Exhibit
4.2
2004 STOCK OPTION
PLAN
OF
INTER PARFUMS,
INC.
1. Purposes of The Plan. This stock option plan (the "Plan")
is designed to provide an incentive to key employees, officers,
directors and consultants of Inter Parfums, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (the "Company"), and its present and future subsidiary
corporations, as defined in Paragraph 17 ("Subsidiaries"), and to
offer an additional inducement in obtaining the services of such
individuals. The Plan provides for the grant of "incentive stock
options," within the meaning of Section 422 of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), nonqualified stock options
and stock appreciation rights ("SARs").
2. Shares Subject To The Plan.
The aggregate number of
shares of Common Stock, $.001 par value per share, of the Company
("Common Stock") for which options or SARs may be granted under the
Plan shall not exceed 1,000,000. Such shares may, in the discretion
of the Board of Directors, consist either in whole or in part of
authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock or shares of Common
Stock held in the treasury of the Company. The Company
shall at all times during the term of the Plan reserve and keep
available such number of shares of Common Stock as will be
sufficient to satisfy the requirements of the Plan. Subject to the
provisions of Paragraph 14, any shares subject to an option or SAR
which for any reason expire, are canceled or are terminated
unexercised (other than those which expire, are canceled or
terminated pursuant to the exercise of a tandem SAR or option)
shall again become available for the granting of options or SARs
under the Plan. The number of shares of Common Stock underlying
that portion of an option or SAR which is exercised (regardless of
the number of shares actually issued) shall not again become
available for grant under the Plan.
3.
Administration Of The Plan.
(a) The Plan shall be administered by the Board
of Directors, or if appointed, by a committee consisting of not
less than two (2) members of the Board of Directors, each of whom
shall be a “non-employee director” within the meaning
of Rule 16b-3 promulgated by the Securities and Exchange
Commission. (The group administering the plan is referred to as the
“Committee”). The failure of any of the Committee
members to qualify as a non-employee director shall not otherwise
affect the validity of the grant of any option or SAR, or the
issuance of shares of Common Stock otherwise validly issued upon
exercise of any such option. A majority of the members of the
Committee shall constitute a quorum, and the acts of a majority of
the members present at any meeting at which a quorum is present,
and any acts approved in writing by all members without a meeting,
shall be the acts of the Committee.
(b) Subject to the express provisions of the
Plan, the Committee shall have the authority, in its sole
discretion, to determine the individuals who shall receive options
and SARS; the times when they shall receive them; whether an option
shall be an incentive or a nonqualified stock option; whether an
SAR shall be granted separately, in tandem with or in addition to
an option; the number of shares to be subject to each option and
SAR; the term of each option and SAR; the date each option and SAR
shall become exercisable; whether an option or SAR shall be
exercisable in whole, in part or in installments, and if in
installments, the number of shares to be subject to each
installment; whether the installments shall be cumulative, the date
each installment shall become exercisable and the term of each
installment; whether to accelerate the date of exercise of any
installment; whether shares may be issued on exercise of an option
as partly paid, and, if so, the dates when future installments of
the exercise price shall become due and the amounts of such
installments; the exercise price of each option and the base price
of each SAR; the form of payment of the exercise price; the form of
payment by the Company upon the optionee's exercise of an SAR;
whether to require that the optionee remain in the employ of the
Company or its Subsidiaries for a period of time from and after the
date the option or SAR is granted to him; the amount necessary to
satisfy the Company's obligation to withhold taxes; whether to
restrict the sale or other disposition of the shares of Common
Stock acquired upon the exercise of an option or SAR and to waive
any such restriction; to subject the exercise of all or any portion
of an option or SAR to the fulfillment of contingencies as
specified in the Contract (as described in Paragraph 12), including
without limitations, contingencies relating to financial objectives
(such as earnings per share, cash flow return, return on investment
or growth in sales) for a specified period for the Company, a
division, a product line or other category, and/or the period of
continued employment of the optionee with the Company or its
Subsidiaries, and to determine whether such contingencies have been
met; to construe the respective Contracts and the Plan; with the
consent of the optionee, to cancel or modify an option or SAR,
provided such option or SAR as modified would be permitted to be
granted on such date under the terms of the Plan; and to make all
other determinations necessary or advisable for administering the
Plan. The determinations of the Committee on the matters referred
to in this Paragraph 3 shall be conclusive.
