Common use of Equity Incentive Clause in Contracts

Equity Incentive. The Company hereby grants to Executive an option to purchase 538,020 shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, effective upon and with a grant date as of the Start Date. Thereafter, so long as Executive remains in service as CEO as of the date of such grants, Executive will receive an automatic grant of an option to purchase 179,340 shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock on each of the twelve (12), twenty-four (24) and thirty-six (36) month anniversaries of the Start Date. (For purposes of clarity, Executive’s total option grants under the paragraph, including his initial grant on the Start Date, equals 1,076,040 shares.) Each option granted under this paragraph shall carry a five (5) year term, and the option shares shall vest and become exercisable over a four (4) year period according to the following schedule: one fourth (1/4) on first anniversary of the grant date and 1/48 each month thereafter. Each option grant will include a “net” or “cashless” exercise feature. The initial option grant is intended to qualify as an inducement grant under NASDAQ listing rules and will carry an exercise price equal to the greater of (i) the closing price of the Company’s Class A Common Stock on the Start Date or (ii) the trailing sixty (60) day volume weighted average price of the Company’s Class A Common Stock determined as of the Start Date. Each subsequent automatic grant hereunder shall be issued under and subject to the terms of the Company’s 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (or any successor plan) and will carry an exercise price equal to the trailing thirty (30) day volume weighted average price of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, determined as of the applicable option grant date. Except as provided above, the options to be granted to Executive hereunder shall be provided subject to and in conformity with the Company’s standard form of non-qualified stock option with customary terms and conditions, to be entered into by Executive and the Company.

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Samples: Employment Agreement (Purple Innovation, Inc.)

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Equity Incentive. The Subject to shareholder approval to increase the number of authorized option shares, which is contemplated at the annual shareholders meeting scheduled for October 8, 1998, the Company hereby grants to shall grant the Executive an option options to purchase 538,020 300,000 shares of common stock of the Company’s Class A Common Stock. With respect to such options: 4.7.1. The exercise price for such options shall be the Company's per share market price at the close of business on October 8, effective upon 1998. The options will be non-qualified options, subject to all terms and with a grant date conditions of the Company's 1995 Stock Option Plan. Except as set forth otherwise in the Stock Option Plan and herein, the options granted hereunder shall vest ratably (in 5 equal installments) and annually as of the Start Dateend of each of the next 5 fiscal years ended May 31, with the first year's vesting to occur on May 31, 1999. ThereafterSubject to the Stock Option Plan and this Agreement, so long as vested options may be exercised for ten years from the date of grant. In the event of the death of the Executive, vested options may be exercised for one year from the date of death. In all other events, vested options must be exercised within 90 days of termination. Subject to the obligation of the Executive remains under the Company's 1995 Stock Plan for Employees and Directors to hold shares resulting from the exercise of an option for at least 6 months from the date the option was acquired, the Company will cooperate in service as CEO any same day exercise and sale (or if same is not available, a cashless exercise) associated with such options. 4.7.2. Upon termination of the Executive's employment, option vesting will cease; provided, however, that if any termination severance payment is due in connection therewith pursuant to Section 12.3, the Executive will receive an additional one year of vesting as of the date of such grants, Executive will receive an automatic grant termination. Payment of an option to purchase 179,340 shares all amounts and benefits hereunder and additional vesting of the Company’s Class A Common Stock on each of the twelve (12), twenty-four (24) and thirty-six (36) month anniversaries of the Start Date. (For purposes of clarity, Executive’s total option grants under the paragraph, including his initial grant on the Start Date, equals 1,076,040 shares.) Each option granted under this paragraph shall carry a five (5) year term, and the option shares shall vest and become exercisable over a four (4) year period according to the following schedule: one fourth (1/4) on first anniversary of the grant date and 1/48 each month thereafter. Each option grant will include a “net” or “cashless” exercise feature. The initial option grant is intended to qualify as an inducement grant under NASDAQ listing rules and will carry an exercise price equal to the greater of (i) the closing price of the Company’s Class A Common Stock on the Start Date or (ii) the trailing sixty (60) day volume weighted average price of the Company’s Class A Common Stock determined as of the Start Date. Each subsequent automatic grant hereunder stock shall be issued under and subject to the terms of the Company’s 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (or any successor plan) and will carry an exercise price equal to the trailing thirty (30) day volume weighted average price of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, determined as of the applicable option grant date. Except as provided above, the options to be granted to Executive hereunder shall be provided subject to and in conformity compliance with the Company’s standard form provisions of non-qualified stock option with customary terms this Agreement and conditions, to be entered into by Executive and specifically the Companyrestrictive covenants set forth in Section 13 hereof.

