NIKE, INC.
DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
(as Amended and Restated Effective as of January 1, 2000)
This Plan is amended and restated effective as of January 1, 2000 by
NIKE, Inc. (the "Company"), acting on behalf of itself and its
designated subsidiaries. Throughout, the term "Company" shall include
wherever relevant any entity that is directly or indirectly controlled
by the Company or any entity in which the Company has a significant
equity or investment interest, as determined by the Company.
RECITALS
1. The Company adopted the Supplemental Executive Savings Plan
effective February 1, 1994 (the "SESP"). The SESP was adopted to
provide an opportunity for eligible employees to set aside additional
amounts for retirement on a tax deferred basis and to provide a
limited make-up of profit sharing contributions lost as a result of
the limit on compensation under Section 401(a)(17) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 (the "Code") under the Company's 401(k) Savings
and Profit Sharing Plan for employees of NIKE, Inc. (the "Profit
Sharing Plan"). The SESP is a nonqualified deferred compensation
plan for the benefit of a select group of management or
highly-compensated employees of the Company.
2. The Company adopted the Supplemental Executive Profit Sharing
Plan effective as of June 1, 1995 (the "SEPSP") to expand the make-up
of profit sharing contributions lost under the Profit Sharing Plan and
to separate the restoration provisions from the elective deferral
provisions of the SESP.
3. Effective as of January 1, 1998, the Company combined the SEPSP
and the SESP and made certain other changes. The resulting plan was
renamed the NIKE, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan (the "Plan"). The
Company now wishes to again amend and restate the Plan, effective as
of January 1, 2000.
4. Under the Plan, the Company is obligated to pay vested accrued
benefits to Plan Participants and their Beneficiary or Beneficiaries
from the Company's general assets.
5. In connection with the Plan, the Company is party to an
agreement (the "Trust Agreement") with Northern Trust Company as
trustee (the "Trustee") under an irrevocable trust (the "Trust").
6. The Company intends to make contributions to the Trust so that
such contributions will be held by the Trustee and invested, reinvested
and distributed, all in accordance with the provisions of this Plan and
the Trust Agreement.
7. The Company intends that amounts contributed to the Trust and
the earnings thereon shall be used by the Trustee if necessary to
satisfy the liabilities of the Company under the Plan with respect to
each Plan participant for whom an Account has been established and
such utilization shall be in accordance with the procedures set forth
herein.
8. The Company intends that the Trust be a "grantor trust" with
the principal and income of the Trust treated as assets and income of
the Company for federal and state income tax purposes.
9. The Company intends that the assets of the Trust shall at all
times be subject to the claims of the general creditors of the Company
as provided in the Trust Agreement.
10. The Company intends that the existence of the Trust shall not
alter the characterization of the Plan as "unfunded" for purposes of
the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended
("ERISA"), and shall not be construed to provide income to Plan
participants under the Plan prior to actual payment of the vested
accrued benefits thereunder.
NOW THEREFORE, the Company does hereby adopt this amended and
restated Plan as follows and does also hereby agree that the Plan shall
be structured, held and disposed of as follows:
ARTICLE I
TITLE AND DEFINITIONS
1.1 Title
This Plan shall be known as the NIKE, Inc. Deferred
Compensation Plan.
1.2 Definitions
Whenever the following words and phrases are used in this Plan,
with the first letter capitalized, they shall have the meanings specified
below.
"Account" means for each Participant the bookkeeping account
maintained by the Committee that is credited with amounts equal to (1)
the portion of the Participant's Salary that he or she elects to defer,
(2) the portion of the Participant's Bonus that he or she elects to
defer, (3) the portion of the Participant's Commissions that he or she
elects to defer, (4) the portion of the Participant's Fees that he or she
elects to defer, (5) Company contributions, if any, made to the Plan for
the Participant's benefit, and (6) adjustments to reflect deemed earnings
pursuant to Section 4.1(d).
"Actuarial Equivalent" means the actuarial present value
determined by the actuary appointed by the Company, in accordance with
generally accepted actuarial principles, with a discount for mortality
using the 1983 Group Annuity Mortality Table and a discount for interest at
the 30-year Treasury rate for July 1999 (5.98%).
"Beneficiary" or "Beneficiaries" means the beneficiary last
designated in writing by a Participant in accordance with procedures
established by the Committee to receive the benefits specified hereunder
in the event of the Participant's death. No Beneficiary designation
shall become effective until it is filed with the Committee during the
Participant's lifetime.
"Board of Directors" or "Board" means the Board of Directors of
the Company.
"Bonus" means any cash-based incentive compensation (other than
Commissions) that is payable to a Participant in addition to the
Participant's Salary.
