MANAGING DIRECTOR DEFERRED
COMPENSATION PLAN
Amended and Restated Effective
December 31, 2008
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ARTICLE 2 Selection, Enrollment,
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2.1 Selection by Committee
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2.2 Enrollment Requirements
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2.3 Eligibility; Commencement of
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2.4 Termination of Participation and/or
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ARTICLE 3 Deferral Commitments/Employer
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3.1 Minimum/Maximum Deferrals
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3.2 Election to Defer; Effect of Election
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3.3 Withholding of Annual Deferral
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3.4 Employer Matching Amount
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3.5 Investment of Trust Assets
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3.7 Crediting/Debiting of Account
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ARTICLE 4 Hardship Withdrawal
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4.1 Withdrawal Payout for Hardship
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ARTICLE 5 Distributions & Death
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5.1 Timing of Distributions
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5.2 Form of Distributions
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5.6 No Acceleration of Benefit
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ARTICLE 6 Disability Benefit
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ARTICLE 7 Beneficiary Designation
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7.2 Beneficiary Designation and Change of
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7.4 No Beneficiary Designation
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7.5 Doubt as to Beneficiary
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7.6 Discharge of Obligations
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ARTICLE 8 Leave of Absence
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ARTICLE 9 Termination, Amendment or
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ARTICLE 10 Administration
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10.2 Administration Upon Change In
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10.4 Binding Effect of Decisions
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10.5 Indemnity of Committee
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10.6 Employer Information
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ARTICLE 11 Other Benefits and
Agreements
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11.1 Coordination with Other Benefits
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ARTICLE 12 Claims Procedures
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12.1 Presentation of Claim
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12.2 Notification of Decision
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12.3 Review of a Denied Claim
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13.1 Establishment of the Trust
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13.2 Interrelationship of the Plan and the
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13.3 Distributions From the Trust
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14.2 Unsecured General Creditor
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14.3 Employer’s Liability
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14.5 Not a Contract of Employment
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14.6 Furnishing Information
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14.16 Legal Fees To Enforce Rights After Change
in Control
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14.17 Section 409A Compliance
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MANAGING DIRECTOR DEFERRED
COMPENSATION PLAN
Amended and Restated Effective
December 31, 2008
The Managing
Director Deferred Compensation Plan (the “Plan”) was
originally effective January 1, 2005, in response to the enactment
of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended (the “Code”). The Plan was previously amended
and restated effective January 1, 2006 to reflect changes in
the compensation program for managing directors and in response to
proposed regulations under Code Section 409A. The Plan is
being amended and restated effective December 31, 2008 in
response to final regulations under Code Section 409A and
additional 409A related guidance issued by the Internal Revenue
Service.
The purpose of
this Plan is to provide specified benefits to a select group of
management and highly compensated Employees who contribute
materially to the continued growth, development and future business
success of BearingPoint, Inc., a Delaware corporation. This Plan
shall be unfunded for tax purposes and for purposes of Title I of
the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.
This Plan is intended to meet the requirements of Code
Section 409A and the regulations thereunder, relating to
nonqualified deferred compensation plans and shall be interpreted
in all respects in accordance therewith.
For purposes of
this Plan, unless otherwise clearly apparent from the context, the
following phrases or terms shall have the following indicated
meanings:
1.1
“401(k) Plan” shall mean the Amended and Restated
BearingPoint, Inc. 401(k) Plan adopted by the Company, as it may be
amended from time to time.
1.2
“Account Balance” shall mean, with respect to a
Participant, a credit on the records of the Employer equal to the
sum of the Deferral Account balance and the Employer Matching
Account balance. The Account Balance, and each other specified
account balance, shall be a bookkeeping entry only and shall be
utilized solely as a device for the measurement and determination
of the amounts to be paid to a Participant, or his or her
designated Beneficiary, pursuant to this Plan.
1.3
“Affiliate” shall mean (i) a corporation that is a
member of a controlled group of corporations (as determined
pursuant to Code Section 414(b)) which includes the Company
and (ii) a trade or business (whether or not incorporated)
which is under common control (as determined pursuant to Code
Section 414(c)) of the Company.
