FORM OF JBG SMITH PROPERTIES
Exhibit 10.43
FORM OF JBG XXXXX PROPERTIES
2017 OMNIBUS SHARE PLAN
PERFORMANCE LTIP UNIT AGREEMENT
Name of Employee: | (the “Employee”) |
No. of LTIP Units Awarded: | |
Grant Date: | January 1, 2021 |
RECITALS
A.The Employee is an employee of JBG XXXXX Properties, a Maryland real estate investment trust (the “Company”) and provides services to JBG XXXXX Properties LP, a Delaware limited partnership, through which the Company conducts substantially all of its operations (the “Partnership”).
X.Xx accordance with the JBG XXXXX Properties 2017 Omnibus Share Plan, as it may be amended from time to time (the “Plan”), the Company desires, in connection with the employment of the Employee, to provide the Employee with an opportunity to acquire LTIP Units (as defined in the agreement of limited partnership of the Partnership, as amended (the “Partnership Agreement”)) having the rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to distributions, qualifications and terms and conditions of redemption and conversion set forth herein in the plan and in the Partnership Agreement, and thereby provide additional incentive for the Employee to promote the progress and success of the business of the Company, the Partnership and its Subsidiaries. Upon the close of business on the Grant Date pursuant to this Performance LTIP Unit Agreement (this “Agreement”), the Employee shall receive the number of LTIP Units specified above (the “Award LTIP Units”), subject to the restrictions and conditions set forth herein, in the Plan and in the Partnership Agreement.
C.The exact number of LTIP Units earned under this award of OP Units (the “Award”) shall be determined following the conclusion of the Performance Period (or the Extended Performance Period, if applicable) based on the Company’s Total Shareholder Return and Relative Performance during the Performance Period (and on the Company’s Total Shareholder Return during the Extended Performance Period, if applicable) as provided herein. Any LTIP Units not earned following the conclusion of the Performance Period (or Extended Performance Period, if applicable) will be forfeited and any additional LTIP Units owed to the Employee shall be issued as soon as reasonably practical following the end of the Performance Period.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Company, the Partnership and the Employee agree as follows:
“Baseline Value” for each of the Company and the Peer Companies means the dollar amount representing the average of the Fair Market Value of one share of common stock of such company over the five consecutive trading days ending on, and including, the Effective Date.
“Cause” means, if not otherwise defined in the Employee’s Service Agreement, if any, the Employee’s: (i) conviction of, or plea of guilty or nolo contendere to, a felony, (ii) willful and continued failure to use reasonable best efforts to substantially perform his duties (other than such failure resulting from the Employee’s incapacity due to physical or mental illness) that the Employee fails to remedy within 30 days after written notice is delivered by the Company to the Employee that specifically identifies in reasonable detail the manner in which the Company believes the Employee has not used reasonable efforts to perform in all material respects his duties hereunder, or (iii) willful misconduct (including, but not limited to, a willful breach of the provisions of any agreement with the Company with respect to confidentiality, ownership of documents, non-competition or non-solicitation) that is materially economically injurious to the Company or its affiliates. For purposes of this paragraph, no act, or failure to act, by the Employee will be considered “willful” unless committed in bad faith and without a reasonable belief that the act or omission was in the best interests of the Company.
“Common Share Price” means, with respect to the Company and each of the Peer Companies, as of a particular date, the average of the Fair Market Value of one share of common stock of such company over the 30 consecutive trading days ending on, and including, such date (or, if such date is not a trading day, the most recent trading day immediately preceding such date); provided, however, that if such date is the date upon which a Transactional Change of Control occurs, the Common Share Price of a share of common stock as of such date shall be equal to the fair value, as determined by the Committee, of the total consideration paid or payable in the transaction resulting in the Transactional Change of Control for one Share.
“Common Units” means Common Partnership Units issued by the Partnership.
