially all the Company’s assets, other than a sale to
an Exempt Person.
(d) “Code” means
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
(e) “Committee”
means the Compensation Committee of the Board, which shall consist
solely of two or more members of the Board, and each member of the
Committee shall be (i) a “non-employee director”
within the meaning of Rule 16b-3 under the Exchange Act,
unless administration of the Plan by “non-employee
directors” is not then required in order for exemptions under
Rule 16b-3 to apply to transactions under the Plan,
(ii) an “outside director” within the meaning of
Section 162(m) of the Code, unless administration of the Plan
by “outside directors” is not then required in order to
qualify for tax deductibility under Section 162(m) of the
Code, and (iii) independent, as defined by the rules of the
Nasdaq Stock Market or any national securities exchange on which
any securities of the Company are listed for trading, and if not
listed for trading, by the rules of the Nasdaq Stock
Market.
(f) “Common
Stock” means the Common Stock, par value $.01 per share, of
the Company, and any other shares into which such stock may be
changed by reason of a recapitalization, reorganization, merger,
consolidation or any other change in the corporate structure or
capital stock of the Company.
(g) “Competition”
is deemed to occur if a person whose employment with the Company or
its Subsidiaries has terminated obtains a position as a full-time
or part-time employee of, as a member of the board of directors of,
or as a consultant or advisor with or to, or acquires an ownership
interest in excess of 2% of, a corporation, partnership, firm or
other entity that engages, in any state in which the Company or any
Subsidiary is doing business at the time of such person’s
termination of employment, in any business which competes with any
product or service of the Company or any Subsidiary.
(h) “Disability”
means a disability that would entitle an eligible participant to
payment of monthly disability payments under any Company disability
plan or any agreement between the eligible participant and the
Company as otherwise determined by the Committee.
(i) “Exchange
Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
(j) “Exempt
Person” means (i) Onex Corporation, (ii) any
person, entity or group controlled by or under common control with
any party included in clause (i), or (iii) any employee
benefit plan of the Company or any Subsidiary, or a trustee or
other administrator or fiduciary holding securities under an
employee benefit plan of the Company or any Subsidiary.
(k) “Family
Member” has the meaning given to such term in General
Instructions A.1(a)(5) to Form S-8 under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, and any successor thereto.
(l) “Fair
Market Value” of a share of Common Stock of the Company
means, as of the date in question, the officially-quoted closing
selling price of the stock (or if no selling price is quoted, the
bid price) on the principal securities exchange on which the Common
Stock is then listed for trading (including for this purpose the
Nasdaq Stock Market) (the “Market”) for the applicable
trading day or, if the Common Stock is not then listed or quoted in
the Market, the Fair Market Value shall be the fair value of the
Common Stock determined in good faith by the Board; provided,
however, that when shares received upon exercise of an option are
immediately sold in the open market, the net sale price received
may be used to determine the Fair Market Value of any shares used
to pay the exercise price or applicable withholding taxes and to
compute the withholding taxes.
(m) “Good
Reason” shall, with respect to any participant, have the
equivalent meaning as the term “good reason” or
“for good reason” in any employment, consulting, or
independent contractor’s agreement between the
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participant and the Company or any
Subsidiary, or in the absence of such an agreement that contains
such a defined term, shall mean (i) the assignment to the
participant of any duties materially inconsistent with the
participant’s duties or responsibilities as assigned by the
Company (or a Subsidiary), or any other action by the Company (or a
Subsidiary) which results in a material diminution in such duties
or responsibilities, excluding for this purpose any isolated,
insubstantial and inadvertent actions not taken in bad faith and
which are remedied by the Company (or a Subsidiary) promptly after
receipt of notice thereof given by the participant; (ii) any
material failure by the Company (or a Subsidiary) to make any
payment of compensation or pay any benefits to the participant that
have been agreed upon between the Company (or a Subsidiary) and the
participant in writing, other than an isolated, insubstantial and
inadvertent failure not occurring in bad faith and which is
remedied by the Company (or a Subsidiary) promptly after receipt of
notice thereof given by the participant; or (iii) the
Company’s (or Subsidiary’s) requiring the participant
to be based at any office or location outside of fifty miles from
the location of employment or service as of the date of award,
except for travel reasonably required in the performance of the
participant’s responsibilities.
