Exhibit 10.2
COMCAST CORPORATION
2003 STOCK OPTION PLAN
(AS AMENDED AND RESTATED EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY 28, 2007)
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Background
and Purpose of Plan
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(a)
Background . COMCAST CORPORATION, a Pennsylvania corporation
hereby amends and restates the Comcast Corporation 2003 Stock
Option Plan, (the “Plan”), effective February 28,
2007.
(b)
Purpose . The purpose of the Plan is to assist the Sponsor
and its Affiliates in retaining valued employees, officers and
directors by offering them a greater stake in the Sponsor’s
success and a closer identity with it, and to aid in attracting
individuals whose services would be helpful to the Sponsor and
would contribute to its success.
(a) “
Affiliate ” means, with respect to any Person, any
other Person that, directly or indirectly, is in control of, is
controlled by, or is under common control with, such Person. For
purposes of this definition, the term “control,”
including its correlative terms “controlled by” and
“under common control with,” mean, with respect to any
Person, the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to
direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of
such Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by
contract or otherwise.
(b) “
AT&T Broadband Transaction ” means the acquisition
of AT&T Broadband Corp. (now known as Comcast Cable
Communications Holdings, Inc.) by the Sponsor.
(c) “
Board ” means the board of directors of the
Sponsor.
(d) “
Cash Right ” means any right to receive cash in lieu
of Shares granted under the Plan and described in Paragraph
3(a)(iii).
(e) “
Cause ” means (i) fraud;
(ii) misappropriation; (iii) embezzlement;
(iv) gross negligence in the performance of duties;
(v) self-dealing; (vi) dishonesty;
(vii) misrepresentation; (viii) conviction of a crime of
a felony; (ix) material violation of any Company policy;
(x) material violation of the Company’s Code of Ethics
and Business Conduct or, (xi) in the case of an employee of a
Company who is a party to an employment agreement with a Company,
material breach of such agreement; provided that as to items
(ix), (x) and (xi), if capable of being cured, such event or
condition remains uncured following 30 days written notice
thereof.
(f) “
Change of Control ” means any transaction or series of
transactions as a result of which any Person who was a Third Party
immediately before such transaction or series of transactions owns
then-outstanding securities of the Sponsor such that such Person
has the ability to direct the management of the Sponsor, as
determined by the Board in its discretion. The Board may also
determine that a Change of Control shall occur upon the completion
of one or more proposed transactions. The Board’s
determination shall be final and binding.
(g) “
Code ” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended.
(h) “
Comcast Plan ” means any restricted stock, stock
bonus, stock option or other compensation plan, program or
arrangement established or maintained by the Sponsor or an
Affiliate of the Sponsor, including, but not limited to this Plan,
the Comcast Corporation 2002 Stock Option Plan, the Comcast
Corporation 2002 Restricted Stock Plan, the Comcast Corporation
1987 Stock Option Plan and the AT&T Broadband Corp. Adjustment
Plan.
(i) “
Committee ” means the committee described in
Paragraph 5, provided that for purposes of Paragraph
7:
(i) all
references to the Committee shall be treated as references to the
Board with respect to any Option granted to or held by a
Non-Employee Director; and
(ii) all
references to the Committee shall be treated as references to the
Committee’s delegate with respect to any Option granted
within the scope of the delegate’s authority pursuant to
Paragraph 5(b).
(j) “
Common Stock ” means the Sponsor’s Class A
Common Stock, par value, $.01.
(k) “
Company ” means the Sponsor and the Subsidiary
Companies.
(l) “
Date of Grant ” means the date as of which an Option
is granted.
(m) “
Disability ” means a disability within the meaning of
section 22(e)(3) of the Code.
(n) “
Fair Market Value .” If Shares are listed on a stock
exchange, Fair Market Value shall be determined based on the last
reported sale price of a Share on the principal exchange on which
Shares are listed on the date of determination, or if such date is
not a trading day, the next trading date. If Shares are not so
listed, but trades of Shares are reported on the Nasdaq National
Market, Fair Market Value shall be determined based on the last
quoted sale price of a Share on the Nasdaq National Market on the
date of determination, or if such date is not a trading day, the
next trading date. If Shares are not so listed nor trades of Shares
so reported, Fair Market Value shall be determined by the Board or
the Committee in good faith.
