SINOBIOPHARMA,
INC.
2008 STOCK OPTION AND INCENTIVE PLAN
The purposes of
this Plan are to (i) attract and retain the best available
personnel for positions of responsibility within Sinobiopharma,
Inc. (the "Corporation"), (ii) provide additional incentives to
Employees of the Corporation, (iii) provide Directors, Consultants
and Advisors of the Corporation with an opportunity to acquire a
proprietary interest in the Corporation to encourage their
continued provision of services to the Corporation and to provide
such persons with incentives and rewards for superior performance
more directly linked to the profitability of the Corporation's
business and increases in shareholder value, and (iv) generally to
promote the success of the Corporation's business and the interests
of the Corporation and all of its stockholders, through the grant
of options to purchase shares of the Corporation's Common Stock and
other incentives.
Incentive
benefits granted hereunder may be either Incentive Stock Options,
Non-qualified Stock Options, stock awards, Restricted Shares, cash
awards or other incentives determined by the board, as such terms
are hereinafter defined. The types of options or other incentives
granted shall be reflected in the terms of written
agreements.
As used herein,
the following definitions shall apply:
2.1
" Board " shall
mean the Board of Directors of Sinobiopharma, Inc.
2.2
" Change of
Control " means a change in ownership or control of the
Corporation effected through any of the following
transactions:
(a)
the direct or indirect acquisition
by any person or related group of persons (other than by the
Corporation or a person that directly or indirectly controls, is
controlled by, or is under common control with, the Corporation) of
beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 of the
Exchange Act) of securities possessing more than 50% of the total
combined voting power of the Corporation's outstanding securities
pursuant to a tender or exchange offer made directly to the
Corporation's shareholders, or other transaction, in each case
which the Board does not recommend such shareholders to accept;
or
(b)
a change in the composition of the
Board over a period of 12 consecutive months or less such that a
majority of the Board members (rounded up to the next whole number)
ceases, by reason of one or more contested elections for Board
membership, to be comprised of individuals who either (i) have been
Board members continuously since the beginning of such period or
(ii) have been elected or nominated for election as Board members
during such period by at least a majority of the Board members
described in clause (i) who were still in office at the time such
election or nomination was approved by the Board; or
(c)
a Corporate Transaction as defined
below.
2.3
" Code " shall
mean the US Internal Revenue Code or analogous legislation, as
amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations
promulgated thereunder.
2.4
" Committee "
shall mean the Committee constituting the Board in accordance with
Section 4.1 of the Plan, if one is appointed.
2.5
" Common Stock "
or " Common Shares " shall mean (i) shares of the
common stock, $0.0001 par value, of the Corporation described in
the Corporation's Articles of Incorporation, as amended, and (ii)
any security into which Common Shares may be converted by reason of
any transaction or event of the type referred to in Section 12 of
this Plan.
2.6
" Corporation "
shall mean Sinobiopharma, Inc., a Nevada corporation, and shall
include any parent or subsidiary corporation of the
Corporation.
2.7
" Consultants "
and " Advisors " shall include any third party
retained or engaged by the Corporation to provide service to the
Corporation, including any employee of such third party providing
such services.
2.8
" Corporate
Transaction " means any of the following
shareholder-approved transactions to which the Corporation is a
party:
(a)
a merger or consolidation in which
the Corporation is not the surviving entity, except for a
transaction the principal purpose of which is to change the state
in which the Corporation is incorporated;
(b)
the sale, transfer or other
disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the
Corporation in complete liquidation or dissolution of the
Corporation; or
(c)
any reverse merger in which the
Corporation is the surviving entity but in which securities
possessing more than 50% of the total combined voting power of the
Corporation's outstanding securities are transferred to a person or
persons different from the persons holding those securities
immediately prior to such merger.
2.9
" Date of Grant "
means the date specified by the Board or the Committee on which a
grant of Options, Stock Appreciation Rights, Performance Shares of
Performance Units or a grant or sale of Restricted Shares or
Deferred Shares shall become effective.
2.10
" Deferral Period
" means the period of time during which Deferred Shares are subject
to deferral limitations under Section 9.3 of this Plan.
