DEF 14A 1 a2012proxydraft.htm PROXY 2012 Proxy Draft

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
SCHEDULE 14A
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April 27, 2012

Dear Stockholder:
You are invited to attend the 2012 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Liberty Global, Inc. to be held at 10:00 a.m. local time, on June 19, 2012, at The Inverness Hotel and Conference Center, 200 Inverness Drive West, Englewood, Colorado 80112, telephone number (303) 799-5800. The accompanying notice of annual meeting of stockholders and proxy statement describes the annual meeting, the proposals you will be asked to consider and vote upon and related matters.
Your vote is important, regardless of the number of shares you own. Whether or not you plan to attend the annual meeting, please vote as soon as possible to make sure that your shares are represented. You may vote via the internet or by telephone. If you receive a printed copy of your proxy materials, you may also vote by mail by signing, dating and returning your proxy card in the envelope provided.
Thank you for your continued support and interest in our company.
Sincerely,
Michael T. Fries
Chief Executive Officer and President
Liberty Global, Inc.



LIBERTY GLOBAL, INC.
Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders
to be Held June 19, 2012
The 2012 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Liberty Global, Inc. will be held at 10:00 a.m. local time, on Tuesday, June 19, 2012, at The Inverness Hotel and Conference Center, 200 Inverness Drive West, Englewood, Colorado 80112, telephone number (303) 799-5800, for the following purposes:
1.
To vote upon a proposal to elect John P. Cole, Jr., Richard R. Green and David E. Rapley to serve as Class I members of our board of directors until the 2015 annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are elected (the election of directors proposal);
2.
To vote upon a proposal to ratify the selection of KPMG LLP as our independent auditors for the year ending December 31, 2012 (the auditors ratification proposal); and
3.
To transact such other business as may properly come before the annual meeting.
All stockholders of LGI are cordially invited to attend. All stockholders of record of Liberty Global, Inc. Series A common stock, par value $.01 per share, Liberty Global, Inc. Series B common stock, par value $.01 per share, and Liberty Global, Inc. Series C common stock, par value $.01 per share, as of 5:00 p.m., Eastern time, on April 23, 2012, the record date for the annual meeting, are entitled to notice of the annual meeting or any adjournment thereof, but only stockholders of record of Series A common stock or Series B common stock as of the record date are entitled to vote at the annual meeting or any adjournment thereof. The holders of our Series A common stock and our Series B common stock will vote together as a single class on each of the above proposals. A list of stockholders entitled to vote at the annual meeting will be available at our offices at 12300 Liberty Boulevard, Englewood, Colorado 80112, for review by any stockholder, for any purpose germane to the annual meeting, for at least 10 days prior to the annual meeting.
We describe the proposals to be considered at the annual meeting in more detail in the accompanying proxy statement. We encourage you to read the proxy statement in its entirety before voting. Our board of directors has approved each proposal and recommends that the stockholders entitled to vote at the annual meeting vote “FOR” each of the election of directors proposal and the auditors ratification proposal.
Your vote is important, regardless of the number of shares you own. To make sure your shares are represented at the annual meeting, please vote as soon as possible, whether or not you plan to attend the annual meeting. You may vote by proxy in any one of the following ways: over the internet; by telephone; or request a proxy card to complete, sign and promptly return in the postage-paid envelope (if mailed in the United States).
If you vote via the internet or by telephone, your vote must be received by 11:59 p.m., Eastern time, on June 18, 2012. You may revoke your proxy in the manner described in the accompanying proxy statement.

                                         By Order of the Board of Directors,
Bryan H. Hall
Secretary

Englewood, Colorado
April 27, 2012
WHETHER OR NOT YOU INTEND TO BE PRESENT AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, PLEASE VOTE VIA THE INTERNET OR TELEPHONE AS PROMPTLY AS POSSIBLE. ALTERNATIVELY, REQUEST A PAPER PROXY CARD TO COMPLETE, SIGN AND RETURN BY MAIL.



TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
 
PROXY STATEMENT

 
Time and Place; Purposes
1

 
Voting Rights: Record Date
1

 
Proxies
2

 
Recommendation of the Board of Directors
3

 
Annual Report
3

 
Householding
3

 
Electronic Delivery
3

 
 
 
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT

 
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners
4

 
Security Ownership of Management
5

 
Change in Control
8

 
Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance
8

 
 
 
PROPOSAL 1 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS

 
Board of Directors
9

 
Vote and Recommendation
9

 
Nominees for Election of Directors
9

 
Directors Whose Term Expires in 2013
10

 
Directors Whose Term Expires in 2014
12

 
 
 
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

 
Governance Guidelines
14

 
Director Independence
14

 
Board Leadership Structure
14

 
Risk Oversight
15

 
Risk Assessment of Compensation Programs
16

 
Code of Business Conduct and Code of Ethics
16

 
Stockholder Communication with Directors
16

 
Committees of the Board of Directors
16

 
Board Meetings
19

 
Director Attendance at Annual Meetings
19

 
Executive Sessions
19

 
 
 
MANAGEMENT OF LIBERTY GLOBAL , INC.

 
Executive Officers
20

 
Involvement in Certain Proceedings
21

 
Senior Management
22

 
 
 
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

 
Compensation Discussion and Analysis
23

 
Compensation Committee Report
33

 
Summary Compensation
34

 
Grants of Plan-Based Awards
37

 
Narrative to Summary Compensation and Grants of Plan-Based Awards Tables
37

 
Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End
38

 
Option Exercises and Stock Vested
40

 
Employment and Other Agreements
40

 
Deferred Compensation Plan
41

 
Aircraft Policy
42

 
Potential Payments upon Termination or Change in Control
43

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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PROPOSAL 2 - RATIFICATION OF AUDITORS

 
Vote and Recommendation
48

 
Audit Fees and All Other Fees
48

 
Policy on Audit Committee Pre-Approval of Audit and Permissible Non-Audit Services of Independent Auditor
48

 
Audit Committee Report
50

 
 
 
DIRECTOR COMPENSATION

 
Compensation Policy
51

 
2011 Director Compensation
53

 
 
 
INCENTIVE PLANS

 
LGI Incentive Plan
56

 
LGI Director Plan
56

 
LGI International Transitional Plan
56

 
UGC Equity Incentive Plans and UGC Director Plans
56

 
 
 
CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS

 
Charitable Foundation
57

 
Other
57

 
 
 
STOCKHOLDER PROPOSALS





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LIBERTY GLOBAL, INC.
12300 Liberty Boulevard
Englewood, Colorado 80112
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PROXY STATEMENT
_________________________________ 
We are furnishing this proxy statement to holders of record as of 5:00 p.m., Eastern time, on April 23, 2012, of shares of Series A common stock or Series B common stock, each $.01 par value per share, of Liberty Global, Inc., a Delaware corporation (LGI), in connection with the solicitation of proxies by our board of directors for use at our 2012 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or at any adjournment thereof, for the purposes set forth in the accompanying Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders. This proxy statement is also being furnished to holders of shares of our non-voting Series C common stock, par value $.01 per share, for informational purposes only.
Time and Place; Purposes
The annual meeting will be held at 10:00 a.m. local time, on Tuesday, June 19, 2012, at The Inverness Hotel and Conference Center, 200 Inverness Drive West, Englewood, Colorado 80112, telephone number (303) 799-5800. At the annual meeting, holders of our Series A shares and Series B shares will be asked to consider and vote upon the following proposals:
(1) the election of three directors to serve as Class I members of our board of directors until the 2015 annual meeting of stockholders and, in each case, until their successors are elected (the election of directors proposal);
(2) the ratification of the selection of KPMG LLP to serve as our independent auditors for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2012 (the auditors ratification proposal); and
(3) any other business that may properly come before the annual meeting.
At the present time, we know of no other business that will be presented at the annual meeting.
The annual meeting may be adjourned to another date, time or place for proper purposes, including for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies.
Pursuant to the rules and regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), instead of mailing a printed copy of our proxy materials, including the form of proxy card, and our annual report, to each stockholder of record, we are furnishing our proxy materials and annual report to our stockholders on the internet. It is anticipated that the Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials (the Notice) will be first mailed to our stockholders on or about May 3, 2012. If you received the Notice by mail, you will not receive a printed copy of the proxy materials or annual report, unless specifically requested. The Notice will instruct you as to how you may access and review the information in the proxy materials and how you may submit your proxy over the internet or by telephone. If you received the Notice by mail and would like to receive a printed copy of our proxy materials and annual report, please follow the instructions for requesting such materials included in the Notice. The proxy materials, including the form of proxy, relating to the 2012 Annual Meeting of Stockholders will be first made available to stockholders on or about May 3, 2012.
Voting Rights; Record Date
Our board has fixed 5:00 p.m. Eastern time, on April 23, 2012, as the record date for the determination of holders of our Series A shares, Series B shares and Series C shares entitled to receive notice of our annual meeting or any adjournment thereof. Only holders of record of our Series A shares or our Series B shares as of the record date are entitled to vote at our annual meeting. As of the record date, we had outstanding and entitled to vote at the meeting 144,999,366 Series A shares and 10,229,544 Series B shares. Our Series A shares and Series B shares are our only voting stock and vote together as a single class on all matters. Each Series A share has one vote and each Series B share has ten votes on each matter on which holders of shares of such series are entitled to vote at the meeting. We also had outstanding as of the record date 115,103,465 Series C shares, which are non-voting, except where otherwise required by the Delaware General Corporation Law or our Restated Certificate of Incorporation.
As of the record date for the annual meeting, we had 2,014 record holders of Series A shares and 124 record holders of Series B shares. Such amounts do not include the number of stockholders whose shares are held of record by banks, brokers or other nominees, but include each such institution as one holder.
If your Series A shares or Series B shares are held in your name, you have the right to vote in person at the meeting. If your Series A shares or Series B shares are held in an account with a broker, banker or other nominee, you are considered the beneficial owner of such shares held in street name. As a beneficial owner, you may also attend the meeting. You may not, however, vote such

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shares held in street name unless you obtain a “proxy” from your broker, bank or other nominee that holds the shares, which gives you the right to vote the shares at the meeting.
The presence, in person or by proxy, of the holders of a majority of the combined voting power of our outstanding Series A shares and Series B shares entitled to vote is necessary to constitute a quorum at the annual meeting. The directors are elected by a plurality of the affirmative votes of our Series A shares and Series B shares that are entitled to vote and are voted, in person or by proxy, at the annual meeting. By way of illustration, if there are three vacancies then the three director nominees receiving the most votes will fill the vacancies. The affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the aggregate voting power of our Series A shares and Series B shares that are entitled to vote and are present, in person or by proxy, at the annual meeting, is required to approve the auditors ratification proposal.
With respect to the election of directors proposal, our stockholders may vote in favor of the nominees, may withhold their vote for the nominees, or may withhold their vote as to specific nominees. With respect to the auditors ratification proposal, our stockholders may vote in favor of or against such proposal or may abstain from voting with respect to such matter.
Proxies
Voting of Proxies
All Series A shares and Series B shares properly voted via the internet or by telephone at or prior to 11:59 p.m. Eastern time, on June 18, 2012, and all shares represented by properly executed proxies received prior to or at the annual meeting and, in each case, not revoked, will be voted in accordance with the instructions so provided. If no specific instructions are given with respect to the proposals to be acted upon at the annual meeting, Series A shares and Series B shares represented by a properly executed proxy will be voted as follows: “FOR” each of the nominees named in the election of directors proposal; and “FOR” the auditors ratification proposal. The foregoing proposals are the only items scheduled to be acted upon at the annual meeting. As to any other matter, which may properly come before the annual meeting, the persons named in the proxy card will vote thereon in accordance with their best judgment. In the event there is a proposal to adjourn or postpone the annual meeting, the persons named in the proxy card will have discretion to vote on such proposal, unless the proposal is to adjourn or postpone the annual meeting for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies.
A properly submitted proxy marked “ABSTAIN”, although counted for purposes of determining whether there is a quorum and for purposes of determining the aggregate voting power and number of shares represented and entitled to vote at the meeting, will not be voted. With respect to the auditors ratification proposal, an abstention will have the same effect as a vote cast against such proposal.
Shares represented by “broker non-votes” will also be counted for purposes of determining whether there is a quorum at the meeting but will be deemed shares not entitled to vote and will not be included for purposes of determining the aggregate voting power and number of shares represented and entitled to vote on a particular matter. A broker non-vote occurs when shares held by a broker, bank or other nominee are represented at the meeting, but the nominee has not received voting instructions from the beneficial owner and does not have the discretion to direct the voting of the shares on a particular proposal. Nominees may exercise discretion in voting on routine matters, but may not exercise discretion and therefore will not vote on non-routine matters. The election of directors proposal is considered non-routine and your broker, bank or other nominee may not vote on this matter without instructions from you.
If you hold your shares in the name of a broker, bank or other nominee, you should follow their instructions for your shares to be voted or when granting or revoking a proxy.
Voting by Participants in our 401(k) Plans
If you hold shares through your account in our 401(k) Savings and Stock Ownership Plan (401(k) Plan), the trustee is required to vote your shares as you specify or, if you do not specify how to vote your shares, the trustee is required to vote your shares in the same proportion on each proposal as it votes all shares in our 401(k) Plan as to which voting instructions were properly provided. To allow sufficient time for the trustee to vote your shares, your voting instructions must be received by 5:00 p.m., Eastern time, on June 13, 2012. If you hold shares through your account in the Liberty Global 401(k) Savings Plan—Puerto Rico, which plan is for employees of our indirect subsidiary Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico LLC, your shares will be voted as you specify. To vote such shares, please follow the instructions provided by the trustee for such plan. The voting instructions for the Puerto Rico plan must be received by the trustee for such plan by 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on June 12, 2012.
Revoking a Proxy
You may revoke your paper proxy at any time prior to its use by delivering a signed notice of revocation or a later dated signed proxy or by attending the meeting and voting in person. Attendance at the annual meeting will not in itself constitute the revocation of a proxy. Any written notice of revocation or subsequent proxy should be sent or hand delivered so as to be received at Liberty Global,

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Inc., Attention: Secretary, 12300 Liberty Boulevard, Englewood, Colorado 80112, at or before the start of the annual meeting. Any revocation of votes submitted via the internet or by telephone must be submitted by the same method as the corresponding votes, not later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern time, on June 18, 2012. If your shares are held in the name of a bank, broker or other nominee, you should contact them to change your vote.
Solicitation of Proxies
We will pay the cost, if any, for solicitation of proxies. Our officers and employees may solicit proxies by mail, email, telephone or by personal interviews. These persons will receive no additional compensation for such services. Brokerage houses, nominees, fiduciaries and other custodians will be requested to forward soliciting material to the beneficial owners of shares held of record by them and will be reimbursed for their reasonable expenses in connection therewith.
Recommendation of the Board of Directors
Our board of directors has approved the election of directors proposal and the auditors ratification proposal and recommends that you vote “FOR” each of the election of directors proposal and the auditors ratification proposal.
Annual Report
A copy of our annual report for the year ended December 31, 2011, including our consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011, is available to all holders of our Series A shares and Series B shares entitled to vote at the meeting and to all holders of our Series C shares as of the record date for informational purposes. The report does not form any part of the material for solicitation of proxies. The annual report is posted at the following website addresses: www.lgi.com and www.proxyvote.com. As stated above, if you received the Notice, you will not receive a printed copy of the annual report (unless you request one).
 Householding
Some banks, brokers and other nominee record holders may be participating in the practice of “householding” the Notice or the proxy statements and annual reports, as the case may be. This means that only one copy each of the Notice, or the proxy statement and annual report, as the case may be, may have been sent to multiple stockholders in your household. We will promptly deliver a separate copy of these documents to you if you call or write us at 12300 Liberty Boulevard, Englewood, Colorado 80112, Attention: Investor Relations Department, phone (303) 220-6600. If you prefer to receive separate copies of such documents in the future, or if you are receiving multiple copies and would like to receive only one copy for your household, you should contact your bank, broker or other nominee holder, or you may contact us at the above address or phone number.
Electronic Delivery
Stockholders can access the notice of annual meeting, proxy statement and annual report via our website at www.lgi.com or as directed in the Notice for voting via the website at www.proxyvote.com. For future stockholder meetings, registered stockholders may receive future notices, annual reports and proxy materials electronically. To sign up for electronic delivery, go to www.computershare.com/us/ecomms. You may also sign up when you vote by internet at www.proxyvote.com and follow the prompts. Once you sign up, you will no longer receive a printed copy of the notices, annual reports and proxy materials, unless you request them. You may suspend electronic delivery of the notices, annual reports and proxy materials at any time by contacting our transfer agent, Computershare, phone: (888) 218-4391 (outside the United States +1 (781) 575-3919). Stockholders who hold shares through a bank, brokerage firm or other nominee may request electronic access by contacting their nominee.

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SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners
The following table sets forth information, to the extent known by us or ascertainable from public filings, concerning shares of our common stock beneficially owned by each person or entity (excluding any of our directors and executive officers) known by us to own more than 5% of the outstanding shares of our Series A common stock or our Series B common stock.
Except as otherwise indicated in the notes to the table, the security ownership information is given as of March 31, 2012, and, in the case of percentage ownership information, is based upon (1) 145,054,013 Series A shares, (2) 10,229,544 Series B shares, and (3) 115,956,829 Series C shares, in each case, outstanding on March 31, 2012. Although beneficial ownership of our Series C common stock is set forth below, our Series C common stock is non-voting and, therefore, in the case of percentage voting information, is not included. Also, for purposes of the following presentation, beneficial ownership of our Series B shares, although convertible on a one-for-one basis into our Series A shares, is reported as beneficial ownership of our Series B shares only, and not as beneficial ownership of our Series A shares. The percentage of voting power is presented on an aggregate basis for each person or entity named below.
Name and Address of Beneficial Owner  
 
Title of Series
 
Amount and Nature of Beneficial
Ownership  
 
Percent of
Series  
 
Voting Power  
Robert R. Bennett
 
Series A
 
454,334

(1)
 
*

 
3.8
%
c/o Liberty Media Corporation
 
Series B
 
889,251

(1)
 
8.7
%
 
 
12300 Liberty Boulevard
 
Series C
 
53,192

(2)
 
*

 
 
Englewood, CO 80112
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BlackRock, Inc.
 
Series A
 
10,981,225

(3)
 
7.6
%
 
4.4
%
40 East 52nd Street
 
Series B
 


 

 
 
New York, NY 10022
 
Series C
 
20,301

(4)
 
*

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
William H. Gates III
 
Series A
 
9,500,529

(5)
 
6.5
%
 
3.8
%
One Microsoft Way
 
Series B
 

 
 
%
 
 
Redmond, WA 98052
 
Series C
 
706,507

(6)
 
*

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Comcast Corporation
 
Series A
 
7,681,369

(7)
 
5.3
%
 
3.1
%
One Comcast Center
 
Series B
 


 

 
 
Philadelphia, PA 19103
 
Series C
 


 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SPO Advisory Corp
 
Series A
 
7,582,918

(8)
 
5.2
%
 
3.1
%
591 Redwood Highway, Suite 3215
 
Series B
 


 

 
 
Mill Valley, CA 94941
 
Series C
 
26,194,238

(9)
 
22.6
%
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Tiger Global Management, LLC
 
Series A
 
9,505,921

(10)
 
6.6
%
 
3.8
%
101 Park Avenue, 48th Floor
 
Series B
 


 

 
 
New York, NY 10178
 
Series C
 
4,133,339

(11)
 
3.6
%
 
 
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* Less than one percent.
(1)
The number of Series A shares and the number of Series B shares are based upon the Schedule 13D dated February 4, 2010, filed by Mr. Bennett and includes 53,192 Series A shares and 887,227 Series B shares that could be acquired pursuant to stock options held by Mr. Bennett. Subsequent to such filing, Mr. Bennett exercised the stock options for Series B shares and received the Series B shares. Of the shares reported, the Schedule 13D shows Mr. Bennett and his spouse jointly owning, directly or indirectly, 400,934 Series A shares and 2,024 Series B shares.
(2)
The number of Series C shares includes 53,192 shares that may be acquired within 60 days pursuant to stock options held by Mr. Bennett.
(3)
The number of Series A shares is based upon the Schedule 13G (Amendment No. 3) for the year ended December 31, 2011, filed by BlackRock, Inc. and various subsidiaries, which together beneficially own the shares. The Schedule 13G reflects that BlackRock, Inc. has sole voting and dispositive powers over the Series A shares.
(4)
The number of Series C shares is based upon Form 13Fs for the quarter ended December 31, 2011, filed by various subsidiaries of BlackRock, Inc.

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(5)
The number of Series A shares is based upon the Schedule 13G dated June 16, 2011, filed by Mr. Gates, his spouse, Cascade Investment, L.L.C. (Cascade) of which Mr. Gates is the sole member, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust (the Trust) of which Mr. Gates and his spouse are co-trustees. Based on such ownership structure, Mr. Gates beneficially owns the 7,381,014 Class A shares of which Cascade is the owner and the 2,119,515 Class A shares of which the Trust is the owner. The Schedule 13G reflects that Mr. Gates has sole voting power and sole dispositive power over the Series A shares owned by Cascade and shared voting power and shared dispositive power over the remaining shares.
(6)
The number of Series C shares is based upon a Form 13F for the quarter ended December 31, 2011, filed by the Trust.
(7)
The number of Series A shares is based upon the Schedule 13G for the year ended December 31, 2008, filed by Comcast Corporation and the following direct and indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries of Comcast Corporation: Comcast Holdings Corporation, Comcast Programming Holdings Inc. and Comcast QVC, Inc. Based on the ownership structure, such companies and Comcast Corporation beneficially own such shares, of which Comcast QVC, Inc. is the record owner. The Schedule 13G reflects that Comcast QVC, Inc. has shared voting power and shared dispositive power over the Series A shares with the foregoing entities.
(8)
The number of Series A shares is based upon the Schedule 13G (Amendment No. 5) for the year ended December 31, 2011, filed by SPO Advisory Corp. and various affiliates, including its three principal shareholders: John H. Scully, William E. Oberndorf and Edward H. McDermott. The Schedule 13G reflects that the three principal shareholders have sole voting and sole dispositive powers as follows: Mr. Scully – 331,532 Series A shares; Mr. Oberndorf – 182,842 Series A shares; and Mr. McDermott – 838 Series A shares. SPO Advisory Corp. and the three principal shareholders have shared voting and shared dispositive powers over the remaining Series A shares.
(9)
The number of Series C shares is based upon a Form 4 dated May 4, 2011, filed by such beneficial owner.
(10)
The number of Series A shares is based upon the Schedule 13G (Amendment No. 2) for the year ended December 31, 2011, filed by Tiger Global Management, LLC, as investment manager of Tiger Global, L.P., Tiger Global II, LP and Tiger Global Master Fund, L.P., Tiger Global Performance, LLC, the general partners of such limited partnerships, and Charles P. Coleman III, the managing member of Tiger Global Management, LLC and Tiger Global Performance, LLC. Based on the ownership structure, such entities and Mr. Coleman beneficially own such shares of which the record owners are Tiger Global, L.P. (5,492,849 shares of Series A), Tiger Global II, L.P. (142,517 shares of Series A) and Tiger Global Master Fund, L.P. (3,870,555 shares of Series A). The Schedule 13G reflects that such owners have shared voting power and shared dispositive power.
(11)
The number of Series C shares is based upon a Form 13F for the quarter ended December 31, 2011, filed by such beneficial owner.
  Security Ownership of Management
The following table sets forth information with respect to the beneficial ownership by each of our directors and each of our named executive officers as described below and by all of our directors and executive officers as a group of (1) our Series A shares, (2) our Series B shares and (3) our Series C shares.
The security ownership information is given as of March 31, 2012, and, in the case of percentage ownership information, is based upon (1) 145,054,013 Series A shares, (2) 10,229,544 Series B shares and (3) 115,956,829 Series C shares, in each case, outstanding on that date. Although beneficial ownership of our Series C common stock is set forth below, our Series C common stock is non-voting and, therefore, in the case of percentage voting information, is not included. The percentage of voting power is presented on an aggregate basis for each person or group listed below.
Shares of common stock issuable on or within 60 days after March 31, 2012, upon exercise of options or stock appreciation rights (SARs), vesting of restricted share units, conversion of convertible securities or exchange of exchangeable securities, are deemed to be outstanding and to be beneficially owned by the person holding the options, SARs, restricted share units or convertible or exchangeable securities for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of that person, but are not treated as outstanding for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of any other person. Shares of restricted stock that have been issued pursuant to our incentive plans are included in the outstanding share numbers provided throughout this proxy statement. For purposes of the following presentation, beneficial ownership of our Series B shares, although convertible on a one-for-one basis into our Series A shares, is reported as beneficial ownership of our Series B shares only, and not as beneficial ownership of our Series A shares.
So far as is known to us, the persons indicated below have sole voting power with respect to the shares indicated as owned by them, except as otherwise stated in the notes to the table. With respect to certain of our executive officers and directors, the number of shares indicated as owned by them include shares held by our 401(k) Plan as of March 31, 2012, for their respective accounts.


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Name 
 
Title of Series  
 
Amount and Nature of
  Beneficial Ownership    
 
Percent
of Series  
 
Voting
Power  
John C. Malone
 
Series A
 
1,106,969

(1)(2)(3)(4)
 
*

 
36.0
%
Chairman of the Board
 
Series B
 
8,787,373

(1)(2)
 
85.9
%
 


 
Series C
 
3,066,365

(1)(2)(3)(4)
 
2.6
%
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
John P. Cole, Jr.
 
Series A
 
85,222

(4)
 
*

 
*

Director
 
Series B
 


 

 


 
Series C
 
84,956

(4)
 
*

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Miranda Curtis
 
Series A
 
133,168

(4)
 
*

 
*

Director
 
Series B
 


 

 


 
Series C
 
129,553

(4)
 
*

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
John W. Dick
 
Series A
 
82,206

(4)
 
*

 
*

Director
 
Series B
 


 

 


 
Series C
 
79,771

(4)
 
*

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Michael T. Fries
 
Series A
 
1,058,963

(4)(5)
 
*

 
*

Director, Chief Executive Officer &
 
Series B
 


 

 

President
 
Series C
 
1,154,338

(3)(4)(5)
 
1.0
%
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Paul A. Gould
 
Series A
 
244,912

(4)
 
*

 
*

Director
 
Series B
 
51,429


 
*

 


 
Series C
 
378,731

(4)
 
*

 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Richard R. Green
 
Series A
 
20,055

(4)
 
*

 
*

Director
 
Series B
 


 

 


 
Series C
 
18,946

(4)
 
*

 



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
David E. Rapley
 
Series A
 
11,575

(6)
 
*

 
*

Director
 
Series B
 


 

 


 
Series C
 
8,518


 
*

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Larry E. Romrell
 
Series A
 
37,898

(4)
 
*

 
*

Director
 
Series B
 


 

 


 
Series C
 
37,468

(4)
 
*

 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
J.C. Sparkman
 
Series A
 
41,358

(4)
 
*

 
*

Director
 
Series B
 


 

 


 
Series C
 
41,378

(4)
 
*

 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
J. David Wargo
 
Series A
 
51,950

(3)(4)(7)
 
*

 
*

Director
 
Series B
 


 

 


 
Series C
 
52,065

(3)(4)(7)
 
*

 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Charles H.R. Bracken
 
Series A
 
107,997

(4)
 
*

 
*

Executive Vice President & Co-Chief
 
Series B
 


 

 

Financial Officer
 
Series C
 
95,434

(4)
 
*

 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Bernard G. Dvorak
 
Series A
 
183,894

(3)(4)(5)(8)
 
*

 
*

Executive Vice President, & Co-Chief
 
Series B
 


 

 

Financial Officer
 
Series C
 
186,172

(3)(4)(5)(8)
 
*

 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Diederik Karsten
 
Series A
 
24,973

(4)(9)
 
*

 
*

Executive Vice President, European
 
Series B
 


 

 

Broadband Operations
 
Series C
 
24,973

(4)(9)
 
*

 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Balan Nair
 
Series A
 
118,701

(3)(4)
 
*

 
*

Executive Vice President & Chief
 
Series B
 


 

 


Technology Officer
 
Series C
 
142,194

(3)(4)(5)
 
*

 



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
All directors and executive officers as a
 
Series A
 
3,312,841

(6)(7)(10)(11)
 
2.3
%
 
36.9
%
group (16 persons)
 
Series B

 
8,838,802

(10)
 
86.4
%
 


 
Series C
 
5,500,945

(7)(10)(11)
 
4.7
%
 


___________________ 
*
Less than one percent.
(1)
Includes 90,303 Series A shares, 204,566 Series B shares and 294,869 Series C shares held by Mr. Malone's spouse, as to which shares Mr. Malone has disclaimed beneficial ownership.

