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Acceleration Upon Certain Terminations or Cancellations of Option
Acceleration Upon Certain Terminations or Cancellations of Option contract clause examples

Termination by the Company other than for Cause, Death or Disability; Termination by the Executive for Good Reason. If # the Executive’s employment is terminated # by the Company other than for Cause, death or Disability or # by the Executive for Good Reason, # the Term expires due to the Company’s provision of a non-renewal notice pursuant to Section 1.1, or # the Executive is not permitted by the Company to commence employment with the Company pursuant to the terms hereof, other than due to any action taken by Executive that would constitute Cause under this Agreement, in addition to the Accrued Amounts, the Executive shall be entitled to: # a payment equal to one (1) times the sum of the Executive’s Base Salary at the rate in effect immediately prior to the Termination Date (or, in the case of clause (3), on the Start Date) and the amount of any Annual Bonus actually earned in respect of the last completed fiscal year prior to the year in which the Termination Date occurs, or if terminated prior to any non-pro rated Annual Bonus being paid, an amount equal to the Target Annual Bonus Opportunity (the “Severance Amount”); # the Pro Rata Bonus (as defined below), # pro rata vesting of a number of then unvested Options and then unvested RSUs granted to Executive equal to the number of unvested RSUs and unvested Options that would have become vested in the ordinary course (calculated on a grant-by-grant basis) had the Executive remained employed with the Company for an additional twelve (12) months, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days the Executive was employed by the Company from the last vesting date for the applicable award (or, in the case of the first vesting tranche, since the vesting commencement date) and the denominator of which is 365; and # subject to the timely election of continuation coverage under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended (“COBRA”) and the Executive’s copayment of premiums associated with such coverage consistent with amounts paid by the Executive during the year in which the Termination Date occurs, the Company shall reimburse the Executive, on a monthly basis, an after-tax amount equal to the excess costs of continued health benefits for himself and his covered dependents for the twelve (12)-month period following the Termination Date (“Medical Benefit Continuation”).

Acceleration Upon Certain Terminations or Cancellations of Option. This Option shall become immediately fully exercisable in the event that, prior to the termination of the Option pursuant to Section 6 hereof, # the Option is terminated pursuant to Section 6(b)(i) hereof, or # the Company exercises its discretion to provide a cancellation notice with respect to the Option pursuant to Section 6(b)(ii) hereof.

SEPARATION BENEFIT UPON CERTAIN TERMINATIONS. If the Company terminates Employee’s employment without Cause (as defined below), or if Employee resigns Employee’s employment for Good Reason (as defined below), then conditioned upon Employee executing a Release (as defined below) following such termination, Employee will be entitled to receive an amount equal to payment of Employee’s then-current Base Salary for a period of twelve (12) months (the “Separation Benefit”). The Separation Benefit is conditioned upon Employee executing a release of claims in a form satisfactory to the Company (the “Release”) within the time specified therein, which Release is not revoked within any time period allowed for revocation under applicable law. The Separation Benefit will be payable to Employee over time in accordance with the Company’s payroll practices and procedures beginning on the sixtieth (60th) day following the termination of Employee’s employment with the Company, provided that the Company, in its sole discretion, may begin the payments earlier. For avoidance of doubt, the termination of Employee’s employment as a result of Employee’s death or disability (meaning the inability of Employee, due to the condition of Employee’s physical, mental or emotional health, effectively to perform the essential functions of Employee’s job with or without reasonable accommodation for a continuous period of more than 90 days or for 90 days in any period of 180 consecutive days, as determined by the Board in its sole discretion in consultation with a physician retained by the Company) will not constitute a termination without Cause triggering the rights described in this Section 4(b).

SEPARATION BENEFIT UPON CERTAIN TERMINATIONS. If the Company terminates Employee’s employment without Cause (as defined below), or if Employee resigns Employee’s employment for Good Reason (as defined below), then conditioned upon Employee executing a Release (as defined below) following such termination, Employee will be entitled to receive an amount equal to payment of Employee’s then-current Base Salary for a period of twelve (12) months (the “Separation Benefit”). The Separation Benefit is conditioned upon Employee executing a release of claims in a form satisfactory to the Company (the “Release”) within the time specified therein, which Release is not revoked within any time period allowed for revocation under applicable law. The Separation Benefit will be payable to Employee over time in accordance with the Company’s payroll practices and procedures beginning on the sixtieth (60th) day following the termination of Employee’s employment with the Company, provided that the Company, in its sole discretion, may begin the payments earlier. For avoidance of doubt, the termination of Employee’s employment as a result of Employee’s death or disability (meaning the inability of Employee, due to the condition of Employee’s physical, mental or emotional health, effectively to perform the essential functions of Employee’s job with or without reasonable accommodation for a continuous period of more than 90 days or for 90 days in any period of 180 consecutive days, as determined by the Board in its sole discretion in consultation with a physician retained by the Company) will not constitute a termination without Cause triggering the rights described in this Section 4(b).