“Continuous Service” means the continuous service to the Employer, without interruption or termination, in any capacity of employee, or, with the written consent of the Committee, consultant. Continuous Service shall not be considered interrupted in the case of: (a) any approved leave of absence; (b) transfers among the Employers, or any successor, in any capacity of employee, or with the written consent of the Committee, as a member of the Board or a consultant; or (c) any change in status as long as the individual remains in the service of the Employer in any capacity of employee or (if the Committee specifically agrees in writing that the Continuous Service is not uninterrupted) as a member of the Board or a consultant. An approved leave of absence shall include sick leave, military leave, or any other authorized personal leave.
“Disability” means, if not otherwise defined in the Employee’s Service Agreement, if any, if, as a result of the Employee’s incapacity due to physical or mental illness, the Employee shall have been substantially unable to perform his duties for a continuous period of 180 days, and within 30 days after written notice of termination is given after such 180-day period, the Employee shall not have returned to the substantial performance of his duties on a full-time basis, the employment of the Employee is terminated by the Company.
“Distribution Participation Date” shall have the meaning set forth in the Partnership Agreement and in Section 6(b) hereof.
“Effective Date” means January 1, 2021.
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“Employer” means either the Company, the Partnership or any of their Subsidiaries that employ the Employee.
“Extended Performance Period” means the seven-year period beginning the day after the last day of the Performance Period.
“Fair Market Value” of a security means, as of any given date, the closing sale price reported for such security on the principal stock exchange or, if applicable, any other national exchange on which the security is traded or admitted to trading on such date on which a sale was reported. If there are no market quotations for such date, the determination shall be made by reference to the last day preceding such date for which there are market quotations.
“Good Reason” means, if not otherwise defined in the Employee’s Service Agreement, if any, (a) a reduction by the Company in the Employee’s base salary, (b) a material diminution in the Employee’s position, authority, duties or responsibilities, (c) a relocation of the Employee’s location of employment to a location outside of the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, or (d) the Company’s material breach of the Agreement, provided, in each case, that the Employee terminates employment within 90 days after the Employee has actual knowledge of the occurrence, without the written consent of the Employee, of one of the foregoing events that has not been cured within 30 days after written notice thereof has been given by the Employee to the Company setting forth in reasonable detail the basis of the event (provided such notice must be given to the Company within 30 days of the Employee becoming aware of such condition).
“LTIP Unit Initial Sharing Percentage” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6(c) hereof.
“Partial Service Factor” means a factor carried out to the sixth decimal to be used in calculating the number of LTIP Units earned pursuant to Section 3(c) hereof in the event of a Qualified Termination of the Employee’s Continuous Service prior to the Valuation Date, determined by dividing (a) the number of calendar days that have elapsed since the Effective Date to and including the date of the Employee’s Qualified Termination by (b) the number of calendar days from the Effective Date to and including the Valuation Date.
“Peer Companies” means the companies in the FTSE NAREIT Equity Office Index with a market capitalization at the beginning of the Performance Period greater than $400 million.
“Performance Period” means the period beginning on the Effective Date and ending on December 31, 2023.
“Relative Performance” means the Company’s Total Shareholder Return relative to the Total Shareholder Return of the Peer Companies expressed as a percentile calculated by dividing the number of such Peer Companies with a Total Shareholder Return less than the Company’s Total Shareholder Return by the total number of such Peer Companies.
“Retirement” means the termination of employment of the Employee after the Employee has met all of the following conditions: (a) the Employee has attained at least age 50, (b) the Employee has completed at least ten (10) years of service with the Company and its affiliates (including any predecessors thereto), (c) the sum of his or her age and years of service with the Company and its affiliates (including any predecessors thereto)
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equals or exceeds seventy (70) and (d) the Employee has provided at least six (6) months’ notice of his or her termination of employment to the Company or its applicable affiliate.
“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
“Service Agreement” means, as of a particular date, any employment, consulting or similar service agreement then in effect between the Employee, on the one hand, and the Employer, on the other hand, as amended or supplemented through such date.
