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Title: YAHOO! INC. AMENDED AND RESTATED 1996 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
Governing Law: Delaware     Date: 6/29/2009
Industry: Advertising     Sector: Services

YAHOO! INC. AMENDED AND RESTATED 1996 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN, Parties: yahoo inc
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Exhibit 10.2

YAHOO! INC.

AMENDED AND RESTATED

1996 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN

(as amended and restated on June 25, 2009)

The following constitute the provisions of the Amended and Restated 1996 Employee Stock Purchase Plan of Yahoo! Inc., as amended and restated June 25, 2009. This version of the Plan is effective on and after November 11, 2009. For Offering Periods (as defined below) under the Plan ending on or before November 10, 2009, refer to the version of the Plan as in effect for the applicable Offering Period.

 

1.

Purpose . The purpose of the Plan is to provide employees of the Company and its Designated Subsidiaries with an opportunity to purchase Common Stock of the Company. It is the intention of the Company to have the Plan qualify as an “Employee Stock Purchase Plan” under Section 423 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. The provisions of the Plan shall, accordingly, be construed so as to extend and limit participation in a manner consistent with the requirements of that section of the Code.

 

2.

Definitions .

 

 

(a)

Board ” shall mean the Board of Directors of the Company or a committee thereof designated by the Board of Directors to administer the Plan.

 

 

(b)

Code ” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

 

 

(c)

Common Stock ” shall mean the Common Stock of the Company.

 

 

(d)

Company ” shall mean Yahoo! Inc., a Delaware corporation.

 

 

(e)

Compensation ” shall mean the total compensation paid to an Employee, including all salary, wages (including amounts elected to be deferred by the Employee, that would otherwise have been paid, under any cash or deferred arrangement or other deferred compensation program established by the Company or the Employer), overtime pay, commissions, bonuses, and other remuneration paid directly to the Employee, but excluding referral and hiring bonuses, profit sharing, the cost of employee benefits paid for by the Company or the Employer, education, tuition or other similar reimbursements, imputed income arising under any Company group insurance or benefit program, traveling expenses, business and moving expense reimbursements, income received in connection with stock options, restricted stock or restricted stock unit grants, or other equity based awards, contributions made by the Company or the Employer under any employee benefit plan, and similar items of compensation.

 

 

(f)

Continuous Status as an Employee ” shall mean the absence of any interruption or termination of service as an Employee. Continuous Status as an Employee shall not be considered interrupted in the case of a leave of absence agreed to in writing by the Company or the Employer, provided that such leave is for a period of not more than 90 days or reemployment upon the expiration of such leave is guaranteed by contract, statute or as a matter of local law.

 

 

(g)

Contributions ” shall mean all amounts credited to the account of a participant pursuant to the Plan.

 

 

(h)

Designated Subsidiaries ” shall mean the Subsidiaries which have been designated by the Board from time to time in its sole discretion as eligible to participate in the Plan.

 

 

(i)

Employee ” shall mean any person, including an Officer, who is customarily employed for at least twenty (20) hours per week and more than five (5) months in a calendar year by the Company or one of its Designated Subsidiaries, provided that, in certain jurisdictions outside the United States, the term “Employee” may, if so provided by the Company in writing, also include a person employed for less than twenty (20) hours per week or less than five (5) months in a calendar year if such person must be permitted to participate in the Plan pursuant to local laws (as determined by the Company).


 

(j)

Employer ” shall mean the Designated Subsidiary that employs a participant, if the employer is not the Company.

 

 

(k)

Exchange Act ” shall mean the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

 

(l)

Fair Market Value ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7(b).

 

 

(m)

Offering Date ” shall mean the first business day of each Offering Period of the Plan, except that in the case of an individual who becomes an eligible Employee or who begins to participate in an Offering Period after the first business day of an Offering Period, the term “Offering Date” with respect to such individual means the first business day of the first Purchase Period in which such individual participates within the Offering Period. Options granted after the first business day of an Offering Period will be subject to the same terms and conditions as the options granted on the first business day of such Offering Period except that they will have a different grant date (and thus, potentially, a different Purchase Price) and, because they expire at the same time as the options granted on the first business day of such Offering Period, a shorter term.

 

 

(n)

Offering Period ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(a).

 

 

(o)

Officer ” shall mean a person who is an officer of the Company within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

 

(p)

Parent ” shall mean any corporation (other than the Company), domestic or foreign, in an unbroken chain of corporations ending with the Company if, on an Offering Date, each corporation (other than the Company) owns stock possessing 50% or more of the total combined voting power or all classes of stock in one or more of the other corporations in the chain, as described in Section 424(e) of the Code.

 

 

(q)

Plan ” shall mean this Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended from time to time.

 

 

(r)

Purchase Date ” shall mean the last business day of each Purchase Period.

