SIGMADESIGNS, INC. 2009STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN NOTICEOF STOCK OPTION GRANT
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EXHIBIT 10.2
SIGMA DESIGNS, INC.
2009 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN
NOTICE OF STOCK OPTION GRANT
You have been granted the following Option to purchase Common Stock of SIGMA DESIGNS, INC. (the “Company”) under the Company’s 2009 Stock Incentive Plan (the “Plan”):
| Name of Optionee: | [Name of Optionee] |
| Total Number of Option Shares Granted: | [Total Number of Shares] |
| Type of Option: | Incentive Stock Option |
| Nonstatutory Stock Option | |
| Exercise Price Per Share: | $_________________ |
| Grant Date: | [Date of Grant] |
| Vesting Commencement Date: | [Vesting Commencement Date] |
| Vesting Schedule: | [Vesting Schedule] |
| Expiration Date: | [Expiration Date] This Option expires earlier if your Service terminates earlier, as described in the Stock Option Agreement. |
By your signature and the signature of the Company’s representative below, you and the Company agree that this Option is granted under and governed by the term and conditions of the Plan and the Stock Option Agreement (the “Agreement”), both of which are attached to and made a part of this document.
By signing this document you further agree that the Company may deliver by e-mail all documents relating to the Plan or this Award (including without limitation, prospectuses required by the Securities and Exchange Commission) and all other documents that the Company is required to deliver to its security holders (including without limitation, annual reports and proxy statements). You also agree that the Company may deliver these documents by posting them on a website maintained by the Company or by a third party under contract with the Company. If the Company posts these documents on a website, it will notify you by e-mail.
| OPTIONEE: | SIGMA DESIGNS, INC. | |||
| By: | ||||
| Optionee’s Signature | ||||
| Title: | ||||
| Optionee’s Printed Name | ||||
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SIGMA DESIGNS, INC.
2009 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN
STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT
| Tax Treatment | This Option is intended to be an incentive stock option under Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code or a nonstatutory option, as provided in the Notice of Stock Option Grant. Even if this Option is designated as an incentive stock option, it shall be deemed to be a nonstatutory option to the extent required by the $100,000 annual limitation under Section 422(d) of the Internal Revenue Code. |
| Vesting | This Option becomes exercisable in installments, as shown in the Notice of Stock Option Grant. This Option will in no event become exercisable for additional Shares after your Service as an Employee or a Consultant has terminated for any reason. |
| Term | This Option expires in any event at the close of business at Company headquarters on the day before the 10th anniversary of the Grant Date, as shown on the Notice of Stock Option Grant. This Option may expire earlier if your Service terminates, as described below. |
| Regular Termination | If your Service terminates for any reason except death or “Total and Permanent Disability” (as defined in the Plan), then this Option will expire at the close of business at Company headquarters on the date three (3) months after the date your Service terminates (or, if earlier, the Expiration Date). The Company determines when your Service terminates for this purpose and all purposes under the Plan and its determinations are conclusive and binding on all persons. |
| Death | If your Service terminates because of death, then this Option will expire at the close of business at Company headquarters on the date 12 months after the date your Service terminates (or, if earlier, the Expiration Date). During that period of up to 12 months, your estate or heirs may exercise the Option. |
| Disability | If your Service terminates because of your Total and Permanent Disability, then this Option will expire at the close of business at Company headquarters on the date 12 months after the date your Service terminates (or, if earlier, the Expiration Date). |
| Leaves of Absence | For purposes of this Option, your Service does not terminate when you go on a military leave, a sick leave or another bona fide leave of absence, if the leave was approved by the Company in writing and if continued crediting of Service is required by the terms of the leave or by applicable law. But your Service terminates when the approved leave ends, unless you immediately return to active work. |
| If you go on a leave of absence, then the vesting schedule specified in the Notice of Stock Option Grant may be adjusted in accordance with the Company’s leave of absence policy or the terms of your leave. If you commence working on a part-time basis, then the vesting schedule specified in the Notice of Stock Option Grant may be adjusted in accordance with the Company’s part-time work policy or the terms of an agreement between you and the Company pertaining to your part-time schedule. |
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STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT
STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT
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| Restrictions on Exercise | The Company will not permit you to exercise this Option if the issuance of Shares at that time would violate any law or regulation. The inability of the Company to obtain approval from any regulatory body having authority deemed by the Company to be necessary to the lawful issuance and sale of the Company stock pursuant to this Option shall relieve the Company of any liability with respect to the non-issuance or sale of the Company stock as to which such approval shall not have been obtained. | |
