Back to top

ULTRATECH, INC. RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT ISSUANCE AGREEMENT

Shareholder Agreement

ULTRATECH, INC. RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT ISSUANCE AGREEMENT | Document Parties: ULTRATECH, INC You are currently viewing:
This Shareholder Agreement involves

ULTRATECH, INC

. RealDealDocs™ contains millions of easily searchable legal documents and clauses from top law firms. Search for free - click here.
Title: ULTRATECH, INC. RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT ISSUANCE AGREEMENT
Governing Law: California     Date: 2/27/2009
Industry: Semiconductors     Sector: Technology

ULTRATECH, INC. RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT ISSUANCE AGREEMENT, Parties: ultratech  inc
50 of the Top 250 law firms use our Products every day

Exhibit 10.11

EXECUTIVE OFFICER — FORM A

ULTRATECH, INC.

RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT ISSUANCE AGREEMENT

RECITALS

     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.

AWARD SUMMARY

 

 

 

Participant :

 

 

 

 

 

Award Date:

 

 

 

 

 

Number of Shares
Subject to Award:

 


                     shares of Common Stock (the “Shares”)

 

 

 

Vesting Schedule:

 

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.

 


 

 

 

 

Issuance Schedule

 

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.

          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.

2


 

               (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.

3


 

          6. Change of Control .

               (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.

4


 

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.

5


 

          9. Deferred Issue Date. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in


 
SITE SEARCH

AGREEMENTS / CONTRACTS

Document Title:

Entire Document: (optional)

Governing Law:(optional)


Try our advanced search >>
 

CLAUSES

Search Contract Clauses >>

Browse Contract Clause Library>>

Get Email Updates
Email:
This is only a partial view of this document. We have millions of legal documents and clauses drafted by top law firms. learn more search for free browse for free learn more