{"id":38794,"date":"2015-09-17T11:25:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T16:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-legal\/contracts\/uncategorized\/discretionary-incentive-and-retention-award-plan-citigroup.html"},"modified":"2015-09-17T11:25:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T16:25:58","slug":"discretionary-incentive-and-retention-award-plan-citigroup","status":"publish","type":"corporate_contracts","link":"https:\/\/corporate.findlaw.com\/contracts\/compensation\/discretionary-incentive-and-retention-award-plan-citigroup.html","title":{"rendered":"Discretionary Incentive and Retention Award Plan &#8211; Citigroup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CITI DISCRETIONARY INCENTIVE AND RETENTION AWARD PLAN Restated effective as<br \/>\nof January 1, 2010<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>PREAMBLE The purpose of the Plan is to reward and retain Eligible Employees<br \/>\nthrough discretionary incentive and\/or retention awards under the terms and<br \/>\nconditions described in the Plan. Awards under the Plan may be contingent upon<br \/>\nthe Company153s performance, an Eligible Employee153s sector or business unit<br \/>\nperformance, an Eligible Employee153s individual performance, or any combination<br \/>\nof the foregoing. This Plan document, effective as of January 1, 2010, restates<br \/>\nthe terms of the Plan as previously evidenced in predecessor documents and<br \/>\nreflects long-standing administrative practices, including but not limited to,<br \/>\nthe authority of the Senior Human Resources Officer of Citigroup Inc. (or his or<br \/>\nher delegate) to act as Plan Administrator and to make decisions concerning the<br \/>\nPlan. ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS As used herein, the following terms have the<br \/>\nmeanings set forth below. &#8220;Award&#8221; means, as to any Fiscal Year or any other<br \/>\nperiod determined by the Committee or the management of the Company, a<br \/>\ndiscretionary incentive and\/or retention award granted to an Eligible Employee<br \/>\nin the form of a Cash Bonus, a CAP Award, a CAP-CSE Award, a DCAP Award, an<br \/>\nEquity Award, or any other form of discretionary incentive or retention award<br \/>\nmade under the terms of the Plan. &#8220;Award Date&#8221; means the date on which an Award<br \/>\nis made. &#8220;CAP&#8221; means the Capital Accumulation Program, as it may be amended from<br \/>\ntime to time. &#8220;CAP Award&#8221; means an award made pursuant to CAP or the CAP Share<br \/>\nProgram. &#8220;CAP-CSE Award&#8221; means an award made pursuant to the CAP-CSE Program or<br \/>\nany successor thereto. &#8220;CAP-CSE Program&#8221; means the Capital Accumulation<br \/>\nProgram-Common Stock Equivalent Program, as it may be amended from time to time.<br \/>\n&#8220;CAP Share Program&#8221; means the Capital Accumulation Program-CAP Share Program, as<br \/>\nit may be amended from time to time. &#8220;Cash Bonus&#8221; means any component of an<br \/>\nAward that is payable to a Participant in currency and not in shares of Company<br \/>\ncommon stock or derivatives thereof. &#8220;Code&#8221; means the Internal Revenue Code of<br \/>\n1986, as amended. 1<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Committee&#8221; means the Personnel and Compensation Committee of the Board of<br \/>\nDirectors of Citigroup Inc. &#8220;Company&#8221; means Citigroup Inc. and its Subsidiaries.<br \/>\n&#8220;DCAP&#8221; means the Deferred Cash Award Plan, as amended from time to time. &#8220;DCAP<br \/>\nAward&#8221; means an award made pursuant to DCAP. &#8220;EESA&#8221; means Section 111 of the<br \/>\nEmergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, as amended, and any regulations,<br \/>\ndeterminations or interpretations that may from time to time be promulgated<br \/>\nthereunder. &#8220;Eligible Employee&#8221; means any employee who (a) is eligible to<br \/>\nreceive a discretionary incentive and\/or retention award package under the<br \/>\nCompany153s personnel policies as they may be amended from time to time and as in<br \/>\neffect on the applicable Award Date, and (b) is actively employed by the Company<br \/>\non the Award Date. &#8220;Equity Award&#8221; means any form of award granted pursuant to<br \/>\nthe SIP which is not a CAP Award or a CAP-CSE Award. &#8220;ERISA&#8221; means the Employee<br \/>\nRetirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended. &#8220;Fiscal Year&#8221; means the<br \/>\naccounting fiscal year of the Company. &#8220;Gross Misconduct&#8221; means, unless the<br \/>\nterms of an Award specifically provide otherwise, a Participant153s engaging in<br \/>\nany conduct that (a) that breaches any obligation that Participant owes to the<br \/>\nCompany or Participant153s duty of loyalty to the Company, (b) is materially<br \/>\ninjurious to the Company, monetarily or otherwise, (c) is otherwise determined<br \/>\nby the Committee, in its sole discretion, to constitute gross misconduct, or (d)<br \/>\nis defined as gross misconduct under the terms of an Award document.