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(2)
Includes 48,000 Series A shares, 110,148 Series B shares and 158,148 Series C shares held by two trusts managed by an independent trustee, of which the beneficiaries are Mr. Malone's adult children. Mr. Malone has no pecuniary interest in the trusts, but he retains the right to substitute the assets held by the trusts.
(3)
Includes shares pledged to the indicated entities in support of one or more lines of credit or margin accounts extended by such entities:

 
No. of Shares Pledged  
 

Owner 
 
Series A  
 
Series C  
 
Entity Holding the Shares 
John C. Malone
 
905,435

 

 
Bank of America NA
John C. Malone
 
111,853

 
2,093,744

 
Merrill Lynch
John C. Malone
 
25,172

 
797,114

 
Fidelity Brokerage Services, LLC
Michael T. Fries
 

 
100,000

 
Wells Fargo Bank
J. David Wargo
 
748

 
747

 
UBS Financial Services, Inc.
Bernard G. Dvorak
 
60,186

 
57,855

 
UBS Financial Services, Inc.
Balan Nair
 
68,140

 
79,776

 
UBS Financial Services, Inc.
(4)
Includes shares that are subject to options or SARs, which were exercisable as of, or will be exercisable within 60 days of, March 31, 2012, as follows:
Owner 
 
Series A  
 
Series C  
John C. Malone
 
16,489

 
17,339

John P. Cole, Jr.
 
42,136

 
42,136

Miranda Curtis
 
7,587

 
7,586

John W. Dick
 
69,155

 
69,154

Michael T. Fries
 
511,935

 
511,935

Paul A. Gould
 
61,524

 
61,524

Richard R. Green
 
17,605

 
17,604

Larry E. Romrell
 
33,166

 
33,166

J.C. Sparkman
 
23,802

 
23,802

J. David Wargo
 
50,328

 
50,328

Charles H.R. Bracken
 
86,878

 
86,878

Bernard G. Dvorak
 
39,768

 
39,768

Diederik Karsten
 
20,935

 
20,935

Balan Nair
 
60,276

 
60,276

(5)
Includes shares held in our 401(k) Plan as follows:
Owner 
 
Series A  
 
Series C
Michael T. Fries
 
1,977

 
5,543

Bernard G. Dvorak
 
510

 
4,524

Balan Nair
 

 
2,396


(6)
Includes 10,300 Series A shares subject to a zero-cost collar that was settled on April 21, 2012, in accordance with its terms.
(7)
Includes 679 Series A shares and 629 Series C shares held in various accounts managed by Mr. Wargo, as to which shares Mr. Wargo has disclaimed beneficial ownership. Also includes 16 Series C shares held by Mr. Wargo's spouse, as to which Mr. Wargo has disclaimed beneficial ownership.
(8)
Includes the following securities held by Mr. Dvorak's spouse, as to which Mr. Dvorak has disclaimed beneficial ownership: (a) 30,780 Series A shares and 28,259 Series C shares; (b) 11,364 Series A shares and 11,364 Series C shares that are subject to options or SARs, which were exercisable as of, or will be exercisable within 60 days of, March 31, 2012; and (c) 1,551 Series A shares and 5,623 Series C shares held in our 401(k) Plan.
 

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(9)
Includes 982 Series A shares and 982 Series C shares that are subject to restricted share units, which will vest within 60 days of March 31, 2012.
(10)
Includes 169,083 Series A shares, 314,714 Series B shares and 481,276 Series C shares held by relatives of certain directors and executive officers or held pursuant to certain trust arrangements, as to which shares beneficial ownership has been disclaimed.
(11)
Includes 1,053,930 Series A shares and 1,054,777 Series C shares that are subject to options, SARs or restricted share units, which were exercisable as of, or will be exercisable or vest within 60 days of, March 31, 2012; 4,038 Series A shares and 18,169 Series C shares held by the 401(k) Plan; and 1,171,534 Series A shares and 3,129,236 Series C shares pledged in support of various lines of credit or margin accounts.
Certain accounts managed by Mr. Wargo hold 170,000 shares of Austar United Communications Ltd. (Austar), an Australian public company and one of our subsidiaries, representing less than 1% of Austar's outstanding shares. Mr. Wargo disclaims beneficial ownership of these shares. Also, Mr. Dick holds 60,000 ordinary shares of Austar, of which 30,000 are restricted shares, representing less than 1% of Austar's outstanding shares.
Change in Control
We know of no arrangements, including any pledge by any person of our securities, the operation of which may at a subsequent date result in a change in control of our company.
Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance
Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act), requires our executive officers and directors, and persons who own more than 10% of a registered class of our equity securities, to file reports of ownership and changes in ownership with the SEC. Officers, directors and greater than 10% stockholders are required by SEC regulation to furnish us with copies of all Section 16 forms they file.
Based solely on a review of the copies of the Forms 3, 4 and 5 and amendments to those forms furnished to us with respect to our most recent fiscal year, or representations that no Forms 5 were required, we believe that, during the year ended December 31, 2011, all Section 16(a) filing requirements applicable to our executive officers, directors and greater than 10% beneficial owners were complied with, except the following were not timely filed: a Form 4 reporting the sale of a zero cost collar by Mr. Rapley and a Form 5 reporting a gift by Mr. Malone.

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PROPOSAL 1 ELECTION OF DIRECTORS
Board of Directors
Our board of directors currently consists of 11 directors, divided among three classes. Directors in each class serve staggered three-year terms. Our Class I directors are John P. Cole, Jr., Richard R. Green and David E. Rapley. These directors are nominated for re-election to our board to continue to serve as Class I directors and we have been informed that each of them is willing to serve as a director of our company. The term of the Class I directors who are elected at the annual meeting will expire at the annual meeting of our stockholders in the year 2015. Our Class II directors, whose term will expire at the annual meeting of our stockholders in the year 2013, are Miranda Curtis, John W. Dick, J.C. Sparkman and J. David Wargo. Our Class III directors, whose term will expire at the annual meeting of our stockholders in the year 2014, are Michael T. Fries, Paul A. Gould, John C. Malone and Larry E. Romrell.
If any nominee should decline re-election or should become unable to serve as a director of our company for any reason before re-election, a substitute nominee will be designated by our board of directors.
We provide below biographical information with respect to the three nominees for election as directors and the eight directors of our company whose term of office will continue after the annual meeting, including the age of each person, the positions with our company or principal occupation of each person, individual skills and experiences, certain other directorships held and the year each person became a director of our company. The number of shares of our common stock beneficially owned by each director, as of March 31, 2012, is set forth in this proxy statement under the caption “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management—Security Ownership of Management”. As indicated in the biographies, our board believes the skills and experiences of each of our nominees, as well as our other directors, qualify them to serve as one of our directors.
 Vote and Recommendation
A plurality of the affirmative votes of our Series A shares and Series B shares that are entitled to vote and are voted, in person or by proxy, at the annual meeting, voting together as a single class, is required to elect Messrs. Cole, Green and Rapley as Class I members of our board of directors.
Our board of directors recommends a vote “FOR” the election of each nominee to our board of directors.
Nominees for Election of Directors
John P. Cole, Jr., 82, has served as a director of LGI since June 2005 and is a member of the compensation and nominating and corporate governance committees of our board. He was a director of UnitedGlobalCom, Inc., and its predecessors (UGC), from March 1998 until UGC's business combination with our predecessor, LGI International, Inc. (LGI International). From February 1999 to September 2003, he was also a member of the supervisory board of UGC's publicly held subsidiary, United Pan-Europe Communications NV (UPC). His prior public company board experience also included serving as a director of Century Communications Corp., at the time a large United States (U.S.) multiple cable system operator, from October 1997 to October 1999 when it was acquired by another corporation.
Mr. Cole has over 40 years of experience in U.S. legal/regulatory and government affairs. In 1966, he co-founded the Washington, D.C. law firm of Cole, Raywid and Braverman LLP, which specialized in all aspects of communications and media law. As a senior partner in the firm, Mr. Cole focused his legal expertise in the area of cable television regulation. Mr. Cole retired as a partner in 2007 following his firm's merger with the law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. Mr. Cole is a graduate of Auburn University (B.S. Industrial Management) and George Washington University School of Law.
Mr. Cole's significant executive and legal experience as a founder and long-time senior partner of a law firm, his more than 10 years of service as a director or supervisory board member of U.S. and international cable television companies and his particular knowledge and experience in cable television regulation contribute to our board's consideration of legal and regulatory developments and risks in the countries in which we operate and strengthen our board's collective qualifications, skills and attributes.
Richard R. Green, 74, has served as a director of LGI since December 2008 and is a member of the nominating and corporate governance committee of our board. For over 20 years, Mr. Green served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (Cable Labs®), a non-profit cable television industry research and development consortium, before retiring in December 2009. While at Cable Labs®, Mr. Green oversaw the development of DOCSIS technology, the establishment of common specifications for digital voice and the deployment of interactive television, among other technologies for the cable industry. Prior to joining Cable Labs®, he was a Senior Vice President at PBS (1984 – 1988), where he was instrumental in establishing PBS as a leader in high definition television and digital audio transmission technology, and served as a Director of CBS's Advanced Television Technology Laboratory (1980 – 1983), where he managed and produced the first high definition television programs in December 1981, among other accomplishments. Mr. Green is the author of over 55 technical papers on a variety of topics.

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Mr. Green is a director of Shaw Communications, Inc. (Shaw), a telecommunications company based in Canada, where he is also a member of the human resources and compensation committee, and a director of Jones/NCTI, a Jones Knowledge Company, which is a workforce performance solutions company for individuals and broadband companies. He is also a member of the board of directors of several non-profit institutions, including the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers and the Space Science Institute, and he serves as an honorary board member of The Cable Center, the non-profit educational arm of the U.S. cable industry. In addition, he is a member of the Federal Communications Commission's Technical Advisory Council, a fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, a senior fellow of Silicon Flatirons, a center for law, technology and entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado, and an adjunct professor at such University and the University of Denver. He previously was a member of the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations consultative committee charged with the responsibility for recommending worldwide standards for advanced television services and past Chairman of Study Group 9 of such committee. Mr. Green received his B.S. (Physics) from Colorado College, his M.S. (Physics) from the State University of New York and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington, where he specialized in astrophysics.
Mr. Green's extensive professional and executive background and his particular knowledge and experience in the complex and rapidly changing field of technology for broadband communications services contribute to our board's evaluation of technological initiatives and challenges and strengthen our board's collective qualifications, skills and attributes.
David E. Rapley, 70, has served as a director of LGI since June 2005 and is the chair of the nominating and corporate governance committee and a member of the succession planning committee of our board. He was a director of our predecessor, LGI International, from May 2004 to June 2005.
Mr. Rapley has over 30 years of experience as a founder, executive, manager and, currently, as a director of various engineering firms. He founded Rapley Engineering in 1985 and, as its President and Chief Executive Officer, oversaw its development into a full service engineering firm at the time of its sale to VECO Corporation in 1998. Following the sale, Mr. Rapley served as Executive Vice President, Engineering of VECO, an Alaska-based firm providing engineering, design, construction and project management services to the energy, chemical and process industries domestically and internationally, until his retirement in December 2001. Currently, Mr. Rapley is a director and Vice Chairman of Merrick & Co., a private firm providing engineering and other services to domestic and international clients. From 2008 to 2011, Mr. Rapley was also chairman of the board of Merrick Canada ULC. Mr. Rapley has authored technical papers on engineering processes and computer systems. He is a graduate of Hendon College of Technology (England), with a degree in mechanical engineering.
Mr. Rapley is also a director of Liberty Media Corporation (LMC), which owns interests in a broad range of media, communications and entertainment businesses, and of Liberty Interactive Corporation (LIC), which owns interests in a broad range of video and online commerce businesses. These companies became separate public companies as a result of LMC's spin-off in 2011 from LIC. He has been a director of LMC, LIC and their predecessors since 2002. He currently serves on LMC's compensation committee and is the chairman of its nominating and governance committee, and he currently serves on LIC's audit committee and its compensation committee and is the chairman of its nominating and governance committee.
Mr. Rapley's significant professional and business background as an engineer, entrepreneur and executive contributes to our board's consideration of technological initiatives and challenges and strengthens our board's collective qualifications, skills and attributes.
Directors Whose Term Expires in 2013
Miranda Curtis, 56, has served as a director of LGI since June 2010 and is a member of the succession planning committee of our board. Until March 31, 2010, Ms. Curtis was the President of our Liberty Global Japan division. She served as Senior Vice President of our predecessor, LGI International, and President of its Asia division from March 2004 to June 2005.
Ms. Curtis has over 30 years of experience in the international media and telecommunications industry, starting with the international distribution of programming for the BBC before moving to the United Kingdom (U.K.) cable industry. She joined the predecessor of our subsidiary, Liberty Media International Holdings, LLC (LMINT), in 1992 when it was formed as the international division of Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI). Thereafter, she assumed executive positions of increasing responsibility at this company, with a primary focus on business development and the management of complex international distribution and content joint ventures. As Executive Vice President (1996 – 1999) and then President (1999 – 2004) of LMINT, she oversaw all cable and programming investments of TCI and subsequently the company then known as Liberty Media Corporation (Old LMC) in Japan, the U.K. and Continental Europe. She was responsible for the negotiation, oversight and management of the joint venture with Sumitomo Corporation that led to the formation of Jupiter Telecommunications Co., Ltd. (J:COM), the largest multiple cable system operator in Japan, and Jupiter TV Co., Ltd., a leading provider of content services to the Japanese cable and satellite industries, as well as other content ventures in Europe and Asia. Ms. Curtis's employment with our company terminated following the sale of substantially all of our investments in Japan in February 2010.
Ms. Curtis's public company board experiences include serving as a non-executive director of Telewest Communications plc (1998 – 2002), at the time the second largest multiple cable system operator in the U.K., Flextech plc (1998 – 2000), at the time a

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leading supplier of basic tier channels to the U.K. pay television market, and J:COM (2005 – March 2010). She was also a member of the compensation committee for each of Telewest Communications plc and J:COM. Currently, she is a director of National Express Group plc, a leading international public transport group, of the U.K. public company Marks & Spencer plc, a retailer of clothing and home products, and of Waterstones Booksellers Ltd, a book retailer. She is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Institute for Government, a non-profit organization in the U.K. working to increase government effectiveness. She is a graduate of the University of Durham, England.
Ms. Curtis's significant business and executive background in the media and telecommunication industries and her particular knowledge of, and experience with, all aspects of international cable television operations and content distribution contribute to our board's consideration of operational developments and strategies and strengthen our board's collective qualifications, skills and attributes.
John W. Dick, 74, has served as a director of LGI since June 2005 and is a member of the audit and the nominating and corporate governance committees of our board. He was a director of UGC from March 2003 until UGC's business combination with our predecessor, LGI International. Prior to that, he was a member of the supervisory board of UGC's publicly held subsidiary, UPC, from May 2001 to September 2003. Mr. Dick has over 40 years of experience as a founder, director and chairman of public and private companies in a variety of industries, including real estate, automotive, telecommunications, oil exploration and international shipping, based in a number of countries and regions, including the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Russia, China and Africa.
Currently, Mr. Dick serves as a director and non-executive chairman of the board of O3B Networks Ltd., a private company, which is building a new fiber-quality, satellite-based, global internet backbone connecting telecommunications operators and internet service providers in emerging markets with the networks of developed countries. He also serves as a director and member of the audit committee of Austar (since April 2002 and March 2006, respectively). Previously, Mr. Dick was a director and non-executive chairman of the board of Terracom Broadband, a private company that developed and operated a fiber-based internet network and a digital cellular network in Rwanda, and following its purchase by Terracom Broadband, of Rwandatel, the incumbent telephone company in Rwanda, until the sale of these companies in 2007. From 1984 to December 2007, he was also a director and non-executive chairman of the board of Hooper Industries Group, a privately held U.K. group consisting of: Hooper and Co (Coachbuilders) Ltd. (building special bodied Rolls Royce and Bentley motorcars), Hooper Industries (China) (providing industrial products and components to Europe and the United States) and, until 2002, MetroCab UK (manufacturing London taxicabs) and Moscab (a joint venture with the Moscow city government to produce Metrocabs for Russia). Mr. Dick is a graduate of Wheaton College, Illinois (B.A. Political Science and Economics) and University of Toronto School of Law.
Mr. Dick's extensive business background in a variety of industries and countries and his particular knowledge as an experienced board member of various entities that have evaluated and developed business opportunities in international markets contributes to our board's consideration of strategic options and strengthen our board's collective qualifications, skills and attributes.
J.C. Sparkman, 79, has served as a director of LGI since June 2005 and is the chair of the compensation committee and a member of the nominating and corporate governance and the succession planning committees of our board. He was a director of our predecessor, LGI International, from November 2004 to June 2005. Mr. Sparkman has over 30 years of experience in the cable television industry. He was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of TCI for eight years until his retirement in 1995. During his over 26 years with TCI, he held various management positions of increasing responsibility, overseeing TCI's cable operations as that company grew through acquisitions, construction of new networks and expansion of existing networks into the largest multiple cable system operator in the United States at the time of his retirement. In September 1999, he co-founded Broadband Services, Inc., a provider of asset management, logistics, installation and repair services for telecommunications service providers and equipment manufacturers domestically and internationally. He served as chairman of the board and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Broadband Services until December 2003.
Mr. Sparkman is an experienced public company board member. Since 1994, he has been a director of Shaw, and he is a member of the executive and human resources and compensation committees of Shaw's board. He is also a director and member of the compensation committee of Universal Electronics, Inc., a global leader in wireless control technology.
Mr. Sparkman's significant background as an executive and board member and his particular knowledge of, and experience with, all aspects of cable television operations contribute to our board's consideration of operational developments and strategies, provide insight into other public company board practices and strengthen our board's collective qualifications, skills and attributes.
J. David Wargo, 58, has served as a director of LGI since June 2005 and is a member of the audit and nominating and corporate governance committees of our board. He was a director of our predecessor, LGI International, from May 2004 to June 2005. Mr. Wargo has over 30 years of experience in investment research, analysis and management. He is the founder and President of Wargo & Company, Inc., a private company specializing in investing in the communications industry since 1993. Mr. Wargo is a co-founder and was a member of New Mountain Capital, LLC from 2000 to 2008. Prior to starting Wargo & Company, he was a managing director and senior analyst of The Putnam Companies (1989 – 1992), senior vice president and a partner in Marble Arch Partners

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(1985 – 1989) and senior analyst and a partner in State Street Research and Management Company (1978 – 1985). Mr. Wargo received his B.S. (Physics) and M.S. (Nuclear Engineering) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management.
Mr. Wargo is also an experienced board member, having served on the boards of several public companies, including Discovery Holding Company (2005 – 2008), Fun Technologies Inc. (2007 – 2008), OpenTV Corp. (2002 – 2007), On Command Corporation (1998 – 2003), Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. (2000 – 2001) and TV Guide, Inc. (and predecessor) (1996 – 2000). He currently is a director of Discovery Communications, Inc., where he is also a member of the audit committee and chair of the nominating and corporate governance committee, and of Strayer Education, Inc., where he is chairman of the audit committee. His committee experience includes audit, compensation and corporate governance committees.
Mr. Wargo's extensive background in investment analysis and management and as a public company board member and his particular knowledge of, and experience with, finance and capital markets contribute to our board's consideration of our capital structure and evaluation of investment and financial opportunities and strategies, provide insight into other public company board practices and strengthen our board's collective qualifications, skills and attributes. 
Directors Whose Term Expires in 2014
Michael T. Fries, 49, has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of LGI since June 2005. He was Chief Executive Officer of UGC from January 2004 until the businesses of UGC and LGI International were combined under LGI.
Mr. Fries has nearly 25 years of experience in the media and telecommunications industry, starting with the investment banking division of PaineWebber Incorporated where he specialized in domestic and international transactions for media companies before joining the management team of UGC's predecessor in 1990 shortly after its formation. As Senior Vice President, Business Development of UGC's predecessor from 1990 to 1995, Mr. Fries was responsible for managing its global acquisitions and new business development functions, which included investing in, acquiring or launching multichannel distribution or programming businesses in over 20 countries around the world. From 1995 to 1998, he was President of the Asia/Pacific division and, among other duties, managed the formation and operational launch of Austar's business and subsequent flotation of its stock. He was promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer in 1998 and Chief Executive Officer of UGC in 2004. During this period, he oversaw UGC's growth across all business units and geographic territories into a leading international broadband communications provider. He also managed UGC's financial and strategic initiatives, including various transactions with Old LMC and LGI International from 1998 to 2005 that led up to and culminated in the formation of LGI.
In addition to serving as a director of UGC and its predecessor from 1999 to 2005, Mr. Fries was Chairman of the supervisory boards of two of its publicly held European subsidiaries, UPC (1998 – 2003) and Priority Telecom NV (2002 – 2006). He also served as executive chairman of Austar from 1999 until 2003 and is currently non-executive chairman of Austar. Mr. Fries is a director of Cable Labs®, The Cable Center and various other non-profit and privately held corporate organizations. He serves as a governor for information technology and telecommunications at the World Economic Forum. Mr. Fries received his B.A. from Wesleyan University (where he is a member of the President's Advisory Council) and his M.B.A. from Columbia University.
Mr. Fries's significant executive experience building and managing international distribution and programming businesses, in-depth knowledge of all aspects of our current global business and responsibility for setting the strategic, financial and operational direction for our company contribute an insider's perspective to our board's consideration of the strategic, operational and financial challenges and opportunities of our business, and strengthen our board's collective qualifications, skills and attributes.
Paul A. Gould, 66, has served as a director of LGI since June 2005 and is the chair of the audit committee and a member of the nominating and corporate governance and the succession planning committees of our board. He was a director of UGC from January 2004 until UGC's business combination with our predecessor, LGI International.
Mr. Gould has nearly 40 years of experience in the investment banking industry. He is a Managing Director of Allen & Company, LLC, a position that he has held for more than the last five years, and is a senior member of Allen & Company's mergers and acquisitions advisory practice. In that capacity, he has served as a financial advisor to many Fortune 500 companies, principally in the media and entertainment industries. Mr. Gould joined Allen & Company in 1972. In 1975, he established Allen Investment Management, which manages capital for endowments, pension funds and family offices.
Mr. Gould is also an experienced board member, having served on the boards of several public companies, including DIRECTV (2009 – 2010), Old LMC (and its predecessor) (2001 – 2009), Discovery Holding Company (2005 – 2009), The DirecTV Group, Inc. (2009), On Command Corporation (2002 – 2003) and Sunburst Hospitality Corporation (1996 – 2001). Currently, he is a director of Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation, Discovery Communications, Inc. and the private company O3B Networks Limited. His committee experience includes audit, executive, compensation, corporate governance and investment. In addition, Mr. Gould serves on the board of trustees of Cornell University, where he is a member of its executive committee and chair of its investment committee; serves as an overseer for Weill Cornell Medical College and serves on the boards of the Wildlife Conservation Society, where he is the chair of its investment committee, and the New School University. He is also a member of the advisory committee to the International Monetary

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Fund's investment committee. He attended Cornell University and received his B.S. (Biochemistry) from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Mr. Gould's extensive background in investment banking and as a public company board member and his particular knowledge and experience as a financial advisor for mergers and acquisitions and in accounting, finance and capital markets contribute to our board's evaluation of acquisition, divestiture and financing opportunities and strategies and consideration of our capital structure, budgets and business plans, provide insight into other public company board practices and strengthen our board's collective qualifications, skills and attributes.
John C. Malone, 71, has served as Chairman of the Board and a director of LGI since its inception and is a member of the executive and the succession planning committees of our board. He was President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of our predecessor, LGI International (formerly Liberty Media International, Inc.), from March 2004 to June 2005. Mr. Malone has served as a director of UGC and its predecessors since November 1999.
Mr. Malone is an experienced business executive, having served as the Chief Executive Officer of TCI for over 25 years until its acquisition by AT&T Corporation in 1999. During that period, he successfully led TCI as it grew through acquisitions and construction into the largest multiple cable system operator in the United States, invested in and nurtured the development of unique cable television programming, including the Discovery Channel, QVC and Starz/Encore, expanded through joint ventures into international cable operations in the U.K. (Telewest Communications plc), Japan (J:COM) and other countries, and invested in new technologies, including high speed internet, alternative telephony providers, wireless personal communications services and direct-to-home satellite.
Currently Mr. Malone is chairman of the board and a director of LMC and LIC. He has held these positions with LMC, LIC and their predecessor companies since 1990 and was also Chief Executive Officer of Old LMC from August 2005 to February 2006. His other public directorships currently include Ascent Capital Group, Inc., Discovery Communications, Inc., Expedia, Inc. and Sirius XM Radio, Inc. During the last five years, Mr. Malone was also a director of Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., where he was also interim chairman of the board (2010 – 2011), DIRECTV, where he was also chairman of the board (2009 – 2010), IAC/InterActiveCorp. (2006 – 2010), Discovery Holding Company (2005 – 2008), The DirecTV Group, Inc. (2008 – 2009) and The Bank of New York Company, Inc. (2005 – 2007).
Mr. Malone also serves on the boards of several non-profit companies, including CATO Institute. He is chairman emeritus of Cable Labs®, and honorary board member of The Cable Center, and served as director of the National Cable Television Association from 1974 to 1977 and 1980 to 1993. Mr. Malone holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and economics from Yale University and a master's degree in industrial management and a Ph.D. in operations research from Johns Hopkins University.
Mr. Malone's proven business acumen as a long time chief executive of large, complex organizations and his extensive knowledge and experience in the cable television, telecommunications, media and programming industries are a valuable resource to our board in evaluating the challenges and opportunities of our global business and our strategic planning and strengthen our board's collective qualifications, skills and attributes.
Larry E. Romrell, 72, has served as a director of LGI since June 2005 and is a member of the compensation and nominating and corporate governance committees of our board. He was a director of our predecessor, LGI International, from May 2004 to June 2005. Mr. Romrell has over 30 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. He was an Executive Vice President of TCI from January 1994 to March 1999, when it was acquired by AT&T Corporation, and a Senior Vice President of TCI from 1991 to 1994. Prior to becoming an executive officer at TCI, Mr. Romrell was President and Chief Executive Officer of WestMarc Communications, Inc., a subsidiary of TCI engaged in the cable television and common carrier microwave communications businesses, and held various executive positions with that company (formerly known as Western Tele-Communications, Inc.) for almost 20 years, including when it was a separate public company. As an executive at TCI, Mr. Romrell oversaw TCI's investments in and development of companies engaged in other telecommunications businesses, including At Home Corporation (@Home), a provider of high speed multimedia internet services, and Teleport Communications Group Inc. (TCG), a competitive local exchange carrier.
Mr. Romrell is an experienced public company board member, having served on the boards of Ascent Capital Group, Inc.'s predecessor (2000 – 2003), TV Guide, Inc. (and predecessor) (1996 – 2000), Arris Group, Inc. (2000 – 2003), General Communication Inc. (1980 – 2001), as well as @Home and TCG. He currently is a director of LMC and LIC, positions he has held with LMC, LIC and their predecessors since 2001, and serves on the audit and nominating and governance committees of each of LMC's and LIC's boards. Formerly, he was a member of the compensation committee of Old LMC's board. Mr. Romrell is a member of the board of Volunteers of America, Colorado and involved in numerous philanthropic activities.
Mr. Romrell's extensive business background and his particular knowledge and experience in telecommunications technology and board practices of other public companies contribute to our board's consideration of operational and technological developments and strategies, provide insight into other public company board practices and strengthen our board's collective qualifications, skills and attributes.

