NATURE OF OPTION The Option is not intended to meet the requirements of Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, relating to “incentive stock options”.
Discretionary Nature of Plan The Plan is discretionary and may be amended, cancelled or terminated by the Company at any time, in its discretion. The grant of the Option in this Agreement does not create any contractual right or other right to receive any Options or other Awards in the future. Future Awards, if any, will be at the sole discretion of the Company. Any amendment, modification, or termination of the Plan shall not constitute a change or impairment of the terms and conditions of the Participant’s employment with the Company.
Discretionary Sales The Borrower shall be permitted to sell Loans (each, a “Discretionary Sale”) subject to the following conditions: (i) no Collateral Manager Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and, immediately after giving effect to such Discretionary Sale, no Collateral Manager Default, Default or Event of Default shall have occurred; (ii) immediately after giving effect to such Discretionary Sale, the Required Advance Reduction Amount shall be (x) zero or (y) subject to the prior consent of the Administrative Agent (in its sole discretion), an amount less than the Required Advance Reduction Amount immediately prior to giving effect to such Discretionary Sale; (iii) the Borrower shall have delivered a Borrowing Base Certificate to the Administrative Agent; (iv) such Discretionary Sale shall be made by the Collateral Manager, on behalf of the Borrower, to an unaffiliated third party purchaser in a transaction (i) reflecting arms-length market terms and (ii) in which the Borrower makes no representations, warranties or covenants and provides no indemnification for the benefit of any other party to the Discretionary Sale (other than that the Borrower has good title thereto, free and clear of all Liens and has the right to sell the related Loan), provided that the Borrower may make a Discretionary Sale to (A) an Affiliate of the Borrower with the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion or (B) to the Seller pursuant to any exercise of the Seller’s mandatory repurchase obligation under Section 7.1 of the Sale Agreement; (v) on the related Discretionary Sale Date, the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Collateral Custodian, as applicable, shall have received, as applicable, in immediately available funds, an amount equal to the sum of (a) an amount sufficient to reduce the Advances Outstanding such that, after giving effect to the transfer of the Loans that are the subject of such Discretionary Sale, the Required Advance Reduction Amount will be equal to zero plus (b) an amount equal to all unpaid Interest then due and owing to the extent reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to be attributable to that portion of the Advances Outstanding to be repaid in connection with the Discretionary Sale plus (c) an aggregate amount equal to the sum of all other Obligations then due and owing to the Administrative Agent, each applicable Lender, the Affected Parties and the Indemnified Parties, as applicable, under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents (or such lesser amount as consented to by the Administrative Agent pursuant to clause (ii) above); (vi) on the related Discretionary Sale Date, the proceeds (net of (x) amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.14(v) and (y) transactional expenses) from such Discretionary Sale shall be sent directly to the Collection Account; and (vii) the aggregate OLB of all Loans which are sold by the Borrower in connection with a Discretionary Sale during any 12-month rolling period shall not exceed 30% of the highest Aggregate OLB at any point during such 12-month period (or such lesser number of months as shall have elapsed from the Closing Date as of such date); provided that, (a) any Discretionary Sale may be excluded from such 30% limitation with the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent and (b) any Discretionary Sale made pursuant to clause (B) or (C) of Section 2.14(iv) shall be excluded from such 30% limitation; provided, further, that the Borrower may make Discretionary Sales of Loans exceeding such 30% limitation if (x) all proceeds from such Discretionary Sales are applied pursuant to Section 2.3(b) to reduce Advances Outstanding and (y) the Facility Amount is concurrently reduced pursuant to Section 2.3(a) by an amount equal to the proceeds of such Discretionary Sales.
Duration of Option The Option shall be exercisable to the extent and in the manner provided herein for a period of ten (10) years from the Grant Date (the "Exercise Term"); provided, however, that the Option may be earlier terminated as provided in Section 6 hereof.
