As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 13, 2024
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
Delaware (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) | 04-2302115 (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) | |||||||
Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
5260 California Avenue
Irvine, California 92617
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
5260 California Avenue
Irvine, California 92617
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
Second Amended and Restated 2015 Long-Term Incentive Plan
2002 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as Amended
Non-Qualified Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as Amended
(Full title of the plans)
Robert J. Terry
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
5260 California Avenue
Irvine, California 92617
(Name and address of agent for service)
(949) 231-3000
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
5260 California Avenue
Irvine, California 92617
(Name and address of agent for service)
(949) 231-3000
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer þ | Non-accelerated filer ☐ | ||||
Accelerated filer ☐ | Smaller reporting company ☐ | ||||
Emerging growth company ☐ | |||||
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐
Statement of Incorporation by Reference
This registration statement on Form S-8 is being filed to register an additional (a) 3,000,000 shares of common stock, $0.25 par value per share (the “Common Stock”), issuable under the Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (the “Registrant”) Second Amended and Restated 2015 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “2015 LTIP”), (b) 1,500,000 shares of the Registrant’s Common Stock, issuable under the Registrant’s 2002 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as Amended (the “ESPP”), and (c) 400,000 shares of the Registrant’s Common Stock, issuable under the Registrant’s Non-Qualified Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as Amended (the “NQ ESPP”). The Registrant previously registered (i) an aggregate of 20,650,000 shares of Common Stock for issuance under the 2015 LTIP on registration statement on Form S-8, File No. 333-204310, (ii) an aggregate of 9,880,000 shares of Common Stock for issuance under the ESPP on registration statements on Form S-8, File No. 333-100312, File No. 333-132880, File No. 333-150782, File No. 333-176286, and File No. 333-238910, and (iii) an aggregate of 1,720,000 shares of Common Stock for issuance under the NQ ESPP on registration statements on Form S-8, File No. 333-91524, File No. 333-100313, File No. 333-122333, File No. 333-132880, File No. 333-150782, File No. 333-176286, and File No. 333-238910 (collectively, the “Prior Registration Statements”). Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, except as otherwise set forth below, the contents of the Prior Registration Statements are incorporated by reference herein to the extent not modified or superseded thereby or by any subsequently filed document that is incorporated by reference herein or therein.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
Section 102 of the Delaware General Corporation Law allows a corporation to eliminate the personal liability of directors of a corporation to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for a breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except where the director breached his duty of loyalty, failed to act in good faith, engaged in intentional misconduct or knowingly violated a law, authorized the payment of a dividend or approved a stock repurchase in violation of Delaware corporate law or obtained an improper personal benefit. The Registrant has included such a provision in Article Seventh of its Restated Certificate of Incorporation.
In addition, Article Fourteenth of the Registrant’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides that to the fullest extent permitted by law, no officer of the Registrant shall be liable to the Registrant or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as an officer, except for liability (i) for any breach of the officer’s duty of loyalty to the Registrant or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) for any transaction from which the officer derived an improper personal benefit, or (iv) for any action by or in the right of the Registrant.
Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law provides that a corporation has the power to indemnify a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation and certain other persons serving at the request of the corporation in related capacities against amounts paid and expenses incurred in connection with an action or proceeding to which he is or is threatened to be made a party by reason of such position, if such person shall have acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, in any criminal proceeding, if such person had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful; provided that, in the case of actions brought by or in the right of the corporation, no indemnification shall be made with respect to any matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that the adjudicating court determines that such indemnification is proper under the circumstances.
Article III, Section 14 of the Registrant’s Fourth Amended and Restated By-laws provides that a director or officer of the Registrant:
A.shall be indemnified by the Registrant against all expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred in any action, suit or proceeding (other than an action by or in the right of the Registrant) brought against such person by virtue of his or her position as a director or officer of the Registrant if such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Registrant, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful; and
B.shall be indemnified by the Registrant against all expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred in connection with the defense or settlement of any action or suit by or in the right of the Registrant brought against such person by virtue of his or her position as a director or officer of the Registrant if such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Registrant, other than with respect to any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the Registrant unless the Court of Chancery of Delaware or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses.
In addition, Article III, Section 14 of the Registrant’s Fourth Amended and Restated By-laws provides that to the extent a director or officer has been successful, on the merits or otherwise, in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in paragraphs A and B above, such person shall be indemnified by the Registrant against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred. Expenses will be advanced to a director or officer at such person’s request, provided that he or she undertakes to repay the amount received if it is ultimately determined that he or she is not entitled to indemnification for such expenses.
The Registrant has purchased directors’ and officers’ liability insurance which would indemnify its directors and officers against damages arising out of certain kinds of claims that might be made against them based on their negligent acts or omissions while acting in their capacity as such.
Item 8. Exhibits.
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4.2 | ||||||||
5.1 | ||||||||
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24.1 | ||||||||
99.1 | Second Amended and Restated 2015 Long-Term Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Annex 1 to the Company’s Definitive Proxy Statement filed with the SEC on March 28, 2024) | |||||||
99.2 | ||||||||
99.3 | ||||||||
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(1) | Incorporated by reference from the Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2023 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 8, 2023. | ||||
(2) | Incorporated by reference from the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 12, 2023. | ||||
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Irvine, in the State of California, on June 13, 2024.
| SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC. | |||||||||||
| By: | /s/ Liam K. Griffin | ||||||||||
| Liam K. Griffin | |||||||||||
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President Director | |||||||||||
POWER OF ATTORNEY AND SIGNATURES
We, the undersigned officers and directors of Skyworks Solutions, Inc., hereby severally constitute and appoint Liam K. Griffin and Kris Sennesael and each of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys with full power to them, and each of them singly, to sign for us in our names in the capacities indicated below, the registration statement on Form S-8 filed herewith and any and all subsequent amendments to said registration statement, and generally to do all things in our names and on our behalf in such capacities to enable Skyworks Solutions, Inc. to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission hereby ratifying and confirming our signatures as they may be signed by our said attorneys, or any one of them, to said registration statement and any and all amendments thereto.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
| SIGNATURE | TITLE | DATE | |||||||||||||||
/s/ Liam K. Griffin | Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President Director | June 13, 2024 | |||||||||||||||
| Liam K. Griffin | (Principal Executive Officer) | ||||||||||||||||
/s/ Kris Sennesael | Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | June 13, 2024 | |||||||||||||||
| Kris Sennesael | (Principal Financial Officer) | ||||||||||||||||
/s/ Philip Carter | Vice President and Corporate Controller | June 13, 2024 | |||||||||||||||
| Philip Carter | (Principal Accounting Officer) | ||||||||||||||||
/s/ Christine King | Lead Independent Director | June 13, 2024 | |||||||||||||||
| Christine King | |||||||||||||||||
/s/ Alan S. Batey | Director | June 13, 2024 | |||||||||||||||
| Alan S. Batey | |||||||||||||||||
/s/ Kevin L. Beebe | Director | June 13, 2024 | |||||||||||||||
| Kevin L. Beebe | |||||||||||||||||
/s/ Eric J. Guerin | Director | June 13, 2024 | |||||||||||||||
| Eric J. Guerin | |||||||||||||||||
/s/ Suzanne E. McBride | Director | June 13, 2024 | |||||||||||||||
| Suzanne E. McBride | |||||||||||||||||
/s/ David P. McGlade | Director | June 13, 2024 | |||||||||||||||
| David P. McGlade | |||||||||||||||||
/s/ Robert A. Schriesheim | Director | June 13, 2024 | |||||||||||||||
| Robert A. Schriesheim | |||||||||||||||||
/s/ Maryann Turcke | Director | June 13, 2024 | |||||||||||||||
| Maryann Turcke | |||||||||||||||||
Exhibit 107
Calculation of Filing Fee Tables
| Form S-8 | ||
| (Form Type) | ||
| Skyworks Solutions, Inc. | ||
| (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter) | ||
Table 1—Newly Registered Securities
| Security Type | Security Class Title | Fee Calculation Rule | Amount Registered (1) | Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Unit | Maximum Aggregate Offering Price | Fee Rate | Amount of Registration Fee | ||||||||||||||||
| Equity | Common Stock, $0.25 par value per share | Other | 4,900,000 (2) | $91.15 (3) | $446,635,000 (3) | 0.00014760 | $65,924 | ||||||||||||||||
| Total Offering Amounts | $446,635,000 | $65,924 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Total Fee Offsets | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net Fee Due | $65,924 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(1) | In accordance with Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, this registration statement shall be deemed to cover any additional securities that may from time to time be offered or issued to prevent dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions. | ||||
(2) | Consists of (i) 3,000,000 shares issuable under the Second Amended and Restated 2015 Long-Term Incentive Plan, (ii) 1,500,000 shares issuable under the 2002 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as Amended; and (iii) 400,000 shares issuable under the Non-Qualified Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as Amended. | ||||
(3) | Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rules 457(c) and 457(h) of the Securities Act. The price per share and aggregate offering price are calculated on the basis of the average of the high and low prices of the registrant’s common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on June 7, 2024, in accordance with Rule 457(c) under the Securities Act. | ||||
EXHIBIT 5.1
June 13, 2024
Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
5260 California Avenue
Irvine, CA 92617
Re: Second Amended and Restated 2015 Long-Term Incentive Plan
2002 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as Amended
Non-Qualified Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as Amended
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I have assisted in the preparation of a registration statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), relating to an aggregate of (i) 3,000,000 shares of common stock, $0.25 par value per share (the “Common Stock”) (the “2015 LTIP Shares”), issuable under the Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (the “Registrant”) Second Amended and Restated 2015 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “2015 LTIP”), (ii) 1,500,000 shares of the Common Stock (the “ESPP Shares”) issuable under the Registrant’s 2002 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as Amended (the “ESPP”), and (iii) 400,000 shares of Common Stock (the “NQ ESPP Shares”, together with the 2015 LTIP Shares and the ESPP Shares, the “Shares”) issuable under the Registrant’s Non-Qualified Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as Amended (the “NQ ESPP”, together with the 2015 LTIP and the ESPP, the “Plans”).