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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Governance Guidelines
Our board has adopted corporate governance guidelines, which are available on our website at www.lgi.com. Under the guidelines, our independent directors meet privately at least twice a year in executive session. These executive sessions are generally held in conjunction with a regularly scheduled board meeting. The presiding director for these meetings is currently David E. Rapley, the chairman of the nominating and corporate governance committee. The role of presiding director rotates annually among our nominating and corporate governance committee chair, our audit committee chair and our compensation committee chair.
Director Independence
It is our policy that a majority of the members of our board of directors be independent of our management. For a director to be deemed independent, our board of directors must affirmatively determine that the director has no direct or indirect material relationship with our company other than in his capacity as a board member. To assist our board of directors in determining which of our directors qualify as independent for purposes of the Nasdaq Stock Market rules, as well as applicable rules and regulations adopted by the SEC, the nominating and corporate governance committee of our board follows the Corporate Governance Rules of the Nasdaq Stock Market on the criteria for director independence.
Under these criteria, a director will not be deemed independent if such director:
is, or, during the three years preceding the determination date (which period of three years we refer to as the Applicable Determination Period), was, an employee of LGI or any of our subsidiaries, or has an immediate family member who is or was during the Applicable Determination Period an executive officer of LGI or any of our subsidiaries;
is, or has an immediate family member who is, an executive officer, partner or controlling shareholder of a company that made payments to or received payments from LGI for property or services in the current or any of the past three fiscal years, in an amount which exceeded the greater of $200,000 or 5% of the recipient's consolidated gross revenues for that year, other than payments solely from investments in our securities or payments under non-discretionary charitable contribution matching programs;
accepted, or has an immediate family member who accepted, compensation in excess of $120,000 from LGI or any of our subsidiaries during any period of twelve consecutive months within the Applicable Determination Period, other than (a) compensation for board or board committee service, (b) compensation to an immediate family member who is a non-executive employee of LGI or any of our subsidiaries, or (c) benefits under a tax-qualified retirement plan or non-discretionary compensation;
is, or has an immediate family member who is, a current partner of our external auditor or was a partner or employee with our external auditor who worked on our audit at any time during the Applicable Determination Period; or
is, or has an immediate family member who is, employed as an executive officer by a company as to which any of our executive officers serves, or, during the Applicable Determination Period, served, as a member of the compensation committee of such other company.
In accordance with these criteria, our board of directors has determined that each of John P. Cole, Jr., John W. Dick, Paul A. Gould, Richard R. Green, David E. Rapley, Larry E. Romrell, J.C. Sparkman and J. David Wargo qualifies as an independent director of our company.
Board Leadership Structure
Our board of directors has the authority to determine whether the offices of Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer should be held by the same or different persons. Since June 2005, these offices have been divided between John C. Malone and Michael T. Fries, respectively, and our board believes that this division continues to be appropriate for our company and its stockholders at this time. The separation of these two roles allows our Chief Executive Officer to focus his energies on actively directing the management of our global operations, including the development and execution of approved strategies and business plans, providing leadership to our executives and employees and representing our company to business partners, investors and the media. Our Chairman of the Board, with his extensive industry background and public company board experience, provides guidance to our Chief Executive Officer and strong leadership to our board in its consideration of strategic objectives and associated risks, oversight of our management's and company's performance, and monitoring of our corporate governance processes. Our Chairman also presides over meetings of our stockholders. We have no policy that requires the positions of chairman and chief executive officer to be separate or combined and we may reconsider our leadership structure from time to time based on the situation at that time.


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Risk Oversight
Our management team is responsible for identifying and managing risk related to our company and its significant business activities. Our board of directors has oversight responsibility for the risk management process implemented by management. Our board, as a whole and through its committees, actively performs this role through regular briefings from and discussions with senior management and periodic in-depth sessions on specific topics. For certain risk topics as discussed below, a board committee will have initial responsibility for exercising this oversight role, with the chair of the relevant committee reporting to the full board as necessary or appropriate.
Full Board
At each regularly scheduled board meeting, our board receives reports from our Chief Executive Officer and other members of senior management with respect to their business unit or functional area, which include information relating to general and specific risks facing our company. For our business units, these reports will address, among other things, material business-specific risks, such as competitive challenges, regulatory initiatives and risks related to operational execution, as well as macro-economic and political risks. Functional area reports cover our capital structure, liquidity, foreign currency exposure, credit and equity market conditions, developments in technology, legal and regulatory compliance, and talent management and compensation programs. In-depth presentations are made by senior management in connection with our board's consideration of acquisition opportunities and new strategic initiatives, which include a discussion of material risks to achieving the business case for the proposed transaction or project. Periodically, a more detailed review of a specific country of operation will be provided by the local management team or a specific topic of interest, such as technology developments, will be explored in greater depth, at a regularly scheduled or a special board meeting or during an off-site visit. Our board of directors also makes annual site visits to different countries in which we operate and has periodic strategy retreats with invited members of senior management. Our senior management's attendance at board meetings, the site visits and strategy retreats provide frequent opportunities for our directors to interact with members of our management team individually to understand and provide input on relevant risk exposures. Also, through its review of our strategies and objectives, budgets and business plans, our board of directors sets the direction for appropriate risk taking within our operations.
Committees
Each board committee considers and addresses risk as it performs its committee responsibilities and the individual committee chairpersons provide reports to the full board that may include a discussion of risks initially overseen by the committees.
Our audit committee has oversight responsibility for the qualifications and independence of our independent auditor, the performance of our internal audit function and the operation of our ethics compliance reporting process. In addition, our audit committee has oversight responsibility with respect to management's processes and activities relating to the reliability and integrity of our accounting policies, financial reporting practices and financial statements. The senior officer of our internal audit and compliance group reports to the audit committee and assists the committee with its review of relevant risks within its oversight responsibility and of our internal controls. In particular, such group has the primary responsibility for evaluating management's internal control over financial reporting, as well as responsibility for monitoring and testing our company-wide policies, procedures and internal controls for other compliance and operational risks included in the annual internal audit plan reviewed and approved by the audit committee. Senior officers of our finance and accounting groups attend all regularly scheduled audit committee meetings and either they or members of their teams provide in-depth reports on a periodic basis and when requested by the audit committee. Such reports include changes in accounting rules that may have a significant effect on our financial statements, tax planning and risks, and risks associated with liquidity, covenant compliance, currency and interest rate hedging positions and stability of counterparties. On an annual basis, such senior officers present to the committee a report on key financial statement risks, the level of such risks and how such risks are being monitored. The audit committee also receives reports on complaints received through our ethics compliance reporting process and the status of investigations into such complaints. Additional functions of the audit committee are described under “—Committees of the Board of Directors—Audit Committee” below.
Our compensation committee reviews and either approves or recommends to the full board for its approval the compensation programs for members of our senior management, including our executive officers. It also administers, and approves equity grants and performance award programs under, the Liberty Global, Inc. 2005 Incentive Plan (As Amended and Restated Effective October 31, 2006) (the Incentive Plan). In fulfilling these duties, the compensation committee also has oversight responsibility with respect to risks related to the design and implementation of these programs and awards. To assist the compensation committee in discharging this responsibility, our global human resources group provides reports on the design and administration of incentive programs and the safeguards in effect to avoid encouraging unnecessary or excessive risk taking.
Our nominating and corporate governance committee has oversight responsibility with respect to risks related to our governance, including board and director performance and governance guidelines. It supervises annual evaluations of the performance of our board of directors and our individual director nominees. Each of our committees completes its own periodic self-evaluation on performance and reports its findings to our full board when appropriate. Our nominating and corporate governance committee also conducts periodic reviews of our governance guidelines.

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Risk Assessment of Compensation Programs
Consistent with SEC requirements, we assess annually our company's compensation programs and have concluded that our compensation policies and practices do not create risks that are reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on our company taken as a whole. Our global human resources group reviewed the performance-based compensation programs for all corporate-level employees in our corporate offices in the U.S., the U.K. and the Netherlands and in our European Broadband and Latin America divisions and Chellomedia operating unit, and for our country-level managing directors and chief financial officers in our European Broadband division. It also reviewed over 100 annual bonus and sales/commission plans in place at our operating companies to identify the presence or lack of certain features that would impact organizational risk. Further, it analyzed total compensation costs (including salaries, commissions, bonuses, severance, fringe benefits and employee training and development costs) for each country of operation as a percentage of that country's revenue. Finally, it reviewed its own policies and procedures for the administration and governance of these programs for corporate-level employees and for managing directors and chief financial officers in the European Broadband division, and related entity-level controls. The scope and results of this review were presented to the compensation committee of our board.
We believe that our approach of including a consolidated performance measure as one of the metrics in the annual performance bonus plan design for all members of our senior management team, other corporate-level employees and the country-level chief financial officers in our largest business division, together with our approach, for these employees as well as the country-level managing directors in the European Broadband division, to setting target goals based on approved budgets, providing for payouts at multiple levels of performance, capping payouts at reasonable levels of over-performance, and evaluating performance results assist in our efforts to mitigate excessive risk-taking. Further, our senior management team and other key employees also participate in longer-term performance incentive programs for which the financial performance metric is solely based on a consolidated performance metric, which is different from (but complimentary to) the performance metrics used in their annual bonus plans, thus ensuring their focus on balanced performance and longer-term company-wide goals. These longer-term performance incentive programs, as well as the annual performance award program for our senior management team, also include recoupment provisions in the event of a restatement of our financial statements. Grants of conventional equity awards with their multi-year vesting also provide a balance to the short-term incentives in annual performance bonus programs. Furthermore, our compensation governance processes, including the active management of senior manager compensation by our global human resources group and oversight and approval by our compensation committee of compensation for members of our senior management, together with our budget approval and monitoring processes, which include all compensation costs, and other internal controls, provide additional assurance of our company's ability to identify and manage material risks from incentive compensation arrangements.
Code of Business Conduct and Code of Ethics
We have adopted a code of business conduct that applies to all of our employees, directors and officers. In addition, we have adopted a code of ethics for our chief executive and senior financial officers, which constitutes our “code of ethics” within the meaning of Section 406 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the Sarbanes-Oxley Act). Both codes are available on our website at www.lgi.com.
Stockholder Communication with Directors
Our stockholders may send communications to our board of directors or to individual directors by mail addressed to the board of directors or to an individual director c/o Liberty Global, Inc., 12300 Liberty Boulevard, Englewood, Colorado 80112. Communications from our stockholders will be forwarded to our directors on a timely basis.
Committees of the Board of Directors
Information with respect to each of the current committees of our board of directors is provided below. Our board may from time to time establish certain other committees of the board, consisting of one or more of our directors. Any committee so established will have the powers delegated to it by resolution of our board, subject to applicable law.
Audit Committee
Our board of directors has established an audit committee, whose members are John W. Dick, Paul A. Gould (chairman) and J. David Wargo. Our board of directors has determined that Messrs. Gould, Dick and Wargo are independent, as independence for audit committee members is defined in the Nasdaq Stock Market rules as well as the rules and regulations adopted by the SEC relating to independence of audit committee members. In addition, our board of directors has determined that more than one member of the committee, including its chairman, Mr. Gould, qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” under applicable SEC rules and regulations. A description of their respective experiences is set forth under “Proposal 1 – Election of Directors” above.
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committee's functions include:
appointing and, if necessary, replacing our independent auditors;
reviewing and approving in advance the scope and the fees of all auditing services, and all permissible non-auditing services, to be performed by our independent auditors;
reviewing our annual audited financial statements with our management and our independent auditors and making recommendations regarding inclusion of such audited financial statements in certain of our public filings;
overseeing the work of our independent auditor for the purpose of preparing or issuing an audit report or related work or performing other audit, review or attest services, including holding quarterly meetings to review our quarterly reports, discussing with our independent auditors issues regarding the ability of our independent auditors to perform such services, reviewing with our independent auditors any audit related problems or difficulties and the response of our management, and addressing other general oversight issues;
reviewing and discussing with management and our independent auditors issues regarding accounting principles, effectiveness of internal controls, financial reporting, and regulatory and accounting initiatives;
reviewing quarterly earnings releases;
overseeing the maintenance of an internal audit function, discussing with our independent auditors, the internal auditor and our management, as appropriate, the internal audit function's responsibilities, budget and staff, periodically reviewing with our independent auditors the results and findings of the internal audit function and coordinating with our management to ensure that the issues associated with such results and findings are addressed;
discussing with management financial risk exposure and risk management policies;
reviewing disclosures by our certifying officers on any significant deficiencies or material weaknesses in the design or operation of our internal controls and any fraud involving persons who have a significant role in our internal controls;
overseeing management's processes and activities with respect to confirming compliance with applicable securities laws and SEC and Nasdaq Stock Market rules relating to our accounting and financial reporting process and the audit of our financial statements;
establishing procedures for the consideration of alleged violations of the code of business conduct and the code of ethics adopted by our board and for the reporting and disclosure of violations of or waivers under such codes;
establishing procedures for receipt, retention and treatment of complaints on accounting, internal accounting controls or audit matters; and
preparing a report for our annual proxy statement.
Our board of directors has adopted a written charter for the audit committee, which is available on our website at www.lgi.com. In addition to the foregoing, as provided in our corporate governance guidelines referenced above, the audit committee must review and approve any related party transaction in which an executive officer has a direct or indirect interest for which disclosure is required under SEC rules.
Compensation Committee
Our board of directors has established a compensation committee, whose members are John P. Cole, Jr., Larry E. Romrell and J.C. Sparkman (chairman). See “—Director Independence” above. Our board of directors has adopted a written charter for the compensation committee, which is available on our website at www.lgi.com. See “Executive Compensation—Compensation Discussion and Analysis” below for a description of the responsibilities of the compensation committee on matters related to executive compensation and administration of the Incentive Plan.
As stated in its charter, the compensation committee has the authority to engage its own compensation consultants and other independent advisors. During 2011, the compensation committee did not retain any compensation consultants or independent advisors for purposes of rendering advice on our executive compensation.
Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation
During 2011, none of the members of our compensation committee was an officer or employee of our company or any of our subsidiaries, was formerly an officer of our company or any of our subsidiaries, or had any relationship requiring disclosure under the securities laws.


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Executive Committee
Our board of directors has established an executive committee, whose members are Michael T. Fries and John C. Malone. Except as specifically prohibited by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware or limited by our board of directors, the executive committee may exercise all the powers and authority of our board in the management of our business and affairs between board meetings, including the power and authority to authorize the issuance of shares of our capital stock.
Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Our board of directors has established a nominating and corporate governance committee, whose members are John P. Cole, Jr., John W. Dick, Paul A. Gould, Richard R. Green, David E. Rapley (chairman), Larry E. Romrell, J.C. Sparkman and J. David Wargo. See “—Director Independence” above. The nominating and corporate governance committee identifies and recommends persons as nominees to our board of directors. As stated above, it also reviews from time to time the corporate governance guidelines applicable to us and oversees the evaluation of our board of directors and makes recommendations to our board, as it may deem appropriate.
The nominating and corporate governance committee will consider candidates for director recommended by any stockholder, provided that such nominations are properly submitted. Eligible stockholders wishing to recommend a candidate for nomination as a director should send the recommendation in writing to the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, Liberty Global, Inc., 12300 Liberty Boulevard, Englewood, Colorado 80112. Stockholder recommendations must be made in accordance with our bylaws, as discussed under “Stockholder Proposals” below, and contain the following information:
the proposing stockholder's name and address and documentation indicating the number of shares of our common stock beneficially owned by such person and the holder or holders of record of those shares, together with a statement that the proposing stockholder is recommending a candidate for nomination as a director;
the candidate's name, age, business and residence addresses, principal occupation or employment, business experience, educational background and any other information relevant in light of the factors considered by the nominating and corporate governance committee in making a determination of a candidate's qualifications, as described below;
a statement detailing any relationship, arrangement or understanding that might affect the independence of the candidate as a member of our board;
any other information that would be required under SEC rules in a proxy statement soliciting proxies for the election of such candidate as a director;
a representation as to whether the proposing stockholder intends to deliver any proxy materials or otherwise solicit proxies in support of the director nominee;
a representation that the proposing stockholder intends to appear in person or by proxy at the annual stockholders meeting at which the person named in such notice is to stand for election; and
a signed consent of the candidate to serve as a director, if nominated and elected.
In connection with its evaluation, the nominating and corporate governance committee may request additional information from the proposing stockholder and the candidate. The nominating and corporate governance committee has sole discretion to decide which individuals to recommend for nomination as directors.
To be nominated to serve as a director, a nominee need not meet any specific, minimum criteria; however, the nominating and corporate governance committee believes that nominees for director should possess the highest personal and professional ethics, integrity and values and should be committed to our long-term interests and the interests of our stockholders. When evaluating a potential director nominee, including one recommended by a stockholder, the nominating and corporate governance committee will take into account a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the following:
independence from management;
education and professional background;
judgment, skill and reputation;
understanding of our business and the markets in which we operate;
expertise that is useful to us and complementary to the expertise of our other directors;
existing commitments to other businesses as a director, executive or owner;
personal conflicts of interest, if any; and
the size and composition of our existing board of directors.

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The nominating and corporate governance committee does not have a formal policy on diversity. It does, however, consider whether the nominee has personal capabilities and qualifications that contribute to the overall diversity of our board. For this purpose, the committee construes diversity broadly to include a variety of perspectives, opinions, professional backgrounds and experiences.
When seeking candidates for director, the nominating and corporate governance committee may solicit suggestions from incumbent directors, management, stockholders and others. After conducting an initial evaluation of a prospective nominee, the nominating and corporate governance committee will interview that candidate if it believes the candidate might be suitable to be a director. The nominating and corporate governance committee may also ask the candidate to meet with management. If the nominating and corporate governance committee believes a candidate would be a valuable addition to the board of directors, it may recommend to our full board that candidate's appointment or election.
Prior to nominating an incumbent director for re-election at an annual meeting of stockholders, the nominating and corporate governance committee considers, in addition to the foregoing criteria, the director's past attendance at, and participation in, meetings of our board of directors and its committees and the director's formal and informal contributions to the various activities conducted by the board and the board committees of which such individual is a member.
Based on the foregoing considerations, the nominating and corporate governance committee determined to recommend Messrs. Cole, Green and Rapley for nomination for re-election to our board.
Our board of directors has adopted a written charter for the nominating and corporate governance committee. The charter is available on our website at www.lgi.com.
Succession Planning Committee
Our board of directors has established a succession planning committee to assist the full board in succession planning for our chief executive officer. The responsibilities of the succession planning committee include the development of candidate profiles and qualifications, the identification and evaluation of potential internal candidates and opportunities for their development, the evaluation of potential external candidates and annual reporting to the full board on the results of its work. Our chief executive officer collaborates with the succession planning committee in the performance of its functions. Members of the succession planning committee are our chairman of the board, the chairs of each of the audit, compensation and nominating and corporate governance committees and Miranda Curtis, one of our directors. Our board of directors has adopted a written charter for the succession planning committee, which is available on our website at www.lgi.com.
Board Meetings
During 2011, there were six meetings of our full board of directors, eight meetings of our compensation committee, eight meetings of our audit committee, three meetings of our nominating and corporate governance committee and one meeting of our succession planning committee. Each director attended, either in person or telephonically, at least 75% of the total number of meetings of our board and each committee on which he served (during the period during which he served on our board or such committee) in the aggregate.
Director Attendance at Annual Meetings
Our board of directors encourages all members to attend each annual meeting of our stockholders. For our 2011 annual meeting of stockholders, 10 of our 11 board members attended in person or via teleconference.
Executive Sessions
The independent directors of LGI held two executive sessions without the participation of management during 2011.  

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MANAGEMENT OF LIBERTY GLOBAL, INC.
Executive Officers
The following lists the executive officers of our company, their ages and a description of their business experience, including positions held with LGI.  
Name 
 
Positions 
Charles H.R. Bracken, 45
 
Executive Vice President since January 2012 and Co-Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer) since June 2005. From April 2005 to January 2012, Mr. Bracken served as a Senior Vice President. In addition, Mr. Bracken has served as a Co-Chief Financial Officer of UGC since February 2004 and is an officer of various other of our subsidiaries. He also served as the Chief Financial Officer of UGC Europe, Inc., now known as Liberty Global Europe, Inc. (LG Europe), and its predecessors from November 1999 to June 2005. Mr. Bracken is a director of our subsidiary Telenet Group Holding NV, a Belgian public limited liability company (Telenet).

 
 
 
Bernard G. Dvorak, 52
 
Executive Vice President since January 2012 and Co-Chief Financial Officer (Principal Accounting Officer) since June 2005. From April 2005 to January 2012, Mr. Dvorak served as a Senior Vice President. In addition, Mr. Dvorak has served as an officer of various subsidiaries of LGI, including LGI International, since March 2004. Mr. Dvorak is a director of Austar.
 
 
 
Michael T. Fries, 49
 
President, Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of LGI since June 2005. Mr. Fries served as Chief Executive Officer of UGC from January 2004 to June 2005. Mr. Fries has served as a director of UGC and its predecessors since November 1999 and as President of UGC and its predecessors since September 1998. Mr. Fries has served in an executive capacity at LGI, UGC and its predecessors for over 20 years. Mr. Fries is a director and non-executive chairman of the board of Austar. See also "Proposal 1 – Election of Directors— Directors Whose Term Expires in 2014".
 
 
 
Bryan H. Hall, 49
 
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary since January 2012. Prior to joining LGI, Mr. Hall served as secretary and general counsel of Virgin Media Inc. from June 2004 until his term ended, as planned, in January 2011. While at Virgin Media Inc., Mr. Hall was responsible for all legal affairs affecting Virgin Media Inc., as well as matters concerning regulatory, competition, government affairs and media relations issues. From September 2000 to June 2004, Mr. Hall was a partner in the corporate department of the law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP in New York, specializing in public and private acquisitions and acquisition financings.
 
 
 
Diederik Karsten, 55
 
Executive Vice President, European Broadband Operations since January 2012. During 2011, Mr. Karsten served as Managing Director, European Broadband Operations. Mr. Karsten served as Managing Director, UPC Nederland BV, a subsidiary of Liberty Global Europe Holding BV (Liberty Global Europe) and its predecessors, from July 2004 to December 2010, where he was responsible for our broadband operations in the Netherlands. Prior to joining a predecessor of Liberty Global Europe, he served as chief executive officer of KPN Mobile, overseeing mobile telephony operations in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and other countries. Mr. Karsten is a director of Telenet.
 
 
 

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Name 
 
Positions 
John C. Malone, 71
 
Chairman of the Board and a director of LGI since inception. Mr. Malone served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of LGI International from March 2004 to June 2005, and as a director thereof since March 2004. Mr. Malone has served as a director of UGC and its predecessors since November 1999. Mr. Malone has served as chairman of the board and a director of LMC, LIC and their predecessors, since 1990 and Chief Executive Officer of Old LMC from August 2005 to February 2006. Mr. Malone is also a director of Discovery Communications, Inc., Sirius XM Radio Inc., Ascent Capital Group, Inc. and Expedia, Inc. See also "Proposal 1 – Election of Directors— Directors Whose Term Expires in 2014".
 
 
 
Balan Nair, 46
 
Executive Vice President since 2012 and Chief Technology Officer since July 2007. From July 2007 to January 2012, he served as a Senior Vice President. Prior to joining our company, Mr. Nair served as Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President for AOL LLC, a global web services company, from 2006. Prior to his role at AOL LLC, Mr. Nair spent more than five years at Qwest Communications International Inc., most recently as Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Nair is a director of Austar, Telenet and Adtran Corp.
The executive officers named above will serve in such capacities until their respective successors have been duly elected and have been qualified or until their earlier death, resignation, disqualification or removal from office. There are no family relationships between any of our directors and executive officers, by blood, marriage or adoption.
Involvement in Certain Proceedings
During the past 10 years, none of our directors or executive officers was convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or other minor offenses) or was a party to any judicial or administrative proceeding (except for matters that were dismissed without sanction or settlement or were subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated) that resulted in a judgment, decree or final order enjoining the person from future violations of, or prohibiting activities subject to, federal or state securities laws, or a finding of any violation of federal or state securities laws, laws respecting financial institutions or insurance companies, or laws prohibiting fraud, or was a party in any proceeding adverse to our company.
Except as stated below, during the past 10 years, none of our directors or executive officers has had any involvement in such legal proceedings as would be material to an evaluation of his or her ability or integrity.
On January 12, 2004, UGC's predecessor (Old UGC) filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. On November 10, 2004, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court confirmed Old UGC's pre-negotiated plan of reorganization with UGC and IDT United LLC (in which UGC had an approximate 94% fully diluted interest and 33% common equity interest), which included the terms for restructuring of Old UGC's outstanding 10.75% Senior Discount Notes. Old UGC and IDT United owned all but approximately $25,000,000 or 2% of such Notes. Old UGC emerged from the Chapter 11 proceedings on November 18, 2004. Until August 2003, Mr. Fries was the President of Old UGC.
On December 3, 2002, UGC's indirect subsidiary UPC, which later merged into our subsidiary Liberty Global Europe, filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code, together with a pre-negotiated plan of reorganization, in the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York. In conjunction with such filing, also on December 3, 2002, UPC commenced a moratorium of payments in the Netherlands under Dutch bankruptcy law with the filing of a proposed plan of compulsory composition or the “Akkoord” with the Amsterdam Court (Rechtbank) under the Dutch Faillissementswet. These actions were completed on September 3, 2003, when LG Europe acquired more than 99% of the stock of, and became a successor issuer to, UPC. Messrs. Fries, Cole and Dick were members of UPC's supervisory board.
On March 29, 2002, United Australia/Pacific, Inc. (UAP), then a subsidiary of UGC, filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. UAP's reorganization closed on June 27, 2003, and UAP has since dissolved. Until February 11, 2002, Mr. Fries was a director and the President of UAP.
On March 28, 2001, an involuntary petition under Chapter 7 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code was filed against Formus Communications, Inc. in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado. Such bankruptcy action was subsequently converted to a reorganization under Chapter 11 and closed on January 19, 2005. Mr. Dvorak was a director and Chief Executive Officer of Formus Communications, Inc. from September 2000 until June 2002.

