AMENDMENT TO HYATT HOTELSCORPORATION RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT AWARD AGREEMENTS
Exhibit 10.3
AMENDMENT TO
HYATT HOTELS CORPORATION
RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT AWARD AGREEMENTS
WHEREAS, Hyatt Hotels Corporation (the Company) has entered into certain Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreements and Special Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreements pursuant to which the Company awarded certain employees the right to receive shares of common stock of the Company on the dates specified in such agreements (RSU Agreements);
WHEREAS, the Company desires to amend the RSU Agreements to clarify that the timing of the payment of Dividend Equivalent Rights under the RSU Agreements will comply with the terms of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended; and
WHEREAS, to the extent not defined herein, capitalized terms shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the RSU Agreements.
NOW, THEREFORE, the RSU Agreements are hereby amended effective as of January 1, 2009 as follows:
1. By deleting the third sentence in the Section entitled Dividend Equivalent Rights and replacing it with the following:
The aggregate amount of such Dividend Equivalents shall be held by the Company, without interest thereon, and paid to Participant on the date the RSUs are settled and shares of Common Stock are delivered under the section entitled Settlement and Payment of RSUs above.
2. By deleting the last sentence in the Section entitled Dividend Equivalent Rights.
In all other regards the RSU Agreements shall remain in full force and effect.
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Dated: , 2010