ARROW ELECTRONICS, INC.
GRANTOR TRUST AGREEMENT
This Grantor Trust Agreement (the "Trust Agreement") is made this 25th day of
June, 1998 by and between ARROW ELECTRONICS, INC. ("the Company") and WACHOVIA
BANK, N.A. ("the Trustee").
Recitals
(a) WHEREAS, the Company has adopted the nonqualified deferred compensation
Plans and Agreements (the "Arrangements") as listed in Attachment I;
(b) WHEREAS, the Company has incurred or expects to incur liability under the
terms of such Arrangements with respect to the individuals participating in such
Arrangements (the "Participants and Beneficiaries");
(c) WHEREAS, the Company hereby establishes a Trust (the "Trust") and shall
contribute to the Trust assets that shall be held therein, subject to the claims
of the Company's creditors in the event of the Company's Insolvency, as herein
defined, until paid to Participants and their Beneficiaries in such manner and
at such times as specified in the Arrangements and in this Trust Agreement;
(d) WHEREAS, it is the intention of the parties that this Trust shall constitute
an unfunded arrangement and shall not affect the status of the Arrangements as
an unfunded plan maintained for the purpose of providing deferred compensation
for a select group of management or highly compensated employees for purposes of
Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974; and
(e) WHEREAS, it is the intention of the Company to make contributions to the
Trust to provide itself with a source of funds (the "Fund") to assist it in
satisfying its liabilities under the Arrangements.
NOW, THEREFORE, the parties do hereby establish the Trust and agree that the
Trust shall be comprised, held and disposed of as follows:
Section 1. Establishment of The Trust
(a) The Trust is intended to be a grantor trust, of which the Company is the
grantor, within the meaning of subpart E, part I, subchapter J, chapter 1,
subtitle A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and shall be
construed accordingly.
(b) The Company shall be considered a grantor for the purposes of the Trust.
(c) The Trust hereby established is revocable by the Company; it shall become
irrevocable upon a Change of Control, as defined herein.
(d) The Company hereby deposits with the Trustee in the Trust one-thousand
dollars and zero cents ($1,000.00), which shall become the initial principal of
the Trust to be held, administered and disposed of by the Trustee as provided in
this Trust Agreement.
(e) The principal of the Trust and any earnings thereon shall be held separate
and apart from other funds of the Company and shall be used exclusively for the
uses and purposes of Participants and general creditors as herein set forth.
Participants and their Beneficiaries shall have no preferred claim on, or any
beneficial ownership interest in, any assets of the Trust. Any rights created
under the Arrangements and this Trust Agreement shall be unsecured contractual
rights of Participants and their Beneficiaries against the Company. Any assets
held by the Trust will be subject to the claims of the general creditors of the
Company under federal and state law in the event the Company is Insolvent, as
defined in Section 3(a) herein.
(f) The Company, in its sole discretion, may at any time, or from time to time,
make additional deposits of cash or other property acceptable to the Trustee in
the Trust to augment the principal to be held, administered and disposed of by
the Trustee as provided in this Trust Agreement. Prior to a Change of Control,
neither the Trustee nor any Participant or Beneficiary shall have any right to
compel additional deposits.
(g) Upon a Potential Change of Control, as defined herein, the Company shall, as
soon as possible, but in no event longer than thirty (30) days following the
occurrence of a Potential Change of Control nor later than the date of an actual
Change of Control, make a contribution to the Trust in an amount that is
sufficient to fund the Trust in an amount equal to no less than 100% but no more
than 120% of the actuarial present value of the benefits to which Participants
or their Beneficiaries would be entitled pursuant to the terms of the
Arrangements as of the date on which the Potential Change of Control occurred,
determined based on the actuarial assumptions set forth in Attachment II.
(h) In the event a Change of Control does not occur within one year of a
Potential Change of Control, the Company shall have the right to recover any
amounts contributed to and remaining on hand in the Trust pursuant to Section
1(g).
(i) Upon a Change of Control, the Company shall, as soon as possible, but in no
event longer than thirty (30) days following the occurrence of a Change of
Control, as defined herein, make an irrevocable contribution to the Trust in an
amount that is sufficient to fund the Trust in an amount equal to no less than
100% but no more than 120% of the actuarial present value of the benefits to
which Participants or their Beneficiaries would be entitled pursuant to the
terms of the Arrangements as of the date on which the Change of Control
occurred. The Company shall also fund an expense reserve for the Trustee in an
amount equal to $125,000.00, multiplied by the sum of 100% plus the aggregate
percentage increase, if any, in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban
Consumers, [NY, NY - Northeastern, NJ] (or any comparable successor index),
published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of
Labor for the period. from January 1, 1998 through the December 31 immediately
preceding the Change of Control.
(j) In the event that, subsequent to a Change of Control, a Participant shall
suffer a "Change in Control Termination" as defined in the Arrangements
applicable to such Participant (after taking into account his or her employment
agreement with the Company), the Company shall, as soon as possible, but in no
event longer than thirty (30) days following the occurrence of such Change in
Control Termination, make an irrevocable contribution to the Trust in an amount
that is sufficient to fund the Trust in an amount equal to no less than 100% but
no more than 120% of the actuarial present value of the excess, if any, of the
value of the benefits to which such Participant is entitled by reason of such
Change in Control Termination over the value of the benefits of such Participant
previously taken into account pursuant to Section 1(i).
