Terrestar 8-K Second Amended and Restated Employment Agreement

Exhibit 99.1

SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

This Amended and Restated Employment Agreement (the “Agreement”) by and between Motient Corporation, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware (“Company”), and Myrna J. Newman (“Employee”) is hereby entered into effective as of November 1, 2006 (the “Effective Date”), and amends and restates the Employment Agreement initially entered into as of November 21, 2005, and later amended and restated on March 8, 2006.

RECITALS

WHEREAS, the Company desires to employ Employee as Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of the Company, and Employee desires to accept employment with the Company as such all on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement; and

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises, terms, covenants and conditions set forth herein and the performance of each, it is hereby agreed as follows:

AGREEMENTS

1.          Employment and Duties.

(a)            Except as provided below in paragraph 1(e), the Company hereby employs Employee as Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of the Company to be headquartered in Lincolnshire, Illinois. As such, Employee shall have responsibilities, duties and authority reasonably accorded to, expected of, and consistent with Employee’s position as the Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer. Employee hereby accepts this employment upon the terms and conditions herein contained and, subject to paragraph 1(c), agrees to devote substantially all of her time, attention and efforts to promote and further the business and interests of the Company and its subsidiary entities (including joint ventures) or any other entity within the current or future ownership structure.

(b)            The Company and Employee agree that this Agreement may be assigned to any majority-owned subsidiary of the Company or any other majority-owned entity (in either case, and including any successor in interest through merger or otherwise, the “Successor Employer”) within the current or future ownership structure. In the event of any such assignment, the Company and the Successor Employer shall each be directly and jointly and severally responsible for the timely and full satisfaction of all obligations of the Company as set forth in this Agreement. References to the Company shall include and also mean each Successor Employer.

(c)            Subject to the specific terms of this Agreement, Employee shall faithfully adhere to, execute and fulfill all lawful policies established by the Company.

(d)            Employee shall not, during the term of her employment hereunder, engage in any other business activity pursued for gain, profit or other pecuniary advantage. The foregoing limitations shall not be construed as prohibiting Employee from making personal investments in such form or manner as will neither require her services in the operation or affairs of the companies or enterprises in which such investments are made.

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(e)         On or prior to March 31, 2007, the Company may change Employee’s title to Vice President - Accounting. The duties of such position shall be transitioning accounting duties to persons designated by the Company and providing accounting services for the Company’s (or its subsidiaries’) accounting department(s). Any change in title or duties beyond that set forth above shall constitute “Good Reason” for Employee to terminate this Agreement.

2.              Compensation. For all services rendered by Employee, the Company shall pay to Employee the following compensation:

(a)            Base Salary. The base salary (the “Base Salary”) payable to Employee during the term shall be $175,000 per year, payable in accordance with the Company’s normal payroll procedures, but not less frequently than monthly.

(b)            Benefits. Employee shall be entitled to retirement and health and welfare benefits as provided by the Company from time to time to, and on a basis which is as least as favorable as that provided to, other similarly situated employees of the Company.

(c)            Performance Bonus. Employee shall be entitled to Performance Bonuses as follows:

(i)             For 2006, Employee shall be paid a Bonus of $187,500, which amount the Company acknowledges and agrees that Employee has earned by services rendered by Employee to the Company through (and including) the Effective Date and that the payment of such amount is unconditional. Of the aforesaid amount, $100,000 shall be paid to Employee no later than ten (10) days from the Effective Date, and $87,500 shall be paid to the Employee no later than February 1, 2007.

(ii)            For 2007, Employee shall be eligible to receive a Bonus of an amount equal to 50% of the Employee’s Base Salary. The aforesaid amount shall be paid to the Employee no later than February 1, 2008, provided that Employee was employed by the Company on January 5, 2008. The aforesaid amount shall not be paid if Employee’s employment with the Company terminates for any reason prior to January 5, 2008.

