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SOUTHWEST BANCORP, INC AND AFFILIATES AMENDED AND RESTATED SEVERANCE COMPENSATION PLAN

Termination Severance Agreement

SOUTHWEST BANCORP, INC AND AFFILIATES

                AMENDED AND RESTATED
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Title: SOUTHWEST BANCORP, INC AND AFFILIATES AMENDED AND RESTATED SEVERANCE COMPENSATION PLAN
Governing Law: Oklahoma     Date: 3/16/2005
Industry: Regional Banks     Sector: Financial

SOUTHWEST BANCORP, INC AND AFFILIATES

                AMENDED AND RESTATED
SEVERANCE COMPENSATION PLAN, Parties: southwest bancorp inc
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                                                                    Exhibit 10.2

 

 

                     SOUTHWEST BANCORP, INC AND AFFILIATES

                AMENDED AND RESTATED SEVERANCE COMPENSATION PLAN

 

         The Stillwater National Bank and Trust Company Severance Compensation

Plan originally was made and entered into by Stillwater National Bank and Trust

Company, for the benefit of certain officers, key management and highly

compensated employees effective June 24, 1993, and was amended and restated

effective July 24, 1997. It is hereby further amended and restated as of August

26, 2004. The purpose of the Plan as amended and restated is to protect and

retain certain officers, key management and highly compensated employees of

Southwest Bancorp, Inc. ("Southwest") and its affiliates in the event of a

Change in Control and to reward those employees for loyal service to Southwest

by providing for severance compensation to them upon their termination of

employment after a Change in Control as provided herein.

 

                                   ARTICLE I

                                  DEFINITIONS

 

         The terms defined in this Article shall have the meanings given below:

 

         1.1       AFFILIATE means any corporation, partnership, business trust,

                  or other business entity of which Southwest has or acquires

                  direct or indirect voting power over 50 percent or more of the

                  outstanding common shares or equivalent voting interests, and

                   shall include, without limitation, SNB-Stillwater and

                  SNB-Wichita.

 

         1.2       ANNUAL EARNINGS means one-year's Earnings at the higher of the

                  rate in effect;

 

                  (a)       upon the Change in Control; or

 

                  (b)       immediately prior to the Participant's Qualified

                           Termination of Service.

 

         1.3       BOARD means:

 

                  (a)       the Board of Directors of Southwest; and

 

                   (b)       the Board of Directors of the Southwest Company that

                           employs, or intends to employ, the Participant at the

                           date the Participant is selected for participation in

                            the Plan, unless that Southwest Company does not

                           execute the Plan.

 

         1.4       CHANGE IN CONTROL means:

 

                  (a)       the date any entity or person, including a group as

                           defined in Section l3(d)(iii) of the Securities

                           Exchange Act of 1934 shall become the beneficial

                           owner of, or shall have obtained voting control over,

                           50 percent or more of the outstanding common shares

                           of either Southwest or SNB-Stillwater;

 

                  (b)       the date the shareholders of either Southwest or

                           SNB-Stillwater approve a definitive agreement (i) to

                            merge or consolidate either Southwest or

                           SNB-Stillwater with or into another corporation in

                           which either Southwest or SNB-Stillwater,

                           respectively, is not the continuing or surviving

                           corporation or pursuant to which any common shares of

                           either Southwest or SNB-Stillwater would be converted

                           into cash, securities, or other property of another

                           other than a merger of either Southwest or

                           SNB-Stillwater in which holders of common shares

                           immediately prior to the merger have the same

                            proportionate interest of common stock of the

                           surviving corporation immediately after the merger as

                           immediately before, or (ii) to sell or otherwise

                           dispose of substantially all of the assets of either

                           Southwest or SNB-Stillwater; or

 

 

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                  (c)       the date there shall have been change in a majority

                           of the Board of either Southwest or SNB-Stillwater

                           within a 12 month period unless the nomination of

                           each new director was approved by the vote of

                           two-thirds (2/3) of directors then still in office

                           who were in office at the beginning of the 12 month

                           period.

 

         1.5       CODE means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

 

         1.6       COMMITTEE means the Committee appointed by the respective

                  Board to administer this Plan. Any function exercisable by

                  such Committee may also be exercised by the Board.

 

         1.7       EARNINGS means only the annual rate of salary (base cash

                   compensation) payable to the Participant by Southwest and any

                  Affiliates of the Bank, and shall not include overtime, bonus,

                  commissions, or any non-cash amounts (including amounts

                  attributable to stock options). Earnings shall not be reduced

                  by amounts excluded from gross income under Sections 125,

                  402(a)(8) or 402(h) or limited as provided under Section

                  401(a)(17) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended

                  ("Code").

 

         1.8       EFFECTIVE DATE means June 24, 1993.

 

         1.9       GOOD REASON shall mean:

 

                  (a)       a reduction in Participant's Earnings in effect

                           immediately prior to a Change in Control or as

                           increased thereafter;

 

                  (b)       the assignment of Participant without Participant's

                           consent to (i) a location outside of the metropolitan

                            statistical area ("MSA") in which such Participant

                           was assigned at the date of the Change in Control, or

                           (ii) if Participant was not assigned in an MSA at

                            such date, a location more than 75 miles from the

                           location to which Participant was assigned at the

                           date of the Change in Control;

 

                  (c)       a material reduction in the authority or

                           responsibility that Participant had immediately prior

                           to the Change in Control; or

 

                  (d)       a material reduction in the level of incentive

                           compensation or benefits of a Participant from those

                           in effect immediately prior to a Change in Control

                           except such reductions as are applicable to all

                           employees or key executives generally and which do

                           not have a disproportionate effect on Participant.

 

         1.10      PARTICIPANT means an employee of a Southwest Company selected

                  for participation in the Plan by the Board or Committee.

 

         1.11      PLAN means this Amended and Restated Severance Compensation

                  Plan and amendments hereto.

 

         1.12      PRINCIPAL EMPLOYER means the Southwest Company that provided

                  the majority of earnings to a Participant during the twelve

                  months prior to a Qualifying Termination of Service,

                  Termination for Cause, or request for arbitration, as the case

                  may be, and any successor thereto that is a Southwest Company.

 

          1.13      QUALIFYING TERMINATION OF SERVICE means either:

 

                  (a)       a Participant's involuntary termination of employment

                           with the Bank and its subsidiaries or their

                           successors; or

 

                  (b)       a Participant's voluntary termination of employment

                           with the Bank and its subsidiaries for Good Reason,

 

 

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                  in either case within two (2) years following the first Change

                  in Control occurring after the Effective Date. Qualifying

                  Termination of Service does not include any change in the

                  Participant's employment status due to disability or death or

                  a Termination for Cause.

 

         1.14      SNB-STILLWATER means Stillwater National Bank and Trust

                  Company and any successor corporation.

 

         1.15      SNB-WICHITA means SNB Bank of Wichita and any successor

                  corporation.

 

         1.16      SOUTHWEST means Southwest Bancorp, Inc., and any successor

                  corporation.

 

         1.17      SOUTHWEST C


 
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