Exhibit 10.25
QUICKLOGIC
CORPORATION
2009 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE
PLAN
1.
PURPOSE . The purpose of the Plan is to provide
employees of the Company and its Designated Subsidiaries with an
opportunity to purchase Common Stock of the Company through
accumulated payroll deductions. It is the intention of the Company
to have the Plan qualify as an “Employee Stock Purchase
Plan” under Section 423 of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended. The provisions of the Plan, accordingly, shall be
construed so as to extend and limit participation in a manner
consistent with the requirements of that section of the
Code.
2.
DEFINITIONS.
(a)
“ Applicable Laws ” shall mean the requirements
relating to the administration of equity-based awards under U.S.
state corporate laws, U.S. federal and state securities laws, the
Code, any stock exchange or quotation system on which the Common
Stock is listed or quoted and the applicable laws of any foreign
country or jurisdiction where options are, or shall be, granted
under the Plan.
(b)
“ Board ” shall mean the Board of Directors of
the Company or any committee thereof designated by the Board in
accordance with Section 14 of the Plan.
(c)
“ Code ” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended. Any reference to a section of the Code herein
shall be a reference to any successor or amended section of the
Code.
(d)
“ Common Stock ” shall mean the common stock of
the Company.
(e)
“ Company ” shall mean QuickLogic Corporation, a
Delaware corporation.
(f)
“ Compensation ” shall mean all base straight
time gross earnings, overtime and incentive/variable compensation,
but exclusive of bonuses and other compensation.
(g)
“ Designated Subsidiary ” shall mean any
Subsidiary which has been designated by the Board from time to time
in its sole discretion as eligible to participate in the
Plan.
(h)
“ Eligible Employee ” shall mean any individual
who is a common law employee of the Company or any of its
Designated Subsidiaries and is customarily employed for at least
twenty (20) hours per week and more than five (5) months
in any calendar year by the Company or such Designated Subsidiary.
For purposes of the Plan, the employment relationship shall be
treated as continuing intact while the individual is on sick leave
or other leave of absence approved by the Company or the Designated
Subsidiary. Where the period of leave exceeds three (3) months
and the individual’s right to reemployment is not guaranteed
either by statute or by contract, the employment relationship shall
be deemed to have terminated three (3) months and one
(1) day following the commencement of such leave. The Board,
in its discretion, from time to time may, prior to an Offering Date
for all options to be granted on such Offering Date, determine (on
a uniform and nondiscriminatory basis) that the definition of
Eligible Employee shall or shall not include an individual if he or
she: (i) has not completed at least two (2) years of
service since his or her last hire date (or such lesser period of
time as may be determined by the Board in its discretion),
(ii) customarily works not more than twenty (20) hours
per week (or such lesser period of time as may be determined by the
Board in its discretion), (iii) customarily works not more
than five (5) months per calendar year (or such lesser period
of time as may be determined by the Board in its discretion),
(iv) is an executive, officer or other manager, or (v) is
a highly compensated employee under Section 414(q) of the
Code.
(i)
“ Enrollment Date ” shall mean the first Trading
Day of each Offering Period.
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(j)
“ Exercise Date ” shall mean the last Trading
Day of each Offering Period.
(k)
“ Fair Market Value ” shall mean, as of any
date, the value of Common Stock determined as follows:
(i)
If the Common Stock is listed on any established stock exchange or
a national market system, including without limitation the Nasdaq
Global Select Market, the Nasdaq Global Market or the Nasdaq
Capital Market of the Nasdaq Stock Market, its Fair Market Value
shall be the closing sales price for such stock (or the closing
bid, if no sales were reported) as quoted on such exchange or
system for the last market trading day on the date of such
determination, as reported in The Wall Street Journal or
such other source as the Board deems reliable;
(ii)
If the Common Stock is regularly quoted by a recognized securities
dealer but selling prices are not reported, its Fair Market Value
shall be the mean of the closing bid and asked prices for the
Common Stock on the date of such determination, as reported in
The Wall Street Journal or such other source as the Board
deems reliable; or
(iii)
In the absence of an established market for the Common Stock, the
Fair Market Value thereof shall be determined in good faith by the
Board.
(l)
“ New Exercise Date ” means a new Exercise Date
set by shortening any Offering Period then in progress.
(m)
“ Offering Periods ” shall mean the periods of
approximately six (6) months during which an option granted
pursuant to the Plan may be exercised, commencing on the first
Trading Day on or after May 15 and November 15 of each
year and terminating on the last Trading Day in the periods ending
six months later. For example, an Offering Period under the Plan
shall commence with the first Trading Day on or after May 15,
2009 and end on the last Trading Day on or before November 14,
2009. The duration and timing of Offering Periods may be changed
pursuant to Sections 4 and 20 of this Plan.
