EXECUTIVE OFFICER — FORM
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RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT ISSUANCE
AGREEMENT
A. The Board
has adopted the Plan for the purpose of retaining the services of
selected Employees and consultants and other independent advisors
who provide services to the Corporation (or any Parent or
Subsidiary).
B. Participant
is to render valuable services to the Corporation (or a Parent or
Subsidiary), and this Agreement is executed pursuant to, and is
intended to carry out the purposes of, the Plan in connection with
the Corporation’s issuance of shares of Common Stock to the
Participant under the Stock Issuance Program.
C. All
capitalized terms in this Agreement shall have the meaning assigned
to them in the attached Appendix A.
NOW,
THEREFORE , it is hereby
agreed as follows:
1.
Grant of Restricted Stock Units . The Corporation
hereby awards to the Participant, as of the Award Date, Restricted
Stock Units under the Plan. Each Restricted Stock Unit which vests
during the Participant’s period of Service shall entitle the
Participant to receive one share of Common Stock on the specified
issuance date. The number of shares of Common Stock subject to the
awarded Restricted Stock Units, the applicable vesting schedule for
those shares, the date on which those vested shares shall become
issuable to Participant and the remaining terms and conditions
governing the award (the “Award”) shall be as set forth
in this Agreement.
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Number of
Shares
Subject to Award:
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shares of Common Stock (the “Shares”)
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The Shares
shall vest in a series of ___ (___) successive equal annual
installments upon the Participant’s completion of each year
of Service over the ___ (___)-year period measured from _________.
However, the Shares may vest in whole or in part on an accelerated
basis in accordance with the provisions of Paragraphs 4 and 6 of
this Agreement.
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The Shares in
which the Participant vests in accordance with the applicable
provisions of the foregoing Vesting Schedule will become issuable
on the date (the “Issuance Date”) upon which occurs the
earliest of the following: (i) _________,
(ii) the date of the Participant’s Separation from
Service or (iii) the closing date of a Qualifying Change in
Control. The actual issuance of the Shares shall be subject to the
Corporation’s collection of all applicable Withholding Taxes
and shall be effected on the applicable Issuance Date or as soon as
administratively practicable thereafter, but in no event later than
the close of the calendar year in which such Issuance Date occurs
or (if later) the fifteenth (15th) day of the third calendar month
following such Issuance Date, unless a further deferral is required
pursuant to Paragraph 9 of this Agreement. The procedures
pursuant to which the applicable Withholding Taxes are to be
collected are set forth in Paragraph 8 of this
Agreement.
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2.
Limited Transferability . Prior to actual receipt of
the Shares which vest and become issuable hereunder, the
Participant may not transfer any interest in the Award or the
underlying Shares. Any Shares which vest hereunder but which
otherwise remain unissued at the time of the Participant’s
death may be transferred pursuant to the provisions of the
Participant’s will or the laws of inheritance or to the
Participant’s designated beneficiary or beneficiaries of this
Award. The Participant may also direct the Corporation to re-issue
the stock certificates for any Shares which in fact vest and become
issuable to Participant under the Award during his lifetime to one
or more designated family members or a trust established for the
Participant and/or his family members. The Participant may make
such a beneficiary designation or certificate directive at any time
by filing the appropriate form with the Plan Administrator or its
designee.
3.
Cessation of Service . Except as otherwise provided
in Paragraph 4 below, should the Participant cease Service for
any reason prior to vesting in one or more Shares subject to this
Award, then the Award will be immediately cancelled with respect to
those unvested Shares, and the number of Restricted Stock Units
will be reduced accordingly. The Participant shall thereupon cease
to have any right or entitlement to receive any Shares under those
cancelled units. Should the Participant’s Service terminate
by reason of a Termination for Cause, then this Award will be
immediately cancelled with respect to all the Restricted Stock
Units subject to such Award, whether vested or unvested at the
time, and the Participant shall thereupon cease to have any right
or entitlement to receive any Shares under this Award and the
cancelled Restricted Stock Units.
4.