(d)          Vacation/Holidays. Employee is entitled to paid time off (“PTO”), pursuant to the policies of the Company then in place; provided that such amount of PTO shall not be less than twenty (20) days per annum.

(e)          Deferrals. The Company shall not take or fail to take any action, which action or failure to act, either alone or together with other facts and conditions, would result in adverse tax treatment of the Employee under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), and the Treasury regulations thereunder. This shall include, but shall not be limited to, the deferral of payments or other events as necessary to comply with Section 409A(a)(2)(B)of the Code, to the extent applicable.

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3.       Term; Termination; Rights on Termination; Severance Payment; Early Termination Payment.

(a)          The term of this Agreement shall begin on the Effective Date and continue through January 5, 2008.

(b)          This Agreement and Employee’s employment may be terminated prior to the date of termination set forth in paragraph 3(a) in any of the following ways:

(i)             Death. The death of Employee shall immediately terminate this Agreement and no Severance Payment or Early Termination Payment as defined below will be due Employee’s estate;

(ii)            Disability. If Employee becomes entitled to receive benefits under an insured long-term disability plan of the Company that includes its officers, either the Employee or the Company may terminate Employee’s employment hereunder with no Severance Payment or Early Termination Payment due Employee;

(iii)          By Company withCause. The Company may terminate this Agreement and Employee’s employment upon written notice to Employee for “Cause,” which shall be: (1) Employee’s willful failure in the performance or nonperformance of any of Employee’s duties and responsibilities hereunder; (2) Employee’s dishonesty or fraud with respect to the business, reputation or affairs of the Company; (3) Employee’s conviction of a felony crime involving moral turpitude; or (4) Employee’s willful failure to abide by any substantial lawful policy or directive of the Company. Employee’s absence during a required or permitted leave of absence shall not constitute Cause. The Company recognizes that the audit committee of the board of directors of the Company has investigated certain matters that are substantially similar to ongoing litigation in Delaware initiated by affiliates of James Dondero. Based on this investigation, the Company hereby agrees that no wrongdoing has occurred with respect to the allegations in such lawsuits, and in no event shall such allegations give rise to a termination of the Employee for “Cause.” Prior to termination of Employee for “Cause” pursuant to clauses (1) or (4) above, Company shall, to the extent reasonably practicable, grant Employee five (5) business days’ written notice to cure any defect giving rise to such “Cause”. In the event of a termination for Cause, Employee shall have no right to receive any Severance Payment or Early Termination Payment, each as defined below;

(iv)          By Company Without Cause.The Company may terminate this Agreement and Employee’s employment without Cause upon written notice to Employee. In the event of a termination by the Company without Cause from the Effective Date through June 30, 2007, the Employee will be entitled to a Severance Payment . In the event of a termination by the Company without Cause from July 1, 2007 through January 5, 2008, the Employee will be entitled to an Early Termination Payment;

(v)            By EmployeeWithout Good Reason. Employee may, without Good Reason (as hereinafter defined), resign or otherwise terminate this Agreement and Employee’s employment effective upon written notice is provided to the Company. If Employee resigns or otherwise terminates her employment without Good Reason, Employee shall have no right to receive any Severance Payment or Early Termination Payment, each as defined below; and

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(vi)          By Employee for Good Reason. Employee shall have “Good Reason” to terminate her employment hereunder upon the occurrence of any of the following events, unless Employee agrees in a writing executed contemporaneously with or after the occurrence of the event that it shall not constitute “Good Reason”: (1) Employee experiences change in title or a material reduction in authority, responsibilities or duties to a position of less stature or importance within the Company than the position described in paragraph 1(a) or (e) hereof, (2) Employee terminates her employment (for any reason) within ninety (90) days following a Change of Control (as defined below), (3)If, prior to April 1, 2007, Employee is required to work from a location not in the greater Chicago area for an average of more than three days per week, including travel time to and from such location, over the course of any calendar month,(4) any breach by Company of the terms of this Agreement, or (5) Employee terminates her employment (for any reason) between June 1, 2007 and June 30, 2007. Prior to termination of employment for “Good Reason” pursuant to clauses (1), (3) or (4) above, Employee shall be required to grant Company five (5) business days’ written notice to cure the event or condition giving rise to such “Good Reason.” In the event the Employee terminates her employment for Good Reason, Employee will be entitled to a Severance Payment, but no Early Termination Payment, each as defined below.

