“Annual Installment Method” shall be an annual installment payment over the number of years selected by the Participant in accordance with the Plan. Each annual installment shall be calculated by multiplying the applicable Account or subaccount total by a fraction, the numerator of which is one and the denominator of which is the remaining number of annual payments due to the Participant. By way of example, if the Participant elects a ten
(10) year Annual Installment Method, the first payment shall be 1/10 of the applicable vested Account, calculated as described in this definition. The following year, the payment shall be 1/9 of the applicable Account, calculated as described in this definition.
For purposes of Section 409A of the Code, an annual installment payment shall be considered a “single payment” as defined in IRS regulation 1.409A-2(b)(2)(iii).
1.5
“Beneficiary” shall mean the person or persons, designated in accordance with Article 6, who are entitled to receive benefits under the Plan upon the death of a Participant.
1.6
“Beneficiary Designation Form” shall mean the form established from time to time by the Board that a Participant completes, signs, and returns to the Board or its designee to designate one or more Beneficiaries.
1.7
“Benefit Distribution Date” shall mean the date upon which all or an objectively determinable portion of a Participant’s Accounts will become eligible for distribution. Except as otherwise provided in the Plan, a Participant’s Benefit Distribution Date for an Account
shall be determined based on the earliest to occur of an event or scheduled date set forth in Articles 4 and 5, as applicable.
1.8
“Board” shall mean the Board of Directors of the Company or a committee appointed by the Board to administer the Plan.
1.9
“Change in Control” shall mean the occurrence of a “change in the ownership,” a “change in the effective control,” or a “change in the ownership of a substantial portion of the assets” of the Company within the meaning of Section 409A of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
1.10
“Change in Control Benefit” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5.5.
1.11
“Code” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as it may be amended from time to time.
1.12
“Company” shall mean Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation and any successor to all or substantially all of the Company’s assets or business.
1.13
“Dividend Contribution Amounts” shall mean the value of any cash dividends declared with respect to RSUs deferred under this Plan.
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1.14
“Dividend Contribution Account” shall mean the sum of the Participant’s Dividend Contributions Amounts, as adjusted for earnings, less all distributions made to the Participant or his or her Beneficiary pursuant to the Plan that relate to the Participant’s Dividend Contribution Account.
“LTIP” shall mean the Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation 2012 Long-Term Stock Incentive Plan, as amended from time to time, or any successor plan, including the 2021 Long-Term Incentive Plan.
1.24
“Participant” shall mean any Employee or Director (i) who is selected to participate in the Plan, (ii) who elects to participate in the Plan, (iii) who signs an Election Form and a Beneficiary Designation Form, (iv) whose signed Election Form and Beneficiary Designation Form are accepted by the Board, (v) who commences participation in the Plan, and (vi) whose participation in the Plan has not terminated. A spouse or former spouse of a Participant shall not be treated as a Participant in the Plan or have an Account Balance under the Plan, even if he or she has an interest
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in the Participant’s benefits under the Plan as a result of applicable law or property settlements resulting from legal separation or divorce
1.25
“Plan” shall mean this Amended and Restated Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation Restricted Stock Unit Deferred Compensation Plan, as it may be amended from time to time.
1.26
“Plan Year” shall mean a period beginning on January 1 of each calendar year and continuing through December 31 of such calendar year.
1.27
“RSU” or “RSUs” mean restricted stock units, including service-based and performance- based restricted stock units, granted pursuant to the LTIP. In addition, for purposes of this Plan, RSUs shall include cash-settled RSUs granted pursuant to the LTIP, phantom stock awards granted under the Company’s 2024 Phantom Stock Plan, and any cash awards granted in connection with the termination of restricted stock units granted under the LTIP.
1.28
“RSU Deferral Account” shall mean an Account or Accounts maintained for each Participant that is credited with Participant voluntary deferrals of RSUs pursuant to the terms of the Plan.
“Trust” shall mean one or more rabbi trusts established by the Company in accordance with Article 12 of the Plan as amended from time to time.
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1.39
“Unforeseeable Emergency” shall mean a severe financial hardship to the Participant resulting from (i) an illness or accident of the Participant or Beneficiary or his spouse or dependent (as defined in Section 152(a) of the Code without regard to Sections 152(b)(1), 152(b)(2), and 152(d)(1)(B) of the Code),
(ii) loss of the Participant’s property due to casualty (including the need to rebuild a home following damage to the home not otherwise covered by insurance), or (iii) other similar extraordinary and unforeseeable circumstances arising as a result of events beyond the control of the Participant. The term “Unforeseeable Emergency” shall be interpreted in a manner consistent with the definition of “unforeseeable emergency” contained in Section 409A of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
第2条 注册办事处; 注册代理人
Selection, Enrollment, Eligibility
2.1.
Selection by Board. Participation in the Plan shall be limited to Directors and to those Employees who (i) are highly compensated or management level, and (ii) are selected and approved for participation in the Plan by the Board, in its sole discretion.
Each of the Participant’s investment fund subaccounts shall be reduced pro rata from the applicable Account by the amount of any distributions made to the Participant, as of the date of the distribution.
3.6.
投资选举。
(a)
The Board shall select from time to time, in its sole and absolute discretion, commercially available investment funds to be used to determine the amount of earnings or losses to be credited to the Participant’s Accounts under the Plan (the “投资基金”). A Participant may elect to transfer all or a portion of the RSU Deferral Account and/or the Dividend Contribution Account to the Investment Account to be invested in the Investment Funds, and a Participant may elect to transfer all or a portion of the Investment Account and/or the Dividend Contribution Account to the RSU Deferral Account. Such elections may be made no more frequently than once per fiscal quarter (or as further limited in the discretion of the Board) and shall be processed on, or as soon as practicable following, the first business day of the following fiscal quarter.
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(b)
Each Participant shall designate, on the Election Form or thereafter, the Investment Fund or Funds in which the Participant’s applicable Accounts (including the Dividend Contribution Account) will be deemed to be invested for purposes of determining the amount of earnings or losses to be allocated to that Account. The Participant may specify that the deemed investment be, in whole percentage increments, in one or more of the investment funds as communicated from time to time. Effective as of any business day, a Participant may change this investment designation by filing a change of election and making a new designation. If a Participant does not elect any of the investment funds as described in this Section for one or more Accounts, the applicable Account balance shall automatically be allocated into the lowest-risk investment fund, as determined by the Board, in its sole discretion. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board, in its sole discretion, may impose limitations on the frequency with which one or more of the investment funds elected in accordance with this Section may be added or deleted by such Participant; furthermore, the Board, in its sole discretion, may impose limitations on the frequency with which the Participant may change the portion of his or her Accounts allocated to each previously or newly elected Investment Fund.
Cash Settlement Amount
Closing Level
Determination Date
Face Amount
Final Underlier Level
Initial Underlier Level
Original Issue Price
Stated Maturity Date
Threshold Level
Trade Date
Underlier
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