Potential Repayment Obligation. You acknowledge that the values of this Award (including the number of shares of Restricted Stock specified by this Agreement and the amount of the LTI Cash Right specified by this Agreement, which is a function of the Restricted Stock valued as of the Grant Date) have been determined by the Company under the Management Incentive Plan by reference, in part, to certain financial and operating metrics of the Company that are reflected by its financial statements or otherwise reported (publicly or internally) for some or all of the three years that ended on December 31 immediately prior to the Grant Date (the "Measurement Period"). You further acknowledge and agree that the Company shall be entitled to seek to recover from you all or any part of your Award, including any cash, stock, or other property received by you with respect to your Award, if and as required by the provisions of (or regulations adopted or to be adopted under) the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002, or any other "clawback requirement" imposed by applicable law or regulation or by the listing standards of NASDAQ, if the Company is required, regardless of fault (and even if you did not personally participate or assist in any fault), to restate its financial statements for any of the three fiscal year(s) included in the Measurement Period. In addition to any repayment obligation that may be imposed upon you under the preceding sentence of this Agreement, the Company may also (by written notice delivered to you at any time on or before the third anniversary of the Grant Date) (a) cancel any or all of the unvested or unpaid portion of the Award that has not previously been forfeited or cancelled under this Agreement, and (b) require that you transfer back to the Company (or repay the Company the amounts or value of) (x) any Shares or other securities or property or cash payments previously vested for your account, or delivered or paid to you (or for your account), under this Agreement in respect of your Award or (y) previously deemed earned or vested under this Agreement, where, in the sole judgment of the Committee, you have (1) engaged in intentional misconduct in the performance of your duties to the Company, (2) been indicted or charged with any criminal violation, regardless of whether in connection with your duties to the Company (other than minor traffic violations not involving use of intoxicants or possession of illegal substances), or (3) violated your duties to the Company under the Company's Code of Business Conduct in any material respect. Further, the Committee may also impose additional repayment, recoupment or "clawback" obligations upon you with respect to all or any portion of the Award, any other payments of cash, stock, or other property or any other deliveries of securities made by or on behalf of the Company to you with respect to any component of this Award (including any payments or deliveries of shareholder dividends or distributions or other cash or other property in respect of securities previously credited or delivered to you under this Award), whenever the Committee may determine that such action is appropriate by reason of applicable securities, banking, tax or other laws, exchange listing standards, or accounting principles or interpretations (regardless of whether such laws, principles or interpretations have been changed since the Grant Date), by reason of changes in circumstances occurring after the Grant Date, or by reason of the Committee's subsequent discovery of any error or other miscalculation by the Committee in its determination of the amount of Award issuable or payable to you hereunder. The Committee shall have authority, in its sole judgment (which shall be conclusive and binding upon you), to determine whether you are obligated to the Company under this Section 11 to return or repay any portion of the Award previously granted and/or paid or delivered to you, and to determine the exact amount(s) of any such return or repayment obligation under this Section and the procedures and currencies for any such return. By accepting this Award, you also accept the Committee's authority under this Agreement to make final and binding determinations with respect to all issues pertaining to the existence and amount(s) of your repayment obligation(s) under this Agreement. If you fail to satisfy any obligation to the Company established or claimed by the Company under this Section in full by the due date stated for satisfaction of such obligation, then you shall also pay to the Company interest on the fair value of such obligation from such due date until paid in full at a rate of interest equal to the prevailing national "prime rate" of interest on such due date plus an amount equal to the reasonable attorneys' fees incurred by the Company in collecting amounts due from you under this Section. After shares or payments have been transferred (and/or paid) back to the Company as may be required pursuant to this Section 11, the Company shall file such federal and state tax returns or amended returns, amended W-2 forms, or other tax filings as shall be required of it by applicable law or as reasonably requested by you with respect to all excess income and FICA taxes withheld and/or paid by the Company in connection with or attributable to the such transfers or payments back to the Company.
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Samples: Lti Restricted Stock Award Agreement (German American Bancorp, Inc.), Lti Restricted Stock Award Agreement (German American Bancorp, Inc.)
