Texas Instruments Incorporated Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (Executive Officers) RSU Form No. 2
Exhibit 10(m)
Texas
Instruments Incorporated
(Executive
Officers)
RSU
Form No. 2
2009
LTIP
Your
award of restricted stock units (the “Award”) is subject to the following terms
and conditions, your acceptance of which is required within 120 days of the
Grant Date (as defined in Section 12 below). Failure to accept this Agreement by
such date will result in termination of the Award without any shares being
issued.
The
capitalized terms in this Agreement have the meaning stated in Section 12 except
as otherwise specified.
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Share
Issuance. Each restricted stock unit represents the
right to receive one share of common stock of the Company. The
shares covered by this Award will be issued in your name on, or as soon as
practicable (but no later than 60 days) after, the date of vesting stated
on your Employee Stock Grant Communication (“Vesting Date”), except as
provided below.
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Change in Employment
Status. The effect of changes in your employment status
with TI before the Vesting Date will be as
follows:
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(a)
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Termination due to
death or permanent disability: The Award will continue
to full term subject to the other terms and conditions of this Agreement,
and shares will be issued to you or to your personal representatives,
heirs, legatees or distributees, as applicable, at such times and in such
number and manner as if you were still an employee of TI on the Vesting
Date.
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(b)
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Termination (except
for cause) when you are retirement eligible (normal or early) either under
the terms of the TI retirement or pension plan in your home country or the
country in which you work, as applicable (regardless of whether you are a
participant in such plan), or if there is no such plan, as may be set
forth in the laws or regulations in your home country or the country in
which you work, as applicable: The Award will continue
to full term subject to the other terms and conditions of this Agreement,
except that (subject to Section 2(c) and 2(e)) the number of shares
issuable to you on the Vesting Date will be reduced pro rata as
follows:
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The
number of shares to be issued will be the number specified for the Vesting Date
on the Employee Stock Grant Communication, times a fraction equal to your
Pre-Retirement Period divided by the Vesting Period. If the number of
shares calculated pursuant to the previous sentence includes a fraction of a
share, the number will be rounded up to the next whole share. If your
Award provides for more than one Vesting Date, this calculation will be done to
determine the number of shares issuable on each Vesting Date.
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(c)
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Involuntary
Termination after a Change in Control: If you experience
an Involuntary Termination within 24 months after a Change in Control,
then shares will be issued to you as described in Section 11(i) of the
Plan, and the number of shares will not be reduced by Section 2(b) or 2(e)
of this Agreement.
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(d)
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Termination under
other circumstances: For any termination other than
those described above in this Section 2, the Award will terminate and
become void without any shares being
issued.
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(e)
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Commencement of a
Bridge to Retirement even if you subsequently return to full- or part-time
employment with TI: The Award will continue to full term
subject to the other terms and conditions of this Agreement, except that
(subject to Section 2(c)) the number of shares issuable to you on the
Vesting Date will be reduced pro rata as
follows:
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The
number of shares to be issued will be the number specified for the Vesting Date
on the Employee Stock Grant Communication, times a fraction equal to your
Pre-Bridge Period divided by the Vesting Period. If the number of
shares calculated pursuant to the previous sentence includes a fraction of a
share, the number will be rounded up to the next whole share. If your
Award provides for more than one Vesting Date, this calculation will be done to
determine the number of shares to be issuable on each Vesting Date.
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(f)
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Other changes in
employment status: No changes in your employment status
at TI other than those described above will affect the
Award.
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3.
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Confidential
Information and Competition. See Section 9, particularly
Section 9(c), for the effect of disclosure of confidential information or
of competition with TI.
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Employee Stock Grant
Communication. This Award was granted by the
Compensation Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors (the
“Committee”). In the event of a conflict between the Employee
Stock Grant Communication and the records of the Committee, the latter
shall govern and be determinative.
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Dividend
Equivalents. Each year in which this Award is in effect,
you will receive a payment equivalent to the cash dividends you would have
received if the shares to which you are entitled under this Award, but not
yet issued in your name, had already been issued to you (“Dividend
Equivalents”); provided, however, that no payment will be made if your
Award has terminated before the last dividend record date of the year for
any reason other than vesting. The payment to which you are
entitled under this paragraph will be made once each year on or as soon as
practicable after the date of the last cash dividend payment in the year
(but in any event before year-end). The Dividend Equivalents
will be calculated for the record dates on which this Award was in effect
during the year. If the number of shares to which you are
entitled under this Award is reduced pursuant to Section 2(b) or 2(e),
then your right to dividend equivalents will be correspondingly reduced
with effect from the date of your retirement or commencement of a Bridge
to Retirement, as applicable.
