Remuneration Information • Aug 19, 2024
Remuneration Information
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DIALIGHT PLC
THE DIALIGHT PLC 2014 PERFORMANCE SHARE PLAN
Approved by shareholders of the Company on 16 April 2014
Adopted by the remuneration committee of the board of the Company on 26 February 2014
Amended version for approval by shareholders of the Company at the Annual General Meeting on 23 September 2024
| 1. | DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION | 3 |
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| 2. | ELIGIBILITY | 4 |
| 3. | GRANT OF AWARDS | 5 |
| 4. | LIMITS | 6 |
| 5. | VESTING OF AWARDS | 8 |
| 6. | CONSEQUENCES OF VESTING | 11 |
| 7. | EXERCISE OF OPTIONS | 12 |
| 8. | CASH ALTERNATIVE | 13 |
| 9. | LAPSE OF AWARDS | 14 |
| 10. | LEAVERS | 14 |
| 11. | TAKEOVERS AND OTHER CORPORATE EVENTS | 15 |
| 12. | ADJUSTMENT OF AWARDS | 18 |
| 13. | ALTERATIONS | 18 |
| 14. | MISCELLANEOUS | 20 |
1.1 In the Plan, unless the context otherwise requires:
"Award" means a Conditional Award or an Option;
"Board" means the board of directors of the Company or a duly authorised committee of the Board or a duly authorised person;
"Committee" means the remuneration committee of the Board or, on and after the occurrence of a corporate event described in Rule 11 (Takeovers and other corporate events), the remuneration committee of the Board as constituted immediately before such event occurs;
"Company" means Dialight plc (registered in England and Wales with registered number 2486024);
"Conditional Award" means a conditional right to acquire Shares granted under the Plan;
"Control" means control within the meaning of section 719 of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003;
"Dividend Equivalent" means a benefit calculated by reference to dividends paid on Shares as described in Rules 3.4 and 6.3;
"Early Vesting Date" means either:
"Exercise Period" means the period referred to in Rule 6.2 during which an Option may be exercised;
"Grant Date" means the date on which an Award is granted;
"Holding Period" means a period specified by the Committee as referred to in Rule 5.8;
"Listing Rules" means the Listing Rules published by the United Kingdom Listing Authority;
"London Stock Exchange" means London Stock Exchange plc or any successor to that company;
"Normal Vesting Date" means the date on which an Award vests under Rule 5.1 (Timing of Vesting: Normal Vesting Date);
"Option" means a right to acquire Shares granted under the Plan which is designated as an option by the Committee under Rule 3.2 (Type of Award);
"Option Price" means the amount, if any, payable on the exercise of an Option;
"Participant" means a person who holds an Award including his personal representatives;
"Participating Company" means the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company;
"Performance Condition" means a condition related to performance which is specified by the Committee under Rule 3.1 (Terms of grant);
"Plan" means the Dialight plc 2014 Performance Share Plan as amended from time to time;
"Rule" means a rule of the Plan;
"Shares" means fully paid ordinary shares in the capital of the Company;
"Subsidiary" means a body corporate which is a subsidiary (within the meaning of section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006);
"Tax Liability" means any amount of tax or social security contributions for which a Participant would or may be liable and for which any Group Member or former Group Member would or may be obliged to (or would or may suffer a disadvantage if it were not to) account to any relevant authority;
"Vest" means:
and Vesting shall be construed accordingly;
"Vested Shares" means those Shares in respect of which an Award Vests.
An individual is eligible to be granted an Award only if he is an employee (including an executive director) of a Participating Company.
Subject to Rule 3.6 (Timing of grant), Rule 3.8 (Approvals and consents) and Rule 4 (Limits), the Committee may resolve to grant an Award to any person who is eligible to be granted an Award under Rule 2 (Eligibility) on:
On or before the Grant Date, the Committee shall determine whether an Award shall be a Conditional Award or an Option. If the Committee does not specify the type of an Award on or before the Grant Date then an Award shall be a Conditional Award.
