Exhibit 10.1
ImmunoGen, Inc.
Compensation Policy for Non-Employee Directors
Objective
It is the objective of ImmunoGen to compensate non-employee Directors in a manner which will enable recruitment and retention of highly qualified Directors and fairly compensate them for their services as a Director.
Cash Compensation (effective November 12, 2009)
Annual meeting fee for non-employee Directors: | $35,000 per annum, paid quarterly |
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(a) Lead Director / Chairman of the Board:(1) | $30,000 per annum, paid quarterly |
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(b) Chairman of the Audit Committee: | $15,000 per annum, paid quarterly |
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(c) Chairman of the Compensation Committee: | $9,000 per annum, paid quarterly |
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(d) Chairman of the G&N Committee: | $9,000 per annum, paid quarterly |
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(e) Other members of the Audit Committee | $8,000 per annum, paid quarterly |
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(f) Other members of the Compensation Committee | $5,000 per annum, paid quarterly |
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(g) Other members of the G&N Committee | $5,000 per annum, paid quarterly |
Directors are entitled to be reimbursed for their reasonable expenses incurred in connection with attendance at Board and committee meetings during their tenure as a Director. Any reimbursement in one calendar year shall not affect the amount that may be reimbursed in any other calendar year and a reimbursement (or right thereto) may not be exchanged or liquidated for another benefit or payment. Any business expense reimbursements subject to Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 shall be made no later than the end of the calendar year following the calendar year in which such business expense is incurred by the Director.
Quarterly payments shall be paid in arrears within 30 days following the end of each quarter, with the first payments under this policy to be made in January 2010 with respect to service during the quarter ended December 31, 2009.(2) A non-employee Director may elect to
(1) | Payable to non-employee Chairman of the Board only. |
(2) | The January 2010 payment will be pro-rated to reflect service from November 12, 2009 through December 31, 2009. Thereafter, quarterly payments will be paid in arrears based on calendar quarters. Quarterly payments will be appropriately pro-rated for Directors who retire, resign or are otherwise removed from the Board prior to the end of a calendar quarter. |
receive any or all of his or her cash compensation in the form of deferred stock units (“DSUs”) having an aggregate Fair Market Value equal to the amount deferred, measured on the date of grant which shall be the last day of the calendar quarter for which the retainer is being paid. Elections made under the 2004 Non-Employee Director Compensation and Deferred Share Unit Plan, as amended, for calendar year 2009 shall continue to be effective with respect to services during the quarter ended December 31, 2009. All other elections as to form of payment shall be made annually by December 31st of the year prior to service which election shall be effective for all payments to be made in the following calendar year. New non-employee Directors shall make their elections within 30 days of their initial appointment or election to the Board of Directors for all payments to be made in that calendar year. Any such election shall be prospective only for compensation attributable to services performed after the effective date of such election and any amounts covered by such election shall be prorated as necessary. Each non-employee Director shall be deemed to have elected to receive payments in cash for payments in periods prior to any such election or if no timely election shall have been made. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a previous election made by a non-employee Director pursuant to the 2004 Non-Employee Director Compensation Deferred Share Unit Plan or under this policy shall remain in effect for subsequent calendar years until it is changed by the completion, signature and delivery to the Company of a new election form, in accordance with the terms of this policy.
Upon making such election, DSUs shall be granted as described above without any further action by the Compensation Committee. These awards are fully vested as to all of the issued DSUs on the date of grant.
Equity Compensation (effective November 11, 2009)
(a) Initial Grant. New non-employee Directors will automatically be granted, without any further action by the Compensation Committee, DSUs having an aggregate fair market value of $65,000 (rounded down to the nearest whole share), measured on the date of grant which shall be the date of their initial election or appointment to the Board. This award will vest pro rata, on a quarterly basis over a three-year period, as to eight and one-third percent (8-1/3%) of the issued DSUs (rounded down to the nearest whole share) per quarter with the first vesting date to be the date that is the first day of the third month following the month in which the date of grant occurs.
