Appendix 99.1
ZIMMER HOLDINGS, INC.
1. Purpose:The purpose of the Zimmer Holdings, Inc. TeamShare Stock Option Plan (the “Plan”) is to advance the interests of Zimmer Holdings, Inc. and its Subsidiaries and Affiliates by giving substantially all Employees a stake in the Company’s future growth, in the form of stock options, thereby improving such Employees’ long-term incentives and aligning their interests with those of the Company’s shareholders.
(a) “Affiliate” shall mean any entity in which the Company has an ownership interest of more than 50%. | |
(b) “Code” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. | |
(c) “Common Stock” shall mean the Company’s common stock. | |
(d) “Company” shall mean Zimmer Holdings, Inc. | |
(e) “Disability” or “Disabled” shall mean qualifying for and receiving payments under a long-term disability pay plan maintained by the Company or any Subsidiary or Affiliate or as required by or available under applicable local law. | |
(f) “Employee” shall mean any individual employed by the Company or any Subsidiary or Affiliate, excluding leased employees within the meaning of Section 414(n) of the Code and key executives of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates. Employee shall also exclude any person who performs services for the Company if the Company treats the person for tax or labor law purposes as an independent contractor. If such person is subsequently determined to be an employee of the Company by the Internal Revenue Service or any other federal, state or local governmental agency or competent court of authority, such person will become an Employee on the date that this determination is finally adjudicated or otherwise accepted by the Company as long as he or she meets the other requirements of this Section 2(f). Such person shall not, under any circumstances, be treated as an Employee for the period of time during which the Company treated the person as an independent contractor for federal tax purposes even if the determination of the employee status has retroactive effect. In addition, any person who performs services for the Company, regardless of whether such person is an employee or independent contractor, shall not be an Employee for any period of time during which he or she has agreed in writing that he or she is not entitled to participate in the Company’s employee benefit plans. | |
(g) “Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. | |
(h) “Fair Market Value” shall mean the average of the high and low sale prices of a share of Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange composite tape on the date of measurement or on any date as determined by the Committee, or if there were no trades on such date, on the day on which a trade occurred next preceding such date. | |
(i) “Retirement” and “Retire” shall mean termination of the employment of an Employee with the Company or any Subsidiary or Affiliate on or after (i) the Employee’s 65th birthday or (ii) the Employee’s 55th birthday if the Employee has completed 10 years of service with the Company, its Subsidiaries and its Affiliates. For the purposes of this Section 2(i) and all other purposes of this Plan, Retirement shall also mean termination of employment of an Employee with the Company or a Subsidiary or Affiliate for any reason (other than the Employee’s death, disability, resignation, willful misconduct or activity deemed detrimental to the interests of the Company) where, on termination, the Employee’s age plus years of service (rounded up to the next higher whole number) equals at least 70 and the Employee has completed 10 years of service with the Company, its Subsidiaries and its Affiliates and, where applicable, the Employee has executed a general release, a covenant not to compete and/or a covenant not to solicit. For purposes of this Plan, service with Bristol-Myers Squibb and its subsidiaries and affiliates before the Effective Date shall be included as service with the Company. | |
(j) “Subsidiary” shall mean any corporation which at the time qualifies as a subsidiary of the Company under the definition of “subsidiary corporation” in Section 424 of the Code. |
4. Administration:The Plan shall be administered under the supervision of the Board of Directors of the Company, which may exercise its powers, to the extent herein provided, through the agency of the Compensation and Management Development Committee (the “Committee”), which shall be appointed by the Board of Directors of the Company and shall consist of not less than two (2) directors who shall serve at the pleasure of the Board. In addition, the Board of Directors or the Committee may delegate in writing any or all of its authority hereunder to one or more other committees or subcommittees, and the initial grants to be made at the time of the spin-off of the Company’s stock from Bristol-Myers Squibb Company may be made by the Compensation and Management Development Committee of the Board of Directors of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. To the extent that the Board of Directors or a committee administers the Plan, references to the Committee shall mean the Board of Directors or such committee.
