Company with respect to awards and recovery of amounts relating thereto. By accepting Awards under the Plan, Participants agree and acknowledge that they are obligated to cooperate with, and provide any and all assistance necessary to, the Company to recover or recoup any award or amount paid under this Plan subject to claw-back pursuant to such law, government regulation, stock exchange listing requirement or Company policy. Such cooperation and assistance shall include, but is not limited to, executing, completing and submitting any documentation necessary to recover or recoup any award or amounts paid under this Plan from a Participant’s accounts, or pending or future compensation awards.
ARTICLE V
SHARES SUBJECT TO THE PLAN; ADJUSTMENTS
5.1 Shares Available. The Shares issuable under the Plan will be authorized but unissued Shares, and, to the extent permissible under applicable law, Shares acquired by the Company, any Subsidiary or any other person or entity designated by the Company. The shareholders of the Company have authorized for issuance the following number of Shares:
(a) June 29, 2007: five percent (5%) of the Shares outstanding as of that date;
(b) March 10, 2010: an additional fifteen million (15,000,000) Shares;
(c) March 7, 2012: an additional twenty million (20,000,000) Shares; and
(d) March 8, 2017: an additional ten million (10,000,000) Shares, subject to adjustment in accordance with Section 5.3.
No more than 10 million Shares of the total Shares issuable under the Plan may be available for grant in the form of Incentive Stock Options, subject to adjustment in accordance with Section 5.3. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 5.1, (i) when Shares are issued pursuant to a grant of Stock Options or Stock Appreciation Rights, the total number of Shares remaining available for grant will be decreased by one per Share issued, and (ii) when Shares are issued pursuant to a grant of Restricted Stock, Restricted Units, Deferred Stock Units, Performance Units or as payment of an Annual Performance Bonus or other Stock-Based Award, the total number of Shares remaining available for grant will be decreased by a margin of at least 1.8 per Share issued. In addition, in the case of the settlement of any stock-settled Stock Appreciation Right, the total number of Shares available for grant will be decreased by the total number of Shares underlying the Award, regardless of the number of Shares used to the Stock Appreciation Right on the day of settlement.
5.2 Counting Rules. The following Shares related to Awards under this Plan may again be available for issuance under the Plan, in addition to the Shares described in Section 5.1:
(a)Shares related to Awards paid in cash;
(b)Shares related to Awards that expire, are forfeited or cancelled or terminate for any other reason without issuance of Shares, and provided that each such forfeited, cancelled or terminated Share that was originally issued pursuant to a grant of Restricted Stock, Restricted Units, Deferred Stock Units, Performance Units or as payment of an Annual Performance Bonus or other Stock- Based Award shall be counted as 1.8 Shares;
(c)Any Shares issued in connection with Awards that are assumed, converted or substituted as a result of the acquisition of an Acquired Company by the Company or a combination of the Company with another company; and
(d)Any Shares of Restricted Stock that are returned to the Company upon a Participant’s Termination of Employment.
Shares that are (i) tendered by a Participant or withheld by the Company in payment of the exercise, base or purchase price relating to an Award, (ii) tendered by the Participant or withheld by the Company to satisfy any taxes or tax withholding obligations with respect to an Award, or (iii) not issued or delivered as a result of the net settlement of an outstanding Stock Option or Stock Appreciation Right under the Plan, as applicable, will not be available for future Awards under the Plan.
5.3 Adjustments. In the event of a change in the outstanding Shares by reason of a stock split, reverse stock split, dividend or other distribution (whether in the form of cash, Shares, other securities or other property), extraordinary cash dividend, recapitalization, merger, consolidation, split-up, spin-off, reorganization, combination, repurchase or exchange of