(b) First Anniversary Grant. On the first anniversary of a non-employee Director’s initial election or appointment to the Board, such non-employee Director will automatically be granted, without any further action by the Compensation Committee, a number of DSUs having an aggregate fair market value of $30,000 (rounded down to the nearest whole share), measured on the date of grant which shall be the date of such first anniversary and pro-rated based on the number of whole months remaining between the first day of the month in which such first anniversary date occurs and the first October 31 following the date of grant (the “Monthly Amount”). This award will vest on the same schedule as the Continuing Director Grants awarded pursuant to paragraph (c) below; provided that in all cases the last vesting date of a First Anniversary Grant shall be the first November 1 following the date of grant. The number of
issued DSUs that shall vest on any particular date shall be equal to the number of months in each vesting period based on the Monthly Amount calculation.(3)
(c) Continuing Director Grants. After receiving a First Anniversary Grant under paragraph (b), non-employee directors will automatically be granted, on an annual basis and without further action by the Compensation Committee, DSUs having an aggregate fair market value of $30,000 (rounded down to the nearest whole share), measured on the date of grant which shall be the earlier of the date of ImmunoGen’s annual meeting of shareholders or November 20 of the applicable year. These awards will vest pro rata, on a quarterly basis over a one-year period, as to twenty-five percent (25%) of the issued DSUs (rounded down to the nearest whole share) per quarter on each of February 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1 following the date of grant. If a non-employee director receives a First Anniversary Grant under paragraph (b) above between November 1 and November 20 of any year, then such non-employee director will not be eligible to receive a Continuing Director Grant under this paragraph (c) for that year.(4)
(d) Terms of Grant. All DSU awards to non-employee directors under this policy are granted under the 2006 Employee, Director and Consultant Equity Incentive Plan (the “2006 Plan”), and are subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the 2006 Plan and the form of Deferred Stock Unit Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit A. All capitalized terms that are not defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the 2006 Plan.
Approved by the Board of Directors: November 11, 2009
(3) | For example, if an award is granted on April 15, the amount of the award will be 7/12 of the full-year award (April through October) and such award will vest on May 1 as to 1/12 of the full-year award, August 1 as to 3/12 of the full-year award and November 1 as to 3/12 of the full-year award. |
(4) | Any director who transitions from an employee director to a non-employee director without a break in service shall not be eligible to receive an award of DSUs under paragraphs (a) or (b), but shall be eligible to receive awards under paragraph (c), beginning with the first annual meeting of shareholders on or after which such director ceases to be an employee of the Company. |
EXHIBIT A
DIRECTOR DEFERRED STOCK UNIT AWARD AGREEMENT
UNDER THE IMMUNOGEN, INC.
2006 EMPLOYEE, DIRECTOR AND CONSULTANT EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN AND THE COMPENSATION POLICY FOR NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS
Name of Grantee:
No. of Deferred Stock Units Granted:
Grant Date:
Pursuant to the ImmunoGen, Inc. 2006 Employee, Director and Consultant Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) and the Compensation Policy for Non-Employee Directors in effect on the date hereof, ImmunoGen, Inc. (the “Company”) hereby grants a deferred stock unit award consisting of the number of deferred stock units listed above (an “Award”) to the Grantee named above. Each deferred stock unit shall relate to one share of Common Stock, par value $.01 per share (the “Stock”) of the Company, subject to the restrictions and conditions set forth herein and in the Plan.
1. Restrictions on Transfer of Award. The Award shall not be sold, transferred, pledged, assigned or otherwise encumbered or disposed of by the Grantee, until (i) the deferred stock units have vested as provided in Section 2 of this Agreement, (ii) the Grantee shall have ceased to be a member of the Company’s Board of Directors for any reason and (iii) shares of Stock have been issued pursuant to Section 4 of this Agreement.
2. Vesting of Award. The Award shall vest in accordance with the schedule set forth below, provided in each case that the Grantee is then, and since the Grant Date has continuously been, a member of the Company’s Board of Directors.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, all unvested deferred stock units shall vest immediately prior to the occurrence of a Change of Control (as defined in the Plan).
3. Forfeiture. In the event the Grantee ceases to be a member of the Company’s Board of Directors prior to the applicable vesting dates, all deferred stock units that have not vested as of the Grantee’s cessation of service on the Board of Directors shall be immediately forfeited to the Company.
4. Receipt of Shares of Stock.
(a) Within 30 days following the date on which the Grantee ceases to be a member of the Company’s Board of Directors for any reason, the Company shall issue to the Grantee in book entry form the number of shares of Stock equal to the number of vested deferred stock units pursuant to Section 2 of this Agreement in satisfaction of the Award.