(b) As an alternative, the Committee may determine, as a result of certain laws, rules or regulations in countries outside the United States, not to have the Company assume certain Prior Options. |
(a) Grant of Options.The Committee shall (1) determine the date(s) on which options may be granted, (2) select the Employees to whom options may be granted or offered subject to collective bargaining where required, (3) determine the number of shares to be covered by each option so granted, (4) determine the terms and conditions (not inconsistent with the Plan) of any option granted hereunder (including but not limited to restrictions upon the options, conditions of their exercise, or on the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise thereof), and (5) prescribe the form of the instruments necessary or advisable in the administration of options. | |
(b) Terms and Conditions of Option.Any option granted under the Plan shall be evidenced by a Stock Option Agreement executed by the Company and the optionee, in such form as the Committee shall approve, which agreement shall be subject to the following terms and conditions and shall contain such additional terms and conditions not inconsistent with the Plan. Unless the Optionee rejects such Stock Option Agreement in writing, the Optionee shall be deemed to have accepted the Stock Option Agreement and shall be bound by all of the terms and conditions of the Stock Option Agreement and the Plan. |
(1) Number of Shares Subject to an Option.The Stock Option Agreement shall specify the number of shares of Common Stock subject to the Agreement. |
(2) Option Price.The purchase price per share of Common Stock purchasable under an option will be determined by the Committee but will be not less than the Fair Market Value in U.S. dollars of a share of Common Stock on the date of the grant of the option, except as provided in Section 6, 12 or 17. | |
(3) Option Period.The period of each option shall be fixed by the Committee, but no option shall be exercisable after the expiration of ten years from the date the option is granted. | |
(4) Consideration.Each optionee, as consideration for the grant of an option, shall remain in the continuous employ of the Company or of one of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates for at least one year from the date of the granting of such option, and no option shall be exercisable until after the completion of such one year period of employment by the optionee. | |
(5) Exercise of Option. |
(A) An option shall be exercised by delivering notice to the Company or its designee at such address and in such form as shall be designated by the Committee from time to time or pursuant to such other procedures that may be established by the Committee from time to time for the exercise of options. | |
(B) The Committee shall have the discretion to establish one or more methods, and the accompanying procedures, that an optionee may use to exercise and pay the option exercise price including, without limitation, the designation of the brokerage firm or firms through which exercises shall be effected. At its discretion, the Committee may modify or suspend any method or procedure for the exercise or payment of stock options. | |
(C) The option exercise price shall be paid in full at the time of exercise, and the Company shall require the optionee to pay the Company at the time of exercise the amount of tax required to be withheld by the Company under applicable foreign, federal, state and local withholding tax laws. This payment may be in paid in U.S. dollars or in any other manner that the Committee in its sole discretion approves including, without limitation, the withholding of shares of Common Stock that would otherwise be distributed; provided, however, in no event may shares of Common Stock be withheld in an amount that exceeds the Company’s minimum applicable withholding tax obligation for federal (including FICA), state, foreign and local tax liabilities with respect to the optionee. | |
(D) Except as provided in subsections (7), (8), (9), and (10), an optionee must be an Employee at the time of exercise of an option. | |
(E) Notwithstanding anything in the Plan to the contrary, the Committee may, in its sole discretion, allow the exercise of a lapsed grant if the Committee determines that: (i) the lapse was solely the result of the Company’s inability to execute the exercise of an option award due to conditions beyond the Company’s control and (ii) the optionee made valid and reasonable efforts to exercise the award. In the event the Committee makes such a determination, the Company shall allow the exercise to occur as promptly as possible following its receipt of exercise instructions subsequent to such determination. |
(6) Nontransferability of Options.No option granted under the Plan shall be transferable by the optionee otherwise than by will or by the laws of descent and distribution, and such option shall be exercisable, during the optionee’s lifetime, only by the optionee. | |
(7) Termination.An optionee who terminates employment with the Company or any Subsidiary or Affiliate (other than by Retirement, Disability or death) may exercise the vested portion of such option (as such vesting is set forth in the Stock Option Agreement), until the earlier of three months from the optionee’s termination date or the expiration of the option period set forth therein. In the case of an optionee who terminates employment prior to the full vesting of the award, the unvested portion of the option will lapse unless the Committee has exercised its discretionary authority to accelerate the vesting of all or part of such option. |
