ESPP As soon as administratively practicable following the date of this Agreement, but not later than the day immediately prior to the date on which the first (1st) offering period that is regularly scheduled to commence under the ESPP after the date of this Agreement is scheduled to commence, the Company (or, if appropriate, the applicable committee administering the ESPP) shall take all actions necessary or required under the ESPP (including, if appropriate, amending the terms of the ESPP) and applicable Law to (i) suspend the ESPP so that (x) no further offering periods shall commence after the date of this Agreement, (y) no individual participating in any offering period in progress as of the date of this Agreement shall be permitted to increase the amount of his or her rate of payroll contributions thereunder from the rate in effect when the last offering period commenced, or to make separate non-payroll contributions to the ESPP on or following the date of this Agreement; and (z) no individual who is not participating in the ESPP as of the date of this Agreement may commence participation in the ESPP following the date of this Agreement, (ii) end the last offering period that commenced prior to the date of this Agreement on the earlier to occur of its regularly scheduled end date under the terms of the ESPP or three (3) calendar days prior to the Effective Time, and (iii) cause the ESPP to terminate as of the Effective Time such that no further rights shall be granted or exercised under the ESPP thereafter. With respect to the offering period that is in effect on the date of this Agreement, each ESPP participant may apply his or her accumulated payroll deductions to purchase shares of the Company Common Stock under the ESPP in accordance with its terms on the regularly scheduled purchase date for such offering period; provided, that, if the Closing Date occurs prior to the purchase date for the offering period, then each ESPP participant’s accumulated payroll deductions under the ESPP shall be used to purchase Shares in accordance with the terms of the ESPP no later than three (3) business days prior to the Effective Time; provided, further, that the applicable purchase price per Share as set forth in the ESPP shall not be decreased below levels set forth in the ESPP as of the date hereof. All Shares of Company Common Stock purchased under the ESPP shall be considered outstanding Shares for all purposes of this Agreement, including, without limitation, for purposes of the right to receive the Forms of Election and to make elections and receive the Merger Consideration with respect thereto.
Company ESPP From and after the Agreement Date, the Company will not establish any new offering period under the Company ESPP. Participation in the Company ESPP shall be limited to those employees who were participants on the Agreement Date and each individual participating in any current purchase period will not be permitted to (i) increase his or her payroll contribution rate pursuant to the Company ESPP from the rate in effect immediately prior to the Agreement Date; or (ii) make separate non-payroll contributions to the Company ESPP that has the effect of increasing his or her contribution rate in effect immediately prior to the Agreement Date, except, in each case, as may be required by applicable Law. Prior to the Effective Time, the Company will take all action that may be necessary to, effective upon the consummation of the Merger, (A) cause any Purchase Period (as defined in the Company ESPP) that would otherwise be outstanding at the Effective Time to be terminated no later than three Business Days prior to the Closing Date; (B) make any adjustments that may be necessary or advisable to reflect the shortened Purchase Period, but otherwise treat such shortened Purchase Period as a fully effective and completed Purchase Period for all purposes pursuant to the Company ESPP; (C) cause the exercise (as of no later than three Business Days prior to the Closing Date) of each outstanding purchase right pursuant to the Company ESPP; and (D) provide that no further Purchase Period or purchase offer period will commence pursuant to the Company ESPP after the Effective Time. Notwithstanding any restrictions on transfer of stock in the Company ESPP, all Shares purchased under the Company ESPP shall be treated identically to all other Shares in the Merger and the payment described in Section 2.7(a). On such exercise date, the Company will apply the funds credited as of such date pursuant to the Company ESPP within each participant’s payroll withholding account to the purchase of whole Shares in accordance with the terms of the Company ESPP. Immediately prior to and effective as of the Effective Time (but subject to the consummation of the Merger), the Company will terminate the Company ESPP.
Offering Period NCPS will undertake due diligence of the Company and the Offering. Upon satisfactory completion of due diligence and subject to approval of the Offering by NCPS in its sole discretion, NCPS will accept the Offering and determine an Offering Period during which it will actively solicit investors to purchase the Offering (provided, however, that the Offering Period shall not be less than six months). NCPS will make available to each Prospect the Offering Materials.
