Exhibit 10.7
TITANIUM METALS CORPORATION
AMENDED AND RESTATED
1996 NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTOR COMPENSATION PLAN
AS AMENDED AND RESTATED EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY 23, 1999
1. PURPOSE. The purpose of the Amended and Restated 1996 Non-Employee
Director Compensation Plan is to promote the interests of the Company by
providing an inducement to obtain and retain the services of qualified persons
who are neither employees nor officers of the Company to serve as members of the
Company's Board of Directors.
2. DEFINITIONS.
(a) "Board" shall mean the Board of Directors of the Company.
(b) "Cause" shall mean any misappropriation of the assets of the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries resulting in material loss to such entity.
(c) "Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
(d) "Company" shall mean Titanium Metals Corporation, a Delaware corporation.
(e) "Director" shall mean any person serving as a member of the Board.
(f) "Disability" shall mean the condition of a Grantee who is unable to
engage in any substantial gainful activities 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 (12) months.
(g) "Eligible Directors" shall mean those Directors eligible to participate
in the Plan pursuant to Section 4.
(h) "Fair Market Value" shall mean the last reported sale price of Stock on
the NASDAQ National Market (or other exchange upon which the Stock is
traded as of the date of determination).
(i) "Grantee" shall mean an Eligible Director who has been granted an Option.
(j) "Ineligible Directors" shall mean those Directors who are not Eligible
Directors.
(k) "Meeting Fees" shall mean the fees to be paid to each Eligible Director
for such Eligible Director's attendance at a regular or special meeting
of the Board or Board committee, as follows:
ATTENDED IN PERSON ATTENDED BY TELEPHONE
Board Meeting $1,000 $350
Committee Meeting--
Chair only $2,000 $700
Committee Meeting--Non-Chair
Members $1,000 $350
(l) "Option" shall mean an option to purchase shares of Stock, granted
pursuant to the Plan and subject to the terms and conditions described
in the Plan. Options shall not be incentive stock options within the
meaning of Code Section 422A.
(m) "Optionee" shall mean a person who holds an Option.
(n) "Parent" shall mean a corporation of the type defined in Code Section
424(e).
(o) "Plan" shall mean this Amended and Restated 1996 Non-Employee Director
Compensation Plan, as it may be amended from time to time pursuant to
Section 9.
(p) "Retainer" shall mean a retainer paid annually to Eligible Directors
which shall equal $15,000 in cash plus 500 shares of Stock.
(q) "Stock" shall mean the Company's $.01 par value common stock.
(r) "Subsidiary" shall mean a corporation of the type defined in Code Section
424(f).
3. ADMINISTRATION. The Plan shall be administered by the Ineligible Directors.
The amount and nature of the awards to be granted under the Plan, including
grants of Options, shall be automatic as described in Section 7. The Ineligible
Directors, subject to the provisions of the Plan, have the power to construe the
Plan, to determine all questions thereunder and to adopt and amend such rules
and regulations for the administration of the Plan as they may deem desirable.
Any interpretation, determination, or other action made or taken by the
Ineligible Directors shall be final, binding, and conclusive. A majority of the
total number of Ineligible Directors shall constitute a quorum for purposes of
any action by the Ineligible Directors, and the vote of a majority of the
Ineligible Directors present at a meeting of the Ineligible Directors at which a
quorum is present shall be the act of the Ineligible Directors. Any action
reduced to writing and signed by all of the Ineligible Directors shall be as
fully effective as if it had been taken by a vote at a meeting of the Ineligible
Directors duly called and held. None of the Ineligible Directors shall be
personally liable for any action, determination or interpretation made in good
faith with respect to the Plan or the Options.
4. ELIGIBILITY. All Directors of the Company shall be eligible to
participate in the Plan unless they are employees of the Company or any
Subsidiary or Parent of the Company.
