As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 18, 2012
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
JAZZ PHARMACEUTICALS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Ireland | 98-1032470 | |
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number) |
45 Fitzwilliam Square
Dublin 2, Ireland
011-353-1-634-4183
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrants principal executive offices)
Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2011 Equity Incentive Plan (formerly the Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2011 Equity Incentive Plan)
Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2007 Equity Incentive Plan (formerly the Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2007 Equity Incentive Plan)
Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2003 Equity Incentive Plan (formerly the 2003 Equity Incentive Plan of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc.)
Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2007 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (formerly the Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2007 Employee Stock Purchase Plan)
Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc Amended and Restated 2007 Non-Employee Directors Stock Option Plan (formerly the Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Amended and Restated 2007 Non-Employee Directors Stock Option Plan)
Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc Amended and Restated Directors Deferred Compensation Plan (formerly the Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Amended and Restated Directors Deferred Compensation Plan)
Bruce C. Cozadd
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc
c/o Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
3180 Porter Drive
Palo Alto, CA 94304
(650) 496-3777
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copy to:
Suzanne Sawochka Hooper
Chadwick L. Mills
Cooley LLP
3175 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, California 94304-1130
(650) 843-5000
Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of large accelerated filer, accelerated filer and smaller reporting company in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer | x | Accelerated filer | ¨ | |||
Non-accelerated filer | ¨ (Do not check if a smaller reporting company) | Smaller reporting company | ¨ |
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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Title of Each Class of Securities to be Registered |
Amount to be Registered(1) |
Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Unit(3) |
Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price(3) |
Amount of Registration Fee | ||||
Ordinary shares, nominal value $0.0001 per share |
10,910,298(2) | $15.35-$46.39 | $406,041,834.00 | $46,532.39 | ||||
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(1) | Pursuant to Rule 416 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), this Registration Statement also covers any additional ordinary shares of the Registrant that become issuable under the plans set forth herein by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or other similar transaction effected without receipt of consideration that results in an increase in the number of outstanding ordinary shares of the Registrant. |
(2) | Represents ordinary shares of the Registrant (a) issuable pursuant to outstanding stock options and other equity awards originally granted under the plans of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (JPI) set forth herein, and (b) reserved for future grant under the plans of JPI set forth herein and assumed by the Registrant pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization (the Merger Agreement), dated as of September 19, 2011, as amended, by and among the Registrant, JPI, Jaguar Merger Sub Inc., and Seamus Mulligan, solely in his capacity as indemnitors representative. Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, each outstanding option to purchase shares of JPI common stock under (and each other equity award under) the JPI plans set forth herein were converted into an option to acquire or the right to receive, as applicable, the number of the Registrants ordinary shares equal to the number of shares of JPI common stock subject to such option or equity award immediately prior to the effective time of the Merger. |
(3) | Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the amount of the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(h) and Rule 457(c) promulgated under the Securities Act. The offering price per share and the aggregate offering price are based upon (a) the weighted average exercise price for ordinary shares subject to outstanding options granted under the specified plan and (b) the average of the high and low prices of the Registrants ordinary shares as reported on The NASDAQ Global Select Market on January 18, 2012. The chart below details the calculations of the registration fee: |
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Securities | Number of Ordinary Shares |
Offering Price Per Share(2) |
Aggregate Offering Price | |||
Ordinary Shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding options originally granted under the 2003 Equity Incentive Plan of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* |
337,861 | $25.53(2)(a) | $ 8,625,591.33 | |||
Ordinary Shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding options originally granted under the Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2007 Equity Incentive Plan* |
2,997,394 | $15.35(2)(a) | $ 46,009,997.90 | |||
Ordinary Shares credited to individual non-employee director phantom stock accounts under the Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Amended and Restated Directors Deferred Compensation Plan |
23,841 | $46.39(2)(b) | $ 1,105,983.99 | |||
Ordinary Shares reserved for future grant under the Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2007 Equity Incentive Plan |
1,000,000 | $46.39(2)(b) | $ 46,390,000.00 | |||
Ordinary Shares reserved for future grant under the Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2011 Equity Incentive Plan |
5,000,000 | $46.39(2)(b) | $231,950,000.00 | |||
Ordinary Shares reserved for future grant under the Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc Amended and Restated 2007 Non-Employee Directors Stock Option Plan |
385,261 | $46.39(2)(b) | $ 17,872,257.79 | |||
Ordinary Shares reserved for future issuance under the Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc Amended and Restated Directors Deferred Compensation Plan |
163,816 | $46.39(2)(b) | $ 7,599,424.24 | |||
Ordinary Shares reserved for future grant under the Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2007 Employee Stock Purchase Plan |
1,002,125 | $46.39(2)(b) | $ 46,488,578.75 | |||
Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price |
$406,041,834.00 | |||||
Registration Fee |
$ 46,532.39 | |||||
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* | Pursuant to the terms of the Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2011 Equity Incentive Plan, any shares subject to outstanding options originally granted under the 2003 Equity Incentive Plan of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. or the Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2007 Equity Incentive Plan that expire or terminate for any reason prior to exercise or settlement shall become available for issuance pursuant to stock awards granted under the Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2011 Equity Incentive Plan. |
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the Registration Statement) is being filed by Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc (the Company) to register 10,910,298 ordinary shares of the Registrant, nominal value $0.0001 per share (the Ordinary Shares), issuable under the plans and awards set forth herein, which plans and awards were converted or adopted and assumed, as applicable, in connection with the Merger described below.
The Company is a public limited company formed under the laws of Ireland that was formerly named Azur Pharma Public Limited Company. The Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization (the Merger Agreement), dated as of September 19, 2011, as amended, by and among the Company, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (JPI), Jaguar Merger Sub Inc. (Merger Sub), and Seamus Mulligan, solely in his capacity as indemnitors representative. Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, Merger Sub merged with and into JPI (the Merger), with JPI surviving the Merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. In the Merger, all outstanding shares of the common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of JPI (JPI Common Stock) were canceled and converted into the right to receive Ordinary Shares on a one-for-one basis. The Ordinary Shares trade on the same exchange, The NASDAQ Global Select Market, and under the trading symbol, JAZZ, that the shares of JPI Common Stock traded on and under prior to the Merger. The Company is considered the successor to JPI for certain purposes under both the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. | Incorporation of Documents by Reference. |
The following documents filed by Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc (the Registrant) or Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (JPI) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) are incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:
| JPIs Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, filed with the Commission on March 8, 2011; |
| the information specifically incorporated by reference into JPIs Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010 from JPIs definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A, filed with the Commission on April 12, 2011; |
| JPIs Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2011, June 30, 2011 and September 30, 2011, filed with the Commission on May 9, 2011, August 3, 2011 and November 8, 2011, respectively; |
| JPIs Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on January 7, 2011, February 11, 2011, March 9, 2011, March 28, 2011, April 19, 2011, May 25, 2011, September 19, 2011, October 28, 2011, November 10, 2011, December 12, 2011 and January 12, 2012; and |
| the Registrants Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on January 18, 2012 (which evidences the registration of the Registrants ordinary shares under Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and includes therein a description of the Registrants ordinary shares). |
All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act), other than current reports furnished under Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of Form 8-K and exhibits furnished on such form that relate to such items, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement which indicates that all of the Registrants ordinary shares offered have been sold or which deregisters all of such ordinary shares then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents.
For purposes of this Registration Statement, any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
Item 4. | Description of Securities. |
Not applicable.
Item 5. | Interests of Named Experts and Counsel. |
Not applicable.
Item 6. | Indemnification of Directors and Officers. |
Pursuant to the Registrants memorandum and articles of association, subject to the provisions of, and so far as may be permitted by the Irish Companies Acts of 1963 to 2009, every director, the secretary and current or former executives may be indemnified by the Registrant against all costs, charges, losses, expenses and liabilities incurred by him or her in the execution and discharge of his or her duties or in relation thereto, including any liability
incurred by him or her in defending civil or criminal proceedings that relate to anything done or omitted or alleged to have been done or omitted by him or her as a director, secretary, executive or employee of the Registrant and in which judgment is given in his or her favor (or the proceedings are otherwise disposed of without any finding or admission of any material breach of duty on his part) or in which he or she is acquitted or in connection with any application under any statute for relief from liability in respect of any such act or omission in which relief is granted to him or her by the court. Under the Registrants memorandum and articles of association, the Registrants directors, secretary and current or former directors, however, will not be entitled to the indemnification by the Registrant if they incurred the liabilities through their own fraud, dishonesty or conscious, intentional or willful breach of the obligation to act honestly, lawfully and in good faith.
The Registrant has entered or is expected to enter into indemnity agreements with each of its directors, its secretary and persons designated as executive officers that require it to indemnify such persons against any and all expenses (including attorneys fees), witness fees, judgments, fines, penalties, settlements and other amounts incurred (including expenses of a derivative action) in connection with any action, suit or proceeding or alternative dispute resolution mechanism, inquiry, hearing or investigation, whether threatened, pending or completed and whether conducted by the Registrant or any other party, to which any such person may be made a party by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director, officer, employee, consultant, agent or fiduciary of the Registrant or any of its subsidiaries or other affiliated enterprises, provided that such persons conduct did not constitute a breach of his or her duty of loyalty or other fiduciary duty to the Registrant or its shareholders, and was not an act or omission not in good faith or which involved intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of laws. The indemnity agreements also set forth certain procedures that will apply in the event of a claim for indemnification thereunder. The indemnity agreements with certain of the Registrants directors further provide that, with respect to a director that is serving on the Registrants board of directors at the direction of a venture or other investment fund or entity, with respect to such indemnitees service as a director, officer, employee, agent and/or fiduciary of the Registrant, the Registrants obligations under the indemnity agreement are the primary source of indemnification and advancement, the Registrant is required to make all expense advances, and the Registrant is liable for all of such indemnitees expenses, to the extent required by the indemnity agreement and the Registrants memorandum and articles of association, without regard to any rights the indemnitee may have against the applicable venture or other investment fund or entity, and the Registrant irrevocably waives, relinquishes and releases any and all claims against the applicable venture or other investment fund or entity for contribution, subrogation or any other recovery of any kind in connection with the Registrants obligations under the indemnity agreement. At present, there is no pending litigation or proceeding involving any of the Registrants directors, secretary, executives or employees for which indemnification is sought, nor is the Registrant aware of any threatened litigation that may result in claims for indemnification by the Registrant.
The merger agreement dated September 19, 2011 that the Registrant entered into with Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc., or JPI, and certain other parties provides that all rights to exculpation, indemnification and advancement of expenses for acts or omissions occurring at or prior to the closing of the merger contemplated by said merger agreement, then existing in favor of the current or former directors, secretaries, executives or employees of the parties, will survive the closing of the merger and remain in full force and effect, whether such rights are or were provided for in the parties respective governing documents, in agreements then existing or agreements to be entered into in accordance with the merger agreement. The parties further agreed to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cause the Registrant or one of its subsidiaries to enter into agreements effective as from the closing with the directors, secretary and executives of the Registrant providing such individuals with such exculpation, indemnification and advancement of expenses in respect of claims against such individual in such capacity as may be permitted under applicable law.
The Registrant maintains directors and officers liability insurance. The policy insures the Registrants directors, secretary and executives against unindemnified losses arising from certain wrongful acts in their capacities as directors, secretary and executives, and reimburses the Registrant for those losses for which the Registrant has lawfully indemnified the directors, secretary and executives. The policy contains various exclusions, none of which will apply to any offerings pursuant to this registration statement. In addition, the merger agreement provides that the Registrant will, and will cause each of JPI and the Registrant to, maintain in effect for six years from the closing date of the merger contemplated by the merger agreement directors and officers liability insurance covering those persons who were then covered by the directors and officers liability insurance policies of JPI and the Registrant, as applicable, on terms not less favorable than such then existing insurance coverage.
The Registrant is a party to various investor rights and registration rights agreements that provide for cross-indemnification in connection with registration of the Registrants ordinary shares on behalf of parties to such agreements, including selling shareholders that may be named in one or more supplements to the prospectus included in the registration statement.
Item 7. | Exemption from Registration Claimed. |
Not applicable.
Item 8. | Exhibits. |
Exhibit Number |
Description of Document | |
3.1 | Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Registrant (incorporated herein by reference to exhibit 3.1 in the Registrants current report on Form 8-K (File No. 001-33500), as filed with the SEC on January 18, 2012). | |
4.1 | Reference is made to Exhibit 3.1. | |
5.1 | Opinion of A&L Goodbody. | |
23.1 | Consent of A&L Goodbody (included in Exhibit 5.1). | |
23.2 | Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. | |
24.1 | Power of Attorney (included in the signature page hereto). | |
99.1 | Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2011 Equity Incentive Plan. | |
99.2 | Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2007 Employee Stock Purchase Plan. | |
99.3 | Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2007 Equity Incentive Plan. | |
99.4 | Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc Amended and Restated 2007 Non-Employee Directors Stock Option Plan. | |
99.5 | Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2003 Equity Incentive Plan | |
99.6 | Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc Amended and Restated Directors Deferred Compensation Plan. |
Item 9. | Undertakings. |
1. The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:
(a) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:
(i) To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;
(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the Registration Statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the Calculation of Registration Fee table in the effective Registration Statement.
(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change to such information in the Registration Statement;
Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(i) and (a)(ii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference herein.
(b) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered herein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(c) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
2. The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrants annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plans annual report pursuant to section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered herein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
3. Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Palo Alto, State of California on January 18, 2012.
JAZZ PHARMACEUTICALS PLC | ||
By: | /s/ Bruce C. Cozadd | |
Bruce C. Cozadd | ||
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer |
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Bruce C. Cozadd, Kathryn E. Falberg and Karen J. Wilson, and each or any of them, as his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full powers of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and generally to do all such things in his or her name and behalf in their capacities as officers and directors to enable Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and all requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:
Signatures |
Title |
Date | ||
/s/ Bruce C. Cozadd Bruce C. Cozadd |
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer) |
January 18, 2012 | ||
/s/ Kathryn E. Falberg Kathryn E. Falberg |
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) |
January 18, 2012 | ||
/s/ Karen J. Wilson Karen J. Wilson |
Vice President, Finance and Principal Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer) | January 18, 2012 | ||
/s/ Paul L. Berns Paul L. Berns |
Director | January 18, 2012 | ||
/s/ Bryan C. Cressey Bryan C. Cressey |
Director | January 18, 2012 | ||
/s/ Patrick G. Enright Patrick G. Enright |
Director | January 18, 2012 | ||
/s/ Seamus Mulligan Seamus Mulligan |
Director | January 18, 2012 | ||
/s/ Kenneth W. OKeefe Kenneth W. OKeefe |
Director | January 18, 2012 | ||
/s/ Alan M. Sebulsky Alan M. Sebulsky |
Director | January 18, 2012 | ||
/s/ Rick E Winningham Rick E Winningham |
Director | January 18, 2012 |
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit Number |
Description of Document | |
3.1 | Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Registrant (incorporated herein by reference to exhibit 3.1 in the Registrants current report on Form 8-K (File No. 001-33500), as filed with the SEC on January 18, 2012). | |
4.1 | Reference is made to Exhibit 3.1. | |
5.1 | Opinion of A&L Goodbody. | |
23.1 | Consent of A&L Goodbody (included in Exhibit 5.1). | |
23.2 | Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. | |
24.1 | Power of Attorney (included in the signature page hereto). | |
99.1 | Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2011 Equity Incentive Plan. | |
99.2 | Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2007 Employee Stock Purchase Plan. | |
99.3 | Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2007 Equity Incentive Plan. | |
99.4 | Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc Amended and Restated 2007 Non-Employee Directors Stock Option Plan. | |
99.5 | Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2003 Equity Incentive Plan | |
99.6 | Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc Amended and Restated Directors Deferred Compensation Plan. |
Exhibit 5.1
A&L Goodbody Solicitors International Financial Services Centre North Wall Quay Dublin 1
Tel: +353 1 649 2000 Fax: +353 1 649 2649 email: info@algoodbody.com website: www.algoodbody.com dx: 29 Dublin
Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 45 Fitzwilliam Square Dublin 2 Ireland |
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18 January 2012 |
Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc (the Company)
Dear Sirs
We act as Irish counsel for the Company, a public limited company incorporated under the laws of Ireland, in connection with the proposed registration by the Company of 10,910,298 ordinary shares of the Company, nominal value $0.0001 per share (the Ordinary Shares), pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the Registration Statement) to be filed by the Company under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The Ordinary Shares are issuable under plans and awards that were adopted or assumed by the Company under an Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization dated 19 September 2011 by and among the Company, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Jaguar Merger Sub Inc. and Seamus Mulligan, namely:
| the Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2003 Equity Incentive Plan (formerly the 2003 Equity Incentive Plan of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc.); |
| the Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2007 Equity Incentive Plan (formerly the Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2007 Equity Incentive Plan); |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc Amended and Restated 2007 Non-Employee Directors Stock Option Plan (formerly the Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Amended and Restated 2007 Non-Employee Directors Stock Option Plan); |
| the Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2007 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (formerly the Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2007 Employee Stock Purchase Plan) |
| the Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc Amended and Restated Directors Deferred Compensation Plan (formerly the Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Amended and Restated Directors Deferred Compensation Plan); and |
| the Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2011 Equity Incentive Plan (formerly the Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2011 Equity Incentive Plan); |
(hereinafter together referred to as the Plans).
In connection with this Opinion, we have reviewed copies of such corporate records of the Company as we have deemed necessary as a basis for the opinion hereinafter expressed. In rendering this opinion, we have examined, and have assumed the truth and accuracy of the contents of, such
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C.E. Gill | V.J. Power | P.V. Maher | E. MacNeill | N. OSullivan | S.OCroinin | J.B. Somerville | C. Widger | J. Cahir | A.J. Johnston | |||||||||||
E.M. Fitzgerald | L.A. Kennedy | S. ORiordan | K.P. Allen | M.J. Ward | J.W. Yarr | M.F. Barr | M. Dale | M. Traynor | M. Rasdale |
Consultants: J.R. Osborne S.W Haughey T.V. OConnor Professor J.C.W. Wylie A.F. Browne M.A. Greene A.V. Fanagan J.A. OFarrell I.B.Moore
documents and certificates of officers of the Company and of public officials as to factual matters and have conducted such searches in public registries in Ireland as we have deemed necessary or appropriate for the purposes of this opinion but have made no independent investigation regarding such factual matters. In our examination we have assumed the truth and accuracy of the information contained in such documents, the genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as certified or photostatic copies and the authenticity of the originals of such documents.
We have further assumed that none of the resolutions and authorities of the shareholders or directors of the Company upon which we have relied have been varied, amended or revoked in any respect or have expired and that the Ordinary Shares will be issued in accordance with such resolutions and authorities and the terms of the Plans.
We have assumed the absence of fraud on the part of the Company and its respective officers, employees, agents and advisers.
Having made such further investigation and reviewed such other documents as we have considered requisite or desirable, subject to the foregoing and to the within qualifications and assumptions, and provided that the Registration Statement, as finally amended, has become effective, we are of the opinion that the Ordinary Shares have been duly authorised and when issued in accordance with the Registration Statement, the Plans and the options or other equity awards granted or to be granted thereunder, will be validly issued, fully paid and not subject to calls for any additional payments (non-assessable) (except for Ordinary Shares issued pursuant to deferred payment arrangements, which shall be fully paid upon the satisfaction of such payment obligations).
In rendering this Opinion, we have confined ourselves to matters of Irish law. We express no opinion on any laws other than the laws of Ireland (and the interpretation thereof) in force as at the date hereof.
We hereby consent to the filing of this Opinion with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission as an exhibit to the Registration Statement.
Yours faithfully
/s/ A&L Goodbody
A&L Goodbody
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Exhibit 23.2
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement (Form S-8) pertaining to the 2011 Equity Incentive Plan, the 2007 Equity Incentive Plan, the 2003 Equity Incentive Plan, the 2007 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, the Amended and Restated 2007 Non-Employee Directors Stock Option Plan and the Amended and Restated Directors Deferred Compensation Plan of Jazz Pharmaceuticals Public Limited Company of our reports dated March 8, 2011, with respect to the consolidated financial statements and schedule of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. included in its Annual Report (Form 10-K) for the year ended December 31, 2010, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
Redwood City, California
January 18, 2012
Exhibit 99.1
JAZZ PHARMACEUTICALS PLC
2011 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
1. | GENERAL. |
(a) Relationship to 2007 Plan and 2003 Plan. From and after 12:01 a.m. Pacific time on the Effective Date, all outstanding stock awards granted under the Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2007 Equity Incentive Plan (the 2007 Plan), which was the successor to and continuation of the Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2003 Equity Incentive Plan (the 2003 Plan), will remain subject to the terms of the 2007 Plan or the 2003 Plan, as applicable; provided, however, that any Ordinary Shares subject to outstanding stock awards granted under the 2007 Plan or the 2003 Plan that (i) expire or terminate for any reason prior to exercise or settlement, (ii) are forfeited because of the failure to meet a contingency or condition required to vest such Ordinary Shares or repurchased by the Company or an Affiliate at the original issuance price or (iii) are reacquired by the Company or an Affiliate or withheld (or not issued) to satisfy a tax withholding obligation in connection with an award (the Returning Shares) will immediately be added to the Share Reserve (as further described in Section 3(a) below) as and when such Ordinary Shares become Returning Shares, and become available for issuance pursuant to Awards granted under this Plan.
(b) Eligible Award Recipients. The persons eligible to receive Awards are Employees.
(c) Available Awards. The Plan provides for the grant of the following Awards: (i) Incentive Stock Options, (ii) Nonstatutory Stock Options, (iii) Stock Appreciation Rights (iv) Restricted Stock Awards, (v) Restricted Stock Unit Awards, (vi) Performance Stock Awards, (vii) Performance Cash Awards, and (viii) Other Stock Awards.
(d) Purpose. The Company, by means of the Plan, seeks to secure and retain the services of the group of persons eligible to receive Awards as set forth in Section 1(b), to provide incentives for such persons to exert maximum efforts for the success of the Company and any Affiliate and to provide a means by which such eligible recipients may be given an opportunity to benefit from increases in value of the Ordinary Shares through the granting of Awards.
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2. | ADMINISTRATION. |
(a) Administration by Board. The Board shall administer the Plan unless and until the Board delegates administration of the Plan to a Committee or Committees, as provided in Section 2(c).
(b) Powers of Board. The Board shall have the power, subject to, and within the limitations of, the express provisions of the Plan:
(i) To determine from time to time (A) which of the persons eligible under the Plan shall be granted Awards; (B) when and how each Award shall be granted; (C) what type or combination of types of Award shall be granted; (D) the provisions of each Award granted (which need not be identical), including the time or times when a person shall be permitted to receive cash or Ordinary Shares pursuant to a Stock Award; (E) the number of Ordinary Shares with respect to which a Stock Award shall be granted to each such person; and (F) the Fair Market Value applicable to a Stock Award.
(ii) To construe and interpret the Plan and Awards granted under it, and to establish, amend and revoke rules and regulations for its administration. The Board, in the exercise of this power, may correct any defect, omission or inconsistency in the Plan or in any Stock Award Agreement or in the written terms of a Performance Cash Award, in a manner and to the extent it shall deem necessary or expedient to make the Plan or Award fully effective.
(iii) To settle all controversies regarding the Plan and Awards granted under it.
(iv) To accelerate the time at which an Award may first be exercised or the time during which an Award or any part thereof will vest in accordance with the Plan, notwithstanding the provisions in the Award stating the time at which it may first be exercised or the time during which it will vest.
(v) To effect, at any time and from time to time, with the consent of any adversely affected Participant, (A) the reduction of the exercise price (or strike price) of any outstanding Option or SAR under the Plan, provided this does not reduce the exercise price or strike price below the nominal value of an Ordinary Share; (B) the cancellation of any outstanding Option or SAR under the Plan and the grant in substitution therefor of (1) a new Option or SAR under the Plan or another equity plan of the Company covering the same or a different number of Ordinary Shares, (2) a Restricted Stock Award, (3) a Restricted Stock Unit Award, (4) an Other Stock Award, (5) cash and/or (6) other valuable consideration (as determined by the Board, in its sole discretion); or (C) any other action that is treated as a repricing under generally accepted accounting principles.
(vi) To suspend or terminate the Plan at any time. Suspension or termination of the Plan shall not impair rights and obligations under any Award granted while the Plan is in effect except with the written consent of the affected Participant.
(vii) To amend the Plan in any respect the Board deems necessary or advisable. However, except as provided in Section 9(a) relating to Capitalization Adjustments, to the extent required by applicable law or listing requirements, shareholder approval shall be required for any
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amendment of the Plan that either (A) materially increases the number of Ordinary Shares available for issuance under the Plan, (B) materially expands the class of individuals eligible to receive Awards under the Plan, (C) materially increases the benefits accruing to Participants under the Plan or materially reduces the price at which Ordinary Shares may be issued or purchased under the Plan, (D) materially extends the term of the Plan, or (E) expands the types of Awards available for issuance under the Plan. Except as provided above, rights under any Award granted before amendment of the Plan shall not be impaired by any amendment of the Plan unless (1) the Company requests the consent of the affected Participant, and (2) such Participant consents in writing.
(viii) To submit any amendment to the Plan for shareholder approval, including, but not limited to, amendments to the Plan intended to satisfy the requirements of (A) Section 162(m) of the Code regarding the exclusion of performance-based compensation from the limit on corporate deductibility of compensation paid to Covered Employees, (B) Section 422 of the Code regarding incentive stock options or (C) Rule 16b-3.
(ix) To approve forms of Award Agreements for use under the Plan and to amend the terms of any one or more Awards, including, but not limited to, amendments to provide terms more favorable to the Participant than previously provided in the Award Agreement, subject to any specified limits in the Plan that are not subject to Board discretion; provided, however, that except with respect to amendments that disqualify or impair the status of an Incentive Stock Option, a Participants rights under any Award shall not be impaired by any such amendment unless (A) the Company requests the consent of the affected Participant, and (B) such Participant consents in writing. Notwithstanding the foregoing, subject to the limitations of applicable law, if any, the Board may amend the terms of any one or more Awards without the affected Participants consent if necessary to maintain the qualified status of the Award as an Incentive Stock Option or to bring the Award into compliance with Section 409A of the Code.
(x) Generally, to exercise such powers and to perform such acts as the Board deems necessary or expedient to promote the best interests of the Company and any Affiliates and that are not in conflict with the provisions of the Plan or Awards.
(xi) To adopt such procedures and sub-plans as are necessary or appropriate to permit participation in the Plan by Employees who are foreign nationals or employed outside the United States.
(c) Delegation to Committee.
(i) General. The Board may delegate some or all of the administration of the Plan to a Committee or Committees. If administration of the Plan is delegated to a Committee, the Committee shall have, in connection with the administration of the Plan, the powers theretofore possessed by the Board that have been delegated to the Committee, including the power to delegate to a subcommittee of the Committee any of the administrative powers the Committee is authorized to exercise (and references in the Plan to the Board shall thereafter be to the Committee or subcommittee), subject, however, to such resolutions, not inconsistent with the provisions of the Plan, as may be adopted from time to time by the Board. The Committee may,
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at any time, abolish the subcommittee and/or revest in the Committee any powers delegated to the subcommittee. The Board may retain the authority to concurrently administer the Plan with the Committee and may, at any time, revest in the Board some or all of the powers previously delegated.
(ii) Section 162(m) and Rule 16b-3 Compliance. The Committee may consist solely of two or more Outside Directors, in accordance with Section 162(m) of the Code, or solely of two or more Non-Employee Directors, in accordance with Rule 16b-3.
(d) Delegation to an Officer. The Board may delegate to one or more Officers the authority to do one or both of the following: (i) designate Employees who are providing Continuous Service to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries who are not Officers to be recipients of Options and Stock Appreciation Rights (and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, other Stock Awards) and the terms thereof, and (ii) determine the number of Ordinary Shares to be subject to such Stock Awards granted to such Employees; provided, however, that the Board resolutions regarding such delegation shall specify the total number of Ordinary Shares that may be subject to the Stock Awards granted by such Officer and that such Officer may not grant a Stock Award to himself or herself. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board may not delegate authority to an Officer to determine the Fair Market Value pursuant to Section 13(v)(iii) below.
(e) Effect of Boards Decision. All determinations, interpretations and constructions made by the Board in good faith shall not be subject to review by any person and shall be final, binding and conclusive on all persons.
3. | SHARES SUBJECT TO THE PLAN. |
(a) Share Reserve. Subject to the provisions of Section 9(a) relating to Capitalization Adjustments, the aggregate number of Ordinary Shares that may be issued pursuant to Stock Awards from and after the Effective Date shall not exceed eight million three hundred thirty five thousand two hundred fifty five (8,335,255) Ordinary Shares (the Share Reserve), which number is the sum of (i) five million (5,000,000) Ordinary Shares, plus (ii) an additional number of Ordinary Shares in an amount not to exceed three million three hundred thirty five thousand two hundred fifty five (3,335,255) Ordinary Shares (which number consists of the Returning Shares, if any, as such shares become available from time to time). In addition, the number of Ordinary Shares available for issuance under the Plan shall automatically increase on January 1st of each year for a period of ten (10) years commencing on January 1, 2013 and ending on (and including) January 1, 2022, in an amount equal to the lesser of (i) four and one-half percent (4.5%) of the total number of Ordinary Shares outstanding on December 31st of the preceding calendar year or (ii) five million (5,000,000) Ordinary Shares. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board may act prior to the first day of any calendar year, to provide that there shall be no increase in the Share Reserve for such calendar year or that the increase in the Share Reserve for such calendar year shall be a lesser number of Ordinary Shares than would otherwise occur pursuant to the preceding sentence. For clarity, the Share Reserve in this Section 3(a) is a limitation on the number of Ordinary Shares that may be issued pursuant to the Plan. Accordingly, this Section 3(a) does not limit the granting of Stock Awards except as provided in Section 7(a). Shares may be issued in connection with a merger or acquisition as permitted by, as applicable, NASDAQ Listing Rule 5635(c) or, if applicable, NYSE Listed Company Manual
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Section 303A.08, AMEX Company Guide Section 711 or other applicable rule, and such issuance shall not reduce the number of Ordinary Shares available for issuance under the Plan. Furthermore, if a Stock Award or any portion thereof (i) expires or otherwise terminates without all of the Ordinary Shares covered by such Stock Award having been issued or (ii) is settled in cash (i.e., the Participant receives cash rather than Ordinary Shares), such expiration, termination or settlement shall not reduce (or otherwise offset) the number of Ordinary Shares that may be available for issuance under the Plan.
(b) Reversion of Shares to the Share Reserve. If (i) any Ordinary Shares issued pursuant to a Stock Award are forfeited back to or repurchased by the Company or any Affiliate because of the failure to meet a contingency or condition required for the vesting of such Ordinary Shares, or (ii) any Ordinary Shares are cancelled in accordance with the cancellation and regrant provisions of Section 2(b)(v), then the Ordinary Shares that are forfeited, repurchased or canceled shall revert to and again become available for issuance under the Plan. If any Ordinary Shares subject to a Stock Award are not delivered to a Participant because such Ordinary Shares are withheld for the payment of taxes pursuant to Section 8(g) or a Stock Award is exercised through a reduction of Ordinary Shares subject to the Stock Award (i.e., net exercised) or an appreciation distribution in respect of a Stock Appreciation Right is paid in Ordinary Shares, the number of Ordinary Shares subject to the Stock Award that are not delivered to the Participant shall remain available for subsequent issuance under the Plan. If the exercise price of any Stock Award is satisfied by tendering Ordinary Shares held by the Participant (either by actual delivery or attestation), then the number of Ordinary Shares so tendered shall remain available for issuance under the Plan.
(c) Incentive Stock Option Limit. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 3 and, subject to the provisions of Section 9(a) relating to Capitalization Adjustments, the aggregate maximum number of Ordinary Shares that may be issued pursuant to the exercise of Incentive Stock Options shall be one hundred million (100,000,000) Ordinary Shares.
(d) Section 162(m) Limitation on Annual Grants. Subject to the provisions of Section 9(a) relating to Capitalization Adjustments, at such time as the Company may be subject to the applicable provisions of Section 162(m) of the Code, a maximum of two million (2,000,000) Ordinary Shares subject to Options, Stock Appreciation Rights and Other Stock Awards whose value is determined by reference to an increase over an exercise or strike price of at least one hundred percent (100%) of the Fair Market Value on the date any such Stock Award is granted may be granted to any Participant during any calendar year. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any additional Options, Stock Appreciation Rights or Other Stock Awards whose value is determined by reference to an increase over an exercise or strike price of at least one hundred percent (100%) of the Fair Market Value on the date the Stock Awards are granted to any Participant during any calendar year, compensation attributable to the exercise of such additional Stock Awards shall not satisfy the requirements to be considered qualified performance-based compensation under Section 162(m) of the Code unless such additional Stock Awards are approved by the Companys shareholders.
(e) Source of Shares. The shares issuable under the Plan shall be authorized but unissued or reacquired Ordinary Shares, including Ordinary Shares repurchased by the Company or any Affiliate on the open market or otherwise.
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4. | ELIGIBILITY. |
(a) Eligibility for Specific Stock Awards. Incentive Stock Options may be granted only to employees of the Company or a parent corporation or subsidiary corporation thereof (as such terms are defined in Sections 424(e) and (f) of the Code). Stock Awards other than Incentive Stock Options may be granted to Employees; provided, however, that Nonstatutory Stock Options and SARs may not be granted to Employees who are providing Continuous Service only to any parent of the Company, as such term is defined in Rule 405 promulgated under the Securities Act, unless the Ordinary Shares underlying such Stock Awards are treated as service recipient stock under Section 409A of the Code because the Stock Awards are granted pursuant to a corporate transaction (such as a spin off transaction) or unless such Stock Awards comply with the distribution requirements of Section 409A of the Code.
(b) Ten Percent Shareholders. A Ten Percent Shareholder shall not be granted an Incentive Stock Option unless the exercise price of such Option is at least one hundred ten percent (110%) of the Fair Market Value on the date of grant and the Option is not exercisable after the expiration of five (5) years from the date of grant.
5. | PROVISIONS RELATING TO OPTIONS AND STOCK APPRECIATION RIGHTS. |
Each Option or SAR shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as the Board shall deem appropriate. All Options shall be separately designated Incentive Stock Options or Nonstatutory Stock Options at the time of grant, and, if certificates are issued, a separate certificate or certificates shall be issued for Ordinary Shares purchased on exercise of each type of Option. If an Option is not specifically designated as an Incentive Stock Option, then the Option shall be a Nonstatutory Stock Option. The provisions of separate Options or SARs need not be identical; provided, however, that each Option Agreement or Stock Appreciation Right Agreement shall conform to (through incorporation of provisions hereof by reference in the applicable Award Agreement or otherwise) the substance of each of the following provisions:
(a) Term. Subject to the provisions of Section 4(b) regarding Ten Percent Shareholders, no Option or SAR shall be exercisable after the expiration of ten (10) years from the date of its grant or such shorter period specified in the Award Agreement.
(b) Exercise Price. Subject to the provisions of Section 4(b) regarding Ten Percent Shareholders, the exercise price (or strike price) of each Option or SAR shall be not less than one hundred percent (100%) of the Fair Market Value of the Ordinary Shares subject to the Option or SAR on the date the Option or SAR is granted. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an Option or SAR may be granted with an exercise price (or strike price) lower than one hundred percent (100%) of the Fair Market Value of the Ordinary Shares subject to the Option or SAR if such Option or SAR is granted pursuant to an assumption of or substitution for another option or stock appreciation right pursuant to a Corporate Transaction and in a manner consistent with the provisions of Sections 409A and, if applicable, 424(a) of the Code, provided that in all cases the exercise price is not less than the nominal value of an Ordinary Share. Each SAR will be denominated in Ordinary Share equivalents.
