EXHIBIT 10(a)
NON-QUALIFIED STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT--FORM
THE FOLLOWING IS A FORM OF AGREEMENT PRESCRIBED BY THE STOCK OPTION COMMITTEE
OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH THE ISSUANCE OF
NONSTATUTORY OPTIONS (AS DEFINED IN THE EIP MICROWAVE, INC. 1994 STOCK OPTION
PLAN) TO DIRECTORS. THIS FORM IS BEING FILED IN LIEU OF THE INDIVIDUAL
AGREEMENTS WITH PARTICIPATING DIRECTORS.
THE STOCK OPTION COMMITTEE MAY PRESCRIBE A DIFFERENT FORM OF AGREEMENT, AND
MAY MODIFY PREVIOUSLY EXECUTED INDIVIDUAL AGREEMENTS. ANY SUCH DIFFERENT
FORM AND ANY SUCH MODIFICATION MAY ELIMINATE OR ACCELERATE VESTING
PROVISIONS, MAY MODIFY OPTION PRICE PAYMENT PROVISIONS, MAY EXTEND THE
TERMINATION DATE AND MAY ADOPT OTHER PROVISIONS MORE BENEFICIAL TO THE
OPTIONEE, PROVIDED THAT SUCH TERMS AND CONDITIONS ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE
1994 STOCK OPTION PLAN
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EIP MICROWAVE, INC.
NON-QUALIFIED STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT
FOR THE
1994 STOCK OPTION PLAN
(DIRECTORS)
WHEREAS, __________________ (the "Optionee") is a Director of EIP
Microwave, Inc. (the "Company"); and
WHEREAS, the execution of a Stock Option Agreement in the form hereof
has been duly authorized by a resolution of the Board of Directors of the
Company duly adopted on February 22, 1995 and incorporated herein by
reference;
WHEREAS, the option granted hereby is intended as a non-qualified stock
option and shall not be treated as an "incentive stock option" within the
meaning of that term under Section 422A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended (the "Code");
NOW, THEREFORE, the Company hereby grants to the Optionee an option
pursuant to the Company's 1994 Stock Option Plan (the "Plan") to purchase
______ shares of common stock, $.01 par value per share (the "Common Stock"),
of the Company at the price of ______ dollars ($________) per share, and
agrees to cause certificates for any shares purchased hereunder to be
delivered to the Optionee upon payment of the purchase price in full, all
subject, however, to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth.
1. (a) This option (until terminated as hereinafter provided) shall be
exercisable only to the extent of one-third of the shares hereinabove
specific after the Optionee shall have continuously served as a Director of
the Company or any Subsidiary for one year from the date hereof and to the
extent of an additional one-third of such shares after each of the next four
successive periods of one year thereafter during which the Optionee shall
have been in the continuous employ of the Company or any Subsidiary. For the
purposes of this paragraph, leaves of absence approved by the Stock Option
Committee of the Company for illness, military or governmental service, or
other cause, shall be considered as service as a Director. To the extent
exercisable, this option may be exercised in whole or in part from time to
time.
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(b) Upon a filing pursuant to any federal or state law in connection
with any tender offer for shares of the Company (other than a tender offer by
the Company) or upon the signing of any agreement for the merger or
consolidation of the Company with another corporation or for sale of all or
substantially all of the assets of the Company or upon adoption of any
resolution of reorganization or dissolution of the Company by the
stockholders or upon the occurrence of any other event or series of events,
which tender offer, merger, consolidation, sale, reorganization, dissolution
or other event or series of events, in the option of the Board of Directors,
will, or is likely to, if carried out, result in a change of control of the
Company, or if during any period of two consecutive years, individuals who at
the beginning of such period constituted the Directors of the Company cease
for any reason to constitute a majority thereof (unless the election, or the
nomination for election by the Company's stockholders, of each Director of
the Company first elected during such period was approved by a vote of at
least two-thirds of the Directors then still in office who were Directors of
the Company at the beginning of any such period), the option granted hereby
shall, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) above, become
immediately exercisable in full. If any such tender offer, merger,
consolidation, sale, reorganization, liquidation or other event or series of
events mentioned in the immediately preceding sentence shall be abandoned,
the Board of Directors may by notice to the Optionee nullify the effect
thereof and reinstate the provisions of paragraph (a) above, but without
prejudice to any exercise of this option that may have occurred prior to such
nullification. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement,
in the event of a merger or consolidation in which the Company is not the
surviving corporation and the agreement of merger or consolidation provides
for the assumption of options granted, and the Company's obligations, under
the Plan, the date of exercisability of each outstanding option granted
hereby shall not be accelerated as referenced above and the shares of common
stock of securities of the successor corporation may be issued under the Plan
in lieu of shares of Common Stock, subject to all the adjustments which the
Stock Option Committee may determine is equitably required under Paragraph 6
of the Plan and Paragraph 7 of this Agreement; in such event the Optionee
hereby consents to the substitution of such successor corporation's
securities.