5. SHARES SUBJECT TO THE PLAN
(A) CLASS. The shares which are to be made the subject of awards granted
under the Plan shall be the Company's authorized but unissued Stock. In
connection with the issuance of Stock under the Plan, the Company may
repurchase Stock in the open market or otherwise.
(B) AGGREGATE AMOUNT. The total number of shares of Stock authorized under
the Plan shall not exceed 62,500 (subject to adjustment under Section
10(c)). If any outstanding Option under the Plan expires or is
terminated for any reason, then the Stock allocable to the unexercised
portion of such Option shall not be charged against the limitation of
this Section 5(b) and may again become the subject of an Option granted
under the Plan.
6. RETAINER\MEETING COMPENSATION.
(A) RETAINER. The cash amount of the Retainer shall be paid, and
certificates for the Stock portion of the Retainer shall be delivered,
to Eligible Directors on or as soon as practicable following the annual
meeting of the stockholders of the Company, in each such case to the
Eligible directors elected at such meeting. Such certificates shall be
registered in the name of the Eligible Director, and all Stock so
issued shall be fully paid and nonassessable. The Company shall pay any
issuance or transfer taxes with respect to the issuance of Stock.
(B) MEETING FEES. Meeting Fees shall be paid in cash on or as soon as
practicable after any regular or special meeting attended by an
Eligible Director.
7. TERMS, CONDITIONS AND FORM OF OPTIONS. Each Option granted under the
Plan shall be evidenced by a written agreement substantially in the form
attached hereto or in such other form as the Ineligible Directors shall from
time to time approve, which agreements shall be executed by a duly authorized
officer of the Company and shall comply with and be subject to the following
terms and conditions:
(A) OPTION GRANT DATES. Commencing in 1999, Options shall be granted
automatically to each Eligible Director elected at the annual meeting
of stockholders of the Company as of the date of such meeting.
(B) OPTION FORMULA. Each Eligible Director shall receive an Option to
purchase 5,000 shares of Stock on the grant date of the Option without
further action by the Board or the Ineligible Directors.
(C) PERIOD OF OPTIONS. Options shall vest and become exercisable on the
first anniversary of grant date of the Option; and Options shall
terminate and cease to be exercisable on the tenth anniversary of the
grant date of the Option (subject to prior termination as provided in
Sections 7(g) and (h) below).
(D) OPTION PRICE. The exercise price of each Option shall be the Fair
Market Value of a share of Stock on the date the Option is granted.
(E) EXERCISE OF OPTIONS. Vested and exercisable Options may be exercised
(in full or in part) only by written notice of exercise delivered to the Company
at its principal executive office accompanied either (i) by cash payment of the
aggregate exercise price for all shares of Stock being acquired upon exercise
of the Option, or (ii) written direction to deliver the shares of Stock being
acquired upon exercise of the Option to a registered broker dealer with
instruction to sell such shares for the account of Optionee, and to remit to the
Company out of such sale proceeds a cash payment equal to the aggregate
exercise price for all shares of Stock being acquired upon exercise of the
Option. Such Option shall be deemed to have been exercised on the date both
such required items have been received by the Company.
(F) TRANSFERABILITY. No Option granted under the Plan shall be transferable
other than by will or by the laws of descent and distribution; provided,
however, that the Ineligible Directors may determine to grant Options that are
transferable, without payment of consideration, to immediate family members of
the Grantee or to trusts or partnerships for such family members, and may amend
outstanding Options to provide for such transferability. No interest of any
Optionee in any Option shall be subject to attachment, execution, garnishment,
sequestration, the laws of bankruptcy or any other legal or equitable process.
Except as otherwise determined by the Ineligible Directors, during the lifetime
of the Grantee, Options shall be exercisable only by the Grantee or the
Grantee's guardian or legal representative.
(G) DEATH OR DISABILITY OF GRANTEE. If a Grantee dies or terminates
performance of services as a Director because of Disability, any unvested and
unexercisable Option granted to such Grantee shall immediately and fully vest.