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Samples: Employment Agreement (Speedfam International Inc)

Equity Incentive. The Company hereby grants to Effective as of the date of this Agreement, the Executive an shall be granted a stock option to for the purchase 538,020 of 8,159,401 shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stockcommon stock at an exercise price per share equal to the closing price of a share of such common stock in the over-the-counter market on the trading day immediately preceding the date of this Agreement (the “Stock Option”). The shares subject to the Stock Option represent 5% of the Company’s fully-diluted capital stock on the date of this Agreement. The Stock Option shall have a term of ten years, subject to the Executive’s continued employment by the Company, and will include a net surrender cashless exercise provision. To the extent that the Stock Option may be treated as an Incentive Stock Option (an “ISO”) under the Internal Revenue Code and the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder (the “ISO Rules”), the Stock Option shall be granted under the Company’s 2008 Incentive Stock Plan (the “Plan”). The right to exercise the Stock Option shall vest, with respect to 2,039,851 shares, on December 31, 2010, and thereafter, with respect to an additional 509,962.5 shares on the last day of each subsequent calendar quarter through and including December 31, 2013, subject to the Executive’s continued employment by the Company; provided, however, that if, prior to December 31, 2010, a Change of Control occurs and the Executive remains employed by the Company through the day immediately preceding the date of such Change of Control, then, effective upon immediately prior to such Change of Control, the Stock Option shall vest with respect to 2,039,851 shares; and with a grant date provided, further, that in the event the Executive’s employment is terminated prior to December 31, 2010 for any reason other than (i) by the Company during the Probationary Period (as of such term is hereinafter defined), (ii) by the Start Date. ThereafterCompany for Cause (as such term is hereinafter defined) or (iii) voluntarily by the Executive without Good Reason (as such term is hereinafter defined), so long as Executive remains in service as CEO then, effective as of the date on which the Executive’s employment is terminated, the Stock Option shall vest with respect to 2,039,851 shares. Except to the extent that the Plan or the ISO Rules limit the right to exercise the ISO portion of the Stock Option following termination of the Executive’s employment, the vested portion of the Stock Option may be exercised at any time prior to January 26, 2020 notwithstanding the earlier termination of the Executive’s employment. As used herein, the term “Change of Control” shall mean any of the following: (i) the completion by the Company of a reorganization, merger, consolidation, share exchange, or a sale, lease, exchange or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets, unless immediately following such grantstransaction the holders of the Company’s voting stock immediately prior to the transaction own voting securities representing a majority of the votes entitled to be cast for the election of directors of the successor entity; (ii) the acquisition, Executive will receive an automatic grant after the date of an option to purchase 179,340 this Agreement, by any person or “group” (as defined under the federal securities laws) of “beneficial ownership” (as defined under the federal securities laws) of a majority of (a) the outstanding shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock on each common stock or (b) the combined voting power of the twelve (12), twenty-four (24) and thirty-six (36) month anniversaries then outstanding voting securities of the Start Date. (For purposes of clarity, Executive’s total option grants under the paragraph, including his initial grant on the Start Date, equals 1,076,040 shares.) Each option granted under this paragraph shall carry Company which are entitled to elect a five (5) year term, and the option shares shall vest and become exercisable over a four (4) year period according to the following schedule: one fourth (1/4) on first anniversary majority of the grant date and 1/48 each month thereafter. Each option grant will include a “net” or “cashless” exercise feature. The initial option grant is intended to qualify as an inducement grant under NASDAQ listing rules and will carry an exercise price equal to members of the greater Board of (i) the closing price Directors of the Company’s Class A Common Stock on the Start Date ; or (iiiii) the trailing sixty (60) day volume weighted average price approval by the Company’s shareholders of a complete liquidation or dissolution of the Company’s Class A Common Stock determined as ; provided, however, that if an event that otherwise would constitute a Change of the Start Date. Each subsequent automatic grant hereunder shall be issued under and subject to the terms Control results from or arises out of a purchase or other acquisition of the Company’s 2017 Equity Incentive Plan , directly or indirectly, by a corporation or other entity in which the Executive has a greater than five percent (5%) direct or any successor plan) and will carry an exercise price equal to the trailing thirty (30) day volume weighted average price indirect equity interest, such event shall not constitute a Change of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, determined as of the applicable option grant date. Except as provided above, the options to be granted to Executive hereunder shall be provided subject to and in conformity with the Company’s standard form of non-qualified stock option with customary terms and conditions, to be entered into by Executive and the CompanyControl.

