Second Amendment to Stepan Company 2000 Stock Option Plan
Stepan Company has amended its 2000 Stock Option Plan, effective January 1, 2009. The amendment changes how the value of previously-owned company shares is determined when used to pay the exercise price of an option. Instead of using the fair market value on the exercise date, the value will now be based on the share price on the New York Stock Exchange at the time of exercise. This amendment was approved by the company's Board of Directors.
Exhibits 10_A
SECOND AMENDMENT OF THE STEPAN COMPANY 2000 STOCK OPTION PLAN
WHEREAS, Stepan Company (the “Company”) has established and maintains the Stepan Company 2000 Stock Option Plan, as heretofore amended (the “Plan”); and
WHEREAS, the Company reserved the right to amend the Plan in Section 5.8 by action of the Board of Directors; and
WHEREAS, the Company now desires to amend the Plan to modify the value at which previously-owned shares of Company stock may be used to pay for the exercise price of an option;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that effective January 1, 2009, the Plan is amended as follows:
1. By deleting the phrase “in shares of Stock (valued at Fair Market Value as of the date of exercise)” where it appears in the second sentence of Section 3.2 of the Plan and inserting in lieu thereof the phrase “in shares of Stock (valued using the price of a share of Stock on the New York Stock Exchange at the time of exercise)”.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the duly authorized officer of the Company has executed this Second Amendment of the Plan on behalf of the Company and has caused its corporate seal to be affixed this day of , 2009.
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