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Continuing
Employment. This Award will not constitute or be
evidence of any agreement or understanding, expressed or implied, on the
part of TI to employ you for any specific
period.
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7.
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Transferability. Your
Award is not transferable except by will or by the laws of descent and
distribution. During your lifetime, the shares issuable
hereunder may be issued only to
you.
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8.
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Long-Term Incentive
Plan. Your Award is subject to all of the terms and
conditions of the Plan. In the event of any conflict between
such terms and conditions and those set forth herein, the terms of the
Plan shall govern and be
determinative.
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9.
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Confidential
Information, Competition and Recoupment Policy. By
accepting your Award, and in consideration for the Award and for the
Company’s obligations set forth in this Agreement, you agree with the
Company as follows:
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(a)
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You
recognize and acknowledge that in the course of your employment with TI,
you have obtained private or confidential information and proprietary data
relating to TI, including but not limited to TI’s trade secrets
(“Confidential Information”). XX agrees that it will continue
to provide you with access to its Confidential Information to the extent
necessary for you to carry out the duties of your employment with
TI.
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(b)
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You
agree not to use or disclose to third parties, either directly or
indirectly, Confidential Information at any time, except with the prior
written consent of TI. Without intending to limit the remedies
available to TI, you acknowledge that damages at law will be an
insufficient remedy to TI if you violate the terms of this Section 9(b)
and agree that TI may apply for and have injunctive relief in any court of
competent jurisdiction specifically to enforce the terms of this paragraph
upon the breach or threatened breach of any such terms or otherwise
specifically to enforce such terms.
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(c)
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You
agree that, if, during your employment and for a period of two years
thereafter you engage in Competition (as defined in Section 12(d)), either
directly or indirectly, for your own benefit or on behalf of any other
person or entity, or, if at any time, you use or disclose to third parties
any Confidential Information without the written consent of TI, then (i)
the Company’s obligation to issue shares under this Award will terminate
and become void, and (ii) you shall repay immediately to TI the Fair
Market Value (as defined in Section 12(m) below) of any shares of stock
issued to you (or immediately surrender to the Company the same number of
shares of stock as were issued to you) under this Award within three years
prior to termination of your employment or any time after termination of
your employment. If your Award provides for more than one
Vesting Date, then payment shall be made, or shares surrendered, with
respect to each such Vesting Date. Any amount payable (or
number of shares subject to surrender) to the Company pursuant to this
provision may be reduced or waived as the Company, in its sole judgment,
deems warranted by the
circumstances.
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(d)
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In
addition, you agree that this Award is subject to the recoupment policy
adopted by the Committee and in effect on the effective date of this
Award.
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(e)
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You
recognize and acknowledge that the provisions of this Section 9 are
entered into by you in consideration of, and as a material inducement to,
the agreements by the Company herein as well as an inducement for the
Company to enter into this Agreement, and that, but for your agreement to
the provisions of this Section 9, the Company would not have entered into
this Agreement.
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Responsibility for
Taxes. You acknowledge that the ultimate liability for
income tax, social insurance or other tax-related withholding
(“Tax-Related Items”), including any taxes under Section 409A of the U.S.
Internal Revenue Code, in connection with this Award, the payment of
Dividend Equivalents or the issuance of shares hereunder, or the
subsequent sale of such shares is your responsibility, and that TI makes
(a) no representations or undertakings with respect to the treatment for
tax purposes of this Award, any shares or Dividend Equivalents received
hereunder, the sale of such shares or any dividends paid on issued shares
and (b) does not commit to structure the grant to reduce your
liability for Tax-Related Items. You authorize TI to withhold
all applicable Tax-Related Items legally payable by you from your wages or
other cash compensation paid to you by TI, from Dividend Equivalents or
from proceeds of the sale of the shares. If permissible under
local law, TI may (a) sell or arrange for the sale of shares that you
acquire to meet the withholding obligation for Tax-Related Items, and/or
(b) withhold shares, provided that TI only withholds the number of shares
necessary to satisfy the minimum withholding amount. Finally,
you shall pay to TI any amount of Tax-Related Items that TI may be
required to withhold that cannot be satisfied by the means described
above.
