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MIDWEST BANC HOLDINGS, INC. DIRECTORS DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN

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Title: MIDWEST BANC HOLDINGS, INC. DIRECTORS DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
Date: 12/19/2008
Industry: Regional Banks     Sector: Financial

MIDWEST BANC HOLDINGS, INC. DIRECTORS DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN, Parties: midwest banc holdings inc
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Exhibit 10.1 (Rev. 11/26/08) MIDWEST BANC HOLDINGS, INC. DIRECTORS DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN NOTICE OF SPECIAL RISK OF LOSS      A special risk of loss is associated with a director’s decision to participate in the Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc. Directors Deferred Compensation Plan. This special risk of loss is separate and apart from the risk of loss due to poor performance by the account or fund to which the Director may suggest be the deemed investment of his or her account balance. This special risk of loss is that, if Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc. ever becomes insolvent or bankrupt, the Director might lose all or a large part of his or her account under the Plan.      This special risk of loss is a feature of the Plan because, unlike a trust holding the assets of a tax-qualified retirement plan, this Plan cannot legally be structured so that it is exempt from the creditors of Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc. and still provide for the deferral of federal income taxes. (As Amended and Restated Effective Generally January 1, 2009)

 




 

MIDWEST BANC HOLDINGS, INC.
DIRECTORS DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
Table of Contents

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE I BACKGROUND, PURPOSE AND EFFECTIVE DATE

 

 

1

 

   1.01

 

Background

 

 

1

 

   1.02

 

Purpose

 

 

1

 

   1.03

 

Effective Date

 

 

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE II DEFINITIONS

 

 

1

 

   2.01

 

"Account"

 

 

1

 

   2.02

 

"Affiliated Employer"

 

 

1

 

   2.03

 

"Annual Deferrals"

 

 

2

 

   2.04

 

"Beneficiary"

 

 

2

 

   2.05

 

"Board"

 

 

2

 

   2.06

 

"Change in Control"

 

 

2

 

   2.07

 

"Code"

 

 

3

 

   2.08

 

"Company"

 

 

3

 

   2.09

 

"Company Stock"

 

 

3

 

   2.10

 

"Company Stock Subaccount"

 

 

3

 

   2.11

 

"Deferred Fees"

 

 

3

 

   2.12

 

"Director"

 

 

3

 

   2.13

 

"Director Fees"

 

 

3

 

   2.14

 

"Election Form"

 

 

4

 

   2.15

 

"Election Period"

 

 

4

 

   2.16

 

"Interest Earning Subaccount"

 

 

4

 

   2.17

 

"Investment Election"

 

 

4

 

   2.18

 

"Participant"

 

 

4

 

   2.19

 

"Plan"

 

 

4

 

   2.20

 

"Plan Administrator"

 

 

4

 

   2.21

 

"Plan Year"

 

 

4

 

   2.22

 

"Separation from Service"

 

 

4

 

   2.23

 

"Specified Employee"

 

 

5

 

   2.24

 

"Trust"

 

 

5

 

   2.25

 

"Trustee"

 

 

5

 

   2.26

 

"Unforeseeable Emergency"

 

 

5

 

   2.27

 

"Valuation Date"

 

 

5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE III PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS AND PARTICIPANT ELECTIONS

 

 

5

 

   3.01

 

Participation Requirements

 

 

5

 

   3.02

 

Initial Election Period for Newly Elected Directors; Irrevocability of Elections

 

 

5

 

   3.03

 

Subsequent Annual Elections; Irrevocability of Elections

 

 

5

 

   3.04

 

Cancellation of Deferrals Following An Unforeseeable Emergency Payment

 

 

5

 

   3.05

 

Amount of Deferral

 

 

5

 

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   3.06

 

Manner of Electing Deferral

 

 

5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE IV CREDITING OF PARTICIPANT ACCOUNTS

 

 

5

 

   4.01

 

Maintenance of Accounts

 

 

5

 

   4.02

 

Crediting of Director Fees to Participant Accounts

 

 

5

 

   4.03

 

Crediting of Earnings and Losses

 

 

5

 

   4.04

 

Crediting of Director Fees to Company Stock Subaccount

 

 

5

 

   4.05

 

Crediting of Director Fees to Interest Earning Subaccount

 

 

5

 

   4.06

 

Account Valuation; Participant Statements

 

 

5

 

   4.07

 

Liability

 

 

5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE V FUNDING RESTRICTIONS

 

 

5

 

   5.01

 

Funding Restrictions in General

 

 

5

 

