-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, QF3hbxZUyvewwydhiTEq5y1YKUjNR1Phy6mjn48AAnFsSR/HMi+RZo+4OI3eRI7m zzQNM6mruwysB6IVkiFZPw== 0000950123-10-018063.txt : 20100226 0000950123-10-018063.hdr.sgml : 20100226 20100226153718 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950123-10-018063 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 12 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20100223 ITEM INFORMATION: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers ITEM INFORMATION: Other Events ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20100226 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20100226 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS L P CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001061219 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: NATURAL GAS TRANSMISSION [4922] IRS NUMBER: 760568219 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-14323 FILM NUMBER: 10638946 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1100 LOUISIANA 10TH FLOOR CITY: HOUSTON STATE: TX ZIP: 77002 BUSINESS PHONE: 7133816500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1100 LOUISIANA 10TH FLOOR CITY: HOUSTON STATE: TX ZIP: 77002 8-K 1 h69845e8vk.htm FORM 8-K e8vk
 
 
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT
TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): February 23, 2010
ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS L.P.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
         
Delaware
(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or Organization)
  1-14323
(Commission File Number)
  76-0568219
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
1100 Louisiana, 10th Floor
Houston, Texas 77002

(Address of Principal Executive Offices, including Zip Code)
(713) 381-6500
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2.):
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Item 5.02.   Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
     (e) On February 23, 2010, the Audit, Conflicts and Governance Committee (the “Committee”) of the board of directors (the “Board”) of Enterprise Products GP, LLC, the general partner (the “General Partner”) of Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (the “Partnership”), approved new forms of (i) Option Grant (Exhibit 10.3 hereto), (ii) Employee Restricted Unit Grant (Exhibit 10.5 hereto) and (iii) Non-Employee Director Unit Grant (Exhibit 10.6 hereto) under the 1998 Restated Plan (as defined below).
     In addition, the Committee approved new forms of (i) Option Grant (Exhibit 10.9 hereto), (ii) Employee Restricted Unit Grant (Exhibit 10.10 hereto) and (iii) Non-Employee Director Unit Grant (Exhibit 10.11 hereto) under the 2008 Restated Plan (as defined below).
     Further, the Committee approved certain amendments to existing grant agreements for options and restricted units under the 1998 Restated Plan (Exhibits 10.2 and 10.4, respectively) and to existing grant agreements for options under the 2008 Restated Plan (Exhibit 10.8). These amendments provide for, among other things, conforming changes regarding a “qualifying termination” (as defined in the amendments).
     In addition, the Committee approved awards of restricted common units and options to purchase common units to the principal executive officer, principal financial officer and certain other named executive officers under the 2008 Restated Plan. Such awards are materially consistent with the previously disclosed terms of the 2008 Plan and prior grant agreements.
Item 8.01.   Other Events.
     On February 23, 2010, the Committee also approved the Enterprise Products 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan (as amended and restated as of February 23, 2010) (the “1998 Restated Plan”) and the Amended and Restated 2008 Enterprise Products Long-Term Incentive Plan (February 23, 2010) (the “2008 Restated Plan,” and together with the 1998 Restated Plan, the “Restated Plans”). The Restated Plans were amended and restated to clarify that the Committee shall have the discretion to establish forfeiture provisions and restrictions on transferability, if any, of restricted unit grants. Copies of the Restated Plans reflecting these changes are filed as Exhibits 10.1 and 10.7, respectively.
Item 9.01.   Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits.
         
Exhibit No.   Description
  10.1    
Enterprise Products 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan (as amended and restated as of February 23, 2010).
  10.2    
Amendment to Form of Option Grant Award under Enterprise Products 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan for awards issued before February 23, 2010.
  10.3    
Form of Option Grant Award under Enterprise Products 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan.
  10.4    
Amendment to Form of Restricted Unit Grant Award under Enterprise Products 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan for awards issued before February 23, 2010.
  10.5    
Form of Employee Restricted Unit Grant Award under Enterprise Products 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan.
  10.6    
Form of Non-Employee Director Unit Grant Award under Enterprise Products 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan.
  10.7    
Amended and Restated 2008 Enterprise Products Long-Term Incentive Plan (February 23, 2010).
  10.8    
Amendment to Form of Option Grant Award under the Amended and Restated 2008 Enterprise Products Long-Term Incentive Plan for awards issued before February 23, 2010.
  10.9    
Form of Option Grant Award under the Amended and Restated 2008 Enterprise Products Long-Term Incentive Plan.
  10.10    
Form of Employee Restricted Unit Grant Award under the Amended and Restated 2008 Enterprise Products Long-Term Incentive Plan.
  10.11    
Form of Non-Employee Director Unit Grant Award under the Amended and Restated 2008 Enterprise Products Long-Term Incentive Plan.

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SIGNATURES
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
         
  ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS L.P.
 
 
  By:   Enterprise Products GP, LLC,    
    its General Partner   
       
 
     
Date: February 26, 2010  By:   /s/ Michael J. Knesek    
    Name:   Michael J. Knesek   
    Title:   Senior Vice President, Controller and Principal Accounting Officer of Enterprise Products GP, LLC   
 

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Exhibit Index
         
Exhibit No.   Description
  10.1    
Enterprise Products 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan (as amended and restated as of February 23, 2010).
  10.2    
Amendment to Form of Option Grant Award under Enterprise Products 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan for awards issued before February 23, 2010.
  10.3    
Form of Option Grant Award under Enterprise Products 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan.
  10.4    
Amendment to Form of Restricted Unit Grant Award under Enterprise Products 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan for awards issued before February 23, 2010.
  10.5    
Form of Employee Restricted Unit Grant Award under Enterprise Products 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan.
  10.6    
Form of Non-Employee Director Unit Grant Award under Enterprise Products 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan.
  10.7    
Amended and Restated 2008 Enterprise Products Long-Term Incentive Plan (February 23, 2010).
  10.8    
Amendment to Form of Option Grant Award under the Amended and Restated 2008 Enterprise Products Long-Term Incentive Plan for awards issued before February 23, 2010.
  10.9    
Form of Option Grant Award under the Amended and Restated 2008 Enterprise Products Long-Term Incentive Plan.
  10.10    
Form of Employee Restricted Unit Grant Award under the Amended and Restated 2008 Enterprise Products Long-Term Incentive Plan.
  10.11    
Form of Non-Employee Director Unit Grant Award under the Amended and Restated 2008 Enterprise Products Long-Term Incentive Plan.

 

EX-10.1 2 h69845exv10w1.htm EX-10.1 exv10w1
Exhibit 10.1
ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS
1998 LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLAN
(Amended and Restated as of February 23, 2010)
     SECTION 1 Purpose of the Plan. The Enterprise Products 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan, as amended and restated hereby (the “Plan”), is intended to promote the interests of Enterprise Products Company, a Texas corporation (the “Company”), and Enterprise Products Partners L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Partnership”), by encouraging employees and directors of the Company and its Affiliates who perform services for the Company and/or the Partnership to acquire or increase their equity interests in the Partnership and to provide a means whereby they may develop a sense of proprietorship and personal involvement in the development and financial success of the Partnership, and to encourage them to remain with the Company and its Affiliates and to devote their best efforts to the business of Company and/or the Partnership, thereby advancing the interests of Company, the Partnership and their respective stockholders or partners. The Plan is also contemplated to enhance the ability of the Company and its Affiliates to attract and retain the services of key individuals who are essential for the growth and profitability of the Company and/or the Partnership.
     SECTION 2 Definitions.
     As used in the Plan, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
     “Affiliate” means the Partnership and any entity (i) that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with the Company or the Partnership or (ii) in which the Company or the Partnership has a direct or indirect significant business interest, in each case, as determined by the Committee in its discretion.
     “Award” means an Option, a Restricted Unit or a Phantom Unit granted under the Plan.
     “Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company.
     “Committee” means the Audit and Conflicts Committee of the Board of Directors of the General Partner.
     “DER” means a contingent right, granted in tandem with a specific Phantom Unit award, to receive an amount of cash equal to any cash distributions made by the Partnership with respect to a Unit during the period such Phantom Unit is outstanding.
     “Director” means a “non-employee director”, as defined in Rule 16b-3, of the General Partner.
     “Employee” means any employee of the Company or an Affiliate.
     “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
     “Fair Market Value” means the closing sales price of a Unit on the date of grant of an Option or the date of exercise (in whole or in part) of an Option, as applicable (or if there is no trading in the Units on such date, on the next preceding date on which there was trading) as reported in The Wall Street Journal (or other reporting service approved by the Committee). In the event Units are not publicly traded at the time a determination of fair market value is required to be made hereunder, the determination of fair market value shall be made in good faith by the Committee.
     “General Partner” means Enterprise Products GP, LLC, the general partner of the Partnership.
     “Option” means an option to purchase Units granted under the Plan.
     “Participant” means any Employee or Director granted an Award under the Plan.

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     “Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, government or political subdivision thereof or other entity.
     “Phantom Unit” means a notional or phantom unit granted under the Plan which upon vesting entitles the holder to receive one Unit.
     “Restricted Unit” means a Unit granted under the Plan that is subject to forfeiture provisions and restrictions on its transferability, if any, established by the Committee under the Plan.
     “Rule 16b-3” means Rule 16b-3 promulgated by the SEC under the Exchange Act, or any successor rule or regulation thereto as in effect from time to time.
     “SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any successor thereto.
     “Unit” means a Common Unit of the Partnership.
     SECTION 3 Administration. The Plan shall be administered by the Committee. A majority of the Committee shall constitute a quorum, and the acts of the members of the Committee who are present at any meeting thereof at which a quorum is present, or acts unanimously approved by the members of the Committee in writing, shall be the acts of the Committee. Subject to the terms of the Plan and applicable law, and in addition to other express powers and authorizations conferred on the Committee by the Plan, the Committee shall have full power and authority to: (i) designate Participants; (ii) determine the type or types of Awards to be granted to a Participant; (iii) determine the number of Units to be covered by Awards; (iv) determine the terms and conditions of any Award; (v) determine whether, to what extent, and under what circumstances Awards may be settled, exercised, canceled, or forfeited; (vi) interpret and administer the Plan and any instrument or agreement relating to an Award made under the Plan; (vii) establish, amend, suspend, or waive such rules and regulations and appoint such agents as it shall deem appropriate for the proper administration of the Plan; and (viii) make any other determination and take any other action that the Committee deems necessary or desirable for the administration of the Plan. Unless otherwise expressly provided in the Plan, all designations, determinations, interpretations, and other decisions under or with respect to the Plan or any Award shall be within the sole discretion of the Committee, may be made at any time and shall be final, conclusive, and binding upon all Persons, including the Company, the Partnership, any Affiliate, any Participant, and any beneficiary thereof.
     SECTION 4 Units Available for Awards.
     (a) Units Available. Subject to adjustment as provided in Section 4(c), the number of Units with respect to which Awards may be granted under the Plan is 7,000,000. If any Award is forfeited or otherwise terminates or is canceled without the delivery of Units, then the Units covered by such Award, to the extent of such forfeiture, termination or cancellation, shall again be Units with respect to which Awards may be granted. If any Award is exercised and less than all of the Units covered by such Award are delivered in connection with such exercise, then the Units covered by such Award which were not delivered upon such exercise shall again be Units with respect to which Awards may be granted.
     (b) Sources of Units Deliverable Under Awards. Any Units delivered pursuant to an Award shall consist, in whole or in part, of Units acquired in the open market, from any Affiliate (including, without limitation, the Partnership) or other Person, or any combination of the foregoing, as determined by the Committee in its discretion. If, at the time of exercise by a Participant of all or a portion of such Participant’s Award, the Company determines to acquire Units in the open market and the Company is prohibited, under applicable law, or the rules and/or regulations promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Committee or the New York Stock Exchange or the policies of the Company or an Affiliate, from acquiring Units in the open market, delivery of any Units to the Participant in connection with such Participant’s exercise of an Award may be delayed until such reasonable time as the Company is entitled to acquire, and does acquire, Units in the open market.

