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甘尼特公司，股份有限公司。
雇员限制股票单位授予协议
这位员工受限制股票单位授予协议 本“协议本协议于2021年8月5日生效。 [授予日期]，双方为甘尼特公司，一家特拉华州公司（以下简称“公司 [Grantee Name] (“本登记声明”) 由特立软件股份有限公司，一家德拉华州股份公司 (以下简称为“本公司”) 提交，目的是为了注册其额外的7,184,563股A类普通股，每股面值$0.0001 (以下简称为“A类普通股”), 以及在特立软件股份有限公司 2022年股权激励计划下可发行股份的1,436,911股A类普通股，注(下文简称为“A类普通股”)。Grantee”).
鉴于，公司已采纳甘尼特公司2023年股票激励计划（“401(k)计划的雇主贡献净有形资产完成条件
鉴于《计划》第9节允许委员会确定向公司及其关联公司的员工授予限制性股票单位。
现在，因此鉴于上述事项及下文约定的相互条款，各方特此同意如下：
1. 授予受限制股单元。根据本次协议和计划中规定的条款和条件，公司特此授予受让人一项奖励（以下简称“奖励”) of 公司授出的股票数量】 受限制股票单位（简称“RSUs支付”）。每个RSU代表收到一（1）股普通股的权利，视情况在此规定的激励下实行。
2. 授予日期此处授予的RSU的授予日期为 [授予日期] (“本登记声明”) 由特立软件股份有限公司，一家德拉华州股份公司 (以下简称为“本公司”) 提交，目的是为了注册其额外的7,184,563股A类普通股，每股面值$0.0001 (以下简称为“A类普通股”), 以及在特立软件股份有限公司 2022年股权激励计划下可发行股份的1,436,911股A类普通股，注(下文简称为“A类普通股”)。授予日期”).
3. 计划的合并。所有板块的条款、条件和限制均被纳入并视为在此陈述。如果计划的条款和条件与本协议之间存在冲突，则由董事会或委员会解释的计划的条款和条件将适用。除非在此另有说明，否则在本文件中使用但未另有定义的所有大写字母开头的术语应具有计划中赋予这些术语的含义。
4. 兑现RSUs的归属如下：授予日的首个周年时的三分之一；授予日的第二个周年时的三分之一；以及授予日的第三个周年时的剩余三分之一；条件是，关于每个归属日期，受让人在适用的归属日期之前一直保持作为公司或其关联企业的雇员的持续服务。尽管前述，如果受让人因任何原因在任何时候终止作为公司或其关联企业的雇员的服务，未归属的RSUs将立即在该服务终止日期兑现。
5. 结算根据本协议第12条和第14条的规定，根据本协议条款已获得的限制性股票所对应的任何普通股应在授予日后尽快交付给受让人，但绝不迟于包括授予日在内的日历年后的3月15日。
6. 取消根据计划的规定和本协议第4部分，如果未在授予人作为公司或其关联公司的雇员的服务结束的日期之前终止，则该日期立即放弃未获授予的RSUs。
7. 延迟或省略。在本协议下，任何一方当事人出现任何违约或违约情况时未行使权利、权力或救济措施，不得损害该类担保人或投资者享有的任何该等权利、权力或救济措施，也不得被解释为豁免任何该等违约或违约行为，或在此后发生的任何类似违约或违约行为中默认或任何相似违约或违约行为，也不得视为前面或后面发生的任何其他违约或违约行为的豁免。任何被豁免一方的担保人或投资者在本协议下对任何违约或违约行为进行的任何豁免、许可、同意或批准，或任何被豁免一方的担保人或投资者对本协议的任何规定或条件进行的任何豁免，必须以书面形式进行，并仅在该等书面文件中具有的明确规定的范围内生效。根据第9.1和第9.2款，除非本协议另有规定，否则担保人和投资者享有的所有救济措施均是累加而非选择性的。任何一方未行使根据本协议对任何一方在违约或违约情况下产生的权利、权力或救济，不应损害该方的任何权利、权力或救济，也不应被解释为放弃任何此类违约或默认，或默认接受，或在此之后发生的任何类似违约或默认，也不应被视为放弃任何单个违约或默认被视为放弃之前或之后发生的任何其他违约或默认。在本协议下任何一方放弃、许可、同意或批准任何违约或默认，或本协议的任何规定或条件，必须以书面形式进行，并且仅在该书面规定的范围内才有效。
8. 合并规定本协议和计划包含了各方对主旨事项的完整理解。除本协议和计划中明确规定的之外，关于本主题的任何限制、协议、承诺、陈述、保证、契约或承诺均不得超越此处明确规定的内容。本协议和计划取代了各方就本主题事项达成的一切先前协议和理解。
9. 相关方本协议可以分为两份或更多份进行签署，每份均应视为原件，但所有份合并构成同一文件。
10. 被授予者感谢声明被授予者在此确认已收到计划副本。被授予者在此确认董事会或其中任何委员会在有关计划、本协议和RSUs的所有决定、裁定和解读将是最终和确定的。
