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.
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1.
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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.
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(a)
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“
Board ” shall mean the Board of Directors of the
Company or a committee thereof designated by the Board of Directors
to administer the Plan.
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(b)
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“
Code ” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended.
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(c)
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“
Common Stock ” shall mean the Common Stock of the
Company.
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(d)
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Company ” shall mean Yahoo! Inc., a Delaware
corporation.
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(e)
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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.
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(f)
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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.
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(g)
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Contributions ” shall mean all amounts credited to the
account of a participant pursuant to the Plan.
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(h)
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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.
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(i)
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“
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).
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(j)
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“
Employer ” shall mean the Designated Subsidiary that
employs a participant, if the employer is not the
Company.
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(k)
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Exchange Act ” shall mean the U.S. Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended.
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(l)
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“ Fair
Market Value ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 7(b).
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(m)
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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.
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(n)
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“
Offering Period ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 4(a).
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(o)
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“
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.
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(p)
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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.
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(q)
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Plan ” shall mean this Employee Stock Purchase Plan,
as amended from time to time.
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(r)
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Purchase Date ” shall mean the last business day of
each Purchase Period.
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(s)
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“
Purchase Period ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 4(b).
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(t)
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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.
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(u)
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Share ” shall mean a share of Common Stock, as
adjusted in accordance with Section 18 of the Plan.
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(v)
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“
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.
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(a)
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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.
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(b)
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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.
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Offering
Periods and Purchase Periods .
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(i)
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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.
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(ii)
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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.
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(b)
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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.
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(a)
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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.
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(b)
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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.
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Method of
Payment of Contributions .
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(a)
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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.
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(b)
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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.
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(c)
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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.
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(d)
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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.
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(a)
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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
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Section 18, and provided
further that such purchase shall be subject to the limitations set
forth in Sections 3(b) and 12.
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(b)
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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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