Accelerated Vesting . The following special vesting
acceleration provisions shall be in effect for the Award and shall
be in addition to the vesting acceleration provisions of
Paragraph 6 of this Agreement:
(a) Should
the Participant cease Employee status on or after attainment of age
sixty-five (65) by reason of death, Disability or Involuntary
Termination (other than a Termination for Cause), then all the
Shares at the time subject to this Award shall immediately
vest.
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(b) Should
the Participant cease Employee status prior to attainment of age
sixty-five (65) by reason of his death, Disability or
Involuntary Termination (other than a Termination for Cause), then
the Participant shall immediately vest in an additional number of
Shares (not to exceed one hundred percent (100%) of the number of
unvested Shares at that time) equal to the greater of
(i) twenty-five percent (25%) of the total number of Shares subject
to this Award or (ii) the number of additional Shares (if any)
in which the Participant would have been vested at the time of such
cessation of Employee status had the Shares subject to this Award
vested in a series of ___(___) successive equal monthly
installments over the duration of the Vesting Schedule.
(c) The
Shares which vest on an accelerated basis pursuant to this
Paragraph 4, together with any other Shares in which the
Participant is at the time vested, shall be issued on the date of
the Participant’s Separation from Service (the
“Issuance Date”) or as soon as administratively
practicable thereafter, subject to the Corporation’s
collection of the applicable Withholding Taxes, but in no event
later than the close of the calendar year in which such Separation
from Service occurs or (if later) the fifteenth (15th) day of the
third calendar month following the date of such Separation from
Service, unless a further deferral is required pursuant to
Paragraph 9.
5.
Stockholder Rights and Dividend
Equivalents
(a) The
holder of this Award shall not have any stockholder rights,
including voting or dividend rights, with respect to the Shares
subject to the Award until the Participant becomes the record
holder of those Shares upon their actual issuance following the
Corporation’s collection of the applicable Withholding
Taxes.
(b) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, should any dividend or other distribution, whether
regular or extraordinary and whether payable in cash, securities or
other property (other than shares of Common Stock), be declared and
paid on the outstanding Common Stock while one or more Shares
remain subject to this Award (i.e., those Shares are not otherwise
issued and outstanding for purposes of entitlement to the dividend
or distribution), then a special book account shall be established
for the Participant and credited with a phantom dividend equal to
the actual dividend or distribution which would have been paid on
the Shares at the time subject to this Award had those Shares been
issued and outstanding and entitled to that dividend or
distribution. The phantom dividend equivalents so credited shall
vest at the same time as the Shares to which they relate and shall
be distributed to the Participant (in the same form the actual
dividend or distribution was paid to the holders of the Common
Stock entitled to that dividend or distribution or in such other
form as the Plan Administrator deems appropriate) concurrently with
the issuance of those Shares on the applicable Issuance Date.
However, each such distribution shall be subject to the
Corporation’s collection of the Withholding Taxes applicable
to that distribution.
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(a) Any
Restricted Stock Units subject to this Award at the time of a
Change in Control will vest immediately prior to the closing of
that Change in Control. The Shares subject to those vested units,
together with any other Shares in which the Participant is at that
time vested, will be issued on the earliest of the
following Issuance Dates: (i) _________, (ii) the date of the
Participant’s Separation from Service or (iii) the
closing date of a Qualifying Change in Control, subject to the
Corporation’s collection of the applicable Withholding Taxes
pursuant to the provisions of Paragraph 8. Alternatively, the
Shares subject to those vested units shall be converted into the
right to receive the same consideration per share of Common Stock
payable to the other stockholders of the Corporation in
consummation of the Change in Control, and such consideration per
Share shall be distributed on the earliest of the Issuance Dates
specified above, subject to the Corporation’s collection of
the applicable Withholding Taxes pursuant to the provisions of
Paragraph 8.
(b) This
Agreement shall not in any way affect the right of the Corporation
to adjust, reclassify, reorganize or otherwise change its capital
or business structure or to merge, consolidate, dissolve, liquidate
or sell or transfer all or any part of its business or
assets.
7.
