OWENS-ILLINOIS RESTRICTED STOCK AGREEMENT
Exhibit 10.2
▇▇▇▇▇-ILLINOIS
1997 EQUITY PARTICIPATION PLAN
THIS RESTRICTED STOCK AGREEMENT, dated as of April 1, 2004 is made by and between ▇▇▇▇▇-Illinois, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, an employee of the Company or a Parent Corporation or a Subsidiary (the “Employee”):
WHEREAS, the Company has established the ▇▇▇▇▇-Illinois 1997 Equity Participation Plan (the “Plan”); and
WHEREAS, the Plan provides for the issuance of shares of the Company’s Common Stock , subject to certain restrictions thereon and to other conditions stated herein; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms of a certain letter agreement dated March 31, 2004 between the Company and the Employee (the “Letter Agreement”), the Company agreed to issue the shares of Restricted Stock provided for herein to the Employee; and
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants herein contained and other good and valuable consideration, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto do hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS
Whenever the following terms are used in this Agreement, they shall have the meaning specified below, unless the context clearly indicates to the contrary. Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Plan. The masculine pronoun shall include the feminine and neuter and the singular the plural, where the context so indicates.
Section 1.1. Cause
“Cause” shall mean (A) the Employee’s continued failure substantially to perform your duties to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or affiliates (other than as a result of total or partial incapacity due to physical or mental illness) for a period of ten (10) days following written notice by the Company to the Employee of such failure, (B) the Employee’s commission of a felony under the laws of the United States or any state thereof or a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, (C) the Employee’s willful malfeasance or willful misconduct in connection with his duties to the Company, its Subsidiaries or affiliates, or any act or omission which is injurious to the financial condition or business reputation of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or affiliates, or (D) the Employee’s breach of the provisions of Paragraphs 2 or 3 of Appendix A of the Letter Agreement.
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Section 1.2. Common Stock
“Common Stock” shall mean the common stock of the Company, $.01 par value.
Section 1.3. Competing Business
“Competing Business” shall mean any business that competes with the business of the Company or its affiliates (including, without limitation, businesses which the Company or its affiliates have specific plans to conduct in the future and as to which you are aware of such planning) in any geographical area where the Company or its affiliates manufactures, produces, sells, leases, rents, licenses or otherwise provides its products or services.
Section 1.4. Exchange Act
“Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
Section 1.5. Fair Market Value
“Fair Market Value” of a share of the Company’s stock as of a given date shall be: (i) the closing price of a share of the Company’s stock on the principal exchange on which shares of the Company’s stock are then trading, if any, on the day previous to such date, or, if shares were not traded on the day previous to such date, then on the next preceding trading day during which a sale occurred; or (ii) if such stock is not traded on an exchange but is quoted on NASDAQ or a successor quotation system, (1) the last sales price (if the stock is then listed as a National Market Issue under the NASD National Market System) or (2) the mean between the closing representative bid and asked prices (in all other cases) for the stock on the day previous to such date as reported by NASDAQ or such successor quotation system; or (iii) if such stock is not publicly traded on an exchange and not quoted on NASDAQ or a successor quotation system, the mean between the closing bid and asked prices for the stock, on the day previous to such date, as determined in good faith by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Committee”); or (iv) if the Company’s stock is not publicly traded, the fair market value established by the Committee acting in good faith.
Section 1.6. Parent Corporation
“Parent Corporation” shall mean any corporation in an unbroken chain of corporations ending with the Company if each of the corporations other than the Company then owns stock possessing 50% or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock in one of the other corporations in such chain.
Section 1.7. Plan
“Plan” shall mean the Company’s 1997 Equity Participation Plan.
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Section 1.8. Restrictions
“Restrictions” shall mean the reacquisition and transferability restrictions imposed upon Restricted Stock under this Agreement.
Section 1.9. Restricted Stock
“Restricted Stock” shall mean Common Stock issued under this Agreement and subject to the Restrictions imposed hereunder.
Section 1.10. Rule 16b-3
“Rule 16b-3” shall mean that certain Rule 16b-3 under the Exchange Act, as such Rule may be amended from time to time.
Section 1.11. Secretary
“Secretary” shall mean the Secretary of the Company.
Section 1.12. Securities Act
“Securities Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Section 1.13. Subsidiary
“Subsidiary” shall mean any corporation in an unbroken chain of corporations beginning with the Company if each of the corporations other than the last corporation in the unbroken chain then owns stock possessing fifty percent (50%) or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock in one of the other corporations in such chain. “Subsidiary” shall also mean any partnership in which the Company and or any Subsidiary owns more than fifty (50%) percent of the capital or profits interests.