   5.02

 

Optional Establishment of a Trust Subject to Claims of Creditors

 

 

5

 

   5.03

 

Ownership of Fund or Trust Fund

 

 

5

 

   5.04

 

Company Contributions to Trust

 

 

5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE VI FORM AND TIMING OF PAYMENT OF BENEFITS

 

 

5

 

   6.01

 

Forms of Payment and Elections

 

 

5

 

   6.02

 

Timing of Payment of Deferred Fees Upon Separation From Service

 

 

5

 

   6.03

 

Timing of Payment of Deferred Fees Upon Death

 

 

5

 

   6.04

 

Timing of Payment of Deferred Fees Upon A Change in Control

 

 

5

 

   6.05

 

Timing of Payment of Deferred Fees Upon An Unforeseeable Emergency

 

 

5

 

   6.06

 

Payment of Deferred Fees to Satisfy Domestic Relations Order

 

 

5

 

   6.07

 

Limited Cashouts

 

 

5

 

   6.08

 

Change in Form or Timing of Payments

 

 

5

 

   6.09

 

Restriction on Timing of Payment

 

 

5

 

   6.10

 

No Loans

 

 

5

 

   6.11

 

Accounting for Payments

 

 

5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE VII DESIGNATION OF BENEFICIARY

 

 

5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE VIII PLAN ADMINISTRATION

 

 

5

 

   8.01

 

Plan Administrator; Expenses

 

 

5

 

   8.02

 

Powers and Duties

 

 

5

 

   8.03

 

Interpretation of Plan Provisions; Finality of Rules and Decisions

 

 

5

 

   8.04

 

Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies Required

 

 

5

 

   8.05

 

Claims Procedures

 

 

5

 

   8.06

 

Claims Review Procedures: Appeals of Adverse Determinations

 

 

5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE IX AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION

 

 

5

 

   9.01

 

Amendment

 

 

5

 

   9.02

 

Termination

 

 

5

 

   9.03

 

Plan Terminations Under Section 409A

 

 

5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE X MISCELLANEOUS

 

 

5

 

   10.01

 

Anti-Alienation

 

 

5

 

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   10.02

 

State Law

 

 

5

 

   10.03

 

No Guarantee of Continued Service

 

 

5

 

   10.04

 

Notice, Designation, Election, Consent, and Waiver

 

 

5

 

   10.05

 

Action by Company

 

 

5

 

   10.06

 

Conditions Upon Issuance of Company Stock

 

 

5

 

   10.07

 

Change in Corporate Capitalization

 

 

5

 

   10.08

 

Two-Year Time Limitation on Legal Actions

 

 

5

 

   10.09

 

Compliance With Section 409A of the Code

 

 

5

 

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MIDWEST BANC HOLDINGS, INC.
DIRECTORS DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
ARTICLE I
BACKGROUND, PURPOSE AND EFFECTIVE DATE

1.01

 

Background . The Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc. Directors Deferred Compensation Plan (the "Plan") is a deferred compensation plan maintained by Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc. (the "Company"). Benefits are paid only to the extent and under the circumstances set forth in the Plan. The Plan was originally adopted effective January 1, 2006. The Plan is now being amended to comply with the April 2007 Treasury regulations promulgated under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code.

 

   

1.02

 

Purpose. The purpose of the Plan is to provide non-employee Directors with an opportunity to defer receipt of fees earned for services as a Director until after termination of such service. It is intended that the Plan shall aid the Company in retaining and attracting Directors whose abilities, experience and judgment can contribute to the continued success of the Company.

 

   

1.03

 

Effective Date. Except as otherwise provided in this document, the Plan as amended and restated in this document is effective as of January 1, 2009, and applies to, and only to, non-employee Directors of the Company on or after January 1, 2009.

ARTICLE II
DEFINITIONS
          The following words and phrases shall have the following meanings when used in the Plan, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context. All other defined terms in this Plan shall have the meanings specified in the various Articles of the Plan in which they appear.

2.01

 

"Account" means the separate bookkeeping account or accounts established for each Participant under the Plan pursuant to Article IV to which Annual Deferrals with respect to such Participant are credited from time to time and valued in accordance with the performance of the investment choice in which the Deferred Fees are notionally invested. No funds are actually contributed to an Account and there are no assets in any Account.