2.11
" Deferred Shares
" means an award pursuant to Section 9 of this Plan of the right to
receive Common Shares at the end of a specified Deferral
Period.
2.12
" Director " shall
mean a member of the Board.
2.13
" Effective Date "
shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 6.
2.14
" Employee " shall
mean any person, including officers and directors, employed by the
Corporation. The payment of a director's fee by the Corporation
shall not be sufficient to constitute "employment" by the
Corporation. For inclusiveness purposes, but not having legal
effect as to obligations and liabilities, Employee in this
Agreement may also encompass Consultants and Advisors where such is
appropriate or where such is intended by the Board or by a
particular grant hereunder.
2.15
" Exchange Act "
shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and all
pertinent rules and regulations.
2.16
" Fair Market
Value " shall mean, with respect to the date a given
Option or other incentive is granted or exercised, the value of the
Common Stock determined by the Board in such manner as it may deem
equitable for Plan purposes but, in the case of an Incentive Stock
Option, no less than is required by applicable laws or regulations;
provided, however, that where there is a public market for
the Common Stock, the Fair Market Value per share shall be not less
than the closing price for the Common Stock on the last trading day
preceding the Date of Grant, as reported by any national securities
exchange or the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board or other exchange
on which the Corporation is listed and as determined by the Board;
provided, further, that if the Common Stock is not listed
on any exchange, the Fair Market Value per share shall not be less
than the average of the means between the bid and asked prices
quoted on each such date by any two independent persons or entities
making a market for the Common Stock, such persons or entities to
be selected by the Board.
2.17
" Incentive
Agreement " shall mean the written agreement between the
Corporation and the Participant relating to Incentive Stock
Options, Non-qualified Stock Options, stock awards, Restricted
Shares and cash awards granted under the Plan, and shall include an
Incentive Stock Option Agreement, Non-qualified Stock Option
Agreement or other form of Agreement which may be approved by the
Board.
2.18
" Incentive Award
" shall mean the award of one or more Incentives.
2.19
" Incentive Stock
Option " shall mean an Option which is intended to qualify
as an incentive stock option within the meaning of Section 422 of
the Code, or any successor provision thereto.
2.20
" Incentives "
shall mean those incentive benefits which may be granted from time
to time under the terms of the Plan which include Incentive Stock
Options, Non-qualified Stock Options, stock awards, Restricted
Shares and cash awards.
2.21
" Management
Objectives " means the achievement of performance
objectives established pursuant to this Plan for Participants who
have received grants of Performance Shares or Performance Units or,
when so determined by the Board or the Committee, Restricted
Shares.
2.22
" Non-qualified Stock
Option " means an Option that is not intended to qualify
as a Tax-Qualified Option.
2.23
" Option Price "
means the purchase price payable upon the exercise of an
Option.
2.24
" Option " means
the right to purchase Common Shares from the Corporation upon the
exercise of a Non-qualified Stock Option or a Tax-Qualified Option
granted pursuant to Section 7 of this Plan.
2.25
" Optioned Stock "
shall mean the Common Stock subject to an Option.
2.26
" Option Term "
shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 7.3.
2.27
" Optionee " shall
mean an Employee, Director, Consultant or Advisor of the
Corporation who has been granted one or more Options.
2.28
" Parent " shall
mean a "parent corporation," whether now or hereafter existing, as
defined in Section 424(e) of the Code.
2.29
" Participant "
means a person who is selected by the Board or a Committee to
receive benefits under this Plan and (i) is at that time an
officer, including without limitation an officer who may also be a
member of the Board, director, or other employee of, or a
Consultant or Advisor, to the Corporation, or (ii) has agreed to
commence serving in any such capacity.
2.30
" Performance
Period " means, in respect of a Performance Share or
Performance Unit, a period of time established pursuant to Section
10 of this Plan within which the Management objectives relating
thereto are to be achieved.
2.31
" Performance
Share " means a bookkeeping entry that records the
equivalent of one Common Share awarded pursuant to Section 10 of
this Plan.