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Senior Management
The following lists other members of our senior management team with a description of their business experience, including positions held with LGI.
Name 
 
Positions 
Amy M. Blair
 
Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources since June 2005. Ms. Blair served as Managing Director of Human Resources for LG Europe, from January 2004 to June 2005, and as Vice President, Operations Management of
LG Europe's predecessors from July 1999 to January 2004.

 
 
 
Emanuel Kohnstamm
 
Senior Vice President and Chief Policy Officer, since March 2012. Mr. Kohnstamm is responsible for developing and implementing LGI's regulatory strategy, public policy and government affairs. Mr. Kohnstamm served as Managing Director, Public Policy and Communications for LG Europe from January 1999 to March 2012. Prior to joining LG Europe, he was Vice President, Public Affairs at Time, Inc. for seven years.
 
 
 
Robert M. Leighton
 
Senior Vice President, Programming since July 2007. Prior to joining our company, Mr. Leighton served as a consultant on a variety of programming matters for various companies, including LGI, from January 2005 to July 2007. In 1998, Mr. Leighton joined Starz Encore Group LLC (now known as Starz Entertainment LLC), a pay television provider in the United States, and served as a Senior Vice President until June 2004, and as Executive Vice President from June 2004 to January 2005.
 
 
 
Mauricio Ramos
 
President of our Liberty Global Latin America division since September 2005. Mr. Ramos is responsible for our operations in Puerto Rico and Latin America. He also assumed the position of President of our wholly-owned subsidiary, Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico Ltd., in December 2005. Mr. Ramos served as Chief Executive Officer of our majority-owned subsidiary, VTR Global Com S.A., from November 2006 to December 2011 when he became chairman of VTR Global Com S.A.'s board of directors. Mr. Ramos served as Chief Financial Officer of our Liberty Global Latin America division from June 2005 to September 2005. Mr. Ramos served as Vice President, Business Development for the Latin America division of UGC from March 2000 to June 2005.
 
 
 
James Ryan
 
Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer since January 2012. Mr. Ryan served as Managing Director, Strategy and Corporate Development for Liberty Global Europe from May 2000 to January 2012. Mr. Ryan is responsible for LGI's global strategy and strategic planning across all regions. Prior to joining Liberty Global Europe, Mr. Ryan spent over 10 years with investment companies, including five years at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development where he focused on investments in emerging central European countries. Mr. Ryan is a director of Telenet and Canal+ Cyfrowy Sp zo.o.
 
 
 
Andrea Salvato
 
Senior Vice President, Chief Development Officer since January 2012. Mr. Salvato is responsible for LGI's merger and acquisition activities and LGI's development activities. Mr. Salvato served as Managing Director, Corporate Development for Liberty Global Europe from July 2005 to January 2012. Prior to joining Liberty Global Europe, Mr. Salvato spent 12 years in the investment banking industry, most recently as a Managing Director with JP Morgan Chase & Co.'s investment banking division.
 
 
 
Frederick G. Westerman III
 
Senior Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications since June 2005. Mr. Westerman served as Chief Financial Officer of UGC and its predecessors from June 1999 to February 2004 and as UGC's Co-Chief Financial Officer from February 2004 to June 2005.


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EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
We are an international provider of video, broadband internet and telephony services, with continuing consolidated broadband communications and/or direct-to-home satellite operations at December 31, 2011, serving 19.5 million customers across 13 countries, primarily in Europe and Chile. These customers subscribed to 32.8 million services, consisting of 18.4 million video, 8.2 million broadband internet and 6.2 million telephony service subscriptions. Our businesses operate in an environment marked by intense competition, extensive regulation and rapid technological change. We place great importance on our ability to attract, retain, motivate and reward talented executives who, faced with these challenges, can execute our strategy to drive stockholder value through strong organic growth, accretive mergers and acquisitions and prudent capital structure management.
In this section, we provide information, and a discussion and analysis relating to the compensation of Michael T. Fries, our chief executive officer or CEO; Charles H.R. Bracken, our principal financial officer; and our three other most highly compensated executive officers at the end of 2011: Bernard G. Dvorak, our principal accounting officer, Diederik Karsten, our executive vice president, European Broadband Operations, and Balan Nair, our chief technology officer. We refer to these five individuals as our named executive officers or NEOs.
Compensation Discussion and Analysis
Overview of Compensation Process
The compensation committee of our board of directors was established for the purposes of assisting our board in discharging its duties relating to compensation of our executive officers and of administering our incentive plans. In furtherance of its purposes, our compensation committee is responsible for identifying our primary goals with respect to executive compensation, implementing compensation programs designed to achieve those goals, subject to appropriate safeguards to avoid unnecessary risk taking, and monitoring performance against those goals and associated risks. The chair of our compensation committee reports to our board of directors on annual compensation decisions and on the administration of existing programs and development of new programs. The members of our compensation committee are “independent directors” (as defined under the Nasdaq Stock Market rules), “non-employee directors” (as defined in Rule 16b-3 of the SEC's rules under the Exchange Act) and “outside directors” (as defined in Section 162(m) (Section 162(m)) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the regulations and interpretations promulgated thereunder (the Code)).
All compensation decisions with respect to our executive officers, including our NEOs, are made by our compensation committee. Decisions with respect to our CEO's compensation are made in private sessions of the committee without the presence of management. Our CEO is actively engaged in compensation decisions for our other members of senior management in a variety of ways, including recommending annual salary increases, annual performance goals and the level of target and/or maximum performance awards for his executive team and evaluating their performance. With the assistance of our Human Resources and Legal Departments, he is also involved in formulating the terms of proposed performance or incentive award programs for consideration by the compensation committee, evaluating alternatives and recommending revisions. Other senior officers, within the scope of their job responsibilities, participate in gathering and presenting to the compensation committee for its consideration data and legal, tax and accounting analyses relevant to compensation and benefit decisions.
In making its compensation decisions, the compensation committee ultimately relies on the general business and industry knowledge and experience of its members and the committee's own evaluation of company and NEO performance. From time to time, however, the committee will retain a compensation consultant to assist it in evaluating proposed changes in compensation programs or levels of compensation and to provide comparative data. At our 2011 annual stockholders meeting, stockholders representing 90% of our shares entitled to vote and present at such meeting approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation of our NEOs, as disclosed in our proxy statement for our 2011 annual meeting of stockholders. As a result, the compensation committee did not implement any changes in our executive compensation program.
Compensation Philosophy and Goals
The compensation committee has two primary objectives with respect to executive compensation-motivation and retention-with the ultimate goal of long-term value creation for our stockholders.
To motivate our executives to maximize their contributions to the success of our company, we
establish a mix of financial performance objectives based on our annual budgets and our medium-term outlook to balance short- and long-term goals and risks,
establish individual performance objectives tailored to each executive's role in our company to ensure individual accountability, and

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pay for performance that meets or exceeds the established objectives.
To ensure that we are able to attract and retain superior employees in key positions, we
offer compensation that we believe is competitive with the compensation paid to similarly situated employees of companies in our industry and companies with which we compete for talent, and
include vesting requirements and forfeiture provisions in our multi-year equity awards, including a service period during which earned performance awards are subject to forfeiture.
To align our executives' interests with those of our stockholders, we
emphasize long-term compensation, the actual value of which depends on increasing the stock value for our stockholders, as well as meeting financial and individual performance objectives, and
require our executive officers to achieve and maintain significant levels of stock ownership, further linking our executives' personal net worth to long-term stock price appreciation for our stockholders.
Setting Executive Compensation
To achieve the foregoing compensation objectives, the compensation packages provided to members of our senior management, including our NEOs, include three main components: base salary, annual cash performance awards and multi-year equity incentive awards. In addition, certain members of senior management, including our NEOs, may participate in our deferred compensation plan. Consistent with past practice, the three main components of compensation were also made available during 2011 to approximately 300 employees in the United States, Europe and other countries. The relative weighting of the components, the design of the performance and incentive awards and the overall value of the compensation package for individual employees varies based on the employee's role and responsibilities.
For members of our senior management, including our NEOs, the total value of the compensation package is most heavily weighted to performance and incentive awards because of the significance of the officers' roles and responsibilities to the overall success of our company. Further, multi-year equity incentive awards are the largest component of executive compensation, serving the goals of retention as well as alignment with stockholders' interests. As illustrated below based on 2011 compensation, the compensation committee's objective is for a substantial majority of each executive officer's total direct compensation (that is, base salary plus maximum annual cash performance award plus target annual equity incentive) to be comprised of the target value of his or her multi-year equity incentive awards.
Total Direct Compensation Opportunity
In approving the level of each compensation element for our executive officers, the compensation committee considers a number of factors, including:
the responsibilities assumed by the individual executive and the significance of his role to achievement of our financial, strategic and operational objectives;
the experience, overall effectiveness and demonstrated leadership ability of the individual executive;
the performance expectations set for our company and for the individual executive and the overall assessment by the compensation committee of actual performance; and
retention risks at specific points in time with respect to individual executives.

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Elements of Our Compensation Packages
The implementation of our compensation approach—generally and for 2011 specifically—is described below.
Base Salary
General. Base salary represents the least variable element of our executives' compensation and is provided as an economic consideration for each executive's level of responsibility, expertise, skills, knowledge, experience and value to the organization. The base salary levels of Messrs. Fries, Bracken and Dvorak were initially set in 2005, along with the base salaries of our other executive officers at that time, taking into account each executive's salary level prior to the business combination of LGI International and UGC, as well as the factors referenced above. The base salary level of Mr. Nair was initially set in 2007 when he joined our company as an executive officer. Mr. Karsten's initial base salary level as an executive officer was set in connection with his promotion to that position effective January 1, 2011. Decisions with respect to increases in base salaries thereafter have been based on company-wide budgets and increases in the cost of living.
2011 Base Salaries. In December 2010, our compensation committee accepted our CEO's recommendation that none of our then executive officers receive an increase in base salary due to, in part, challenging economic conditions and prudent financial management. For 2011, our budget authorized base salary increases for U.S. and European corporate-level employees of 2.5% in the aggregate. Our NEOs' base salaries for 2011 are reflected in the “Salary” column of the Summary Compensation Table below.
2012 Base Salaries. In February 2012, our compensation committee approved a 3% increase in the base salaries of each of our NEOs, except our CEO. This percentage increase was consistent with the budget authorization given to each of our department and business unit heads for aggregate salary increases for U.S. and corporate-level European employees in their department or unit. For our CEO, the compensation committee determined to cap his base salary at $1,000,000. The actual percentage salary increase varied among employees, other than our NEOs, as determined by their department or business unit head. The salary increases for all employees, including our NEOs, became effective April 1, 2012.
Annual Cash Performance Awards
General. Annual cash performance awards pursuant to the Incentive Plan are one of the variable components of our executive officers' compensation packages designed to motivate our executives to achieve our annual business goals and reward them for superior performance.
At its first regular meeting following the end of each fiscal year, the compensation committee reviews with our CEO the financial performance of our company during the prior year, his performance, his evaluation of the performance of each of the other members of senior management, including our NEOs, participating in the prior year's annual cash performance award program and his recommendations with respect to their performance awards. The compensation committee determines whether our financial performance for the prior fiscal year has satisfied the base performance objective set by the compensation committee, which is a precondition to the payment of any award to our NEOs, and determines the percentage of the financial performance metric(s) that has been achieved. It then determines, in a private session, whether our CEO has met his individual performance goals for the year, his resulting annual performance rating, and the amount to be paid to him with respect to his performance award. The compensation committee also approves the amount to be paid to the other participants in the program, including our other NEOs, with respect to their performance awards. Generally at the same meeting, the compensation committee approves the terms of the annual cash performance award program for the current year, including, in a private session, the maximum achievable performance award and individual performance goals for our CEO for the coming year.
Design of 2011 Annual Award Program. The design of the 2011 annual cash performance award program (the 2011 Annual Award Program) approved by the compensation committee in February 2011 was the same as the annual cash performance award program for 2010, except that a recoupment provision was added in the event of a financial restatement and the payout schedules for the financial performance metrics included an over-performance feature. The key elements of the 2011 Annual Award Program were:
Sixty percent of each participant's maximum achievable performance award was based on achievement against financial performance metrics and 40% was based on individual achievement against defined performance goals.
Two equally weighted financial performance metrics were used:
2011 budgeted revenue growth on a consolidated basis and, if applicable, operating unit basis; and
2011 budgeted operating free cash flow, or OFCF, growth on a consolidated basis and, if applicable, operating unit basis.

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The base performance objective for our NEOs required that either 40% of 2011 consolidated budgeted revenue growth or 40% of 2011 consolidated budgeted OFCF growth be achieved.
For purposes of the 2011 Annual Award Program, OFCF was defined as operating cash flow minus cash capital expenditures. Operating cash flow, or OCF, is the primary measure used by our board and management to evaluate our company's operating performance and a key factor that is used to decide how to allocate capital and resources to our operating segments. The definition of OCF for these purposes is consistent with our definition of the term for public disclosure purposes: revenue less operating and selling, general and administrative expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization, stock-based compensation, provisions for litigation and impairment, restructuring and other operating charges or credits).
The payout schedule for each financial performance metric was based on a sliding schedule. A performance range from 50% to 100% of the budgeted growth for a particular metric would generally result in a payout ranging from 0% to 100% of the portion of the maximum achievable award allocated to that metric. For the over-performance feature, a payout of up to 150% of the weighted portion of the maximum achievable award is available for an over-performance range of up to 105% of budgeted revenue growth and 110% of budgeted OFCF growth. Notwithstanding the over-performance feature, the aggregate payout for financial performance remained capped at 60% of the maximum achievable performance award.
Budgeted growth was determined by comparing actual 2010 results for the applicable metric to the amount budgeted for that metric in the 2011 consolidated and operating unit budgets approved by our board, and then translating the percentages of budgeted growth into corresponding percentages of the budgeted amounts for such metric. By way of example, to exceed 50% of 2011 consolidated budgeted revenue growth, 2011 actual consolidated revenue would have to exceed 97.5% of 2011 budgeted consolidated revenue, as the budget may be adjusted in accordance with the terms of the 2011 Annual Award Program. The payout schedule for the 40% of each participant's maximum achievable performance award allocated to individual performance was based on the annual performance rating received on a scale of 1.0 to 5.0, with a minimum rating of 3.0 required for any amount to be payable with respect to this portion of the award.
The compensation committee considered the following when it approved this design for the annual award programs in 2010:
Weighting financial performance metrics more heavily than individual performance goals should serve to reduce the level of subjectivity in determining final awards.
Using two equally weighted financial metrics (budgeted revenue and OFCF growth), rather than a single metric, would provide incentives to drive revenue growth while controlling operating costs and capital expenditures.
Including consolidated financial performance metrics for all participants, including those with operating unit responsibility, would serve to mitigate potential organizational risks.
Including an over-performance provision would provide continuing incentive for above budget achievement.
Establishing a base performance objective as a gating factor for payment of any award to the NEOs should result in the payment qualifying as performance-based compensation under Section 162(m). There could be no assurance that the objective would be achieved, particularly in light of the increasingly competitive environment in which we operate.
The maximum amount that each NEO could earn under the 2011 Annual Award Program approved by the compensation committee was unchanged from 2010 for all executives other than Mr. Fries, whose maximum achievable performance award was increased from $3.0 million to $4.0 million. The compensation committee made this increase, in part, due to his annual base salary being limited to $1,000,000 for purposes of maintaining the U.S. income tax deduction. The compensation committee did not establish target amounts payable.
2011 Performance. At its meeting in February 2012, the compensation committee reviewed actual 2011 revenue and OFCF versus our budgeted 2011 revenue and OFCF and determined that the base performance objective had been exceeded.
The compensation committee then considered whether to exercise its discretion to reduce the amount payable to any of our NEOs. The exercise of the compensation committee's discretion was in each case based on its assessment of our 2011 financial performance and the individual named executive officer's performance overall and as compared to his 2011 performance goals, taking into account the payout schedules for financial and individual performance.
The compensation committee first considered the percentage of budgeted revenue and budgeted OFCF achieved in 2011 at the consolidated and operating unit level and the percentage growth such amounts represented. For this purpose, the 2011 budget was adjusted as described above and for certain other unbudgeted events that the compensation committee, in its discretion and consistent with past practice, determined distorted performance against the performance metrics. Applying consistent foreign exchange rates, the net effect of all the adjustments was to decrease budgeted revenue and OFCF on a consolidated basis and to increase budgeted revenue and OFCF for our European Broadband and Latin America divisions. Actual 2011 OFCF exceeded the

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budgeted amounts on a consolidated basis and at each operating unit. Actual 2011 revenue of our consolidated company and of each operating unit, other than the Latin America division, however, was less than budgeted. Although actual 2011 revenue was less than budgeted, this shortfall was less than 1% for our consolidated company and our European Broadband division and represented over 80% but less than 90% of budgeted revenue growth. When these results are coupled with the over-performance achieved by actual 2011 OFCF, and applied to the relevant payout schedules, the total implied payout against the financial performance metrics exceeded 100% of the weighted portion of the maximum bonus attributable to financial performance. Therefore, taking into account that the aggregate payout for financial performance cannot exceed 100%, the compensation committee approved payment of 100% of the portion of each NEO's maximum achievable award that was allocated to the financial performance metrics set forth in the table on page 28.
With respect to the remaining 40% of the maximum achievable awards allocated to individual performance, the compensation committee considered each NEO's performance against individual performance goals. The individual performance goals consisted of numerous qualitative measures, which included strategic, financial, transactional, organizational and/or operational goals tailored to the individual's role within LGI. In making its decision as to individual annual performance ratings, the compensation committee did not apply any particular weighting across the individual performance goals or relative to other considerations, nor did it require that the executive satisfy each of his goals.
Our CEO's performance goals were organized around four main themes: key operating budget targets and operational initiatives; liquidity, leverage and capital structure targets and initiatives; acquisition and disposition opportunities; and core initiatives for each functional group. In its evaluation of his 2011 performance, the compensation committee considered the various performance objectives that had been assigned to Mr. Fries and our company's accomplishments against those objectives. In this regard, the committee noted that our company had a number of significant performance accomplishments in 2011 under Mr. Fries's leadership, including completion of significant acquisitions in Poland and Germany, the progress on the disposition of our Australian operations, a 16% increase in our stock price, an increase in the focus on customer service initiatives, the development of new technologies (including the Horizon initiative, which is scheduled for launch in 2012), the increased availability of ultra high-speed internet service in our service areas, the completion of an analysis of our company's regulatory strategy and public policy, an improvement in the relationships with key regulators, the achievement of key budget metrics, the attainment of $3.5 billion of consolidated liquidity, including cash and cash equivalents of $1.7 billion at the parent and its non-operating subsidiaries, the completion of approximately $10.0 billion in debt financing transactions and the achievement of significant financial and operational performance guidance related to OCF and free cash flow growth, organic subscriber additions and equity repurchases.  In reviewing Mr. Fries's performance, the committee considered both what had been accomplished and how such accomplishments had been obtained.  The compensation committee also considered Mr. Fries's responsibilities with respect to overall corporate policy-making and management, in-depth knowledge of our operations and finances, the challenging environment in which we compete, as well as his strong leadership capabilities in delivering key long-term strategic objectives in a challenging global economy, his handling of unanticipated additional responsibilities and keeping the board of directors informed during the year.
With respect to the individual performance of our other NEOs, the compensation committee reviewed their performance with our CEO, giving much deference to our CEO's evaluation of their performance against their respective 2011 performance goals and the resulting annual performance ratings. The members of the compensation committee also have frequent interaction with each of these executives at meetings of the board of directors and events planned for the directors, which interaction assists in informing their judgment. The individual performance goals for the other NEOs related to their respective functional or operational areas of responsibility. Mr. Bracken's goals related to financial strategy, reducing financial risks, balance sheet efficiency, tax strategy, financial planning, and group leadership and coordination with other functional groups. Mr. Dvorak's goals related to projects on data management and integrity and privacy protection, best practices in fraud controls, and enterprise risk management; consolidation of financial systems; integration of acquired companies from a consolidation, financial reporting and U.S. GAAP perspective; and the internal audit processes. Mr. Karsten's goals related to his management of our European Broadband division, including performance against financial and subscriber targets, the strengthening of local management teams, the integration of acquired companies and expansion of services to businesses, execution of new product and service initiatives, network upgrades and new builds, and personnel management. Mr. Nair's goals related to efficiencies in the procurement of customer equipment, network operations, development and implementation of new technologies for our services, management of capital expenditures, and analysis and development of new service options for customers.
Based on its evaluation of individual performance and its decisions with respect to the financial performance metrics, the compensation committee approved the payments to our NEOs with respect to their maximum achievable performance awards set forth in the table below. Percentages in the table represent percentages of the maximum achievable performance award.

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2011 Annual Cash Performance Award
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Name
 
Maximum
Achievable Award
 
% Payout for Financial Performance (Revenue & OFCF)
 
 % Payout for Individual Performance
(40%)
 
Aggregate % of Maximum Award (100%)
 
Approved Award
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Michael T. Fries
 
$4,000,000
 
60%
 
40%
 
100%
 
$4,000,000
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Charles H.R. Bracken
 
$1,000,000
 
60%
 
40%
 
100%
 
$1,000,000
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Bernard G. Dvorak
 
$1,000,000
 
60%
 
40%
 
100%
 
$1,000,000
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Diederik Karsten
 
$1,000,000
 
60%
 
40%
 
100%
 
$1,000,000
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Balan Nair
 
$1,000,000
 
60%
 
40%
 
100%
 
$1,000,000
The amounts paid to our NEOs under the 2011 Annual Award Program are reflected in the Summary Compensation Table below under the “Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compensation” column.
Our compensation committee approved payment of an aggregate of $3,412,000 to the other five participants in the 2011 Annual Award Program. Amounts paid to these participants ranged from 92% to 130% of their respective 2011 maximum achievable performance awards.
Decisions for 2012. At its February 2012 meeting, our compensation committee approved individual performance goals and set the maximum achievable performance awards for our members of senior management, including our NEOs, for 2012. The general design of the 2012 annual cash performance award program is similar to the 2011 Annual Award Program. The 2012 maximum achievable performance awards were unchanged for each of our NEOs. In approving the program for 2012, the compensation committee modified the definition of OCF to also exclude direct costs associated with dispositions and changed the definition of OFCF to equal OCF less additions to property and equipment from the OFCF definition of OCF less cash capital expenditures used for the 2011 program.
The same general design was also implemented, with similar performance metrics and weightings, for the 2012 bonus programs for approximately 750 employees in our corporate offices in the U.S., the Netherlands and the U.K. and in our Latin America division.
Equity Incentive Awards
General. Multi-year equity incentive awards, whether in the form of conventional equity awards or performance-based awards, have historically represented a significant portion of our executives' compensation. These awards ensure that our executives have a continuing stake in our company's success, align their interests with our stockholders and also serve the goal of retention through vesting requirements and forfeiture provisions.
Our compensation committee's approach to equity incentive awards for the senior management team places a significant emphasis on performance-based equity awards. Since 2010, the compensation committee's approach has been to set a target annual equity value for each member of senior management, of which approximately two-thirds would be delivered in the form of an annual award of performance-based restricted share units (PSUs) and approximately one-third in the form of an annual award of SARs. A similar approach was applied to equity incentive compensation for other key employees.
In connection with each year's award of PSUs, the compensation committee selects one or more performance measures for the ensuing two-year performance period. For the PSUs awarded to date, the compensation committee has selected as the performance measure growth in consolidated OCF, as adjusted for certain specified events that affect comparability, such as acquisitions, dispositions and changes in foreign exchange rates and accounting principles. In choosing OCF as the performance measure, the compensation committee's goal has been to ensure that the management team would be focused on maximizing performance against a variety of key financial metrics during the performance period by using a measure of performance that was different from those selected for the annual cash performance awards. Different performance measures may be selected for the awards in subsequent years.
The compensation committee also sets the performance targets corresponding to the selected performance measure(s) and a base performance objective that must be achieved in order for any portion of our NEOs' PSU awards to be earned. The level of achievement of the performance target within a range established by the compensation committee determines the percentage of the PSU award earned during the performance period, subject to reduction or forfeiture based on individual performance. Earned PSUs will then vest in two equal installments on March 31 and September 30 of the year following the end of the performance period.