"Change of Control" means any of the following:
(a) The purchase or other acquisition by any person, entity
or group of persons, within the meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Act"), or any
comparable successor provisions, of beneficial ownership (within the
meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Act) of forty percent or more
of either the outstanding shares of Class A and Class B common stock or
the combined voting power of the Company's then outstanding voting
securities entitled to vote generally;
(b) The approval by the stockholders of the Company of a
reorganization, merger, or consolidation with respect to which persons
who were stockholders of the Company immediately prior to such
reorganization, merger or consolidation do not, immediately thereafter,
own more than fifty percent of the combined voting power entitled to vote
generally in the election of directors of the reorganized, merged or
consolidated Company's then-outstanding securities;
(c) A liquidation or dissolution of the Company; or
(d) A sale of all or substantially all of the Company's
assets.
"Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
"Commissions" mean any cash-based commission compensation
payable to a Participant.
"Committee" means the Committee appointed by the Board to
administer the Plan in accordance with Article VIII. Unless specified
otherwise by the Board, the "Committee" shall mean the Retirement
Committee established under the Profit Sharing Plan.
"Company" means NIKE, Inc., any successor corporation and any
entity that is directly or indirectly controlled by the Company or any
entity in which the Company has a significant equity or investment
interest, as determined by the Company.
"Company Stock" means NIKE, Inc. Class B Common stock.
"Compensation" means the Bonus, Commissions, Fees and Salary
that the Participant earns for services rendered to the Company.
"Consultant" means any person, including an advisor but
excluding Directors, engaged by the Company to render services to the
Company and designated by the Committee as eligible to participate in the
Plan.
"Director" means a non-employee member of the Board.
"Director's 1999 Transition Retirement Benefit" means the
Actuarial Equivalent of the Director's Retirement Annuity as determined on
September 1, 1999, divided by the fair market value of Company stock on
September 1, 1999, and stated in units representing shares of Company
Stock.
"Director's Retirement Annuity" means the projected annual
retirement benefit payable to a Retired Director in the amount of eighteen
thousand dollars ($18,000), reduced proportionately for each year of
service completed as a Director less than ten (but with no benefit if five
or fewer years of service).
"Disability" means a Participant's long-term disability as
defined in the Company's long-term disability plan for employees.
"Distributable Amount" means the amount credited to a
Participant's Account.
"Distribution Event" means, with respect to each Participant,
the Participant's termination of Service for any reason, including
Retirement, death or Disability, or, if specified by the Participant, a
specific date. A Participant's Distribution Event election shall be made
in writing at such time, on such form and subject to such terms and
conditions as the Committee may specify.
"Eligible Employee" means any Employee who is designated in
writing as eligible to participate in the Plan by the Committee from
among a select group of management or highly-compensated Employees of the
Company.
"Employee" means a common law employee of the Company
performing services regularly in the United States or, if not performing
services regularly in the United States, a common law employee of the
Company who is on U.S. payroll and participating in a Company-sponsored
Global Transfer Program.
"Fees" means, (i) in the case of non-employee members of the
Board, annual cash fees paid by the Company, including retainer fees,
committee fees and meeting fees, paid by the Company as compensation for
serving on the Board, and (ii) in the case of any other non-employee
service provider, the cash fees paid to such individual for services
rendered to the Company.
"Fund" or "Funds" means one or more of the investment funds
selected by the Committee pursuant to Section 3.3.
"Initial Election Period" means the 30-day period following the
Eligible Employee's date of hire (or appointment to the Board or
commencement of services as a Consultant, as applicable) or, if later,
upon first becoming an Eligible Employee, Director or Consultant.
"Investment Return" means, for each Fund, an amount equal to
the pre-tax rate of gain or loss on the assets of such Fund (net of
applicable fund and investment charges) during each valuation period, but
not less frequently than monthly.
"Participant" means any Consultant, Director or Eligible
Employee who elects to defer Compensation in accordance with Section 3.1.
"Payment Commencement Date" means (i) in the case of a
Participant's Retirement, on or before January 31 following the Plan Year
of the Participant's Retirement, (ii) in the case of any other
Distribution Event, as soon as administratively possible thereafter.
"Plan" means the NIKE, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan set
forth herein, now in effect, or as amended from time to time.
"Plan Year" means the calendar year.
"Predecessor Plans" means the NIKE, Inc. Supplemental Executive
Savings Plan and the NIKE, Inc. Supplemental Executive Profit Sharing
Plan.
"Profit Sharing Plan" means the 401(k) Savings and Profit
Sharing Plan for Employees of NIKE, Inc.
"Retired Director" or "Director's Retirement" means the cessation
of a Director's services on the Board on or after age 65 with ten (10)
years of service, but no later than age 72 if the Director commenced
service as a Director after the Company's 1993 fiscal year.
"Retirement" means the Participant's resignation if at the time
thereof the Participant has completed at least five Years of Service with
the Company. For this purpose, "Years of Service" are measured based on
credited years of vesting service under the Profit Sharing Plan.
"Salary" means the Employee's base salary for the Plan Year.