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(o) “
Immediate Family ” means an Optionee’s spouse
and lineal descendants, any trust all beneficiaries of which are
any of such persons and any partnership all partners of which are
any of such persons.
(p) “
Incentive Stock Option ” means an Option granted under
the Plan, designated by the Committee at the time of such grant as
an Incentive Stock Option within the meaning of section 422 of
the Code and containing the terms specified herein for Incentive
Stock Options; provided, however , that to the extent an
Option granted under the Plan and designated by the Committee at
the time of grant as an Incentive Stock Option fails to satisfy the
requirements for an incentive stock option under section 422
of the Code for any reason, such Option shall be treated as a
Non-Qualified Option.
(q) “
Non-Employee Director ” means an individual who is a
member of the Board, and who is not an employee of a Company,
including an individual who is a member of the Board and who
previously was, but at the time of reference is not, an employee of
a Company.
(r) “
Non-Qualified Option ” means:
(i) an Option
granted under the Plan, designated by the Committee at the time of
such grant as a Non-Qualified Option and containing the terms
specified herein for Non-Qualified Options; and
(ii) an
Option granted under the Plan and designated by the Committee at
the time of grant as an Incentive Stock Option, to the extent such
Option fails to satisfy the requirements for an incentive stock
option under section 422 of the Code for any
reason.
(s) “
Officer ” means an officer of the Sponsor (as defined
in section 16 of the 1934 Act).
(t) “
Option ” means any stock option granted under the Plan
and described in Paragraph 3(a)(i) or Paragraph
3(a)(ii).
(u) “
Optionee ” means a person to whom an Option has been
granted under the Plan, which Option has not been exercised in full
and has not expired or terminated.
(v) “
Other Available Shares ” means, as of any date, the
sum of:
(i) the total
number of Shares owned by an Optionee that were not acquired by
such Optionee pursuant to a Comcast Plan or otherwise in connection
with the performance of services to the Sponsor or an Affiliate;
plus
(ii) the
excess, if any of:
(A) the total
number of Shares owned by an Optionee other than the Shares
described in Paragraph 2(v)(i); over
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(B) the sum
of:
(1) the
number of such Shares owned by such Optionee for less than six
months; plus
(2) the
number of such Shares owned by such Optionee that has, within the
preceding six months, been the subject of a withholding
certification pursuant to Paragraph 15(b) or any similar
withholding certification under any other Comcast Plan;
plus
(3) the
number of such Shares owned by such Optionee that has, within the
preceding six months, been received in exchange for Shares
surrendered as payment, in full or in part, or as to which
ownership was attested to as payment, in full or in part, of the
exercise price for an option to purchase any securities of the
Sponsor or an Affiliate of the Sponsor, under any Comcast Plan, but
only to the extent of the number of Shares surrendered or attested
to; plus
(4) the
number of such Shares owned by such Optionee as to which evidence
of ownership has, within the preceding six months, been provided to
the Sponsor in connection with the crediting of “Deferred
Stock Units” to such Optionee’s Account under the
Comcast Corporation 2002 Deferred Stock Option Plan (as in effect
from time to time).
For purposes of this Paragraph 2(v),
a Share that is subject to a deferral election pursuant to another
Comcast Plan shall not be treated as owned by an Optionee until all
conditions to the delivery of such Share have lapsed. The number of
Other Available Shares shall be determined separately for Common
Stock and for Special Common Stock. For purposes of determining the
number of Other Available Shares, the term “Shares”
shall also include the securities held by a Participant immediately
before the consummation of the AT&T Broadband Transaction that
became Common Stock or Special Common Stock as a result of the
AT&T Broadband Transaction.
(w) “
Outside Director ” means a member of the Board who is
an “outside director” within the meaning of section
162(m)(4)(C) of the Code and applicable Treasury Regulations issued
thereunder.
(x) “
Person ” means an individual, a corporation, a
partnership, an association, a trust or any other entity or
organization.
(y) “
Plan ” means the Comcast Corporation 2002 Stock Option
Plan.