1.4
“Annual Base Salary” shall mean the annual cash
compensation relating to services performed during any Plan Year,
whether or not paid in such Plan Year or included on the Federal
Income Tax Form W-2 for such Plan Year, excluding bonuses,
commissions, royalties, overtime, fringe benefits, relocation
expenses, incentive payments, non-monetary awards,
directors fees
and other fees, automobile and other allowances paid to a
Participant for employment services rendered (whether or not such
allowances are included in the Employee’s gross income).
Annual Base Salary shall be calculated before reduction for
compensation voluntarily deferred or contributed by the Participant
pursuant to all qualified or non-qualified plans of any Employer
and shall be calculated to include amounts not otherwise included
in the Participant’s gross income under Code
Sections 125, 402(e)(3), or 402(h) pursuant to plans
established by the Employer; provided, however, that all such
amounts will be included in compensation only to the extent that,
had there been no such plan, the amount would have been payable in
cash to the Employee. “Annual Base Salary” shall
include Base Units, as that term is defined under the MD
Compensation Plan, paid during any Plan Year on a periodic monthly
or semi-monthly basis; but shall not include Reserve Units,
Performance Units, or Breakthrough Awards, as those terms are each
defined under the MD Compensation Plan, respectively.
1.5
“Annual Deferral Amount” shall mean that portion of a
Participant’s Annual Base Salary that a Participant elects to
defer, and is deferred, in accordance with Article 3 for any
one Plan Year. In the event of a Participant’s Retirement,
Disability (if deferrals cease in accordance with
Section 6.1), death or a Termination of Employment prior to
the end of a Plan Year, such year’s Annual Deferral Amount
shall be the actual amount withheld from the Participant’s
Annual Base Salary for services performed for the Employer prior to
such event.
1.6
“Beneficiary” shall mean one or more persons, trusts,
estates or other entities, designated in accordance with
Article 7, that are entitled to receive benefits under this
Plan upon the death of a Participant.
1.7
“Beneficiary Designation Form” shall mean the form
(electronic, paper or other medium) established from time to time
by the Committee that a Participant completes and returns to the
Committee to designate one or more Beneficiaries.
1.8
“Board” shall mean the board of directors of the
Company.
1.9
“Change in Control” shall mean either a change in the
ownership of the Employer (as that term is defined under Treasury
Regulation Section 1.409A-3(i)(5)(v)), a change in the
effective control of the Employer (as that term is defined under
Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-3(i)(vi)) or a change
in the ownership of a substantial portion of the Employer’s
assets (as that term is defined under Treasury
Regulation Section 1.409A-3(i)(vii)).
1.10
“Claimant” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 12.1.
1.11
“Code” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
it may be amended from time to time.
1.12
“Committee” shall mean the committee described in
Article 10.
1.13
“Company” shall mean BearingPoint, Inc., a Delaware
corporation and any successor to such corporation that adopts the
Plan.
1.14
“Deduction Limitation” shall mean the following
described limitation on a benefit that may otherwise be
distributable pursuant to the provisions of this Plan. Except as
otherwise
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provided, this
limitation shall be applied to all distributions that are
“subject to the Deduction Limitation” under this Plan.
If prior to a Change in Control the Company reasonably anticipates
that any compensation paid to a Participant for a taxable year of
the Company would not be deductible by the Company solely by reason
of the limitation under Code Section 162(m), the Company may
defer a distribution under this Plan in accordance with the
requirements of Treasury Regulation 1.409A-2(b)(7)(i). Any amounts
deferred pursuant to this limitation shall continue to be
credited/debited with additional amounts in accordance with
Section 3.7 below. The amounts so deferred and amounts
credited/debited thereon shall be distributed to the Participant or
his or her Beneficiary (in the event of the Participant’s
death) at the earliest date permissible or required under Treasury
Regulation 1.409A-2(b)(7)(i), or if earlier, the effective
date of a Change in Control. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in this Plan, the Deduction Limitation shall not apply to
any distributions made after a Change in Control.
