Forfeiture of Award and Compensation Recovery. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, you understand that if any of the following occur: (i) a material violation by you of, or your failure to act upon or report known or suspected violations of, the Company’s Guidelines for Business Conduct, as amended from time to time, (ii) your conviction of, or a plea of nolo contendere with respect to, any felony, (iii) your commission of any criminal, fraudulent, or dishonest act in connection with your service as a director, (iv) your material breach of this Agreement which, if capable of remedy, continues for a period of thirty (30) days without remedy thereof after your receipt of notice thereof or two or more such breaches occur in any two month period, (v) one or more instances of your willful misconduct or gross negligence that, individually or in the aggregate, is materially detrimental to the Company’s interests, (vi) a breach any of the covenants or provisions set forth in Section 8(b), 8(c) or 8(d) below unless compliance with the applicable portion of such covenants has been waived in writing by the Board in its discretion, or (vii) a breach of any other agreement between you and the Company, then, in the discretion of the Board: (A) any unsettled portion of this Award granted pursuant to this Agreement may be reduced, cancelled or forfeited, and (B) any settled portion of this Award granted pursuant to this Agreement may be rescinded and recovered within one (1) year after the Company becomes aware of such activity, conduct or event. The Company shall notify you in writing of any such reduction, cancellation, forfeiture, rescission or recovery. Immediately after receiving such notice, you shall forfeit the Award as well as the right to receive Shares that have not yet been issued pursuant to Section 6 to the extent indicated therein. If the written notice mandates the rescission or recovery of any settled portion of this Award, then within ten (10) days of the date of such notice, you are required to (y) return to the Company the number of Shares that you received upon settlement of this Award which have not been sold and (z) pay to the Company in cash an amount equal to the Fair Market Value of such Shares as of the settlement date of the underlying RSUs (with respect to Shares received hereunder that you previously sold). The Company also shall be entitled to set-off against the amount of any such gain any amount owed to you by the Company.
Forfeiture of Award and Compensation Recovery. To the extent that this Award and any compensation associated therewith is considered “incentive-based compensation” within the meaning and subject to the requirements of Section 10D of the Exchange Act, this Award and any compensation associated therewith shall be subject to potential forfeiture or recovery by the Company in accordance with any compensation recovery policy adopted by the Board or the Committee in response to the requirements of Section 10D of the Exchange Act and any implementing rules and regulations thereunder adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission or any national securities exchange on which the Company’s Shares are then listed. This Agreement may be unilaterally amended by the Committee to comply with any such compensation recovery policy.
Forfeiture of Award and Compensation Recovery
