DELL INC. Performance Based Stock Unit Agreement
Exhibit 10.21
Dell Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), is pleased to grant you units representing the
right to receive shares of the Company’s common stock (the “Shares”), subject to the terms and
conditions described below. The target number of units that may be awarded to you (the “Target”)
is stated in step one of the Stock Plan Administrator’s online grant acceptance process (“Grant
Summary”). The number of units awarded to you (the “Units”) will be determined at the end of the
Performance Period, which begins in fiscal year 2010 and ends in fiscal year 2012 , based on (i)
the number of Units you have earned on the last day of each of the Company’s Fiscal Years during
the Performance Period (your “Earned Units”), and (ii) the modifier applied to the number of Earned
Units based on the Company’s attainment of a long term performance goal (the “Three Year
Performance Goal”). Each Unit represents the right to receive one Share. As a material inducement
to the Company to grant you this award, you agree to the following terms and conditions. You agree
that you are not otherwise entitled to this award, that the Company is providing you this award in
consideration for your promises and agreements below, and that the Company would not grant you this
award absent those promises and agreements. This Stock Unit Agreement, the Grant Summary, and the
Company’s Amended and Restated 2002 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) set forth the terms of
your Units identified in your Grant Summary.
1. Performance Based Units — The Target represents the number of Units you have the opportunity to
receive based on the Company’s attainment of its annual performance goals. On an annual basis
during the Performance Period, a portion of the Units will be awarded to you as soon as
administratively feasible following each Fiscal Year during the Performance Period and will be
treated as Earned Units; the actual number of Units you receive will range from 80% to 120% of one
third of the Target Units for the Performance Period, as listed on your Grant Summary, which will
be determined by the Company in its sole discretion. You will be notified of the annual
performance goals and the number of Earned Units awarded to you for each Fiscal Year if those goals
are attained through separate written communications. Your Earned Units for each Fiscal Year
during the Performance Period will accumulate until the end of the Performance Period. As of the
last day of the Performance Period, the Company will increase or decrease your number of Earned
Units based on the Company’s attainment of the Three Year Performance Goal by multiplying your
accumulated Earned Units by 50% to 150%. Notwithstanding the preceding, if your employment is
terminated during the Performance Period by reason of your death or Permanent Disability (as
defined below), the number of Earned Units awarded to you will be the Target Units for the
Performance Period, determined without application of the performance modifier for the Three Year
Performance Goal.
2. Vesting —The Company will issue you one Share for each vested Earned Unit to be delivered on
the vesting date or as soon as administratively practicable thereafter. Your Earned Units will
vest, and you will receive Shares, in accordance with the schedule in your Grant Summary.
3. Expiration — If your Employment (as defined below) terminates for any reason other than your
death or “Permanent Disability” (as defined in the Plan described below), any Earned Units that
have not vested as described above will expire at that time.
If your Employment is terminated by reason of your death or Permanent Disability, all Earned Units
will vest immediately and automatically upon such termination of Employment.
As used herein, the term “Employment” means your regular full-time or part-time employment with the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and the term “Employer” means the Company (if you are employed
by the Company) or the Subsidiary of the Company that employs you.
4. Rights as a Stockholder — You will have no rights as a stockholder with respect to Shares that
may be received by you pursuant to this Agreement until those Shares are issued and registered in
your name on the books of the Company’s transfer agent. You will have no rights to receive
dividend equivalent payments with respect to Shares that may be received by you pursuant to this
Agreement. Units granted to you will be satisfied wholly through the issuance and delivery of
Shares.