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The PSU awards are subject to forfeiture or acceleration in connection with certain termination of employment or change-in-control events. Each year's award of SARs is made at the same time as awards are made under our annual equity grant program for employees and on terms consistent with our standard form of SAR award agreement, including a four-year vesting schedule.
In adopting this approach to equity incentive compensation, the compensation committee made the following observations:
The organizational risks of incentive compensation should be reduced through
the use of multiple equity vehicles (PSUs and SARs) with different performance, retention, risk and reward profiles,
annual grants of equity awards that spread the target incentive compensation over multiple performance/service periods and provide the flexibility to change performance metrics, weighting and targets from grant to grant, and
the setting of achievable target performance levels, while providing higher payout levels for over-performance.
The use of performance-based equity awards, such as PSUs, adds an element of market risk over the performance/service period to better align the interests of management and stockholders, while focusing management on achieving specified performance targets to earn the award.
The use of conventional equity awards, such as SARs, provides a retention mechanism and stockholder alignment by only delivering value if the stock price appreciates.
Providing for forfeiture or reduction of performance-based equity awards based on individual performance ensures that each participant remains accountable for his or her own performance against performance goals tailored to the participant's role and responsibilities.
2011 Equity Incentive Awards. The table below sets forth the target annual equity incentive award values for our NEOs approved by our compensation committee and the grants of 2011 PSUs and SARs made to them in March and May 2011, respectively:
 
 
 
 
Two-thirds of Target
Annual Equity Value in the Form of:
 
One-third of Target
Annual Equity Value in the Form of:

Name
 
Target Annual
Equity Value
 
Series A
PSU Grant
 
Series C
PSU Grant
 
Series A
SARs
 
Series C
SARs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Michael T. Fries
 
$8,000,000
 
64,334
 
64,334
 
91,744
 
91,744
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Charles H.R. Bracken
 
$3,500,000
 
28,148
 
28,148
 
40,128
 
40,128
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Bernard G. Dvorak
 
$3,500,000
 
28,148
 
28,148
 
40,128
 
40,128
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Diederik Karsten
 
$3,500,000
 
28,148
 
28,148
 
40,128
 
40,128
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Balan Nair
 
$3,500,000
 
28,148
 
28,148
 
40,128
 
40,128

The 2011 target annual equity values for Messrs. Fries, Bracken and Dvorak were unchanged from those approved in 2010. The compensation committee approved increasing Mr. Karsten's and Mr. Nair's target annual equity values to a level commensurate with that of Messrs. Bracken and Dvorak in light of the expanded scope of their respective responsibilities. Each 2011 PSU represents the right to receive one share of Series A common stock or Series C common stock, as applicable, subject to performance and vesting. An aggregate of 336,342 Series A PSUs and 336,342 Series C PSUs were also awarded to our senior officers and key employees.
The performance period for the 2011 PSUs is January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2012. The performance target selected by the committee for the base case plan was achievement of a target compound annual growth rate in consolidated operating cash flow (OCF CAGR) based on a comparison of our 2010 actual results to those reflected in our then existing long-range plan for 2012. The target OCF CAGR is subject to upward or downward adjustment, on a mandatory or a discretionary basis, for certain events in accordance with the terms of the grant agreement. For example, the base case plan from which the target OCF CAGR was calculated will be adjusted for the acquisitions of businesses in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Germany in 2011 in accordance with guidelines established by the compensation committee and the target OCF CAGR will be recalculated based on the adjusted base case plan. A performance range of 75% to 125% of the target OCF CAGR would generally result in award recipients earning 50% to 150% of their target 2011 PSUs, subject to reduction or forfeiture based on individual performance. One-half of the earned 2011 PSUs will vest on March 31, 2013 and the balance on September 30, 2013.
The compensation committee also established a minimum OCF CAGR base performance objective, subject to certain limited adjustments, which must be satisfied in order for any NEO to be eligible to earn any of their 2011 PSUs. If the base performance objective is achieved, our NEOs will be eligible to earn 150% of their 2011 PSUs, subject to the committee's discretion to reduce the

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size of the award earned, including to zero, to align with our company's and the individual's performance. The base performance objective was designed so that the awards would qualify as performance-based compensation under Section 162(m).
The 2011 PSU awards and the SAR awards of our NEOs are reflected in the Summary Compensation Table below under the “Stock Awards” and “Option Awards” columns, respectively.
Decisions for 2010 PSUs. At the February 2012 meeting of our compensation committee, the calculations of 2009 and 2011 consolidated OCF, each as adjusted in accordance with the terms of the 2010 PSU grant agreements and guidelines adopted by the compensation committee, and the resulting OCF CAGR, which had been prepared by management, were presented and discussed. The compensation committee determined that the base performance objective of achievement of a minimum OCF CAGR of 5.0% had been satisfied. The compensation committee also revised the adjustments to the base case plan required by the terms of the 2010 PSU grant agreements and approved further discretionary adjustments for certain events or circumstances that in its view distorted performance. Based on the adjusted base case plan, the target OCF CAGR was recalculated at 6.0%.
Based on the foregoing, the compensation committee determined that 93.8% of the target OCF CAGR had been achieved. In accordance with the terms of the 2010 PSU grant agreements, including consideration of the participant's individual annual performance ratings for each year of the performance period, the compensation committee determined that each of the NEOs had earned 87.54% of their target 2010 PSUs. The table below sets forth the actual number of the 2010 PSUs awarded that converted to time-vested restricted share units pursuant to the terms of the 2010 PSUs.
        
Name
 
Series A RSUs
 
Series C RSUs
 
 
 
 
 
Michael T. Fries
 
81,499
 
81,499
 
 
 
 
 
Charles H.R. Bracken
 
35,655
 
35,655
 
 
 
 
 
Bernard G. Dvorak
 
35,655
 
35,655
 
 
 
 
 
Diederik Karsten
 
12,734
 
12,734
 
 
 
 
 
Balan Nair
 
15,281
 
15,281
The compensation committee discussed the goals that the 2010 PSUs had been designed to achieve and was satisfied that these goals had been met. In addition, the senior management team remained highly motivated and, except for a retirement and a resignation due to disability, intact during the two-year period ended December 31, 2011.
Decisions for 2012. In March 2012, the compensation committee approved the grant of 2012 PSUs to our NEOs for two-thirds of their respective target annual equity values, which were unchanged from 2011. As the performance measure, the compensation committee again selected growth in consolidated OCF, as adjusted for certain specified events that affect comparability. Similar to its decision with respect to the 2012 annual cash performance award program, the compensation committee modified the definition of OCF to also exclude direct costs associated with dispositions. The target OCF CAGR is subject to upward or downward adjustment for certain events in accordance with the terms of the grant agreement. The compensation committee also established a minimum OCF CAGR base performance objective, which for this purpose is subject to more limited adjustments. The base performance objective must be satisfied in order for our NEOs to be eligible to earn any of their 2012 PSU awards. Except as otherwise described in this paragraph, the design of the 2012 PSU awards is substantially the same as the design of the 2011 PSU awards described above.
Stock Ownership Policy
Our compensation committee has established a Senior Executive Stock Ownership Policy for our executive officers. The purpose of the Senior Executive Stock Ownership Policy is to ensure that our executive officers have a significant stake in our long-term success. As a result, the compensation committee established guidelines for ownership of our common stock based on an individual's level in our company and expressed as a multiple of base salary as follows:

    
Position
Guideline
Chief Executive Officer
5 times base salary
Executive Vice Presidents, including Co-Chief Financial Officers
4 times base salary
All Senior Vice Presidents and President of Liberty Global Latin America division
3 times base salary
Executive and senior officers at the time the policy was adopted are expected to be in compliance with the Senior Executive Stock Ownership Policy within two years of the policy's effective date. New executive and senior officers must be in compliance

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within four years of the date they become subject to the policy. In calculating the value of stock owned by an executive and a senior officer, the policy includes the value of shares owned jointly with and separately by the officer's spouse and minor children, 50% of the value of shares held in the officer's account in our 401(k) Plan, and 50% of the in-the-money value of vested stock options and SARs. As of March 31, 2012, the value of the stock owned by Mr. Fries, as calculated in accordance with the policy, significantly exceeded five times his base salary. In addition, at such date, our other NEOs had either met or were well positioned to achieve the required level of stock ownership within the time frame set by the policy.
Deferred Compensation Plan
Under the Liberty Global, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan, those executive and senior officers of LGI, its subsidiaries and divisions who are designated as participants from time to time by our compensation committee may elect to defer payment of certain of their compensation as described under “—Deferred Compensation Plan” below. We do not have a pension or other defined benefit-type plan to offer our executive and senior officers and contributions to our defined contribution 401(k) Plan are capped by law. Accordingly, the Deferred Compensation Plan was adopted by the compensation committee to provide a tax-efficient method for participants to accumulate value, thus enhancing our ability to attract and retain senior management. With respect to the tax ramifications to us of the Deferred Compensation Plan, the compensation committee noted in adopting the plan that the corporate tax deduction on the deferred compensation may not be taken until payments to participants are made, but that we will have use of the cash in the interim. Although our compensation committee deemed the Deferred Compensation Plan to be an important benefit to participants, it is not included in any quantitative valuation with the three main components of our compensation packages, because participation in the plan, and to what extent, is at each participant's discretion.
Other Benefits
We do not offer perquisites and other personal benefits on a general basis to our executive officers. The personal benefits we have provided are limited in scope and fall into three principal categories:
limited personal use of our corporate aircraft;
an annual auto allowance or use of a company auto for our executive officers working in Europe; and
an executive health plan.
Under our aircraft policy, our CEO, other executive officers and certain senior officers, with his approval, may use our corporate aircraft for personal travel, subject to reimbursing us for the incremental costs incurred. For 2011, our compensation committee authorized personal use of our aircraft by our CEO for up to 90 flight hours per year, without cost reimbursement, as part of his compensation package, subject to annual review by the committee. Also under our aircraft policy, our CEO and, with his approval, our other executive officers and certain senior officers may have family members or other personal guests accompany them on our corporate aircraft while traveling on business without reimbursing us for the incremental cost attributable to the personal guest.
The taxable income of an officer will include imputed income equal to the value of the personal use of our aircraft by him and by his personal guests determined using a method based on the Standard Industry Fare Level (SIFL) rates, as published by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) (in the case of U.S. taxpayers), or based on the cost of the flight for personal use and based on the cost of a commercial ticket for guests (in the case of U.K. and Netherlands taxpayers). Income is imputed only to the extent that the value derived by such applicable method exceeds the amount the officer pays us for such personal use.
The methods we use to determine our incremental cost attributable to personal use of our corporate aircraft are described in the notes to the Summary Compensation Table. Because our aircraft are used primarily for business travel, this methodology excludes fixed costs that do not change based on usage, such as salaries of pilots and crew, purchase costs of aircraft, and costs of maintenance and upkeep.
For our management-level employees in the Netherlands, the U.K. and certain other European countries, including two of our NEOs who work in these locations, we provide an annual auto allowance, with variations in the cost of providing this benefit based on the employee's position and location.
We also provide an executive health plan for our executive and senior officers to proactively manage and improve their health. The benefits of this program include a complete medical history review, annual physical examinations, comprehensive laboratory testing, diagnostic testing and consultations with specialists.
Our NEOs also participate in various benefit plans offered to all salaried employees in the applicable country of employment.

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Tax and Accounting Considerations
In making its compensation decisions, our compensation committee considers the limitations on deductibility of executive compensation under Section 162(m). That provision prohibits the deduction of compensation in excess of $1 million paid to certain executives, subject to certain exceptions. One exception is for performance-based compensation, including stock options and SARs, granted under stockholder-approved plans such as the Incentive Plan. Our compensation committee generally seeks to design the principal elements of our compensation program, such as annual cash performance awards, SAR grants and the terms of our PSU awards, so as to ensure deductibility consistent with the requirements of Section 162(m). It has not, however, adopted a policy requiring all compensation to be deductible, in order to maintain flexibility in making compensation decisions. Certain types of compensation such as non-business use of corporate aircraft without reimbursement and grants of restricted shares and restricted share units that do not include a performance condition, may not be deductible due to the application of Section 162(m). All grants of restricted shares and restricted share units to our NEOs since 2006 have been performance based. Our compensation committee also endeavors to ensure that any compensation that could be characterized as non-qualified deferred compensation complies with Section 409A of the Code.
Our compensation committee also takes into account from time to time, as appropriate, the accounting treatment of compensation elements in determining types and levels of compensation, including method of payment, for our executive officers.
Recoupment Policy
The terms of our PSU awards and our annual cash performance awards for executive officers provide that if our consolidated financial statements for any of the years relevant to the determination of whether the applicable performance metrics have been met are required to be restated at any time as a result of an error (whether or not involving fraud or misconduct) and our compensation committee determines that if the financial results had been properly reported the portion of the awards that would have been earned by participants would have been lower than the awards actually earned by them, then each participant will be required to refund and/or forfeit the excess amount of his or her earned award.
Post-Employment Benefits and Change in Control
We have not adopted a severance policy covering our NEOs or other executive officers. Certain of our NEOs are entitled to limited post-employment benefits under their employment agreements. See “—Employment and Other Agreements” below. Otherwise, they are entitled to the same benefit of accelerated vesting of all or part of conventional equity awards made under the Incentive Plan on certain termination-of-employment events as other holders of such awards. Similarly, the Incentive Plan provides the same treatment to all holders of conventional equity awards granted under the Incentive Plan upon the occurrence of certain change-in-control events. Accordingly, the existence of these potential post-employment and change-in-control benefits has not influenced our compensation committee's decisions with respect to executive compensation.
In designing the terms for the PSU awards, our compensation committee determined that only a limited set of events would warrant automatic acceleration of awards thereunder. The terms of the PSU awards do not guarantee that any portion of an award will be deemed earned upon termination of employment, except as a result of death, nor that vesting of earned awards will be accelerated upon termination of employment, except as a result of death or disability. Awards will only be accelerated upon specified change-in-control events if the awards are not continued on the same terms and conditions or, in the case of certain corporate reorganization transactions, effective provision has not been made for the assumption or continuation of the awards on equivalent terms.
The compensation committee believed these limited acceleration events related to a change in control provided appropriate protection to participants and would serve to maintain morale and aid retention during the disruptive circumstances of a change in control. The compensation committee reserved discretion to approve the accelerated vesting of an individual's award or an amendment to an individual's award agreements when it deemed appropriate under the circumstances.
For additional information on post-employment benefits and change-in-control provisions, see “—Potential Payments upon Termination or Change in Control” below.
Timing of Equity Awards
In 2006, our compensation committee adopted a policy that the consideration and approval of proposed annual grants of conventional equity awards to employees, including our NEOs would occur at the compensation committee meeting held in conjunction with our board's regularly scheduled second quarter meeting each year. Typically this meeting occurs at the end of April or the beginning of May. The exercise price or base price of option and SAR grants approved at this meeting are set at the respective closing prices of our Series A common stock and Series C common stock on the grant date, which is the date of the meeting or, if later, May 1 of the same year. Grants of equity awards to eligible employees would otherwise only be made in connection with

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significant events, such as hiring or promotion.
For purposes of determining the number of Series A and Series C PSUs to be granted each year for two-thirds of the target annual equity values of our executive officers and other key employees, our compensation committee adopted a policy of using the average of the closing prices of our Series A and Series C common stock for a trading period ending on the second trading day preceding the date of the annual meeting of the committee to approve the grants.
Policies Regarding Hedging
Our Insider Trading Policy requires each of our directors and executive officers to pre-clear all proposed transactions in our company's securities, including hedging or monetization transactions, with the Legal Department or our company's outside counsel. The policy prohibits short sales of our company's securities by any director or employee. We do not have a policy that specifically prohibits our directors or executive officers from hedging the economic risk of stock ownership.
Compensation Committee Report
The compensation committee has reviewed the “Compensation Discussion and Analysis” above and discussed it with management. Based on such review and discussions, the compensation committee recommended to LGI's board of directors that the “Compensation Discussion and Analysis” be included in this proxy statement.
Submitted by the Members of the Compensation Committee:

John P. Cole, Jr.
Larry E. Romrell
J.C. Sparkman (chairman)

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Summary Compensation
The following table sets forth information concerning the compensation of our named executive officers for fiscal years 2011, 2010 and 2009. As discussed in the footnotes and in the “—Narrative to Summary Compensation and Grants of Plan-Based Awards Tables” below, the values presented in the tables do not always reflect the actual compensation received by our named executive officers during the relevant fiscal year. Amounts paid in British pounds or euros, as the case may be, have been converted into U.S. dollars based on the average exchange rate for the applicable year.
Name and Principal Position 
 
Year
 
Salary ($)
 
Bonus ($)
 
Stock Awards ($)(1)

Option Awards ($)(2)

Non-Equity
Incentive Plan
Compensation
($)(3)
 
Change in Pension Value and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings($)(4)
 
All Other
Compensation
($)(5)
 
Total
($)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Michael T. Fries
 
2011
 
986,000

(6)
 
 
5,144,147

 
3,068,648

 
4,000,000


 
59,629

 
555,787

 
13,814,211

Chief Executive
 
2010
 
985,554

(7)
 
 
5,295,187

 
2,958,353

 
2,559,000

(8)
 
235

 
516,704

 
12,315,033

Officer & President
 
2009
 
957,000


 
 

 

 
1,600,000


 
21,380

 
309,930

 
2,888,310

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Charles H.R. Bracken
 
2011
 
631,648

(9)
 
 
2,250,714

 
1,177,913

 
1,000,000


 

 
76,221

 
5,136,496

Executive Vice President
 
2010
 
608,562

(9)
 
 
2,316,609

 
1,119,123

 
853,000


 

 
73,804

 
4,971,098

and Co-Chief Financial
 
2009
 
595,643

(9)
 
 

 

 
930,000


 

 
78,157

 
1,603,800

Officer (Principal
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Financial Officer)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Bernard G. Dvorak
 
2011
 
523,000


 
 
2,250,714

 
1,342,199

 
1,000,000


 

 
18,296

 
5,134,209

Executive Vice President
 
2010
 
522,754

(7)
 
 
2,316,609

 
1,294,432

 
853,000


 

 
19,525

 
5,006,320

and Co-Chief Financial
 
2009
 
507,000


 
 

 

 
930,000


 

 
16,804

 
1,453,804

Officer (Principal
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Accounting Officer)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Diederik Karsten(12)
 
2011
 
665,322

(10)
 
 
2,250,714

 
1,177,913

 
1,000,000


 

 
163,828

 
5,257,777

Executive Vice
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
President, European
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Broadband Operations
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Balan Nair(12)
 
2011
 
536,000

(11)
 
 
2,250,714

 
1,342,199

 
1,000,000


 
18,469

 
45,650

 
5,193,032

Executive Vice
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
President, Chief
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Technology Officer
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
____________________
(1)
The 2011 dollar amounts shown in the “Stock Awards” column reflect the grant date fair value of each NEO's target 2011 PSUs determined in accordance with the Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 718 (FASB ASC 718). The grant date fair value for the maximum achievable 2011 PSU awards (150% of target) would be $7,716,220 for Mr. Fries and $3,376,071 for each of the other NEOs. Earned awards will vest, subject to forfeiture or acceleration under certain circumstances, in two equal installments on each of March 31, 2013 and September 30, 2013.
(2)
The 2011 dollar amounts shown in the “Option Awards” column reflect the grant date fair value in accordance with FASB ASC 718 of SAR awards granted to our NEOs in 2011. Such dollar amounts exclude the impact of estimated forfeitures and assume a risk-free interest rate of 2.08%, a volatility rate of 38.0% and an expected term of 5.1 years with respect to Messrs. Fries, Dvorak and Nair and a risk-free interest rate of 1.42%, a volatility rate of 40.7% and an expected term of 3.7 years with respect to Messrs. Bracken and Karsten. Messrs. Bracken, Dvorak, Karsten and Nair were each granted the same number of SARs in 2011. The differences in the grant date fair value of their SAR awards are attributable to the different valuation assumptions described above, which were applied based on their respective home countries. The SAR awards vest 12.5% on November 1, 2011 and thereafter in 14 equal quarterly installments commencing February 1, 2012, and have a seven year term.
(3)
The dollar amounts in the “Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compensation” column reflect the annual cash performance awards earned by the NEOs under the Incentive Plan during the years indicated. For 2011, the compensation committee determined the final award amounts at its February 29, 2012 meeting, which awards were paid out in March 2012.
(4)
The dollar amounts shown in the “Change in Pension Value and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings” column reflect the above-market value of accrued interest on compensation previously deferred by the applicable NEO under our Deferred Compensation Plan. The above-market value of accrued interest is that portion of the accrued interest equal to the amount that exceeds 120% of the applicable federal long-term rate (with compounding) at the time the interest rate under the Deferred Compensation Plan was set. See also notes (6), (8) and (11) below.

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(5)
The following table provides additional information about the 2011 amounts that appear in the “All Other Compensation” column in the Summary Compensation Table above:  
Name 

401(k)
Plan (a)  

U.K. Defined
Contribution
Plan (b)  

NL Defined Contribution Plan (c)

Auto
Allowance  

Misc (d)  

Total  



















Michael T. Fries

$
278








$
555,509


$
555,787

Charles H.R. Bracken



$
50,532




$
23,240


$
2,449


$
76,221

Bernard G. Dvorak

$
16,500








$
1,796


$
18,296

Diederik Karsten





$
107,708


$
36,282


$
19,838


$
163,828

Balan Nair

$
12,864








$
32,786


$
45,650

 ___________
(a)
Represents matching employer contributions made under our 401(k) Plan. Under the plan, participants may make contributions annually, subject to federal limits, and we make a matching contribution equal to 100% of the participant's contribution up to the lesser of the federal limit on contributions or 10% of their cash compensation (excluding awards under the Incentive Plan). Voluntary catch-up contributions permitted under federal law for persons age 50 or older, however, are not matched. Messrs. Fries, Dvorak and Nair are fully vested in their respective 401(k) Plan accounts.
(b)
Represents employer contributions pursuant to the Liberty Global Group Pension Plan in the U.K. Under this plan, Liberty Global Europe Ltd. (LGE) retains a plan provider that assists participating U.K. employees with establishing individual pension plans, which are defined contribution personal retirement savings plans. The employer then makes monthly contributions to each participant's pension plan equal to a percentage of the participant's monthly base salary, which varies based on age group. For Mr. Bracken, the employer contribution is 8% of his base salary. The maximum employer contribution is 14% of base salary for employees over the age of 60. Participants are required to make a contribution of at least 3% of their base salary to their individual pension plans. The participant's contributions are not capped although the tax benefits to the participant are significantly less if such participant's annual contributions exceed £50,000 ($80,158) or a lifetime contribution in excess of £1.8 million ($2.9 million), as such limits may be changed by the U.K. government from time to time. Participating U.K. employees, including Mr. Bracken, are fully vested in the employer contributions to their respective pension plans.
(c)
Represents employer contributions pursuant to the Dutch Liberty Global Pension Plan in the Netherlands. This is a defined contribution plan and Liberty Global Europe B.V. (LGE BV) retains an insurance company to execute the Dutch Liberty Global Pension Plan. This plan also includes a survivor's pension and insurance covering a waiver of premium in the case of disability. The employer makes a contribution to each participant's pension plan equal to a percentage of the participant's annual base salary (minus an offset), which varies based on age group. The employer also pays the contributions for the pension plan insurance. For Mr. Karsten, the employer contribution is 13.1% of his base salary. Participants are required to make a contribution of at least 3% of their base salary to their individual pension plans. Participating Netherlands employees, including Mr. Karsten, are fully vested in the employer contributions to their respective pension plans.
(d)
Amounts reflect the following:
Premiums for term life insurance for Messrs. Fries ($1,637), Dvorak ($1,671) and Nair ($2,169) under our group term life insurance benefit plan for U.S. employees.
Premiums for term life insurance for Mr. Bracken ($1,558) under LGE's group life assurance policy for U.K. employees.
Payments made on behalf of Messrs. Bracken, Karsten and Nair under our executive health plan. The payment for Mr. Karsten includes our cost of €9,021 ($12,546) for use of our aircraft for him to receive services under such plan.
Our aggregate incremental cost attributable to personal use of our aircraft or having a personal guest on a business flight by each of our NEOs is as follows: Mr. Fries ($303,916), Mr. Karsten ($3,954) and Mr. Nair ($47). Aggregate incremental cost for personal use of our aircraft is determined on a per flight basis and includes fuel, oil, lubricants, hourly costs of aircraft maintenance for the applicable number of flight hours, in-flight food and beverage services, trip-related hanger and tie down costs, landing and parking fees, travel expenses for crew and other variable costs specifically incurred. Aggregate incremental cost for a personal guest is determined based on our average direct variable costs per passenger for fuel and in-flight food and beverage services, plus, when applicable, customs and immigration fees specifically incurred.
The cost of memberships in certain professional organizations for Mr. Fries.

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The tax gross-up on gifts from us to Messrs. Fries ($125), Dvorak ($125) and Nair ($125), valued at less than $200.    
Contributions to several charitable and non-profit organizations made by LGI at the request of Mr. Fries. Such contributions aggregated $223,736 and are not included in Mr. Fries's LGI income for tax purposes. Of the organizations that received such contributions, Mr. Fries is a member of the board of four of the organizations and on the advisory board of another organization to which LGI contributed. The contributions to these organizations were $100,000, $38,000, $15,000, $12,500 and $12,000, respectively. LGI also contributed $10,000 to an organization that gave an award to Mr. Fries.
Contributions to two charitable and non-profit organizations made by LGI at the request of Mr. Nair. In addition, LGI matched $22,500 in contributions by Mr. Nair through its company-match program, which is open to all employees. Such contributions (aggregate $28,500) are not included in Mr. Nair's LGI income for tax purposes.
During 2011, Mr. Fries and Mr. Nair each used sporting and concert event tickets at no incremental cost to us. In addition, at the request of Mr. Fries, we donated 20 tickets at no incremental cost to us, to a fundraiser for his daughter's school. Such contributions are not included in Mr. Fries's LGI income for tax purposes.
During 2011, Mr. Bracken used sporting and concert event tickets made available generally to all employees of our U.K. offices on a first come, first served basis for which we do not attribute compensation.
(6)
Amount includes $887,400 of Mr. Fries's 2011 salary, the payment of which Mr. Fries elected to defer pursuant to our Deferred Compensation Plan. Such deferred amount accrued interest at the rate of 9% per annum compounded quarterly until paid in full to him. In January 2012, LGI paid the amount deferred, plus accrued interest.
(7)
The 2010 amounts for Mr. Fries and Mr. Dvorak include one week of 2009 pay that was paid to them at their 2009 salary rates in early 2010 due to the timing of scheduled payroll dates.
(8)
Amount includes $844,470 of Mr. Fries's 2010 annual cash performance award, the payment of which Mr. Fries elected to defer pursuant to our Deferred Compensation Plan. Such deferred amount accrues interest at the rate of 9% per annum compounded quarterly until paid in full to him. The amount deferred, plus accrued interest, will be paid in a lump sum in December 2012.
(9)
For the years indicated, Mr. Bracken received all or a portion of his salary, perquisites and employee benefits in British pounds, which have been converted for this presentation to U.S. dollars based upon the average exchange rate in effect during each respective year (0.623765 for 2011, 0.647428 for 2010 and 0.641324 for 2009).
(10)
For 2011, Mr. Karsten received all or a portion of his salary, perquisites and employee benefits in euros, which have been converted for this presentation to U.S. dollars based upon the average exchange rate in effect during that year of 0.719043. Due in part to his promotion at the beginning of 2011, Mr. Karsten received less than the annual salary specified in his employment agreement in 2011 because under standard Dutch payroll practice for vacation pay, a portion of his salary is accrued on a monthly basis and paid in mid-2012.
(11)
Amount includes $107,200 of Mr. Nair's 2011 salary, the payment of which Mr. Nair elected to defer pursuant to our Deferred Compensation Plan. Such deferred amount accrues interest at the rate of 9% per annum compounded quarterly until paid in full to him. The amount deferred, plus accrued interest, will be paid in a lump sum in December 2012.
(12)
Compensation information has been included for 2011 only because Messrs. Karsten and Nair were not named executive officers in 2009 or 2010.