I have examined the Certificate of Incorporation and By-laws of the Company, each as amended and restated to date, and originals, or copies certified to my satisfaction, of all pertinent records of the meetings of the directors and stockholders of the Company, the Registration Statement, the Plans and such other documents relating to the Company as I have deemed material for the purposes of this opinion.
In my examination of the foregoing documents, I have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of all documents submitted to me as originals, the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to me as certified, photostatic or other copies, the authenticity of the originals of any such documents and the legal competence of all signatories to such documents.
I assume that the appropriate action will be taken, prior to the offer and sale of the Shares in accordance with the Plans, to register and qualify the Shares for sale under all applicable state securities or “blue sky” laws.
I express no opinion herein as to the laws of any state or jurisdiction other than the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
It is understood that this opinion is to be used only in connection with the offer and sale of the Shares while the Registration Statement is in effect.
Please note that I am opining only as to the matters expressly set forth herein, and no opinion should be inferred as to any other matters.
Based on the foregoing, I am of the opinion that the Shares have been duly authorized for issuance and, when the Shares are issued and paid for in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Plans, the Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.
I hereby consent to the filing of this opinion with the Commission in connection with the Registration Statement in accordance with the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act. In giving such consent, I do not hereby admit that I am in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission.
Sincerely,
/s/ Robert J. Terry
Robert J. Terry, Esq.
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
EXHIBIT 23.1
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
We consent to the use of our report dated November 17, 2023, with respect to the consolidated financial statements of Skyworks Solutions, Inc., and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, incorporated herein by reference.
/s/ KPMG LLP
Irvine, California
June 12, 2024
June 12, 2024
EXHIBIT 99.2
SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
2002 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN, AS AMENDED
1.Purpose
The Skyworks Solutions, Inc. 2002 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (hereinafter the “Plan”) is intended to provide a method whereby employees of Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (the “Company”) and its participating subsidiaries (as defined in Article 18) will have an opportunity to acquire a proprietary interest in the Company through the purchase of shares of the Company’s Common Stock. It is the intention of the Company to have the Plan qualify as an “employee stock purchase plan” under Section 423 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Internal Revenue Code”). The provisions of the Plan shall, accordingly, be construed so as to extend and limit participation in a manner consistent with the requirements of that Section of the Internal Revenue Code.
2.Eligible Employees
All employees of the Company or any of its participating subsidiaries who are employed by the Company at least ten (10) business days prior to the first day of the applicable Offering Period shall be eligible to receive options under this Plan to purchase the Company’s Common Stock. Except as otherwise provided herein, persons who become eligible employees after the first day of any Offering Period shall be eligible to receive options on the first day of the next succeeding Offering Period on which options are granted to eligible employees under the Plan. For the purpose of this Plan, the term employee shall not include an employee whose customary employment is less than twenty (20) hours per week or is for not more than five (5) months in any calendar year.
In no event may an employee be granted an option if such employee, immediately after the option is granted, owns stock possessing five (5%) percent or more of the total combined voting power or value of all classes of stock of the Company or of its parent corporation or subsidiary corporation as the terms “parent corporation” and “subsidiary corporation” are defined in Section 424(e) and (f) of the Internal Revenue Code. For purposes of determining stock ownership under this paragraph, the rules of Section 424(d) of the Internal Revenue Code shall apply and stock which the employee may purchase under outstanding options shall be treated as stock owned by the employee.
3.Stock Subject to the Plan
The stock subject to the options granted hereunder shall be shares of the Company’s authorized but unissued Common Stock or shares of Common Stock reacquired by the Company, including shares purchased in the open market. Subject to approval of the stockholders, the aggregate number of shares which may be issued pursuant to the Plan is 11,380,000 for all Offering Periods, subject to increase or decrease by reason of stock split-ups, reclassifications, stock dividends, changes in par value and the like. If any option granted under the Plan shall expire or terminate for any reason without having been exercised in full or shall cease for any reason to be exercisable in whole or in part, the unpurchased shares subject to such option shall again be available under the Plan. If the number of shares of Common Stock available for any
As amended and approved by the stockholders on May 14, 2024
Offering Period is insufficient to satisfy all purchase requirements for that Offering Period, the available shares for that Offering Period shall be apportioned among participating employees in proportion to their options.
4.Offering Periods and Stock Options
There shall be Offering Periods during which payroll deductions will be accumulated under the Plan. Each Offering Period includes only regular pay days falling within it. The Committee shall be expressly permitted to establish the Offering Periods, including the Offering Commencement Date and Offering Termination Date of any Offering Period, under this Plan; provided, however, that, in no event shall any Offering Period extend for more than twenty-four (24) months. The Offering Commencement Date is the first day of each Offering Period. The Offering Termination Date is the applicable date on which an Offering Period ends under this Plan.
Subject to the foregoing, the Offering Periods shall generally commence and end as follows:
Offering Commencement Dates | Offering Termination Dates | ||||
| Each August 1 | Each January 31 | ||||
Each February 1 | Each July 31 | ||||
Provided, however, that (i) the Offering Commencement Date and Offering Termination Date of the initial Offering Period under this Plan shall be October 21, 2002 and March 31, 2003, respectively, and (ii) the Offering Commencement Date and Offering Termination Date of the Offering Period immediately following the initial Offering Period under this Plan shall be April 1, 2003 and July 31, 2003, respectively.
