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Genentech, Inc. Executive Severance Plan and Summary Plan Description

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Title: Genentech, Inc. Executive Severance Plan and Summary Plan Description
Date: 8/21/2008
Industry: Biotechnology and Drugs     Sector: Healthcare

Genentech, Inc. Executive Severance Plan and Summary Plan Description, Parties: genentech inc
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Exhibit 10.2

Genentech, Inc.

Executive Severance Plan and

Summary Plan Description

Who is Eligible:

You are considered eligible for Severance Benefits (as defined below) and will be deemed an “eligible executive” under the Executive Severance Plan (the “Plan”) if you meet all of the following eligibility criteria:

 

You are a regular employee (full time or part time) of Genentech, Inc. or one of its affiliates (collectively, the “Company”), but Roche (as defined below) will not be considered an affiliate of Genentech, Inc. prior to the closing of the Corporate Transaction;

 

 

 

 

Your employment with the Company terminates as a result of a Covered Termination (as defined below);

 

 

 

 

Immediately prior to the closing of a Corporate Transaction (as defined below), you are one of the following: the Company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), the Company’s President, Product Development (the “President”), a member of the Company’s Executive Committee, the Company’s Executive Vice President, Research Drug Discovery (the “EVPRDD”), a Senior Vice President of the Company (“SVP”), the Company’s Controller and Chief Accounting Officer (the “Controller”), the Company’s Treasurer (the “Treasurer”), or a Vice President of the Company; and

 

 

 

 

You execute the Company’s form of Agreement and Release (the “Release”) and it becomes binding.

However, you will not be an eligible executive for the purposes of the Plan if you meet any of the criteria set forth in the section entitled “Who is not Eligible”.

Who is not Eligible:

Even if you otherwise meet the eligibility criteria identified above, you are ineligible for Severance Benefits and shall not be deemed an eligible executive under the Plan if you meet any of the following criteria:

 

You are classified by the Company as an independent contractor or any other status in which you are not treated as a common law employee of the Company for purposes of withholding taxes, regardless of your actual status;

 

 

 

 

You voluntarily terminate your employment with the Company for any reason prior to the closing of the Corporate Transaction or without Good Reason (as defined below) after the closing of the Corporate Transaction;

 

 

 

 

The Company terminates your employment for Cause (as defined below) or your employment with the Company terminates due to your death or disability;

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You are eligible for benefits under the Employee Severance Plan; or

 

 

 

 

You fail to comply with the terms of the signed Release.

Definitions:

For purposes of the Plan only, the following terms shall have the meanings described below:

Base Salary ” means the greater of your annual base salary, as determined under Company policy, as in effect on (a) the date of the closing of the Corporate Transaction or (b) the date of your Covered Termination.

Cause ” means:

 

Your willful and continued material failure to perform the reasonable duties and responsibilities of your position after the Company has provided you with a written demand for performance that describes the basis for the Company’s belief that you have not substantially performed your duties and you have not corrected the failure within thirty (30) days of the written demand;

 

 

 

 

Any act of personal dishonesty taken by you in connection with your responsibilities as an executive of the Company and intended to result in your substantial personal enrichment;

 

 

 

 

Your conviction of, or plea of nolo contendere to, a felony that the Board of Directors of the Company reasonably believes has had or will have a material detrimental effect on the Company’s reputation or business;

 

 

 

 

Your breach of any fiduciary duty owed to the Company by you that has a material detrimental effect on the Company’s reputation or business; or

 

 

 

 

You being found liable in any Securities and Exchange Commission or other civil or criminal securities law action or entering any cease and desist order with respect to such action (regardless of whether or not you admit or deny liability).

Corporate Transaction ” means a merger of the Company with Roche Holding Ltd. or an affiliate of Roche Holding Ltd. other than the Company (collectively “Roche”).

Covered Termination ” means, during the eighteen (18)-month period commencing on the date of the closing of the Corporate Transaction, either:

 

The Company terminates your employment without Cause; or

 

 

 

 

You voluntarily terminate your employment with the Company for Good Reason within three (3) months of the initial existence of the condition or event that constitutes Good Reason.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, your termination of employment must constitute a “separation from service” within the meaning of Section 409A (as defined below) in order to constitute a Covered Termination with respect to any Severance Benefit deemed

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deferred compensation subject to Section 409A. Generally, you will be considered to have experienced a separation from service if, following your termination of employment, you do not continue to provide services to the Company or any of its affiliates at more than twenty percent (20%) of the average level of service you provided to the Company over the preceding three (3) years (or, if shorter, the amount of time you have been employed by the Company).

