4 1 playfordmar02form4.txt FORM 4 U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, DC 20549 FORM 4 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 [_] Check box if no longer subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instruction 1(b). ________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* Playford, Gilbert E. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Last) (First) (Middle) 1521 Concord Pike Suite 301 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Street) Wilmington DE 19803 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (City) (State) (Zip) ________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol UCAR International Inc. UCR ________________________________________________________________________________ 3. IRS Identification Number of Reporting Person, if an Entity (Voluntary) ________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Statement for Month/Year 3/31/2002 ________________________________________________________________________________ 5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Year) ________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Relationship of Reporting Person to Issuer (Check all applicable) [X] Director [_] 10% Owner [X] Officer (give title below) [_] Other (specify below) Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer ________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check applicable line) [X] Form filed by one Reporting Person [_] Form filed by more than one Reporting Person ________________________________________________________________________________ ================================================================================ Table I -- Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned ================================================================================
6. 4. 5. Owner- Securities Acquired (A) or Amount of ship 3. Disposed of (D) Securities Form: 7. Transaction (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) Beneficially Direct Nature of 2. Code ------------------------------- Owned at End (D) or Indirect 1. Transaction (Instr. 8) (A) of Month Indirect Beneficial Title of Security Date ------------ Amount or Price (Instr. 3 (I) Ownership (Instr. 3) (mm/dd/yy) Code V (D) and 4) (Instr.4) (Instr. 4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 139,516 D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 100,000(1) D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 3/15/02 A 441 A $13.09 I (2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 3/28/02 A 214 A $14.03 9,505 I (2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 39,648 I (3) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 3/1/02 A 54,000(7) A -- 54,000(7) D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 3/15/02 A 252 A $12.92 I (8) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 3/28/02 A 117 A $13.85 832 I (8) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ====================================================================================================================================
* If the Form is filed by more than one Reporting Person, see Instruction 4(b)(v). Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly. (Print or Type Response) (Over) FORM 4 (continued) Table II -- Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities) ================================================================================
10. 9. Owner- Number ship of Form 2. Deriv- of Conver- 5. 7. ative Deriv- 11. sion Number of Title and Amount Secur- ative Nature or Derivative 6. of Underlying 8. ities Secur- of Exer- 4. Securities Date Securities Price Bene- ity: In- cise 3. Trans- Acquired (A) Exercisable and (Instr. 3 and 4) of ficially Direct direct Price Trans- action or Disposed Expiration Date ---------------- Deriv- Owned (D) or Bene- 1. of action Code of(D) (Month/Day/Year) Amount ative at End In- ficial Title of Deriv- Date (Instr. (Instr. 3, ---------------- or Secur- of direct Owner- Derivative ative (Month/ 8) 4 and 5) Date Expira- Number ity Month (I) ship Security Secur- Day/ ------ ------------ Exer- tion of (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. 3) ity Year) Code V (A) (D) cisable Date Title Shares 5) 4) 4) 4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock, par value Time Options $.01 per (right to buy) $30.5891 (4) 1/25/07 share 300,000 300,000 D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock, par value Time Options $.01 per (right to buy) $17.0625 (5) 9/28/08 share 300,000 300,000 D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock, par value Time Options $.01 per (right to buy) $8.56 12/15/02 12/15/10 share 300,000 300,000 D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock, par value Time Options $.01 per (right to buy) $8.85 (6) 9/25/11 share 274,000 274,000 D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ====================================================================================================================================
Explanation of Responses: (1) Of such shares, (a) 70,000 will vest on June 30, 2003 and (b) 30,000 will vest on December 31, 2004, provided that the reporting person is still employed by UCAR on those dates. (2) Represents the number of units attributable to the reporting person's participation in the Company Discount Stock Fund option of the UCAR Carbon Savings Program. (3) Represents obligations whose value is based on the Common Stock. The reporting person disclaims any beneficial owenership of these securities. (4) 200,000 of such options became exercisable on June 22, 2000 and 100,000 of such options became exercisable on June 22, 2001. (5) Of such options, 100,000 vested on each of: May 21, 1999, July 14, 1999 and September 29, 1999. (6) Options were granted as part of an annual grant. Of such options, 41,000 vested on September 25, 2001 and 233,000 will vest on September 25, 2003. (7) Of such shares, 27,000 will vest on each of February 1, 2003 and February 1, 2004, provided that the reporting person is still employed by UCAR on those dates. (8) Represents the number of units attributable to the reporting person's participation in the Company Stock Fund option of the UCAR Carbon Savings Plan. /s/ Karen G. Narwold April 10, 2002 --------------------------------------------- ----------------------- **Signature of Reporting Person Date Karen G. Narwold, Atty.-in-Fact for Gilbert E. Playford ** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a). Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed. If space provided is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure. Page 2