On each Offering Commencement Date, the Company will grant to each eligible employee who is then a participant in the Plan an option to purchase on the Offering Termination Date at the Option Exercise Price, as hereinafter provided, that number of full shares of Common Stock reserved for the purpose of the Plan, up to a maximum of 1,000 shares, subject to increase or decrease (i) at the discretion of the Committee before each Offering Period or (ii) by reason of stock split-ups, reclassifications, stock dividends, changes in par value and the like (the “Share Cap”); provided that such employee remains eligible to participate in the Plan throughout such Offering Period. If the eligible employee’s accumulated payroll deductions on the Offering Termination Date would enable the eligible employee to purchase more than the Share Cap except for the Share Cap, the excess of the amount of the accumulated payroll deductions over the aggregate purchase price of the Share Cap shall be refunded to the eligible employee as soon as administratively practicable by the Company, without interest. The Option Exercise Price for each Offering Period shall be the lesser of (i) eighty-five percent (85%) of the fair market value of the Common Stock on the Offering Commencement Date, or (ii) eighty-five percent (85%) of the fair market value of the Common Stock on the Offering Termination Date, in either case rounded up to the next whole cent. In the event of an increase or decrease in the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock through stock split-ups, reclassifications, stock dividends, changes in par value and the like, an appropriate adjustment shall be made in the number of shares and Option Exercise Price per share provided for under the Plan, either by a proportionate increase in the number of shares and proportionate decrease in the Option Exercise Price per share, or by a proportionate decrease in the number of shares and a proportionate increase in the Option Exercise Price per share, as may be required to enable an eligible employee who is then a participant in the Plan to acquire on the Offering Termination Date that number of full shares of Common Stock as his accumulated payroll deductions on such date will pay for at a price equal to the lesser of (i) eighty-five percent (85%) of the fair market value of the Common Stock on the Offering Commencement Date, or (ii) eighty-five percent (85%) of the fair market value of the Common Stock on the Offering Termination Date, in either case rounded up to the next whole cent, as so adjusted.
For purposes of this Plan, the term “fair market value” means, if the Common Stock is listed on a national securities exchange or is on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation (“Nasdaq”) Global Select Market
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system, the closing sale price of the Common Stock on such exchange or as reported on Nasdaq or, if the Common Stock is traded in the over-the-counter securities market, but not on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the closing bid quotation for the Common Stock, each as published in The Wall Street Journal. If no shares of Common Stock are traded on the Offering Commencement Date or Offering Termination Date, the fair market value will be determined on the next regular business day on which shares of Common Stock are traded.
For purposes of this Plan the term “business day” as used herein means a day on which there is trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market or such national securities exchange on which the Common Stock is listed.
No employee shall be granted an option which permits his rights to purchase Common Stock under the Plan and any similar plans of the Company or any parent or subsidiary corporations to accrue at a rate which exceeds $25,000 of fair market value of such stock (determined at the time such option is granted) for each calendar year in which such option is outstanding at any time. The purpose of the limitation in the preceding sentence is to comply with and shall be construed in accordance with Section 423(b)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code. If the participant’s accumulated payroll deductions on the last day of the Offering Period would otherwise enable the participant to purchase Common Stock in excess of the Section 423(b)(8) limitation described in this paragraph, the excess of the amount of the accumulated payroll deductions over the aggregate purchase price of the shares actually purchased shall be refunded as soon as administratively practicable to the participant by the Company, without interest.
5.Exercise of Option
Each eligible employee who continues to be a participant in the Plan on the Offering Termination Date shall be deemed to have exercised his or her option on such date and shall be deemed to have purchased from the Company such number of full shares of Common Stock reserved for the purpose of the Plan as his or her accumulated payroll deductions on such date will pay for at the Option Exercise Price subject to the Share Cap and the Section 423(b)(8) limitation described in Article 4. If a participant is not an employee on the Offering Termination Date and throughout an Offering Period, he or she shall not be entitled to exercise his or her option.
If a participant’s accumulated payroll deductions in his or her account are based on a currency other than the U.S. dollar, then on the Offering Termination Date the accumulated payroll deductions in his or her account will be converted into an equivalent value of U.S. dollars based upon the U.S. dollar-foreign currency exchange rate in effect on that date, as reported in The Wall Street Journal, provided that such conversion does not result in an Option Exercise Price which is, in fact, less than the lesser of an amount equal to 85 percent of the fair market value of the Common Stock at the time such option is granted or 85 percent of the fair market value of the Common Stock at the time such option is exercised. The Plan administrators (as defined in Article 19) shall have the right to change such conversion date, as they deem appropriate to effectively purchase shares on any Offering Termination Date, provided that such action does not cause the Plan, or any grants under the Plan, to fail to qualify under Section 423 of the Internal Revenue Code.
6.Authorization for Entering Plan
An eligible employee may enter the Plan by following a written, electronic or other enrollment process, including a payroll deduction authorization, as prescribed by the Plan administrators under generally applicable rules. Except as may otherwise be established by the Plan administrators under generally applicable rules, all enrollment authorizations shall be effective only if delivered to the designated Plan administrator(s) in accordance with the prescribed procedures not later than ten (10) business days before an applicable Offering Commencement Date. Participation may be conditioned on an eligible employee’s consent to transfer and process personal data and on acknowledgment and agreement to Plan terms and other specified conditions.
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The Company will accumulate and hold for the employee’s account the amounts deducted from his or her pay. No interest will be paid thereon. Participating employees may not make any separate cash payments into their account.
Unless an employee files a new authorization, or withdraws from the Plan, his or her deductions and purchases under the authorization he or she has on file under the Plan will continue as long as the Plan remains in effect. An employee may increase or decrease the amount of his or her payroll deductions as of the next Offering Commencement Date by filing a revised payroll deduction authorization in accordance with the procedures then applicable to such actions. Except as may otherwise be established by the Plan administrators under generally applicable rules, all revised authorizations shall be effective only if delivered to the designated Plan administrator(s) in accordance with the prescribed procedures not later than ten (10) business days before the next Offering Commencement Date.
7.Maximum Amount of Payroll Deductions
An employee may authorize payroll deductions in an amount of not less than one percent (1%) and not more than fifteen percent (15%) (in whole number percentages only) of his or her eligible compensation. Such deductions shall be determined based on the employee’s election in effect on the payday on which such eligible compensation is paid. An employee may not make any additional payments into such account. Eligible compensation means the wages as defined in Section 3401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, determined without regard to any rules that limit compensation included in wages based on the nature or location or employment or services performed, including without limitation base pay, shift premium, overtime, gain sharing (profit sharing), incentive compensation, bonuses and commissions and all other payments made to the employee for services as an employee during the applicable payroll period, and excluding the value of any qualified or non-qualified stock option granted to the employee to the extent such value is includible in the taxable wages, reimbursements or other expense allowances, fringe benefits, moving expenses, deferred compensation, and welfare benefits, but determined prior to any exclusions for any amounts deferred under Sections 125, 401(k), 402(e)(3), 402(h)(1)(B), 403(b) or 457(b) of the Internal Revenue Code or for certain contributions described in Section 457(h)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code that are treated as Company contributions.
8.Unused Payroll Deductions
Only full shares of Common Stock may be purchased. Any balance remaining in an employee’s account after a purchase will be reported to the employee and will be carried forward to the next Offering Period. However, in no event will the amount of the unused payroll deductions carried forward from a payroll period exceed the Option Exercise Price per share for that Offering Period. If for any Offering Period the amount of unused payroll deductions should exceed the Option Exercise Price per share, the amount of the excess for any participant shall be refunded to such participant, without interest.
9.Change in Payroll Deductions
Unless otherwise permitted by the Committee prior to the commencement of an Offering Period, payroll deductions may not be increased, decreased or suspended by a participant during an Offering Period. However, a participant may withdraw in full from the Plan.
10.Withdrawal from the Plan
An employee may withdraw from the Plan and withdraw all but not less than all of the payroll deductions credited to his or her account under the Plan prior to the Offering Termination Date by completing and filing a withdrawal notification with the designated Plan administrator(s) in accordance with the prescribed procedures, in which event the Company will refund as soon as administratively practicable without interest the entire balance of such employee’s deductions not previously used to purchase Common Stock under the Plan. Except as may otherwise be prescribed by the Plan
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administrators under generally applicable rules, all withdrawals shall be effective only if delivered to the designated Plan administrator(s) in accordance with the prescribed procedures not later than ten (10) business days before the Offering Termination Date.