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Grants of Plan-Based Awards
The table below sets forth certain information concerning the grants of equity based awards and the annual cash performance awards granted to our named executive officers under the Incentive Plan during the year ended December 31, 2011, as more fully described below under “—Narrative to Summary Compensation and Grants of Plan-Based Awards Tables”. The actual amount of the 2011 cash performance award approved for each named executive officer is reflected in the “Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compensation” column of the Summary Compensation Table.
Name
Grant Date
Date of Committee Action
Estimated Possible Payouts Under Non-Equity Incentive Plan Awards
Estimated Future Payouts Under Equity Incentive Plan Awards
All Other Stock Awards Number of Shares of Stock or Units (#)
All other Option Awards Number of Securities Underlying Options (#)
Exercise or Base Price of Option Awards ($/sh)
Grant Date Fair Value of Stock & Option Awards ($)
Threshold ($)
Target
($)
Maximum
($)
Threshold
(#)
Target
(#)
Maximum
(#)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Michael T. Fries
02/17/2011



4,000,000

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Series A
03/17/2011

 
 
 
32,167

64,334

96,501

 
 
 
2,621,611

Series C
03/17/2011

 
 
 
32,167

64,334

96,501

 
 
 
2,522,536

Series A
05/01/2011
04/25/2011

 
 
 
 
 
 

91,744

46.50
1,569,943

Series C
05/01/2011
04/25/2011

 
 
 
 
 
 

91,744

44.39
1,498,705

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Charles H.R. Bracken
02/17/2011



1,000,000

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Series A
03/17/2011

 
 
 
14,074

28,148

42,222

 
 
 
1,147,031

Series C
03/17/2011

 
 
 
14,074

28,148

42,222

 
 
 
1,103,683

Series A
05/01/2011
04/25/2011

 
 
 
 
 
 

40,128

46.50
602,629

Series C
05/01/2011
04/25/2011

 
 
 
 
 
 

40,128

44.39
575,284

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Bernard G. Dvorak
02/17/2011



1,000,000

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Series A
03/17/2011

 
 
 
14,074

28,148

42,222

 
 
 
1,147,031

Series C
03/17/2011

 
 
 
14,074

28,148

42,222

 
 
 
1,103,683

Series A
05/01/2011
04/25/2011

 
 
 
 
 
 

40,128

46.50
686,679

Series C
05/01/2011
04/25/2011

 
 
 
 
 
 

40,128

44.39
655,520

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Diederik Karsten
02/17/2011



1,000,000

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Series A
03/17/2011

 
 
 
14,074

28,148

42,222

 
 
 
1,147,031

Series C
03/17/2011

 
 
 
14,074

28,148

42,222

 
 
 
1,103,683

Series A
05/01/2011
04/25/2011

 
 
 
 
 
 

40,128

46.50
602,629

Series C
05/01/2011
04/25/2011

 
 
 
 
 
 

40,128

44.39
575,284

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Balan Nair
02/17/2011



1,000,000

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Series A
03/17/2011

 
 
 
14,074

28,148

42,222

 
 
 
1,147,031

Series C
03/17/2011

 
 
 
14,074

28,148

42,222

 
 
 
1,103,683

Series A
05/01/2011
04/25/2011

 
 
 
 
 
 

40,128

46.50
686,679

Series C
05/01/2011
04/25/2011

 
 
 
 
 
 

40,128

44.39
655,520

  Narrative to Summary Compensation and Grants of Plan-Based Awards Tables
The amounts reported for 2011 in the Summary Compensation Table include salary, annual cash performance awards, equity incentive grants, benefits and perquisites as more fully described in “—Compensation Discussion and Analysis” above. The following discussion focuses on the annual cash performance award component of 2011 total compensation and the equity incentive grants reflected in the Grants of Plan-Based Awards Table. Additional information with respect to the other components of 2011 compensation is provided in the notes to the Summary Compensation Table. Also discussed are the vesting and forfeiture provisions applicable to 2011 PSU awards.
Non-Equity Incentive Plan Awards
The maximum achievable amount of the 2011 annual cash performance awards for each of our NEOs are shown in the Grants of Plan-Based Awards Table under “Estimated Possible Payouts Under Non-Equity Incentive Plan Awards”. Because the compensation committee has discretion to pay no award notwithstanding the achievement of the base performance objective, no “threshold” or minimum awards are reflected in the Table. The amount each NEO actually earned of his 2011 annual cash performance award, which was paid in 2012, is reflected in the “Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compensation” column of the Summary Compensation Table.
Equity Incentive Plan Awards
In accordance with SEC rules, equity incentive plan awards are those awards that fall within the scope of FASB ASC 718. In the Summary Compensation Table, the fair market value of an equity incentive plan award is reflected in the Stock Awards column

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or the Option Awards column depending on the nature of the award. All of the dollar amounts shown for our NEOs' Stock Awards for 2011 represent the grant date fair value calculated in accordance with FASB ASC 718 of their target 2011 PSU award granted on March 17, 2011, taking into account the probable outcome as of the grant date of the performance conditions of the plan, excluding the impact of estimated forfeitures. All of the dollar amounts shown for our NEOs' Options Awards for 2011 represent the grant date fair value calculated in accordance with FASB ASC 718 of their SAR awards, the grant of which was approved by the compensation committee on April 25, 2011, with a grant date of May 1, 2011. Such amounts exclude the impact of estimated forfeitures and take into account a risk-free interest rate of 2.08%, a volatility rate of 38.0% and an expected term of 5.1 years with respect to Messrs. Fries, Dvorak and Nair and a risk-free interest rate of 1.42%, a volatility rate of 40.7% and an expected term of 3.7 years with respect to Messrs. Bracken and Karsten. Messrs. Bracken, Karsten, Dvorak and Nair were each awarded the same number of SARs. The SAR awards were made at the same time as SAR awards were made under the annual equity grant program for our eligible employees and with the same terms as SAR grants to all such eligible employees.
As described under “—Compensation Discussion and Analysis” above, the 2011 PSU awards have a two-year performance period beginning January 1, 2011, followed by a service period during which 50% of the earned 2011 PSUs will vest on March 31, 2013, and the balance on September 30, 2013. The number of 2011 PSUs that a grantee actually earns will depend on our company's performance against the target OCF CAGR and the individual's performance during the two-year performance period. Further, earned awards are subject to forfeiture or acceleration under certain circumstances during the 2013 service period and the value that a grantee may realize from his earned and vested 2011 PSUs will vary directly with our stock price.
Each grantee has the opportunity to earn varying percentages of his or her target 2011 PSUs based primarily on our level of achievement of a target OCF CAGR during the two-year performance period. A performance range of 75% to 125% of the target OCF CAGR would generally result in a participant earning 50% to 150% of his or her target 2011 PSUs, subject to reduction or forfeiture based on individual performance. The compensation committee also established a base performance objective that must be achieved for our NEOs to earn any portion of their target 2011 PSU award.
Generally, a grantee must continue to be employed by LGI or one of its subsidiaries (1) at the end of the performance period to earn any portion of his target 2011 PSUs and (2) at each vesting date during the service period to avoid forfeiture of the unvested balance of his earned 2011 PSUs. Termination of employment due to death or disability during the performance period will generally result in acceleration of vesting of a prorated portion of the grantee's target 2011 PSUs, in the case of death, or of the number of 2011 PSUs that the grantee would have earned had employment continued, in the case of disability. Termination of employment due to death or disability during the service period will result in the balance of the grantee's earned 2011 PSUs becoming vested, which will then be settled on the scheduled vesting dates.
If termination of employment is voluntary or for cause, the grantee will forfeit any remaining rights to earn or vest in his 2011 PSUs. If the grantee's employment is terminated without cause or the grantee resigns for good reason, the compensation committee has discretion to accelerate vesting of some portion of the grantee's target 2011 PSUs, if cessation of employment occurs during the performance period, or of some portion of the unvested balance of the grantee's earned 2011 PSUs, if the cessation of employment occurs during the service period. There is no guarantee of acceleration and in no event may the accelerated amount of 2011 PSUs or the terms of their settlement be more favorable to the grantee than if his cessation of employment was due to disability.
Certain change-in-control events will result in the accelerated vesting of a grantee's target 2011 PSUs or the remaining balance of his earned 2011 PSUs, but only if the grant agreement is not continued on the same terms and conditions or effective provision has not been made for the assumption or continuation of the grant agreement on equivalent terms. If the grant agreement is so continued or assumed, then (1) if the change-in-control event occurs during the performance period, the grantee will be deemed to have earned his target 2011 PSUs, which will be converted to time-vested restricted share units subject to the service and vesting requirements of the grant agreement, and (2) the vesting of the 2011 PSUs that the grantee has earned or is deemed to have earned will not be accelerated, unless the participant's employment thereafter ceases as a result of death, disability, termination without cause or resignation for good reason. For additional information on the effect of a change-in-control, see “—Potential Payments upon Termination or Change in Control” below.
Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End
The table below sets forth certain information concerning options, SARs and restricted shares or units held by our named executive officers at year end 2011.

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Option Awards  

Stock Awards  
Name 
 
Number of
Securities
Underlying
Unexercised
Options (#)
Exercisable  

Number of
Securities
Underlying
Unexercised
Options (#)
Unexercisable
 
Option
Exercise
Price
($)  

Option
Expiration
Date  

Number of Shares or
Units of Stock That
Have Not Vested
(#)

Market Value of Shares or Units of Stock That Have Not Vested
($)  
Michael T. Fries
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Series A
 
147,617

 


 
19.64
 
11/24/2014
 
81,499

(3)
3,819,647

3,343,904

 
 
12,930

 


 
12.54
 
10/01/2013
 
64,334

(4)
2,639,624

2,639,624

 
 
55,492

 


 
10.90
 
10/07/2013
 


 

 
 
140,000

 


 
24.02
 
07/14/2012
 


 

 
 
65,000

 


 
20.48
 
05/02/2013
 


 

 
 
50,970

 
84,950

(1)
 
27.48
 
05/01/2017
 


 

 
 
11,468

 
80,276

(2)
 
46.50
 
05/01/2018
 


 

Series C
 
147,617

 


 
18.60
 
11/24/2014
 
81,499

(3)
3,154,956

3,220,840

 
 
12,930

 


 
11.87
 
10/01/2013
 
64,334

(4)
2,542,480

2,542,480

 
 
55,492

 


 
10.31
 
10/07/2013
 


 

 
 
140,000

 


 
22.73
 
07/14/2012
 


 

 
 
65,000

 


 
19.92
 
05/02/2013
 


 

 
 
50,970

 
84,950

(1)
 
27.08
 
05/01/2017
 


 

 
 
11,468

 
80,276

(2)
 
44.39
 
05/01/2018
 


 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Charles H.R. Bracken
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
Series A
 
25,860

 

 
 
19.64
 
11/24/2014
 
35,655

(3)
1,671,070

1,462,925

 
 
26,563

 

 
 
24.02
 
07/14/2012
 
28,148

(4)
1,154,912

1,154,912

 
 
21,250

 

 
 
20.48
 
05/02/2013
 


 

 
 
22,302

 
37,170

(1)
 
27.48
 
05/01/2017
 


 

 
 
5,016

 
35,112

(2)
 
46.50
 
05/01/2018
 


 

Series C
 
25,860

 

 
 
18.60
 
11/24/2014
 
35,655

(3)
1,609,571

1,409,086

 
 
26,563

 

 
 
22.73
 
07/14/2012
 
28,148

(4)
1,112,409

1,112,409

 
 
21,250

 

 
 
19.92
 
05/02/2013
 


 

 
 
22,302

 
37,170

(1)
 
27.08
 
05/01/2017
 


 

 
 
5,016

 
35,112

(2)
 
44.39
 
05/01/2018
 


 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Bernard G. Dvorak
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Series A
 
22,302

 
37,170

(1)
 
27.48
 
05/01/2017
 
35,655

(3)
 
1,462,925

 
 
5,016

 
35,112

(2)
 
46.50
 
05/01/2018
 
28,148

(4)
 
1,154,912

Series C
 
22,302

 
37,170

(1)
 
27.08
 
05/01/2017
 
35,655

(3)
 
1,409,086

 
 
5,016

 
35,112

(2)
 
44.39
 
05/01/2018
 
28,148

(4)
 
1,112,409

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Diederik Karsten
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Series A
 
6,200

 
9,300

(5)
 
16.70
 
05/01/2016
 
12,734

(3)
1,671,070

522,476


 
5,563

 
8,344

(5)
 
14.73
 
05/01/2016
 
28,148

(4)
1,154,912

1,154,912


 
5,308

 
13,270

(1)
 
27.48
 
05/01/2017
 
3,600

(5)
 
147,708


 
5,016

 
35,112

(2)
 
46.50
 
05/01/2018
 
763

(6)
 
31,306

Series C
 
6,200

 
9,300

(5)
 
16.55
 
05/01/2016
 
12,734

(3)
1,609,571

503,248


 
5,563

 
8,344

(5)
 
14.50
 
05/01/2016
 
28,148

(4)
1,112,409

1,112,409


 
5,308

 
13,270

(1)
 
27.08
 
05/01/2017
 
3,600

(5)
 
142,272


 
5,016

 
35,112

(2)
 
44.39
 
05/01/2018
 
763

(6)
 
30,154


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Balan Nair
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Series A
 
37,500

 


 
44.09
 
07/16/2014
 
15,281

(3)
1,671,070

626,979


 
9,558

 
15,930

(1)
 
27.48
 
05/01/2017
 
28,148

(4)
1,154,912

1,154,912


 
5,016

 
35,112

(2)
 
46.50
 
05/01/2018
 


 

Series C
 
37,500

 


 
42.37
 
07/16/2014
 
15,281

(3)
1,609,571

603,905


 
9,558

 
15,930

(1)
 
27.08
 
05/01/2017
 
28,148

(4)
1,112,409

1,112,409


 
5,016

 
35,112

(2)
 
44.39
 
05/01/2018
 


 

___________________ 
(1)
Vests in 10 equal remaining quarterly installments from February 1, 2012 to May 1, 2014.
(2)
Vests in 14 equal remaining quarterly installments from February 1, 2012 to May 1, 2015.
(3)
Represents the number of Series A and Series C shares underlying 2010 PSUs that were actually earned by each of our NEOs

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as determined by the compensation committee at its meeting in February 2012. These awards were then converted to time-vested restricted share units vesting in two equal installments on March 31, 2012 and September 30, 2012. See “Elements of Our Compensation Packages—Equity Incentive Awards—Decisions for 2010 PSUs” above.
(4)
Represents an estimate of the number of Series A and Series C shares underlying 2011 PSUs that may be earned by each of our NEOs. If earned, the 2011 PSUs will vest in two equal installments on March 31, 2013 and September 30, 2013, respectively.
(5)
Vests in six equal remaining quarterly installments from February 1, 2012 to May 1, 2013.
(6)
Vests in two equal remaining quarterly installments on February 1, 2012 and May 1, 2012.
Option Exercises and Stock Vested
The table below sets forth certain information concerning each exercise of options or SARs by, and each vesting of restricted shares or restricted share units of, our named executive officers during the year ended December 31, 2011.

 
Option Awards
 
Stock Awards  
Name
 
Number of
Shares Acquired
on Exercise (#)
 
Value Realized
on Exercise ($)
 
Number of
Shares Acquired
on Vesting (#)(1)
 
Value Realized
on Vesting ($)
Michael T. Fries
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Series A
 
517,198

(2)
 
15,003,914


 
384,428


 
14,913,884


Series C
 
317,198

(2)
 
9,084,551


 
371,606


 
13,860,904


 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 

Charles H.R. Bracken
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
Series A
 


 


 
210,234


 
8,156,028


Series C
 


 


 
203,222


 
7,580,181


 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 

Bernard G. Dvorak
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
Series A
 


 


 
150,166


 
5,825,690


Series C
 


 


 
145,158


 
5,414,393


 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 

Diederik Karsten
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
Series A
 


 


 
34,732


 
1,364,840


Series C
 


 


 
33,730


 
1,273,179


 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 

Balan Nair
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
Series A
 


 


 
92,444


 
3,592,690


Series C
 


 


 
89,438


 
3,341,642


__________________
(1)
Includes shares withheld by us to pay the minimum withholding tax due upon vesting of the restricted share units in 2011.
(2)
Consists of 517,198 Series A shares and 317,198 Series C shares underlying stock options, which were exercised at the election of Mr. Fries. The actual number of shares issued to Mr. Fries upon exercise of the options, after taking into account the spread between the exercise price and the closing market price and giving effect to the withholding of shares for taxes, was 227,490 Series A shares and 141,005 Series C shares.
Employment and Other Agreements
We do not have employment agreements with Messrs. Fries, Dvorak or Nair or any of our other U.S. based executive officers. As is customary in the U.K. and the Netherlands, we have employment agreements with each of Mr. Bracken and Mr. Karsten. We also have not adopted a severance policy covering our executive officers. Mr. Fries continues to be covered by a severance policy of UGC that was in existence at the time of the business combination of LGI International and UGC. Each of our NEOs also holds equity awards granted under the Incentive Plan and Messrs. Fries and Bracken also hold equity awards granted under an incentive plan of UGC. These plans are described below under “Incentive Plans”.
Michael T. Fries. In March 2001, as amended in December 2003, UGC's board of directors approved a severance policy with respect to certain of its employees, including Mr. Fries. Although Mr. Fries is fully vested in his equity incentive awards originally granted by UGC, the policy extends the applicable exercise periods of these equity incentive awards upon the occurrence of certain events. Pursuant to the policy, if certain change-in-control events occur and within one year of the occurrence, Mr. Fries's employment is terminated without cause, Mr. Fries dies, or Mr. Fries resigns his employment for any reason (subject to timely notice), then all of the equity incentive awards originally granted to him by UGC and held by him upon such termination would be

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exercisable until the third anniversary of the termination date (or their earlier expiration). If, unrelated to or more than one year after the occurrence of a change-in-control event, the employment of Mr. Fries was terminated without cause, then the UGC-granted equity incentive awards held by him would remain exercisable until the first anniversary of the termination date (or their earlier expiration). Any continued exercisability of such equity incentive awards pursuant to the UGC severance policy would be subject to his execution of a release and his agreement not to compete with UGC and its subsidiaries in the broadband communications business and not to solicit its employees for a period of 24 months following termination of his employment. The benefits of this policy replaced any severance or other benefits of UGC's then existing policies, including under its incentive plans, available to Mr. Fries following these change-in-control events, except that, in the case of a change in control not approved by the board of directors, the terms of the UGC incentive plan under which the equity award was granted would govern the exercisability of such award if such terms were more favorable to Mr. Fries. Mr. Fries's remaining UGC awards were granted under the UGC incentive plan approved in 2003 and expire on various dates from October 2013 through November 2014.
Charles H.R. Bracken. On December 15, 2004, LGE entered into an Executive Service Agreement with Mr. Bracken in connection with his continued appointment as Co-Chief Financial Officer of UGC. In 2005, Mr. Bracken became our Co-Chief Financial Officer (principal financial officer). The Executive Service Agreement has an indefinite term and may be terminated by either party upon six months' notice or by LGE at any time upon shorter notice and payment to Mr. Bracken of his salary and benefits for any unexpired portion of the six months' notice period at the date his employment terminates. His equity awards will also continue to vest during such six-month notice period. Mr. Bracken's employment may also be terminated immediately upon notice for cause. If LGE terminates Mr. Bracken's employment other than for cause or disability, Mr. Bracken will also be entitled to a lump sum severance payment equivalent to his basic salary and benefits for six months, subject to his signing a release. In the event Mr. Bracken becomes disabled and the disability continues for a specified period, LGE may reduce future payments under the Executive Service Agreement to the amount reimbursed by its disability insurer for the duration of Mr. Bracken's disability or, under certain circumstances, terminate his employment as described above.
Mr. Bracken's salary, which for 2011 was £394,000, is subject to annual review and, in the discretion of our compensation committee, upward adjustment. The benefits to which he is entitled pursuant to the Executive Service Agreement include an auto allowance and participation in the Liberty Global Group Pension Plan for U.K. employees and group life insurance, permanent ill health insurance (equivalent to disability insurance) and medical and dental insurance schemes. In addition, the Executive Service Agreement provides for Mr. Bracken to be made whole for any non-U.K. tax liability he may incur with respect to his salary and other amounts due him and for any additional U.K. tax or social security cost he may incur with respect to business expenses or reimbursement paid by LGE for work performed by him outside the U.K.
The Executive Service Agreement includes restrictions on Mr. Bracken's (1) use or disclosure of trade secrets for so long as they are trade secrets, (2) use or disclosure of confidential or proprietary information during the term of his employment and for two years after termination of his employment, and (3) competition with and solicitation of executives or certain employees of LGE, its parent entities or any subsidiary of LGE or its parent entities for a period of six months after termination of his employment.
Diederik Karsten. Effective January 1, 2011, LGE BV entered into an Employment Agreement with Mr. Karsten in connection with his appointment as Managing Director, European Broadband Operations of LGE BV. Recently, LGE BV and Mr. Karsten amended the Employment Agreement to reflect his new title, Executive Vice President, European Broadband Operations. The Employment Agreement has an indefinite term and may be terminated by LGE BV upon six months' notice or by Mr. Karsten upon three months' notice. In either case, Mr. Karsten's equity awards will continue to vest during the applicable notice period. Mr. Karsten's employment may also be terminated immediately upon notice for cause. In the event Mr. Karsten becomes disabled and the disability continues over a year, LGE BV may reduce future payments under the Employment Agreement to the amount reimbursed by its disability insurer for the duration of Mr. Karsten's disability or, under certain circumstances, terminate his employment as described above.
Mr. Karsten's salary under the Employment Agreement, which was €500,000 for 2011, is subject to annual review and, in the discretion of our compensation committee, adjustment. The benefits to which he is entitled pursuant to the Employment Agreement include use of an automobile, participation in the Dutch Liberty Global Pension Plan for Netherlands employees, disability insurance, travel and accident insurance and medical insurance schemes. The Employment Agreement includes restrictions similar to those described for Mr. Bracken.
 Deferred Compensation Plan
The Deferred Compensation Plan first became effective with respect to compensation payable in 2009. Participation in the Deferred Compensation Plan is currently limited to those of our executive officers and certain senior officers who are U.S. taxpayers (including our chief executive officer).
Each designated participant may elect to defer all or any portion of his or her (1) annual cash performance award, (2) annual

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salary up to limits specified by the compensation committee (currently 90%), and (3)  award, if any, under a current or future multi-year performance award arrangement. Initially cash compensation deferred under the Deferred Compensation Plan will be credited with interest at the rate of 9% per year, compounded quarterly at the end of each calendar quarter (the credited interest fund). In setting the interest rate, our compensation committee reviewed data on the implied yields of our significant bank debt and outstanding bonds, as well as credit market conditions. It reserved the right to change the interest rate in the future, provided that any decreases in the rate will apply only to deferred elections that become irrevocable after the new rate is set. The compensation committee made no modification to this rate in its 2011 annual review. Deferred equity awards will not be credited with interest, but will be adjusted for splits, combinations, dividends or distributions. If the compensation committee approves the establishment of one or more phantom investment funds for purposes of the Deferred Compensation Plan, a participant may, but will not be obligated to, elect one or more of such phantom investment funds as the measurement fund for the purpose of calculating notional earnings, losses and other relevant amounts to be credited to or deducted from all or a portion of his or her deferred compensation instead of the credited interest fund.
The Deferred Compensation Plan provides our compensation committee with the discretion to terminate the Deferred Compensation Plan within 12 months of certain change-in-control events and distribute each participant's account balance. Otherwise, the amount of compensation deferred will be distributed in a lump sum or in a series of up to three installments upon the date or dates selected by the participant or in a lump sum when the participant ceases to be an employee of our company. At the participant's request, if the compensation committee determines that such participant has suffered a financial hardship, it may authorize immediate distribution of all or a portion of his account balance. The compensation committee has reserved the right to terminate the Deferred Compensation Plan at any time. Such an optional termination will not result in accelerated distributions.
Of our NEOs, only Mr. Fries and Mr. Nair have deferred compensation under the plan. The table below sets forth certain information concerning the deferred compensation of these officers at year end 2011.
Name

Executive Contribution in
Last FY ($)

Aggregate Earnings in Last FY ($)

Aggregate Withdrawals / Distributions ($)

Aggregate Balance at
Last FYE ($)















Michael T. Fries

1,731,870

(1)

104,772




1,836,642

(3)
Balan Nair

107,200

(2)

38,833




510,512


_____________________ 

(1)
The salary reported for Mr. Fries for 2011 includes $887,400 of this amount as stated in footnote 6 to the Summary Compensation Table above.
(2)
The salary reported for Mr. Nair for 2011 includes this amount as stated in footnote 11 to the Summary Compensation Table above.
(3)
Includes $844,470 previously reported as stated in footnote 8 to the Summary Compensation Table above.
Aircraft Policy
Our policy for the personal use of our aircraft by members of our board, our CEO and such other officers as may be approved by our CEO was originally adopted by our board in 2005 and amended in 2009. The policy allows non-employee directors to use our aircraft for personal flights, subject to availability, without charge. The policy requires each user who is an officer to lease the corporate aircraft for personal use pursuant to an aircraft time sharing agreement and to pay us an amount equal to the aggregate incremental cost of each flight up to certain limits established under the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rules. Incremental costs may include fuel, oil, lubricants and other additives, hanger and tie down costs away from aircraft home airport, travel expenses for crew, landing and parking fees, customs and immigration fees, insurance obtained for a specific flight, in-flight food and beverage services, ground transportation, de-icing fees and flight planning and weather contract services. With approval, family members or guests may join an executive or senior officer or director on a business flight without charge for these additional passengers. Also, on limited occasions, we have allowed a business-related flight to land at an airport other than its destination to drop off or pick up a passenger for personal convenience without requiring reimbursement of our incremental cost.
With respect to Mr. Fries, our compensation committee approved his personal use of our aircraft for a specified number of flight hours per year without charge as part of his compensation package, subject to annual review by the committee. The compensation committee increased the number of flight hours of personal use by Mr. Fries from 60 to 90 commencing in 2011. While in effect, this compensation arrangement will be in lieu of and not in addition to his rights under our aircraft policy. In February 2010, our compensation committee authorized personal use of our aircraft by Mr. Malone for up to 200 flight hours per year as part of his compensation for his services to us. Such authorization is subject to modification by our compensation committee from time to time and will terminate when Mr. Malone ceases to be a director.