Salary excludes any other form of compensation such as restricted stock,
proceeds from stock options or stock appreciation rights, severance
payments, moving expenses, car or other special allowance, adjustments
for overseas employment other than the 12.5% transfer premium, or any
other amounts included in an Eligible Employee's taxable income that is
not compensation for services. Deferral elections shall be computed
before taking into account any reduction in taxable income by salary
reduction under Code Sections 125 or 401(k), or under this Plan.
"Service" means service with the Company as an Employee,
Director or Consultant.
ARTICLE II
PARTICIPATION
2.1 Participation
An Eligible Employee, Director or Consultant shall become a
Participant in the Plan by electing to defer a portion of his or her
Compensation in accordance with Section 3.1.
ARTICLE III
DEFERRAL ELECTIONS
3.1 Elections to Defer Compensation
(a) Initial Election Period. Each Eligible Employee,
Director or Consultant may elect to defer Compensation by filing an
election with the Committee that conforms to the requirements of this
Section 3.1, on a form provided by the Committee, no later than the last
day of his or her Initial Election Period. Deferral Elections filed with
respect to the 1998 Plan Year shall supersede any and all prior deferral
elections made in connection with the Predecessor Plans.
(b) General Rule. The amount of Compensation that an
Eligible Employee, Director or Consultant may elect to defer is as
follows:
(1) Any whole percentage of Salary up to 100%;
(2) Any whole percentage of Bonus up to 100%;
(3) Any whole percentage of Commissions up to 100%;
(4) Any whole percentage of Fees up to 100%;
provided, however, that no election shall be effective to reduce the
Compensation paid to an Eligible Employee to an amount that is less than
the amount necessary to pay applicable employment taxes (e.g., FICA,
hospital insurance) payable with respect to amounts deferred hereunder,
amounts necessary to satisfy any other benefit plan withholding
obligations, any resulting income taxes payable with respect to
Compensation that cannot be so deferred, and any amounts necessary to
satisfy any wage garnishment or similar type obligations.
(c) Minimum Deferrals. For each full Plan Year during which
the Eligible Employee is a Participant, the minimum dollar amount that
may be deferred under this Section 3.1 is $5,000 ($1,000 in the case of
Directors and Consultants).
(d) Effect of Initial Election. An election to defer Salary,
Commissions or Fees made during an Initial Election Period shall be
effective as to Salary and Commissions earned beginning with the first
pay period beginning after the Initial Election Period. Employees who
first became Eligible Employees during a Plan Year may make an election
to defer Bonuses payable in subsequent Plan Years by making deferral
elections in accordance with subsections 3.1(e) and (f).
(e) Duration of Deferral Election. A Compensation deferral
election made under paragraph (a) or paragraph (f) of this Section 3.1
shall remain in effect, notwithstanding any change in the Participant's
Compensation until modified or terminated as provided herein. A
Participant may irrevocably elect at any time to reduce the percentage to
be deferred from Salary or Fees earned in the remainder of the Plan Year
to zero. Subject to the minimum deferral requirement of subsection (c)
of this Section, the percentage of Salary, Commissions and Fees
designated by the Participant for deferral may be modified by filing a
new election, in accordance with the terms of this Section, with the
Committee not later than December 15 of the year immediately preceding
the beginning of the Plan Year for which the election shall be in effect.
A Participant's deferral election shall terminate with respect to future
Compensation upon the Participant ceasing to be an Eligible Employee,
Director or Consultant.
(f) Elections Other Than Elections During the Initial Election
Period. Any Eligible Employee, Director or Consultant who fails to elect
to defer Compensation during his or her Initial Election Period may
subsequently become a Participant by filing an election, on a form
provided by the Committee, to defer Compensation as described in
paragraph (b) above. An election to defer Compensation must be filed no
later than December 15 (or such earlier date as the Committee may
establish) and will be effective for Salary, Commissions and Fees earned
beginning with the first pay period beginning on and after the beginning
of the next succeeding Plan Year and any Bonus payable in the next
succeeding Plan Year.
(g) Director's 1999 Transition Election. Any Director as of
September 1, 1999, shall have made an election on or before September 24,
1999, to either remain eligible for the Director's Retirement Annuity or
elect to convert such annuity to the Director's 1999 Transition
Retirement Benefit, in either case such benefit not payable until the
Director's Retirement. In the event an electing Director converted the
Director's Retirement Annuity, such election shall be irrevocable and
paid as provided herein.
3.2 Company Contributions
(a) Eligibility. An Eligible Employee who qualifies for a
contribution for a Plan Year under the Profit Sharing Plan shall be
eligible for a Company contribution under this Plan for such Plan Year if
they either (i) make a Deferral Election under 3.1 for the Plan Year, or
(ii) receive compensation under the Profit Sharing Plan exceeding the
Internal Revenue Code Section 401(a)(17) limit of $150,000 (as indexed)
for its Plan Year, or both.