Potential Repayment Obligation. You acknowledge that the values of this Award (including the number of shares of Restricted Stock specified by this Agreement and the amount of the LTI Cash Right specified by this Agreement, which is a function of the Restricted Stock valued as of the Grant Date) have been determined by the Company under the Management Incentive LTI Plan by reference, in part, to certain financial and operating metrics of the Company that are reflected by its financial statements or otherwise reported (publicly or internally) for some or all of the three years that ended on December 31 immediately prior to the Grant Date (the "Measurement Period"). You further acknowledge and agree that the Company shall be entitled to seek to recover from you all or any part of your Award, including any cash, stock, or other property received by you with respect to your Award, if and as required by the provisions of (or regulations adopted or to be adopted under) the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002, or any other "clawback requirement" imposed by applicable law or regulation or by the listing standards of NASDAQ, if the Company is required, regardless of fault (and even if you did not personally participate or assist in any fault), to restate its financial statements for any of the three fiscal year(s) included in the Measurement Period. In addition to any repayment obligation that may be imposed upon you under the preceding sentence of this Agreement, the Company may also (by written notice delivered to you at any time on or before the third anniversary of the Grant Date) (a) cancel any or all of the unvested or unpaid portion of the Award that has not previously been forfeited or cancelled under this Agreement, and (b) require that you transfer back to the Company (or repay the Company the amounts or value of) (x) any Shares or other securities or property or cash payments previously vested for your account, or delivered or paid to you (or for your account), under this Agreement in respect of your Award or (y) previously deemed earned or vested under this Agreement, where, in the sole judgment of the Committee, you have (1) engaged in intentional misconduct in the performance of your duties to the Company, (2) been indicted or charged with any criminal violation, regardless of whether in connection with your duties to the Company (other than minor traffic violations not involving use of intoxicants or possession of illegal substances), or (3) violated your duties to the Company under the Company's Code of Business Conduct in any material respect. Further, the Committee may also impose additional repayment, recoupment or "clawback" obligations upon you with respect to all or any portion of the Award, any other payments of cash, stock, or other property or any other deliveries of securities made by or on behalf of the Company to you with respect to any component of this Award (including any payments or deliveries of shareholder dividends or distributions or other cash or other property in respect of securities previously credited or delivered to you under this Award), whenever the Committee may determine that such action is appropriate by reason of applicable securities, banking, tax or other laws, exchange listing standards, or accounting principles or interpretations (regardless of whether such laws, principles or interpretations have been changed since the Grant Date), by reason of changes in circumstances occurring after the Grant Date, or by reason of the Committee's subsequent discovery of any error or other miscalculation by the Committee in its determination of the amount of Award issuable or payable to you hereunder. The Committee shall have authority, in its sole judgment (which shall be conclusive and binding upon you), to determine whether you are obligated to the Company under this Section 11 to return or repay any portion of the Award previously granted and/or paid or delivered to you, and to determine the exact amount(s) of any such return or repayment obligation under this Section and the procedures and currencies for any such return. By accepting this Award, you also accept the Committee's authority under this Agreement to make final and binding determinations with respect to all issues pertaining to the existence and amount(s) of your repayment obligation(s) under this Agreement. If you fail to satisfy any obligation to the Company established or claimed by the Company under this Section in full by the due date stated for satisfaction of such obligation, then you shall also pay to the Company interest on the fair value of such obligation from such due date until paid in full at a rate of interest equal to the prevailing national "prime 16016053.2 - 5 - rate" of interest on such due date plus an amount equal to the reasonable attorneys' fees incurred by the Company in collecting amounts due from you under this Section. After shares or payments have been transferred (and/or paid) back to the Company as may be required pursuant to this Section 11, the Company shall file such federal and state tax returns or amended returns, amended W-2 forms, or other tax filings as shall be required of it by applicable law or as reasonably requested by you with respect to all excess income and FICA taxes withheld and/or paid by the Company in connection with or attributable to the such transfers or payments back to the Company.
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Samples: Lti Restricted Stock Award Agreement (German American Bancorp, Inc.)
