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Exhibit 10.1




THE LUBRIZOL CORPORATION

ANNUAL INCENTIVE PAY PLAN

(As Amended February 22, 2010)




INTRODUCTION





     The Lubrizol Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the “Corporation”) hereby establishes,
effective as of January 1, 2008, The Lubrizol Corporation Annual Incentive Pay Plan (hereinafter
referred to as the “Plan”) in order to provide an award for employees which reflects the pursuit of
superior performance, increased customer satisfaction and enhancement of shareholder value. Awards
for participating employees under the Plan shall depend upon corporate performance measures as
determined by the Committee for the Plan Year.



     Except as otherwise provided, the Plan shall be administered by the Organization and
Compensation Committee (hereinafter referred to as the “Committee”) of the Board of Directors of
the Corporation. The Committee shall have conclusive authority to construe and interpret the Plan
and any agreements entered into under the Plan and to establish, amend, and rescind rules and
regulations for its administration. The Committee shall also have any additional authority as the
Board may from time to time determine to be necessary or desirable.



ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS




     1.01 Definitions. The following terms shall have the indicated meanings for purposes
of the Plan:




	 	(a)	 	“Board” shall mean the Board of Directors of the Corporation.
	 
	 	(b)	 	“Chief Executive Officer” shall mean the chief executive officer of the
Corporation.
	 
	 	(c)	 	“Committee” shall mean the Organization and Compensation Committee of the
Board, or other designated committee of the Board, consisting of persons who are not
Employees or International Employees.
	 
	 	(d)	 	“Corporation” shall mean The Lubrizol Corporation, a corporation organized
under the laws of the State of Ohio.
	 
	 	(e)	 	“Director” shall mean a member of the Board.
	 
	 	(f)	 	‘“Employee” shall mean any person other than an Officer, who is employed for a
wage or salary by the Corporation or a domestic Subsidiary.
	 
	 	(g)	 	“International Employee” shall mean any person who is employed for a wage or salary by an
international Subsidiary of the Corporation.
	 
	 	(h)	 	“International Participant” shall mean any International Employee who has been
selected by the Committee pursuant to Article VI of the Plan, and who has not for any
reason becomes ineligible to participate in the Plan.




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	 	(i)	 	“Individual Award” shall mean the amount paid (or to be paid) to a Participant
or International Participant, as the case may be, by the Corporation pursuant to the
Plan.
	 
	 	(j)	 	“Individual Target Award” shall have the definition, and shall be determined,
as set forth in Section 3.02 herein.
	 
	 	(k)	 	“Officer” shall mean an employee of the Corporation or a Subsidiary who is a
member of the Executive Council of the Corporation.
	 
	 	(l)	 	“Participant” shall mean all Officers, and any Employee who has been selected
by the Committee pursuant to Article II herein to participate in the Plan, and have not
for any reason become ineligible to participate in the Plan.
	 
	 	(m)	 	“Pay” shall be determined at the time of calculating the Individual Performance
Shares and shall be the Participant’s base pay.
	 
	 	(n)	 	“Plan” shall mean The Lubrizol Corporation Annual Incentive Pay Plan, effective
January 1, 2008.
	 
	 	(o)	 	“Plan Year” shall mean each twelve-month period commencing January 1 and ending
December 31.
	 
	 	(p)	 	“Subsidiary” shall mean any corporation, international or domestic, that is
wholly or partially (but not less than 50%) owned directly or indirectly by the
Corporation.





     1.02 Construction. Where necessary or appropriate to the meaning of a word, the
singular shall be deemed to include the plural, the plural to include the singular, the masculine
to include the feminine, and the feminine to include the masculine.



ARTICLE II

ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION




     2.01 Eligibility. All Employees and Officers shall be eligible to participate in the
Plan.



     2.02 Participation. All Officers shall participate in the Plan. In addition, the
Committee shall determine which Employees shall participate in the Plan for each Plan Year. The
Committee may also determine which Employees hired during the Plan Year shall participate in the
Plan for such Plan Year. The Committee’s selection of Participants shall be after considering
recommendations presented to it by the Chief Executive Officer.



