SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION

In May 2014, the shareholders approved the Company’s 2014 Omnibus Incentive Plan (the “2014 Plan”) which replaced the Company’s 2011 Omnibus Incentive Plan (the "2011 Plan") for future equity awards granted by the Company. The maximum number of common shares that may be issued to participants under the 2014 Plan is equal to 18,000,000 common shares, plus the number of common shares under the 2011 Plan reserved but unissued and not underlying outstanding awards and the number of common shares becoming available for reuse after awards are terminated, forfeited, cancelled, exchanged or surrendered under the 2011 Plan and the Company’s 2007 Equity Compensation Plan. The Company registered, in the aggregate, 20,000,000 common shares of common stock for issuance under the 2014 Plan.

Effective April 30, 2018, the Company amended and restated the 2014 Plan (the “Amended and Restated 2014 Plan”). The Amended and Restated 2014 Plan includes the following amendments: (i) the number of common shares authorized for issuance under the Amended and Restated 2014 Plan has been increased by an additional 11,900,000 common shares, as approved by the requisite number of shareholders at the Company’s annual general meeting held on April 30, 2018, (ii) introduction of a $750,000 aggregate fair market value limit on awards (in either equity, cash or other compensation) that can be granted in any calendar year to a participant who is a non-employee director, (iii) housekeeping changes to address recent changes to Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code, (iv) awards are expressly subject to the Company’s clawback policy and (v) awards not assumed or substituted in connection with a Change of Control (as defined in the Amended and Restated 2014 Plan) will only vest on a pro rata basis.

Approximately 14,228,000 common shares were available for future grants as of September 30, 2018. The Company uses reserved and unissued common shares to satisfy its obligations under its share-based compensation plans.

During the three months ended March 31, 2017, the Company introduced a new long-term incentive program with the objective to re-align the share-based awards granted to senior management with the Company’s focus on improving its tangible capital usage and allocation while maintaining focus on improving total shareholder return over the long-term. The share-based awards granted under this long-term incentive program consist of time-based stock options, time-based restricted share units (“RSUs”) and performance-based RSUs. Performance-based RSUs are comprised of awards that vest upon achievement of certain share price appreciation conditions that are based on total shareholder return (“TSR”) and awards that vest upon attainment of certain performance targets that are based on the Company’s return on tangible capital (“ROTC”).

The following table summarizes the components and classification of share-based compensation expense related to stock options and RSUs for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017:



	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in millions)	2018		2017		2018		2017
Stock options	$	6	$	4	$	17	$	14
RSUs	16		15		48		56
	$	22	$	19	$	65	$	70

Research and development expenses	$	3	$	2	$	7	$	6
Selling, general and administrative expenses	19		17		58		64
	$	22	$	19	$	65	$	70

During the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, the Company granted approximately 2,106,000 stock options with a weighted-average exercise price of $15.46 per option and approximately 1,545,000 stock options with a weighted-average exercise price of $14.28 per option, respectively. The weighted-average fair values of all stock options granted to employees during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 were $7.82 and $5.97, respectively.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, the Company granted approximately 2,844,000 time-based RSUs with a weighted-average grant date fair value of $17.36 per RSU and approximately 3,557,000 time-based RSUs with a weighted-average grant date fair value of $11.78 per RSU, respectively.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, the Company granted approximately 878,000 and 416,000 performance-based RSUs, consisting of approximately 469,000 and 208,000 units of TSR performance-based RSUs with an average grant date fair value of $29.35 and $16.34 per RSU and approximately 409,000 and 208,000 units of ROTC performance-based RSUs with a weighted-average grant date fair value of $18.80 and $15.76 per RSU, respectively.

The granted stock options, time-based RSUs and performance-based RSUs includes long-term incentive awards granted to the Company’s Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") during the three months ended March 31, 2018, which had an aggregate value of $10 million. In connection with his award, approximately 933,000 performance-based RSUs received by the CEO upon his hire in 2016 were cancelled, and the shares underlying those performance-based RSUs were permanently retired and are not available for future grants under the Amended and Restated 2014 Plan. The CEO's long-term incentive award is accounted for as an award modification whereby the Company continues to recognize the unamortized compensation associated with the original award plus the incremental fair value of the new award measured at the date of grant, over the vesting period of the new award.

As of September 30, 2018, the remaining unrecognized compensation expense related to all outstanding non-vested stock options, time-based RSUs and performance-based RSUs amounted to $111 million, which will be amortized over a weighted-average period of 1.89 years.