Good Reason ” means the occurrence of one or more of the following without your written consent:

 

A fifteen percent (15%) or more reduction in your total annual cash compensation opportunity (base salary and target bonus opportunity collectively) as compared to your total annual cash compensation opportunity immediately prior to the closing of the Corporate Transaction;

 

 

 

 

A change in your principal work location resulting in a new one-way commute that is more than fifty (50) miles greater than your one-way commute prior to the change in your principal work location, regardless of whether you receive an offer of relocation benefits; or

 

 

 

 

A material reduction in your authority, duties and/or responsibilities as compared to your authority, duties and/or responsibilities in effect immediately prior to the completion of the Corporate Transaction (for example, but not by way of limitation, this determination will include an analysis of whether you maintain at least the same level, scope and type of duties and responsibilities with respect to the management, strategy, operations and business of the combined entity resulting from such transaction, taking the Company, Roche and their respective parent corporations, subsidiaries and other affiliates, together as a whole).

Section 409A ” means Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the final regulations and any guidance promulgated thereunder.

Severance Benefits ” means the Severance Benefit Pay, vesting acceleration, Company-paid Health Continuation Coverage, and transitional outplacement benefits as described below.

Form of Severance Benefit Pay:

If you are an eligible executive under the Plan, the Company will pay you, at the time specified below in the section entitled “Timing of Severance Benefit Pay,” a lump sum cash severance payment (“Severance Benefit Pay”) determined as follows:

 

CEO: The sum of:

 

(a)

 

three (3) times your Base Salary; plus

 

 

 

 

 

(b)

 

the average of your actual corporate regular bonus paid for the three (3) calendar years (or for the number of calendar years you have been employed if less than three (3) years) prior to the year in which your

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Covered Termination occurs expressed as a percentage of your average base salary for the same period multiplied by the value determined in (a).

 

Other Executive Committee Members (including the President): The sum of:

 

 

(a)

 

two (2) times your annual Base Salary; plus

 

 

 

 

 

(b)

 

the average of your actual corporate regular bonus paid for the three (3) calendar years (or for the number of calendar years you have been employed if less than three (3) years) prior to the year in which your Covered Termination occurs expressed as a percentage of your average base salary for the same period multiplied by the value determined in (a).

 

The EVPRDD and Senior Vice Presidents: The number of weeks of Severance Benefit Pay provided to you will be based on your length of service with the Company and your job level classification (as set by the Company) as of the date of the closing of the Corporate Transaction or the date of your Covered Termination, whichever results in the highest number of weeks of Severance Benefit Pay, as determined by the chart below. Specifically, the amount of your Severance Benefit Pay will be equal to (a) the number of weeks as determined under the chart below multiplied by (b) your Rate of Pay (as defined below). Your length of service is determined by the number of years of completed continuous service with the Company beginning with your most recent hire date through the first day of your Covered Termination. If you complete a partial year of service of at least six (6) months and one (1) day, the Company will round your length of service up to the next full year of service. If you complete a partial year of service of six (6) months or less, the Company will round your length of service down to the last full year of service.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weeks of Base Pay

 

Job Level

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EVPRDD

 

 

78

 

 

 

80

 

 

 

82

 

 

 

84

 

 

 

86

 

 

 

88

 

 

 

90

 

 

 

92

 

 

 

94

 

 

 

96

 

 

 

98

 

 

 

100

 

 

 

102

 

 

 

104

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SVP

 

 

78

 

 

 

80

 

 

 

82

 

 

 

84

 

 

 

86

 

 

 

88

 

 

 

90

 

 

 

92

 

 

 

94

 

 

 

96

 

 

 

98

 

 

 

100

 

 

 

102

 

 

 

104

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

3

 

 

 

4

 

 

 

5

 

 

 

6

 

 

 

7

 

 

 

8

 

 

 

9

 

 

 

10

 

 

 

11

 

 

 

12

 

 

 

13

 

 

 

14+

 

Years of Service

 

The Controller, the Treasurer, and Vice Presidents: Fifty-two (52) weeks multiplied by your Rate of Pay.

For purposes of this section, your Rate of Pay for one (1) week, which is used to determine Severance Benefit Pay for the EVPRDD, Senior Vice Presidents, the Controller, the Treasurer and Vice Presidents, is equal to the sum of the following:

 

(a)

 

the value of one (1) week of your Base Salary, plus

 

 

 

 

 

(b)

 

the average of your actual corporate bonus (including your regular and key contributor bonuses, as applicable) or commissions (including any incremental sales bonus) paid for the three (3) calendar years (or for the number of calendar years you have been employed if less than three (3)

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years) prior to the year in which your Covered Termination occurs expressed as a percentage of your average base salary for the same period multiplied by the value determined in (a).