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     (c) Adjustments. In the event the Committee determines that any distribution (whether in the form of cash, Units, other securities, or other property), recapitalization, split, reverse split, reorganization, merger, consolidation, split-up, spin-off, combination, repurchase, or exchange of Units or other securities of the Partnership, issuance of warrants or other rights to purchase Units or other securities of the Partnership, or other similar transaction or event affects the Units such that an adjustment is determined by the Committee to be appropriate in order to prevent dilution or enlargement of the benefits or potential benefits intended to be made available under the Plan, then the Committee shall, in such manner as it may deem equitable, adjust any or all of (i) the number and type of Units (or other securities or property) with respect to which Awards may be granted, (ii) the number and type of Units (or other securities or property) subject to outstanding Awards, and (iii) the grant or exercise price with respect to any Award; provided, that the number of Units subject to any Award shall always be a whole number.
     SECTION 5 Eligibility. Any Employee and Director shall be eligible to be designated a Participant.
     SECTION 6 Awards.
     (a) Options. The Committee shall have the authority to determine the Employees and Directors to whom Options shall be granted, the number of Units to be covered by each Option, the exercise price therefor and the conditions and limitations applicable to the exercise of the Option, including the following terms and conditions and such additional terms and conditions, as the Committee shall determine, that are not inconsistent with the provisions or intent of the Plan.
          (i) Exercise Price. The purchase price per Unit purchasable under an Option shall be determined by the Committee at the time the Option is granted and may be equal to or greater than its Fair Market Value as of the date of grant, as determined by the Committee, in its discretion.
          (ii) Time and Method of Exercise. The Committee shall determine the time or times at which an Option may be exercised in whole or in part, and the method or methods by which any payment of the exercise price with respect thereto may be made or deemed to have been made, which may include, without limitation, cash, check acceptable to the Company, a “cashless-broker” exercise (through procedures approved by the Company), other property, a note from the Participant (in a form and on terms acceptable to the Company, which may include such security arrangements as the Company deems appropriate), or any combination thereof, having a value on the exercise date equal to the relevant exercise price.
          (iii) Term. Each Option shall expire as provided in the grant agreement for such Option.
     (b) Restricted Units. The Committee shall have the authority to determine the Employees and Directors to whom Restricted Units shall be granted, the number of Restricted Units to be granted to each such Participant, the period and the conditions (if any) under which the Restricted Units may become vested or forfeited, which may include, without limitation, the accelerated vesting upon the achievement of specified performance goals, and such other terms and conditions as the Committee may establish with respect to such Award, including whether distributions made by the Partnership with respect to the Restricted Units shall be subject to the same forfeiture and other restrictions as the Restricted Unit. If distributions are so restricted, such distributions shall be held by the Company, without interest, until the Restricted Unit vests or is forfeited with the retained distributions then being paid or forfeited at the same time, as the case may be. Absent such a restriction on distributions in the grant agreement, Partnership distributions shall be paid currently to the holder of the Restricted Unit without restriction.
     (c) Phantom Units. The Committee shall have the authority to determine the Employees and Directors to whom Phantom Units shall be granted, the number of Phantom Units to be granted to each such Participant, the period during which the Award remains subject to forfeiture, the conditions under which the Phantom Units may become vested or forfeited, and such other terms and conditions as the Committee may establish with respect to such Award, including whether DERs are granted with respect to such Phantom Units. Upon or as soon as reasonably practical following the vesting of each Phantom Unit, the Participant shall be entitled to

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receive payment thereof in a single lump sum no later than the fifteenth (15th) day of the third (3rd) month following the date on which vesting occurs and the restrictions lapse. Should the Participant die before receiving all amounts payable hereunder, the balance shall be paid to the Participant’s estate by this date.
     (d) DERs. To the extent provided by the Committee in its discretion, a grant of Phantom Units may include a tandem DER grant, which shall provide that such DERs shall be paid currently to the Participant, be credited to a Company bookkeeping account (with or without interest) and be subject to the same restrictions as the tandem Award, or be subject to such other provisions or restrictions as determined by the Committee in its discretion and provided in such grant agreement. To the extent DER’s are subject to any payment restrictions, any amounts not previously paid shall be paid to the Participant at the time the payment restrictions lapse. Such amounts shall be distributed in a single lump sum no later than the fifteenth (15th) day of the third (3rd) month following the date on which the payment restrictions lapse. Should the Participant die before receiving all amounts payable hereunder, the balance shall be paid to the Participant’s estate by this date.
     (e) General.
          (i) Awards May Be Granted Separately or Together. Awards may, in the discretion of the Committee, be granted either alone or in addition to, in tandem with, or in substitution for any other Award granted under the Plan or any award granted under any other plan of the Company or any Affiliate. Awards granted in addition to or in tandem with other Awards or awards granted under any other plan of the Company or any Affiliate may be granted either at the same time as or at a different time from the grant of such other Awards or awards.
          (ii) Limits on Transfer of Awards.
               (A) Each Option shall be exercisable only by the Participant during the Participant’s lifetime, or by the person to whom the Participant’s rights shall pass by will or the laws of descent and distribution.
               (B) No Award and no right under any such Award may be assigned, alienated, pledged, attached, sold or otherwise transferred or encumbered by a Participant otherwise than by will or by the laws of descent and distribution and any such purported assignment, alienation, pledge, attachment, sale, transfer or encumbrance shall be void and unenforceable against the Company or any Affiliate.
          (iii) Unit Certificates. All certificates for Units or other securities of the Partnership delivered under the Plan pursuant to any Award or the exercise thereof shall be subject to such stop transfer orders and other restrictions as the Committee may deem advisable under the Plan or the rules, regulations, and other requirements of the SEC, any stock exchange upon which such Units or other securities are then listed, and any applicable federal or state laws, and the Committee may cause a legend or legends to be put on any such certificates to make appropriate reference to such restrictions.
          (iv) Consideration for Grants. Awards may be granted for no cash consideration payable by a Participant or for such consideration payable by a Participant as the Committee determines including, without limitation, such minimal cash consideration as may be required by applicable law.
          (v) Delivery of Units or other Securities and Payment by Participant of Consideration. No Units or other securities shall be delivered pursuant to any Award until payment in full of any amount required to be paid pursuant to the Plan or the applicable Award grant agreement (including, without limitation, any exercise price or tax withholding) is received by the Company. Such payment may be made by such method or methods and in such form or forms as the Committee shall determine, including, without limitation, cash, withholding of Units, “cashless-broker” exercises with simultaneous sale, or any combination thereof; provided that the combined value, as determined by the Committee, of all cash and cash equivalents and the fair market value of any such property so tendered to, or withheld by, the Company, as of the date of such tender, is at least equal to the full amount required to be paid to the Company pursuant to the Plan or the applicable Award agreement.

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     SECTION 7 Amendment and Termination. Except to the extent prohibited by applicable law and unless otherwise expressly provided in an Award agreement or in the Plan:
          (i) Amendments to the Plan. Except as required by applicable law or the rules of the principal securities exchange on which the Units are traded and subject to Section 7(ii) below, the Board or the Committee may amend, alter, suspend, discontinue, or terminate the Plan without the consent of any partner, Participant, other holder or beneficiary of an Award, or other Person.
          (ii) Amendments to Awards. The Committee may waive any conditions or rights under, amend any terms of, or alter any Award theretofore granted, provided no change, other than pursuant to Section 7(iii), in any Award shall materially reduce the benefit to Participant without the consent of such Participant.
          (iii) Adjustment or Termination of Awards Upon the Occurrence of Certain Events. The Committee is hereby authorized to make adjustments in the terms and conditions of, and the criteria (if any) included in, Awards in recognition of unusual or significant events (including, without limitation, the events described in Section 4(c) of the Plan) affecting the Partnership or the financial statements of the Partnership, of changes in applicable laws, regulations, or accounting principles, or a change in control of the Company (as determined by its Board) or the Partnership (as determined by the Committee), whenever the Committee determines that such adjustments are appropriate in order to prevent dilution or enlargement of the benefits or potential benefits intended to be made available under the Plan. Such adjustments may include, without limitation, accelerating the exercisability of an Award, accelerating the date on which the Award will terminate and/or canceling Awards by the issuance or transfer of Units having a value equal to the Option’s positive “spread.”
     SECTION 8 General Provisions.
     (a) No Rights to Awards. No Person shall have any claim to be granted any Award, and there is no obligation for uniformity of treatment of Participants. The terms and conditions of Awards need not be the same with respect to each recipient.
     (b) Termination of Employment. For purposes of the Plan, unless the Award agreement provides to the contrary, a Participant shall not be deemed to have terminated employment with the Company and its Affiliates or membership from the Board until such date as the Participant is no longer either an Employee or a Director, i.e., a change in status from Employee to Director or Director to Employee shall not be a termination.
     (c) No Right to Employment. The grant of an Award shall not be construed as giving a Participant the right to be retained in the employ of the Company or any Affiliate or to remain on the Board, as applicable. Further, the Company or an Affiliate may at any time dismiss a Participant from employment, free from any liability or any claim under the Plan, unless otherwise expressly provided in the Plan or in any Award agreement. Nothing in the Plan or any Award agreement shall operate or be construed as constituting an employment agreement with any Participant and each Participant shall be an “at will” employee, unless such Participant has entered into a separate written employment agreement with the Company or an Affiliate.
     (d) Governing Law. The validity, construction, and effect of the Plan and any rules and regulations relating to the Plan shall be determined in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware and applicable federal law, without giving effect to principles of conflicts of law.
     (e) Severability. If any provision of the Plan or any Award is or becomes or is deemed to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any jurisdiction or as to any Person or Award, or would disqualify the Plan or any Award under any law deemed applicable by the Committee, such provision shall be construed or deemed amended to conform to the applicable laws, or if it cannot be construed or deemed amended without, in the

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determination of the Committee, materially altering the intent of the Plan or the Award, such provision shall be stricken as to such jurisdiction, Person or Award and the remainder of the Plan and any such Award shall remain in full force and effect.
     (f) Other Laws. The Committee may refuse to issue or transfer any Units or other consideration under an Award if, in its sole discretion, it determines that the issuance or transfer or such Units or such other consideration might violate any applicable law or regulation, the rules of any securities exchange, or entitle the Partnership or an Affiliate to recover the same under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act, and any payment tendered to the Company by a Participant, other holder or beneficiary in connection with the exercise of such Award shall be promptly refunded to the relevant Participant, holder or beneficiary.
     (g) Unsecured Creditors. Neither the Plan nor any Award shall create or be construed to create a fiduciary relationship between the Company or any Affiliate and a Participant or any other Person. To the extent that any Person acquires a right to receive payments from the Company or any Affiliate pursuant to an Award, such right shall be no greater than the right of any general unsecured creditor of the Company or the Affiliate.
     (h) No Fractional Units. No fractional Units shall be issued or delivered pursuant to the Plan or any Award, and any such fractional Units or any rights thereto shall be canceled, terminated, or otherwise eliminated, without the payment of any consideration therefor.
     (i) Headings. Headings are given to the Sections and subsections of the Plan solely as a convenience to facilitate reference. Such headings shall not be deemed in any way material or relevant to the construction or interpretation of the Plan or any provision thereof.
     SECTION 9 Term of the Plan; Unitholder Approval. The Plan, as hereby amended and restated, shall be effective on the date of its approval by the Unitholders of the Partnership and shall continue until the earliest of (i) all available Units under the Plan have been paid to Participants, (ii) the termination of the Plan by action of the Board or the Committee or (iii) the 10th anniversary of the date of the approval by the Unitholders of this amendment and restatement. Notwithstanding anything in the Plan to the contrary, prior to the approval of this amendment and restatement by the Unitholders of the Partnership, (i) no Restricted Units or Phantom Units may be granted under the Plan and (ii) Options may not be granted under the Plan with respect to more Units than the number available prior to the increase in available Units made by this amendment and restatement.
     SECTION 10. Section 409A. Notwithstanding anything in this Plan to the contrary, if any Plan provision or Award under the Plan would result in the imposition of an additional tax under Code Section 409A and related regulations and United States Department of the Treasury pronouncements (“Section 409A”), that Plan provision or Award will be reformed to the extent practicable to avoid imposition of the applicable tax and no action taken to comply with Section 409A shall be deemed to adversely affect the Participant’s rights to an Award or require the consent of the Participant. Notwithstanding any provisions in the Plan to the contrary, to the extent that the Participant is a “specified employee” (as defined in Section 409A of the Code and applicable regulatory guidance) subject to the six month delay under Section 409A in distributions under the Plan, no distribution or payment that is subject to Section 409A of the Code shall be made hereunder on account of such Participant’s “separation from service” (as defined in Section 409A of the Code and applicable regulatory guidance) before the date that is the first day of the month that occurs six months after the date of the Participant’s separation from service (or, if earlier, the date of death of the Participant or any other date permitted under Section 409A of the Code and applicable regulatory guidance). Any such amount that is otherwise payable within the six-month period following the Participant’s separation from service will be paid in a lump sum without interest.

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EX-10.2 3 h69845exv10w2.htm EX-10.2 exv10w2
Exhibit 10.2
Amendment to Option Grant
(for option awards issued before February 23, 2010)
under the
Enterprise Products 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan
     The undersigned participant (hereinafter, “you” or the “Participant”) hereby agrees and acknowledges that the Committee’s current policy is that options that are not vested will be forfeited and cancelled upon the Participant’s termination of employment except where the Participant is terminated due to a Qualifying Termination. In accordance with such policy, the Participant hereby agrees to the amendment to his or her Option Grant No(s). ___(as it/they may be previously amended and/or restated, the “Award Agreement(s)”) under the Enterprise Products 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) as follows:
     Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Award Agreement(s), the following capitalized terms, as used in the Award Agreement(s) (as amended hereby), shall have the following meanings:
     “Qualified Month” means a calendar month during which the Partnership pays a cash distribution to holders of its Common Units.
     “Qualifying Termination” means:
     (a) your status as an employee of any Affiliated Group (as defined below) member is terminated due to your (i) death or (ii) receiving long-term disability benefits under the applicable Affiliated Group member’s long-term disability plan, provided such disability qualifies as a “disability” under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (“Section 409A”); or
     (b) your employment with any Affiliated Group member is terminated due to your retirement on or after (1) reaching age 62, (2) having 10 or more years of credited service as an employee of one or more Affiliated Group member(s), (3) executing a Retirement Agreement and Release (in such form as the Committee may approve from time to time) and (4) otherwise complying with any related retirement policies of the Affiliated Group member in effect at the time of the effective date of your retirement; or
     (c) your termination of employment by any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) and each of its Affiliates within one year after a Change of Control (as defined below) and (1) such termination of employment was initiated by the Affiliated Group member (or its successor) other than upon or after the occurrence of a Termination for Cause (as defined below) or (2) if such termination of employment was initiated by you, is upon or after the occurrence of a Termination for Good Reason (as defined below); provided, however, that you terminate your employment with any Affiliated Group member (or any successor) and its Affiliates within 120 days following the date on which you have actual notice of the event that gives rise to the Termination for Good Reason.
     “Affiliated Group” means the Company or any of its Affiliates.
     “Change of Control” means Duncan shall cease, directly or indirectly, to control the General Partner (including for purposes of clarification, and without limitation, by control that may be deemed to exist based on (i) the facts that cause Duncan’s deemed control of the General Partner to exist as of the date of this Agreement (which existing control is hereby recognized and agreed) or (ii) Duncan’s direct or indirect power to exercise a controlling influence over either the management or policies of the General Partner (as control and power are construed and used under rules and regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including any presumptions used thereunder relating to control).
     “Duncan” means, collectively, individually or any combination, Dan L. Duncan, his wife, descendants, heirs and/or legatees and/or distributees of Dan L. Duncan’s estate, and/or trusts (including, without limitation, one or more voting trusts) established for the benefit of his wife, descendants, heirs and/or legatees and/or distributees.