(b) Company Contribution. An Eligible Employee who is eligible
under subsection 3.2(a) shall be credited with a "Restoration Amount" for
each Plan Year. "Restoration Amount" means the amount by which the
Eligible Employee's allocated share of the "Profit Sharing Contribution"
(as defined in the Profit Sharing Plan) for the corresponding Profit
Sharing Plan Year (ending with or within the Plan Year) would be higher
if calculated on the basis of Compensation as defined under this Plan and
determined (i) before any reduction for deferral of compensation under
this Plan, and (ii) without regard to the Internal Revenue Code Section
401(a)(17) limit).".
(c) Discretionary Company Contributions. In addition to
Company contributions in accordance with Section 3.2(b), the Company may,
in its sole discretion, make discretionary contributions to the Accounts
of one or more Participants at such times and in such amounts as the
Board or the Committee may determine.
(d) Director's Retirement Contribution. In addition to any
Company contributions made in accordance with 3.2 (a)-(c), the Company
shall credit to the Accounts of any electing Director the number of
shares of Company Stock equivalent to the electing Director's 1999
Transition Retirement Benefit. The Company may contribute such shares
corresponding to the total of all electing Director's benefits, at such
time and in such amount as the Board or the Committee may determine,
provided that any shares so contributed shall remain in the name of the
Company (or any trust established by the Company for this purpose), and
shall be its sole property in which no electing Director shall have any
interest.
3.3 Investment Elections.
(a) Hypothetical Investment Funds. The Committee may, in its
discretion, provide each Participant with a list of investment Funds
available for hypothetical investment, and the Participant may designate,
in a manner specified by the Committee, one or more Funds that his or her
Account will be deemed to be invested in for purposes of determining the
amount of earnings to be credited to that Account. The Committee may,
from time to time, in its sole discretion select a commercially available
fund to constitute the Fund actually selected. The Investment Return of
each such commercially available fund shall be used to determine the
amount of earnings to be credited to Participants' Accounts under Section
4.1(d).
(1) Deemed Investment Elections. In making the designation
pursuant to this Section 3.3, the Participant may specify that all or any
1% multiple of his or her Account be deemed to be invested in one or more
of the Funds offered by the Committee. Subject to such limitations and
conditions as the Committee may specify, a Participant may change the
designation made under this Section 3.3 in such manner and at such time
or times as the Committee shall specify. If a Participants fails to
elect a Fund under this Section 3.3, or if the Committee shall not
provide Participants with a list of Funds pursuant to this Section 3.3,
the Participant shall be deemed to have elected a money market fund.
(2) No Company Obligation. The Company may, but need not,
acquire investments corresponding to those designated by the Participants
hereunder, and it is not under any obligation to maintain any investment
it may make. Any such investments, if made, shall be in the name of the
Company, and shall be its sole property in which no Participant shall
have any interest.
(b) Director's Plan Investments. In addition to any hypothetical
investment Fund elections the Director may make with respect to amounts
deferred under 3.1, the following shall apply to a Director's Plan Account:
(1) 1999 Transition Retirement Plan Subaccount. The entirety
of an electing Director's 1999 Transition Retirement Benefit shall be
maintained in a separate subaccount, reflecting the number of shares of
Company Stock in which the electing Director is vested and entitled to
under the Plan as his or her 1999 Transition Retirement Benefit. The
balance in such subaccount shall be expressed in units (denominated in
shares of Company Stock). The number of units reflected in an electing
Director's 1999 Transition Retirement Benefit subaccount shall be
appropriately adjusted periodically to reflect any dividend, split, split-
up or any combination or exchange, however, accomplished, with respect to
the shares of Company Stock represented by such units.
ARTICLE IV
ACCOUNTS
4.1 Participant Accounts.
The Committee shall establish and maintain an Account for each
Participant under the Plan. Each Participant's Account may be further
divided into separate subaccounts ("investment fund subaccounts"),
corresponding to investment Funds elected by the Participant pursuant to
Section 3.3 or as otherwise determined by the Committee to be necessary
or appropriate for proper Plan administration. A Participant's Account
shall be credited as follows:
(a) As soon as practicable following the end of each
applicable pay period, the Committee shall credit the investment fund
subaccounts of the Participant's Account with an amount equal to Salary,
Commissions or Fees deferred by the Participant during each pay period in
accordance with the Participant's election; that is, the portion of the
Participant's deferred Salary, Commissions or Fees that the Participant
has elected to be deemed to be invested in a certain type of investment
Fund shall be credited to the investment fund subaccount corresponding to
that investment Fund.
(b) As soon as practicable after each Bonus or partial Bonus
would have been paid, the Committee shall credit the investment fund
subaccounts of the Participant's Account with an amount equal to the
portion of the Bonus deferred by the Participant's election; that is, the
portion of the Participant's deferred Bonus that the Participant has
elected to be deemed to be invested in a certain type of investment Fund
shall be credited to the investment fund subaccount corresponding to that
investment Fund.
