Company: CPS
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001320461-25-000073
Chunk: 30

Company: Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 30
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 in the exercise of its sole discretion and without the consent of the Participant, may amend or modify the Plan or any Award in any manner and delay the payment of any amounts payable pursuant to an Award to the minimum extent necessary to meet the requirements of Code Section 409A as the Committee deems appropriate or desirable. 
 (b)Separation from Service. Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary, a termination of employment shall not be deemed to have occurred for purposes of any provision of this Plan or any Award hereunder providing for the payment of “deferred compensation” (within the meaning of Code Section 409A) upon or following a termination of employment unless such termination is also a “separation from service” from the Company within the meaning of Code Section 409A and Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-1(h) and, for purposes of any such provision of this Plan or any Award hereunder, references to a “separation,” “termination,” “termination of employment” or like terms shall mean “separation from service.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
 (c)Specified Employees. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary and to the extent that Code Section 409A (including Code Section 409A(a)(2)(b)) is applicable to the Plan or any Award hereunder, if on the date of a Participant’s separation from service, he or she is a “specified employee” (as such term is defined in Code Section 409A(a)(2)(B)(i) and its corresponding regulations) as determined by the Committee, then the amount of an Award that constitutes deferred compensation subject to the requirements of Code Section 409A that are payable within the six (6) month period following such Participant’s separation from service shall be postponed for a period of six (6) months following the separation from service with the Company (or any successor thereto) to the extent necessary to avoid the                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |

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| imposition of taxes under Code Section 409A. Any payments delayed pursuant to this subsection will be made in a lump sum on the Company’s first regularly scheduled payroll date that follows such six (6) month period or, if earlier, the date of the Participant’s death.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
 (d)No Guarantee. Notwithstanding any provisions of the Plan, the Company does not guarantee to any Participant or any other Person with an interest in an Award that (a) any Award intended to be