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(c) Purchase Price for Options. The purchase price of Ordinary Shares acquired pursuant to the exercise of an Option shall be paid, to the extent permitted by applicable law and as determined by the Board in its sole discretion, by any combination of the methods of payment set forth below; provided, however, that where Ordinary Shares are issued pursuant to the exercise of an Option the nominal value of each newly issued Ordinary Share is fully paid up. The Board shall have the authority to grant Options that do not permit all of the following methods of payment (or otherwise restrict the ability to use certain methods) and to grant Options that require the consent of the Company to utilize a particular method of payment. The permitted methods of payment are as follows:
(i) by cash, check, bank draft or money order payable to the Company;
(ii) pursuant to a program developed under Regulation T as promulgated by the Federal Reserve Board that, prior to the issuance of the Ordinary Shares subject to the Option, results in either the receipt of cash (or check) by the Company or the receipt of irrevocable instructions to pay the aggregate exercise price to the Company from the sales proceeds;
(iii) by delivery to the Company (either by actual delivery or attestation) of Ordinary Shares;
(iv) if the option is a Nonstatutory Stock Option, by a net exercise arrangement pursuant to which the Company will reduce the number of Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise by the largest whole number of Ordinary Shares with a Fair Market Value that does not exceed the aggregate exercise price; provided, however, that the Company shall accept a cash or other payment from the Participant to the extent of any remaining balance of the aggregate exercise price not satisfied by such reduction in the number of whole Ordinary Shares to be issued; provided, further, that Ordinary Shares will no longer be subject to an Option and will not be exercisable thereafter to the extent that (A) Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise are reduced to pay the exercise price pursuant to the net exercise, (B) Ordinary Shares are delivered to the Participant as a result of such exercise, and (C) Ordinary Shares are withheld to satisfy tax withholding obligations; or
(v) in any other form of legal consideration that may be acceptable to the Board.
(d) Exercise and Payment of a SAR. To exercise any outstanding Stock Appreciation Right, the Participant must provide written notice of exercise to the Company in compliance with the provisions of the Stock Appreciation Right Agreement evidencing such Stock Appreciation Right. The appreciation distribution payable on the exercise of a Stock Appreciation Right will be not greater than an amount equal to the excess of (A) the aggregate Fair Market Value (on the date of the exercise of the Stock Appreciation Right) of a number of Ordinary Shares equal to the number of Ordinary Share equivalents in which the Participant is vested under such Stock Appreciation Right, and with respect to which the Participant is exercising the Stock Appreciation Right on such date, over (B) the strike price that will be determined by the Board at the time of grant of the Stock Appreciation Right. The appreciation distribution in respect to a Stock Appreciation Right may be paid in Ordinary Shares, in cash, in
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any combination of the two or in any other form of consideration, as determined by the Board and contained in the Stock Appreciation Right Agreement evidencing such Stock Appreciation Right; provided, however, that where Ordinary Shares are issued pursuant to a Stock Appreciation Right the nominal value of each newly issued Ordinary Share is fully paid up.
(e) Transferability of Options and SARs. The Board may, in its sole discretion, impose such limitations on the transferability of Options and SARs as the Board shall determine. In the absence of such a determination by the Board to the contrary, the following restrictions on the transferability of Options and SARs shall apply:
(i) Restrictions on Transfer. An Option or SAR shall not be transferable except by will or by the laws of descent and distribution and shall be exercisable during the lifetime of the Participant only by the Participant; provided, however, that the Board may, in its sole discretion, permit transfer of the Option or SAR in a manner that is not prohibited by applicable tax and securities laws upon the Participants request. Except as explicitly provided herein, neither an Option nor a SAR may be transferred for consideration.
(ii) Domestic Relations Orders. Subject to the approval of the Board or a duly authorized Officer, an Option or SAR may be transferred pursuant to the terms of a domestic relations order, official marital settlement agreement or other divorce or separation instrument as permitted by Treasury Regulation 1.421-1(b)(2). If an Option is an Incentive Stock Option, such Option may be deemed to be a Nonstatutory Stock Option as a result of such transfer.
(iii) Beneficiary Designation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Participant may, by delivering written notice to the Company, in a form provided by or otherwise satisfactory to the Company and any broker designated by the Company to effect Option exercises, designate a third party who, in the event of the death of the Participant, shall thereafter be entitled to exercise the Option or SAR and receive the Ordinary Shares or other consideration resulting from such exercise. In the absence of such a designation, the executor or administrator of the Participants estate shall be entitled to exercise the Option or SAR and receive the Ordinary Shares or other consideration resulting from such exercise.
(f) Vesting Generally. The total number of Ordinary Shares subject to an Option or SAR may vest and therefore become exercisable in periodic installments that may or may not be equal. The Option or SAR may be subject to such other terms and conditions on the time or times when it may or may not be exercised (which may be based on the satisfaction of Performance Goals or other criteria) as the Board may deem appropriate. The vesting provisions of individual Options or SARs may vary. The provisions of this Section 5(f) are subject to any Option or SAR provisions governing the minimum number of Ordinary Shares as to which an Option or SAR may be exercised.
(g) Termination of Continuous Service. Except as otherwise provided in the applicable Award Agreement or other agreement between the Participant and the Company or any Affiliate, if a Participants Continuous Service terminates (other than for Cause or upon the Participants death or Disability), the Participant may exercise his or her Option or SAR (to the extent that the Participant was entitled to exercise such Award as of the date of termination of
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Continuous Service) but only within such period of time ending on the earlier of (i) the date three (3) months following the termination of the Participants Continuous Service (or such longer or shorter period specified in the applicable Award Agreement), or (ii) the expiration of the term of the Option or SAR as set forth in the Award Agreement. If, after termination of Continuous Service, the Participant does not exercise his or her Option or SAR within the time specified herein or in the Award Agreement (as applicable), the Option or SAR shall terminate.
(h) Extension of Termination Date. If the exercise of an Option or SAR following the termination of the Participants Continuous Service (other than upon the Participants death or Disability) would be prohibited at any time solely because the issuance of Ordinary Shares would violate the registration requirements under the Securities Act, then the Option or SAR shall terminate on the earlier of (i) the expiration of a total period of three (3) months (that need not be consecutive) after the termination of the Participants Continuous Service (other than for Cause) during which the exercise of the Option or SAR would not be in violation of such registration requirements or five (5) days (that need not be consecutive) after the termination of the Participants Continuous Service for Cause, as applicable, or (ii) the expiration of the term of the Option or SAR as set forth in the applicable Award Agreement. In addition, unless otherwise provided in a Participants Award Agreement, if the immediate sale of any Ordinary Shares received upon exercise of an Option or SAR following the termination of the Participants Continuous Service (other than for Cause) would violate the Companys insider trading policy, then the Option or SAR shall terminate on the earlier of (i) the expiration of a period equal to the applicable post-termination exercise period after the termination of the Participants Continuous Service during which the sale of the Ordinary Shares received upon exercise of the Option or SAR would not be in violation of the Companys insider trading policy, or (ii) the expiration of the term of the Option or SAR as set forth in the applicable Award Agreement.
(i) Disability of Participant. Except as otherwise provided in the applicable Award Agreement or other agreement between the Participant and the Company or any Affiliate, if a Participants Continuous Service terminates as a result of the Participants Disability, the Participant may exercise his or her Option or SAR (to the extent that the Participant was entitled to exercise such Option or SAR as of the date of termination of Continuous Service), but only within such period of time ending on the earlier of (i) the date twelve (12) months following such termination of Continuous Service (or such longer or shorter period specified in the Award Agreement), or (ii) the expiration of the term of the Option or SAR as set forth in the Award Agreement. If, after termination of Continuous Service, the Participant does not exercise his or her Option or SAR within the time specified herein or in the Award Agreement (as applicable), the Option or SAR (as applicable) shall terminate.
(j) Death of Participant. Except as otherwise provided in the applicable Award Agreement or other agreement between the Participant and the Company or any Affiliate, if (i) a Participants Continuous Service terminates as a result of the Participants death, or (ii) the Participant dies within the period (if any) specified in the Award Agreement for exercisability after the termination of the Participants Continuous Service (for a reason other than death), then the Option or SAR may be exercised (to the extent the Participant was entitled to exercise such Option or SAR as of the date of death) by the Participants estate, by a person who acquired the right to exercise the Option or SAR by bequest or inheritance or by a person designated to exercise the Option or SAR upon the Participants death, but only within the period ending on
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the earlier of (i) the date eighteen (18) months following the date of death (or such longer or shorter period specified in the Award Agreement), or (ii) the expiration of the term of such Option or SAR as set forth in the Award Agreement. If, after the Participants death, the Option or SAR is not exercised within the time specified herein or in the Award Agreement (as applicable), the Option or SAR shall terminate.
(k) Termination for Cause. Except as explicitly provided otherwise in a Participants Award Agreement or other individual written agreement between the Company or any Affiliate and the Participant, if a Participants Continuous Service is terminated for Cause, the Participant may exercise his or her Option or SAR (to the extent that the Participant was entitled to exercise such Award as of the date of termination of Continuous Service) but only within such period of time ending on the earlier of (i) the date five (5) days following the termination of the Participants Continuous Service (or such longer or shorter period specified in the applicable Award Agreement), or (ii) the expiration of the term of the Option or SAR as set forth in the Award Agreement. If, after termination of Continuous Service, the Participant does not exercise his or her Option or SAR within the time specified herein or in the Award Agreement (as applicable), the Option or SAR shall terminate.
(l) Non-Exempt Employees. No Option or SAR, whether or not vested, granted to an Employee who is a non-exempt employee for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, shall be first exercisable for any Ordinary Shares until at least six months following the date of grant of the Option or SAR. Notwithstanding the foregoing, consistent with the provisions of the Worker Economic Opportunity Act, (i) in the event of the Participants death or Disability, (ii) upon a Corporate Transaction in which such Option or SAR is not assumed, continued, or substituted, (iii) upon a Change in Control, or (iv) upon the Participants retirement (as such term may be defined in the Participants Award Agreement or in another applicable agreement or in accordance with the Companys (or Affiliates, if applicable) then current employment policies and guidelines), any such vested Options and SARs may be exercised earlier than six months following the date of grant. The foregoing provision is intended to operate so that any income derived by a non-exempt employee in connection with the exercise or vesting of an Option or SAR will be exempt from his or her regular rate of pay.
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6. | PROVISIONS OF STOCK AWARDS OTHER THAN OPTIONS AND SARS. |
(a) Restricted Stock Awards. Each Restricted Stock Award Agreement shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as the Board shall deem appropriate. To the extent consistent with the Companys Bylaws, at the Boards election, Ordinary Shares may be (i) held in book entry form subject to the Companys instructions until any restrictions relating to the Restricted Stock Award lapse; or (ii) evidenced by a certificate, which certificate shall be held in such form and manner as determined by the Board. The terms and conditions of Restricted Stock Award Agreements may change from time to time, and the terms and conditions of separate Restricted Stock Award Agreements need not be identical; provided, however, that each Restricted Stock Award Agreement shall conform to (through incorporation of the provisions hereof by reference in the agreement or otherwise) the substance of each of the following provisions:
(i) Consideration. A Restricted Stock Award may be awarded in consideration for (A) cash, check, bank draft or money order payable to the Company, (B) past services to the Company or an Affiliate, or (C) any other form of legal consideration (including future services) that may be acceptable to the Board, in its sole discretion, and permissible under applicable law; provided, however, that where Ordinary Shares are issued pursuant to a Restricted Stock Award the nominal value of each newly issued Ordinary Share is fully paid up.
(ii) Vesting. Ordinary Shares awarded under a Restricted Stock Award Agreement may be subject to forfeiture to the Company in accordance with a vesting schedule to be determined by the Board.
(iii) Termination of Participants Continuous Service. If a Participants Continuous Service terminates, the Company or any Affiliate may receive through a forfeiture condition or a repurchase right any or all of the Ordinary Shares held by the Participant that have not vested as of the date of termination of Continuous Service under the terms of the Restricted Stock Award Agreement.
(iv) Transferability. Rights to acquire Ordinary Shares under the Restricted Stock Award Agreement shall be transferable by the Participant only upon such terms and conditions as are set forth in the Restricted Stock Award Agreement, as the Board shall determine in its sole discretion, so long as the Ordinary Shares awarded under the Restricted Stock Award Agreement remain subject to the terms of the Restricted Stock Award Agreement.
(v) Dividends. A Restricted Stock Award Agreement may provide that any dividends paid on Restricted Stock will be subject to the same vesting and forfeiture restrictions as apply to the Ordinary Shares subject to the Restricted Stock Award to which they relate.
(b) Restricted Stock Unit Awards. Each Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as the Board shall deem appropriate. The terms and conditions of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreements may change from time to time, and the terms and conditions of separate Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreements need not be identical; provided, however, that each Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement shall conform to (through incorporation of the provisions hereof by reference in the Agreement or otherwise) the substance of each of the following provisions:
(i) Consideration. At the time of grant of a Restricted Stock Unit Award, the Board will determine the consideration, if any, to be paid by the Participant upon delivery of each Ordinary Share subject to the Restricted Stock Unit Award. The consideration to be paid (if any) by the Participant for each Ordinary Share subject to a Restricted Stock Unit Award may be paid in any form of legal consideration that may be acceptable to the Board, in its sole discretion, and permissible under applicable law; provided, however, that where Ordinary Shares are issued pursuant to a Restricted Stock Unit Award the nominal value of each newly issued Ordinary Share is fully paid up.
(ii) Vesting. At the time of the grant of a Restricted Stock Unit Award, the Board may impose such restrictions on or conditions to the vesting of the Restricted Stock Unit Award as it, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate.
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(iii) Payment. A Restricted Stock Unit Award may be settled by the delivery of Ordinary Shares, their cash equivalent, any combination thereof or in any other form of consideration, as determined by the Board and contained in the Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement.
(iv) Additional Restrictions. At the time of the grant of a Restricted Stock Unit Award, the Board, as it deems appropriate, may impose such restrictions or conditions that delay the delivery of the Ordinary Shares (or their cash equivalent) subject to a Restricted Stock Unit Award to a time after the vesting of such Restricted Stock Unit Award.
(v) Dividend Equivalents. Dividend equivalents may be credited in respect of Ordinary Shares covered by a Restricted Stock Unit Award, as determined by the Board and contained in the Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement. At the sole discretion of the Board, such dividend equivalents may be converted into additional Ordinary Shares covered by the Restricted Stock Unit Award in such manner as determined by the Board. Any additional Ordinary Shares covered by the Restricted Stock Unit Award credited by reason of such dividend equivalents will be subject to all of the same terms and conditions of the underlying Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement to which they relate.
(vi) Termination of Participants Continuous Service. Except as otherwise provided in the applicable Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement, such portion of the Restricted Stock Unit Award that has not vested will be forfeited upon the Participants termination of Continuous Service.
(c) Performance Awards.
(i) Performance Stock Awards. A Performance Stock Award is a Stock Award that may be granted, may vest or may be exercised contingent upon the attainment during a Performance Period of certain Performance Goals. A Performance Stock Award may, but need not, require the completion of a specified period of Continuous Service. The length of any Performance Period, the Performance Goals to be achieved during the Performance Period, and the measure of whether and to what degree such Performance Goals have been attained with respect to a Performance Stock Award shall be conclusively determined by the Committee, in its sole discretion; provided, however, that the Board also may make any such determinations to the extent that the Performance Stock Award is not intended to comply with Section 162(m) of the Code. The maximum number of Ordinary Shares covered by an Award that may be granted to any Participant in a calendar year attributable to Performance Stock Awards (whether the grant, vesting or exercise is contingent upon the attainment during a Performance Period of the Performance Goals) shall not exceed two million (2,000,000) Ordinary Shares. The Board may provide for or, subject to such terms and conditions as the Board may specify, may permit a Participant to elect for, the payment of any Performance Stock Award to be deferred to a specified date or event. In addition, to the extent permitted by applicable law and the applicable Award Agreement, the Board may determine that cash may be used in payment of Performance Stock Awards.
(ii) Performance Cash Awards. A Performance Cash Award is a cash award that may be paid contingent upon the attainment during a Performance Period of certain
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Performance Goals. A Performance Cash Award may, but need not, require the completion of a specified period of Continuous Service. The length of any Performance Period, the Performance Goals to be achieved during the Performance Period, and the measure of whether and to what degree such Performance Goals have been attained with respect to a Performance Cash Award shall be conclusively determined by the Committee, in its sole discretion; provided, however, that the Board also may make any such determinations to the extent that the Performance Cash Award is not intended to comply with Section 162(m) of the Code. The maximum value that may be paid to any Participant in a calendar year pursuant to Performance Cash Awards shall not exceed fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000). The Board may provide for or, subject to such terms and conditions as the Board may specify, may permit a Participant to elect for, the payment of any Performance Cash Award to be deferred to a specified date or event. The Board may specify the form of payment of Performance Cash Awards, which may be cash or other property, or may provide for a Participant to have the option for his or her Performance Cash Award, or such portion thereof as the Board may specify, to be paid in whole or in part in cash or other property.
(iii) Committee and Board Discretion. The Committee retains the discretion to reduce or eliminate the compensation or economic benefit due upon the attainment of any Performance Goals and to define the manner of calculating the Performance Criteria it selects to use for a Performance Period with respect to a Performance Stock Award or Performance Cash Award; provided, however, that the Board also retains any such discretion to the extent that the Performance Stock Award or Performance Cash Award is not intended to comply with Section 162(m) of the Code.
(iv) Section 162(m) Compliance. Unless otherwise permitted in compliance with the requirements of Section 162(m) of the Code with respect to an Award intended to qualify as performance-based compensation thereunder, the Committee shall establish the Performance Goals applicable to, and the formula for calculating the amount payable under, the Award no later than the earlier of (a) the date ninety (90) days after the commencement of the applicable Performance Period, or (b) the date on which twenty-five percent (25%) of the Performance Period has elapsed, and in either event at a time when the achievement of the applicable Performance Goals remains substantially uncertain. Prior to the payment of any compensation under an Award intended to qualify as performance-based compensation under Section 162(m) of the Code, the Committee shall certify the extent to which any Performance Goals and any other material terms under such Award have been satisfied (other than in cases where such relate solely to the increase in the value of the Ordinary Shares). Notwithstanding the satisfaction of any Performance Goals, to the extent specified at the time of grant of an Award to any covered employee within the meaning of Section 162(m) of the Code that is intended to qualify as performance-based compensation thereunder, the number of Ordinary Shares, Options, cash or other benefits granted, issued, retainable and/or vested under the Award on account of the satisfaction of such Performance Goals may be reduced by the Committee on the basis of such further considerations as the Committee, in its sole discretion, shall determine.
(d) Other Stock Awards. Other forms of Stock Awards valued in whole or in part by reference to, or otherwise based on, Ordinary Shares, including the appreciation in value thereof (e.g., options or share rights with an exercise price or strike price less than 100% of the Fair Market Value of the Ordinary Shares at the time of grant) may be granted either alone or in
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addition to Stock Awards provided for under Section 5 and the preceding provisions of this Section 6. Subject to the provisions of the Plan, the Board shall have sole and complete authority to determine the persons to whom and the time or times at which such Other Stock Awards will be granted, the number of Ordinary Shares (or the cash equivalent thereof) to be granted pursuant to such Other Stock Awards and all other terms and conditions of such Other Stock Awards; provided, however, that where Ordinary Shares are issued pursuant to an Other Stock Award the nominal value of each newly issued Ordinary Share is fully paid up.
7. | COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY. |
(a) Availability of Shares. During the terms of the Stock Awards, the Company shall keep available at all times the number of Ordinary Shares reasonably required to satisfy such Stock Awards.
(b) Securities Law Compliance. The Company shall seek to obtain from each regulatory commission or agency having jurisdiction over the Plan such authority as may be required to grant Stock Awards and to issue and sell Ordinary Shares upon exercise of the Stock Awards; provided, however, that this undertaking shall not require the Company to register under the Securities Act the Plan, any Stock Award or any Ordinary Shares issued or issuable pursuant to any such Stock Award. If, after reasonable efforts, the Company is unable to obtain from any such regulatory commission or agency the authority that counsel for the Company deems necessary for the lawful issuance and sale of Ordinary Shares under the Plan, the Company shall be relieved from any liability for failure to issue and sell Ordinary Shares upon exercise of such Stock Awards unless and until such authority is obtained. A Participant shall not be eligible for the grant of a Stock Award or the subsequent issuance of Ordinary Shares pursuant to the Stock Award if such grant or issuance would be in violation of any applicable securities law.
(c) No Obligation to Notify or Minimize Taxes. The Company and any Affiliates shall have no duty or obligation to any Participant to advise such holder as to the time or manner of exercising a Stock Award. Furthermore, the Company and any Affiliates shall have no duty or obligation to warn or otherwise advise such holder of a pending termination or expiration of a Stock Award or a possible period in which the Stock Award may not be exercised. The Company and any Affiliates have no duty or obligation to minimize the tax consequences of a Stock Award to the holder of such Stock Award.
8. | MISCELLANEOUS. |
(a) Use of Proceeds from Sales of Ordinary Shares. Proceeds from the sale of Ordinary Shares pursuant to Stock Awards shall constitute general funds of the Company.
(b) Corporate Action Constituting Grant of Stock Awards. Corporate action constituting a grant by the Company of a Stock Award to any Participant shall be deemed completed as of the date of such corporate action, unless otherwise determined by the Board, regardless of when the instrument, certificate, or letter evidencing the Stock Award is communicated to, or actually received or accepted by, the Participant.
(c) Shareholder Rights. No Participant shall be deemed to be the holder of, or to have any of the rights of a holder with respect to, any Ordinary Shares subject to such Stock
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Award unless and until (i) such Participant has satisfied all requirements for exercise of the Stock Award pursuant to its terms, if applicable, and (ii) the issuance of the Ordinary Shares subject to such Stock Award has been entered into the books and records of the Company.
(d) No Employment or Other Service Rights. Nothing in the Plan, any Stock Award Agreement or any other instrument executed thereunder or in connection with any Award granted pursuant thereto shall confer upon any Participant any right to continue to serve the Company or an Affiliate in the capacity in effect at the time the Stock Award was granted or shall affect the right of the Company or an Affiliate to terminate the employment of an Employee with or without notice and with or without cause.
(e) Incentive Stock Option $100,000 Limitation. To the extent that the aggregate Fair Market Value (determined at the time of grant) of Ordinary Shares with respect to which Incentive Stock Options are exercisable for the first time by any Optionholder during any calendar year (under all plans of the Company and any Affiliates) exceeds one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), the Options or portions thereof that exceed such limit (according to the order in which they were granted) shall be treated as Nonstatutory Stock Options, notwithstanding any contrary provision of the applicable Option Agreement(s).
(f) Investment Assurances. The Company may require a Participant, as a condition of exercising or acquiring Ordinary Shares under any Stock Award, (i) to give written assurances satisfactory to the Company as to the Participants knowledge and experience in financial and business matters and/or to employ a purchaser representative reasonably satisfactory to the Company who is knowledgeable and experienced in financial and business matters and that he or she is capable of evaluating, alone or together with the purchaser representative, the merits and risks of exercising the Stock Award; and (ii) to give written assurances satisfactory to the Company stating that the Participant is acquiring Ordinary Shares subject to the Stock Award for the Participants own account and not with any present intention of selling or otherwise distributing the Ordinary Shares. The foregoing requirements, and any assurances given pursuant to such requirements, shall be inoperative if (A) the issuance of the Ordinary Shares upon the exercise or acquisition of Ordinary Shares under the Stock Award has been registered under a then currently effective registration statement under the Securities Act, or (B) as to any particular requirement, a determination is made by counsel for the Company that such requirement need not be met in the circumstances under the then applicable securities laws. The Company may, upon advice of counsel to the Company, place legends on share certificates issued under the Plan as such counsel deems necessary or appropriate in order to comply with applicable securities laws, including, but not limited to, legends restricting the transfer of the Ordinary Shares.
(g) Withholding Obligations. Unless prohibited by the terms of a Stock Award Agreement, the Company or an Affiliate may, in its sole discretion, satisfy any federal, state, local or foreign tax withholding obligation relating to an Award by any of the following means or by a combination of such means: (i) causing the Participant to tender a cash payment; (ii) withholding Ordinary Shares from the Ordinary Shares issued or otherwise issuable to the Participant in connection with the Award; provided, however, that no Ordinary Shares are withheld with a value exceeding the minimum amount of tax required to be withheld by law (or such lesser amount as may be necessary to avoid classification of the Stock Award as a liability
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for financial accounting purposes); (iii) withholding cash from an Award settled in cash; (iv) withholding payment from any amounts otherwise payable to the Participant; or (v) by such other method as may be set forth in the Award Agreement.
(h) Electronic Delivery. Any reference herein to a written agreement or document shall include any agreement or document delivered electronically or posted on the Companys (or Affiliates, if applicable) intranet (or other shared electronic medium controlled by the Company (or Affiliate, if applicable) to which the Participant has access).
(i) Deferrals. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Board, in its sole discretion, may determine that the delivery of Ordinary Shares or the payment of cash, upon the exercise, vesting or settlement of all or a portion of any Award may be deferred and may establish programs and procedures for deferral elections to be made by Participants. Deferrals by Participants will be made in accordance with Section 409A of the Code. Consistent with Section 409A of the Code, the Board may provide for distributions while a Participant is still an employee or otherwise providing services to the Company or an Affiliate. The Board is authorized to make deferrals of Awards and determine when, and in what annual percentages, Participants may receive payments, including lump sum payments, following the Participants termination of Continuous Service, and implement such other terms and conditions consistent with the provisions of the Plan and in accordance with applicable law.
(j) Compliance with Section 409A. To the extent that the Board determines that any Award granted hereunder is subject to Section 409A of the Code, the Award Agreement evidencing such Award shall incorporate the terms and conditions necessary to avoid the consequences specified in Section 409A(a)(1) of the Code. To the extent applicable, the Plan and Award Agreements shall be interpreted in accordance with Section 409A of the Code. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Plan (and unless the Award Agreement specifically provides otherwise), if the Ordinary Shares are publicly traded and a Participant holding an Award that constitutes deferred compensation under Section 409A of the Code is a specified employee for purposes of Section 409A of the Code, no distribution or payment of any amount shall be made upon a separation from service before a date that is six (6) months following the date of such Participants separation from service (as defined in Section 409A of the Code without regard to alternative definitions thereunder) or, if earlier, the date of the Participants death.
(k) Clawback Policy. Any amounts paid hereunder shall be subject to recoupment in accordance with any clawback policy that the Company is required to adopt pursuant to the listing standards of any national securities exchange or association on which the Companys securities are listed or as is otherwise required by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act or other applicable law.
9. | ADJUSTMENTS UPON CHANGES IN ORDINARY SHARES; OTHER CORPORATE EVENTS. |
(a) Capitalization Adjustments. In the event of a Capitalization Adjustment, the Board shall appropriately and proportionately adjust: (i) the class(es) and maximum number of securities subject to the Plan pursuant to Section 3(a); (ii) the class(es) and maximum number of securities by which the Share Reserve is to increase automatically each year pursuant to Section
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3(a); (iii) the class(es) and maximum number of securities that may be issued pursuant to the exercise of Incentive Stock Options pursuant to Section 3(c); (iv) the class(es) and maximum number of securities that may be awarded to any person pursuant to Sections 3(d) and 6(c)(i); and (v) the class(es) and number of securities and price per Ordinary Share subject to outstanding Stock Awards. The Board shall make such adjustments, and its determination shall be final, binding and conclusive.
(b) Dissolution or Liquidation. Except as otherwise provided in a Stock Award Agreement, in the event of a dissolution or liquidation of the Company, all outstanding Stock Awards (other than Stock Awards consisting of vested and outstanding Ordinary Shares not subject to a forfeiture condition or the Companys or any Affiliates right of repurchase) shall terminate immediately prior to the completion of such dissolution or liquidation, and any Ordinary Shares subject to the Companys or any Affiliates repurchase rights or subject to a forfeiture condition may be repurchased or reacquired by the Company or Affiliate notwithstanding the fact that the holder of such Stock Award is providing Continuous Service; provided, however, that the Board may, in its sole discretion, cause some or all Stock Awards to become fully vested, exercisable and/or no longer subject to repurchase or forfeiture (to the extent such Stock Awards have not previously expired or terminated) before the dissolution or liquidation is completed but contingent on its completion.
(c) Corporate Transaction. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, the Board may take one or more of the following actions in the event of a Corporate Transaction with respect to Stock Awards, contingent upon the closing or completion of the Corporate Transaction, unless otherwise provided in the instrument evidencing the Stock Award or any other written agreement between the Company or any Affiliate and the Participant or unless otherwise expressly provided by the Board at the time of grant of a Stock Award:
(i) arrange for the surviving corporation or acquiring corporation (or the surviving or acquiring corporations parent company) to assume or continue the Stock Award or to substitute a similar stock award for the Stock Award (including, but not limited to, an award to acquire the same consideration paid to the shareholders of the Company pursuant to the Corporate Transaction);
(ii) arrange for the assignment of any reacquisition or repurchase rights held by the Company or any Affiliate in respect of Ordinary Shares issued pursuant to the Stock Award to the surviving corporation or acquiring corporation (or the surviving or acquiring corporations parent company);
(iii) accelerate the vesting, in whole or in part, of the Stock Award (and, if applicable, the time at which the Stock Award may be exercised) to a date prior to the effective time of such Corporate Transaction as the Board shall determine (or, if the Board shall not determine such a date, to the date that is five (5) days prior to the effective date of the Corporate Transaction), with such Stock Award terminating if not exercised (if applicable) at or prior to the effective time of the Corporate Transaction;
(iv) arrange for the lapse of any reacquisition or repurchase rights held by the Company or any Affiliate with respect to the Stock Award;
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(v) cancel or arrange for the cancellation of the Stock Award, to the extent not vested or not exercised prior to the effective time of the Corporate Transaction, in exchange for such cash consideration, if any, as the Board, in its sole discretion, may consider appropriate; or
(vi) make a payment, in such form as may be determined by the Board equal to the excess, if any, of (A) the value of the property the Participant would have received upon the exercise of the Stock Award, over (B) any exercise price payable by such holder in connection with such exercise.
The Board need not take the same action or actions with respect to all Stock Awards or portions thereof or with respect to all Participants.
(d) Change in Control. A Stock Award may be subject to additional acceleration of vesting and exercisability upon or after a Change in Control as may be provided in the Stock Award Agreement for such Stock Award or as may be provided in any other written agreement between the Company or any Affiliate and the Participant, but in the absence of such provision, no such acceleration shall occur.
10. | TERMINATION OR SUSPENSION OF THE PLAN. |
(a) Plan Term. The Board may suspend or terminate the Plan at any time. No Incentive Stock Option will be granted after October 24, 2021. No Awards may be granted under the Plan while the Plan is suspended or after it is terminated.
(b) No Impairment of Rights. Suspension or termination of the Plan shall not impair rights and obligations under any Award granted while the Plan is in effect except with the written consent of the affected Participant.
11. | EFFECTIVE DATE OF PLAN. |
This Plan shall become effective on the Effective Date.
12. | CHOICE OF LAW. |
The laws of the State of Delaware shall govern all questions concerning the construction, validity and interpretation of this Plan, without regard to that states conflict of laws rules.
13. | DEFINITIONS. As used in the Plan, the following definitions shall apply to the capitalized terms indicated below: |
(a) Affiliate means, at the time of determination, any parent or subsidiary of the Company as such terms are defined in Rule 405 promulgated under the Securities Act. The Board shall have the authority to determine the time or times at which parent or subsidiary status is determined within the foregoing definition.
(b) Award means a Stock Award or a Performance Cash Award.
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(c) Award Agreement means a written agreement between the Company and a Participant evidencing the terms and conditions of an Award.
(d) Board means the Board of Directors of the Company.
(e) Capitalization Adjustment means any change that is made in, or other events that occur with respect to, the Ordinary Shares subject to the Plan or subject to any Stock Award after the Effective Date without the receipt of consideration by the Company through merger, consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization, reincorporation, share dividend, dividend in property other than cash, large nonrecurring cash dividend, share split, liquidating dividend, combination of shares, exchange of shares, change in corporate structure or any similar equity restructuring transaction, as that term is used in Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic 718 (or any successor thereto), including, for the avoidance of doubt, capitalization of profits or reserves, capital distribution, rights issue, the conversion of one class of share to another or reduction of capital or otherwise. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the conversion of any convertible securities of the Company shall not be treated as a Capitalization Adjustment.
(f) Cause shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in any written agreement between the Participant and the Company or an Affiliate defining such term and, in the absence of such agreement, such term shall mean, with respect to a Participant, the occurrence of any of the following events that has a material negative impact on the business or reputation of the Company or an Affiliate: (i) such Participants commission of any felony or any crime involving fraud, dishonesty or moral turpitude under the laws of the United States or any state thereof; (ii) such Participants attempted commission of, or participation in, a fraud or act of dishonesty against the Company or an Affiliate; (iii) such Participants intentional, material violation of any contract or agreement between the Participant and the Company or an Affiliate or of any statutory duty owed to the Company or an Affiliate; (iv) such Participants unauthorized use or disclosure of the Companys or an Affiliates confidential information or trade secrets; or (v) such Participants gross misconduct. The determination that a termination of the Participants Continuous Service is either for Cause or without Cause shall be made by the Company (or an Affiliate, if applicable) in its sole discretion. Any determination by the Company (or an Affiliate, if applicable) that the Continuous Service of a Participant was terminated with or without Cause for the purposes of outstanding Awards held by such Participant shall have no effect upon any determination of the rights or obligations of the Company or Affiliate or such Participant for any other purpose.
(g) Change in Control means the occurrence, in a single transaction or in a series of related transactions, of any one or more of the following events:
(i) any Exchange Act Person becomes the Owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the combined voting power of the Companys then outstanding securities other than by virtue of a merger, consolidation or similar transaction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Change in Control shall not be deemed to occur (A) on account of the acquisition of securities of the Company by an investor, any affiliate thereof or any other Exchange Act Person that acquires the Companys securities in a transaction or series of related transactions the primary purpose of which is to
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obtain financing for the Company through the issuance of equity securities or (B) solely because the level of Ownership held by any Exchange Act Person (the Subject Person) exceeds the designated percentage threshold of the outstanding voting securities as a result of a repurchase or other acquisition of voting securities by the Company or any Affiliate reducing the number of shares outstanding, provided that if a Change in Control would occur (but for the operation of this sentence) as a result of the acquisition of voting securities by the Company or any Affiliate, and after such share acquisition, the Subject Person becomes the Owner of any additional voting securities that, assuming the repurchase or other acquisition had not occurred, increases the percentage of the then outstanding voting securities Owned by the Subject Person over the designated percentage threshold, then a Change in Control shall be deemed to occur;
(ii) there is consummated a merger, consolidation or similar transaction involving (directly or indirectly) the Company and, immediately after the consummation of such merger, consolidation or similar transaction, the shareholders of the Company immediately prior thereto do not Own, directly or indirectly, either (A) outstanding voting securities representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the combined outstanding voting power of the surviving Entity in such merger, consolidation or similar transaction or (B) more than fifty percent (50%) of the combined outstanding voting power of the parent of the surviving Entity in such merger, consolidation or similar transaction, in each case in substantially the same proportions as their Ownership of the outstanding voting securities of the Company immediately prior to such transaction;
(iii) the shareholders of the Company approve or the Board approves a plan of complete dissolution or liquidation of the Company, or a complete dissolution or liquidation of the Company shall otherwise occur, except for a liquidation into a parent corporation;
(iv) there is consummated a sale, lease, exclusive license or other disposition of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, other than a sale, lease, license or other disposition of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries to an Entity, more than fifty percent (50%) of the combined voting power of the voting securities of which are Owned by shareholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their Ownership of the outstanding voting securities of the Company immediately prior to such sale, lease, license or other disposition; or
(v) individuals who, on the date the Plan is adopted by the Board, are members of the Board (the Incumbent Board) cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority of the members of the Board; provided, however, that if the appointment or election (or nomination for election) of any new Board member was approved or recommended by a majority vote of the members of the Incumbent Board then still in office, such new member shall, for purposes of the Plan, be considered as a member of the Incumbent Board.
