Section 280G Matters Sample Clauses

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Section 280G Matters. If the benefits described in Sections 1 and 2 herein, as applicable, (the "Severance Payment") would otherwise constitute a parachute payment under Section 280G of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), and but for this Section would be subject to the excise tax imposed by Section 4999 of the Code (the "Excise Tax"), Executive shall either: (i) pay the Excise Tax, or (ii) have the benefits reduced to such lesser extent as would result in no portion of such benefits being subject to the Excise Tax, whichever of the foregoing amounts, taking into account the applicable federal, state and local income taxes and the Excise Tax, results in the receipt by Executive on an after-tax basis, of the greatest amount of benefits, notwithstanding that all or some portion of such benefits may be taxable under Section 4999 of the Code. Unless the Company and Executive otherwise agree in writing, any determination required under this Section 5 will be made in writing by a national "Big Four" accounting firm selected by the Company or such other person or entity to which the parties mutually agree (the "Accountants"), whose determination will be conclusive and binding upon Executive and the Company for all purposes. For purposes of making the calculations required by this Section 5, the Accountants may make reasonable assumptions and approximations concerning applicable taxes and may rely on reasonable, good faith interpretations concerning the application of Sections 280G and 4999 of the Code. The Company and the Executive shall furnish to the Accountants such information and documents as the Accountants may reasonably request in order to make a determination under this Section. The Company shall bear all costs the Accountants may reasonably incur in connection with any calculations contemplated by this Section 5. Any reduction in payments and/or benefits required by this Section 5 shall occur in the following order: (1) reduction of cash payments; (2) reduction of vesting acceleration of equity awards; and (3) reduction of other benefits paid to Executive. In the event that acceleration of vesting of equity awards is to be reduced, such acceleration of vesting shall be cancelled in the reverse order of the date of grant for Executive's equity awards.
Section 280G Matters. (a) Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, in the event that the Accounting Firm (as defined below) shall determine that receipt of all Payments (as defined below) would subject the Executive to the excise tax under Section 4999 of the Code, the Accounting Firm shall determine whether to reduce any of the Payments paid or payable pursuant to this Agreement (the “Agreement Payments”) so that the Parachute Value (as defined below) of all Payments, in the aggregate, equals the Safe Harbor Amount (as defined below). The Agreement Payments shall be so reduced only if the Accounting Firm determines that the Executive would have a greater Net After-Tax Receipt (as defined below) of aggregate Payments if the Agreement Payments were so reduced. If the Accounting Firm determines that the Executive would not have a greater Net After-Tax Receipt of aggregate Payments if the Agreement Payments were so reduced, the Executive shall receive all Agreement Payments to which the Executive is entitled hereunder. For purposes of all present-value determinations required to be made under this Paragraph 9, Employer and the Executive elect to use the applicable federal rate that is in effect on the Effective Date pursuant to Treasury Regulations § 1-280G, Q&A-32. (b) If the Accounting Firm determines that aggregate Agreement Payments should be reduced so that the Parachute Value of all Payments, in the aggregate, equals the Safe Harbor Amount, Employer shall promptly give the Executive notice to that effect and a copy of the detailed calculation thereof. All determinations made by the Accounting Firm under this Paragraph 9 shall be binding upon Employer and the Executive and shall be made as soon as reasonably practicable and in no event later than five (5) days following the Effective Date. For purposes of reducing the Agreement Payments so that the Parachute Value of all Payments, in the aggregate, equals the Safe Harbor Amount, only amounts payable under this Agreement (and no other Payments) shall be reduced. All reasonable fees and expenses of the Accounting Firm shall be borne solely by Employer. (c) As a result of the uncertainty in the application of Section 4999 of the Code at the time of the initial determination by the Accounting Firm hereunder, it is possible that amounts will have been paid or distributed by Employer to or for the benefit of the Executive pursuant to this Agreement that should not have been so paid or distributed (each, an “Overp...
