Fairchild Semiconductor Stock Plan Performance Unit Award Agreement

Fairchild Semiconductor Stock Plan Performance Unit Award Agreement

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Exhibit 10.1

Xxxxxxxxx Semiconductor Stock Plan
Performance Unit Award Agreement


PARTICIPANT:	EMPLOYEE ID:	GLOBAL ID:

GRANT DATE:		___, 2005

TARGET NUMBER OF PERFORMANCE UNITS:		units

PERFORMANCE YEAR:		Fiscal Year Ending December 25, 2005

THIS AGREEMENT, effective as of the Grant Date set forth above, is between Xxxxxxxxx Semiconductor International, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”, “we”, “our” or “us”) and the Participant named above (“you” or “yours”), pursuant to the provisions of the Xxxxxxxxx Semiconductor Stock Plan (the “Plan”) with respect to the award of the number of performance units (“Performance Units”) specified above. Capitalized terms used and not defined in this Agreement shall have the meanings given to them in the Plan.

By accepting this Grant, you irrevocably agree, on your own behalf and on behalf of your heirs and any other person claiming rights under this Agreement, to all of the terms and conditions of the Performance Unit Award as set forth in or pursuant to this Agreement and the Plan (as such may be amended from time to time). You and the Company agree as follows:


1.	Application of Plan; Administration	This Agreement and your rights under this Agreement are subject to all the terms and conditions of the Plan, as it may be amended from time to time, as well as to such rules and regulations as the Committee may adopt. It is expressly understood that the Committee that administers the Plan is authorized to administer, construe and make all determinations necessary or appropriate to the administration of the Plan and this Agreement, all of which shall be binding upon you to the extent permitted by the Plan. Any inconsistency between this Agreement and the Plan shall be resolved in favor of the Plan.

2.	Performance Goal	The issuance of Performance Units pursuant to this Agreement shall be subject to the Company achieving earnings before interest and taxes, as determined by the Committee pursuant to the Plan, (“EBIT”) for the Performance Year set forth above equal to at least the 50% EBIT Target established by the Committee and set forth in the table below. If EBIT for the Performance Year does not equal or exceed the 50% EBIT Target threshold, the right to receive any Performance Units pursuant to this Agreement shall expire without consideration.

		Subject to the foregoing paragraph and provided that you have remained in the full time employment or service of the Company or an Affiliate from the Grant Date set forth above, the number of Performance Units issued to you under this Agreement (such units, the “Granted Performance Units”) shall be determined in accordance with the following schedule:


	EBIT Required to
Percentage EBIT	Achieve Percentage	Number of Granted
Target	EBIT Target	Performance Units If Percentage EBIT Goal Achieved
50% EBIT Target		0.50 x the Target Number of Performance Units

100% EBIT Target		1.00 x the Target Number of Performance Units

150% EBIT Target		1.50 x the Target Number of Performance Units

200% EBIT Target		2.00 x the Target Number of Performance Units


				In the event that the Company’s EBIT for the Performance Year falls between two of the Percentage EBIT Targets listed in the table above, the number of Granted Performance Units shall be determined by linear interpolation. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall more that 2.00 times the Target Number of Performance Units be issued under this Agreement.


		Following the end of the Performance Year and the collection of relevant data necessary to determine the extent to which the performance goal set forth in this Paragraph 2 has been satisfied, the Committee will determine: (a) the extent to which the performance goal was achieved by the Company for the Performance Year; and (b) the percentage of the Target Number of Performance Units to be issued pursuant to the Performance Unit Award program for the Performance Year. The Committee shall make these determinations in its sole discretion. The number and kind of shares subject to or issued under the Performance Unit Award shall be subject to adjustment as provided for in Section 3(c) of the Plan. The achievement of the performance goal (or lack thereof) shall be evidenced by the Committee’s written certification. For the avoidance of doubt, the right to receive up to 200% of the Target Number of Performance Units shall expire without consideration to the extent that such units do not become Granted Performance Units.