(k) For purposes of determining the amount required to be contributed to the
Trust under Section 1(g), (i) or (j), the benefit to which a Participant is
entitled on any date (the "Determination Date") shall be determined by reference
to: (a) if such benefit is then in pay status under the Arrangements, the
benefit then in pay status; (b) if such benefit is not then in pay status under
the Arrangements, but would be immediately payable in the event of the
Participant's termination of employment with the Company on the Determination
Date, the benefit that would be immediately payable on such termination; and (c)
if the Participant would not be entitled to immediate payment under the
Arrangements in the event of his or her termination of employment with the
Company on the Determination Date, the benefit to which the Participant would
become entitled on termination of employment at the earliest date on which
benefits could become payable to him or her under the Arrangements ("Earliest
Retirement Date") multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number
of completed months of his or her participation in the Arrangements as of the
Determination Date, and the denominator of which is the total completed months
of such participation the Participant would have if he or she retired at his or
her Earliest Retirement Date. In each case, the benefit so taken into account
shall include any amounts currently or potentially payable to the affected
Participant's spouse or other Beneficiary pursuant to the Arrangements.
Section 2. Payments to Participants and Their Beneficiaries
(a) Prior to a Change of Control, distributions from the Trust shall be made by
the Trustee to Participants and Beneficiaries at the direction of the Company.
The entitlement of a Participant or his or her Beneficiaries to benefits under
the Arrangements shall be determined by the Company or such party or
professional administrator as it shall designate under the Arrangements as the
Company's agent, and any claim for such benefits shall be considered and
reviewed under the procedures set out in the Arrangements.
(b) The Company may make payment of benefits directly to Participants or their
Beneficiaries as they become due under the terms of the Arrangements. The
Company shall notify the Trustee of its decision to make payment of benefits
directly prior to the time amounts are payable to Participants or their
Beneficiaries. In addition, if the principal of the Trust, and any earnings
thereon, are not sufficient to make payments of benefits in accordance with the
terms of the Arrangements, the Company shall make the balance of each such
payment as it falls due in accordance with the Arrangements. The Trustee shall
notify the Company where principal and earnings are not sufficient. Nothing in
this Agreement shall relieve the Company of its liabilities to pay benefits due
under the Arrangements except to the extent such liabilities are met by
application of assets of the Trust.
(c) After a Potential Change of Control and before a Change of Control, the
Company shall deliver to the Trustee a schedule of benefits due under the
Arrangements. Subsequent to a Change of Control, the Trustee shall pay benefits
due in accordance with such schedule. After a Change of Control, the Company
shall continue to make the determination of benefits due to Participants or
their Beneficiaries and shall provide the Trustee with an updated schedule of
benefits due as of the commencement of each calendar year, and as of each date
on which benefits first become payable to a Participant or Beneficiary under the
Arrangements; provided however, a Participant or their Beneficiaries may make
application to the Trustee for an independent decision by the Trustee as to the
amount or form of their benefits due under the Arrangements. In making any
determination required or permitted to be made by the Trustee under this
Section, the Trustee shall, in each such case, reach its own independent
determination, in its absolute and sole discretion, as to the Participant's or
Beneficiary's entitlement to a payment hereunder. In making its determination,
the Trustee may consult with and make such inquiries of such persons, including
the Participant or Beneficiary, the Company, legal counsel, actuaries or other
persons, as the Trustee may reasonably deem necessary. In making such
determination, the Trustee shall be governed solely by the terms of the
applicable Arrangements and such facts as may be pertinent to the application of
such terms and conditions as shall be found to exist by the Trustee, on the
basis that such terms have been validly adopted by the Company (and, without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, that all things necessary to render
the arrangements valid and binding obligations of the Company in accordance with
their terms have been properly done in full compliance with the Company's
certificate of incorporation, by laws, and applicable law). Any reasonable
costs incurred by the Trustee in arriving at its determination shall be
reimbursed by the Company. To the extent not paid by the Company within a
reasonable time, such costs shall be advanced to the Trustee by the Trust, and
the Company shall promptly reimburse the Trustee for such advance with interest
from the date of advance to the date of reimbursement at such rate as the
Trustee reasonably determines reflects money market rates for the period
involved. The Company waives any right to contest any amount paid over by the
Trustee hereunder pursuant to a good faith determination made by the Trustee
notwithstanding any claim by or on behalf of the Company (absent a manifest
abuse of discretion by the Trustee) that such payments should not be made.
(d) The Trustee agrees that it will not itself institute any action at law or at
equity, whether in the nature of an accounting, interpleading action, request
for a declaratory judgment or otherwise, or any arbitration proceeding or other
alternative dispute resolution procedure, requesting a court, an administrative
or quasi-judicial body, or arbitrator or person acting in a similar capacity to
make the determination required to be made by the Trustee under this Section 2
in the place and stead of the Trustee. The Trustee may institute an action
against the Company to collect a contribution due the Trust following a Change
of Control, or in the event that the Trust should ever experience a short-fall
in the amount of assets necessary to make payments pursuant to the terms of the
Arrangements, or for payment or reimbursement of fees, expenses and any amounts
payable by the Company pursuant to Section 10(b).
(e) The Trustee shall make provision for the reporting and withholding of any
federal, state or local taxes that may be required to be withheld with respect
to the payment of benefits pursuant to the terms of the Arrangements and shall
pay amounts withheld to the appropriate taxing authorities or determine that
such amounts have been reported, withheld and paid by the Company.
(f) In the event any Participant or his or her Beneficiary is determined to be
subject to federal income tax on any amount to the credit of his or her account
or due to him or her under any Arrangement prior to the time of payment
hereunder, whether or not attributable to the establishment of or contributions
to this Trust, a portion of such taxable amount equal to the federal, state and
local taxes (excluding any interest or penalties) owed on such taxable amount as
increased by payments under this Section 2(f), shall be distributed by the
Trustee as soon thereafter as practicable to such Participant or Beneficiary.
The Company shall promptly reimburse the Trust for any such distribution in an
amount certified by the Trustee to be needed for the Participant's benefits.