Potential Repayment Obligation. You acknowledge that the values of this Award (including the number of shares of Restricted Stock specified by this Agreement and the amount of the LTI Cash Right entitlement specified by this Agreement, which is a function of the Restricted Stock valued as of the Grant Date) have been determined by the Company under the Management Incentive LTI Plan by reference, in part, to certain financial and operating metrics of the Company that are reflected by its financial statements or otherwise reported (publicly or internally) for some or all of the three years that ended on December 31 immediately prior to the Grant Date (the "Measurement Period"). You further acknowledge and agree that the Company shall be entitled to seek to recover from you all or any part of your Award, including any cash, stock, or other property received by you with respect to your Award, Award if and as required by the provisions of (or regulations adopted or to be adopted under) the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002, or any other "clawback requirement" imposed by applicable law or regulation or by the listing standards of NASDAQ, if the Company is required, regardless of fault (and even if you did not personally participate or assist in any fault), to restate its financial statements for any of the three fiscal year(s) included in the Measurement Period. In addition to any repayment obligation that may be imposed upon you under the preceding sentence of this Agreement, the Company may also (by written notice delivered to you at any time on or before the third anniversary of the Grant Date) (a) cancel any or all of the unvested or unpaid portion of the Award that has not previously been forfeited or cancelled under this Agreement, and (b) require that you transfer back to the Company (or repay the Company the amounts or value of) (x) any Shares or other securities or property or cash payments previously vested for your account, or delivered or paid to you (or for your account), under this Agreement in respect of your Award or (y) previously deemed earned or vested under this Agreement, where, in the sole judgment of the Committee, you have (1) engaged in intentional misconduct in the performance of your duties to the Company, (2) been indicted or charged with any criminal violation, regardless of whether in connection with your duties to the Company (other than minor traffic violations not involving use of intoxicants or possession of illegal substances), or (3) violated your duties to the Company under the Company's Code of Business Conduct in any material respect. Further, the Committee may also impose additional repayment, recoupment or "clawback" obligations upon you with respect to all or any portion of the Award, any other payments of cash, stock, or other property or any other deliveries of securities made by or on behalf of the Company to you with respect to any component of this Award (including any payments or deliveries of shareholder dividends or distributions or other cash or other property in respect of securities previously credited or delivered to you under this Award), whenever the Committee may determine that such action is appropriate by reason of applicable securities, banking, tax or other laws, exchange listing standards, laws or accounting principles or interpretations (regardless of whether such laws, principles or interpretations have been changed since the Grant Date), by reason of changes in circumstances occurring after the Grant Date, or by reason of the Committee's subsequent discovery of any error or other miscalculation by the Committee in its determination of the amount of Award issuable or payable to you hereunder. The Committee shall have authority, in its sole judgment (which shall be conclusive and binding upon you), to determine whether you are obligated to the Company under this Section 11 to return or repay any portion of the Award previously granted and/or paid or delivered to you, and to determine the exact amount(s) of any such return or repayment obligation under this Section and the procedures and currencies for any such return. By accepting this Award, you also accept the Committee's authority under this Agreement to make final and binding determinations with respect to all issues pertaining to the existence and amount(s) of your repayment obligation(s) under this Agreement. If you fail to satisfy any obligation to the Company established or claimed by the Company under this Section in full by the due date stated for satisfaction of such obligation, then you shall also pay to the Company interest on the fair value of such obligation from such due date until paid in full at a rate of interest equal to the prevailing national "prime rate" of interest on such due date plus an amount equal to the reasonable attorneys' fees incurred by the Company in collecting amounts due from you under this Section. After shares or payments have been transferred (and/or paid) back to the Company as may be required pursuant to this Section 11, the Company shall file such federal and state tax returns or amended returns, amended W-2 forms, or other tax filings as shall be required of it by applicable law or as reasonably requested by you with respect to all excess income and FICA taxes withheld and/or paid by the Company in connection with or attributable to the such transfers or payments back to the Company.
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Samples: Lti Restricted Stock Award Agreement (German American Bancorp, Inc.)