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     “Termination for Cause” means the occurrence of any of the following events:
     (a) the commission by you of a material act of willful misconduct including, but not limited to, the willful violation of any material law, rule, regulation of a governmental entity or cease and desist order applicable to you or any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) (other than a law, rule or regulation relating to a minor traffic violation or similar offense), or an act which constitutes a breach by you of a fiduciary duty owed to any Affiliated Group member (or its successor); or
     (b) the commission by you of an act of dishonesty relating to the performance of your duties, habitual unexcused absence(s) from work, willful failure to perform duties in any material respect (other than any such failure resulting from your incapacity due to physical or mental illness or disability), or gross negligence in the performance of duties resulting in material damage or injury to any Affiliated Group member (or its successor), its reputation or goodwill (provided, however, that in the event of your willful failure to perform duties in any material respect, you shall be provided with written notice of such event and shall be provided with a reasonable opportunity, in no event more than 30 days, to cure such failure to perform your duties); or
     (c) any felony conviction of you or any conviction of you involving dishonesty, fraud or breach of trust (other than for a minor traffic violation or similar offense), whether or not in the line of duty.
     “Termination for Good Reason” means any nonconsensual (a) material reduction in your authority, duties or responsibilities; (b) reduction in your compensation by more than 20 percent from the compensation (excluding Awards pursuant to the Plan or other equity-based compensation) paid by any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) during the completed fiscal year prior to the Change of Control; or (c) change caused by any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) in your office location of more than 50 miles from its location on the date of the Change of Control.
     All capitalized terms shall have the meaning set forth in the Plan, as amended and/or restated, unless otherwise provided herein.
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This amendment is adopted effective as of February 23, 2010.
         
ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS COMPANY
  PARTICIPANT:    
(formerly EPCO, Inc.)
       
 
       
 
       
 
       
Signature
  Signature    
 
       
Title:
  Title:    
 
       
 
       
Date: February 23, 2010
  Date:    

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EX-10.3 4 h69845exv10w3.htm EX-10.3 exv10w3
Exhibit 10.3
Option Grant under the
Enterprise Products 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan
Date of Grant:
Name of Optionee:
Option Exercise Price per Common Unit:
Number of Options Granted
     (One Option equals the Right to
     Purchase One Common Unit):
Option Grant Number:
Enterprise Products Company (formerly EPCO, Inc.) (the “Company”) is pleased to inform you that you have been granted options (the “Options”) under the Enterprise Products 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) to purchase units representing limited partner interests (“Common Units”) of Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (the “Partnership”) as follows:
1. You are hereby granted the number of Options to acquire a Common Unit set forth above, each such Option having the option exercise price set forth above.
2. The Options shall become fully vested (exercisable) on the earlier of (i) the date that is four years after the Date of Grant set forth above (the “Vesting Date”) and (ii) a Qualifying Termination (as defined below).
     “Qualifying Termination” means
     (a) your status as an employee of the Company or any of its Affiliates (collectively, the “Affiliated Group”) is terminated due to your (i) death or (ii) receiving long-term disability benefits under the applicable Affiliated Group member’s long-term disability plan, provided such disability qualifies as a “disability” under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (“Section 409A”); or
     (b) your employment with any Affiliated Group member is terminated due to your retirement on or after (1) reaching age 62, (2) having 10 or more years of credited service as an employee of one or more Affiliated Group member(s), (3) executing a Retirement Agreement and Release (in such form as the Committee may approve from time to time) and (4) otherwise complying with any related retirement policies of the Affiliated Group member in effect at the time of the effective date of your retirement; or
     (c) your termination of employment by any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) and each of its Affiliates within one year after a Change of Control (as defined below) and (1) such termination of employment was initiated by the Affiliated Group member (or its successor) other than upon or after the occurrence of a Termination for Cause or (2) if such termination of employment was initiated by you, is upon or after the occurrence of a Termination for Good Reason; provided, however, that you terminate your employment with any Affiliated Group member (or any successor) and its Affiliates within 120 days following the date on which you have actual notice of the event that gives rise to the Termination for Good Reason.
     “Change of Control” means Duncan shall cease, directly or indirectly, to control the General Partner (including for purposes of clarification, and without limitation, by control that may be deemed to exist based on (i) the facts that cause Duncan’s deemed control of the General Partner to exist as of the date of this Agreement (which existing control is hereby recognized and agreed) or (ii) Duncan’s direct or indirect power to exercise a controlling influence over either the management or policies of the General Partner (as control and power are construed and

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used under rules and regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including any presumptions used thereunder relating to control).
     “Duncan” means, collectively, individually or any combination, Dan L. Duncan, his wife, descendants, heirs and/or legatees and/or distributees of Dan L. Duncan’s estate, and/or trusts (including, without limitation, one or more voting trusts) established for the benefit of his wife, descendants, heirs and/or legatees and/or distributees.
     “Termination for Cause” means the occurrence of any of the following events:
     (a) the commission by you of a material act of willful misconduct including, but not limited to, the willful violation of any material law, rule, regulation of a governmental entity or cease and desist order applicable to you or any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) (other than a law, rule or regulation relating to a minor traffic violation or similar offense), or an act which constitutes a breach by you of a fiduciary duty owed to any Affiliated Group member (or its successor); or
     (b) the commission by you of an act of dishonesty relating to the performance of your duties, habitual unexcused absence(s) from work, willful failure to perform duties in any material respect (other than any such failure resulting from your incapacity due to physical or mental illness or disability), or gross negligence in the performance of duties resulting in material damage or injury to any Affiliated Group member (or its successor), its reputation or goodwill (provided, however, that in the event of your willful failure to perform duties in any material respect, you shall be provided with written notice of such event and shall be provided with a reasonable opportunity, in no event more than 30 days, to cure such failure to perform your duties); or
     (c) any felony conviction of you or any conviction of you involving dishonesty, fraud or breach of trust (other than for a minor traffic violation or similar offense), whether or not in the line of duty.
     “Termination for Good Reason” means any nonconsensual (a) material reduction in your authority, duties or responsibilities; (b) reduction in your compensation by more than 20 percent from the compensation (excluding Awards pursuant to the Plan or other equity-based compensation) paid by any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) during the completed fiscal year prior to the Change of Control; or (c) change caused by any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) in your office location of more than 50 miles from its location on the date of the Change of Control.
     3. Subject to the further provisions of this Agreement and the Plan, the Options, to the extent vested, may be exercised (in whole or in part or in two or more successive parts) during your employment with the Company and its Affiliates only during a calendar month during which the Partnership pays a cash distribution to holders of its Common Units (a “Qualified Month”) in the first (1st) calendar year following the year in which the Vesting Date occurs (and the Option will expire at the end of such year if it is not so exercised). In the event your employment with the Company and its Affiliates is terminated prior to the Vesting Date for any reason other than a Qualifying Termination, the Options shall automatically and immediately be forfeited and cancelled unexercised on the date of such termination of employment. For purposes of this Option grant award, the term “year” shall mean a period comprised of 365 (or 366, as appropriate) days beginning on a day of a calendar year and ending on the day immediately preceding the corresponding day of the next calendar year. For example, if the Date of Grant of an Option grant award is May 20, 2010, one year after the Date of Grant would be May 20, 2011, the Vesting Date would be May 20, 2014 (assuming no earlier Qualifying Termination) and the calendar year in which the Options could be exercised (except as described in Sections 7 and 8 hereof) would be 2015.
     4. To the extent vested and subject to the procedures set forth in Addendum No. 2, the Options may be exercised by submitting the “Options Transaction Clearance Request and Tax Withholding Election” (“Transaction Request”) with respect to such exercise which references the Option Grant Number set forth above and the number of Options (or Common Units relating thereto) which are being exercised. Such Transaction Request shall be delivered or mailed to the Company at its corporate offices in Houston, Texas, as follows:

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          Mailing Address: Enterprise Products Company, P.O. Box 4324, Houston, Texas 77210-4324, Attention: Sr. Vice President, Human Resources.
          Delivery Address: Enterprise Products Company, 1100 Louisiana, 10th Floor, Houston, Texas 77002, Attention: Sr. Vice President, Human Resources
          An election to exercise shall be made in accordance with Addendum No. 2 and shall be irrevocable. If you are an employee of the Company or an Affiliate and such exercise occurs other than in a Qualified Month, it shall be deemed exercised in the next Qualified Month.
     5. No exercise shall be effective until you have made arrangements acceptable to the Company and in accordance with the Plan to satisfy the aggregate Exercise Price and all applicable tax withholding requirements of the Company, if any, with respect to such exercise.
     6. None of the Options are transferable (by operation of law or otherwise) by you, other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution. If, in the event of your divorce, legal separation or other dissolution of your marriage, your former spouse is awarded ownership of, or an interest in, all or part of the Options granted hereby to you (the “Awarded Options”), (i) to the extent the Awarded Options are not fully vested, the Awarded Options shall automatically and immediately be forfeited and cancelled unexercised as of the original date of the award thereof and (ii) to the extent the Awarded Options are fully vested, the Company, in its sole discretion, may at any time thereafter, during the period in which the Awarded Options are exercisable under the terms of the domestic relations order providing for the assignment, cancel the Awarded Options by delivering to such former spouse Common Units having an aggregate Fair Market Value on the payment date equal to the excess of the aggregate Fair Market Value of the Common Units subject to the Awarded Options over their aggregate Exercise Price.
     7. In the event you terminate employment with the Company and its Affiliates for any reason (which termination is a “separation from service” under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code) other than a Qualifying Termination, the Options, if fully vested, may be exercised by you (or, in the event of your death, by the person to whom your rights shall pass by will or the laws of the descent and distribution (“Beneficiary”)) only during the Qualified Month next following your employment termination date. If you cease to be an “active, full-time employee”, as determined by the Company in its sole discretion, without regard as to how your status is treated by the Company for any of its other compensation or benefit plans or programs, you will be deemed to have terminated employment with the Company and its Affiliates for purposes of this Agreement.
     8. In the event of a Qualifying Termination or an “unforeseeable emergency” (as defined in Section 409A) which is approved by the Company, the vested portion of the Options may be exercised by you only during the Qualified Month next following such event. Notwithstanding the above, in the event such Qualifying Termination is due to your death, the vested portion of the Options may be exercised by your Beneficiary only during the second Qualified Month next following such event.
     9. Nothing in this Agreement or in the Plan shall confer any right on you to continue employment with any member of the Affiliated Group or restrict the Company or its Affiliates from terminating your employment at any time. Unless you have a separate written employment agreement with an Affiliated Group member, you are, and shall continue to be, an “at will” employee.
     10. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Options shall not be exercisable, and neither the Company nor the Partnership shall be obligated to deliver to you any Common Units, if counsel to the Company determines such exercise or delivery, as the case may be, would violate any law or regulation of any governmental authority or agreement between the Company or the Partnership and any national securities exchange upon which the Common Units are listed or any policy of the Company or any Affiliate of the Company.
     11. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if you give notice of exercise within a “quiet period,” as provided in Addendum No. 1 hereto, the timing of the delivery of Common Units pursuant to your exercise shall be governed by the terms of Addendum No. 1. Further, neither the Company nor the Partnership shall

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have any liability to you for any loss you may suffer (whether by a decrease in the value of the Common Units, failure or inability to receive Partnership distributions or otherwise) from any delay by the Company or the Partnership in delivering to you Common Units in connection with the whole or partial exercise by you of the Options.
     12. These Options are subject to the terms of the Plan, which is hereby incorporated by reference as if set forth in its entirety herein, including, without limitation, the ability of the Company, in its discretion, to accelerate the termination of the Option and to amend your Option grant award without your approval. In the event of a conflict between the terms of this Agreement and the Plan, the Plan shall be the controlling document. Capitalized terms that are used, but are not defined, in this Option grant award have the respective meanings provided for in the Plan. The Plan, as in effect on the Date of Grant, is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
         
  Enterprise Products Company
(formerly EPCO, Inc.)
 
