MANAGING DIRECTOR
AGREEMENT
This
Agreement (“Agreement”) is between BearingPoint, Inc.
(“BearingPoint”) and
(“You” and all similar references), effective as of
(the “Effective Date”):
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Employment/Exclusive
Services .
You accept employment as of the Effective Date on the terms and
conditions of this Agreement. You agree to: (a) devote your
professional time and best effort to BearingPoint’s business
and to refrain from professional practice other than on
BearingPoint’s behalf; (b) perform all assigned work
faithfully and to the best of your ability at such times and places
as BearingPoint designates; (c) abide by all policies of
BearingPoint, current and future, including the EEO policy attached
as Exhibit A, and the Anti-Harassment policy attached as
Exhibit B; (d) comply with the Confidentiality and
Intellectual Property Agreement attached as Exhibit C;
(e) abide by the terms of the Consent Form, concerning
personal data, attached as Exhibit D; (f) agree to, and
abide with, the list of Competitive Businesses, attached as
Exhibit E; (g) abide by the Drug-Free Workplace policy
attached as Exhibit F, and the Information Technology Use
policy attached as Exhibit G; and (h) comply with the
Corporate Sponsored Credit Card Agreement attached as
Exhibit H.
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By
executing this Agreement, you represent and confirm that you are
not bound by any covenant restricting you from being employed at
BearingPoint or from performing your duties as an employee and
Managing Director under this Agreement.
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Compensation and Benefits
. As of the Effective
Date, BearingPoint will pay you a base salary, less withholding and
deductions, payable in accordance with BearingPoint’s normal
payroll practices. From time to time, BearingPoint may adjust your
salary and other compensation in its discretion. During your
employment, you will be eligible to participate in employee
compensation or benefit plans (including group medical and 401(k)),
incentive award programs, and employee stock option or purchase
plans and to receive other fringe benefits that BearingPoint makes
generally available to employees in your position. BearingPoint may
amend or discontinue any of its plans, programs, policies and
procedures at any time for any or no reason with or without
notice.
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As
a condition of receiving any stock options, restricted stock or
other equity awards, you will be required to enter into a separate
stock option, restricted stock or other agreement that will provide
(among other things) for the termination of your stock options or
other equity awards and a payment to BearingPoint or its designee
of some or all of your gain if you violate Sections 1(d), 3,
4, 5, and/or Exhibit C of this Agreement. You also agree and
authorize BearingPoint to deduct or withhold from your base salary
or other compensation amounts which are owed to BearingPoint or for
any other lawful purpose.
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Duty of Loyalty
. You acknowledge and
agree that you owe a fiduciary duty of loyalty, fidelity and
allegiance to act at all times in the best interests of
BearingPoint and to do no
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act that would
injure the business, interests, or reputation of BearingPoint. You
understand and agree that you will not divert business from
BearingPoint to a Competitive Business, prepare for a future
competitive venture or engage in self-dealing while in
BearingPoint’s employ. In keeping with these duties, you
shall make full disclosure to BearingPoint of all business
opportunities pertaining to BearingPoint’s business and shall
not appropriate for your future benefit business opportunities of
BearingPoint.
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Conflicts of Interest
. You understand and
agree that any direct or indirect interest in, connection with, or
benefit from any outside activities, particularly commercial or
consulting activities, which interest might in any way adversely
affect BearingPoint, involves a possible conflict of interest.
Consistent with your fiduciary duties to BearingPoint, you agree
that you shall not knowingly become involved in a conflict of
interest with BearingPoint or upon discovery of such a conflict,
permit it to continue. You also agree to disclose promptly to
BearingPoint’s General Counsel any facts which might involve
such a conflict of interest that has not been approved by
BearingPoint’s Board of Directors.
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Covenants . In consideration of your
employment, special training, access to Proprietary Information and
eligibility for stock options, restricted stock or other equity
awards, you agree to the following obligations that you acknowledge
are reasonably designed to protect BearingPoint’s legitimate
business interests without unreasonably restricting your ability to
earn a living after leaving BearingPoint.
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Non-Disclosure
. To assist you in
performing your duties, BearingPoint agrees to provide you special
training regarding its business methods and access to certain
confidential and proprietary information and materials belonging to
BearingPoint and to third parties, including its Clients and
Prospective Clients who have furnished information to BearingPoint.
You will be entrusted with business opportunities of BearingPoint
and placed in a position to use and develop business goodwill on
BearingPoint’s behalf. You agree that all of this non-public
information, including the identities of BearingPoint’s
Clients and Prospective Clients and their key decision makers or
other client or prospect lists, is “Proprietary
Information” as defined in Exhibit C. In keeping with
the obligations imposed by Exhibit C, you agree that you will
not, at any time during or after your employment at BearingPoint,
make any unauthorized disclosure of BearingPoint’s
Proprietary Information to any third party or otherwise use such
Proprietary Information to BearingPoint’s competitive
disadvantage.