An employee who withdraws from the Plan is like an employee who has never entered the Plan; the employee’s rights under the Plan will be terminated and no further payroll deductions will be made. To reenter, such an employee must re-enroll pursuant to the provisions of Article 6 before the next Offering Commencement Date which cannot, however, become effective before the beginning of the next Offering Period following his withdrawal.
11.Issuance of Stock
As soon as administratively practicable after each Offering Period the Company shall deliver (by electronic or other means) to the participant the Common Stock purchased under the Plan, except as specified below. The Plan administrators may permit or require that the Common Stock shares be deposited directly with a broker or agent designated by the Plan administrators, and the Plan administrators may utilize electronic or automated methods of share transfer. In addition, the Plan administrators may require that shares be retained with such broker or agent for a designated period of time (and may restrict dispositions during that period) and/or may establish other procedures to permit tracking of disqualifying dispositions of such shares or to restrict transfer of such shares as required to ensure that the Company’s applicable tax withholding obligations are satisfied.
12.No Transfer or Assignment of Employee’s Rights
An employee’s rights under the Plan are his or hers alone and may not be transferred or assigned to, or availed of by, any other person. Any option granted to an employee may be exercised only by him or her, except as provided in Article 13 in the event of an employee’s death.
13.Termination of Employee’s Rights
Except as set forth in Article 14, an employee’s rights under the Plan will terminate when he or she ceases to be an employee because of retirement, resignation, lay-off, discharge, death, change of status, failure to remain in the customary employ of the Company for twenty (20) hours or more per week, or for any other reason. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Article 10, a withdrawal notice will be considered as having been received from the employee on the day his or her employment ceases, and all payroll deductions not used to purchase Common Stock will be refunded without interest.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Article 10, if an employee’s payroll deductions are interrupted by any legal process, a withdrawal notice will be considered as having been received from him or her on the day the interruption occurs.
14.Death of an Employee
Upon termination of the participating employee’s employment because of death, the person(s) entitled to receipt of the Common Stock and/or cash as provided in this Article 14 shall have the right to elect, by written notice given to the Plan administrators prior to the expiration of the thirty (30) day period commencing with the date of the death of the employee, either (i) to withdraw, without interest, all of the payroll deductions credited to the employee’s account under the Plan, or (ii) to exercise the employee’s option for the purchase of shares of Common Stock on the next Offering Termination Date following the date of the employee’s death for the purchase of that number of full shares of Common Stock reserved for the purpose of the Plan which the accumulated payroll deductions in the employee’s account at the date of the employee’s death will purchase at the applicable Option Exercise Price (subject to the limitations set forth in Article 4), and any
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excess in such account (in lieu of fractional shares) will be paid to the employee’s estate as soon as administratively practicable, without interest. In the event that no such written notice of election shall be duly received by the Plan administrators, the payroll deductions credited to the employee’s account at the date of the employee’s death will be paid to the employee’s estate as soon as administratively practicable, without interest.
Except as provided in the preceding paragraph, in the event of the death of a participating employee, the Company shall deliver such Common Stock and/or cash to the executor or administrator of the estate of the employee.
15.Termination and Amendments to Plan
The Plan may be terminated at any time by the Company’s Board of Directors or, if sooner, when all of the shares of Common Stock reserved for the purposes of the Plan have been purchased. In the event that the Board of Directors terminates the Plan pursuant to this Article 15, the date of such termination shall be deemed as the Offering Termination Date of the applicable Offering Period in which such termination date occurs. Upon such termination or any other termination of the Plan, all payroll deductions not used to purchase Common Stock will be refunded without interest.
The Committee or the Board of Directors may from time to time adopt amendments to the Plan provided that, without the approval of the stockholders of the Company, no amendment may (i) except as provided in Articles 3, 4, 24 and 25, increase the number of shares that may be issued under the Plan; (ii) change the class of employees eligible to receive options under the Plan, if such action would be treated as the adoption of a new plan for purposes of Section 423(b) of the Internal Revenue Code; or (iii) cause Rule 16b-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to become inapplicable to the Plan.
16.Limitations of Sale of Stock Purchased Under the Plan
The Plan is intended to provide shares of Common Stock for investment and not for resale. The Company does not, however, intend to restrict or influence any employee in the conduct of his or her own affairs. An employee may, therefore, sell stock purchased under the Plan at any time the employee chooses, subject to compliance with any applicable federal or state securities laws and subject to any restrictions imposed under Articles 11 and 26. Each employee agrees by entering the Plan to promptly give the Company notice of any such Common Stock disposed of within two years after the Offering Commencement Date on which the Common Stock was purchased showing the number of such shares disposed of. The employee assumes the risk of any market fluctuations in the price of such Common Stock.
17.Company’s Offering of Expenses Related to Plan
The Company will bear all costs of administering and carrying out the Plan.
18.Participating Subsidiaries
The term “participating subsidiaries” shall mean any present or future subsidiary of the Company which is designated by the Committee to participate in the Plan. The Committee shall have the power to make such designation(s) before or after the Plan is approved by the stockholders.
19.Administration of the Plan
The Plan may be administered by the Compensation Committee, or such other committee as may be appointed by the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Committee”). No member of the Committee shall be eligible to participate in the Plan while serving as a member of the Committee. In the event that the Board of Directors fails to appoint or refrains from
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appointing a Committee, the Board of Directors shall have all power and authority to administer the Plan (in such event the word “Committee” shall refer to the Board of Directors).
The Committee shall have the authority to construe and interpret the Plan and options, and to establish, amend and revoke rules and regulations for the administration of the Plan. The Committee, in the exercise of this power, may correct any defect, omission or inconsistency in the Plan, in a manner and to the extent it shall deem necessary or expedient to make the Plan fully effective. The interpretation and construction by the Committee of any provisions of the Plan or of any option granted under it shall be final. The Committee may from time to time adopt such rules and regulations for carrying out the Plan as it may deem best. Without limiting the foregoing, the Committee shall have the power, subject to, and within the limitations of, the express provisions of the Plan: (i) to determine when and how options to purchase shares of Common Stock shall be granted and the provisions of each Offering Period (which need not be identical); (ii) to designate from time to time which participating subsidiaries of the Company shall be eligible to participate in the Plan; (iii) to determine the Offering Commencement Date and Offering Termination Date of any Offering Period; (iv) to increase or decrease the maximum number of shares which may be purchased by an eligible employee in any Offering Period; (v) to amend the Plan as provided in Article 15, and (vi) generally, to exercise such powers and to perform such acts as it deems necessary or expedient to promote the best interests of the Company and the participating subsidiaries.
The Committee may delegate to one or more individuals the day-to-day administration of the Plan. Without limitation, subject to the terms and conditions of this Plan, the President, the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, and any other officer of the Company or committee of officers or employees designated by the Committee (collectively, the “Plan administrators”), shall each be authorized to determine the methods through which eligible employees may elect to participate, amend their participation, or withdraw from participation in the Plan, and establish methods of enrollment by means of a manual or electronic form of authorization or an integrated voice response system. The Plan administrators are further authorized to determine the matters described in Article 11 concerning the means of issuance of Common Stock and the procedures established to permit tracking of disqualifying dispositions of shares or to restrict transfer of such shares.
With respect to persons subject to Section 16 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, transactions under the Plan are intended to comply with all applicable conditions of Rule 16b-3 or its successors under said Act. To the extent any provision of the Plan or action by the Committee fails to so comply, it shall be deemed null and void, to the extent permitted by law and deemed advisable by that Committee.
No member of the Board of Directors or the Committee shall be liable for any action or determination made in good faith with respect to the Plan or any option granted under it. The Company shall indemnify each member of the Board of Directors and the Committee to the fullest extent permitted by law with respect to any claim, loss, damage or expense (including counsel fees) arising in connection with their responsibilities under this Plan.
As soon as administratively practicable after the end of each Offering Period, the Plan administrators shall prepare and distribute or make otherwise readily available by electronic means or otherwise to each participating employee in the Plan information concerning the amount of the participating employee’s accumulated payroll deductions as of the Offering Termination Date, the Option Exercise Price for such Offering Period, the number of shares of Common Stock purchased by the participating employee with the participating employee’s accumulated payroll deductions, and the amount of any unused payroll deductions either to be carried forward to the next Offering Period, or returned to the participating employee without interest.