(vii)         Change of Control. A “Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following events occurring on or after the Effective Date:

(1)            any person or group of persons (as defined in Section 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and in effect from time to time (the “Exchange Act”)) (other than persons who are stockholders of the Company immediately prior to the transaction) together with its affiliates, excluding employee benefit plans of the Company, is or becomes, directly or indirectly, the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) of securities of the Company representing 40% or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities;

(2)            the dissolution or liquidation of the Company or a merger, consolidation, or reorganization of the Company with one or more other entities in which the Company is not the surviving entity, or the sale of substantially all of the assets of the Company to another person or entity;

(3)            any transaction (including without limitation a merger or reorganization in which the Company is the surviving entity) which results in any person or entity (other than persons who are shareholders of the Company or affiliates immediately prior to the transaction) owning more than 50% of the combined voting power of all classes of securities/interests of the Company; or

(4)            individuals who at the beginning of any two-year period constitute the board of directors, plus new directors of the Company whose election or nomination for election by the Company’s shareholders is approved by a vote of at least two-thirds of the directors of the Company still in office who were directors of the Company at the beginning of such two-year period, cease for any reason during such two-year period to constitute at least two-thirds of the members of the board of directors.

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(c)            As used herein, “Early Termination Payment” shall mean the product of x and y, where:

“x” means the remainder of fourteen (14) after subtracting the lesser of (i) twelve (12) or (ii) the number of whole months from the Effective Date to the date Employee’s employment under this Agreement is terminated for any reason, and

“y” means the sum of (i) the Employee’s monthly base salary (as in effect on the date of the termination of employment giving rise to theEarly Termination Payment), (ii) 50% of the amount in (i), and (iii) $866 (which amount (1) shall be increased by twelve (12%) percent each year on the anniversary of the Effective Date, and (2) as adjusted, is intended to compensate Employee for the approximate monthly value of employee benefits lost by Employee due to the termination).

As used herein, “Severance Payment” shall mean the sum of $262,500.

Notwithstanding anything else herein to the contrary, in no event shall both a Severance Payment and an Early Termination Payment be due to Employee.

(d)            Upon termination of this Agreement for any reason provided above, in addition to the above payments, if any, Employee shall be entitled to receive all compensation earned and all benefits and reimbursements due through the effective date of termination. All other rights and obligations of the Company and Employee under this Agreement shall cease as of the effective date of termination, except that Company’s and the Employee’s obligations which, by their nature, are designed to survive the termination of the Agreement, including but not limited to the obligations set forth under paragraphs 6 - 11 herein shall survive such termination in accordance with their terms.

(e)            Unless otherwise required by paragraph 2(e), theEarly TerminationPayment or the Severance Payment shall be paid to Employee in a single lump sum by no later than ten (10) days following the termination giving rise to suchEarly Termination Payment or Severance Payment.

4.              Existing Equity Awards. As of the Effective Date, Employee is the holder of certain outstanding and unexpired compensatory options entitling Employee to purchase shares of common stock of the Company and/or its subsidiary, TerreStar, and 15,000 shares of restricted stock issued by the Company. The Company and Employee agree (i) that Employee’s right to exercise such options and her rights to the underlying stock to be acquired upon exercise of such options are fully vested, and (ii) that all restrictions on such restricted stock have lapsed, in each case as of September 25, 2006.