For the avoidance of doubt, any one or more of the above events may be effected pursuant to (A) a compromise or arrangement sanctioned by the court under section 201 of the Companies Act 1963 of the Republic of Ireland or (B) section 204 of the Companies Act 1963 of the Republic of Ireland.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Plan, (A) the term Change in Control shall not include (1) a sale of assets, merger or other transaction effected exclusively for the purpose of changing the domicile of the Company or (2) unless the Board determines otherwise, the creation of a new holding company where the Company becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of that holding company and the holding company will be owned in substantially the same proportions by the persons who held the Companys issued shares immediately before such transaction, in which case Stock Awards granted hereunder will be treated as if they were in all respects awards over shares in the holding company but so that (i) the new award shall vest in the same manner as the Stock Award, (ii) the total market value of the new shares subject to the new award shall, immediately after such reorganization, be equal to the total market value of the Ordinary Shares comprised in the Stock Award immediately prior to such reorganization, (iii) the new award shall be subject to performance conditions that shall be at least equivalent (as determined by the Board) to the Performance Goals, if any, attaching to the Stock Award, (iv) the new shares shall have the same rights attaching thereto as the Ordinary Shares, and (v) the new award shall be deemed to have been granted as at the date of grant of the Stock Award, and (B) the definition of Change in Control (or any analogous term) in an individual written agreement between the Company or any Affiliate and the Participant shall supersede the foregoing definition with respect to Awards subject to such agreement; provided, however, that if no definition of Change in Control or any analogous term is set forth in such an individual written agreement, the foregoing definition shall apply.
The Board may, in its sole discretion and without a Participants consent, amend the definition of Change in Control to conform to the definition of Change in Control under Section 409A of the Code, and the regulations thereunder.
(h) Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, including any applicable regulations and guidance thereunder.
(i) Committee means a committee of one (1) or more Directors to whom authority has been delegated by the Board in accordance with Section 2(c).
(j) Company means Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc, a company formed under the laws of Ireland.
(k) Consultant means any person, including an advisor, who is (i) engaged by the Company or an Affiliate to render consulting or advisory services and is compensated for such services, or (ii) serving as a member of the board of directors of an Affiliate and is compensated for such services. However, service solely as a Director, or payment of a fee for such service, shall not cause a Director to be considered a Consultant for purposes of the Plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a person is treated as a Consultant under this Plan only if a Form S-8 Registration Statement under the Securities Act is available to register either the offer or the sale of the Companys securities to such person.
(l) Continuous Service means that the Participants service with the Company or an Affiliate, whether as an Employee, Director or Consultant, is not interrupted or terminated. Except as provided in the following sentence, a change in the capacity in which the Participant renders service to the Company or an Affiliate as an Employee, Consultant or Director or a
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change in the entity for which the Participant renders such service, provided that there is no interruption or termination of the Participants service with the Company or an Affiliate, shall not terminate a Participants Continuous Service; provided, however, if the Entity for which a Participant is rendering services ceases to qualify as an Affiliate, as determined by the Board in its sole discretion, such Participants Continuous Service shall be considered to have terminated on the date such Entity ceases to qualify as an Affiliate. Notwithstanding the foregoing, unless the Board or the Compensation Committee of the Board agrees otherwise in writing, in the event a Participants service as an Employee or Consultant terminates and upon such termination, the only capacity in which the Participant continues to render service to the Company is as a Director, then such Participants Continuous Service shall be considered to have terminated on the date of such termination of employment or termination of service as a Consultant, as the case may be, and regardless of whether such Participant continues to render service to the Company as a Director following such termination. To the extent permitted by law, the Board or the chief executive officer of the Company (or an Affiliate, if applicable), in that partys sole discretion, may determine whether Continuous Service shall be considered interrupted in the case of: (i) any leave of absence approved by the Board or the chief executive officer of the Company (or an Affiliate, if applicable), including sick leave, military leave or any other personal leave; or (ii) transfers between the Company, an Affiliate, or their successors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a leave of absence shall be treated as Continuous Service for purposes of vesting in a Stock Award only to such extent as may be provided in the Companys (or Affiliates, if applicable) leave of absence policy, in the written terms of any leave of absence agreement or policy applicable to the Participant, or as otherwise required by law.
(m) Corporate Transaction means the consummation, in a single transaction or in a series of related transactions, of any one or more of the following events:
(i) a sale or other disposition of all or substantially all, as determined by the Board, in its sole discretion, of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries;
(ii) a sale or other disposition of at least ninety percent (90%) of the outstanding securities of the Company;
(iii) a merger, consolidation or similar transaction following which the Company is not the surviving corporation; or
(iv) a merger, consolidation or similar transaction following which the Company is the surviving corporation but the Ordinary Shares outstanding immediately preceding the merger, consolidation or similar transaction are converted or exchanged by virtue of the merger, consolidation or similar transaction into other property, whether in the form of securities, cash or otherwise.
For the avoidance of doubt, any one or more of the above events may be effected pursuant to (A) a compromise or arrangement sanctioned by the court under section 201 of the Companies Act 1963 of the Republic of Ireland or (B) section 204 of the Companies Act 1963 of the Republic of Ireland.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Plan, unless the Board determines otherwise, the term Corporate Transaction shall not include the creation of a new holding company where the Company becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of that holding company and the holding company will be owned in substantially the same proportions by the persons who held the Companys issued shares immediately before such transaction (in which case Stock Awards granted hereunder will be treated as set out in the second paragraph after part (v) of the definition of Change in Control above).
(n) Covered Employee shall have the meaning provided in Section 162(m)(3) of the Code.
(o) Director means a member of the Board.
(p) Disability means, with respect to a Participant, the inability of such Participant to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than twelve (12) months, as provided in Sections 22(e)(3) and 409A(a)(2)(c)(i) of the Code, and shall be determined by the Board on the basis of such medical evidence as the Board deems warranted under the circumstances.
(q) Effective Date means the effective date of this Plan document, which is January 18, 2012, which is immediately prior to the effective time of the merger between Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Azur Pharma Public Limited Company pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization dated September 19, 2011, provided that the Plan is approved by the stockholders of the Company prior to such merger and such merger is consummated.
(r) Employee means any person employed by the Company or an Affiliate. However, service solely as a Director, or payment of a fee for such services, shall not cause a Director to be considered an Employee for purposes of the Plan.
(s) Entity means a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity.
(t) Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
(u) Exchange Act Person means any natural person, Entity or group (within the meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the Exchange Act), except that Exchange Act Person shall not include (i) the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, (ii) any employee benefit plan of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company or any trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, (iii) an underwriter temporarily holding securities pursuant to a registered public offering of such securities, (iv) an Entity Owned, directly or indirectly, by the shareholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their Ownership of shares of the Company; or (v) any natural person, Entity or group (within the meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the Exchange Act) that, as of the Effective Date, is the Owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the combined voting power of the Companys then outstanding securities.
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(v) Fair Market Value means, as of any date, the value of the Ordinary Shares determined as follows:
(i) If the Ordinary Shares are listed on any established stock exchange or traded on any established market, the Fair Market Value of an Ordinary Share shall be the closing sales price for such Ordinary Share as quoted on such exchange or market (or the exchange or market with the greatest volume of trading in the Ordinary Shares) on the date of determination, as reported in a source the Board deems reliable.
(ii) Unless otherwise provided by the Board, if there is no closing sales price for the Ordinary Shares on the date of determination, then the Fair Market Value shall be the closing selling price on the last preceding date for which such quotation exists.
(iii) In the absence of such markets for the Ordinary Shares, the Fair Market Value shall be determined by the Board in good faith and in a manner that complies with Sections 409A and 422 of the Code.
(w) Incentive Stock Option means an option granted pursuant to Section 5 of the Plan that is intended to be, and qualifies as, an incentive stock option within the meaning of Section 422 of the Code.
(x) Non-Employee Director means a Director who either (i) is not a current employee or officer of the Company or an Affiliate, does not receive compensation, either directly or indirectly, from the Company or an Affiliate for services rendered as a consultant or in any capacity other than as a Director (except for an amount as to which disclosure would not be required under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K promulgated pursuant to the Securities Act (Regulation S-K)), does not possess an interest in any other transaction for which disclosure would be required under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K, and is not engaged in a business relationship for which disclosure would be required pursuant to Item 404(b) of Regulation S-K; or (ii) is otherwise considered a non-employee director for purposes of Rule 16b-3.
(y) Nonstatutory Stock Option means any option granted pursuant to Section 5 of the Plan that does not qualify as an Incentive Stock Option.
(z) Officer means a person who is an officer of the Company within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act.
(aa) Option means an Incentive Stock Option or a Nonstatutory Stock Option to purchase Ordinary Shares granted pursuant to the Plan.
(bb) Option Agreement means a written agreement between the Company and an Optionholder evidencing the terms and conditions of an Option grant. Each Option Agreement shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan.
(cc) Optionholder means a person to whom an Option is granted pursuant to the Plan or, if applicable, such other person who holds an outstanding Option.
(dd) Ordinary Share or Ordinary Shares means the ordinary shares of the Company of nominal value US$0.0001 per share.
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(ee) Other Stock Award means an award based in whole or in part by reference to the Ordinary Shares which is granted pursuant to the terms and conditions of Section 6(d).
(ff) Other Stock Award Agreement means a written agreement between the Company and a holder of an Other Stock Award evidencing the terms and conditions of an Other Stock Award grant. Each Other Stock Award Agreement shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan.
(gg) Outside Director means a Director who either (i) is not a current employee of the Company or an affiliated corporation (within the meaning of Treasury Regulations promulgated under Section 162(m) of the Code), is not a former employee of the Company or an affiliated corporation who receives compensation for prior services (other than benefits under a tax-qualified retirement plan) during the taxable year, has not been an officer of the Company or an affiliated corporation, and does not receive remuneration from the Company or an affiliated corporation, either directly or indirectly, in any capacity other than as a Director, or (ii) is otherwise considered an outside director for purposes of Section 162(m) of the Code.
(hh) Own, Owned, Owner, Ownership A person or Entity shall be deemed to Own, to have Owned, to be the Owner of, or to have acquired Ownership of securities if such person or Entity, directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has or shares voting power, which includes the power to vote or to direct the voting, with respect to such securities.
(ii) Participant means a person to whom an Award is granted pursuant to the Plan or, if applicable, such other person who holds an outstanding Stock Award.
(jj) Performance Cash Award means an award of cash granted pursuant to the terms and conditions of Section 6(c)(ii).
(kk) Performance Criteria means, with respect to a Performance Stock Award or Performance Cash Award, the one or more criteria that the Committee shall select for purposes of establishing the Performance Goals for a Performance Period; provided, however, that the Board also may select any such criteria to the extent that the Performance Stock Award or Performance Cash Award is not intended to comply with Section 162(m) of the Code. The Performance Criteria that shall be used to establish such Performance Goals may be based on any one of, or combination of, the following as determined by the Committee (or Board, if applicable): (i) earnings (including earnings per share and net earnings); (ii) earnings before interest, taxes and depreciation; (iii) earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization; (iv) total shareholder return; (v) return on equity or average shareholders equity; (vi) return on assets, investment, or capital employed; (vii) share price; (viii) margin (including gross margin); (ix) income (before or after taxes); (x) operating income; (xi) operating income after taxes; (xii) pre-tax profit; (xiii) operating cash flow; (xiv) sales or revenue targets (including volume-based measures); (xv) increases in revenue or product revenue; (xvi) expenses and cost reduction goals; (xvii) improvement in or attainment of working capital levels; (xiii) economic value added (or an equivalent metric); (xix) market share; (xx) cash flow; (xxi) cash flow per share; (xxii) share price performance; (xxiii) debt reduction; (xxiv) implementation or completion of projects or processes; (xxv) customer satisfaction; (xxvi) shareholders equity;
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(xxvii) capital expenditures; (xxiii) debt levels; (xxix) operating profit or net operating profit; (xxx) workforce diversity; (xxxi) growth of net income or operating income; (xxxii) billings; and (xxxiii) to the extent that an Award is not intended to comply with Section 162(m) of the Code, other measures of performance selected by the Committee or Board.
(ll) Performance Goals means, with respect to a Performance Stock Award or Performance Cash Award, for a Performance Period, the one or more goals established by the Committee for the Performance Period based upon the Performance Criteria; provided, however, that the Board also may establish any such goals to the extent that the Performance Stock Award or Performance Cash Award is not intended to comply with Section 162(m) of the Code. Performance Goals may be based on a Company-wide basis, with respect to one or more business units, divisions, Affiliates, or business segments, and in either absolute terms or relative to the performance of one or more comparable companies or the performance of one or more relevant indices. Unless specified otherwise by the Committee (or the Board to the extent that an Award is not intended to comply with Section 162(m) of the Code), (i) in the Award Agreement at the time the Award is granted or (ii) in such other document setting forth the Performance Goals at the time the Performance Goals are established, the Committee (or Board, if applicable) shall appropriately make adjustments in the method of calculating the attainment of Performance Goals for a Performance Period as follows: (1) to exclude restructuring and/or other nonrecurring charges; (2) to exclude exchange rate effects, as applicable, for non-U.S. dollar denominated Performance Goals; (3) to exclude the effects of changes to generally accepted accounting principles; (4) to exclude the effects of any statutory adjustments to corporate tax rates; and (5) to exclude the effects of any extraordinary items as determined under generally accepted accounting principles.
(mm) Performance Period means, with respect to a Performance Stock Award or Performance Cash Award, the period of time selected by the Committee over which the attainment of one or more Performance Goals will be measured for the purpose of determining a Participants right to and the payment of the Performance Stock Award or Performance Cash Award; provided, however, that the Board also may select any such period to the extent that the Performance Stock Award or Performance Cash Award is not intended to comply with Section 162(m) of the Code. Performance Periods may be of varying and overlapping duration, at the sole discretion of the Committee (or the Board, if applicable).
(nn) Performance Stock Award means a Stock Award granted under the terms and conditions of Section 6(c)(i).
(oo) Plan means this Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2011 Equity Incentive Plan.
(pp) Restricted Stock Award means an award of Ordinary Shares which is granted pursuant to the terms and conditions of Section 6(a).
(qq) Restricted Stock Award Agreement means a written agreement between the Company and a holder of a Restricted Stock Award evidencing the terms and conditions of a Restricted Stock Award grant. Each Restricted Stock Award Agreement shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan.
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(rr) Restricted Stock Unit Award means a right to receive Ordinary Shares which is granted pursuant to the terms and conditions of Section 6(b).
(ss) Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement means a written agreement between the Company and a holder of a Restricted Stock Unit Award evidencing the terms and conditions of a Restricted Stock Unit Award grant. Each Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan.
(tt) Rule 16b-3 means Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act or any successor to Rule 16b-3, as in effect from time to time.
(uu) Securities Act means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
(vv) Stock Appreciation Right or SAR means a right to receive the appreciation on Ordinary Shares that is granted pursuant to the terms and conditions of Section 5.
(ww) Stock Appreciation Right Agreement means a written agreement between the Company and a holder of a Stock Appreciation Right evidencing the terms and conditions of a Stock Appreciation Right grant. Each Stock Appreciation Right Agreement shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan.
(xx) Stock Award means any right to receive Ordinary Shares granted under the Plan, including an Incentive Stock Option, a Nonstatutory Stock Option, a Restricted Stock Award, a Restricted Stock Unit Award, a Stock Appreciation Right, a Performance Stock Award or any Other Stock Award.
(yy) Stock Award Agreement means a written agreement between the Company and a Participant evidencing the terms and conditions of a Stock Award grant. Each Stock Award Agreement shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan.
(zz) Subsidiary means, with respect to the Company, (i) any corporation of which more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding capital stock having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether, at the time, stock of any other class or classes of such corporation shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency) is at the time, directly or indirectly, Owned by the Company, and (ii) any partnership, limited liability company or other entity in which the Company has a direct or indirect interest (whether in the form of voting or participation in profits or capital contribution) of more than fifty percent (50%).
(aaa) Ten Percent Shareholder means a person who Owns (or is deemed to Own pursuant to Section 424(d) of the Code) shares possessing more than ten percent (10%) of the total combined voting power of all classes of shares of the Company or any Affiliate.
Adopted by the Board of Directors of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on October 24, 2011.
Approved by the stockholders of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on December 12, 2011.
Adopted by the Board of Directors of Azur Pharma plc on December 21, 2011.
Approved by the shareholders of Azur Pharma plc on January 3, 2012.
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Exhibit 99.2
JAZZ PHARMACEUTICALS PLC
2007 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
1. | GENERAL. |
(a) The purpose of the Plan is to provide a means by which Eligible Employees of the Company and certain designated Related Corporations may be given an opportunity to purchase Ordinary Shares. The Plan is intended to permit the Company to grant a series of Purchase Rights to Eligible Employees under an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
(b) The Company, by means of the Plan, seeks to retain the services of such Employees, to secure and retain the services of new Employees and to provide incentives for such persons to exert maximum efforts for the success of the Company and its Related Corporations.
2. | ADMINISTRATION. |
(a) The Board shall administer the Plan unless and until the Board delegates administration of the Plan to a Committee or Committees, as provided in Section 2(c).
(b) The Board shall have the power, subject to, and within the limitations of, the express provisions of the Plan:
(i) To determine how and when Purchase Rights to purchase Ordinary Shares shall be granted and the provisions of each Offering comprised of such Purchase Rights (which need not be identical).
(ii) To designate from time to time which Related Corporations of the Company shall be eligible to participate in the Plan.
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(iii) To construe and interpret the Plan and Purchase Rights, and to establish, amend and revoke rules and regulations for administration of the Plan. The Board, in the exercise of this power, may correct any defect, omission or inconsistency in the Plan, in a manner and to the extent it shall deem necessary or expedient to make the Plan or Purchase Rights fully effective.
(iv) To settle all controversies regarding the Plan and Purchase Rights granted under it.
(v) To suspend or terminate the Plan at any time as provided in Section 13.
(vi) To amend the Plan at any time as provided in Section 13.
(vii) Generally, to exercise such powers and to perform such acts as it deems necessary or expedient to promote the best interests of the Company and its Related Corporations and to carry out the intent that the Plan be treated as an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
(viii) To adopt such procedures and sub-plans as are necessary or appropriate to permit participation in the Plan by Employees who are foreign nationals or employed outside the United States.
(c) The Board may delegate some or all of the administration of the Plan to a Committee or Committees. If administration is delegated to a Committee, the Committee shall have, in connection with the administration of the Plan, the powers theretofore possessed by the Board that have been delegated to the Committee, including the power to delegate to a subcommittee any of the administrative powers the Committee is authorized to exercise (and references in this Plan to the Board shall thereafter be to the Committee or subcommittee), subject, however, to such resolutions, not inconsistent with the provisions of the Plan, as may be adopted from time to time by the Board. The Board may retain the authority to concurrently administer the Plan with the Committee and may, at any time, revest in the Board some or all of the powers previously delegated. Whether or not the Board has delegated administration of the Plan to a Committee, the Board shall have the final power to determine all questions of policy and expediency that may arise in the administration of the Plan.
(d) All determinations, interpretations and constructions made by the Board in good faith shall not be subject to review by any person and shall be final, binding and conclusive on all persons.
3. | ORDINARY SHARES SUBJECT TO THE PLAN. |
(a) Subject to the provisions of Section 12(a) relating to Capitalization Adjustments, the number of Ordinary Shares that may be sold pursuant to Purchase Rights shall not exceed in the aggregate one million two thousand one hundred twenty five (1,002,125) Ordinary Shares. In addition, the number of Ordinary Shares available for issuance under the Plan shall automatically increase on January 1st of each year for a period of ten (10) years commencing on January 1, 2013 and ending on (and including) January 1, 2022, in an amount equal to the lesser of (i) one and one-half percent (1.5%) of the total number of Ordinary Shares outstanding on December 31st of the preceding calendar year or (ii) one million (1,000,000) Ordinary Shares.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board may act prior to the first day of any calendar year, to provide that there shall be no increase in the share reserve for such calendar year or that the increase in the share reserve for such calendar year shall be a lesser number of Ordinary Shares than would otherwise occur pursuant to the preceding sentence.
(b) If any Purchase Right granted under the Plan shall for any reason terminate without having been exercised, the Ordinary Shares not purchased under such Purchase Right shall again become available for issuance under the Plan.
(c) The shares purchasable under the Plan shall be authorized but unissued or reacquired Ordinary Shares, including Ordinary Shares repurchased by the Company or any Affiliate on the open market or otherwise.
4. | GRANT OF PURCHASE RIGHTS; OFFERING. |
(a) The Board may from time to time grant or provide for the grant of Purchase Rights to purchase Ordinary Shares under the Plan to Eligible Employees in an Offering (consisting of one or more Purchase Periods) on an Offering Date or Offering Dates selected by the Board. Each Offering shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as the Board shall deem appropriate, which shall comply with the requirement of Section 423(b)(5) of the Code that all Employees granted Purchase Rights shall have the same rights and privileges. The terms and conditions of an Offering shall be incorporated by reference into the Plan and treated as part of the Plan. The provisions of separate Offerings need not be identical, but each Offering shall include (through incorporation of the provisions of this Plan by reference in the document comprising the Offering or otherwise) the period during which the Offering shall be effective, which period shall not exceed twenty-seven (27) months beginning with the Offering Date, and the substance of the provisions contained in Sections 5 through 8, inclusive.
(b) If a Participant has more than one Purchase Right outstanding under the Plan, unless he or she otherwise indicates in agreements or notices delivered hereunder: (i) each agreement or notice delivered by that Participant shall be deemed to apply to all of his or her Purchase Rights under the Plan, and (ii) a Purchase Right with a lower exercise price (or an earlier-granted Purchase Right, if different Purchase Rights have identical exercise prices) shall be exercised to the fullest possible extent before a Purchase Right with a higher exercise price (or a later-granted Purchase Right if different Purchase Rights have identical exercise prices) shall be exercised.
(c) The Board shall have the discretion to structure an Offering so that if the Fair Market Value of an Ordinary Share on any Purchase Date within that Offering is less than or equal to the Fair Market Value of an Ordinary Share on the Offering Date for that Offering, then (i) that Offering shall terminate immediately following the purchase of Ordinary Shares on such Purchase Date, and (ii) Participants in such terminated Offering shall be automatically enrolled in a new Offering beginning on the first day following such Purchase Date.
5. | ELIGIBILITY. |
(a) Purchase Rights may be granted only to Employees of the Company or, as the Board may designate as provided in Section 2(b), to Employees of a Related Corporation.
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Except as provided in Section 5(b), an Employee shall not be eligible to be granted Purchase Rights under the Plan unless, on the Offering Date, such Employee has been in the employ of the Company or the Related Corporation, as the case may be, for such continuous period preceding such Offering Date as the Board may require, but in no event shall the required period of continuous employment be greater than two (2) years. In addition, the Board may provide that no Employee shall be eligible to be granted Purchase Rights under the Plan unless, on the Offering Date, such Employees customary employment with the Company or the Related Corporation is at least twenty (20) hours per week and at least five (5) months per calendar year or such other criteria as the Board may determine consistent with Section 423 of the Code.
(b) The Board may provide that each person who, during the course of an Offering, first becomes an Eligible Employee shall, on a date or dates specified in the Offering which coincides with the day on which such person becomes an Eligible Employee or which occurs thereafter, receive a Purchase Right under that Offering, which Purchase Right shall thereafter be deemed to be a part of that Offering. Such Purchase Right shall have the same characteristics as any Purchase Rights originally granted under that Offering, as described herein, except that:
(i) the date on which such Purchase Right is granted shall be the Offering Date of such Purchase Right for all purposes, including determination of the exercise price of such Purchase Right;
(ii) the period of the Offering with respect to such Purchase Right shall begin on its Offering Date and end coincident with the end of such Offering; and
(iii) the Board may provide that if such person first becomes an Eligible Employee within a specified period of time before the end of the Offering, he or she shall not receive any Purchase Right under that Offering.
(c) No Employee shall be eligible for the grant of any Purchase Rights under the Plan if, immediately after any such Purchase Rights are granted, such Employee owns shares possessing five percent (5%) or more of the total combined voting power or value of all classes of shares of the Company or of any Related Corporation. For purposes of this Section 5(c), the rules of Section 424(d) of the Code shall apply in determining the share ownership of any Employee, and shares which such Employee may purchase under all outstanding Purchase Rights and options shall be treated as shares owned by such Employee.
(d) As specified by Section 423(b)(8) of the Code, an Eligible Employee may be granted Purchase Rights under the Plan only if such Purchase Rights, together with any other rights granted under all Employee Stock Purchase Plans of the Company and any Related Corporations, do not permit such Eligible Employees rights to purchase shares of the Company or any Related Corporation to accrue at a rate which exceeds twenty five thousand dollars ($25,000) of Fair Market Value of such shares (determined at the time such rights are granted, and which, with respect to the Plan, shall be determined as of their respective Offering Dates) for each calendar year in which such rights are outstanding at any time.
(e) Officers of the Company and any designated Related Corporation, if they are otherwise Eligible Employees, shall be eligible to participate in Offerings under the Plan.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board may provide in an Offering that Employees who are highly compensated Employees within the meaning of Section 423(b)(4)(D) of the Code shall not be eligible to participate.
6. | PURCHASE RIGHTS; PURCHASE PRICE. |
(a) On each Offering Date, each Eligible Employee, pursuant to an Offering made under the Plan, shall be granted a Purchase Right to purchase up to that number of Ordinary Shares purchasable either with a percentage or with a maximum dollar amount, as designated by the Board, but in either case not exceeding fifteen percent (15%) of such Employees earnings (as defined by the Board in each Offering) during the period that begins on the Offering Date (or such later date as the Board determines for a particular Offering) and ends on the date stated in the Offering, which date shall be no later than the end of the Offering.
(b) The Board shall establish one (1) or more Purchase Dates during an Offering as of which Purchase Rights granted pursuant to that Offering shall be exercised and purchases of Ordinary Shares shall be carried out in accordance with such Offering.
(c) In connection with each Offering made under the Plan, the Board may specify a maximum number of Ordinary Shares that may be purchased by any Participant on any Purchase Date during such Offering. In connection with each Offering made under the Plan, the Board may specify a maximum aggregate number of Ordinary Shares that may be purchased by all Participants pursuant to such Offering. In addition, in connection with each Offering that contains more than one Purchase Date, the Board may specify a maximum aggregate number of Ordinary Shares that may be purchased by all Participants on any Purchase Date under the Offering. If the aggregate purchase of Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise of Purchase Rights granted under the Offering would exceed any such maximum aggregate number, then, in the absence of any Board action otherwise, a pro rata allocation of the Ordinary Shares available shall be made in as nearly a uniform manner as shall be practicable and equitable.
(d) The purchase price of Ordinary Shares acquired pursuant to Purchase Rights shall be not less than the lesser of:
(i) an amount equal to eighty-five percent (85%) of the Fair Market Value of the Ordinary Shares on the Offering Date; or
(ii) an amount equal to eighty-five percent (85%) of the Fair Market Value of the Ordinary Shares on the applicable Purchase Date;
provided, however, that in all cases the purchase price is not less than the nominal value of an Ordinary Share on the applicable Purchase Date.
7. | PARTICIPATION; WITHDRAWAL; TERMINATION. |
(a) A Participant may elect to authorize payroll deductions pursuant to an Offering under the Plan by completing and delivering to the Company, within the time specified in the Offering, an enrollment form (in such form as the Company may provide). Each such enrollment form shall authorize an amount of Contributions expressed as a percentage of the submitting
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Participants earnings (as defined in each Offering) during the Offering (not to exceed the maximum percentage specified by the Board). Each Participants Contributions shall be credited to a bookkeeping account for such Participant under the Plan and shall be deposited with the general funds of the Company except where applicable law requires that Contributions be deposited with a third party. To the extent provided in the Offering, a Participant may begin such Contributions after the beginning of the Offering. To the extent provided in the Offering, a Participant may thereafter reduce (including to zero) or increase his or her Contributions. To the extent specifically provided in the Offering, in addition to making Contributions by payroll deductions, a Participant may make Contributions through the payment by cash or check prior to each Purchase Date of the Offering.
(b) During an Offering, a Participant may cease making Contributions and withdraw from the Offering by delivering to the Company a notice of withdrawal in such form as the Company may provide. Such withdrawal may be elected at any time prior to the end of the Offering, except as provided otherwise in the Offering. Upon such withdrawal from the Offering by a Participant, the Company shall distribute to such Participant all of his or her accumulated Contributions (reduced to the extent, if any, such Contributions have been used to acquire Ordinary Shares for the Participant) under the Offering, and such Participants Purchase Right in that Offering shall thereupon terminate. A Participants withdrawal from an Offering shall have no effect upon such Participants eligibility to participate in any other Offerings under the Plan, but such Participant shall be required to deliver a new enrollment form in order to participate in subsequent Offerings.
(c) Purchase Rights granted pursuant to any Offering under the Plan shall terminate immediately upon a Participant ceasing to be an Employee for any reason or for no reason (subject to any post-employment participation period required by law) or other lack of eligibility. The Company shall distribute to such terminated or otherwise ineligible Employee all of his or her accumulated Contributions (reduced to the extent, if any, such Contributions have been used to acquire Ordinary Shares for the terminated or otherwise ineligible Employee) under the Offering.
(d) Purchase Rights shall not be transferable by a Participant except by will, the laws of descent and distribution, or by a beneficiary designation as provided in Section 10. During a Participants lifetime, Purchase Rights shall be exercisable only by such Participant.
(e) Unless otherwise specified in an Offering, the Company shall have no obligation to pay interest on Contributions.
8. | EXERCISE OF PURCHASE RIGHTS. |
(a) On each Purchase Date during an Offering, each Participants accumulated Contributions shall be applied to the purchase of Ordinary Shares up to the maximum number of Ordinary Shares permitted pursuant to the terms of the Plan and the applicable Offering, at the purchase price specified in the Offering. No fractional Ordinary Shares shall be issued upon the exercise of Purchase Rights unless specifically provided for in the Offering.
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(b) If any amount of accumulated Contributions remains in a Participants account after the purchase of Ordinary Shares and such remaining amount is less than the amount required to purchase one Ordinary Share on the final Purchase Date of an Offering, then such remaining amount shall be held in such Participants account for the purchase of Ordinary Shares under the next Offering under the Plan, unless such Participant withdraws from such next Offering, as provided in Section 7(b), or is not eligible to participate in such Offering, as provided in Section 5, in which case such amount shall be distributed to such Participant after the final Purchase Date, without interest. If the amount of Contributions remaining in a Participants account after the purchase of Ordinary Shares is at least equal to the amount required to purchase one (1) whole Ordinary Share on the final Purchase Date of the Offering, then such remaining amount shall be distributed in full to such Participant at the end of the Offering without interest.
(c) No Purchase Rights may be exercised to any extent unless the Ordinary Shares to be issued upon such exercise under the Plan are covered by an effective registration statement pursuant to the Securities Act and the Plan is in material compliance with all applicable federal, state, foreign and other securities and other laws applicable to the Plan. If on a Purchase Date during any Offering hereunder the Ordinary Shares are not so registered or the Plan is not in such compliance, no Purchase Rights or any Offering shall be exercised on such Purchase Date, and the Purchase Date shall be delayed until the Ordinary Shares are subject to such an effective registration statement and the Plan is in such compliance, except that the Purchase Date shall not be delayed more than twelve (12) months and the Purchase Date shall in no event be more than twenty-seven (27) months from the Offering Date. If, on the Purchase Date under any Offering hereunder, as delayed to the maximum extent permissible, the Ordinary Shares are not registered and the Plan is not in such compliance, no Purchase Rights or any Offering shall be exercised and all Contributions accumulated during the Offering (reduced to the extent, if any, such Contributions have been used to acquire Ordinary Shares) shall be distributed to the Participants without interest.
9. | COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY. |
The Company shall seek to obtain from each federal, state, foreign or other regulatory commission or agency having jurisdiction over the Plan such authority as may be required to issue and sell Ordinary Shares upon exercise of the Purchase Rights. If, after commercially reasonable efforts, the Company is unable to obtain from any such regulatory commission or agency the authority that counsel for the Company deems necessary for the lawful issuance and sale of Ordinary Shares under the Plan, the Company shall be relieved from any liability for failure to issue and sell Ordinary Shares upon exercise of such Purchase Rights unless and until such authority is obtained.
10. | DESIGNATION OF BENEFICIARY. |
(a) A Participant may file a written designation of a beneficiary who is to receive any Ordinary Shares and/or cash, if any, from the Participants account under the Plan in the event of such Participants death subsequent to the end of an Offering but prior to delivery to the Participant of such Ordinary Shares or cash. In addition, a Participant may file a written designation of a beneficiary who is to receive any cash from the Participants account under the Plan in the event of such Participants death during an Offering. Any such designation shall be on a form provided by or otherwise acceptable to the Company.
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(b) The Participant may change such designation of beneficiary at any time by written notice to the Company. In the event of the death of a Participant and in the absence of a beneficiary validly designated under the Plan who is living at the time of such Participants death, the Company shall deliver such Ordinary Shares and/or cash to the executor or administrator of the estate of the Participant, or if no such executor or administrator has been appointed (to the knowledge of the Company), the Company, in its sole discretion, may deliver such Ordinary Shares and/or cash to the spouse or to any one or more dependents or relatives of the Participant, or if no spouse, dependent or relative is known to the Company, then to such other person as the Company may designate.
11. | MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. |
(a) The Plan and Offering do not constitute an employment contract. Nothing in the Plan or in the Offering shall in any way alter the at will nature of a Participants employment or be deemed to create in any way whatsoever any obligation on the part of any Participant to continue in the employ of the Company or a Related Corporation, or on the part of the Company or a Related Corporation to continue the employment of a Participant.
(b) The provisions of the Plan shall be governed by the laws of the State of Delaware without resort to that states conflicts of laws rules.
(c) Proceeds from the sale of Ordinary Shares pursuant to Purchase Rights shall constitute general funds of the Company.
(d) A Participant shall not be deemed to be the holder of, or to have any of the rights of a holder with respect to, Ordinary Shares subject to Purchase Rights unless and until the Participants Ordinary Shares acquired upon exercise of Purchase Rights are recorded in the books of the Company (or its transfer agent).