11. 不可转让根据本协议授予的 RSUs 不得出售、转让、抵押、转让或以其他方式处分或抵押（"“转让”还将被视为发生在任何操作持有人(或该操作持有人的允许受让人)有B类普通股股份的非盈利机构(或该股份的任何受益人)持有该B类普通股股份的顶层支配权或独家投票权控制时，就该B类普通股股份而言，操作持有人(或其允许受让方)不再保留独立支配权(在操作持有人和其允许受让方之间)和其对该安全的投票或投票的独占支配权(包括通过委托、投票协议或其他方式)，情况下(在这种情况下)。即使是这种情况，以下任何情况也不被视为“转让”:除了遗嘱或依照继承和分配法律外，在计划中规定的情况下。任何违反本协议转让 RSUs 或其中的任何经济利益或权益均为无效 从一开始，且不构成公司的任何义务或责任。如果试图进行任何违禁转让，无论是自愿还是非自愿，或者对 RSUs 采取任何附着、执行、扣押或设定抵押权，Grantee 对该 RSUs 的权利应立即被公司收回，并且本协议应当为无效。
12. 税收受让人可能被要求作为交付与RSUs相关的任何普通股份的条件，以现金形式支付任何适用的代扣税款。公司有权采取公司认为必要或适当的其他行动来满足支付此类代扣税款的所有义务，仅由委员会酌情决定，包括扣留最多相当于该等应扣税款金额的普通股的其他措施，该金额根据联邦、州、外国和/或地方税目的的最高法定扣缴税率（包括工资税）确定。
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可能在不引起关于根据公司授予的RSU的财务处理不利的情况下利用。
13. 管辖法本协议应受特拉华州法律管辖，并根据该州的法律进行解释，不考虑该州的法律冲突原则。
14. 证券法规要求公司不需要向受让人发行普通股股份，如果根据公司法律顾问的意见，这种转让会违反证券法（或在那时可能生效的任何其他联邦或州法规具有类似要求的法规）。
15. 通知所有板块中提供的所有通知或其他通信必须以书面形式寄出，并交付或交付至（a）公司的主要业务地点，或（b）授予者在公司档案中的地址，或者公司或授予者可能为了提供通知目的而向对方提供的其他地址。任何此类通知在以下情况下应被视为有效：（i）如亲自交付，则交付当日；（ii）如通过国家隔夜快递传送，则翌工作日生效；（iii）如邮寄挂号或认证邮件，在邮资预付后的第四个工作日生效。
16. Agreement Not a Contract for Services. Neither the Plan, the granting of the RSUs, this Agreement nor any other action taken pursuant to the Plan shall constitute or be evidence of any agreement or understanding, express or implied, that the Grantee has a right to continue to provide services as an officer, director, employee, consultant or advisor of the Company or any of its Affiliates for any period of time or at any specific rate of compensation.
17. Representations. The Grantee has reviewed with the Grantee’s own tax advisors the federal, state, local and foreign tax consequences of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. The Grantee is relying solely on such advisors and not on any statements or representations of the Company or any of its agents.
18. Amendments; Construction. The Committee may amend the terms of this Agreement prospectively or retroactively at any time, but no such amendment shall impair the rights of the Grantee hereunder without the Grantee’s consent. Headings to Sections of this Agreement are intended for convenience of reference only, are not part of this Agreement and shall have no effect on the interpretation hereof.
