DIRECTOR DEFERRED COMPENSATION
PLAN
(MAY 18, 2000 RESTATEMENT)
The KeyCorp
Director Deferred Compensation Plan, originally established as of
January 1, 1984, is hereby amended and restated in its
entirety, effective May 18, 2000.
KeyCorp hereby
establishes this Director Deferred Compensation Plan for directors
of KeyCorp and its subsidiaries to provide directors with the
opportunity to defer payment of their directors’ fees in
accordance with the provisions of this Plan.
For the purposes
hereof, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings
indicated.
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1.
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“Account” shall mean the
bookkeeping account established in accordance with Article II
hereof.
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2.
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“Beneficiary” shall mean
any person designated by a Participant in accordance with the Plan
to receive payment of all or a portion of the remaining balance of
the Participant’s Account in the event of the death of the
Participant prior to receipt by the Participant of the entire
amount credited to the Participant’s Account.
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3.
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“Change of Control”
shall be deemed to have occurred if under any rabbi trust
arrangement maintained by the Corporation, the Corporation is
required under the terms of such arrangement to fund such rabbi
trust to secure the payment of any Participant’s Plan
benefits payable hereunder because a “Change of
Control” as defined in such rabbi trust has
occurred.
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4.
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“Corporation” shall mean
KeyCorp, a bank holding company and its corporate successors,
including the surviving corporation resulting from any merger of
KeyCorp with any other corporation or corporations.
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5.
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“Director” shall mean
(i) any member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation
and (ii) any member of the Board of Directors of a
Subsidiary.
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“Election Agreement”
shall mean a written election to defer Fees signed in writing by
the Director and in the form provided by the
Corporation.
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“Fees” shall mean the
fees earned as a Director.
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“Participant” shall mean
any Director who has at any time elected to defer the receipt of
Fees in accordance with the Plan.
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9.
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“Plan” shall mean this
Director Deferred Compensation Plan, together with all amendments
hereto.
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“Subsidiary” shall mean
a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United
States or of any state or the District of Columbia of which more
than 50% percent of the issued and outstanding stock is owned by
the Corporation or by a Subsidiary of the Corporation, and which
has been designated by the Board of Directors or Chief Executive
Officer of the Corporation as a Subsidiary eligible to participate
in the Plan.
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“Year” shall mean the
calendar year.
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ARTICLE II
ELECTION TO DEFER
1.
Eligibility . Any Director may elect to defer receipt of all
or a specified portion of his or her Fees for any Year in
accordance with Section 2 of this Article.
2.
Election to Defer . A Director who desires to defer the
payment of all or a portion of his or her Fees for any Year must
complete and deliver an Election Agreement to the Corporation no
later than the last day of the Year prior to the Year for which the
Fees would otherwise be paid; provided, however, that any Director
hereafter elected to the Board of Directors of the Corporation or a
Subsidiary who was not a Director on the preceding December 31
may make an election to defer payment of Fees for the Year in which
he or she is elected to the Board of Directors by delivering the
Election Agreement to the Corporation within 30 days of such
election. A Director who timely delivers the Election Agreement to
the Corporation shall be a Participant. A Participant’s
Election Agreement shall continue to be effective from Year to Year
until terminated or modified by written notice to the Corporation.
A revocation or modification must be delivered prior to the
beginning of the Year for which it is to be effective.
3. Amount
Deferred; Date of Deferral . A Participant shall designate on
the Election Agreement (a) the amount of his or her Fees that
are to be deferred, (b) the date to which the
Participant’s Fees shall be deferred, (c) whether the
distribution of deferred fees is to be paid in its entirety or
whether all or a portion of such fees shall be paid in
installments, (d) if in installments, the number of quarterly
installments, and (e) if in installments, whether installments
or payment in full shall be made upon his or her death. Deferral
shall be until the earlier to occur of (i) the date specified
by the Participant which may be not later than the date on which
the
Participant
would attain age 72, or (ii) the date of death of the
Participant, at which time payment of the amount deferred shall be
made in accordance with Section 7 or 10 of this Article. A
Participant may select not more than one date upon which full
distribution shall be made or when installments shall begin;
distribution dates shall be the first business day of a calendar
quarter.