If you have not yet received a corporate regular bonus because you were hired after September 30, 2007 and thus were ineligible to receive the 2007 regular corporate bonus, your Rate of Pay will be calculated as if you had received a bonus for 2007 equal to the average corporate regular bonus in 2007 for your job level classification (subject to proration for a partial year of service). If you received a prorated bonus in the prior three years (or were deemed to receive a prorated bonus under the preceding sentence) because you were hired mid-year, your Rate of Pay will be calculated using your actual paid base salary for the year in which you received the prorated bonus so that your Rate of Pay is not unfairly reduced because you received a prorated bonus.

Lump Sum Payment Reductions:

 

Your Severance Benefit Pay will be reduced by legally required and authorized deductions, including, but not limited to, applicable income, employment and other tax withholding obligations, and will not be eligible for 401(k) plan elective or matching contributions or allocations under the supplemental plan.

 

 

 

 

Payments for which you are eligible under the Plan will be reduced by any amounts you owe to the Company for any reason, except for home loans or relocation loans.

Vesting Acceleration:

If you are an eligible executive under the Plan, you will be entitled to accelerated vesting as to one hundred percent (100%) of the then unvested portion of all of your outstanding options to purchase Company common stock granted or assumed under the Company’s equity plans or assumed plans (“Company Options”) as of the date of your Covered Termination, including, without limitation, outstanding Company Options, outstanding awards to acquire Roche equity securities following an assumption or substitution of the Company Options by Roche, or any other rights substituted by Roche for Company Options, in connection with the Corporate Transaction.

Company-paid Health Continuation Coverage:

If you are an eligible executive under the Plan, you may be eligible for continued health insurance coverage under COBRA after your Covered Termination. For COBRA purposes, the date of the “qualifying event” for you and any eligible spouse or dependents that were covered under the Company’s health care plans immediately prior to the date of your Covered Termination will be the last day of the month in which your Covered Termination occurs (your “Loss of Coverage Date”).

You ordinarily must pay the full cost of COBRA coverage. However, if you make a valid election under COBRA to continue your health coverage, the Company will (for a limited time) pay the cost of such coverage for you and any eligible spouse or dependents that were covered under the Company’s health care plans immediately prior to the date of your Covered Termination as follows (“Company-paid Health Continuation Coverage”):

 

CEO: You will receive Company-paid Health Continuation Coverage for a period of three (3) years from your Loss of Coverage Date.

 

 

 

 

Other Executive Committee Members (including the President): You will receive Company-paid Health Continuation Coverage for a period of two (2) years from your Loss of Coverage Date.

 

 

 

 

The EVPRDD and Senior Vice Presidents: You will receive Company-paid Health Continuation Coverage for the same number of weeks as your Severance Benefit Pay from your Loss of Coverage Date. For example, if you qualify for the equivalent of

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seventy-eight (78) weeks of Severance Benefit Pay, you will also receive Company-paid Health Continuation Coverage for seventy-eight (78) weeks.

 

 

 

 

The Controller, the Treasurer, and Vice Presidents: You will receive Company-paid Health Continuation Coverage for fifty-two (52) weeks from your Loss of Coverage Date.

The maximum coverage period to which you are entitled under COBRA will run concurrently with your period of Company-paid Health Continuation Coverage. If the period of your Company-paid Health Continuation Coverage is less than the maximum coverage period to which you are entitled under COBRA, you may continue your health coverage after the period of your Company-paid Health Continuation Coverage for the remainder of the COBRA period at your own cost. For example, if the maximum coverage period to which you are entitled under COBRA is eighteen (18) months and you are entitled to fifty-two (52) weeks of Company-paid Health Continuation Coverage, you may continue your health coverage after the fifty-two (52) weeks of Company-paid Health Continuation Coverage for the remaining approximately six (6) months of your COBRA period at your own cost.

For the sake of clarity, any period of Company-paid Health Continuation Coverage to which you are entitled that is in excess of your maximum COBRA coverage period will be considered COBRA coverage for purposes of the Plan, and you will be entitled to Company-paid Health Continuation Coverage for the entire period set forth above, subject to the following sentence. Company-paid Health Continuation Coverage will stop for you if you become eligible to obtain comparable health care benefits from another employer.

Transitional Outplacement Benefits:

If you are an eligible executive under the Plan, you will be provided transitional outplacement benefits for as long as you are actively seeking employment during the period of time beginning on the date of your Covered Termination and ending one hundred and eighty (180) calendar days thereafter, through a firm designated by the Company; provided that the total cost of your transitional outplacement benefits may not exceed the following dollar amounts:

 

CEO and other Executive Committee Members (including the President): $8,000.

 

 

 

 

The EVPRDD, Senior Vice Presidents, the Controller, the Treasurer, and Vice Presidents: $6,000.