12. | ADJUSTMENTS UPON CHANGES IN ORDINARY SHARES; CORPORATE TRANSACTIONS. |
(a) In the event of a Capitalization Adjustment, the Board shall appropriately and proportionately adjust: (i) the class(es) and maximum number of securities subject to the Plan pursuant to Section 3(a), (ii) the class(es) and maximum number of securities by which the share reserve is to increase automatically each year pursuant to Section 3(a), (iii) the class(es) and number of securities subject to, and the purchase price applicable to outstanding Offerings and Purchase Rights, and (iv) the class(es) and number of securities imposed by purchase limits under each ongoing Offering. The Board shall make such adjustments, and its determination shall be final, binding and conclusive.
(b) In the event of a Corporate Transaction, then: (i) any surviving corporation or acquiring corporation (or the surviving or acquiring corporations parent company) may assume or continue Purchase Rights outstanding under the Plan or may substitute similar rights (including a right to acquire the same consideration paid to the shareholders in the Corporate Transaction) for those outstanding under the Plan, or (ii) if any surviving or acquiring
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corporation (or its parent company) does not assume or continue such Purchase Rights or does not substitute similar rights for Purchase Rights outstanding under the Plan, then the Participants accumulated Contributions shall be used to purchase Ordinary Shares within ten (10) business days prior to the Corporate Transaction under any ongoing Offerings, and the Participants Purchase Rights under the ongoing Offerings shall terminate immediately after such purchase.
13. | AMENDMENT, TERMINATION OR SUSPENSION OF THE PLAN. |
(a) The Board may amend the Plan at any time in any respect the Board deems necessary or advisable. However, except as provided in Section 12(a) relating to Capitalization Adjustments, shareholder approval shall be required for any amendment of the Plan for which shareholder approval is required by applicable law or listing requirements, including any amendment that either (i) materially increases the number of Ordinary Shares available for issuance under the Plan, (ii) materially expands the class of individuals eligible to become Participants and receive Purchase Rights under the Plan, (iii) materially increases the benefits accruing to Participants under the Plan or materially reduces the price at which Ordinary Shares may be purchased under the Plan, (iv) materially extends the term of the Plan, or (v) expands the types of awards available for issuance under the Plan, but in each of (i) through (v) above only to the extent shareholder approval is required by applicable law or listing requirements.
(b) The Board may suspend or terminate the Plan at any time. Unless sooner terminated, the Plan shall terminate at the time that all of the Ordinary Shares reserved for issuance under the Plan, as increased and/or adjusted from time to time, have been issued under the terms of the Plan. No Purchase Rights may be granted under the Plan while the Plan is suspended or after it is terminated.
(c) Any benefits, privileges, entitlements and obligations under any outstanding Purchase Rights granted before an amendment, suspension or termination of the Plan shall not be impaired by any such amendment, suspension or termination except (i) with the consent of the person to whom such Purchase Rights were granted, (ii) as necessary to comply with any laws, listing requirements, or governmental regulations (including, without limitation, the provisions of Section 423 of the Code and the regulations and other interpretive guidance issued thereunder relating to Employee Stock Purchase Plans) including without limitation any such regulations or other guidance that may be issued or amended after the Effective Date of the Plan, or (iii) as necessary to obtain or maintain favorable tax, listing, or regulatory treatment.
14. | EFFECTIVE DATE OF PLAN. |
The Plan became effective on May 31, 2007.
15. | DEFINITIONS. |
As used in the Plan, the following definitions shall apply to the capitalized terms indicated below:
(a) Board means the Board of Directors of the Company.
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(b) Capitalization Adjustment means any change that is made in, or other events that occur with respect to, the Ordinary Shares subject to the Plan or subject to any Purchase Right after the effective date of the Plan without the receipt of consideration by the Company through merger, consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization, reincorporation, share dividend, dividend in property other than cash, large nonrecurring cash dividend, share split, liquidating dividend, combination of shares, exchange of shares, change in corporate structure or any similar equity restructuring transaction, as that term is used in Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic 718 (or any successor thereto), including, for the avoidance of doubt, capitalization of profits or reserves, capital distribution, rights issue, the conversion of one class of share to another or reduction of capital or otherwise. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the conversion of any convertible securities of the Company shall not be treated as a Capitalization Adjustment.
(c) Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
(d) Committee means a committee of one (1) or more members of the Board to whom authority has been delegated by the Board in accordance with Section 2(c).
(e) Company means Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc, a company formed under the laws of Ireland.
(f) Contributions means the payroll deductions and other additional payments specifically provided for in the Offering, that a Participant contributes to fund the exercise of a Purchase Right. A Participant may make additional payments into his or her account, if specifically provided for in the Offering, and then only if the Participant has not already had the maximum permitted amount withheld during the Offering through payroll deductions.
(g) Corporate Transaction means the consummation, in a single transaction or in a series of related transactions, of any one or more of the following events:
(i) a sale or other disposition of all or substantially all, as determined by the Board, in its sole discretion, of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries;
(ii) a sale or other disposition of at least ninety percent (90%) of the outstanding securities of the Company;
(iii) a merger, consolidation or similar transaction following which the Company is not the surviving corporation; or
(iv) a merger, consolidation or similar transaction following which the Company is the surviving corporation but the Ordinary Shares outstanding immediately preceding the merger, consolidation or similar transaction are converted or exchanged by virtue of the merger, consolidation or similar transaction into other property, whether in the form of securities, cash or otherwise.
For the avoidance of doubt, any one or more of the above events may be effected pursuant to (A) a compromise or arrangement sanctioned by the court under section 201 of the Companies Act 1963 of the Republic of Ireland or (B) section 204 of the Companies Act 1963 of the Republic of Ireland.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Plan, unless the Board determines otherwise, the term Corporate Transaction shall not include the creation of a new holding company where the Company becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of that holding company and the holding company will be owned in substantially the same proportions by the persons who held the Companys issued shares immediately before such transaction (in which case Purchase Rights granted hereunder will be treated as if they were in all respects purchase rights over shares in the holding company but so that (i) the new purchase right shall vest in the same manner as the Purchase Right; (ii) the total market value of the new shares subject to the new purchase right shall, immediately after such reorganization, be equal to the total market value of the Ordinary Shares comprised in the Purchase Right immediately prior to such reorganization; (iii) the new shares shall have the same rights attaching thereto as the Ordinary Shares; and (iv) the new purchase right shall be deemed to have been granted as at the date of grant of the Purchase Right).
(h) Director means a member of the Board.
(i) Eligible Employee means an Employee who meets the requirements set forth in the Offering for eligibility to participate in the Offering, provided that such Employee also meets the requirements for eligibility to participate set forth in the Plan.
(j) Employee means any person, including Officers and Directors, who is employed for purposes of Section 423(b)(4) of the Code by the Company or a Related Corporation. However, service solely as a Director, or payment of a fee for such services, shall not cause a Director to be considered an Employee for purposes of the Plan.
(k) Employee Stock Purchase Plan means a plan that grants Purchase Rights intended to be options issued under an employee stock purchase plan, as that term is defined in Section 423(b) of the Code.
(l) Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
(m) Fair Market Value means, as of any date, the value of the Ordinary Shares determined as follows:
(i) If the Ordinary Shares are listed on any established stock exchange or traded on any established market, the Fair Market Value of an Ordinary Share shall be the closing sales price for such Ordinary Share as quoted on such exchange or market (or the exchange or market with the greatest volume of trading in the Ordinary Shares) on the date of determination, as reported in such source as the Board deems reliable. Unless otherwise provided by the Board, if there is no closing sales price for the Ordinary Shares on the date of determination, then the Fair Market Value shall be the closing selling price (or closing bid if no sales were reported) on the last preceding date for which such quotation exists.
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(ii) In the absence of such markets for the Ordinary Shares, the Fair Market Value shall be determined by the Board in good faith.
(n) Offering means the grant of Purchase Rights to purchase Ordinary Shares under the Plan to Eligible Employees.
(o) Offering Date means a date selected by the Board for an Offering to commence.
(p) Officer means a person who is an officer of the Company within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
(q) Ordinary Share or Ordinary Shares means the ordinary shares of the Company of nominal value US$0.0001 per share.
(r) Participant means an Eligible Employee who holds an outstanding Purchase Right granted pursuant to the Plan.
(s) Plan means this Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2007 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
(t) Purchase Date means one or more dates during an Offering established by the Board on which Purchase Rights shall be exercised and as of which purchases of Ordinary Shares shall be carried out in accordance with such Offering.
(u) Purchase Period means a period of time specified within an Offering beginning on the Offering Date or on the next day following a Purchase Date within an Offering and ending on a Purchase Date. An Offering may consist of one or more Purchase Periods.
(v) Purchase Right means an option to purchase Ordinary Shares granted pursuant to the Plan.
(w) Related Corporation means any parent corporation or subsidiary corporation of the Company whether now or subsequently established, as those terms are defined in Sections 424(e) and 424(f), respectively, of the Code.
(x) Securities Act means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
(y) Trading Day means any day on which the exchange(s) or market(s) on which the Ordinary Shares are listed, including the Nasdaq Global Select Market or the Nasdaq Global Market, is open for trading.
Adopted by the Board of Directors of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on May 1, 2007.
Approved by the stockholders of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on May 9, 2007.
Amended and restated by the Board of Directors of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on September 29, 2010.
Amended and restated by the Board of Directors of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on October 24, 2011.
Approved by the stockholders of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on December 12, 2011.
Adopted by the Board of Directors of Azur Pharma plc on December 21, 2011.
Approved by the shareholders of Azur Pharma plc on January 3, 2012.
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Exhibit 99.3
JAZZ PHARMACEUTICALS PLC
2007 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
1. | GENERAL. |
(a) Successor and Continuation of Prior Plan and Relationship to 2011 Plan. The Plan is intended as the successor to and continuation of the Companys 2003 Equity Incentive Plan (the Prior Plan). Following the Effective Date, no additional stock awards shall be granted under the Prior Plan. Any Ordinary Shares remaining available for issuance pursuant to the exercise of options or settlement of stock awards under the Prior Plan shall become available for issuance pursuant to Stock Awards granted hereunder. On the Effective Date, all outstanding stock awards granted under the Prior Plan shall be deemed to be stock awards granted pursuant to the Plan, but shall remain subject to the terms of the Prior Plan with respect to which they were originally granted. All Stock Awards granted subsequent to the Effective Date shall be subject to the terms of this Plan.
Notwithstanding the foregoing or any provision of this Plan to the contrary, from and after the effective date of the Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2011 Equity Incentive Plan (the 2011 Plan), any Ordinary Shares subject to outstanding stock awards granted under this Plan or the Prior Plan that (i) expire or terminate for any reason prior to exercise or settlement, (ii) are forfeited because of the failure to meet a contingency or condition required to vest such Ordinary Shares or repurchased by the Company or an Affiliate at the original issuance price or (iii) are reacquired by the Company or an Affiliate or withheld (or not issued) to satisfy a tax withholding obligation in connection with an Award will immediately be added to the share reserve of the 2011 Plan and become available for issuance pursuant to awards granted under the 2011 Plan.
(b) Eligible Stock Award Recipients. The persons eligible to receive Stock Awards are Employees, Directors and Consultants.
(c) Available Stock Awards. The Plan provides for the grant of the following Stock Awards: (i) Incentive Stock Options, (ii) Nonstatutory Stock Options, (iii) Restricted Stock Awards, (iv) Restricted Stock Unit Awards, (v) Stock Appreciation Rights, (vi) Performance Stock Awards, and (vii) Other Stock Awards.
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(d) Purpose. The Company, by means of the Plan, seeks to secure and retain the services of the group of persons eligible to receive Stock Awards as set forth in Section 1(b), to provide incentives for such persons to exert maximum efforts for the success of the Company and any Affiliate, and to provide a means by which such eligible recipients may be given an opportunity to benefit from increases in value of the Ordinary Shares through the granting of Stock Awards.
2. | ADMINISTRATION. |
(a) Administration by Board. The Board shall administer the Plan unless and until the Board delegates administration of the Plan to a Committee or Committees, as provided in Section 2(c).
(b) Powers of Board. The Board shall have the power, subject to, and within the limitations of, the express provisions of the Plan:
(i) To determine from time to time (A) which of the persons eligible under the Plan shall be granted Stock Awards; (B) when and how each Stock Award shall be granted; (C) what type or combination of types of Stock Award shall be granted; (D) the provisions of each Stock Award granted (which need not be identical), including the time or times when a person shall be permitted to receive cash or Ordinary Shares pursuant to a Stock Award; and (E) the number of Ordinary Shares with respect to which a Stock Award shall be granted to each such person.
(ii) To construe and interpret the Plan and Stock Awards granted under it, and to establish, amend and revoke rules and regulations for its administration. The Board, in the exercise of this power, may correct any defect, omission or inconsistency in the Plan or in any Stock Award Agreement, in a manner and to the extent it shall deem necessary or expedient to make the Plan or Stock Award fully effective.
(iii) To settle all controversies regarding the Plan and Stock Awards granted under it.
(iv) To accelerate the time at which a Stock Award may first be exercised or the time during which a Stock Award or any part thereof will vest in accordance with the Plan, notwithstanding the provisions in the Stock Award stating the time at which it may first be exercised or the time during which it will vest.
(v) To effect, at any time and from time to time, with the consent of any adversely affected Participant, (1) the reduction of the exercise price of any outstanding Option or the strike price of any outstanding Stock Appreciation Right, provided this does not reduce the exercise price or strike price below the nominal value of an Ordinary Share; (2) the cancellation of any outstanding Option or Stock Appreciation Right and the grant in substitution therefor of (a) a new Option or Stock Appreciation Right under the Plan or another equity plan of the Company covering the same or different number of Ordinary Shares, (b) a Restricted Stock Award, (c) a Restricted Stock Unit Award, (d) an Other Stock Award, (e) cash, and/or (f) other valuable consideration as determined by the Board in its sole discretion; or (3) any other action that is treated as a repricing under generally accepted accounting principles.
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(vi) To suspend or terminate the Plan at any time. Suspension or termination of the Plan shall not impair rights and obligations under any Stock Award granted while the Plan is in effect except with the written consent of the affected Participant.
(vii) To amend the Plan in any respect the Board deems necessary or advisable, including, without limitation, relating to Incentive Stock Options and certain nonqualified deferred compensation under Section 409A of the Code and/or to bring the Plan or Stock Awards granted under the Plan into compliance therewith, subject to the limitations, if any, of applicable law. However, except as provided in Section 9(a) relating to Capitalization Adjustments, shareholder approval shall be required for any amendment of the Plan that either (i) materially increases the number of Ordinary Shares available for issuance under the Plan, (ii) materially expands the class of individuals eligible to receive Stock Awards under the Plan, (iii) materially increases the benefits accruing to Participants under the Plan or materially reduces the price at which Ordinary Shares may be issued or purchased under the Plan, (iv) materially extends the term of the Plan, or (v) expands the types of Stock Awards available for issuance under the Plan, but in each of (i) through (v) only to the extent required by applicable law or listing requirements. Except as provided above, rights under any Stock Award granted before amendment of the Plan shall not be impaired by any amendment of the Plan unless (i) the Company requests the consent of the affected Participant, and (ii) such Participant consents in writing.
(viii) To submit any amendment to the Plan for shareholder approval, including, but not limited to, amendments to the Plan intended to satisfy the requirements of (i) Section 162(m) of the Code and the regulations thereunder regarding the exclusion of performance-based compensation from the limit on corporate deductibility of compensation paid to Covered Employees, (ii) Section 422 of the Code regarding Incentive Stock Options, or (iii) Rule 16b-3.
(ix) To approve forms of Stock Award Agreements for use under the Plan and to amend the terms of any one or more Stock Awards, including, but not limited to, amendments to provide terms more favorable than previously provided in the Stock Award Agreement, subject to any specified limits in the Plan that are not subject to Board discretion; provided however, that, the rights under any Stock Award shall not be impaired by any such amendment unless (i) the Company requests the consent of the affected Participant, and (ii) such Participant consents in writing. Notwithstanding the foregoing, subject to the limitations of applicable law, if any, the Board may amend the terms of any one or more Stock Awards without the affected Participants consent if necessary to maintain the qualified status of the Stock Award as an Incentive Stock Option or to bring the Stock Award into compliance with Section 409A of the Code and the related guidance thereunder.
(x) Generally, to exercise such powers and to perform such acts as the Board deems necessary or expedient to promote the best interests of the Company and that are not in conflict with the provisions of the Plan or Stock Awards.
(xi) To adopt such procedures and sub-plans as are necessary or appropriate to permit participation in the Plan by Employees, Directors or Consultants who are foreign nationals or employed outside the United States.
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(c) Delegation to Committee.
(i) General. The Board may delegate some or all of the administration of the Plan to a Committee or Committees. If administration is delegated to a Committee, the Committee shall have, in connection with the administration of the Plan, the powers theretofore possessed by the Board that have been delegated to the Committee, including the power to delegate to a subcommittee of the Committee any of the administrative powers the Committee is authorized to exercise (and references in the Plan to the Board shall thereafter be to the Committee or subcommittee), subject, however, to such resolutions, not inconsistent with the provisions of the Plan, as may be adopted from time to time by the Board. The Board may retain the authority to concurrently administer the Plan with the Committee and may, at any time, revest in the Board some or all of the powers previously delegated.
(ii) Section 162(m) and Rule 16b-3 Compliance. In the sole discretion of the Board, the Committee may consist solely of two or more Outside Directors, in accordance with Section 162(m) of the Code, or solely of two or more Non-Employee Directors, in accordance with Rule 16b-3. In addition, the Board or the Committee, in its sole discretion, may (A) delegate to a Committee who need not be Outside Directors the authority to grant Stock Awards to eligible persons who are either (I) not then Covered Employees and are not expected to be Covered Employees at the time of recognition of income resulting from such Stock Award, or (II) not persons with respect to whom the Company wishes to comply with Section 162(m) of the Code, or (B) delegate to a Committee who need not be Non-Employee Directors the authority to grant Stock Awards to eligible persons who are not then subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act.
(d) Delegation to Officers. The Board may delegate to one or more Officers the authority to do one or both of the following (i) designate Officers and Employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to be recipients of Options (and, to the extent permitted by Delaware law, other Stock Awards) and the terms thereof, and (ii) determine the number of Ordinary Shares to be subject to such Stock Awards granted to such Officers and Employees; provided, however, that the Board resolutions regarding such delegation shall specify the total number of Ordinary Shares that may be subject to the Stock Awards granted by such Officers and that such Officer may not grant a Stock Award to himself or herself. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2(d), the Board may not delegate to an Officer authority to determine the Fair Market Value of the Ordinary Shares pursuant to Section 13(t)(iii) below.
(e) Effect of Boards Decision. All determinations, interpretations and constructions made by the Board in good faith shall not be subject to review by any person and shall be final, binding and conclusive on all persons.
3. | SHARES SUBJECT TO THE PLAN. |
(a) Share Reserve. Subject to the provisions of Section 9(a) relating to Capitalization Adjustments, from and after the effective date of the 2011 Plan, the aggregate number of Ordinary Shares that may be issued pursuant to Stock Awards under the Plan shall not exceed one million (1,000,000) Ordinary Shares. Shares may be issued in connection with a merger or acquisition as permitted by Nasdaq Rule 4350(i)(1)(A)(iii) or, if applicable, NYSE Listed Company Manual Section 303A.08, or AMEX Company Guide Section 711 and such issuance shall not reduce the number of Ordinary Shares available for issuance under the Plan.
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(b) Reversion of Shares to the Share Reserve. If any (i) Stock Award shall for any reason expire or otherwise terminate, in whole or in part, without having been exercised in full, (ii) Ordinary Shares issued to a Participant pursuant to a Stock Award are forfeited back to or repurchased by the Company or any Affiliate because of the failure to meet a contingency or condition required for the vesting of such Ordinary Shares, (iii) Stock Award is settled in cash, or (iv) Ordinary Shares are cancelled in accordance with the cancellation and regrant provisions of Section 2(b)(v), then the Ordinary Shares not issued under such Stock Award, or forfeited to or repurchased by the Company or Affiliate, shall revert to and again become available for issuance under the Plan. If any Ordinary Shares subject to a Stock Award are not delivered to a Participant because such Ordinary Shares are withheld for the payment of taxes or an appreciation distribution in respect of a Stock Appreciation right is paid in Ordinary Shares, the number of Ordinary Shares subject to the Stock Award that are not delivered to the Participant shall remain available for subsequent issuance under the Plan. If the exercise price of any Stock Award is satisfied by tendering Ordinary Shares held by the Participant (either by actual delivery or attestation), then the number of Ordinary Shares so tendered shall remain available for issuance under the Plan.
Notwithstanding the foregoing or any provision of this Plan to the contrary, from and after the effective date of the 2011 Plan, any Ordinary Shares subject to outstanding Stock Awards granted under this Plan that (i) expire or terminate for any reason prior to exercise or settlement, (ii) are forfeited because of the failure to meet a contingency or condition required to vest such Ordinary Shares or repurchased by the Company or an Affiliate at the original issuance price or (iii) are reacquired by the Company or an Affiliate or withheld (or not issued) to satisfy a tax withholding obligation in connection with an Award will immediately be added to the share reserve of the 2011 Plan and become available for issuance pursuant to awards granted under the 2011 Plan.
(c) Incentive Stock Option Limit. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 3(c), subject to the provisions of Section 9(a) relating to Capitalization Adjustments the aggregate maximum number of Ordinary Shares that may be issued pursuant to the exercise of Incentive Stock Options shall be four million six hundred twenty-five thousand forty-two (4,625,042) Ordinary Shares plus the amount of any increase in the number of Ordinary Shares that may be available for issuance pursuant to Stock Awards pursuant to Section 3(a).
(d) Source of Shares. The shares issuable under the Plan shall be authorized but unissued or reacquired Ordinary Shares, including Ordinary Shares repurchased by the Company or any Affiliate on the open market or otherwise.
4. | ELIGIBILITY. |
(a) Eligibility for Specific Stock Awards. Incentive Stock Options may be granted only to employees of the Company or a parent corporation or subsidiary corporation thereof (as such terms are defined in Sections 424(e) and 424(f) of the Code). Stock Awards other than Incentive Stock Options may be granted to Employees, Directors and Consultants.
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(b) Ten Percent Shareholders. A Ten Percent Shareholder shall not be granted an Incentive Stock Option unless the exercise price of such Option is at least one hundred ten percent (110%) of the Fair Market Value of the Ordinary Shares on the date of grant and the Option is not exercisable after the expiration of five (5) years from the date of grant.
(c) Section 162(m) Limitation. Subject to the provisions of Section 9(a) relating to Capitalization Adjustments, at such time as the Company may be subject to the applicable provisions of Section 162(m) of the Code, no Employee shall be eligible to be granted during any calendar year Stock Awards whose value is determined by reference to an increase over an exercise or strike price of at least one hundred percent (100%) of the Fair Market Value of the Ordinary Shares on the date the Stock Award is granted covering more than two million (2,000,000) Ordinary Shares.
(d) Consultants. A Consultant shall be eligible for the grant of a Stock Award only if, at the time of grant, a Form S-8 Registration Statement under the Securities Act (Form S-8) is available to register either the offer or the sale of the Companys securities to such Consultant.
5. | OPTION PROVISIONS. |
Each Option shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as the Board shall deem appropriate. All Options shall be separately designated Incentive Stock Options or Nonstatutory Stock Options at the time of grant, and, if certificates are issued, a separate certificate or certificates shall be issued for Ordinary Shares purchased on exercise of each type of Option. If an Option is not specifically designated as an Incentive Stock Option, then the Option shall be a Nonstatutory Stock Option. The provisions of separate Options need not be identical; provided, however, that each Option Agreement shall conform to (through incorporation of provisions hereof by reference in the Option Agreement or otherwise) the substance of each of the following provisions:
(a) Term. Subject to the provisions of Section 4(b) regarding Ten Percent Shareholders, no Option shall be exercisable after the expiration of ten (10) years from the date of its grant or such shorter period specified in the Option Agreement.
(b) Exercise Price. Subject to the provisions of Section 4(b) regarding Ten Percent Shareholders, the exercise price of each Option shall be not less than one hundred percent (100%) of the Fair Market Value of the Ordinary Shares subject to the Option on the date the Option is granted. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an Option may be granted with an exercise price lower than one hundred percent (100%) of the Fair Market Value of the Ordinary Shares subject to the Option if such Option is granted pursuant to an assumption or substitution for another option in a manner consistent with the provisions of Section 424(a) of the Code (whether or not such options are Incentive Stock Options), provided that in all cases the exercise price is not less than the nominal value of an Ordinary Share.
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(c) Consideration. The purchase price of Ordinary Shares acquired pursuant to the exercise of an Option shall be paid, to the extent permitted by applicable law and as determined by the Board in its sole discretion, by any combination of the methods of payment set forth below; provided, however, that where Ordinary Shares are issued pursuant to the exercise of an Option the nominal value of each newly issued Ordinary Share is fully paid up. The Board shall have the authority to grant Options that do not permit all of the following methods of payment (or otherwise restrict the ability to use certain methods) and to grant Options that require the consent of the Company to utilize a particular method of payment. The methods of payment permitted by this Section 5(c) are:
(i) by cash, check, bank draft or money order payable to the Company;
(ii) pursuant to a program developed under Regulation T as promulgated by the Federal Reserve Board that, prior to the issuance of the Ordinary Shares subject to the Option, results in either the receipt of cash (or check) by the Company or the receipt of irrevocable instructions to pay the aggregate exercise price to the Company from the sales proceeds;
(iii) by delivery to the Company (either by actual delivery or attestation) of Ordinary Shares; or
(iv) in any other form of legal consideration that may be acceptable to the Board in its sole discretion and permissible under applicable law.
(d) Transferability of Options. The Board may, in its sole discretion, impose such limitations on the transferability of Options as the Board shall determine. In the absence of such a determination by the Board to the contrary, the following restrictions on the transferability of Options shall apply:
(i) Restrictions on Transfer. An Option shall not be transferable except by will or by the laws of descent and distribution and shall be exercisable during the lifetime of the Optionholder only by the Optionholder; provided, however, that the Board may, in its sole discretion, permit transfer of the Option in a manner that is not prohibited by applicable tax and securities laws upon the Optionholders request.
(ii) Domestic Relations Orders. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an Option may be transferred pursuant to a domestic relations order, provided, however, that if an Option is an Incentive Stock Option, such Option may be deemed to be a Nonstatutory Stock Option as a result of such transfer.
(iii) Beneficiary Designation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Optionholder may, by delivering written notice to the Company, in a form provided by or otherwise satisfactory to the Company and any broker designated by the Company to effect Option exercises, designate a third party who, in the event of the death of the Optionholder, shall thereafter be entitled to exercise the Option. In the absence of such a designation, the executor or administrator of the Optionholders estate shall be entitled to exercise the Option.
(e) Vesting of Options Generally. The total number of Ordinary Shares subject to an Option may vest and therefore become exercisable in periodic installments that may or may not be equal. The Option may be subject to such other terms and conditions on the time or times when it may or may not be exercised (which may be based on the satisfaction of Performance Goals or other criteria) as the Board may deem appropriate. The vesting provisions of individual Options may vary. The provisions of this Section 5(e) are subject to any Option provisions governing the minimum number of Ordinary Shares as to which an Option may be exercised.
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(f) Termination of Continuous Service. In the event that an Optionholders Continuous Service terminates (other than upon the Optionholders death or Disability), the Optionholder may exercise his or her Option (to the extent that the Optionholder was entitled to exercise such Option as of the date of termination of Continuous Service) but only within such period of time ending on the earlier of (i) the date three (3) months following the termination of the Optionholders Continuous Service (or such longer or shorter period specified in the Option Agreement), or (ii) the expiration of the term of the Option as set forth in the Option Agreement. If, after termination of Continuous Service, the Optionholder does not exercise his or her Option within the time specified herein or in the Option Agreement (as applicable), the Option shall terminate.
(g) Extension of Termination Date. An Optionholders Option Agreement may provide that if the exercise of the Option following the termination of the Optionholders Continuous Service (other than upon the Optionholders death or Disability) would be prohibited at any time solely because the issuance of Ordinary Shares would violate the registration requirements under the Securities Act, then the Option shall terminate on the earlier of (i) the expiration of a period of three (3) months after the termination of the Optionholders Continuous Service during which the exercise of the Option would not be in violation of such registration requirements, or (ii) the expiration of the term of the Option as set forth in the Option Agreement.
(h) Disability of Optionholder. In the event that an Optionholders Continuous Service terminates as a result of the Optionholders Disability, the Optionholder may exercise his or her Option (to the extent that the Optionholder was entitled to exercise such Option as of the date of termination of Continuous Service), but only within such period of time ending on the earlier of (i) the date twelve (12) months following such termination of Continuous Service (or such longer or shorter period specified in the Option Agreement), or (ii) the expiration of the term of the Option as set forth in the Option Agreement. If, after termination of Continuous Service, the Optionholder does not exercise his or her Option within the time specified herein or in the Option Agreement (as applicable), the Option shall terminate.
(i) Death of Optionholder. In the event that (i) an Optionholders Continuous Service terminates as a result of the Optionholders death, or (ii) the Optionholder dies within the period (if any) specified in the Option Agreement after the termination of the Optionholders Continuous Service for a reason other than death, then the Option may be exercised (to the extent the Optionholder was entitled to exercise such Option as of the date of death) by the Optionholders estate, by a person who acquired the right to exercise the Option by bequest or inheritance or by a person designated to exercise the option upon the Optionholders death, but only within the period ending on the earlier of (i) the date eighteen (18) months following the date of death (or such longer or shorter period specified in the Option Agreement), or (ii) the expiration of the term of such Option as set forth in the Option Agreement. If, after the Optionholders death, the Option is not exercised within the time specified herein or in the Option Agreement (as applicable), the Option shall terminate.
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(j) Non-Exempt Employees. No Option granted to an Employee who is a non-exempt employee for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act shall be first exercisable for any Ordinary Shares until at least six months following the date of grant of the Option. The foregoing provision is intended to operate so that any income derived by a non-exempt employee in connection with the exercise or vesting of an Option will be exempt from his or her regular rate of pay.
6. | PROVISIONS OF STOCK AWARDS OTHER THAN OPTIONS. |
(a) Restricted Stock Awards. Each Restricted Stock Award Agreement shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as the Board shall deem appropriate. To the extent consistent with the Companys Bylaws, at the Boards election, Ordinary Shares may be (x) held in book entry form subject to the Companys instructions until any restrictions relating to the Restricted Stock Award lapse; or (y) evidenced by a certificate, which certificate shall be held in such form and manner as determined by the Board. The terms and conditions of Restricted Stock Award Agreements may change from time to time, and the terms and conditions of separate Restricted Stock Award Agreements need not be identical, provided, however, that each Restricted Stock Award Agreement shall conform to (through incorporation of the provisions hereof by reference in the agreement or otherwise) the substance of each of the following provisions:
(i) Consideration. A Restricted Stock Award may be awarded in consideration for (A) cash, check, bank draft or money order payable to the Company; (B) past or future services actually or to be rendered to the Company or an Affiliate; or (C) any other form of legal consideration that may be acceptable to the Board in its sole discretion and permissible under applicable law; provided, however, that where Ordinary Shares are issued pursuant to a Restricted Stock Award the nominal value of each newly issued Ordinary Share is fully paid up.
(ii) Vesting. Ordinary Shares awarded under a Restricted Stock Award Agreement may be subject to forfeiture to the Company in accordance with a vesting schedule to be determined by the Board.
(iii) Termination of Participants Continuous Service. In the event a Participants Continuous Service terminates, the Company or any Affiliate may receive via a forfeiture condition or a repurchase right, any or all of the Ordinary Shares held by the Participant which have not vested as of the date of termination of Continuous Service under the terms of the Restricted Stock Award Agreement.
(iv) Transferability. Rights to acquire Ordinary Shares under the Restricted Stock Award Agreement shall be transferable by the Participant only upon such terms and conditions as are set forth in the Restricted Stock Award Agreement, as the Board shall determine in its sole discretion, so long as the Ordinary Shares awarded under the Restricted Stock Award Agreement remain subject to the terms of the Restricted Stock Award Agreement.
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(b) Restricted Stock Unit Awards. Each Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as the Board shall deem appropriate. The terms and conditions of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreements may change from time to time, and the terms and conditions of separate Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreements need not be identical, provided, however, that each Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement shall conform to (through incorporation of the provisions hereof by reference in the agreement or otherwise) the substance of each of the following provisions:
(i) Consideration. At the time of grant of a Restricted Stock Unit Award, the Board will determine the consideration, if any, to be paid by the Participant upon delivery of each Ordinary Share subject to the Restricted Stock Unit Award. The consideration to be paid (if any) by the Participant for each Ordinary Share subject to a Restricted Stock Unit Award may be paid in any form of legal consideration that may be acceptable to the Board in its sole discretion and permissible under applicable law; provided, however, that where Ordinary Shares are issued pursuant to a Restricted Stock Unit Award the nominal value of each newly issued Ordinary Share is fully paid up.
(ii) Vesting. At the time of the grant of a Restricted Stock Unit Award, the Board may impose such restrictions or conditions to the vesting of the Restricted Stock Unit Award as it, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate.
(iii) Payment. A Restricted Stock Unit Award may be settled by the delivery of Ordinary Shares, their cash equivalent, any combination thereof or in any other form of consideration, as determined by the Board and contained in the Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement.
(iv) Additional Restrictions. At the time of the grant of a Restricted Stock Unit Award, the Board, as it deems appropriate, may impose such restrictions or conditions that delay the delivery of the Ordinary Shares (or their cash equivalent) subject to a Restricted Stock Unit Award to a time after the vesting of such Restricted Stock Unit Award.
(v) Dividend Equivalents. Dividend equivalents may be credited in respect of Ordinary Shares covered by a Restricted Stock Unit Award, as determined by the Board and contained in the Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement. At the sole discretion of the Board, such dividend equivalents may be converted into additional Ordinary Shares covered by the Restricted Stock Unit Award in such manner as determined by the Board. Any additional Ordinary Shares covered by the Restricted Stock Unit Award credited by reason of such dividend equivalents will be subject to all the terms and conditions of the underlying Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement to which they relate.
(vi) Termination of Participants Continuous Service. Except as otherwise provided in the applicable Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement, such portion of the Restricted Stock Unit Award that has not vested will be forfeited upon the Participants termination of Continuous Service.
(vii) Compliance with Section 409A of the Code. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, any Restricted Stock Unit Award granted under the Plan that is not exempt from the requirements of Section 409A of the Code shall incorporate terms and conditions necessary to avoid the consequences of Section 409A(a)(1) of the Code. Such restrictions, if any, shall be determined by the Board and contained in the Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement evidencing such Restricted Stock Unit Award.
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(c) Stock Appreciation Rights. Each Stock Appreciation Right Agreement shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as the Board shall deem appropriate. Stock Appreciation Rights may be granted as stand-alone Stock Awards or in tandem with other Stock Awards. The terms and conditions of Stock Appreciation Right Agreements may change from time to time, and the terms and conditions of separate Stock Appreciation Right Agreements need not be identical; provided, however, that each Stock Appreciation Right Agreement shall conform to (through incorporation of the provisions hereof by reference in the agreement or otherwise) the substance of each of the following provisions:
(i) Term. No Stock Appreciation Right shall be exercisable after the expiration of ten (10) years from the date of its grant or such shorter period specified in the Stock Appreciation Right Agreement.
(ii) Strike Price. Each Stock Appreciation Right will be denominated in Ordinary Share equivalents. The strike price of each Stock Appreciation Right shall not be less than one hundred percent (100%) of the Fair Market Value of the Ordinary Share equivalents subject to the Stock Appreciation Right on the date of grant.