| Notice of Exercise | When you wish to exercise this Option you must provide a notice of exercise form in accordance with such procedures as are established by the Company and communicated to you from time to time. Any notice of exercise must specify how many Shares you wish to purchase and how your Shares should be registered. The notice of exercise will be effective when it is received by the Company. If someone else wants to exercise this Option after your death, that person must prove to the Company’s satisfaction that he or she is entitled to do so. | |
| Form of Payment | When you submit your notice of exercise, you must include payment of the Option exercise price for the Shares you are purchasing. Payment may be made in the following form(s): | |
| • | Your personal check, a cashier’s check or a money order. | |
| • | Certificates for Shares that you own, along with any forms needed to effect a transfer of those Shares to the Company. The value of the Shares, determined as of the effective date of the Option exercise, will be applied to the Option exercise price. Instead of surrendering Shares, you may attest to the ownership of those Shares on a form provided by the Company and have the same number of Shares subtracted from the Shares issued to you upon exercise of the Option. However, you may not surrender, or attest to the ownership of Shares in payment of the exercise price if your action would cause the Company to recognize a compensation expense (or additional compensation expense) with respect to this Option for financial reporting purposes. | |
| • | By delivery on a notice of exercise form approved by the Company of an irrevocable direction to a securities broker approved by the Company to sell all or part of the Shares that are issued to you when you exercise this Option and to deliver to the Company from the sale proceeds an amount sufficient to pay the Option exercise price and any withholding taxes. The balance of the sale proceeds, if any, will be delivered to you. | |
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STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT
STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT
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| • | By delivery on a notice of exercise form approved by the Company of an irrevocable direction to a securities broker or lender approved by the Company to pledge Shares that are issued to you when you exercise this Option as security for a loan and to deliver to the Company from the loan proceeds an amount sufficient to pay the Option exercise price and any withholding taxes. | |
| • | Any other form permitted by the Committee in its sole discretion. | |
| Notwithstanding the foregoing, payment may not be made in any form that is unlawful, as determined by the Committee in its sole discretion. | ||
| Withholding Taxes and Stock Withholding | You will not be allowed to exercise this Option unless you make arrangements acceptable to the Company to pay any withholding taxes that may be due as a result of this award or the Option exercise. With the Committee’s consent, these arrangements may include withholding Shares that otherwise would be issued to you when you exercise this Option. The Fair Market Value of these Shares, determined as of the effective date of the Option exercise, will be applied as a credit against the withholding taxes. You also authorize the Company, or your actual employer, to satisfy all withholding obligations of the Company or your actual employer from your wages or other cash compensation payable to you by the Company or your actual employer. | |
| Restrictions on Resale | You agree not to sell any Shares at a time when applicable laws, Company policies or an agreement between the Company and its underwriters prohibit a sale. This restriction will apply as long as your Service continues and for such period of time after the termination of your Service as the Company may specify. | |
| Transfer of Option | In general, only you can exercise this Option prior to your death. You may not sell, transfer, assign, pledge or otherwise dispose of this Option, other than as designated by you by will or by the laws of descent and distribution, except as provided below. For instance, you may not use this Option as security for a loan. If you attempt to do any of these things, this Option will immediately become invalid. You may in any event dispose of this Option in your will. Regardless of any marital property settlement agreement, the Company is not obligated to honor a notice of exercise from your former spouse, nor is the Company obligated to recognize your former spouse’s interest in your Option in any other way. | |
| However, if this Option is designated as a nonstatutory stock option in the Notice of Stock Option Grant, then the Committee may, in its sole discretion, allow you to transfer this Option as a gift to one or more family members. For purposes of this Agreement, “family member” means a child, stepchild, grandchild, parent, stepparent, grandparent, spouse, former spouse, sibling, niece, nephew, mother-in-law, father-in-law, or sister-in-law (including adoptive relationships), any individual sharing your household (other than a tenant or employee), a trust in which one or more of these individuals have more than 50% of the beneficial interest, a foundation in which you or one or more of these persons control the management of assets, and any entity in which you or one or more of these persons own more than 50% of the voting interest. | ||
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STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT
STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT
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| In addition, if this Option is designated as a nonstatutory stock option in the Notice of Stock Option Grant, then the Committee may, in its sole discretion, allow you to transfer this option to your spouse or former spouse pursuant to a domestic relations order in settlement of marital property rights. | |