Section 280G Matters. If requested, no less than fifteen (15) Business Days prior to the Closing Date by Purchaser in good faith, based upon calculations prepared in good faith by the Company’s advisors (which calculations shall be provided to Purchaser as soon as reasonably practicable following the date of this Agreement), the Company shall (a) use its reasonable best efforts (provided that doing so will not require any payment to any “disqualified individual”) to obtain from each “disqualified individual” (within the meaning of Section 280G(c) of the Code and the regulations thereunder) who could otherwise receive payments and/or benefits that would separately or in the aggregate constitute “excess parachute payments” within the meaning of Section 280G(b)(1) of the Code on account of the transaction contemplated in this Agreement (“Parachute Payments”), a written waiver that shall provide that, if the requisite stockholder approval under Section 280G(b)(5)(B) of the Code and the regulations thereunder is not obtained, no Parachute Payments with respect to such disqualified individual, in the absence of such stockholder approval, shall be payable to or retained by such disqualified individual to the extent that such Parachute Payments would not be deductible by reason of the application of Section 280G of the Code or would result in the imposition of the excise tax under Section 4999 of the Code on such disqualified individual; and (b) submit to the stockholders of the Company for approval, in a manner and form that complies with the stockholder approval procedures set forth in Section 280G(b)(5)(B) of the Code and the regulations thereunder any payments and/or benefits that may separately or in the aggregate constitute Parachute Payments in the absence of such stockholder approval. All materials produced by the Company in connection with the implementation of this Section 6.16 shall be provided to Purchaser in advance for Purchaser’s review and comment, and the Company shall consider any of Purchaser’s requested changes or comments in good faith and not unreasonably omit them. The parties acknowledge that this Section 6.16 shall not apply to any Purchaser Agreements that are not provided to the Company at least ten (10) days prior to Closing so that, for the avoidance of doubt, compliance with this Section 6.16 shall be determined as if such Purchaser Agreements had not been entered into. The Purchaser acknowledges that the Company cannot compel any “disqualified individual”...
Section 280G Matters. (a) The Company will obtain and deliver to Parent, prior to the initiation of the procedure described in Section 4.10(b) an excess parachute payment waiver, in a form reasonably acceptable to Parent, from each person who the Company reasonably believes is, with respect to the Company, a “disqualified individual” (within the meaning of Section 280G of the Code) with respect to the Merger and the transactions contemplated thereby and who would otherwise receive or have the right or entitlement to receive a “parachute payment” (as defined in Section 280G(b)(2) of the Code) under Section 280G of the Code as a result of the Merger. By the execution of such waiver agreement, the person executing the waiver will agree to waive all of his or her right and entitlement to receive (or if already paid, his or her right and entitlement to keep) any portion of such “parachute payments” which would cause the person executing the waiver to receive an “excess parachute payment” (as defined in Section 280G(b)(1) of the Code), unless the Company’s stockholders approve such waived payments in accordance with Section 280G(b)(5)(A)(ii) of the Code. (b) The Company will submit the payments which are waived pursuant to the waiver agreements described in Section 4.10(a) to its stockholders and the holders of the voting power of any entity stockholder for their approval in accordance with all applicable requirements of such Section 280G(b)(5)(B) of the Code and the Treasury Regulations thereunder, including Q-7 of Section 1.280G-1 of such Treasury Regulations.
Section 280G Matters. The Company shall have delivered to Acquirer the notification and evidence required by Section 5.15.