(b) In each instance above, the issuance of shares of Stock shall be subject to the payment by the Grantee by cash or other means acceptable to the Company of any federal, state, local and other applicable taxes required to be withheld in connection with such issuance in accordance with Section 7 of this Agreement. The Grantee understands that once shares have been delivered by book entry to the Grantee in respect of the deferred stock units, the Grantee will be free to sell such shares of Stock, subject to applicable requirements of federal and state securities laws.
(c) Until such time as shares of Stock are issued to the Grantee pursuant to Section 4(a) the Grantee shall have no rights as a stockholder with respect to any shares of Stock underlying the Award, including, but not limited to any voting rights, provided however, that when and if any cash dividends or other distributions are paid with respect to the shares of Stock underlying the Award such amounts shall accrue and be converted into additional deferred stock units based on the Fair Market Value of the common stock on any such dividend payment or distribution date (with any such fractions of deferred stock units computed to four decimal places rounded down) and any such additional deferred stock units shall be subject to the same conditions and restrictions as are the deferred stock units with respect to which they were paid.
(d) If any of the benefits or the delivery of shares of Stock set forth in this Award or the Plan are deferred compensation under Section 409A of the Code, any termination of services triggering payment of such benefits must constitute a “separation from service” under Section 409A of the Code before, subject to subsection (e) below, distribution of such benefits can commence or the delivery of shares of Stock can occur. For purposes of clarification, this paragraph shall not cause any forfeiture of benefits on the part of the Grantee, but shall only act as a delay until such time as a “separation from service” occurs.
(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in the Plan, if the Grantee is a “key employee” (as defined in Section 409A of the Code) as of the date the Grantee ceases to be a member of the Company’s Board of Directors, any issuance of Stock upon a termination of services shall, to the extent this requirement of Section 409A of the Code is applicable to this Award, be delayed to the extent necessary to avoid the imposition of excise taxes or other penalties under Section 409A of the Code until the date which is the first business day after six (6) months have elapsed since the Grantee is no longer providing service for any reason other than death.
5. Incorporation of Plan. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, this Agreement shall be subject to and governed by all the terms and conditions of the Plan, including the powers of the Administrator set forth in paragraphs 4 and 24 of the Plan. Capitalized terms in this Agreement shall have the meaning specified in the Plan, unless a different meaning is specified herein. The Grantee acknowledges receipt of a copy of the Plan.
6. Transferability of this Agreement. This Agreement is personal to the Grantee, is non-assignable and is not transferable in any manner, by operation of law or otherwise, other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution.
7. Tax Withholding. The Grantee shall, not later than the date as of which the receipt of this Award becomes a taxable event for Federal income tax purposes, pay to the Company or make arrangements satisfactory to the Administrator for payment of any Federal, state, and local taxes required by law to be withheld on account of such taxable event. The Grantee may elect to have the required minimum tax withholding obligation satisfied, in whole or in part, by (i) authorizing the Company to withhold from shares of Stock to be issued, or (ii) transferring to the Company, a number of shares of Stock with an aggregate Fair Market Value that would satisfy the withholding amount due. Any reduction in accordance with the foregoing shall, to the extent applicable, be effected in accordance with Section 409A of the Code and Treasury Regulation Sections 1.409A-3(j)(4)(vi) or 1.409A-3(j)(4)(xi).
8. No Guarantee of Tax Consequences. The Company makes no guarantee of any tax consequences associated with this Award.
9. Notice. Notice hereunder shall be given to the Company at its principal place of business, and shall be given to the Grantee at the address set forth below, or in either case at such other address as one party may subsequently furnish to the other party in writing.
10. Continuation of Service. The Award does not confer upon the Grantee any rights with respect to continuation of service as a director of the Company.
11. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without giving effect to the conflict of law principles thereof.
12. Data Privacy. By entering into this Agreement, the Grantee: (i) authorizes the Company and each Affiliate, and any agent of the Company or any Affiliate administering the Plan or providing Plan record keeping services, to disclose to the Company or any of its Affiliates such information and data as the Company or any such Affiliate shall request in order to facilitate the issuance of the Award and the grant of shares of Stock and the administration of the Plan; (ii) waives any data privacy rights he or she may have with respect to such information; and (iii) authorizes the Company and each Affiliate to store and transmit such information in electronic form.
13. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, and by different parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.
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