CONSULTING AND NON-COMPETITION AGREEMENT
This Consulting and Non-Competition Agreement (hereinafter
sometimes referred to as "Consulting Agreement"), made March 5,
1998, is by and between Toll Brothers, Inc. (hereinafter "Company") and
Xxxxx X. Toll (hereinafter "Consultant").
WHEREAS, Consultant has been employed by the Company as its
President, Chief Operating Officer and Secretary, and in various
capacities with respect to the Company's subsidiaries; and
WHEREAS, Consultant and the Company have agreed that,
following a transition period commencing April 30, 1998 and ending October
31, 1998, Consultant will leave his employment with the Company to
pursue other business opportunities; and
WHEREAS, Consultant has accumulated during his many years of
service with the Company in an executive capacity specialized,
proprietary and confidential knowledge and information concerning the
Company's business and operations; and
WHEREAS, the Company desires to have the knowledge and
expertise of Consultant available to the Company following
termination of his employment relationship,
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual obligations
and promises contained herein, and intending to be legally bound,
Company and Consultant hereby agree as follows:
1. The foregoing recitals are hereby incorporated by
reference as if set forth fully herein.
2. Consultant's employment with the Company will
terminate October 31, 1998. After October 31, 1998, the only benefit (other
than benefits provided elsewhere in this Consulting Agreement) to which
Consultant will be entitled during the term of this consulting
Agreement shall be group health insurance of a type and amount then being
provided to Company executives. To the fullest extent permitted under the
Company's medical benefit plans, Consultant's group health insurance
under this Consulting Agreement shall be provided by the Company
to Consultant and his beneficiaries, and to any other of his children who
are currently participants in said medical plans. The Company shall
provide such coverage for Xxxxx and his beneficiaries during such period
without charge, and shall provide such coverage for each of Bruce's children
who are currently participants provided the premium costs that the
Company is permitted to charge under COBRA for such coverage of Bruce's
participant children is paid by Xxxxx or such children. To the extent medical
coverage is required to be provided to Consultant or his beneficiaries or
children that cannot be provided under the provisions of COBRA, the Company
shall have the option to arrange for substantially similar coverage to be
provided by a medical insurer on an individual basis. Termination of
Consultant's employee benefits will not affect Consultant's right to receive
previously vested benefits or Consultant's right to exercise stock options in
accordance with the terms of the options.
3. During a three-year term commencing November 1, 1998
and ending on October 31, 2001 (hereinafter "Consulting Term"), Consultant
agrees to make himself available to the Company on a reasonable
basis at reasonable times and places so as not to interfere with his other
business interests to consult with the Company concerning matters within his
knowledge or expertise.
4. In consideration of Consultant's availability to the
Company, and in further consideration of Consultant's agreement not to compete
with the Company as set forth in paragraph 5 below, the Company agrees to
pay Consultant the sum of $500,000 during each year of the Consulting
Term, payable in accordance with the Company's regular pay schedule
(which is currently every two weeks).
5. During the longer of (i) the Consulting Term and for a
period of three years thereafter, and (ii) the term of Consultant's service as a
Vice Chairman of the Company, Consultant shall not, without the written
consent of the Company, engage in any of the following prohibited
activities (which shall be in addition to any restrictions or prohibitions
contained in any other agreement between Xxxxx X. Toll and the
Company):
(a) Consultant shall not (as an individual, principal, agent,
employee, consultant or otherwise) directly or indirectly, engage in
activities relating to or render services:
(i) to any firm or business in the homebuilding business, or
(ii) so long as Consultant (including any immediate family
members, trusts or other entities for the benefit of any such persons)
is an officer, director, partner or limited partner of, or otherwise actively,
directly or indirectly, engaged in the operation or activities of, a real estate
investment trust (or related operating partnership) formed or sponsored by
the Company, to any real estate investment trust (whether in corporate, trust
or partnership form) or operating partnership (or other similar entity)
affiliated with a real estate investment trust; provided that Consultant
shall not be deemed to be an officer, director, partner or limited partner of
a real estate investment trust or related operating partnership by reason of
his status or conduct as a shareholder or a director of the Company.
(iii) so long as Dulles Xxxxxx, X.X. (or its property), or its
general partner, continues to be controlled or jointly controlled by
Consultant, to any real estate investment trust (whether in corporate,
trust or partnership form) or operating partnership (or other similar
entity) affiliated with a real estate investment trust.
