Employee Stock Option Agreement
Exhibit 10.1
This Employee Stock Option Agreement (this “Agreement”) is made this 11th day of July,
2006, between Electric City Corp., a Delaware corporation (“Electric City”) and Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx (the “Holder”).
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, Holder is an executive of Electric City (the “Company”), and Electric City
desires, by affording Holder an opportunity to purchase shares of Electric City’s common stock, par
value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”) as hereinafter provided, to help align the
long-term economic interests of the Holder with the long-term economic interests of the Company;
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants hereinafter set forth and for other
good and valuable consideration, the parties hereto agree as follows:
1. Grant of Options. Electric City hereby agrees to grant to the Holder, on the date
hereof (the “Grant Date”), options (the “Options”) to purchase up to an aggregate
of 4,300,000 shares (the “Option Shares”) of the Common Stock, subject to the terms and
conditions set forth herein.
2. Exercise Price. The exercise price per Option Share, subject to adjustment as
hereinafter provided (the “Exercise Price”), under the Options shall be equal to the
following prices per share:
(i) options with respect to One Million Five Hundred Thousand (1,500,000) shares shall
be at a price per share of $1.02 and such options shall become vested and exercisable on
December 31, 2006, so long as Holder is employed by the Company as its Chief Executive
Officer on such date;
(ii) options with respect to One Million Four Hundred Thousand (1,400,000) shares
shall be at a price per share equal to the higher of (x) the average closing price of the
Company’s common stock as measured over the thirty (30) trading day period prior to
December 31, 2007, or (y) the closing price of the Company’s common stock on December 31,
2007. Such options shall become vested and exercisable on December 31, 2007, so long as
Holder is employed by the Company as its Chief Executive Officer on such date; and
(iii) options with respect to One Million Four Hundred Thousand (1,400,000) shares
shall be at a price per share equal to the higher of (x) the average closing price of the
Company’s common stock as measured over the thirty (30) trading day period prior to
December 31, 2008, or (y) the closing price of the Company’s common stock on December 31,
2008. Such options shall become vested and exercisable on December 31, 2009, so long as
Holder is employed by the Company as its Chief Executive Officer on such date.
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In addition to the vesting rights set forth above, any unvested Stock Options shall automatically
and immediately terminate and be of no further force or effect if the Holder shall voluntarily
cease working for the Company. All unvested Stock Options shall immediately vest and become
exercisable if i) the Company is merged or consolidated with another entity which is not then
controlled by the Company and, as a result, such merger or consolidation results in at least
fifty-one percent (51%) or greater of the Company’s common stock being controlled or owned by
another entity, or (ii) a majority of the Company’s assets are sold or otherwise transferred to
another entity that is not then controlled by or affiliated with the Company (i and ii collectively
a “Change of Control”), or iii) the employment of the Holder by the Company is terminated by the
Company for any reason other than Due Cause. As used in this Agreement, “Due Cause” shall
mean any of:
| (i) | Failure by the Holder to perform any material and substantial duties to the Company; | |
| (ii) | Holder’s conviction of, or plea of guilty or of nolo contendre to, of a felony charge; | |
| (iii) | misappropriation of Company property by Holder or any act of dishonesty by Holder directed at the Company or acting on behalf of the Company; | |
| (iv) | violation of the Company’s drug and alcohol policy; | |
| (v) | any conduct, action or behavior by Holder that has a material adverse effect on the reputation of the Company, its business, customers, employees, prospects, name, reputation or goodwill; | |
| (vi) | Holder’s commission of an act of moral turpitude. |
The provisions of this Section relate only to the vesting of the Stock Options and do not in anyway
change the at-will nature of the employment of Holder by the Company.
3. Exercise of the Stock Options. Any vested Stock Options may be exercised at any time
after vesting by delivering the Exercise Price, paid in cash, along with a notice of exercise to
Electric City at its headquarters address (currently, 0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxx 60007). The Exercise Price of the shares as to which any Stock Options are being
exercised shall be paid in full, in cash, at the time of exercise, provided, that if the
Fair Market Value of one share of Common Stock is greater than the Exercise Price (at the date of
calculation as set forth below), in lieu of exercising the Stock Options for cash, the Holder may
elect to receive shares of Common Stock equal to the value (as determined below) of the Stock
Options (or the portion thereof being exercised) by surrender of this Agreement with respect to the
Stock Options being exercised at the principal office of the Company, together with the executed
Exercise Notice, in which event Electric City shall issue to the Holder a number of shares of
Common Stock computed using the following formula:
X
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= | Y | (A-B) | |||
| A |
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Where:
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X = the number of shares of Common Stock to be issued to the Holder; | |
| Y = the number of shares of Common Stock purchasable under the Stock Options or, if only a portion of the Stock Options is being exercised, the portion of the Stock Options being exercised (at the date of such calculation); | ||
| A = the Fair Market Value of one share of the Common Stock (at the date of such calculation); and | ||
| B = Exercise Price (as adjusted to the date of such calculation) |
4. Transferability. The Stock Options shall not be transferable.
5. Expiration of the Options. The Stock Options will only be exercisable by the Holder and
only after vesting in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Agreement, and all Stock Options, vested
or unvested, will expire on the earliest of (i) the tenth anniversary of the date of this
Agreement, or (ii) six months following the date the Holder ceases to be a full time employee of
the Company if such cessation is not by reason of termination by the Company for Due Cause, or
(iii) immediately upon any termination of the employment of the Holder for Due Cause. In the event
of the death of the Holder, all then vested Stock Options will be exercisable by the Holder’s
estate (or the executor thereof) for a period of six months following the date of death, whereupon
all unexercised Stock Options will automatically terminate. In the event of a Change of Control
all options will expire twelve months following the date of such Change of Control.
6. Adjustments. The number of shares issuable as a result of the exercise of any
unexercised Stock Options, and the purchase price payable therefore, may be adjusted from time to
time to give effect to stock splits, both forward and reverse, and any stock dividends which may be
declared payable to the holders of the outstanding Common Stock.
7. Nonqualified Stock Options. The Stock Options are not being issued as part of a
qualified incentive stock option plan.
8. Taxes. Electric City will have the right to deduct from all cash or property payments
made to the Holder upon exercise of any Stock Option, any and all federal, state or local taxes
required to be withheld with respect to such payments.
9. Trading Restrictions. Electric City shall have the right at any time to impose trading
restrictions on the Option Shares which may limit the number of shares that can be sold on any
trading day or during any 90 day period and/or prohibit the sale of the Option Shares on any
trading day, not to exceed thirty (30) trading days a year.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Electric City Corp. and the Holder have duly executed this Employee Stock
Option Agreement effective as of the date first written above.
| ELECTRIC CITY CORP. | HOLDER | |||||||
By: |
/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxx | ||||||
| Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | Xxxxx Xxxxxxx | |||||||
| Chief Financial Officer | ||||||||
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