(iii) Calculation of Appreciation. The appreciation distribution payable on the exercise of a Stock Appreciation Right will be not greater than an amount equal to the excess of (A) the aggregate Fair Market Value (on the date of the exercise of the Stock Appreciation Right) of a number of Ordinary Shares equal to the number of Ordinary Share equivalents in which the Participant is vested under such Stock Appreciation Right, and with respect to which the Participant is exercising the Stock Appreciation Right on such date, over (B) the strike price.
(iv) Vesting. At the time of the grant of a Stock Appreciation Right, the Board may impose such restrictions or conditions to the vesting of such Stock Appreciation Right as it, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate.
(v) Exercise. To exercise any outstanding Stock Appreciation Right, the Participant must provide written notice of exercise to the Company in compliance with the provisions of the Stock Appreciation Right Agreement evidencing such Stock Appreciation Right.
(vi) Payment. The appreciation distribution in respect of a Stock Appreciation Right may be paid in Ordinary Shares, in cash, in any combination of the two or in any other form of consideration, as determined by the Board and set forth in the Stock Appreciation Right Agreement evidencing such Stock Appreciation Right; provided, however, that where Ordinary Shares are issued pursuant to a Stock Appreciation Right the nominal value of each newly issued Ordinary Share is fully paid up.
(vii) Termination of Continuous Service. In the event that a Participants Continuous Service terminates, the Participant may exercise his or her Stock Appreciation Right (to the extent that the Participant was entitled to exercise such Stock Appreciation Right as of the date of termination of Continuous Service) but only within such period of time ending on the
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earlier of (A) the date three (3) months following the termination of the Participants Continuous Service (or such longer or shorter period specified in the Stock Appreciation Right Agreement), or (B) the expiration of the term of the Stock Appreciation Right as set forth in the Stock Appreciation Right Agreement. If, after termination of Continuous Service, the Participant does not exercise his or her Stock Appreciation Right within the time specified herein or in the Stock Appreciation Right Agreement (as applicable), the Stock Appreciation Right shall terminate.
(viii) Compliance with Section 409A of the Code. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, any Stock Appreciation Rights granted under the Plan that are not exempt from the requirements of Section 409A of the Code shall incorporate terms and conditions necessary to avoid the consequences described in Section 409A(a)(1) of the Code. Such restrictions, if any, shall be determined by the Board and contained in the Stock Appreciation Right Agreement evidencing such Stock Appreciation Right.
(d) Performance Stock Awards. A Performance Stock Award is either a Restricted Stock Award or Restricted Stock Unit Award that may be granted or may vest based upon the attainment during a Performance Period of certain Performance Goals. A Performance Stock Award may, but need not, require the completion of a specified period of Continuous Service. The length of any Performance Period, the Performance Goals to be achieved during the Performance Period, and the measure of whether and to what degree such Performance Goals have been attained shall be conclusively determined by the Committee in its sole discretion. The maximum benefit to be received by any Participant in a calendar year attributable to Performance Stock Awards described in this Section 6(d) shall not exceed the value of two million (2,000,000) Ordinary Shares. In addition, to the extent permitted by applicable law and the applicable Award Agreement, the Board may determine that cash may be used in payment of Performance Stock Awards.
(e) Other Stock Awards. Other forms of Stock Awards valued in whole or in part by reference to, or otherwise based on, Ordinary Shares may be granted either alone or in addition to Stock Awards provided for under Section 5 and the preceding provisions of this Section 6. Subject to the provisions of the Plan, the Board shall have sole and complete authority to determine the persons to whom and the time or times at which such Other Stock Awards will be granted, the number of Ordinary Shares (or the cash equivalent thereof) to be granted pursuant to such Other Stock Awards and all other terms and conditions of such Other Stock Awards; provided, however, that where Ordinary Shares are issued pursuant to an Other Stock Award the nominal value of each newly issued Ordinary Share is fully paid up.
7. | COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY. |
(a) Availability of Shares. During the terms of the Stock Awards, the Company shall keep available at all times the number of Ordinary Shares required to satisfy such Stock Awards.
(b) Securities Law Compliance. The Company shall seek to obtain from each regulatory commission or agency having jurisdiction over the Plan such authority as may be required to grant Stock Awards and to issue and sell Ordinary Shares upon exercise of the Stock Awards; provided, however, that this undertaking shall not require the Company to register under
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the Securities Act the Plan, any Stock Award or any Ordinary Shares issued or issuable pursuant to any such Stock Award. If, after reasonable efforts, the Company is unable to obtain from any such regulatory commission or agency the authority that counsel for the Company deems necessary for the lawful issuance and sale of Ordinary Shares under the Plan, the Company shall be relieved from any liability for failure to issue and sell Ordinary Shares upon exercise of such Stock Awards unless and until such authority is obtained.
(c) No Obligation to Notify. The Company shall have no duty or obligation to any holder of a Stock Award to advise such holder as to the time or manner of exercising such Stock Award. Furthermore, the Company shall have no duty or obligation to warn or otherwise advise such holder of a pending termination or expiration of a Stock Award or a possible period in which the Stock Award may not be exercised. The Company has no duty or obligation to minimize the tax consequences of a Stock Award to the holder of such Stock Award.
8. | MISCELLANEOUS. |
(a) Use of Proceeds. Proceeds from the sale of Ordinary Shares pursuant to Stock Awards shall constitute general funds of the Company.
(b) Corporate Action Constituting Grant of Stock Awards. Corporate action constituting a grant by the Company of a Stock Award to any Participant shall be deemed completed as of the date of such corporate action, unless otherwise determined by the Board, regardless of when the instrument, certificate, or letter evidencing the Stock Award is communicated to, or actually received or accepted by, the Participant.
(c) Shareholder Rights. No Participant shall be deemed to be the holder of, or to have any of the rights of a holder with respect to, any Ordinary Shares subject to such Stock Award unless and until (i) such Participant has satisfied all requirements for exercise of the Stock Award pursuant to its terms, and (ii) the issuance of the Ordinary Shares pursuant to such exercise has been entered into the books and records of the Company.
(d) No Employment or Other Service Rights. Nothing in the Plan, any Stock Award Agreement or other instrument executed thereunder or in connection with any Stock Award granted pursuant to the Plan shall confer upon any Participant any right to continue to serve the Company or an Affiliate in the capacity in effect at the time the Stock Award was granted or shall affect the right of the Company or an Affiliate to terminate (i) the employment of an Employee with or without notice and with or without cause, (ii) the service of a Consultant pursuant to the terms of such Consultants agreement with the Company or an Affiliate, or (iii) the service of a Director pursuant to the Bylaws of the Company or an Affiliate, and any applicable provisions of the corporate law of the state in which the Company or the Affiliate is incorporated, as the case may be.
(e) Incentive Stock Option $100,000 Limitation. To the extent that the aggregate Fair Market Value (determined at the time of grant) of Ordinary Shares with respect to which Incentive Stock Options are exercisable for the first time by any Optionholder during any calendar year (under all plans of the Company and any Affiliates) exceeds one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), the Options or portions thereof that exceed such limit (according to the order in which they were granted) shall be treated as Nonstatutory Stock Options, notwithstanding any contrary provision of the applicable Option Agreement(s).
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(f) Investment Assurances. The Company may require a Participant, as a condition of exercising or acquiring Ordinary Shares under any Stock Award, (i) to give written assurances satisfactory to the Company as to the Participants knowledge and experience in financial and business matters and/or to employ a purchaser representative reasonably satisfactory to the Company who is knowledgeable and experienced in financial and business matters and that he or she is capable of evaluating, alone or together with the purchaser representative, the merits and risks of exercising the Stock Award; and (ii) to give written assurances satisfactory to the Company stating that the Participant is acquiring Ordinary Shares subject to the Stock Award for the Participants own account and not with any present intention of selling or otherwise distributing the Ordinary Shares. The foregoing requirements, and any assurances given pursuant to such requirements, shall be inoperative if (x) the issuance of the Ordinary Shares upon the exercise or acquisition of Ordinary Shares under the Stock Award has been registered under a then currently effective registration statement under the Securities Act, or (y) as to any particular requirement, a determination is made by counsel for the Company that such requirement need not be met in the circumstances under the then applicable securities laws. The Company may, upon advice of counsel to the Company, place legends on share certificates issued under the Plan as such counsel deems necessary or appropriate in order to comply with applicable securities laws, including, but not limited to, legends restricting the transfer of the Ordinary Shares.
(g) Withholding Obligations. Unless prohibited by the terms of a Stock Award Agreement, the Company may, in its sole discretion, satisfy any federal, state, local or foreign tax withholding obligation relating to a Stock Award by any of the following means (in addition to the Companys right to withhold from any compensation paid to the Participant by the Company) or by a combination of such means: (i) causing the Participant to tender a cash payment; (ii) withholding Ordinary Shares from the Ordinary Shares issued or otherwise issuable to the Participant in connection with the Stock Award; provided, however, that no Ordinary Shares are withheld with a value exceeding the minimum amount of tax required to be withheld by law (or such lower amount as may be necessary to avoid classification of the Stock Award as a liability for financial accounting purposes); (iii) withholding cash from a Stock Award settled in cash; (iv) withholding payment from any amounts otherwise payable to the Participant; or (v) by such other method as may be set forth in the Stock Award Agreement.
(h) Electronic Delivery. Any reference herein to a written agreement or document shall include any agreement or document delivered electronically or posted on the Companys intranet.
(i) Deferrals. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Board, in its sole discretion, may determine that the delivery of Ordinary Shares or the payment of cash, upon the exercise, vesting or settlement of all or a portion of any Stock Award may be deferred and may establish programs and procedures for deferral elections to be made by Participants. Deferrals by Participants will be made in accordance with Section 409A of the Code. Consistent with Section 409A of the Code, the Board may provide for distributions while a Participant is still an employee. The Board is authorized to make deferrals of Stock Awards and determine when, and
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in what annual percentages, Participants may receive payments, including lump sum payments, following the Participants termination of employment or retirement, and implement such other terms and conditions consistent with the provisions of the Plan and in accordance with applicable law.
(j) Compliance with Section 409A. To the extent that the Board determines that any Stock Award granted under the Plan is subject to Section 409A of the Code, the Stock Award Agreement evidencing such Stock Award shall incorporate the terms and conditions necessary to avoid the consequences described in Section 409A(a)(1) of the Code. To the extent applicable, the Plan and Stock Award Agreements shall be interpreted in accordance with Section 409A of the Code and Department of Treasury regulations and other interpretive guidance issued thereunder, including without limitation any such regulations or other guidance that may be issued or amended after the Effective Date. Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary, in the event that following the Effective Date the Board determines that any Stock Award may be subject to Section 409A of the Code and related Department of Treasury guidance (including such Department of Treasury guidance as may be issued after the Effective Date), the Board may adopt such amendments to the Plan and the applicable Stock Award Agreement or adopt other policies and procedures (including amendments, policies and procedures with retroactive effect), or take any other actions, that the Board determines are necessary or appropriate to (1) exempt the Stock Award from Section 409A of the Code and/or preserve the intended tax treatment of the benefits provided with respect to the Stock Award, or (2) comply with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code and related Department of Treasury guidance.
9. | ADJUSTMENTS UPON CHANGES IN ORDINARY SHARES; OTHER CORPORATE EVENTS. |
(a) Capitalization Adjustments. In the event of a Capitalization Adjustment, the Board shall appropriately and proportionately adjust: (i) the class(es) and maximum number of securities subject to the Plan pursuant to Section 3(a); (ii) the class(es) and maximum number of securities that may be issued pursuant to the exercise of Incentive Stock Options pursuant to Section 3(c); (iii) the class(es) and maximum number of securities that may be awarded to any person pursuant to Section 4(c) and 6(d); and (iv) the class(es) and number of securities and price per Ordinary Share subject to outstanding Stock Awards. The Board shall make such adjustments, and its determination shall be final, binding and conclusive.
(b) Dissolution or Liquidation. Except as otherwise provided in a Stock Award Agreement, in the event of a dissolution or liquidation of the Company, all outstanding Stock Awards (other than Stock Awards consisting of vested and outstanding Ordinary Shares not subject to a forfeiture condition or the Companys or any Affiliates right of repurchase) shall terminate immediately prior to the completion of such dissolution or liquidation, and the Ordinary Shares subject to the Companys or any Affiliates repurchase rights may be repurchased by the Company or Affiliate notwithstanding the fact that the holder of such Stock Award is providing Continuous Service, provided, however, that the Board may, in its sole discretion, cause some or all Stock Awards to become fully vested, exercisable and/or no longer subject to repurchase or forfeiture (to the extent such Stock Awards have not previously expired or terminated) before the dissolution or liquidation is completed but contingent on its completion.
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(c) Corporate Transaction. The following provisions shall apply to Stock Awards in the event of a Corporate Transaction unless otherwise provided in the instrument evidencing the Stock Award or any other written agreement between the Company or any Affiliate and the holder of the Stock Award or unless otherwise expressly provided by the Board at the time of grant of a Stock Award. Except as otherwise stated in the Stock Award Agreement, in the event of a Corporate Transaction, then, notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, the Board shall take one or more of the following actions with respect to Stock Awards, contingent upon the closing or completion of the Corporate Transaction:
(i) arrange for the surviving corporation or acquiring corporation (or the surviving or acquiring corporations parent company) to assume or continue the Stock Award or to substitute a similar stock award for the Stock Award (including, but not limited to, an award to acquire the same consideration paid to the shareholders of the Company pursuant to the Corporate Transaction);
(ii) arrange for the assignment of any reacquisition or repurchase rights held by the Company or any Affiliate in respect of Ordinary Shares issued pursuant to the Stock Award to the surviving corporation or acquiring corporation (or the surviving or acquiring corporations parent company);
(iii) accelerate the vesting of the Stock Award (and, if applicable, the time at which the Stock Award may be exercised) to a date prior to the effective time of such Corporate Transaction as the Board shall determine (or, if the Board shall not determine such a date, to the date that is five (5) days prior to the effective date of the Corporate Transaction), with such Stock Award terminating if not exercised (if applicable) at or prior to the effective time of the Corporate Transaction;
(iv) arrange for the lapse of any reacquisition or repurchase rights held by the Company or any Affiliate with respect to the Stock Award;
(v) cancel or arrange for the cancellation of the Stock Award, to the extent not vested or not exercised prior to the effective time of the Corporate Transaction, in exchange for such cash consideration as the Board, in its sole discretion, may consider appropriate; and
(vi) make a payment, in such form as may be determined by the Board equal to the excess, if any, of (A) the value of the property the holder of the Stock Award would have received upon the exercise of the Stock Award, over (B) any exercise price payable by such holder in connection with such exercise.
The Board need not take the same action with respect to all Stock Awards or with respect to all Participants.
(d) Change in Control. A Stock Award may be subject to additional acceleration of vesting and exercisability upon or after a Change in Control as may be provided in the Stock Award Agreement for such Stock Award or as may be provided in any other written agreement between the Company or any Affiliate and the Participant. A Stock Award may vest as to all or any portion of the Ordinary Shares subject to the Stock Award (i) immediately upon the occurrence of a Change in Control, whether or not such Stock Award is assumed, continued, or
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substituted by a surviving or acquiring entity in the Change in Control, or (ii) in the event a Participants Continuous Service is terminated, actually or constructively, within a designated period following the occurrence of a Change in Control. In the absence of such provisions, no such acceleration shall occur.
10. | TERMINATION OR SUSPENSION OF THE PLAN. |
(a) Plan Term. The Board may suspend or terminate the Plan at any time. Unless terminated sooner, the Plan shall terminate on April 30, 2017. No Stock Awards may be granted under the Plan while the Plan is suspended or after it is terminated.
(b) No Impairment of Rights. Suspension or termination of the Plan shall not impair rights and obligations under any Stock Award granted while the Plan is in effect except with the written consent of the affected Participant.
11. | EFFECTIVE DATE OF PLAN. |
The Plan became effective on the IPO Date.
12. | CHOICE OF LAW. |
The law of the State of Delaware shall govern all questions concerning the construction, validity and interpretation of this Plan, without regard to that states conflict of laws rules.
13. | DEFINITIONS. |
As used in the Plan, the following definitions shall apply to the capitalized terms indicated below:
(a) Affiliate means, at the time of determination, any parent or subsidiary of the Company as such terms are defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. The Board shall have the authority to determine the time or times at which parent or subsidiary status is determined within the foregoing definition.
(b) Board means the Board of Directors of the Company.
(c) Capitalization Adjustment means any change that is made in, or other events that occur with respect to, the Ordinary Shares subject to the Plan or subject to any Stock Award after the Effective Date without the receipt of consideration by the Company through merger, consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization, reincorporation, share dividend, dividend in property other than cash, large nonrecurring cash dividend, share split, liquidating dividend, combination of shares, exchange of shares, change in corporate structure or any similar equity restructuring transaction, as that term is used in Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic 718 (or any successor thereto), including, for the avoidance of doubt, capitalization of profits or reserves, capital distribution, rights issue, the conversion of one class of share to another or reduction of capital or otherwise. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the conversion of any convertible securities of the Company shall not be treated as a Capitalization Adjustment.
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(d) Cause means with respect to a Participant, the occurrence of any of the following events: (i) such Participants commission of any felony or any crime involving fraud, dishonesty or moral turpitude under the laws of the United States or any state thereof; (ii) such Participants attempted commission of, or participation in, a fraud or act of dishonesty against the Company; (iii) such Participants intentional, material violation of any contract or agreement between the Participant and the Company or of any statutory duty owed to the Company; (iv) such Participants unauthorized use or disclosure of the Companys confidential information or trade secrets; or (v) such Participants gross misconduct. The determination that a termination of the Participants Continuous Service is either for Cause or without Cause shall be made by the Company in its sole discretion. Any determination by the Company that the Continuous Service of a Participant was terminated with or without Cause for the purposes of outstanding Stock Awards held by such Participant shall have no effect upon any determination of the rights or obligations of the Company or such Participant for any other purpose.
(e) Change in Control means the occurrence, in a single transaction or in a series of related transactions, of any one or more of the following events:
(i) any Exchange Act Person becomes the Owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the combined voting power of the Companys then outstanding securities other than by virtue of a merger, consolidation or similar transaction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Change in Control shall not be deemed to occur (A) on account of the acquisition of securities of the Company by an investor, any affiliate thereof or any other Exchange Act Person from the Company in a transaction or series of related transactions the primary purpose of which is to obtain financing for the Company through the issuance of equity securities or (B) solely because the level of Ownership held by any Exchange Act Person (the Subject Person) exceeds the designated percentage threshold of the outstanding voting securities as a result of a repurchase or other acquisition of voting securities by the Company or any Affiliate reducing the number of shares outstanding, provided that if a Change in Control would occur (but for the operation of this sentence) as a result of the acquisition of voting securities by the Company or any Affiliate, and after such share acquisition, the Subject Person becomes the Owner of any additional voting securities that, assuming the repurchase or other acquisition had not occurred, increases the percentage of the then outstanding voting securities Owned by the Subject Person over the designated percentage threshold, then a Change in Control shall be deemed to occur;
(ii) there is consummated a merger, consolidation or similar transaction involving (directly or indirectly) the Company and, immediately after the consummation of such merger, consolidation or similar transaction, the shareholders of the Company immediately prior thereto do not Own, directly or indirectly, either (A) outstanding voting securities representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the combined outstanding voting power of the surviving Entity in such merger, consolidation or similar transaction or (B) more than fifty percent (50%) of the combined outstanding voting power of the parent of the surviving Entity in such merger, consolidation or similar transaction, in each case in substantially the same proportions as their Ownership of the outstanding voting securities of the Company immediately prior to such transaction;
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(iii) the shareholders of the Company approve or the Board approves a plan of complete dissolution or liquidation of the Company, or a complete dissolution or liquidation of the Company shall otherwise occur, except for a liquidation into a parent corporation;
(iv) there is consummated a sale, lease, exclusive license or other disposition of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, other than a sale, lease, license or other disposition of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries to an Entity, more than fifty percent (50%) of the combined voting power of the voting securities of which are Owned by shareholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their Ownership of the outstanding voting securities of the Company immediately prior to such sale, lease, license or other disposition; or
(v) individuals who, on the date the Plan is adopted by the Board, are members of the Board (the Incumbent Board) cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority of the members of the Board; provided, however, that if the appointment or election (or nomination for election) of any new Board member was approved or recommended by a majority vote of the members of the Incumbent Board then still in office, such new member shall, for purposes of the Plan, be considered as a member of the Incumbent Board.
For the avoidance of doubt, any one or more of the above events may be effected pursuant to (A) a compromise or arrangement sanctioned by the court under section 201 of the Companies Act 1963 of the Republic of Ireland or (B) section 204 of the Companies Act 1963 of the Republic of Ireland.
Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Plan, the term Change in Control shall not include (1) a sale of assets, merger or other transaction effected exclusively for the purpose of changing the domicile of the Company or (2) unless the Board determines otherwise, the creation of a new holding company where the Company becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of that holding company and the holding company will be owned in substantially the same proportions by the persons who held the Companys issued shares immediately before such transaction, in which case Stock Awards granted hereunder will be treated as if they were in all respects awards over shares in the holding company but so that (i) the new award shall vest in the same manner as the Stock Award, (ii) the total market value of the new shares subject to the new award shall, immediately after such reorganization, be equal to the total market value of the Ordinary Shares comprised in the Stock Award immediately prior to such reorganization, (iii) the new award shall be subject to performance conditions that shall be at least equivalent (as determined by the Board) to the Performance Goals, if any, attaching to the Stock Award, (iv) the new shares shall have the same rights attaching thereto as the Ordinary Shares, and (v) the new award shall be deemed to have been granted as at the date of grant of the Stock Award.
Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of the Plan, the definition of Change in Control (or any analogous term) in an individual written agreement between the Company or any Affiliate and the Participant shall supersede the foregoing definition with respect to Stock Awards subject to such agreement; provided, however, that if no definition of Change in Control or any analogous term is set forth in such an individual written agreement, the foregoing definition shall apply.
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The Board may, in its sole discretion and without a Participants consent, amend the definition of Change in Control to conform to the definition of Change in Control under Section 409A of the Code, and the regulations thereunder.
(f) Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
(g) Committee means a committee of one (1) or more Directors to whom authority has been delegated by the Board in accordance with Section 2(c).
(h) Company means Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc, a company formed under the laws of Ireland.
(i) Consultant means any person, including an advisor, who is (i) engaged by the Company or an Affiliate to render consulting or advisory services and is compensated for such services, or (ii) serving as a member of the board of directors of an Affiliate and is compensated for such services. However, service solely as a Director, or payment of a fee for such service, shall not cause a Director to be considered a Consultant for purposes of the Plan.
(j) Continuous Service means that the Participants service with the Company or an Affiliate, whether as an Employee, Director or Consultant, is not interrupted or terminated. A change in the capacity in which the Participant renders service to the Company or an Affiliate as an Employee, Consultant or Director or a change in the entity for which the Participant renders such service, provided that there is no interruption or termination of the Participants service with the Company or an Affiliate, shall not terminate a Participants Continuous Service; provided, however, if the Entity for which a Participant is rendering services ceases to qualify as an Affiliate, as determined by the Board in its sole discretion, such Participants Continuous Service shall be considered to have terminated on the date such Entity ceases to qualify as an Affiliate. To the extent permitted by law, the Board or the chief executive officer of the Company, in that partys sole discretion, may determine whether Continuous Service shall be considered interrupted in the case of: (i) any leave of absence approved by the Board or the chief executive officer of the Company, including sick leave, military leave or any other personal leave; or (ii) transfers between the Company, an Affiliate, or their successors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a leave of absence shall be treated as Continuous Service for purposes of vesting in a Stock Award only to such extent as may be provided in the Companys leave of absence policy, in the written terms of any leave of absence agreement or policy applicable to the Participant, or as otherwise required by law.
(k) Corporate Transaction means the consummation, in a single transaction or in a series of related transactions, of any one or more of the following events:
(i) a sale or other disposition of all or substantially all, as determined by the Board in its sole discretion, of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries;
(ii) a sale or other disposition of at least ninety percent (90%) of the outstanding securities of the Company;
(iii) a merger, consolidation or similar transaction following which the Company is not the surviving corporation; or
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(iv) a merger, consolidation or similar transaction following which the Company is the surviving corporation but the Ordinary Shares outstanding immediately preceding the merger, consolidation or similar transaction are converted or exchanged by virtue of the merger, consolidation or similar transaction into other property, whether in the form of securities, cash or otherwise.
For the avoidance of doubt, any one or more of the above events may be effected pursuant to (A) a compromise or arrangement sanctioned by the court under section 201 of the Companies Act 1963 of the Republic of Ireland or (B) section 204 of the Companies Act 1963 of the Republic of Ireland.
Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Plan, unless the Board determines otherwise, the term Corporate Transaction shall not include the creation of a new holding company where the Company becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of that holding company and the holding company will be owned in substantially the same proportions by the persons who held the Companys issued shares immediately before such transaction (in which case Stock Awards granted hereunder will be treated as set out in the second paragraph after part (v) of the definition of Change in Control above).
(l) Covered Employee means the chief executive officer and the four (4) other highest compensated officers of the Company for whom total compensation is required to be reported to shareholders under the Exchange Act, as determined for purposes of Section 162(m) of the Code.
(m) Director means a member of the Board.
(n) Disability means, with respect to a Participant, the inability of such Participant to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months, as provided in Section 22(e)(3) and 409A(a)(2)(c)(i) of the Code.
(o) Effective Date means the effective date of the Plan as set forth in Section 11.
(p) Employee means any person employed by the Company or an Affiliate. However, service solely as a Director, or payment of a fee for such services, shall not cause a Director to be considered an Employee for purposes of the Plan.
(q) Entity means a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity.
(r) Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
(s) Exchange Act Person means any natural person, Entity or group (within the meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the Exchange Act), except that Exchange Act Person shall not include (i) the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, (ii) any employee benefit plan of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company or any trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company,
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(iii) an underwriter temporarily holding securities pursuant to an offering of such securities, (iv) an Entity Owned, directly or indirectly, by the shareholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their Ownership of shares of the Company; or (v) any natural person, Entity or group (within the meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the Exchange Act) that, as of the Effective Date, is the Owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the combined voting power of the Companys then outstanding securities.
(t) Fair Market Value means, as of any date, the value of the Ordinary Shares determined as follows:
(i) If the Ordinary Shares are listed on any established stock exchange or traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market or the Nasdaq Global Market, the Fair Market Value of an Ordinary Share shall be the closing sales price for such Ordinary Share (or the closing bid, if no sales were reported) as quoted on such exchange (or the exchange or market with the greatest volume of trading in the Ordinary Shares) on the date of determination, as reported in The Wall Street Journal or such other source as the Board deems reliable.
(ii) If the Ordinary Shares are listed or traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Fair Market Value of an Ordinary Share shall be the mean between the bid and asked prices for the Ordinary Shares on the date of determination, as reported in The Wall Street Journal or such other source as the Board deems reliable. Unless otherwise provided by the Board, if there is no closing sales price (or closing bid if no sales were reported) for the Ordinary Shares on the date of determination, then the Fair Market Value shall be the mean between the bid and asked prices for the Ordinary Shares on the last preceding date for which such quotation exists.
(iii) In the absence of such markets for the Ordinary Shares, the Fair Market Value shall be determined by the Board in good faith and in a manner that complies with Section 409A of the Code.
(u) Incentive Stock Option means an Option which qualifies as an incentive stock option within the meaning of Section 422 of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
(v) IPO Date means the date of the underwriting agreement between Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and the underwriter(s) managing the initial public offering of the common stock of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc., pursuant to which such common stock was priced for the initial public offering.
(w) Non-Employee Director means a Director who either (i) is not a current employee or officer of the Company or an Affiliate, does not receive compensation, either directly or indirectly, from the Company or an Affiliate for services rendered as a consultant or in any capacity other than as a Director (except for an amount as to which disclosure would not be required under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K promulgated pursuant to the Securities Act (Regulation S-K)), does not possess an interest in any other transaction for which disclosure would be required under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K, and is not engaged in a business relationship for which disclosure would be required pursuant to Item 404(b) of Regulation S-K; or (ii) is otherwise considered a non-employee director for purposes of Rule 16b-3.
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(x) Nonstatutory Stock Option means an Option that does not qualify as an Incentive Stock Option.
(y) Officer means a person who is an officer of the Company within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
(z) Option means an Incentive Stock Option or a Nonstatutory Stock Option to purchase Ordinary Shares granted pursuant to the Plan.
(aa) Option Agreement means a written agreement between the Company and an Optionholder evidencing the terms and conditions of an Option grant. Each Option Agreement shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan.
(bb) Optionholder means a person to whom an Option is granted pursuant to the Plan or, if applicable, such other person who holds an outstanding Option.
(cc) Ordinary Share or Ordinary Shares means the ordinary shares of the Company of nominal value US$0.0001 per share.
(dd) Other Stock Award means an award based in whole or in part by reference to the Ordinary Shares which is granted pursuant to the terms and conditions of Section 6(e).
(ee) Other Stock Award Agreement means a written agreement between the Company and a holder of an Other Stock Award evidencing the terms and conditions of an Other Stock Award grant. Each Other Stock Award Agreement shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan.
(ff) Outside Director means a Director who either (i) is not a current employee of the Company or an affiliated corporation (within the meaning of Treasury Regulations promulgated under Section 162(m) of the Code), is not a former employee of the Company or an affiliated corporation who receives compensation for prior services (other than benefits under a tax-qualified retirement plan) during the taxable year, has not been an officer of the Company or an affiliated corporation, and does not receive remuneration from the Company or an affiliated corporation, either directly or indirectly, in any capacity other than as a Director, or (ii) is otherwise considered an outside director for purposes of Section 162(m) of the Code.
(gg) Own, Owned, Owner, Ownership A person or Entity shall be deemed to Own, to have Owned, to be the Owner of, or to have acquired Ownership of securities if such person or Entity, directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has or shares voting power, which includes the power to vote or to direct the voting, with respect to such securities.
(hh) Participant means a person to whom a Stock Award is granted pursuant to the Plan or, if applicable, such other person who holds an outstanding Stock Award.
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(ii) Performance Criteria means the one or more criteria that the Board shall select for purposes of establishing the Performance Goals for a Performance Period. The Performance Criteria that shall be used to establish such Performance Goals may be based on any one of, or combination of, the following: (i) earnings per share; (ii) earnings before interest, taxes and depreciation; (iii) earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA); (iv) total shareholder return; (v) return on equity; (vi) return on assets, investment, or capital employed; (vii) operating margin; (viii) gross margin; (ix) operating income; (x) net income (before or after taxes); (xi) net operating income; (xii) net operating income after tax; (xiii) pre- and after-tax income; (xiv) pre-tax profit; (xv) operating cash flow; (xvi) sales or revenue targets; (xvii) orders and revenue; (xviii) increases in revenue or product revenue; (xix) expenses and cost reduction goals; (xx) improvement in or attainment of expense levels; (xxi) improvement in or attainment of working capital levels; (xxii) economic value added (or an equivalent metric); (xxiii) market share; (xxiv) cash flow; (xxv) cash flow per share; (xxvi) share price performance; (xxvii) debt reduction; (xxviii) implementation or completion of projects or processes; (xxix) customer satisfaction; (xxx) shareholders equity; (xxxi) quality measures; and (xxxii) to the extent that a Stock Award is not intended to comply with Section 162(m) of the Code, other measures of performance selected by the Board. Partial achievement of the specified criteria may result in the payment or vesting corresponding to the degree of achievement as specified in the Stock Award Agreement. The Board shall, in its sole discretion, define the manner of calculating the Performance Criteria it selects to use for such Performance Period.
(jj) Performance Goals means, for a Performance Period, the one or more goals established by the Board for the Performance Period based upon the satisfaction of the Performance Criteria. Performance Goals may be based on a Company-wide basis, with respect to one or more business units, divisions, Affiliates, or business segments, and in either absolute terms or relative to the performance of one or more comparable companies or the performance of one or more relevant indices. At the time of the grant of any Stock Award, the Board is authorized to determine whether, when calculating the attainment of Performance Goals for a Performance Period: (i) to exclude restructuring and/or other nonrecurring charges; (ii) to exclude exchange rate effects, as applicable, for non-U.S. dollar denominated net sales and operating earnings; (iii) to exclude the effects of changes to generally accepted accounting standards required by the Financial Accounting Standards Board; (iv) to exclude the effects of any statutory adjustments to corporate tax rates; and (v) to exclude the effects of any extraordinary items as determined under generally accepted accounting principles. In addition, the Board retains the discretion to reduce or eliminate the compensation or economic benefit due upon attainment of Performance Goals.
(kk) Performance Period means one or more periods of time, which may be of varying and overlapping duration, as the Committee may select, over which the attainment of one or more Performance Goals will be measured for the purpose of determining a Participants right to and the payment of a Performance Stock Award.
(ll) Performance Stock Award means an award of Ordinary Shares which is granted pursuant to the terms and conditions of Section 6(d).
(mm) Plan means this Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2007 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended and restated effective January 18, 2012.
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(nn) Prior Plan means the Companys 2003 Equity Incentive Plan as in effect immediately prior to the Effective Date.
(oo) Restricted Stock Award means an award of Ordinary Shares which is granted pursuant to the terms and conditions of Section 6(a).
(pp) Restricted Stock Award Agreement means a written agreement between the Company and a holder of a Restricted Stock Award evidencing the terms and conditions of a Restricted Stock Award grant. Each Restricted Stock Award Agreement shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan.
(qq) Restricted Stock Unit Award means a right to receive Ordinary Shares which is granted pursuant to the terms and conditions of Section 6(b).
(rr) Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement means a written agreement between the Company and a holder of a Restricted Stock Unit Award evidencing the terms and conditions of a Restricted Stock Unit Award grant. Each Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan.
(ss) Rule 16b-3 means Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act or any successor to Rule 16b-3, as in effect from time to time.
(tt) Securities Act means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
(uu) Stock Appreciation Right means a right to receive the appreciation on Ordinary Shares that is granted pursuant to the terms and conditions of Section 6(c).
(vv) Stock Appreciation Right Agreement means a written agreement between the Company and a holder of a Stock Appreciation Right evidencing the terms and conditions of a Stock Appreciation Right grant. Each Stock Appreciation Right Agreement shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan.
(ww) Stock Award means any right to receive Ordinary Shares granted under the Plan, including an Option, a Restricted Stock Award, a Restricted Stock Unit Award, a Stock Appreciation Right, a Performance Stock Award, or any Other Stock Award.
(xx) Stock Award Agreement means a written agreement between the Company and a Participant evidencing the terms and conditions of a Stock Award grant. Each Stock Award Agreement shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan.
(yy) Subsidiary means, with respect to the Company, (i) any corporation of which more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding capital stock having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether, at the time, stock of any other class or classes of such corporation shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency) is at the time, directly or indirectly, Owned by the Company, and (ii) any partnership, limited liability company or other entity in which the Company has a direct or indirect interest (whether in the form of voting or participation in profits or capital contribution) of more than fifty percent (50%) .
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(zz) Ten Percent Shareholder means a person who Owns (or is deemed to Own pursuant to Section 424(d) of the Code) shares possessing more than ten percent (10%) of the total combined voting power of all classes of shares of the Company or any Affiliate.
Adopted by the Board of Directors of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on May 1, 2007.
Approved by the stockholders of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on May 9, 2007.