For these purposes, a Participant or Beneficiary shall be deemed to pay state
and local taxes at the highest marginal rate of taxation in the state in which
the Participant resides or is employed (or both) where a tax is imposed and
federal income taxes at the highest marginal rate of taxation, net of the
maximum reduction in federal income taxes which could be obtained from deduction
of such state and local taxes. Such distributions shall be at the direction
of the Company or the Trustee, or upon proper application of the Participant or
Beneficiary; provided that the actual amount of the distribution shall be
determined by the Company prior to a Change of Control and the Trustee following
a Change of Control. An amount to the credit of a Participant's account or
otherwise due to the Participant shall be determined to be subject to federal
income tax upon the earliest of: (a) a final determination by the United States
Internal Revenue Service addressed to the Participant or his Beneficiary which
is not appealed to the courts; (b) a final determination by the United States
Tax Court or any other federal court affirming any such determination by the
Internal Revenue Service, which is no longer subject to appeal; or (c) an
opinion by the Company's tax counsel, addressed to the Company and the
Trustee, to the effect that by reason of Treasury Regulations, amendments to the
Internal Revenue Code, published Internal Revenue Service rulings, court
decisions or other substantial precedent, such amount is subject to federal
income tax prior to payment. The Company shall undertake at its sole expense to
defend any tax claims described herein which are asserted by the Internal
Revenue Service against any Participant or Beneficiary, including attorney fees
and cost of appeal, and shall have the sole authority to determine whether or
not to appeal any determination made by the Service or by a lower court. The
Company also agrees to reimburse any Participant or Beneficiary for any interest
or penalties in respect of tax claims hereunder upon receipt of documentation of
same. Any distributions from the Fund to a Participant or Beneficiary under
this Section 2(e) shall be applied in a manner consistent with the provisions of
the Arrangement to reduce the Company liabilities to such Participant and/or
Beneficiary under the Arrangement with such reductions to be made on a pro-rata
basis over the term of benefit payments under the Arrangement; provided,
however, that in no event shall any Participant, Beneficiary or estate of any
Participant or Beneficiary have any obligation to return all or any part of
such distribution to the Company if such distribution exceeds benefits payable
under an Arrangement. Any reduction in accordance with the foregoing sentence
and the Arrangements shall be determined by the Company prior to a Change of
Control . Following a Change of Control, the Company shall continue to make such
determination subject to the right of a Participant to petition the Trustee
under Section 2(c).
(g) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Trust Agreement, no benefits
shall be payable from the Trust following a Change of Control, other than
benefits accrued or otherwise taken into account in determining the contribution
required upon a Change of Control pursuant to Section 1(i) and benefits that
become due as a result of a Change in Control Termination for which additional
funding is required by Section 1(j).
Section 3. Trustee Responsibility Regarding Payments To The Trust Beneficiary
When The Company Is Insolvent
(a) The Trustee shall cease payment of benefits to Participants and their
Beneficiaries if the Company is Insolvent. The Company shall be considered
"Insolvent" for purposes of this Trust Agreement if (i) the Company is unable to
pay its debts as they become due, or (ii) the Company is subject to a pending
proceeding as a debtor under the United States Bankruptcy Code.
(b) At all times during the continuance of this Trust, the principal and income
of the Trust shall be subject to claims of general creditors of the Company
under federal and state law as set forth below.
(1) The Board of Directors and the Chief Executive Officer of the Company shall
have the duty to inform the Trustee in writing that the Company is Insolvent.
If a person claiming to be a creditor of the Company alleges in writing to the
Trustee that the Company has become Insolvent, the Trustee shall determine
whether the Company is Insolvent and, pending such determination, the Trustee
shall discontinue payment of benefits to
Participants or their Beneficiaries.
(2) Unless the Trustee has actual knowledge that the Company is Insolvent, or
has received notice from the Company or a person claiming to be a creditor
alleging that the Company is Insolvent, the Trustee shall have no duty to
inquire whether the Company is Insolvent. The Trustee may in all events rely on
such evidence concerning the Company's solvency as may be furnished to the
Trustee and that provides the Trustee with a reasonable basis for making a
determination concerning the Company's solvency.
(3) If at any time the Trustee has determined that the Company is Insolvent, the
Trustee shall discontinue payments to Participants or their Beneficiaries and
shall hold the assets of the Trust for the benefit of the Company's general
creditors. Nothing in this Trust Agreement shall in any way diminish any rights
of Participants or their Beneficiaries to pursue their rights as general
creditors of the Company with respect to benefits due under the Arrangements or
otherwise.
(4) The Trustee shall resume the payment of benefits to Participants or their
Beneficiaries in accordance with Section 2 of this Trust Agreement only after
the Trustee has determined that the Company is not Insolvent (or is no longer
Insolvent).
(c) Provided that there are sufficient assets, if the Trustee discontinues the
payment of benefits from the Trust pursuant to Section 3(b) hereof and
subsequently resumes such payments, the first payment following such
discontinuance shall include the aggregate amount of all payments due to
Participants or their Beneficiaries under the terms of the Arrangements for the
period of such discontinuance, less the aggregate amount of any payments made to
Participants or their Beneficiaries by the Company in lieu of the payments
provided for hereunder during any such period of discontinuance.
Section 4. Payments When a Short-Fall of The Trust Assets Occurs
(a) If there are not sufficient assets for the payment of benefits pursuant to
Section 2 or Section 3(c) hereof and the Company does not otherwise make such
payments within a reasonable time after demand from the Trustee, the Trustee
shall make partial pro rata payment of the benefits then due from the Trust to
the Participants or their Beneficiaries.
(b) Upon receipt of a contribution from the Company necessary to make up for a
short-fall in the payments due, the Trustee shall resume payments to all the
Participants and Beneficiaries under the Arrangements. Following a Change of
Control, the Trustee shall have the right to compel a contribution to the Trust
from the Company to make-up for any short-fall.
Section 5. Payments to the Company
Except as provided in Section 3 hereof, after the Trust has become irrevocable,
the Company shall have no right or power to direct the Trustee to return to the
Company or to divert to others any of the Trust assets before all payments of
benefits have been made to Participants and their Beneficiaries pursuant to the
terms of the Arrangements.