Potential Repayment Obligation. You acknowledge that This Section 10 is applicable only if the values Employee holds the office of this Award (including Vice President, or a higher office, with the number Company or one of shares of Restricted Stock specified by this Agreement and the amount of the LTI Cash Right specified by this Agreement, which is a function of the Restricted Stock valued its significant Subsidiaries as of the Grant Date) have been determined by the Company under the Management Incentive Plan by reference, in part, to certain financial and operating metrics effective date of the Company that are reflected by its financial statements or otherwise reported (publicly or internally) for some or all of the three years that ended on December 31 immediately prior to the Grant Date (the "Measurement Period")this Agreement. You further acknowledge and agree that the Company shall be entitled to seek to recover from you all or any part of your Award, including any cash, stock, or other property received by you with respect to your Award, if and as required by the provisions of (or regulations adopted or to be adopted under) the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002, or any other "clawback requirement" imposed by applicable law or regulation or by the listing standards of NASDAQ, if If the Company is required, regardless because of fault (and even if you did not personally participate fraud or assist in any fault)negligence, to restate its financial statements for any of the three fiscal year(s) included in the Measurement Period. In addition to any repayment obligation that may be imposed upon you under Period and such restatement occurs after the preceding sentence end of this Agreementthe Measurement Period but within three (3) years after the end of the fiscal year being restated (as so restated, the financial statements restated within such three (3) year period are referred to herein as the “Restated Financial Statements,” and for clarification purposes any restatement of the Company’s financial statements for a fiscal year that occurs more than three (3) years after the end of such fiscal year shall not be relevant under, and shall not be considered to be a Restated Financial Statement for purposes of, this Section), and if the number of shares of Common Stock (including shares earned as Dividend Shares) earned by the Employee under this Agreement (shares that vested and were not forfeited as calculated in accordance with the Company’s financial statements prior to the restatement thereof, being referred to herein as the “Previously Earned Shares”) is greater than the number of shares of Common Stock that would have been earned by the Employee hereunder if the number of shares earned had been calculated in accordance with the Restated Financial Statements (the “Recalculated Earned Shares,” with the excess of the number of Previously Earned Shares over the number of Recalculated Earned Shares being referred to herein as the “Excess Issued Shares”), then the Company may also (may, in its discretion, by written notice delivered to you demand made upon the Employee at any time on or before within three (3) years after the third anniversary end of the Grant DateMeasurement Period (the “Share Return Notification”), require the Employee to return to the Company all or any lesser specified number of the Excess Issued Shares (with the number of shares to be returned to the Company being referred to herein as the “Return Shares”). Within ninety (90) days after the Share Return Notification is given to the Employee, the Employee shall either (a) cancel any transfer to the Company, free and clear of all liens, security interests or all other encumbrances, that number of shares of the unvested Company’s common stock equal to the Return Shares, or unpaid portion (b) pay to the Company a sum equal to the Fair Market Value of the Award that has not previously been forfeited Return Shares as of the last day of the Measurement Period, or cancelled (c) by a combination of shares transferred and cash paid to the Company under this Agreement, clauses (a) and (b) require that you transfer back to above, effectively satisfy the Company (or repay the Company the amounts or value of) (x) any Shares or other securities or property or cash payments previously vested for your account, or delivered or paid to you (or for your account), under this Agreement in respect of your Award or (y) previously deemed earned or vested under this Agreement, where, in the sole judgment obligation of the Committee, you have (1) engaged in intentional misconduct in the performance of your duties to the Company, (2) been indicted or charged with any criminal violation, regardless of whether in connection with your duties to the Company (other than minor traffic violations not involving use of intoxicants or possession of illegal substances), or (3) violated your duties to the Company under the Company's Code of Business Conduct in any material respect. Further, the Committee may also impose additional repayment, recoupment or "clawback" obligations upon you with respect to all or any portion of the Award, any other payments of cash, stock, or other property or any other deliveries of securities made by or on behalf of the Company to you with respect to any component of this Award (including any payments or deliveries of shareholder dividends or distributions or other cash or other property in respect of securities previously credited or delivered to you under this Award), whenever the Committee may determine that such action is appropriate by reason of applicable securities, banking, tax or other laws, exchange listing standards, or accounting principles or interpretations (regardless of whether such laws, principles or interpretations have been changed since the Grant Date), by reason of changes in circumstances occurring after the Grant Date, or by reason of the Committee's subsequent discovery of any error or other miscalculation by the Committee in its determination of the amount of Award issuable or payable to you hereunder. The Committee shall have authority, in its sole judgment (which shall be conclusive and binding upon you), to determine whether you are obligated Employee to the Company under this Section 11 to return or repay any portion of the Award previously granted and/or paid or delivered to you, and to determine the exact amount(s) of any such return or repayment obligation under this Section and the procedures and currencies for any such return. By accepting this Award, you also accept the Committee's authority under this Agreement to make final and binding determinations with respect to all issues pertaining to the existence and amount(s) of your repayment obligation(s) under this AgreementSection. If you fail the Employee fails to satisfy any his or her obligation to the Company established or claimed by the Company under this Section in full by the due date stated for satisfaction of such obligationabove, then you the Employee shall also pay to the Company interest on the fair value cash amount of such obligation (calculated pursuant to clause (b) above) from such due date until paid in full at a rate of interest equal to the prevailing national "“prime rate" ” of interest on such due date plus an amount equal to the reasonable attorneys' ’ fees incurred by the Company in collecting amounts due from you the Employee under this Section. After shares the Return Shares (or payments the cash equivalent) have been transferred (and/or paid) back to the Company as may be required pursuant to this Section 11herein, the Company shall file such federal and state tax returns or amended returns, amended W-2 forms, or other tax filings as shall be required of it by applicable law or as reasonably requested by you the Employee with respect to all excess income and FICA taxes withheld and/or paid by the Company in connection with or attributable to the such transfers or payments back Return Shares. The provisions of this Section shall not be applicable to the CompanyUnits that are earned upon a Change in Control pursuant to Paragraph 9 of this Agreement.