1.15
“Deferral Account” shall mean (i) the sum of all
of a Participant’s Annual Deferral Amounts, plus
(ii) amounts credited in accordance with all the applicable
crediting provisions of this Plan that relate to the
Participant’s Deferral Account, less (iii) all distributions
made to the Participant or his or her Beneficiary pursuant to this
Plan that relate to his or her Deferral Account.
1.16
“Disability” shall mean a medically determinable
physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in
death or to last for a continuous period of not less than
12 months (i) which prevents the affected Participant
from engaging in any substantial gainful activity or (ii) on
account of which the affected Participant receives income
replacement benefits for a period of not less than 3 months
under a Company-sponsored accident and health plan.
“Disability” is intended to have the same meaning as
this term is defined under Code Section 409A and the
regulations thereunder.
1.17
“Disability Benefit” shall mean the benefit set forth
in Article 6.
1.18
“Distribution Election Form” shall mean the form
(electronic, paper or other medium) established by the Committee
that a Participant completes and returns to the Committee to
establish the form and timing of payments of a Participant’s
vested Account Balance in accordance with
Article 5.
1.19
“Election Form” shall mean the form established by the
Committee that a Participant completes and returns to the Committee
to make his or her deferral election under the Plan.
1.20
“Employee” shall mean an individual whose relationship
with an Employer is, under common law, that of an
employee.
1.21
“Employer” shall mean the Company and any Affiliate
that, with the consent of the Company, elects to participate in the
Plan and any successor entity that adopts the Plan pursuant to
Section 14.11. If any such entity withdraws, is excluded from
participation in the Plan or terminates its participation in the
Plan, such entity shall thereupon cease to be an
Employer.
1.22
“Employer Matching Account” shall mean (i) the sum
of all of a Participant’s Employer Matching Amounts, plus
(ii) amounts credited in accordance with all the applicable
crediting provisions of this Plan that relate to the
Participant’s Employer Matching Account, less
(iii) all
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distributions
made to the Participant or his or her Beneficiary pursuant to this
Plan that relate to the Participant’s Employer Matching
Account.
1.23
“Employer Matching Amount” for any one Plan Year shall
be the amount determined in accordance with
Section 3.4.
1.24
“ERISA” shall mean the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974, as it may be amended from time to
time.
1.25
“Hardship” shall mean a severe financial hardship to
the Participant resulting from an illness or accident affecting the
Participant or the Participant’s spouse or dependent, loss of
the Participant’s property due to casualty, or other similar
extraordinary and unforeseeable circumstance arising as a result of
events beyond the Participant’s control. Any amount
distributed to the Participant under this Plan in connection with a
Hardship shall not exceed the amount reasonably necessary to
satisfy the hardship plus amounts necessary to pay taxes reasonably
anticipated as a result of the distribution, after taking into
account the extent to which such hardship is or may be relieved
through reimbursement or compensation from insurance or otherwise
or by liquidation of the Participant’s assets (to the extent
the liquidation of such assets would not itself cause severe
financial hardship). “Hardship” as defined herein is
intended to have the same meaning as “Unforeseeable
Emergency” as defined under Code
Section 409A(a)(2)(B)(ii)(I) and Treasury
Regulation 1.409A-3(i)(3).
1.26 “MD
Compensation Plan” means the BearingPoint Managing Director
Compensation Plan, originally effective January 1, 2005, as it
may be amended from time to time.
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“Participant” shall mean (i) any Employee who is a
Managing Director of the Employer, or any other individual selected
by the Committee to participate in the Plan, (ii) who elects
to participate in the Plan, (iii) who completes an Election
Form, (iv) whose completed Election Form is accepted by the
Committee, (v) who commences participation in the Plan, and
(vi) whose participation has not terminated.
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“Plan” shall mean the BearingPoint, Inc. Managing
Director Deferred Compensation Plan, which shall be evidenced by
this instrument as amended and restated effective as of the close
of business December 31, 2008, and as may be amended from time
to time.
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“Plan Year” shall mean the twelve-month period
commencing January 1 and ending December 31.
1.30
“Retirement” shall mean the date on or after an
Employee’s attainment of age 65 on which the Employee retires
from the service of all Employers.
