0001070235-24-000105.txt : 20240807 0001070235-24-000105.hdr.sgml : 20240807 20240807164259 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001070235-24-000105 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20240729 FILED AS OF DATE: 20240807 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20240807 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Foote Tim CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0002031563 ORGANIZATION NAME: FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-38232 FILM NUMBER: 241184483 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O BLACKBERRY LIMITED STREET 2: 2200 UNIVERSITY AVENUE EAST CITY: WATERLOO STATE: A6 ZIP: N2K 0A7 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BLACKBERRY Ltd CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001070235 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-PREPACKAGED SOFTWARE [7372] ORGANIZATION NAME: 06 Technology IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FISCAL YEAR END: 0228 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2200 UNIVERSITY AVENUE EAST CITY: WATERLOO STATE: A6 ZIP: N2K 0A7 BUSINESS PHONE: 5198887465 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2200 UNIVERSITY AVENUE EAST CITY: WATERLOO STATE: A6 ZIP: N2K 0A7 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: RESEARCH IN MOTION LTD DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19980911 3 1 wk-form3_1723063372.xml FORM 3 X0206 3 2024-07-29 0 0001070235 BLACKBERRY Ltd BB 0002031563 Foote Tim C/O BLACKBERRY LIMITED 2200 UNIVERSITY AVENUE EAST WATERLOO A6 N2K 0A7 ONTARIO, CANADA 0 1 0 0 Chief Financial Officer Common Shares 4802 D Performance-Based Restricted Share Units Common Shares 4814 D Restricted Share Units Common Shares 60763 D Restricted Share Units Common Shares 2469 D Restricted Share Units Common Shares 1600 D Restricted Share Units Common Shares 14577 D Restricted Share Units Common Shares 4734 D Reflects an amount of Performance-Based Restricted Share Units ("RSUs") determined in accordance with satisfaction of performance conditions. RSUs will vest on April 1, 2025 if the reporting person is employed by BlackBerry Limited as of that date. Each unit represents a contingent right to receive one common share or an equivalent amount of cash, or a combination of the two, at the discretion of BlackBerry Limited. This award was granted on April 4, 2024 and, assuming continued employment through the applicable vesting date, vests in three equal annual instalments ending April 4, 2027. This award was granted on April 1, 2022 and, assuming continued employment through the applicable vesting date, the remaining awards will vest on April 1, 2025. This award was granted on February 1, 2022 and, assuming continued employment through the applicable vesting date, the remaining awards will vest on January 3, 2025 This award was granted on January 2, 2024 and, assuming continued employment through the applicable vesting date, vests in three equal annual instalments ending January 2, 2027. This award was granted on January 6, 2023 and, assuming continued employment through the applicable vesting date, vests in two equal annual instalments on January 6, 2025, and January 6, 2026. Exhibit List: Exhibit 24.1 - Power of Attorney /s/ Fraser Deziel, Attorney-in-Fact for Tim Foote 2024-08-07 EX-24.1 2 timfootepoa.txt EX-24.1 EXHIBIT 24 POWER OF ATTORNEY Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Fraser Deziel, Cyndi McGillivray and Ahmed Virk of BlackBerry Limited, an Ontario, Canada corporation (the "Company") and Scott Lesmes of Morrison & Foerster LLP,and with full power of substitution, as the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to: (1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an officer and/or director of the Company, Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder; (2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5, complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and any stock exchange or similar authority; and (3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of any such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by any such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in any such attorney-in-fact's discretion. The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each such attorney-in-fact, or each such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to each of the foregoing attorneys-in-fact. [Signature on Next Page] IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 1st day of August, 2024. /s/ Tim Foote Name: Tim Foote