Exhibit 10.116
KENNEDY-WILSON, INC.
1992
INCENTIVE
AND
NONSTATUTORY STOCK OPTION PLAN
KENNEDY-WILSON, INC.
1992
INCENTIVE
AND
NONSTATUTORY STOCK OPTION PLAN
1.
NAME,
EFFECTIVE DATE AND PURPOSE .
(a)
This Plan
document is intended to implement and govern two separate stock
option plans of KENNEDY-WILSON, INC., a Delaware corporation (the
“Company”): the Incentive Stock Option Plan
(“Plan A”) and the Nonstatutory Stock Option Plan
(“Plan B”). Plan A provides for the granting of
options that are intended to qualify as incentive stock options
(“Incentive Stock Options”) within the meaning of
Section 422(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
(the “Code”). Plan B provides for the granting of
options that are not intended to so qualify. Unless specified
otherwise, all the provisions of this Plan relate equally to both
Plan A and Plan B and are condensed for convenience into one Plan
document.
(b)
Plan A and Plan B
are each established effective as of May 11, 1992: The
purpose of Plan A and Plan B (sometimes together referred to as the
“Plan” or this “Plan”) is to promote the
growth and general prosperity of the Company and its Affiliated
Companies. This Plan will permit the Company to grant options
(“Options”) to purchase shares of its common stock
(“Common Stock”). The granting of Options will
help the Company attract and retain the best available persons for
positions of substantial responsibility and will provide certain
key employees with an additional incentive to contribute to the
success of the Company and its Affiliated Companies. For
purposes of this Plan, the term “Affiliated Companies”
shall mean any component member of a controlled group of
corporations, as defined under Code Section 1563, in which the
Company is also a component member.
2.
ADMINISTRATION
.
(a)
The Plan shall be
administered by a Committee of the Board of Directors of the
Company (the “Committee”) appointed by the Board of
Directors of the Company (the “Board”).
(b)
The Committee
shall have sole authority, in its absolute discretion, to determine
which of the eligible persons of the Company and its Affiliated
Companies shall receive Options (“Optionees”), and,
subject to the express provisions and restrictions of this Plan,
shall have sole authority, in its absolute discretion, .to
determine the time when Options shall be granted, the terms and
conditions of an Option other than those terms an& conditions
fixed under this Plan, the number of shares which may be issued upon
exercise of an Option and the means of payment for shares, and
shall have authority to do everything necessary or
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appropriate to administer
the Plan. All decisions, determinations and interpretations
of the Committee shall be final and binding on all
Optionees.
(c)
The Committee
appointed by the Board shall consist of not less than two (2)
members of the Board, all of whom shall be directors who are not
employees of the Company (“Outside Directors”) and each
of whom shall be a “disinterested person” (as such term
is defined in Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Securities Exchange
Act of: 1934, as amended, as such rule may be amended from
time to time). The Board may from time to time remove members
from, or add members to, the Committee (provided such members added
are Outside Directors), and vacancies on the Committee shall
be filled
by the Board. Any Outside Director may be eligible to become
a member of the Committee provided such person has not received a
discretionary grant or award under any Company stock plan during
the twelve-month period preceding the transaction that constituted
such person’s initial action as a member of the
Committee.
(d)
Definitions:
(i)
Restricted
Shareholder: An individual who, at the time an Option is
granted under either Plan A or Plan B, owns stock possessing more
than 10% of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock
of the employer corporation or of its Parent Corporation or
Subsidiary Corporation, with stock ownership to be determined in
light of the attribution rules set forth in Section 424(d) of the
Code.
(ii)
Parent
Corporation: A corporation as defined in Section 424(e) of
the Code.
(iii)
Subsidiary
Corporation: A corporation as defined in Section 424(f) of
the Code.
(iv)
Officer:
The president, secretary, chief financial officer, any managing
director, any vice president in charge of a principal business
function (such as sales, administration, or finance) and any other
person who performs similar policy-making functions for the
Company.