Section 6. Investment Authority
(a) The Trustee shall not be liable in discharging its duties hereunder,
including without limitation its duty to invest and reinvest the Fund, if it
acts for the exclusive benefit of the Participants and their Beneficiaries, in
good faith and as a prudent person familiar with such matters would act in
accomplishing a similar task and in accordance with the terms of this Trust
Agreement (including without limitation Section 10 hereof) and any applicable
federal or state laws, rules or regulations.
(b) The Trustee shall invest and reinvest the Trust Fund in its discretion
solely in high quality fixed income instruments, which may include, in the
discretion of the Trustee, annuity contracts. Subject to this basic investment
policy and subject to any additional investment guidelines agreed to in writing
from time to time by the Company and the Trustee, prior to a Change of Control
the Trustee shall have the power in investing and reinvesting the Fund in its
sole discretion:
(1) To invest and reinvest in bonds, notes, debentures, and similar fixed income
obligations (but not including any security of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries other than a de minimis amount held in a collective or mutual
fund), certificates of deposit or demand or time deposits (including any such
deposits with the Trustee) and shares of investment companies, mutual funds,
insurance company general or separate accounts, and other pooled investment
vehicles whose underlying investments are consistent with the investment
objective above-described, without being limited to the classes or property in
which the Trustees are authorized to invest by any law or any rule of court of
any state and without regard to the proportion any such property may bear to the
entire amount of the Fund;
(2) To commingle for investment purposes all or any portion of the Fund with
assets of any other similar trust or trusts established by the Company with the
Trustee for the purpose of safeguarding deferred compensation or retirement
income benefits of its employees and/or directors;
(3) To retain any property at any time received by the Trustee;
(4) To sell or exchange any property held by it at public or private sale, for
cash or on credit, to grant and exercise options for the purchase or exchange
thereof, to exercise all conversion or subscription rights pertaining to any
such property and to enter into any covenant or agreement to purchase any
property in the future;
(5) To participate in any plan of reorganization, consolidation, merger,
combination, liquidation or other similar plan relating to property held by it
and to consent to or oppose any such plan or any action thereunder or any
contract, lease, mortgage, purchase, sale or other action by any person;
(6) To deposit any property held by it with any protective, reorganization or
similar committee, to delegate discretionary power thereto, and to pay part of
the expenses and compensation thereof any assessments levied with respect to any
such property to deposited;
(7) To extend the time of payment of any obligation held by it;
(8) To hold uninvested any moneys received by it, without liability for interest
thereon, but only in anticipation of payments due for investments,
reinvestments, expenses or disbursements;
(9) To exercise all voting or other rights with respect to any property held by
it and to grant proxies, discretionary or otherwise;
(10) For the purposes of the Trust, to borrow money from others, to issue its
promissory note or notes therefor, and to secure the repayment thereof by
pledging any property held by it;
(11) To employ suitable contractors and counsel, who may be counsel to the
Company prior to a Change of Control but not thereafter, or to the Trustee, and
to pay their reasonable expenses and compensation from the Fund to the extent
not paid by the Company;
(12) To register investments in its own name or in the name of a nominee; to
hold any investment in bearer form; and to combine certificates representing
securities with certificates of the same issue held by it in other fiduciary
capacities or to deposit or to arrange for the deposit of such securities with
any depository, even though, when so deposited, such securities may be held in
the name of the nominee of such depository with other securities deposited
therewith by other persons, or to deposit or to arrange for the deposit of any
securities issued or guaranteed by the United States government, or any agency
or instrumentality thereof, including securities evidenced by book entries
rather than by certificates, with the United States Department of the Treasury
or a Federal Reserve Bank, even though, when so deposited, such securities may
not be held separate from securities deposited therein by other persons;
provided, however, that no securities held in the Fund shall be deposited with
the United States Department of the Treasury or a Federal Reserve Bank or other
depository in the same account as any individual property of the Trustee, and
provided, further, that the books and records of the Trustee shall at all times
show that all such securities are part of the Trust Fund;
(13) Subject to Section 2(d), to settle, compromise or submit to arbitration any
claims, debts or damages due or owing to or from the Trust (other than amounts
owed to Participants or Beneficiaries, provided that a dispute regarding any
such amounts may be submitted to arbitration with the written consent of the
Participant or Beneficiary involved), respectively, to commence or defend suits
or legal proceedings to protect any interest of the Trust, and to represent the
Trust in all suits or legal proceedings in any court or before any other body or
tribunal; provided, however, that the Trustee shall not be required to take any
such action unless it shall have been indemnified by the Company to its
reasonable satisfaction against liability or expenses it might incur therefrom;
(14) To acquire, hold and retain annuity contracts;
(15) To hold any other class of assets which may be contributed by the Company
and that is deemed reasonable by the Trustee, unless expressly prohibited
herein;
(16) To loan any securities at any time held by it to brokers or dealers upon
such security as may be deemed advisable, and during the terms of any such loan
to permit the loaned securities to be transferred into the name of and voted by
the borrower or others; and
(17) Generally, to do all acts, whether or not expressly authorized, that the
Trustee may deem necessary or desirable for the protection of the Fund.
In the event that any investment shall cease to meet the "high quality" standard
set forth above, the Trustee shall be entitled nevertheless to retain such
investment if such retention is deemed prudent and more consistent with the
purposes of this Trust Agreement than a disposition of such investment.
(c) Prior to a Change of Control, the Company shall have the right, subject to
this Section (including the restrictions on permissible investments set forth in
Section 6(b)) to direct the Trustee with respect to investments, including
investments in annuity contracts.
(1) The Company may at any time direct the Trustee to segregate all or a
portion of the Fund in a separate investment account or accounts and may appoint
one or more investment managers and/or an investment committee established by
the Company to direct the investment and reinvestment of each such investment
account or accounts. In such event, the Company shall notify the Trustee of the
appointment of each such investment manager and/or investment committee. No
such investment manager shall be related, directly or indirectly, to the
Company, but members of the investment committee may be employees of the
Company.