2.32
" Performance Unit
" means a bookkeeping entry that records a unit equivalent to the
Board selected monetary unit awarded pursuant to Section 10 of this
Plan.
2.33
" Plan " shall
mean this Stock Option and Incentive Plan, as amended from time to
time in accordance with the terms hereof.
2.34
" Restricted
Shares " means Common Shares granted or sold pursuant to
section 8 of this Plan as to which neither the substantial risk of
forfeiture nor the restrictions on transfer referred to in Section
8.9 hereof has expired.
2.35
" Rule 16b-3 "
means Rule 16b-3, as promulgated and amended from time to time by
the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Exchange Act, or
any successor rule to the same effect.
2.36
" Share " shall
mean a share of the Common Stock, as adjusted in accordance with
Section 11 of the Plan.
2.37
" Subsidiary "
shall mean a "subsidiary corporation," whether now or hereafter
existing, as defined in Section 424(f) of the Code.
2.38
" Tax Date " shall
mean the date an Optionee is required to pay the Corporation an
amount with respect to tax withholding obligations in connection
with the exercise of an option.
2.39
" Tax-Qualified
Option " means an Option that is intended to qualify under
particular provisions of the Code, including without limitation an
Incentive Stock Option.
2.40
" Termination Date
" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 6.
3.
Common Stock Subject to the
Plan.
3.1
Subject to the provisions of
Section 11 of the Plan, the maximum aggregate number of shares
which may be optioned and sold or otherwise awarded under the Plan
is ten million (10,000,000) Common Shares. Any Common Shares
available for grants and awards at the end of any calendar year
shall be carried over and shall be available for grants and awards
in the subsequent calendar year. For the purposes of this Section
3:
(a)
Upon payment of cash in lieu of
exercise provided by any award granted under this Plan, or upon
expiration or cancellation of any award granted under this Plan,
any Common Shares that were covered by such award and not issued
shall again be available for issuance hereunder.
(b)
Common Shares covered by any award
granted under this Plan shall be deemed to have been issued or
transferred, and shall cease to be available for future issuance or
transfer in respect of any other award granted hereunder, at the
earlier of the time when they are actually issued or transferred or
the time when dividends or dividend equivalents are paid thereon;
provided, however, that Restricted Shares shall be deemed
to have been issued or transferred at the earlier of the time when
they cease to be subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture or the
time when dividends are paid thereon.
(c)
Performance Units that are granted
under this Plan and are paid in Common Shares but are not earned by
the Participant at the end of the Performance Period shall be
available for future grants of incentives hereunder.
4.
Administration of the
Plan.
(a)
The Board shall administer the Plan
and is the body responsible for the Plan; provided, however, that
the Board may appoint a Committee consisting solely of two (2) or
more "Non-Employee Directors" to conduct day-to-day administration
of the Plan on behalf of the Board, in accordance with Rule 16b-3
and subject to the authority of the Board.
(b)
Once appointed, the Committee shall
continue to serve until otherwise directed by the Board. From time
to time the Board may increase the size of the Committee and
appoint additional members thereof, remove members (with or without
cause), appoint new members in substitution therefor, and fill
vacancies however caused; provided , however ,
that at no time may any person serve on the Committee if that
person's membership would cause the committee not to satisfy the
requirements of Rule 16b-3.
(c)
A majority of the Committee shall
constitute a quorum, and the acts of the members of the Committee
who are present at any meeting thereof at which a quorum is
present, or acts unanimously approved by the members of the
Committee in writing, shall be the acts of the
Committee.
(d)
Any reference herein to the Board
shall, where appropriate, encompass a Committee appointed to
administer the Plan in accordance with this Section 4.