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Samples: Executive Employment Agreement (Thermoenergy Corp)

Equity Incentive. As soon as administratively practicable following the Effective Date, the Executive shall be granted 36,000 shares of restricted common stock of the Company (the “Initial Stock Grant”), subject to the approval of the Board. The terms of the Initial Stock Grant shall be subject to and consistent with the equity-based compensation plan sponsored and maintained by the Company hereby grants for its senior executive officers and the relevant restricted stock agreement and shall include the following: (1) the Initial Stock Grant shall vest 1/3 each year for three years, with vesting commencing on the 15th day of the mid-quarter month following the Effective Date (therefore, 12,000 shares of restricted stock granted under the Initial Stock Grant shall vest during the first year following 15th day of the mid-quarter month following the Effective Date and 12,000 shares of restricted stock shall vest each subsequent year); (2) the Initial Stock Grant shall be subject to accelerated vesting, including as provided in Section 7(b); and (3) if the Company shall effect a subdivision or consolidation of its stock or other capital readjustment, the payment of a stock dividend, or other increase or reduction of the number of shares of Stock outstanding, without receiving compensation therefor in money, services or property, then (1) the number of restricted shares subject to the unvested portion of the Initial Stock Grant shall be appropriately adjusted in such a manner as to entitle the Executive an option to purchase 538,020 receive upon vesting of such unvested shares the equivalent total number and class or series of stock as any other shareholder in the Company would receive upon such event requiring the adjustment (e.g., if the Company were to effect a 2 for 1 stock split while 12,000 restricted shares of the Company’s Class A Common StockInitial Stock Grant were unvested, effective the Executive would receive 24,000 shares of stock upon vesting of such restricted shares). The Executive shall be eligible to be considered, from time to time, by the Board for additional grants of equity-based compensation; provided that the amount and with a grant date as type of such grants awarded to the Executive shall be no less than those grants awarded to senior executive officers of the Start Date. ThereafterCorporation, so long as Executive remains in service as CEO as of the date of such grants, Executive will receive an automatic grant of an option to purchase 179,340 shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock on each of the twelve (12), twenty-four (24) and thirty-six (36) month anniversaries of the Start Date. (For purposes of clarity, Executive’s total option grants under the paragraph, including his initial grant on the Start Date, equals 1,076,040 sharesif any.) Each option granted under this paragraph shall carry a five (5) year term, and the option shares shall vest and become exercisable over a four (4) year period according to the following schedule: one fourth (1/4) on first anniversary of the grant date and 1/48 each month thereafter. Each option grant will include a “net” or “cashless” exercise feature. The initial option grant is intended to qualify as an inducement grant under NASDAQ listing rules and will carry an exercise price equal to the greater of (i) the closing price of the Company’s Class A Common Stock on the Start Date or (ii) the trailing sixty (60) day volume weighted average price of the Company’s Class A Common Stock determined as of the Start Date. Each subsequent automatic grant hereunder shall be issued under and subject to the terms of the Company’s 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (or any successor plan) and will carry an exercise price equal to the trailing thirty (30) day volume weighted average price of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, determined as of the applicable option grant date. Except as provided above, the options to be granted to Executive hereunder shall be provided subject to and in conformity with the Company’s standard form of non-qualified stock option with customary terms and conditions, to be entered into by Executive and the Company.

