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Award Limits. Notwithstanding any provision in the Plan to the contrary,

Annual Award Limits. Awards under the Plan shall be subject to the following Annual Award Limits, subject to any adjustment under Section 4.5. The maximum number of Shares with respect to which Options or other Awards may be granted to any Non-employee Director in any calendar year shall not exceed 10,000. The maximum number of Shares with respect to which Options or SARs may be granted to any Employee who is a Participant in any calendar year shall be 2,000,000 Shares. For any Awards other than Options or SARs and that are denominated in Shares, the maximum aggregate number of Shares that may be delivered pursuant to such Awards granted in any calendar year shall be 400,000 Shares for any Employee who is a Participant. For any Awards that are denominated in cash, the maximum aggregate amount of cash that may be paid with respect to all such Awards granted in any calendar year shall be $20,000,000 for any Employee who is a Participant.

Annual Award Limits. The following limits (each an “Annual Award Limit” and, collectively, “Annual Award Limits”) shall apply to grants of Awards under the Plan:

Compensation Limits. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Program, all compensation payable under this Program will be subject to any limits on the maximum amount of Non-Employee Director compensation set forth in the Equity Plan, as in effect from time to time.

Grant Limits. The following limits shall apply to the award of any Grant if:

Share Limits. Subject to [Section 11] of the Plan and subsection # below, the following limitations apply to the grant of Awards: # no more than 21,170,212 shares of Common Stock may be reserved for issuance and delivered in the aggregate pursuant to Awards granted under the Plan (the “Share Pool”); # no more than 4,830,086 shares of Common Stock may be delivered pursuant to the exercise of Incentive Stock Options granted under the Plan; and # the maximum amount (based on the Fair Market Value of shares of Common Stock on the date of grant as determined in accordance with applicable financial accounting rules) of Awards that may be granted in any single fiscal year to any non-employee member of the Board, taken together with any cash fees paid to such non-employee member of the Board in respect of service as a member of the Board during such fiscal year, shall be $750,000; provided, that the foregoing limitation shall not apply in respect of any Awards issued to # a non-employee director in connection with the Company’s initial public offering of shares of Common Stock, or in respect of any one-time equity grant upon his or her appointment to the Board or # a non-executive chairman of the Board, provided, that the non-employee director receiving such additional compensation does not participate in the decision to award such compensation.

Ownership Limits. So long as any Warrants or Exercise Units are outstanding and are directly or indirectly beneficially owned by the initial Holder or any of its Affiliates, the General Partner shall not decrease the Ownership Limits unless it concurrently grants an Excepted Holder Limit that permits the initial Holder and such Affiliates (together with certain affiliated persons) to Beneficially Own and Constructively Own at least 9.8% (in both value and in number of shares) of the outstanding shares of Common Stock of the General Partner. As a condition to granting such Excepted Holder Limit, the initial Holder (and/or one or more of its Affiliates, as appropriate) will provide the General Partner with customary representations reasonably acceptable to the General Partner and the initial Holder.

Severance Limits. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, no payment shall be made or benefit provided pursuant to [Section 4F or 4G]G] following the date the Employee first violates the Invention Assignment Agreement.

The maximum number of Shares that may be issued or transferred pursuant to all Options and Awards under this Plan is 1,200,000, of which not more than 200,000 Shares may be issued or transferred pursuant to Options, Restricted Stock Awards, Restricted Stock Unit Awards and/or Stock Appreciation Rights to any one Eligible Employee during any one calendar year. Not more than 10,000 Shares may be issued or transferred pursuant to Options and/or Awards to any Director during any one calendar year. The maximum number of Shares that may be issued or transferred pursuant to Incentive Stock Options shall be 200,000. Upon a Change in Capitalization after the adoption of this Plan by the Board, the Shares shall be adjusted to the number and kind of Shares of stock or other securities existing after such Change in Capitalization. The maximum aggregate amount of any Cash-Based Awards that may be paid to any one Grantee in any one calendar year shall be $2 million dollars.

Subject to the limitations herein and in the Plan, a Participant’s Purchase Right will permit the purchase of the number of ADSs purchasable with up to 15% of such Participant’s Earnings paid during the Offering, beginning as of the date such Participant first commences participation in that Offering. In the case of a payroll date that falls after the Purchase Date of an Offering but prior to the Offering Date of the next new Offering in which the Employee is a Participant, Earnings from such payroll will be included in the new Offering (provided the Eligible Employee continues to participate in the new Offering).

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