19. Adjustments. Pursuant to Section 11.1 of the Plan, in the event of any change in the outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company by reason of any corporate transaction or change in corporate capitalization such as a stock split, reverse stock split, stock dividend, split-up, split-off, spin-off, recapitalization, merger, consolidation, rights offering, reorganization, combination, consolidation, subdivision or exchange of shares, a sale by the Company of all or part of its assets, any distribution to stockholders other than a normal cash dividend, partial or complete liquidation of the Company or other extraordinary or unusual event, the Committee shall make such adjustments to the class and number of shares subject to the Award (provided that the number of shares of any class subject to the Award shall always be a whole number), as may be determined to be appropriate by the Committee and such adjustments shall be final, conclusive and binding for all purposes.
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20. No Stockholder Rights. The Grantee shall have no rights of a stockholder (including voting rights or the right to distributions or dividends) until shares of Common Stock are delivered to the Grantee following vesting of the RSUs.
21. Section 409A. The Award is intended to be exempt from the requirements of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the Treasury Regulations and other guidance issued thereunder (collectively, “Section 409A”), under the short-term deferral exemption described in Section 1.409A-1(b)(4) of the Treasury Regulations, and this Agreement shall be interpreted and administered consistent with such intention. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company makes no representations that the Award is exempt from or complies with Section 409A, and in no event shall the Company be liable for all or any portion of any taxes, penalties, interest or other expenses that may be incurred by the Grantee on account of non-compliance with Section 409A.
22. Discretionary Plan; Employment. The Plan is discretionary in nature and may be varied, suspended or terminated by the Company at any time and for any reason. With respect to the Plan, (a) each grant of an Award is a one-time benefit which does not create any contractual or other right to receive future grants of Awards, or benefits in lieu of Awards; (b) all determinations with respect to any such future grants, including, but not limited to, the times when the Awards shall be granted, the number of shares subject to Awards, the payment dates and the vesting dates, will be at the sole discretion of the Company; (c) the Grantee’s participation in the Plan shall not create a right to further employment and shall not interfere with the ability of the employer to terminate the Grantee’s employment relationship at any time with or without cause; (d) notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of the Plan or this Agreement, the Grantee’s participation in the Plan shall not create an employment relationship between the Grantee and the Company, and the Plan and this Agreement do not constitute all or any part of any employment agreement; (e) participation in the Plan is voluntary; (f) the Award is not part of normal and expected compensation for purposes of calculating any severance, resignation, redundancy, end of service payment, bonuses, long-service awards, pension or retirement benefits, or similar payments; (g) the Grantee waives any and all rights to compensation or damages in consequence of the termination of the Grantee’s employment or office holding for any reason whatsoever (whether or not such termination is wrongful or unfair) insofar as those rights arise or may arise from the Grantee ceasing to have rights under this Agreement as a result of such termination; and (h) the future value of the Award is unknown and cannot be predicted with certainty.
23. Clawback Policy. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, any shares of Common Stock issued hereunder, and/or any amount received with respect to any sale of any such shares of Common Stock, shall be subject to potential cancellation, recoupment, rescission, payback or other action in accordance with the terms of the Company’s Detrimental Conduct Recoupment Policy, the Company’s Policy for the Recovery of Erroneously Awarded Compensation, as well as any other recoupment or similar policy, if any, that the Company may adopt from time to time (collectively, the “Policies”). The Grantee agrees and consents to the Company’s application, implementation and enforcement of (a) the Policies that may apply to the Grantee; and (b) any provision of applicable law relating to cancellation, rescission, payback or recoupment of compensation, and expressly agrees that the Company may take such actions as are necessary to effectuate the Policies or applicable law without further
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consent or action being required by the Grantee. To the extent that the terms of this Agreement and any Policy conflict, then the terms of the Policy shall prevail.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Agreement to be duly executed by its duly authorized officer and the Grantee has hereunto signed this Agreement on the Grantee’s own behalf, thereby representing that the Grantee has carefully read and understands this Agreement and the Plan as of the day and year first written above.
GANNETT CO., INC.
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By:
Title:
Acknowledged and Accepted:
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[Grantee Name]
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