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KEYCORP DIRECTOR DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN (MAY 18, 2000 RESTATEMENT)

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Title: KEYCORP DIRECTOR DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN (MAY 18, 2000 RESTATEMENT)
Governing Law: Ohio     Date: 2/27/2009
Industry: Regional Banks     Sector: Financial

KEYCORP DIRECTOR DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN (MAY 18, 2000 RESTATEMENT), Parties: keycorp /new/
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Exhibit 10.20

KEYCORP

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.

ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS

     For the purposes hereof, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings indicated.

 

1.

 

“Account” shall mean the bookkeeping account established in accordance with Article II hereof.

 

 

2.

 

“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.

 

 

3.

 

“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.

 

 

4.

 

“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.

 

 

5.

 

“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.

 

 

6.

 

“Election Agreement” shall mean a written election to defer Fees signed in writing by the Director and in the form provided by the Corporation.

 


 

 

7.

 

“Fees” shall mean the fees earned as a Director.

 

 

8.

 

“Participant” shall mean any Director who has at any time elected to defer the receipt of Fees in accordance with the Plan.

 

 

9.

 

“Plan” shall mean this Director Deferred Compensation Plan, together with all amendments hereto.

 

 

10.

 

“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.

 

 

11.

 

“Year” shall mean the calendar year.

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,

 

(a)

 

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;

 

 

(b)

 

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;

 

 

(c)

 

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.

     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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