AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE
EXHIBIT 10.3
This AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE (this “Agreement”) is made as of August 30, 2006
and entered into by and among PSB BANCORP, INC., a Pennsylvania corporation (“PSB”), FIRST
PENN BANK, a Pennsylvania-chartered bank and a wholly-owned subsidiary of PSB (“First Penn”
and, together with PSB, “Employer”), and XXXXXXX XXXXXXXX (“Executive”).
Arrangements to permit termination of the arrangements and acceleration of the time and form
of payment within 30 days preceding or the 12 months following a change of control (as defined in
Proposed Treasury Regulations § 1.409A-2(g)(4)(i)).
(a) From the date of this Agreement until the third anniversary of the Effective Time,
Executive will not directly for himself or any third party, become engaged in any business
or activity which is directly in competition with any services or financial products sold
by, or any business or activity engaged in by, Employer, Conestoga or their Subsidiaries (as
defined in the Merger Agreement), including, without limitation, the taking and accepting of
deposits, the making of loans and/or the extension of credit and brokering loans and/or
leases, within a 35 mile radius of 0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxx. This
provision shall not restrict Executive from owning or investing in publicly traded
securities of financial institutions, so long as his aggregate holdings in any financial
institution do not exceed ten percent (10%) of the outstanding capital stock of such
institution. Notwithstanding the foregoing, following the second anniversary of the
Effective Time, Executive may: (i) provide consulting
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services (subject to the other prohibitions of this Section 4) as an independent contractor
to a federally or state chartered bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, trust
company and/or credit union (each a “Competitive Entity”), provided that such services do
not exceed 30 hours during any one calendar month; and (ii) in addition to the permission
granted in the previous sentence, make passive investments in a Competitive Entity. After
the first anniversary of the Effective Time, Executive may request a waiver from Conestoga
of the applicability of this Section 4(a) to certain limited activities in which Executive
wishes to engage that would not reasonably be expected to be detrimental to the interests of
Conestoga and its subsidiaries, and Conestoga shall not unreasonably withhold any such
requested waiver.
(b) From the date of this Agreement until the third anniversary of the Effective Time,
Executive will not solicit any person who is, or within the five years preceding the date of
this Agreement was, a customer of Employer or its subsidiaries, or solicit potential
customers who are or were identified through leads developed during the course of employment
with Employer or any of its subsidiaries, or otherwise divert or attempt to divert any
existing business of Employer or any of its subsidiaries within any area of 75 miles of 0000
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxx.
(c) From the date of this Agreement until the third anniversary of the Effective Time,
Executive will not, directly for himself or any third party: (i) solicit, induce, recruit
or cause another person in the employment of Employer, Conestoga or their subsidiaries to
terminate his or her employment for the purposes of joining, associating or becoming
employed with any business or activity which is in competition with any services or
financial products sold, or any business or activity engaged in, by Employer, Conestoga or
their subsidiaries; or (ii) hire any person employed by Employer, Conestoga or their
subsidiaries as of the date of this Agreement or as of the Effective Time, except for any
such person that Conestoga acknowledges was terminated by Conestoga or one of its
subsidiaries following the Effective Time.
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Exhibit A hereto by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an account designated by
Executive in writing. Executive acknowledges that, except as specifically and expressly set forth
in this Agreement and on Exhibit A hereto, Employer does not have and will not have any obligation
to provide Executive at any time in the future with any payments, benefits or considerations.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing contained herein shall be deemed a waiver by Executive of
any rights Executive may have to indemnification and other benefits under Section 7.7 of the Merger
Agreement.
