EXHIBIT 10.5.3
AMENDMENT #3 TO EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
This AMENDMENT #3 (this "Amendment") is entered into as of the 10th
day of March, 2000, by and between ANNTAYLOR STORES CORPORATION (the "Company")
and J. XXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX ("Executive"), and amends the Employment Agreement
between the Company and the Executive, dated as of February 16, 1996 and
effective as of February 19, 1996, as amended to date (the "Employment
Agreement").
For good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of
which are hereby acknowledged by the parties, the Company and Executive agree as
follows:
1. All capitalized terms used and not defined herein shall have the meanings
ascribed to them in the Employment Agreement.
2. Section 7(d)(2) of the Employment Agreement is hereby amended to read as
follows:
"(2) (A) unless clause (B) below applies, then following the Date of
Termination and for the longer of the remaining Term of this Agreement and
the Severance Period, the Company shall pay to the Executive monthly an
amount equal to the Severance Payments (as defined in Section 7(a)(ii)
hereof), or (B) in the event the Date of Termination occurs following a
Change in Control, then, within five (5) days after the Date of
Termination, the Company shall pay to the Executive in a lump sum an
amount equal to the product of (x) the sum of the Executive's base salary
at the rate in effect as of the Date of Termination and the average of the
annual bonuses earned by the Executive in the three fiscal years of the
Company ended immediately prior to the Date of Termination (or, if higher,
in the three fiscal years of the Company ended immediately prior to the
Change in Control) multiplied by (y) the number three (3). For purposes of
this subsection (2): (i) if the Date of Termination occurs prior to the
occurrence of a Change in Control but during the pendency of a Potential
Change in Control (as hereinafter defined), such Date of Termination shall
be deemed to have occurred following a Change in Control and (ii) a
"Potential Change in Control" shall be deemed to have occurred if the
event set forth in any one of the following clauses shall have occurred:
(1) the Company enters into an agreement, the consummation of
which would result in the occurrence of a Change in Control;
(2) the Company or any Person (as defined in Section 6(d)(2)(A)
hereof) publicly announces an intention to take or to consider taking
actions which, if consummated, would constitute a Change in Control;
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(3) any Person becomes the beneficial owner (as defined in Rule
13d-3 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of securities of
the Company representing 15% of or more of either the then outstanding
shares of common stock of the Company or the combined voting power of
the Company's then outstanding securities (not including in the
securities beneficially owned by such Person any securities acquired
directly from the Company); or
(4) the Board adopts a resolution to the effect that, for
purposes of this subsection (2), a Potential Change in Control has
occurred.
3. Section 7(d)(3) of the Employment Agreement is hereby amended to
read as follows:
(3)the Executive shall continue to be provided with the same medical
and life insurance coverage as existed immediately prior to the
applicable Notice of Termination or Notice of Nonrenewal, as the
case may be, such coverage to continue throughout the period with
respect to which the Executive is entitled to receive Severance
Payments (or, if clause (B) of Section 7(d)(2) applies, for a period
of three (3) years following the Date of Termination);
4. Section 7(d) of the Employment Agreement is hereby further
amended by adding a new subsection (5) to read as follows:
(5)the Executive shall be entitled to continue to exercise all
outstanding options that were exercisable as of the Date of
Termination until the 90th day following expiration of the period
with respect to which the Executive is entitled to receive Severance
Payments (or, if clause (B) of Section 7(d)(2) applies, following
the third anniversary of the Date of Termination), but in no event
after expiration of the term of such options."
5. The first sentence of paragraph 5(c) of Amendment #2 to the
Employment Agreement, dated August 12, 1999, is hereby amended to read as
follows: "The Executive shall be awarded an additional 25,000 restricted shares
under the Option Plan on March 10, 2000."
6. From and after the date hereof, the term "Agreement" as used in
the Employment Agreement, shall mean the Employment Agreement as amended through
the date hereof, and the Employment Agreement, as so amended, shall continue in
full force and effect.
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7. Sections 13 through 17 of the Employment Agreement are hereby
made a part of, and are incorporated by this reference into, this Amendment.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Amendment as of
the 10th day of March, 2000.
ANNTAYLOR STORES CORPORATION
By: /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx /s/ J. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
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Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Director J. XXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX
