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Exhibit
10.2
FLOW INTERNATIONAL
CORPORATION
1995 LONG-TERM INCENTIVE
COMPENSATION PLAN
SECTION 1.
PURPOSE
The purpose of the Flow
International Corporation 1995 Long-Term Incentive Compensation
Plan (the “Plan”) is to enhance the long-term
profitability and stockholder value of Flow International
Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), by
offering incentives and rewards to those employees, consultants and
agents of the Company and its Subsidiaries (as defined in Section 2
below) who are key to the Company’s growth and success, and
to encourage them to remain in the service of the Company and its
Subsidiaries and to acquire and maintain stock ownership in the
Company.
SECTION 2.
DEFINITIONS
For purposes of the Plan, the
following terms shall be defined as set forth below:
“Award” means an
award or grant made to a Participant pursuant to the Plan,
including, without limitation, awards or grants of Options, Stock
Appreciation Rights, Stock Awards, Other Stock-Based Awards or any
combination of the foregoing (including any Dividend Equivalent
Rights granted in connection with such Awards).
“Board” means the
Board of Directors of the Company.
“Cause” means
dishonesty, fraud, misconduct, unauthorized use or disclosure of
confidential information or trade secrets, or conviction or
confession of a crime punishable by law (except minor violations),
in each case as determined by the Plan Administrator, and its
determination shall be conclusive and binding.
“Code” means the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to
time.
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“Common Stock”
means the common stock, par value $.01 per share, of the
Company.
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Corporate Transaction |
“Corporate
Transaction” means any of the following events:
(a) Approval by the holders
of the Common Stock of any merger or consolidation of the Company
in which the Company is not the continuing or surviving corporation
or pursuant to which shares of Common Stock are converted into
cash, securities or other property, other than a merger of the
Company in which the holders of the Common Stock immediately prior
to the merger have substantially the same proportionate ownership
of common stock of the surviving corporation immediately after the
merger;
(b) Approval by the holders
of the Common Stock of any sale, lease, exchange or other transfer
in one transaction or a series of related transactions of all or
substantially all of the Company’s assets other than a
transfer of the Company’s assets to a majority-owned
subsidiary (as the term “subsidiary” is defined in
Section 8.3 of the Plan) of the Company; or
(c) Approval by the holders
of the Common Stock of any plan or proposal for the liquidation or
dissolution of the Company.
“Disability”
means “disability” as that term is defined for purposes
of the Company’s Long Term Disability Income Plan or other
similar successor plan applicable to salaried employees.
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Dividend Equivalent Right |
“Dividend Equivalent
Right” means an Award granted under Section 12 of the
Plan.
“Early
Retirement” means retirement as that term is defined by the
Plan Administrator from time to time for purposes of the
Plan.
“Exchange Act”
means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“Fair Market
Value” means the closing price for the Common Stock as
reported in The Wall Street Journal NASDAQ National Market
Issues (or similar successor transactions reports) for a single
trading day.
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“Good Reason”
means the occurrence of any of the following events or
conditions:
(a) a change in the
Holder’s status, title, position or responsibilities
(including reporting responsibilities) that, in the Holder’s
reasonable judgment, represents a substantial reduction of the
status, title, position or responsibilities as in effect
immediately prior thereto; the assignment to the Holder of any
duties or responsibilities that, in the Holder’s reasonable
judgment, are inconsistent with such status, title, position or
responsibilities; or any removal of the Holder from or failure to
reappoint or reelect the Holder to any of such positions, except in
connection with the termination of the Holder’s employment
for Cause, for Disability or as a result of his or her death, or by
the Holder other than for Good Reason;
(b) a reduction in the
Holder’s annual base salary;
(c) the Company’s
requiring the Holder (without the Holder’s consent) to be
based at any place outside a 35-mile radius of his or her place of
employment prior to a Corporate Transaction, except for reasonably
required travel on the Company’s business that is not
materially greater than such travel requirements prior to the
Corporate Transaction;
(d) the Company’s
failure to (i) continue in effect any material compensation or
benefit plan (or the substantial equivalent thereof in which the
Holder was participating at the time of a Corporate Transaction,
including, but not limited to, the Plan, or (ii) provide the Holder
with compensation and benefits at least equal (in terms of benefit
levels and/or reward opportunities) to those provided for under
each employee benefit plan, program and practice as in effect
immediately prior to the Corporate Transaction (or as in effect
following the Corporate Transaction, if greater);
(e) any material breach by
the Company of any provision of the Plan; or
(f) any purported termination
of the Holder’s employment or service for Cause by the
Company that does not comply with the terms of the Plan.
“Grant Date”
means the date designated in a resolution of the Plan Administrator
as the date an Award is granted. If the Plan Administrator does not
designate a Grant Date in the resolution, the Grant Date shall be
the date the Plan Administrator adopted the resolution.
“Holder” means
the Participant to whom an Award is granted, or the personal
representative of a Holder who has died.
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Incentive Stock Option |
“Incentive Stock
Option” means an option to purchase Common Stock granted
under Section 7 of the Plan with the intention that it qualify as
an “incentive stock option” as that term is defined in
Section 422 of the Code.
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Nonqualified Stock Option |
“Nonqualified Stock
Option” means an option to purchase Common Stock granted
under Section 7 of the Plan other than an Incentive Stock
Option.
“Option” means
the right to purchase Common Stock granted under Section 7 of the
Plan.
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Other Stock-Based Award |
“Other Stock-Based
Award” means an Award granted under Section 11 of the
Plan.
“Participant”
means an individual who is a Holder of an Award or, as the context
may require, any employee, consultant or agent of the Company or a
Subsidiary who has been designated by the Plan Administrator as
eligible to participate in the Plan.
“Plan
Administrator” means any committee of the Board designated to
administer the Plan under Section 3.1 of the Plan.
“Restricted
Stock” means shares of Common Stock granted under Section 10
of the Plan, the rights of ownership of which are subject to
restrictions prescribed by the Plan Administrator.
“Retirement”
means retirement as of the individual’s normal retirement
date under the Company’s Voluntary Pension and Salary
Deferral Plan or other similar successor plan applicable to
salaried employees.
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Stock Appreciation Right |
“Stock Appreciation
Right” means an Award granted under Section 9 of the
Plan.
“Stock Award”
means an Award granted under Section 10 of the Plan.
“Subsidiary,”
except as expressly provided otherwise, means any entity that is
directly or indirectly controlled by the Company or in which the
Company has a significant ownership interest, as determined by the
Plan Administrator, and any entity that may become a direct or
indirect parent of the Company.
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“Window Period”
means a period of 10 days on which there is trading in the Common
Stock on the NASDAQ National Market, beginning with the second
trading day after disclosure by the Company to the public of its
earnings for the fiscal period just ended and ending with the
eleventh such day.
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Window Period Fair Market Value |
“Window Period Fair
Market Value” means the highest Fair Market Value during a
Window Period.
SECTION 3.
ADMINISTRATION
The Plan shall be
administered by a committee or committees (which term includes
subcommittees) appointed by, and consisting of one or more members
of, the Board. The Board may delegate the responsibility for
administering the Plan with respect to designated classes of
eligible Participants to different committees, subject to such
limitations as the Board deems appropriate. Committee members shall
serve for such term as the Board may determine, subject to removal
by the Board at any time. The composition of any committee
responsible for administering the Plan with respect to officers and
directors of the Company who are subject to Section 16 of the
Exchange Act with respect to securities of the Company shall comply
with the requirements of Rule 16b-3 promulgated under Section 16(b)
of the Exchange Act, or any successor provision.
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Administration and Interpretation by the Plan
Administrator |
Except for the terms and
conditions explicitly set forth in the Plan, the Plan Administrator
shall have exclusive authority, in its discretion, to determine all
matters relating to Awards under the Plan, including the selection
of individuals to be granted Awards, the type of Awards, the number
of shares of Common Stock subject to an Award, all terms,
conditions, restrictions and limitations, if any, of an Award and
the terms of any instrument that evidences the Award. The Plan
Administrator shall also have exclusive authority to interpret the
Plan and may from time to time adopt, and change, rules and
regulations of general application for the Plan’s
administration.
The Plan
Administrator’s interpretation of the Plan and its rules and
regulations, and all actions taken and determinations made by the
Plan Administrator pursuant to the Plan, shall be conclusive and
binding on all parties involved or affected. The Plan Administrator
may delegate administrative duties to such of the Company’s
officers as it so determines.
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SECTION 4.
