EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
Exhibit 10.1
AGREEMENT made as of this 9th day of August, 2023, by and between G-III Apparel Group, Ltd., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) and XXXXXX XXXXXXXX (the “Executive”).
WHEREAS, the Company and the Executive are parties to an Employment Agreement (the “Prior Agreement”), dated February 1, 1994, as amended; and
WHEREAS, the Company desires that the Executive enter into this Agreement so that the Company may be assured of the services of the Executive for the term of this Agreement and the Executive is desirous of providing such services on the terms and conditions as provided for in this Agreement, and
WHEREAS, it is the intention of the Company and the Executive that this Agreement supersede the Prior Agreement, and that from and as of the date hereof the Prior Agreement shall be cancelled and of no further force and effect.
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing, and the respective covenants and agreements herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:
The Company shall use its best efforts to cause the Executive to be a member of its Board of Directors throughout the Employment Term and shall include him in the management slate for election as a director at every stockholders’ meeting at which his term as a director would otherwise expire. The Board of Directors shall not amend its By-Laws or take any other action to reduce the scope of the Executive’s authority and responsibilities, unless he shall otherwise consent, or except as otherwise provided in this Agreement.
During the Employment Term and for a period of two years after the Employment Term (the “Non-Competition Period”), the Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, without the prior consent of the Audit Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors, as owner, partner, joint venturer, shareholder, employee, corporate officer or director, engage or become financially interested in, be employed by, or render consulting services to any business in direct competition with any business engaged in during the Employment Term by the Company or its subsidiaries or affiliates (collectively, the “G-III Group”) in any geographic area where, during the term of his employment, the business of the G-III Group is being conducted; provided; however, that the Executive may own any securities of any corporation which is engaged in any such business and which is publicly owned and traded but in an amount not to exceed at any one time four percent of any class of stock or securities of such company. In addition, Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, during the Non-Competition Period (i) request or cause any customers, suppliers, licensees or licensors with whom the G-III Group has a business relationship to cancel or terminate any such business relationship with any member of the G-III Group or (ii) solicit, interfere with, entice from or hire from any member of the G-III Group any employee of any member of the G-III Group.
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(2) Executive shall be entitled to receive annual grants for an aggregate of 300,000 shares with 60% of such shares being subject to Performance Stock Units (“Annual PSUs”) and 40% of such grants being subject to Restricted Stock Units (“Annual RSUs”); provided, however, that the aggregate grant date fair value for the annual grants based on the closing price of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant may not exceed $6,000,000. (By way of example, if the closing price of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant is $20 or less, then the annual grant shall be for an aggregate of 300,000 shares. If the closing price of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant is greater than $20, the aggregate number of shares subject to the annual grant will be the amount determined by dividing $6,000,000 by such closing price with 60% of such shares being subject to Annual PSUs and 40% of such shares being subject to Annual RSUs.) Executive understands and agrees that (i) the performance metrics and other terms and conditions of the Annual PSUs, including time vesting provisions, shall be as determined by the Compensation Committee and subject to a PSU Agreement and the terms of the Company’s long-term incentive plan governing such grants and (ii) the Annual RSUs shall be subject to three-year cliff vesting and other terms and conditions as determined by the Compensation Committee and subject to an RSU Agreement and the terms of such long-term incentive plan.
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The Executive may, within 15 days following delivery of the notice of termination referred to in the preceding paragraph, by written notice to the Board of Directors of the Company, cause the matter of the termination of this Agreement to be discussed at the next regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Directors or at a special meeting of the Board of Directors held in accordance with the Company’s By-Laws. The Executive shall be entitled to be represented by counsel at such meeting which shall be conducted according to a procedure deemed equitable by a majority of the Directors present. If, at such meeting, it shall be determined by a majority of the Directors that this Agreement had been terminated without proper cause, the provisions of this Agreement shall be reinstated with the same force and effect as if the notice of the termination had not been given. The Executive shall be entitled to receive the compensation and other benefits provided herein for the period from the date of the delivery of the notice of termination through the date of such Board meeting. Nothing herein contained shall limit or deny the Executive’s right to have any such dispute resolved pursuant to arbitration as set forth in Section 15 hereof.
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Furthermore, for purposes of determining eligibility of the Executive for retiree benefits pursuant to any plan, program or policy maintained by the Company, the Executive shall be considered to have remained employed until the end of such three year period and to have retired on the last day of such period; provided, however, that to the extent it is not possible under any such plan, program or policy to characterize such three year period as employment service, the Company agrees to provide the Executive with such substantially equivalent benefit as would give the Executive the same substantial benefit he would have received if such characterization was possible and given effect.
As used in this Section 6(f), a Change In Control shall be deemed to occur if (i) there shall be consummated (x) any consolidation or merger of the Company in which the Company is not the continuing or surviving corporation or pursuant to which shares of the Company’s Common Stock would be converted into cash, securities or other property, other than a merger of the Company in which the holders of the Company’s Common Stock immediately prior to the merger have the same proportionate ownership of common stock of the surviving corporation immediately after the merger, or (y) any sale, lease, exchange or other transfer (in one transaction or a series of related transactions)
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of all, or substantially all, the assets of the Company, or (ii) the stockholders of the Company shall approve any plan or proposal for liquidation or dissolution of the Company, or (iii) any person (as such term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d)(2) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)), other than the Executive, shall become the beneficial owner of 35% or more of the Company’s then outstanding Common Stock other than pursuant to a plan or arrangement entered into by such person and the Company or (iv) during any period of two consecutive years, individuals who at the beginning of such period constitute the entire Board of Directors shall cease for any reason to constitute a majority thereof unless the election, or the nomination for election by the Company’s stockholders, of each new director was approved by a vote of at least two-thirds of the directors then still in office who were directors at the beginning of the period.
If to the Executive: | (On file with the Company) |
If to the Company: | G-III Apparel Group, Ltd. |
With a copy, in either case, to: | Xxxx Xxxx, Esq. and Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Esq. |
or to such other address as either party may have furnished to the other in writing in accordance herewith, except that notice of change of address shall be effective only upon receipt.
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(b) The accounting firm engaged by the Company for general tax purposes or such other nationally-recognized accounting firm selected by the Company will perform the calculations contemplated by this Section 17. The Company and the Executive agree to provide such firm with such information and documents as such firm may reasonably request in order to perform such calculations. The Company will bear all expenses of such firm with respect to the determinations required to be made hereunder. The accounting firm engaged to make the determinations hereunder will provide its calculations, together with detailed supporting documentation, to the Company and the Executive. If the accounting firm determines that no Excise Tax is payable with respect to a payment, either before or after the application of the Payment Cap, then it will furnish the Company with documentation reasonably acceptable to the Company that no Excise Tax will be imposed with respect to such payments. Any good faith determinations of the accounting firm made hereunder will be final, binding, and conclusive upon the Company and the Executive.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement on the day and year first-above written.
G-III APPAREL GROUP, LTD.
By: /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxxxx
/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
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