(c) Subject to the express provisions of the
Plan and solely with respect to employees of the Company who are
not executive officers or directors of the Company, the Committee
hereby delegates to the Chief Executive Officer, and to act in
place and on behalf of the Committee, the authority to grant
nonqualified options and SARs to such employees; to determine the
term of such nonqualified options and SARs; to determine whether an
option or SAR shall be exercisable in whole, in part or in
installments; to determine whether to require that the optionee
remain in the employ of the Company or its Subsidiaries for a
period of time from and after the date the option or SAR is granted
to him; and to subject the exercise of all or any portion of an
option or SAR to the fulfillment of contingencies as specified in
the Contract (as described in Paragraph 12). Any such action by the
Chief Executive Officer shall be promptly reduced to writing and
provided to the Committee.
(a) The Committee may, consistent
with the purposes of the Plan, grant incentive stock options to key
employees (including officers and directors who are employees) and
nonqualified stock options and/or SARs to key employees, officers,
directors and consultants of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
from time to time, within ten (10) years from the date of adoption
of the Plan by the Board of Directors, covering such number of
shares of Common Stock as the Committee may determine; provided,
however, that the aggregate market value (determined at the time
the stock option is granted) of the shares for which any eligible
person may be granted incentive stock options under the Plan or any
plan of the Company, or of a Parent or a Subsidiary of the Company
which are exercisable for the first time by such optionee during
any calendar year shall not exceed $100,000. Any option (or portion
thereof) granted in excess of such amount shall be treated as a
nonqualified stock option.
(b) Notwithstanding
any other provision of the Plan, if the Committee determines that
at the time a person is granted an option or SAR, such person is
then, or is likely to become, a Covered Person (as hereinafter
defined), then the Committee may provide that this Section 4(b) is
applicable to such grant.
(i) Notwithstanding
any provision of this Plan, no person eligible to receive a grant
of an option or SAR under this Plan shall be granted options to
purchase or an SAR in excess of 100,000 shares of common stock in
any one fiscal year. Such 100,000 maximum number shall be
appropriately adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends and the
like.
(ii) Notwithstanding
any provision of this Plan, the exercise price for all options and
the base price for all SARs to be granted under the Plan, shall not
be less than the fair market value of the Common Stock at the time
of grant.
(iii) The
term “Covered Person” shall mean a “covered
employee” within the meaning of Code
Section 162(m)(3) or any successor provision
thereto.
5. Exercise Price And Base Price.
(a) The exercise price of the shares of Common
Stock under each option and the base price for each SAR shall be
determined by the Committee; provided, however, in the case of an
incentive stock option, the exercise price shall not be less than
100% of the fair market value of the Common Stock on the date of
grant, and further provided, that if, at the time an incentive
stock option is granted, the optionee owns (or is deemed to own)
stock possessing more than ten percent (10%) of the total combined
voting power of all classes of stock of the Company, of any of its
Subsidiaries or of a Parent, the exercise price shall not be less
than 110% of the fair market value of the Common Stock subject to
the option at the time of the granting of such option.
(b) The fair market value of the Common stock on
any day shall be (a) if the principal market for the Common stock
is a national securities exchange, the average between the high and
low sales prices of the Common stock on such day as reported by
such exchange or on a consolidated tape reflecting transactions on
such exchange; (b) if the principal market for the Common Stock is
not a national securities exchange and the Common Stock is quoted
on The Nasdaq Stock Market ("NASDAQ"), and (i) if actual
sales price information is available with respect to the Common
Stock, then the average between the high and low sales prices of
the Common Stock on such day on NASDAQ, or (ii) if such information
is not available, then the average between the highest bid and
lowest asked prices for the Common Stock on such day on NASDAQ; or
(c) if the principal market for the Common Stock is not a national
securities exchange and the Common Stock is not quoted on NASDAQ,
then the average between the highest bid and lowest asked prices
for the Common Stock on such day as reported by The
Nasdaq Bulletin Board, or a comparable service; provided
that if clauses (a), (b) and (c) of this Paragraph are a
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