3.	Vesting	The Granted Performance Units will vest (becoming “Vested Performance Units”) on the following Vesting Dates provided that you have remained in the full time employment or service of the Company or an Affiliate from the Grant Date set forth above until the respective Vesting Date, provided that in no case shall the units vest before the date of the Committee’s written certification of the performance goal achievement under Paragraph 2:


	Percentage Vested
Vesting Date	(including portion that vested the preceding year)
July __, 20__		33	%
February __, 20__		66	%
February __, 20__		100	%


		The vesting period set forth above may be adjusted by the Committee to reflect the decreased level of employment or service during any period in which you are on an approved leave of absence or are employed on a less than full time basis.

4.	Termination of Employment	Except as otherwise provided in Paragraph 8 of this Agreement, the right to issuance of Performance Units and the rights under any Granted Performance Units that have not become Vested Performance Units at the time your employment or service with the Company terminates for any reason will be forfeited without consideration as of the date of termination.

5.	Settlement of Granted Performance Units and Issuance of Shares	Each Vested Performance Unit will be settled by the delivery of one share of Common Stock (subject to adjustment under Section 3(c) of the Plan, a “Share”) to you or, in the event of your death, to your designated beneficiary, promptly following the Vesting Date with respect to such Shares, subject to your satisfaction of any tax withholding obligations as described in Paragraph 10 of this Agreement. You hereby authorize any brokerage service provider determined acceptable to the Company, to open a securities account for you to be used for the settlement of Vested Performance Units. The date on which Shares are issued may include a delay in order to provide the Company such time as it determines appropriate to address tax withholding and other administrative matters.

6.	Rights as Stockholder	Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, you will not be entitled to any privileges of ownership of the shares of Common Stock underlying your Performance Units unless and until Shares are actually delivered to you under this Agreement.

7.	Dividends	From and after the date a number of Granted Performance Units are issued to you under Paragraph 2 or Paragraph 8, you will be credited with additional Performance Units having a value equal to declared dividends, if any, with record dates that occur prior to the settlement of any Granted Performance Units as if such Granted Performance Units had been actual shares of Common Stock, based on the Fair Market Value of a share of Common Stock on the applicable dividend payment date. Any such additional Performance Units shall be considered Granted Performance Units under this Agreement and shall also be credited with additional Performance Units as dividends, if any, are declared, and shall be subject to the same restrictions and conditions (including the risk of forfeiture under Paragraph 4) as Granted Performance Units with respect to which they were credited. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no such additional Performance Units will be credited with respect to any dividend in connection with which Granted Performance Units are adjusted pursuant to Section 3(c) of the Plan.


8.		Change in Control		Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Granted Performance Units shall be subject to acceleration of vesting upon a Change in Control as provided with respect to restricted stock under Section 11(a)(ii) of the Plan, and shall be settled as if pursuant to Paragraph 5 of this Agreement, provided that if a Change in Control occurs during the Performance Year, a number of Performance Units equal to 100% of the Target Number of Performance Units shall be issued to you (and become Granted Performance Units) immediately prior to the Change in Control.


9.	Transferability	(a)	Your Performance Units are not transferable, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, by operation of law or otherwise, except as provided in the Plan. Any assignment, pledge, transfer, or other disposition, voluntary or involuntary, of your Units made, or any attachment, execution, garnishment, or lien issued against or placed upon the Units, other than as so permitted, shall be void.

		(b)	You acknowledge that, from time to time, the Company may be in a “blackout period” and/or subject to applicable securities laws that could subject you to liability for engaging in any transaction involving the sale of the Company’s shares. You further acknowledge and agree that, prior to the sale of any Shares, it is your responsibility to determine whether or not such sale of Shares will subject you to liability under xxxxxxx xxxxxxx rules or other applicable securities laws.