1.31
“Specified Employee” shall mean a key employee (as
defined in Code Section 416(i), without reference to paragraph
(5) thereof) of the Employer. For purposes of this definition,
an Employee is a key employee if the Employee meets the
requirements of Code Section 416(i) (disregarding paragraph
(5) thereof) at any time during the twelve-month period ending
on an identification date. The identification date for this purpose
shall be December 31. If an Employee is a key employee as of
December 31, the Employee is treated as a Specified Employee
for the twelve-month period beginning on April 1 immediately
following such date.
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“Stock” shall mean BearingPoint, Inc. common stock,
$0.01 par value per share, or any other equity securities of the
Company designated by the Committee.
1.33
“Termination of Employment” shall mean the severing of
employment with all Employers, voluntarily or involuntarily, for
any reason other than Retirement, death, Disability or an
authorized leave of absence; provided that such severing of
employment constitutes a “separation from service”
within the meaning of Section 409A(a)(2)(A)(i) of the Code and
Treasury Regulation 1.409A-1(h).
1.34
“Trust” shall mean one or more trusts established,
effective as of January 1, 2005 between the Company and the
trustee named therein, as amended from time to time.
1.35
“Year of Service” shall have the same meaning as the
term Vesting Service under the 401(k) Plan.
ARTICLE 2
Selection, Enrollment, Eligibility
2.1
Selection by Committee . Participation in the Plan
shall be limited to Employees who are Managing Directors of the
Company or above and any other individuals as determined by the
Committee, in its sole discretion, from a select group of
management and highly compensated Employees of the Company. From
that group, the Committee shall select, in its sole discretion,
Employees to participate in the Plan.
2.2
Enrollment Requirements . As a condition to
participation, each selected Employee shall complete and return to
the Committee an Election Form on or before December 31 prior
to the Plan Year for which such Employee has been selected to begin
participation in the Plan. In addition, the Committee shall
establish from time to time such other enrollment requirements as
it determines in its sole discretion are necessary.
2.3
Eligibility; Commencement of Participation .
Provided an Employee selected to participate in the Plan has met
all enrollment requirements set forth in this Plan and required by
the Committee, including returning all required documents to the
Committee within the specified time period, that Employee shall
commence participation in the Plan on the January 1 of the Plan
Year after the Employee completes all enrollment requirements. If
an Employee fails to meet all such requirements within the period
required, in accordance with Section 2.2, that Employee shall
not be eligible to participate in the Plan until the first day of
the Plan Year following the delivery to and acceptance by the
Committee of the required documents. A Participant’s deferral
election in a Plan Year following commencement of participation in
the Plan is governed by Section 3.2.
2.4
Termination of Participation and/or Deferrals . If
the Committee determines in good faith that a Participant no longer
qualifies as a member of a select group of management or highly
compensated employees, as membership in such group is determined in
accordance with Sections 201(2), 30l(a)(3), and 401(a)(1) of ERISA,
the Committee shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to
prevent the Participant from making deferral elections for future
Plan Years following the Plan Year in which the Participant has
ceased to qualify.
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ARTICLE 3
Deferral Commitments/Employer
Matching/Crediting/Taxes
3.1
Minimum/Maximum Deferrals . For each Plan
Year, a Participant may elect to defer, as his or her Annual
Deferral Amount, a minimum of 0% and a maximum of 50% of his or her
Annual Base Salary. The election must be in increments of one
percentage point (1%). If an election is made for less than the
stated minimum percentage, or if no election is made (if an
election is required), the deferral shall be zero
percent.
3.2
Election to Defer; Effect of Election Form
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First Plan Year
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Participant’s commencement of participation in the Plan, the
Participant shall make an irrevocable deferral election for the
Plan Year in which the Participant commences participation in the
Plan, along with such other elections as the Committee deems
necessary or desirable under the Plan. For these elections to be
valid, the Election Form must be completed and signed by the
Participant, timely delivered to the Committee (in accordance with
Section 2.2 above), and accepted by the Committee.
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Continuing Effectiveness of Election
Forms .