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Samples: Performance Based Unit Award Agreement (Hillenbrand, Inc.)
Potential Repayment Obligation. You acknowledge that [This Section 10 is applicable only if the values Employee holds the office of this Award (including Vice President, or a higher office, with the number of shares of Restricted Stock specified by this Agreement and the amount of the LTI Cash Right specified by this Agreement, which is Company or a function of the Restricted Stock valued Subsidiary as of the Grant Date) have been determined by the Company under the Management Incentive Plan by reference, in part, to certain financial and operating metrics effective date of the Company that are reflected by its financial statements or otherwise reported (publicly or internally) for some or all of the three years that ended on December 31 immediately prior to the Grant Date (the "Measurement Period"). You further acknowledge and agree that the Company shall be entitled to seek to recover from you all or any part of your Award, including any cash, stock, or other property received by you with respect to your Award, if and as required by the provisions of (or regulations adopted or to be adopted under) the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002, or any other "clawback requirement" imposed by applicable law or regulation or by the listing standards of NASDAQ, if this Agreement.] If the Company is required, regardless because of fault (and even if you did not personally participate fraud or assist in any fault)negligence, to restate its financial statements for any of the three fiscal year(s) included in the Measurement Period. In addition to any repayment obligation that may be imposed upon you under Period and such restatement occurs after the preceding sentence end of this Agreementthe Measurement Period but within three (3) years after the end of the fiscal year being restated (as so restated, the financial statements restated within such three (3) year period are referred to herein as the “Restated Financial Statements,” and for clarification purposes any restatement of the Company’s financial statements for a fiscal year that occurs more than three (3) years after the end of such fiscal year shall not be relevant under, and shall not be considered to be a Restated Financial Statement for purposes of, this Section), and if the number of shares of Common Stock (including shares earned as Dividend Shares) earned by the Employee under this Agreement (shares that vested and were not forfeited as calculated in accordance with the Company’s financial statements prior to the restatement thereof, being referred to herein as the “Previously Earned Shares”) is greater than the number of shares of Common Stock that would have been earned by the Employee hereunder if the number of shares earned had been calculated in accordance with the Restated Financial Statements (the “Recalculated Earned Shares,” with the excess of the number of Previously Earned Shares over the number of Recalculated Earned Shares being referred to herein as the “Excess Issued Shares”), then the Company may also (may, in its discretion, by written notice delivered to you demand made upon the Employee at any time on or before within three (3) years after the third anniversary end of the Grant DateMeasurement Period (the “Share Return Notification”), require the Employee to return to the Company all or any lesser specified number of the Excess Issued Shares (with the number of shares to be returned to the Company being referred to herein as the “Return Shares”). Within ninety (90) days after the Share Return Notification is given to the Employee, the Employee shall either (a) cancel any transfer to the Company, free and clear of all liens, security interests or all other encumbrances, that number of shares of the unvested Company’s common stock equal to the Return Shares, or unpaid portion (b) pay to the Company a sum equal to the Fair Market Value of the Award that has not previously been forfeited Return Shares as of the last day of the Measurement Period, or cancelled (c) by a combination of shares transferred and cash paid to the Company under this Agreement, clauses (a) and (b) require that you transfer back to above, effectively satisfy the Company (or repay the Company the amounts or value of) (x) any Shares or other securities or property or cash payments previously vested for your account, or delivered or paid to you (or for your account), under this Agreement in respect of your Award or (y) previously deemed earned or vested under this Agreement, where, in the sole judgment obligation of the Committee, you have (1) engaged in intentional misconduct in the performance of your duties to the Company, (2) been indicted or charged with any criminal violation, regardless of whether in connection with your duties to the Company (other than minor traffic violations not involving use of intoxicants or possession of illegal substances), or (3) violated your duties to the Company under the Company's Code of Business Conduct in any material respect. Further, the Committee may also impose additional repayment, recoupment or "clawback" obligations upon you with respect to all or any portion of the Award, any other payments of cash, stock, or other property or any other deliveries of securities made by or on behalf of the Company to you with respect to any component of this Award (including any payments or deliveries of shareholder dividends or distributions or other