(2) Thereafter, the Trustee shall make every sale or investment with
respect to such investment account as directed in writing by the investment
manager or investment committee. It shall be the duty of the Trustee to act
strictly in accordance with each direction. The Trustee shall be under no duty
to question any such direction of the investment manager or investment
committee, to review any securities or other property held in such investment
account or accounts acquired by it pursuant to such directions or to make any
recommendations to the investment managers or investment committee with respect
to such securities or other property.
(3) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Trustee, without obtaining prior approval
or direction from an investment manager or investment committee, shall invest
cash balances held by it from time to time in short term cash equivalents
including, but not limited to, through the medium of any short term common,
collective or commingled trust fund established and maintained by the Trustee
subject to the instrument establishing such trust fund, U.S. Treasury Bills,
commercial paper (including such forms of commercial paper as may be available
through the Trustee's Trust Department), certificates of deposit (including
certificates issued by the Trustee in its separate corporate capacity), and
similar type securities, with a maturity not to exceed one year; and,
furthermore, sell such short term investments as may be necessary to carry out
the instructions of an investment manager or investment committee regarding more
permanent type investment and directed distributions.
(4) The Trustee shall neither be liable nor responsible for any loss resulting
to the Fund by reason of any sale or purchase of an investment directed by an
investment manager or investment committee nor by reason of the failure to take
any action with respect to any investment which was acquired pursuant to any
such direction in the absence of further directions of such investment manager
or investment committee.
(5) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the Trustee
shall be indemnified and saved harmless by the Company from and against any and
all personal liability to which the Trustee may be subjected by carrying out any
directions of an investment manager or investment committee issued pursuant
hereto or for failure to act in the absence of directions of the investment
manager or investment committee including all expenses reasonably incurred in
its defense in the event the Company fails to provide such defense; provided,
however, the Trustee shall not be so indemnified if it participates knowingly
in, or knowingly undertakes to conceal, an act or omission of an investment
manager or investment committee, having actual knowledge that such act or
omission is a breach of a fiduciary duty; provided further, however, that the
Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowingly participated in or knowingly
undertaken to conceal an act or omission of an investment manager or investment
committee with knowledge that such act or omission was a breach of fiduciary
duty by merely complying with directions of an investment manager or investment
committee or for failure to act in the absence of directions of an investment
manager or investment committee. The Trustee may rely upon any order,
certificate, notice, direction or other documentary confirmation purporting to
have been issued by the investment manager or investment committee which the
Trustee reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been issued by the
investment manager or investment committee. The Trustee shall not be charged
with knowledge of the termination of the appointment of any investment manager
or investment committee until it receives written notice thereof from the
Company.
(d) Following a Change of Control, the Trustee shall have the sole and
absolute discretion in the management of the Trust assets and shall have all the
powers set forth under Section 6(b). In investing the Trust assets, the Trustee
shall consider:
(1) the needs of the Arrangements;
(2) the need for matching of the Trust assets with the liabilities of
the Arrangements; and
(3) the duty of the Trustee to act solely in the best interests of the
Participants and their Beneficiaries.
(e) The Trustee shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to delegate
its investment responsibility to an investment manager who may be an affiliate
of the Trustee. In the event the Trustee shall exercise this right, the Trustee
shall remain, at all times responsible for the acts of an investment manager.
The Trustee shall have the right to purchase an insurance policy or an annuity
to fund the benefits of the Arrangements.
(f) In no event may the Trustee invest in securities (including stock or
rights to acquire stock) or obligations issued by the Company, other than a de
minimis amount held in common investment vehicles in which Trustee invests. All
rights associated with assets of the Trust shall be exercised by Trustee or the
person designated by Trustee, and shall in no event be exercisable by or rest
with Plan participants.
Section 7. Annuity Contracts
(a) To the extent that the Trustee is directed by the Company prior to a
Change of Control to invest part or all of the Trust Fund in annuity contracts,
the terms thereof shall be specified by the Company. The Trustee shall be under
no duty to make inquiry as to the propriety of the terms so specified.
(b) Each annuity contract issued shall provide that the Trustee shall be
the owner thereof with the power to exercise all rights, privileges, options and
elections granted by or permitted under such contract or under the rules of the
issuer. The exercise by the Trustee of any incidents of ownership under any
contract shall, prior to a Change of Control, be subject to the direction of the
Company. After a Change of Control, the Trustee shall have all such
rights.
(c) The Trustee shall have no power to name a beneficiary of the contract
other than the Trust, to assign the contract (as distinct from conversion of the
contract to a different form) other than to a successor Trustee, or to loan to
any person the proceeds of any borrowing against a contract held in the Trust
Fund.
(d) No issuer of such a contract shall be deemed to be a party to the Trust
and such issuer's obligations shall be measured and determined solely by the
terms of contracts and other agreements executed by the issuer.
(e) The Trustee shall in no event invest in insurance policies or endowment
contracts, or any other contract providing death benefits other than benefits
payable under the terms of the Arrangements.
Section 8. Disposition of Income
(a) Prior to a Change of Control, all income received by the Trust, net of
expenses and taxes, may be returned to the Company or accumulated and reinvested
within the Trust at the direction of the Company.
(b) Following a Change of Control, all income received by the Trust, net of
expenses and taxes, shall be accumulated and reinvested within the Trust.
Section 9. Accounting by The Trustee
The Trustee shall keep accurate and detailed records of all investments,
receipts, disbursements, and all other transactions required to be made,
including such specific records as shall be agreed upon in writing between the
Company and the Trustee. Within forty-five (45) days following the close of
each calendar year and within forty-five (45) days after the removal or
resignation of the Trustee, the Trustee shall deliver to the Company a written
account of its administration of the Trust during such year or during the period
from the close of the last preceding year to the date of such removal or
resignation setting forth all investments, receipts, disbursements and other
transactions effected by it, including a description of all securities and
investments purchased and sold with the cost or net proceeds of such purchases
or sales (accrued interest paid or receivable being shown separately), and
showing all cash, securities and other property held in the Trust at the end of
such year or as of the date of such removal or resignation, as the case may be.