3.
ELIGIBILITY
.
(a)
Plan A: The
Committee may, in its discretion, grant one or more Options under
Plan A to any key management employee of
the Company or its Affiliated Companies, including any employee who
is a director of the Company or of any of its. Affiliated
Companies presently existing or hereinafter organized or
acquired. Such Options may be granted to one or more such
employees without being granted to other eligible
employees, as the
Committee may deem fit.
(b)
Plan B: The
Committee may, in its discretion, grant one or more Options under
Plan B to any key management employee, any employee who is a
director of the Company or its Affiliated Companies presently
existing or hereinafter organized or acquired or any person who
performs consulting or other services for the Company or its
Affiliated Companies and who is designated by the Board as eligible
to participate in Plan B. Such Options may be granted
to
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one or more such persons
without being granted to other eligible persons, as the Board may
deem fit.
(c)
Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary herein said, Outside Directors shall not
be eligible to receive a grant of Options under this
Plan.
4.
STOCK TO BE
OPTIONED .
(a)
The maximum
aggregate number of shares which may be optioned and sold under
Plan A and Plan B is 750,000 shares of authorized Common Stock of
the Company. The foregoing constitutes an absolute cumulative
limitation on the total number of shares that may be optioned under
both Plan A and B. Therefore, at any particular date the
maximum aggregate number of shares which may be optioned under Plan
A is equal to 750,000 minus the number of shares previously
optioned under both Plan A and Plan B and the maximum aggregate
number of shares which may be optioned under Plan B is equal to
750,000 minus the number of shares which have been previously
optioned under both Plan A and Plan B. All shares to be
optioned and sold under either Plan A or Plan B may be either
authorized but unissued shares or shares held in the
treasury.
(b)
Shares of Common
Stock that: (i) are repurchased by the Company after issuance
hereunder pursuant to the exercise of an Option, or (ii) are not
purchased by the Optionee prior to the expiration or termination of
the applicable Option, shall again become available to be covered
by Options to be issued hereunder and shall not, as of the
effective date of such repurchase or expiration, be counted as
covered by an outstanding Option for purposes of the
above-described maximum number of shares which may be optioned
‘hereunder.
5.
OPTION
PRICE .
The Option Price for shares
of. Common Stock to be issued under either Plan A or Plan B
shall the fair market value of such shares on the date on which the
Option covering such shares is granted by the Committee, except
that if on the date on which such Option is granted the Optionee is
a Restricted Shareholder, ,than such Option Price for Options
granted under Plan A shall be 110% of the fair market value of the
shares of Common Stock subject to the Option on the date such
Option is granted by the Committee. The fair market value of
shares of Common Stock for all purposes of this Plan is to be
determined by the Committee, in its sole discretion, exercised in
good faith.
6.
TERM OF
PLAN .
Plan A and Plan B shall become
effective on May 11, 1992; both Plan A and Plan B shall continue in
effect until May 11, 2002, unless terminated earlier by action of
the Board. No Option may be granted hereunder after May 11,
2002.
7.
EXERCISE OF
OPTION .
Subject to the actions, conditions
and limitations set forth in this Plan document and any applicable
Stock Option Agreement entered into hereunder, Options granted
under this Plan shall be exercisable in accordance with the
following rules:
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(a)
No Shares of
Common Stock acquired by the Optionee pursuant to an exercise of an
Option granted under the Plan may be disposed of in whole or in
part until six (6) months after the date on which the Option is
granted by the Committee (hereinafter the “Option Grant
Date”).
(b)
Subject to the
specific provisions of this Section 7, options shall become
exercisable at such times and in such installments (which may be
cumulative) as the Committee shall provide in the terms of each
individual Option; provided, however, that by a resolution adopted
after an Option is granted the Committee, may, on such terms and
conditions as it may determine to be appropriate and subject to the
specific provisions of this Section 7, accelerate the time at which
such Option or installment thereof may be exercised. For
purposes of this Plan, any accrued installment of an Option granted
hereunder shall be referred to as. an “Accrued
Installment.”
