December 21, 2023 Gabrielle Rabinovitch Dear Gabrielle:
Exhibit 10.1
December 21, 2023
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxx
Dear Xxxxxxxxx:
This letter agreement (“Transition Agreement” or “Agreement”) sets forth the transition benefits for which you are eligible if you timely sign and do not timely revoke, (i) this Transition Agreement within the time frame provided in Section 25 of this Agreement, (ii) a waiver and general release of claims, in the form provided by the Company (the “Release”), on or within forty-five (45) days after the Transition End Date (as defined herein) and (iii) attestation(s), to the extent applicable pursuant to the terms of this Transition Agreement. Please note that the Transition Agreement and the Release each contain a waiver and release of claims against PayPal, Inc., PayPal Holdings, Inc. and their respective subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “PayPal” or the “Company”). The “Parties” collectively refers to you and the Company. Your last date of employment as a Senior Vice President with the Company is December 31, 2023 (“Transition Start Date”), subject to Section 6 herein. For our mutual benefit, to promote a smooth transition for both you and the Company and to permit you to maintain certain benefits of continued employment, you will transition from full- to part-time employment with the Company on January 1, 2024 and provide transition services to the Company in accordance with Section 2 during the period commencing on January 1, 2024 until and inclusive of January 31, 2024 (such period, the “Transition Period” and the last day of the Transition Period, the “Transition End Date”) and your employment with the Company shall terminate effective as of the Transition End Date. This letter confirms the details of your employment from the Transition Start Date through the Transition Period and other matters relating to your termination of employment.
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2. | TRANSITION SERVICES. Provided you timely sign and do not timely revoke this Transition Agreement, during the Transition Period, the Company agrees to retain you as an officer on a part-time basis to provide transition assistance, to complete projects, and to provide such advice, expertise or knowledge with respect to your former duties prior to the Transition Start Date or other matters in which you were involved (collectively, the “Transition Services”) as may be reasonably requested in writing by the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. As a continuing officer, you will be covered by such directors and officers’ insurance coverage as in place for other directors and officers of the Company during the Transition Period. Except to the extent otherwise reasonably requested by the Company, the services you provide during the Transition Period shall be provided offsite. If you provide satisfactory Transition Services during the Transition Period, as reasonably determined by the Company in good faith, the Company will compensate you for the Transition Services by paying you a lump sum cash amount equal to $150,000 no later than sixty (60) days following the Transition End Date. During the Transition Period, to the extent the Company determines it necessary to your performance of the Transition Services, you will retain access to your Company email account and other Company electronic communications system accounts and retain use of Company Property. |
3. | ADDITIONAL LUMP SUM PAYMENT. Provided you timely sign and do not timely revoke this Transition Agreement and timely execute and do not timely revoke the Release, and contingent upon complying with the policies and responsibilities of your position in all material respects as reasonably determined by the Company in good faith through the Transition End Date, the Company will make the following lump sum payment to you: $234,375, which is the cash portion of your 2023 bonus incentive under the 2023 PayPal Annual Incentive Plan (“AIP”) with your individual performance deemed achieved at the target level. You will receive this payment at the later of (x) at or around the time that other participants of the 2023 AIP receive their 2023 AIP payout and (y) when the Release becomes effective in accordance with its terms. In addition, your AIP performance-based restricted stock units (“AIP PBRSUs”) granted on February 15, 2023 shall remain outstanding and shall vest on February 15, 2024 on the same basis and to the same extent as determined for the Company’s executive officers and shall settle at or around the same time that 2023 AIP PBRSUs settle with respect to other participants in the 2023 AIP, provided that the Release becomes effective in accordance with its terms. |
You understand that the payment described in this Section is not for wages the Company concedes it owes you and is consideration for you signing and not revoking the Release.
4. | EQUITY. Provided you timely sign and do not timely revoke this Transition Agreement and timely execute and do not timely revoke the Release, and contingent upon you complying with the policies and responsibilities of your position and your obligations and the conditions set forth herein, in each case, in all material respects as reasonably determined in good faith by the Company, the time-based restricted stock units (“RSUs”) as listed on Exhibit A attached hereto shall vest on the Transition End Date and the performance-based restricted stock units (“PBRSUs”) as listed on Exhibit A attached hereto shall remain eligible to vest on the same basis and to the same extent as determined for the Company’s executive officers. Except as otherwise provided in Section 3, any other outstanding and unvested Company equity awards that you hold as of the Transition Start Date, including, without limitation, the PBRSUs as listed on Exhibit B attached hereto, shall be forfeited and terminated on the Transition Start Date. |
Subject to this Section 4, all RSUs and PBRSUs are subject to forfeiture and termination until the Transition Start Date pursuant to the terms of your applicable equity award agreements. You understand that the benefits described in this Section are not for wages the Company concedes it owes you and are consideration for your compliance with this Agreement. You acknowledge that the benefits described in this Section constitute valid and sufficient consideration for the promises contained in Sections 9-15 of this Agreement. In addition, the prevailing party in any action to interpret or enforce the provisions of Sections 9-15 of this Agreement shall be entitled to their reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs in addition to all other remedies to which the prevailing party would be entitled as matter of law.