Amended and restated by the Board of Directors of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on October 24, 2011.
Adopted by the Board of Directors of Azur Pharma plc on December 21, 2011.
Approved by the shareholders of Azur Pharma plc on January 3, 2012.
Termination Date: April 30, 2017
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Exhibit 99.4
JAZZ PHARMACEUTICALS PLC
AMENDED AND RESTATED
2007 NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS STOCK OPTION PLAN
1. | GENERAL. |
The Company, by means of the Plan, seeks to retain the services of its Non-Employee Directors, to secure and retain the services of new Non-Employee Directors and to provide incentives for such persons to exert maximum efforts for the success of the Company and any Affiliate by giving them an opportunity to benefit from increases in value of the Ordinary Shares through the grant of Nonstatutory Stock Options. The Plan is also intended to provide a source of Ordinary Shares to be used to pay distributions under the Companys Directors Deferred Compensation Plan, but only to the extent such Ordinary Shares were credited prior to August 15, 2010 to a Non-Employee Directors stock account pursuant to the Companys Directors Deferred Compensation Plan.
2. | ADMINISTRATION. |
(a) Administration by Board. The Board shall administer the Plan. The Board may not delegate administration of the Plan.
(b) Powers of Board. The Board shall have the power, subject to, and within the limitations of, the express provisions of the Plan:
(i) To determine from time to time (A) which of the Non-Employee Directors eligible under the Plan shall be granted Options; (B) when and how each Option shall be granted; (C) the provisions of each Option granted (which need not be identical), (D) the number of Ordinary Shares with respect to which each Option shall be granted; and (E) the Fair Market Value applicable to an Option.
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(ii) To determine the provisions of each Option to the extent not specified in the Plan.
(iii) To construe and interpret the Plan and Options granted under it, and to establish, amend and revoke rules and regulations for its administration. The Board, in the exercise of this power, may correct any defect, omission or inconsistency in the Plan or in any Option Agreement, in a manner and to the extent it shall deem necessary or expedient to make the Plan fully effective.
(iv) To amend the Plan or an Option as provided in Section 9.
(v) To terminate or suspend the Plan as provided in Section 10.
(vi) Generally, to exercise such powers and to perform such acts as the Board deems necessary or expedient to promote the best interests of the Company and that are not in conflict with the provisions of the Plan.
(c) Effect of Boards Decision. All determinations, interpretations and constructions made by the Board in good faith shall not be subject to review by any person and shall be final, binding and conclusive on all persons.
3. | SHARES SUBJECT TO THE PLAN. |
(a) Share Reserve. Subject to the provisions of Section 8(a) relating to Capitalization Adjustments, the aggregate number of Ordinary Shares that may be issued under the Plan shall not exceed two hundred thousand (200,000), plus an automatic annual increase beginning on January 1, 2008 and ending on (and including) January 1, 2017, in an amount equal to the sum of (i) the excess of (A) the number of Ordinary Shares subject to Options granted during the preceding calendar year, over (B) the number of Ordinary Shares added back to the share reserve during the preceding calendar year pursuant to the provisions of Section 3(b), plus (ii) for the automatic annual increases occurring on or prior to January 1, 2010 only, the aggregate number of Ordinary Shares credited to the Non-Employee Directors stock accounts pursuant to the Companys Directors Deferred Compensation Plan during the applicable preceding calendar year; provided, however, that such automatic annual increase shall not exceed two hundred thousand (200,000) Ordinary Shares. For the avoidance of doubt, no Ordinary Shares credited to the Non-Employee Directors stock accounts pursuant to the Companys Directors Deferred Compensation Plan on or after August 15, 2010 shall act to increase the share reserve under this Section 3(a). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board may act prior to the first day of any calendar year, to provide that there shall be no increase in the share reserve for such calendar year or that the increase in the share reserve for such calendar year shall be a lesser number of Ordinary Shares than would otherwise occur pursuant to the preceding sentence.
(b) Reversion of Shares to the Share Reserve. If an Option shall for any reason expire or otherwise terminate, in whole or in part, without having been exercised in full, the Ordinary Shares not acquired under such Option shall revert to and again become available for issuance under the Plan. If any Ordinary Shares subject to an Option are not delivered to an Optionholder because such Ordinary Shares are withheld for the payment of taxes, the number of
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Ordinary Shares that are not delivered to the Optionholder shall remain available for issuance under the Plan. If the exercise price of an Option is satisfied by tendering Ordinary Shares held by the Optionholder (either by actual delivery or attestation), then the number of Ordinary Shares so tendered shall remain available for issuance under the Plan.
(c) Payment Shares. Subject to the overall limitation in Section 3(a) on the number of Ordinary Shares that may be issued pursuant to Options, Ordinary Shares may be used as the form of payment for distributions under the Companys Directors Deferred Compensation Plan but only to the extent such Ordinary Shares were credited prior to August 15, 2010 to a Non-Employee Directors stock account pursuant to the Companys Directors Deferred Compensation Plan.
(d) Source of Shares. The shares issuable under the Plan shall be authorized but unissued or reacquired Ordinary Shares, including Ordinary Shares repurchased by the Company or any Affiliate on the open market or otherwise.
4. | ELIGIBILITY. |
The persons eligible to receive Options are the Non-Employee Directors of the Company.
5. | OPTION PROVISIONS. |
Each Option shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as required by the Plan. Each Option shall contain such additional terms and conditions, not inconsistent with the Plan, as the Board shall deem appropriate. Each Option shall include (through incorporation of provisions hereof by reference in the Option or otherwise) the substance of each of the following provisions:
(a) Term. No Option shall be exercisable after the expiration of ten (10) years from the date it was granted.
(b) Exercise Price. The exercise price of each Option shall be one hundred percent (100%) of the Fair Market Value of the Ordinary Shares subject to the Option on the date the Option is granted, provided that in all cases the exercise price is not less than the nominal value of an Ordinary Share.
(c) Consideration. The purchase price of Ordinary Shares acquired pursuant to an Option may be paid, to the extent permitted by applicable law, in any combination of the following; provided, however, that where Ordinary Shares are issued pursuant to the exercise of an Option the nominal value of each newly issued Ordinary Share is fully paid up: (i) cash or check, (ii) delivery to the Company (either by actual delivery or attestation) of Ordinary Shares, or (iii) to the extent permitted by law, pursuant to a program developed under Regulation T as promulgated by the Federal Reserve Board that, prior to the issuance of Ordinary Shares, results in either the receipt of cash (or check) by the Company or the receipt of irrevocable instructions to pay the aggregate exercise price to the Company from the sales proceeds.
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(d) Transferability. Except as otherwise provided for in this Section 5(d), an Option shall not be transferable except by will or by the laws of descent and distribution and shall be exercisable only by the Optionholder during the life of the Optionholder. However, an Option may be transferred for no consideration upon written consent of the Board if (i) at the time of transfer, a Form S-8 registration statement under the Securities Act is available for the issuance of Ordinary Shares by the Company upon the exercise of such transferred Option, or (ii) the transfer is to the Optionholders employer at the time of transfer or an affiliate of the Optionholders employer at the time of transfer. Any such transfer is subject to such limits as the Board may establish, and subject to the transferee agreeing to remain subject to all the terms and conditions applicable to the Option prior to such transfer. The forgoing right to transfer the Option shall apply to the right to consent to amendments to the Option Agreement for such Option. In addition, until the Optionholder transfers the Option, an Optionholder may, by delivering written notice to the Company, in a form provided by or otherwise satisfactory to the Company, designate a third party who, in the event of the death of the Optionholder, shall thereafter be entitled to exercise the Option.
(e) Vesting. The total number of Ordinary Shares subject to an Option may vest and therefore become exercisable in periodic installments that may or may not be equal. The Option may be subject to such other terms and conditions on the time or times when it may or may not be exercised as the Board may deem appropriate. The vesting provisions of individual Options may vary. The provisions of this Section 5(e) are subject to any Option provisions governing the minimum number of Ordinary Shares as to which an Option may be exercised.
(f) Early Exercise. The Option may, but need not, include a provision whereby the Optionholder may elect at any time before the Optionholders Continuous Service terminates to exercise the Option as to any part or all of the Ordinary Shares subject to the Option prior to the full vesting of the Option. Any unvested Ordinary Shares so purchased may be subject to a repurchase option in favor of the Company or any Affiliate or to any other restriction the Board determines to be appropriate. The Company or Affiliate will not exercise its repurchase option until at least six (6) months (or such longer or shorter period of time required to avoid classification of the Option as a liability for financial accounting purposes) have elapsed following exercise of the Option unless the Board otherwise specifically provides in the Option.
(g) Termination of Continuous Service. In the event that an Optionholders Continuous Service terminates (other than upon the Optionholders death or Disability or upon a Change in Control), the Optionholder may exercise his or her Option (to the extent that the Optionholder was entitled to exercise such Option as of the date of termination of Continuous Service), but only within such period of time ending on the earlier of (i) the date three (3) months following the termination of the Optionholders Continuous Service, or (ii) the expiration of the term of the Option as set forth in the Option Agreement. If, after termination of Continuous Service, the Optionholder does not exercise his or her Option within the time specified herein or in the Option Agreement (as applicable), the Option shall terminate.
(h) Extension of Termination Date. If the exercise of the Option following the termination of the Optionholders Continuous Service (other than upon the Optionholders death or Disability or upon a Change in Control) would be prohibited at any time solely because the issuance of Ordinary Shares would violate the registration requirements under the Securities Act,
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then the Option shall terminate on the earlier of (i) the expiration of a period of three (3) months after the termination of the Optionholders Continuous Service during which the exercise of the Option would not be in violation of such registration requirements, or (ii) the expiration of the term of the Option as set forth in the Option Agreement.
(i) Disability of Optionholder. In the event that an Optionholders Continuous Service terminates as a result of the Optionholders Disability, the Optionholder may exercise his or her Option (to the extent that the Optionholder was entitled to exercise it as of the date of termination of Continuous Service), but only within such period of time ending on the earlier of (i) the date twelve (12) months following such termination of Continuous Service, or (ii) the expiration of the term of the Option as set forth in the Option Agreement. If, after termination, the Optionholder does not exercise his or her Option within the time specified herein or in the Option Agreement, the Option shall terminate.
(j) Death of Optionholder. In the event that (i) an Optionholders Continuous Service terminates as a result of the Optionholders death, or (ii) the Optionholder dies within the three (3)-month period after the termination of the Optionholders Continuous Service for a reason other than death, then the Option may be exercised (to the extent the Optionholder was entitled to exercise such Option as of the date of death) by the Optionholders estate, by a person who acquired the right to exercise the Option by bequest or inheritance, or by a person designated to exercise the Option upon the Optionholders death, but only within the period ending on the earlier of (i) the date eighteen (18) months following the date of death, or (ii) the expiration of the term of such Option as set forth in the Option Agreement. If, after the Optionholders death, the Option is not exercised within the time specified herein, the Option shall terminate.
(k) Termination Upon Change in Control. In the event that an Optionholders Continuous Service terminates as of, or within twelve (12) months following a Change in Control, the Optionholder may exercise his or her Option (to the extent that the Optionholder was entitled to exercise such Option as of the date of termination of Continuous Service) within such period of time ending on the earlier of (i) the date twelve (12) months following the effective date of the Change in Control, or (ii) the expiration of the term of the Option as set forth in the Option Agreement. If, after termination of Continuous Service, the Optionholder does not exercise his or her Option within the time specified herein or in the Option Agreement (as applicable), the Option shall terminate.
6. | COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY |
(a) Availability of Shares. During the terms of the Options, the Company shall keep available at all times the number of Ordinary Shares required to satisfy such Options.
(b) Securities Law Compliance. The Company shall seek to obtain from each regulatory commission or agency having jurisdiction over the Plan such authority as may be required to grant Options and to issue and sell Ordinary Shares upon exercise of the Options; provided, however, that this undertaking shall not require the Company to register under the Securities Act the Plan, any Option or any Ordinary Shares issued or issuable pursuant to any such Option. If, after reasonable efforts, the Company is unable to obtain from any such
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regulatory commission or agency the authority that counsel for the Company deems necessary for the lawful issuance and sale of Ordinary Shares under the Plan, the Company shall be relieved from any liability for failure to issue and sell Ordinary Shares upon exercise of such Options unless and until such authority is obtained.
7. | MISCELLANEOUS. |
(a) Use of Proceeds. Proceeds from the sale of Ordinary Shares pursuant to Options shall constitute general funds of the Company.
(b) Shareholder Rights. No Optionholder shall be deemed to be the holder of, or to have any of the rights of a holder with respect to, any Ordinary Shares subject to such Option unless and until such Optionholder has satisfied all requirements for exercise of the Option pursuant to its terms.
(c) No Service Rights. Nothing in the Plan, any instrument executed, or Option granted pursuant thereto shall confer upon any Optionholder any right to continue to serve the Company as a Non-Employee Director or shall affect the right of the Company or an Affiliate to terminate the service of a Director pursuant to the Bylaws of the Company or an Affiliate, and any applicable provisions of the corporate law of the state in which the Company or the Affiliate is incorporated, as the case may be.
(d) Investment Assurances. The Company may require an Optionholder, as a condition of exercising or acquiring Ordinary Shares under any Option, (i) to give written assurances satisfactory to the Company as to the Optionholders knowledge and experience in financial and business matters and/or to employ a purchaser representative reasonably satisfactory to the Company who is knowledgeable and experienced in financial and business matters and that he or she is capable of evaluating, alone or together with the purchaser representative, the merits and risks of exercising the Option; and (ii) to give written assurances satisfactory to the Company stating that the Optionholder is acquiring the Ordinary Shares subject to the Option for the Optionholders own account and not with any present intention of selling or otherwise distributing the Ordinary Shares. The foregoing requirements, and any assurances given pursuant to such requirements, shall be inoperative if (i) the issuance of the Ordinary Shares upon the exercise or acquisition of Ordinary Shares under the Option has been registered under a then currently effective registration statement under the Securities Act, or (ii) as to any particular requirement, a determination is made by counsel for the Company that such requirement need not be met in the circumstances under the then applicable securities laws. The Company may, upon advice of counsel to the Company, place legends on share certificates issued under the Plan as such counsel deems necessary or appropriate in order to comply with applicable securities laws, including, but not limited to, legends restricting the transfer of the Ordinary Shares.
(e) Withholding Obligations. The Optionholder may satisfy any federal, state, local or foreign tax withholding obligation relating to the exercise or acquisition of Ordinary Shares under an Option by any of the following means (in addition to the Companys right to withhold from any compensation paid to the Optionholder by the Company) or by a combination of such means: (i) tendering a cash payment; (ii) authorizing the Company to withhold Ordinary Shares
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from the Ordinary Shares otherwise issuable to the Optionholder as a result of the exercise or acquisition of Ordinary Shares under the Option; provided, however, that no Ordinary Shares are withheld with a value exceeding the minimum amount of tax required to be withheld by law; or (iii) delivering to the Company owned and unencumbered Ordinary Shares.
(f) Electronic Delivery. Any reference herein to a written agreement or document shall include any agreement or document delivered electronically or posted on the Companys intranet.
8. | ADJUSTMENTS UPON CHANGES IN ORDINARY SHARES; CORPORATE TRANSACTIONS. |
(a) Capitalization Adjustments. In the event of a Capitalization Adjustment, the Board shall proportionately and appropriately adjust: (i) the class(es) and maximum number of securities subject to the Plan pursuant to Section 3(a), (ii) the class(es) and maximum number of securities by which the share reserve is to increase automatically each year pursuant to Section 3(a), and (iii) the class(es) and number of securities and price per Ordinary Share subject to outstanding Options. The Board shall make such adjustments, and its determination shall be final, binding and conclusive.
(b) Dissolution or Liquidation. In the event of a dissolution or liquidation of the Company, all outstanding Options shall terminate immediately prior to the completion of such dissolution or liquidation.
(c) Corporate Transaction.
(i) Options May Be Assumed. In the event of a Corporate Transaction, any surviving corporation or acquiring corporation (or the surviving or acquiring corporations parent company) may assume or continue any or all Options outstanding under the Plan or may substitute similar stock options for Options outstanding under the Plan (including but not limited to, options to acquire the same consideration paid to the shareholders of the Company pursuant to the Corporate Transaction), and any reacquisition or repurchase rights held by the Company or any Affiliate in respect of Ordinary Shares issued pursuant to Options may be assigned by the Company to the successor of the Company (or the successors parent company, if any), in connection with such Corporate Transaction. A surviving corporation or acquiring corporation may choose to assume or continue only a portion of an Option or substitute a similar option for only a portion of an Option.
(ii) Options Held by Active Optionholders. In the event of a Corporate Transaction in which the surviving corporation or acquiring corporation (or its parent company) does not assume or continue such outstanding Options or substitute similar stock options for such outstanding Options, then with respect to Options that have not been assumed, continued or substituted and that are held by Optionholders whose Continuous Service has not terminated prior to the effective time of the Corporate Transaction (referred to as the Active Optionholders), the vesting of such Options (and, if applicable, the time at which such Options may be exercised) shall (contingent upon the effectiveness of the Corporate Transaction) be accelerated in full to a date prior to the effective time of such Corporate Transaction as the Board shall determine (or, if the Board shall not determine such a date, to the date that is five (5) days
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prior to the effective time of the Corporate Transaction), and the Options shall terminate if not exercised (if applicable) at or prior to the effective time of the Corporate Transaction, and any reacquisition or repurchase rights held by the Company or any Affiliate with respect to such Options shall lapse (contingent upon the effectiveness of the Corporate Transaction).
(iii) Options Held by Former Optionholders. In the event of a Corporate Transaction in which the surviving corporation or acquiring corporation (or its parent company) does not assume or continue such outstanding Options or substitute similar stock options for such outstanding Options, then with respect to any other Options that have not been assumed, continued or substituted and that are held by persons other than Active Optionholders, the vesting of such Options (and, if applicable, the time at which such Options may be exercised) shall not be accelerated unless otherwise provided in Section 8(d) or in a written agreement between the Company or any Affiliate and the holder of such Options, and such Options shall terminate if not exercised (if applicable) prior to the effective time of the Corporate Transaction; provided, however, that any reacquisition or repurchase rights held by the Company or any Affiliate with respect to such Options shall not terminate and may continue to be exercised notwithstanding the Corporate Transaction.
(iv) Payment for Options in Lieu of Exercise. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event an Option will terminate if not exercised prior to the effective time of a Corporate Transaction, the Board may provide, in its sole discretion, that the holder of such Option may not exercise such Option but will receive a payment, in such form as may be determined by the Board, equal in value to the excess, if any, of (i) the value of the property the holder of the Option would have received upon the exercise of the Option, over (ii) the exercise price payable by the Optionholder in connection with such exercise.
(d) Change in Control. In the event that an Optionholder (i) is required to resign his or her position as a Non-Employee Director as a condition of a Change in Control, or (ii) is removed from his or her position as a Non-Employee Director in connection with a Change in Control, the outstanding Options held by such Optionholder shall become fully vested and exercisable immediately prior to the effectiveness of such resignation or removal (and contingent upon the effectiveness of such Change in Control).
(e) Parachute Payments.
(i) If the acceleration of the vesting and exercisability of Options provided for in Sections 8(c) and 8(d), together with payments and other benefits of an Optionholder, (collectively, the Payment) (i) constitute a parachute payment within the meaning of Section 280G of the Code, or any comparable successor provisions, and (ii) but for this Section 8(e) would be subject to the excise tax imposed by Section 4999 of the Code, or any comparable successor provisions (the Excise Tax), then such Payment shall be either (1) provided to such Optionholder in full, or (2) provided to such Optionholder as to such lesser extent that would result in no portion of such Payment being subject to the Excise Tax, whichever of the foregoing amounts, when taking into account applicable federal, state, local and foreign income and employment taxes, the Excise Tax, and any other applicable taxes, results in the receipt by such Optionholder, on an after-tax basis, of the greatest amount of the Payment, notwithstanding that all or some portion of the Payment may be subject to the Excise Tax.
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(ii) Unless the Company and such Optionholder otherwise agree in writing, any determination required under this Section 8(e) shall be made in writing in good faith by the Accountant. If a reduction in the Payment is to be made as provided above, reduction shall occur in the manner that results in the greatest economic benefit for Participant.
(iii) For purposes of making the calculations required by this Section 8(e), the Accountant may make reasonable assumptions and approximations concerning applicable taxes and may rely on reasonable, good faith interpretations concerning the application of the Code and other applicable legal authority. The Company and the Optionholder shall furnish to the Accountant such information and documents as the Accountant may reasonably request in order to make such a determination. The Company shall bear all costs the Accountant may reasonably incur in connection with any calculations contemplated by this Section 8(e).
(iv) If, notwithstanding any reduction described above, the Internal Revenue Service (the IRS) determines that the Optionholder is liable for the Excise Tax as a result of the Payment, then the Optionholder shall be obligated to pay back to the Company, within thirty (30) days after a final IRS determination or, in the event that the Optionholder challenges the final IRS determination, a final judicial determination, a portion of the Payment (the Repayment Amount). The Repayment Amount with respect to the Payment shall be the smallest such amount, if any, as shall be required to be paid to the Company so that the Optionholders net after-tax proceeds with respect to the Payment (after taking into account the payment of the Excise Tax and all other applicable taxes imposed on the Payment) shall be maximized. The Repayment Amount with respect to the Payment shall be zero if a Repayment Amount of more than zero would not result in the Optionholders net after-tax proceeds with respect to the Payment being maximized. If the Excise Tax is not eliminated pursuant to this paragraph, the Optionholder shall pay the Excise Tax.
(v) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 8(e), if (i) there is a reduction in the Payment as described above, (ii) the IRS later determines that the Optionholder is liable for the Excise Tax, the payment of which would result in the maximization of the Optionholders net after-tax proceeds of the Payment (calculated as if the Payment had not previously been reduced), and (iii) the Optionholder pays the Excise Tax, then the Company shall pay or otherwise provide to the Optionholder that portion of the Payment that was reduced pursuant to this Section 8(e) contemporaneously or as soon as administratively possible after the Optionholder pays the Excise Tax so that the Optionholders net after-tax proceeds with respect to the Payment are maximized.
(vi) If the Optionholder either (i) brings any action to enforce rights pursuant to this Section 8(e), or (ii) defends any legal challenge to his or her rights under this Section 8(e), the Optionholder shall be entitled to recover attorneys fees and costs incurred in connection with such action, regardless of the outcome of such action; provided, however, that if such action is commenced by the Optionholder, the court finds that the action was brought in good faith.
9. | AMENDMENT OF THE PLAN AND OPTIONS. |
(a) Amendment of Plan. Subject to the limitations, if any, of applicable law, the Board, at any time and from time to time, may amend the Plan. However, except as provided in
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Section 8(a) relating to Capitalization Adjustments, no amendment shall be effective unless approved by the shareholders of the Company to the extent shareholder approval is necessary to satisfy applicable law.
(b) Shareholder Approval. The Board, in its sole discretion, may submit any other amendment to the Plan for shareholder approval.
(c) No Impairment of Rights. Rights under any Option granted before amendment of the Plan shall not be impaired by any amendment of the Plan unless (i) the Company requests the consent of the affected Optionholder, and (ii) such Optionholder consents in writing.
(d) Amendment of Options. The Board, at any time and from time to time, may amend the terms of any one or more Options; provided, however, that the rights under any Option shall not be impaired by any such amendment unless (i) the Company requests the consent of the Optionholder, and (ii) the Optionholder consents in writing.
10. | TERMINATION OR SUSPENSION OF THE PLAN. |
(a) Plan Term. The Board may suspend or terminate the Plan at any time. No Options may be granted under the Plan while the Plan is suspended or after it is terminated.
(b) No Impairment of Rights. Suspension or termination of the Plan shall not impair rights and obligations under any Option granted while the Plan is in effect except with the written consent of the Optionholder.
11. | EFFECTIVE DATE OF PLAN. |
The Plan became effective on May 31, 2007.
12. | CHOICE OF LAW. |
The law of the state of Delaware shall govern all questions concerning the construction, validity and interpretation of this Plan, without regard to that states conflict of laws rules.
13. | DEFINITIONS. |
As used in the Plan, the following definitions shall apply to the capitalized terms indicated below:
(a) Accountant means the independent public accountants of the Company.
(b) Affiliate means, at the time of determination, any parent or subsidiary of the Company as such terms are defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. The Board shall have the authority to determine the time or times at which parent or subsidiary status is determined within the foregoing definition.
(c) Board means the Board of Directors of the Company.
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(d) Capitalization Adjustment means any change that is made in, or other events that occur with respect to, the Ordinary Shares subject to the Plan or subject to any Option after the Effective Date without the receipt of consideration by the Company through merger, consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization, reincorporation, share dividend, dividend in property other than cash, large nonrecurring cash dividend, share split, liquidating dividend, combination of shares, exchange of shares, change in corporate structure or any similar equity restructuring transaction, as that term is used in Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic 718 (or any successor thereto), including, for the avoidance of doubt, capitalization of profits or reserves, capital distribution, rights issue, the conversion of one class of share to another or reduction of capital or otherwise. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the conversion of any convertible securities of the Company shall not be treated as a Capitalization Adjustment.
(e) Change in Control means the occurrence, in a single transaction or in a series of related transactions, of any one or more of the following events:
(i) any Exchange Act Person becomes the Owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the combined voting power of the Companys then outstanding securities other than by virtue of a merger, consolidation or similar transaction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Change in Control shall not be deemed to occur (A) on account of the acquisition of securities of the Company by an investor, any affiliate thereof or any other Exchange Act Person from the Company in a transaction or series of related transactions the primary purpose of which is to obtain financing for the Company through the issuance of equity securities or (B) solely because the level of Ownership held by any Exchange Act Person (the Subject Person) exceeds the designated percentage threshold of the outstanding voting securities as a result of a repurchase or other acquisition of voting securities by the Company or any Affiliate reducing the number of shares outstanding, provided that if a Change in Control would occur (but for the operation of this sentence) as a result of the acquisition of voting securities by the Company or any Affiliate, and after such share acquisition, the Subject Person becomes the Owner of any additional voting securities that, assuming the repurchase or other acquisition had not occurred, increases the percentage of the then outstanding voting securities Owned by the Subject Person over the designated percentage threshold, then a Change in Control shall be deemed to occur;
(ii) there is consummated a merger, consolidation or similar transaction involving (directly or indirectly) the Company and, immediately after the consummation of such merger, consolidation or similar transaction, the shareholders of the Company immediately prior thereto do not Own, directly or indirectly, either (A) outstanding voting securities representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the combined outstanding voting power of the surviving Entity in such merger, consolidation or similar transaction or (B) more than fifty percent (50%) of the combined outstanding voting power of the parent of the surviving Entity in such merger, consolidation or similar transaction, in each case in substantially the same proportions as their Ownership of the outstanding voting securities of the Company immediately prior to such transaction;
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(iii) the shareholders of the Company approve or the Board approves a plan of complete dissolution or liquidation of the Company, or a complete dissolution or liquidation of the Company shall otherwise occur, except for a liquidation into a parent corporation;
(iv) there is consummated a sale, lease, exclusive license or other disposition of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, other than a sale, lease, license or other disposition of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries to an Entity, more than fifty percent (50%) of the combined voting power of the voting securities of which are Owned by shareholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their Ownership of the outstanding voting securities of the Company immediately prior to such sale, lease, license or other disposition; or
(v) individuals who, on the date the Plan is adopted by the Board, are members of the Board (the Incumbent Board) cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority of the members of the Board; provided, however, that if the appointment or election (or nomination for election) of any new Board member was approved or recommended by a majority vote of the members of the Incumbent Board then still in office, such new member shall, for purposes of the Plan, be considered as a member of the Incumbent Board.
For the avoidance of doubt, any one or more of the above events may be effected pursuant to (A) a compromise or arrangement sanctioned by the court under section 201 of the Companies Act 1963 of the Republic of Ireland or (B) section 204 of the Companies Act 1963 of the Republic of Ireland.
Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Plan, the term Change in Control shall not include (1) a sale of assets, merger or other transaction effected exclusively for the purpose of changing the domicile of the Company or (2) unless the Board determines otherwise, the creation of a new holding company where the Company becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of that holding company and the holding company will be owned in substantially the same proportions by the persons who held the Companys issued shares immediately before such transaction, in which case Options granted hereunder will be treated as if they were in all respects awards over shares in the holding company but so that (i) the new award shall vest in the same manner as the Option, (ii) the total market value of the new shares subject to the new award shall, immediately after such reorganization, be equal to the total market value of the Ordinary Shares comprised in the Option immediately prior to such reorganization, (iii) the new shares shall have the same rights attaching thereto as the Ordinary Shares, and (iv) the new award shall be deemed to have been granted as at the date of grant of Option.
Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of the Plan, the definition of Change in Control (or any analogous term) in an individual written agreement between the Company or any Affiliate and the Optionholder shall supersede the foregoing definition with respect to Options subject to such agreement; provided, however, that if no definition of Change in Control or any analogous term is set forth in such an individual written agreement, the foregoing definition shall apply.
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The Board may, in its sole discretion and without an Optionholders consent, amend the definition of Change in Control to conform to the definition of Change in Control under Section 409A of the Code, and the regulations thereunder.
(f) Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
(g) Company means Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc, a company formed under the laws of Ireland.
(h) Consultant means any person, including an advisor, who is (i) engaged by the Company or an Affiliate to render consulting or advisory services and is compensated for such services, or (ii) serving as a member of the Board of Directors of an Affiliate and is compensated for such services. However, service solely as a Director, or payment of a fee for such service, shall not cause a Director to be considered a Consultant for purposes of the Plan.
(i) Continuous Service means that the Optionholders service with the Company or an Affiliate, whether as an Employee, Director or Consultant, is not interrupted or terminated. A change in the capacity in which the Optionholder renders service to the Company or an Affiliate as an Employee, Consultant or Director or a change in the entity for which the Optionholder renders such service, provided that there is no interruption or termination of the Optionholders service with the Company or an Affiliate, shall not terminate an Optionholders Continuous Service; provided, however, if the corporation for which an Optionholder is rendering service ceases to qualify as an Affiliate, as determined by the Board in its sole discretion, such Optionholders Continuous Service shall be considered to have terminated on the date such corporation ceases to qualify as an Affiliate. For example, a change in status from a Non-Employee Director of the Company to a Consultant of an Affiliate or an Employee of the Company will not constitute an interruption of Continuous Service. To the extent permitted by law, the Board or the chief executive officer of the Company, in that partys sole discretion, may determine whether Continuous Service shall be considered interrupted in the case of any leave of absence approved by that party, including sick leave, military leave or any other personal leave. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a leave of absence shall be treated as Continuous Service for purposes of vesting in an Option only to such extent as may be provided in the Companys leave of absence policy or in the written terms of the Optionholders leave of absence.
(j) Corporate Transaction means the consummation, in a single transaction or in a series of related transactions, of any one or more of the following events:
(i) a sale or other disposition of all or substantially all, as determined by the Board in its sole discretion, of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries;
(ii) a sale or other disposition of at least ninety percent (90%) of the outstanding securities of the Company;
(iii) a merger, consolidation or similar transaction following which the Company is not the surviving corporation; or
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(iv) a merger, consolidation or similar transaction following which the Company is the surviving corporation but the Ordinary Shares outstanding immediately preceding the merger, consolidation or similar transaction are converted or exchanged by virtue of the merger, consolidation or similar transaction into other property, whether in the form of securities, cash or otherwise.
For the avoidance of doubt, any one or more of the above events may be effected pursuant to (A) a compromise or arrangement sanctioned by the court under section 201 of the Companies Act 1963 of the Republic of Ireland or (B) section 204 of the Companies Act 1963 of the Republic of Ireland.
Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Plan, unless the Board determines otherwise, the term Corporate Transaction shall not include the creation of a new holding company where the Company becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of that holding company and the holding company will be owned in substantially the same proportions by the persons who held the Companys issued shares immediately before such transaction (in which case Options granted hereunder will be treated as set out in the second paragraph after part (v) of the definition of Change in Control above).
(k) Director means a member of the Board.
(l) Disability means, with respect to a Optionholder, the inability of such Optionholder to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months, as provided in Section 22(e)(3) and 409A(a)(2)(c)(i) of the Code.
(m) Employee means any person employed by the Company or an Affiliate. However, service solely as a Director, or payment of a fee for such services, shall not cause a Director to be considered an Employee for purposes of the Plan.
(n) Entity means a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity.
(o) Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
(p) Exchange Act Person means any natural person, Entity or group (within the meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the Exchange Act), except that Exchange Act Person shall not include (i) the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, (ii) any employee benefit plan of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company or any trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, (iii) an underwriter temporarily holding securities pursuant to an offering of such securities, (iv) an Entity Owned, directly or indirectly, by the shareholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their Ownership of shares of the Company; or (v) any natural person, Entity or group (within the meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the Exchange Act) that, as of the Effective Date, is the Owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the combined voting power of the Companys then outstanding securities.
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(q) Fair Market Value means, as of any date, the value of the Ordinary Shares determined as follows:
(i) If the Ordinary Shares are listed on any established stock exchange or traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market or the Nasdaq Global Market, the Fair Market Value of an Ordinary Share shall be the closing sales price for such Ordinary Share (or the closing bid, if no sales were reported) as quoted on such exchange (or the exchange or market with the greatest volume of trading in the Ordinary Shares) on the date of determination, as reported in The Wall Street Journal or such other source as the Board deems reliable.
(ii) If the Ordinary Shares are listed or traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Fair Market Value of an Ordinary Share shall be the mean between the bid and asked prices for the Ordinary Shares on the date of determination, as reported in The Wall Street Journal or such other source as the Board deems reliable. Unless otherwise provided by the Board, if there is no closing sales price (or closing bid if no sales were reported) for the Ordinary Shares on the date of determination, then the Fair Market Value shall be the mean between the bid and asked prices for the Ordinary Shares on the last preceding date for which such quotation exists.
(iii) In the absence of such markets for the Ordinary Shares, the Fair Market Value shall be determined by the Board in good faith and in a manner that complies with Section 409A of the Code.
(r) Non-Employee Director means a Director who is not an Employee.
(s) Nonstatutory Stock Option means an Option not intended to qualify as an incentive stock option within the meaning of Section 422 of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
(t) Officer means a person who is an officer of the Company within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
(u) Option means a Nonstatutory Stock Option granted pursuant to the Plan.
(v) Option Agreement means a written agreement between the Company and an Optionholder evidencing the terms and conditions of an individual Option grant. Each Option Agreement shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan.
(w) Optionholder means a person to whom an Option is granted pursuant to the Plan or, if applicable, such other person who holds an outstanding Option.
(x) Ordinary Share or Ordinary Shares means the ordinary shares of the Company of nominal value US$0.0001 per share.
(y) Own, Owned, Owner, Ownership A person or Entity shall be deemed to Own, to have Owned, to be the Owner of, or to have acquired Ownership of securities if
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such person or Entity, directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has or shares voting power, which includes the power to vote or to direct the voting, with respect to such securities.
(z) Plan means this Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc Amended and Restated 2007 Non-Employee Directors Stock Option Plan.
(aa) Rule 16b-3 means Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act or any successor to Rule 16b-3, as in effect from time to time.
(bb) Securities Act means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
(cc) Subsidiary means, with respect to the Company, (i) any corporation of which more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding capital stock having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether, at the time, stock of any other class or classes of such corporation shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency) is at the time, directly or indirectly, Owned by the Company, and (ii) any partnership in which the Company has a direct or indirect interest (whether in the form of voting or participation in profits or capital contribution) of more than fifty percent (50%).