The Committee may require a new enrollment at any time or may
provide that, once submitted, a Participant’s Election Form
shall continue in effect for subsequent Plan Years unless the
Participant timely submits a new Election Form before the end of
the Plan Year preceding the Plan Year for which the new election is
made. The Committee shall maintain an open enrollment period
preceding each Plan Year in order to allow Participants to submit
new Election Forms. A new Election Form timely submitted shall
revoke all prior Election Forms submitted by the
Participant.
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Timing of Election
Forms .
To be effective for any Plan Year, an Election Form must be
received by the Committee prior to January 1 of the Plan Year to
which it relates.
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Withholding of Annual Deferral Amounts . For each
Plan Year, the Annual Deferral Amount shall be withheld from each
regularly scheduled Annual Base Salary payroll at the elected
percentage.
3.4
Employer Matching Amount . For each Plan Year, the
Employer, in its sole discretion, may, but is not required to,
credit any amount it desires to any Participant’s Matching
Contribution Account under this Plan, which amount shall be for
that Participant. Any Employer Matching Contributions for a given
Plan Year will be limited to the amount that would have been
available under the terms of the 401(k) Plan but for any reduction
in allowable elective deferrals to the 401(k) Plan due to
nondiscrimination testing results for the plan year of the 401(k)
Plan.
3.5
Investment of Trust Assets . The trustee of the Trust
shall be authorized, upon written instructions received from the
Committee or investment manager appointed by the Committee, to
invest and reinvest the assets of the Trust in accordance with the
applicable trust agreement.
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3.6
Vesting . A Participant shall at all times be 100%
vested in his or her Deferral Account. A Participant shall be
vested in his or her Employer Matching Account in accordance with
the vesting provisions of the 401(k) Plan.
3.7
Crediting/Debiting of Account Balances . In accordance with,
and subject to, the rules and procedures that are established from
time to time by the Committee, in its sole discretion, amounts
shall be credited or debited to a Participant’s Account
Balance in accordance with the following rules:
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Election of Measurement
Funds . A
Participant, in connection with his or her initial deferral
election in accordance with Section 3.2(a) above, shall elect,
on the Election Form, one or more Measurement Fund(s) (as described
in Section 3.7(c) below) to be used to determine the
additional amounts to be credited to his or her Account Balance
when the Participant commences participation in the Plan and
continuing thereafter for each subsequent business day in which the
Participant participates in the Plan, unless changed in accordance
with the next sentence. Commencing with the business day that
follows the Participant’s commencement of participation in
the Plan and continuing thereafter for each subsequent business day
in which the Participant participates in the Plan, the Participant
may (but is not required to) elect, by submitting an Election Form
to the Committee that is accepted by the Committee, to reallocate
among the available Measurement Fund(s) to be used to determine the
additional amounts to be credited to his or her Account Balance, or
to change the portion of his or her Account Balance allocated to
each previously or newly elected Measurement Fund. If an election
is made in accordance with the previous sentence, it shall apply as
soon as administratively possible and shall continue thereafter for
each subsequent business day in which the Participant participates
in the Plan, unless changed in accordance with the previous
sentence.
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Proportionate
Allocation . In making any election described in
Section 3.7(a) above, the Participant shall specify on the
Election Form, in increments of one percentage point (1%), the
percentage of his or her Account Balance to be allocated to a
Measurement Fund (as if the Participant was making an investment in
that Measurement Fund with that portion of his or her Account
Balance).
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(c)
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Measurement Funds
.
The Participant may
elect one or more measurement funds (the “Measurement
Funds”) for the purpose of crediting additional amounts to
his or her Account Balance. The Committee shall, in its sole
discretion, select, discontinue, substitute or add a Measurement
Fund at any time. Subject to the shareholders of the Company
approving the use of Stock under the Plan, the Committee may offer
a BearingPoint, Inc. Stock Fund (the “Stock Fund”) as a
Measurement Fund.
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(d)
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Crediting or Debiting
Method .
The performance of each elected Measurement Fund (either positive
or negative) will be determined by the Committee, in its reasonable
discretion, based on the performance of the Measurement Funds
themselves. A Participant’s Account balance shall be credited
or debited on a
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daily basis based on the performance
of each Meas
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