Who May Exercise Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in Sections 3 and 4 above, during the lifetime of the Participant, the Stock Option may be exercised only by the Participant, or by the Participant’s guardian or personal or legal representative. If the Participant’s Termination of Service is due to his death prior to the dates specified in Section 4.a. hereof, and the Participant has not exercised the Stock Option as to the maximum number of vested Optioned Shares as set forth in Section 3 hereof as of the date of death, the following persons may exercise the exercisable portion of the Stock Option on behalf of the Participant at any time prior to the earliest of the dates specified in Section 4.a. hereof: the personal representative of his estate, or the person who acquired the right to exercise the Stock Option by bequest or inheritance or by reason of the death of the Participant; provided that the Stock Option shall remain subject to the other terms of this Agreement, the Plan, and Applicable Laws, rules, and regulations.
Mandatory Exercise (a) If (i) the Price of the Common Stock is greater than 150% of the Exercise Price (as adjusted to reflect any stock split, combination, reclassification, recapitalization, exchange, stock dividend or other distribution payable in Common Stock with respect to shares of Common Stock) for sixty (60) consecutive trading days in the principal market in which the Common Stock is traded and (ii) the Company gives written notice (the "Company Notice") to the holder hereof of the satisfaction of the condition in clause (i), then within fifteen (15) days after the effective date of the Company Notice, the holder hereof shall exercise all of the Warrants. If required by this Section 5, the holder hereof agrees to exercise the Warrants, and to purchase shares of Common Stock pursuant to the terms of this Warrant Certificate. If the holder has not fulfilled its obligations to exercise the Warrants pursuant to this Section 5 within fifteen (15) days after the holder's receipt of the Company Notice, then (without limiting the Company's available remedies) (A) the obligations of holder under this Section 5 shall continue but the purchase rights otherwise represented by this Warrant Certificate shall terminate, (B) the Company may thereafter refuse, in its sole discretion, to allow holder to exercise the Warrants (including pursuant to this Section 5), (C) all obligations of the Company under Sections 0, 0, 0 xxx 0 xxxxx xxxxxxxxx, (X) no further adjustments to the Exercise Price shall be made unless the Company in its sole discretion consents in writing. Each Warrant holder's obligations under this Section 5(a) shall be subject to the expiration or termination of all waiting periods (and any extensions thereof) applicable to exercise of such holder's Warrants under the HSR Act (as defined below); provided that such holder shall have certified in writing to the Company that a filing under the HSR Act is required and provided further that such holder shall use its best efforts to cause the expiration or termination of such waiting period to occur as promptly as practicable.
(b) Holder represents and warrants to the Company that holder has full corporate power and authority to execute, deliver, and perform this Warrant Certificate and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby. The execution, delivery, and performance by holder of this Warrant Certificate have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action of holder. This Warrant Certificate has been duly executed and delivered by holder and constitutes a valid and legally binding obligation of holder, enforceable against holder in accordance with its terms, except that such enforceability may be limited by (i) applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, and similar laws affecting creditors' rights generally and (ii) general equitable principles (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).
(c) The right to require exercise of the Warrants is hereby declared by the parties hereto to be a unique right, the loss of which is not readily susceptible to monetary quantification. Consequently, the parties hereto agree that an action for specific performance of the exercise and purchase obligations created by this Section 5 is an available remedy for the breach of the provisions of this Section 5. If the Company is forced to institute legal proceedings to enforce its rights in accordance with the provisions of this Section 5, it shall be entitled to recover its reasonable attorneys' fees and court costs incurred in enforcing such rights.
(d) Holder is executing this Warrant Certificate in order to make and agree to the covenants, representations and warranties of holder contained in this Section 5, which shall be binding upon the holder's successors and assigns.
Term and Exercise The Option shall expire five (5) years from the date hereof, subject to earlier termination as set forth in Section 3. Subject to the provisions of Section 3, the Option shall become exercisable in installments as set forth on the attached Face Sheet of this Agreement.
