Company: SNPS
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000883241-25-000008
Chunk: 44

Company: SYNOPSYS INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 44
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• with respect to any such equity awards that are held by individuals then performing services for Synopsys or its affiliates, the vesting and exercisability provisions of such equity awards will be accelerated in full and such awards will be terminated if not exercised prior to the effective date of the corporate transaction and any reacquisition or repurchase rights will lapse (contingent upon the effectiveness of the corporate transaction),

• all other outstanding equity awards will be terminated if not exercised prior to the effective date of the corporate transaction, except that certain equity awards, such as restricted stock awards, may have their reacquisition or repurchase rights assigned to the surviving or acquiring entity (or its parent company) in the corporate transaction, though if such reacquisition or repurchase rights are not assigned, then such equity awards will become fully vested, and

• no vested restricted stock unit award will terminate without being settled by delivery of shares of common stock, their cash equivalent or in any other form of consideration, as determined by the Board of Directors, prior to the effectiveness of the corporate transaction.

A significant corporate transaction will be deemed to occur in the event of:

• a sale of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of Synopsys and its subsidiaries,

• a sale of at least 90% of the outstanding securities of Synopsys,

• a merger, consolidation or similar transaction in which Synopsys is not the surviving corporation, or

• a merger, consolidation or similar transaction in which Synopsys is the surviving corporation, but shares of Synopsys outstanding common stock are converted into other property by virtue of the corporate transaction.

The 2006 Employee Plan provides, at the discretion of our Board of Directors, that the holder of an outstanding equity award that would otherwise terminate if not exercised prior to the corporate transaction may surrender such equity award in exchange for a payment equal to the excess of the value of the property that the holder would have received upon exercise of the equity award immediately prior to the corporate transaction, over the exercise price otherwise payable in connection with the equity award, which excess amount may be fully vested at the time of the corporate transaction or may be required to vest after the time of the corporate transaction substantially in accordance with the schedule in effect immediately prior to the corporate transaction.

An equity award may be subject to additional acceleration of vesting and exercisability upon or after a change in control as may be provided in the award agreement for such equity award, or as may be provided in any other written agreement between Synopsys or