An Award shall be granted as follows:
The Committee may decide at any time that a Participant (or his nominee) shall be entitled to receive a benefit determined by reference to the value of all or any of the dividends (excluding the dividend tax credit unless the Committee decides otherwise) that would have been paid on the Vested Shares in respect of dividend record dates occurring during the period between the Grant Date and the date of Vesting and may further decide that such benefit shall be provided in cash and/or shares. The Committee may decide to exclude the value of all or part of any special dividend from the amount of the Dividend Equivalent.
Unless specified to the contrary by the Committee on the Grant Date, an Award may be satisfied:
The Committee may decide to change the way in which it is intended that an Award granted as a Conditional Award or an Option may be satisfied after it has been granted, having regard to the provisions of Rule 4 (Limits).
Subject to Rule 3.8 (Approvals and consents), an Award may only be granted:
but an Award may not be granted after 15 April 2024 (that is, the expiry of the period of 10 years beginning with the date on which the Plan is approved by the shareholders of the Company).
An Award granted to any person:
The grant of any Award shall be subject to obtaining any approval or consent required under the Listing Rules, any relevant share dealing code of the Company, the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers, or any other UK or overseas regulation or enactment.
An Award shall not be granted in any calendar year if, at the time of its proposed Grant Date, it would cause the number of Shares allocated (as defined in Rule 4.3) in the period of 10 calendar years ending with that calendar year under the Plan and under any other executive share plan adopted by the Company (other than the Dialight plc 2024 Value Creation Plan) to exceed such number as represents 5 per cent. of the ordinary share capital of the Company in issue at that time.
An Award shall not be granted in any calendar year if, at the time of its proposed Grant Date, it would cause the number of Shares allocated (as defined in Rule 4.3) in the period of 10 calendar years ending with that calendar year under the Plan and under any other employee share plan adopted by the Company (other than the Dialight plc 2024 Value Creation Plan) to exceed such number as represents 10 per cent. of the ordinary share capital of the Company in issue at that time.
For the purposes of Rules 4.1 and 4.2:
For the avoidance of doubt, existing Shares other than treasury Shares that are transferred or over which options, awards or other contractual rights are granted and shares issued to satisfy awards granted under the Dialight plc 2024 Value Creation Plan shall not count as allocated.
For the purposes of Rule 4.3:
it shall be satisfied by a cash payment; or
it shall be satisfied by the transfer of existing Shares (other than Shares transferred out of treasury)
the unissued Shares or treasury Shares which consequently cease to be subject to the option, award or other contractual right shall not count as allocated; and
(b) the number of Shares allocated in respect of an option, award or other contractual right shall be such number as the Board shall reasonably determine from time to time.
Treasury Shares shall cease to count as allocated Shares for the purposes of Rule 4.3 if institutional investor guidelines cease to require such Shares to be so counted.
Any Award shall be limited and take effect so that the limits in this Rule 4 are complied with.
No Shares may be issued or treasury Shares transferred to satisfy the Vesting of any Conditional Award or the exercise of any Option to the extent that such issue or transfer would cause the number of Shares allocated (as defined in Rule 4.3 and adjusted under Rule 4.4) to exceed the limits in Rules 4.1 (5 per cent. in 10 years limit) and 4.2 (10 per cent. in 10 years limit) except where there is a variation of share capital of the Company which results in the number of Shares so allocated exceeding such limits solely by virtue of that variation.
Subject to Rule 5.3 (Restrictions on Vesting: regulatory and tax issues) and Rules 5.6 and 5.7 (Restrictions on Vesting: malus and clawback), an Award shall Vest on the later of:
except where earlier Vesting occurs on an Early Vesting Date under Rule 10 (Leavers) or Rule 11 (Takeovers and other corporate events).
An Award shall only Vest to the extent:
Where, under Rule 10 (Leavers) or Rule 11 (Takeovers and other corporate events), an Award would (subject to the satisfaction of any Performance Condition) Vest before the end of the full period over which performance would be measured under the Performance Condition then, unless provided to the contrary by the Performance Condition, the extent to which the Performance Condition has been satisfied in such circumstances shall be determined by the Committee on such reasonable basis as it decides.
