Exhibit 10.35
MATTEL, INC.
DEFERRED COMPENSATION
PLAN
FOR NON-EMPLOYEE
DIRECTORS
(AS AMENDED AND RESTATED
EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2009)
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Eligibility
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2.
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Participation
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(a)
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Election to
Participate
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(b)
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Enrollment
Form
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(c)
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Duration of
Deferral Election
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3.
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Deferred
Compensation Accounts
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(a)
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Investment
Election
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(b)
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No Actual
Investment
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(c)
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Crediting of
Accounts Generally
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(i)
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Subaccounts
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(ii)
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Timing of
Credits.
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(iii)
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Performance
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(d)
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Stock
Equivalent Sub-Account and Restricted Stock Unit
Sub-Account
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(i)
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Dividends
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(ii)
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Recapitalization or Reorganization of
Company
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(iii)
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Shares Subject
to Plan
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(e)
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Change of
Investment Elections
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(f)
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Administrative
Discretion
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(g)
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Compliance with
the Exchange Act.
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(h)
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Vesting of
Amounts Credited to Restricted Stock Unit Sub-Account
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(i)
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Interest
Accrual Sub-Account
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Distribution
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(a)
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Distribution
Election
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(b)
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Distribution
Options
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(c)
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Form of
Distributions
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(d)
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Death
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(e)
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Installment
Distributions
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(f)
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Change in
Control
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(g)
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Hardship
Distribution
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5.
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Miscellaneous
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(a)
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Assignment
Prohibited
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(b)
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Benefits
Unfunded
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(c)
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Grantor
Trust
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(d)
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Account
Statements
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(e)
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Nonforfeitable
Benefit
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(f)
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Amendment
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(g)
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Termination
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(h)
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Withholding
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(i)
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Governing
Law
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(j)
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Gender, Tense,
and Headings
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(k)
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Successors and
Assigns
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(l)
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Disputes
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Table of Contents
(continued)
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(m)
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Full
Satisfaction
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(n)
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Plan
Administrator
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(o)
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Section 409A
Compliance.
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6.
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Definitions
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(a)
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Account
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(b)
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Administrator
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(c)
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Beneficiary
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(d)
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Board
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(e)
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Change in
Control
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(f)
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Code
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(g)
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Common
Stock
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(h)
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Company
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(i)
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Deferrals
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(j)
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Director
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(k)
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Effective
Date
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(l)
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Enrollment
Form
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(m)
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Exchange
Act
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(n)
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Fair Market
Value
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(o)
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Hardship
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(p)
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Hardship
Distribution
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(q)
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Interest
Accrual Sub-Account
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(r)
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Investment
Fund
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(s)
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Participant
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(t)
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Plan
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(u)
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Plan
Year
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(v)
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Restatement
Effective Date
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(w)
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Restricted
Stock Unit Sub-Account
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(x)
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RSU
Award
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(y)
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Severance
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(z)
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Stock
Equivalent Sub-Account
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(aa)
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Valuation
Date
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MATTEL, INC.
DEFERRED COMPENSATION
PLAN
FOR NON-EMPLOYEE
DIRECTORS
(AS AMENDED AND RESTATED
EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2009)
PREAMBLE
Mattel, Inc., a Delaware corporation
(the “ Company ”), hereby amends and
restates the Mattel, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan for
Non-Employee Directors (this “ Plan ”),
effective as of January 1, 2009 (the “ Restatement
Effective Date ”). The Company adopted this Plan
effective as of July 1, 1998, and previously amended this Plan
effective as of August 17, 2000. The Company wishes to amend
and restate this Plan to conform the written terms of this Plan to
the requirements of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code
of 1986, as amended from time to time (the “
Code ”).
Words and phrases used in this Plan
with the first letter capitalized shall have the meanings specified
in Section 6 unless otherwise specified.
1. Eligibility
Each Director is eligible to
participate in this Plan and shall continue to be eligible to
participate in this Plan until he or she ceases to be a Director,
whether by reason of his or her Severance or death.