Section 1.14. Termination of Employment
“Termination of Employment” shall mean the time when the employee-employer relationship between the Employee and the Company, a Parent Corporation or a Subsidiary is terminated for any reason, with or without Cause, including, but not by way of limitation, a termination by resignation, discharge, death, disability or retirement; but excluding (a) terminations where there is a simultaneous reemployment or continuing employment of the Employee by the Company, a Parent Corporation or any Subsidiary, (b) terminations where the Employee continues a relationship (e.g., as a director or as a consultant) with the Company, a Parent Corporation or a Subsidiary. The Committee, in its absolute discretion, shall determine the effect of all matters and questions relating to Termination of Employment, including, but not by way of limitation, the question of whether a Termination of Employment resulted from a discharge for good cause, and all questions of whether a particular leave of absence constitutes a Termination of Employment. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the
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Company or any Subsidiary has the absolute and unrestricted right to terminate the Employee’s employment at any time for any reason whatsoever, with or without Cause.
ARTICLE II.
ISSUANCE OF RESTRICTED STOCK
Section 2.1. Issuance of Restricted Stock
In consideration of the services rendered or to be rendered to the Company, a Parent Corporation or a Subsidiary pursuant to the terms of the Letter Agreement and for other good and valuable consideration which the Committee has determined to be equal to the par value of its Common Stock, on the date hereof the Company issues to the Employee 155,000 shares of its Common Stock, upon the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.
Section 2.2. No Right to Continued Employment
Nothing in this Agreement or in the Plan shall confer upon the Employee any right to continue in the employee of the Company, any Parent Corporation or any Subsidiary or shall interfere with or restrict in any way the rights of the Company, any Parent Corporation or any Subsidiary, which are hereby expressly reserved, to discharge the Employee at any time for any reasons whatsoever, with or without Cause.
ARTICLE III.
RESTRICTIONS
Section 3.1. Reacquisition of Restricted Stock
Until vested, the shares of Restricted Stock issued to the Employee pursuant to this Agreement are subject to reacquisition by the Company immediately upon a Termination of Employment other than from death or total disability (as determined by the Committee in accordance with Company plans and policies), in which event all unvested shares of Restricted Stock shall immediately fully vest and all Restrictions with respect to such shares of Restricted Stock shall immediately expire. Following any reacquisition by the Company pursuant to this Section 3.1, the Company shall promptly pay to the Employee an amount equal to the product of $.01 times the number of shares of Restricted Stock reacquired.
Section 3.2. Lapse of Restrictions.
The Restricted Stock shall vest, and all Restrictions thereon shall immediately expire as follows: (a) 50% of the Restricted Shares will vest on April 1, 2006, (b) 25% of the Restricted Shares will vest on April 1, 2007, and (c) the remaining 25% of the Restricted Shares will vest on April 1, 2008. Upon the vesting of the shares and subject to Section 5.3, the Company shall cause new certificates to be issued with respect to such vested shares and delivered to the Employee or his legal representative, free from the legend provided for in Section 3.3 and any of
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the other Restrictions. Such vested shares shall cease to be considered Restricted Stock subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
Section 3.3. Legend.
Certificates representing shares of Restricted Stock issued pursuant to this Agreement shall, until all restrictions lapse and new certificates are issued pursuant to Section 3.2, bear the following legend:
THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE ARE SUBJECT TO CERTAIN VESTING REQUIREMENTS AND MAY BE SUBJECT TO REACQUISTION BY THE COMPANY UNDER THE TERMS OF THAT CERTAIN RESTRICTED STOCK AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN ▇▇▇▇▇-ILLINOIS, INC. (THE “COMPANY”) AND THE HOLDER OF THE SECURITIES. PRIOR TO VESTING OF OWNERSHIP IN THE SECURITIES, THEY MAY NOT BE DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, OFFERED, TRANSFERRED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, PLEDGED, HYPOTHECATED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. COPIES OF THE ABOVE REFERENCED AGREEMENT ARE ON FILE AT THE OFFICES OF THE COMPANY AT ONE ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇.