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Nature of
Grant. In accepting this Award, you acknowledge
that: (a) the Plan is established voluntarily by the Company,
it is discretionary in nature and it may be modified, amended, suspended
or terminated by the Company at any time, as provided in the Plan; (b) all
decisions with respect to future awards, if any, will be at the sole
discretion of the Company; (c) the Award is voluntary and occasional and
does not create any contractual or other right to receive future Awards,
or benefits in lieu of Awards; (d) you are voluntarily participating in
the Plan; (e) your Award is an extraordinary item that does not constitute
compensation for services rendered to TI; (f) your Award is not part of
normal or expected compensation or salary for any purposes, including, but
not limited to, calculating any severance, termination, pension or
retirement benefits or similar payments; (g) the Award will not be
interpreted to form an employment contract or relationship with TI; (h)
the future value of the underlying shares is unknown and cannot be
predicted with certainty; and (i) if you receive shares, the value of such
shares may increase or decrease in
value.
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12.
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Certain
Definitions.
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(a)
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The
term “Agreement”
means this Restricted Stock Unit Award
Agreement.
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(b)
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The
term “Change in
Control” has the meaning specified in the
Plan.
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(c)
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The
term “Company”
means Texas Instruments Incorporated and the term “TI” means and includes
Texas Instruments Incorporated (together with any successor) and its
subsidiaries.
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(d)
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The term “Competition”
means:
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(i)
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engaging
in any business activity similar to that in which you engaged during your
last three years of employment with TI for any person or entity selling,
marketing, designing or manufacturing products the same as, similar to, or
that compete with products that TI sells or markets in any area that TI
sells or markets such products;
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(ii)
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engaging
in the selling or marketing of any products that are the same as, similar
to, or that compete with any products that you sold or marketed, or
attempted to sell or market, during the last three years of your
employment with TI in any area in which you sold or marketed, or attempted
to sell or market, such products;
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(iii)
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engaging
in the manufacture or design of any products that are the same as, similar
to or that compete with any products that you sold or marketed, or
attempted to sell or market, or participated in the design or manufacture
of, during the last three years of your employment with TI;
or
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engaging
in the selling or marketing of any products that are the same as, similar
to, or that compete with any products that you participated in the design
or manufacture of during the last three years of your employment with TI
in any area in which TI has sold or marketed, or attempted to sell or
market, such products.
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(e)
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The
term “Grant Date”
means the effective date of grant of this
Award.
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(f)
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The
term “Involuntary
Termination” has the meaning specified in the
Plan.
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(g)
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The
term “the Plan”
means the Texas Instruments 2009 Long-Term Incentive
Plan.
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(h)
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The
term “Pre-Retirement
Period” means the number of whole 365-day periods from (and
including) the Grant Date through the earlier of (i) the day before your
termination is effective or (ii) the day before the beginning of any
Bridge to Retirement you have commenced after the Grant
Date.
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(i)
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The
term “Vesting
Period” means the number of whole 365-day periods from (and
including) the Grant Date of the Award through the Vesting
Date.
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(j)
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The
term “Bridge to
Retirement” means an unpaid leave of absence that TI has granted
you solely to enable you to qualify for retirement as described in Section
2(b).
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(k)
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The
term “Pre-Bridge
Period” means the number of whole 365-day periods from (and
including) the Grant Date of this Award through the day before you began
your Bridge to Retirement.
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(l)
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The
term “Employee Stock
Grant Communication” means the written communication from the
Company to you stating the date(s) of vesting and number of shares under
the Award.
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(m)
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The
term “Fair Market
Value” means the closing price of TI common stock on the New York
Stock Exchange on the day before the Vesting
Date.
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Rights as
Stockholder: You will not have any rights as a
stockholder of the Company in respect of any shares of common stock of the
Company issuable under this Award unless and until such shares are issued
in your name and delivered to you in accordance with the provisions
hereof.
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Texas
Law. This Agreement and specifically the provisions of
Section 9 hereof shall be construed both as to validity and performance
and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas without
giving effect to the principles of conflict of laws
thereof.
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Severability. The
provisions of this Agreement are severable and if any one or more
provisions are determined to be illegal or otherwise unenforceable, in
whole or in part, the remaining provisions shall nevertheless be binding
and enforceable.
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END
By
accepting this Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement, I acknowledge I have read
and I agree to be bound by all of the terms and conditions set forth above,
including Section 9 relating to Confidential Information, Competition and
Recoupment Policy.
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