 

   

2.02

 

"Affiliated Employer" means any corporation, trade or business that is a member of a controlled group of corporations (as defined in Section 414(b) of the Code by reference to Section 1563 of the Code) that includes the Company, any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that is under common control (as defined in Section 414(c) of the Code) with the Company; any entity (whether or not incorporated) which is a member of an affiliated service group (as defined in Section 414(m) of the Code) that includes the Company; and any other entity required to be aggregated with the Company pursuant to regulations under Section 414(o) of the Code. An Affiliated Company shall be considered an Affiliated Company only for the time during which it satisfies the above conditions for being an Affiliated Employer.

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2.03

 

"Annual Deferrals" means with respect to a Plan Year, a Participant’s Director Fees deferred under the Plan.

 

   

2.04

 

"Beneficiary" means a person or persons (including legal entities) designated by a Participant who is or may become entitled to a benefit under the Plan following a Participant’s death. A Beneficiary who becomes entitled to a benefit under the Plan remains a Beneficiary under the Plan until the Trustee has fully distributed to the Beneficiary his or her Plan benefit. A Beneficiary’s right to (and the Plan Administrator’s or a Trustee’s duty to provide to the Beneficiary) information or data concerning the Plan does not arise until the Beneficiary first becomes entitled to receive a benefit under the Plan.

 

   

2.05

 

"Board" means the Board of Directors of the Company.

 

   

2.06

 

"Change in Control" means a change in the ownership or effective control of the Company, or in the ownership of a substantial portion of the assets of the Company as provided in Section 409A(a)(2)(A)(v) of the Code and the final Treasury regulations thereunder. In accordance with the final Treasury regulations, "Change in Control" means any one of the events described below:

     (a) Change in Ownership. A change in the ownership of the Company occurs on the date that any person or persons acting as a group acquires ownership of stock of the Company that, together with stock held by such person or group, constitutes more than fifty (50) percent of the total fair market value or total voting power of the stock of such Company. If a person or group is considered to own more than fifty (50) percent of the total fair market value or total combined voting power of the stock of the Company, the acquisition of additional stock by the same person or persons is not considered to cause a change in the ownership of the Company (or to cause a change in the "effective control of the Company" within the meaning of paragraph (b)).      (b) Change in Effective Control. A change in the effective control of the Company occurs on the date that a majority of the Company’s Board is replaced during any 12-month period by directors whose appointment or election is not endorsed by a majority of the members of the Company’s Board prior to the date of the appointment or election.      (c) Change in Ownership of a Substantial Portion of the Company’s Assets. A change in the ownership of a substantial portion of the Company’s assets occurs on the date that any person or group acquires (or has acquired during the 12-month period ending on the date of the most recent acquisition by such person or persons) assets from the Company that have a total gross fair market value equal to or more than fifty (50) percent of the total gross fair market value of all of the assets of the Company immediately prior to such acquisition or acquisitions.

2.07

 

"Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and any subsequent amendment or replacement thereof.

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2.08

 

"Company" means Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc. and any successor which shall maintain this Plan; and any predecessor which has maintained this Plan. Where the context requires, the term "Company" shall include an Affiliated Employer that has adopted this Plan by appropriate resolution.

 

   

2.09

 

"Company Stock" means the common stock of Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc.

 

   

2.10

 

"Company Stock Subaccount" means an Account that is credited, at the Participant’s election, with a specified portion of the Participant’s Director Fees that is deemed invested in shares of Company Stock pursuant to Section 4.04 .

 

   

2.11

 

"Deferred Fees" means the total Annual Deferrals under the Plan of a Participant in the current and prior Plan Years, adjusted for tracking investment gain or loss as provided herein.

 

   

2.12

 

"Director" means any person duly elected to the Board who is not an employee of the Company.

 

   

2.13

 

"Director Fees" means any remuneration or fees payable for services rendered as a Director (which amounts shall include fees for services as a member of one or more Committee(s) of the Board and meeting attendance fees, if any (among other fees), as applicable from time to time) that are otherwise payable to the Director in cash.

 

   

2.14

 

"Election Form" means the enrollment and election forms provided to a Director to enable him or her to elect to defer Director Fees, to elect the time and form of payment, and to change elections under the Plan.

 

   

2.15

 

"Election Period" means the enrollment period for making Investment Elections under this Plan immediately preceding the beginning of each Plan Year established by the Plan Administrator, such period to be applied on a uniform and nondiscriminatory basis for all Directors and Participants. However, a newly elected Director’s initial Election Period shall be determined pursuant to Section 3.02 .

 

   

2.16

 

"Interest Earning Subaccount" means an Account that is credited, at the Participant’s election, with a specified portion of the Participant’s Director Fees and allocable interest calculated pursuant to Section 4.05 .