Termination of Options The Options will terminate at the time specified below: (a) If a Change in Control occurs after the Grant Date but prior to the Grantee’s Separation, all Options will terminate at the expiration of the Term. (b) If, in the absence of a Change in Control after the Grant Date, the Grantee’s Separation occurs prior to the Close of Business on December 31, 2023 on account of a termination of the Grantee’s employment or service for Cause, all Options that are not vested and exercisable as of the Close of Business on the date of Separation will terminate at that time and all Options that are vested and exercisable as of the Close of Business on the date of Separation will terminate at the Close of Business on the first Business Day following the expiration of the 90-day period that began on the date of the Grantee's Separation. (c) If (i) the Grantee’s Separation occurs after the Close of Business on December 31, 2023, or (ii) in the absence of a Change in Control after the Grant Date, the Grantee’s Separation occurs (A) on account of a termination of the Grantee’s employment or service without Cause, (B) on account of a termination of the Grantee’s employment or service by the Grantee with or without Good Reason, or (C) by reason of the death or Disability of the Grantee, then, in each case, all Options that are not vested and exercisable as of the Close of Business on the date of Separation after giving effect to the provisions of Sections 3 and 7 above will terminate at that time, and all Options that are vested and exercisable as of the Close of Business on the date of Separation after giving effect to the provisions of Sections 3 and 7 above will terminate at the expiration of the Term. In any event in which Options remain exercisable for a period of time following the date of the Grantee’s Separation as provided above, the Options may be exercised during such period of time only to the extent the same were vested and exercisable as provided in Section 3 above on such date of Separation (after giving effect to the application of Section 7 above). Notwithstanding any period of time referenced in this Section 8 or any other provision of this Agreement or any other agreement that may be construed to the contrary, the Options will in any event terminate not later than upon the expiration of the Term.
Nature of Award In accepting the award, Employee acknowledges that: (a) the Plan is established voluntarily by the Company, it is discretionary in nature and it may be modified, amended, suspended or terminated by the Company at any time in a manner consistent with Section 13 of the Plan regarding Plan amendment and termination and, in addition, the RSUs are subject to modification and adjustment under Section 6(b) of the Plan. (b) the award of the RSUs is voluntary and occasional and does not create any contractual or other right to receive future grants of RSUs, or benefits in lieu of RSUs, even if RSUs have been granted repeatedly in the past; (c) all decisions with respect to future RSU awards, if any, will be at the sole discretion of the Committee or its authorized delegate, as applicable; (d) Employee’s participation in the Plan shall not create a right to further employment with the Employer and shall not interfere with the ability of the Employer to terminate Employee’s employment relationship at any time; further, the RSU award and Employee’s participation in the Plan will not be interpreted to form an employment contract or relationship with the Employer; (e) Employee is voluntarily participating in the Plan; (f) the RSUs and the shares of Common Stock subject to the RSUs are an extraordinary item that does not constitute compensation of any kind for services of any kind rendered to the Employer, and which is outside the scope of Employee’s employment contract, if any; (g) the RSUs and the shares of Common Stock subject to the RSUs are not intended to replace any pension rights or compensation; (h) the RSUs and the shares of Common Stock subject to the RSUs are not part of normal or expected compensation or salary for any purposes, including, but not limited to, calculating any severance, resignation, termination, redundancy, dismissal, end of service payments, bonuses, long-service awards, pension or retirement or welfare benefits or similar payments and in no event should be considered as compensation for, or relating in any way to, past services for the Employer; (i) the future value of the underlying shares of Common Stock is unknown and cannot be predicted with certainty; (j) in consideration of the award of the RSUs, no claim or entitlement to compensation or damages shall arise from forfeiture of the RSUs, including, but not limited to, forfeiture resulting from termination of Employee’s employment with the Employer (for any reason whatsoever and whether or not in breach of local labor laws) and Employee irrevocably releases the Company and the Employer from any such claim that may arise; if, notwithstanding the foregoing, any such claim is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to have arisen, Employee shall be deemed irrevocably to have waived Employee’s entitlement to pursue such claim; and (k) subject to the provisions in the Plan regarding Change in Control, RSUs and the benefits under the Plan, if any, will not automatically transfer to another company in the case of a merger, take-over or transfer of liability.