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enforcing this provision. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, should Executive file a
lawsuit that includes one or more asserted federal age discrimination in employment claims, he
shall not be obligated to reimburse Employer for that portion of the payments attributable to the
release of such claims. For the purposes of this Agreement, five percent of the payments set forth
in paragraph 5 of Exhibit A are attributable to the release of federal age discrimination in
employment claims. Should Executive breach his obligations contained in Section 4 of this
Agreement, Executive shall be required to repay as damages to Employer an amount equal to the
amount paid to Executive or on his behalf as set forth in paragraph 4 of Exhibit A hereto,
multiplied by the lesser of one or a fraction, the numerator of which shall be 1,461 minus the
number of elapsed days from the date of this Agreement to the date of breach and the denominator of
which shall be 1,096.
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hereof within seven days of the execution of this Agreement by providing written notice to
that effect to PSB and Conestoga in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.3 of the Merger
Agreement; that Executive carefully read and fully understands all of the provisions and effects of
this Agreement; that Executive is entering into this Agreement voluntarily and free of coercion and
duress; and that neither Employer, Conestoga nor any of their agents or attorneys made any
representations or promises concerning the terms or effects of this Agreement.
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[Signature page follows]
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BY SIGNING THIS AGREEMENT, EXECUTIVE ACKNOWLEDGES THAT HE DOES SO VOLUNTARILY AFTER CAREFULLY
READING AND FULLY UNDERSTANDING EACH PROVISION AND ALL OF THE EFFECTS OF THIS AGREEMENT, WHICH
INCLUDES A RELEASE OF KNOWN AND UNKNOWN CLAIMS AND RESTRICTS FUTURE LEGAL ACTION AGAINST PSB
BANCORP, INC., FIRST PENN BANK AND OTHER RELEASED PARTIES.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, and
intending to be legally
bound hereby, the parties
have executed this Agreement
and General Release.
PSB BANCORP, INC. | ||||||||||||
By: | ||||||||||||
Xxxxxxx XxXxxxxx
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Date | Name: | Date | |||||||||
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FIRST PENN BANK | ||||||||||||
By: | ||||||||||||
Name: | Date | |||||||||||
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[Signature page to Agreement and General Release]
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Exhibit A
1. | Payments and benefits to which Executive is entitled between the date hereof and the Effective Time as contemplated by Section 8: |
• | Executive shall receive a base salary at the annual rate of $290,000, payable in accordance with Employer’s regular payroll practices. | ||
• | If the Effective Time has not occurred on or before December 31, 2006, Executive shall receive a bonus of $187,000 on December 31, 2006. | ||
• | Executive shall continue to participate in the following plans and continue to receive the following benefits, each in a manner consistent with the past practices of Employer: |
• | 401(k) Matching Contribution | ||
• | Group Concordia Dental Insurance | ||
• | Personal Choice Health Insurance | ||
• | Group Employee Stock Ownership Plan | ||
• | Group Short Term Disability Insurance | ||
• | Group Long Term Disability Insurance | ||
• | Group Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance | ||
• | Group Life Insurance | ||
• | Defined Benefit Pension Plan | ||
• | Supplemental Disability Insurance | ||
• | Car Allowance | ||
• | Incidental Benefits provided pursuant to the current employment agreement |
2. | If the Effective Time occurs on or before December 31, 2006, the retention bonus contemplated by Section 7 shall equal the product of $187,000 multiplied by a fraction the numerator of which is the number of days that have elapsed between January 1, 2006 and the Effective Time and the denominator of which is 365. | |
If the Effective Time occurs after December 31, 2006, the retention bonus contemplated by Section 7 shall equal the product of $187,000 multiplied by a fraction the numerator of which is the number of days that have elapsed between January 1, 2007 and the Effective Time and the denominator of which is 365. | ||
The amounts contemplated by this paragraph 2 shall be made at the Effective Time. | ||
3. | Payment to be made at the Effective Time: | |
$4,677,000 | ||
4. | Additional payment to be made at the Effective Time as consideration for the non-competition and other covenants contained in Section 4: | |
$1,500,000 | ||
5. | Additional payment to be made at the Effective Time as consideration for the releases, waivers and other covenants contained in Sections 14, 15 and 16: | |
$100,000 |
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