The Company may approve such account by an instrument in writing delivered to
the Trustee. The foregoing, however, shall not preclude the Trustee from having
its accounting settled by a court of competent jurisdiction. The Trustee shall
be entitled to hold and to commingle the assets of the Trust in one Fund for
investment purposes but at the direction of the Company prior to a Change of
Control, the Trustee shall create one or more sub-accounts.
Section 10. Responsibility of The Trustee
(a) The Trustee shall act with the care, skill, prudence and diligence
under the circumstances then prevailing that a prudent person acting in like
capacity and familiar with such matters would use in the conduct of an
enterprise of a like character and with like aims, provided, however, that prior
to a Change in Control the Trustee shall incur no liability to any person for
any action taken pursuant to a direction, request or approval given by the
Company which is contemplated by, and in conformity with, the terms of the
Arrangements or this Trust and is given in writing by the Company. In the event
of a dispute between the Company and a party, the Trustee may apply to a court
of competent jurisdiction to resolve the dispute, subject, however to Section
2(d) hereof.
(b) The Company hereby indemnifies the Trustee against losses, liabilities,
claims, costs and expenses in connection with the administration of the Trust,
unless resulting from the negligence or misconduct of Trustee, including a
failure to act in accord with the standard set forth in Section 10(a). To the
extent the Company fails to make any payment on account of an indemnity provided
in this Section 10(b), in a reasonably timely manner, the Trustee may obtain
payment from the Trust. If the Trustee undertakes or defends any litigation
arising in connection with this Trust or to protect a Participant's or
Beneficiary's rights under the Arrangements, the Company agrees to indemnify the
Trustee against the Trustee's costs, reasonable expenses and liabilities
(including, without limitation, attorneys' fees and expenses) relating thereto
and to be primarily liable for such payments. If the Company does not pay such
costs, expenses and liabilities in a reasonably timely manner, the Trustee may
obtain payment from the Trust.
(c) Prior to a Change of Control, the Trustee may consult with legal
counsel (who may also be counsel for the Company generally) with respect to any
of its duties or obligations hereunder. Following a Change of Control the
Trustee shall select independent legal counsel and may consult with counsel or
other persons with respect to its duties and with respect to the rights of
Participants or their Beneficiaries under the Arrangements.
(d) The Trustee may hire agents, accountants, actuaries, investment
advisors, financial consultants or other professionals to assist it in
performing any of its duties or obligations hereunder and may rely on any
determinations made by such agents and, except in cases where a Participant or
Beneficiary has applied for an independent determination by the Trustee after a
Change of Control pursuant to Section 2(c), information provided to it by the
Company.
(e) The Trustee shall have, without exclusion, all powers conferred on the
Trustee by applicable law, unless expressly provided otherwise herein.
(f) Notwithstanding any powers granted to the Trustee pursuant to this
Trust Agreement or to applicable law, the Trustee shall not have or assume any
power that could give this Trust the objective of carrying on a business and
dividing the gains therefrom, within the meaning of section 301.7701-2 of the
Procedure and Administrative Regulations promulgated pursuant to the Internal
Revenue Code.
Section 11. Compensation and Expenses of The Trustee
(a) The Trustee's compensation shall be as agreed in writing from time to
time by the Company and the Trustee. The Company shall pay all administrative
expenses and the Trustee's fees and shall promptly reimburse the Trustee for any
fees and expenses of its agents. If not so paid, the fees and expenses shall be
paid from the Trust. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the
administrative expenses payable by the Company shall include the expense of
making any determination in a dispute between a Participant or Beneficiary and
the Company (including expenses of attorneys and consultants retained by the
Trustee for such purposes); and, if the Company shall challenge a Trustee
decision in favor of a Participant or Beneficiary, prompt reimbursement to the
Trustee of the reasonable retainer of any law firm, consultant or expert used by
the Trustee to defend such action and prompt reimbursement of the monthly bills
of such law firm, consultant or expert.
(b) In the event that the Trustee shall obtain payment from the Trust of
amounts payable by the Company under this Agreement because the Company has not
paid such amounts within the time required by this Agreement, the Company shall
promptly reimburse the Trust for such payment with interest from the date of
payment to the date of reimbursement at such rate as the Trustee reasonably
determines reflects money market rates for the period involved.
Section 12. Resignation and Removal of The Trustee
(a) The Trustee may resign at any time by written notice to the Company,
which shall be effective one hundred and eighty (180) days after receipt of such
notice unless the Company and the Trustee agree otherwise, but in no event prior
to the appointment of a successor Trustee. If the Company fails to make such
appointment within a reasonable period of time following receipt of such notice,
the Trustee shall apply to a court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment
of a successor Trustee or for instructions. All expenses of the Trustee in
connection with the proceeding shall be allowed as administrative expenses of
the Trust.
(b) The Trustee may be removed by the Company on sixty days (60) days
notice or upon shorter notice accepted by the Trustee prior to a Change of
Control, but in no event prior to the appointment by the Company of a successor
Trustee. Subsequent to a Change of Control, the Trustee may only be removed by
the Company with the consent of (i) a majority of Participants (or their
Beneficiaries) receiving or currently entitled to receive benefits under the
Arrangements and (ii) a majority of all Participants (or their Beneficiaries),
including both those employed by the Company and those described in clause (i).
(c) Upon resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a
successor Trustee, all assets shall subsequently be transferred to the successor
Trustee. The transfer shall be completed within one hundred and eighty (180)
days after receipt of notice of resignation pursuant to Section 12(a), or sixty
(60) days after receipt of notice of removal pursuant to Section 12(b),
whichever is applicable, unless the Company extends the time limit, or the
successor Trustee has not yet been approved.