Section 3.4. Merger, Consolidation, Acquisition, Liquidation or Dissolution
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, upon the merger or consolidation of the Company into another corporation, the acquisition by another corporation or person (excluding any employee benefit plan of the Company or any trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of the Company) of all or substantially all of the Company ‘s assets or 51% or more of the Company’s then outstanding voting stock, or the liquidation or dissolution of the Company, the Committee shall then provide by resolution adopted prior to such event that, at some time prior to the effective date of such event, all shares of Restricted Stock not previously reacquired pursuant to Section 3.1 shall fully vest and all Restrictions with respect to such shares of Restricted Stock shall immediately expire.
Section 3.5. Restrictions on New Shares
In the event that the outstanding shares of the Company’s Common Stock are hereafter changed into or exchanged for a different number of kind of shares or other securities of the Company or of another corporation pursuant to a merger of the Company into another corporation, or the exchange of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company for the securities of another corporation, or the acquisition by another corporation or person (excluding any employee benefit plan of the Company or any trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of the Company) of 51% or more of the Company’s then outstanding voting stock, or the liquidation or dissolution of the Company, or a stock split-up or stock dividend, such new, additional or different shares or securities which are held or received by the Employee in his capacity as a holder of Restricted Stock shall be considered to be Restricted Stock and shall be subject to all of the Restrictions, unless the Committee provides,
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pursuant to Section 3.4 for the accelerated vesting and expiration of the Restrictions on the shares of Restricted Stock underlying the distribution of the new, additional or different shares or securities.
ARTICLE IV.
NON-COMPETITION/NON-SOLICITATION
Section 4.1. Covenant Not to Compete
Employee covenants and agrees that prior to Employee’s Termination of Employment and for a period of one (1) year following the Employee’s Termination of Employment, Employee will not, directly or indirectly: (a) engage in, invest in, or enter into the employ of or otherwise render any services to, any Competing Business, or (b) interfere with, or attempt to interfere with, business relationships (whether formed before, on or after the date of the Letter Agreement) between the Company or any of its affiliates and customers, clients, suppliers, or investors of the Company or its affiliates. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Employee may own up to 2% of the securities of any person engaged in the business of the Company or its affiliates that are publicly traded.
Section 4.2. Non-Solicitation of Employees
Employee covenants and agrees that prior to Employee’s Termination of Employment and for a period of two (2) year following the Employee’s Termination of Employment, Employee will not, directly or indirectly: (a) solicit or encourage any employee of the Company or its affiliates to leave the employment of the Company or its affiliates; or (B) hire any employee who was employed by the Company or its affiliates within one year prior to Employee’s Termination of Employment.
ARTICLE V.
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 5.1. Administration
The Committee shall have the power to interpret the Plan and this Agreement, and to adopt such rules for the administration, interpretation, and application of the Plan as are consistent therewith, to interpret, amend or revoke any such rules. All action taken and all interpretations and determinations made by the Committee in good faith shall be final and binding upon the Employee, the Company and all other interested persons. In its absolute discretion, the Board may at any time and from time to time exercise any and all rights and duties of the Committee under the Plan or this Agreement except with respect to matters which under Rule 16b-3, or any regulations or rules issued thereunder, are required to be determined in the sole discretion of the Committee. No member of the Committee or Board shall be personally liable for any action, determination or interpretation made in good faith with respect to the Plan
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or the Restricted Stock, and all members of the Committee and the Board shall be fully protected by the Company in respect of any such action, determination or interpretation.
Section 5.2. Restricted Stock Not Transferable
No Restricted Stock or any interest or right therein or part thereof shall be liable for the debts, contracts or engagements of the Employee or his successors in interest or shall be subject to disposition by transfer, alienation, anticipation, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, assignment or any other means, whether such disposition be voluntary or involuntary or by operation of law by judgment, levy, attachment, garnishment or any other legal or equitable proceedings (including bankruptcy), any attempted disposition thereof shall be null and void and of no effect; provided however, that this Section 5.2 shall not prevent transfers by will or by the applicable laws of descent and distribution.
Section 5.3. Conditions to Issuance of Stock Certificates
The Company shall not be required to issue or deliver any certificate or certificates for shares of stock pursuant to this Agreement prior to fulfillment of all of the following conditions:
(a) The admission of such shares to listing on all stock exchanges on which such class of stock is then listed; and
(b) The completion of any registration or other qualification of such shares under any state or federal law or under rulings or regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission or of any other governmental regulatory body, which the Committee shall, in its sole discretion, deem necessary or advisable; and
(c) The obtaining of any approval or other clearance from any state or federal governmental agency which the Committee shall, in its sole discretion, determine to be necessary or advisable; and
(d) Subject to Section 5.10 the payment by the Employee of all amounts which, under federal, state or local tax law, the Company (or other employer corporation) is required to withhold upon issuance of Restricted Stock and/or the lapse or removal of any of the Restrictions; and
(e) The lapse of such reasonable period of time as the Committee may from time to time establish for reasons of administrative convenience.