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Samples: Employment Agreement (Continental Resources Inc)

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Equity Incentive. The Company hereby grants to Effective as of the date of this Agreement, the Executive an shall be granted a stock option to for the purchase 538,020 of 13,750,000 shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stockcommon stock at an exercise price per share equal to the closing price of a share of such common stock in the over-the-counter market on the trading day immediately preceding the Commencement Date (the “Stock Option”). The Stock Option shall have a term of ten years, subject to the Executive’s continued employment by the Company, and will include a net surrender cashless exercise provision. To the extent that the Stock Option may be treated as an Incentive Stock Option (an “ISO”) under the Internal Revenue Code and the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder (the “ISO Rules”), the Stock Option shall be granted under the Company’s 2008 Incentive Stock Plan (the “Plan”). The right to exercise the Stock Option shall vest, with respect to 859,375 shares, on March 31, 2013 and thereafter, with respect to an additional 859,375 shares on the last day of each subsequent calendar quarter through and including December 31, 2016, subject to the Executive’s continued employment by the Company; provided, however, that if, prior to December 31, 2016, the Executive’s employment is terminated other than by the Company for Cause (as such term is defined in Section 3.2 below) or by the Executive without Good Reason (as such term is defined in Section 3.2 below) within ninety days after a Change of Control, then, effective upon and with a grant date as of the Start Date. Thereafter, so long as Executive remains in service as CEO as of the date on which the Executive’s employment is terminated, the Stock Option shall vest with respect to fifty percent (50%) of the shares that were unvested on the date of the Change of Control. Except to the extent that the Plan or the ISO Rules limit the right to exercise the ISO portion of the Stock Option following termination of the Executive’s employment, the vested portion of the Stock Option may be exercised at any time prior to the tenth anniversary of the date of this Agreement, notwithstanding the earlier termination of the Executive’s employment. As used herein, the term “Change of Control” shall mean any of the following: (i) the completion by the Company of a reorganization, merger, consolidation, share exchange, or a sale, lease, exchange or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets, unless immediately following such grantstransaction the holders of the Company’s voting stock immediately prior to the transaction own voting securities representing a majority of the votes entitled to be cast for the election of directors of the successor entity; (ii) the acquisition, Executive will receive an automatic grant after the date of an option to purchase 179,340 this Agreement, by any person or “group” (as defined under the federal securities laws) of “beneficial ownership” (as defined under the federal securities laws) of a majority of (a) the outstanding shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock on each common stock or (b) the combined voting power of the twelve (12), twenty-four (24) and thirty-six (36) month anniversaries then outstanding voting securities of the Start Date. (For purposes of clarity, Executive’s total option grants under the paragraph, including his initial grant on the Start Date, equals 1,076,040 shares.) Each option granted under this paragraph shall carry Company which are entitled to elect a five (5) year term, and the option shares shall vest and become exercisable over a four (4) year period according to the following schedule: one fourth (1/4) on first anniversary majority of the grant date and 1/48 each month thereafter. Each option grant will include a “net” members of the Board of Directors; or “cashless” exercise feature. The initial option grant is intended to qualify as an inducement grant under NASDAQ listing rules and will carry an exercise price equal to the greater of (iiii) the closing price approval by the Company’s shareholders of a complete liquidation or dissolution of the Company’s Class A Common Stock on the Start Date ; provided, however, that if an event that otherwise would constitute a Change of Control results from or (ii) the trailing sixty (60) day volume weighted average price arises out of a purchase or other acquisition of the Company’s Class A Common Stock determined as , directly or indirectly, by a corporation or other entity in which the Executive has a greater than five percent (5%) direct or indirect equity interest (other than Bxxxxxx Power Inc., so long as, at the time of such purchase or other acquisition, the Start Date. Each subsequent automatic grant hereunder shall be issued under and subject to the terms Executive is not an officer or director of the Company’s 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (Bxxxxxx Power Inc. or any successor plan) and will carry an exercise price equal to the trailing thirty (30) day volume weighted average price of the Company’s Class A Common Stockits affiliates), determined as such event shall not constitute a Change of the applicable option grant date. Except as provided above, the options to be granted to Executive hereunder shall be provided subject to and in conformity with the Company’s standard form of non-qualified stock option with customary terms and conditions, to be entered into by Executive and the CompanyControl.