2008 Bonuses:

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If the closing of a Corporate Transaction occurs while you remain an employee of the Company, you will be paid your earned and accrued bonus, if any, under the 2008 Bonus Plan at the time the 2008 bonus otherwise would have been paid, regardless of whether you remain employed with the Company through such date unless, following the closing of a Corporate Transaction, your employment is voluntarily or involuntarily terminated under circumstances that would not otherwise constitute a Covered Termination. If the closing of a Corporate Transaction occurs prior to the end of the Company’s 2008 fiscal year, the applicable corporate performance goals that would have been measured as of the end of such year will be deemed achieved (the “Annual Corporate Performance Goals”). The amount of the 2008 Bonus Plan pool will be determined based on (i) the deemed achievement of the Annual Corporate Performance Goals and (ii) the actual year-to-date achievement of any applicable performance goals other than the Annual Corporate Performance Goals. If the 2008 Bonus Plan pool equals or exceeds the predetermined 2008 Bonus Plan maximum payout, your 2008 bonus will equal the percentage of base salary used for the 2007 Bonus Plan recommended payout for your 2008 job level classification. If the 2008 Bonus Plan pool is less than the predetermined 2008 Bonus Plan maximum payout, your 2008 bonus will equal the percentage of base salary used for the 2007 Bonus Plan recommended payout for your 2008 job level classification reduced proportionately as appropriate. Once the percentage of base salary is determined in accordance with the foregoing, such percentage will be applied to the greater of your annual base salary as in effect on December 31, 2008 or the date of the Corporate Transaction. For example: In 2008, an employee’s job level classification is D1. In 2007, the percentage of base salary used for the 2007 Bonus Plan recommended payout for a D1 was 36%. If the employee’s salary is $150,000 on the date of the Corporate Transaction (and his/her salary is not increased for the remainder of 2008), the employee will receive a 2008 bonus payout of $54,000 if the 2008 Bonus Plan pool equals or exceeds the predetermined 2008 Bonus Plan maximum payout.

Exclusive Benefit:

The severance provisions of the Plan, together with any benefits payable to you under the Genentech, Inc. Executive Retention Plan (the “Retention Plan”) upon a Covered Termination, are intended to be and are exclusive and in lieu of any other rights or remedies to which you may otherwise be entitled, either at law, tort, or contract, in equity, or under the Plan, in the event of any termination of your employment. You will be entitled to no benefits, compensation or other payments or rights upon a termination of employment that constitutes a Covered Termination other than those benefits expressly set forth herein and in the Retention Plan and those benefits required to be provided by law, subject to the following sentence. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if you are entitled to any benefits other than the benefits under the Plan by operation of applicable law, your benefits under the Plan shall be reduced by the value of the benefits you receive by operation of applicable law, as determined by the Company in its discretion.

Agreement and Release:

To qualify for the Severance Benefits described above, you must execute and not revoke during any applicable revocation period the Release, in the form attached to the Plan as Exhibit A with any additional revisions as required by law. The Release is an agreement, signed by you and the Company, in which you agree to give up any and all claims, actions or lawsuits against the Company that relate to your employment with the Company. You will be given a copy of this Release no later than the date of your Covered Termination. The Release will include specific information regarding the amount of time you will have to consider the terms of the Release and return the signed agreement to the Company. In no event will the period to return the Release be longer than sixty (60) days following your Covered Termination, inclusive of any revocation period set forth in the Release.

Timing of Severance Benefit Pay:

If your Covered Termination occurs on or before October 15 of a calendar year, you will receive your Severance Benefit Pay on or before December 31 of that calendar year, except as otherwise provided in the section below entitled “Delay in Payment Timing in Certain Limited Circumstances”. If your Covered Termination occurs after October 15, you will receive your Severance Benefit Pay on the later of (a) the second payroll date in the calendar year next following the calendar year of your Covered Termination or (b)

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the first payroll date following the date your Release becomes effective, except as otherwise provided in the section below entitled “Delay in Payment Timing in Certain Limited Circumstances”.

Delay in Payment Timing in Certain Limited Circumstances:

In certain circumstances, the Company may need to delay the payment of your Severance Benefits under the Plan. If the Company determines that you are a “specified employee” within the meaning of Section 409A at the time of your Covered Termination, then to the extent delayed commencement of any portion of the benefits to which you are entitled pursuant to the Plan, when considered together with any other payments or benefits that are considered deferred compensation under Section 409A (together, the “Deferred Compensation Separation Benefits”), is required to avoid a prohibited distribution under Section 409A(a)(2)(B)(i) of the Code, such benefits will be delayed until the first payroll date that occurs on or after the date that is six (6) months and one (1) day after the date of your Covered Termination. All subsequent Deferred Compensation Separation Benefits will be payable in accordance with the payment schedule applicable to each payment or benefit. You generally will be a specified employee only if (among other things) you own at least one percent (1%) of the Company’s stock or are considered an officer of the Company. The Company will inform you if it determines that you are a specified employee at the time of your Covered Termination. If you die following your Covered Termination but prior to the six (6) month anniversary of your Covered Termination, th


 
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