4.
Account . The Corporation shall maintain an Account of the
Fees deferred by each Participant. A Participant shall designate on
the Election Agreement whether to have the Account valued on the
basis of KeyCorp Common Shares in accordance with Section 5 of
this Article or receive interest in accordance with Section 6
of this Article. The Corporation may, if necessary or desirable,
establish separate Accounts for a Participant to properly account
for amounts deferred under the different alternatives and years;
all such Accounts are collectively referred to herein as the
Account. The Account based on KeyCorp Common Shares shall be known
as the “Common Shares Account”, and the interest
bearing account shall be known as the “Interest Bearing
Account”; a Participant may defer a portion of his or her
Fees into each type of Account.
5. Common
Shares Account . If a Participant elects to have all or a
portion of his or her Fees deferred into the Common Shares Account,
as of the last business day of any quarter, there shall be added to
such Account the number of Common Shares (whole and fractional,
rounded to the nearest one-hundredth of a share) equal to the
dollar amount of such Fees payable for such calendar quarter plus
all dividends payable during such quarter on the Common Shares held
in the Account on the first day of such quarter divided by the
market value of the Common Shares at the close of business on the
last business day of such quarter.
6.
Interest Bearing Account . Effective January 1, 1995,
if a Participant elects to have all or a portion of his or her Fees
deferred into the Interest Bearing Account, there shall be added to
the Account as of the last business day of each calendar quarter
the dollar amount of such Fees payable for such calendar quarter
plus all interest payable on such Interest Bearing Account for such
quarter as follows: A Participant’s account will receive
interest on the average daily balance in the Interest Bearing
Account during each month at a rate equal to 50 basis points higher
than the effective annual yield of the average of the Moody’s
Average Corporate Bond Yield Index for the preceding month, as
published by Moody’s Investor Service, Inc. (or any successor
publisher thereto), or, if such index is no longer published, a
substantially similar index selected by the Board.
7.
Payment of Account; Period of Deferral . The amount of a
Participant’s Account shall be paid to the Participant in a
single payment and/or in a number of substantially equal
consecutive quarterly installments (not to exceed 40), as elected
by the Participant in his or her Election Agreement. Distributions
from the Interest Bearing Account shall be in cash. Distributions
from the Common Shares Account made or commenced prior to
January 1, 1999 shall be in cash and thereafter distributions
from the Common Shares Account shall be in Common Shares; provided
however, that in the event that the Corporation shall enter into a
transaction intended to qualify as a pooling of interests for
accounting purposes prior to
January 1,
1999, all distributions from the Common Shares Account at any time
shall be in cash. The amount of the Account remaining after payment
of an installment shall continue to be valued in accordance with
Section 5 of this Article or bear interest in accordance with
Section 6 of this Article. Full payment or the first quarterly
installment, as the case may be, shall be made as soon as
reasonably possible after (i) the date specified in
Section 3 of this Article, or (ii) the date of the
Participant’s death.
Any installment
payment shall be made pro rata from the Common Shares Account and
the Interest Bearing Account. The election as to the time for and
method of payment of the amount of the Account relating to Fees
deferred for a particular Year shall be made on the Election
Agreement(s) and may not thereafter be altered except as provided
in Section l0 or Section 13 of this Article.
In the event that
a Participant elects to receive installment payments under this
Section 7,
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(a)
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The
amount of the distribution from the Common Shares Account shall be
valued based on the fair market value of the Common Shares on the
last business day of the calendar quarter immediately prior to the
distribution date;
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(b)
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The
amount of the distribution from the Interest Bearing Account shall
be valued based on the value of such Account on the last business
day of the calendar quarter immediately prior to such distribution
date;
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(c)
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The
amount of each installment shall be determined by dividing the
value of the Common Shares Account, the Interest Bearing Account,
or both, as the case may be, by the number of installments
remaining to be paid to the Participant.
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8. Small
Payments . Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the quarterly
installment payments elected by a Participant hereunder would
result in a quarterly payment of less than $500 in cash or Common
Shares, as the case may be,
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