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20.Optionees Not Stockholders
Neither the granting of an option to an employee nor the deductions from his or her pay shall constitute such employee a stockholder of the Company with respect to the shares covered by such option until such shares have been purchased by and issued to him.
21.Application of Funds
The proceeds received by the Company from the sale of Common Stock pursuant to options granted under the Plan may be used for any corporate purposes, and the Company shall not be obligated to segregate participating employees’ payroll deductions.
22.Governmental Regulation
The Company’s obligation to sell and deliver shares of the Company’s Common Stock under this Plan is subject to the approval of any governmental authority required in connection with the authorization, issuance or sale of such stock.
In this regard, the Board of Directors may, in its discretion, require as a condition to the exercise of any option that a Registration Statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, with respect to the shares of Common Stock reserved for issuance upon exercise of the option shall be effective.
23.Transferability
Neither payroll deductions credited to an employee’s account nor any rights with regard to the exercise of an option or to receive stock under the Plan may be assigned, transferred, pledged, or otherwise disposed of in any way by the employee. Any such attempted assignment, transfer, pledge, or other disposition shall be without effect, except that the Company may treat such act as an election to withdraw funds in accordance with Article 10.
24.Effect of Changes of Common Stock
If the Company should subdivide or reclassify the Common Stock which has been or may be optioned under the Plan, or should declare thereon any dividend payable in shares of such Common Stock, or should take any other action of a similar nature affecting such Common Stock, then the number and class of shares of Common Stock which may thereafter be optioned (in the aggregate and to any individual participating employee) shall be adjusted accordingly.
25.Merger or Consolidation
If the Company should at any time merge into or consolidate with another corporation, the Board of Directors may, at its election, either (i) terminate the Plan and refund without interest the entire balance of each participating employee’s payroll deductions, or (ii) entitle each participating employee to receive on the Offering Termination Date upon the exercise of such option for each share of Common Stock as to which such option shall be exercised the securities or property to which a holder of one share of the Common Stock was entitled upon and at the time of such merger or consolidation, and the Board of Directors shall take such steps in connection with such merger or consolidation as the Board of Directors shall deem necessary to assure that the provisions of this Article 25 shall thereafter be applicable, as nearly as reasonably possible. A sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company shall be deemed a merger or consolidation for the foregoing purposes.
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26.Withholding of Additional Tax
By electing to participate in the Plan, each participant acknowledges that the Company and its participating subsidiaries are required to withhold taxes with respect to the amounts deducted from the participant’s compensation and accumulated for the benefit of the participant under the Plan, and each participant agrees that the Company and its participating subsidiaries may deduct additional amounts from the participant’s compensation, when amounts are added to the participant’s account, used to purchase Common Stock or refunded, in order to satisfy such withholding obligations. Each participant further acknowledges that when Common Stock is purchased under the Plan the Company and its participating subsidiaries may be required to withhold taxes with respect to all or a portion of the difference between the fair market value of the Common Stock purchased and its purchase price, and each participant agrees that such taxes may be withheld from compensation otherwise payable to such participant. It is intended that tax withholding will be accomplished in such a manner that the full amount of payroll deductions elected by the participant under Article 7 will be used to purchase Common Stock. However, if amounts sufficient to satisfy applicable tax withholding obligations have not been withheld from compensation otherwise payable to any participant then, notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, the Company may withhold such taxes from the participant’s accumulated payroll deductions and apply the net amount to the purchase of Common Stock, unless the participant pays to the Company, prior to the exercise date, an amount sufficient to satisfy such withholding obligations. Each participant further acknowledges that the Company and its participating subsidiaries may be required to withhold taxes in connection with the disposition of stock acquired under the Plan and agrees that the Company or any participating subsidiary may take whatever action it considers appropriate to satisfy such withholding requirements, including deducting from compensation otherwise payable to such participant an amount sufficient to satisfy such withholding requirements or conditioning any disposition of Common Stock by the participant upon the payment to the Company or such subsidiary of an amount sufficient to satisfy such withholding requirements.
27.Approval of Stockholders
This Plan was first adopted by the Board of Directors on September 25, 2002, and amended on January 14, 2003, and approved, as amended, by the stockholders of the Company on March 10, 2003. The Plan was subsequently amended and approved by the stockholders on March 30, 2006, March 27, 2008, May 11, 2011, May 6, 2020, and May 14, 2024.
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EXHIBIT 99.3
SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
NON-QUALIFIED EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
1.Purpose
The Skyworks Solutions, Inc. Non-Qualified Employee Stock Purchase Plan (hereinafter the “Plan”), effective as of October 1, 2002, is intended to provide a method whereby employees of participating organizations (as defined in Article 17) of Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (the “Company”) will have an opportunity to acquire a proprietary interest in the Company through the purchase of shares of the Company’s Common Stock. It is the intention of the Company that this Plan authorize the grant of purchase rights and issuance of Common Stock which do not qualify as an “Employee Stock Purchase Plan” under section 423 of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Internal Revenue Code”).
2.Eligible Employees
All employees of any of the participating organizations of the Company who are employed by the Company or a participating organization at least ten (10) business days prior to the first day of the applicable Offering Period or any Special Offering Period (each as defined below), or at such other time on or before the first day of the applicable Offering Period or any Special Offering Period, as determined by the Committee (the “Eligibility Date”), shall be eligible to participate in and receive rights under this Plan to purchase Common Stock. Except as otherwise provided herein, persons who become eligible employees after the Eligibility Date shall be eligible to receive purchase rights on the first day of the next succeeding Offering Period on which purchase rights are granted to eligible employees under the Plan. In no event may an employee be granted a purchase right if such employee, immediately after the purchase right is granted, owns stock possessing five (5%) percent or more of the total combined voting power or value of all classes of stock of the Company or of its parent corporation or subsidiary corporation as the terms “parent corporation” and “subsidiary corporation” are defined in Section 424(e) and (1) of the Internal Revenue Code. For purposes of determining stock ownership under this paragraph, the rules of Section 424(d) of the Internal Revenue Code shall apply and stock which the employee may purchase under outstanding purchase rights shall be treated as stock owned by the employee. All employees who participate in the Plan shall have the same rights and privileges under the Plan except for differences which may be mandated by local law and except that employees participating in a sub-plan adopted pursuant to Article 26 need not have the same rights and privileges as other employees participating in the Plan. The Committee (as defined in Article 18) may impose restrictions on eligibility and participation of employees who are officers and directors to facilitate compliance with federal or state securities laws or foreign laws.
3.Stock Subject to the Plan
The stock subject to the purchase rights granted hereunder shall be shares of the Company’s authorized but unissued Common Stock or shares of Common Stock reacquired by the Company, including shares purchased in the open market. The aggregate number of shares which may be issued pursuant to the Plan is 2,120,000 for all Offering Periods, including
As amended effective May 14, 2024
any Special Offering Period, subject to increase or decrease by reason of stock split-ups, reclassifications, stock dividends, changes in par value and the like. If any purchase right granted under the Plan shall expire or terminate for any reason without having been exercised in full or shall cease for any reason to be exercisable in whole or in part, the unpurchased shares subject to such purchase right shall again be available under the Plan. If the number of shares of Common Stock available for any Offering Period, including any Special Offering Period, is insufficient to satisfy all purchase requirements for that Offering Period, the available shares for that Offering Period shall be apportioned among participating employees in proportion to their purchase rights.
4.Offering Periods and Stock Purchase Rights
There shall be Offering Periods and Special Offering Periods during which payroll deductions or permitted cash contributions will be accumulated under the Plan. Each Offering Period, including any Special Offering Period, includes only regular paydays falling within it, The Committee shall be expressly permitted to establish the Offering Periods and the Special Offering Periods, including the Offering Commencement Date and Offering Termination Date (as both defined below) of any Offering Period or Special Offering Period, under the Plan; provided, however, that in no event shall any Offering Period or Special Offering Period extend for more than twenty-four (24) months.