5. | HEALTH INSURANCE. Should you participate in Company health plans as of the Transition End Date, you are entitled to Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended (“COBRA”) coverage whether or not you sign this Transition Agreement and the Release. In such event, the Company’s COBRA administrator will mail a COBRA enrollment packet to your home within 30 days after the end of the Transition Period and you will have 60 days from the date of notification to elect COBRA coverage. You must send in your enrollment forms to our COBRA administrator to activate coverage. Should you timely elect COBRA and pay the applicable premiums, the date your coverage begins will be effective retroactive to the date your current coverage ceased through PayPal. |
6. | AT WILL EMPLOYMENT. Your employment remains at-will and nothing contained in this Transition Agreement is intended to create or imply any contrary policy. Either you or the Company may terminate your employment at any time, with or without cause or notice. If your employment with the Company is terminated for Cause (as defined in the Severance Plan) or if you voluntarily terminate your employment with the Company prior to the Transition Start Date, you will receive only your accrued but unpaid base salary through termination (and not through the Transition Start Date), any accrued and unused vacation, and any ESPP contributions withheld thus far for the current purchase period (if applicable), subject to standard payroll deductions and withholdings, and you shall not be entitled to any of the compensation or benefits set forth in Sections 3 through 4. For avoidance of doubt, if the Company terminates your employment without Cause, then the Company shall pay to you all the compensation and benefits provided or referred to in this Agreement as if you had continued employment until the Transition End Date. In no event shall there be a termination of your employment for Cause due to nonperformance with respect to this Agreement without (a) at least five business days’ advance written notice from the Company to you of such nonperformance and (b) a cure period of at least three business days, to the extent the nonperformance is curable. |
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8. | EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENTS. On or before the Transition End Date, you will submit your final documented expense reimbursement statement reflecting any and all authorized business expenses you incurred through the Transition End Date for which you seek reimbursement. The Company will reimburse you for such expenses pursuant to its regular business practice. |
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employment elsewhere; or (b) solicit or induce or attempt to induce to leave the Company, or divert or attempt to divert from doing business with the Company, any then current customers, suppliers or other persons or entities that were serviced by you or whose names became known to you by the virtue of your employment with the Company or otherwise interfere with the relationship between the Company and such customers, suppliers or other persons or entities. |
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c. | For the avoidance of doubt, after the Transition End Date, you shall not be subject to any Company non-compete restrictive covenants that prevent you from working or serving as an officer, director, employee, consultant, owner, partner or in a similar role at any other organization. |
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while you were an employee or consultant of the Company or any of its affiliates, or with which you have knowledge. You agree to render such cooperation in a timely fashion and to provide Company personnel and counsel with the full benefit of your knowledge with respect to any such matter, and will make yourself reasonably available for interviews, depositions, or court appearances at the request of the Company or its counsel. Subject to Section 16 below, if you receive a complaint or subpoena or other legal process relating to the Company or a request for interview or to provide information concerning any existing, potential or threatened claims against the Company, you shall give written notice to the Company to the attention of the Company’s General Counsel, or his successor, with copy to the Company’s Compensation and Benefits Legal Counsel, or her successor, within seven days of receipt and prior to your response to any such process or communication, unless prohibited by applicable law. You agree to further cooperate with the Company in good faith to ensure that its trade secrets and other confidential and proprietary information are not disclosed, either intentionally or inadvertently. The Company will reimburse you for reasonable out-of-pocket expenses you incur for services requested by the Company under this Section 14, to the extent you receive prior authorization from the Company to incur such expenses. |
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17. | RELEASE OF CLAIMS. In consideration for the payments and other promises and undertakings contained in this Transition Agreement to which you would not otherwise be entitled, and except as otherwise set forth in this Transition Agreement, you, on behalf of yourself and your heirs, executors, administrators, creditors, successors and assigns, agree to waive, release, acquit and forever discharge the Company, its past, present and future parents, subsidiaries and affiliates, and each of its and their respective past, present and future officers, directors, agents, servants, employees, attorneys, shareholders, successors, assigns and affiliates (the “Releasees”), of and from any and all claims, liabilities, demands, charges, causes of action, costs, expenses, attorneys fees, damages, indemnities and obligations of every kind and nature, in law, equity, or otherwise, which you assert or could assert against the Releasees at common law or under any statute, rule, regulation, order or law, whether federal, state or local, on any ground whatsoever, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related to agreements, events, acts or conduct at any time prior to and including the date you sign this Transition Agreement, including but not limited to: all such claims and demands directly or indirectly arising out of or in any way connected with your employment with the Company or the termination of that employment; claims or |
