0001209191-15-025019.txt : 20150311 0001209191-15-025019.hdr.sgml : 20150311 20150311122243 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001209191-15-025019 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20150309 FILED AS OF DATE: 20150311 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20150311 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001058290 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-COMPUTER PROGRAMMING SERVICES [7371] IRS NUMBER: 133728359 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 500 FRANK W. BURR BLVD. CITY: TEANECK STATE: NJ ZIP: 07666 BUSINESS PHONE: 2018010233 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 500 FRANK W. BURR BLVD. CITY: TEANECK STATE: NJ ZIP: 07666 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Mehta Rajeev CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001371378 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-24429 FILM NUMBER: 15691717 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORP. STREET 2: 500 GLENPOINTE CENTRE WEST CITY: TEANECK STATE: NJ ZIP: 07666 4 1 doc4.xml FORM 4 SUBMISSION X0306 4 2015-03-09 0 0001058290 COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORP CTSH 0001371378 Mehta Rajeev C/O COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORP. 500 FRANK W. BURR BLVD TEANECK NJ 07666 0 1 0 0 CEO, IT Services Restricted Stock Units 2015-03-09 4 A 0 58242 0.00 A Class A Common Stock 58242 58242 D Represents the total number of performance-based restricted stock units which vested based upon attainment by the Company of certain performance milestones, as determined by the Company's compensation committee on March 9, 2015 based upon the audited financials for the 2014 fiscal year. The performance-based restricted stock units were granted on December 3, 2013 under the Cognizant Technology Solutions 2009 Incentive Compensation Plan. In accordance with the performance-based restricted stock unit award, 1/3 of the vested performance-based restricted stock units shall be issued on the eighteen-month anniversary of the date of grant of such performance-based restricted stock units, provided the reporting person remains in the Company's service through such anniversary date. (Continued in the next footnote.) (Continued from the previous footnote.) The remaining 2/3 of the vested performance-based restricted stock units shall be issued on the thirty-six month anniversary of the date of grant of such performance-based restricted stock units, provided that the grantee remains in the Company's service through such anniversary date. Each performance-based restricted stock unit represents a contingent right to receive one share of the Company's Class A Common Stock. The reporting person will disclose the receipt of shares of the Company's Class A Common Stock underlying the performance-based restricted stock units on Table I of Form 4, if and when such reporting person satisfies the aformentioned service-based conditions. /s/ Dana L. Gilbert, on behalf of Rajeev Mehta, by Power of Attorney 2015-03-11