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For U.S. tax reporting purposes, when family members or guests of a director or executive or senior officer travel on business flights, the value of such personal use, determined using a method based on SIFL rates as published by the IRS, is imputed as income to such director or executive or senior officer. For tax reporting purposes in Europe, when family members or guests of an executive or senior officer travel on business flights, the value of such personal use, determined based on the cost of a commercial ticket, is imputed as income to such executive or senior officer. A director or executive or senior officer will also have imputed income based on SIFL rates (in the case of U.S. taxpayers) or the cost of the flight (in the case of European taxpayers) for a personal flight, less any amounts reimbursed to us. In accordance with applicable tax rules and regulations, such imputed income is included in taxable income for the applicable director or executive or senior officer.
Notwithstanding the policy, we and our flight crew retain the authority to determine when a flight may be cancelled or changed for safety or maintenance reasons.
Potential Payments upon Termination or Change in Control
The Termination of Employment Table and the Change in Control Table set forth below reflect the potential payments to our NEOs in connection with termination of their employment or a change in control as of December 31, 2011. The Termination of Employment Table assumes that a change in control has not occurred. The Change in Control Table assumes that a change in control has occurred. Certain of our plans and agreements provide benefits upon the occurrence of a change-in-control without regard to whether employment is terminated, whereas others have a “double trigger” requiring employment to be terminated for benefits to be realized. These are separately reflected in the Change in Control Table.
The amounts provided in the tables are based on the assumptions stated below. The actual amounts may be different at the time of termination due to various factors. In addition, we may enter into new arrangements or modify these arrangements from time to time.
The amounts in the tables for unvested SARs that vest on an accelerated basis or continue to vest are based on the spread between the base price of the award and the applicable closing market price on December 30, 2011, the last trading day of 2011. Restricted shares or units and PSUs that would vest on an accelerated basis or continue to vest are valued using the applicable closing market price on December 30, 2011. On December 30, 2011, the closing market price for our Series A stock was $41.03 per share and for our Series C stock was $39.52 per share.
The amounts for Messrs. Bracken and Karsten assume they receive a lump sum payment in cash of salary and benefits instead of six months' notice of termination under their employment agreements. Also, to the extent compensation to these executive officers is paid in British pounds or euros, it has been converted to U.S. dollars based upon the average exchange rate in effect during 2011.
Under the 2010 PSUs, the effect of termination of employment or a change-in-control varies depending on whether it occurs during the performance period or during the service period. Because no termination of employment or change-in-control occurred on December 31, 2011, the last day of the performance period, the information in the tables assumes that the event triggering potential accelerated vesting of the 2010 PSUs occurred during the service period and the benefits were calculated based on the participant's actual earned 2010 PSUs, which were converted to time-vested restricted share units in February 2012.
As of December 31, 2011, each of our NEOs had unvested SARs under the Incentive Plan, unvested 2010 PSU awards and unvested 2011 PSU awards. The termination provisions of the employment agreements of Messrs. Bracken and Karsten are described under “—Employment and Other Agreements” above. The Incentive Plan is described, together with our other equity incentive plans, under “Incentive Plans” below. The relevant provisions of the awards of 2011 PSUs granted under the Incentive Plan are described under “—Narrative to Summary Compensation and Grants of Plan-Based Awards Tables” above and the relevant provision of the awards of the 2010 PSUs granted under the Incentive Plan are described under “—Elements of Our Compensation Packages—Equity Incentive Awards—Decisions for 2010 PSUs”. In addition to such descriptions, additional information on the termination and/or change-in-control provisions of these plans and agreements is provided below.
Termination of Employment
The availability of benefits under our plans or agreements varies with the reason employment terminates as described below.
Voluntary Termination. The executive would retain his vested equity grants under the incentive plans, which must be exercised within the period following termination prescribed by the applicable plan. There would be no other payments or benefits.
Retirement. No benefits are payable in the event of retirement; however, under the incentive plan adopted by UGC in 2003 a person who retires at age 62 or greater may have additional time to exercise his vested UGC equity awards depending on the terms

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of the respective awards.
 Termination for Cause. The executive would not receive any payment or benefit and typically would forfeit all unexercised equity awards, whether or not vested. The definition of “cause” varies among the plans and agreements, but generally includes: (1) insubordination, dishonesty, incompetence or other misconduct; (2) failure to perform duties; and (3) a felony conviction for fraud, embezzlement or other illegal conduct. For purposes of such a termination within 12 months of a change-in-control event, in the case of the Incentive Plan or the 2010 PSUs or the 2011 PSUs, “cause” is defined to mean only a felony conviction for fraud, embezzlement or other illegal conduct.
Termination Without Cause. Certain of the employment agreements provide for benefits in the case of termination by the company not for cause. See “—Employment and Other Agreements” above. Under the Incentive Plan, the employee would be entitled to accelerated vesting of a pro rata portion of that amount of each award that would have vested on the next vesting date, based on the number of full months of the current vesting period that employment continued prior to termination. For the benefits payable under the applicable employment agreement and the value of the prorated vesting of awards, if any, see the “By Company Without Cause” column in the Termination of Employment Table.
Death. In the event of death, the equity incentive plans provide for vesting in full of any outstanding options or SARs and the lapse of restrictions on any restricted share or restricted share unit awards. The 2010 PSUs provide that, in the event of termination of employment due to death during the service period and prior to a change-in-control, the unvested portion of the grantee's award will vest and the underlying shares will be issued as of the originally scheduled vesting dates. The 2011 PSUs provide that, in the event of termination of employment due to death during the performance period and prior to a change-in-control, the prorated portion of the grantee's target 2011 PSUs, based on the portion of the performance period completed prior to the date of death, will vest and the underlying shares will be issued no later than March 15 of the calendar year immediately following the date of death. The value of these benefits is in the “Death” column in the Termination of Employment Table. No amounts are shown for payments pursuant to life insurance policies, which we make available to all our salaried employees.
Disability. In the event of termination of employment due to disability, the equity incentive plans provide for vesting in full of any outstanding options or SARs and the lapse of restrictions on any restricted share or restricted share unit awards. The 2010 PSUs provide that if termination of employment due to disability occurs during the service period, the unvested portion of the grantee's 2010 PSUs will vest and the underlying shares will be issued as of the originally scheduled vesting dates. The 2011 PSUs provide that, if termination of employment due to disability occurs after June 30, 2011 but prior to January 1, 2012, and prior to a change-in-control event, the prorated portion of the grantee's 2011 PSUs that would have been earned if the performance period had ended on December 31, 2011, will vest and the underlying shares will be issued no later than March 15, 2012. The value of these benefits is in the “Disability” column in the Termination of Employment Table. For this purpose, the amounts set forth in the table below assume that 100% of the target 2011 PSUs would have been earned prorated as stated above. No amounts are shown for payments pursuant to short-term and long-term disability policies, which we make available to all our employees. For purposes of the Incentive Plan, the 2010 PSUs and the 2011 PSUs, “disability” means the inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable condition which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of at least 12 months or can be expected to result in death.
Resignation for Good Reason. No payment or benefit is required upon resignation by an executive for good reason absent a change in control.


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Termination of Employment
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Name 
 
By Company
Without Cause ($)  
 
Death ($)  
 
Disability ($)  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Michael T. Fries
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Options/SARs Accelerated
 
73,604


2,207,851


2,207,851


2010 PSUs
 


6,564,744

(1)
6,564,744

(1)
2011 PSUs
 


2,591,052


2,591,052


Total
 
73,604


11,363,647


11,363,647


 
 
 

 

 

Charles H.R. Bracken
 
 

 

 

Options/SARs Accelerated
 
32,202


966,048


966,048


2010 PSUs
 


2,872,011

(1)
2,872,011

(1)
2011 PSUs
 


1,133,661


1,133,661


Salary
 
315,824






Severance Payment
 
315,824






Continued Vesting of Awards
 
161,008






Benefits (2)
 
41,939






Total
 
866,797


4,971,720


4,971,720


 
 
 

 

 

Bernard G. Dvorak
 
 

 

 

Options/SARs Accelerated
 
32,202


966,048


966,048


2010 PSUs
 


2,872,011

(1)
2,872,011

(1)
2011 PSUs
 


1,133,661


1,133,661


Total
 
32,202


4,971,720


4,971,720


 
 
 

 

 

Diederik Karsten
 
 

 

 

Options/SARs Accelerated
 
59,754


1,212,991


1,212,991


Restricted Stock Units Accelerated
 
26,340


351,440


351,440


2010 PSUs
 


1,025,724

(1)
1,025,724

(1)
2011 PSUs
 


1,133,661


1,133,661


Salary
 
347,684






Continued Vesting of Awards
 
456,694






Benefits (2)
 
75,466






Total
 
965,938


3,723,816


3,723,816


 
 
 

 

 

Balan Nair
 
 

 

 

Options/SARs Accelerated
 
13,801


414,021


414,021


2010 PSUs
 


1,230,884

(1)
1,230,884

(1)
2011 PSUs
 


1,133,661


1,133,661


Total
 
13,801


2,778,566


2,778,566


 __________________
(1)
Although the earned 2010 PSUs are deemed vested, they are not payable until the original vesting dates under the grant agreements.
(2)
For Mr. Bracken and Mr. Karsten, the cost to maintain their employee benefits during their six-month notice period.

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Change in Control
The Incentive Plan, the 2010 PSUs and the 2011 PSUs each provide for various benefits either upon the occurrence of specified change-in-control events or upon termination of employment following the change-in-control event.
Change-in-Control Events. The change-in-control events vary under the relevant plans but generally fall into three categories:
1.
A person or entity, subject to specified exceptions, acquires beneficial ownership of at least 20% of the combined voting power of the outstanding securities of LGI ordinarily having the right to vote in the election of directors in a transaction that has not been approved by the board of directors. We refer to this change-in-control event as an “Unapproved Control Purchase”.
2.
During any two-year period, persons comprising the board of directors at the beginning of the period cease to be a majority of the board, unless the new directors were nominated or appointed by two-thirds of the continuing original directors. We refer to this change-in-control event as a “Board Change”.
3.
The board of directors approves certain transactions such as (a) a merger, consolidation or binding share exchange that results in the stockholders of our company prior to the transaction owning less than a majority of the combined voting power of our capital stock after the transaction or in which our common stock is converted into cash, securities or other property, subject to certain exceptions, (b) a plan of liquidation of our company, or (c) a sale of substantially all the assets of our company. We refer to this change-in-control event as a “Reorganization”.
Under the Incentive Plan, outstanding equity awards will vest in full upon the occurrence of an Unapproved Control Purchase or Board Change and immediately prior to consummation of a Reorganization, unless, in the case of a Reorganization only, the compensation committee determines that effective provision has been made for the award to be assumed or replaced with an equivalent award.
The 2010 PSUs and the 2011 PSUs provide that, if any of these change-in-control events occurs during the service period or performance period, respectively, and the grant agreements are not continued on the same terms and conditions, in the case of a Board Change or Unapproved Control Purchase, or not continued or assumed on equivalent terms, in the case of a Reorganization, then each grantee will be deemed to be vested in his or her earned 2010 PSUs and to have earned his or her target 2011 PSUs, which will vest, and in each case, the underlying shares will be issued within 30 days of such change-in-control event. If the grant agreements are continued or assumed, then each grantee will (1) continue to have his or her rights in his or her earned 2010 PSUs in accordance with the grant agreement and (2) be deemed to have earned his or her target 2011 PSUs, which will be converted to time-vested restricted share units subject to service and vesting requirements in accordance with the grant agreement. Accelerated vesting would only be triggered on a subsequent termination of employment.
Termination After Change in Control. Under the Incentive Plan, if a termination of employment occurs without cause or the employee resigns for good reason within 12 months of a Reorganization, then any awards granted after March 2010 will vest and become fully exercisable as of the date of termination of employment. The 2010 PSUs and the 2011 PSUs provide that, if a change-in-control event occurs that does not result in accelerated vesting of the earned 2010 PSUs or the target 2011 PSUs deemed earned, a subsequent termination of employment will accelerate vesting of such earned 2010 PSUs and target 2011 PSUs if the termination is due to death or disability or is without cause or the participant resigns for good reason. The shares underlying the vested 2010 PSUs and the 2011 PSUs will be issued no later than March 15 of the calendar year immediately following the calendar year in which the termination occurred. For purposes of each of the plans, “good reason” for a participant to resign following a change-in-control event requires that one of the following has occurred without the consent of the participant: (1) a material diminution in the participant's base compensation; (2) a material diminution of his official position or authority; or (3) a required relocation of his principal business office to a different country. Additional procedural requirements apply for such a resignation to qualify as being for “good reason”.
The “Employment Terminated” columns assume that the executive's employment is terminated as of December 31, 2011, without cause and includes the incremental benefits that would result from such a termination under the employment agreements and equity incentive plans as described under “—Termination of Employment” above.
280G Tax Gross-Up. Under the grant agreements for the 2010 PSUs and the 2011 PSUs, when a benefit is triggered due to a change-in-control event that would be subject to an excise tax pursuant to Section 280G of the Code, we have agreed to make a payment to the plan participants, including our NEOs, for all excise taxes incurred under Section 280G and related income and excise taxes that are payable by such participants as a result of any reimbursement for such Section 280G excise taxes. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of the 2010 PSUs and the 2011 PSUs, if the excise tax can be avoided through a reduction in the amount of “parachute payments” (as defined in Section 280G) required to be provided to the grantee with respect to the 2010 PSUs and the 2011 PSUs, not to exceed 20% of such amount, then the amount of “parachute payments” shall automatically be reduced to the minimum extent necessary to avoid the excise tax. For purposes of the change-in-control events in the table

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below, no one exceeded the threshold that would have entitled him to a 280G tax gross-up payment. Also, Messrs. Bracken and Karsten are not subject to the excise tax under 280G as they are not U.S. taxpayers.
Change In Control  
 
 
Unapproved Control
Purchase / Board Change – Plan
Benefits Continued
 
Reorganization – Plan
Benefits Continued
 
Change in Control – Plan
Benefits Not
Continued
 
Name
 
Employment
Terminated
($)
 
Employment
Continues
($)
 
Employment
Terminated
($)
 
Employment
Continues
($)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Michael T. Fries
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Options/SARs Accelerated
 
2,207,851


 
2,207,851


 
2,207,851


2,207,851

 
2010 PSUs
 
6,564,744


 

(1)
 
6,564,744


6,564,744

 
2011 PSUs
 
5,182,104


 

(2)
 
5,182,104


5,182,104

 
Total
 
13,954,699


 
2,207,851


 
13,954,699


13,954,699

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Charles H.R. Bracken
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Options/SARs Accelerated
 
966,048


 
966,048


 
966,048


966,048

 
2010 PSUs
 
2,872,011


 

(1)
 
2,872,011


2,872,011

 
2011 PSUs
 
2,267,322


 

(2)
 
2,267,322


2,267,322

 
Salary
 
315,824


 


 
315,824



 
Severance Payment
 
315,824


 


 
315,824



 
Benefits(3)
 
41,939


 


 
41,939



 
Total
 
6,778,968


 
966,048


 
6,778,968


6,105,381

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Bernard G. Dvorak
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Options/SARs Accelerated
 
966,048


 
966,048


 
966,048


966,048

 
2010 PSUs
 
2,872,011


 

(1)
 
2,872,011


2,872,011

 
2011 PSUs
 
2,267,322


 

(2)
 
2,267,322


2,267,322

 
Total
 
6,105,381


 
966,048


 
6,105,381


6,105,381

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Diederik Karsten
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Options/SARs Accelerated
 
1,212,991


 
1,212,991


 
393,154

(4)
1,212,991

 
Restricted Stock Units Accelerated
 
351,440


 
351,440


 
26,340

(4)
351,440

 
2010 PSUs
 
1,025,724


 

(1)
 
1,025,724


1,025,724

 
2011 PSUs
 
2,267,322


 

(2)
 
2,267,322


2,267,322

 
Salary
 
347,684


 


 
347,684



 
Benefits (3)
 
75,466


 


 
75,466



 
Total
 
5,280,627


 
1,564,431


 
4,135,690


4,857,477

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Balan Nair
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Options/SARs Accelerated
 
414,021


 
414,021


 
414,021


414,021

 
2010 PSUs
 
1,230,884


 

(1)
 
1,230,884


1,230,884

 
2011 PSUs
 
2,267,322


 

(2)
 
2,267,322


2,267,322

 
Total
 
3,912,227


 
414,021


 
3,912,227


3,912,227

 
____________________ 
(1)
Although the earned 2010 PSUs are deemed vested, they are not payable until the original vesting dates under the grant agreements.
(2)
Although the target 2011 PSUs are deemed earned, they remain subject to the service and vesting requirements of the grant agreements.
(3)
For Messrs. Bracken and Karsten, the estimated cost to maintain their employee benefits during their six-month notice period.
(4)
The differences in the amounts of Options/SARs and Restricted Share Units Accelerated relate to Mr. Karsten holding awards granted before March 2010, which would not be accelerated in full upon termination of his employment following a Reorganization in which plan benefits were continued.

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PROPOSAL 2 – RATIFICATION OF AUDITORS
As provided in its charter, the audit committee selects our independent auditor, approves in advance all auditing and permissible non-auditing services to be performed by our independent auditor and reviews the scope of our annual audit. The audit committee has evaluated the performance of KPMG LLP and has selected it as our independent auditor for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2012. We are asking our stockholders to ratify this selection of KPMG LLP.
Even if the selection of KPMG LLP is ratified, the audit committee of our board in its discretion may direct the appointment of a different independent accounting firm at any time during the year if our audit committee determines to make such a change. In the event our stockholders fail to ratify the selection of KPMG LLP, our audit committee will consider whether to select other auditors for the year ending December 31, 2012.
A representative of KPMG LLP is expected to be present at the annual meeting, will have the opportunity to make a statement if he or she so desires and will be available to respond to appropriate questions.
Vote and Recommendation
The affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the aggregate voting power of our Series A shares and our Series B shares that are entitled to vote and are present, in person or by proxy, at the annual meeting, voting together as a single class, is required to ratify the selection of KPMG LLP as our independent auditors for the year ending December 31, 2012.
Our board of directors recommends a vote “FOR” the ratification of the selection of KPMG LLP as our independent auditors for the year ending December 31, 2012.
Audit Fees and All Other Fees
The following table presents fees for professional audit services rendered by KPMG LLP and its international affiliates for the audit of our consolidated financial statements for 2011 and 2010 and the separate financial statements of certain of our subsidiaries, and fees billed for other services rendered by KPMG LLP and its international affiliates.
Fees billed in currencies other than U.S. dollars were translated into U.S. dollars at the average exchange rate in effect during the applicable year.
 
2011
 
2010
 
(in thousands)
Audit fees (1)
$
12,744

 
$
13,114

Audit related fees (2)
5

 
245

 
 
 
 
Audit and audit related fees
12,749

 
13,359

Tax fees (3)
111

 
132

Total fees
$
12,860

 
$
13,491

__________________ 
(1)
Audit fees include fees for the audit and quarterly reviews of our 2011 and 2010 consolidated financial statements, audit of internal controls over financial reporting, statutory audits, audits required by covenants and fees billed in the respective periods for professional consultations with respect to accounting issues, offering memoranda, registration statement filings and issuance of consents, attest services required by statute or regulation and similar matters.
(2)
Audit related fees include fees billed in the respective periods for due diligence related to potential business acquisitions and dispositions, attest services not required by statute or regulation and for professional training not related to audits.
(3)
Tax fees include fees billed in the respective periods for tax compliance and consultations regarding the tax implications of certain transactions.
Our audit committee has considered whether the provision of services by KPMG LLP to our company other than auditing is compatible with KPMG LLP maintaining its independence and does not believe that the provision of such services is incompatible with KPMG LLP maintaining its independence. Our audit committee approved the provision of all the services described in the table above.
 Policy on Audit Committee Pre-Approval of Audit and Permissible Non-Audit Services of Independent Auditor
Effective June 15, 2005, as amended and restated, our audit committee adopted a policy regarding the pre-approval of all audit and certain permissible audit-related and non-audit services provided by our independent auditor. Pursuant to this policy, our audit committee has pre-approved the engagement of our independent auditor to provide:

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audit services as specified in the policy, including (a) financial statement audits for us required by statute or regulatory authority, excluding the audit of our annual financial statements, (b) financial statement audits of our subsidiaries required by statute or regulatory authority, (c) services associated with registration statements, periodic reports and other documents filed with the SEC, such as consents, comfort letters and responses to comment letters, (d) attestations required by statute or regulatory authority, and (e) consultations with management as to the accounting or disclosure treatment of transactions or events and the actual or potential impact of final or proposed rules of applicable regulatory and standard setting bodies (when such consultations are considered “audit services” under the SEC rules promulgated pursuant to the Exchange Act);
audit-related services as specified in the policy, including (a) due diligence services relating to potential business acquisitions and dispositions, (b) financial statement audits of employee benefit plans, (c) consultations with management with respect to the accounting or disclosure treatment of transactions or events and the actual or potential impact of final or proposed rules of applicable regulatory and standard setting bodies (when such consultations are considered “audit-related services” and not “audit services” under the SEC rules promulgated pursuant to the Exchange Act), (d) attestation services not required by statute or regulation, (e) closing balance sheet audits pertaining to dispositions, (f) assistance with implementation of the requirements of SEC, IASB or PCAOB rules or listing standards promulgated pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, (g) services associated with offering memoranda and other documents filed with or required by applicable regulators, such as consents, comfort letters and responses to comment letters, (h) internal control reviews and assistance with internal control reporting requirements, and (i) financial statement audits of our subsidiaries and affiliates not required by statute or regulatory authority but required by contract or other internal reasons;
tax services as specified in the policy, including (a) planning, advice and compliance services in connection with the preparation and filing of U.S. federal, state, local or international taxes, (b) review or preparation of U.S. federal, state, local and international income, franchise and other tax returns, (c) assistance with tax audits and appeals before the IRS or similar local and foreign agencies, (d) tax advice regarding statutory, regulatory or administrative developments, (e) expatriate tax assistance and compliance, (f) mergers and acquisitions tax due diligence assistance and (g) tax advice and assistance regarding structuring of mergers and acquisitions; and
non-audit services as specified in the policy, currently limited to assistance with environmental and sustainability reporting (all of the foregoing, being referred to as Pre-Approved Services).
Notwithstanding the foregoing general pre-approval, any individual project involving the provision of Pre-Approved Services that is expected to result in fees in excess of $75,000 requires the specific approval of our audit committee. In addition, any engagement of our independent auditors for services other than the Pre-Approved Services requires the specific approval of our audit committee. Our audit committee has delegated the authority for the foregoing approvals to its chairman, provided that the fees for any individual project for which such approval is requested are not, in the reasonable judgment of the chairman, likely to exceed $200,000. At each audit committee meeting, the chairman's approval of services provided by our independent auditors is subject to disclosure to the entire audit committee. Our pre-approval policy prohibits the engagement of our independent auditor to provide any services that are subject to the prohibition imposed by Section 201 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

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Audit Committee Report
The audit committee reviews LGI's financial reporting process on behalf of its board of directors. Management has primary responsibility for establishing and maintaining adequate internal controls, for preparing financial statements and for the public reporting process. LGI's independent auditor, KPMG LLP, is responsible for expressing opinions on the conformity of LGI's audited consolidated financial statements with the U.S. generally accepted accounting principles and on the effectiveness of LGI's internal control over financial reporting.
The audit committee has reviewed and discussed with management and KPMG LLP, LGI's most recent audited consolidated financial statements, as well as management's assessment of the effectiveness of LGI's internal control over financial reporting and KPMG LLP's evaluation of the effectiveness of LGI's internal control over financial reporting. The audit committee has also discussed with KPMG LLP the matters required to be discussed by the Statement on Auditing Standards No. 61, as amended (Communication With Audit Committees), as adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board in Rule 3200T, plus the additional matters required to be discussed by the Statement on Auditing Standards No. 114 (The Auditor's Communication with Those Charged with Governance), including the auditors' judgment about the quality of LGI's accounting principles, as applied in its financial reporting.
The audit committee has received the written disclosures and the letter from the independent auditors required by applicable requirements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board that relate to the auditors' communications with the audit committee concerning independence from LGI and its subsidiaries, and has discussed with LGI's independent auditors their independence.
Based on the reviews and discussions referred to above, the audit committee recommended to LGI's board of directors that the audited financial statements be included in LGI's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011, which was filed with the SEC on February 22, 2012.
Submitted by the Members of the Audit Committee:

John W. Dick
Paul A. Gould (chairman)
J. David Wargo

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DIRECTOR COMPENSATION
Compensation Policy
Set forth below is a description of our policy for compensation of our non-employee directors. The policy is subject to review annually by our nominating and corporate governance committee. During its annual review in 2011, the committee revised the policy effective January 1, 2012, as described below. Our directors are also entitled to the benefit of our policy on personal usage of our aircraft set forth above.
Fees and Expenses
For 2011, each member of our board, who is not an employee of LGI, received an annual retainer of $80,000 for all U.S. resident directors and $120,000 for all non-U.S. resident directors. In addition, each such member receives $1,500 for each in-person meeting attended (in person or by conference telephone) and $750 for each telephonic meeting attended of the board or any committee of the board on which he or she serves. For each in-person board meeting held at our offices in Colorado, a U.S. resident non-employee director whose residence is located east of the Mississippi River was paid an additional $4,000 if such director attended in person. For 2011, each director who serves as the chair of the audit committee, the compensation committee or the nominating and corporate governance committee receives a fee for such service of $25,000, $15,000 and $5,000, respectively, for each full year of service in such position. Commencing in 2012, the fee for the chair of the nominating and corporate governance committee was increased to $10,000 for each full year of service in such position. All annual director fees, including fees for chairpersons, are payable in arrears in four equal quarterly installments. Our directors may elect to have their quarterly fee installments paid in shares of our Series A and Series C common stock instead of in cash. Such election for fees payable for a specific calendar quarter must be made not later than the last day of the immediately preceding calendar quarter. The number of shares issued is based on the fair market value on the last trading day of the quarter for which the election is made. Any fractional share is paid in cash. Directors who are employees of LGI do not receive any additional compensation for their service as directors.
Generally, the in-person board meetings are held at our offices in Colorado. It is the policy of the board, however, to each year have one in-person meeting at the location of one of our operations. In 2011, our board met in Warsaw, Poland for its June meeting. In addition, members of our board have periodic strategy retreats with certain members of senior management to review our strategies and goals. We reimburse our non-employee directors for travel, lodging and other reasonable expenses related to their service on our board, including the travel costs of a companion for one of our directors who is visually impaired. We also occasionally make our aircraft available to directors for attendance at meetings or other company-related events.
For the board meetings or other company-related events held outside of Colorado, we may provide extra activities for members of our board. We may also invite the spouse or a guest of each director to attend events associated with board meetings or other company-related events. We generally provide for, or reimburse expenses of, the spouse's or guest's travel, food and lodging for attendance at these events and participation in related activities. If the spouse or guest travels on our aircraft for an event, the incremental cost for such personal passenger is determined based on our average direct variable cost per passenger for aircraft fuel and in-flight food and beverage services, plus, when applicable, customs and immigration fees specifically incurred. To the extent costs for these activities, including the incremental cost for traveling on our aircraft, and costs for any other personal benefits, for a director exceeded $10,000 for the year, they are included in the amounts in the table below.
From time to time, we provide our directors information on conferences and seminars that may be of interest to them as a director of LGI. For directors who elect to attend these events, we cover the costs as part of our policy to keep members of our board informed on issues that relate to their duties as a director. In addition, we make available to members of our board, at their election, health insurance under our health insurance policies.
Equity Awards
As of the date of each annual stockholders meeting, each continuing non-employee director receives an equity award under our non-employee director incentive plan. On the date of our 2011 annual stockholders' meeting, each non-employee director received, equity grants with a combined grant date fair value of $80,000 awarded, at his or her election, either as (1) a grant of options for Series A shares and a grant of options for Series C shares, or (2) a grant of options for Series A shares and a grant of options for Series C shares for one-half the value and a grant of Series A restricted share units and a grant of Series C restricted share units for the remaining value. Such election must be made at least two business days prior to the applicable stockholders meeting. If no election is made, the director will receive the combination award of restricted share units and options. Commencing in 2012, the combined grant date value for the annual equity grants awarded to each non-employee director will increase to $150,000. For purposes of determining the number of restricted share units of a series to be granted, the grant date fair value of the options for the same series is determined using the same valuation methodology as we use to determine the value of option grants

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in accordance with FASB ASC 718 on the date of the applicable annual stockholders meeting. The awards of restricted share units vest in full on the date of the first annual stockholders meeting after the date of grant. The option grants have a term of 10 years and vest as to one-third of the option shares on the date of the first annual stockholders meeting after the date of grant and as to an additional one-third of the option shares on the date of each annual stockholders meeting thereafter, provided that the director continues to serve as a director immediately prior to the applicable vesting date.
Prior to the revisions to the policy, a non-employee director received a grant of options for Series A shares and a grant of options for Series C shares with a combined grant date fair value equal to $80,000 upon the date he or she was first elected or appointed to our board of directors. Under the revised policy, a non-employee director will receive a grant of options for Series A shares and a grant of options for Series C shares with a combined grant date fair value equal to $150,000 upon the date he or she is first elected or appointed to our board of directors. The grant date fair value of the options awarded is determined using the same valuation methodology as we use to determine the value of option grants in accordance with FASB ASC 718 on the date of election or appointment. The option grants have a term of 10 years and vest as to one-third of the option shares on the later to occur of (1) the six month anniversary date of the date of grant or (2) the date of the first annual stockholders meeting after the date of grant. Thereafter the remaining option shares vest as to an additional one-third of the option shares on the date of each annual stockholders meeting, provided that the director continues to serve as a director immediately prior to the applicable vesting date. All awards to our non-employee directors are granted under our 2005 non-employee director incentive plan.
Although Mr. Malone is a non-employee director, he has not been compensated under our compensation policy for non-employee directors and serves without cash compensation. As chairman of our board, Mr. Malone is an executive officer of LGI and, accordingly, any compensation paid to him is subject to review and approval of our compensation committee. The board has delegated to the compensation committee the authority to approve annual awards of options to Mr. Malone under the 2005 non-employee director incentive plan with a combined grant date fair value equivalent to $1,000,000 for so long as he continues to serve as chairman of the board and a non-employee director. The terms of the option awards are equivalent to those for our other non-employee directors, except that the annual vesting over three years occurs on each anniversary of the grant date rather than on the date of the annual meeting of stockholders. Any such awards will be subject to review and approval by the compensation committee in connection with its annual equity grant approval process. In April 2011, our compensation committee, with the approval of our independent directors, approved a grant to Mr. Malone for his services as chairman of the board and a non-employee director of options to purchase shares of our Series A common stock and Series C common stock, with an aggregate grant date fair value of $1,000,000.
Our non-employee director incentive plan is designed to provide a method whereby non-employee directors may be awarded additional remuneration for the services they render on our board and committees of our board, and to encourage their investment in our capital stock. Our non-employee director incentive plan is administered by our full board of directors. Our board has the full power and authority to grant eligible non-employee directors the awards described below and to determine the terms and conditions under which any awards are made.
Our board may grant non-qualified stock options, SARs, restricted shares, stock units or any combination of the foregoing under the non-employee director incentive plan (collectively, awards). Only non-employee members of our board of directors are eligible to receive awards under our non-employee director incentive plan. The maximum number of shares of our common stock with respect to which awards may be issued under the plan is 10 million, subject to anti-dilution and other adjustment provisions of the plan. These shares may be awarded in any series of our common stock, except that no more than five million shares may be awarded in Series B common stock. Shares of our common stock issuable pursuant to awards made under the non-employee director incentive plan will be made available from either authorized but unissued shares or shares that have been issued but reacquired by us. The non-employee director incentive plan had 9,053,254 shares available for grant as of March 31, 2012.
In the event a non-employee director's service terminates by reason of disability or death, all outstanding equity awards held by such director will vest in full. In the event of an approved transaction, board change or control purchase (each as defined in the non-employee director incentive plan), all equity awards then outstanding under the plan will vest in full, unless, in the case of an approved transaction, the board determines, in its discretion, that effective provision has been made for the award to be assumed or replaced with an equivalent equity award. If a non-employee director's service on our board is terminated for cause (as defined in the plan), such director's outstanding equity awards will be forfeited.
Deferred Compensation Plan
At its December 2009 meeting, our board of directors adopted the Liberty Global, Inc. Nonemployee Director Deferred Compensation Plan. During its review in 2011, the board revised the Plan effective December 14, 2011, as described below. Under the Director Deferred Compensation Plan, nonemployee directors may elect to defer payment of all or a portion of their annual retainer, whether payable in cash or equity, and their annual equity awards to the extent payable in restricted shares or restricted share units. The Director Deferred Compensation Plan became effective beginning with compensation payable in 2010.