ARTICLE III

INDIVIDUAL AWARDS




     3.01 In General. At the time the Committee selects Participants for any Plan Year,
the Committee shall, after consideration of the recommendations of the Chief Executive Officer,
establish, for each Plan Year, an Individual Target Award for each Participant. After the end of
the Plan Year Individual Awards are paid.



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     3.02 Calculation of Individual Award. The Individual Award shall be calculated in
the following manner:




	 	(a)	 	The Participant’s Individual Target Award is determined by multiplying the
Participant’s Pay by a designated target opportunity percentage, which shall take into
account the Participant’s position in the Corporation. Such designated target
opportunity percentage, as well as maximum and threshold opportunity percentages, shall
be determined by the Committee.
	 
	 	(b)	 	At the beginning of each Plan Year, the Committee approves annual corporate and
segment performance metric scorecards and specifies the scorecard(s) that apply to a
Participant. The Chief Executive Officer approves annual performance scorecards below
the segment level.
	 
	 	(c)	 	After the end of the Plan Year, the Committee certifies the amount of the
Individual Awards based on actual performance for the Plan Year under the annual
scorecard(s) that apply to the Participant and authorizes payment of that amount.





     Individual Target Awards may be either increased or decreased, at any time, or from time to
time, during a Plan Year, for any Participant at the sole discretion of the Committee in order to
reflect any change in the individual contribution under the formula set forth in this Section 3.02.



     3.03 Time and Method of Payment of Individual Awards. In the event the Committee
determines that a Participant is entitled to an Individual Award, the Corporation shall pay such
Individual Award to that Participant between January 1 and March 15 following the close of the Plan
Year. A Participant who separates from service or dies after the Plan Year but prior to the
payment of an Individual Award shall be eligible to receive any payment under this Plan. Effective
September 23, 2008, a Participant who separates from service prior to the end the Plan Year will
not be eligible for payment hereunder, unless otherwise specifically approved by the Committee,
upon the recommendation of the Chief Executive Officer.




     3.04 Conditions. Anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the
payment of Individual Awards to Participants with respect to any Plan Year is conditioned upon the
availability of adequate corporate profits for the Corporation’s fiscal year coinciding with any
Plan Year. The determination of whether adequate corporate profits exist shall be made by the
Board in its sole and unrestricted judgment and discretion and such determination shall be
conclusive and binding.



ARTICLE IV

AWARDS FOR INTERNATIONAL EMPLOYEES




     4.01 Participation. The Committee shall determine which International Employees shall
participate in the Plan for each Plan Year. The Committee’s selection of International
Participants shall be made after considering recommendations presented to it by the Chief Executive
Officer.



     4.02 Individual Awards. At the time the Individual Awards are determined for
Participants, the Committee shall, in its discretion, after consideration of the recommendations of
the Chief Executive Officer, establish for each Plan Year Individual Awards for each International
Participant.



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     4.03 Payment of Awards. Individual Awards to each International Participant shall be
paid by the international Subsidiary that is the employer of such International Participant at the
same time and under the same conditions as payment is made to Participants under Sections 3.03 and
3.04. All payments shall be converted from the U.S. dollar measurement under the Plan to the
currency of the country of such Subsidiary at the currency exchange rate in effect at the time the
Individual Award is determined. All applicable withholding taxes shall be withheld from the
distribution and remitted by the international subsidiary to the appropriate taxing authority.



ARTICLE V

CHANGE OF CONTROL




     5.01 Effect of Change in Control. In the event a Change in Control of the
Corporation (as defined in Section 5.02) occurs prior to final determination by the Committee of
the amounts of Individual Awards to be paid under the Plan with respect to any Plan Year, the
Committee shall calculate such Individual Awards as soon as practicable after such Change in
Control. Individual Awards shall be based upon accruals by the Corporation up to the time of such
Change in Control and Individual Awards shall be calculated in accordance with Sections 3.02 and
4.02 herein. Payment of such Individual Awards shall be made at the time specified in Section
3.03, except that if a Participant is separated from service by the Corporation for other than
Cause (defined in Section 5.03) or separates from service for Good Reason (defined in Section 5.04)
prior to the end of the Plan Year, the Participant will continue to be eligible for payment of the
Individual Award calculated in accordance with this Section 5.01 at the time of payment specified
in Section 3.03.