4.2
Power of the Board or the
Committee
(a)
Subject to the provisions of the
Plan, the Board shall have the authority, in its discretion: (i) to
grant Options or Incentive Awards to Participants; (ii) to
determine, upon review of relevant information and in accordance
with Section 2.16 of the Plan, the Fair Market Value of the Common
stock; (iii) to determine the exercise price per share of Options
to be granted, which exercise price shall be determined in
accordance with Section 7.4 of the Plan; (iv) to determine the
number of Common Shares to be represented by each Option or
Incentive Award; (v) to determine the Participants to whom, and the
time or times at which, Options and Incentive Awards shall be
granted; (vi) to interpret the Plan; (vii) to prescribe, amend and
rescind rules and regulations relating to the Plan; (viii) to
determine the terms and provisions of each Option and Incentive
Award granted (which need not be identical) and, with the consent
of the grantee thereof, modify or amend such Option or Incentive
Award; (ix) to accelerate or defer (with the consent of the
grantee) the exercise date of any Option or Incentive Award; (x) to
authorize any person to execute on behalf of the Corporation any
instrument required to effectuate the grant of an Option or
Incentive Award previously granted by the Board; (xi) to accept or
reject the election made by a grantee pursuant to Section 7.5 of
the Plan; and (xii) to make all other determinations deemed
necessary or advisable for the administration of the
Plan.
(b)
The Board or a Committee may
delegate to an officer of the Corporation the authority to make
decisions pursuant to this Plan, provided that no such delegation
may be made that would cause any award or other transaction under
the Plan to cease to be exempt from Section 16(b) of the Exchange
Act. A Committee may authorize any one or more of its members or
any officer of the Corporation to execute and deliver documents on
behalf of the Committee.
4.3
Effect of Board or Committee
Decisions . All
decisions and determinations and the interpretation and
construction by the Board or a Committee of any provision of this
Plan or any agreement, notification or document evidencing the
grant of Options, Restricted Shares, Deferred Shares, Performance
Shares or Performance Units, and any determination by the Board or
a Committee pursuant to any provision of this plan or any such
agreement, notification or document, shall be final, binding and
conclusive with respect to all grantees and any other holders of
any Option or Incentive Award granted under the Plan. No member of
the Board or a Committee shall be liable for any such action taken
or determination made in good faith.
Consistent with
the Plan's purposes, Options and Incentive Awards may be granted
only to such Directors, Officers, Employees, Consultants and
Advisors of the Corporation as determined by the Board. Subject to
the terms of the Plan, an Employee, Officer, Director, Consultant
or Advisor who has been granted an Option or Incentive Award may,
if he is otherwise eligible, be granted an additional Option or
Incentive Award.
6.
Board Approval; Effective
Date; Termination Date.
The Plan shall
take effect on September 29, 2008 (the "Effective Date"). The Plan
shall terminate on September 29, 2018 (the "Termination Date");
accordingly, no Incentive Award or Option under this Plan may be
granted after the Termination Date but the term of an award may
extend beyond the Plan Termination Date.
The Board or
the Committee may from time to time authorize grants to
Participants of Options to purchase Common Shares upon such terms
and conditions as the Board or the Committee may determine in
accordance with the following provisions:
7.1
Options to be Granted;
Terms.
(a)
Options granted pursuant to this
Section 7 may be Non-qualified Stock Options or Tax-Qualified
Options or combinations thereof. The Board or the Committee shall
determine the specific terms of Options.
(b)
Each grant shall specify the period
or periods of continuous employment, or continuous engagement of
the consulting or advisory services, of the Optionee by the
Corporation or any Subsidiary that are necessary before the Options
or installments thereof shall become exercisable.
(c)
Any grant of a Non-qualified Stock
Option may provide for the payment to the Optionee of dividend
equivalent thereon in cash or Common Shares on a current, deferred
or contingent basis, or the Board or the Committee may provide that
any dividend equivalents shall be credited against the Option
Price.
7.2
Number of Shares Subject to
Options. Each grant
shall specify the number of Common Shares to which it pertains.
Successive grants may be made to the same Optionee regardless of
whether any Options previously granted to the Optionee remain
unexercised.
7.3
Term of Option; Earlier
Termination. Subject
to the further provisions of this Section 7, unless otherwise
provided in the Option Agreement, the term (the "Option Term") of
each Option shall be five (5) years from the Date of
Grant.