(n) “Incentive Stock
Option” means an option conforming to the requirements of
Section 422 of the Code and any successor thereto.
(o) “Non-Employee
Director” has the meaning given to such term in
Rule 16b-3 under the Exchange Act and any successor
thereto.
(p) “Non-qualified Stock
Option” means any stock option other than an Incentive Stock
Option.
(q) “Other
Company Securities” mean securities of the Company other than
Common Stock, which may include, without limitation, unbundled
stock units or components thereof, debentures, preferred stock,
warrants and securities convertible into or exchangeable for Common
Stock or other property.
(r) “Performance
Award” means a right, granted to a participant under
Section 12 hereof, to receive awards based upon performance
criteria specified by the Committee.
(s) “Retirement”
means retirement as defined under any Company pension plan or
retirement program or termination of one’s employment on
retirement with the approval of the Committee.
(t) “Share” means a
share of Common Stock that may be issued pursuant to the
Plan.
(u) “Subsidiary”
means a corporation or other entity of which outstanding shares or
ownership interests representing 50% or more of the combined voting
power of such corporation or other entity entitled to elect the
management thereof, or such lesser percentage as may be approved by
the Committee, are owned directly or indirectly by the
Company.
The Plan shall be
administered by the Committee; provided that the Board may, in its
discretion, at any time and from time to time, resolve to
administer the Plan, in which case the term “Committee”
shall be deemed to mean the Board for all purposes herein. Subject
to the provisions of the Plan, the Committee shall be authorized to
(i) select persons to participate in the Plan,
(ii) determine the form and substance of grants made under the
Plan to each participant, and the conditions and restrictions, if
any, subject to which such grants will be made, (iii) certify
that the conditions and restrictions applicable to any grant have
been met, (iv) modify the terms of grants made under the Plan,
(v) interpret the Plan and grants made thereunder,
(vi) make any adjustments necessary or desirable in connection
with grants made under the Plan to eligible participants located
outside the United States and (vii) adopt, amend, or rescind
such rules and regulations, and make such other determinations, for
carrying out the Plan as it may deem appropriate. Decisions of the
Committee on all matters relating to the Plan shall be in the
Committee’s sole discretion and shall be conclusive and
binding on all parties. The validity, construction, and effect of
the Plan and any rules and regulations relating to the Plan shall
be determined in accordance with applicable federal and state laws
and rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto. No member
of the Committee and no officer of the Company shall be liable for
any action taken or omitted to be taken by such member, by any
other member of the Committee or by any officer of the Company in
connection with the performance of duties under the Plan, except
for such person’s own willful misconduct or as expressly
provided by statute.
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The expenses of the Plan
shall be borne by the Company. The Plan shall not be required to
establish any special or separate fund or make any other
segregation of assets to assume the payment of any award under the
Plan, and rights to the payment of such awards shall be no greater
than the rights of the Company’s general
creditors.
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Shares Available for the Plan;
Limit on Awards.
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Subject to adjustments
as provided in Section 19, the number of Shares that may be
issued pursuant to the Plan as awards shall not exceed 3,200,000 in
the aggregate. Such Shares may be in whole or in part authorized
and unissued or held by the Company as treasury shares. If any
grant under the Plan expires or terminates unexercised, becomes
unexercisable or is forfeited as to any Shares, or is tendered or
withheld as to any Shares in payment of the exercise price of the
grant or the taxes payable with respect to the exercise, then such
unpurchased, forfeited, tendered or withheld Shares shall
thereafter be available for further grants under the
Plan.
Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing provisions of this Section 4 or
the generality of the provisions of Sections 3, 6 or 21 or any
other section of this Plan, the Committee may, at any time or from
time to time, and on such terms and conditions (that are consistent
with and not in contravention of the other provisions of this Plan)
as the Committee may, in its sole discretion, determine, enter into
agreements (or take other actions with respect to the options) for
new options containing terms (including exercise prices) more (or
less) favorable than the outstanding options.
In any one calendar
year, the Committee shall not grant to any one participant awards
to purchase or acquire a number of Shares in excess of twenty
percent (20%) of the total number of Shares authorized under the
Plan pursuant to this Section 4.
Participation in the
Plan shall be limited to those directors (including Non-Employee
Directors), officers (including non-employee officers) and
employees of, and other individuals performing services for, or to
whom an offer of employment has been extended by, the Company and
its Subsidiaries selected by the Committee (including participants
located outside the United States). Nothing in the Plan or in any
grant thereunder shall confer any right on a participant to
continue in the employ as a director or officer of or in the
performance of services for the Company or shall interfere in any
way with the right of the Company to terminate the employment or
performance of services or to reduce the compensation or
responsibilities of a participant at any time. By accepting any
award under the Plan, each participant and each person claiming
under or through him or her shall be conclusively deemed to have
indicated his or her acceptance and ratification of, and consent
to, any action taken under the Plan by the Company, the Board or
the Committee.
Incentive Stock Options
or Non-qualified Stock Options, SARs, restricted stock units,
restricted stock awards, performance awards, or any combination
thereof, may be granted to such persons and for such number of
Shares as the Committee shall determine (such individuals to whom
grants are made being sometimes herein called
“optionees” or “grantees,” as the case may
be). Determinations made by the Committee under the Plan need not
be uniform and may be made selectively among eligible individuals
under the Plan, whether or not such individuals are similarly
situated. A grant of any type made hereunder in any one year to an
eligible participant shall neither guarantee nor preclude a further
grant of that or any other type to such participant in that year or
subsequent years.
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Incentive and Non-qualified Options
and SARs.
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The Committee may from
time to time grant to eligible participants Incentive Stock
Options, Non-qualified Stock Options, or any combination thereof;
provided that the Committee may grant Incentive Stock Options only
to eligible employees of the Company or its subsidiaries (as
defined for this purpose in Section 424(f) of the Code or any
successor thereto). The options granted shall take such form as the
Committee shall determine, subject to the following terms and
conditions.
It is the
Company’s intent that Non-qualified Stock Options granted
under the Plan not be classified as Incentive Stock Options, that
Incentive Stock Options be consistent with and contain or be deemed
to contain all
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provisions required under
Section 422 of the Code and any successor thereto, and that
any ambiguities in construction be interpreted in order to
effectuate such intent. If an Incentive Stock Option granted under
the Plan does not qualify as such for any reason, then to the
extent of such non-qualification, the stock option represented
thereby shall be regarded as a Non-qualified Stock Option duly
granted under the Plan, provided that such stock option otherwise
meets the Plan’s requirements for Non-qualified Stock
Options.
(a) Price .
The price per Share deliverable upon the exercise of each option
(“exercise price”) shall be established by the
Committee, except that the exercise price may not be less than 100%
of the Fair Market Value of a share of Common Stock as of the date
of grant of the option, and in the case of the grant of any
Incentive Stock Option to an employee who, at the time of the
grant, owns more than 10% of the total combined voting power of all
classes of stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the
exercise price may not be less than 110% of the Fair Market Value
of a share of Common Stock as of the date of grant of the option,
in each case unless otherwise permitted by Section 422 of the
Code or any successor thereto.