(c) As soon as practicable after the last day of the Plan Year
or such earlier time or times as the Committee may determine, the
Committee shall credit the investment fund subaccounts of the
Participant's Account with an amount equal to the portion, if any, of any
Company contribution made to or for the Participant's benefit in
accordance with Section 3.2; that is, the portion of the Participant's
Company contribution, if any, that the Participant has elected to be
deemed to be invested in a certain type of investment Fund shall be
credited to the investment fund subaccount corresponding to that
investment Fund.
(d) At such time or times as the Committee may determine, but
not less frequently than monthly, each investment fund subaccount of a
Participant's Account shall be credited with earnings in an amount equal
to that determined by multiplying the balance credited to such investment
fund subaccount as of the last day of the preceding valuation period by
the Investment Return for the corresponding Fund selected by the Company.
ARTICLE V
VESTING
5.1 Account.
(a) Compensation Deferrals. A Participant's Account
attributable to Compensation deferred by a Participant pursuant to the
terms of this Plan, together with any amounts credited to the
Participant's Account under Section 4.1(d) with respect to such
deferrals, shall be 100% vested at all times.
(b) Company Contributions. Unless specified otherwise by the
Board or the Committee, the value of a Participant's Account attributable
to any Company contributions pursuant to Section 3.2, together with any
amounts credited to the Participant's Account under Section 4.1(d) with
respect to such amounts, shall be vested in the same proportion as the
Participant's account in the Profit Sharing Plan.
(c) Director's 1999 Transition Retirement Plan Investments.
An electing Director's 1999 Transition Retirement Benefit, together with
any earnings thereon, shall be 100% vested at all times.
ARTICLE VI
GENERAL DUTIES
6.1 Trustee Duties.
The Trustee shall manage, invest and reinvest the Trust Fund as
provided in the Trust Agreement. The Trustee shall collect the income on
the Trust Fund, and make distributions therefrom, all as provided in this
Plan and in the Trust Agreement.
6.2 Company Contributions.
While the Plan remains in effect, the Company shall make
contributions to the Trust Fund at least once each quarter. As soon as
practicable after the close of each Plan quarter, the Company shall make
an additional contribution to the Trust Fund to the extent that previous
contributions to the Trust Fund for the current Plan quarter are less
than the total of the Compensation deferrals made by each Participant
plus Company contributions, if any, accrued as of the close of the
current Plan quarter. The Trustee shall not be liable for any failure by
the Company to provide contributions sufficient to pay all accrued
benefits under the Plan in accordance with the terms of this Plan.
6.3 Department of Labor Determination.
In the event that any Participants are found to be ineligible,
that is, not members of a select group of management or highly
compensated employees, according to a determination made by the
Department of Labor, the Committee shall take whatever steps it deems
necessary, in its sole discretion, to equitably protect the interests of
the affected Participants.
ARTICLE VII
DISTRIBUTIONS
7.1 Distribution of Deferred Compensation: Termination of Service
(a) Retirement; Disability; Death. In the event a
Participant's Service terminates as a result of Retirement, long-term
disability (as defined in the Company's long-term disability plan for
employees) or death, and provided further that such Participant does not
return to Service prior to the Payment Commencement Date, the
Participant's Distributable Amount shall be paid to the Participant (and
after his or her death to his or her Beneficiary) in substantially equal
quarterly installments over 15 years beginning on his or her Payment
Commencement Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Participant may, in
lieu of quarterly installments over 15 years, elect a cash lump sum
payment or quarterly installments over five or 10 years by filing an
election with the Committee within 30 days of the date he or she first
becomes a Participant.
A Participant may change his or her form of distribution under
this subsection 7.1(a) provided that his or her change is filed with the
Committee at least one year prior to his or her Payment Commencement
Date; otherwise, the most recent distribution election made by the
Participant one (1) or more years prior to the Payment Commencement Date
shall govern.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Participant's
Distributable Amount is $25,000 or less, the Distributable Amount shall
automatically be distributed in the form of a cash lump sum on the
Participant's Payment Commencement Date. If the Participant's
Distributable Amount is paid in installments, the Participant's Account
shall continue to be credited monthly with earnings pursuant to Section
4.1(d) of the Plan and the installment amount shall be adjusted annually
to reflect gains and losses until all amounts credited to his or her
Account under the Plan have been distributed.
Amounts payable pursuant to this subsection 7.1(a) shall be
subject to the limitation on payout under Section 7.5.
(b) Other Termination. In the case of a Participant whose
Service with the Company terminates for any reason other then Retirement,
long-term disability of death, the Participant's Distributable Amount
shall be paid to the Participant in the form of a cash lump sum on the
Participant's Payment Commencement Date, provided that no such
distribution shall occur in the event the Participant returns to Service
prior to the Payment Commencement Date.
(c) Death While Receiving Benefits. If the Participant is in
pay status at the time of death, the Beneficiary shall be paid the
remaining quarterly installments as they come due.
(d) Director's 1999 Transition Retirement Plan Distribution.
Notwithstanding the foregoing distribution provisions with respect to a
Participant's other Accounts, an electing Director's 1999 Transition
Retirement Benefit and Company Stock subaccounts, shall be paid to such
Director (or his or her designated beneficiary) in a single lump sum
distribution upon the Director's Retirement, long-term disability or death.
Distributions of such subaccounts shall be made in shares of Company
7.2 Scheduled and Unscheduled Withdrawals.
(a) Scheduled Withdrawals. A Participant may, in connection
with his or her Compensation deferral election for a Plan Year, specify a
withdrawal (a "Scheduled Withdrawal") of all of his or her Account
attributable to Compensation deferred for such Plan Year, including any
amounts credited with respect to such deferrals pursuant to Section
4.1(d), subject to the following restrictions:
(1) A Participant's Scheduled Withdrawal election must
specify a Scheduled Withdrawal date that is at least three years from the
date the election is received by the Company.
(2) The election to take a Scheduled Withdrawal shall be
made by filing a form provided by and filed with the Committee.
(3) The amount payable to a Participant in connection
with a Scheduled Withdrawal shall in all cases be 100% of the
Compensation deferred for the Plan Year with respect to which the
election applies, together with any earnings credited to such amount
pursuant to Section 4.1(d), determined as of the end of the calendar
month as of or preceding the month of the Scheduled Withdrawal date,
provided that no portion of the of the Participant's Account attributable
to Company contributions pursuant to Section 3.2, if any, shall be
eligible for Scheduled Withdrawal.
(4) A Participant may, at least one year prior to a
Scheduled Withdrawal date, revoke his or her Scheduled Withdrawal
election in favor of a later Scheduled Withdrawal date that is at least
one year later, provided that a Participant may not postpone a Scheduled
Withdrawal more than twice.
(5) Subject to Section 7.5, payment of a Scheduled
Withdrawal shall be made in a single lump sum as soon as practicable
after the Scheduled Withdrawal date.
(6) A Participant's Scheduled Withdrawal election shall
become void and of no effect upon termination of the Participant's
employment with the Company for any reason before the Participant's
scheduled withdrawal date. In such event, the distribution provisions of
Section 7.1 shall apply.
(b) Unscheduled Withdrawals. Participants may request to
withdraw amounts from their Accounts attributable to Compensation
deferrals prior to termination of Service (an "Unscheduled Withdrawal").
Upon receiving an Unscheduled Withdrawal request, the Committee shall
determine, in its discretion as applied in a uniform and
nondiscriminating manner, whether to permit any such Unscheduled
Withdrawal and the amount, if any, to be withdrawn, subject to the
following restrictions:
(1) The election to take an Unscheduled Withdrawal shall
be made by filing a form provided by and filed with the Committee.
(2) The amount payable to a Participant in connection
with an Unscheduled Withdrawal shall in all cases equal 90% of the amount
requested by the Participant or, if lesser, 90% of the Unscheduled
Withdrawal amount approved by the Committee; provided, however, that the
maximum amount payable to a Participant in connection with an Unscheduled
Withdrawal shall be 90% of the Distributable Amount as of the end of the
calendar month in which the Unscheduled Withdrawal election is made, and
provided further, that no portion of the amount attributable to Company
contributions pursuant to Section 3.2, if any, shall be eligible for an
Unscheduled Withdrawal.
(3) If a Participant receives an Unscheduled Withdrawal,
the remaining portion of the requested or approved amount, as applicable
(i.e., 10% of such amount), shall be permanently forfeited and the
Company shall have no obligation to the Participant or his Beneficiary
with respects to such forfeited amount.
(4) If a Participant receives an Unscheduled Withdrawal,
the Participant shall be ineligible to Participate in the Plan for the
balance of the Plan Year in which the Unscheduled Withdrawal occurs and
the following Plan Year.
(5) A Participant shall be limited to two Unscheduled
Withdrawals during the term of his or her Plan participation.
(6) An Unscheduled Withdrawal pursuant to this Section
7.2 of less than 90% of the Participant's Distributable Amount shall be
made pro rata from his or her assumed investments according to the
balances in such investments. Subject to the foregoing and subject to
the Committee's approval, payment of any amount with respect to which a
Participant has filed a request under this Section 7.2 shall be made in a
single cash lump sum as soon as practicable after the end of the calendar
month in which the Withdrawal election is approved.
7.3 Unforeseeable Emergency.
The Committee may, pursuant to rules adopted by it and applied
in a uniform manner, accelerate the date of distribution of a
Participant's Account because of an Unforeseeable Emergency at any time.
"Unforeseeable Emergency" shall mean an unforeseeable, severe financial
condition resulting from (a) a sudden and unexpected illness or accident
of the Participant or his or her dependent (as defined in Section 152(a)
of the Code); (b) loss of the Participant's property due to casualty; or
(c) other similar extraordinary and unforeseeable circumstances arising
as a result of events beyond the control of the Participant, but which
may not be relieved through other available resources of the Participant,
as determined by the Committee in accordance with uniform rules adopted
by it. Unless the Committee, in its discretion, determines otherwise,
distribution pursuant to this subsection of less than the Participant's
entire interest in the Plan shall be made pro rata from his or her
assumed investments according to the balances in such investments.
