Amendment to Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. 2009 Long Term Incentive Plan
Exhibit 10(ii)
Amendment to
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
2009 Long Term Incentive Plan
The Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. 2009 Long Term Incentive Plan is hereby amended, effective October 13, 2011, by deleting Section 9 and replacing it with the following:
Section 9. Change in Control
| (a) | In the event of a Change in Control, unless otherwise determined by the Committee or set forth in an Award Agreement or as provided in an individual severance or employment agreement to which a Participant is a party, the following acceleration, exercisability and valuation provisions will apply: |
| (i) | Upon a Change in Control, each then-outstanding Option and Stock Appreciation Right will become fully vested and exercisable and the restrictions applicable to each outstanding Award of Restricted Stock or Restricted Stock Units, Performance Award, Dividend Equivalent or Other Stock-Based Award will lapse and such Award will be fully vested (with any applicable performance goals deemed to have been achieved at a target level as of the date of such vesting), except to the extent that an award meeting the requirements of Section 9(a)(ii) (a “Replacement Award”) is provided to the Participant holding such Award in accordance with Section 4(b) of the Plan to replace or adjust such outstanding Award (a “Replaced Award”). |
| (ii) | An award meets the conditions of this Section 9(a)(ii) (and hence qualifies as a Replacement Award) if (A) it is of the same type (e.g., stock option for Option, restricted stock for Restricted Stock, restricted stock unit for Restricted Stock Unit, etc.) as the Replaced Award, (B) it has a value at least equal to the value of the Replaced Award, (C) it relates to publicly traded equity securities of the Company or its successor in the Change in Control or another entity that is affiliated with the Company or its successor following the Change in Control, (D) if the Participant holding the Replaced Award is subject to U.S. federal income tax under the Code, the tax consequences to such Participant under the Code of the Replacement Award are not less favorable to such Participant than the tax consequences of the Replaced Award, and (E) its other terms and conditions are not less favorable to the Participant holding the Replaced Award than the terms and conditions of the Replaced Award (including the provisions that would apply in the event of a subsequent Change in Control). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Replacement Award may take the form of a continuation of the Replaced |
| Award if the requirements of the preceding sentence are satisfied. The determination of whether the conditions of this Section 9(a)(ii) are satisfied will be made by the Committee, as constituted immediately before the Change in Control, in its sole discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Committee may determine the value of Awards and Replacement Awards that are stock options by reference to either their intrinsic value or their fair value. |
| (iii) | If the Participant terminates his or her employment for Good Reason, the Participant is involuntarily terminated for reasons other than for Cause, or the Participant’s employment terminates due to the Participant’s death or Disability or Retirement, during the period of two years after a Change in Control (A) all Replacement Awards held by the Participant will become fully vested and, if applicable, exercisable and free of restrictions (with any applicable performance goals deemed to have been achieved at a target level as of the date of such vesting), and (B) all Options and Stock Appreciation Rights held by the Participant immediately before such termination of employment that the Participant also held as of the date of the Change in Control or that constitute Replacement Awards will remain exercisable for not less than three years following such termination of employment or until the expiration of the stated term of such Option or Stock Appreciation Rights, whichever period is shorter (provided, however, that if the applicable Award Agreement provides for a longer period of exercisability, that provision will control). |
| (b) | For purposes of this Plan, a “Change in Control” shall be deemed to have occurred if: |
| (i) | any Person, as hereinafter defined, is or becomes the Beneficial Owner, as hereinafter defined, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company, as hereinafter defined, (not including in the securities beneficially owned by such Person any securities acquired directly from the Company or its Affiliates) representing 25% or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities, excluding any Person who becomes such a Beneficial Owner in connection with a transaction described in clause (A) of subsection (iii) below; or |
| (ii) | the following individuals cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the number of Board directors then serving: individuals who, on October 13, 2011, constitute the Board and any new Board director (other than a Board director whose initial assumption of office is in connection with an actual or threatened election contest, including but not limited to a consent solicitation, relating to the election of directors of the Company) whose appointment or election by the Board or nomination for election by the Company’s shareholders was approved or recommended by a vote of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the Board directors then still in office who either were Board directors on October 13, 2011 or whose appointment, election |
| or nomination for election was previously so approved or recommended; or |