(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, during the period following a Potential
Change of Control which continues to exist, or after a Change in Control, the
Trustee may resign only under one of the following circumstances:
(i) The Trustee is no longer in the business, or is actively in the
process
of removing itself from the business, of acting as trustee for employee benefit
plans.
(ii) The Trustee determines that a conflict of interest exists which
would prohibit it from fulfilling its duties under this Agreement in an
ethically proper manner. The Trustee shall use its best efforts to avoid the
creation of such a conflict.
(iii) The assets of the Trust have been exhausted or are insufficient to
pay accrued and reasonably anticipated fees and expenses of the Trustee, the
Company has refused voluntarily to pay the Trustee's accrued fees and expenses
as required pursuant to Section 11, and the Trustee has been unsuccessful in
obtaining a court order requiring the Company to make such payments or has been
unable to collect on a judgment for such fees and expenses.
(iv) Both (A) a majority of Participants (or their Beneficiaries)
receiving or currently entitled to receive benefits under the Arrangements and
(B) a majority of all Participants (or their Beneficiaries), including both
those employed by the Company and those described in clause (A), consent in
writing to such resignation.
Section 13. Appointment of Successor
(a) If the Trustee resigns or is removed in accordance with Section 12
hereof, the Company shall, subject to Section 12, appoint any third party
national banking association with a market capitalization exceeding $100,000,000
to replace the Trustee upon resignation or removal. The successor Trustee shall
have all of the rights and powers of the former Trustee, including ownership
rights in the Trust. The former Trustee shall execute any instrument necessary
or reasonably requested by the Company or the successor Trustee to evidence the
transfer.
(b) The successor Trustee need not examine the records and acts of any
prior Trustee and may retain or dispose of existing Trust assets, subject to
Section 8 and 9 hereof. The successor Trustee shall not be responsible for and
the Company shall indemnify and defend the successor Trustee from any claim or
liability resulting from any action or inaction of any prior Trustee or from any
other past event, or any condition existing at the time it becomes successor
Trustee.
Section 14. Amendment or Termination
(a) This Trust Agreement may be amended by a written instrument executed by
the Trustee and the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no such amendment
shall conflict with the terms of the Arrangements or shall make the Trust
revocable after it has become irrevocable in accordance with Section 1 hereof.
(b) The Trust shall not terminate until the date on which Participants and
their Beneficiaries have received all of the benefits due to them under the
terms and conditions of the Arrangements.
(c) Upon written approval of all Participants or Beneficiaries entitled to
payment of benefits pursuant to the terms of the Arrangements, the Company may
terminate this Trust prior to the time all benefit payments under the
Arrangements have been made.
(d) All assets in the Trust at termination shall be returned to the
Company.
(e) This Trust Agreement may not be amended or terminated by the Company
for thirty months following a Change of Control without the written consent of a
(i) majority of Participants (or their Beneficiaries) receiving or currently
entitled to receive benefits under the Arrangements and (ii) a majority of all
Participants (or their Beneficiaries), including both those employed by the
Company and those described in clause (i).
Section 15. Change of Control
(a) For purposes of this Trust, the following terms shall be defined as set
forth below:
(1) Potential Change of Control shall mean:
(i) the issuance of a proxy statement by the Company with respect to
an election of directors for which there is proposed one or more directors who
are not recommended by the Board of Directors of the Company or its nominating
committee, where the election of such proposed director or directors would
result in a Change of Control as defined in Section 15(a)(2)(ii); or
(ii) the announcement by any person of an intention to take actions
which might reasonably result in a Change of Control as defined in Section
15(a)(2);
(2) Change of Control shall mean:
(i) A change in control of a nature that would be required to be
reported (assuming such event has not been "previously reported") in response to
Item 1(a) of the Current Report on Form 8-K, as in effect on the date hereof,
pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of ▇▇▇▇ (▇▇▇
"▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇"); provided that, without limitation, such a change in control
shall be deemed to have occurred at such time as any individual, corporation,
partnership, group, association or other "person", as such term is used in
Section 14(d) of the Exchange Act, other than the Company, a wholly owned
subsidiary of the Company or any employee benefit plan(s) sponsored by the
Company ("Person") is or becomes the "beneficial owner" (as defined in Rule 13d-
3 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of 30% or more of the
combined voting power of the Company's outstanding securities ordinarily having
the right to vote at elections of directors ("Voting Securities"); or
(ii) individuals who, as of the date hereof, constitute the Board of
Directors of the Company (the "Incumbent Board") cease for any reason to
constitute at least a majority thereof, provided that any person becoming a
director subsequent to the date hereof whose election, or nomination for
election by the Company's shareholders, was approved by a vote of at least three
quarters of the directors comprising the Incumbent Board (either by a specific
vote or by approval of the proxy statement of the Company in which such person
is named as a nominee for director, without objection to such nomination) shall
be, for purposes of this clause (ii), considered as though such person were a
member of the Incumbent Board.
For purposes of this Section 15(a), the Incumbent Board, by a majority vote,
shall have the power to determine on the basis of information known to them (a)
the number of shares beneficially owned by any person, entity or group; (b)
whether there exists an agreement, arrangement or understanding with another as
to matters referred to in this Section 15(a); and (c) such other matters with
respect to which a determination is necessary under this Section 15(a).
(b) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this Section 15(b),
notwithstanding anything in the foregoing to the contrary, no Change of Control
shall be deemed to have occurred for purposes of this Trust Agreement by virtue
of any transaction which results in one or more executive officers of the
Company (as defined in Rule 3b-7 under the Exchange Act), or a group of Persons
which includes one or more executive officers of the Company, acquiring,
directly or indirectly, 30% or more of the combined voting power of the
Company's Voting Securities.