Subject to the foregoing, payment of any amount with respect to which a
Participant has filed a request under this subsection shall be made in a
single cash lump sum as soon as practicable after the end of the calendar
month in which the Committee approves the Participant's request.
7.4 Change of Control.
Notwithstanding anything in this Section 7 to the contrary,
including, but not limited to, Section 7.5 below, the Distributable
Amount shall be paid to each Participant, or to the Beneficiary of each
deceased Participant, within 30 days after the date of a Change of
Control. Such amount shall be paid in such form as elected by the
Participant with respect to a distribution by reason of the Participant's
Retirement or, if no such election has been filed, in a lump sum.
7.5 Section 162(m) Limitation
If the Committee determines in good faith prior to a Change of
Control that there is a reasonable likelihood that all or any portion of
any payment of benefits under this Section 7 to a Participant would not
be deductible for federal income tax purposes by the Company because of a
limitation on the total amount of the Participant's deductible
compensation from the Company, including any other such compensation
already paid to the Participant earlier in the same fiscal year of the
Company, the following shall apply:
(a) Payment of the non-deductible amount shall be deferred
until the first day of the following fiscal year of the Company;
(b) If the amount deferred under subsection (a) would exceed
the limitation of the total amount of the Participant's deductible
compensation from the Company for the following fiscal year, the excess
shall be deferred to the first day of the succeeding fiscal year in which
the deductibility of compensation paid or payable to the Participant will
not be so limited, subject to subsection (c);
(c) In no event shall any payment be deferred under this
Section 7.5 more than three years from the date scheduled for payment
under this Section 7;
(d) Adjustment for earning shall continue to be applied under
Section 4.1(d) during the period of deferral under this Section 7.5.
7.6 Inability To Locate Participant
In the event that the Committee is unable to locate a
Participant or Beneficiary within two years following the Participant's
Distribution Event, the amount allocated to the Participant's Deferral
Account shall be forfeited. If, after such forfeiture, the Participant
or Beneficiary later claims such benefit, such benefit (calculated
immediately prior to the forfeiture) shall be reinstated without interest
or earnings.
ARTICLE VIII
ADMINISTRATION
8.1 Committee
A Committee shall be appointed by, and serve at the pleasure
of, the Board. The number of members comprising the Committee shall be
determined by the Board which may from time to time vary the number of
members. A member of the Committee may resign by delivering a written
notice of resignation to the Board. The Board may remove any member by
delivering a certified copy of its resolution of removal to such member.
Vacancies in the membership of the Committee shall be filled promptly by
the Board.
8.2 Committee Action.
The Committee shall act at meetings by affirmative vote of a
majority of the members of the Committee. Any action permitted to be
taken at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if, prior to such
action, a written consent to the action is signed by all members of the
Committee and such written consent is filed with the minutes of the
proceedings of the Committee. A member of the Committee shall not vote
or act upon any matter which relates solely to himself or herself as a
Participant. The chairman or any other member or members of the
Committee designated by the chairman may execute any certificate or other
written direction on behalf of the Committee.
8.3 Powers and Duties of the Committee.
(a) The Committee, on behalf of the Participants and their
Beneficiaries, shall enforce the Plan in accordance with its terms, shall
be charged with the general administration of the Plan and shall have all
powers necessary to accomplish its purposes, including, but not by way of
limitation, the following:
(1) To select the funds to be the Funds in accordance
with Section 3.3 hereof;
(2) To construe and interpret the terms and provisions
of this Plan;
(3) To amend, modify, suspend or terminate the Plan in
accordance with Section 9.4;
(4) To compute and certify the amount and kind of
benefits payable to Participants and their Beneficiaries and to direct
the Trustee as to the distribution of Plan assets;
(5) To maintain all records that may be necessary for
the administration of the Plan;
(6) To provide for the disclosure of all information
and the filing or provision of all reports and statements to
Participants, Beneficiaries or governmental agencies as shall be required
by law;
(7) To make and publish such rules for the regulation
of the Plan and procedures for the administration of the Plan as are not
inconsistent with the terms hereof; and
(8) To appoint a plan administrator or any other
agent, and to delegate to them such powers and duties in connection with
the administration of the Plan as the Committee may from time to time
prescribe.
8.4 Construction and Interpretation.
The Committee shall have full discretion to construe and
interpret the terms and provisions of this Plan, which interpretation or
construction shall be final and binding on all parties, including but not
limited to the Company and any Participant or Beneficiary. The Committee
shall administer such terms and provisions in a uniform and
nondiscriminatory manner and in full accordance with any and all laws
applicable to the Plan.
8.5 Information.
To enable the Committee to perform its functions, the Company shall
supply full and timely information to the Committee on all matters
relating to the Compensation of all Participants, their death or other
cause of termination, and such other pertinent facts as the Committee may
reasonably require.
