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ACTIVISION, INC. AMENDED AND RESTATED 2003 INCENTIVE PLAN NOTICE OF SHARE OPTION AWARD

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Title: ACTIVISION, INC. AMENDED AND RESTATED 2003 INCENTIVE PLAN NOTICE OF SHARE OPTION AWARD
Governing Law: California     Date: 11/7/2007
Industry: Software and Programming     Sector: Technology

ACTIVISION, INC. AMENDED AND RESTATED 2003 INCENTIVE PLAN NOTICE OF SHARE OPTION AWARD, Parties: activision  inc
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Exhibit 10.2

ACTIVISION, INC.

AMENDED AND RESTATED 2003 INCENTIVE PLAN

NOTICE OF SHARE OPTION AWARD

 

You have been awarded an Option to purchase Shares of Common Stock of Activision, Inc. (the “Company”), as follows:

                  Your name:  Robin Kaminsky

                  Total number of Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Option awarded:  100,000

                  Exercise Price:  US $ 15.142 per Share

                  Date of Grant:  October 19, 2006

                  Expiration Date:   October 19, 2016

                  Grant ID:  03001795

                  Your Award of the Option is governed by the terms and conditions set forth in:

                  this Notice of Share Option Award;

                  the Share Option Award Terms attached hereto as Exhibit A (the “Award Terms”); and

                  the Company’s Amended and Restated 2003 Incentive Plan, the receipt of a copy of which you hereby acknowledge.

                  Your Share Option Award has been made in accordance with your Employment Agreement as a material inducement to your entering into or renewing employment with the Company or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates pursuant to such Employment Agreement, and is also governed by any applicable terms and conditions set forth in such Employment Agreement.

                  Certain terms of your Award:

                  Schedule for Lapse of Restrictions :  Except as otherwise provided under the Award Terms, the Option awarded to you will vest and become exercisable in full on the third anniversary of the Date of Grant, provided you remain continuously employed by the Company or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates through such date.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Option awarded to you will vest with respect to the following number of the Shares on a date established by the Committee upon its determination that the corresponding event has occurred (which will in no case be more than five business days after such determination), provided you remain continuously employed by the Company or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates through such date:

 



 

No. of Shares
as to which the Option Vests

 

Event Causing Option to Vest

25,000

 

Achievement of performance objectives for the Company’s 2007 fiscal year as established by the Committee on or prior to the 90 th day of such fiscal year.

 

 

 

25,000

 

Achievement of performance objectives for the Company’s 2008 fiscal year as established by the Committee on or prior to the 90th day of such fiscal year.

                  The Option is not intended to be an “incentive stock option,” as such term is defined in Section 422 of the Code.

                  To accept your Award of the Option, you must sign and return to the Company this Notice of Share Option Award, which bears an original signature on behalf of the Company.  You are urged to do so promptly.

                  Please return the signed Notice of Share Option Award to the Company at:

Activision, Inc.
3100 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA  90405
Attn:  Stock Plan Administration

You should retain the enclosed duplicate copy of this Notice of Share Option Award for your records.

Any capitalized term used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Award Terms.

 

ACTIVISION, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

By: 

/s/ George L. Rose

 

Title: 

Senior Vice President and General Counsel

 

Date: 

September 4, 2007

 

 

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ACCEPTED AND AGREED:

 

/s/ Robin Kaminsky

 

ROBIN KAMINSKY

 

 

 

 

Date: 

September 25, 2007

 

 

 

 

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EXHIBIT A

ACTIVISION, INC.

AMENDED AND RESTATED 2003 INCENTIVE PLAN

SHARE OPTION AWARD TERMS

 

1.             Definitions .

(a)           For purposes of these Award Terms, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:

“Award” means the award described on the Grant Notice.

“Award Terms” means these Share Option Award Terms.

“Cause” shall have the meaning given to such term in the Employment Agreement.

“Common Stock” means the Company’s common stock, $0.000001 par value per share.

“Company” means Activision, Inc. and any successor thereto.

“Company-Sponsored Equity Account” means an account that is created with the Equity Account Administrator in connection with the administration of the Company’s equity plans and programs, including the Plan.

“Competitive Business” shall have the meaning set forth in the Employment Agreement.

“Date of Grant” means the date of grant of the Award set forth on the Grant Notice.

“Disability” shall have the meaning set forth in, or otherwise be determined in accordance with, the Employment Agreement.

“Employment Agreement” means the employment agreement between the Holder and the Company or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates, as in effect from time to time.

“Employment Violation” means any material breach by the Holder of the Employment Agreement for so long as the terms thereof shall apply to the Holder (with any breach of the post-termination obligations contained therein deemed to be material for purposes of these Award Terms).

 



 

“Equity Account Administrator” means the brokerage firm utilized by the Company from time to time to create and administer accounts for participants in the Company’s equity plans and programs, including the Plan.