If an optionee is laid off or granted a leave of absence under a policy of the Company or any Subsidiary or Affiliate, the optionee’s absence from work shall be treated as though the optionee remained in the employ of the Company, Subsidiary or Affiliate, provided that (i) in the case of a leave of absence, the optionee returns to work at the end of the approved period of absence and (ii) in the case of a layoff, the optionee returns to work within twelve months of the date the period of layoff commenced. An optionee who does not return to work as set forth above shall be treated as if the optionee’s employment terminated effective as of (i) the date the optionee was scheduled to return to work, in the case of an approved leave of absence and (ii) the expiration of the twelve month period, in the case of an optionee who is laid off. |
(8) Retirement.If an optionee shall cease to be employed by the Company on account of Retirement after the optionee has been continuously employed for one year or more after the grant of the option, or as otherwise determined by the Committee, the option shall be exercisable only to the extent that the optionee was otherwise entitled to exercise it at the time of such cessation of employment, unless otherwise determined by the Committee, and the option shall remain exercisable for the remainder of the option period set forth therein. | |
(9) Disability.An optionee who ceases to be actively employed by reason of Disability shall be treated as though the optionee remained in the employ of the Company or a Subsidiary or Affiliate until the earlier of (i) cessation of payments under a disability pay plan of the Company, Subsidiary or Affiliate, (ii) the optionee’s death, or (iii) the optionee’s 65th birthday. | |
(10) Death.In the event of the death of the optionee |
(A) while in the employ of the Company or of any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates and provided the optionee shall have been continuously employed for one year after the granting of the option, the option shall be exercisable immediately by the executors, administrators, legatees or distributees of the optionee’s estate, as the case may be, but in no event after the expiration of the option period set forth therein, | |
(B) while in the employ of the Company or a Subsidiary or Affiliate but before the first anniversary of the grant, the option will immediately lapse, | |
(C) after Retirement, as defined in Section 2(i), and provided the optionee shall have been continuously employed for one year after the granting of the option, the option shall be exercisable immediately by the executors, administrators, legatees or distributees of the optionee’s estate, as the case may be, but in no event after the expiration of the option period set forth therein, | |
(D) after termination, but within the three month period indicated in Section 7(b)(7), and provided the optionee shall have been continuously employed for three years after the granting of the option, the option shall be exercisable immediately by the executors, administrators, legatees or distributees of the optionee’s estate, as the case may be, until the earlier of one year from the date of death or the expiration of the option period set forth therein. | |
In the event any option is exercised by the executors, administrators, legatees or distributees of the estate of a deceased optionee, the Company shall be under no obligation to issue stock thereunder unless and until the Company is satisfied that the person or persons exercising the option are the duly appointed legal representatives of the deceased optionee’s estate or the proper legatees or distributees thereof. |
(11) Optionees who become Subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act.If, subsequent to the grant date, an optionee becomes subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act, the option and all rights of the optionee thereunder, shall terminate effective as of the day prior to such designation. |
The date any entity or person (including a “group” as defined in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) shall have become the beneficial owner of, or shall have obtained voting control over, twenty percent (20%) or more of the outstanding common shares of the Company; | |
(a) The date the shareholders of the Company approve a definitive agreement (i) to merge or consolidate the Company with or into another corporation, in which the Company is not the continuing or surviving corporation or pursuant to which any common shares of the Company would be converted into cash, securities or other property of another corporation, other than a merger of the Company in which holders of common shares immediately prior to the merger have the same proportionate ownership of Common Stock of the surviving corporation immediately after the merger as immediately before, or (ii) to sell or otherwise dispose of substantially all the assets of the Company; or |
(b) The date there shall have been a change in a majority of the Board of Directors of the Company within a twelve (12) month period beginning after the effective date of the Plan, unless the nomination for election by the Company’s shareholders of each new director was approved by the vote of three-fourths of the directors then still in office who were in office at the beginning of the twelve (12) month period. |