| (iii) | there is consummated a merger or consolidation of the Company or any direct or indirect subsidiary of the Company with any other corporation or other entity, other than (A) a merger or consolidation which results in the voting securities of the Company outstanding immediately prior to such merger or consolidation continuing to represent (either by remaining outstanding or by being converted into voting securities of the surviving entity or any parent thereof) at least 50% of the combined voting power of the securities of the Company or such surviving entity or any parent thereof outstanding immediately after such merger or consolidation, or (B) a merger or consolidation effected to implement a recapitalization of the Company (or similar transaction) in which no Person is or becomes the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company (not including in the securities beneficially owned by such Person any securities acquired directly from the Company or its Affiliates) representing 25% or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities; or |
| (iv) | the shareholders of the Company approve a plan of complete liquidation or dissolution of the Company or there is consummated an agreement for the sale or disposition by the Company of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets, other than a sale or disposition by the Company of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets to an entity, at least 50% of the combined voting power of the voting securities of which are owned by shareholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of the Company immediately prior to such sale. |
| (c) | Notwithstanding any provision of this Plan to the contrary, to the extent an Award shall be deemed to be vested or earned, or to the extent the restrictions applicable to an Awards shall be deemed to lapse, upon the occurrence of a Change in Control and such Change in Control is not described by Section 409A(a)(2)(A)(v) of the Code, then any resulting payment permitted by this Section 9 that would be considered deferred compensation under Section 409A of the Code will instead be made to the Participant on the 30th day following the earliest of (i) the Participant’s “separation from service” with the Company (determined in accordance with Section 409A of the Code), (ii) the date payment otherwise would have been made in the absence of any provisions in this Plan to the contrary (provided such date is permissible under Section 409A of the Code), or (iii) the Participant’s death. |
| (d) | Solely for purposes of this Section 9, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other provision of this Plan, the following terms shall have the following meanings: |
| (i) | “Beneficial Owner” shall have the meaning set forth in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act; |
| (ii) | “Company” shall mean Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.; |
| (iii) | “Person” shall have the meaning given in Section 3(a)(9) of the Exchange Act, as modified and used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) thereof, except that such term shall not include (A) the Company or any of its subsidiaries, (B) a trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of the Company or any of its Affiliates, (C) an underwriter temporarily holding securities pursuant to an offering of such securities, or (D) a corporation owned, directly or indirectly, by the shareholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of stock of the Company; and |
| (iv) | Unless otherwise specified in an applicable Employment Agreement, Change in Control Severance Agreement, Change in Control Severance Plan or Award Document: |
| (A) | “Cause” shall mean |
| 1. | the willful and continued failure by the Participant to substantially perform the Participant’s duties with the Company (other than any such failure resulting from the Participant’s incapacity due to physical or mental illness or any such actual or anticipated failure after the issuance of a notice of termination for Good Reason by the Participant) that has not been cured within thirty (30) calendar days after a written demand for substantial performance is delivered to the Participant by the Company, which demand specifically identifies the manner in which the Company believes that the Participant has not substantially performed the Participant’s duties, or |
| 2. | the willful engaging by the Participant in conduct which is demonstrably and materially injurious to the Company or its Subsidiaries, monetarily or otherwise. |
For purposes of clauses (1) and (2) of this definition, no act, or failure to act, on the Participant’s part shall be deemed “willful” unless done, or omitted to be done, by the Participant not in good faith and without reasonable belief that the Participant’s act, or failure to act, was in the best interest of the Company.
| (B) | “Disability” shall have the meaning set forth in the applicable Award Document; |
| (C) | “Good Reason” shall mean |
| 1. | a reduction by the Company in the Participant’s annual base salary as in effect on the date hereof or as the same may be increased from time to time except for across-the-board salary reductions similarly affecting all senior officers of the Company and all senior officers of any Person in control of the Company; |
| 2. | the relocation of the Participant’s principal place of employment to a location more than thirty-five (35) miles from the Participant’s principal place of employment immediately prior to the Change in Control or the Company’s requiring the Participant to be based anywhere other than such principal place of employment (or permitted relocation thereof) except for required travel on the Company’s business to an extent substantially consistent with the Participant’s present business travel obligations; |
| 3. | the failure by the Company to pay to the Participant any portion of the Participant’s current compensation or to pay to the Participant any portion of an installment of deferred compensation under any deferred compensation program of the Company, within seven (7) calendar days of the date such compensation is due, unless such failure is cured within seven (7) calendar days of the Company’s receipt of notice of non-payment from the Participant. |
| (D) | “Retirement” shall have the meaning set forth in the applicable Award Document. |