Such Option, together with any other vested and unexercisable Options granted to
such Grantee, may be exercised, at any time, or from time to time, prior to the
earlier of (i) the termination of such Option in accordance with Section 7(c),
or (ii) one year after the date of Grantee's death or termination of services as
a Director, at which date all then-outstanding and unexercised Options granted
to such Grantee shall terminate. In the case of death, an Option may be
exercised by the person or persons to whom the Optionee's rights under the
Option pass by will or applicable law, or if no such person has such rights, by
the Optionee's executors or administrators; provided that such person(s) consent
in writing to abide by and be subject to the terms of the Plan and the Option
and such writing is delivered to the Company.
(H) TERMINATION OF SERVICES AS DIRECTOR.
(i) If a Grantee's performance of services for the Company and its
Subsidiaries shall terminate for any reason other than death or Disability or
termination of services as a Director for Cause, any unvested and unexercisable
Option granted to such Grantee shall immediately and fully vest. Such Option,
together with any other vested and exercisable Options granted to such Grantee,
may be exercised, at any time, or from time to time, prior to the earlier of (i)
the termination of such Option in accordance with Section 7(c) or (ii) three
months after the date of such Grantee's termination of services as a Director,
at which date all then-outstanding and unexercised Options granted to such
Grantee shall terminate.
(ii) If a Grantee's performance of services as a
Director is terminated for Cause, any unvested and
unexercisable Option granted to such Grantee shall terminate
as of the date of such termination of services. All Options
previously granted to such Grantee which are, as of the date
of such termination of services, vested and exercisable, may
be exercised at any time, or from time to time, prior to the
earlier of (i) the termination of such Option in accordance
with Section 7(c) or (ii) one month after the date of such
Grantee's termination of services as a Director, at which date
all then-outstanding and unexercised Options granted to such
Grantee shall terminate. For this purpose of the Plan and any
Option agreement, such Grantee's service shall be deemed to
have terminated on the earlier of (A) the date when the
Grantee's service in fact terminated or (B) the date when such
Grantee received written notice that his service is to
terminate for Cause.
(I) NO RIGHTS AS SHAREHOLDER. No Optionee shall have any
rights as a shareholder with respect to any Stock subject to an Option
prior to the date of issuance to such Optionee of a certificate or
certificates for such shares.
8. COMPLIANCE WITH OTHER LAWS AND REGULATIONS. The Plan, the grant and
exercise of Options under the Plan, and the obligation of the Company to
transfer shares under such Options shall be subject to all applicable federal
and state laws, rules and regulations, including those related to disclosure of
financial and other information to Optionees, and to any approvals by any
government or regulatory agency as may be required. The Company shall not be
required to issue or deliver any certificates for shares of Stock prior to (a)
the listing of such shares on any stock exchange on which the Stock may then be
listed, where such listing is required under the rules or regulations of such
exchange, and (b) the compliance with applicable federal and state securities
laws and regulations relating to the issuance and delivery of such certificates;
provided, however, that the Company shall make all reasonable efforts to so list
such shares and to comply with such laws and regulations.
9. AMENDMENT AND DISCONTINUANCE. The Board may from time to time amend,
suspend or discontinue the Plan; provided, however, that, the Plan shall not be
amended without the consent of the shareholders of the Company to the extent
such consent is required under Rule 16b-3, Section 162(m) of the Code or any
stock exchange or market quotation system on which the Stock is then listed or
quoted. Except where approval of the Board is required by applicable law, the
power of the Board to amend, suspend or discontinue the Plan shall be exercised
by the Ineligible Directors.
10. GENERAL PROVISIONS.
(A) ASSIGNABILITY. The rights and benefits under the Plan shall not be
assignable or transferable by an Eligible Director other than by will
or by the laws of descent and distribution, and, except as otherwise
determined by the Ineligible Directors, during the lifetime of the
Grantee, Options granted under the Plan shall be exercisable only by
the Grantee.