(n)
“ Parent ” shall mean a “parent
corporation,” whether now or hereafter existing, as defined
in Section 424(e) of the Code.
(o)
“ Participant ” means an Eligible Employee who
(a) has become a Participant in the Plan pursuant to
Section 5 and (b) has not ceased to be a Participant
pursuant to Section 10 or Section 11.
(p)
“ Plan ” shall mean this 2009 Employee Stock
Purchase Plan.
(q)
“ Purchase Price ” shall mean 85% of the Fair
Market Value of a share of Common Stock as determined pursuant to
Section 4; provided, however, that the Purchase Price may be
adjusted by the Board pursuant to Section 20.
(r)
“ Reserves ” shall mean the number of shares of
Common Stock covered by each option under the Plan which have not
yet been exercised and the number of shares of Common Stock which
have been authorized for issuance under the Plan but not yet placed
under option.
(s)
“ Subsidiary ” shall mean a “subsidiary
corporation,” whether now or hereafter existing, as defined
in Section 424(f) of the Code.
(t)
“ Trading Day ” shall mean a day on which the
national stock exchange upon which the Common Stock is listed is
open for trading.
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3.
ELIGIBILITY.
(a)
Any individual who is an Eligible Employee on a given Enrollment
Date shall be eligible to participate in the Plan. This Plan shall
not confer upon any Eligible Employee any right with respect to the
continuation of his or her employment with the Company or any
Designated Subsidiary, nor shall it restrict, limit, or interfere
in any way with the right of the Company or any Designated
Subsidiary to terminate the employment relationship of any Eligible
Employee at any time, with or without cause.
(b)
Any provisions of the Plan to the contrary notwithstanding, no
Eligible Employee shall be granted an option under the Plan
(i) to the extent that, immediately after the grant, such
Eligible Employee (or any other person whose stock would be
attributed to such Eligible Employee pursuant to
Section 424(d) of the Code) would own capital stock of
the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary of the Company and/or hold
outstanding options to purchase such stock possessing five percent
(5%) or more of the total combined voting power or value of all
classes of the capital stock of the Company or of any Parent or
Subsidiary of the Company, or (ii) to the extent that his or
her rights to purchase stock under all employee stock purchase
plans (as defined in Section 423 of the Code) of the Company
or any Parent or Subsidiary of the Company accrues at a rate which
exceeds Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000) worth of stock
(determined at the Fair Market Value of the shares at the time such
option is granted) for each calendar year in which such option is
outstanding at any time, as determined in accordance with
Section 423 of the Code and the regulations
thereunder.
4.
OFFERING PERIODS.
(a)
The Plan shall be implemented by either of the following Offering
Periods, which shall be determined by the Board prior to the
applicable Offering Period:
(i)
A six (6) month Offering Period commencing on the first
Trading Day on or after May 15 and November 15 each year,
or on such other date as the Board shall determine, and continuing
thereafter until terminated in accordance with Section 20
hereof or changed pursuant to this Section 4(a) and with
a Purchase Price equal to 85% of the Fair Market Value of a share
of Common Stock on the Exercise Date (a “Purchase Date
Offering Period”); or
(ii)
A six (6) month Offering Period commencing on the first
Trading Day on or after May 15 and November 15 each year,
or on such other date as the Board shall determine, and continuing
thereafter until terminated in accordance with Section 20
hereof or changed pursuant to this Section 4(a) and with
a Purchase Price equal to 85% of the Fair Market Value of a share
of Common Stock on the Enrollment Date or on the Exercise Date,
whichever is lower (a “Look-Back Offering
Period”).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if
the Board does not determine the type of Offering Period prior to
the start of the applicable Offering Period, the default Offering
Period shall be the Purchase Date Offering Period as described in
Section 4(a)(i) above.
(b)
The Board shall have the power to change the duration of Offering
Periods (including the commencement dates thereof) and to implement
Offering Periods with multiple purchase periods with respect to
future offerings without shareholder approval if such change is
announced at least five (5) days prior to the scheduled
beginning of the first Offering Period to be affected
thereafter.
5.
PARTICIPATION.
(a)
An Eligible Employee may become a Participant in the Plan only by
(i) submitting a subscription agreement authorizing payroll
deductions in a form determined by the Board (which may be similar
to the form attached hereto as Exhibit A) to the
Company’s payroll office (or its
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designee), on or before a date
prescribed by the Board prior to an applicable Enrollment Date, or
(ii) following an electronic or other enrollment procedure
prescribed by the Board. Participants in the offering period under
the Company’s 1999 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the
“1999 ESPP”) beginning on or about November 15,
2008 will automatically be enrolled in the initial Offering Period
under this Plan commencing on the first Trading Day on or after
May 15, 2009 at the same contribution levels as last elected
under the 1999 ESPP.