Section 5.4. Escrow
The Secretary or such other escrow holder as the Committee may appoint shall retain physical custody of the certificates representing Restricted Stock, including shares of Restricted Stock issued pursuant to Section 3.5, until all of the Restrictions expire or shall have been removed; provided, however, that in no event shall the Employee retain physical custody of any certificates representing Restricted Stock issued to him.
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Section 5.5. Notices
Any notice to be given under the terms of this Agreement to the Company shall be addressed to the Company in care of its Secretary, and any notice to be given to the Employee shall be addressed to him at the address given beneath his signature hereto. By a notice given pursuant to this Section 5.5, either party may hereafter designate a different address for notices to be given to him. Any notice which is required to be given to the Employee shall, if the Employee is then deceased, be given to the Employee’s personal representative if such representative has previously informed the Company of his status and address by written notice under this Section 5.5. Any notice shall be deemed duly given when enclosed in a properly sealed envelope or wrapper addressed as aforesaid, deposited (with postage prepaid) in a post office or branch post office regularly maintained by the United States Postal Service.
Section 5.6. Rights as Stockholder
Upon delivery of the shares of Restricted Stock to the escrow holder pursuant to Section 5.4, the Employee shall have all the rights of a stockholder with respect to said shares, subject to the restrictions herein (including the provisions of Section 5.10), including the right to vote the shares and to receive all dividends or other distributions paid or made with respect to the shares.
Section 5.7. Titles
Titles are provided her in for convenience only and are not to serve as a basis for interpretation or construction of this Agreement.
Section 5.8. Conformity to Securities Laws
The Employee acknowledges that the Plan and this Agreement is intended to conform to the extent necessary with all provisions of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act and any and all regulations and rules promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder, including, without limitation, the applicable exemptive conditions of Rule 16b-3. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, this Agreement shall be administered, and the Restricted Stock shall be issued only in such a manner as to conform to such laws, rules and regulations. To the extent permitted by applicable law, this Agreement and the Restricted Stock issued hereunder shall be deemed amended to the extent necessary to conform to such laws, rules and regulations.
Section 5.9. Amendments
This Agreement and the Plan may be amended without the consent of the Employee provided that such amendment would not impair any rights of the Employee under this Agreement. No amendment of this Agreement shall, without the consent of the Employee, impair any rights of the Employee under this Agreement.
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Section 5.10. Tax Withholding
The Company’s obligation : (i) to issue or deliver to the Employee any certificate or certificates for unrestricted shares of stock; or (ii) to pay to the Employee any dividends or make any distributions with respect to the Restricted Stock, is expressly conditioned upon receipt from the Employee, on or prior to the date reasonably specified by the Company of:
(a) Full payment (in cash or by check ) of any amount that must be withheld by the Company for federal, state and/or local tax purposes; or
(b) Subject to the Committee’s consent and Section 5.10(c), full payment by delivery to the Company of unrestricted shares of the Company’s Common Stock previously owned by the Employee duly endorsed for transfer to the company by the Employee with an aggregate Fair Market Value (determined, as applicable, as of the date of the lapse of the restrictions or vesting or as of the date of the distribution) equal to the amount that must be withheld by the Company for federal, state and/or local tax purposes; or
(c) With respect to the withholding obligation for shares of Restricted Stock that become unrestricted shares as of a certain date (the “Vesting Date”), subject to the committee’s consent, full payment by retention by the Company of a portion of such shares of Restricted Stock which become unrestricted or vested with an aggregated Fair Market Value (determined on the Vesting Date) equal to the amount that must be withheld by the Company for federal, state and/or local tax purposes; or
(d) Subject to the Committee’s consent, a combination of payments provided for in the foregoing subsections (a), (b) or (c).
Section 5.11. Governing Law
This Agreement shall be administered, interpreted and enforced under the internal laws of the State of Delaware without regard to conflicts of laws thereof.
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IN WITNESS HEREOF, this Agreement has been executed and delivered by the parties hereto.
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