Company: SNPS
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000883241-25-000008
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Company: SYNOPSYS INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: DEF 14A
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 otherwise advise such holder of a pending termination or expiration of a Stock Award or a possible period in which the Stock Award may not be exercised. The Company has no duty or obligation to minimize the tax consequences of a Stock Award to the holder of such Stock Award.

(m) Corporate Action Constituting Grant of Stock Awards . Corporate action constituting a grant by the Company of a Stock Award to any Participant shall be deemed completed as of the date of such corporate action, unless otherwise determined by the Board, regardless of when the instrument, certificate, or letter evidencing the Stock Award is communicated to, or actually received or accepted by, the Participant. In the event that the corporate records (e.g., Board consents, resolutions or minutes) documenting the corporate action constituting the grant contain terms (e.g., exercise price, vesting schedule or number of shares) that are inconsistent with those in the Stock Award Agreement or the written terms of a Performance Cash Award as a result of a clerical error in the papering of the Award agreement, the corporate records will control.

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(n) Clawback/Recovery Policy. Awards granted under the Plan may be subject to clawback or recoupment under any clawback or recoupment policy adopted by the Board or the Committee or required by Applicable Law during the term of Participant’s employment or other service with the Company. In addition, the Committee may impose such other clawback, recovery or recoupment provisions in an Award Agreement as the Committee determines necessary or appropriate.

(o) Other Policies. Each Award may be subject to the terms and conditions of any policy (and any amendments thereto) adopted by the Company from time to time, which may include any policy related to the vesting or transfer of Awards, provided that in no event will such policy permit that an Award be transferred for consideration to a third-party financial institution. Whether any such policy will apply to a particular Award may depend, among other things, on when the Award was granted, whom the Award was granted to, and the type of Award.

9. ADJUSTMENTS UPON CHANGES IN COMMON STOCK; CORPORATE TRANSACTIONS.

(a) Capitalization Adjustments . If any change is made in, or other events occur with respect to, the Common Stock subject to the Plan or subject to any Stock Award during the term of the Plan without the receipt of consideration by the Company (through merger, consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization, reincorporation, stock dividend