 

   

2.17

 

"Investment Election" means an irrevocable election made by a Participant with regard to the allocation of Director Fees into the Company Stock Subaccount and/or the Interest Earning Subaccount.

 

   

2.18

 

"Participant" means any Director who elects to defer Director Fees under the terms of the Plan and any former Director who is or may become (or whose Beneficiaries may become) eligible to receive a benefit under the Plan.

 

   

2.19

 

"Plan" means the Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc. Directors Deferred Compensation Plan, as set forth herein and as amended from time to time.

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2.20

 

"Plan Administrator" means the Company or such other person designated by the Company to hold the position of Plan Administrator.

 

   

2.21

 

"Plan Year" means the twelve-month period ending each December 31st.

 

   

2.22

 

"Separation from Service" means termination of the Director’s services with the Company for reasons other than death. Whether a Separation from Service has occurred is determined based on whether the facts and circumstances indicate that the Company and Director reasonably anticipated that no further services would be performed after a certain date or that the level of bona fide services the Director would perform after such date (whether as a director or as an independent contractor) would permanently decrease to no more than forty-nine (49%) of the average level of bona fide services performed (whether as a director or an independent contractor) over the immediately preceding twelve (12) month period (or the full period of services to the Company if the Director has been providing services to the Company less than twelve (12) months).

 

   

2.23

 

"Specified Employee" means an employee who, as of the date of the employee’s Separation from Service, is a key employee of the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an employee is a Specified Employee only if the stock of the Company or any entity with whom the Company would be considered a single employer under Section 414(b) or Section 414(c) of the Code is publicly traded on an established securities market or otherwise. For purposes of this Plan, an employee is a key employee if the employee meets the requirements of Section 416(i)(1)(A)(i), (ii), or (iii) of the Code (applied in accordance with the regulations thereunder and disregarding Section 416(i)(5)) at any time during the twelve (12) month period ending on December 31 (the "identification period"). For purposes of identifying a Specified Employee, the definition of compensation under Treasury Regulation Section 1.415(c)-2(a) is used, applied as if the Company were not using any safe harbor provided in Treasury Regulation Section 1.415(c)-2(d), were not using any of the special timing rules provided in Treasury Regulation Section 1.415(c)-2(e), and were not using any of the special rules provided in Treasury Regulation Section 1.415(c)-2(g). If the employee is a key employee during an identification period, the employee is treated as a key employee for purposes of this Agreement during the twelve (12) month period that begins on the first day of April following the close of the identification period.

 

   

2.24

 

"Trust" means a grantor trust or trusts established by the Company and created at the option of the Company under the provisions of this Plan to set aside assets to satisfy the Company’s promises under the Plan.

 

   

2.25

 

"Trustee" means an independent third party who may be granted corporate trustee powers under state law, such as a bank trust department or other similar party, and designated as the Trustee in the Trust Agreement.

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2.26

 

"Unforeseeable Emergency" means a severe financial hardship to the Participant resulting from one of the following circumstances:

     (a) an illness or accident of the Participant, the Participant’s spouse, the Participant’s Beneficiary, or the Participant’s dependent (as defined in Section 152 of the Code, without regard to Section 152(b)(1), (b)(2), and (d)(1)(B));      (b) loss of the Participant’s property due to casualty (including the need to rebuild a home following damage to a home not otherwise covered by insurance, for example, not as a result of a natural disaster); or      (c) other similar extraordinary and unforeseeable circumstances arising as a result of events beyond the control of the Participant.

2.27

 

"Valuation Date" means the last day of each calendar quarter and such interim dates as the Plan Administrator deems necessary or appropriate to value the Participant’s benefits under this Plan.

ARTICLE III
PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS AND PARTICIPANT ELECTIONS

3.01

 

Participation Requirements.

          Each Director shall be eligible to participate in the Plan, but shall not commence participation in the Plan until the date described in Section 3.02 or Section 3.03 .

3.02

 

Initial Election Period for Newly Elected Directors; Irrevocability of Elections.

     (a) A newly elected Director who wishes to defer Director Fees shall make an election within the 30-day period following his or her election to the Board, which election shall only apply to Director Fees earned for services performed after the date of such election and before the subsequent Plan Year. Subsequent annual elections shall be made pursuant to Section 3.03 .      (b) Any election made by a Participant pursuant to this Section 3.02 shall be irrevocable through the end of the applicable Plan Year.

3.03

 

Subsequent Annual Elections; Irrevocability of Elections.