Subject to the foregoing, the Offering Periods shall generally commence and end as follows:
Offering Period Commencement Dates | Offering Period Termination Dates | ||||
Each February 1 | Each July 31 | ||||
Each August 1 | Each January 31 | ||||
Provided, however, that (i) the Offering Commencement Date and Offering Termination Date of the initial Offering Period under this Plan shall be October 1, 2002 and March 31, 2003, respectively, and (ii) the Offering Commencement Date and Offering Termination Date of the Offering Period immediately following the initial Offering Period under this Plan shall be April 1, 2003 and July 31, 2003, respectively.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that the Committee adopts a sub-plan or establishes eligibility pursuant to Article 26 hereof for the employees of a particular organization or location, there will be a Special Offering Period (the “Special Offering Period”) that will begin ten (10) business days after the adoption of such a sub-plan or such establishment of eligibility for all employees that particular organization or location who are eligible as of the date of the Offering Commencement Date of the Special Offering Period.
The Offering Commencement Date is the first day of each Offering Period, including any Special Offering Period. The Offering Termination Date is the applicable date on which an Offering Period ends under this Article 4. In the case of a Special Offering Period, the Offering Termination Date is the date which is the Offering Termination Date for the regular Offering Period in which the Offering Commencement Date for such Special Offering Period occurs unless otherwise decided by the Committee in its discretion.
On each Offering Commencement Date, the Company will grant to each eligible employee who is then a participant in the Plan a purchase right to purchase on the Offering Termination Date at the Purchase Right Exercise Price, as hereinafter provided, that number of full shares of Common Stock reserved for the purpose of the Plan, up to a maximum of 1,000 shares, subject to increase or decrease by reason of stock split-ups, reclassifications, stock dividends, changes in par value and the like; provided that such employee remains eligible to participate in the Plan throughout such Offering Period or Special Offering Period, as the case may be. If the eligible employee’s accumulated payroll deductions or permitted cash contributions on the Offering Termination Date would enable the eligible employee to purchase more than 1,000 shares except for the 1,000-share limitation, the excess of the amount of the accumulated payroll deductions or permitted cash
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contributions over the aggregate Purchase Right Exercise Price of the 1,000 shares shall be refunded to the eligible employee by the Company as soon as administratively practicable, without interest (except where required by local law as determined by the Committee). The Purchase Right Exercise Price for each Offering Period, including any Special Offering Period, shall be the lesser of (i) eighty-five percent (85%) of the fair market value of the Common Stock on the Offering Commencement Date, or (ii) eighty-five percent (85%) of the fair market value of the Common Stock on the Offering Termination Date, in either case rounded up to the next whole cent. In the event of an increase or decrease in the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock through stock splits, reclassifications, stock dividends, changes in par value and the like, an appropriate adjustment shall be made in the number of shares and Purchase Right Exercise Price per share provided for under the Plan, either by a proportionate increase in the number of shares and proportionate decrease in the Purchase Right Exercise Price per share, or by a proportionate decrease in the number of shares and a proportionate increase in the Purchase Right Exercise Price per share, as may be required to enable an eligible employee who is then a participant in the Plan to acquire on the Offering Termination Date that number of full shares of Common Stock as his or her accumulated payroll deductions or permitted cash contributions on such date will pay for at a price equal to the lesser of (i) eighty-five percent (85%) of the fair market value of the Common Stock on the Offering Commencement Date, or (ii) eighty-five percent (85%) of the fair market value of the Common Stock on the Offering Termination Date, in either case rounded up to the next whole cent, as so adjusted.
For purposes of this Plan, the term “fair market value” means, if the Common Stock is listed on a national securities exchange or is on the (U.S.) National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation (“Nasdaq”) Global Select Market system, the closing sale price of the Common Stock on the relevant date on such exchange or as reported on Nasdaq or, if the Common Stock is traded in the over-the-counter securities market, but not on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the closing bid quotation for the Common Stock, each as published in The Wall Street Journal, if no shares of Common Stock are traded on the Offering Commencement Date or Offering Termination Date, the fair market value will be determined on the next regular business day on which shares of Common Stock are traded.
For purposes of this Plan the term “business day” as used herein means a day on which there is trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market or such national securities exchange on which the Common Stock is listed.
No employee shall be granted a purchase right which permits the employee to purchase Common Stock under the Plan and any similar plans of the Company or any parent or subsidiary corporations at a rate which exceeds $25,000 of fair market value of such stock (determined at the time such purchase right is granted) for each calendar year in which such purchase right is outstanding at any time. If the participant’s accumulated payroll deductions or permitted cash contributions on the Offering Termination Date would otherwise enable the participant to purchase Common Stock in excess of the $25,000 limitation described in this paragraph, the excess of the amount of the accumulated payroll deductions or permitted cash contributions over the aggregate Purchase Right Exercise Price of the shares actually purchased shall be refunded to the participant by the Company or its participating organization as soon as administratively practicable, without interest (except where required by local law as determined by the Committee).
5.Exercise of Purchase Right
Each eligible employee who continues to be a participant in the Plan on the Offering Termination Date shall be deemed to have exercised his or her purchase right on such date and shall be deemed to have purchased from the Company such number of full shares of Common Stock reserved for the purpose of the Plan as his or her accumulated payroll deductions or permitted cash contributions on such date will pay for at the Purchase Right Exercise Price subject to the 1000-share limit of the purchase right and the $25,000 limitation described in Article 4. If a participant is not an eligible employee on the Offering Termination Date and throughout an Offering Period or Special Offering Period, he or she shall not be entitled to exercise his or her purchase right under the Plan.
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If a participant’s accumulated payroll deductions or permitted cash contributions in his or her account are based on a currency other than the U.S. dollar, then on the Offering Termination Date, the accumulated payroll deductions or permitted cash contributions in his or her account will be converted into an equivalent value of U.S. dollars based upon the U.S. dollar-foreign currency exchange rate in effect on that date, as reported in The Wall Street Journal, provided that such conversion does not result in an Purchase Right Exercise Price which is, in fact, less than the lesser of an amount equal to 85% of the fair market value of the Common Stock on the Offering Commencement Date or 85% of the fair market value of the Common Stock on the Offering Termination Date. The Committee shall have the right to change such conversion date, as they deem appropriate to effectively purchase shares on any Offering Termination Date.
6.Authorization for Entering Plan
An eligible employee may enter the Plan by following a written, electronic or other enrollment process, including a payroll deduction authorization, as prescribed by the Committee. Except as may otherwise be established by the Committee, all enrollment authorizations shall be effective only if delivered to the designated Plan Administrator(s) (as defined in Article 18) in accordance with the prescribed procedures not later than the Eligibility Date or such other time as determined by the Committee. Participation may be conditioned on an eligible employee’s consent to transfer and process personal data and on acknowledgment and agreement to Plan terms and other specified conditions.
The Company or its participating organization will accumulate and hold for the employee’s account the accumulated payroll deductions or cash contributions. No interest will be paid thereon (except where required by local law as determined by the Committee). In jurisdictions in which participating employees may contribute to the Plan through payroll deductions, they may not make any separate cash payments into their account.
Unless an employee files a new enrollment authorization, or withdraws from the Plan, his or her payroll deductions or cash contribution and purchases under the enrollment authorization he or she has on file under the Plan shall continue as long as the Plan remains in effect. An employee may increase or decrease the amount of his or her payroll deductions or permitted cash contributions as of the next Offering Commencement Date by filing a revised payroll deduction authorization or cash contribution election in accordance with the procedures then applicable to such actions. Except as may otherwise be established by the Committee, all revised authorizations and elections shall be effective only if delivered to the designated Plan Administrator(s) in accordance with the prescribed procedures not later than ten (10) business days before the next Offering Commencement Date.