5. Agreement With Respect to Taxes — You must pay any taxes that are required to be withheld by
the Company or your Employer. You may pay such amounts in cash or make other arrangements
satisfactory to the Company or your Employer for the payment of such amounts. You agree the
Company or your Employer, at its sole discretion and to the fullest extent permitted by law, shall
have the right to demand that you pay such amounts in cash, deduct such amounts from any payments
of any kind otherwise due to you, or withhold from Shares to which you would otherwise be entitled
the number of Shares having an aggregate market value at that time equal to the amount you owe. In
the event the Company, in its sole discretion, determines that your tax obligations will not be
satisfied under the methods described in this paragraph, you authorize the Company or the Company’s
Stock Plan Administrator to sell a number of Shares that are issued under the Units, which the
Company determines as having at least the market value sufficient to meet the tax withholding
obligations plus additional Shares to account for rounding and market fluctuations and pay such tax
withholding to the Company. The shares may be sold as part of a block trade with other participants
and all participants receive an average price.
You agree that, subject to compliance with applicable law, the Company or your Employer may
recover from you taxes which may be payable by the Company or your Employer in any jurisdiction
in relation to this award. You agree that the Company or your Employer shall be entitled to use
whatever method they may deem appropriate to recover such taxes including the sale of any Shares,
paying you a net amount of shares (or cash), recovering the taxes via payroll and direct invoicing.
You further agree that the Company or your Employer may, as it reasonably considers necessary,
amend or vary this agreement to facilitate such recovery of taxes.
6. Leaves of Absence — If you take a leave of absence from active Employment that has been
approved by the Company or your Employer or is one to which you are legally entitled regardless of
such approval, the following provisions will apply:
A. Vesting During Leave — Notwithstanding the vesting schedule set forth above, no Units will vest
during a leave of absence other than an approved employee medical, FMLA or military leave.
Notwithstanding the preceding, vesting shall not be deferred for any approved leave of absence of
less than 30 days. The vesting that would have otherwise occurred during a leave of absence other
than an approved employee medical, FMLA or military leave will be deferred by the number of days
you are on a leave of absence. For example, if your Units are scheduled to vest on August 1, 2013
through August 1, 2017, and you are on a 40-day leave of absence, the dates on which the vesting
occurs will be deferred to September 10, 2013 through September 10, 2017.
B. Effect of Termination During Leave — If your Employment is terminated during the leave of
absence, the Units will expire or vest in accordance with the terms stated in Paragraph 3
(Expiration) above.
7. Return of Share Value — By accepting this award, you agree that if the Company determines that
you engaged in “Conduct Detrimental to the Company” (as defined below) during your Employment or
during the one-year period following the termination of your Employment, you shall be required,
upon demand, to return to the Company, in the form of a cash payment, certain share value
(“Returnable Share Value”). For purposes of this provision, “Returnable Share Value” means a cash
amount equal to the gross value of the Shares that were issued to you pursuant to this Agreement
during the two-year period preceding the termination of your Employment, determined as of the date
such Shares were issued to you and using the Fair Market Value (as defined in the Plan) of Dell
stock on that date. You understand and agree that the repayment of the Returnable Share Value is
in addition to and separate from any other relief available to the Company due to your Conduct
Detrimental to the Company.
For purposes of this Agreement, you will be considered to have engaged in “Conduct Detrimental to
the Company” if:
(1) you engage in serious misconduct (whether or not such serious misconduct is discovered by the
Company prior to the termination of your Employment);
(2) you breach your obligations to the Company with respect to confidential and proprietary
information or trade secrets or breach any agreement between you and Dell relating to confidential
and proprietary information or trade secrets;
(3) you compete with the Company (as described below); or
(4) you solicit the Company’s employees (as described below).
For purposes of this provision, you shall be deemed to “compete” with the Company if you, directly
or indirectly:
| • | Are a principal, owner, officer, director, shareholder or other equity owner (other than a holder of less than 5% of the outstanding shares or other equity interests of a publicly traded company) of a Direct Competitor (as defined below); |
| • | Are a partner or joint venture in any business or other enterprise or undertaking with a Direct Competitor; or |
| • | Serve or perform work (including consulting or advisory services) for a Direct Competitor that is similar in a material way to the work you performed for the Company in the twelve months preceding the termination of your Employment. |
You understand and agree that this provision does not prohibit you from competing with the Company
but only requires repayment of Returnable Share Value in the event of such competition.