(z) “
Share ” or “ Shares .”
(i) Except as
provided in this Paragraph 2(z), a share or shares Common
Stock;
(ii) For
purposes of Paragraphs 2(v), 7(d) and Paragraph 15, the term
“Share” or “Shares” also means a share or
shares of Special Common Stock.
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(iii) The
term “Share” or “Shares” also means such
other securities issued by the Sponsor as may be the subject of an
adjustment under Paragraph 10, or for purposes of Paragraph
2(v) and Paragraph 15, as may have been the subject of a similar
adjustment under similar provisions of a Comcast Plan as now in
effect or as may have been in effect before the AT&T Broadband
Transaction.
(aa) “
Special Common Stock ” means the Sponsor’s
Class A Special Common Stock, par value $0.01.
(bb) “
Sponsor ” means Comcast Corporation, a Pennsylvania
corporation, as successor to Comcast Holdings Corporation (formerly
known as Comcast Corporation), including any successor thereto by
merger, consolidation, acquisition of all or substantially all the
assets thereof, or otherwise.
(cc) “
Subsidiary Companies ” means all business entities
that, at the time in question, are subsidiaries of the Sponsor
within the meaning of section 424(f) of the Code.
(dd) “
Ten Percent Shareholder ” means a person who on the
Date of Grant owns, either directly or within the meaning of the
attribution rules contained in section 424(d) of the Code, stock
possessing more than 10% of the total combined voting power of all
classes of stock of his employer corporation or of its parent or
subsidiary corporations, as defined respectively in sections 424(e)
and (f) of the Code, provided that the employer corporation is
a Company.
(ee) “
Terminating Event ” means any of the following
events:
(i) the
liquidation of the Sponsor; or
(ii) a Change
of Control.
(ff) “
Third Party ” means any Person other than a Company,
together with such Person’s Affiliates, provided that the
term “Third Party” shall not include the Sponsor or an
Affiliate of the Sponsor.
(gg) “
1933 Act ” means the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended.
(hh) “
1934 Act ” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended.
(a) Types of
Options and Other Rights Available for Grant. Rights that may be
granted under the Plan are:
(i) Incentive
Stock Options, which give an Optionee who is an employee of a
Company the right for a specified time period to purchase a
specified number of Shares for a price not less than the Fair
Market Value on the Date of Grant.
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(ii) Non-Qualified
Options, which give the Optionee the right for a specified time
period to purchase a specified number of Shares for a price
determined by the Committee; and
(iii) Cash
Rights, which give an Optionee the right for a specified time
period, and subject to such conditions, if any, as shall be
determined by the Committee and stated in the option document, to
receive a cash payment of such amount per Share as shall be
determined by the Committee and stated in the option document, in
lieu of exercising a Non-Qualified Option.
(b) Limit
on Grant of Options . The maximum number of Shares for which
Options may be granted to any single individual in any calendar
year, adjusted as provided in Paragraph 10, shall be 10,000,000
Shares.
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Shares
Subject to Plan
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Subject to adjustment as provided in
Paragraph 10, not more than 105 million Shares in the
aggregate (including Shares granted pursuant to the Plan as in
effect immediately before the closing of the AT&T Broadband
Transaction, and as adjusted to reflect the three-for-two stock
split in the form of a 50% stock dividend payable on
February 21, 2007 to shareholders of record on
February 14, 2007) may be issued pursuant to the Plan upon
exercise of Options. Shares delivered pursuant to the exercise of
an Option may, at the Sponsor’s option, be either treasury
Shares or Shares originally issued for such purpose. If (a) an
Option covering Shares terminates or expires without having been
exercised in full, (b) the Sponsor withholds Shares to satisfy
its minimum tax withholding requirements as provided in Paragraph
15(b) and Paragraph 15(c) or (c) effective February 28,
2007, an Option covering Shares is exercised pursuant to the
cashless exercise provisions of Paragraph 7(d)(iv), other Options
may be granted covering the Shares as to which the Option
terminated or expired, covering the Shares so withheld to satisfy
the Sponsor’s minimum tax withholding requirements or
covering the Shares that were subject to such Option but not
delivered because of the application of such cashless exercise
provisions, as applicable.