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Annual retainers payable in cash and deferred under the Director Deferred Compensation Plan will be credited with interest at the rate of 9% per year, compounded quarterly at the end of each calendar quarter (the credited interest fund). Our board reserved the right to change the interest rate in the future, provided that any decreases in the rate will apply only to deferred elections that become irrevocable after the new rate is set. Annual retainers payable in shares of common stock and annual equity awards payable in restricted shares or restricted share units that are deferred will not be credited with interest, but will be adjusted for splits, combinations, dividends or distributions (the stock fund). The deferred annual retainers and deferred equity awards may be distributed in a lump sum or in a series of up to 10 equal annual installments upon a distribution event. A distribution event is when the director ceases to be a member of our board or dies or, at the election of our board, within 12 months of certain change-in-control events or, beginning with compensation deferred in 2012, a specific date selected by the director at the time he or she makes his deferral election.
The Director Deferred Compensation Plan provides our board with the discretion to terminate the Director Deferred Compensation Plan at any time. Such an optional termination will not result in accelerated distributions.
2011 Director Compensation
Name (1) 
 
Fees Earned
or Paid in Cash
($)
 
 
Stock
Awards
($)(2)(3)  
 
Option
Awards
($)(2)(3)
 
Change in Pension Value and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings
($)(4) 
 
All Other
Compensation
($)  
 
 
Total
($)  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
John C. Malone
 

(5)
 

 

 

 
446

(6)
 
1,002,052

(5)
Series A
 


 

 
500,797

 


 



 
 
 
Series C
 


 

 
500,809

 


 



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
John P. Cole, Jr.
 
115,500


 

 

 

 
79

(7)
 
195,670


Series A
 


 
20,004

 
20,042

 


 



 
 
 
Series C
 


 
20,020

 
20,025

 


 



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Miranda Curtis
 
129,000


 

 

 

 
79

(7)
 
209,170


Series A
 


 
20,004

 
20,042

 


 



 
 
 
Series C
 


 
20,020

 
20,025

 


 



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
John W. Dick
 
32,082


 

 

 

 
169,678

(8)(9)
 
390,769


Series A
 
55,660

(10)
 
20,004

 
20,042

 


 



 
 
 
Series C
 
53,258

(10)
 
20,020

 
20,025

 


 



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Paul A. Gould
 
60,067

(11)
 

 

 
1,957

 
84

(7)
 
220,882

(11)(12)
Series A
 
40,266

(10)(12)
 
20,004

 
20,042

 


 



 
 
 
Series C
 
38,417

(10)(12)
 
20,020

 
20,025

 


 



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Richard R. Green
 
11,329

(13)
 

 

 
1

 
20,365

(14)
 
191,707

(13)(15)
Series A
 
40,870

(10)(15)
 
20,004

 
20,042

 


 



 
 
 
Series C
 
39,051

(10)(15)
 
20,020

 
20,025

 


 



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
David E. Rapley
 
97,750

(16)
 

 

 
3,245

 
458

(6)
 
181,544

(16)
Series A
 


 
20,004

 
20,042

 


 


 
 
 
 
Series C
 


 
20,020

 
20,025

 


 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Larry E. Romrell
 
97,250


 

 

 

 
11,139

(17)
 
188,480


Series A
 


 
20,004

 
20,042

 


 



 
 
 
Series C
 


 
20,020

 
20,025

 


 



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
J.C. Sparkman
 
117,500


 

 

 

 
63

(7)
 
197,654


Series A
 


 
20,004

 
20,042

 


 



 
 
 
Series C
 


 
20,020

 
20,025

 


 



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
J. David Wargo
 
37,079

(13)
 

 

 
4,860

 


 
201,951

(13)(15)
Series A
 
40,870

(10)(15)
 
20,004

 
20,042

 


 



 
 
 
Series C
 
39,051

(10)(15)
 
20,020

 
20,025

 


 



 
 
 
____________________ 
(1)
Mr. Fries, our President and Chief Executive Officer, is not included in this table because he is a named executive officer of LGI and does not receive any additional compensation as a director. For information on Mr. Fries's compensation, please see “Executive Compensation—Summary Compensation” above.

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(2)
The dollar amounts in the table reflect the fair value of the stock awards and grant date fair value of the option awards related to LGI stock at the time of grant in accordance with FASB ASC 718.
(3)
At December 31, 2011, the directors had the following awards outstanding:
Name 
 
Series  
 
Options (#)  

Restricted
Shares (#)(a)  
J. Malone
 
Series A
 
49,464


 
 
Series C
 
52,013


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
J. Cole
 
Series A
 
47,402


478
 
 
Series C
 
47,441


498
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
M. Curtis
 
Series A
 
193,037

(b)
478
 
 
Series C
 
197,074

(b)
498
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
J. Dick
 
Series A
 
75,358


478
 
 
Series C
 
75,395


498
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
P. Gould
 
Series A
 
65,124


478
 
 
Series C
 
65,163


498
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
R. Green
 
Series A
 
23,808


478
 
 
Series C
 
23,845


498
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
D. Rapley
 
Series A
 
5,266


478
 
 
Series C
 
5,305


498
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
L. Romrell
 
Series A
 
36,766


478
 
 
Series C
 
36,805


498
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
J. Sparkman
 
Series A
 
27,402


478
 
 
Series C
 
27,441


498
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
D. Wargo
 
Series A
 
55,594


478
 
 
Series C
 
55,633


498
________________
(a)
Represents shares to be issued upon vesting of restricted share units.
(b)
Includes vested SARs (based on 33,750 Series A shares and 33,750 Series C shares) and options (155,479 Series A shares and 159,479 Series C shares) awarded to Ms. Curtis while she was an employee of LGI or its predecessor.
(4)
The dollar amounts shown in the “Change in Pension Value and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings” column reflect the above-market value of accrued interest, which is the portion of the accrued interest equal to the amount that exceeds 120% of the applicable federal long-term rate (with compounding) at the time the rate was set, on compensation previously deferred by such director under our Director Deferred Compensation Plan.
(5)
Mr. Malone serves without cash compensation. In April 2011, our board granted Mr. Malone option awards for his services as chairman of the board and a non-employee director, which options vest in three equal annual installments, commencing May 1, 2012.
(6)
Represents the amount paid as a tax gross-up on gifts from us valued at less than $1,100.
(7)
Represents the amount paid as a tax gross-up on gifts from us valued at less than $200.
(8)
Includes our cost for commercial airline tickets for such director's companion's flights to New York, New York for two committee meetings and a directors' conference (average cost per trip of $9,718), plus our aggregate incremental cost attributable to such director's companion accompanying him on the corporate jet to Warsaw, Poland, for the June 2011 board meeting. Also includes the cost of ground transportation, food and tours for his companion while in Warsaw for this meeting and health insurance premiums for the benefit of such director and his companion.
(9)
Includes $93,126 in fees paid to Mr. Dick and $41,477, which is the value of 30,000 restricted ordinary shares of Austar granted to Mr. Dick in June 2011, for his service on the board of Austar. Mr. Dick is an independent director of our subsidiary Austar. Pursuant to Austar's independent director compensation policy, he receives an annual fee for his services and in 2011, a grant of ordinary shares that may not be transferred, sold or otherwise disposed until after June 7, 2012. Mr. Dick received the payments in Australian dollars, which have been converted for this presentation to U.S. dollars based upon the average exchange rate in effect for 2011 of 0.969221.
(10)
This is the dollar amount of fees paid in our Series A shares and Series C shares at the election of the director.

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(11)
Amount includes $26,317 of Mr. Gould's fees, the payment of which Mr. Gould elected to defer pursuant to the Director Deferred Compensation Plan. Such deferred amount accrues interest at the rate of 9% per annum compounded quarterly until paid in full to him.
(12)
Such amount includes the value of 996 Series A shares and 994 Series C shares, the issuance of which Mr. Gould elected to defer pursuant to the Director Deferred Compensation Plan.
(13)
Amount includes less than $100 of Mr. Green's fees and of Mr. Wargo's fees, the payment of which each such director elected to defer pursuant to the Director Deferred Compensation Plan. Such deferred amount accrues interest at the rate of 9% per annum compounded quarterly until paid in full to him.
(14)
Includes $20,000 for a sponsorship of a certain professional organization at the request of Mr. Green, our incremental cost attributable to such director's spouse accompanying him on our corporate jet for a business meeting, and gifts from us valued at less than $200, plus the related tax gross-up in the amount of $63.
(15)
Such amount includes the value of 1,005 Series A shares and 1,002 Series C shares, the issuance of which Messrs. Green and Wargo each elected to defer pursuant to the Director Deferred Compensation Plan.
(16)
Amount includes $42,500 of Mr. Rapley's fees, the payment of which Mr. Rapley elected to defer pursuant to the Director Deferred Compensation Plan. Such deferred amount accrues interest at the rate of 9% per annum compounded quarterly until paid in full to him.
(17)
Includes our aggregate incremental cost attributable to the personal use of our aircraft. Also includes our aggregate incremental cost attributable to such director's spouse accompanying him on the corporate jet to and from Warsaw, Poland, for the June board meeting and the cost of ground transportation, food and tours for his spouse while in Warsaw for this board meeting.

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INCENTIVE PLANS
LGI Incentive Plan
The Incentive Plan is administered by the compensation committee of our board of directors. The compensation committee has full power and authority to grant eligible persons the awards described below and to determine the terms and conditions under which any awards are made. The Incentive Plan is designed to provide additional remuneration to certain employees and independent contractors for exceptional service and to encourage their investment in our company. The compensation committee may grant non-qualified stock options, SARs, restricted shares, stock units, cash awards, performance awards or any combination of the foregoing under the Incentive Plan. Since June 2005, awards of options and SARs have generally had a seven-year term and a four-year vesting period, with 12.5% of the award vesting on the six-month anniversary of grant and the balance in 14 equal quarterly installments thereafter. Such four-year vesting period has also generally applied to awards of restricted shares and restricted share units.
Awards under the Incentive Plan may be granted either individually, in tandem or in combination with each other. Awards granted under the Incentive Plan are generally non-transferable during the lifetime of an award holder, except as permitted by will or the laws of descent and distribution or pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order. Under certain conditions, including the occurrence of certain approved transactions, a board change or a control purchase (all as defined in the Incentive Plan), options and SARs will become immediately exercisable, the restrictions on restricted shares will lapse, and stock units will become fully vested, unless individual agreements state otherwise. At the time an award is granted, the compensation committee will determine, and the relevant agreement will provide for, the vesting or early termination, upon a holder's termination of employment with the company, of any unvested options, SARs, stock units or restricted shares and the period during which any vested options, SARs and stock units must be exercised. Unless otherwise provided in the relevant agreement, (1) no option or SAR may be exercised after its scheduled expiration date, (2) if the holder's service terminates by reason of death or disability (as defined in the Incentive Plan), his or her options or SARs shall remain exercisable for a period of at least one year following such termination (but not later than the scheduled expiration date) and (3) any termination of the holder's service for “cause” (as defined in the Incentive Plan) will result in the immediate termination of all options, SARs and stock units and the forfeiture of all rights to any restricted shares held by such terminated holder. If a holder's service terminates due to death or disability, options and SARs will become immediately exercisable, the restrictions on restricted shares will lapse and stock units will become fully vested, unless individual agreements state otherwise. If an award has been designated a performance award then it will accelerate or terminate upon the occurrence of the foregoing described events pursuant to the provisions of the performance award agreement.
The maximum number of shares of our common stock with respect to which awards may be granted under the Incentive Plan is currently 50 million, subject to anti-dilution and other adjustment provisions of the Incentive Plan, of which no more than 25 million may be issued in Series B common stock. With limited exceptions, no person may be granted in any calendar year awards covering more than 4 million shares of our common stock, of which no more than 2 million shares may consist of Series B common stock. In addition, no person may receive payment for cash awards under the Incentive Plan during any calendar year in excess of $10 million. Shares of our common stock issuable pursuant to awards made under the Incentive Plan will be made available from either authorized but unissued shares or shares that have been issued but reacquired by us.
Our Incentive Plan had 11,098,045 shares available for grant as of March 31, 2012. These shares may be awarded in any series of stock. The available shares do not reflect any reserve for shares that may be issued with respect to the 2011 PSUs, subject to performance and vesting conditions. No awards have been granted under the Incentive Plan to any of our directors who are not also our executive officers.
 LGI Director Plan
For a description of our non-employee director incentive plan, see “Director Compensation—Compensation Policy” above.
LGI International Transitional Plan
As a result of the spin-off of LGI International from LMC in 2004 and related adjustments to LMC's then outstanding stock incentive awards, options to acquire shares of our Series A, B and C common stock were issued to LGI International's directors and employees, certain of LMC's employees and all of LMC's directors pursuant to the LGI International transitional plan. Such options have terms equivalent to those of the respective LMC stock incentive awards that were adjusted. Such terms include early termination provisions similar to such provisions in the Incentive Plan. All options granted under the LGI International transitional plan are fully vested. No new grants will be made under the LGI International transitional plan.
UGC Equity Incentive Plans and UGC Director Plans
Options, restricted stock and SARs were granted to employees and directors of UGC prior to the business combination of LGI International and UGC under UGC's incentive plans and director plans. Awards outstanding under each of these plans were converted into awards with respect to our common stock in such business combination. All other terms of these awards remain the same. Awards granted under the incentive plans and director plans adopted by UGC are fully vested. No additional awards will be made under these plans.

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CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS
Under our corporate governance guidelines, if a director has an actual or potential conflict of interest, the director must promptly inform our chief executive officer and the chair of our audit committee or the chair of our nominating and corporate governance committee if the chair of the audit committee is the conflicted director. All directors must recuse themselves from any discussion or decision that involves or affects their personal, business or professional interests. Also under our corporate governance guidelines, an independent committee of our board will resolve any conflict of interest issue involving a director, our chief executive officer or any other executive officer. No related party transaction (as defined by Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K promulgated by the SEC) may be effected without the approval of such independent committee. When the potential conflict or transaction involves an executive officer, the audit committee is the independent committee charged by our corporate governance guidelines with this duty. When the potential conflict or transaction involves a director, a committee of the disinterested independent directors is the independent committee charged by our corporate governance guidelines with this duty.
Charitable Foundation
In 2011, we, our Chellomedia operating unit and certain of our other subsidiaries contributed an aggregate of €500,000 ($695,369 based on the 2011 average exchange rate) of cash to the Chello Foundation UK, an independent educational charity organized in accordance with the non-profit laws of England. Included in such cash contribution was €200,000 ($278,147 based on the 2011 average exchange rate) in matching contributions based on the Chello Foundation UK's fund raising efforts. We also contributed in-kind services, directly or indirectly, to the Chello Foundation UK, the Chello Foundation Ireland and the Chello Foundation US for an aggregate value of €136,266 ($189,510 based on the 2011 average exchange rate). Each of the Chello Foundations is an independent charity organized in accordance with the non-profit laws of their respective countries. The focus of the Chello Foundations is to provide scholarships for AIDs orphans in Africa. Mr. Bracken, a named executive officer, and eight employees of Chellomedia or LGE Ltd. (as the case may be) are trustees of the Chello Foundation UK. Mr. Fries, our president and chief executive officer, and Ms. Blair, our senior vice president, global human resources, are trustees of the Chello Foundation US. The trustees do not receive any remuneration for their involvement with any of the Foundations. The establishment of the Foundations and their objectives have been reviewed and approved by our audit committee, which also approves the annual budget for the Foundations. As part of our charitable giving program, we are supportive of the goals and objectives of the Chello Foundations.
Other
Amy M. Blair, spouse of our named executive officer Bernard G. Dvorak, is our senior vice president, global human resources. Ms. Blair and Mr. Dvorak were each officers of our company prior to their marriage. As an officer, Ms. Blair receives an annual salary and is a participant in all programs available to members of our senior management team, including the potential for an annual cash performance award, performance-based and other equity incentive awards and benefits. As with all members of our senior management team, Ms. Blair's salary, cash performance awards and equity incentive awards are reviewed and approved by our compensation committee. Ms. Blair's salary and cash performance award for 2011 was approximately $917,000. Each year, pursuant to her equity-related compensation, she may vest in equity and receive grants of new equity awards, subject to the review and approval of our compensation committee.
STOCKHOLDER PROPOSALS
This proxy statement relates to our annual meeting of stockholders for the calendar year 2012, which will take place on June 19, 2012. We currently expect that our annual meeting of stockholders for the calendar year 2013 will be held during the second quarter of 2013. In order to be eligible for inclusion in the proxy materials for the 2013 annual meeting, any stockholder proposal must have been submitted in writing to our Corporate Secretary and received at our executive offices at 12300 Liberty Boulevard, Englewood, Colorado 80112, by the close of business on December 28, 2012, unless a later date is determined and announced in connection with the actual scheduling of the annual meeting. To be considered for presentation at the 2013 annual meeting, any stockholder proposal must have been received at our executive offices at the foregoing address on or before the close of business on March 21, 2013, or such later date as may be determined and announced in connection with the actual scheduling of the annual meeting.
All stockholder proposals for inclusion in our proxy materials will be subject to the requirements of the proxy rules adopted under the Exchange Act and, as with any stockholder proposal (regardless of whether it is included in our proxy materials), our charter and bylaws and Delaware law.



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Voting Instructions
You can vote by Internet or telephone!
Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!
 
 
Instead of mailing your proxy, you may choose one of the methods outlined below to vote your proxy. Have your proxy card in hand when you access the internet or call by phone. Have the information that
 
is printed in the box marked by the arrow è
XXXX XXXX XXXX
LIBERTY GLOBAL, INC.
12300 LIBERTY BOULEVARD
ENGLEWOOD, CO 80112
available and follow the instructions. Proxies submitted by the internet or telephone must be received by 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time on June 18, 2012.
 
VOTE BY INTERNET - www.proxyvote.com 
Follow the instructions on the secure website.
 
 
 
 
VOTE BY PHONE - 1-800-690-6903
Toll-free within the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico.
Follow the instructions in the recorded message.
 
 
 
 
VOTE BY MAIL
 
 
Mark, sign and date your proxy card.
Return it in the postage-paid envelope provided or to Liberty Global, Inc.,
c/o Broadridge, 51 Mercedes Way, Edgewood, NY 11717.
 
 
 
 
ELECTRONIC DELIVERY OF FUTURE
STOCKHOLDER COMMUNICATIONS
 
If you would like to reduce the costs incurred by Liberty Global, Inc. in mailing proxy materials, you can consent to receiving all future proxy statements, proxy cards and annual reports electronically via email or the internet. To sign up for electronic delivery, please follow the instructions above to vote using the internet and, when prompted, indicate that you agree to receive or access stockholder communications electronically in future years.
TO VOTE, MARK BLOCKS BELOW IN BLUE OR BLACK INK AS  FOLLOWS:
 
KEEP THIS PORTION FOR YOUR RECORDS
 
 
DETACH AND RETURN THIS PORTION ONLY
THIS PROXY CARD IS VALID ONLY WHEN SIGNED AND DATED.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
LIBERTY GLOBAL, INC. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
A
Proposals - The Board of Directors recommends a vote FOR all the nominees listed.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
For All
Withhold
All
For All
Except
To withhold authority to vote for any individual nominee(s), mark “For All Except” and write the number(s) of the nominee(s) on the line below.
 
 
 
 
 1.
Election of Directors
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Nominees:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
01  -  John P. Cole, Jr.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
02 - Richard R. Green
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
03  -  David E. Rapley
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Board of Directors recommends a Vote FOR Proposal 2.
 
For
Against
Abstain
 
 
 2.
 Ratification of the selection of KPMG LLP as the company’s independent auditors for the year ending December 31, 2012.
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B
Non-Voting Items
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
For address changes and/or comments, please check this box and write them on the back where indicated.
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Yes
No
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Please indicate if you plan to attend this meeting.
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MATERIALS ELECTION
 
 
 
 
 
 
As of July 1, 2007, SEC rules permit companies to send you a notice that proxy information is available on the internet, instead of mailing you a complete set of materials. Check the box to the right if you want to receive a complete set of future proxy materials by mail, at no cost to you. If you do not take action you may receive only a Notice.
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(NOTE: Please sign exactly as your name(s) appear(s) hereon. All holders must sign. When signing as attorney, executor, administrator, or other fiduciary, please give full title as such. Joint owners should each sign personally. If a corporation, please sign in full corporate name by authorized officer. If a partnership, please sign in partnership name by authorized person.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Signature [PLEASE SIGN WITHIN BOX]
Date
 
 
 
 
Signature (Joint Owners)
Date
 
 



2012 Annual Meeting Admission Ticket
2012 Annual Meeting of
Liberty Global, Inc. Shareholders
June 19, 2012, 10:00 a.m. Local Time
The Inverness Hotel and Conference Center
200 Inverness Drive West
Englewood, CO 80112
Upon arrival, please present this admission ticket and photo identification at the registration desk.
Liberty Global, Inc.’s Annual Meeting will be held at 10:00 a.m. local time on June 19, 2012, at The Inverness Hotel and Conference Center. If you plan to attend the Annual Meeting, please tear off and keep the upper portion of this form as your ticket for admission to the meeting. This ticket, along with a form of personal identification, admits the named Shareholder(s) and one guest.
Your vote is important. Regardless of whether you plan to attend the meeting, it is important that your shares be voted. Accordingly, we ask that you vote your shares as soon as possible using one of three convenient methods: over the phone, over the internet or by signing and returning your proxy card in the envelope provided. If you plan to attend the meeting, please mark the appropriate box on the proxy.
Important Notice Regarding Internet Availability of Proxy Materials for the Annual Meeting:
The Notice and Proxy Statement and Annual Report are available at www.proxyvote.com.
IF YOU HAVE NOT VOTED VIA THE INTERNET OR TELEPHONE, FOLD ALONG THE PERFORATION, DETACH AND RETURN THE BOTTOM PORTION IN THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE.
 
 
 
 


 
Proxy - LIBERTY GLOBAL, INC.
SERIES A AND SERIES B COMMON STOCK
 
 
 
 
 
ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS - JUNE 19, 2012
 
 
 
 
 
THIS PROXY IS SOLICITED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
 
 
 
 
 
The undersigned stockholder of Liberty Global, Inc. hereby appoints Bryan H. Hall and Bernard G. Dvorak, with power to act without the other and with the right of substitution in each, the proxies of the undersigned to vote all shares of Series A and Series B Common Stock of Liberty Global, Inc., held by the undersigned at the Annual Meeting of stockholders to be held on June 19, 2012, and at any adjournments thereof, with all the powers the undersigned would possess, if present in person. All previous proxies given with respect to the meeting are revoked.
 
 
 
 
 
IF NO DIRECTIONS ARE GIVEN, THE PROXIES WILL VOTE FOR THE ELECTION OF ALL LISTED NOMINEES AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DIRECTORS’ RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE RATIFICATION OF AUDITORS PROPOSAL. IN THE EVENT THAT ANY OTHER MATTER MAY PROPERLY COME BEFORE THE ANNUAL MEETING, OR ANY ADJOURNMENT THEREOF, THE PERSONS SET FORTH ABOVE ARE AUTHORIZED, AT THEIR DISCRETION, TO VOTE THE MATTER. 
 
 
 
 
 
PLEASE SIGN ON THE OTHER SIDE AND RETURN PROMPTLY TO LIBERTY GLOBAL, INC., C/O BROADRIDGE, 51 MERCEDES WAY, EDGEWOOD, NY 11717. IF YOU DO NOT VOTE BY TELEPHONE OR INTERNET, OR SIGN AND RETURN A PROXY CARD, OR ATTEND THE ANNUAL MEETING AND VOTE BY BALLOT, YOUR SHARES CANNOT BE VOTED.

 
 
 
 
 
Address Changes/Comments:
         
 
 
 
 
 
 
         
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(If you noted any Address Changes/Comments above, please mark corresponding box on the reverse side.)
 
(CONTINUED AND TO BE SIGNED ON REVERSE SIDE)