Adopted by the Board of Directors of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on May 1, 2007.
Approved by the stockholders of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on May 9, 2007.
Amended and restated by the Board of Directors of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on August 11, 2010.
Amended and restated by the Board of Directors of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on October 24, 2011.
Adopted by the Board of Directors of Azur Pharma plc on December 21, 2011.
Approved by the shareholders of Azur Pharma plc on January 3, 2012.
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Exhibit 99.5
JAZZ PHARMACEUTICALS PLC
2003 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
1. | Purpose of this Plan and Relationship to 2011 Plan |
The purpose of this Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2003 Equity Incentive Plan is to enhance the long-term shareholder value of Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc by offering opportunities to eligible individuals to participate in the growth in value of the equity of Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc. Although this Plan is intended to comply with Rule 701 under the Securities Act and Section 25102(o) of the California Securities Act, the Company reserves the right, formally or informally, to establish a sub-plan from which grants can be made which are intended to rely on federal and state exemptions other than Rule 701 and Section 25102(o) of the California Securities Act.
Notwithstanding any provision of this Plan to the contrary, from and after the effective date of the Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2011 Equity Incentive Plan (the 2011 Plan), any Shares subject to outstanding Awards granted under this Plan that (i) expire or terminate for any reason prior to exercise or settlement, (ii) are forfeited because of the failure to meet a contingency or condition required to vest such Shares or repurchased by the Company or an Affiliate at the original issuance price or (iii) are reacquired by the Company or an Affiliate or withheld (or not issued) to satisfy a tax withholding obligation in connection with an Award will immediately be added to the share reserve of the 2011 Plan and become available for issuance pursuant to awards granted under the 2011 Plan.
2. | Definitions and Rules of Interpretation |
2.1 Definitions. This Plan uses the following defined terms:
(a) Administrator means the Board, or the Committee.
(b) Affiliate means a parent or subsidiary (as each is defined in Section 424 of the Code) of the Company and any other entity that the Board or Committee designates as an Affiliate for purposes of this Plan.
(c) Applicable Law means any and all laws of whatever jurisdiction, within or without the United States, and the rules of any stock exchange or quotation system on which Shares are listed or quoted, applicable to the taking or refraining from taking of any action under this Plan, including the administration of this Plan and the issuance or transfer of Awards or Award Shares.
(d) Award means a Stock Award, SAR, Cash Award, or Option granted in accordance with the terms of the Plan.
(e) Award Agreement means the document evidencing the grant of an Award.
(f) Award Shares means Shares covered by an outstanding Award or purchased under an Award.
(g) Awardee means: (i) a person to whom an Award has been granted, including a holder of a Substitute Award, (ii) a person to whom an Award has been transferred in accordance with all applicable requirements of Sections 6.5, 7(h), and 16 and (iii) a person who holds Option Shares subject to any right of repurchase under Section 15.2.
(h) Board means the board of directors of the Company.
(i) Cash Award means the right to receive cash as described in Section 8.3.
(j) California Securities Act means the California Corporate Securities Law of 1968.
(k) Capitalization Adjustment means any change that is made in, or other events that occur with respect to, the Shares subject to the Plan or subject to any Award after the effective date of the Plan without the receipt of consideration by the Company through merger, consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization, reincorporation, share dividend, dividend in property other than cash, large nonrecurring cash dividend, share split, liquidating dividend, combination of shares, exchange of shares, change in corporate structure or any similar equity restructuring transaction, as that term is used in Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic 718 (or any successor thereto), including, for the avoidance of doubt, capitalization of profits or reserves, capital distribution, rights issue, the conversion of one class of share to another or reduction of capital or otherwise. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the conversion of any convertible securities of the Company shall not be treated as a Capitalization Adjustment.
(l) Change of Control means any transaction or event that the Board specifies as a Change of Control under Section 10.4. For the avoidance of doubt, any such transaction or event may be effected pursuant to (i) a compromise or arrangement sanctioned by the court under section 201 of the Companies Act 1963 of the Republic of Ireland or (ii) section 204 of the Companies Act 1963 of the Republic of Ireland. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Plan, unless the Board determines otherwise, the term Change of Control shall not include the creation of a new holding company where the Company becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of that holding company and the holding company will be owned in substantially the same proportions by the persons who held the Companys issued shares immediately before
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such transaction, in which case Awards granted hereunder will be treated as if they were in all respects awards over shares in the holding company but so that (i) the new award shall vest in the same manner as the Award, (ii) the total market value of the new shares subject to the new award shall, immediately after such reorganization, be equal to the total market value of the Shares comprised in the Award immediately prior to such reorganization, (iii) the new award shall be subject to performance conditions that shall be at least equivalent (as determined by the Board) to the performance conditions, if any, attaching to the Award, (iv) the new shares shall have the same rights attaching thereto as the Shares in the Company, and (v) the new award shall be deemed to have been granted as at the date of grant of the Award.
(m) Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
(n) Committee means a committee composed of Company Directors appointed in accordance with the Companys charter documents and Section 4.
(o) Company means Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc, a company formed under the laws of Ireland.
(p) Company Director means a member of the Board.
(q) Consultant means an individual who, or an employee of any entity that, provides bona fide services to the Company or an Affiliate not in connection with the offer or sale of securities in a capital-raising transaction, but who is not an Employee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no grant may be made to any entity unless the grant and exercise are made in reliance of federal and state securities exemptions other than Rule 701 under the Securities Act and Section 25102(o) of the California Securities Act.
(r) Director means a member of the board of directors of the Company or an Affiliate.
(s) Divestiture means any transaction or event that the Board specifies as a Divestiture under Section 10.5. For the avoidance of doubt, any such transaction or event may be effected pursuant to (i) a compromise or arrangement sanctioned by the court under section 201 of the Companies Act 1963 of the Republic of Ireland or (ii) section 204 of the Companies Act 1963 of the Republic of Ireland.
(t) Domestic Relations Order means a domestic relations order as defined in, and otherwise meeting the requirements of, Section 414(p) of the Code, except that reference to a plan in that definition shall be to this Plan.
(u) Employee means a regular employee of the Company or an Affiliate, including an officer or Director, who is treated as an employee in the personnel records of the Company or an Affiliate, but not individuals who are classified by the
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Company or an Affiliate as: (i) leased from or otherwise employed by a third party, (ii) independent contractors, or (iii) intermittent or temporary workers. The Companys or an Affiliates classification of an individual as an Employee (or as not an Employee) for purposes of this Plan shall not be altered retroactively even if that classification is changed retroactively for another purpose as a result of an audit, litigation or otherwise. An Awardee shall not cease to be an Employee due to transfers between locations of the Company, or between the Company and an Affiliate, or to any successor to the Company or an Affiliate that assumes the Awardees Options under Section 10. Neither service as a Director nor receipt of a directors fee shall be sufficient to make a Director an Employee.
(v) Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
(w) Expiration Date means, with respect to an Award, the date stated in the Award Agreement as the expiration date of the Award or, if no such date is stated in the Award Agreement, then the last day of the maximum exercise period for the Award, disregarding the effect of an Awardees Termination or any other event that would shorten that period.
(x) Fair Market Value means the value of Shares as determined under Section 17.2.
(y) Fundamental Transaction means any transaction or event described in Section 10.3. For the avoidance of doubt, any such transaction or event may be effected pursuant to (i) a compromise or arrangement sanctioned by the court under section 201 of the Companies Act 1963 of the Republic of Ireland or (ii) section 204 of the Companies Act 1963 of the Republic of Ireland. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Plan, unless the Board determines otherwise, the term Fundamental Transaction shall not include the creation of a new holding company where the Company becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of that holding company and the holding company will be owned in substantially the same proportions by the persons who held the Companys issued shares immediately before such transaction (in which case Awards granted hereunder will be treated as set out in the third sentence of the definition of Change of Control in Section 2.1(l) regarding the creation of a new holding company).
(z) Grant Date means the date the Administrator approves the grant of an Award. However, if the Administrator specifies that an Awards Grant Date is a future date or the date on which a condition is satisfied, the Grant Date for such Award is that future date or the date that the condition is satisfied.
(aa) Incentive Stock Option means an Option intended to qualify as an incentive stock option under Section 422 of the Code and designated as an Incentive Stock Option in the Award Agreement for that Option.
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(bb) Listed Security means any Share listed or approved for listing upon notice of issuance on a national securities exchange or other market system that meets the requirements of Section 25100(o) of the California Securities Law of 1968, as amended.
(cc) Nonstatutory Option means any Option other than an Incentive Stock Option.
(dd) Objectively Determinable Performance Condition shall mean a performance condition (i) that is established (A) at the time an Award is granted or (B) no later than the earlier of (1) 90 days after the beginning of the period of service to which it relates, or (2) before the elapse of 25% of the period of service to which it relates, (ii) that is uncertain of achievement at the time it is established, and (iii) the achievement of which is determinable by a third party with knowledge of the relevant facts. Examples of measures that may be used in Objectively Determinable Performance Conditions include net order dollars, net profit dollars, net profit growth, net revenue dollars, revenue growth, individual performance, earnings per share, return on assets, return on equity, and other financial objectives, objective customer satisfaction indicators and efficiency measures, each with respect to the Company and/or an individual business unit.
(ee) Option means a right to purchase Shares of the Company granted under this Plan.
(ff) Option Price means the price payable under an Option for Shares, not including any amount payable in respect of withholding or other taxes.
(gg) Option Shares means Shares covered by an outstanding Option or purchased under an Option.
(hh) Plan means this Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc 2003 Equity Incentive Plan.
(ii) Purchase Price means the price payable under a Stock Award for Shares, not including any amount payable in respect of withholding or other taxes.
(jj) Reverse Vesting means that an Option is or was fully exercisable but that, subject to a reverse vesting schedule, the Company or an Affiliate has a right to repurchase the Option Shares as specified in Section 15.2(a), with the Companys or Affiliates right of repurchase expiring in accordance with a forward vesting schedule that would otherwise have applied to the Option under which the Option Shares were purchased or in accordance with some other vesting schedule described in the Award Agreement. With respect to a Stock Award, Reverse Vesting means that the Company or an Affiliate has a right to repurchase the Award Shares purchased pursuant to the Stock Award, as specified in Section 15.2(a), with the Companys or Affiliates right of repurchase expiring in accordance with the vesting schedule in the Award Agreement.
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(kk) SAR or Stock Appreciation Right means a right to receive cash based on a change in the Fair Market Value of a specific number of Shares pursuant to an Award Agreement, as described in Section 8.1.
(ll) Securities Act means the Securities Act of 1933.
(mm) Share means an ordinary share of the Company of nominal value US$0.0001 per share or other securities substituted for such share under Section 10.
(nn) Stock Award means an offer by the Company to sell Shares subject to certain restrictions pursuant to the Award Agreement as described in Section 8.2
(oo) Substitute Award means a Substitute Option, Substitute SAR or Substitute Stock Award granted in accordance with the terms of the Plan.
(pp) Substitute Option means an Option granted in substitution for, or upon the conversion of, an option granted by another entity to purchase equity securities in the granting entity.
(qq) Substitute SAR means a SAR granted in substitution for, or upon the conversion of, a stock appreciation right granted by another entity with respect to equity securities in the granting entity.
(rr) Substitute Stock Award means a Stock Award granted in substitution for, or upon the conversion of, a stock award granted by another entity to purchase equity securities in the granting entity.
(ss) Termination means that the Awardee has ceased to be, with or without any cause or reason, an Employee, Director or Consultant. However, unless so determined by the Administrator, Termination shall not include a change in status from an Employee, Consultant or Director to another such status. An event that causes an Affiliate to cease being an Affiliate shall be treated as the Termination of that Affiliates Employees, Directors, and Consultants.
2.2 Rules of Interpretation. Any reference to a Section, without more, is to a Section of this Plan. Captions and titles are used for convenience in this Plan and shall not, by themselves, determine the meaning of this Plan. Except when otherwise indicated by the context, the singular includes the plural and vice versa. Any reference to a statute is also a reference to the applicable rules and regulations adopted under that statute. Any reference to a statute, rule or regulation, or to a section of a statute, rule or regulation, is a reference to that statute, rule, regulation, or section as amended from time to time, both before and after the effective date of this Plan and including any successor provisions.
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3. | Shares Subject to this Plan; Term of this Plan |
3.1 Number of Award Shares. Subject to adjustment under Section 10, the maximum number of Shares that may be issued under this Plan is 2,125,042. When an Award is granted, the maximum number of Shares that may be issued under this Plan shall be reduced by the number of Shares covered by that Award.
3.2 Source of Shares. Award Shares may be: (a) Shares that have never been issued, (b) Shares that have been issued but are no longer outstanding, or (c) Shares that are outstanding and are acquired to discharge the Companys obligation to deliver Award Shares.
3.3 Term of this Plan
(a) This Plan shall be effective on, and Awards may be granted under this Plan after, March 31, 2003.
(b) Awards may not be granted under the Plan after May 31, 2007.
4. | Administration |
4.1 General. The Board shall have ultimate responsibility for administering this Plan. The Board may delegate certain of its responsibilities to a Committee, which shall consist of at least two members of the Board. Where this Plan specifies that an action is to be taken or a determination made by the Board, only the Board may take that action or make that determination. Where this Plan specifies that an action is to be taken or a determination made by the Committee, only the Committee may take that action or make that determination. Where this Plan references the Administrator, the action may be taken or determination made by the Board or the Committee. All actions and determinations by any Administrator are subject to the provisions of this Plan.
4.2 Authority of Administrator. Subject to the other provisions of this Plan, the Administrator shall have the authority to:
(a) grant Awards, including Substitute Awards;
(b) determine the Fair Market Value of Shares;
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(c) determine the Option Price and the Purchase Price of Awards;
(d) select the Awardees;
(e) determine the times Awards are granted;
(f) determine the number of Shares subject to each Award;
(g) determine the types of payment that may be used to purchase Award Shares;
(h) determine the types of payment that may be used to satisfy withholding tax obligations;
(i) determine the other terms of each Award, including but not limited to the time or times at which Awards may be exercised, whether and under what conditions an Award is assignable, and whether an Option is a Nonstatutory Option or an Incentive Stock Option;
(j) modify or amend any Award;
(k) authorize any person to sign any Award Agreement or other document related to this Plan on behalf of the Company;
(l) determine the form of any Award Agreement or other document related to this Plan, and whether that document, including signatures, may be in electronic form;
(m) interpret this Plan and any Award Agreement or document related to this Plan;
(n) correct any defect, remedy any omission, or reconcile any inconsistency in this Plan, any Award Agreement or any other document related to this Plan;
(o) adopt, amend, and revoke rules and regulations under this Plan, including rules and regulations relating to sub-plans and Plan addenda;
(p) adopt, amend, and revoke special rules and procedures which may be inconsistent with the terms of this Plan, set forth (if the Administrator so chooses) in sub-plans regarding (for example) the operation and administration of this Plan and the terms of Awards, if and to the extent necessary or useful to accommodate non-U.S. Applicable Laws and practices as they apply to Awards and Option Shares held by, or granted or issued to, persons working or resident outside of the United States or employed by Affiliates incorporated outside the United States;
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(q) determine whether a transaction or event should be treated as a Change of Control, a Divestiture or neither;
(r) determine the effect of a Fundamental Transaction and, if the Board determines that a transaction or event should be treated as a Change of Control or a Divestiture, then the effect of that Change of Control or Divestiture; and
(s) make all other determinations the Administrator deems necessary or advisable for the administration of this Plan.
4.3 Scope of Discretion. Subject to the last sentence of this Section 4.3, on all matters for which this Plan confers the authority, right or power on the Board or the Committee, that body may make those decisions in its sole and absolute discretion. Those decisions will be final, binding and conclusive. Moreover, but again subject to the last sentence of this Section 4.3, in making those decisions the Board or Committee need not treat all persons eligible to receive Awards, all Awardees, all Awards or all Award Shares the same way. However, except as provided in Section 13.3., the discretion of the Board or Committee is subject to the specific provisions and specific limitations of this Plan, as well as all rights conferred on specific Awardees by Award Agreements and other agreements.
5. | Persons Eligible to Receive Awards |
5.1 Eligible Individuals. Awards (including Substitute Awards) may be granted to, and only to, Employees, Directors and Consultants, including to prospective Employees, Directors and Consultants conditioned on the beginning of their service for the Company or an Affiliate. However, Incentive Stock Options may only be granted to Employees as provided in Section 7(g).
6. | Terms and Conditions of Options |
The following rules apply to all Options:
6.1 Price. No Option may have an Option Price less than 85% of the Fair Market Value of the Shares on the Grant Date. If an Option is granted to a person who, at the Grant Date, owns more than 10% of the voting power of the Company or any corporate Affiliate, that Option shall have an Option Price equal to or greater than 110% of the Fair Market Value of the Shares on the Grant Date. In no event will the Option Price of any Option be less than the par value of the Shares issuable under the Option if that is required by Applicable Law. The Option Price of an Incentive Stock Option shall be subject to Section 7(f).
6.2 Term. No Option shall be exercisable after its Expiration Date. No Option may have an Expiration Date that is more than ten years after its Grant Date. Additional provisions regarding the term of Incentive Stock Options are provided in Sections 7(a) and 7(e).
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6.3 Vesting. Options shall be exercisable: (a) on the Grant Date, or (b) in accordance with a schedule related to the Grant Date, the date the Optionees directorship, employment or consultancy begins, or a different date specified in the Option Agreement. If so provided in the Option Agreement, an Option may be exercisable subject to the application of Reverse Vesting to the Option Shares. However, with respect to Options granted in reliance of Section 25102(o) of the California Securities Act, the right to exercise an Option must vest or the Option Shares must be subject to Reverse Vesting, at the rate of at least 20% per year over the five years from the Grant Date. No Option granted to an individual who is subject to the overtime pay provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act may be exercised before the expiration of six months after the Grant Date. Additional provisions regarding the vesting of Incentive Stock Options are provided in Section 7(c).
6.4 Form of Payment.
(a) The Administrator shall determine the acceptable form and method of payment for exercising an Option; provided, however, that in all cases, where Option Shares are issued pursuant to the exercise of an Option the par value of each newly issued Option Share is fully paid up.
(b) Acceptable forms of payment for all Option Shares are cash, check or wire transfer, denominated in U.S. dollars except as specified by the Administrator for non-U.S. Employees or non-U.S. sub-plans.
(c) In addition, the Administrator may permit payment to be made by any of the following methods:
(i) other Shares, or the designation of other Shares, which (A) are mature shares for purposes of avoiding variable accounting treatment under generally accepted accounting principles (generally mature shares are those that have been owned by the Optionee for more than six months on the date of surrender), and (B) have a Fair Market Value on the date of surrender equal to the Option Price of the Shares as to which the Option is being exercised;
(ii) provided that a public market exists for the Shares, consideration received by the Company under a procedure under which a broker-dealer that is a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers advances funds on behalf of an Optionee or sells Option Shares on behalf of an Optionee (a Cashless Exercise Procedure), subject to the limitation that no Officer or Director may participate in that Cashless
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Exercise Procedure unless the Administrator has determined that the Company has not extended or arranged for the extension of credit to an Optionee;
(iii) one or more promissory notes meeting the requirements of Section 6.4(e), provided that in the case of any Options granted in reliance of the exemptions set forth in Section 25102(o) of the California Securities Act, that Option may not be exercised with a promissory note if the Option is subject to Reverse Vesting; provided further that no Officer or Director may exercise an Option with a promissory note;
(iv) cancellation of any debt owed by the Company or any Affiliate to the Optionee by the Company including without limitation waiver of compensation due or accrued for services previously rendered to the Company; and
(v) any combination of the methods of payment permitted by any paragraph of this Section 6.4.
(d) The Administrator may also permit any other form or method of payment for Option Shares permitted by Applicable Law.
(e) The promissory notes referred to in Section 6.4(c)(iii) must be full recourse. Unless the Committee specifies otherwise after taking into account any relevant accounting issues, the notes shall bear interest at a fair market value rate when the Option is exercised. Interest on the notes shall also be at least sufficient to avoid imputation of interest under Sections 483, 1274, and 7872 of the Code. The notes and their administration shall at all times comply with any applicable margin rules of the Federal Reserve. Consultants may not purchase Option Shares with a note unless the note is adequately secured by collateral other than the Option Shares. Where Shares are issued pursuant to an Option, the portion of the Option Price equal to the par value of the Option Shares shall in all events be paid in cash. The notes may also include such other terms as the Administrator specifies. Payment may not be made by promissory note by Officers or Directors if Shares are registered under Section 12 of the Exchange Act.
6.5 Nonassignability of Options. No Option shall be assignable or otherwise transferable by the Optionee except by will or by the laws of descent and distribution. However, Options may be transferred and exercised in accordance with a Domestic Relations Order and may be exercised by a guardian or conservator appointed to act for the Optionee. Incentive Stock Options may only be assigned in compliance with Section 7(h).
6.6 Substitute Options. The Board may cause the Company to grant Substitute Options in connection with the acquisition by the Company or an Affiliate of
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equity securities of any entity (including by merger, tender offer, or other similar transaction) or of all or a portion of the assets of any entity. Any such substitution shall be effective when the acquisition closes. Substitute Options may be Nonstatutory Options or Incentive Stock Options. Unless and to the extent specified otherwise by the Board, Substitute Options shall have the same terms and conditions as the options they replace, except that (subject to Section 10) Substitute Options shall be Options to purchase Shares rather than equity securities of the granting entity and shall have an Option Price determined by the Board.
7. | Incentive Stock Options |
The following rules apply only to Incentive Stock Options and only to the extent these rules are more restrictive than the rules that would otherwise apply under this Plan. With the consent of the Optionee, or where this Plan provides that an action may be taken notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan, the Administrator may deviate from the requirements of this Section, notwithstanding that any Incentive Stock Option modified by the Administrator will thereafter be treated as a Nonstatutory Option.
(a) The Expiration Date of an Incentive Stock Option shall not be later than ten years from its Grant Date, with the result that no Incentive Stock Option may be exercised after the expiration of ten years from its Grant Date.
(b) No Incentive Stock Option may be granted more than ten years from the date this Plan was approved by the Board.
(c) Options intended to be incentive stock options under Section 422 of the Code that are granted to any single Optionee under all incentive stock option plans of the Company and its Affiliates, including incentive stock options granted under this Plan, may not vest at a rate of more than $100,000 in Fair Market Value of shares (measured on the grant dates of the options) during any calendar year. For this purpose, an option vests with respect to a given share the first time its holder may purchase that share, notwithstanding any right of the Company or an Affiliate to repurchase that share. Unless the administrator of that option plan specifies otherwise in the related agreement governing the option, this vesting limitation shall be applied by, to the extent necessary to satisfy this $100,000 rule, treating certain stock options that were intended to be incentive stock options under Section 422 of the Code as Nonstatutory Options. The stock options or portions of stock options to be reclassified as Nonstatutory Options are those with the highest option prices, whether granted under this Plan or any other equity compensation plan of the Company or any Affiliate that permits that treatment. This Section 7(c) shall not cause an Incentive Stock Option to vest before its original vesting date or cause an Incentive Stock Option that has already vested to cease to be vested.
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(d) In order for an Incentive Stock Option to be exercised for any form of payment other than those described in Section 6.4(b), that right must be stated at the time of grant in the Option Agreement relating to that Incentive Stock Option.
(e) Any Incentive Stock Option granted to a Ten Percent Shareholder, must have an Expiration Date that is not later than five years from its Grant Date, with the result that no such Option may be exercised after the expiration of five years from the Grant Date. A Ten Percent Shareholder is any person who, directly or by attribution under Section 424(d) of the Code, owns shares possessing more than ten percent of the total combined voting power of all classes of shares of the Company or of any Affiliate on the Grant Date.
(f) The Option Price of an Incentive Stock Option shall never be less than the Fair Market Value of the Shares at the Grant Date. The Option Price for the Shares covered by an Incentive Stock Option granted to a Ten Percent Shareholder shall never be less than 110% of the Fair Market Value of the Shares at the Grant Date.
(g) Incentive Stock Options may be granted only to Employees. If an Optionee changes status from an Employee to a Consultant, that Optionees Incentive Stock Options shall automatically become Nonstatutory Options if not exercised within the time period described in Section 7(i).
(h) No rights under an Incentive Stock Option may be transferred by the Optionee, other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution. During the life of the Optionee, an Incentive Stock Option may be exercised only by the Optionee. The Companys compliance with a Domestic Relations Order, or the exercise of an Incentive Stock Option by a guardian or conservator appointed to act for the Optionee, shall not violate this Section 7(h).
(i) An Incentive Stock Option shall be treated as a Nonstatutory Option if it remains exercisable after, and is not exercised within, the three-month period beginning with the Optionees Termination for any reason other than the Optionees death or disability (as defined in Section 22(c) of the Code). In the case of Termination due to death, an Incentive Stock Option shall continue to be treated as an Incentive Stock Option if it remains exercisable after, and is not exercised within, the three-month period after the Optionees Termination provided it is exercised before the Expiration Date. In the case of Termination due to disability, an Incentive Stock Option shall be treated as a Nonstatutory Option if it remains exercisable after, and is not exercised within, one year after the Optionees Termination.
(j) An Incentive Stock Option may only be modified by the Board or Committee.
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8. | Stock Appreciation Rights, Stock Awards and Cash Awards |
8.1 Stock Appreciation Rights
The following rules apply to SARs:
(a) Term. No SAR shall be exercisable after its Expiration Date. No SAR may have an Expiration Date that is more than ten years after its Grant Date.
(b) Vesting. SARs shall be exercisable: (i) on the Grant Date, (ii) in accordance with a schedule related to the Grant Date, the date the Awardees directorship, employment or consultancy begins, or a different date specified in the Award Agreement, or (iii) or upon the achievement of Objectively Determinable Performance Conditions.
(c) Exercise of SARs. Upon the exercise of an SAR, in whole or in part, an Awardee shall be entitled to a payment in an amount equal to the excess of the Fair Market Value of a fixed number of Shares covered by the exercised portion of the SAR on the date of exercise, over the Fair Market Value of the Shares covered by the exercised portion of the SAR on the Grant Date. The amount due to the Awardee upon the exercise of a SAR will be paid in cash or Shares over the period or periods specified in the Award Agreement; provided, however, that where Shares are issued pursuant to a SAR the par value of each newly issued Share is fully paid up. An Award Agreement may place limits on the amount that may be paid over any specified period or periods upon the exercise of a SAR, on an aggregate basis or as to any Awardee. A SAR shall be considered exercised when the Company receives written notice of exercise in accordance with the terms of the Award Agreement from the person entitled to exercise the SAR.
(d) Nonassignability of SARs. Except as set forth in any Award Agreement or determined by the Administrator, no SAR shall be assignable or otherwise transferable by the Awardee except by will or by the laws of descent and distribution. However, SARs may be transferred and exercised in accordance with a Domestic Relations Order.
(e) Substitute SARs. The Board may cause the Company to grant Substitute SARs in connection with the acquisition by the Company or an Affiliate of equity securities of any entity (including by merger) or all or a portion of the assets of any entity. Any such substitution shall be effective when the acquisition closes. Unless and to the extent specified otherwise by the Board, Substitute SARs shall have the same terms and conditions as the options they replace, except that (subject to Section 10) Substitute SARs shall be exercisable with respect to the Fair Market Value of Shares rather than equity securities of the granting entity and shall be on terms that, as determined by the Board in its sole and absolute discretion, properly reflects the substitution.
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8.2 Stock Awards. The following rules apply to all Stock Awards:
(a) Price. No Stock Award may have a Purchase Price less than 85% of the Fair Market Value of the Shares on the Grant Date or on the date on which the purchase is completed. If a Stock Award of Shares that are not Listed Securities is granted to a person who, at the Grant Date, owns more than 10% of the voting power of the Company or any corporate Affiliate, that Stock Award shall have a Purchase Price of not less than 100% of the Fair Market Value of the Shares on the Grant Date or on the date the purchase is completed. In no event will the Purchase Price of any Stock Award be less than the par value of the Shares issuable under the Stock Award if that is required by Applicable Law.
(b) Term. No Stock Award shall be exercisable after its Expiration Date. No Stock Award may have an Expiration Date that is more than ten years after its Grant Date.
(c) Vesting. Stock Awards shall be exercisable: (i) on the Grant Date, or (ii) in accordance with a schedule related to the Grant Date, the date the Awardees directorship, employment or consultancy begins, or a different date specified in the Award Agreement.
(d) Right of Repurchase. If so provided in the Award Agreement, Award Shares acquired pursuant to a Stock Award may be subject to Reverse Vesting. With respect to Stock Awards subject to Reverse Vesting granted to Employees who are not officers or directors of the Company or any parent or subsidiary of the Company to purchase Shares that are not Listed Securities, the Companys or Affiliates right of repurchase must lapse at the rate of at least 20% per year over the five years from the Grant Date.
(e) Form of Payment. The Administrator shall determine the acceptable form and method of payment for exercising a Stock Award; provided, however, that in all cases, where Shares are issued pursuant to a Stock Award the par value of each newly issued Share is fully paid up.
(i) Acceptable forms of payment for all Award Shares are cash, check or wire transfer, denominated in U.S. dollars except as specified by the Administrator for non-U.S. Employees or non-U.S. sub-plans.
(ii) In addition, the Administrator may permit payment to be made by any of the methods permitted with respect to the exercise of Options pursuant to Section 6.4.
(f) Nonassignability of Stock Awards. Except as set forth in any Award Agreement or determined by the Administrator, no Stock Award shall be
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assignable or otherwise transferable by the Awardee except by will or by the laws of descent and distribution. However, Stock Awards may be transferred and exercised in accordance with a Domestic Relations Order.
(g) Substitute Stock Award. The Board may cause the Company to grant Substitute Stock Awards in connection with the acquisition by the Company or an Affiliate of equity securities of any entity (including by merger) or all or a portion of the assets of any entity. Unless and to the extent specified otherwise by the Board, Substitute Stock Awards shall have the same terms and conditions as the options they replace, except that (subject to Section 10) Substitute Stock Awards shall be Stock Awards to purchase Shares rather than equity securities of the granting entity and shall have a Purchase Price that, as determined by the Board in its sole and absolute discretion, properly reflects the substitution.
8.3 Cash Awards. The following rules apply to all Cash Awards:
(a) Term. No Cash Award shall be payable after its Expiration Date. No Cash Award may have an Expiration Date that is more than ten years after its Grant Date.
(b) Vesting. Cash Awards shall be payable: (i) on the Grant Date, (ii) in accordance with a schedule related to the Grant Date, the date the Awardees directorship, employment or consultancy begins, or a different date specified in the Award Agreement, or (iii) or upon the achievement of Objectively Determinable Performance Conditions.
9. | Exercise of Awards |
9.1 In General. An Award shall be exercisable in accordance with this Plan and the Award Agreement under which it is granted.
9.2 Time of Exercise. Options and Stock Awards shall be considered exercised when the Company receives: (a) written notice of exercise from the person entitled to exercise the Option or Stock Award, (b) full payment, or provision for payment, in a form and method approved by the Administrator, for the Shares for which the Option or Stock Award is being exercised, and (c) with respect to Nonstatutory Options or Stock Awards, payment, or provision for payment, in a form approved by the Administrator, of all applicable withholding taxes due upon exercise. An Award may not be exercised for a fraction of a Share or for less than 50 Shares. SARs and Cash Awards shall be considered exercised when the Company receives written notice of the exercise from the person entitled to exercise the SAR or Cash Award.
9.3 Issuance of Award Shares. The Company shall issue Award Shares in the name of the person properly exercising the Award. If the Awardee is that person and so
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requests, the Award Shares shall be issued in the name of the Awardee and the Awardees spouse. The Company shall endeavor to issue Award Shares promptly after an Award is exercised. However, until Award Shares are actually issued, as evidenced by the appropriate entry on the share books of the Company or its transfer agent, the Awardee shall not have the rights of a shareholder with respect to those Option Shares, even though the Awardee has completed all the steps necessary to exercise the Award. No adjustment shall be made for any dividend, distribution, or other right for which the record date precedes the date the Award Shares are issued, except as provided in Section 10.
9.4 Termination
(a) In General. Except as provided in an Award Agreement or in writing by the Administrator and as otherwise provided in Sections 9.4(b), (c), (d), (e) and (f), after an Awardees Termination the Awardees Awards shall be exercisable to the extent (but only to the extent) they are vested on the date of that Termination and only during the three months after the Termination (provided that, prior to the time the Shares become Listed Securities, such period of time shall be not less than thirty (30) days), but in no event after the Expiration Date. To the extent the Awardee does not exercise an Award within the time specified for exercise, the Award shall automatically terminate.
(b) Leaves of Absence. Unless otherwise provided in the Award Agreement, no Award may be exercised more than three months after the beginning of a leave of absence, other than a personal or medical leave approved by an authorized representative of the Company with employment guaranteed upon return by contract or statute. Awards shall not continue to vest during a leave of absence, unless otherwise determined by the Administrator with respect to an approved personal or medical leave with employment guaranteed upon return by contract or statute.
(c) Death or Disability. Unless otherwise provided by the Administrator or in the Award Agreement, if an Awardees Termination is due to death or disability (as determined by the Administrator with respect to all Awards other than Incentive Stock Options and as defined by Section 22(e) of the Code with respect to Incentive Stock Options), all Awards of that Awardee to the extent exercisable at the date of that Termination may be exercised for one year after that Termination (provided that, prior to the time the Shares become Listed Securities, such period of time shall be not less than six (6) months), but in no event after the Expiration Date. In the case of Termination due to death, an Award may be exercised as provided in Section 16. In the case of Termination due to disability, if a guardian or conservator has been appointed to act for the Awardee and been granted this authority as part of that appointment, that guardian or conservator may exercise the Award on behalf of the Awardee. In the case of an Awardee who dies or becomes disabled within three months after Termination, if the Termination was not due to Cause, the Awardees Awards may be exercised for one year after that Termination. To the extent an Award is not so exercised within the time specified for its exercise, the Award shall automatically terminate.
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(d) Divestiture. If an Awardees Termination is due to a Divestiture, the Board may take any one or more of the actions described in Section 10.3 or 10.4 with respect to the Awardees Awards.
(e) Termination for Cause. If an Awardees Termination is due to Cause, all of the Awardees Awards shall automatically terminate and cease to be exercisable at the time of Termination and the Administrator may rescind any and all exercises of Awards by the Awardee that occurred after the first event constituting Cause. Cause means employment-related dishonesty, fraud, willful or material misconduct, disclosure or misuse of confidential information or other employment-related conduct that is likely to cause significant injury to the Company, an Affiliate or any of their respective employees, officers or directors (including, without limitation, commission of a felony or similar offense), in each case as determined by the Administrator. Cause shall not require that a civil judgment or criminal conviction have been entered against or guilty plea shall have been made by the Awardee regarding any of the matters referred to in the previous sentence. Accordingly, the Administrator shall be entitled to determine Cause based on the Administrators good faith belief. If the Awardee is criminally charged with a felony or similar offense, that shall be a sufficient, but not a necessary, basis for such a belief.
(f) Reverse Vesting. Under any circumstances stated in this Section 9.4 in which all unvested Options of an Optionee immediately vest, the Companys or an Affiliates repurchase rights shall lapse on all Option Shares held by that Optionee which are subject to Reverse Vesting.
