Age/Service Requirements – An employee who is a member of the eligible class of employees shall be eligible for participation for all purposes under the plan after he has satisfied the following participation requirement(s):

All Other Terminations. In case of All Other Terminations, unless your termination of employment is a Qualifying Termination as described below, the Restricted Stock Units (and any related dividend equivalents) shall be immediately canceled as of the date of your termination of employment. [For Mr. Montag: Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision herein to the contrary, in accordance with the terms of your offer letter dated May 1, 2008, if your employment is terminated by [[Bank of America:Organization]] without “Cause” or you terminate your employment for “Good Reason” (as such terms are defined in your offer letter), then the Restricted Stock Units (and any related dividend equivalents) shall continue to become earned and payable in accordance with paragraph # above (without regard to whether you are employed by [[Bank of America:Organization]] and its Subsidiaries as of the Settlement Date), subject to your complying with the covenants set forth in paragraph # below and to the additional performance-based cancellation provision set forth in paragraph # below.]

All Other Awards. In the case of all other Awards for which the Committee permits the Participant to make deferral elections, the deferral election must be received by the Company no later than December 31 of the calendar year prior to the calendar year that includes the date of grant.

Purposes. Borrowers are not engaged principally, or as one of their important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) and no part of the proceeds of any borrowing hereunder will be used to purchase or carry any margin stock or to extend credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any margin stock. If requested by the Bank, Borrowers will furnish to the Bank a statement in conformity with the requirements of Federal Reserve Form U-1, referred to in Regulation U, to the foregoing effect. Neither Borrower nor any agent acting on behalf thereof has taken or will take any action which might cause this Agreement or the Note to violate any regulation of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (including Regulations G, T, U and X) or to violate any securities laws, state or federal, in each case as in effect now or as the same may hereafter be in effect.

Purposes. The purposes of the Plan are to provide the officers, employees, consultants, and directors of the Company selected for participation in the Plan with added incentives to continue in the long-term service of the Company and to create in such persons a more direct interest in the future success of the operations of the Company by relating incentive compensation to increases in shareholder value, so that the income of such persons is more closely aligned with the income of the Company’s shareholders. The Plan is also designed to enhance the ability of the Company to attract, retain and motivate officers, employees, consultants, and directors by providing an opportunity for investment in the Company.

Service for Eligibility and Vesting Purposes. Except as otherwise provided in any other provision of this Agreement, for purposes of eligibility and vesting under the ​ 401(k) Plan and ​ Welfare Plans, ​ shall, and shall cause each member of the ​ Group to, credit each ​ Employee and Former ​ Employee with service for any period of employment with any member of the ​ Group on or prior to the Distribution Date to the same extent that such service would be credited for the same purpose if it had been performed for a member of the ​ Group.

Eligibility. The Administrator may designate any of the following as a Participant from time to time, to the extent of the Administrator’s authority: any officer or other employee of the Company or its Affiliates; an individual that the Company or an Affiliate has engaged to become an officer or employee; a consultant who provides services to the Company or its Affiliates; or a Director, including a Non-Employee Director. The Administrator’s granting of an Award to a Participant will not require the Administrator to grant an Award to such individual at any future time. The Administrator’s granting of a particular type of Award to a Participant will not require the Administrator to grant any other type of Award to such individual.

Eligibility. The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Committee”) shall each year determine the Executive Officers of the Company eligible to participate in the Plan (the “Participants”). For purposes hereof, “Executive Officers” shall mean the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Operating Officer of the Company, each executive of the Company or an Affiliate who reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer or the Chief Operating Officer of the Company, and any other executive of the Company or an Affiliate as may be selected by the Committee or who is an “executive officer” of the Company within the meaning of Rule 3b-7 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. As used herein, “Affiliate” shall mean each corporation that is a member of the Company’s affiliated group, within the meaning of Section 1504 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) (without regard to Section 1504(b) of the Code) other than any subsidiary of the Company that is itself a publicly held corporation as such term is defined in Section 162(m) of the Code and the Treasury regulations issued thereunder and any subsidiaries of such publicly held corporation subsidiary.

Eligibility. Non-Qualified Stock Options and Stock Purchase Rights may be granted to Service Providers. Incentive Stock Options may be granted only to Employees of the Company (or a “parent corporation” or “subsidiary corporation” thereof within the meaning of Code Sections 424(e) or 424(f), respectively). If otherwise eligible, a Service Provider who has been granted an Option or Stock Purchase Right may be granted additional Options or Stock Purchase Rights.

ELIGIBILITY. Persons eligible to participate in this Plan include # all officers and key employees of the Company, as determined by the Committee, including Employees who are members of the Board and Employees who reside in countries other than the United States of America and # all Nonemployee Directors.