For purposes of this provision, a “Company’s employee” means any person employed by the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries and “solicit the Company’s employees” means that you communicate in any way
with any other person regarding (i) a Company Employee leaving the employ of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries; or (ii) a Company Employee seeking employments with any other employer. This
provision does not apply to those communications that are within the scope of your Employment that
are taken on behalf of your Employer.
The term “Direct Competitor” means any entity, or other business concern that offers or plans to
offer products or services that are materially competitive with any of the products or services
being manufactured, offered, marketed, or are actively developed by Dell as of the date your
employment with Dell ends. By way of illustration, and not by limitation, at the time of
execution of this Agreement, the following companies are currently Direct Competitors:
Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, IBM, Gateway, Apple, Acer, CDW, EDS, EMC, Software House International,
Insight (Software Spectrum), Softchoice, and Digital River. You understand and agree that the
foregoing list of Direct Competitors represents a current list of Dell Direct Competitors as of the
date of execution of this Agreement and that other entities may become Direct Competitors in the
future.
8. Transferability — The Units are not transferable except as described in this Paragraph, and
the provisions of this Paragraph shall apply notwithstanding any other provision herein to the
contrary.
A. The Units are transferable by will or the laws of descent and distribution.
B. The Units may be transferred to (i) one or more “Family Members” (as defined below), (ii) a
trust in which you or Family Members own more than 50% of the beneficial interests, (iii) a
foundation in which you or Family Members control the management of assets or (iv) any other entity
in which you or Family Members own more than 50% of the voting interests; provided, however, that
in any case, (a) the transfer is by way of gift or is otherwise a donative transfer or, in the case
of a transfer to an entity, the transfer is made in exchange for an interest in the entity and (b)
the transferee expressly acknowledges that the terms and provisions of this Agreement will continue
to apply to the Unit in the hands of the transferee. For purpose of this provision, the term
“Family Member” shall mean your spouse, former spouse, child, stepchild, grandchild, parent,
stepparent, grandparent, sibling, niece, nephew, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law,
daughter-in-law, brother-in-law or sister-in-law (including adoptive relationships) or any person
sharing your household (other than a tenant or employee). Notwithstanding the provisions of this
subparagraph B, any transfer described herein must be made in compliance with such procedural rules
and regulations (including those pertaining to the timing of transfers) as are established from
time to time by the Committee.
C. The Units may be transferred under a domestic relations order in settlement of marital property
rights.
9. Trading Restrictions —The Company may establish periods from time to time during which your
ability to engage in transactions involving the Company’s stock is subject to specified
restrictions (“ Restricted Periods”). Notwithstanding any other provisions herein, Units will not
vest, and Shares will not be issued, during an applicable Restricted Period and the applicable
period during which Units vest shall be extended until the end of such Restricted Period, unless
such vesting is specifically permitted by the Company (in its sole discretion). You may be subject
to a Restricted Period for any reason that the Company determines appropriate, including Restricted
Periods generally applicable to employees or groups of employees or Restricted Periods applicable
to you during an investigation of allegations of misconduct or Conduct Detrimental to the Company
by you.
10. Incorporation of Plan — This award is granted under the Plan and is governed by the terms of
the Plan in addition to the terms and conditions stated herein. All terms used herein with their
initial letters capitalized shall have the meanings given them in the Plan unless otherwise defined
herein. A copy of the Plan is available upon request from the Company’s Stock Option
Administration Department. Shares of common stock that are issued pursuant to this Agreement shall
be made available from authorized but unissued shares.
11. Prospectus — You may at any time obtain a copy of the prospectus related to the Dell common
stock underlying the Units by accessing the prospectus at
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12. Notice — You agree that notices may be given to you in writing either at your home address as
shown in the records of the Company or your Employer, or by electronic transmission (including
e-mail or reference to a website or other URL) sent to you through the Company’s normal process for
communicating electronically with its employees.
13. No Right to Continued Employment — The granting of Units does not confer upon you any right to
expectation of employment by, or to continue in the employment of, your Employer.