<br \/>\n&#8220;Participant&#8221; means an Eligible Employee who has received an Award under the<br \/>\nPlan. &#8220;Plan&#8221; means the Citi Discretionary Incentive and Retention Award Plan, as<br \/>\nit may be amended from time to time. &#8220;Plan Administrator&#8221; means the Senior Human<br \/>\nResources Officer of Citigroup Inc. or his or her delegates. Any such delegation<br \/>\nneed not be in writing. &#8220;Program&#8221; means CAP, the CAP Share Program, the CSE-CAP<br \/>\nProgram, DCAP or any other discretionary incentive or retention award program<br \/>\noffered by the Company pursuant to the Plan. &#8220;SIP&#8221; means the Citigroup 2009<br \/>\nStock Incentive Plan, as it may be amended from time to time, and any successor<br \/>\nthereto. 2<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sub Plans&#8221; shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 4.03.<br \/>\n&#8220;Subsidiary&#8221; shall have the meaning set forth in the SIP. &#8220;Vesting Conditions&#8221;<br \/>\nmeans any term, condition or restriction (a) described in the award documents<br \/>\napplicable to an Award made pursuant to a Program, or (b) described in<br \/>\napplicable award documents for an Award that was not granted pursuant to a<br \/>\nProgram, that a Participant must satisfy in order to receive a payment,<br \/>\ndistribution or otherwise realize monetary value from an Award. ARTICLE II<br \/>\nAWARDS Section 2.01 Awards. For each Fiscal Year or other period determined<br \/>\nunder the terms of an Award, the Committee and\/or management of the Company is<br \/>\nauthorized, consistent with the terms of the Plan, to grant Awards to Eligible<br \/>\nEmployees and to determine the amount of and the terms of (including any Vesting<br \/>\nConditions) the Awards granted to Eligible Employees in respect of such Fiscal<br \/>\nYear. The terms of the Awards shall be set forth in Award agreements,<br \/>\nprospectuses, or such other documents specifically designated by the Company as<br \/>\nsetting forth the terms of the Awards. The value of each Eligible Employee153s<br \/>\nAward will depend upon performance factors which may include the Company153s<br \/>\nperformance, his or her division153s performance and his or her individual<br \/>\nperformance, including an assessment of risk management practices and\/or use of<br \/>\nrisk capital. The decision whether to grant an Award and how much to grant is at<br \/>\nthe sole discretion of Company management, or where applicable, the Committee.<br \/>\nThe Committee153s governance approval authorities shall govern which Awards are<br \/>\nexpressly subject to Committee approval or review and which may be made at the<br \/>\nsole discretion of Company management. Section 2.02 Clawbacks. (a) The terms of<br \/>\nany Award granted pursuant to the Plan may provide that such Award may or shall<br \/>\nbe cancelled, forfeited, or subject to recovery by the Company, whether or not<br \/>\nthe Award has been granted, awarded, distributed, vested, or paid, if (i) the<br \/>\nCommittee or its delegate determines that (A) the Participant received an Award<br \/>\nbased on materially inaccurate financial statements (which includes, but is not<br \/>\nlimited to, statements of earnings, revenues, or gains) or any other materially<br \/>\ninaccurate performance metric criteria, (B) the Participant knowingly engaged in<br \/>\nproviding inaccurate information (including knowingly failing to timely correct<br \/>\ninaccurate information) relating to financial statements or performance metrics,<br \/>\nor (C) the Participant materially violated any risk limits established or<br \/>\nrevised by senior management, a business head and\/or risk management, or any<br \/>\nbalance sheet or working or regulatory capital guidance provided by a business<br \/>\nhead, or (ii) the Participant153s employment is terminated on account of Gross<br \/>\nMisconduct. (b) The Committee may determine that, with respect to an Award that<br \/>\nis subject to any legal, regulatory or governmental requirement, direction,<br \/>\nsupervisory comment, guidance or promulgation that so requires or any Award<br \/>\nAgreement that so provides, if (i) there is reasonable evidence that a<br \/>\nParticipant engaged in misconduct or committed material error, in either case in<br \/>\nconnection with his or her employment, or (ii) the Company or such Participant153s<br \/>\nbusiness unit has suffered a material downturn in its financial performance or a<br \/>\nmaterial failure of risk management, the Committee in its sole discretion may<br \/>\ndetermine that such Participant shall not be entitled to any unpaid amount under<br \/>\nthe Plan or that any such amount shall be reduced. 