An Award shall not Vest unless and until the following conditions are satisfied:
For the purposes of this Rule 5.3, references to Group Member include any former Group Member.
If a Participant will, or is likely to, incur any Tax Liability before the Vesting of an Award then that Participant must enter into arrangements acceptable to any relevant Group Member to ensure that it receives the amount of such Tax Liability. If no such arrangement is made then the Participant shall be deemed to have authorised the Company to sell or procure the sale of sufficient of the Shares subject to his Award on his behalf to ensure that the relevant Group Member receives the amount required to discharge the Tax Liability and the number of Shares subject to his Award shall be reduced accordingly.
For the purposes of this Rule 5.4, references to Group Member include any former Group Member.
The Participant authorises the Company to sell or procure the sale of sufficient Vested Shares on or following the Vesting of his Award on his behalf to ensure that any relevant Group Member or former Group Member receives the amount required to discharge the Tax Liability which arises on Vesting except to the extent that the Board decides that all or part of the Tax Liability shall be funded in a different manner.
Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, the Committee may decide at any time before or within 3 years of the Vesting of the Award that the Participant shall be subject to malus and/or clawback as described in Rule 5.7. For the avoidance of doubt, the Committee may exercise its discretion under this Rule 5.6 including (but without limitation) following:
In order to ensure that any malus and/or clawback is satisfied, the Committee may:
Revenue & Customs) operated by any Group Member vest, become exercisable or may be exercised once vested; and/or
(c) require the Participant to pay to such Group Member as the Committee may direct, and on such terms as the Committee may direct (including, but without limitation, on terms that the relevant amount is to be deducted from any payment to be made to the Participant by any Group Member), such amount as is required for the malus and/or clawback to be satisfied in full.
The Committee shall have discretion to specify a Holding Period for Shares received on the Vesting of a Conditional Award or exercise of an Option during which period the Participant shall not sell, charge or otherwise dispose of such number of Shares as the Committee may decide except to the extent necessary to satisfy a Tax Liability.
On or as soon as reasonably practicable after the Vesting of a Conditional Award, the Board shall, subject to Rule 5.5 (Payment of Tax Liability) and any arrangement made under Rules 5.3(b) and 5.3(c) (Restrictions on Vesting: regulatory and tax issues), transfer or procure the transfer of the Vested Shares to the Participant (or a nominee for him).
If the Committee decided at any time under Rule 3.4 (Treatment of Dividends) that a Participant would be entitled to the Dividend Equivalent in relation to Shares under their Award, then the provision of the Dividend Equivalent to the Participant shall be made as soon as practicable after Vesting and;
Vesting: malus and clawback) shall apply as if such provision was the Vesting of an Award.
An Option which has Vested may not be exercised unless the following conditions are satisfied:
For the purposes of this Rule 7.1, references to Group Member include any former Group Member.
An Option must be exercised to the maximum extent possible at the time of exercise unless the Committee decides that a Participant may exercise the Option in respect of such fewer number of Shares as it decides.
The exercise of any Option shall be effected in the form and manner prescribed by the Board. Unless the Board, acting fairly and reasonably determines otherwise, any notice of exercise shall, subject to Rule 7.1 (Restrictions on the exercise of an Option: regulatory and tax issues), take effect only when the Company receives it, together with payment of any relevant Option Price (or, if the Board so permits, an undertaking to pay that amount).
The Participant authorises the Company to sell or procure the sale of sufficient Vested Shares on or following exercise of his Option on his behalf to ensure that any relevant Group Member receives the amount required to discharge the Tax Liability which arises on such
exercise except to the extent that the Board decides that all or part of the Tax Liability shall be funded in a different manner.
As soon as reasonably practicable after an Option has been exercised, the Company shall, subject to Rule 7.4 (Payment of Tax Liability) and any arrangement made under Rules 7.1(b) and 7.1(c) (Restrictions on exercise: regulatory and tax issues), transfer or procure the transfer to him (or a nominee for him) or, if appropriate, allot to him (or a nominee for him) the number of Shares in respect of which the Option has been exercised.