2. Participation
(a) Election to
Participate . Prior to the beginning of any Plan Year and
during the period specified by the Administrator from time to time,
each eligible Director may elect to participate in this Plan by
directing that all or any part of the compensation (including all
of the Common Stock amount earned as an RSU Award) which would
otherwise have been payable currently for services as a Director
(including any periodic and/or annual retainer, Board and committee
meeting fees (including any special committee fees) and any
additional annual retainer payable for services as a chair or
member of a committee of the Board but excluding expense
reimbursements, amounts realized upon the exercise or vesting of
equity-based compensation other than RSU Awards, or any other
amounts paid to the Director) during such Plan Year shall be
credited to his or her Account, subject to the terms of this Plan.
In addition, newly elected or appointed Directors who have not
performed services for the Company or its subsidiaries during the
24-month period ending on the date of the Director’s election
or appointment to the Board may make an “initial deferral
election” (within the meaning of Treas. Reg.
§1.409A-2(a)(7)) within 30 days of such election or
appointment to the Board to have any Board and committee meeting
fees (including any special committee fees, but not any periodic
and/or annual retainer payable for the year of the Director’s
election or appointment to the Board) paid during the Plan Year for
services to be performed after the election credited to his or her
Account, subject to the terms of this Plan.
(b) Enrollment Form .
Such an election to participate in this Plan shall be in the form
of an enrollment form (“ Enrollment Form
”) executed by the Participant and the Company and filed with
the Administrator or its delegate. The specifications of this Plan
(including the time and form of payment of amounts deferred
hereunder) that apply to any Participant are contained in such
separate Enrollment Form executed by the Company and the
Participant. The Enrollment Form constitutes a part of this Plan
and its terms are incorporated into this Plan. Any reference herein
to an election, designation or other action by a Participant in
writing shall be deemed to include an electronic election,
designation or act made on the Internet to the extent permitted by
applicable law.
(c) Duration
of Deferral Election . An election related to fees
otherwise payable in any Plan Year shall become irrevocable on the
last business day prior to the beginning of such Plan Year or, with
respect to any “initial deferral election” made by
newly elected or appointed Directors within the “first year
of eligibility” (all within the meaning of Treas. Reg.
§1.409A-2(a)(7)), on the 30 th day after becoming a Director
and may not be modified or revoked thereafter unless otherwise
permitted by the Administrator on terms consistent with
Section 409A of the Code. An election shall be valid and
effective only for the Plan Year with respect to which the election
is made and a Participant may not change the amount of his or her
Deferrals during a Plan Year. If a new election is not made with
respect to any subsequent Plan Year under this
Section 2 , no part of the compensation payable for
services as a Director with respect to such subsequent Plan Year
shall be credited to the Participant’s Account.
3. Deferred Compensation
Accounts
(a) Investment Election
. Except with respect to deferrals of Common Stock amounts
earned as an RSU Award and subject to Section 3(i) ,
Participants may elect, on a form or in the manner provided by the
Administrator (any which form or manner shall set forth or provide
an opportunity to elect different Investment Funds for different
percentage increments of the amounts being deferred, in accordance
with rules established by the Administrator), one or more
Investment Funds to be used to determine the amount of earnings or
losses to be credited to the Participant’s Account. Although
the Participant may designate the Investment Funds, the
Administrator shall not be bound by such designation. The
Administrator shall select from time to time, in its sole
discretion, the Investment Funds to be available under this Plan.
If a Participant fails to elect an Investment Fund, such
Participant shall be deemed to have elected the default Investment
Fund (as specified by the Administrator) for such
Participant’s Account. Any deferral of Common Stock amounts
earned as an RSU Award shall be allocated to a Participant’s
Restricted Stock Unit Sub-Account.
(b) No Actual Investment
. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan that may be
interpreted to the contrary, the Investment Funds are to be used
for measurement purposes only, and a Participant’s election
of any such Investment Fund, the allocation of such
Participant’s Account thereto, the calculation of additional
amounts and the crediting or debiting of such amounts to a
Participant’s Account shall not be considered or construed in
any manner as an actual investment of such
Participant’s
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Account in any such Investment Fund. In the
event that the Company or the trustee of the trust described in
Section 5(c) , in its own discretion, decides to invest
funds in any or all of the Investment Funds, no Participant shall
have any rights in or to such investments. Without limiting the
foregoing, a Participant’s Account at all times shall be a
bookkeeping entry only and shall not represent any investment made
on his or her behalf by the Company. The Participant at all times
shall remain an unsecured creditor of the Company.