7.Maximum Amount of Payroll Deductions and Permitted Cash Contributions
An employee may authorize payroll deductions or make cash contributions in an aggregate amount of not less than one percent (1%) and not more than fifteen percent (15%) (in whole number percentages only) of his or her eligible compensation. Such deductions or the amount of the cash contribution shall be determined based on the employee’s election in effect on the payday on which such eligible compensation is paid. An employee may not make any additional payments into such account. Except as otherwise required by local laws, eligible compensation means the wages as defined in Section 3401(a) of the internal Revenue Code, determined without regard to any rules that limit compensation included in wages based on the nature or location or employment or services performed, including without limitation base pay, shift premium, overtime, gain sharing (profit sharing), incentive compensation, bonuses and commissions and all other payments made to the employee for services as an employee during the applicable payroll period, and excluding the value of any qualified or non-qualified stock option, purchase right or other share-based award granted to the employee to the extent such value is includible in the taxable wages, reimbursements or other expense allowances, fringe benefits, moving expenses, deferred compensation, and welfare benefits, but determined prior to any exclusions for any amounts deferred under Sections 125, 401(k), 402(e)(3), 402(h)(1)(B), 403(b) or 457(b) of the Internal Revenue Code or for certain contributions described in Section 457(h)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code that are treated as Company contributions.
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8.Unused Payroll Deductions and Permitted Cash Contributions
Only full shares of Common Stock may be purchased. Any balance remaining in an employee’s account after a purchase will be reported to the employee and will be carried forward to the next Offering Period. However, in no event will the amount of the unused payroll deductions or permitted cash contributions carried forward from an Offering Period exceed the Purchase Right Exercise Price per share for that Offering Period or Special Offering Period, as the case may be. If for any Offering Period, including any Special Offering Period, the amount of unused payroll deductions or permitted cash contributions should exceed the Purchase Right Exercise Price per share, the amount of the excess for any participant shall be refunded to such participant as soon as administratively practicable, without interest (except where required by local law as determined by the Committee).
9.Change in Payroll Deductions or Permitted Cash Contributions
Deductions or cash contributions may not be increased or decreased during an Offering Period or Special Offering Period, as the case may be.
10.Withdrawal from the Plan
An employee may withdraw from the Plan and withdraw all but not less than all of the payroll deductions or permitted cash contributions credited to his or her account under the Plan prior to the Offering Termination Date by completing and filing a withdrawal notification with the designated Plan Administrator(s) in accordance with the prescribed procedures, in which event the Company will refund as soon as administratively practicable without interest (except where required by local law as determined by the Committee) the entire balance of such employee’s deductions or cash contributions not previously used to purchase Common Stock under the Plan. Except as may otherwise be established by the Committee, all withdrawals shall be effective only if delivered to the designated Plan Administrator(s) in accordance with the prescribed procedures not later than ten (10) business days before the Offering Termination Date.
An employee who withdraws from the Plan is like an employee who has never entered the Plan; the employee’s rights under the Plan will be terminated and no further payroll deductions or cash contributions will be made. To reenter, such an employee must re-enroll pursuant to the provisions of Article 6 before the next Offering Commencement Date which cannot, however, become effective before the beginning of the next Offering Period or Special Offering Period following his or her withdrawal.
11.Issuance of Stock
As soon as administratively practicable after each Offering Period, including any Special Offering Period, the Company shall deliver (by electronic or other means) to the participant the Common Stock purchased under the Plan, except as specified below. The Committee may permit or require that the Common Stock shares be deposited directly with a broker or agent designated by the Committee, and the Committee may authorize electronic or automated methods of share transfer. In addition, the Committee may establish other procedures to ensure that the Company’s and its subsidiaries’ applicable tax withholding obligations are satisfied.
12.No Transfer or Assignment of Employee’s Rights
An employee’s rights under the Plan are his or hers alone and may not be transferred or assigned to, or availed of by, any other person. Any purchase right granted to an employee may be exercised only by him or her, except as provided in Article 13 in the event of an employee’s death.
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13.Termination of Employee’s Rights
Except as set forth in the last paragraph of this Article 13, an employee’s rights under the Plan will terminate when he or she ceases to be an employee because of retirement, resignation, lay-off, discharge, death, change of status, or fails to meet the applicable requirements for eligibility in the Plan, or for any other reason. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Article 10, a withdrawal notice will be considered as having been received from the employee on the day his or her employment ceases, and all payroll deductions or permitted cash contributions not used to purchase Common Stock will be refunded as soon as administratively feasible without interest (except where required by local law as determined by the Committee).
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Article 10, if an employee’s payroll deductions or permitted cash contributions are interrupted by any legal process, a withdrawal notice will be considered as having been received from him or her on the day the interruption occurs.
Upon termination of the participating employee’s employment because of death, the authorized legal representative of the employee’s estate shall have the right to elect, by written notice given to the Plan Administrators prior to the earlier of the expiration of the thirty (30) day period commencing with the date of the death of the employee or the first Offering Termination Date following the date of the death of the employee, either (i) to withdraw, without interest (except where required by local law as determined by the Committee), all of the payroll deductions or permitted cash contributions credited to the employee’s account under the Plan, or (ii) to exercise the employee’s purchase right for the purchase of shares of Common Stock on the next Offering Termination Date following the date of the employee’s death for the purchase of that number of full shares of Common Stock reserved for the purpose of the Plan which the accumulated payroll deductions or permitted cash contributions in the employee’s account at the date of the employee’s death will purchase at the applicable Purchase Right Exercise Price (subject to the limitations set forth in Article 4), and any excess in such account (in lieu of fractional shares) will be paid to the employee’s estate as soon as administratively practicable, without interest (except where required by local law as determined by the Committee). In the event that no such written notice of election shall be duly received by the Plan Administrators, the payroll deductions or permitted cash contributions credited to the employee’s account at the date of the employee’s death will be paid to the employee’s estate as soon as administratively practicable, without interest (except where required by local law as determined by the Committee).
14.Termination and Amendments to Plan
The Plan may be terminated at any time by the Company’s Board of Directors or, if sooner, when all of the shares of Common Stock reserved for the purposes of the Plan have been purchased. Upon such termination or any other termination of the Plan, all payroll deductions or permitted cash contributions not used to purchase Common Stock will be refunded without interest (except where required by local law as determined by the Committee).
The Committee or the Board of Directors may, in its sole discretion, insofar as permitted by law, adopt amendments to the Plan from time to time.
15.Limitations of Sale of Stock Purchased under the Plan
The Plan is intended to provide shares of Common Stock for investment and not for resale. The Company does not, however, intend to restrict or influence any employee in the conduct of his or her own affairs. An employee may, therefore, sell stock purchased under the Plan at any time the employee chooses, subject to compliance with any applicable securities laws and subject to any restrictions imposed under Articles 11 and 25. The employee assumes the risk of any market fluctuations in the price of such Common Stock.
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16.Company’s Offering of Expenses Related to Plan
The Company will bear all costs of administering and carrying out the Plan.
17.Participating Organizations
The term “participating organizations” shall mean any present or future subsidiary, organization or business unit of the Company which is designated by the Committee to participate in the Plan.
18.Administration of the Plan
The Plan shall be administered by a committee of “disinterested” directors as that term is defined in Rule 16b-3 under the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, appointed by the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Committee”). The Committee shall consist of not less than two members of the Company’s Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may from time to time remove members from, or add members to, the Committee. Vacancies on the Committee, howsoever caused, shall be filled by the Board of Directors. No member of the Committee shall be eligible to participate in the Plan while serving as a member of the Committee.
The Committee shall select one of its members as Chairman, and shall hold meetings at such times and places as it may determine. Acts by a majority of the Committee, or acts reduced to or approved in writing by a majority of the members of the Committee, shall be the valid acts of the Committee.