5.              New Motient Options. The Company shall issue options to purchase 110,000 shares of Motient common stock as of the Effective Date hereby (the “New Motient Options”), pursuant to the standard terms and conditions of the 2006 Motient Corporation Equity Incentive Plan (the “Equity Plan”), except as modified. Such options shall have a strike price equal to the fair market value of the underlying Motient

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common stock as of the Effective Date (as evidenced by the closing trading price on the Effective Date), and shall vest, with respect to options to purchase 36,666 shares on February 1, 2007, with respect to options to purchase 36,667 shares on August 1, 2007, and with respect to options to purchase 36,666 shares, on January 5, 2008.

(a)            Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Equity Plan or the standard form of stock option agreement, the vesting of Employee’s right to exercise the New Motient Options and her rights to the underlying share of Motient stock to be acquired under such options shall be accelerated so that Employee shall become fully vested in all such rights if the Employee becomes entitled to either a Early Contract Termination Payment or a Severance Payment under this Agreement.

(b)            The expiration of the New Motient Options following the termination of this Agreement for or upon any reason other than termination for Cause or resignation without Good Reason by Employee, in turn, the Employee’s right to exercise each of her New Motient Options, shall be extended until the later of:

(i)             the fifteenth (15th) day of the third month following the date on which the New Motient Options would have otherwise expired, or

(ii)            December 31 of the calendar year in which the New Motient Options would have otherwise expired.

 6.              Return of Company Property. All records, designs, patents, business plans, financial statements, manuals, memoranda, lists and other property delivered to or compiled by Employee by or on behalf of the Company or its representatives, vendors or customers which pertain to the business of the Company shall be and remain the property of the Company and be subject at all times to its discretion and control. Likewise, all correspondence, reports, records, charts, advertising materials and other similar data pertaining to the business, activities or future plans of the Company or which is collected by Employee shall be delivered promptly to the Company without request by it upon termination of Employee’s employment.

7.              Inventions. Employee shall disclose promptly to the Company any and all significant conceptions and ideas for inventions, improvements and valuable discoveries, whether patentable or not, which are conceived or made by Employee, solely or jointly with another, during the period of employment or within one year thereafter, if conceived during employment, and which are directly related to the business of the Company and which Employee conceives as a result of her employment by the Company. Employee hereby assigns and agrees to assign all her interests therein to the Company or its nominee. Whenever requested to do so by the Company, Employee shall execute any and all applications, assignments or other instruments that the Company shall deem necessary to apply for and obtain letters patent of the United States or any foreign country or to otherwise protect the Company’s interest therein.

8.              Trade Secrets. Employee agrees that he will not, during or after the term of this Agreement, disclose the specific terms of the Company’s relationships or agreements with their significant vendors or customers or any other significant and material trade secret of the Company, whether in existence or

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proposed, to any person, firm, partnership, corporation or business for any reason or purpose whatsoever, and except as required to be disclosed under applicable securities or other laws, or as such terms or secrets are otherwise in the public domain independent of any actions taken by Employee.

9.              Confidentiality.

(a)            Employee acknowledges and agrees that all Confidential Information (as defined below) of the Company is confidential and a valuable, special and unique asset of the Company that gives the Company an advantage over its actual and potential, current and future competitors. Employee further acknowledges and agrees that Employee owes the Company a fiduciary duty to preserve and protect all Confidential Information from unauthorized disclosure or unauthorized use, that certain Confidential Information constitutes “trade secrets” under applicable laws and, that unauthorized disclosure or unauthorized use of the Company’s Confidential Information would irreparably injure the Company.