“Total Shareholder Return” means, for each of the Company and the Peer Companies, with respect any measurement period, the total return (expressed as a percentage) that would have been realized by a shareholder who (a) bought one share of common stock of such company at the Baseline Value on the Effective Date, (b) reinvested each dividend and other distribution declared during such measurement period with respect to such share (and any other shares, or fractions thereof, previously received upon reinvestment of dividends or other distributions or on account of stock dividends), without deduction for any taxes with respect to such dividends or other distributions or any charges in connection with such reinvestment, in additional Shares at a price per share equal to (i) the Fair Market Value on the trading day immediately preceding the ex-dividend date for such dividend or other distribution less (ii) the amount of such dividend or other distribution, and (c) sold such shares on the last day of the measurement period at the Common Share Price on such date, without deduction for any taxes with respect to any gain on such sale or any charges in connection with such sale. As set forth in, and pursuant to, Section 7 of this Agreement, appropriate adjustments to the Total Shareholder Return shall be made to take into account all stock dividends, stock splits, reverse stock splits and the other events set forth in Section 7 that occur during the measurement period.
“Transactional Change of Control” means a Change of Control resulting from any person or group making a tender offer for the Shares, a merger or consolidation where the Company is not the acquirer or surviving entity or consisting of a sale, lease, exchange or other transfer to an unrelated party of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company.
“Valuation Date” means the earlier of (a) the last day of the Performance Period, or (b) the date upon which a Change of Control shall occur.
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Relative Performance | Percentage of Award LTIP Units Earned |
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TSR equal to the 35th percentile of Peer Companies | 25% |
TSR equal to the 55th percentile of Peer Companies | 50% |
TSR equal to the 75th percentile of Peer Companies | 100% |
The Award will be forfeited in its entirety if the Relative Performance is below the 35th percentile of Peer Companies or as provided in Section 3(e) hereof. If the Relative Performance is between the 35th percentile and 55th percentile of Peer Companies, or between the 55th percentile and 75th percentile of Peer Companies, the percentage of the Award LTIP Units earned will be determined using linear interpolation as between those tiers, respectively.
If the Earned LTIP Unit Equivalent is smaller than the number of Award LTIP Units previously issued to the Employee, then the Employee, as of the Valuation Date, shall forfeit a number of Award LTIP Units equal to the difference without payment of any consideration by the Partnership; thereafter the term Award LTIP Units will refer only to the Award LTIP Units that were not so forfeited and neither the Employee nor any of his or her successors, heirs, assigns, or personal representatives will thereafter have any further rights or interests in the LTIP Units that were so forfeited. If the Earned LTIP Unit Equivalent is greater than the number of Award LTIP Units previously issued to the
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Employee, then, upon the performance of the calculations set forth in this Section 3(c): (A) the Company shall cause the Partnership to issue to the Employee, as of the Valuation Date, a number of additional LTIP Units equal to the difference; (B) such additional LTIP Units shall be added to the Award LTIP Units previously issued, if any, and thereby become part of this Award (provided that such additional LTIP Units shall be treated as being issued as of the date they are actually issued for purposes of determining their holding period under the Partnership Agreement); (C) the Company and the Partnership shall take such corporate and partnership action as is necessary to accomplish the grant of such additional LTIP Units; and (D) thereafter the term Award LTIP Units will refer collectively to the Award LTIP Units, if any, issued prior to such additional grant plus such additional LTIP Units; provided that such issuance will be subject to the Employee confirming the truth and accuracy of the representations set forth in Section 13 hereof and executing and delivering such documents, comparable to the documents executed and delivered in connection with this Agreement, as the Company and/or the Partnership reasonably request in order to comply with all applicable legal requirements, including, without limitation, federal and state securities laws. If the Earned LTIP Unit Equivalent is the same as the number of Award LTIP Units previously issued to the Employee, then there will be no change to the number of Award LTIP Units under this Award pursuant to this Section 3.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Performance LTIP Unit Agreement has been executed by the parties hereto as of the date and year first above written.