| The Committee will allow you to transfer this Option only if both you and the transferee(s) execute the forms prescribed by the Committee, which include the consent of the transferee(s) to be bound by this Agreement. | |
| Retention Rights | Neither your Option nor this Agreement gives you the right to be employed or retained by the Company or a subsidiary of the Company in any capacity. The Company and its subsidiaries reserve the right to terminate your Service at any time, with or without cause. |
| Shareholder Rights | Your Options carry neither voting rights nor rights to dividends. You, or your estate or heirs, have no rights as a shareholder of the Company unless and until you have exercised this Option by giving the required notice to the Company and paying the exercise price. No adjustments will be made for dividends or other rights if the applicable record date occurs before you exercise this Option, except as described in the Plan. |
| Adjustments | In the event of a stock split, a stock dividend or a similar change in Company Shares, the number of Shares covered by this Option and the exercise price per Share shall be adjusted pursuant to the Plan. |
| Successors and Assigns | The rights and benefits of this Agreement shall inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable by, the Company’s successors and assigns. Your rights and obligations under this Agreement may only be assigned with the prior written consent of the Company. |
| Notice | Any notice required or permitted under this Agreement shall be given in writing and shall be deemed effectively given upon the earliest of personal delivery, receipt or the third full day following mailing with postage and fees prepaid, addressed to the other party hereto at the address last known in the Company’s records or at such other address as such party may designate by ten (10) days’ advance written notice to the other party hereto. |
| Applicable Law | This Agreement will be interpreted and enforced under the laws of the State of California (without regard to their choice-of-law provisions). |
| The Plan and Other Agreements | The text of the Plan is incorporated in this Agreement by reference. All capitalized terms in the Agreement shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Plan. This Agreement and the Plan constitute the entire understanding between you and the Company regarding this Option. Any prior agreements, commitments or negotiations concerning this Option are superseded. This Agreement may be amended only by another written agreement, signed by both parties. |
BY SIGNING THE COVER SHEET OF THIS AGREEMENT,
YOU AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
DESCRIBED ABOVE AND IN THE PLAN.
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STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT
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SIGMA DESIGNS, INC.
2009 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN
NOTICE OF EXERCISE OF STOCK OPTION
You must sign this Notice on the last page before submitting
it to the Company
| OPTIONEE INFORMATION: | ||||
| Name: | Social Security Number: | |||
| Address: | Employee Number: | |||
| OPTION INFORMATION: | ||
| Date of Grant: _______________, 200__ | Type of Stock Option: | |
| Exercise Price per Share: $______________ | | Nonstatutory (NSO) |
| Total number of Shares of Sigma Designs, inc. (the “Company”) covered by option: __________ | | Incentive (ISO) |
EXERCISE INFORMATION:
Number of Shares of the Company for which option is being exercised now: . (These Shares are referred to below as the “Purchased Shares.”)
Total exercise price for the Purchased Shares: $
Form of payment enclosed:
| | Check for $ __________, payable to “Sigma Designs, Inc.” |
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Name(s) in which the Purchased Shares should be registered
[please check one box]:
| | In my name only | |
| | In the names of my spouse and myself as community property | My spouse’s name (if applicable): ____________________________________________ |
| | In the names of my spouse and myself as joint tenants with the right of survivorship | |
| | In the name of an eligible revocable trust | Full legal name of revocable trust: ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ |
| The certificate for the Purchased Shares should be sent to the following address: | ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ | |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
| 1. | I understand that all sales of Purchased Shares are subject to compliance with the Company’s policy on securities trades. |
| 2. | I hereby acknowledge that I received and read a copy of the prospectus describing the Company’s 2009 Stock Incentive Plan and the tax consequences of an exercise. |
| 3. | In the case of a nonstatutory option, I understand that I must recognize ordinary income equal to the spread between the fair market value of the Purchased Shares on the date of exercise and the exercise price. I further understand that I am required to pay withholding taxes at the time of exercising a nonstatutory option. |
| 4. | In the case of an incentive stock option, I agree to notify the Company if I dispose of the Purchased Shares before I have met both of the tax holding periods applicable to incentive stock options (that is, if I make a disqualifying disposition). |
| 5. | I acknowledge that the Company has encouraged me to consult my own adviser to determine the form of ownership that is appropriate for me. In the event that I choose to transfer my Purchased Shares to a trust that does not satisfy the requirements of the Internal Revenue Service (i.e., a trust that is not an eligible revocable trust), I also acknowledge that the transfer will be treated as a “disposition” for incentive stock option tax purposes. As a result, the favorable incentive stock option tax treatment will be unavailable and other unfavorable tax consequences may occur. |
| SIGNATURE AND DATE: | |||
| , 200_ | |||
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