3<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>(c) The terms of any Award granted pursuant to the Plan may provide that<br \/>\nother specified clawback, cancellation, recovery, forfeiture provisions or<br \/>\nperformance-based Vesting Conditions may apply. ARTICLE III ADMINISTRATION<br \/>\nSection 3.01 Taxes and Withholding. As a condition to any payment or<br \/>\ndistribution of any Award made pursuant to the Plan, the Company may, in its<br \/>\ndiscretion, require a Participant to pay such sum to the Company as may be<br \/>\nnecessary to discharge the Company153s obligations with respect to any taxes,<br \/>\nassessments or other governmental charges, whether of the United States or any<br \/>\nother jurisdiction, imposed on the Participant on account of his or her<br \/>\nparticipation in the Plan. In the discretion of the Company, the Company may<br \/>\ndeduct or withhold such sum from any payment or distribution to the Participant,<br \/>\nwhether pursuant to the Plan or otherwise. Section 3.02 Currency and Foreign<br \/>\nExchange Rates. All Cash Bonuses or other cash payments made pursuant to the<br \/>\nPlan will be made in cash in U.S. dollars to Participants who are employed or<br \/>\nreside within the United States at the time such payments are made. With respect<br \/>\nto Participants who are employed or reside outside the United States, unless the<br \/>\nCompany determines otherwise, all Cash Bonuses or other cash payments made<br \/>\npursuant to the Plan will be made in cash in the local currency of the country<br \/>\nin which the Participant is employed or resides at the time such payments are<br \/>\nmade and such payments shall be made in accordance with the foreign currency<br \/>\nexchange rate in effect at the time of payment as determined by the Company.<br \/>\nSection 3.03 Nontransferability. Except as may be provided for in award<br \/>\ndocuments applicable to Awards granted pursuant to a Program, no Participant nor<br \/>\nany creditor or beneficiary of any Participant shall have the right to subject<br \/>\nan amount payable or distributable under this Plan or to any anticipation,<br \/>\nalienation, sale, transfer, assignment, pledge, encumbrance, attachment or<br \/>\ngarnishment during the Participant153s lifetime, including but not limited to, in<br \/>\nconnection with a divorce, legal separation or similar event. Section 3.04 Plan<br \/>\nAdministration. The Plan shall be administered by the Plan Administrator. The<br \/>\nPlan Administrator or his or her delegates shall have discretionary authority to<br \/>\ninterpret the Plan, to make all legal and factual determinations, and to<br \/>\ndetermine all questions arising in the administration of the Plan, including,<br \/>\nwithout limitation, the reconciliation of any inconsistent provisions, the<br \/>\nresolution of ambiguities, the correction of any defects, and the supplying of<br \/>\nomissions. The Committee or the Plan Administrator may accelerate or defer the<br \/>\nvesting or payment of Awards, cancel or modify outstanding Awards, and waive any<br \/>\nconditions or restrictions imposed with respect to Awards, subject to the<br \/>\nlimitations contained herein. Each interpretation, determination or other action<br \/>\nmade or taken pursuant to the Plan by the Plan Administrator shall be final and<br \/>\nbinding on all persons, subject to the provisions of Section 5.10 hereof<br \/>\nconcerning arbitration. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Committee<br \/>\nor the Plan Administrator may at any time delegate to one or more employees of<br \/>\nthe Company some or all of its authority over the administration of the Plan.<br \/>\nSuch delegation need not be in writing. 4<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Section 3.05 Policies. Company management may adopt written or unwritten<br \/>\npolicies from time to time that govern Plan administration. ARTICLE IV AMENDMENT<br \/>\nAND TERMINATION Section 4.01 Right to Amend or Terminate the Plan. The Committee<br \/>\nmay, in its sole discretion, modify, amend, terminate or suspend the Plan or any<br \/>\nAward at any time, which modification, amendment, termination or suspension<br \/>\nshall not require the consent of the affected Participants and which may be made<br \/>\nirrespective of whether it could result in adverse tax consequences to any<br \/>\nParticipant; provided that with respect to a Participant who is a U.S. taxpayer<br \/>\nthe Committee shall