These restrictions shall not prohibit Consultant from holding an
interest in any public corporation or real estate investment trust in an
amount less than 1% of any class of any such entity's outstanding
equity securities.
(b) Consultant shall not solicit, induce or encourage any
employee, independent contractor or consultant to the Company to
terminate his or her employment or other relationship with the
Company;
(c) Consultant shall not solicit, induce or encourage any
customer or vendor of the Company to terminate its relationship with the
Company, to cease doing business with the Company or to refrain from
giving new business or additional business to the Company.
Given the breadth of Consultant's responsibilities, these restrictions
shall apply (i) in all foreign countries in which the Company owned
property or engaged in business during Consultant's service, and (ii)
in any geographical area of the United States.
Consultant further acknowledges that these restrictions, in view of
his long history of employment with the Company and the nature of the
business in which the Company is engaged, are reasonable and
necessary in order to protect the legitimate interest of the Company,
and that any violation thereof would result in irreparable injuries to
the Company, as to which the Company has no adequate remedy at law.
Consultant therefore acknowledges that in the event of his violation
of any of these restrictions, the Company shall be entitled to obtain
from any court of competent jurisdiction preliminary and permanent
injunctive relief to restrain any such violation, plus reasonable
legal fees, costs and expenses, incurred in connection with any such
action which rights shall be cumulative to and in addition to any
other rights or remedies to which the Company may be entitled to the
extent permissible by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
6. Consultant shall not either during the term of the
Consulting Agreement or at any time thereafter use for his own
personal benefit, or disclose, communicate or divulge or use for the
direct or indirect benefit of any person, firm, association or
company other than the Company, any confidential information regarding
the business methods, business policies procedures, techniques, research
or development projects or results, trade secrets or other confidential
knowledge or confidential processes or information of or developed by
the Company, any confidential information furnished to the Company by
customers or clients or any names and addresses of customers or clients
or any data on or relating to past, present or prospective customers or
clients or any other confidential information relating to or dealing
with the business operations or activities of the Company made known
to Consultant or learned or acquired by him either while in the employ
of the Company or during the term of the Consulting Agreement.
7. Consultant shall have no authority during the
Consulting Term to enter into binding obligations on behalf of the
Company without the express written consent of the Company, and shall
not represent to any to any third party that he has such authority.
8. Consultant shall not in any personal or business venture with
which he is associated use the name "Toll Brothers" or "Toll" in
connection with any business name, nor shall he conduct any business
in a manner that may cause confusion with the Company name or business,
provided that this paragraph will not prohibit Consultant from
conducting personal or business ventures using the name Xxxxx Xxxx,
Xxxxx X. Toll or Toll Management.
9. This Agreement shall terminate upon the death of Consultant.
10. Consultant's duties under this Consulting Agreement are not
delegable by Consultant. This Consulting Agreement may be
assigned by the Company to any successor in ownership of all or any
part of the Company's business.
11. (a) Neither the failure nor any delay on the part of either
party to exercise any right, remedy, power or privilege under this
Agreement shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or
partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege preclude any
other or further exercise of the same or of any other right, remedy,
power or privilege, nor shall any waiver of any right, remedy, power
or privilege with respect to any occurrence be construed as a waiver
of such right, remedy, power or privilege with respect to any other
occurrence. No waiver shall be effective unless it is in writing and
is signed by the party asserted to have granted such waiver.
(b) This Agreement and all questions relating to its validity,
interpretation, performance and enforcement (including, without
limitation, provisions concerning limitations of actions), shall be governed
by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.
(c) The provisions of this Agreement are independent of and
separable from each other, and no provision shall be affected or
rendered invalid or unenforceable by virtue of the fact that for any reason any
other or others of them may be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part.
(d) This Agreement; in addition to a separate agreement between
the parties executed on the date hereof, contains the entire
understanding among the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter
hereof, and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous agreements and
understandings, inducements or conditions, express or implied, oral or written,
except as herein contained. The express terms hereof control and supersede
any course of performance of the trade and/or usage of the trade
inconsistent with any of the terms hereof. This Agreement may not be modified
or amended other than by an agreement in writing.
WHEREFORE, with the intention of being legally bound,
Consultant and Company hereby execute this Consulting Agreement as set forth
below.
TOLL BROTHERS, INC.
By:______________________________
_________________________________
XXXXX X. TOLL