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Administration of Plan
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(a)
Committee . The Plan shall be administered by the
Compensation Committee of the Board or any other committee or
subcommittee designated by the Board, provided that the committee
administering the Plan is composed of two or more non-employee
members of the Board, each of whom is an Outside
Director.
(b)
Delegation of Authority .
(i) Named
Executive Officers and Section 16(b) Officers . All
authority with respect to the grant, amendment, interpretation and
administration of Options with respect to any employee or officer
of a Company who is either (x) a Named Executive Officer (
i.e. , an officer who is required to be listed in the
Company’s Proxy Statement Compensation Table) or (y) is
subject to the short-swing profit recapture rules of section 16(b)
of the 1934 Act, is reserved to the Committee.
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(ii)
Senior Officers and Highly Compensated Employees . The
Committee may delegate to a committee consisting of the Chairman of
the Committee and one or more officers of the Company designated by
the Committee, discretion under the Plan to grant, amend, interpret
and administer Options with respect to any employee or officer of a
Company who (x) holds a position with Comcast Corporation of
Senior Vice President or a position of higher rank than Senior Vice
President or (y) has a base salary of $500,000 or more,
provided that an Option granted pursuant to this delegated
authority may not have an exercise price per Share that is less
than the Fair Market Value on the Date of Grant.
(iii)
Other Employees . The Committee may delegate to an officer
of the Company, or a committee of two or more officers of the
Company, discretion under the Plan to grant, amend, interpret and
administer Options with respect to any employee or officer of a
Company other than an employee or officer described in Paragraph
5(b)(i) or Paragraph 5(b)(ii), provided that an Option granted
pursuant to this delegated authority may not have an exercise price
per Share that is less than the Fair Market Value on the Date of
Grant.
(iv)
Termination of Delegation of Authority . Delegation of
authority as provided under this Paragraph 5(b) shall continue in
effect until the earliest of:
(x) such time
as the Committee shall, in its discretion, revoke such delegation
of authority;
(y) in the
case of delegation under Paragraph 5(b)(ii), the delegate shall
cease to serve as Chairman of the Committee or serve as an employee
of the Company for any reason, as the case may be and in the case
of delegation under Paragraph 5(b)(iii), the delegate shall cease
to serve as an employee of the Company for any reason;
or
(z) the
delegate shall notify the Committee that he declines to continue to
exercise such authority.
(c)
Meetings . The Committee shall hold meetings at such times
and places as it may determine. Acts approved at a meeting by a
majority of the members of the Committee or acts approved by the
unanimous consent of the members of the Committee shall be the
valid acts of the Committee.
(d)
Exculpation . No member of the Committee shall be personally
liable for monetary damages for any action taken or any failure to
take any action in connection with the administration of the Plan
or the granting of Options thereunder unless (i) the member of
the Committee has breached or failed to perform the duties of his
office, and (ii) the breach or failure to perform constitutes
self-dealing, willful misconduct or recklessness; provided,
however , that the provisions of this Paragraph 5(d) shall not
apply to the responsibility or liability of a member of the
Committee pursuant to any criminal statute.
(e)
Indemnification . Service on the Committee shall constitute
service as a member of the Board. Each member of the Committee
shall be entitled without further act on his part to indemnity from
the Sponsor to the fullest extent provided by applicable law and
the Sponsor’s By-laws in connection with or arising out of
any actions, suit or proceeding with
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respect to the administration of the Plan or the
granting of Options thereunder in which he may be involved by
reasons of his being or having been a member of the Committee,
whether or not he continues to be such member of the Committee at
the time of the action, suit or proceeding.
(a) Eligible
individuals to whom Options may be granted shall be employees,
officers or directors of a Company who are selected by the
Committee for the grant of Options. Eligible individuals to whom
Cash Rights may be granted shall be individuals who are employees
of a Company on the Date of Grant other than Officers. The terms
and conditions of Options granted to individuals other than
Non-Employee Directors shall be determined by the Committee,
subject to Paragraph 7. The terms and conditions of Cash Rights
shall be determined by the Committee, subject to Paragraph 7. The
terms and