Term and Exercise of Option a. The term of this Option shall commence on the Grant Date set forth above and shall continue until the Expiration Date set forth above, unless earlier terminated as provided herein.
b. This Option shall be exercisable only in the event that and to the extent that such Option has become vested and exercisable pursuant to the terms of this Section 3.b (or Sections 7 or 8 below, if applicable). Subject to the earlier termination of this Option pursuant to its terms and to the terms of the Option Plan, this Option shall vest and become exercisable as follows, but only if the Optionee is then an employee of or continues to provide services to the Company or an Affiliate at the specified time:
(i) Up to twenty percent (20%) of such Option Shares (rounded down to the nearest whole share) may be purchased at any time after one (1) year from the Grant Date and prior to the termination of this Option;
(ii) Up to forty percent (40%) of such Option Shares (rounded down to the nearest whole share and less any shares previously purchased pursuant to this Option that vest pursuant to this Section 3.b) may be purchased at any time after two (2) years from the Grant Date and prior to the termination of this Option;
(iii) Up to sixty percent (60%) of such Option Shares (rounded down to the nearest whole share and less any shares previously purchased pursuant to this Option that vest pursuant to this Section 3.b) may be purchased at any time after three (3) years from the Grant Date and prior to the termination of this Option;
(iv) Up to eighty percent (80%) of such Option Shares (rounded down to the nearest whole share and less any shares previously purchased pursuant to this Option that vest pursuant to this Section 3.b) may be purchased at any time after four (4) years from the Grant Date and prior to the termination of this Option;
(v) Up to 100% of such Option Shares (less any shares previously purchased pursuant to this Option that vest pursuant to this Section 3.b) may be purchased at any time after five (5) years from the Grant Date and prior to the termination of this Option.
c. To exercise this Option, the Optionee shall satisfy the following conditions: (i) deliver written notice to the Company at its principal office within the option period, which written notice must be in the form of attached Exhibit A to this Agreement, and (ii) deliver payment in full for the Option Shares with respect to which this Option is then being exercised, as provided in Section 4(a) below.
d. Neither the Optionee nor the Optionee’s legal representatives, legatees or distributees, as the case may be, will be, or will be deemed to be, a holder of any Option Shares for any purpose unless and until certificates for such Option Shares are issued (or are reflected upon the official records of the Company) to the Optionee or the Optionee’s legal representatives, legatees or distributees, under the terms of the Option Plan.
Right of Exercise Subject to the provisions hereof, each Registered Warrantholder may exercise the right conferred on such holder to subscribe for and purchase one (1) Common Share for each Warrant after the Issue Date and prior to the Expiry Time and in accordance with the conditions herein.
Exercise of SARs Upon exercise of a SAR, the Participant (or any person having the right to exercise the SAR after his or her death) shall receive from the Company (a) Shares, (b) cash or (c) a combination of Shares and cash, as the Committee shall determine. The amount of cash and/or the Fair Market Value of Shares received upon exercise of SARs shall, in the aggregate, be equal to the amount by which the Fair Market Value (on the date of surrender) of the Shares subject to the SARs exceeds the Exercise Price.
Exercise of SAR In order to exercise the SAR, the SAR Holder shall submit to the Company an instrument specifying the whole number of Shares in respect of which the SAR is being exercised. Shares will be issued accordingly by the Company within 30 days. The payment upon a SAR exercise shall be solely the number of whole Shares calculated in paragraph (a) above. Fractional Shares shall be rounded down to the nearest whole Share with no cash consideration being paid upon exercise. Anything to the contrary herein notwithstanding, the Company shall not be obligated to issue any Shares hereunder if the issuance of such Shares would violate the provision of any applicable law, in which event the Company shall, as soon as practicable, take whatever action it reasonably can so that such Shares may be issued without resulting in such violations of law.
Vesting and Exercise of Option The Option shall vest and become exercisable during its term in accordance with the following provisions:
Conditional Exercise Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, if an exercise of any portion of this Warrant is to be made in connection with a public offering or a sale of the Company (pursuant to a merger, sale of stock, or otherwise), such exercise may at the election of the Holder be conditioned upon the consummation of such transaction, in which case such exercise shall not be deemed to be effective until immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction.
Full Exercise This Warrant may be exercised in full by the Holder hereof by delivery of an original or facsimile copy of the form of subscription attached as Exhibit A hereto (the "Subscription Form") duly executed by such Holder and surrender of the original Warrant within seven (7) days of exercise, to the Company at its principal office or at the office of its Warrant Agent (as provided hereinafter), accompanied by payment, in cash, wire transfer or by certified or official bank check payable to the order of the Company, in the amount obtained by multiplying the number of shares of Common Stock for which this Warrant is then exercisable by the Purchase Price then in effect.
