Re: Separation Agreement
Exhibit 10.18
January 26, 2023
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
*****
Dear Xxxxxx,
Re: Separation Agreement
This will confirm the agreement (the “Agreement”) that has been reached with you in connection with your separation of employment from Payoneer Inc. (the “Company”).
1. | Separation of Employment; Transition Period. |
(a) Unused Vacation. The Company will pay you the balance of any accrued but unused vacation days with respect to your employment period up until and including the Cessation Date. This payment will be
paid on the Cessation Date. You agree to utilize during the Transition Period any vacation days that accrue during the Transition Period and therefore there shall be no accrued but unused vacation days remaining at the end of the Transition Period.
pursuant to the provisions of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended (“COBRA”). In the event that you elect continuation coverage, such coverage shall be at your own expense. COBRA continuation coverage shall in all respects be subject to the requirements, conditions and limitations of COBRA and of the medical plans of the Company, which may be amended from time to time.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), any other federal, state or local governmental agency or commission (“Government Agency”) or self-regulatory organization regarding possible legal violations, without disclosure to the Company, or (ii) disclose information which is required to be disclosed by applicable law, regulation, or order or requirement (including without limitation, by deposition, interrogatory, requests for documents, subpoena, civil investigative demand or similar process) of courts, administrative agencies, the SEC, any Government Agency or self-regulatory organizations provided that you provide the Company with prior notice of the contemplated disclosure and cooperate at the Company’s expense in seeking a protective order or other appropriate protection of such information. Neither the Company nor any of its affiliates may retaliate against you for any of these activities, and nothing in this Agreement requires you to waive any monetary award or other payment that you might become entitled to from the SEC or any other Government Agency or self-regulatory organization. Pursuant to the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016, you and the Company acknowledge and agree that you will not have criminal or civil liability under any federal or state trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that (A) is made (i) in confidence to a federal, state, or local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney and (ii) solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law; or (B) is made in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if such filing is made under seal. In addition, and without limiting the preceding sentence, if you file a lawsuit for retaliation by the Company for reporting a suspected violation of law, you may disclose the trade secret to your attorney and may use the trade secret information in the court proceeding, if you (x) file
any document containing the trade secret under seal and (y) do not disclose the trade secret, except pursuant to court order.
8. | General Release and Waiver of Claim |
or workers’ compensation benefits; (ii) rights to vested benefits under any applicable retirement plan; and/or (iii) claims arising under or to enforce this Agreement. In addition, nothing in this Agreement limits or waives your right, pursuant to the OWBPA, to seek a judicial determination of the validity of the Agreement’s waiver of claims under the ADEA. Moreover, the foregoing Release does not affect any right to file an administrative charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) or parallel agency or to participate in an EEOC or agency investigation, subject to the restriction that if any such charge is filed, you agree not to violate the confidentiality provisions of this Agreement and further agree and covenant that should you or any other person, organization, or other entity file, charge, claim, sue or cause or permit to be filed any EEOC charge, civil action, suit or legal proceeding against the Releasees involving any matter occurring at any time subject to the Release, you will not seek or accept any personal relief (including, but not limited to, monetary award, recovery, or settlement) in such charge, civil action, suit or proceeding.
any person who is, at the time of the termination of your employment with the Company, an employee of the Company, nor will you assist others to do so. Notwithstanding the above, this Section 12(c) shall not apply to employees whose employment with the Company is involuntarily terminated by the Company.
13. | Acknowledgments. |
If to the Company:If to you:
Xxxxxx AdamRobert Xxxxxxxx
Chief People Officer*****
Payoneer Inc.
000 Xxxx 00xx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000
New York, NY 10001
Or to such other address as a party hereto shall designate to the other party by like notice, provided that notice of a change of address shall be effective only upon receipt thereof.
Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, in the event that the Company determines that any amounts payable hereunder will be taxable currently to you under Section 409A(a)(1)(A) of the Code and related Department of Treasury guidance, the Company and you shall cooperate in good faith to adopt such amendments to this Agreement, that they mutually determine to be necessary or appropriate to preserve the intended tax treatment of the benefits provided by this Agreement, to preserve the economic benefits of this Agreement, and to avoid less favorable accounting or tax consequences for the Company.
Agreement shall be held to be excessively broad as to duration, scope, activity or subject, such provisions shall be construed by limiting or reducing them so as to be enforceable to the maximum extent compatible with applicable law. No waiver by either party of any breach by the other of this Agreement shall be deemed a waiver of any other provision or condition at the time or at any prior or subsequent time. This Agreement and the provisions contained in it shall not be construed or interpreted for or against either party because that party drafted or caused to be draft any of its provisions.
SUCH DISPUTES. Such arbitration shall be held in New York City, Borough of Manhattan, State of New York, shall be conducted before a single neutral arbitrator selected by mutual agreement of the parties, and shall be administered by JAMS pursuant to its Employment Rules & Procedures (“JAMS Rules”) and the laws of the State of New York. In the event of any conflict between the JAMS Rules and the procedures set forth in this Paragraph, the procedures in this Paragraph shall control. The arbitrator may grant any legal or equitable remedy or relief that the arbitrator deems just and equitable, including an award of attorneys’ fees to the prevailing party, to the same extent that remedies or relief could be granted by a state or federal court in the United States; provided, however, that the parties agree that punitive damages shall be unavailable in any arbitration under this Agreement. The decision of the arbitrator shall be final, binding and conclusive on all parties and interested persons. Judgment upon the award rendered by the arbitrator may be entered in any federal or state court sitting in the Borough of Manhattan, New York City, New York. The parties hereto shall keep confidential the fact of the arbitration, the dispute being arbitrated and the decision of the arbitrator. Each party shall be responsible for its own costs and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, and each party shall pay an equal share of the arbitrator’s fees. THE PARTIES HEREBY AGREE TO WAIVE THEIR RIGHT TO HAVE ANY DISPUTE BETWEEN THEM RESOLVED IN A
COURT OF LAW BY A JUDGE OR JURY. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Paragraph 13(h) shall not prevent either party from seeking injunctive relief (or any other provisional remedy) in connection with any breach or threatened breach of Paragraphs 6, 8, 9, 11, or 12, and such action will lie exclusively in the federal and/or state courts sitting in the Borough of Manhattan, New York City, New York.
If the above sets forth our agreement as you understand it and consent to it, please so signify by executing the enclosed copy of this letter and return it to me at the address listed above. This Agreement shall become effective and irrevocable following expiration of the Revocation Period defined above.
Very truly yours,
Payoneer Inc.
_/Xxxxx Xxxxx/_______
By:Xxxxx Xxxxx
Title:Chief Executive Officer
Agreed to and Accepted:
_/Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx/_______
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Dated: Jan 27, 2023
Appendix A
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Appendix B
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