8.6 Compensation, Expenses and Indemnity.
(a) The members of the Committee shall serve without
compensation for their services hereunder.
(b) The Committee is authorized at the expense of the Company
to employ such legal counsel as it may deem advisable to assist in the
performance of its duties hereunder. Expenses and fees in connection
with the administration of the Plan shall be paid by the Company.
(c) To the extent permitted by applicable state law, the
Company shall indemnify and save harmless the Committee and each member
thereof, the Board and any delegate of the Committee who is an employee
of the Company against any and all expenses, liabilities and claims,
including legal fees to defend against such liabilities and claims
arising out of their discharge in good faith of responsibilities under or
incident to the Plan, other than expenses and liabilities arising out of
willful misconduct. This indemnity shall not preclude such further
indemnities as may be available under insurance purchased by the Company
or provided by the Company under any bylaw, agreement or otherwise, as
such indemnities are permitted under state law.
8.7 Quarterly Statements.
Under procedures established by the Committee, a Participant
shall receive a statement with respect to such Participant's Account on a
quarterly basis.
ARTICLE IX
MISCELLANEOUS
9.1 Unsecured General Creditor.
Participants and their Beneficiaries, heirs, successors, and
assigns shall have no legal or equitable rights, claims, or interests in
any specific property or assets of the Company. No assets of the Company
shall be held in any way as collateral security for the fulfilling of the
obligations of the Company under this Plan. Any and all of the Company's
assets shall be, and remain, the general unpledged, unrestricted assets
of the Company. The Company's obligation under the Plan shall be merely
that of an unfunded and unsecured promise of the Company to pay money in
the future, and the rights of the Participants and Beneficiaries shall be
no greater than those of unsecured general creditors.
9.2 Restriction Against Assignment.
The Company shall pay all amounts payable hereunder only to the
person or persons designated by the Plan and not to any other person or
corporation. No part of a Participant's Account shall be liable for the
debts, contracts, or engagements of any Participant, his or her
Beneficiary, or successors in interest, nor shall a Participant's Account
be subject to execution by levy, attachment, or garnishment or by any
other legal or equitable proceeding, nor shall any such person have any
right to alienate, anticipate, commute, pledge, encumber, or assign any
benefits or payments hereunder in any manner whatsoever. If any
Participant, Beneficiary or successor in interest is adjudicated bankrupt
or purports to anticipate, alienate, sell, transfer, assign, pledge,
encumber or charge any distribution or payment from the Plan, voluntarily
or involuntarily, the Committee, in its discretion, may cancel such
distribution or payment (or any part thereof) to or for the benefit of
such Participant, Beneficiary or successor in interest in such manner as
the Committee shall direct.
9.3 Withholding.
There shall be deducted from each payment made under the Plan
all taxes which are required to be withheld by the Company in respect to
such payment. The Company shall have the right to reduce any payment by
the amount of cash sufficient to provide the amount of said taxes.
9.4 Amendment, Modification, Suspension or Termination.
The Committee may amend, modify, suspend or terminate the Plan
in whole or in part, except that no amendment, modification, suspension
or termination shall have any retroactive effect to reduce any amounts
allocated to a Participant's Account, provided that a termination or
suspension of the Plan or any Plan amendment or modification that will
significantly increase costs to the Company shall be approved by the
Board. In the event that this Plan is terminated, the timing of the
disposition of the amounts credited to a Participant's Account shall
occur in accordance with Section 7.1, subject to earlier distribution at
the discretion of the Committee.
9.5 Governing Law.
This Plan shall be construed, governed and administered in
accordance with the laws of the State of Oregon.
9.6 Receipt or Release.
Any payment to a Participant or the Participant's Beneficiary
in accordance with the provisions of the Plan shall, to the extent
thereof, be in full satisfaction of all claims against the Committee and
the Company. The Committee may require such Participant or Beneficiary,
as a condition precedent to such payment, to execute a receipt and
release to such effect.
9.7 Payments on Behalf of Persons Under Incapacity.
In the event that any amount becomes payable under the Plan to
a person who, in the sole judgment of the Committee, is considered by
reason of physical or mental condition to be unable to give a valid
receipt therefore, the Committee may direct that such payment be made to
any person found by the Committee, in its sole judgment, to have assumed
the care of such person. Any payment made pursuant to such determination
shall constitute a full release and discharge of the Committee and the
Company.
9.8 No Employment Rights.
Participation in this Plan shall not confer upon any person any
right to be employed by the Company or any other right not expressly
provided hereunder.
9.9 Headings, etc Not Part of Agreement.
Headings and subheadings in this Plan are inserted for
convenience of reference only and are not to be considered in the
construction of the provisions hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this document to be
executed by its duly authorized officer on this _____ day of
_______________, 2000.
NIKE, INC.
By:
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Title:
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Deferred Compensation Plan - Nike Inc.
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