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This excerpt taken from the FL 8-K filed Jun 5, 2007. Stock Subject to the Plan; Limitation on Grants.
(a) The maximum number of shares of Stock reserved for issuance pursuant to the Plan or with respect to which Awards may be granted shall be six million (6,000,000) shares, subject to adjustment as provided herein, except that the number of such shares reserved for issuance as Restricted Stock and Other Stock-Based Awards shall be one million five hundred thousand (1,500,000) shares, subject to adjustment as provided herein. Such shares may, in whole or in part, be authorized but unissued shares or shares that shall have been or may be reacquired by the Company in the open market, in private transactions or otherwise. If any shares subject to an Award are forfeited, cancelled, exchanged or surrendered, or if an Award otherwise terminates or expires without a distribution of shares to the Participant, the shares of Stock with respect to such Award shall, to the extent of any such forfeiture, cancellation, exchange, surrender, termination or expiration, again be available for Awards under the Plan. Upon the exercise of any Award granted in tandem with any other Awards, such related Awards shall be cancelled to the extent of the number of shares of Stock as to which the Award is exercised and, notwithstanding the foregoing, such number of shares shall no longer be available for Awards under the Plan. Notwithstanding any provision of this Plan to the contrary, if authorized but previously unissued shares of Stock are issued under this Plan, such shares shall not be issued for a consideration which is less than as permitted by applicable law. (b) During the term of this Plan, no Participant can receive Options, Restricted Stock, Other Stock-Based Awards and freestanding SARs, relating to shares of Stock which in the aggregate exceed 25 percent of the total number of shares authorized under the Plan, as adjusted pursuant to the terms hereof. Solely with respect to Restricted Stock and Other Stock-Based Awards that are intended to be performance-based compensation under Section 162(m) of the Code, the maximum number of shares of Stock subject to Awards of Restricted Stock or Other Stock-Based Awards which may be granted under the Plan to each Participant shall not exceed one million five hundred thousand (1,500,000) shares (subject to any adjustment as provided herein) during each fiscal year of the Company during the entire term of the Plan. (c) The maximum number of shares of Stock subject to any Award of Options, Restricted Stock, SARs or Other Stock-Based Awards which may be granted under the Plan during each fiscal year of the Company to each Nonemployee Director shall be fifty thousand (50,000) shares (subject to any adjustment as provided herein). (d) The existence of the Plan and the Awards granted hereunder shall not affect in any way the right or power of the Board or the shareholders of Foot Locker to make or authorize any adjustment, recapitalization, reorganization or other change in Foot Lockers capital structure or its business, any merger or consolidation of the Company or any part thereof, any issue of bonds, debentures, preferred or prior preference stock ahead of or affecting Stock, the dissolution or liquidation of the Company or any part thereof, any sale or transfer of all or part of its assets or business or any other corporate act or proceeding. (e) In the event of any dividend or other distribution (whether in the form of cash, Stock or other property), recapitalization, Stock split, reverse Stock split, reorganization, merger, consolidation, spin-off, combination, repurchase, or share exchange, reclassification of any capital stock, issuance of warrants or options to purchase Stock or securities convertible into Stock, or other similar corporate transaction or event, affects the Stock such that an adjustment is appropriate in order to prevent dilution or enlargement of the rights of Participants under the Plan, the Committee shall in good faith make such equitable changes or adjustments as it deems necessary or appropriate to any or all of (i) the number and kind of shares of Stock which may thereafter be issued in connection with Awards, (ii) the number and kind of shares of Stock issued or issuable in respect of outstanding Awards, and (iii) the exercise price, grant price or purchase price relating to any Award; provided that, with respect to Incentive Stock Options, such adjustment shall be made in accordance with Section 424 of the Code. (f) Fractional shares of Stock resulting from any adjustment in Options and other Awards pursuant to this Section shall be aggregated until, and eliminated at, the time of exercise by rounding down for fractions less than one half (½) and rounding up for fractions equal to or greater than one half (½). No cash settlements shall be made with respect to fractional shares of Stock eliminated by rounding. Notice of any adjustment shall be given by the Committee to each Participant whose Option or other Award has been adjusted and such adjustment (whether or not such notice is given) shall be effective and binding for all purposes of the Plan. (g) In the event of a merger or consolidation in which Foot Locker is not the surviving entity or in the event of any transaction that results in the acquisition of substantially all of Foot Lockers outstanding Stock by a single person or entity or by a group of persons and/or entities acting in concert, or in the event of the sale or transfer of all of Foot Lockers assets (all of the foregoing being referred to as Acquisition Events), then the Committee may, in its sole discretion, terminate all outstanding Options and/or any Award, effective as of the date of the Acquisition Event, by delivering notice of termination to each Participant at least twenty (20) days prior to the date of consummation of the Acquisition Event; provided, that during the period from the date on which such notice of termination is delivered to the consummation of the Acquisition Event, each Participant shall have the right to exercise in full all of his or her Options and Awards that are then outstanding (without regard to any limitations on exercisability otherwise contained in the Option or Award Agreements) but contingent on occurrence of the Acquisition Event, and, provided that, if the Acquisition Event does not take place within a specified period after giving such notice for any reason whatsoever, the notice and exercise shall be null and void. 6. |
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