demands related to salary, bonuses, pension or insurance contributions, commissions, stock, stock options, or any other ownership interests in the Company, vacation or other time off pay, fringe benefits, expense reimbursements, severance pay, or any other form of compensation; any and all claims, demands or causes of action, including but not limited to actions for breach of contract, express or implied, breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing, express or implied, wrongful termination in violation of public policy, all other claims for wrongful termination and constructive discharge, and all other tort claims, including, but not limited to, intentional or negligent infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy, negligence, negligent investigation, negligent hiring, supervision or retention, assault and battery, false imprisonment, defamation, intentional or negligent misrepresentation, fraud, and any and all claims arising under any federal, state or local law or statute (each as amended and including any applicable implementing regulations), including, but not limited to, California Fair Employment and Housing Act, Xxxxx Civil Rights Act, California Business and Professions Code 17200, California Family Rights Act, California Labor Code, California Private Attorneys General Act, California Civil Code, California Code of Civil Procedure, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1981, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, as amended (“ADEA”), the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act of 1990, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Equal Pay Act, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and any and all other laws and regulations relating to employment termination, employment discrimination, harassment or retaliation; claims or demands for wages, hours, benefits, compensation, and any and all claims or demands for attorneys’ fees and costs, in each case, inasmuch as is permissible by law and by the respective governmental enforcement agencies for the above-listed laws. You expressly waive any right you may have to dispute the termination of employment and any preferential right to new employment. |
You further agree that you have been paid all undisputed wages due or earned, and as to any further alleged unpaid wages due, you agree that there is a bona fide and good-faith dispute as to whether such wages are due and based on this dispute and the consideration provided under the Agreement, you release and waive any such claims.
This Transition Agreement does not waive rights or claims under federal or state law that you cannot, as a matter of law, waive by private agreement, contract or otherwise, such as a right of indemnification under Labor Code Section 2802, claims for unemployment or state disability insurance benefits, worker compensation benefits, health insurance benefits under COBRA, recovery of an SEC whistleblower award as provided under Section 21F of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or claims with regard to vested accrued benefits under an ERISA employee benefit plan. Additionally, nothing in this Transition Agreement precludes you from filing a charge or complaint with or participating in any investigation or proceeding before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or similar state agency. However, while you may file a charge and participate in any proceeding conducted by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, by signing this Transition Agreement, you waive your right to bring a lawsuit against the Company and waive your right to any individual monetary recovery in any action or lawsuit initiated by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS THAT THE CREDITOR OR RELEASING PARTY DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE AND THAT, IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER, WOULD HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR OR RELEASED PARTY.
You hereby knowingly, intentionally and expressly waive and relinquish all rights and benefits under that section and any law of any jurisdiction of similar effect with respect to your release of any unknown or unsuspected claims you may have against the Company.
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authorized officer of the Company. This Agreement will bind the heirs, personal representatives, successors and assigns of both you and the Company, and inure to the benefit of both you and the Company, their heirs, successors and assigns. If any provision of this Agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, this determination will not affect any other provision of this Agreement and the provision in question is to be reformed by the court to the fullest and broadest extent permitted by applicable law. No waiver by the Company of any right under this Agreement shall be construed as a waiver of any other right, nor shall any waiver by the Company of any breach of this Agreement be a waiver of any preceding or succeeding breach. This Agreement will be subject to ERISA. It is expressly intended that ERISA preempt the application of state laws to this Agreement to the maximum extent permitted by Section 514 of ERISA. To the extent that state law is applicable, the statutes and common law of the State of Delaware will apply. This Agreement may be executed in two counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original and enforceable against the party executing the counterpart, and both of which, when taken together, shall constitute one instrument, including an executed Agreement sent by electronic communication. |
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[Signature Page Follows]
Upon acceptance of this Agreement, please sign below and return the executed original to me. Upon your signature below, this will become our binding agreement with respect to your transition and separation from the Company.
PayPal, Inc. | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxx | |
Xxxx Xxxxxx | ||
President and Chief Executive Officer |
I UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO THE TERMS CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT AND INTEND, BY MY SIGNATURE BELOW, TO BE LEGALLY BOUND BY THOSE TERMS. I AM SIGNING THIS AGREEMENT (INCLUDING THE RELEASE THEREIN) KNOWINGLY, WILLINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY IN EXCHANGE FOR THE BENEFITS DESCRIBED ABOVE:
/s/ Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxx | Date: | December 21, 2023 | ||||||
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Exhibit A
Equity Vesting Schedule
Exhibit B
Forfeited Equity
Exhibit C
OWBPA Notice