 

 

(s)

Purchase Period ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(b).

 

 

(t)

Purchase Price ” shall mean, with respect to any Purchase Period, an amount equal to 85% of the Fair Market Value of a Share of Common Stock on the Offering Date of the Offering Period in which such Purchase Period occurs or on the Purchase Date, whichever is lower; provided however that in the event (i) of any increase in the number of Shares available for issuance under the Plan as a result of a stockholder-approved amendment to the Plan, and (ii) all or a portion of such additional Shares are to be issued with respect to an Offering Period that is underway at the time of such increase (“ Additional Shares ”), and (iii) the Fair Market Value of a Share of Common Stock on the date of such stockholder approval (the “ Approval Date Fair Market Value ”) is higher than the Fair Market Value on the Offering Date for any such Offering Period, then in such instance the Purchase Price with respect to Additional Shares shall be 85% of the Approval Date Fair Market Value or the Fair Market Value of a Share of Common Stock on the Purchase Date, whichever is lower.

 

 

(u)

Share ” shall mean a share of Common Stock, as adjusted in accordance with Section 18 of the Plan.

 

 

(v)

Subsidiary ” shall mean any corporation (other than the Company), domestic or foreign, that is in an unbroken chain of corporations beginning with the Company if, on an Offering Date, each of the corporations other than the last corporation in the unbroken chain owns stock possessing 50% or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock in one of the other corporations in the chain, as described in Section 424(f) of the Code.

 

3.

Eligibility .

 

 

(a)

Any person who is an Employee as of the beginning of any Purchase Period of a given Offering Period shall be eligible to participate in such Offering Period under the Plan, subject to the requirements of Section 5(a) and the limitations imposed by Section 423(b) of the Code.


 

(b)

Any provisions of the Plan to the contrary notwithstanding, no Employee shall be granted an option under the Plan (i) if, immediately after the grant, such Employee (or any other person whose stock would be attributed to such Employee pursuant to Section 424(d) of the Code) would own stock and/or hold outstanding options to purchase stock possessing five percent (5%) or more of the total combined voting power or value of all classes of stock of the Company, any Subsidiary or any Parent, or (ii) if such option would permit his or her rights to purchase stock under all employee stock purchase plans (described in Section 423 of the Code) of the Company, any Subsidiary or any Parent to accrue at a rate which exceeds Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000) of Fair Market Value of such stock (determined at the time such option is granted) for each calendar year in which such option is outstanding at any time.

 

4.

Offering Periods and Purchase Periods .

 

 

(a)

Offering Periods .

 

 

(i)

Effective November 1, 2007, the Plan shall be implemented by a series of Offering Periods of approximately twenty-four (24) months duration, with the first such Offering Period to commence on November 11, 2007; provided, however, that if the Fair Market Value of the Common Stock on a Purchase Date is lower than the Fair Market Value of the Common Stock on the first business day of the Offering Period, the Offering Period then in progress will terminate and a new Offering Period would commence on the next May 11 or November 11, as applicable, and extend for a twenty-four (24) month period ending on May 10 or November 10, as applicable.

 

 

(ii)

The Plan shall continue until terminated in accordance with Section 19 hereof. The Board shall have the power to change the duration and/or the frequency of Offering Periods with respect to future offerings without shareholder approval if such change is announced prior to the scheduled beginning of the first Offering Period to be affected; provided, however, that in no event shall any Offering Period exceed twenty-seven (27) months in duration.

 

 

(b)

Purchase Periods . With respect to each Offering Period that commences on and after November 1, 2007, the Purchase Periods for each such Offering Period shall commence on November 11 and May 11 of each year. The last business day of each Purchase Period shall be the Purchase Date for such Purchase Period. A Purchase Period commencing on May 11 shall end on the next November 10 and a Purchase Period commencing on November 11 shall end on the next May 10. The Board shall have the power to change the duration and/or frequency of Purchase Periods with respect to future purchases without stockholder approval if such change is announced prior to the scheduled beginning of the first Purchase Period to be affected.

 

5.

Participation .

 

 

(a)

An eligible Employee may become a participant in the Plan by completing a enrollment agreement on the form provided by the Company and filing it with the Company’s payroll office prior to the applicable Offering Date, unless a later time for filing the enrollment agreement is set by the Board for all eligible Employees with respect to a given offering. The enrollment agreement shall set forth the percentage of the participant’s Compensation (subject to Section 6(a) below) to be paid as Contributions pursuant to the Plan.