(b)            Both during the term of Employee’s employment and after the termination of Employee’s employment for any reason (including wrongful termination), Employee shall hold all Confidential Information in strict confidence, and shall not use any Confidential Information except for the benefit of the Company, in accordance with the duties assigned to Employee. Employee shall not, at any time (either during or after the term of Employee’s employment), disclose any Confidential Information to any person or entity (except other employees of the Company who have a need to know the information in connection with the performance of their employment duties), or copy, reproduce, modify, decompile or reverse engineer any Confidential Information, or remove any Confidential Information from the Company’s premises, without the prior written consent of the Board of Directors of the Company, or permit any other person to do so. Employee shall take reasonable precautions to protect the physical security of all documents and other material containing Confidential Information (regardless of the medium on which the Confidential Information is stored). This Agreement applies to all Confidential Information, whether now known or later to become known to Employee.

(c)            Upon the termination of Employee’s employment with the Company for any reason, and upon request of the Company at any other time, Employee shall promptly surrender and deliver to the Company all documents and other written material of any nature containing or pertaining to any Confidential Information and shall not retain any such document or other material. Within five days of any such request, Employee shall certify to the Company in writing that all such materials have been returned.

(d)            As used in this Agreement, the term “Confidential Information” shall mean any information or material known to or used by or for the Company (whether or not owned or developed by the Company and whether or not developed by Employee) that is not generally known to any person in the same business as the Company. Confidential Information includes, but is not limited to, the following: all trade secrets of the Company; all non-public information that the Company has marked as confidential or has otherwise described to Employee (either in writing or orally) as confidential; all non-public information concerning the Company’s products, services, prospective products or services, research, product designs, prices, discounts, costs, marketing plans, marketing techniques, market studies, test data, customers, customer lists and records, suppliers and contracts; all business records and plans; all personnel files; all financial

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information of or concerning the Company; all information relating to the Company’s operating system software, application software, software and system methodology, hardware platforms, technical information, inventions, computer programs and listings, source codes, object codes, copyrights and other intellectual property; all technical specifications; any proprietary information belonging to the Company; all Company computer hardware or software manuals; all Company training or instruction manuals; and all Company data and all computer system passwords and user codes.

11.            No Unfair Competition.

(a)            Non-Solicitation of Employees.Employee hereby covenants and agrees that, during Employee ’s employment with Company and for a period of one (1) year immediately following the termination of such employment, whether voluntary or involuntary, Employee shall not solicit, directly or indirectly, any of Company’s employees for employment with any other person or entity. Employee further agrees that he shall engage in no action during this aforementioned one (1) year period that is intended to or that has the effect of interfering with, altering, or disrupting Company’s relationship with its employees. Employee further agrees that he shall not provide any assistance to any other person or entity in the solicitation or recruitment of the Company’s employees.

(b)            Non-Solicitation of Customers.Employee hereby covenants and agrees that, during Employee ’s employment with Company and for a period of one (1) year immediately following the termination of such employment, whether voluntary or involuntary, Employee shall not, directly or indirectly, on her own behalf or on behalf of any other person or entity, solicit or accept competitive business from, submit competitive proposals to, or conduct competitive business with, (i) any customer of Company that was a customer of Company during the period of Employee’s employment by Company; or (ii) any customer or prospective customer of Company that, during the final two years of Employee’s employment by the Company, Employee had solicited for business or to which Employee had provided services, which services shall be deemed to include but shall not be limited to those typically provided by executive, management, and marketing employees.

(c)            Non-Competition.Employee hereby covenants and agrees that, during Employee’s employment with Company and for a period of one (1) year immediately following the termination of such employment, whether voluntary or involuntary, Employee shall not, directly or indirectly, in any geographic area in which the Company markets its products and/or services in any executive, technical, regulatory, managerial, or marketing capacity or position, become employed by or provide services to any person or entity that provides, markets, sells or distributes products or services competitive with any planned or development-stage products of the Company, which competitor is either Inmarsat, Mobile Satellite Ventures, ICO, their affiliates or any other provider, or intended provider, of satellite services with an Ancillary Terrestrial Component.