Where a Conditional Award Vests or where an Option has been exercised and Vested Shares have not yet been allotted or transferred to the Participant (or his nominee), the Committee may determine that, in substitution for his right to acquire such number of Vested Shares as the Committee may decide (but in full and final satisfaction of his right to acquire those Shares), he shall be paid by way of additional employment income a sum equal to the cash equivalent (as defined in Rule 8.2) of that number of Shares in accordance with the following provisions of this Rule 8.
Rule 8.1 shall not apply in relation to an Award made to a Participant in any jurisdiction where the presence of Rule 8.1 would cause:
provided that this Rule 8.2 shall apply only if its application would prevent the occurrence of a consequence referred to in (a) or (b) above.
(ii) if Shares are not so quoted, such value of a Share as the Committee reasonably determines.
As soon as reasonably practicable after the Committee has determined under Rule 8.1 that a Participant shall be paid a sum in substitution for his right to acquire any number of Vested Shares:
There shall be deducted from any payment under this Rule 8 such amounts (on account of tax or similar liabilities) as may be required by law or as the Board may reasonably consider to be necessary or desirable.
An Award shall lapse in accordance with the Rules or to the extent it does not Vest under these Rules.
If a Participant ceases to be a director or employee of a Group Member before the Normal Vesting Date by reason of:
then, subject to Rule 5.3 (Restrictions on Vesting: regulatory and tax issues), Rules 5.6 and 5.7 (Restrictions on Vesting: malus and clawback) and Rule 11 (Takeovers and other corporate events), his Award shall Vest on the Normal Vesting Date unless the Committee decides that his Award shall Vest on the date of cessation and, in either case, Rule 10.3 (Leavers: reduction in number of Vested Shares) shall apply.
If a Participant ceases to be a director or employee of a Group Member for any reason other than those specified in Rule 10.1 (Good leavers) then any Award held by him shall lapse immediately on such cessation.
Where an Award Vests on or after a Participant ceasing to be a director or employee of a Group Member, the Committee shall determine the number of Vested Shares of that Award by the following steps:
unless the Committee, acting fairly and reasonably, decides that the reduction in the number of Vested Shares under Rule 10.3(b) is inappropriate in any particular case when it shall increase the number of Vested Shares to such higher number as it decides provided that number does not exceed the number of Shares determined under Rule 10.3(a).
If an Award Vests under any of Rules 11.1 to 11.3 when the holder of that Award has ceased to be a director or employee of a Group Member then this Rule 10.3 shall take precedence over Rule 11.5.
A Participant shall not be treated for the purposes of this Rule 10 as ceasing to be a director or employee of a Group Member until such time as he is no longer a director or employee of any Group Member. If any Participant ceases to be such a director or employee before the Vesting of his Award in circumstances where he retains a statutory right to return to work then he shall be treated as not having ceased to be such a director or employee until such time (if at all) as he ceases to have such a right to return to work while not acting as an employee or director.
If a Participant dies following cessation of employment in circumstances where his Award did not lapse but it has not Vested by the time of his death, it shall Vest on the Normal Vesting Date unless the Committee decides that his Award shall Vest immediately on his death to the extent determined by reference to the time of cessation of employment in accordance with Rule 10.1.
If any person (or group of persons acting in concert):
the Board shall within 7 days of becoming aware of that event notify every Participant of it and, subject to Rule 11.4 (Internal reorganisations), the following provisions shall apply:
In the event that:
all Awards shall, subject to Rule 5.3 (Restrictions on Vesting: regulatory and tax issues), Rules 5.6 and 5.7 (Restrictions on Vesting: malus and clawback) and Rule 11.4 (Internal reorganisations) Vest on the date of such event if they have not then Vested and Rule 11.5 (Corporate events: reduction in number of Vested Shares) shall apply.
If an event described in this Rule occurs then an Option may, subject to Rule 7.1 (Restrictions on exercise) and Rule 11.4 (Internal reorganisations), be exercised within one month of such event, but to the extent that the Option is not exercised within that period, it shall (regardless of any other provision of the Plan) lapse at the end of that period.