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Non-Competition
. While employed with
BearingPoint and for 18 months after your termination or
resignation, for whatever reason, you will not, directly or
indirectly, on your own behalf or on behalf of a Competitive
Business (as specified in Exhibit E), in any geographic area
or market where you (or a direct report of your business unit)
provided BearingPoint Services during the preceding 12 months:
(i) engage in or be employed by or affiliated with a
Competitive Business in which you perform the same or similar
duties or responsibilities or provide comparable services that you
performed or provided while employed as a
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Managing
Director of BearingPoint; (ii) offer to provide to any Client
or Prospective Client similar services in the same line of business
to those which you conducted, provided or offered to provide while
employed by BearingPoint; (iii) render advice or services to,
or otherwise assist, any Competitive Business in rendering advice
or services similar to that advice or services offered or provided
by BearingPoint through you or your business unit to any Client or
Prospective Client; (iv) divert or attempt to divert any
Client or Prospective Client from BearingPoint to a Competitive
Business; (v) transact any business with any Client or
Prospective Client which, in any manner, would have, or is likely
to have, an adverse effect upon BearingPoint’s existing or
prospective business relationships; and/or (vi) develop,
acquire or maintain an ownership interest in a Competitive
Business, provided that ownership interest of less than 5% of the
outstanding capital stock of a publicly traded Competitive Business
shall not be a violation of this provision. If BearingPoint
abandons a particular aspect of its business (i.e., ceases
providing such services with the intention to permanently refrain
from such aspect of the business), then this covenant shall not
apply to such former aspect of BearingPoint’s
business.
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Non-Solicitation of Clients and
Prospective Clients . During your employment with
BearingPoint and for a period of 18 months after your
termination or resignation, for whatever reason, you agree not to
take any action to, or do anything reasonably intended to, solicit
any Client or Prospective Client on your own behalf or on behalf of
a Competitive Business (as specified in Exhibit E) or
otherwise influence or attempt to influence any Client or
Prospective Client to cease or refrain from doing business, or
reduce the Client’s business, with BearingPoint. The term
“solicit” includes any direct or indirect approach,
verbal or written, to a Client or Prospective Client containing an
offer, announcement, request, petition, solicitation or other
entreaty that asks, urges, encourages, invites, moves or otherwise
persuades a Client or Prospective Client to contact or respond to
you or a Competitive Business for business purposes. You understand
and agree that impermissible solicitation includes, but is not
limited to, informing any Client or Prospective Client of your
intent to form or join a Competitive Business or announcing to any
Client or Prospective Client your departure from BearingPoint or
your forming or joining a Competitive Business. You also agree not
to make any public or private false, derogatory or disparaging
comments about BearingPoint (or its employees) to any Clients or
Prospective Clients or act in any manner that could reasonably be
expected to result in damage to the goodwill or business reputation
of BearingPoint.
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Non-Solicitation of
Employees .
While employed with BearingPoint and for 18 months after your
termination or resignation, for whatever reason, you agree not to
hire, employ, solicit for employment or attempt to hire or assist a
Competitive Business (as specified in Exhibit E) in doing so any
employee of BearingPoint or any former employee who left
BearingPoint within 12 months before or after your termination
or resignation. This prohibition applies to any direct or indirect,
written or verbal, contact for employment purposes and includes,
but is not limited to, notice of alternative job opportunities,
responses to employee inquiries,
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referrals to
hiring managers or providing employee identity, contact,
performance or compensation information to a Competitive Business
or its representative. Impermissible solicitation also includes any
direct or indirect offer to engage or retain a BearingPoint
employee or former employee as an employee, agent, consultant,
independent contractor or in any other capacity to perform services
for a person or entity other than BearingPoint.
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Remedies . In addition to and without
limiting any remedies in law or in equity that may be available to
BearingPoint for breach of this Agreement, including, but not
limited to, injunctive and other equitable relief, you also agree
to the following obligations and accept the following
consequences:
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Compensation Forfeiture
. If BearingPoint
determines that you have breached Sections 3 or 4, you agree
to forfeit or repay all salary and other compensation that you have
earned or would otherwise be entitled to from BearingPoint during
any period of disloyalty or conflicting interest. This compensation
forfeiture shall be absolute and not subject to any apportionment
for properly performed services during any period when disloyal
acts were committed. By executing this Agreement, you authorize
BearingPoint to engage in self-help and deduct or withhold from any
compensation otherwise due or owing to you in order to satisfy such
forfeiture; provided, however, that any such deduction or
withholding shall occur only at the time when payment of such
compensation would otherwise have been made under the terms of the
applicable policy or plan. You also agree to forfeit and pay to
BearingPoint all gains realized from the disloyal or conflicting
acts and to reimburse BearingPoint for all losses incurred as a
result of the disloyalty, including costs and attorney’s
fees.
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Injunctive Relief
. You acknowledge and
agree that BearingPoint’s remedy at law for any breach of the
covenants or othe
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