STOCK SUBJECT TO THE
PLAN
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Authorized Number of Shares |
Subject to adjustment from
time to time as provided in Section 16.1, a maximum of 1,350,000
shares of Common Stock shall be available for issuance under the
Plan, except that any shares of Common Stock that, as of the date
the Plan is approved by the Company’s stockholders, are
available for issuance under the Company’s 1991 Stock Option
Plan and 1984 Restated Stock Option Plan (or that thereafter become
available for issuance under those plans in accordance with their
terms as in effect on such date) and that are not issued under
those plans shall be added to the aggregate number of shares
available for issuance under the Plan. No more than 250,000 shares
may be issued as Stock Awards or Other Stock-Based Awards under the
Plan. Shares issued under the Plan shall be drawn from authorized
and unissued shares or shares now held or subsequently acquired by
the Company as treasury shares.
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Individual Award Limit |
Subject to adjustment from
time to time as provided in Section 16.1, not more than 250,000
shares of Common Stock may be made subject to Awards under the Plan
to any Participant in any one fiscal year of the Company, such
limitation to be applied in a manner consistent with the
requirements of, and only to the extent required for compliance
with, the exclusion from the limitation on deductibility of
compensation under Section 162(m) of the Code.
Any shares of Common Stock
that have been made subject to an Award that cease to be subject to
the Award (other than by reason of exercise or payment of the Award
to the extent it is exercised for or settled in shares), including,
without limitation, in connection with the cancellation of an Award
and the grant of a replacement Award, shall again be available for
issuance in connection with future grants of Awards under the Plan.
Shares that are subject to tandem Awards shall be counted only
once.
SECTION 5.
ELIGIBILITY
Awards may be granted under
the Plan to those officers and key employees (including directors
who are also employees) of the Company and its Subsidiaries as the
Plan Administrator from time to time selects. Awards may also be
made to consultants and agents who provide services to the Company
and its Subsidiaries.
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SECTION 6.
AWARDS
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Form and Grant of Awards |
The Plan Administrator shall
have the authority, in its sole discretion, to determine the type
or types of Awards to be made under the Plan. Such Awards may
include, but are not limited to, Incentive Stock Options,
Nonqualified Stock Options, Stock Appreciation Rights, Stock
Awards, Other Stock-Based Awards and Dividend Equivalent Rights.
Awards may be granted singly, in combination or in tandem so that
the settlement or payment of one automatically reduces or cancels
the other. Awards may also be made in combination or in tandem
with, in replacement of, as alternatives to, or as the payment form
for, grants or rights under any other employee or compensation plan
of the Company.
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Acquired Company Awards |
Notwithstanding anything in
the Plan to the contrary, the Plan Administrator may grant Awards
under the Plan in substitution for awards issued under other plans,
or assume under the Plan awards issued under other plans, if the
other plans are or were plans of other entities (“Acquired
Entities”) (or the parent of the acquired entity) and the new
Award is substituted, or the old award is assumed, by reason of a
merger, consolidation, acquisition of property or of stock,
reorganization or liquidation (the “Acquisition
Transaction”). In the event that a written agreement pursuant
to which the Acquisition Transaction is completed is approved by
the Board and said agreement sets forth the terms and conditions of
the substitution for or assumption of outstanding awards of the
acquired entity, said terms and conditions shall be deemed to be
the action of the Plan Administrator without any further action by
the Plan Administrator, except as may be required for compliance
with Rule 16b-3 under the Exchange Act, and the persons holding
such Awards shall be deemed to be Participants and
Holders.
SECTION 7.
AWARDS OF OPTIONS
The Plan Administrator is
authorized under the Plan, in its sole discretion, to issue Options
as Incentive Stock Options or as Nonqualified Stock Options, which
shall be appropriately designated.
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Option Exercise Price |
The exercise price for shares
purchased under an Option shall be as determined by the Plan
Administrator, but shall not be less than 100% of the Fair Market
Value of the Common Stock on the Grant Date with respect to
Incentive Stock Options.
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The term of each Option shall
be as established by the Plan Administrator or, if not so
established, shall be 10 years from the Grant Date.
The Plan Administrator shall
establish and set forth in each instrument that evidences an Option
the time at which or the installments in which the Option shall
become exercisable, which provisions may be waived or modified by
the Plan Administrator at any time. If not so established in the
instrument evidencing the Option, the Option will become
exercisable according to the following schedule, which may be
waived or modified by the Plan Administrator at any
time:
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Period of Holder’s
Continuous
Employment or Service With the
Company or Its Subsidiaries
From the Option Grant Date
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Percent of Total Option
That is
Exercisable
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100% |
To the extent that the right
to purchase shares has accrued thereunder, an Option may be
exercised from time to time by written notice to the Company, in
accordance with procedures established by the Plan Administrator,
setting forth the number of shares with respect to wh
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