Adjustment in Shares . Should any change be made to
the Common Stock by reason of any stock split, stock dividend,
recapitalization, combination of shares, exchange of shares,
spin-off transaction, extraordinary dividend or distribution or
other change affecting the outstanding Common Stock as a class
without the Corporation’s receipt of consideration, or should
the value of outstanding shares of Common Stock be substantially
reduced as a result of a spin-off transaction or an extraordinary
dividend or distribution, or should there occur any merger,
consolidation or other reorganization, then equitable adjustments
shall be made by the Plan Administrator to the total number and/or
class of securities issuable pursuant to this Award in order to
reflect such change and thereby prevent a dilution or enlargement
of benefits hereunder. In making such equitable adjustments, the
Plan Administrator shall take into account any amounts credited to
the Participant’s book account under Paragraph 5(b) in
connection with the transaction. The determination of the Plan
Administrator shall be final, binding and conclusive. In the event
of a Change in Control, the adjustments (if any) shall be made in
accordance with the provisions of Paragraph 6.
8.
Collection of Withholding Taxes .
(a) The
Corporation shall collect the employee portion of the FICA taxes
(Social Security and Medicare) with respect to the Shares at the
time those Shares vest hereunder. The FICA taxes shall be based on
the Fair Market Value of the Shares on their vesting date. The
Corporation shall also collect the employee portion of the FICA
taxes with respect to any phantom dividends at the time those
phantom dividends vest hereunder. The FICA taxes shall be based on
the cash amount and the fair market value of any other property
underlying the phantom dividends on the vesting date. Unless the
Participant delivers a separate check payable to the Corporation in
the amount of the FICA taxes required to be withheld from the
Participant, the Corporation shall withhold those taxes from the
Participant’s wages.
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However, if the
Participant is at the time an executive officer of the Corporation,
then such withholding taxes must be collected from the Participant
through delivery of his or her separate check not later than the
vesting date.
(b) The
Corporation shall collect the federal, state and local income taxes
required to be withheld with respect to the distribution of the
phantom dividend equivalents to the Participant by withholding a
portion of that distribution equal to the amount of those taxes,
with the cash portion of the distribution to be the first portion
so withheld. Until such time as the Corporation provides the
Participant with notice to the contrary, the Corporation shall
collect the federal, state and local income taxes required to be
withheld with respect to the issuance of the Shares that vest
hereunder through an automatic Share withholding procedure pursuant
to which the Corporation will withhold, at the time of such
issuance, a portion of the Shares with a Fair Market Value
(measured as of the issuance date) equal to the amount of those
taxes (the “Share Withholding Method”); provided,
however , that the amount of any Shares so withheld shall
not exceed the amount necessary to satisfy the Corporation‘s
required tax withholding obligations using the minimum statutory
withholding rates for federal and state tax purposes that are
applicable to supplemental taxable income. Participant shall be
notified in writing in the event such Share Withholding Method is
no longer available.
(c) Should any
Shares be distributed at time the Share Withholding Method is not
available, then the federal, state and local income taxes required
to be withheld with respect to those Shares shall be collected from
the Participant through either of the following
alternatives:
— the
Participant’s delivery of his or her separate check payable
to the Corporation in the amount of such Withholding Taxes,
or
— the use of the
proceeds from a next-day sale of the Shares issued to the
Participant, provided and only if (i) such a sale is
permissible under the Corporation’s trading policies
governing the sale of Common Stock, (ii) the Participant makes
an irrevocable commitment, on or before the Issuance Date for those
Shares, to effect such sale of the Shares and (iii) the transaction
is not otherwise deemed to involve a prohibited loan under
Section 402 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
(d) Should
any other amounts become distributable to Participant in
consideration for the Shares, then the federal, state and local
income taxes required to be withheld with respect to those amounts
shall be collected from the Participant pursuant to such procedures
as the Corporation deems appropriate under the circumstances,
including (without limitation) the Participant’s delivery of
his or her separate check payable to the Corporation in the amount
of such Withholding Taxes.
(e) Except
as otherwise provided in Paragraph 6 and Paragraph 8(b),
the settlement of all Restricted Stock Units which vest under the
Award shall be made solely in shares of Common Stock. In no event,
however, shall any fractional shares be issued. Accordingly, the
total number of shares of Common Stock to be issued pursuant to the
Award shall, to the extent necessary, be rounded down to the next
whole share in order to avoid the issuance of a fractional
share.
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9.
Deferred Issue Date. Notwithstanding any provision to
the contrary in
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