(B) TERMINATION OF PLAN. No Options may be granted under the Plan after May
18, 2006 (or if such date is not a business day, on the next succeeding
business day). The Plan shall automatically terminate on the date all
Options granted under the Plan have been exercised or have terminated
or expired.
(C) ADJUSTMENTS IN EVENT OF CHANGE IN STOCK. In the event of any change in
the Stock by reason of any stock dividend, recapitalization,
reorganization, merger, consolidation, split-up, combination, or
exchange of shares, or of any similar change affecting the Stock, the
number and class of shares subject to outstanding Options, the exercise
price per share, and any other terms of the Plan or the Options which
in the Ineligible Directors' sole discretion require adjustment shall
be appropriately adjusted consistent with such change in such manner as
the Ineligible Directors may deem appropriate.
(D) NO RIGHT TO CONTINUE AS A DIRECTOR. Neither the Plan, nor the granting
of an Option nor any other action taken pursuant to the Plan, shall
constitute or be evidence of any agreement or understanding, express or
implied, that the Company will retain a Director for any period of
time, or at any particular rate of compensation.
(E) ERISA. The Plan is not an employee benefit plan which is subject to the
provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and
the provisions of Section 401(a) of the Code are not applicable to the
Plan.
(F) NON-STATUTORY OPTIONS. All Options granted under the Plan shall be
non-statutory options not entitled to special tax treatment under
Section 422A of the Code.
(G) EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE PLAN. The Plan originally took effect on May 8,
1996 (ten days following last adoption by the stockholders of the
Company on May 8, 1996). The Plan was originally adopted by the Board
on March 29, 1996, was subsequently amended by the Board on April 15,
1996, and was amended and restated by the Board on February 14, 1997,
February 19, 1998, May 19, 1998, and February 23, 1999. The Plan was
originally adopted by the stockholders of the Company on March 29,
1996, and again on May 8, 1996 following the amendment of the Plan by
the Board.
(H) EFFECT OF AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT OF THE PLAN. This amended and
restated version of the Plan shall amend and supersede in its entirety
previous versions of the Plan, provided, however, that such amendment
and restatement is not intended to affect the validity of any actions
taken under previous versions of the Plan, as summarized on Exhibit A
hereto.
(I) GOVERNING LAW. The Plan and all determinations made and actions taken
pursuant hereto shall be governed by the laws of the State of Colorado
and construed accordingly.
(J) VARIATION OF PRONOUNS. All pronouns and any variations thereof
contained herein shall be deemed to refer to masculine, feminine,
neuter, singular or plural, as the identity of the person or persons
may require.
EXHIBIT A
HISTORY OF PLAN ACTIONS/AMENDMENTS
MEETING FEES
RETAINER (In Person/By Telephone) OPTIONS
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Committee Meeting
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Non-Chair Number @ Price/
Amount of Cash/ # of Shares/ Board Committee Committee Term/
DATE ACTION Date Paid Date Paid Meeting Chair only Member Date Issued
3-29-96 Plan Adopted $8,000/ $8,000 in $1,000/ 625 @ IPO price
IPO closing then shares $350 then at FMV/
1ST business day (rounded to 5 years/
of year next 100)/ IPO Closing then
IPO CLOSING 3RD business day
THEN 1ST after earnings
business day release
of year
4-15-96 Plan Amended 400 shares/
IPO closing
THEN 1ST
business day
of year
2-14-97 Plan Amended $8,000/ 400 shares/ 1,500 @ FMV/
Annual Meeting Annual Meeting 10 years/
3RD business day
after earnings
release
2-19-98 Plan Amended 1,500 @ FMV/
10 years/
Annual Meeting
5-19-98 Plan Amended $15,000/ 500 shares/ $2,000/ $1,000/
Annual Meeting Annual Meeting $700 $350
2-23-99 Plan Amended 5,000 @ FMV/
10 years/
Annual Meeting