EURONET WORLDWIDE, INC. 2006 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN Restricted Stock Unit Agreement
Exhibit 10.1
EURONET WORLDWIDE, INC.
2006 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN
2006 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN
Date of Grant: [ ]
Number of Restricted Stock Units Granted: [ ]
This Agreement dated [ ], is made by and between Euronet Worldwide, Inc., a
Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and [ ] (“Participant”).
RECITALS:
A. Effective May 18, 2006, the stockholders of the Company approved the Euronet Worldwide,
Inc. 2006 Stock Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) pursuant to which the Company may, from time to time,
grant Restricted Stock Units to current or prospective key employees, non-employee directors or
outside consultants of the Company.
B. Participant is an employee, consultant or non-employee director of the Company or one of
its Affiliates and the Company desires to encourage him/her to own Shares and to give him/her added
incentive to advance the interests of the Company, and desires to grant Participant Restricted
Stock Units under the terms and conditions established by the Committee.
AGREEMENT:
In consideration of the mutual covenants contained herein and other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties agree as follows:
1. Incorporation of Plan. All provisions of this Agreement and the rights of
Participant hereunder are subject in all respects to the provisions of the Plan and the powers of
the Committee therein provided. Capitalized terms used in this Agreement but not defined shall
have the meaning set forth in the Plan.
2. Grant of Restricted Stock Units. Subject to the conditions and restrictions set
forth in this Agreement and in the Plan, the Company hereby grants to Participant and credits to a
separate account maintained on the books of the Company (“Account”) that number of Restricted Stock
Units identified above opposite the heading “Number of Restricted Stock Units Granted” (the “RSUs”
or the “Award”). On any date, the value of each RSU shall equal the Fair Market Value of a Share.
All amounts credited to Participant’s Account under this Agreement shall continue for all purposes
to be a part of the general assets of the Company. Participant’s interest in the Account shall
make him or her only a general, unsecured creditor of the Company. The RSUs may not be sold,
transferred, gifted, bequeathed, pledged, assigned, or otherwise alienated or hypothecated,
voluntarily or involuntarily. The rights of Participant with respect to the RSUs shall remain
forfeitable at all times prior to the date on which such rights are settled (the “Settlement Date”, as defined
below).
3. Consideration to the Company. In consideration of the granting of the RSUs by the
Company, Participant will render faithful and efficient services as a Service Provider to the
Company. Nothing in this Agreement or in the Plan will confer upon Participant any right to
continue as a Service Provider to the Company or will interfere with or restrict in any way the
rights of the Company, which are hereby expressly reserved, to terminate Participant’s position as
a Service Provider to the Company at any time for any reason whatsoever, with or without cause.
4. Settlement of RSUs. At the Company’s option, the RSUs may be settled by delivering
to Participant or his or her beneficiary, as applicable, either (i) an amount of cash equal to the
Fair Market Value of a Share as of the Settlement Date multiplied by the number of Shares
underlying the RSUs held by Participant (or a specified portion in the event of any partial
settlement), or (ii) a number of Shares equal to the whole number of Shares underlying the RSUs
then held by Participant (or a specified portion in the event of any partial settlement). Any
fractional Shares underlying RSUs remaining on the Settlement Date will be distributed in cash in
an amount equal to the Fair Market Value of a Share as of the Settlement Date multiplied by the
remaining fractional RSUs.
Except as specifically provided elsewhere under the Plan, the restrictions on RSUs subject to
this Agreement will lapse and the shares subject to this Award will be settled on the Settlement
Date set forth below, but only if Participant is, and at all times from the Date of Grant has been,
a Service Provider to the Company, or one of its Affiliates, and the RSUs have not otherwise been
cancelled.
Prior to receiving the Shares underlying the RSUs, the Participant shall not at any time be
deemed to be the holder of, or to have any of the rights of a holder with respect to any Shares
underlying the RSUs subject to this award.
a) Time Based Criteria |
Subject to performance based criteria below, the Restricted Stock
Units under this Agreement shall vest and be settled as follows: It shall be a condition of vesting that on the date concerned, the Participant shall have been an employee, non-employee director or consultant of the Company for the entire period from the date of grant to the Vesting Date. |
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b) Performance Based Criteria |
Notwithstanding the terms provided in the box entitled “Time Based
Criteria” above, if Performance Criteria are set forth below,
settlement of the Restricted Stock Units under this Agreement will be
accelerated, and the RSUs will be settled in accordance with the
schedule provided below, if such Performance Criteria are met: No Performance criteria Provided that the above will be subject in each case to the following: |
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| (i) to Participant’s service with the Company not terminating
prior to the date the Performance Criteria are achieved; and (ii) the Committee’s determination and certification in writing that the Performance Criteria have been achieved. |
If the above sums do not derive a whole number of shares as of any Settlement Date, then the number
of shares vested shall be the lower whole number resulting from such sum with any residual shares
vesting as of the last Settlement Date.
The Committee may, in its sole discretion, accelerate the Settlement Date for any or all of
the RSUs, if in its judgment the performance of Participant has warranted such acceleration and/or
such acceleration is in the best interests of the Company.