 
     
  Senior Vice President, Human Resources   
     
 

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EX-10.4 5 h69845exv10w4.htm EX-10.4 exv10w4
Exhibit 10.4
Amendment to Restricted Unit Grant
(for Restricted Unit awards issued before February 23, 2010)
under the
Enterprise Products 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan
     The undersigned participant (hereinafter, “you” or the “Participant”) hereby agrees and acknowledges that the Committee’s current policy is that Restricted Units that are not vested will be forfeited and cancelled upon the Participant’s termination of employment except where the Participant is terminated due to a Qualifying Termination. In accordance with such policy, the Participant hereby agrees to the amendment to his or her Restricted Unit Grant No(s). ___(as it/they may be previously amended and/or restated, the “Award Agreement(s)”) under the Enterprise Products 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) as follows:
     Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Award Agreement(s):
     1. One hundred percent (100%) of any Restricted Units that have not previously vested shall vest on the first day of the first Qualified Month (as defined in Section 2 below) after the occurrence of a Qualifying Termination (as defined in Section 2 below).
     2. The following capitalized terms, as used in the Award Agreement(s) (as amended hereby), shall have the following meanings:
     “Qualified Month” means a calendar month during which the Partnership pays a cash distribution to holders of its Common Units.
     “Qualifying Termination” means:
     (a) your status as an employee of any Affiliated Group (as defined below) member is terminated due to your (i) death or (ii) receiving long-term disability benefits under the applicable Affiliated Group member’s long-term disability plan, provided such disability qualifies as a “disability” under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (“Section 409A”); or
     (b) your employment with any Affiliated Group member is terminated due to your retirement on or after (1) reaching age 62, (2) having 10 or more years of credited service as an employee of one or more Affiliated Group member(s), (3) executing a Retirement Agreement and Release (in such form as the Committee may approve from time to time) and (4) otherwise complying with any related retirement policies of the Affiliated Group member in effect at the time of the effective date of your retirement; or
     (c) your termination of employment by any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) and each of its Affiliates within one year after a Change of Control (as defined below) and (1) such termination of employment was initiated by the Affiliated Group member (or its successor) other than upon or after the occurrence of a Termination for Cause (as defined below) or (2) if such termination of employment was initiated by you, is upon or after the occurrence of a Termination for Good Reason (as defined below); provided, however, that you terminate your employment with any Affiliated Group member (or any successor) and its Affiliates within 120 days following the date on which you have actual notice of the event that gives rise to the Termination for Good Reason.
     “Affiliated Group” means the Company or any of its Affiliates.
     “Change of Control” means Duncan shall cease, directly or indirectly, to control the General Partner (including for purposes of clarification, and without limitation, by control that may be deemed to exist based on (i) the facts that cause Duncan’s deemed control of the General Partner to exist as of the date of this Agreement (which existing control is hereby recognized and agreed) or (ii) Duncan’s direct or indirect power to exercise a controlling influence over either the management or policies of the General Partner (as control and power are construed and

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used under rules and regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including any presumptions used thereunder relating to control).
     “Duncan” means, collectively, individually or any combination, Dan L. Duncan, his wife, descendants, heirs and/or legatees and/or distributees of Dan L. Duncan’s estate, and/or trusts (including, without limitation, one or more voting trusts) established for the benefit of his wife, descendants, heirs and/or legatees and/or distributees.
     “Termination for Cause” means the occurrence of any of the following events:
     (a) the commission by you of a material act of willful misconduct including, but not limited to, the willful violation of any material law, rule, regulation of a governmental entity or cease and desist order applicable to you or any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) (other than a law, rule or regulation relating to a minor traffic violation or similar offense), or an act which constitutes a breach by you of a fiduciary duty owed to any Affiliated Group member (or its successor); or
     (b) the commission by you of an act of dishonesty relating to the performance of your duties, habitual unexcused absence(s) from work, willful failure to perform duties in any material respect (other than any such failure resulting from your incapacity due to physical or mental illness or disability), or gross negligence in the performance of duties resulting in material damage or injury to any Affiliated Group member (or its successor), its reputation or goodwill (provided, however, that in the event of your willful failure to perform duties in any material respect, you shall be provided with written notice of such event and shall be provided with a reasonable opportunity, in no event more than 30 days, to cure such failure to perform your duties); or
     (c) any felony conviction of you or any conviction of you involving dishonesty, fraud or breach of trust (other than for a minor traffic violation or similar offense), whether or not in the line of duty.
     “Termination for Good Reason” means any nonconsensual (a) material reduction in your authority, duties or responsibilities; (b) reduction in your compensation by more than 20 percent from the compensation (excluding Awards pursuant to the Plan or other equity-based compensation) paid by any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) during the completed fiscal year prior to the Change of Control; or (c) change caused by any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) in your office location of more than 50 miles from its location on the date of the Change of Control.
     All capitalized terms shall have the meaning set forth in the Plan, as amended and/or restated, unless otherwise provided herein.
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     This amendment is adopted effective as of February 23, 2010.
             
ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS COMPANY                PARTICIPANT:
(formerly EPCO, Inc.)        
 
           
 
           
 
Signature
 
 
Signature
 
           
Title:
      Title:    
 
 
 
     
 
Date: February 23, 2010   Date:

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EX-10.5 6 h69845exv10w5.htm EX-10.5 exv10w5
Exhibit 10.5
Restricted Unit Grant
under the
Enterprise Products 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan
Date of Grant:
Name of Grantee:
Number of Units Granted:
Restricted Unit Grant Number:
 
     Enterprise Products Company (formerly EPCO, Inc.) (the “Company”) is pleased to inform you that you have been granted the number of Restricted Units set forth above under the Enterprise Products 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). A Restricted Unit is a Common Unit of Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (the “Partnership”) that is subject to the forfeiture and non-transferability provisions set forth below in this Agreement (the “Restrictions”). The terms of the grant are as follows:
     1. The Restricted Units granted by this Restricted Unit Grant (such granted Restricted Units being herein referred to, individually, as a “Restricted Unit” and, collectively or in any combination, as the “Restricted Units”) shall become fully vested, i.e., not restricted, in accordance with the schedule set forth in the table below (the dates in such table being referred to as “Vesting Dates”); provided however, that (notwithstanding the foregoing) one hundred percent (100%) of any Restricted Units that have not previously vested shall vest on the first day of the first Qualified Month (as defined in Section 4 below) after the occurrence of a Qualifying Termination (as defined in Section 4 below).
     
Vesting Dates:
  Restricted Units Originally Granted
Under this Grant Being Vested:
     In the event your status as an employee of the Company or any of its Affiliates (collectively, the “Affiliated Group”) is terminated prior to a particular Vesting Date for any reason other than a Qualifying Termination, the Restricted Units that have not yet vested as of such Vesting Date shall automatically and immediately be forfeited and cancelled without payment on the date of such termination.
     2. The Restricted Units will be evidenced, at the sole option and in the sole discretion of the Partnership, either (i) in book-entry form in your name in the Common Unit register of the Partnership maintained by the Partnership’s transfer agent or (ii) a unit certificate issued in your name. You shall have voting rights and shall be entitled to receive all distributions made by the Partnership on such Restricted Units free and clear of any Restrictions. If the Restricted Units are evidenced by a certificate, the certificate shall bear the following legend:
     The Units evidenced by this certificate have been issued pursuant to an agreement made as of ___, 20___, a copy of which is attached hereto and incorporated herein, between the Company and the registered holder of the Units, and are subject to forfeiture to the Company under certain circumstances described in such agreement. The sale, assignment, pledge or other transfer of the shares of Units evidenced by this certificate is prohibited under the terms and conditions of such agreement, and such Units may not be sold, assigned, pledged or otherwise transferred except as provided in such agreement.

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     The Company may cause the certificate to be delivered upon issuance to the Secretary of the Company as a depository for safekeeping until the forfeiture occurs or the Restrictions lapse pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. Upon request of the Company, you shall deliver to the Company a unit power, endorsed in blank, relating to the Restricted Units then subject to the Restrictions. Upon any lapse of the Restrictions without forfeiture, the Company shall, upon your request, cause a certificate or certificates to be issued without legend in your name evidencing the Restricted Units that have vested.
     3. None of the Restricted Units are transferable (by operation of law or otherwise) by you, other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution. If, in the event of your divorce, legal separation or other dissolution of your marriage, your former spouse is awarded ownership of, or an interest in, all or part of any Restricted Units granted hereby to you that have not yet vested (the “Awarded Restricted Units”), the Awarded Restricted Units shall automatically and immediately be forfeited and cancelled without payment on such date.
     4. As used herein, the following capitalized terms have the following meanings:
     “Qualified Month” means a calendar month during which the Partnership pays a cash distribution to holders of its Common Units.
     “Qualifying Termination” means:
     (a) your status as an employee of any Affiliated Group member is terminated due to your (i) death or (ii) receiving long-term disability benefits under the applicable Affiliated Group member’s long-term disability plan, provided such disability qualifies as a “disability” under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (“Section 409A”); or
     (b) your employment with any Affiliated Group member is terminated due to your retirement on or after (1) reaching age 62, (2) having 10 or more years of credited service as an employee of one or more Affiliated Group member(s), (3) executing a Retirement Agreement and Release (in such form as the Committee may approve from time to time) and (4) otherwise complying with any related retirement policies of the Affiliated Group member in effect at the time of the effective date of your retirement; or
     (c) your termination of employment by any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) and each of its Affiliates within one year after a Change of Control (as defined below) and (1) such termination of employment was initiated by the Affiliated Group member (or its successor) other than upon or after the occurrence of a Termination for Cause or (2) if such termination of employment was initiated by you, is upon or after the occurrence of a Termination for Good Reason; provided, however, that you terminate your employment with any Affiliated Group member (or any successor) and its Affiliates within 120 days following the date on which you have actual notice of the event that gives rise to the Termination for Good Reason.
     “Change of Control” means Duncan shall cease, directly or indirectly, to control the General Partner (including for purposes of clarification, and without limitation, by control that may be deemed to exist based on (i) the facts that cause Duncan’s deemed control of the General Partner to exist as of the date of this Agreement (which existing control is hereby recognized and agreed) or (ii) Duncan’s direct or indirect power to exercise a controlling influence over either the management or policies of the General Partner (as control and power are construed and used under rules and regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including any presumptions used thereunder relating to control).
     “Duncan” means, collectively, individually or any combination, Dan L. Duncan, his wife, descendants, heirs and/or legatees and/or distributees of Dan L. Duncan’s estate, and/or trusts (including, without limitation, one or more voting trusts) established for the benefit of his wife, descendants, heirs and/or legatees and/or distributees.

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     “Termination for Cause” means the occurrence of any of the following events:
     (a) the commission by you of a material act of willful misconduct including, but not limited to, the willful violation of any material law, rule, regulation of a governmental entity or cease and desist order applicable to you or any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) (other than a law, rule or regulation relating to a minor traffic violation or similar offense), or an act which constitutes a breach by you of a fiduciary duty owed to any Affiliated Group member (or its successor); or
     (b) the commission by you of an act of dishonesty relating to the performance of your duties, habitual unexcused absence(s) from work, willful failure to perform duties in any material respect (other than any such failure resulting from your incapacity due to physical or mental illness or disability), or gross negligence in the performance of duties resulting in material damage or injury to any Affiliated Group member (or its successor), its reputation or goodwill (provided, however, that in the event of your willful failure to perform duties in any material respect, you shall be provided with written notice of such event and shall be provided with a reasonable opportunity, in no event more than 30 days, to cure such failure to perform your duties); or
     (c) any felony conviction of you or any conviction of you involving dishonesty, fraud or breach of trust (other than for a minor traffic violation or similar offense), whether or not in the line of duty.
     “Termination for Good Reason” means any nonconsensual (a) material reduction in your authority, duties or responsibilities; (b) reduction in your compensation by more than 20 percent from the compensation (excluding Awards pursuant to the Plan or other equity-based compensation) paid by any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) during the completed fiscal year prior to the Change of Control; or (c) change caused by any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) in your office location of more than 50 miles from its location on the date of the Change of Control.
     5. Nothing in this Agreement or in the Plan shall confer any right on you to continue employment with any member of the Affiliated Group or restrict the Company or its Affiliates from terminating your employment at any time. Employment with an Affiliate shall be deemed to be employment with the Company for purposes of the Plan. Unless you have a separate written employment agreement with an Affiliated Group member, you are, and shall continue to be, an “at will” employee.
     6. To the extent that the grant or vesting of a Restricted Unit results in the receipt of compensation by you with respect to which the Company or an Affiliate has a tax withholding obligation pursuant to applicable law, unless you make other arrangements that are acceptable to the Company or such Affiliate, you must deliver to the Company or the Affiliate such amount of money as the Company or the Affiliate may require to meet its tax withholding obligations under such applicable law. No issuance of an unrestricted Common Unit shall be made pursuant to this Agreement until you have paid or made arrangements approved by the applicable member of the Affiliated Group to satisfy in full any applicable tax withholding obligations pursuant to applicable law. For purposes of this paragraph, unless you make other arrangements or are subsequently notified to the contrary, applicable member of the Affiliated Group will satisfy your obligations with respect to any applicable tax withholding by withholding from the issuance under this Agreement a number of vested Common Units having a then-fair-market value equal to such tax withholding obligations, based on the closing price per Common Unit as reported on the New York Stock Exchange (or other principal stock exchange on which the Common Units are then listed) on the date of vesting. The Committee has determined that it intends that the Plan meet the requirements of Rule 16b-3 under the Exchange Act and that the transactions of the type specified in Rule 16b-3 by non-employee directors and by officers of the Company (whether or not they are directors) pursuant to the Plan, including the foregoing net settlement procedure, will be exempt from the operation of Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act.
     7. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, neither the Company nor the Partnership shall be obligated to deliver to you any unrestricted Common Units if counsel to the Company

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determines such delivery would violate any law or regulation of any governmental authority or agreement between the Company or the Partnership and any national securities exchange upon which the Common Units are listed or any policy of the Company or any Affiliate of the Company.
     8. These Restricted Units are subject to the terms of the Plan, which is hereby incorporated by reference as if set forth in its entirety herein, including, without limitation, the ability of the Company, in its discretion, to amend your Restricted Unit award without your approval. In the event of a conflict between the terms of this Agreement and the Plan, the Plan shall be the controlling document. Capitalized terms that are used, but are not defined, in this Option grant award have the respective meanings provided for in the Plan. The Plan, as in effect on the Date of Grant, is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
         
  Enterprise Products Company
(formerly EPCO, Inc.)
 