Retirement Plans In connection with the individual retirement accounts, simplified employee pension plans, rollover individual retirement plans, educational IRAs and XXXX individual retirement accounts (“XXX Plans”), 403(b) Plans and money purchase and profit sharing plans (collectively, the “Retirement Plans”) within the meaning of Section 408 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) sponsored by a Fund for which contributions of the Fund’s shareholders (the “Participants”) are invested solely in Shares of the Fund, JHSS shall provide the following administrative services:
Profit Sharing Plan Under the Northrim BanCorp, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan (the “Plan”), Executive shall be eligible to receive an annual profit share based on performance as defined by the Board of Directors. Executive will be classified in the Executive tier under the Plan’s Responsibility Factors. If Employer is required to prepare an accounting restatement due to “material noncompliance of the Employer,” the Employer will recover from the Executive any incentive compensation during the three (3) years prior to the date of the restatement, in excess of what would have been paid under the restatement. Executive’s signature on this Agreement authorizes Employer to offset or deduct from any compensation Employer may owe Executive, any excess payments (in whole or in part) that Executive may owe Employer due to such restatement(s).
Employee Stock Purchase Plan As soon as practicable following the date of this Agreement, the board of directors of the Company (or the appropriate committee thereof) shall take all necessary actions, including adopting any necessary resolutions and amendments, to (i) terminate the 2002 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “Stock Purchase Plan”) as of no later than immediately prior to the Effective Time, (ii) ensure that no option period under the Stock Purchase Plan shall be commenced on or after the date of this Agreement, (iii) if the Effective Time shall occur prior to the end of the option periods in existence under the Stock Purchase Plan on the date of this Agreement, cause a new exercise date to be set under the Stock Purchase Plan, which date shall be the end of the payroll period that is at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the anticipated Effective Time, (iv) prohibit participants in the Stock Purchase Plan from altering their payroll deductions from those in effect on the date of this Agreement (other than to discontinue their participation in the Stock Purchase Plan in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Stock Purchase Plan), (v) provide that the amount of the accumulated contributions of each participant under the Stock Purchase Plan as of immediately prior to the Effective Time shall, to the extent not used to purchase shares of Company Common Stock in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Stock Purchase Plan (as amended pursuant to this Section 2.11), be refunded to such participant as promptly as practicable following the Effective Time (without interest); and (vi) ensure that no current or former employees, officers, directors or other service providers of Company and its Subsidiaries or their beneficiaries have any right to receive shares of Parent Common Stock under the Stock Purchase Plan.
Enrollment Each User is required to complete an Electronic Enrollment Form, which is available at a URL designated by DST (at the date of this Agreement - xxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxx). Users enrolling for access may complete the enrollment process by providing DST with information called for in the Electronic Enrollment Form about their practice and the Financial Products they wish to access.
Incentive, Savings and Retirement Plans During the Employment Period, the Executive shall be entitled to participate in all incentive, savings and retirement plans, practices, policies and programs applicable generally to other peer executives of the Company and its affiliated companies, but in no event shall such plans, practices, policies and programs provide the Executive with incentive opportunities (measured with respect to both regular and special incentive opportunities, to the extent, if any, that such distinction is applicable), savings opportunities and retirement benefit opportunities, in each case, less favorable, in the aggregate, than the most favorable of those provided by the Company and its affiliated companies for the Executive under such plans, practices, policies and programs as in effect at any time during the 120-day period immediately preceding the Effective Date or if more favorable to the Executive, those provided generally at any time after the Effective Date to other peer executives of the Company and its affiliated companies.
Fringe Benefit The benefits provided by this Agreement are granted by the Employer as a fringe benefit to the Executive and are not a part of any salary reduction plan or any arrangement deferring a bonus or a salary increase. The Executive has no option to take any current payments or bonus in lieu of the benefits provided by this Agreement.
Stock Purchase Plan Through the Distribution Date, Roxio Employees shall continue to be eligible for participation in the Adaptec Stock Purchase Plan. Effective on or before the Distribution Date (or such other date as Adaptec and Roxio may mutually agree), Roxio shall establish and sponsor a Stock Purchase Plan for the benefit of Roxio Employees. Effective as of the Distribution Date, Roxio Employees shall cease to be eligible to participate in and to have any further payroll deductions withheld pursuant to the Adaptec Stock Purchase Plan.