If a demerger, special dividend or other similar event (the "Relevant Event") is proposed which, in the opinion of the Committee, would affect the market price of Shares to a material extent, then the Committee may, at its discretion, decide that the following provisions shall apply:
(a) the Committee shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after deciding to apply these provisions, notify a Participant that, subject to earlier lapse under Rule 10 (Leavers), his Award Vests and, if relevant, his Option may be exercised on such terms as the
Committee may determine and during such period preceding the Relevant Event or on the Relevant Event as the Committee may determine;
In the event that:
then the Committee, with the consent of the Acquiring Company, may decide before the obtaining of such Control that an Award shall not Vest under Rule 11.1 or Rule 11.2 but shall be automatically surrendered in consideration for the grant of a new award which the Committee determines is equivalent to the Award it replaces except that it will be over shares in the Acquiring Company or some other company.
The Rules will apply to any new award granted under this Rule 11.4 as if references to Shares were references to shares over which the new award is granted and references to the Company were references to the company whose shares are subject to the new award.
If an Award Vests under any of Rules 11.1 to 11.3, the Committee shall determine the number of Vested Shares of that Award by the following steps:
Shares to such higher number as it decides provided that number does not exceed the number of Shares determined under Rule 11.5(a).
If an Award Vests under any of Rules 11.1 to 11.3 after the holder of that Award has ceased to be a director or employee of a Group Member then Rule 10.3 shall take precedence over this Rule 11.5.
In the event of any variation of the share capital of the Company or a demerger, special dividend or other similar event which affects the market price of Shares to a material extent, the Committee may make such adjustments as it considers appropriate under Rule 12.2 (Method of adjustment).
An adjustment made under this Rule shall be to one or more of the following:
An adjustment under Rule 12.2 may have the effect of reducing the price at which Shares may be subscribed for on the exercise of an Option to less than their nominal value, but only if and to the extent that the Board is authorised:
so that on exercise of any Option in respect of which such a reduction shall have been made the Board shall capitalise that sum (if any) and apply it in paying up that amount.
Except as described in Rule 13.2 (Shareholder approval), and Rule 13.4 (Alterations to disadvantage of Participants) the Committee may at any time alter the Plan or the terms of any Award.
Except as described in Rule 13.3 (Exceptions to shareholder approval), no alteration to the advantage of an individual to whom an Award has been or may be granted shall be made under Rule 13.1 to the provisions concerning:
without the prior approval by ordinary resolution of the members of the Company in general meeting.
Rule 13.2 (Shareholder approval) shall not apply to:
No alteration to the material disadvantage of Participants (other than to any Performance Condition) shall be made under Rule 13.1 unless:
The Committee may amend any Performance Condition without prior shareholder approval if:
The rights and obligations of any individual under the terms of his office or employment with any Group Member shall not be affected by his participation in the Plan or any right which he may have to participate in it. An individual who participates in the Plan waives any and all rights to compensation or damages in consequence of the termination of his office or employment for any reason whatsoever (and regardless of whether such termination is lawful or unlawful) insofar as those rights arise or may arise from him ceasing to have rights under an Award as a result of such termination. Participation in the Plan shall not confer a right to continued employment upon any individual who participates in it. The grant of any Award does not imply that any further Award will be granted nor that a Participant has any right to receive any further Award.
No third party has any rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any term of the Plan.
Benefits provided under the Plan shall not be pensionable.
Each Participant acknowledges that there will be collection, processing and transfer of his personal data for any purpose relating to the operation of the Plan. This includes:
The Plan and all Awards shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales and the Courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction to hear any dispute.
The Rules of the Dialight plc 2014 Performance Share Plan shall apply to a right (a "Cash Conditional Award") to receive a cash sum granted or to be granted under this Schedule as if it was a Conditional Award, except as set out in this Schedule. Where there is any conflict between the Rules and this Schedule, the terms of this Schedule shall prevail.
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