Exhibit 10.53
2008 AMENDED AND
RESTATED
STOCK PURCHASE AND OPTION
PLAN
FOR ROCKWOOD HOLDINGS, INC. AND
SUBSIDIARIES
1.
Purpose of
Plan
This 2008 Amended and Restated Stock
Purchase and Option Plan for Rockwood Holdings, Inc. and
Subsidiaries (formerly the Amended and Restated 2005 Stock Purchase
and Option Plan for Rockwood Holdings, Inc., which was
formerly the Amended and Restated 2003 Stock Purchase and Option
Plan for Rockwood Holdings, Inc., which was formerly the 2000
Stock Purchase and Option Plan for K-L Holdings, Inc. and
Subsidiaries) (the “Plan”) is designed:
(a)
to promote the
long term financial interests and growth of Rockwood
Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”), its Subsidiaries
and any other Service Recipients by attracting and retaining
management personnel with the training, experience and ability to
enable them to make a substantial contribution to the success of
the Company’s business;
(b)
to motivate
management personnel by means of growth-related incentives to
achieve long range goals; and
(c)
to further the
identity of interests of participants with those of the
shareholders of the Company through opportunities for increased
stock, or stock-based, ownership in the Company.
2.
Definitions
As used in the Plan, the following
words shall have the following meanings:
(a)
“Board of
Directors” means the Board of Directors of the
Company.
(b)
“Code” shall mean
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or any successor
thereto.
(c)
“Committee” means
the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors (or, if no
such committee is appointed, the Board of Directors).
(d)
“Common
Stock” or “Share” means common stock of the
Company which may be authorized but unissued, or issued and
reacquired.
(e)
“Director” means
any member of the Board of Directors.
(f)
“Disability”
shall mean Disability as defined under Section 409A of the
Code.
(g)
“Employee” means
a person, including an officer, in the regular full-time employment
of the Company, one of its Subsidiaries or any other Service
Recipient.
(h)
“Exchange
Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
(i)
“Grant” means an
award made to a Participant pursuant to the Plan and described in
Section 5, including, without limitation, an award of a Stock
Option, Restricted Stock, Purchase Stock, or Other Stock Based
Grant or any combination of the foregoing.
(j)
“Grant
Agreement” means an agreement between the Company and a
Participant that sets forth the terms, conditions and limitations
applicable to a Grant.
(k)
“Participant”
means an Employee, Director, consultant or other person having a
relationship with the Company, one of its Subsidiaries or any other
“Service Recipient” (within the meaning of
Section 409A of the Code), to whom one or more Grants have
been made and such Grants have not all been forfeited or terminated
under the Plan.
(l)
“Stock-Based
Grants” means the collective reference to the grant of
Purchase Stock, Restricted Stock and Other Stock Based Grants
described in Section 5.
(m)
“Stock
Options” means options to purchase Common Stock, which may or
may not be incentive stock options (“Incentive Stock
Options”) within the meaning of Section 422 of the
Code.
(n)
“Subsidiary”
means any entity other than the Company in an unbroken chain of
entities beginning with the Company if each of the entities other
than the last entity in the unbroken chain owns 50% or more of the
voting stock or other voting interests in one of the other entities
in such chain.
3.
Administration
of Plan
(a)
The Plan shall be
administered by the Committee. All of the members of the
Committee and any other Directors shall be eligible to be selected
for Grants under the Plan; provided, however, that the
members of the Committee shall qualify to administer the Plan for
purposes of Rule 16b-3 (and any other applicable rule)
promulgated under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act to
the extent that the Company is subject to such rule. The
Committee may adopt its own rules of procedure, and the action
of a majority of the Committee, taken at a meeting or taken without
a meeting by a writing signed by such majority, shall constitute
action by the Committee. The Committee shall have the power
and authority to administer, construe and interpret the Plan, to
make rules for carrying it out and to make changes in such
rules. Any such interpretations, rules, and administration
shall be consistent with the basic purposes of the
Plan.
(b)
The Committee may
delegate to the Chief Executive Officer and to other senior
officers of the Company its duties under the Plan subject to such
conditions and limitations as the Committee shall prescribe except
that only the Committee may designate and make Grants to
Participants who are subject to Section 16 of the Exchange
Act.
(c)
The Committee may
employ attorneys, consultants, accountants, appraisers, brokers or
other persons. The Committee, the Company, and the officers
and Directors of the Company shall be entitled to rely upon the
advice, opinions or valuations of any such persons. All
actions taken and all interpretations and determinations made by
the Committee in good faith shall be final and binding upon all
Participants, the Company and all other interested persons.
No member of the Committee shall be personally liable for any
action,
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determination or
interpretation made in good faith with respect to the Plan or the
Grants, and all members of the Committee shall be fully protected
by the Company with respect to any such action, determination or
interpretation.
4.
Eligibility
The Committee may from time to time
make Grants under the Plan to such Employees, Directors or other
persons having a relationship with the Company, any of its
Subsidiaries or any other Service Recipient, and in such form and
having such terms, conditions and limitations as the Committee may
determine. Grants may be granted singly, in combination or in
tandem. The terms, conditions and limitations of each Grant
under the Plan shall be set forth in a Grant Agreement, in a form
approved by the Committee, consistent, however, with the terms of
the Plan.
5.
Grants
From time to time, the Committee
will determine the forms and amounts of Grants for
Participants. Such Grants may take the following forms in the
Committee’s sole discretion:
(a)
Stock
Options - These are options to
purchase Common Stock, which may or may not be Incentive Stock
Options and shall have an exercise price at least equal to the fair
market value of one share of Common Stock on the date of Grant (or,
if the person to whom an Incentive Stock Option is being granted
owns Common Stock representing more than 10 percent of the voting
power of all classes of Company equity, the exercise price shall be
at least equal to 110 percent of the fair market value of one share
of Common Stock on the date of Grant). At the time of the Grant the
Committee shall determine, and shall have contained in the Grant
Agreement or other Plan rules, the option exercise period, the
option price, and such other conditions or restrictions on the
grant or exercise of the option as the Committee deems appropriate,
which may include the requirement that the grant of options is
predicated on the acquisition of Purchase Shares under
Section 5(c) by the Participant or as may be required
pursuant to applicable law, if such options shall be Incentive
Stock Options. Payment of the option exercise price shall be
made in cash or in shares of Common Stock ( provided, that
such Shares have been held by the Participant for not less than six
months (or such other period as established by the Committee from
time to time)), or a combination thereof, in accordance with the
terms of the Plan, the Grant Agreement and any applicable
guidelines of the Committee in effect at the time.
(b)
Restricted
Stock - Restricted Stock is Common
Stock delivered to a Participant with or without payment of
consideration with restrictions or conditions on the
Participant’s right to transfer or sell such stock. The
number of shares of Restricted Stock and the restrictions or
conditions on such shares shall be as the Committee determines, in
the Grant Agreement or by other Plan rules, and the certificate for
the Restricted Stock shall bear evidence of such restrictions or
conditions.
(c)
Purchase
Stock - Purchase Stock refers to
shares of Common Stock offered to a Participant at such
pr
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