{"id":40043,"date":"2015-09-17T11:25:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T16:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-legal\/contracts\/uncategorized\/key-employee-compensation-continuation-plan-amendment.html"},"modified":"2015-09-17T11:25:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T16:25:58","slug":"key-employee-compensation-continuation-plan-amendment","status":"publish","type":"corporate_contracts","link":"https:\/\/corporate.findlaw.com\/contracts\/compensation\/key-employee-compensation-continuation-plan-amendment.html","title":{"rendered":"Key Employee Compensation Continuation Plan (Amendment)"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>              AMENDMENT TO KEY EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION CONTINUATION PLAN\n\n\n     THIS AMENDMENT TO KEY EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION CONTINUATION PLAN ('Plan') \nis effective as of this 10th day of February, 1998 by action of the Board of \nDirectors of EarthLink Network, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the 'Company') \nat a special meeting duly called and held on February 10, 1998.\n\n                                      RECITALS\n\n     WHEREAS, the Board of Directors adopted the Plan on January 16, 1998;\n\n     WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Company has determined that it is \nin the best interests of the shareholders of the Company to enter into a \nstrategic relationship in the area of Internet access and related services \nwith Steven Corporation, a Kansas corporation ('Steven') and certain of its \naffiliates, pursuant an Investment Agreement, dated as of February __, 1998 \namong Steven, Steven Communications Company, L.P., a Delaware limited \npartnership ('Steven Sub'), Newco, Inc., a Delaware corporation ('Newco') and \nits subsidiary Newco Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the 'Investment \nAgreement');\n\n     WHEREAS, as a condition to the consummation of the transactions \ncontemplated in the Investment Agreement, the Company has agreed to amend the \nPlan to preclude any of the transactions contemplated in the Investment \nAgreement from inadvertently being deemed a 'Change in Control,' as defined \nin the Plan, and accelerating the vesting of options previously granted to \nkey employees or causing the provision of any other payments thereunder;\n\n     WHEREAS, the Company has agreed to adopt this Amendment to satisfy such \ncondition and as a further inducement to Steven and Steven Sub to enter into \nthe transactions contemplated in the Investment Agreement;\n\n     NOW, THEREFORE, the Plan is amended as follows:\n\n     ARTICLE 2 - DEFINITIONS.  'Change in Control.'  Amend subsection 2.2 of \nArticle 2 to add the following sentence to the end of the subparagraph:\n\n          'Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of the transactions \n          contemplated by that certain Investment Agreement, dated as of \n          February __, 1998, among Steven Corporation, a Kansas corporation, \n          Steven Communications Company, LP, a Delaware limited partnership, \n          the Company, Newco, Inc., a Delaware corporation and Newco Sub, a \n          Delaware corporation (the 'Investment Agreement' or any Ancillary \n          Agreements, as defined in the Investment Agreement (including, \n          without limitation) the conversion of the Convertible Preferred \n          Stock and\/or the Convertible Notes, each as defined in the \n          Investment Agreement) either individually or in the aggregate, \n          shall be deemed to be a 'Change in Control',\n\n                                         1\n\n\n\n          unless it constitutes a Business Combination that is not a \n          Discriminatory Transaction, as defined in the Investment Agreement.'\n\n\n                                         2\n\n\n\n     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has executed and delivered this Amendment \nas of the date first shown above.\n\n\n\n                         THE COMPANY:\n\n                         EARTHLINK NETWORK, INC.\n\n\n\n                         By: \/s\/ Charles G. Betty\n                            ---------------------------------------\n                                 Charles G. Betty\n                                 President and Chief Executive Officer\n\n\n                                         3\n\n\n\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":true,"_modified_date":"","_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false},"corporate_contracts_companies":[7397],"corporate_contracts_industries":[9510],"corporate_contracts_types":[9539,9551],"class_list":["post-40043","corporate_contracts","type-corporate_contracts","status-publish","hentry","corporate_contracts_companies-earthlink-inc","corporate_contracts_industries-technology__programming","corporate_contracts_types-compensation","corporate_contracts_types-compensation__severance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporate.findlaw.com\/legal-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/corporate_contracts\/40043","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=40043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"corporate_contracts_companies","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporate.findlaw.com\/legal-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/corporate_contracts_companies?post=40043"},{"taxonomy":"corporate_contracts_industries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporate.findlaw.com\/legal-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/corporate_contracts_industries?post=40043"},{"taxonomy":"corporate_contracts_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporate.findlaw.com\/legal-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/corporate_contracts_types?post=40043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}