The Committee shall have the authority to construe and interpret the provisions of the Plan and of any purchase rights granted under the Plan, and to establish, amend and revoke rules and regulations for the administration of the Plan. The Committee, in the exercise of this power, may correct any defect, omission or inconsistency in the Plan, in a manner and to the extent it shall deem necessary or expedient to make the Plan fully effective. The interpretation and construction by the Committee of any provisions of the Plan or of any purchase rights granted under it shall be final. The Committee may from time to time adopt such rules and regulations for carrying out the Plan as it may deem best. Without limiting the foregoing, the Committee shall have the power, subject to, and within the limitations of, the express provisions of the Plan:
(i)to determine when and how purchase rights to purchase shares of Common Stock shall be granted and the provisions of each Offering Period or Special Offering Period (which need not be identical);
(ii)to designate from time to time which participating organization of the Company shall be eligible to participate in the Plan;
(iii)to determine the Offering Commencement Date and Offering Termination Date of any Offering Period or Special Offering Period;
(iv)to increase or decrease the maximum number of shares which may be purchased by an eligible employee in any Offering Period or Special Offering Period;
(v)to amend the Plan as provided in Article 14; and
(vi)generally, to exercise such powers and to perform such acts as it deems necessary or expedient to promote the best interest of the Company and the participating organizations.
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The Committee may, insofar as permitted by applicable laws and regulations, limit participation in the Plan, for participating organizations, to employees whose customary employment is greater than twenty (20) hours per week and is more than five (5) months in any calendar year.
With respect to persons subject to Section 16 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, transactions under the Plan are intended to comply with all applicable conditions of Rule 1 6b-3 or its successors under said Act. To the extent any provision of the Plan or action by the Committee fails to so comply, it shall be deemed null and void, to the extent permitted by law and deemed advisable by the Committee.
No member of the Board of Directors or the Committee shall be liable for any action or determination made in good faith with respect to the Plan or any purchase right granted under it. The Company shall indemnify each member of the Board of Directors and the Committee to the fullest extent permitted by law with respect to any claim, loss, damage or expense (including counsel fees) arising in connection with their responsibilities under this Plan.
The Committee may delegate to one or more individuals the day-to-day administration of the Plan. Without limitation, subject to the terms and conditions of this Plan, the President, the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, and any other officer of the Company or committee of officers or employees designated by the Committee (collectively, the “Plan Administrators”), shall each be authorized to determine the methods through which eligible employees may elect to participate, amend their participation, or withdraw from participation in the Plan, and establish methods of enrollment by means of a manual or electronic form of authorization or an integrated voice response system. The Plan Administrators are further authorized to determine the matters described in Articles 11 and 25 concerning the means of issuance of Common Stock and the procedures established to ensure that the Company’s applicable tax withholding obligations are satisfied.
As soon as administratively practicable after the end of each Offering Period and the Special Offering Period, the Plan Administrators shall prepare and distribute or make otherwise readily available by electronic means or otherwise to each participating employee in the Plan information concerning the amount of the participating employee’s accumulated payroll deductions or permitted cash contributions as of the Offering Termination Date, the Purchase Right Exercise Price for such Offering Period or Special Offering Period, the number of shares of Common Stock purchased by the participating employee with the participating employee’s accumulated payroll deductions or permitted cash contributions, and the amount of any unused payroll deductions or permitted cash contributions either to be carried forward to the next Offering Period or returned to the participating employee without interest or otherwise distributed or retained as required by local law as determined by the Committee.
19.Participants Not Stockholders
Neither the granting of a purchase right to an employee nor the deductions from his or her pay shall make such employee a stockholder of the Company with respect to the shares covered by such purchase right until such shares have been purchased by and issued to him or her.
20.Application of Funds
The proceeds received by the Company and the participating organization for the purchase Common Stock pursuant to purchase rights granted under the Plan may be used for any corporate purposes, and the Company shall not be obligated to segregate participating employees’ payroll deductions or permitted cash contributions, unless required by applicable laws and regulations.
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21.Governmental Regulation
The Company’s obligation to sell and deliver shares of the Company’s Common Stock under this Plan is subject to the approval of any governmental authority required in connection with the authorization, issuance or sale of such stock.
In this regard, the Board of Directors may, in its discretion, require as a condition to the exercise of any purchase right that a Registration Statement under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, with respect to the shares of Common Stock reserved for issuance upon exercise of the purchase right shall be effective, and that all other applicable provisions of U.S. state and federal and applicable foreign law have been satisfied.
22.Transferability
Neither payroll deductions or permitted cash contributions credited to an employee’s account nor any rights with regard to the exercise of a purchase right or to receive stock under the Plan may be assigned, transferred, pledged, or otherwise disposed of in any way by the employee. Any such attempted assignment, transfer, pledge, or other disposition shall be without effect, except that the Company may treat such act as an election to withdraw funds in accordance with Article 10.
23.Effect of Changes on Common Stock
If the Company should subdivide or reclassify the Common Stock which has been or may be subject to purchase rights under the Plan, or should declare thereon any dividend payable in shares of such Common Stock, or should take any other action of a similar nature affecting such Common Stock, then the number and class of shares of Common Stock which may thereafter be subject to purchase rights (in the aggregate and to any individual participating employee) shall be adjusted accordingly.
24.Merger or Consolidation
If the Company should at any time merge into or consolidate with another corporation, the Board of Directors may, at its election, either (i) terminate the Plan and refund without interest (except where required by local law as determined by the Committee) the entire balance of each participating employee’s payroll deductions or permitted cash contributions, or (ii) entitle each participating employee to receive on the Offering Termination Date upon the exercise of such purchase right for each share of Common Stock as to which such purchase right shall be exercised the securities or property to which a holder of one share of the Common Stock was entitled upon and at the time of such merger or consolidation, and the Board of Directors shall take such steps in connection with such merger or consolidation as the Board of Directors shall deem necessary to assure that the provisions of this Article 24 shall thereafter be applicable, as nearly as reasonably possible. A sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company shall be deemed a merger or consolidation for the foregoing purposes.
25.Withholding of Additional Tax
By electing to participate in the Plan, each participant acknowledges that the Company and the participating organizations may be required to withhold taxes with respect to the amounts deducted from the participant’s compensation and accumulated for the benefit of the participant under the Plan, and each participant agrees that the Company and the participating organizations may deduct additional amounts from the participant’s compensation, when amounts are added to the participant’s account, used to purchase Common Stock or refunded, in order to satisfy such withholding obligations. Each participant further acknowledges that when Common Stock is purchased under the Plan the Company and the participating organizations may be required to withhold taxes with respect to the Common Stock purchased, and each participant agrees that such taxes may be withheld from compensation otherwise payable to such participant. It is intended that tax withholding will be accomplished in such a manner that the full amount of payroll deductions or permitted cash
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contributions elected by the participant under Article 7 will be used to purchase Common Stock. However, if amounts sufficient to satisfy applicable tax withholding obligations have not been withheld from compensation otherwise payable to any participant then, notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, the Company and the participating organizations may withhold such taxes from the participant’s accumulated payroll deductions or permitted cash contributions and apply the net amount to the purchase of Common Stock, unless the participant pays to the Company or the participating organizations, prior to the Offer Termination Date, an amount sufficient to satisfy such withholding obligations. Each participant further acknowledges that the Company and the participating organizations may be required to withhold taxes in connection with the disposition of stock acquired under the Plan and agrees that the Company and the participating organizations may take whatever actions they consider appropriate to satisfy such withholding requirements, including deducting from compensation otherwise payable to such participant an amount sufficient to satisfy such withholding requirements or conditioning any disposition of Common Stock by the participant upon the payment to the Company or the participating organizations of an amount sufficient to satisfy such withholding requirements.
26.Committee Rules for Foreign Jurisdictions
The Committee may adopt rules or procedures relating to the operation and administration of the Plan to accommodate the specific requirements of local laws and procedures. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Committee is specifically authorized to (and to delegate to the Plan Administrators the authority to) adopt rules and procedures regarding handling of payroll deductions, cash contributions, payment of interest, conversion of local currency, tax, withholding procedures and handling of stock certificates which vary with local requirements.
The Committee may also adopt sub-plans and establish or discontinue eligibility to participate in the Plan applicable to particular organizations or locations. The rules of such sub-plans may take precedence over other provisions of this Plan, but unless otherwise superseded by the terms of such sub-plan, the provisions of this Plan shall govern the operation of such sub-plan.
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