Section 280G Matters. 12.1 If any payment or benefit Executive will or may receive from the Company or otherwise (a “280G Payment”) would (i) constitute a “parachute payment” within the meaning of Section 280G of the Code, and (ii) but for this Section, be subject to the excise tax imposed by Section 4999 of the Code (the “Excise Tax”), then any such 280G Payment provided pursuant to this Agreement (a “Payment”) shall be equal to the Reduced Amount. The “Reduced Amount” shall be either (x) the largest portion of the Payment that would result in no portion of the Payment (after reduction) being subject to the Excise Tax, or (y) the largest portion, up to and including the total, of the Payment, whichever amount (i.e., the amount determined by clause (x) or by clause (y)), after taking into account all applicable federal, state, and local employment taxes, income taxes, and the Excise Tax (all computed at the highest applicable marginal rate), results in Executive’s receipt, on an after-tax basis, of the greater economic benefit notwithstanding that all or some portion of the Payment may be subject to the Excise Tax. If a reduction in a Payment is required pursuant to the preceding sentence and the Reduced Amount is determined pursuant to clause (x) of the preceding sentence, the reduction shall occur in the manner (the “Reduction Method”) that results in the greatest economic benefit for Executive. If more than one method of reduction will result in the same economic benefit, the items so reduced will be reduced pro rata (the “Pro Rata Reduction Method”). 12.2 Notwithstanding any provision of this Section 12 to the contrary, if the Reduction Method or the Pro Rata Reduction Method would result in any portion of the Payment being subject to taxes pursuant to Section 409A that would not otherwise be subject to taxes pursuant to Section 409A, then the Reduction Method and/or the Pro Rata Reduction Method, as the case may be, shall be modified so as to avoid the imposition of taxes pursuant to Section 409A as follows: (A) as a first priority, the modification shall preserve to the greatest extent possible, the greatest economic benefit for Executive as determined on an after-tax basis; (B) as a second priority, Payments that are contingent on future events (e.g., being terminated without Cause), shall be reduced (or eliminated) before Payments that are not contingent on future events; and (C) as a third priority, Payments that are “deferred compensation” within the meaning of Sectio...
Section 280G Matters. Any Contracts, plans or arrangements that may result, separately or in the aggregate, in the payment of any amount or the provision of any benefit that would be characterized as a “parachute payment” within the meaning of Section 280G of the Code will have been submitted for approval by such number of Stockholders as is required by the terms of Section 280G in order for such payments and benefits not to be deemed parachute payments under Section 280G of the Code, with such approval to be obtained in a manner that satisfies all applicable requirements of Section 280G(b)(5)(B) of the Code and the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder, including Q-7 of Section 1.280G-1 of such Treasury Regulations, or, in the absence of such stockholder approval, none of those payments or benefits will be paid or provided, pursuant to the Parachute Payment Waivers.
Section 280G Matters. (a) Seller shall obtain and deliver to Buyer, prior to soliciting the vote of the stockholders of Seller with respect to the 280G Proposal, an executed parachute payment waiver, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit B (the “Parachute Payment Waiver”) from each Person who is or reasonably could be, with respect to Seller, a “disqualified individual” (within the meaning of Section 280G of the Code), as determined immediately prior to the initiation of the stockholder solicitation required by this Section 4.13, and who reasonably might otherwise receive, have received, or have the right or entitlement to receive an excess parachute payment under Section 280G of the Code (which Persons are listed in Schedule 4.13(a)). (b) Prior to the Closing, Seller shall solicit the vote of the Stockholders in accordance with Section 280G(b)(5)(B) of the Code (the “280G Proposal”) so as to render, if an affirmative vote is obtained, the parachute payment provisions of Section 280G of the Code inapplicable to any and all payments and benefits provided pursuant to Contracts that, in the absence of the executed Parachute Payment Waivers by the affected Persons under Section 4.13(a)‎, might otherwise reasonably result, individually or in the aggregate, in the payment of any amount or the provision of any benefit that would not be deductible by reason of Section 280G of the Code, with such stockholder approval to be solicited in a manner that satisfies all applicable requirements of Section 280G(b)(5)(B) of the Code, including Q-7 of Section 1.280G-1 of the Treasury Regulations. The results of such vote shall be provided promptly to Buyer. The documentation constituting the 280G Proposal shall be subject to Buyer’s prior review and approval.
Section 280G Matters. Section 409A
Section 280G Matters. The Company shall have complied with Section 6.14 regarding the 280G Stockholder Approval.