10.	Taxes	(a)	General. You are ultimately liable and responsible for all taxes owed by you in connection with your Performance Units, regardless of any action the Company takes or any transaction pursuant to this Paragraph 10 with respect to any tax withholding obligations that arise in connection with the Performance Units. The Company makes no representation or undertaking regarding the treatment of any tax withholding in connection with the grant, issuance, vesting or settlement of the Performance Units or Granted Performance Units or the subsequent sale of any of the Shares underlying the Granted Performance Units that vest. The Company does not commit and is under no obligation to structure this Agreement to reduce or eliminate your tax liability.

		(b)	Taxes. You will be subject to federal and state income and other tax withholding requirements on a date (generally, the Vesting Date) determined by applicable law (any such date, the “Taxable Date”), based on the Fair Market Value of the Shares underlying the Granted Performance Units that vest. You will be solely responsible for the payment of all U.S. federal income and other taxes, including any state, local or non-U.S. income or employment tax obligation that may be related to the Shares, including any such taxes that are required to be withheld and paid over to the applicable tax authorities (the “Tax Withholding Obligation”). You will be responsible for the satisfaction of such Tax Withholding Obligation in a manner acceptable to the Company in its sole discretion, including through payroll withholding.

			(i) By Sale of Shares. Your acceptance of this Agreement constitutes your instruction and authorization to the Company and any brokerage firm determined acceptable to the Company for such purpose to sell on your behalf a whole number of shares from those Shares issuable to you as the Company determines to be appropriate to generate cash proceeds sufficient to satisfy the applicable Tax Withholding Obligation. Such shares will be sold on the Taxable Date or as soon thereafter as practicable. You will be responsible for all brokers’ fees and other costs of sale, which fees and costs may be deducted from the proceeds of the foregoing sale of Shares, and you agree to indemnify and hold the Company and any brokerage firm selling such Shares harmless from any losses, costs, damages, or expenses relating to any such sale. To the extent the proceeds of such sale exceed your Tax Withholding Obligation, such excess cash will be deposited into the securities account established with the brokerage service provider for the settlement of your Vested Performance Units. Such Shares will be sold through the broker at market prices; however the price you receive will reflect a weighted average sales price based on the sales price of Shares on behalf of you and others for whom the designated broker may be selling shares on the relevant day(s), and you acknowledge that the Company or its designee is under no obligation to arrange for such sale at any particular price, and that the proceeds of any such sale may not be sufficient to satisfy your Tax Withholding Obligation. Accordingly, you agree to pay to the Company as soon as practicable, including through additional payroll withholding, any amount of the Tax Withholding Obligation that is not satisfied by the sale of shares described above. Unless otherwise authorized by the Committee in its sole discretion, the sale of shares will be the primary method used by the Company to satisfy the applicable Tax Withholding Obligation, and accordingly you represent and warrant to the Company as follows:


				A.		You are accepting this Agreement during a permitted trading period, and at the time of accepting this Agreement you are not aware of any Material Nonpublic Information (as defined in the Company’s Corporate Legal Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx and Tipping Policy) concerning the Company.


11.	Data Privacy	As an essential term of this Agreement, you consent to the collection, use and transfer, in electronic or other form, of personal data as described in this Agreement for the exclusive purpose of implementing, administering and managing your participation in the Plan. By entering into this Agreement and accepting the Performance Units, you acknowledge that the Company holds certain personal information about you, including, but not limited to, your name, home address and telephone number, date of birth, social insurance number or other identification number, salary, tax rates and amounts, nationality, job title, any shares of stock or directorships held in the Company, details of all awards or any other entitlement to shares of stock awarded, canceled, exercised, vested, unvested or outstanding, for the purpose of implementing, administering and managing the Plan (“Data”). You acknowledge that Data may be transferred to any third parties assisting in the implementation, administration and management of the Plan, that these recipients may be located in jurisdictions that may have different data privacy laws and protections, and you authorize the recipients to receive, possess, use, retain and transfer the Data, in electronic or other form, for the purposes of implementing, administering and managing the Plan, including any requisite transfer of such Data as may be required to a broker or other third party with whom you or the Company may elect to deposit any shares of stock acquired under this Agreement. You acknowledges that Data may be held only as long as is necessary to implement, administer and manage your participation in the Plan as determined by the Company, and that you may request additional information about the storage and processing of Data, require any necessary amendments to Data or refuse or withdraw the consents herein, in any case without cost, provided however, that refusing or withdrawing your consent may adversely affect your ability to participate in the Plan.

