to receive any shares of the Company’s Common Stock pursuant to this Agreement shall automatically expire and be forfeited without payment of any consideration, effective as of the last day of the Performance Period. All determinations of whether the Performance Goal has been achieved, the number of shares of the Company’s Common Stock earned by the Grantee, and all other matters related to this Section 3 shall be made by the Committee in its sole discretion.
3.2 Promptly following completion of the Performance Period, and in any event within two andone-half (2½) months following the end of the Performance Period, (a) the Committee will review and certify in writing (i) whether, and to what extent, the Performance Goal for the Performance Period has been achieved, and (ii) the number of shares of the Company’s Common Stock that the Grantee has earned and that are to be issued by the Company, rounded to the nearest whole share (the “Earned Shares”), (b) the Company shall issue or cause to be issued in the name of the Grantee the number of shares of the Company’s Common Stock equal to the number of Earned Shares, if any, which Earned Shares shall be subject to the terms, conditions and restrictions set forth in this Agreement, including the vesting provisions set forth in Section 4 of this Agreement and (c) the Company shall enter the Grantee’s name on the books of the Company as a shareholder of record of the Company with respect to the Earned Shares, if any, as of the date of the Committee’s written certification (the “Certification Date”), subject to the provisions of Section 4 of this Agreement. Such written certification of the Committee shall be final, conclusive and binding on the Grantee, and on all other persons, to the maximum extent permitted by law.
3.3 Except as provided in Section 5 or 6 of this Agreement, if the Grantee’s Continuous Service terminates for any reason prior to the last day of the Performance Period, the Award and the Grantee’s right to receive any Earned Shares pursuant to this Agreement shall automatically expire and be forfeited without payment of any consideration, effective as of the last day of the Performance Period.
4. Restricted Period. Except as provided in this Agreement, provided that the Grantee remains in Continuous Service through the applicable Vesting Date (as defined below), the Earned Shares will vest (and no longer be subject to forfeiture to the Company) and be issued to the Grantee in accordance with the following schedule of anniversaries of the date for vesting which is selected and approved by the Committee in its sole discretion (the “Vesting Determination Date”):
(i) with respect toone-third (1/3) of the Earned Shares, on the first anniversary of the Vesting Determination Date,
(ii) with respect to an additionalone-third (1/3) of the Earned Shares, on the second anniversary of the Vesting Determination Date, and
(iii) with respect to the remainingone-third (1/3) of the Earned Shares, on the third anniversary of the Vesting Determination Date.
The foregoing vesting schedule notwithstanding, except as provided in Section 5 or 6 of this Agreement, if the Grantee’s Continuous Service terminates for any reason at any time before all
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