Company: SNPS
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000883241-25-000008
Chunk: 136

Company: SYNOPSYS INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 136
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AMENDMENT TO BE APPROVED BY THE STOCKHOLDERS: APRIL 10, 2025</div>

#### 1. GENERAL.
(a) Eligible Award Recipients . The persons eligible to receive Awards are Employees and Consultants. Non-Employee Directors are not eligible to receive Awards under this Plan.

(b) Available Awards . The Plan provides for the grant of the following Stock Awards: (i) Incentive Stock Options, (ii) Nonstatutory Stock Options, (iii) Restricted Stock Awards, (iv) Restricted Stock Unit Awards, (v) Stock Appreciation Rights, (vi) Performance Stock Awards, and (vii) Other Stock Awards. The Plan also provides for the grant of Performance Cash Awards.

(c) Purpose . The Company, by means of the Plan, seeks to secure and retain the services of the group of persons eligible to receive Stock Awards as set forth in Section 1(a), to provide incentives for such persons to exert maximum efforts for the success of the Company and any Affiliate and to provide a means by which such eligible recipients may be given an opportunity to benefit from increases in value of the Common Stock through the granting of Stock Awards.

#### 2. DEFINITIONS.
As used in the Plan, the following definitions shall apply to the capitalized terms indicated below:

(a) “ Affiliate ” means (i) any corporation (other than the Company) in an unbroken chain of corporations ending with the Company, provided each corporation in the unbroken chain (other than the Company) owns, at the time of the determination, stock possessing fifty percent (50%) or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock in one of the other corporations in such chain, and (ii) any corporation (other than the Company) in an unbroken chain of corporations beginning with the Company, provided each corporation (other than the last corporation) in the unbroken chain owns, at the time of the determination, stock possessing fifty percent (50%) or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock in one of the other corporations in such chain. The Board shall have the authority to determine (i) the time or times at which the ownership tests are applied, and (ii) whether “Affiliate” includes entities other than corporations within the foregoing definition.

(b) “ Award ” means a Stock Award or a Performance Cash Award.

(c) “ Board ” means the Board of Directors of the Company.

(d) “ Capitalization Adjustment ” has the meaning ascribed to that term in