Cash-Based Awards. The maximum aggregate amount awarded or credited with respect to Cash-Based Awards to any one Participant in any one Plan Year may not exceed the value of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) determined as of the date of vesting or payout, as applicable, plus the amount of the Participant’s unused applicable Annual Award Limit for Cash-Based Awards as of the close of the previous Plan Year.
Cash-Based Awards. The Committee is hereby authorized to grant Cash-Based Awards to Grantees denominated in cash in such amounts and subject to such terms and conditions as the Committee may determine. Each such Cash-Based Award shall specify a payment amount, payment range or a value determined with respect to the Fair Market Value of the Shares, as determined by the Committee. The Committee may designate Cash-Based Awards as “performance-based compensation” under Code Section 162(m) by conditioning the Award or the lapse of restrictions on the achievement of performance goals in accordance with Section 11(a) and by administering the Award to otherwise comply with the requirements of Section 11 and Code Section 162(m). The Committee is authorized at any time during or after a Performance Period to exercise negative discretion to reduce or eliminate a Cash-Based Award of any Grantee for any reason in its discretion, including, without limitation, changes in the position or duties of any Grantee with the Company or any Subsidiary during or after a Performance Period, whether due to any termination of employment (including death, disability, retirement, voluntary termination or termination with or without cause) or otherwise.
Grant of Cash-Based Awards. Subject to the terms and provisions of the Plan, the Compensation Committee, at any time and from time to time, may grant Cash-Based Awards to Participants in such amounts and upon such terms as the Compensation Committee may determine.
The Committee may grant Other Stock-Based Awards not otherwise described by the terms of this Plan to a Participant in such amounts and subject to such terms and conditions, as the Committee shall determine, in its sole discretion. Such Awards may involve the transfer of actual Shares to Participants, or payment in cash or otherwise of amounts based on the value of Shares.
Each Other Stock-Based Award shall be expressed in terms of Shares or units based on Shares, as determined by the Committee, in its sole discretion.
Payment of Other Stock-Based Awards and Cash-Based Awards. Payment, if any, with respect to Cash-Based Awards and Other Stock-Based Awards shall be made in accordance with the terms of the applicable Award Agreement, in cash, Shares or a combination of both as determined by the Committee in its sole discretion.
Equity-Based Awards. Executive acknowledges that all compensatory awards denominated in common stock of Holdings held by him as of the date hereof are set forth on Exhibit B. In satisfaction of the provisions of the Term Sheet for Employment Arrangements with ted as of January 15, 2015 (the "Term Sheet"), as of the Effective Date, restricted stock units in respect of 44,467 shares of Holdings common stock (which represents the unvested portion of the "Buyout RSUs" (as defined in the Term Sheet)) shall vest and be distributed to Executive within five business days of the Termination Date; provided, the Company agrees that any necessary tax withholding required as part of the distribution of shares in settlement of the restricted stock units shall be covered by the Company withholding shares that would otherwise be distributed to Executive, as permitted by the terms of the restricted stock unit award agreement, and that Executive shall not be required to make any additional payment to cover any such required withholding tax. Any equity-based awards held by Executive that are not vested as of the Termination Date and that do not vest pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence shall be forfeited as of the Termination Date. Any options to purchase shares of Holdings common stock that are vested as of the date of this Agreement shall remain exercisable until the earlier of # the 90th day following the Termination Date (or, if later, the 90th day following expiration of any blackout period in effect with respect to such options) and # any cancelation or termination in connection with a change in control, as provided in the applicable award agreement.
Performance-Based Awards. Any Award may be granted as a performance-based Award if the Committee establishes one or more measures of corporate, business unit or individual performance that must be attained, and the performance period over which the specified performance is to be attained, as a condition to the vesting, exercisability, lapse of restrictions and/or settlement in cash or Shares of such Award. In connection with any such Award, the Committee shall determine the extent to which performance measures have been attained and other applicable terms and conditions have been satisfied, and the degree to which vesting, exercisability, lapse of restrictions and/or settlement in cash or Shares of such Award has been earned. Any performance-based Award that is intended by the Committee to qualify as Performance-Based Compensation shall additionally be subject to the requirements of Section 16 of this Plan. Except as provided in Section 16 with respect to Performance-Based Compensation, the Committee shall also have the authority to provide, in an Agreement or otherwise, for the modification of a performance period and/or an adjustment or waiver of the achievement of performance measures upon the occurrence of certain events, which may include a Change of Control, a Fundamental Change, a recapitalization, a change in the accounting practices of the Company, or the Participants death or Disability.
Other Stock-Based Awards. The maximum aggregate grant with respect to other Stock-Based Awards pursuant to Section 10.2 granted in any one Plan Year to any one Participant shall be five hundred thousand (500,000), plus the amount of the Participant’s unused applicable Annual Award Limit for Other Stock-Based Awards as of the close of the previous Plan Year.
The maximum number of Shares available for issuance as Incentive Stock Options is 7,450,000 Shares.
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