(b) Payment
. Options may be exercised, in whole or in part, upon payment of
the exercise price of the Shares to be acquired. Unless otherwise
determined by the Committee, payment shall be made (i) in cash
(including check, bank draft, money order or wire transfer of
immediately available funds), (ii) by delivery of outstanding
shares of Common Stock with a Fair Market Value on the date of
exercise equal to the aggregate exercise price payable with respect
to the options’ exercise, (iii) by simultaneous sale
through a broker reasonably acceptable to the Committee of Shares
acquired on exercise, as permitted under Regulation T of the
Federal Reserve Board, (iv), if the Shares are traded on an
established securities market at the time of exercise, by
authorizing the Company to withhold from issuance a number of
Shares issuable upon exercise of the options which, when multiplied
by the Fair Market Value of a share of Common Stock on the date of
exercise, is equal to the aggregate exercise price payable with
respect to the options so exercised, or (v) by any combination
of the foregoing.
In the event a grantee
elects to pay the exercise price payable with respect to an option
pursuant to clause (ii) above, (A) only a whole number of
share(s) of Common Stock (and not fractional shares of Common
Stock) may be tendered in payment, (B) such grantee must
present evidence acceptable to the Company that he or she has owned
any such shares of Common Stock tendered in payment of the exercise
price (and that such tendered shares of Common Stock have not been
subject to any substantial risk of forfeiture) for at least six
months prior to the date of exercise, and (C) Common Stock
must be delivered to the Company. Delivery for this purpose may, at
the election of the grantee, be made either by (A) physical
delivery of the certificate(s) for all such shares of Common Stock
tendered in payment of the price, accompanied by duly executed
instruments of transfer in a form acceptable to the Company, or
(B) direction to the grantee’s broker to transfer, by
book entry, such shares of Common Stock from a brokerage account of
the grantee to a brokerage account specified by the Company. When
payment of the exercise price is made by delivery of Common Stock,
the difference, if any, between the aggregate exercise price
payable with respect to the option being exercised and the Fair
Market Value of the shares of Common Stock tendered in payment
(plus any applicable taxes) shall be paid in cash. No grantee may
tender shares of Common Stock having a Fair Market Value exceeding
the aggregate exercise price payable with respect to the option
being exercised (plus any applicable taxes).
In the event a grantee
elects to pay the exercise price payable with respect to an option
pursuant to clause (iv) above, (A) only a whole number of
Share(s) (and not fractional Shares) may be withheld in payment and
(B) such grantee must present evidence acceptable to the
Company that he or she has owned a number of shares of Common Stock
at least equal to the number of Shares to be withheld in payment of
the exercise price (and that such owned shares of Common Stock have
not been subject to any substantial risk of forfeiture) for at
least six months prior to the date of exercise. When payment of the
exercise price is made by withholding of Shares, the difference, if
any, between the aggregate exercise price payable with respect to
the option being exercised and the Fair Market Value of the Shares
withheld in payment (plus any applicable taxes) shall be paid in
cash. No grantee may authorize the withholding of Shares having a
Fair Market Value exceeding the aggregate exercise price payable
with respect to the option being exercised (plus any applicable
taxes). Any withheld Shares shall no longer be issuable under such
option.
(c) Terms of
Options . The term during which each option may be exercised
shall be determined by the Committee, but if required by the Code
and except as otherwise provided herein, no option shall be
exercisable in
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whole or in part more than ten
years from the date it is granted, and no Incentive Stock Option
granted to an employee who at the time of the grant owns more than
10% of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock of
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall be exercisable more
than five years from the date it is granted. All rights to purchase
Shares pursuant to an option shall, unless sooner terminated,
expire at the date designated by the Committee. The Committee shall
determine the date on which each option shall become exercisable
and may provide that an option shall become exercisable in
installments. The Shares constituting each installment may be
purchased in whole or in part at any time after such installment
becomes exercisable, subject to such minimum exercise requirements
as may be designated by the Committee. Prior to the exercise of an
option and delivery of the Shares represented thereby, the optionee
shall have no rights as a stockholder with respect to any Shares
covered by such outstanding option (including any dividend or
voting rights).
(d) Limitations
on Grants . If required by the Code, the aggregate
Fair
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