(2) In the event that an executive officer of the Company (a
"Nonparticipating Officer") is a Participant but not a member of the group of
Persons making an acquisition described in paragraph (1) of this Section 15(b)
(an "Executive Officer Acquisition"), such Executive Officer Acquisition shall
be treated as a Change of Control solely with respect to such Nonparticipating
Officer (or Nonparticipating Officers, if more than one executive officer is not
a member of such group of Persons). In the event that an Executive Officer
Acquisition is treated as a Change of Control pursuant to the preceding sentence
for one or more Nonparticipating Officers, a separate subtrust shall be created
under this Trust Agreement solely for the benefit of such Nonparticipating
Officers and their Beneficiaries. The benefits of such Nonparticipating
Officers and their Beneficiaries pursuant to the terms of the Arrangements shall
be separately funded in such subtrust in accordance with the provisions of
Section 1 of this Trust Agreement as applied separately to such Nonparticipating
Officers and their Beneficiaries, and the principal of such subtrust, and any
earnings thereon, shall be held and administered by the Trustee exclusively for
the uses and purposes of such Nonparticipating Officers and their Beneficiaries
(and general creditors of the Company) as set forth herein, as if such
Nonparticipating Officers and their Beneficiaries were the sole Participants and
Beneficiaries of the Trust.
(c) The General Counsel of the Company shall have the specific authority to
determine whether a Potential Change of Control or Change of Control has
transpired under the guidance of Section 15(a) and shall be required to give the
Trustee notice of a Change of Control or a Potential Change of Control. The
Trustee shall be entitled to rely upon such notice, but if the Trustee receives
notice of a Change of Control from another source, the Trustee shall make its
own independent determination.
Section 16. Miscellaneous
(a) Any provision of this Trust Agreement prohibited by law shall be ineffective
to the extent of any such prohibition, without invalidating the remaining
provisions hereof.
(b) The Company hereby represents and warrants that all of the Arrangements have
been established, maintained and administered in accordance with all applicable
laws, including without limitation, ERISA. The Company hereby indemnifies and
agrees to hold the Trustee harmless from all liabilities, including attorney's
fees, relating to or arising out of the establishment, maintenance and
administration of the Arrangements. To the extent the Company does not pay any
of such liabilities in a reasonably timely manner, the Trustee may obtain
payment from the Trust.
(c) Benefits payable to Participants and their Beneficiaries under this Trust
Agreement may not be anticipated, assigned (either at law or in equity),
alienated, pledged, encumbered or subjected to attachment, garnishment, levy,
execution or other legal or equitable process.
(d) This Trust Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with
the laws of North Carolina.
(e) This Agreement shall bind and inure to the benefit of the successors and
assigns of the Company and the Trustee, respectively. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, the term "successor" when used in this Section
16(e) with reference to the Company shall include the surviving corporation in
any merger or consolidation to which the Company (or any successor thereof) is a
party, any corporation, person or entity (or any group of corporations, group of
persons or entities acting in concert) which receives a distribution of assets
of the Company in redemption of a substantial portion of the stock of the
Company, or in connection with the liquidation or dissolution of the Company,
any direct or indirect stockholder of the Company to the extent of the amount or
value of extraordinary dividends (but not dividends paid in the ordinary course
of business) or other distributions received by it directly or indirectly from
the Company, any recipient of assets of the Company that are transferred without
adequate consideration, and except as otherwise provided by law, any transferee
of assets of the Company in connection with any transaction in which such
transferee knows or has reason to know that any consideration paid by the
transferee in connection with such transfer will be distributed by such Company
to its stockholders.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Grantor Trust Agreement has been executed on behalf of
the parties hereto on the day and year first above written.
ARROW ELECTRONICS, INC. WACHOVIA BANK, N.A.
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ By: /s/▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇
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Its: Executive Vice President Its: Senior Vice President
ATTEST: ATTEST:
By: /s/▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ By: /s/▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
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Its: Vice President Its: Assistant Secretary
ATTACHMENT I
Arrow Electronics, Inc. Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan, as amended
May 1998, consisting of a document bearing the heading "General Information"
applicable to all Participants and, with respect to each individual Participant,
(1) a letter advising of his or her Participant status and the date it
commenced, the date the Participant is first eligible to retire, his or her
annual pension available at such retirement, the maximum pension to which the
Participant may become entitled, and the date when he or she is first eligible
for that maximum pension, and (2) a "Retirement Pension Schedule" showing the
amount of pension available at
any intervening date.
ATTACHMENT II
The actuarial assumptions to be used to determine any amount required to be
contributed in accordance with Section 1 of the Arrow Electronics, Inc. Grantor
Trust Agreement shall be:
1. The interest rate assumption provided in Section 417(e) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or corresponding provisions of subsequent law
("Section 417(e)"). The determination of such rate under current law shall be
based on the annual rate of interest on thirty-year (30-year) Treasury
securities for the most recent month prior to the date of contribution for which
such rate has been published by the Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate.
2. The mortality table shall be the mortality table prescribed by the
Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate for purposes of Section 417(e) as of
the date of contribution.
3. The annuity commencement date shall be the earliest date on which the
Participant or Beneficiary could receive benefits under the Arrangements.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the amount to be so contributed shall not be
less than the premium necessary to purchase annuity contracts for the benefits
required to be funded as of the date of contribution. Such premium shall be in
the amount that would be charged by a legal reserve life insurance company whose
selection would be consistent with the provisions of Part 4 of Subtitle B of
Title I of ERISA, setting forth the fiduciary requirements for the selection of
issuers of annuity contracts, if those provisions applied to such purchase. In
the event that the amount of such premium has not been determined at the date
that funding is otherwise required, the contribution shall initially be made in
accordance with paragraphs 1 through 3 above, and any additional contributions
required by reason of this paragraph shall be paid to the Trustee as soon
as the relevant premium has been determined.