not modify or amend such Participant153s Award in a manner<br \/>\nthat would give rise to adverse tax consequences under Section 409A of the Code<br \/>\nunless such modification or amendment is undertaken in accordance with Section<br \/>\n5.09. No termination of the Plan or any Award Agreement will give rise to a<br \/>\nclaim of constructive termination of employment by any Participant. Section 4.02<br \/>\nAction Following Termination of the Plan. Upon termination of the Plan, the<br \/>\nCommittee or the Plan Administrator may take such action with respect to each<br \/>\nParticipant153s Awards as it reasonably determines is necessary or desirable. No<br \/>\ntermination of the Plan will give rise to a claim by any Participant of<br \/>\nconstructive termination of employment. Section 4.03 Sub Plans. The Company may,<br \/>\nin its sole discretion, create separate sub-plans (&#8220;Sub Plans&#8221;) under the Plan,<br \/>\nwhich shall provide for participation in the Plan by Eligible Employees employed<br \/>\noutside of the United States. Each Sub Plan shall comply with local laws<br \/>\napplicable to incentive or retention plans. The Plan shall be a separate and<br \/>\nindependent plan from the Sub Plans. ARTICLE V GENERAL PROVISIONS Section 5.01<br \/>\nUnfunded Status of the Plan. The Plan is unfunded. Any Award made pursuant to<br \/>\nthe Plan shall represent at all times an unfunded and unsecured contractual<br \/>\nobligation of the Company. Each Participant and each of his or her beneficiaries<br \/>\nwill be unsecured creditors of the Company with respect to all obligations owed<br \/>\nto any of them under the Plan. Amounts payable or distributable under the Plan<br \/>\nwill be satisfied solely out of the general assets of the Company subject to the<br \/>\nclaims of its creditors. A Participant and his or her beneficiaries will not<br \/>\nhave any interest in any fund or in any specific asset of the Company of any<br \/>\nkind by reason of any return credited to him or her hereunder, nor shall the<br \/>\nParticipant or any of his or her beneficiaries or any other person have any<br \/>\nright to receive any payment or distribution under the Plan except as, and to<br \/>\nthe extent, expressly provided in the Plan. The Company will not segregate any<br \/>\nfunds or assets to provide for the distribution in respect of an Award or issue<br \/>\nany notes or security for the payment thereof. Any reserve or other asset that<br \/>\nthe Company may establish or acquire to assure itself of the funds to provide<br \/>\npayments required under the Plan shall not serve in any way as security to any<br \/>\nParticipant or any beneficiary of a Participant for the performance of the<br \/>\nCompany under the Plan. 5<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Section 5.02 ERISA Status of the Plan. The Plan is a discretionary incentive<br \/>\nand retention award plan and is not intended to be subject to ERISA, and it<br \/>\nshall be operated and interpreted consistent with such intent. A Program may be<br \/>\nsubject to ERISA if the express terms of the Program so provide. Section 5.03 No<br \/>\nRight to Continued Employment. Neither the Plan nor any action taken or omitted<br \/>\nto be taken pursuant to or in connection with the Plan shall be deemed to (a)<br \/>\ncreate or confer on a Participant any right to be retained in the employ of the<br \/>\nCompany, (b) interfere with or limit in any way the Company153s right to terminate<br \/>\nthe employment of a Participant at any time or (c) confer on a Participant any<br \/>\nright or entitlement to compensation in any specific amount for any future<br \/>\nFiscal Year. In addition, an Eligible Employee153s eligibility for an Award for a<br \/>\ngiven Fiscal Year shall not be deemed to create or confer on the Participant any<br \/>\nright to an Award, or any benefit or payment in any similar plan or program that<br \/>\nmay be established by the Company, in respect of any future Fiscal Year. Section<br \/>\n5.04 Offset Rights. Notwithstanding any provisions of the Plan to the contrary,<br \/>\nto the extent consistent with the requirements of Section 409A or Section 457A<br \/>\nof the Code, the Company may offset against any payments or distributions that<br \/>\nwould have otherwise been made to a Participant under the Plan by (a) any<br \/>\namounts which such Participant may owe to the Company, or (b) any amounts paid<br \/>\nby the Company to a third party pursuant to any award, judgment, or settlement<br \/>\nof a complaint, arbitration or lawsuit of which such Participant was the<br \/>\nsubject. Section 5.05 Governing Documents. Notwithstanding any provision of this<br \/>\nPlan to the contrary, if an Award is granted pursuant to the terms of a Program,<br \/>\nthe award documents under the Program shall control in the event of any conflict<br \/>\nbetween terms of the Plan and the applicable award documents under the Program.