14. Limitation on Rights; No Right to Future Grants; Extraordinary Item of Compensation — By
accepting this Agreement and the grant of the Units evidenced hereby, you expressly acknowledge
that (i) the Plan is discretionary in nature and may be suspended or terminated by the Company at
any time; (ii) the grant of Units is a one-time benefit that does not create any contractual or
other right to receive future grants of Units, or benefits in lieu of Units; (iii) all
determinations with respect to future grants, if any, including the grant date, the number of Units
granted and the vesting dates, will be at the sole discretion of the Company; (iv) your
participation in the Plan is voluntary; (v) the value of the Units is an extraordinary item of
compensation that is outside the scope of your employment contract, if any, and nothing can or must
automatically be inferred from such employment contract or its consequences; (vi) Units are not
part of normal or expected compensation for any purpose, and are not to be used for calculating any
severance, resignation, redundancy, end of service payments, bonuses, long-service awards, pension
or retirement benefits or similar payments, and you waive any claim on such basis; (vii) the grant
of an equity interest in the Company gives rise to the Company’s need (on behalf of itself and its
stockholders) to protect itself from Conduct Detrimental to the Company, and your promises
described in Paragraph 7 (Return of Share Value) above are designed to protect the Company and its
stockholders from Conduct Detrimental to the Company; (viii) vesting of Units ceases upon
termination of Employment for any reason except as may otherwise be explicitly provided in the Plan
document or in this Agreement; (ix) the future value of the Units is unknown and cannot be
predicted with certainty; and (x) you understand, acknowledge and agree that you will have no
rights to compensation or damages related to Units or Shares in consequence of the termination of
your Employment for any reason whatsoever and whether or not in breach of contract. Finally, you
also understand, acknowledge and agree that selling of Dell Inc.’s stock in the territory of the
Russian Federation is prohibited.
15. Data Privacy Consent — As a condition of the grant of the Units, you consent to the
collection, use and transfer of personal data as described in this paragraph. You understand that
the Company and its Subsidiaries hold certain personal information about you, including your name,
home address and telephone number, date of birth, social security number, salary, nationality, job
title, any ownership interests or directorships held in the Company or its Subsidiaries and details
of all Units, Shares, stock options or other equity awards awarded or cancelled (“Data”). You
further understand that the Company and its Subsidiaries will transfer Data among themselves as
necessary for the purposes of implementation, administration and management of your participation
in the Plan, and that the Company and any of its Subsidiaries may each further transfer Data to any
third parties assisting the Company in the implementation, administration and management of the
Plan. You understand that these recipients may be located in the European Economic Area or
elsewhere, such as the United States. You authorize them to receive, possess, use, retain and
transfer such Data as may be required for the administration of the Plan or the subsequent holding
of shares of common stock on your behalf, in electronic or other form, for the purposes of
implementing, administering and managing your participation in the Plan, including any requisite
transfer to a broker or other third party with whom you may elect to deposit any shares of common
stock acquired under the Plan. You understand that you may, at any time, view such Data or require
any necessary amendments to it.
16. Governing Law and Venue — This Agreement and the Plan shall be governed by, and construed in
accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware, United States of America. The venue for any
and all disputes arising out of or in connection with this Agreement shall be New Castle County,
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Each party hereby expressly consents to the exercise of jurisdiction by such courts and hereby
irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may
legally and effectively do so, any objection that it may now or hereafter have to such laying of
venue (including the defense of inconvenient forum).
17. Effect of Invalid Provisions — If any of the promises, terms or conditions set forth herein
are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable, any Units that have not
vested as described above will expire at that time and you agree to return to the Company an amount
of cash equal to the Fair Market Value (as defined in the Plan) of all Shares theretofore issued to
you pursuant to this Agreement, determined as of the date such Shares were issued.
18. Acceptance of Terms and Conditions — This award will not be effective and you may not take
action with respect to the Units or the Shares until you have acknowledged and agreed to the terms
and conditions set forth herein in the manner prescribed by the Company. You should print a copy of
this award and your Grant Summary for your records.
Awarded subject to the terms and conditions stated above:
By:
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