cash or other property in respect of securities previously credited or delivered to you under this Award), whenever the Committee may determine that such action is appropriate by reason of applicable securities, banking, tax or other laws, exchange listing standards, or accounting principles or interpretations (regardless of whether such laws, principles or interpretations have been changed since the Grant Date), by reason of changes in circumstances occurring after the Grant Date, or by reason of the Committee's subsequent discovery of any error or other miscalculation by the Committee in its determination of the amount of Award issuable or payable to you hereunder. The Committee shall have authority, in its sole judgment (which shall be conclusive and binding upon you), to determine whether you are obligated Employee to the Company under this Section 11 to return or repay any portion of the Award previously granted and/or paid or delivered to you, and to determine the exact amount(s) of any such return or repayment obligation under this Section and the procedures and currencies for any such return. By accepting this Award, you also accept the Committee's authority under this Agreement to make final and binding determinations with respect to all issues pertaining to the existence and amount(s) of your repayment obligation(s) under this AgreementSection. If you fail the Employee fails to satisfy any his or her obligation to the Company established or claimed by the Company under this Section in full by the due date stated for satisfaction of such obligationabove, then you the Employee shall also pay to the Company interest on the fair value cash amount of such obligation (calculated pursuant to clause (b) above) from such due date until paid in full at a rate of interest equal to the prevailing national "“prime rate" ” of interest on such due date plus an amount equal to the reasonable attorneys' ’ fees incurred by the Company in collecting amounts due from you the Employee under this Section. After shares the Return Shares (or payments the cash equivalent) have been transferred (and/or paid) back to the Company as may be required pursuant to this Section 11herein, the Company shall file such federal and state tax returns or amended returns, amended W-2 forms, or other tax filings as shall be required of it by applicable law or as reasonably requested by you the Employee with respect to all excess income and FICA taxes withheld and/or paid by the Company in connection with or attributable to the such transfers or payments back Return Shares. The provisions of this Section shall not be applicable to the CompanyUnits that are earned upon a Change in Control pursuant to Paragraph 9 of this Agreement.
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Samples: Performance Based Unit Award Agreement (Hillenbrand, Inc.)
Potential Repayment Obligation. You acknowledge that the values of this Award (including the number of shares of Restricted Stock specified by this Agreement and the amount of the LTI Cash Right entitlement specified by this Agreement, which is a function of the Restricted Stock valued as of the Grant Date) have been determined by the Company under the Management Incentive LTI Plan by reference, in part, to certain financial and operating metrics of the Company that are reflected by its financial statements or otherwise reported (publicly or internally) for some or all of the three years that ended on December 31 immediately prior to the Grant Date (the "Measurement Period"). You further acknowledge and agree that the Company shall be entitled to seek to recover from you all or any part of your Award, including any cash, stock, or other property received by you with respect to your Award, Award if and as required by the provisions of (or regulations adopted or to be adopted under) the XxxxDxxx-Xxxxx Fxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the XxxxxxxxSxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002, or any other "clawback requirement" imposed by applicable law or regulation or by the listing standards of NASDAQ, if the Company is required, regardless of fault (and even if you did not personally participate or assist in any fault), to restate its financial statements for any of the three fiscal year(s) included in the Measurement Period. In addition to any repayment obligation that may be imposed upon you under the preceding sentence of this Agreement, the Company may also (by written notice delivered to you at any time on or before the third anniversary of the Grant Date) (a) cancel any or all of the unvested or unpaid portion of the Award that has not previously been forfeited or cancelled under this Agreement, and (b) require that you transfer back to the Company (or repay the Company the amounts or value of) (x) any Shares or other securities or property or cash payments previously vested for your account, or delivered or paid to you (or for your account), under this Agreement in respect of your Award or (y) previously deemed earned or vested under this Agreement, where, in the sole judgment of the Committee, you have (1) engaged in intentional misconduct in the performance of your duties to the Company, (2) been indicted or charged with any criminal violation, regardless of whether in connection with your duties to the Company (other than minor traffic violations not involving use of intoxicants or possession of illegal substances), or (3) violated your duties to the Company under the Company's Code of Business Conduct