     (a) During the Election Period prior to each subsequent Plan Year, each Director shall be given the opportunity to elect to defer Director Fees by completing an Election Form and returning it to the Plan Administrator. Any such election shall only apply to Director Fees earned for services performed during the Plan Year that follows the end of the Election Period.      (b) A Participant who made an election to defer Director Fees for the prior Plan Year and does not make a new election during the Election Period will not retain his

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or her election for the subsequent Plan Year. Such Participant will be deemed to have elected not to defer his or her Director Fees in the subsequent Plan Year.      (c) Any election made by a Participant pursuant to this Section 3.03 shall be irrevocable through the end of the applicable Plan Year.

3.04

 

Cancellation of Deferrals Following An Unforeseeable Emergency Payment.

          Notwithstanding Section 3.02(b) and Section 3.03(c) , upon a payment to a Participant for an Unforeseeable Emergency, such Participant’s deferral election will be cancelled for the remainder of the Plan Year.

3.05

 

Amount of Deferral.

           A Director may elect to defer receipt of all or a specified portion of his or her Director Fees.

3.06

 

Manner of Electing Deferral.

          Each Director who wishes to defer Director Fees to the Plan shall sign and deliver to the Plan Administrator before becoming a Participant an Election Form. The Election Form shall contain the following information:      (a) the percentage or amount of Director Fees to be deferred;      (b) an allocation of the Director Fees between the "Company Stock Subaccount" or the "Interest Earning Subaccount";      (c) in the case of a Director’s initial election only, an election of a lump sum payment or of a number of annual installments (not to exceed ten (10) years) for the payment of the Deferred Fees. Any payment election made by a Director in connection with his or her initial election to participate in the Plan shall apply to all Deferred Fees, whether covered by the initial deferral election or a subsequent deferral election; provided, however, that this paragraph (c) shall not preclude subsequent modifications to the payment election described immediately above that are made in connection with a Director’s Separation from Service and in compliance with Section 409A of the Code. ARTICLE IV
CREDITING OF PARTICIPANT ACCOUNTS

4.01

 

Maintenance of Accounts.

          The Plan Administrator shall cause a separate Account to be established and maintained for each Participant, and within such Account, a separate Company Stock Subaccount and Interest Earning Subaccount. References herein to a Participant’s "Account" shall refer to the Participant’s Company Stock Subaccount and the Interest Earning Subaccount in the aggregate. A Participant’s Company Stock Subaccount and Interest Earning Subaccount shall be charged, as

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applicable, with any payments from the respective subaccounts on the date such payments are made pursuant to Section 6.11 .

4.02

 

Crediting of Director Fees to Participant Accounts.

          An amount equal to amount of Director Fees that a Participant elects to defer will be credited to the Participant’s Account on the last business day of each calendar quarter or at more frequent intervals as determined to be necessary or appropriate by the Plan Administrator.

4.03

 

Crediting of Earnings and Losses.

          As of each Valuation Date, the Plan Administrator will adjust each Participant’s Account to reflect the crediting of deemed earnings, losses, and charges to each such Account as if an amount equal to the Participant’s Account balance had been invested in accordance with the directions such Participant is permitted to make pursuant to Section 3.06 . Adjustments may be made at more frequent intervals as determined to be necessary or appropriate by the Plan Administrator.

4.04

 

Crediting of Director Fees to Company Stock Subaccount.

          The Plan Administrator shall credit a Director’s Annual Deferrals to his or her Company Stock Subaccount as follows:      (a) On the last day of each calendar quarter, the amount of the Annual Deferrals deferred to the Company Stock Subaccount will be converted to that number of hypothetical shares of Company Stock (computed to the nearest 1/1000 of a share) that could have been purchased on such date with such amount, using the closing price for the Company Stock on such date (or, if such date is not a trading day, on the next preceding trading day) on the Nasdaq Stock Market’s National Market System, or, if the Company Stock is not then listed or quoted on Nasdaq, the principal stock exchange on which the Company Stock is then traded;      (b) On each date on which a dividend is paid on the Company Stock, the Company Stock Subaccount will be credited with that number of hypothetical shares of Company Stock (computed to the nearest 1/1000 of a share) which theoretically could have been purchased with the amount of dividends payable on the number of hypothetical shares of Company Stock credited to the Participant’s Company Stock Subaccount immediately prior to the payment of such dividend; the number of additional shares of Company Stock shall be calculated as in Section 4.04(a) ; and      (c) On the date of the occurrence of any event described in Section 10.07 , the Company Stock Subacc


 
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