Termination of Option (a) The Optionee’s right to exercise any options that have vested and are exercisable shall terminate on the earliest of the following dates: (i) The Expiration Date; (ii) Subject to subsections (c) and (d) below, the date which is six (6) months from the date on which the Optionee ceases to act as an officer of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company; (iii) In the event of the termination of the Optionee as an officer of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company as a result of a breach of the Optionee’s obligations to the Company or any subsidiary of the Company, or as a result of any dishonesty, fraud, misconduct, the unauthorized use or disclosure of confidential information or trade secrets, or conviction or confession of a crime punishable by law (except minor violations) (each of which being a termination for “Cause”), the earliest date on which the Optionee is notified by the Company of such termination; and (iv) The date which is six (6) months from the date of the Optionee’s death or the date the Optionee is determined by the Company to be unable to perform his or her duties as an officer of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company as a result of any mental or physical disability that is expected to result in death or that is expected to last for a continuous period of twelve (12) months or more (the “Disability Determination Date”). (b) The Optionee’s right to exercise any options that have not vested and are not exercisable shall terminate on the earliest of the following dates: (i) The date the Optionee ceases to act as an officer of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company; (ii) In the case of the termination of the Optionee as an officer of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company for Cause, on the earliest date on which the Optionee is notified by the Company of such termination; and (iii) The date of the Optionee’s death or the Disability Determination Date, as applicable. (c) For purposes of this Section 7, the Optionee will be deemed not to have ceased to act as an officer of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company (the “Original Position”) if the Optionee continues to act as an employee, officer, director or consultant of the Company or a subsidiary of the Company in some other capacity immediately upon ceasing to act in the Original Position. (d) Also notwithstanding the forgoing, if the Optionee dies after he or she ceases to be an officer of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company for reasons other than a termination for Cause or for disability in accordance with the above, the Optionee’s right to exercise any options that have vested and are exercisable on the date the Optionee ceases to be an officer of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company shall terminate on the earliest of the Expiration Date and the date which is six (6) months after the date of death.
Discretionary Investment Management Services The Adviser shall act as investment adviser with respect to each Fund. In such capacity, the Adviser shall, subject to the supervision of the Board, regularly provide each Fund with investment research, advice and supervision and shall furnish continuously an investment program for each Fund, consistent with the respective investment objectives and policies of each Fund. The Adviser shall determine, from time to time, what securities shall be purchased for each Fund, what securities shall be held or sold by each Fund and what portion of each Fund’s assets shall be held uninvested in cash, subject always to the provisions of the Trust’s Agreement and Declaration of Trust (“Declaration of Trust”), as amended and supplemented (the “Declaration of Trust”), Bylaws and its registration statement on Form N-1A (the “Registration Statement”) under the 1940 Act, and under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), and with the investment objectives, policies and restrictions of each Fund, as each of the same shall be from time to time in effect. To carry out such obligations, and to the extent not prohibited by any of the foregoing, the Adviser shall exercise full discretion and act for each Fund in the same manner and with the same force and effect as each Fund itself might or could do with respect to purchases, sales or other transactions, as well as with respect to all other such things necessary or incidental to the furtherance or conduct of such purchases, sales or other transactions. No reference in this Agreement to the Adviser having full discretionary authority over each Fund’s investments shall in any way limit the right of the Board, in its sole discretion, to establish or revise policies in connection with the management of a Fund’s assets or to otherwise exercise its right to control the overall management of a Fund.
Xxxxx of Option The Plan Administrator of the Company hereby grants to the Optionee named in the Notice of Grant attached as Part I of this Agreement (the "Optionee") an option (the "Option") to purchase the number of Shares, as set forth in the Notice of Grant, at the exercise price per share set forth in the Notice of Grant (the "Exercise Price"), subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan, which is incorporated herein by reference. Subject to Section 15(c) of the Plan, in the event of a conflict between the terms and conditions of the Plan and the terms and conditions of this Option Agreement, the terms and conditions of the Plan shall prevail. If designated in the Notice of Grant as an Incentive Stock Option ("ISO"), this Option is intended to qualify as an Incentive Stock Option under Section 422 of the Code. However, if this Option is intended to be an Incentive Stock Option, to the extent that it exceeds the $100,000 rule of Code Section 422(d) it shall be treated as a Nonstatutory Stock Option ("NSO").
Discretionary Bonuses The Employee shall participate in an equitable manner with all other senior management employees of the Bank in discretionary bonuses that the Board may award from time to time to the Bank’s senior management employees. No other compensation provided for in this Agreement shall be deemed a substitute for the Employee’s right to participate in such discretionary bonuses.