 

 

(b)

An eligible Employee may contribute to the Plan by means of payroll deductions, unless payroll deductions are not permitted under local law, as determined by the Company, in which case eligible Employees may be permitted to contribute to the Plan by an alternative method, as determined by the Company. Payroll deductions, or, if payroll deductions are not permitted under local law, payments made under an alternative method, shall commence as of the first payday following the Offering Date and shall end on the last payday paid on or prior to the Purchase Date of the Offering Period to which the enrollment agreement is applicable, unless the Employee’s participation is sooner terminated as provided in Section 10.


6.

Method of Payment of Contributions .

 

 

(a)

Where permitted under local law, the participant shall elect to have payroll deductions made on each payday during the Offering Period in an amount not less than one percent (1%) and not more than fifteen percent (15%) of such participant’s Compensation on each such payday (or such other maximum percentage as the Board may establish from time to time before an Offering Date). Where payroll deductions are not permitted under local law, the participant may be permitted to contribute to the Plan by an alternative method, as determined by the Company. All payroll deductions or other payments made by a participant shall be credited to his or her account under the Plan. A participant may not make any additional payments into such account.

 

 

(b)

A participant may discontinue his or her participation in the Plan as provided in Section 10, or, on one occasion only during a Purchase Period, may decrease the rate of his or her Contributions during the applicable Period by completing and filing with the Company a new enrollment agreement. The change in rate shall be effective as soon as administratively practicable following the date of filing of the new enrollment agreement; provided that any change elected on a new enrollment agreement filed within 21 days of the end of any Purchase Period shall not take effect earlier than the beginning of the first new Purchase Period to commence after the date of that filing. A participant may change the rate of his or her Contributions effective as of the beginning of any Purchase Period within an Offering Period by filing a new enrollment agreement prior to the beginning of such Purchase Period; provided that any change elected within 21 days prior to the beginning of that Purchase Period shall be given effect as soon as administratively practicable on or after the first day of that Purchase Period.

 

 

(c)

Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent necessary to comply with Section 423(b)(8) of the Code and Section 3(b) herein, a participant’s payroll deductions or other payments may be decreased to 0% at any time during an Offering or Purchase Period, as applicable. Payroll deductions or other payments shall re-commence at the rate provided in such participant’s enrollment agreement at the beginning of the first Offering or Purchase Period, as applicable, which is scheduled to end in the following calendar year, unless the participant’s participation is terminated as provided in Section 10. In addition, a participant’s payroll deductions or other payments may be decreased by the Company to 0% at any time during a Purchase Period in order to avoid unnecessary contributions as a result of application of the maximum Share limit set forth in Section 7(a), or as a result of the limitations set forth in Section 3(b), in which case payroll deductions or payments shall re-commence at the rate provided in such participant’s enrollment agreement at the beginning of the next Purchase Period, unless terminated by the participant as provided in Section 10.

 

 

(d)

As may be further specified in the enrollment agreement, at the time the option is exercised, in whole or in part, or at the time some or all of the Company’s Common Stock issued under the Plan is disposed of, the participant must make adequate provision for the Company’s and/or the Employer’s federal, state, or other tax and social insurance withholding obligations, if any, which arise upon the exercise of the option or the disposition of the Common Stock. At any time, the Company and the Employer may, but shall not be obligated to, withhold from the participant’s compensation the amount necessary for the Company and/or the Employer to meet applicable withholding obligations, including any withholding required to make available to the Company or the Employer any tax deductions or benefits attributable to sale or early disposition of Common Stock by the participant.

 

7.

Grant of Option .

 

 

(a)

On the Offering Date of each Offering Period, each eligible Employee participating in such Offering Period shall be granted an option to purchase on each Purchase Date occurring within the Offering Period a number of Shares determined by dividing such Employee’s Contributions accumulated prior to such Purchase Date and retained in the participant’s account as of the Purchase Date by the applicable Purchase Price; provided however, that the maximum number of Shares an Employee may purchase during any one Purchase Period shall be 10,000 Shares, subject to adjustment as provided in


 

Section 18, and provided further that such purchase shall be subject to the limitations set forth in Sections 3(b) and 12.

 

 

(b)

The fair market value of the Company’s Common Stock on a given date (the “ Fair Market Value ”) means, as of any date, the value of Common Stock determined by the Board in its discretion, provided that, to the extent the Common Stock is listed or admitted to trade on a national securities exchange at the relevant time, (A) the Fair Market Value as of an Offering Date shall be the closing sales price of the Common Stock as reported on such exchange for the last business day immediately preceding the Offering Date on which the sales of the Common Stock are reported, and (B) the Fair Market Value of the Common Stock as of a Purchase Date shall be the closing sales price of the Common Stock as reported on such exchange for the Purchase Date (or if there is no trading of the Common Stock on the Purchase Date, the closing sales price of the Common Stock as reported on such exchange on the next preceding date on which there was trading in the Common Stock), in each case as reported in The Wall Street Journal or by such other source as the Board


 
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