 
     
  Senior Vice President, Human Resources   
       
 

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EX-10.6 7 h69845exv10w6.htm EX-10.6 exv10w6
Exhibit 10.6
Restricted Unit Grant
under the
Enterprise Products 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan
Date of Grant:
Name of Grantee:
Number of Units Granted:
Restricted Unit Grant Number:
 
     Enterprise Products Company (formerly EPCO, Inc.) (the “Company”) is pleased to inform you that you have been granted the number of Restricted Units set forth above under the Enterprise Products 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). A Restricted Unit is a Common Unit of Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (the “Partnership”) that is subject to the forfeiture and non-transferability provisions, if any, set forth below in this Agreement (the “Restrictions”). The terms of the grant are as follows:
     1. One hundred percent (100%) of the Restricted Units shall be fully vested, i.e., not restricted, on the Date of Grant set forth above (the “Vesting Date”).
     2. The Restricted Units will be evidenced, at the sole option and in the sole discretion of the Partnership, either (i) in book-entry form in your name in the Common Unit register of the Partnership maintained by the Partnership’s transfer agent or (ii) a unit certificate issued in your name. You shall have voting rights and shall be entitled to receive all distributions made by the Partnership on such Restricted Units free and clear of any Restrictions.
     3. To the extent that the grant or vesting of a Restricted Unit results in the receipt of compensation by you with respect to which the Company or an Affiliate has a tax withholding obligation pursuant to applicable law, unless you make other arrangements that are acceptable to the Company or such Affiliate, you must deliver to the Company or the Affiliate such amount of money as the Company or the Affiliate may require to meet its tax withholding obligations under such applicable law. No issuance of an unrestricted Common Unit shall be made pursuant to this Agreement until you have paid or made arrangements approved by the applicable member of the Company or any of its Affiliates (collectively, the “Affiliated Group”) to satisfy in full any applicable tax withholding obligations pursuant to applicable law. For purposes of this paragraph, unless you make other arrangements or are subsequently notified to the contrary, applicable member of the Affiliated Group will satisfy your obligations with respect to any applicable tax withholding by withholding from the issuance under this Agreement a number of vested Common Units having a then-fair-market value equal to such tax withholding obligations, based on the closing price per Common Unit as reported on the New York Stock Exchange (or other principal stock exchange on which the Common Units are then listed) on the date of vesting. The Committee has determined that it intends that the Plan meet the requirements of Rule 16b-3 under the Exchange Act and that the transactions of the type specified in Rule 16b-3 by non-employee directors and by officers of the Company (whether or not they are directors) pursuant to the Plan, including the foregoing net settlement procedure, will be exempt from the operation of Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act.
     4. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, neither the Company nor the Partnership shall be obligated to deliver to you any unrestricted Common Units if counsel to the Company

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determines such delivery would violate any law or regulation of any governmental authority or agreement between the Company or the Partnership and any national securities exchange upon which the Common Units are listed or any policy of the Company or any Affiliate of the Company.
     5. These Restricted Units are subject to the terms of the Plan, which is hereby incorporated by reference as if set forth in its entirety herein, including, without limitation, the ability of the Company, in its discretion, to amend your Restricted Unit award without your approval. In the event of a conflict between the terms of this Agreement and the Plan, the Plan shall be the controlling document. Capitalized terms that are used, but are not defined, in this Option grant award have the respective meanings provided for in the Plan. The Plan, as in effect on the Date of Grant, is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
         
  Enterprise Products Company
(formerly EPCO, Inc.)
 
 
     
  Senior Vice President, Human Resources   
       
 

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EX-10.7 8 h69845exv10w7.htm EX-10.7 exv10w7
Exhibit 10.7
AMENDED AND RESTATED
2008 ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLAN

(February 23, 2010)
     Section 1. Purpose of the Plan. The 2008 Enterprise Products Long-Term Incentive Plan, as amended and restated hereby (the “Plan”), is intended to promote the interests of Enterprise Products Company (formerly named EPCO, Inc.), a Texas corporation (the “Company”), Enterprise Products Partners L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Partnership”) and Enterprise Products GP, LLC, the general partner of the Partnership (“General Partner”), by encouraging directors, employees and consultants of the Company and employees and consultants of its Affiliates who perform services for the Partnership or its subsidiaries to acquire or increase their equity interests in the Partnership and to provide a means whereby they may develop a sense of proprietorship and personal involvement in the development and financial success of the Partnership, and to encourage them to remain with the Company and its Affiliates and to devote their best efforts to the Company, the General Partner and the Partnership.
     Section 2. Definitions. As used in the Plan, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
     “Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, any other Person that, directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries controls, is controlled by or is under common control with, the Person in question. As used herein, the term “control” means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether through ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.
     “Award” means an Option, Common Unit Appreciation Right, a Restricted Unit, a Phantom Unit or DER granted under the Plan.
     “Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company.
     “Committee” means the Audit, Conflicts and Governance Committee of the Board of Directors of the General Partner.
     “Common Unit” means a Common Unit of the Partnership.
     “Common Unit Appreciation Right” or “CUAR” means an Award that, upon vesting entitles the holder to receive the excess, or such designated portion of the excess not to exceed 100%, of the Fair Market Value of a Common Unit on the vesting date over the grant price established for such Common Unit Appreciation Right. Such excess may be paid in cash and/or in Common Units as determined by the Committee in its discretion.
     “Consultant” means an individual, other than an Employee or a Director, providing bona fide services to the Partnership or any of its subsidiaries as a consultant or advisor, as applicable, provided that (i) such individual is a natural person, and (ii) the grant of an Award to such Person could not reasonably be expected to result in adverse federal income tax consequences under Section 409A of the Code; provided that for purposes of issuing Options or Unit Appreciation Rights, “subsidiary” means any entity in a chain of entities in which the Partnership has a “controlling interest” within the meaning of Treas. Reg. Section 1.414(c)-2(b)(2)(i), but using the threshold of 50 percent ownership wherever 80 percent appears.
     “DER” means a contingent right to receive an amount of cash equal to all or a designated portion (whether by formula or otherwise) of the cash distributions made by the Partnership with respect to a Common Unit during a specified period.
     “Director” means a “non-employee director,” as defined in Rule 16b-3, of the General Partner.

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     “Employee” means any employee of the Company or an Affiliate who performs services for the Partnership or its subsidiaries; provided that for purposes of issuing Options or Unit Appreciation Rights, “subsidiary” means any entity in a chain of entities in which the Partnership has a “controlling interest” within the meaning of Treas. Reg. Section 1.414(c)-2(b)(2)(i), but using the threshold of 50 percent ownership wherever 80 percent appears.
     “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
     “Fair Market Value” means the closing sales price of a Common Unit on the applicable date (or if there is no trading in the Common Units on such date, on the next preceding date on which there was trading) as reported in The Wall Street Journal (or other reporting service approved by the Committee). In the event Common Units are not publicly traded at the time a determination of Fair Market Value is required to be made hereunder, the determination of Fair Market Value shall be made in good faith by the Committee.
     “Option” means an option to purchase Common Units granted under the Plan.
     “Participant” means any Employee, Director or Consultant granted an Award under the Plan.
     “Person” means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, government or political subdivision thereof or other entity.
     “Phantom Unit” means a notional or phantom unit granted under the Plan which upon vesting entitles the holder to receive one Unit upon vesting.
     “Restricted Unit” means a Unit granted under the Plan that is subject to forfeiture provisions and restrictions on its transferability, if any, established by the Committee under the Plan.
     “Rule 16b-3” means Rule 16b-3 promulgated by the SEC under the Exchange Act, or any successor rule or regulation thereto as in effect from time to time.
     “SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any successor thereto.
     Section 3. Administration. The Plan shall be administered by the Committee. A majority of the Committee shall constitute a quorum, and the acts of the members of the Committee who are present at any meeting thereof at which a quorum is present, or acts unanimously approved by the members of the Committee in writing, shall be the acts of the Committee. Subject to the terms of the Plan and applicable law, and in addition to other express powers and authorizations conferred on the Committee by the Plan, the Committee shall have full power and authority to: (i) designate Participants; (ii) determine the type or types of Awards to be granted to a Participant; (iii) determine the number of Common Units to be covered by Awards; (iv) determine the terms and conditions of any Award; (v) determine whether, to what extent, and under what circumstances Awards may be settled, exercised, canceled, or forfeited; (vi) interpret and administer the Plan and any instrument or agreement relating to an Award made under the Plan; (vii) establish, amend, suspend, or waive such rules and regulations and appoint such agents as it shall deem appropriate for the proper administration of the Plan; and (viii) make any other determination and take any other action that the Committee deems necessary or desirable for the administration of the Plan. Unless otherwise expressly provided in the Plan, all designations, determinations, interpretations, and other decisions under or with respect to the Plan or any Award shall be within the sole discretion of the Committee, may be made at any time and shall be final, conclusive, and binding upon all Persons, including the Company, the Partnership, any Affiliate, any Participant, and any beneficiary thereof.

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     Section 4. Common Units Available for Awards.
     (a) Common Units Available. Subject to adjustment as provided in Section 4(c), the number of Common Units with respect to which Awards may be granted under the Plan is 10,000,000. To the extent an Award is forfeited or otherwise terminates or is canceled without the delivery of Common Units, then the Common Units covered by such Award, to the extent of such forfeiture, termination or cancellation, shall again be Common Units with respect to which Awards may be granted. If any Award is exercised and less than all of the Common Units covered by such Award are delivered in connection with such exercise, then the Common Units covered by such Award which were not delivered upon such exercise shall again be Common Units with respect to which Awards may be granted. Common Units withheld to satisfy tax withholding obligations of the Company or an Affiliate shall not be considered to have been delivered under the Plan for this purpose.
     (b) Sources of Common Units Deliverable Under Awards. Any Common Units delivered pursuant to an Award shall consist, in whole or in part, of Common Units acquired in the open market, from any Affiliate (including, without limitation, the Partnership) or other Person, or any combination of the foregoing, as determined by the Committee in its discretion. If, at the time of exercise by a Participant of all or a portion of such Participant’s Award, the Company determines to acquire Common Units in the open market and the Company is prohibited, under applicable law, or the rules and/or regulations promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Committee or the New York Stock Exchange or the policies of the Company or an Affiliate, from acquiring Common Units in the open market, delivery of any Common Units to the Participant in connection with such Participant’s exercise of an Award may be delayed until such reasonable time as the Company is entitled to acquire, and does acquire, Common Units in the open market.
     (c) Adjustments. In the event the Committee determines that any distribution (whether in the form of cash, Common Units, other securities, or other property), recapitalization, split, reverse split, reorganization, merger, consolidation, split-up, spin-off, combination, repurchase, or exchange of Common Units or other securities of the Partnership, issuance of warrants or other rights to purchase Common Units or other securities of the Partnership, or other similar transaction or event affects the Common Units such that an adjustment is determined by the Committee to be appropriate in order to prevent dilution or enlargement of the benefits or potential benefits intended to be made available under the Plan, then the Committee shall, in such manner as it may deem equitable, adjust any or all of (i) the number and type of Common Units (or other securities or property) with respect to which Awards may be granted, (ii) the number and type of Common Units (or other securities or property) subject to outstanding Awards, and (iii) the grant or exercise price with respect to any Award; provided, that the number of Common Units subject to any Award shall always be a whole number.
     Section 5. Eligibility. Any Employee, Director or Consultant shall be eligible to be designated a Participant.
     Section 6. Awards.
     (a) Options. The Committee shall have the authority to determine the Employees, Directors and Consultants to whom Options shall be granted, the number of Common Units to be covered by each Option, the exercise price therefor and the conditions and limitations applicable to the exercise of the Option, including the following terms and conditions and such additional terms and conditions, as the Committee shall determine, that are not inconsistent with the provisions or intent of the Plan.
     (i) Exercise Price. The purchase price per Common Unit purchasable under an Option shall be determined by the Committee at the time the Option is granted, but may not be less than 100% of the Fair Market Value per Common Unit as of the date of grant.
     (ii) Time and Method of Exercise. The Committee shall determine the time or times at which an Option may be exercised in whole or in part, and the method or methods by which any payment of the exercise price with respect thereto may be made or deemed to have been made, which may include, without limitation: cash; check acceptable to the Company; a “cashless-broker” exercise (through procedures

