Deferred Stock Units Agreement (In Lieu of Cash)

EX-10.37 3 d280303dex1037.htm EX-10.37 EX-10.37

Exhibit 10.37

Deferred Stock Units Agreement

(In Lieu of Cash)

This Agreement made by and between Motorola Solutions, Inc. (“Motorola Solutions” or the “Company”) and the undersigned Non-Employee Director (“Director”) of the Motorola Solutions Board of Directors (“Board”) is effective as of                 , 201    .

WHEREAS, Director is acquiring the right to receive shares of Motorola Solutions common stock in the future in the form of deferred stock units (the “Deferred Stock Units”); and

WHEREAS, this right to receive Deferred Stock Units is conditioned upon Director executing and delivering to Motorola Solutions this agreement evidencing the terms, conditions and restrictions applicable to the Deferred Stock Units.

NOW THEREFORE, Motorola Solutions and Director mutually agree as follows:

1. The Deferred Stock Units that are subject to this Agreement are being issued to Director pursuant to the Motorola Solutions Omnibus Incentive Plan of 2006 (the “2006 Omnibus Plan”) or such other Motorola Solutions equity incentive plan as designated by the Compensation and Leadership Committee of the Board, and are subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plan. If a term is used but not defined, it has the meaning given such term in the applicable plan.

2. The Deferred Stock Units that are subject to this Agreement will be all of the Deferred Stock Units issued to Director in lieu of cash compensation earned on or after January 1, 201__, pursuant to the applicable plan and the election form executed by Director that is on file with Motorola Solutions.

3. The Deferred Stock Units may not be sold, assigned, transferred, pledged or encumbered by Director at any time.

4. Unless Director elects an alternative payment date in a manner prescribed by the Company, upon Director’s separation from service (within the meaning of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended (the “Code”)) with the Company or such earlier alternative payment date, the Company shall establish a brokerage account for the Grantee and credit to that account the number of shares of Motorola Solutions common stock equal to the number of Deferred Stock Units then credited to Director’s account as a result of this Agreement, plus a cash payment equal to the value of any fractional Unit so credited.

5. Upon Motorola Solutions’ payment of a dividend with respect to its common stock, the number of Deferred Stock Units credited to Director shall be increased by the number obtained by dividing (a) the amount of the dividend Director would have received had Director owned a number of shares of Motorola Solutions common stock equal to the number of Deferred Stock Units then credited to his or her account by (b) the closing price of the Motorola Solutions common stock on the last trading day before the date of the dividend payment, as reported for the New York Stock Exchange-Composite Transaction in The Wall Street Journal at www.online.wsj.com.

In the event a dividend is paid in shares of stock of another company or in other property, Director will be credited with the number of shares of that company or the amount of property which would have been received had Director owned a number of shares of Motorola Solutions common stock equal to the number of Deferred Stock Units credited to his or her account and any such shares and property shall be credited to Director’s brokerage account at the same time the shares of Motorola Solutions common stock underlying the Deferred Stock Units are delivered to Director.

6. If the number of outstanding shares of Motorola Solutions common stock is changed as a result of a stock dividend, stock split or the like without additional consideration to the Company, the number of Deferred Stock Units subject to this award shall be adjusted to correspond to the change in the outstanding shares of common stock.

7. Except with respect to dividends (as described above), Director shall have no rights as a stockholder of Motorola Solutions with respect to the Deferred Stock Units including the right to vote until the brokerage account established for the Grantee is credited with shares of Motorola Solutions common stock in satisfaction of the Deferred Stock Units.


8. No assets or shares of Motorola Solutions common stock shall be segregated or earmarked by Motorola Solutions in respect of any Deferred Stock Units granted hereunder. The grant of Deferred Stock Units hereunder shall not constitute a trust and shall be solely for the purpose of recording an unsecured contractual obligation of the Company.

9. All questions concerning the construction, validity and interpretation of this Agreement shall be governed by and construed according to the law of the State of Illinois without regard to any state’s conflicts of law principles. Any disputes regarding this Agreement shall be brought only in the state or federal courts of Illinois.

10. This award is intended to comply with Section 409A of the Code and shall be interpreted and administered in a manner consistent with this intent.

11. The 2006 Omnibus Plan and the Prospectus for the 2006 Omnibus Plan are available at upon request to Global Rewards, 1303 East Algonquin Road, Schaumburg, IL 60196 - (847) 576-7885.

In Witness Whereof, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the date first above-written.

 

    Motorola Solutions, Inc.
      By:    
Signature of Director      
      Title:    
Name of Director (Please Print)      

 

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