Name of Participant:[_______________________] | ||
Number of Performance Shares: [_______] | Grant Date:[_______] | |
Vesting Schedule:Performance Shares eligible to vest on the Scheduled Vesting Date will vest to the extent provided in Sections 4 and 5 of the Terms and Conditions. | ||
Scheduled Vesting Date [ ] | Number of Performance Shares Eligible to Vest [ ] |
1. | Grant of Performance Shares. The Company hereby grants to you, as of the Grant Date specified on the cover page of this Agreement and subject to the terms and conditions in this Agreement and the Plan, an Award of the number of Performance Shares specified on the cover page of this Agreement. Unless and until these Performance Shares vest as provided in Section 4 below, they are subject to the restrictions specified in Section 3 of this Agreement. |
2. | Delivery of Performance Shares. As soon as practicable after the Grant Date, the Company will cause its transfer agent to maintain a book entry account in your name reflecting the issuance of the Performance Shares. The Secretary of the Company and the Company's transfer agent will cause the Performance Shares to be maintained as restricted shares in such book entry account until the Performance Shares either vest as provided in Section 4 or are forfeited as provided in Section 7. The book entry account that reflects the issuance of such Performance Shares will be subject to stop transfer instructions as provided in Section 11. Your right to receive this Performance Share Award is conditioned upon your execution and delivery to the Company of |
(i) | dividends and other distributions declared and paid with respect to the Performance Shares before they vest shall be subject to Section 3(c); |
(ii) | none of the Performance Shares may be sold, transferred, assigned, pledged or otherwise encumbered, subjected to a levy or attachment or disposed of before they vest other than a transfer upon your death in accordance with your will, by the laws of descent and distribution or, if and to the extent permitted under the Plan, pursuant to a beneficiary designation submitted to the Company; and |
(iii) | all or a portion of the Performance Shares may be forfeited in accordance with Section 7. |
4. | Vesting of Performance Shares. |
5. | Earned Performance Shares. Whether and to what degree the Performance Shares subject to this Award will have been earned as of the Scheduled Vesting Date will be determined by whether and to what degree the Company has satisfied the applicable performance objective(s) for the performance period beginning on [ ] and ending on [ ] (the “Performance Period”) as set forth in Appendix A. Unearned Performance Shares are subject to forfeiture as provided in Section 7. |
6. | Release of Unrestricted Shares. Upon the vesting of Performance Shares and the corresponding lapse of the Restrictions, and after the Company has determined that all conditions to the release of unrestricted shares of Company common stock to you, including Sections 9 and 12 of this Agreement, have been satisfied, it shall release to you such unrestricted shares, as evidenced by issuance to you of a stock certificate without restrictive legend, by electronic delivery of such shares to a brokerage account designated by you, or by an unrestricted book-entry registration of such shares with the Company’s transfer agent. |
7. | Forfeiture of Performance Shares. Subject to Section 4(b), if your employment with the Company and its subsidiaries terminates before all of the Performance Shares have vested, or if you attempt to transfer Performance Shares in a manner contrary to the Restrictions, you will immediately forfeit all unvested Performance Shares. In addition, any Performance Shares that are not earned as of the completion of the Performance Period will immediately be forfeited. Any Performance Shares that are forfeited shall be returned to the Company for cancellation. |
8. | 83(b) Election. You may make and file with the Internal Revenue Service an election under Section 83(b) of the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the grant of the Performance Shares hereunder, electing to include in your gross income as of the Grant Date the Fair Market Value (as defined in Section 15 of the Plan) of the Performance Shares as of the Grant Date. You shall promptly provide a copy of such election to the Company. If you make and file such an election, you shall make such arrangements in accordance with Section 9 as are satisfactory to the Company to provide for the timely payment of all applicable withholding taxes. |
9. | Withholding Taxes. You hereby authorize the Company (or any Company subsidiary) to retain a portion of the unrestricted shares of Company common stock that would otherwise be released to you upon vesting of the Performance Shares to satisfy any federal, state or local withholding taxes that may be due as a result of the receipt or vesting of the Performance Shares, unless you have made other arrangements acceptable to the Company for payment of all such withholding taxes in accordance with the provisions of Section 16 of the Plan. |
10. | Definitions. For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated: |
11. | Stop Transfer Instructions. In order to ensure compliance with the Restrictions, the Company will issue appropriate “stop transfer” instructions to its transfer agent which will apply to the Performance Shares until they vest. The Company shall not be required (i) to transfer on its books any Performance Shares that have purportedly been sold or otherwise transferred in violation of any of the provisions of this Agreement or (ii) to treat as owner of such Performance Shares or to accord the right to vote or receive dividends to any transferee to whom such Performance Shares shall have been purportedly sold or transferred in violation of any of the provisions of this Agreement. |
12. | Compliance with Applicable Legal Requirements. No unrestricted shares of Company common stock deliverable pursuant to this Agreement shall be delivered unless the such delivery complies with all applicable legal requirements, including compliance with the provisions of applicable state securities laws, the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the requirements of the exchange(s) on which the Company’s common stock may, at the time, be listed. Any stock certificate or book-entry evidencing shares of Company common stock to be delivered pursuant to this Agreement that are subject to securities law restrictions shall bear or be accompanied by an appropriate restrictive legend or stop transfer instruction. |
13. | Governing Plan Document. This Agreement and Performance Share Award are subject to all the provisions of the Plan, and to all interpretations, rules and regulations which may, from time to time, be adopted and promulgated by the Committee pursuant to the Plan. If there is any conflict between the provisions of this Agreement and the Plan, the provisions of the Plan, as it may be amended from time to time, will govern. You acknowledge that any shares of Company common stock delivered pursuant to this Agreement will be subject to the terms of the Company’s Securities Trading Policy or any successor insider trading policy adopted by the Company from time to time. |
14. | Choice of Law. This Agreement will be interpreted and enforced under the laws of the state of Delaware (without regard to its conflicts or choice of law principles). |
15. | Binding Effect. This Agreement will be binding in all respects on your heirs, representatives, successors and assigns, and on the successors and assigns of the Company. |
16. | No Right to Continued Employment. This Agreement does not give you a right to continued employment with the Company or any of its subsidiaries, and the Company or any such subsidiary may terminate your employment at any time and otherwise deal with you without regard to the effect it may have upon you under this Agreement. |
17. | Notices. Every notice or other communication relating to this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be mailed to or delivered to the party for whom it is intended at such address as may from time to time be designated by it in a notice mailed or delivered to the other party as herein provided. Unless and until some other address is so designated, all notices or communications by you to the Company shall be mailed or delivered to the Company at its office at 8601 N. Scottsdale Road, Suite 225, Scottsdale, Arizona 85253, Attention: Corporate Secretary, and all notices or communications by the Company to you may be given to you personally or may be mailed or emailed to you at the applicable address indicated in the Company's records as your most recent mailing or email address. |
18. | No Waiver; Amendments. The failure of either party hereto to enforce at any time any provision of this Agreement shall in no way be construed as a waiver of such provision or of any other provision of this Agreement. This Agreement can be modified or amended only by a written agreement signed or otherwise authenticated in a manner approved by the Company by both parties hereto. |