(g) Consulting or Employment Relationship. Nothing in this Plan or in any Award Agreement, and no Award or the fact that Award Shares remain subject to repurchase rights, shall: (A) interfere with or limit the right of the Company or any Affiliate to terminate the employment or consultancy of any Awardee at any time, whether with or without cause or reason, and with or without the payment of severance or any other compensation or payment, or (B) interfere with the application of any provision in any of the Companys or any Affiliates charter documents or Applicable Law relating to the election, appointment, term of office, or removal of a Director.
10. | Certain Transactions and Events |
10.1 In General. Except as provided in this Section 10, no change in the capital structure of the Company, merger, sale or other disposition of assets or a subsidiary, change of control, issuance by the Company of shares of any class of securities convertible into shares of any class, conversion of securities, or other transaction or event shall require or be the occasion for any adjustments of the type described in this Section 10. Additional provisions with respect to the foregoing transactions are set forth in Section 13.3.
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10.2 Changes in Capital Structure. In the event of a Capitalization Adjustment (not including a Fundamental Transaction or Change of Control), the Board shall make whatever adjustments it concludes are appropriate to: (a) the number and type of Awards that may be granted under this Plan, (b) the number and type of Options that may be granted to any individual under this Plan, (c) the Terms of any SAR, (d) the Purchase Price of any Stock Award, and (e) the Option Price and number and class of securities issuable under each outstanding Option, and (f) the repurchase price of any securities substituted for Option Shares that are subject to repurchase rights. The specific adjustments shall be determined by the Board in its sole and absolute discretion. Unless the Board specifies otherwise, any securities issuable as a result of any such adjustment shall be rounded to the next lower whole security. The Board need not adopt the same rules for each Award or each Awardee.
10.3 Fundamental Transactions. If the Company merges with another entity in a transaction in which the Company is not the surviving entity or if, as a result of any other transaction or event, other securities are substituted for the Shares or Shares may no longer be issued (each a Fundamental Transaction), then, notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan, the Board shall do one or more of the following contingent on the closing or completion of the Fundamental Transaction: (a) arrange for the substitution, in exchange for Awards, of options to purchase equity securities other than Shares (including, if appropriate, equity securities of an entity other than the Company) (an assumption of Awards) on such terms and conditions as the Board determines are appropriate, (b) accelerate the vesting and termination of outstanding Awards, in whole or in part, so that Awards can be exercised before or otherwise in connection with the closing or completion of the Fundamental Transaction or event but then terminate, (c) cancel or arrange for the cancellation of Awards in exchange for cash payments to Awardees, and (d) either arrange for any repurchase rights of the Company or an Affiliate with respect to Award Shares to apply to the securities issued in substitution for Shares or terminate repurchase rights on Award Shares. The Board need not adopt the same rules for each Award or each Awardee.
10.4 Changes of Control. The Board may also, but need not, specify that other transactions or events constitute a Change of Control. The Board may do that either before or after the transaction or event occurs. Examples of transactions or events that the Board may treat as Changes of Control are: (a) the Company or an Affiliate is a party to a merger, consolidation, amalgamation, or other transaction in which the beneficial shareholders of the Company, immediately before the transaction, beneficially own securities representing 50% or less of the total combined voting power or value of the Company immediately after the transaction, (b) any person or entity, including a group as contemplated by Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act, acquires securities holding
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30% or more of the total combined voting power or value of the Company, or (c) as a result of or in connection with a contested election of Company Directors, the persons who were Company Directors immediately before the election cease to constitute a majority of the Board. In connection with a Change of Control, notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan, the Board may take any one or more of the actions described in Section 10.3. In addition, the Board may extend the date for the exercise of Awards (but not beyond their original Expiration Date). The Board need not adopt the same rules for each Award or each Awardee.
10.5 Divestiture. If the Company or an Affiliate sells or otherwise transfers equity securities of an Affiliate to a person or entity other than the Company or an Affiliate, or leases, exchanges or transfers all or any portion of its assets to such a person or entity, then the Board may specify that such transaction or event constitutes a Divestiture. In connection with a Divestiture, notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan, the Board may take one or more of the actions described in Section 10.3 or 10.4 with respect to Awards or Award Shares held by, for example, Employees, Directors or Consultants for whom that transaction or event results in a Termination. The Board need not adopt the same rules for each Award or each Awardee.
10.6 Dissolution. If the Company adopts a plan of dissolution, the Board may cause Awards to be fully vested and exercisable (but not after their Expiration Date) before the dissolution is completed but contingent on its completion and may cause the Companys or an Affiliates repurchase rights on Award Shares to lapse upon completion of the dissolution. The Board need not adopt the same rules for each Award or each Awardee. However, to the extent not exercised before the earlier of the completion of the dissolution or their Expiration Date, Awards shall terminate just before the dissolution is completed.
10.7 Cut-Back to Preserve Benefits. If the Administrator determines that the net after-tax amount to be realized by any Awardee, taking into account any accelerated vesting, termination of repurchase rights, or cash payments to that Awardee in connection with any transaction or event addressed in this Section 10 would be greater if one or more of those steps were not taken or payments were not made with respect to that Awardees Awards or Award Shares, then and to that extent one or more of those steps shall not be taken and payments shall not be made.
11. | Withholding and Tax Reporting |
11.1 Tax Withholding Alternatives
(a) General. Whenever Award Shares are issued or become free of restrictions, the Company may require the Awardee to remit to the Company an amount sufficient to satisfy any applicable tax withholding requirement, whether the related tax is imposed on the Awardee or the Company. The Company shall have no obligation to
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deliver Award Shares or release Award Shares from an escrow or permit a transfer of Option Shares until the Awardee has satisfied those tax withholding obligations. Whenever payment in satisfaction of Awards is made in cash, the payment will be reduced by an amount sufficient to satisfy all tax withholding requirements.
(b) Method of Payment. The Awardee shall pay any required withholding using the forms of consideration described in Section 6.4(b), except that, in the discretion of the Administrator, the Company may also permit the Awardee to use any of the forms of payment described in Section 6.4(c). The Administrator may also permit Award Shares to be withheld to pay required withholding. If the Administrator permits Award Shares to be withheld, the Fair Market Value of the Award Shares withheld, as determined as of the date of withholding, shall not exceed the amount determined by the applicable minimum statutory withholding rates.
11.2 Reporting of Dispositions. Any holder of Option Shares acquired under an Incentive Stock Option shall promptly notify the Administrator, following such procedures as the Administrator may require, of the sale or other disposition of any of those Option Shares if the disposition occurs during: (a) the longer of two years after the Grant Date of the Incentive Stock Option and one year after the date the Incentive Stock Option was exercised, or (b) such other period as the Administrator has established.
12. | Compliance with Law |
12.1 Applicable Law. The grant of Awards and the issuance and subsequent transfer of Award Shares shall be subject to compliance with all Applicable Law, including all applicable securities laws. Awards may not be exercised, and Award Shares may not be transferred, in violation of Applicable Law. Thus, for example, Awards may not be exercised unless: (a) a registration statement under the Securities Act is then in effect with respect to the related Award Shares, or (b) in the opinion of legal counsel to the Company, those Award Shares may be issued in accordance with an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and any other applicable securities laws. The failure or inability of the Company to obtain from any regulatory body the authority considered by the Companys legal counsel to be necessary or useful for the lawful issuance of any Award Shares or their subsequent transfer shall relieve the Company of any liability for failing to issue those Award Shares or permitting their transfer. As a condition to the exercise of any Award or the transfer of any Award Shares, the Company may require the Awardee to satisfy any requirements or qualifications that may be necessary or appropriate to comply with or evidence compliance with any Applicable Law.
12.2 Financial Information. The Company shall furnish its annual financial statements to each Awardee during the period the Awardee holds any Option, Stock Award or Award Shares. Those statements shall include a balance sheet and income statement, and shall be delivered as soon as is practical after the end of the Companys fiscal year. This section does not apply to Awardees who are key Employees and whose duties afford them access to those financial statements.
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13. | Amendment or Termination of this Plan or Outstanding Awards |
13.1 Amendment and Termination. The Board may at any time amend, suspend, or terminate this Plan.
13.2 Shareholder Approval. The Company shall obtain the approval of the Companys shareholders for any amendment to this Plan if shareholder approval is necessary or desirable to comply with any Applicable Law or with the requirements applicable to the grant of Awards intended to be Incentive Stock Options. The Board may also, but need not, require that the Companys shareholders approve any other amendments to this Plan.
13.3 Effect. No amendment, suspension, or termination of this Plan, and no modification of any Award even in the absence of an amendment, suspension, or termination of this Plan, shall impair any existing contractual rights of any Awardee unless the affected Awardee consents to the amendment, suspension, termination, or modification. However, no such consent shall be required if the Board determines in its sole and absolute discretion that the amendment, suspension, termination, or modification: (a) is required or advisable in order for the Company, the Plan or the Award to satisfy Applicable Law, to meet the requirements of any accounting standard or to avoid any adverse accounting treatment, or (b) in connection with any transaction or event described in Section 10, is in the best interests of the Company or its shareholders. The Board may, but need not, take the tax consequences to affected Awardees into consideration in acting under the preceding sentence. Those decisions will be final, binding and conclusive. Termination of this Plan shall not affect the Administrators ability to exercise the powers granted to it under this Plan with respect to Awards granted before the termination, or Award Shares issued under such Awards, even if those Award Shares are issued after the termination.
14. | Reserved Rights |
14.1 Nonexclusivity of this Plan. This Plan shall not limit the power of the Company or any Affiliate to adopt other incentive arrangements including, for example, the grant or issuance of stock options, shares, or other equity-based rights under other plans or independently of any plan.
14.2 Unfunded Plan. This Plan shall be unfunded. Although bookkeeping accounts may be established with respect to Awardees, any such accounts will be used merely as a convenience. The Company shall not be required to segregate any assets on account of this Plan, the grant of Awards, or the issuance of Award Shares. The Company and the Administrator shall not be deemed to be a trustee of Shares or cash to
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be awarded under this Plan. Any obligations of the Company to any Awardee shall be based solely upon contracts entered into under this Plan, such as Award Agreements. No such obligations shall be deemed to be secured by any pledge or other encumbrance on any assets of the Company. Neither the Company nor the Administrator shall be required to give any security or bond for the performance of any such obligations.
15. | Special Arrangements Regarding Award Shares |
15.1 Escrows and Pledges. To enforce any restrictions on Award Shares including restrictions related to Reverse Vesting, the Administrator may require their holder to deposit the certificates representing Award Shares, with share powers or other transfer instruments approved by the Administrator endorsed in blank, with the Company or an agent of the Company to hold in escrow until the restrictions have lapsed or terminated. The Administrator may also cause a legend or legends referencing the restrictions to be placed on the certificates. Any Awardee who delivers a promissory note as partial or full consideration for the purchase of Award Shares will be required to pledge and deposit with the Company some or all of the Award Shares as collateral to secure the payment of the note. However, the Administrator may require or accept other or additional forms of collateral to secure the note and, in any event, the Company will have full recourse against the maker of the note, notwithstanding any pledge or other collateral.
15.2 Repurchase Rights
(a) Reverse Vesting. If an Option or Stock Award is subject to Reverse Vesting, the Company or an Affiliate shall have the right, during the 90 days after the Awardees Termination, to repurchase any or all of the Award Shares that were unvested as of the date of that Termination, at a purchase price determined by the Administrator in accordance with this Section 15.2. The repurchase price shall be either (i) the Option Price or Purchase Price for those Shares or (ii) the lower of the Option Price for those Shares, the Purchase Price for those Shares or the Fair Market Value of those Option Shares as of the date of the Termination. However, the repurchase price will be the lower of (i) the Option Price or Purchase Price for the Award Shares (minus the amount of any cash dividends paid or payable with respect to the Award Shares for which the record date precedes the repurchase, and (ii) the Fair Market Value at the date of the Termination, if the Award Shares were purchased with a promissory note. The repurchase price shall be paid in cash or, if the Option Shares were purchased in whole or in part with a promissory note, cancellation of indebtedness under that note, or a combination of those means. The Companys or an Affiliates right to repurchase Award Shares granted to any Awardee who is not an officer, Company Director or Consultant pursuant to Section 25102(o) of the California Securities Act during any period in which the Shares are not registered under Section 12 of the Exchange Act at Fair Market Value will terminate if and when Shares become Listed Securities. The Company or an Affiliate may assign this right of repurchase.
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(b) Procedure. The Company or an Affiliate may, in it sole discretion, exercise any of its repurchase rights under Section 15.2. The Company or an Affiliate or its assignee may choose to give the Awardee a written notice of exercise of its repurchase rights under this Section 15.2. However, the Companys or an Affiliates failure to give such a notice shall not affect its rights to repurchase Award Shares. The Company or Affiliate must, however, tender the repurchase price during the period specified in this Section 15.2 for exercising its repurchase rights in order to exercise such rights.
15.3 Market Standoff. If requested by the Company or a representative of its underwriters in connection with a registration of any securities of the Company under the Securities Act, Awardees or certain Awardees shall be prohibited from selling some or all of their Award Shares during a period not to exceed 180 days after the effective date of a registration statement filed with respect to the initial public offering of the Company shares and 90 days after the effective date of any other registration statement of the Company. This restriction shall apply only to the first two registration statements of the Company to become effective under the Securities Act. However, it shall not apply to any registration statement on Form S-8 or an equivalent registration statement. Moreover, registration statements on Form S-4, S-8 or equivalent registration statements shall not count as either of those two registration statements.
15.4 Dividends. Dividends on Award Shares that are subject to any restrictions, including Reverse Vesting, shall be (a) deferred until the lapsing of the restrictions on such Award Shares and (b) held by the Company for the benefit of the Awardee until the lapsing of such restrictions, if cash, with such interest as determined by the Administrator in its sole discretion, subject to the same restriction, including those set forth in this Section 15, as the Award Shares on which the dividends were paid.
16. | Beneficiaries |
An Awardee may file a written designation of one or more beneficiaries who are to receive the Awardees rights under the Awardees Awards after the Awardees death. An Awardee may change such a designation at any time by written notice. If an Awardee designates a beneficiary, the beneficiary may exercise the Awardees Awards after the Awardees death. If an Awardee dies when the Awardee has no living beneficiary designated under this Plan, the Company shall allow the executor or administrator of the Awardees estate to exercise the Award or, if there is none, the person entitled to exercise the Option under the Awardees will or the laws of descent and distribution. In any case, no Award may be exercised after its Expiration Date.
17. | Miscellaneous |
17.1 Governing Law. This Plan, the Award Agreements, and all other agreements entered into under this Plan, and all actions taken under this Plan or in connection with Awards or Award Shares shall be governed by the substantive laws, but not the choice of law rules, of the State of California.
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17.2 Determination of Value. Fair Market Value shall be determined as follows:
(a) No Established Market. If Shares are not traded on any established stock exchange or quoted on a national market system and are not quoted by a recognized securities dealer, the Administrator (following guidelines established by the Board or Committee) will determine Fair Market Value in good faith. The Administrator will consider the following factors, and any others it considers significant, in determining Fair Market Value: (i) the price at which other securities of the Company have been issued to purchasers other than Employees, Directors, or Consultants, (ii) the Companys net worth, prospective earning power, dividend paying capacity, and non-operating assets, if any, and (iii) any other relevant factors, including the economic outlook for the Company and the Companys industry, the Companys position in that industry, the Companys goodwill and intellectual property, and the values of securities of other businesses in the same industry.
(b) Listed Shares. If the Shares are traded on any established stock exchange or quoted on a national market system, Fair Market Value shall be the closing sales price for the Shares as quoted on that stock exchange or system for the date the value is to be determined (the Value Date) as reported in The Wall Street Journal or a similar publication. If no sales are reported as having occurred on the Value Date, Fair Market Value shall be that closing sales price for the last preceding trading day on which sales of Shares are reported as having occurred. If no sales are reported as having occurred during the five trading days before the Value Date, Fair Market Value shall be the closing bid for Shares on the Value Date. If Shares are listed on multiple exchanges or systems, Fair Market Value shall be based on sales or bids on the primary exchange or system on which Shares are traded or quoted.
(c) Shares Quoted by Securities Dealer. If Shares are regularly quoted by a recognized securities dealer but selling prices are not reported on any established stock exchange or quoted on a national market system, Fair Market Value shall be the mean between the high bid and low asked prices on the Value Date. If no prices are quoted for the Value Date, Fair Market Value shall be the mean between the high bid and low asked prices on the last preceding trading day on which any bid and asked prices were quoted.
(d) Initial Public Offering. The Fair Market Value of Shares on the date, if any, that the Company makes an initial public offering of Shares shall be the price at which Shares are first offered to the public.
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17.3 Reservation of Shares. During the term of this Plan, the Company will at all times reserve and keep available such number of Shares as are still issuable under this Plan.
17.4 Electronic Communications. Any Award Agreement, notice of exercise of an Award, or other document required or permitted by this Plan may be delivered in writing or, to the extent determined by the Administrator, electronically. Signatures may also be electronic if permitted by the Administrator.
17.5 Notices. Unless the Administrator specifies otherwise, any notice to the Company under any Option Agreement or with respect to any Awards or Award Shares shall be in writing (or, if so authorized by Section 17.4, communicated electronically), shall be addressed to the Secretary of the Company, and shall only be effective when received by the Secretary of the Company.
Adopted by the Board of Directors of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and effective on March 31, 2003.
Approved by the stockholders of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on March 31, 2003.
Amended to reduce total shares covered by 660,000 shares to 935,000 on October 22, 2003.
Amended to reduce total shares covered by 232,500 shares to 702,500 on December 18, 2004.
Amended to increase total shares covered by 22,815,358 shares, to a total of 23,517,858 shares effective February 18, 2004.
Adjusted to reduce total shares covered to 2,125,042 shares in connection with a 1-for-11.06701 reverse stock split of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc.s common stock and preferred stock effected on May 15, 2007.
Amended by the Board of Directors of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on October 24, 2011.
Adopted by the Board of Directors of Azur Pharma plc on December 21, 2011.
Approved by the shareholders of Azur Pharma plc on January 3, 2012.
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JAZZ PHARMACEUTICALS PLC
2003 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1. | Purpose of this Plan and Relationship to 2011 Plan |
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2. | Definitions and Rules of Interpretation |
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2.1 | Definitions | 1 | ||||||
2.2 | Rules of Interpretation | 6 | ||||||
3. | Shares Subject to this Plan; Term of this Plan |
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3.1 | Number of Award Shares | 7 | ||||||
3.2 | Source of Shares | 7 | ||||||
3.3 | Term of this Plan | 7 | ||||||
4. | Administration |
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4.1 | General | 7 | ||||||
4.2 | Authority of Administrator | 7 | ||||||
4.3 | Scope of Discretion | 9 | ||||||
5. | Persons Eligible to Receive Awards |
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5.1 | Eligible Individuals | 9 | ||||||
6. | Terms and Conditions of Options |
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6.1 | Price | 9 | ||||||
6.2 | Term | 9 | ||||||
6.3 | Vesting | 10 | ||||||
6.4 | Form of Payment | 10 | ||||||
6.5 | Nonassignability of Options | 11 | ||||||
6.6 | Substitute Options | 11 | ||||||
7. | Incentive Stock Options |
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8. | Stock Appreciation Rights, Stock Awards and Cash Awards |
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8.1 | Stock Appreciation Rights | 14 | ||||||
8.2 | Stock Awards | 15 | ||||||
8.3 | Cash Awards | 16 | ||||||
9. | Exercise of Awards |
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9.1 | In General | 16 | ||||||
9.2 | Time of Exercise | 16 | ||||||
9.3 | Issuance of Award Shares | 16 | ||||||
9.4 | Termination | 17 | ||||||
10. | Certain Transactions and Events |
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10.1 | In General | 18 | ||||||
10.2 | Changes in Capital Structure | 19 | ||||||
10.3 | Fundamental Transactions | 19 | ||||||
10.4 | Changes of Control | 19 | ||||||
10.5 | Divestiture | 20 | ||||||
10.6 | Dissolution | 20 | ||||||
10.7 | Cut-Back to Preserve Benefits | 20 |
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11. | Withholding and Tax Reporting |
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11.1 | Tax Withholding Alternatives |
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11.2 | Reporting of Dispositions |
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12. | Compliance with Law |
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12.1 | Applicable Law |
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12.2 | Financial Information |
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13. | Amendment or Termination of this Plan or Outstanding Awards |
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13.1 | Amendment and Termination |
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13.2 | Shareholder Approval |
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13.3 | Effect |
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14. | Reserved Rights |
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14.1 | Nonexclusivity of this Plan |
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14.2 | Unfunded Plan |
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15. | Special Arrangements Regarding Award Shares |
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15.1 | Escrows and Pledges |
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15.2 | Repurchase Rights |
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15.3 | Market Standoff |
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15.4 | Dividends |
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16. | Beneficiaries |
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17. | Miscellaneous |
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17.1 | Governing Law |
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17.2 | Determination of Value |
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17.3 | Reservation of Shares |
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17.4 | Electronic Communications |
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17.5 | Notices |
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Exhibit 99.6
JAZZ PHARMACEUTICALS PLC
AMENDED AND RESTATED DIRECTORS DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
1.1 Board shall mean the Board of Directors of the Company.
1.2 Capitalization Adjustment means any change that is made in, or other events that occur with respect to, the Ordinary Shares subject to the Plan or subject to any Stock Account on or after August 15, 2010 without the receipt of consideration by the Company (through merger, consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization, reincorporation, share dividend, dividend in property other than cash, share split, liquidating dividend, combination of shares, exchange of shares, change in corporate structure or other transaction not involving the receipt of consideration by the Company). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the conversion of any convertible securities of the Company shall not be treated as a transaction without the receipt of consideration by the Company.
1.3 Change in Control means any of the following: (a) the date that any one person or persons acting as a group acquires ownership of Company shares constituting more than fifty percent (50%) of the total fair market value or total voting power of the shares of the Company; (b) the date that any one person or persons acting as a group acquires (or has acquired during the 12-month period ending on the date of the most recent acquisition by such person or persons) ownership of the shares of the Company possessing fifty percent (50%) or more of the total voting power of the shares of the Company; (c) the date that a majority of members of the Board is replaced during any 12-month period by directors whose appointment or election is not endorsed by a majority of the members of the Board before the date of the appointment or election; or (d) the date that any one person or persons acting as a group acquires assets (or has acquired during the 12-month period ending on the date of the most recent acquisition by such person or persons) from the Company that have a total gross fair market value equal to or more than eighty percent (80%) of the total gross fair market value of all of the assets of the Company immediately prior to such acquisition or acquisitions. The determination of whether an event constitutes a Change of Control for purposes of this Plan shall be made in accordance with its definition under Section 409A of the Code and the regulations and other guidance thereunder, and shall not involve the exercise of any discretionary authority by the Board.
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1.4 Code shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
1.5 Company means Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc, a company formed under the laws of Ireland.
1.6 Director shall mean a member of the Board who is not an employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries.
1.7 Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
1.8 Fees shall mean amounts earned for serving as a member of the Board, including any committees of the Board.
1.9 He, Him, or His shall apply equally to male and female members of the Board.
1.10 Market Value Per Share shall mean, for any given day, the price per Ordinary Share equal to the consolidated closing bid price for the Ordinary Shares on such day, or the immediately preceding Trading Day if such day is not a Trading Day; provided, however, that in the event the Ordinary Shares are not then listed on a national securities exchange or admitted to unlisted trading privileges on any such exchange, the Market Value Per Share shall be determined in good faith by the Board.
1.11 Ordinary Share or Ordinary Shares means the ordinary shares of the Company of nominal value US$0.0001 per share.
1.12 Plan shall mean the Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc Amended and Restated Directors Deferred Compensation Plan for Directors, as it may be amended from time to time.
1.13 Stock Account shall mean the account created by the Company pursuant to Article III of this Plan in accordance with an election by a Director to receive stock compensation under Article II hereof.
1.14 Trading Day means any day on which the exchange(s) or market(s) on which the Ordinary Shares are listed or quoted is open for trading.
1.15 Trading Policies shall mean, collectively, the Companys Policy Regarding Stock Trading By Executive Officers, Directors and other Designated Employees, the Companys Policy Against Trading on the Basis of Inside Information, and any similar or successive policy or policies of the Company governing transactions in the Companys securities by the Companys employees, officers and directors.
1.16 Window Period shall mean any period during which trading in Company securities by the Companys employees, officers and directors is generally permitted under the Trading Policies, as determined by the Company.
1.17 Year shall mean a calendar year.
2.
ARTICLE II
ELECTION TO DEFER
2.1 This Plan was initially effective May 31, 2007.
2.2 A Director may elect, on or before December 15 of any Year, to defer payment of all or a specified part of all Fees to be earned during the Year following the Year in which such election occurs and succeeding Years (until the Director ceases to be a Director or changes his election pursuant to Section 2.4 herein); provided, however, that with respect to the first Year in which a Director becomes eligible to participate in the Plan, the Director may make an initial election within thirty (30) days after the date the Director becomes so eligible to defer payment of all or a specified part of such Fees earned following the date on which such initial election is made during the remainder of such Year and for any succeeding Years.
2.3 The election to participate in the Plan and manner of payment shall be designated by submitting a letter in the form attached hereto as Appendix A to the Secretary of the Company.
2.4 The election shall continue from Year to Year and become irrevocable on December 15 of each Year, unless the Director changes or terminates it by written request delivered to the Secretary of the Company prior to December 15 of the Year preceding the commencement of the Year for which the changes or termination is first effective.
ARTICLE III
DEFERRED COMPENSATION ACCOUNTS
3.1 The Company shall maintain separate memorandum accounts for the Fees deferred by each Director.
3.2 The Company shall credit, on the date Fees become payable (the Deferral Date), the Stock Account of each Director with a cash notation of the Fees deferred by such Director. Then, on the first Trading Day of the next Window Period that occurs on or after the Deferral Date (or, if the Deferral Date occurs during a Window Period, then on the Deferral Date, or the next Trading Day during such Window Period (if any) if the Deferral Date is not a Trading Day) (such date, as applicable, the Conversion Date), the Company shall convert such cash notation into a credit for that number of Ordinary Shares equal to the Fees deferred by such Director on the Deferral Date, divided by the Market Value Per Share determined as of the Conversion Date.
3.3 The Company shall credit the Stock Account of each Director who has elected to defer his or her Fees with the number of Ordinary Shares equal to any cash dividends (or the fair market value of dividends paid in property other than Ordinary Shares) payable on the number of Ordinary Shares represented in each Directors Stock Account on the date that such dividends are otherwise payable to holders of the Ordinary Shares, divided by the Market Value Per Share on the applicable dividend payment date. Dividends payable in Ordinary Shares will be credited to each Directors Stock Account on the dividend payment date in respect of Ordinary Shares credited to such Directors Stock Account on such dividend payment date in the form of the right to receive Ordinary Shares.
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3.4 Ordinary Shares shall be computed to three decimal places.
3.5 The right to receive Ordinary Shares at a later date shall not entitle any person to rights of a shareholder with respect to such Ordinary Shares unless and until such Ordinary Shares have been issued to such person pursuant to Article IV hereof.
3.6 The Stock Account of a Director shall only be a bookkeeping account, and the Company shall not be required to acquire, reserve, segregate, or otherwise set aside its Ordinary Shares for the payment of its obligations under the Plan. The Company shall make available as and when required a sufficient number of its Ordinary Shares to meet the needs of the Plan. In no way limiting the foregoing, the Company hereby reserves for issuance under this Plan two hundred thousand (200,000) Ordinary Shares (the Reserve), which Reserve may be increased from time to time in the discretion of the Board. The Ordinary Shares issuable under the Plan shall be shares of authorized but unissued or reacquired Ordinary Shares, including Ordinary Shares repurchased by the Company on the open market. If any Ordinary Shares credited to a Stock Account are not delivered to a Director for any reason, the number of Ordinary Shares that are not delivered to the Director shall remain available for issuance under the Plan. The Reserve shall be used in satisfaction of all Ordinary Shares credited to Directors Stock Accounts on or after August 15, 2010. In the event of a Capitalization Adjustment, the Board shall proportionately and appropriately adjust: (i) the class(es) and maximum number of securities subject to the Reserve and (ii) the class(es) and maximum number of securities subject to each Stock Account. The Board shall make such adjustments, and its determination shall be final, binding and conclusive.
3.7 The Company shall seek to obtain from each regulatory commission or agency having jurisdiction over the Plan such authority as may be required to credit Stock Accounts with phantom share rights and to issue Ordinary Shares upon the distribution of amounts credited to such Stock Accounts; provided, however, that this undertaking shall not require the Company to register under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Plan, any Stock Account or any Ordinary Shares issued or issuable pursuant to any such Stock Account. If, after reasonable efforts, the Company is unable to obtain from any such regulatory commission or agency the authority that counsel for the Company deems necessary for the lawful issuance of Ordinary Shares under the Plan, the Company shall be relieved from any liability for failure to issue and sell Ordinary Shares hereunder unless and until such authority is obtained.
3.8 Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to create a trust of any kind or any fiduciary relationship. To the extent that any person acquires a right to receive payments from the Company under the Plan, such right shall be no greater than the right of any unsecured general creditor of the Company. Fees deferred by Directors and converted into Ordinary Shares credited to Stock Accounts shall constitute general funds of the Company.
The Company may require a Director, as a condition of having his or her Stock Account credited with shares or acquiring Ordinary Shares upon any distribution thereof, (i) to give written assurances satisfactory to the Company as to the Directors knowledge and experience in
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financial and business matters and/or to employ a purchaser representative reasonably satisfactory to the Company who is knowledgeable and experienced in financial and business matters and that he or she is capable of evaluating, alone or together with the purchaser representative, the merits and risks of participating in this Plan; and (ii) to give written assurances satisfactory to the Company stating that the Director is acquiring the Ordinary Shares under the Plan for the Directors own account and not with any present intention of selling or otherwise distributing the Ordinary Shares. The foregoing requirements, and any assurances given pursuant to such requirements, shall be inoperative if (i) the issuance of the Ordinary Shares under the Plan has been registered under a then currently effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or (ii) as to any particular requirement, a determination is made by counsel for the Company that such requirement need not be met in the circumstances under the then applicable securities laws. The Company may, upon advice of counsel to the Company, place legends on share certificates issued under the Plan as such counsel deems necessary or appropriate in order to comply with applicable securities laws, including, but not limited to, legends restricting the transfer of the Ordinary Shares.
ARTICLE IV
PAYMENT OF DEFERRED COMPENSATION
4.1 Subject to the other provisions of this Article IV, amounts credited to a Directors Stock Account shall be distributed as the Directors election (made pursuant to Paragraph 2.2 of Article II hereof) shall provide. Distributions in respect of the Directors Stock Account shall be paid in Ordinary Shares, and any such distributions shall begin on the tenth (10th) business day following the day on which a Director separates from service with the Board, or as soon thereafter as practical once the former Director has provided the necessary information for electronic deposit of the Ordinary Shares. Ordinary Shares available for distribution shall be funded (i) with Ordinary Shares reserved under the Companys 2007 Non-Employee Directors Stock Option Plan for amounts credited to Directors Stock Accounts prior to August 15, 2010 and (ii) with Ordinary Shares reserved hereunder for amounts credited to Directors Stock Accounts on or after August 15, 2010.
4.2 Each Director shall have the right to designate one or more beneficiaries to succeed to his right to receive payments hereunder in the event of his death. Each designated beneficiary shall receive payments in the same manner as the Director if he had lived. If no beneficiary is designated, the Directors estate shall receive payments in the same manner as the Director if he had lived. No beneficiary designation shall be valid unless it is in writing, signed by the Director and filed with the Secretary of the Company.
4.3 In the event of a Change in Control, all amounts credited to each Directors Stock Account shall be distributed on the tenth (10th) business day after the occurrence of such Change in Control.
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ARTICLE V
ADMINISTRATION
5.1 The Company shall administer the Plan at its expense. All decisions made by the Company with respect to issues hereunder shall be final and binding on all parties.
5.2 Except to the extent required by law, the right of any Director or any beneficiary to any benefit or to any payment hereunder shall not be subject in any manner to attachment or other legal process for the debts of such Director or beneficiary; and any such benefit or payment shall not be subject to alienation, sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance.
ARTICLE VI
AMENDMENT OF PLAN; GOVERNING LAW; SECTION 409A.
6.1 The Plan may be amended, suspended or terminated in whole or in part from time to time by the Board except that no amendment, suspension, or termination shall apply to the payment of any amounts previously credited to a Directors Stock Account.
6.2 The Plan shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to principles of conflict of law.
6.3 Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, this Plan is intended to comply with Section 409A and shall at all times be interpreted in accordance with such intent such that amounts credited to Directors accounts shall not be taxable to Directors until such amounts are paid to Directors in accordance with the terms of the Plan. In furtherance thereof, no payments may be accelerated under the Plan other than to the extent permitted under Section 409A of the Code (Section 409A). To the extent that any provision of the Plan violates Section 409A such that amounts would be taxable to a Director prior to payment or would otherwise subject a Director to a penalty tax under Section 409A, such provision shall be automatically reformed or stricken to preserve the intent hereof. To the extent that the Company determines that Directors may be given greater flexibility to modify or revoke deferral elections under the Plan in a manner consistent with Section 409A (based on future guidance promulgated by the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department from time to time), the Company may (but shall not be obligated to) amend the Plan to provide for such greater flexibility.
Adopted by the Board of Directors of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on May 1, 2007.
Amended by the Board of Directors of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on December 16, 2008.
Amended and restated by the Board of Directors of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on August 11, 2010.
Adopted by the Board of Directors of Azur Pharma plc on December 21, 2011.
Approved by the shareholders of Azur Pharma plc on January 3, 2012.
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APPENDIX A DEFERRAL ELECTION FORM
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Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
Pursuant to the Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc Amended and Restated Directors Deferred Compensation Plan, initially adopted on May 1, 2007 (the Plan) and as subsequently amended and restated, I hereby elect to defer receipt of all or a portion of my Directors fees to which I may become entitled to receive in respect of 20 and succeeding Years (unless and until I change my election for fees receivable in succeeding years pursuant to the terms of the Plan) in accordance with the percentages indicated below.
Initial Deferral Election. I hereby elect to have my directors fees (and committee fees, if any) credited as follows (fill in appropriate percentages for options a and b below):
(a) % of the aggregate fees shall be credited to my Stock Account as provided for in the Plan; or
(b) % of the aggregate fees shall not be deferred, but shall be paid to me directly and promptly as they accrue.
Timing of Distributions. I understand that my Stock Account shall each become payable on the earlier to occur of the tenth (10th) business day following (i) the date of my separation from service with the Board and (ii) a Change in Control (as such term is defined in the Plan), or as soon thereafter as practical once I have provided the necessary electronic delivery information.
Manner of Distributions. Further, I elect to receive the payments pursuant to the Plan (check one desired method below):
(a) | If a distribution results due to my separation from service with the Board: |
in one lump sum; |
in (insert number) equal annual installments. |
(b) | If a distribution results due to a Change in Control: |
in one lump sum; |
in (insert number) equal annual installments. |
Very truly yours,
[Name] |
DESIGNATION OF BENEFICIARY
JAZZ PHARMACEUTICALS PLC
AMENDED AND RESTATED DIRECTORS DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
In the event of my death prior to receipt of all or any amount of the balance of my Stock Account so accumulated, I designate the following one or more individual(s):
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as my beneficiary or beneficiaries to receive the funds so accumulated, but unpaid.
Signed this day of , 20 .
Signature |
Print Name |
Witnessed this day of , 20 .
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