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approved by the Company); other property (including, with the consent of the Committee, the withholding of Common Units that may otherwise be delivered to the optionee upon the exercise of the Option); or any combination thereof, in each case having a value on the exercise date equal to the relevant exercise price.
     (iii) Term. Each Option shall expire as provided in the grant agreement for such Option.
     (b) Restricted Units. The Committee shall have the authority to determine the Employees, Directors and Consultants to whom Restricted Units shall be granted, the number of Restricted Units to be granted to each such Participant, the period and the conditions (if any) under which the Restricted Units may become vested or forfeited, which may include, without limitation, the accelerated vesting upon the achievement of specified performance goals or other criteria, and such other terms and conditions as the Committee may establish with respect to such Award, including whether any distributions made by the Partnership with respect to the Restricted Units shall be payable with respect to, and/or accrue on, such Restricted Units and, if payable and/or accrued, whether such distributions shall be subject to forfeiture and/or other restrictions. If distributions are to be forfeited and/or otherwise restricted, such restrictions (including forfeitures, if any) shall be determined in the sole discretion of the Committee.
     (c) Phantom Units. The Committee shall have the authority to determine the Employees, Directors and Consultants to whom Phantom Units shall be granted, the number of Phantom Units to be granted to each such Participant, the period during which the Award remains subject to forfeiture, the conditions under which the Phantom Units may become vested or forfeited, and such other terms and conditions as the Committee may establish with respect to such Award. Upon or as soon as reasonably practical following the vesting of each Phantom Unit, the Participant shall be entitled to receive payment thereof in a single lump sum no later than the fifteenth (15th) day of the third (3rd) month following the date on which vesting occurs and the restrictions lapse. Should the Participant die before receiving all amounts payable hereunder, the balance shall be paid to the Participant’s estate by this date.
     (d) DERs. The Committee shall have the authority to determine the Employees, Directors and Consultants to whom DERs shall be granted, the number of DERs to be granted to each such Participant, the period during which the Award remains subject to forfeiture, the limits, if any, or portion of a DER that is payable, the conditions under which the DERs may become vested or forfeited, and such other terms and conditions as the Committee may establish with respect to such Award. To the extent DER’s are subject to any payment restrictions, any amounts not previously paid shall be paid to the Participant at the time the payment restrictions lapse. Such amounts shall be distributed in a single lump sum no later than the fifteenth (15th) day of the third (3rd) month following the date on which the payment restrictions lapse. Should the Participant die before receiving all amounts payable hereunder, the balance shall be paid to the Participant’s estate by this date.
     (e) CUARs. The Committee shall have the authority to determine the Employees, Directors and Consultants to whom CUARs shall be granted, the number of Common Units to be covered by each grant, the exercise price therefor and the conditions and limitations applicable to the exercise of the CUAR, and such additional terms and conditions as the Committee may establish with respect to such Award.
     (f) General.
     (i) Awards May Be Granted Separately or Together. Awards may, in the discretion of the Committee, be granted either alone or in addition to, in tandem with, or in substitution for any other Award granted under the Plan or any award granted under any other plan of the Company or any Affiliate. Awards granted in addition to or in tandem with other Awards or awards granted under any other plan of the Company or any Affiliate may be granted either at the same time as or at a different time from the grant of such other Awards or awards.

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     (ii) Limits on Transfer of Awards.
     (A) Each Option shall be exercisable only by the Participant during the Participant’s lifetime, or by the person to whom the Participant’s rights shall pass by will or the laws of descent and distribution.
     (B) No Award and no right under any such Award may be assigned, alienated, pledged, attached, sold or otherwise transferred or encumbered by a Participant otherwise than by will or by the laws of descent and distribution and any such purported assignment, alienation, pledge, attachment, sale, transfer or encumbrance shall be void and unenforceable against the Company or any Affiliate.
     (iii) Common Unit Certificates. All certificates for Common Units or other securities of the Partnership delivered under the Plan pursuant to any Award or the exercise thereof shall be subject to such stop transfer orders and other restrictions as the Committee may deem advisable under the Plan or the rules, regulations, and other requirements of the SEC, any stock exchange upon which such Common Units or other securities are then listed, and any applicable federal or state laws, and the Committee may cause a legend or legends to be put on any such certificates to make appropriate reference to such restrictions.
     (iv) Consideration for Grants. Awards may be granted for no cash consideration payable by a Participant or for such consideration payable by a Participant as the Committee determines including, without limitation, services or such minimal cash consideration as may be required by applicable law.
     (v) Delivery of Common Units or other Securities and Payment by Participant of Consideration. No Common Units or other securities shall be delivered pursuant to any Award until payment in full of any amount required to be paid pursuant to the Plan or the applicable Award grant agreement (including, without limitation, any exercise price or required tax withholding) is received by the Company. Such payment may be made by such method or methods and in such form or forms as the Committee shall determine, including, without limitation, cash, withholding of Common Units, “cashless-broker” exercises with simultaneous sale, or any combination thereof; provided that the combined value, as determined by the Committee, of all cash and cash equivalents and the fair market value of any such property so tendered to, or withheld by, the Company, as of the date of such tender, is at least equal to the full amount required to be paid to the Company pursuant to the Plan or the applicable Award agreement.
     Section 7. Amendment and Termination. Except to the extent prohibited by applicable law and unless otherwise expressly provided in an Award agreement or in the Plan:
     (i) Amendments to the Plan. Except as required by applicable law or the rules of the principal securities exchange on which the Common Units are traded and subject to Section 7(ii) below, the Board or the Committee may amend, alter, suspend, discontinue, or terminate the Plan without the consent of any partner, Participant, other holder or beneficiary of an Award, or other Person.
     (ii) Amendments to Awards. The Committee may waive any conditions or rights under, amend any terms of, or alter any Award theretofore granted, provided no change, other than pursuant to Section 7(iii), in any Award shall materially reduce the benefit to Participant without the consent of such Participant.
     (iii) Adjustment or Termination of Awards Upon the Occurrence of Certain Events. The Committee is hereby authorized to make adjustments in the terms and conditions of, and the criteria (if any) included in, Awards in recognition of unusual or significant events (including, without limitation, the events described in Section 4(c) of the Plan) affecting the Partnership or the financial statements of the Partnership, of changes in applicable laws, regulations, or accounting principles, or a change in control of the Company (as determined by its Board) or the Partnership (as determined by the Committee), whenever the Committee determines that such adjustments are appropriate in order to prevent dilution or enlargement of the benefits or potential benefits intended to be made available under the Plan. Such adjustments may include, without limitation, accelerating the exercisability of an Award, accelerating the date on which the Award will terminate and/or canceling Awards by the issuance or transfer of Common Units having a value equal to the Option’s positive “spread.”

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     Section 8. General Provisions.
     (a) No Rights to Awards. No Person shall have any claim to be granted any Award, and there is no obligation for uniformity of treatment of Participants. The terms and conditions of Awards need not be the same with respect to each recipient.
     (b) Termination of Employment. For purposes of the Plan, unless the Award agreement provides to the contrary, a Participant shall not be deemed to have terminated employment with the Company and its Affiliates or membership from the Board until such date as the Participant is no longer either an Employee of the Company or an Affiliate or a Director, i.e., a change in status from Employee to Director or Director to Employee shall not be a termination.
     (c) No Right to Employment or Services. The grant of an Award shall not be construed as giving a Participant the right to be retained in the employ of the Company or any Affiliate, to continue services as a Consultant or to remain a Director, as applicable. Further, the Company or an Affiliate may at any time dismiss a Participant from employment or terminate a consulting relationship, free from any liability or any claim under the Plan, unless otherwise expressly provided in the Plan or in any Award agreement. Nothing in the Plan or any Award agreement shall operate or be construed as constituting an employment agreement with any Participant and each Participant shall be an “at will” employee, unless such Participant has entered into a separate written employment or other agreement with the Company or an Affiliate.
     (d) Governing Law. The validity, construction, and effect of the Plan and any rules and regulations relating to the Plan shall be determined in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware and applicable federal law, without giving effect to principles of conflicts of law.
     (e) Severability. If any provision of the Plan or any Award is or becomes or is deemed to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any jurisdiction or as to any Person or Award, or would disqualify the Plan or any Award under any law deemed applicable by the Committee, such provision shall be construed or deemed amended to conform to the applicable laws, or if it cannot be construed or deemed amended without, in the determination of the Committee, materially altering the intent of the Plan or the Award, such provision shall be stricken as to such jurisdiction, Person or Award and the remainder of the Plan and any such Award shall remain in full force and effect.
     (f) Other Laws. The Committee may refuse to issue or transfer any Common Units or other consideration under an Award if, in its sole discretion, it determines that the issuance or transfer or such Common Units or such other consideration might violate any applicable law or regulation, the rules of any securities exchange, or entitle the Partnership or an Affiliate to recover the same under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act, and any payment tendered to the Company by a Participant, other holder or beneficiary in connection with the exercise of such Award shall be promptly refunded to the relevant Participant, holder or beneficiary.
     (g) No Trust Fund Created; Unsecured Creditors. Neither the Plan nor any Award shall create or be construed to create a trust or separate fund of any kind or a fiduciary relationship between the Company or any Affiliate and a Participant or any other Person. To the extent that any Person acquires a right to receive payments from the Company or any Affiliate pursuant to an Award, such right shall be no greater than the right of any general unsecured creditor of the Company or the Affiliate.
     (h) No Fractional Common Units. No fractional Common Units shall be issued or delivered pursuant to the Plan or any Award, and any such fractional Common Units or any rights thereto shall be canceled, terminated, or otherwise eliminated, without the payment of any consideration therefor.
     (i) Headings. Headings are given to the Sections and subsections of the Plan solely as a convenience to facilitate reference. Such headings shall not be deemed in any way material or relevant to the construction or interpretation of the Plan or any provision thereof.

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     (j) Tax Withholding. The Company or any Affiliate is authorized to withhold from any Award, from any payment due or transfer made under any Award or from any compensation or other amount owing to a Participant the amount (in cash, Common Units or other property) of any applicable taxes payable in respect of the grant of an Award, its exercise, the lapse of restrictions thereon, or any payment or transfer under an Award or under the Plan and to take such other action as may be necessary in the opinion of the Company or the Affiliate to satisfy its withholding obligations for the payment of such taxes.
     (k) Facility Payment. Any amounts payable hereunder to any person under legal disability or who, in the judgment of the Committee, is unable to properly manage his financial affairs, may be paid to the legal representative of such person, or may be applied for the benefit of such person in any manner which the Committee may select, and the Company and its Affiliates shall be relieved of any further liability for payment of such amounts.
     (l) Participation by Affiliates. In making Awards to Employees employed by an Affiliate of the Company, the Committee shall be acting on behalf of the Affiliate, and to the extent the Partnership has an obligation to reimburse the Affiliate for compensation paid to Employees for services rendered for the benefit of the Partnership, such payments or reimbursement payments may be made by the Partnership directly to the Affiliate, and, if made to the Company, shall be received by the Company as agent for the Affiliate.
     Section 9. Term of the Plan; Unitholder Approval. The Plan shall be effective on the date of its approval by the Unitholders of the Partnership and shall continue until the earliest of (i) all available Common Units under the Plan have been paid to Participants, (ii) the termination of the Plan by action of the Board or the Committee or (iii) the 10th anniversary of the date of the approval by the Unitholders of this Plan. However, unless otherwise expressly provided in the Plan or in an applicable Award agreement, any Award granted prior to such termination, and the authority of the Board or the Committee to amend, alter, adjust, suspend, discontinue, or terminate any such Award or to waive any conditions or rights under such Award, shall extend beyond such termination date.
     Section 10. Section 409A. Notwithstanding anything in this Plan to the contrary, if any Plan provision or Award under the Plan would result in the imposition of an additional tax under Code Section 409A and related regulations and United States Department of the Treasury pronouncements (“Section 409A”), that Plan provision or Award will be reformed to the extent practicable to avoid imposition of the applicable tax and no action taken to comply with Section 409A shall be deemed to adversely affect the Participant’s rights to an Award or require the consent of the Participant. Notwithstanding any provisions in the Plan to the contrary, to the extent that the Participant is a “specified employee” (as defined in Section 409A of the Code and applicable regulatory guidance) subject to the six month delay under Section 409A in distributions under the Plan, no distribution or payment that is subject to Section 409A of the Code shall be made hereunder on account of such Participant’s “separation from service” (as defined in Section 409A of the Code and applicable regulatory guidance) before the date that is the first day of the month that occurs six months after the date of the Participant’s separation from service (or, if earlier, the date of death of the Participant or any other date permitted under Section 409A of the Code and applicable regulatory guidance). Any such amount that is otherwise payable within the six-month period following the Participant’s separation from service will be paid in a lump sum without interest.