5. Cancellation of RSUs. Unless otherwise provided in this Section 5 or in the Plan,
if Participant’s position as a Service Provider to the Company or any of its Affiliates is
terminated prior to the Settlement Date other than by death or Disability, Participant shall
thereupon immediately forfeit any and all unsettled RSUs, and all RSUs shall be cancelled. Upon
such cancellation, Participant shall have no further rights under this Agreement. For purposes of
this Agreement, transfer of employment between the Company and any of its Affiliates (or between
Affiliates) shall not constitute a termination of Participant’s position as a Service Provider. In
the event that Participant’s position as a Service Provider with the Company or any of its
Affiliates is terminated by the Company or any of its Affiliates prior to the Settlement Date and
due to Participant’s death or Disability, all unsettled RSUs shall be settled effective on or as
soon as administratively practical following the date of Participant’s death or Disability but in
no event later than February 15 of the calendar year following the year of Participant’s death or
Disability.
6. Dividends and Voting. Prior to an RSU’s Settlement Date, Participant shall not be
entitled to receive dividend equivalent payments for any dividends paid by the Company on Shares,
whether payable in stock, in cash or in kind, or other distributions, declared as of a record date
that occurs on or after the Date of Grant hereunder and prior to any cancellation of such RSUs,
Participant will have no voting rights with respect to any of the Shares underlying the RSUs
subject to this award unless and until they are issued to Participant.
7. Withholding of Taxes. The Company shall have the right to deduct from any
distribution of cash or Shares to the Participant an amount equal to any income taxes, excise taxes
and other amounts as may be required by law to be withheld with respect to the Award.
8. Long-Term Consideration for Award. Participant recognizes and agrees that the
Company’s key consideration in granting this Award is securing Participant’s long-term commitment
to advance and promote the Company’s business interests and objectives. Accordingly, Participant
agrees to the following as material and indivisible consideration for this Award:
(a) Fiduciary Duty. During his/her employment, directorship or consultancy
with the Company, Participant shall devote his/her full energies, abilities, attention and
business time to the performance of his/her particular responsibilities and shall not engage in any activity which conflicts or interferes with, or in any way
compromises,
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performance of such responsibilities.
(b) Confidential Information. Participant recognizes that by virtue of his/her
employment, directorship or consultancy with the Company, Participant will be granted
otherwise prohibited access to confidential information and proprietary data which are not
known to the Company’s competitors. This information (the “Confidential Information”)
includes, but is not limited to, any of the following as it relates to the Company and any
of its Affiliates’ (the “Euronet Group”): current and prospective customers; the identity of
key contacts at such customers; customers’ particularized preferences and needs; marketing
strategies and plans; financial data; personnel data; compensation data; proprietary
procedures and processes; and other unique and specialized practices, programs and plans of
the Euronet Group and its customers and prospective customers. Participant recognizes that
this Confidential Information constitutes valuable property of the Euronet Group, developed
over a significant period of time and at substantial expense. Accordingly, Participant
agrees that he/she shall not, at any time during or after his or her employment,
directorship or consultancy with the Company, divulge such Confidential Information or make
use of it for his/her own purposes or the purposes of any person or entity other than the
Euronet Group.
(c) Non-Solicitation of Customers. Participant recognizes that by virtue of
his/her employment, directorship or consultancy with the Company, Participant may be
introduced to and involved in the solicitation and servicing of existing customers of the
Euronet Group and new customers obtained by the Euronet Group during Participant’s
employment, directorship or consultancy. Participant understands and agrees that all
efforts expended in soliciting and servicing such customers shall be for the permanent
benefit of the Euronet Group. Participant further agrees that during his/her employment,
directorship or consultancy with the Company, Participant will not engage in any conduct
which could in any way jeopardize or disturb any of the Euronet Group’s customer
relationships. Participant also recognizes the Euronet Group’s legitimate interest in
protecting, for a reasonable period of time after his/her employment, directorship or
consultancy with the Company, the Euronet Group’s customers. Participant further
acknowledges that the Euronet Group is in the business of providing ATM management services,
prepaid financial services, and money transfer operations throughout the world, and that
Participant has knowledge of proprietary information relating to that worldwide business
which, if known to or used to the benefit of a competitor of the Company, would provide a
competitor with an unfair competitive advantage with regard to the Company’s relationships
with its customers. Accordingly, Participant agrees that, for a period beginning on the
date hereof and ending two (2) years after termination of his/her employment, directorship
or consultancy with the Company, regardless of the reason for such termination, Participant
shall not, in any location where the Euronet Group conducts business or provides services to
customers and in any location where Participant provided services to the Company during the
term of Participant’s employment, directorship or consultancy with the Company, directly or
indirectly, without the prior written consent of the Chief Executive Officer of the Company,
market, offer, sell or otherwise furnish any products or services similar to, or otherwise
competitive with, those offered by the Euronet Group to any customer of the Euronet Group
(including, without limitation, the business of providing ATM management services, prepaid processing and
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related services, and money transfer operations).
