In no event may an employee be granted an Option if such employee, immediately after the Option was granted, would be treated as owning stock possessing five percent or more of the total combined voting power or value of all classes of stock of the Company or of any parent corporation or subsidiary corporation, as the terms "parent corporation" and "subsidiary corporation" are defined in Section 424(e) and (f) of the Code. For purposes of determining stock ownership under this paragraph, the rules of Section 424(d) of the Code shall apply, and stock which the employee may purchase under outstanding Options shall be treated as stock owned by the employee.
Article 4—Stock Subject to the Plan.
The stock subject to the Options under the Plan shall be shares of the Company's authorized but unissued common stock, par value $.01 per share (the "Common Stock"), or shares of Common Stock reacquired by the Company, including shares purchased in the open market. The aggregate number of shares of Common Stock which
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may be issued pursuant to the Plan is 5,800,000 subject to adjustment as provided in Article 12. If any Option granted under the Plan shall expire or terminate for any reason without having been exercised in full or shall cease for any reason to be exercisable in whole or in part, the unpurchased shares subject thereto shall again be available under the Plan. For avoidance of doubt, up to the maximum number of Shares reserved under this Article 4 may be used to satisfy purchases of shares of Common Stock under the 423 Component and any remaining portion of such maximum number of shares of Common Stock may be used to satisfy purchases of shares of Common Stock under the Non-423 Component.
Article 5—Offering Period and Stock Options.
The Plan shall be implemented by consecutive or overlapping Offering Periods, with a new Offering Period commencing on the first day of the relevant Offering Period and terminating on the last day of the relevant Offering Period (an “Offering Period”). The Offering Periods shall: (a) consist of one or more dates within each Offering Period on which shares of Common Stock may be purchased by participants in an Offering Period specified by the Committee prior to the scheduled beginning of the applicable Offering Period, to the extent they differ from the Exercise Dates set forth below ("Exercise Date(s)"); and (b) be of a duration, and commence on the dates, specified by the Committee prior to the scheduled beginning of the applicable Offering Period, to the extent they differ from the Offering Periods set forth below, provided that each Offering Period may not have a duration exceeding twenty-seven (27) months. Offering Periods under the Plan that began prior to November 1, 2024, shall consist of twenty-four-month periods commencing on November 1 and May 1 of each calendar year. For Offering Periods that began prior to November 1, 2024, there shall be four Exercise Dates occurring on each April 30 and October 31 (or, if such date is not a trading day, the first trading day thereafter) within each such Offering Period. Unless and until otherwise determined by the Committee, Offering Periods that begin on or after November 1, 2024, shall consist of six-month periods commencing on November 1 and May 1 of each calendar year. Unless and until otherwise determined by the Committee, for Offering Periods beginning on or after November 1, 2024, there shall be one Exercise Date per Offering Period, occurring on April 30 for Offering Periods that begin on November 1 and on October 31 for Offering Periods that begin on May 1 (or, if such Exercise Date is not a trading day, the first trading day thereafter). For the avoidance of any doubt, the Committee is vested with the authority to establish alternative sequential or overlapping Offering Periods, a different number of Exercise Dates within an Offering Period, a different duration for one or more Offering Periods or different commencement or ending dates for such Offering Periods with respect to future Offering Periods in accordance with the provisions contemplated in this Article 5 without stockholder approval.
如果公司将与或被另一实体合并,出售所有或实质上全部公司的资产或以其他方式(一次“收购”)收购,则委员会或任何承担公司义务的公司的董事会(“继任董事会”)应就此计划下的当时未行使的期权采取适当的安排,包括(i)安排以公允方式对仍受此类期权约束的股份进行替代性代替,即(a) 有关收购中以支付共同股备置股份的代价,(b) 继任公司的股份,或该公司的母公司或子公司的股份,或(c) 继任董事会认为合适的其他证券,其公平市值不得显著超过收购前立即受此类期权所约束的共同股股份的公平市值;(ii)鉴于与此类期权相关的供股期间将缩短,设定一个新的履行日期,供股期间将于此履行日期结束,并提供参加者应按照本第6条所规定的通知,不早于收购的生效日期前行使此类期权,并提供除非在该日期之前根据本第10条提供退出供股期间的,或自本第14条提供的不合格雇员,否则应通知参加者履行期会被行使;或(iii) terminate each participant's Option in exchange for a cash payment equal to the excess of (a) the fair market value, on the date of the Acquisition, of the number of shares of Common Stock that the participant's accumulated payroll deductions as of the date of the Acquisition could purchase, at an Option Price determined with reference only to the first business day of the applicable Offering Period and subject to the maximum share limitation set forth in Article 5 hereof, Code Section 423(b)(8) and fractional-share limitations on the amount of stock a participant would be entitled to purchase, over (b) the result of multiplying such number of shares by such Option Price.
The Committee or Successor Board, as applicable, shall determine the adjustments to be made under this Article 12, and its determination shall be conclusive.
Article 13—No Transfer or Assignment of Employee's Rights.
An Option granted under the Plan may not be transferred or assigned, except by will or the laws of descent and distribution, and shall be exercised, during the participant's lifetime, only by the participant.
Article 14—Termination of Employee's Rights; Transfer of Employment.
Whenever a participant ceases to be an eligible employee because of retirement, voluntary or involuntary termination, resignation, layoff, discharge, death or for any other reason, his or her rights under the Plan shall immediately terminate, and the Company shall promptly refund, without interest (except where otherwise required by applicable law), the entire balance of his or her payroll deduction account under the Plan.
A participant will be deemed to have terminated employment, for this purpose, if the corporation that employs him or her, having been a Participating Subsidiary, ceases to be a subsidiary or to be designated as a
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Participating Subsidiary, or if the employee is transferred to any corporation other than the Company or a Participating Subsidiary. A participant will not be deemed to have terminated employment for this purpose, if the participant is on an approved leave of absence for military service or sickness or for any other purpose approved by the Company for up to 90 days, or if the employee’s right to reemployment is guaranteed either by a statute or by contract or under the policy pursuant to which the leave of absence was granted or if the Committee otherwise provides in writing, if longer than 90 days.