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Samples: Executive Employment Agreement (Thermoenergy Corp)

Equity Incentive. The Company hereby grants to Effective as of the date of this Agreement, the Executive an shall be granted a stock option to under the Corporation’s 2008 Incentive Stock Plan for the purchase 538,020 of 2,500,000 shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, effective upon and with common stock at an exercise price per share equal to the closing price of a grant date as share of such common stock in the Start Date. Thereafter, so long as Executive remains in service as CEO as of over-the-counter market on the date of this Agreement (the “Stock Option”). The Stock Option shall have a term of ten years, subject to the Executive’s continued employment by the Company, and will include a net surrender cashless exercise provision. If the Executive’s employment by the Company is terminated for any reason, the vested portion of the Stock Option may be exercised at any time prior to the sixtieth day after the date on which the Executive’s employment is terminated. The right to exercise the Stock Option shall vest, with respect to 625,000 shares, on September 30, 2010, and thereafter, with respect to an additional 156,250 shares on the last day of each subsequent calendar quarter through and including September 30, 2013, subject to the Executive’s continued employment by the Company; provided, however, that if, prior to September 30, 2010, a Change of Control occurs, then, effective immediately prior to such grantsChange of Control, Executive will receive an automatic grant the Stock Option shall vest with respect to 625,000 shares. As used herein, the term “Change of an option Control” shall mean any of the following: (i) the completion by the Company of a reorganization, merger, consolidation, share exchange, or a sale, lease, exchange or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets, unless immediately following such transaction the holders of the Company’s voting stock immediately prior to purchase 179,340 the transaction own voting securities representing a majority of the votes entitled to be cast for the election of directors of the successor entity; (ii) the acquisition, after the date of this Agreement, by any person or “group” (as defined under the federal securities laws) of “beneficial ownership” (as defined under the federal securities laws) of a majority of (a) the outstanding shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock on each common stock or (b) the combined voting power of the twelve (12), twenty-four (24) and thirty-six (36) month anniversaries then outstanding voting securities of the Start Date. (For purposes of clarity, Executive’s total option grants under the paragraph, including his initial grant on the Start Date, equals 1,076,040 shares.) Each option granted under this paragraph shall carry Company which are entitled to elect a five (5) year term, and the option shares shall vest and become exercisable over a four (4) year period according to the following schedule: one fourth (1/4) on first anniversary majority of the grant date and 1/48 each month thereafter. Each option grant will include a “net” or “cashless” exercise feature. The initial option grant is intended to qualify as an inducement grant under NASDAQ listing rules and will carry an exercise price equal to members of the greater Board of (i) the closing price Directors of the Company’s Class A Common Stock on the Start Date ; or (iiiii) the trailing sixty (60) day volume weighted average price approval by the Company’s shareholders of a complete liquidation or dissolution of the Company’s Class A Common Stock determined as ; provided, however, that if an event that otherwise would constitute a Change of the Start Date. Each subsequent automatic grant hereunder shall be issued under and subject to the terms Control results from or arises out of a purchase or other acquisition of the Company’s 2017 Equity Incentive Plan , directly or indirectly, by a corporation or other entity in which the Executive has a greater than two and one-half percent (2.5%) direct or any successor plan) and will carry an exercise price equal to the trailing thirty (30) day volume weighted average price indirect equity interest, such event shall not constitute a Change of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, determined as of the applicable option grant date. Except as provided above, the options to be granted to Executive hereunder shall be provided subject to and in conformity with the Company’s standard form of non-qualified stock option with customary terms and conditions, to be entered into by Executive and the CompanyControl.

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Samples: Executive Employment Agreement (Thermoenergy Corp)

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