“Exercise Price” means the exercise price set forth on the Grant Notice.

“Expiration Date” means the expiration date set forth on the Grant Notice.

“Good Reason” means (i) Activision Publishing, Inc.’s relocation to a location more than 25 miles from Los Angeles County or (ii) the material diminution of Grantee’s job duties.

“Grant Notice” means the Notice of Share Option Award to which these Award Terms are attached as Exhibit A .

“Holder” means the recipient of the Award named on the Grant Notice.

“Look-back Period” means, with respect to any Employment Violation by the Holder, the period beginning on the date which is 12 months prior to the date of such Employment Violation by the Holder and ending on the date of computation of the Recapture Amount with respect to such Employment Violation.

“Option” means the option to purchase shares of Common Stock awarded to the Holder on the terms and conditions described in the Grant Notice and these Award Terms.

“Plan” means the Activision, Inc. Amended and Restated 2003 Incentive Plan, as amended from time to time.

“Recapture Amount” means, with respect to any Employment Violation by the Holder, the gross gain realized or unrealized by the Holder upon all exercises of the Option during the Look-back Period with respect to such Employment Violation, which gain shall be calculated as the sum of:

(i)            if the Holder has exercised any portion of the Option during such Look-back Period and sold any of the Shares acquired on exercise thereafter, an amount equal to the product of (A) the sales price per Share sold minus the Exercise Price times (B) the number of Shares as to which the Option was exercised and which were sold at such sales price; plus

(ii)           if the Holder has exercised any portion of the Option during such Look-back Period and not sold any of the Shares acquired on exercise thereafter, an amount equal to the product of (A) the greatest of the following: (1) the Fair Market Value per share of Common Stock on the date of exercise, (2) the arithmetic average of the per share closing sales prices of Common Stock as reported on NASDAQ for the 30 trading day period ending on the trading day immediately preceding the date of the Company’s written notice of its exercise of its rights under Section 10 hereof, or (3) the arithmetic average of the per share closing sales prices of Common Stock as reported on NASDAQ for the 30 trading day period ending on the trading day immediately preceding the date of

 

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computation, minus the Exercise Price, times (B) the number of Shares as to which the Option was exercised and which were not sold.

“Shares” means the shares of Common Stock or other securities purchasable upon exercise of the Option.

“Withholding Taxes” means any taxes, including, but not limited to, social security and Medicare taxes and federal, state and local income taxes, required to be withheld under any applicable law.

(b)           Any capitalized term used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Plan.

2.             Expiration .  Except as otherwise set forth in these Award Terms, the Option shall expire and no longer be exercisable on the Expiration Date.

3.             Vesting and Exercise .

(a)           Vesting Schedule .  Except as otherwise set forth in these Award Terms, the Option shall vest, and thereupon become exercisable, in accordance with the “Schedule for Vesting” set forth on the Grant Notice.

(b)           Exercisable Only by Holder; Transferability .  Except as otherwise permitted under the Plan, the Option may be exercised during the Holder’s lifetime only by the Holder.  With the Committee’s consent, all or part of the Option may be transferred in accordance with Section 7.3 of the Plan.  EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PERMITTED UNDER THE PLAN AND THESE AWARD TERMS, THE OPTION SHALL NOT BE TRANSFERABLE BY THE HOLDER OTHER THAN BY WILL OR THE LAWS OF DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION.

(c)           Procedure for Exercise .  The Option may be exercised by the Holder as to all or any of the Shares as to which it has vested (i) by following the procedures for exercise established by the Equity Account Administrator and posted on the Equity Account Administrator’s website from time to time or (ii) with the Company’s consent, by giving the Company written notice of exercise, in such form as may be prescribed by the Company from time to time, specifying the number of Shares to be purchased.

(d)           Payment of Exercise Price .  To be valid, any exercise of the Option must be accompanied by full payment of the aggregate Exercise Price of the Shares being purchased.  Such payment shall be made (i) in cash or by certified check or bank check or wire transfer of immediately available funds, (ii) if securities of the Company of the same class as the Shares are then traded or quoted on a national securities exchange, the Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. or a national quotation system sponsored by the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. and with the Company’s consent, through the delivery of irrevocable written instructions, in form acceptable to the Company, to the Equity Account Administrator (or, with the Company’s consent, such other brokerage firm as may be requested by the person exercising the Option) to sell some or all of the Shares being purchased upon such exercise and to thereafter deliver promptly to the Company from the proceeds of such sale an amount in cash equal to the

 

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aggregate Exercise Price of the Shares being purchased, or (iii) with the Company’s consent, any combination of (i) or (ii) above.

(e)           No Fractional Shares .  In no event may the Option be exercised for a fraction of a Share.

(f)            No Adjustment for Dividends or Other Rights .  No adjustment shall be made for cash dividends or other rights for which the record date is prior to the date as of which the issuance or transfer of Shares to the person enti






 
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