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EX-10.8 9 h69845exv10w8.htm EX-10.8 exv10w8
Exhibit 10.8
Amendment to Option Grant
(for option awards issued before February 23, 2010)
under the
Amended and Restated 2008 Enterprise Products Long-Term Incentive Plan
     The undersigned participant (hereinafter, “you” or the “Participant”) hereby agrees and acknowledges that the Committee’s current policy is that options that are not vested will be forfeited and cancelled upon the Participant’s termination of employment except where the Participant is terminated due to a Qualifying Termination. In accordance with such policy, the Participant hereby agrees to the amendment to his or her Option Grant No(s).                      (as it/they may be previously amended and/or restated, the “Award Agreement(s)”) under the Amended and Restated 2008 Enterprise Products Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) as follows:
     Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Award Agreement(s), the following capitalized terms, as used in the Award Agreement(s) (as amended hereby), shall have the following meanings:
     “Qualified Month” means a calendar month during which the Partnership pays a cash distribution to holders of its Common Units.
     “Qualifying Termination” means:
     (a) your status as an employee of any Affiliated Group (as defined below) member is terminated due to your (i) death or (ii) receiving long-term disability benefits under the applicable Affiliated Group member’s long-term disability plan, provided such disability qualifies as a “disability” under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (“Section 409A”); or
     (b) your employment with any Affiliated Group member is terminated due to your retirement on or after (1) reaching age 62, (2) having 10 or more years of credited service as an employee of one or more Affiliated Group member(s), (3) executing a Retirement Agreement and Release (in such form as the Committee may approve from time to time) and (4) otherwise complying with any related retirement policies of the Affiliated Group member in effect at the time of the effective date of your retirement; or
     (c) your termination of employment by any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) and each of its Affiliates within one year after a Change of Control (as defined below) and (1) such termination of employment was initiated by the Affiliated Group member (or its successor) other than upon or after the occurrence of a Termination for Cause (as defined below) or (2) if such termination of employment was initiated by you, is upon or after the occurrence of a Termination for Good Reason (as defined below); provided, however, that you terminate your employment with any Affiliated Group member (or any successor) and its Affiliates within 120 days following the date on which you have actual notice of the event that gives rise to the Termination for Good Reason.
     “Affiliated Group” means the Company or any of its Affiliates.
     “Change of Control” means Duncan shall cease, directly or indirectly, to control the General Partner (including for purposes of clarification, and without limitation, by control that may be deemed to exist based on (i) the facts that cause Duncan’s deemed control of the General Partner to exist as of the date of this Agreement (which existing control is hereby recognized and agreed) or (ii) Duncan’s direct or indirect power to exercise a controlling influence over either the management or policies of the General Partner (as control and power are construed and used under rules and regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including any presumptions used thereunder relating to control).
     “Duncan” means, collectively, individually or any combination, Dan L. Duncan, his wife, descendants, heirs and/or legatees and/or distributees of Dan L. Duncan’s estate, and/or trusts (including, without limitation, one or more voting trusts) established for the benefit of his wife, descendants, heirs and/or legatees and/or distributees.

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     "Termination for Cause” means the occurrence of any of the following events:
     (a) the commission by you of a material act of willful misconduct including, but not limited to, the willful violation of any material law, rule, regulation of a governmental entity or cease and desist order applicable to you or any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) (other than a law, rule or regulation relating to a minor traffic violation or similar offense), or an act which constitutes a breach by you of a fiduciary duty owed to any Affiliated Group member (or its successor); or
     (b) the commission by you of an act of dishonesty relating to the performance of your duties, habitual unexcused absence(s) from work, willful failure to perform duties in any material respect (other than any such failure resulting from your incapacity due to physical or mental illness or disability), or gross negligence in the performance of duties resulting in material damage or injury to any Affiliated Group member (or its successor), its reputation or goodwill (provided, however, that in the event of your willful failure to perform duties in any material respect, you shall be provided with written notice of such event and shall be provided with a reasonable opportunity, in no event more than 30 days, to cure such failure to perform your duties); or
     (c) any felony conviction of you or any conviction of you involving dishonesty, fraud or breach of trust (other than for a minor traffic violation or similar offense), whether or not in the line of duty.
     "Termination for Good Reason” means any nonconsensual (a) material reduction in your authority, duties or responsibilities; (b) reduction in your compensation by more than 20 percent from the compensation (excluding Awards pursuant to the Plan or other equity-based compensation) paid by any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) during the completed fiscal year prior to the Change of Control; or (c) change caused by any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) in your office location of more than 50 miles from its location on the date of the Change of Control.
     All capitalized terms shall have the meaning set forth in the Plan, as amended and/or restated, unless otherwise provided herein.
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This amendment is adopted effective as of February 23, 2010.
             
ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS COMPANY                PARTICIPANT:
(formerly EPCO, Inc.)        
 
           
 
           
 
Signature
 
 
Signature
 
           
Title:
      Title:    
 
 
 
     
 
Date: February 23, 2010   Date:

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EX-10.9 10 h69845exv10w9.htm EX-10.9 exv10w9
Exhibit 10.9
Option Grant under the
Amended and Restated 2008 Enterprise Products Long-Term Incentive Plan
Date of Grant:
Name of Optionee:
Option Exercise Price per Common Unit:
Number of Options Granted
     (One Option equals the Right to
     Purchase One Common Unit):
Option Grant Number:
Enterprise Products Company (formerly EPCO, Inc.) (the “Company”) is pleased to inform you that you have been granted options (the “Options”) under the Amended and Restated 2008 Enterprise Products Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) to purchase units representing limited partner interests (“Common Units”) of Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (the “Partnership”) as follows:
1. You are hereby granted the number of Options to acquire a Common Unit set forth above, each such Option having the option exercise price set forth above.
2. The Options shall become fully vested (exercisable) on the earlier of (i) the date that is four years after the Date of Grant set forth above (the “Vesting Date”) and (ii) a Qualifying Termination (as defined below).
     “Qualifying Termination” means
     (a) your status as an employee of the Company or any of its Affiliates (collectively, the “Affiliated Group”) is terminated due to your (i) death or (ii) receiving long-term disability benefits under the applicable Affiliated Group member’s long-term disability plan, provided such disability qualifies as a “disability” under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (“Section 409A”); or
     (b) your employment with any Affiliated Group member is terminated due to your retirement on or after (1) reaching age 62, (2) having 10 or more years of credited service as an employee of one or more Affiliated Group member(s), (3) executing a Retirement Agreement and Release (in such form as the Committee may approve from time to time) and (4) otherwise complying with any related retirement policies of the Affiliated Group member in effect at the time of the effective date of your retirement; or
     (c) your termination of employment by any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) and each of its Affiliates within one year after a Change of Control (as defined below) and (1) such termination of employment was initiated by the Affiliated Group member (or its successor) other than upon or after the occurrence of a Termination for Cause or (2) if such termination of employment was initiated by you, is upon or after the occurrence of a Termination for Good Reason; provided, however, that you terminate your employment with any Affiliated Group member (or any successor) and its Affiliates within 120 days following the date on which you have actual notice of the event that gives rise to the Termination for Good Reason.
     “Change of Control” means Duncan shall cease, directly or indirectly, to control the General Partner (including for purposes of clarification, and without limitation, by control that may be deemed to exist based on (i) the facts that cause Duncan’s deemed control of the General Partner to exist as of the date of this Agreement (which existing control is hereby recognized and agreed) or (ii) Duncan’s direct or indirect power to exercise a controlling influence over either the management or policies of the General Partner (as control and power are construed and

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used under rules and regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including any presumptions used thereunder relating to control).
     “Duncan” means, collectively, individually or any combination, Dan L. Duncan, his wife, descendants, heirs and/or legatees and/or distributees of Dan L. Duncan’s estate, and/or trusts (including, without limitation, one or more voting trusts) established for the benefit of his wife, descendants, heirs and/or legatees and/or distributees.
     “Termination for Cause” means the occurrence of any of the following events:
     (a) the commission by you of a material act of willful misconduct including, but not limited to, the willful violation of any material law, rule, regulation of a governmental entity or cease and desist order applicable to you or any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) (other than a law, rule or regulation relating to a minor traffic violation or similar offense), or an act which constitutes a breach by you of a fiduciary duty owed to any Affiliated Group member (or its successor); or
     (b) the commission by you of an act of dishonesty relating to the performance of your duties, habitual unexcused absence(s) from work, willful failure to perform duties in any material respect (other than any such failure resulting from your incapacity due to physical or mental illness or disability), or gross negligence in the performance of duties resulting in material damage or injury to any Affiliated Group member (or its successor), its reputation or goodwill (provided, however, that in the event of your willful failure to perform duties in any material respect, you shall be provided with written notice of such event and shall be provided with a reasonable opportunity, in no event more than 30 days, to cure such failure to perform your duties); or
     (c) any felony conviction of you or any conviction of you involving dishonesty, fraud or breach of trust (other than for a minor traffic violation or similar offense), whether or not in the line of duty.
     “Termination for Good Reason” means any nonconsensual (a) material reduction in your authority, duties or responsibilities; (b) reduction in your compensation by more than 20 percent from the compensation (excluding Awards pursuant to the Plan or other equity-based compensation) paid by any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) during the completed fiscal year prior to the Change of Control; or (c) change caused by any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) in your office location of more than 50 miles from its location on the date of the Change of Control.
     3. Subject to the further provisions of this Agreement and the Plan, the Options, to the extent vested, may be exercised (in whole or in part or in two or more successive parts) during your employment with the Company and its Affiliates only during a calendar month during which the Partnership pays a cash distribution to holders of its Common Units (a “Qualified Month”) in the first (1st) calendar year following the year in which the Vesting Date occurs (and the Option will expire at the end of such year if it is not so exercised). In the event your employment with the Company and its Affiliates is terminated prior to the Vesting Date for any reason other than a Qualifying Termination, the Options shall automatically and immediately be forfeited and cancelled unexercised on the date of such termination of employment. For purposes of this Option grant award, the term “year” shall mean a period comprised of 365 (or 366, as appropriate) days beginning on a day of a calendar year and ending on the day immediately preceding the corresponding day of the next calendar year. For example, if the Date of Grant of an Option grant award is May 20, 2010, one year after the Date of Grant would be May 20, 2011, the Vesting Date would be May 20, 2014 (assuming no earlier Qualifying Termination) and the calendar year in which the Options could be exercised (except as described in Sections 7 and 8 hereof) would be 2015.
     4. To the extent vested and subject to the procedures set forth in Addendum No. 2, the Options may be exercised by submitting the “Options Transaction Clearance Request and Tax Withholding Election” (“Transaction Request”) with respect to such exercise which references the Option Grant Number set forth above and the number of Options (or Common Units relating thereto) which are being exercised. Such Transaction Request shall be delivered or mailed to the Company at its corporate offices in Houston, Texas, as follows:

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          Mailing Address: Enterprise Products Company, P.O. Box 4324, Houston, Texas 77210-4324, Attention: Sr. Vice President, Human Resources.
          Delivery Address: Enterprise Products Company, 1100 Louisiana, 10th Floor, Houston, Texas 77002, Attention: Sr. Vice President, Human Resources
          An election to exercise shall be made in accordance with Addendum No. 2 and shall be irrevocable. If you are an employee of the Company or an Affiliate and such exercise occurs other than in a Qualified Month, it shall be deemed exercised in the next Qualified Month.
     5. No exercise shall be effective until you have made arrangements acceptable to the Company and in accordance with the Plan to satisfy the aggregate Exercise Price and all applicable tax withholding requirements of the Company, if any, with respect to such exercise.
     6. None of the Options are transferable (by operation of law or otherwise) by you, other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution. If, in the event of your divorce, legal separation or other dissolution of your marriage, your former spouse is awarded ownership of, or an interest in, all or part of the Options granted hereby to you (the “Awarded Options”), (i) to the extent the Awarded Options are not fully vested, the Awarded Options shall automatically and immediately be forfeited and cancelled unexercised as of the original date of the award thereof and (ii) to the extent the Awarded Options are fully vested, the Company, in its sole discretion, may at any time thereafter, during the period in which the Awarded Options are exercisable under the terms of the domestic relations order providing for the assignment, cancel the Awarded Options by delivering to such former spouse Common Units having an aggregate Fair Market Value on the payment date equal to the excess of the aggregate Fair Market Value of the Common Units subject to the Awarded Options over their aggregate Exercise Price.
     7. In the event you terminate employment with the Company and its Affiliates for any reason (which termination is a “separation from service” under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code) other than a Qualifying Termination, the Options, if fully vested, may be exercised by you (or, in the event of your death, by the person to whom your rights shall pass by will or the laws of the descent and distribution (“Beneficiary”)) only during the Qualified Month next following your employment termination date. If you cease to be an “active, full-time employee”, as determined by the Company in its sole discretion, without regard as to how your status is treated by the Company for any of its other compensation or benefit plans or programs, you will be deemed to have terminated employment with the Company and its Affiliates for purposes of this Agreement.
     8. In the event of a Qualifying Termination or an “unforeseeable emergency” (as defined in Section 409A) which is approved by the Company, the vested portion of the Options may be exercised by you only during the Qualified Month next following such event. Notwithstanding the above, in the event such Qualifying Termination is due to your death, the vested portion of the Options may be exercised by your Beneficiary only during the second Qualified Month next following such event.
     9. Nothing in this Agreement or in the Plan shall confer any right on you to continue employment with any member of the Affiliated Group or restrict the Company or its Affiliates from terminating your employment at any time. Unless you have a separate written employment agreement with an Affiliated Group member, you are, and shall continue to be, an “at will” employee.
     10. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Options shall not be exercisable, and neither the Company nor the Partnership shall be obligated to deliver to you any Common Units, if counsel to the Company determines such exercise or delivery, as the case may be, would violate any law or regulation of any governmental authority or agreement between the Company or the Partnership and any national securities exchange upon which the Common Units are listed or any policy of the Company or any Affiliate of the Company.
     11. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if you give notice of exercise within a “quiet period,” as provided in Addendum No. 1 hereto, the timing of the delivery of Common Units pursuant to your exercise shall be governed by the terms of Addendum No. 1. Further, neither the Company nor the Partnership shall

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have any liability to you for any loss you may suffer (whether by a decrease in the value of the Common Units, failure or inability to receive Partnership distributions or otherwise) from any delay by the Company or the Partnership in delivering to you Common Units in connection with the whole or partial exercise by you of the Options.
     12. These Options are subject to the terms of the Plan, which is hereby incorporated by reference as if set forth in its entirety herein, including, without limitation, the ability of the Company, in its discretion, to accelerate the termination of the Option and to amend your Option grant award without your approval. In the event of a conflict between the terms of this Agreement and the Plan, the Plan shall be the controlling document. Capitalized terms that are used, but are not defined, in this Option grant award have the respective meanings provided for in the Plan. The Plan, as in effect on the Date of Grant, is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
         
  Enterprise Products Company
(formerly EPCO, Inc.)
 