(a)
Each grant shall specify an Option
Price per Common Share for the Common Share to be issued pursuant
to exercise of an Option, which shall be determined by the Board or
the Committee. Unless otherwise determined by the Board an
Incentive Stock Option shall be no less than one hundred percent
(100%) of the Fair Market Value per share on the Date of Grant, and
in the case of a Non-qualified Stock Option shall be no less than
seventy-five percent (75%) of the Fair Market Value per share on
the Date of Grant.
(b)
With respect to Incentive Stock
Options, the aggregate Fair Market Value (determined as of the
respective Date or Dates of Grant) of the Common Shares for which
one or more options granted to any Optionee under this Plan may for
the first time become exercisable as Incentive Stock Options under
the federal tax laws during any one calendar year (under all
employee benefit plans of the Corporation) shall not exceed
$100,000. To the extent that the Optionee holds two or more such
options which become exercisable for the first time in the same
calendar year, the foregoing limitation on the exercisability of
such options as Incentive Stock Options under the deferral tax laws
shall be applied on the basis of the order in which such options
are granted. Should the number of Common Shares for which any
Incentive Stock Option first becomes exercisable in any calendar
year exceed the applicable $100,000 limitation, then that Option
may nevertheless be exercised in such calendar year for the excess
number of Shares as a Non-qualified Stock Option under the federal
tax laws.
7.5
Payment for
Shares. The price of
an exercised Option and any taxes attributable to the delivery of
Common Stock under the Plan, or portion thereof, shall be paid as
follows:
(a)
Each grant shall specify the form
of consideration to be paid in satisfaction of the Option Price and
the manner of payment of such consideration, which may include (i)
cash in the form of United States currency or check or other cash
equivalent acceptable to the Corporation, (ii) nonforfeitable,
unrestricted or restricted Common Shares, which are already owned
by the Optionee and have a market referenced value at the time of
exercise that is equal to the Option Price, (iii) any other legal
consideration that the Board or the Committee may deem appropriate,
including without limitation any form of consideration authorized
pursuant to this Section 7 on such basis as the Board or the
Committee may determine in accordance with this Plan, and (iv) any
combination of the foregoing. The Board (or Committee) in its sole
discretion may permit a so-called "cashless exercise" (net
exercise) of the Options.
In the event of
a cashless exercise of the Option the Corporation shall issue the
Option holder the number of Shares determined as
follows:
X = the number
of Shares to be issued to the Optionholder.
Y = the number
of Shares with respect to which the Option is being
exercised.
A = the average
of the closing sale prices of the Common Stock for the five (5)
Trading Days immediately prior to (but not including) the Date of
Exercise.
(b)
Any grant of a Non-qualified Stock
Option may provide that payment of the Option Price may also be
made in whole or in part in the form of Restricted Shares or other
Common Shares that are not subject to risk of forfeiture or
restrictions on transfer in the manner determined by the Board.
Unless otherwise determined by the Board or the Committee on or
after the Date of Grant, whenever any Option Price is paid in whole
or in part by means of any of the forms of consideration specified
in this Section 7.5(b), the Common Shares received by the Optionee
upon the exercise of the Non-qualified Stock Option shall be
subject to the same risks of forfeiture as those that applied to
the consideration surrendered by the Optionee; provided,
however, that such risks of forfeiture shall apply only to the
same number of Common Shares received by the Optionee as applied to
the forfeitable Common Shares surrendered by the
Optionee.
(c)
Any grant may allow for deferred
payment of the Option Price through a sale and remittance procedure
by which a Participant shall provide concurrent irrevocable written
instructions to (i) a Corporation-designated brokerage firm to
effect the immediate sale of the purchased Common Shares and remit
to the Corporation, out of the sale proceeds available on the
settlement date, sufficient funds to cover the aggregate Option
Price payable for the purchased Common Share, and (ii) the
Corporation to deliver the certificates for the purchased Common
Shares directly to such brokerage firm to complete the sale
transaction.
(d)
The Board or Committee shall
determine acceptable methods for tendering Common Stock as payment
upon exercise of an Option and may impose such limitations and
prohibitions on the use of Common Stock to exercise an Option as it
deems appropriate.