Transferability Clause Example from Business Contracts

Transferability. Except as otherwise provided in this Section 8, your option is not assignable or transferable, except by will or by the laws of descent and distribution, and is exercisable during your life only by you. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, your option may not be sold, assigned, transferred or otherwise disposed of, or pledged or hypothecated in any manner (whether by operation of law or otherwise), and shall not be subject to execution, attachment or other process. Any assignment, t...ransfer, sale, pledge, hypothecation or other disposition of your option or any attempt to make any such levy of execution, attachment or other process will cause your option to terminate immediately, unless the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, with advice from counsel, specifically waives applicability of this provision. (a) Certain Trusts. Upon receiving written permission from the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, with advice from counsel, you may transfer your option to a trust if you are considered to be the sole beneficial owner (determined under Section 671 of the Code and applicable state law) while the option is held in the trust. You and the trustee must enter into transfer and other agreements required by the Company. (b) Domestic Relations Orders. Upon receiving written permission from the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, with advice from counsel, and provided that you and the designated transferee enter into transfer and other agreements required by the Company, you may transfer your option pursuant to the terms of a domestic relations order, official marital settlement agreement or other divorce or separation instrument as permitted by Treasury Regulation 1.421-1(b)(2) that contains the information required by the Company to effectuate the transfer. You are encouraged to discuss the proposed terms of any division of this option with the Company prior to finalizing the domestic relations order or marital settlement agreement to help ensure the required information is contained within the domestic relations order or marital settlement agreement. If this option is an Incentive Stock Option, this option may be deemed to be a Nonstatutory Stock Option as a result of such transfer. (c) Beneficiary Designation. Upon receiving written permission from the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, you may, by delivering written notice to the Company, in a form approved by the Company and any broker designated by the Company to handle option exercises, designate a third party who, on your death, will thereafter be entitled to exercise this option within the 12 months following the date of your death (or such shorter exercise period as may be required by Section 6 above) and receive the Common Shares or other consideration resulting from such exercise. In the absence of such a designation, your executor or administrator of your estate will be entitled to exercise this option and receive, on behalf of your estate, the Common Shares or other consideration resulting from such exercise. ATTACHMENT I-5- 9. OPTION NOT A SERVICE CONTRACT. Your option is not an employment or service contract, and nothing in your option will be deemed to create in any way whatsoever any obligation on your part to continue in the employ or service of the Company or an Affiliate, or of the Company or an Affiliate to continue your employment or service. In addition, nothing in your option will obligate the Company or an Affiliate, their respective stockholders, boards of directors, officers or employees to continue any relationship that you might have as a member of the Company's Board or a consultant for the Company or an Affiliate. The Company and its Affiliates hereby reserve its rights to discharge and terminate your services at any time for any reason whatsoever, with or without cause, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in a written agreement between you and the Company or an Affiliate. View More