Company: OSBC
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001558370-25-004277
Chunk: 129

Company: OLD SECOND BANCORP INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 129
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 form thereto.

“ISO” means a stock option that is intended to satisfy the requirements applicable to an “incentive stock option” described in Code Section 422(b).

“Participant” has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 1.2.

“Plan” means the Old Second Bancorp, Inc. 2019 Equity Incentive Plan.

“Policy” has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 7.16.

“Prior Plan” means the Old Second Bancorp, Inc. 2014 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended.

“SAR” has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 2.1(b).

“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933.

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“Service Provider” means any natural person, including an advisor, engaged by the Company or a Subsidiary to render bona fide services to such entity, provided the services (i) are not in connection with the offer or sale of securities in a capital-raising transaction, and (ii) do not directly promote or maintain a market for the Company’s securities, in each case, within the meaning of Form S-8, and provided, further, that a Service Provider will include only those persons to whom the issuance of Shares may be registered under Form S-8.

“Share” means a share of Stock.

“Shareholders” means the shareholders of the Company.

“Stock” means the common stock of the Company, $1.00 par value per share.

“Subsidiary” means any corporation or other entity that would be a “subsidiary corporation” as defined in Code Section 424(f) with respect to the Company.

“Termination of Service” means the first day occurring on or after a grant date on which the Participant ceases to be an employee and director of, and Service Provider to, the Company and each Subsidiary, regardless of the reason for such cessation, subject to the following:

The Participant’s cessation as an employee or Service Provider shall not be deemed to occur by reason of the Participant’s being on a leave of absence from the Company or a Subsidiary approved by the Company or Subsidiary otherwise receiving the Participant’s services.

If, as a result of a sale or other transaction, the Subsidiary for whom the Participant is employed (or to whom the Participant is providing services) ceases to be a Subsidiary, and the Participant is not,