12.	Electronic Delivery	The Company may, in its sole discretion, decide to deliver any documents related to any awards granted under the Plan by electronic means or to request your consent to participate in the Plan by electronic means. You hereby consent to receive such documents by electronic delivery and, if requested, to agree to participate in the Plan through an on-line or electronic system established and maintained by the Company or another third party designated by the Company, and such consent shall remain in effect throughout your term of employment or service with the Company and thereafter until withdrawn in writing by you.


13.	Miscellaneous	(a)	This Agreement shall not confer upon you any right to continue as an employee, or otherwise in the service of, the Company or any Affiliate, nor shall this Agreement interfere in any way with the Company’s or such Affiliate’s right to terminate your employment or service at any time.

		(b)	Without limiting the generality of Paragraph 13(a) above, this Agreement and the Plan may be amended without your consent to the extent provided in Section 14(b) of the Plan.

		(c)	This Agreement will be subject to all applicable laws, rules, and regulations, and to such approvals by any governmental agencies or stock exchanges as may be required. The Company may impose such restrictions, conditions or limitations as it determines appropriate as to the timing and manner of any resales by you or other subsequent transfers by you of any shares of Common Stock issued as a result of or under this Agreement, including without limitation (i) restrictions under an xxxxxxx xxxxxxx policy, (ii) restrictions that may be necessary in the absence of an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, covering the Performance Units and (iii) restrictions as to the use of a specified brokerage firm or other agent for such resales or other transfers. Any sale of shares of Common Stock issued pursuant to this Agreement must also comply with other applicable laws and regulations governing the sale of such shares.

		(d)	To the extent not preempted by U.S. federal law, this Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware.

		(e)	Any question concerning the interpretation of this Agreement or the Plan, any adjustments required to be made under the Plan, and any controversy that may arise under the Plan or this Agreement shall be determined by the Committee (including any person(s) to whom the Committee has delegated its authority) in its sole and absolute discretion. Such decision by the Committee shall be final and binding.

14.	Signatures	By the signatures below, you and the authorized representative of the Company acknowledge agreement to this Performance Unit Award Agreement as of the Grant Date specified above.

To accept your Performance Unit grant:

(a)		Sign BOTH copies of this Performance Unit Award Agreement;

(b)		Retain one copy of each for your records;

(c)		Return one copy of each in the enclosed envelope by August 22, 2005.

You will not exercise any subsequent influence over the amount of Shares to be sold hereunder to generate funds for the Tax Withholding Obligation or the price, date or time of such sale.

You are entering into this Agreement in good faith and have a bona fide intention to carry out the terms of this Agreement, and you will not enter into or alter a corresponding or hedging transaction or position with respect to the Shares.

(ii) By Share Withholding. If so elected in the sole discretion of the Committee, then in lieu of a market sale pursuant to Paragraph 10(b)(i) you authorize the Company to withhold from the Shares issuable to you the whole number of shares with a value equal to the Fair Market Value of the Shares on the Taxable Date or the first trading day before the Taxable Date, sufficient to satisfy the applicable Tax Withholding Obligation. You acknowledge that the withheld shares may not be sufficient to satisfy your Tax Withholding Obligation. Accordingly, you agree to pay to the Company as soon as practicable, including through additional payroll withholding, any amount of the Tax Withholding Obligation that is not satisfied by the withholding of Shares described above.