Delaware
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04-2564110
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(State or other jurisdiction of
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(IRS Employer
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incorporation)
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Identification No.)
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Like the Existing Plan, the 2010 Plan provides certain compensation and benefits in the event that a participant's employment with the Company terminates under certain defined circumstances. The terms of and benefits payable under the 2010 Plan are in many ways substantially similar to those set forth in the Existing Plan. However, unlike the Existing Plan, the 2010 Plan does not contain tax gross-up provisions related to excise taxes that may be imposed by Section 4999 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), as the result of a participant receiving a payment that would constitute a "parachute payment" within the meaning of Code Section 280G upon or in connection with a change of control of the Company. Instead, if a payment under the 2010 Plan would constitute such a "parachute payment" and would be subject to such excise tax, then such payment will be reduced to either (a) the largest portion of the payment that would result in no portion of the payment being subject to the excise tax or (b) the largest portion, up to and including the total, of the payment, whichever amount, after taking into account all applicable federal, state and local employment taxes, income taxes, and the excise tax (all computed at the highest applicable marginal rate), results in the participant's receipt, on an after-tax basis, of the greater amount of the payment notwithstanding that all or some portion of the payment may be subject to the excise tax.
For a participant who is granted severance rights under the 2010 Plan in connection with a separation from service that is unrelated to a change of control of the Company, such participant will receive in connection with such a separation from service: (i) salary continuation payments for 18 months; (ii) pro-rated vesting of all of his or her outstanding equity awards through the date of his or her separation from service (rounded up to the next whole month and disregarding any "cliff-vesting" provisions applicable to the award); and (iii) the extension of the post-termination exercise period of each stock option or stock appreciation right granted after January 1, 2006 so that the option or right will remain exercisable for twelve months following the date of separation from service, but in no event beyond the original term of the award. The calculation in clause (ii) of this paragraph with respect to any performance-based equity awards for which the achievement of the applicable performance criteria has not yet been determined as of the participant's termination date will be delayed until the extent of the achievement of those criteria (and thus the maximum number of shares issuable under the applicable award) has been finally determined.
For a participant who is granted severance rights under the 2010 Plan in connection with a separation from service upon or in connection with a change of control of the Company, such participant will receive in connection with such a separation from service (if it occurs within one year following a change of control): (i) salary continuation payments for 18 months; (ii) a pro-rated annual incentive payment for the fiscal year of his or her separation from service (calculated based on the participant's annual incentive bonus for the then-most recently completed fiscal year and the proportion of the then-current fiscal year served through the date of separation from service); (iii) 100% vesting acceleration of all of his or her outstanding equity awards; and (iv) the extension of the post-termination exercise period of each stock option or stock appreciation right granted after January 1, 2006 so that the option or right will remain exercisable for twelve months following the date of separation from service, but in no event beyond the original term of the award. The calculations in clause (iii) of this paragraph with respect to any performance-based equity awards for which the achievement of the applicable performance criteria has not yet been determined as of the participant's termination date will be delayed until the extent of the achievement of those criteria (and thus the maximum amounts that would have been issuable with respect to such awards) has been finally determined.
In exchange for receiving severance benefits under the 2010 Plan, the participant will be subject to a non-compete covenant and non-solicitation restrictions for the period of time co-terminous with the period for which he or she will receive continued compensation and benefits under the 2010 Plan. The 2010 Plan also contains a mitigation provision in which the benefits payable are subject to reduction to the extent the participant earns post-termination compensation from sources other than the Company.
In connection with the adoption of the 2010 Plan, the Compensation Committee also approved a modification to the severance benefits payable to Virendra A. Kirloskar, the Company's Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer and a named executive officer of the Company. Mr. Kirloskar, who previously was a participant under the Existing Plan with severance rights only in connection with a separation from service unrelated to a change of control of the Company, was removed from the Existing Plan and added as a participant under the 2010 Plan. Under the 2010 Plan, Mr. Kirloskar has been granted severance rights under the 2010 Plan in connection with a separation from service upon or in connection with a change of control of the Company, as described two paragraphs above.
The foregoing description of the 2010 Plan is qualified in its entirety by reference to the 2010 Plan, which will be attached as an exhibit to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ending December 31, 2010, which the Company expects to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission on or prior to February 9, 2011.
Proposal One. The stockholders elected the Company's four Class III nominees to its Board of Directors to each serve for a three-year term, each until his or her successor is duly elected. The table below presents the results of the election.
Name For Withheld Broker Non-Votes
The Company's Class I directors (Robert M. Calderoni, John T. Dickson and Kevin J. Kennedy) and Class II directors (Robert P. Akins, Robert T. Bond, Kiran M. Patel and David C. Wang) were not subject to reelection at the annual meeting, and their respective terms of office as members of the Board of Directors continued after the meeting.
Consistent with the powers granted by Article II, Section 1 of the Company's Bylaws, on November 3, 2010, the Board adopted resolutions that increased, effective immediately, the number of directors on the Board from ten (10) to eleven (11) to accommodate the addition of Ms. Higashi, who was not an incumbent director prior to her election at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
Proposal Two. The stockholders ratified the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011. This proposal received 152,056,169 votes in favor, 906,597 votes against and 190,211 abstentions.
KLA-TENCOR CORPORATION
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Date: November 05, 2010
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By:
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/s/ Brian M. Martin
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Brian M. Martin
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Senior Vice President and General Counsel
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