(c) Crediting of Accounts
Generally .
(i) Subaccounts . Each
Participant’s Account shall be divided into separate
subaccounts (“ investment fund subaccounts
”) each of which corresponds to an Investment Fund elected by
or designated for the Participant pursuant to
Section 3(a) . Subject to the limitations set forth in
Section 3(i) , the Administrator shall credit the
investment fund subaccounts of the Participant’s Account with
an amount equal to amounts deferred by the Participant in
accordance with the Participant’s Enrollment Form under
Section 2 .
(ii) Timing of Credits
.
(A) Deferrals of any annual Board
retainer and any additional annual retainer payable for services as
a chair or member of a committee of the Board shall be credited to
the investment fund subaccounts of the Participant’s Account
within five business days of the date of the annual meeting of
stockholders of the Company.
(B) Deferrals of any periodic Board
retainer shall be credited to the investment fund subaccounts of
the Participant’s Account within five business days of the
date upon which such retainer becomes payable;
(C) Deferrals of Board and committee
meeting fees (including any special committee fees) shall be
credited on the last business day of the calendar quarter in which
such fees otherwise would have been paid in cash.
(D) Deferrals of Common Stock
amounts earned as an RSU Award shall be credited on the date of
grant of such RSU Award.
(E) Any Deferrals credited to the
Stock Equivalent Sub-Account or the Restricted Stock Unit
Sub-Account shall be applied on the date specified in subsections
(A), (B), (C) or (D), as applicable, to the hypothetical
purchase of whole or fractional shares of the Common Stock,
determined by dividing the amount of such compensation by the Fair
Market Value of a share of Common Stock on the date the related
compensation is or otherwise would be paid (or, with respect to
subsection (D), such determination shall be made on the date of
grant).
(iii) Performance . A
Participant’s Account shall be credited or debited as of each
business day based on the performance of each Investment Fund, as
determined by the Administrator in its sole discretion based on the
performance of the
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Investment Funds themselves, until
all amounts credited to such Participant’s Account under this
Plan have been distributed and the Participant’s Account
shall also be credited with an amount equal to any Deferrals and
debited by amounts equal to all payments to the Participant and/or
his or her Beneficiary.
(d) Stock Equivalent
Sub-Account and Restricted Stock Unit Sub-Account
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(i) Dividends . The
Participant’s Stock Equivalent Sub-Account and Restricted
Stock Unit Sub-Account shall also be credited on the date cash
dividends are paid with a hypothetical number of whole or
fractional shares of the Common Stock equivalent to the quotient of
(i) any cash dividend payment on the number of shares of
Common stock equal to the number of hypothetical shares of Common
Stock in the Participant’s Stock Equivalent Sub-Account or
Restricted Stock Unit Sub-Account on the record date for such
dividend and (ii) the Fair Market Value of a share of Common
Stock on the applicable dividend payment date.
(ii) Recapitalization or
Reorganization of Company . In the event of any change in
outstanding Common Stock by reason of any stock dividend or split,
recapitalization, merger, consolidation, combination or exchange of
shares, spin-off or other similar corporate change affecting the
Common Stock, the Administrator shall make such adjustments, if
any, that it deems appropriate in the number of hypothetical shares
of Common Stock then credited to Participants’ Accounts. Any
and all such adjustments shall be conclusive and binding upon all
parties concerned.
(iii) Shares Subject to
Plan . The maximum number of hypothetical shares of Common
Stock that may be credited to the Stock Equivalent Sub-Account and
the Restricted Stock Unit Sub-Account may not exceed two million
shares in the aggregate. This number is subject to adjustment to
take into consideration adjustment in the number of outstanding
shares of Common Stock as described in the preceding
Section 3(d)(ii) .
(e) Change of Investment
Elections . A Participant may elect to change the
Investment Fund allocations of the Participant’s Account
(other than the Restricted Stock Unit Sub-Account) daily by filing
an election, on a form or in the manner provided by the
Administrator, which election specifies in whole percentages the
amounts to be transferred and specifies the new Investment Fund;
provided, however, that (x) amounts not credited to the
Interest Accrual Sub-Account as of the Restatement Effective Date
may not be transferred to the Interest Accrual