(d) Non-Solicitation of Employees. Participant recognizes the substantial
expenditure of time and effort which the Euronet Group devotes to the recruitment, hiring,
orientation, training and retention of its employees. Accordingly, Participant agrees that,
for a period beginning on the date hereof and ending two (2) years after termination of
his/her employment, directorship or consultancy with the Company, regardless of the reason
for such termination, Participant shall not, directly or indirectly, for himself or herself
or on behalf of any other person or entity, solicit, offer employment to, hire or otherwise
retain the services of any person who, during that two (2) year term, is an employee of the
Euronet Group.
(e) Survival of Commitments; Potential Recapture of Options and Proceeds.
Participant acknowledges and agrees that the terms and conditions of this Section 8
regarding confidentiality and non-solicitation shall survive both (i) the termination of
his/her employment, directorship or consultancy with the Company for any reason, and (ii)
the termination of the Plan for any reason. Participant acknowledges and agrees that the
grant of Options in this Agreement is just and adequate consideration for the survival of
the restrictions set forth herein, and that the Company may pursue any or all of the
following remedies if Participant either violates the terms of this Section or succeeds for
any reason in invalidating any part of it (it being understood that the invalidity of any
term hereof would result in a failure of consideration for the Options):
| (i) | declaration that the Option is null and void and of no further force or effect; | ||
| (ii) | recapture of any cash paid or Shares issued to Participant, or any designee or beneficiary of the Participant, pursuant to the Option; or | ||
| (iii) | recapture of the proceeds, plus reasonable interest, with respect to any Shares that are both issued pursuant to this Option and sold or otherwise disposed of by Participant, or any designee or beneficiary of Participant. |
The remedies provided above are not intended to be exclusive, and the Company may seek such
other remedies as are provided by law, including equitable relief.
(f) Acknowledgement. Participant acknowledges and agrees that adherence to the
foregoing requirements will not prevent him/her from engaging in his/her chosen occupation and
earning a satisfactory livelihood following the termination of his/her employment, directorship or
consultancy with the Company.
(g) Court May Modify Restrictions. Although the parties have attempted to reasonably
limit Participant’s activities after the termination of his/her employment, directorship or
consultancy with the Company, the parties agree that a Court may modify and enforce the restrictive
covenants contained in this Section 8 to the extent that it believes such modifications are
necessary for Participant’s restrictions under this Section 8 to be reasonable.
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(h) Severability. The parties agree that if any part of this Section 8 or the
application of any part of this Section 8 is found by a court to be void, voidable, invalid,
unenforceable, or in conflict with any federal or state law, then the remainder of this Agreement
shall remain valid, fully enforceable, and shall otherwise be given full force and effect.
9. Titles. Titles are provided herein for convenience only and are not to serve as a
basis for interpretation or construction of this Agreement.
10. Amendment. This Agreement may be amended only by a written agreement executed by
the parties hereto which specifically states that it is amending this Agreement.
11. Governing Law. The laws of the State of Delaware will govern the interpretation,
validity and performance of this Agreement regardless of the law that might be applied under
principles of conflicts of laws.
12. Resolution of Disputes. Any dispute or disagreement which may arise under, or as
a result of, or in any way relate to, the interpretation, construction or application of this
Agreement shall be determined by the Committee. Any determination made hereunder shall be final,
binding and conclusive on Participant and the Company for all purposes.
13. Severability. Should any provision of this Agreement be held by a court of
competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable or invalid for any reason, the remaining provisions of
this Agreement shall not be affected by such holding and shall continue in full force in accordance
with their terms.
14. Binding Effect. Except as expressly stated herein to the contrary, this Agreement
will be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the respective heirs, legal representatives,
successors and assigns of the parties hereto.
[Signature Page Immediately Follows]
This Agreement shall be deemed fully executed and delivered by the parties hereto upon the electronic signature/acceptance of the Participant via email.
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The Company:
| By: | ||||
| Xxxx Xxxxxx, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | ||||
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APPENDIX A
EURONET WORLDWIDE, INC.
2006 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN
2006 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN
_______________________________
Designation of Beneficiary
______________________________
______________________________
In connection with the RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT AGREEMENT (the “Award Agreement”) entered
into on ____________, 201______ between Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (the “Company”) and
____________, an individual residing at ____________ (the
“Recipient”), the Recipient hereby designates the person specified below as the beneficiary
of the Recipient’s interest in Restricted Stock (as defined in the 2006 Stock Incentive Plan of the
Company awarded pursuant to the Award Agreement. This designation shall remain in effect until
revoked in writing by the Recipient.
| Name of Beneficiary: |
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| Address: | ||||
| Social Security No.: | ||||
The Recipient understands that this designation operates to entitle the above-named
beneficiary to the rights conferred by the Award Agreement from the date this form is delivered to
the Company until such date as this designation is revoked in writing by the Recipient, including
by delivery to the Company of a written designation of beneficiary executed by the Recipient on a
later date.
| Date: | ||||
| By: | ||||
| [Recipient Name] | ||||
County of ____________
State of ____________
Sworn to before me this ______ day of _______, 201 ________
____________________ Notary Public |
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