(c)
Subject to the
restrictions contained in this Section 7, an Option may
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be exercised
when Accrued Installments accrue, as provided in the terms under
which such Option was granted for a period of up to five
(5) years from
the Option Grant Date with respect to Options granted under Plan A
and for a period of up to ten (10) years from the
Option Grant Date with respect to Options granted under Plan
B. In no event shall any Option be exercised on or after the
expiration of said maximum applicable period, regardless of the
circumstances then existing (including but not limited to the death
or termination of employment of the Optionee).
(d)
The Committee
shall fix the expiration date of the Option (the “Option
Expiration Date”) at the time the Option grant is
authorized.
8.
RULES
APPLICABLE TO CERTAIN DISPOSITIONS .
(a)
Notwithstanding
the foregoing provisions of Section 7, in the event the Company or
the shareholders of the Company enter into an agreement to dispose
of all or substantially all of the assets or capital stock of the
Company by means of a sale, merger, consolidation, reorganization,
liquidation, or otherwise, an option shall become immediately
exercisable with respect to the full number of shares subject to
that Option during the period commencing as of the later of (x)
date of execution of such agreement or (y) six (6) months after the Option
Grant Date, and ending as of the earlier of:
(i)
the Option
Expiration Date; or
(ii)
the date on which
the disposition of assets or capital stock contemplated by the
agreement is consummated. The exercise of any Option that was
made exercisable solely by reason of this Subsection 8(a) shall be
conditioned upon the consummation of the disposition of assets or
stock under the above referenced agreement. Upon the
consummation of any such disposition of assets or stock, this Plan
and any unexercised Options issued hereunder (or any unexercised
portion thereof) shall terminate and cease to be
effective.
(b)
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, in the event that any such agreement shall be
terminated without consummating the disposition of said stock or
assets:
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(i)
any unexercised
nonvested installments that had become exercisable solely by reason
of the provisions of Subsection 8(a) shall again
become nonvested and unexercisable as of said termination of such
agreement, and
(ii)
the exercise of
any option that had become exercisable solely by reason of this
Subsection 8(a) shall be deemed ineffective and such installments
shall again become nonvested and unexercisable as of said
termination of such agreement.
(c)
Notwithstanding
the provisions set forth in Subsection 8(a), the Committee may, at
its election and subject to the approval of the corporation
purchasing or acquiring the stock or assets of the Company (the
“Surviving Corporation”) arrange for the Optionee to
receive upon surrender of Optionee’s Option a new option
covering shares of the Surviving Corporation in the same
proportion, at an equivalent option price and subject to the same
terms and conditions as the old Option. For purposes of the
preceding sentence, the excess of the aggregate fair market value
of the . shares subject to such new
option immediately after consummation of such disposition of stock
or assets over the aggregate option price of such shares of the
Surviving Corporation shall be no more than the excess of the
aggregate fair market value of all shares subject to the old Option
immediately before consummation of such disposition of stock or
assets over the aggregate Option Price of such shares of the
Company, and the new option shall not give the Optionee additional
benefits which such Optionee did not have under the old Option or
deprive the Optionee of benefits which the Optionee had under the
old Option. If such substitution of options is effectuated,
the Optionee’s rights under the old Option shall thereupon
terminate.
9.
MERGERS AND
ACQUISITIONS .
If the Company at any time should
succeed to the business of another corporation through a merger or
consolidation, or through the acquisition of stock or assets of
such corporation, Options may be granted under the Plan to option
holders of such corporation or its subsidiaries, in substitution
for options or rights to purchase stock of such corporation held by
them at the time of succession. The Committee shall have sole
and absolute discretion to determine t
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