Company: GDHLF
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000935
Chunk: 308

Company: GDS Holdings Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 5
Chunk 308
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 share incentive plan, for the granting of share options to key employees, directors and external consultants in exchange for their services. The total number of shares that may be issued under the 2014 share incentive plan is 29,240,000 ordinary shares.

We adopted a second equity incentive plan in August 2016, or the 2016 share incentive plan, for the granting of share options and other equity awards to key employees and directors in exchange for their services. The maximum aggregate number of shares which may be subject to equity awards under the 2016 share incentive plan is 56,707,560 shares, provided, however, that such maximum aggregate number of shares shall be automatically increased on the first day of each fiscal year (i. e., January 1 of each calendar year) during which the 2016 share incentive plan remains in effect to three percent (3%) of our then total issued and outstanding shares, if and whenever the shares which may be subject to equity awards under the 2016 share incentive plan accounts for less than one and half percent (1.5%) of our then total issued and outstanding shares.

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We account for the compensation cost from share-based payment transactions with employees based on the grant-date fair value of the equity-classified awards. The grant-date fair value of the award is recognized as compensation expense, net of forfeitures, over the period during which an employee is required to provide service in exchange for the award, which is generally the vesting period. When no future services are required to be performed by the employee in exchange for an award of equity instruments, and if such award does not contain a performance or market condition, the cost of the award is expensed on the grant date. We recognize compensation cost for an award with only service conditions that has a graded vesting schedule on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period for the entire award, provided that the cumulative amount of compensation cost recognized at any date at least equals the portion of the grant-date value of such award that is vested at that date.

Awards granted to employees with performance conditions attached are measured at fair value on the grant date and are recognized as the compensation expenses, net of forfeitures, over the performance period when the performance goal becomes probable to achieve. We also adjust the compensation cost based on the probability of performance goal achievement at the end of each reporting period. The rewards are earned upon attainment of identified performance goals.

Awards granted to employees with market conditions attached are measured at fair value on the grant date