If another company acquires us, that company, as part of the transaction or otherwise, may decide to terminate some or all of our employees before the completion of this Offer. Termination of your employment for this or any other reason before the new option grant date (which is the same calendar day as the expiration date) means that the tender of your options will not be accepted, you will keep your tendered options in accordance with their original terms, and you will not receive any new options or other benefit for your tendered options.
Events occurring after the new option grant date
If we are acquired after your exchanged options have been accepted, cancelled, and exchanged for new options, your new options will be treated in the acquisition transaction in accordance with the terms of the transaction agreement or the terms and conditions of our 2020 Plan and the stock option agreement between you and PMV thereunder. If we merge or consolidate with or are acquired by another entity, the transaction could result in a reduction in our workforce. If such termination of employment or other service occurs shortly after the expiration date, then you may hold new options that are entirely unvested, and all unvested new options will expire on such termination date. If your employment or other service with us terminates before part or all of your new options vest, you will not receive any value from the unvested part of your new options. If this termination of your employment or other service occurs shortly after the new option grant date and before you vest in any of your new options, you will forfeit your rights to your unvested new options as of the date of your termination of employment or other service and you will not receive any value from those new options.
In the event that any dividend or other distribution (whether in the form of cash, shares of our common stock, other securities, or other property), recapitalization, stock split, reverse stock split, reorganization, merger, consolidation, split-up, spin-off, combination, repurchase, or exchange of our common stock or other securities of PMV, or other change in our corporate structure affecting the shares of our common stock occurs, the administrator, in order to prevent diminution or enlargement of the benefits or potential benefits intended to be made available under the 2020 Plan, will appropriately adjust the number and class of shares that may be delivered under the 2020 Plan and/or the number, class, and price of shares covered by each outstanding award, and the numerical share limits of the 2020 Plan.
If we liquidate or dissolve, to the extent not previously exercised or settled, your outstanding options will terminate immediately before the consummation of the dissolution or liquidation. The administrator will notify award holders as soon as practicable prior to the effective date of such proposed liquidation or dissolution.
Our 2020 Plan provides that in the event of a merger or change in control of PMV as described in the 2020 Plan, each outstanding award will be treated as the administrator determines, including, without limitation, that each such award be assumed or an equivalent option or right substituted by the successor corporation or a parent or subsidiary of the successor corporation. The administrator will not be required to treat all awards similarly in the transaction.
In the event that the successor corporation does not assume or substitute for an award, the holder of such award will fully vest in and have the right to exercise such outstanding options, including shares as to which such award otherwise would not be vested or exercisable. In addition, if an option is not assumed or substituted in the event of a change in control of PMV, the administrator will notify the holder of such option in writing or electronically that the option will be exercisable for a period of time determined by the administrator in its sole discretion, and the option will terminate upon the expiration of such period. Awards granted under the 2020 Plan may be subject to other terms set forth in a written agreement between the award holder and PMV governing the terms of such awards in the event of a merger or other corporate transaction of PMV, as described in such agreement.
Transferability of options
Unless determined otherwise by the 2020 Plan’s administrator, an option may not be sold, pledged, assigned, hypothecated, transferred, or disposed of in any manner other than by will or by the laws of descent or distribution and may be exercised, during the lifetime of the holder of such option, only by such holder. If the administrator makes an option transferable, such option will contain such additional terms and conditions as the administrator deems appropriate.
Registration of shares underlying new options
All of the shares of PMV common stock issuable upon exercise of new options have been registered under the Securities Act on a registration statement on Form S-8 filed with the SEC. Unless you are an employee who is considered an affiliate of PMV for purposes of the Securities Act, you will be able to sell the shares issuable upon exercise of your new options free of any transfer restrictions under applicable U.S. securities laws.
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