 
     
  Senior Vice President, Human Resources   
     
 

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EX-10.10 11 h69845exv10w10.htm EX-10.10 exv10w10
Exhibit 10.10
Restricted Unit Grant
under the
Amended and Restated 2008 Enterprise Products Long-Term Incentive Plan
Date of Grant:
Name of Grantee:
Number of Units Granted:
Restricted Unit Grant Number:
     Enterprise Products Company (formerly EPCO, Inc.) (the “Company”) is pleased to inform you that you have been granted the number of Restricted Units set forth above under the Amended and Restated 2008 Enterprise Products Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). A Restricted Unit is a Common Unit of Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (the “Partnership”) that is subject to the forfeiture and non-transferability provisions set forth below in this Agreement (the “Restrictions”). The terms of the grant are as follows:
     1. The Restricted Units granted by this Restricted Unit Grant (such granted Restricted Units being herein referred to, individually, as a “Restricted Unit” and, collectively or in any combination, as the “Restricted Units”) shall become fully vested, i.e., not restricted, in accordance with the schedule set forth in the table below (the dates in such table being referred to as “Vesting Dates”); provided however, that (notwithstanding the foregoing) one hundred percent (100%) of any Restricted Units that have not previously vested shall vest on the first day of the first Qualified Month (as defined in Section 4 below) after the occurrence of a Qualifying Termination (as defined in Section 4 below).
Vesting Dates:                                           Restricted Units Originally Granted
Under this Grant Being Vested:
     In the event your status as an employee of the Company or any of its Affiliates (collectively, the “Affiliated Group”) is terminated prior to a particular Vesting Date for any reason other than a Qualifying Termination, the Restricted Units that have not yet vested as of such Vesting Date shall automatically and immediately be forfeited and cancelled without payment on the date of such termination.
     2. The Restricted Units will be evidenced, at the sole option and in the sole discretion of the Partnership, either (i) in book-entry form in your name in the Common Unit register of the Partnership maintained by the Partnership’s transfer agent or (ii) a unit certificate issued in your name. You shall have voting rights and shall be entitled to receive all distributions made by the Partnership on such Restricted Units free and clear of any Restrictions. If the Restricted Units are evidenced by a certificate, the certificate shall bear the following legend:
     The Units evidenced by this certificate have been issued pursuant to an agreement made as of                     , 20___, a copy of which is attached hereto and incorporated herein, between the Company and the registered holder of the Units, and are subject to forfeiture to the Company under certain circumstances described in such agreement. The sale, assignment, pledge or other transfer of the shares of Units evidenced by this certificate is prohibited under the terms and conditions of such agreement, and such Units may not be sold, assigned, pledged or otherwise transferred except as provided in such agreement.

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     The Company may cause the certificate to be delivered upon issuance to the Secretary of the Company as a depository for safekeeping until the forfeiture occurs or the Restrictions lapse pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. Upon request of the Company, you shall deliver to the Company a unit power, endorsed in blank, relating to the Restricted Units then subject to the Restrictions. Upon any lapse of the Restrictions without forfeiture, the Company shall, upon your request, cause a certificate or certificates to be issued without legend in your name evidencing the Restricted Units that have vested.
     3. None of the Restricted Units are transferable (by operation of law or otherwise) by you, other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution. If, in the event of your divorce, legal separation or other dissolution of your marriage, your former spouse is awarded ownership of, or an interest in, all or part of any Restricted Units granted hereby to you that have not yet vested (the “Awarded Restricted Units”), the Awarded Restricted Units shall automatically and immediately be forfeited and cancelled without payment on such date.
     4. As used herein, the following capitalized terms have the following meanings:
     “Qualified Month” means a calendar month during which the Partnership pays a cash distribution to holders of its Common Units.
     “Qualifying Termination” means:
     (a) your status as an employee of any Affiliated Group member is terminated due to your (i) death or (ii) receiving long-term disability benefits under the applicable Affiliated Group member’s long-term disability plan, provided such disability qualifies as a “disability” under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (“Section 409A”); or
     (b) your employment with any Affiliated Group member is terminated due to your retirement on or after (1) reaching age 62, (2) having 10 or more years of credited service as an employee of one or more Affiliated Group member(s), (3) executing a Retirement Agreement and Release (in such form as the Committee may approve from time to time) and (4) otherwise complying with any related retirement policies of the Affiliated Group member in effect at the time of the effective date of your retirement; or
     (c) your termination of employment by any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) and each of its Affiliates within one year after a Change of Control (as defined below) and (1) such termination of employment was initiated by the Affiliated Group member (or its successor) other than upon or after the occurrence of a Termination for Cause or (2) if such termination of employment was initiated by you, is upon or after the occurrence of a Termination for Good Reason; provided, however, that you terminate your employment with any Affiliated Group member (or any successor) and its Affiliates within 120 days following the date on which you have actual notice of the event that gives rise to the Termination for Good Reason.
     “Change of Control” means Duncan shall cease, directly or indirectly, to control the General Partner (including for purposes of clarification, and without limitation, by control that may be deemed to exist based on (i) the facts that cause Duncan’s deemed control of the General Partner to exist as of the date of this Agreement (which existing control is hereby recognized and agreed) or (ii) Duncan’s direct or indirect power to exercise a controlling influence over either the management or policies of the General Partner (as control and power are construed and used under rules and regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including any presumptions used thereunder relating to control).
     “Duncan” means, collectively, individually or any combination, Dan L. Duncan, his wife, descendants, heirs and/or legatees and/or distributees of Dan L. Duncan’s estate, and/or trusts (including, without limitation, one or more voting trusts) established for the benefit of his wife, descendants, heirs and/or legatees and/or distributees.

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     “Termination for Cause” means the occurrence of any of the following events:
     (a) the commission by you of a material act of willful misconduct including, but not limited to, the willful violation of any material law, rule, regulation of a governmental entity or cease and desist order applicable to you or any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) (other than a law, rule or regulation relating to a minor traffic violation or similar offense), or an act which constitutes a breach by you of a fiduciary duty owed to any Affiliated Group member (or its successor); or
     (b) the commission by you of an act of dishonesty relating to the performance of your duties, habitual unexcused absence(s) from work, willful failure to perform duties in any material respect (other than any such failure resulting from your incapacity due to physical or mental illness or disability), or gross negligence in the performance of duties resulting in material damage or injury to any Affiliated Group member (or its successor), its reputation or goodwill (provided, however, that in the event of your willful failure to perform duties in any material respect, you shall be provided with written notice of such event and shall be provided with a reasonable opportunity, in no event more than 30 days, to cure such failure to perform your duties); or
     (c) any felony conviction of you or any conviction of you involving dishonesty, fraud or breach of trust (other than for a minor traffic violation or similar offense), whether or not in the line of duty.
     “Termination for Good Reason” means any nonconsensual (a) material reduction in your authority, duties or responsibilities; (b) reduction in your compensation by more than 20 percent from the compensation (excluding Awards pursuant to the Plan or other equity-based compensation) paid by any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) during the completed fiscal year prior to the Change of Control; or (c) change caused by any Affiliated Group member (or its successor) in your office location of more than 50 miles from its location on the date of the Change of Control.
     5. Nothing in this Agreement or in the Plan shall confer any right on you to continue employment with any member of the Affiliated Group or restrict the Company or its Affiliates from terminating your employment at any time. Employment with an Affiliate shall be deemed to be employment with the Company for purposes of the Plan. Unless you have a separate written employment agreement with an Affiliated Group member, you are, and shall continue to be, an “at will” employee.
     6. To the extent that the grant or vesting of a Restricted Unit results in the receipt of compensation by you with respect to which the Company or an Affiliate has a tax withholding obligation pursuant to applicable law, unless you make other arrangements that are acceptable to the Company or such Affiliate, you must deliver to the Company or the Affiliate such amount of money as the Company or the Affiliate may require to meet its tax withholding obligations under such applicable law. No issuance of an unrestricted Common Unit shall be made pursuant to this Agreement until you have paid or made arrangements approved by the applicable member of the Affiliated Group to satisfy in full any applicable tax withholding obligations pursuant to applicable law. For purposes of this paragraph, unless you make other arrangements or are subsequently notified to the contrary, applicable member of the Affiliated Group will satisfy your obligations with respect to any applicable tax withholding by withholding from the issuance under this Agreement a number of vested Common Units having a then-fair-market value equal to such tax withholding obligations, based on the closing price per Common Unit as reported on the New York Stock Exchange (or other principal stock exchange on which the Common Units are then listed) on the date of vesting. The Committee has determined that it intends that the Plan meet the requirements of Rule 16b-3 under the Exchange Act and that the transactions of the type specified in Rule 16b-3 by non-employee directors and by officers of the Company (whether or not they are directors) pursuant to the Plan, including the foregoing net settlement procedure, will be exempt from the operation of Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act.
     7. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, neither the Company nor the Partnership shall be obligated to deliver to you any unrestricted Common Units if counsel to the Company

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determines such delivery would violate any law or regulation of any governmental authority or agreement between the Company or the Partnership and any national securities exchange upon which the Common Units are listed or any policy of the Company or any Affiliate of the Company.
     8. These Restricted Units are subject to the terms of the Plan, which is hereby incorporated by reference as if set forth in its entirety herein, including, without limitation, the ability of the Company, in its discretion, to amend your Restricted Unit award without your approval. In the event of a conflict between the terms of this Agreement and the Plan, the Plan shall be the controlling document. Capitalized terms that are used, but are not defined, in this Option grant award have the respective meanings provided for in the Plan. The Plan, as in effect on the Date of Grant, is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
         
  Enterprise Products Company
(formerly EPCO, Inc.)
 
 
     
  Senior Vice President, Human Resources   
     
 

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EX-10.11 12 h69845exv10w11.htm EX-10.11 exv10w11
Exhibit 10.11
Restricted Unit Grant
under the
Amended and Restated 2008 Enterprise Products Long-Term Incentive Plan
Date of Grant:
Name of Grantee:
Number of Units Granted:
Restricted Unit Grant Number:
 
     Enterprise Products Company (formerly EPCO, Inc.) (the “Company”) is pleased to inform you that you have been granted the number of Restricted Units set forth above under the Amended and Restated 2008 Enterprise Products Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). A Restricted Unit is a Common Unit of Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (the “Partnership”) that is subject to the forfeiture and non-transferability provisions, if any, set forth below in this Agreement (the “Restrictions”). The terms of the grant are as follows:
     1. One hundred percent (100%) of the Restricted Units shall be fully vested, i.e., not restricted, on the Date of Grant set forth above (the “Vesting Date”).
     2. The Restricted Units will be evidenced, at the sole option and in the sole discretion of the Partnership, either (i) in book-entry form in your name in the Common Unit register of the Partnership maintained by the Partnership’s transfer agent or (ii) a unit certificate issued in your name. You shall have voting rights and shall be entitled to receive all distributions made by the Partnership on such Restricted Units free and clear of any Restrictions.
     3. To the extent that the grant or vesting of a Restricted Unit results in the receipt of compensation by you with respect to which the Company or an Affiliate has a tax withholding obligation pursuant to applicable law, unless you make other arrangements that are acceptable to the Company or such Affiliate, you must deliver to the Company or the Affiliate such amount of money as the Company or the Affiliate may require to meet its tax withholding obligations under such applicable law. No issuance of an unrestricted Common Unit shall be made pursuant to this Agreement until you have paid or made arrangements approved by the applicable member of the Company or any of its Affiliates (collectively, the “Affiliated Group”) to satisfy in full any applicable tax withholding obligations pursuant to applicable law. For purposes of this paragraph, unless you make other arrangements or are subsequently notified to the contrary, applicable member of the Affiliated Group will satisfy your obligations with respect to any applicable tax withholding by withholding from the issuance under this Agreement a number of vested Common Units having a then-fair-market value equal to such tax withholding obligations, based on the closing price per Common Unit as reported on the New York Stock Exchange (or other principal stock exchange on which the Common Units are then listed) on the date of vesting. The Committee has determined that it intends that the Plan meet the requirements of Rule 16b-3 under the Exchange Act and that the transactions of the type specified in Rule 16b-3 by non-employee directors and by officers of the Company (whether or not they are directors) pursuant to the Plan, including the foregoing net settlement procedure, will be exempt from the operation of Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act.
     4. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, neither the Company nor the Partnership shall be obligated to deliver to you any unrestricted Common Units if counsel to the Company determines such delivery would violate any law or regulation of any governmental authority or agreement

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between the Company or the Partnership and any national securities exchange upon which the Common Units are listed or any policy of the Company or any Affiliate of the Company.
     5. These Restricted Units are subject to the terms of the Plan, which is hereby incorporated by reference as if set forth in its entirety herein, including, without limitation, the ability of the Company, in its discretion, to amend your Restricted Unit award without your approval. In the event of a conflict between the terms of this Agreement and the Plan, the Plan shall be the controlling document. Capitalized terms that are used, but are not defined, in this Option grant award have the respective meanings provided for in the Plan. The Plan, as in effect on the Date of Grant, is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
         
  Enterprise Products Company
(formerly EPCO, Inc.)
 
 
     
  Senior Vice President, Human Resources   
       
 

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