in any material respect. Further, the Committee may also impose additional repayment, recoupment or "clawback" obligations upon you with respect to all or any portion of the Award, any other payments of cash, stock, or other property or any other deliveries of securities made by or on behalf of the Company to you with respect to any component of this Award (including any payments or deliveries of shareholder dividends or distributions or other cash or other property in respect of securities previously credited or delivered to you under this Award), whenever the Committee may determine that such action is appropriate by reason of applicable securities, banking, tax or other laws, exchange listing standards, laws or accounting principles or interpretations (regardless of whether such laws, principles or interpretations have been changed since the Grant Date), by reason of changes in circumstances occurring after the Grant Date, or by reason of the Committee's subsequent discovery of any error or other miscalculation by the Committee in its determination of the amount of Award issuable or payable to you hereunder. The Committee shall have authority, in its sole judgment (which shall be conclusive and binding upon you), to determine whether you are obligated to the Company under this Section 11 to return or repay any portion of the Award previously granted and/or paid or delivered to you, and to determine the exact amount(s) of any such return or repayment obligation under this Section and the procedures and currencies for any such return. By accepting this Award, you also accept the Committee's authority under this Agreement to make final and binding determinations with respect to all issues pertaining to the existence and amount(s) of your repayment obligation(s) under this Agreement. If you fail to satisfy any obligation to the Company established or claimed by the Company under this Section in full by the due date stated for satisfaction of such obligation, then you shall also pay to the Company interest on the fair value of such obligation from such due date until paid in full at a rate of interest equal to the prevailing national "prime rate" of interest on such due date plus an amount equal to the reasonable attorneys' fees incurred by the Company in collecting amounts due from you under this Section. After shares or payments have been transferred (and/or paid) back to the Company as may be required pursuant to this Section 11, the Company shall file such federal and state tax returns or amended returns, amended W-2 forms, or other tax filings as shall be required of it by applicable law or as reasonably requested by you with respect to all excess income and FICA taxes withheld and/or paid by the Company in connection with or attributable to the such transfers or payments back to the Company.
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Samples: Lti Restricted Stock Award Agreement (German American Bancorp, Inc.)
Potential Repayment Obligation. You acknowledge that the values of this Award (including the number of shares of Restricted Stock specified by this Agreement and the amount of the LTI Cash Right specified by this Agreement, which is a function of the Restricted Stock valued as of the Grant Date) have been determined by the Company under the Management Incentive Plan by reference, in part, to certain financial and operating metrics of the Company that are reflected by its financial statements or otherwise reported (publicly or internally) for some or all of the three years that ended on December 31 immediately prior to the Grant Date (the "Measurement Period"). You further acknowledge and agree that the Company shall be entitled to seek to recover from you all or any part of your Award, including any cash, stock, or other property received by you with respect to your Award, if and as required by the provisions of (or regulations adopted or to be adopted under) the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002, or any other "clawback requirement" imposed by applicable law or regulation or by the listing standards of NASDAQ, if If the Company is required, regardless because of fault (and even if you did not personally participate fraud or assist in any fault)negligence, to restate its financial statements for any of the three fiscal year(s) included in the Measurement Period. In addition to any repayment obligation that may be imposed upon you under Period and such restatement occurs after the preceding sentence end of this Agreementthe Measurement Period but within three (3) years after the end of the fiscal year being restated (as so restated, the financial statements restated within such three (3) year period are referred to herein as the “Restated Financial Statements,” and for clarification purposes any restatement of the Company’s financial statements for a fiscal year that occurs more than three (3) years after the end of such fiscal year shall not be relevant under, and shall not be considered to be a Restated Financial Statement for purposes of, this Section), and if the number of Shares of Restricted Stock and Dividend Shares earned by the Employee under this Agreement (shares that vested and were not forfeited as calculated in accordance with the Company’s financial statements prior to the restatement thereof, being referred to herein as the “Previously Earned Shares”) is greater than the number of Shares of Restricted Stock and Dividend Shares that would have been earned by the Employee hereunder if the number of shares