6.
PAYROLL
DEDUCTIONS.
(a)
At the time a Participant files his or her subscription agreement,
he or she shall elect to have payroll deductions made on each pay
day during the Offering Period in an amount not exceeding twenty
percent (20%) of the Compensation which he or she receives on each
pay day during the Offering Period.
(b)
Payroll deductions for a Participant shall commence on the first
payroll following the Enrollment Date and shall end on the last
payroll in the Offering Period to which such authorization is
applicable, unless sooner terminated by the Participant as provided
in Section 10 hereof.
(c)
All payroll deductions made for a Participant shall be credited to
his or her account under the Plan and shall be withheld in whole
percentages only. A Participant may not make any additional
payments into such account.
(d)
A Participant may discontinue his or her participation in the Plan
as provided in Section 10 hereof, or may (i) increase or
decrease the rate of his or her payroll deductions during a
Purchase Date Offering Period, or (ii) only decrease the rate
of his or her payroll deductions during a Look-Back Offering
Period, in either case by (A) properly completing and
submitting to the Company’s payroll office (or its designee),
on or before a date prescribed by the Board prior to an applicable
Exercise Date, a new subscription agreement authorizing a change in
payroll deduction rate in the form provided by the Board for such
purpose, or (B) following an electronic or other procedure
prescribed by the Board. If a Participant has not followed such
procedures to change the rate of payroll deductions, the rate of
his or her payroll deductions shall continue at the originally
elected rate throughout the Offering Period and future Offering
Periods (unless terminated as provided in Section 10). The
Board may, in its discretion, limit the number of payroll deduction
rate changes that may be made by Participants during any Offering
Period, and may establish such other conditions or limitations as
it deems appropriate for Plan administration. Any change in payroll
deduction rate made pursuant to this Section 6(d) shall
be effective with the first full payroll period following five
(5) business days after the Company’s receipt of the new
subscription agreement unless the Company, in its sole discretion,
elects to process a given change in payroll deduction rate more
quickly. A Participant’s subscription agreement shall remain
in effect for successive Offering Periods unless terminated as
provided in Section 10 hereof; provided, however, that in the
event a Participant changes his or her rate of payroll deductions
during an Offering Period to zero percent (0%) and does not
withdraw pursuant to Section 10 prior to the beginning of the
subsequent Offering Period, the Participant’s payroll
deductions shall recommence for the subsequent Offering Period at
the rate originally elected by the Participant as of the beginning
of the prior Offering Period.
(e)
Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent necessary to comply
with Section 423(b)(8) of the Code and
Section 3(b) hereof, a Participant’s payroll
deductions may be decreased to zero percent (0%) at any time during
an Offering Period. Subject to Section 423(b)(8) of the
Code and Section 3(b) hereof, payroll deductions shall
recommence at the rate originally elected by the Participant
effective as of the beginning of the first Offering Period which is
scheduled to end in the following calendar year, unless terminated
by the Participant as provided in Section 10
hereof.
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(f)
At the time the option is exercised, in whole or in part, or at the
time some or all of the Company’s Common Stock issued under
the Plan is disposed of, the Participant must make adequate
provision for amounts not in excess of the minimum statutory
federal, state, or any other tax liability payable to any
authority, national insurance, social security or other tax
withholding obligations, if any, which arise upon the exercise of
the option or the disposition of the Common Stock. At any time, the
Company or the employing Designated Subsidiary, as applicable, may,
but shall not be obligated to, withhold from the
Participant’s compensation amounts not in excess of the
applicable minimum statutory withholding obligations, including any
withholding required to make available to the Company or the
employing Designated Subsidiary, as applicable, any tax deductions
or benefits attributable to sale or early disposition of Common
Stock by the Eligible Employee. If the Company allows the
Participant to settle such tax withholding obligations by remitting
to the Company shares of Common Stock issued upon exercise, then
the Participant may not elect to withhold amounts in excess of the
applicable minimum statutory federal, state, or other tax
obligations withheld at the time of exercise or
disposal.
7.
GRANT OF OPTION
. On the Enrollment Date of
each Offering Period, each Eligible Employee participating in such
Offering Period shall be granted an option to purchase on each
Exercise Date during such Offering Period (at the applicable
Purchase Price) up to a number of shares of the Company’s
Common Stock determined by dividing such Eligible Employee’s
payroll deductions accumulated prior to such Exercise Date and
retained in the