Certain Terminations. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this Agreement, upon Participant’s Termination of Service by the Company without Cause (as defined below), a prorated portion of the then unvested RSUs subject to this Agreement will become fully vested and nonforfeitable with respect to all shares of Common Stock covered thereby (based on the ratio of the number of days of employment of Participant during the Vesting Period to the total number of days in the Vesting Period), and will be payable as set forth in Section 2.7.

SEPARATION BENEFITS UPON CERTAIN TERMINATIONS. If the Company terminates Employee’s employment without Cause (as defined below), or if Employee resigns Employee’s employment for Good Reason (as defined below), then conditioned upon Employee executing a Release (as defined below) following such termination, Employee will be entitled to receive an amount equal to payment of Employee’s then-current Base Salary for a period of twelve (12) months (the “Separation Benefits”). The Separation Benefits are conditioned upon Employee executing a release of claims in a form satisfactory to the Company (the “Release”) within the time specified therein, which Release is not revoked within any time period allowed for revocation under applicable law. The Separation Benefits will be payable to Employee over time in accordance with the Company’s payroll practices and procedures beginning on the sixtieth (60th) day following the termination of Employee’s employment with the Company, provided that the Company, in its sole discretion, may begin the payments earlier. For avoidance of doubt, the termination of Employee’s employment as a result of Employee’s death or disability (meaning the inability of Employee, due to the condition of Employee’s physical, mental or emotional health, effectively to perform the essential functions of Employee’s job with or without reasonable accommodation for a continuous period of more than 90 days or for 90 days in any period of 180 consecutive days, as determined by the Board in its sole discretion in consultation with a physician retained by the Company) will not constitute a termination without Cause triggering the rights described in this Section 4(b).

Acceleration Upon Certain Terminations or Cancellations of Option. This Option shall become immediately fully vested and fully exercisable in the event that, prior to the termination of the Option pursuant to Section 6 hereof, # the Option is terminated pursuant to Section 6(b)(i) hereof (without assumption or substitution of an equivalent option or right pursuant to [Section 8(c)] of the Plan), or # the Company exercises its discretion to provide a cancellation notice with respect to the Option pursuant to Section 6(b)(ii) hereof.

Acceleration Upon Certain Events. Notwithstanding anything herein, in the Plan or in the Option Agreement to the contrary, in the event # of a Change in Control (as defined in the Plan) or # the Company removes Executive from the position of Chief Financial Officer for other than Cause (as defined below), in each case, prior to the first anniversary of the Effective Date, then, subject to Executive’s delivery to the Company of a general release of claims against the Company and its affiliates in a form acceptable to the Company that becomes effective and irrevocable in accordance with Section 11(b) below, the vesting and exercisability of the Option shall thereupon accelerate as to twenty-five percent (25%) of the total number of shares of Company common stock underlying the Option that otherwise would have vested on the first anniversary of the Effective Date, and the remainder of the Option shall vest in accordance with the original vesting schedule of the Option (i.e., 1/48th per month commencing on the one year and one month anniversary of the Effective Date), subject to Executive’s continued service to the Company.

Acceleration Upon Certain Terminations or Cancellations of Option. This Option shall become immediately fully exercisable in the event that, prior to the termination of the Option pursuant to Section 6 hereof, # the Option is terminated pursuant to Section 6(b)(i) hereof, or # the Company exercises its discretion to provide a cancellation notice with respect to the Option pursuant to Section 6(b)(ii) hereof.

Cancellations. If an Award is cancelled in the same fiscal year of the Company in which it was granted (other than in connection with a transaction described in Section 15), the cancelled Award will be counted against the limits set forth in [subsections (i), (ii) and (iii)])])] above. For this purpose, if the exercise price of an Award is reduced, the transaction will be treated as a cancellation of the Award and the grant of a new Award.

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