2. The option price shall be payable (a) in cash or by check acceptable
to the Company, (b) by transfer to the Company of shares of Common Stock
which have been owned by the Optionee (i) more than one year if previously
acquired upon exercise of an incentive stock option or (ii) more than six
months if previously acquired otherwise which have a fair market value on the
date of exercise equal to the option price, or (c) by a combination of such
methods of payment. The requirement of payment in cash shall be deemed
satisfied if the Optionee shall have made arrangements satisfactory to the
Company with a broker who is a member of the National Association of
Securities Dealers, Inc. to sell a sufficient number of the shares being
purchased so that the net proceeds of the sale transaction will at least
equal the option exercise price and pursuant to which the broker undertakes
to promptly deliver the full option exercise price to the Company.
3. This option shall terminate on the earliest of the following dates:
(a) On the date on which the Optionee ceases to be a Director of the
Company or Subsidiary, unless he ceases to be such a Director by reason of
death or disability or in a manner described in (b) below:
(b) Three months after the date of a qualified domestic relations
order, as defined by the Code or Title I of the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act, or the rules thereunder, requiring the transfer of all or a
portion of this Option to the spouse of the Optionee(a "Qualified Domestic
Relations Order");
(c) One year after the death or disability of the Optionee if the
Optionee dies or becomes disabled while a Director of the Company or
Subsidiary or within the three-month period referred to in (b) above;
(d) Ten years from the date on which this option was granted.
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In the event the Optionee shall intentionally commit an act materially
inimical to the interests of the Company or Subsidiary, and the Stock Option
Committee shall so find, this option shall terminate at the time of such act,
notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement.
Nothing in Section 3 hereof shall be construed to modify or enlarge the
rights of the Optionee as set forth in Section 1(a) hereof and at no time
shall any right to exercise any installment of this option accrue to the
Optionee unless and to the extent that he shall have continuously served as a
Director of the Company or Subsidiary for the period specified with respect
to such installment in Section 1(a) hereof. In the event the Optionee's
service as a Director of the Company or Subsidiary is terminated for any
reason whatsoever, all rights of the Optionee (except the right to purchase
in accordance with Section 2 hereof any installments of this option which
have theretofore accrued pursuant to Section 1(a) hereof) shall cease and
terminate as of the date of such termination of service as a Director and
under no circumstances shall the Optionee have or acquire any rights with
respect to any installment of this option which would have become exercisable
subsequent to the date of such termination of service as a Director. Nothing
contained in this option shall limit whatever right the Company or Subsidiary
might otherwise have to terminate Optionee's service as a Director and the
terms of this option shall not be affected in any manner by any other
agreement between the Optionee and the Company or any Subsidiary.
For purposes of this Paragraph 3, "disability" shall mean the condition of
an Optionee who is unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by
reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can
be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last
for a continuous period of not less than twelve months.
4. This option is not transferable by the Optionee otherwise than (i)
by will or the laws of descent and distribution or (ii) pursuant to a
Qualified Domestic Relations Order.
5. This option is exercisable, during the lifetime of the Optionee (i)
only by him or, in the event of his legal incapacity to do so, by his
guardian or legal representative.
6. This option shall not be exercisable if such exercise would involve
a violation of any applicable Federal or state securities law, and the
Company hereby agrees to make reasonable efforts to comply with such
securities laws.
7. The Stock Option Committee shall make such adjustments in the option
price and in the number or kind of shares of Common Stock or other securities
covered by this option as such Committee in its sole discretion, exercised in
good faith, may determine is equitably required to prevent dilution or
enlargement of the rights of the optionee that otherwise would result from
(i) any stock dividend, stock split, combination of shares, recapitalization
or other change in the capital structure of the Company, or (ii) any merger,
consolidation, reorganization, separation, or partial or complete
liquidation, or (iii) any other corporate transaction or event having an
effect similar to any of the foregoing (including, without limitation, a
merger or consolidation in which the Company is not the surviving corporation
and the agreement of merger or consolidation provides for the assumption of
the options granted pursuant to the Plan by the successor to the Company).
8. If the Company shall be required to withhold any federal, state,
local or foreign tax in connection with exercise by this option, it shall be
a condition to such exercise that the Optionee pay or make provision
satisfactory to the Company for payment of all such taxes.
9. The term "Subsidiary" as used in this Agreement means any
corporation (other than the Company) in an unbroken chain of corporations
beginning with the Company if each of the corporations other than the last
corporation in the unbroken chain owns stock possessing fifty percent or more
of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock in one of the
other corporations in such chain. For purposes of this Agreement, the
continuous service as a Director of the Company or Subsidiary shall not be
deemed interrupted, and the Optionee shall not be deemed to have ceased to be
a Director of the Company or any Subsidiary, by reason of the transfer of his
service as a Director among the Company and its Subsidiaries.
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10. This Agreement shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the
Plan.
EXECUTED at Newport Beach, California this 21st day of April, 1995.
EIP MICROWAVE, INC.
By: ________________________________________
John F. Bishop, President
The undersigned Optionee hereby acknowledges receipt of an executed
original of this Stock Option Agreement and accepts the option granted
thereunder.
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Optionee
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