earned had been calculated in accordance with the Restated Financial Statements (the “Recalculated Earned Shares,” with the excess of the number of Previously Earned Shares over the number of Recalculated Earned Shares being referred to herein as the “Excess Issued Shares”), then the Company may also (may, in its discretion, by written notice delivered to you demand made upon the Employee at any time on or before within three (3) years after the third anniversary end of the Grant DateMeasurement Period (the “Share Return Notification”), require the Employee to return to the Company all or any lesser specified number of the Excess Issued Shares (with the number of shares to be returned to the Company being referred to herein as the “Return Shares”). Within ninety (90) days after the Share Return Notification is given to the Employee, the Employee shall either (a) cancel any transfer to the Company, free and clear of all liens, security interests or all other encumbrances, that number of shares of the unvested Company’s common stock equal to the Return Shares, or unpaid portion (b) pay to the Company a sum equal to the Fair Market Value of the Award that has not previously been forfeited Return Shares as of the last day of the Measurement Period, or cancelled (c) by a combination of shares transferred and cash paid to the Company under this Agreement, clauses (a) and (b) require that you transfer back to above, effectively satisfy the Company (or repay the Company the amounts or value of) (x) any Shares or other securities or property or cash payments previously vested for your account, or delivered or paid to you (or for your account), under this Agreement in respect of your Award or (y) previously deemed earned or vested under this Agreement, where, in the sole judgment obligation of the Committee, you have (1) engaged in intentional misconduct in the performance of your duties to the Company, (2) been indicted or charged with any criminal violation, regardless of whether in connection with your duties to the Company (other than minor traffic violations not involving use of intoxicants or possession of illegal substances), or (3) violated your duties to the Company under the Company's Code of Business Conduct in any material respect. Further, the Committee may also impose additional repayment, recoupment or "clawback" obligations upon you with respect to all or any portion of the Award, any other payments of cash, stock, or other property or any other deliveries of securities made by or on behalf of the Company to you with respect to any component of this Award (including any payments or deliveries of shareholder dividends or distributions or other cash or other property in respect of securities previously credited or delivered to you under this Award), whenever the Committee may determine that such action is appropriate by reason of applicable securities, banking, tax or other laws, exchange listing standards, or accounting principles or interpretations (regardless of whether such laws, principles or interpretations have been changed since the Grant Date), by reason of changes in circumstances occurring after the Grant Date, or by reason of the Committee's subsequent discovery of any error or other miscalculation by the Committee in its determination of the amount of Award issuable or payable to you hereunder. The Committee shall have authority, in its sole judgment (which shall be conclusive and binding upon you), to determine whether you are obligated Employee to the Company under this Section 11 to return or repay any portion of the Award previously granted and/or paid or delivered to you, and to determine the exact amount(s) of any such return or repayment obligation under this Section and the procedures and currencies for any such return. By accepting this Award, you also accept the Committee's authority under this Agreement to make final and binding determinations with respect to all issues pertaining to the existence and amount(s) of your repayment obligation(s) under this AgreementSection. If you fail the Employee fails to satisfy any his or her obligation to the Company established or claimed by the Company under this Section in full by the due date stated for satisfaction of such obligationabove, then you the Employee shall also pay to the Company interest on the fair value cash amount of such obligation (calculated pursuant to clause (b) above) from such due date until paid in full at a rate of interest equal to the prevailing national "“prime rate" ” of interest on such due date plus an amount equal to the reasonable attorneys' ’ fees incurred by the Company in collecting amounts due from you the Employee under this Section. After shares the Return Shares (or payments the cash equivalent) have been transferred (and/or paid) back to the Company as may be required pursuant to this Section 11herein, the Company shall file such federal and state tax returns or amended returns, amended W-2 forms, or other tax filings as shall be required of it by applicable law or as reasonably requested by you the Employee with respect to all excess income and FICA taxes withheld and/or paid by the Company in connection with or attributable to the such transfers or payments back Return Shares. The provisions of this Section shall not be applicable to the CompanyShares that are earned upon a Change in Control pursuant to Paragraph 9 of this Agreement.
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Samples: Restricted Stock Award Agreement (Hillenbrand, Inc.)