<br \/>\nSection 5.06 Successors. The obligations of the Company under this Plan shall be<br \/>\nbinding upon the successors of the Company. Section 5.07 Governing Law. The Plan<br \/>\nshall be subject to and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of<br \/>\nNew York, without regard to any conflicts or choice of law rule or principle<br \/>\nthat might otherwise refer the interpretation of the Plan to the substantive law<br \/>\nof another jurisdiction. 6<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Section 5.08 Construction. The headings in this Plan have been inserted for<br \/>\nconvenience of reference only and are to be ignored in any construction of any<br \/>\nprovision hereof. Use of one gender includes the other, and the singular and<br \/>\nplural include each other. Section 5.09 Regulatory Compliance. The award of, or<br \/>\npayment or accrual of any portion of, any Participant153s Award will be subject to<br \/>\nand compliant with any applicable law and limitations, adjustments or clawback<br \/>\nprovisions applicable to such Participant to the extent required under (a) the<br \/>\nEmergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, as amended, and any applicable<br \/>\nrules or regulations thereunder, b) any agreement entered into between the<br \/>\nCompany and the United States Treasury Department in connection with the<br \/>\nCompany153s participation in the Troubled Asset Relief Program or the Exchange<br \/>\nAgreement dated June 9, 2009 between the Company and the United States Treasury<br \/>\nDepartment or (c) any policy implemented at any time by the Company in its<br \/>\ndiscretion to (i) comply with any other legal, regulatory or governmental<br \/>\nrequirements, directions, supervisory comments, guidance or promulgations<br \/>\nspecifically including but not limited to guidance on remuneration practices or<br \/>\nsound incentive compensation practices promulgated by the Federal Reserve Board,<br \/>\nthe Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other applicable U.S. or<br \/>\nnon-U.S. bank supervisory or governmental agency or authority, (ii) comply with<br \/>\nthe listing requirements of any stock exchange on which the Company153s common<br \/>\nstock is traded or (iii) comply with or enable the Company to qualify for any<br \/>\ngovernment loan, subsidy, investment or other program. Section 5.10 Arbitration.<br \/>\nAny disputes related to the Plan or an Award shall be resolved by arbitration in<br \/>\naccordance with the Company153s arbitration policies. In the absence of an<br \/>\neffective arbitration policy, any dispute in any way related to or arising out<br \/>\nof the Plan or an Award shall be submitted to arbitration in accordance with the<br \/>\nrules of the American Arbitration Association. 7<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":true,"_modified_date":"","_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false},"corporate_contracts_companies":[7104],"corporate_contracts_industries":[9415],"corporate_contracts_types":[9539,9546],"class_list":["post-38794","corporate_contracts","type-corporate_contracts","status-publish","hentry","corporate_contracts_companies-citigroup-inc","corporate_contracts_industries-financial__banks","corporate_contracts_types-compensation","corporate_contracts_types-compensation__incentive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporate.findlaw.com\/legal-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/corporate_contracts\/38794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporate.findlaw.com\/legal-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/corporate_contracts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporate.findlaw.com\/legal-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/corporate_contracts"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporate.findlaw.com\/legal-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"corporate_contracts_companies","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporate.findlaw.com\/legal-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/corporate_contracts_companies?post=38794"},{"taxonomy":"corporate_contracts_industries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporate.findlaw.com\/legal-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/corporate_contracts_industries?post=38794"},{"taxonomy":"corporate_contracts_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporate.findlaw.com\/legal-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/corporate_contracts_types?post=38794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}