JBG XXXXX PROPERTIES
By:
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Title:Chief Legal Officer and
Secretary
JBG XXXXX PROPERTIES LP
By:
Name:Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Title:Chief Legal Officer and
Secretary
EMPLOYEE
Name:
[Employee Name]
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EXHIBIT A
The Employee, desiring to become one of the within named Limited Partners of JBG XXXXX Properties LP, hereby accepts all of the terms and conditions of (including, without limitation, the provisions related to powers of attorney), and becomes a party to, the Limited Partnership Agreement, dated as of July 17, 2017, of JBG XXXXX Properties LP, as amended (the “Partnership Agreement”). The Employee agrees that this signature page may be attached to any counterpart of the Partnership Agreement and further agrees as follows (where the term “Limited Partner” refers to the Employee): Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meaning ascribed thereto in the Partnership Agreement.
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| Date: | January [ ], 2021 |
| | Address of Limited Partner: |
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Exhibit A-3
EXHIBIT B
The Employee hereby represents, warrants and covenants as follows:
The Employee also acknowledges that any delivery of the Background Documents and other information relating to the Company and the Partnership prior to the determination by the Partnership of the suitability of the Employee as a holder of LTIP Units shall not constitute an offer of LTIP Units until such determination of suitability shall be made.
Exhibit B-1
Exhibit B-2
Exhibit B-3
EXHIBIT C
ELECTION TO INCLUDE IN GROSS INCOME IN YEAR OF TRANSFER OF PROPERTY PURSUANT TO SECTION 83(B) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE
The undersigned hereby makes an election pursuant to Section 83(b) of the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the property described below and supplies the following information in accordance with the regulations promulgated thereunder:
1. | The name, address and taxpayer identification number of the undersigned are: |
Name: [Employee Name] (the “Taxpayer”)
Address:
Social Security No./Taxpayer Identification No.:
2. | Description of property with respect to which the election is being made: |
The election is being made with respect to LTIP Units in JBG XXXXX Properties LP (the “Partnership”).
3. | The date on which the LTIP Units were transferred is January 1, 2021. The taxable year to which this election relates is calendar year 2021. |
4. | Nature of restrictions to which the LTIP Units are subject: |
(a) | With limited exceptions, until the LTIP Units vest, the Taxpayer may not transfer in any manner any portion of the LTIP Units without the consent of the Partnership. |
(b) | The Taxpayer’s LTIP Units vest in accordance with the vesting provisions described in the Schedule attached hereto. Unvested LTIP Units are forfeited in accordance with the vesting provisions described in the Schedule attached hereto. |
5. | The fair market value at time of transfer (determined without regard to any restrictions other than a nonlapse restriction as defined in Treasury Regulations Section 1.83-3(h)) of the LTIP Units with respect to which this election is being made was $0 per LTIP Unit. |
6. | The amount paid by the Taxpayer for the LTIP Units was $0 per LTIP Unit. |
7. | A copy of this statement has been furnished to the Partnership and JBG XXXXX Properties. |
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Exhibit C-1
SCHEDULE TO EXHIBIT C
Vesting Provisions of LTIP Units
The LTIP Units are subject to performance-based vesting criteria, based on certain absolute and relative total shareholder return thresholds, and subsequent time-based vesting criteria, provided that the Taxpayer remains an employee of JBG XXXXX Properties or its affiliate through the relevant vesting periods, subject to acceleration in the event of certain extraordinary transactions or termination of the Taxpayer’s service relationship with JBG XXXXX Properties (or its affiliate) under specified circumstances. Unvested LTIP Units are subject to forfeiture in the event of failure to vest based on the failure to satisfy the applicable performance goals and the passage of time and continued employment.
| JBG XXXXX Properties, a Maryland real estate investment trust | |
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| | Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx |
| | Title: Chief Legal Officer and Secretary |
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Exhibit C-2