12.            No Prior Agreements. Employee hereby represents and warrants to the Company that the execution of this Agreement by Employee, her employment by the Company and the performance of her duties hereunder will not violate or be a breach of any agreement with a former employer, client or any other person or

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entity. Further, Employee agrees to indemnify the Company for any claim, including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses of investigation, by any such third party that such third party may now have or may hereafter come to have against the Company based upon or arising out of any non-competition agreement, invention or secrecy agreement between Employee and such third party which was in existence as of the date of this Agreement.

13.           Assignment; Binding Effect. Employee understands that he has been selected for employment by the Company on the basis of her personal qualifications, experience and skills. Employee agrees, therefore, that he cannot assign all or any portion of her performance under this Agreement. Subject to the preceding and paragraph 1(b), this Agreement shall be binding upon, inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the parties hereto and their respective heirs, legal representatives, successors and assigns.

14.            No Mitigation or Offset. Employee shall not be required to mitigate the amount of any Company payment provided for in this Agreement by seeking other employment or otherwise. The amount of any payment required to be paid to Employee by the Company pursuant to this Agreement shall not be reduced by any amounts that are owed to the Company by Employee, or by any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other claim, right or action.

15.           Release. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, upon termination of employment hereunder, Employee shall not be entitled to receive any payments pursuant to this Agreement unless Employee and Company have executed a mutual general release of all claims each may have against the other and its affiliates in a form of release reasonably mutually acceptable to all parties thereto, and such release has become final; provided that in no event shall the Company be released from any indemnification obligations to the Employee arising by virtue of the Company’s Articles of Incorporation or otherwise required by law; and further provided, that Employee may waive Company’s obligation to execute such release in Employee’s sole discretion.

16.            Complete Agreement. Employee has no oral representations, understandings or agreements with the Company or any of its officers, directors or representatives covering the same subject matter as this Agreement. This written Agreement is the final, complete and exclusive statement and expression of the agreement between the Company and Employee and of all the terms of this Agreement. This written Agreement may not be later modified except by a further writing signed by a duly authorized officer or director of the Company and Employee, and no term of this Agreement may be waived except by writing signed by the party waiving the benefit of such term. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, either party’s failure to insist on strict compliance with this Agreement shall not be deemed a waiver thereof.

17.            Notice. Whenever any notice is required hereunder, it shall be given in writing addressed as follows:

To the Company:	Motient Corporation
	12010 Sunset Hills Rd., Suite 600
	Reston, VA 20190
	Facsimile: 703-476-7143

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To Employee:	Myrna Newman
	2230 Silverpine Dr.
	Glenview, IL 60025

Notice shall be deemed given and effective on the earlier of three days after the deposit in the U.S. mail of a writing addressed as above and sent first class mail, certified, return receipt requested, or when actually received. In addition, notice must be e-mailed on the date of mailing. Either party may change the address for notice by notifying the other party of such change in accordance with this paragraph 15.

18.            Severability; Headings. If any portion of this Agreement is held invalid or inoperative, the other portions of this Agreement shall be deemed valid and operative and, so far as is reasonable and possible, effect shall be given to the intent manifested by the portion held invalid or inoperative. The paragraph headings herein are for reference purposes only and are not intended in any way to describe, interpret, define or limit the extent or intent of the Agreement or of any part hereof.

19.           Governing Law. This Agreement shall in all respects be construed according to the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to its conflicts of law provisions.

20.            Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed simultaneously in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original and all of which together shall constitute but one and the same instrument.

21.           Employee’s Legal Expenses. The Company will pay to Employee an amount equal to her actual reasonable legal expenses incurred in successfully negotiating and documenting this Agreement and all collateral agreements, including tax advice related thereto.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement effective for all purposes as of the Effective Date.

Motient Corporation

By:   /s/ David Meltzer                                               

Name: David Meltzer

Title: Chairman, Compensation Committee

By:   /s/ Neil Hazard                                                    

Name: Neil Hazard

Title: Executive Vice President, CFO

EMPLOYEE:

  /s/ Myrna Newman                                                    

Name: Myrna Newman

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