     5.02 For all purposes of the Plan, a “Change in Control of the Corporation” shall have
occurred if any of the following events shall occur:





	 	(a)	 	The date that any one person, or more than one person acting as a group,
acquires ownership of stock of the corporation that, together with the stock held by
such person or group, constitutes more than 50 percent of the total fair market value
or total voting power of the stock of the Corporation.
	 
	 	(b)	 	The date any person, or more than one person acting as a group, acquires (or
has acquired during the 12-month period ending on the date of the most recent
acquisition by such person or persons) ownership of stock of the Corporation possessing
30% or more of the total voting power of the stock of the Corporation.
	 
	 	(c)	 	The date a majority of members of the Corporation’s Board of Directors is
replaced during any 12-month period by Directors whose appointment or election is not
endorsed by a majority of the members of the Corporation’s Board of Directors before
the date of the appointment or election.
	 
	 	(d)	 	The date that any one person, or more than one person acting as a group,
acquires (or has acquired during the 12-month period ending on the date of the most
recent acquisition by such person or persons) assets from the Corporation that have a
total gross fair market value equal to or more than 40% of the total gross fair market
value of all of the assets of the Corporation immediately before the acquisition or
acquisitions.




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     Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Change of Control shall have only occurred in accordance with
the regulations promulgated under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.



     5.03 For purposes of this Article V of the Plan, “Cause” means that, prior to any separation
from service, the Participant committed:




	 	(a)	 	an intentional act of fraud, embezzlement or theft in connection with his
duties or in the course of his employment with the Corporation;
	 
	 	(b)	 	intentional wrongful damage to property of the Corporation;
	 
	 	(c)	 	intentional wrongful disclosure of secret processes or confidential
information of the Corporation; or
	 
	 	(d)	 	intentional wrongful engagement in any Competitive Activity (as defined below);




and any such act materially is harmful to the Corporation. For purposes of this Agreement, no
act, or failure to act, on the part of the Participant will be deemed “intentional” if it was due
primarily to an error in judgment or negligence, but will be deemed “intentional” only if done, or
omitted to be done, by the Participant not in good faith and without reasonable belief that his
action or omission was in the best interest of the Corporation. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
the Participant will not be deemed to have been separated from service for “Cause” hereunder
unless and until there is delivered to the Participant a copy of a resolution duly adopted by the
affirmative vote of not less than three-quarters of the Board then in office at a meeting of the
Board called and held for such purpose (after reasonable notice to the Participant and an
opportunity for the Participant, together with his counsel, to be heard before the Board), finding
that, in the good faith opinion of the Board, the Participant had committed an act set forth above
in this 5.03 and specifying the particulars thereof in detail. Nothing herein will limit the
right of the Participant or his beneficiaries to contest the validity or propriety of any such
determination.




     For purposes of this Article V of the Plan, the term “Competitive Activity” means the
Participant’s participation, without the written consent of an officer of the Corporation, in the
management of any business enterprise if such enterprise engages in substantial and direct
competition with the Corporation and such enterprise’s sales of any product or service competitive
with any product or service of the Corporation amounted to 25% of such enterprise’s net sales for
its most recently completed fiscal year and if the Corporation’s net sales of said product or
service amounted to 25% of the Corporation’s net sales for its most recently completed fiscal year.
“Competitive Activity” does not include (i) the mere ownership of securities in any such
enterprise and exercise of rights appurtenant thereto or (ii) participation in management of any
such enterprise other than in connection with the competitive operations of such enterprise.



     5.04 For purposes of this Article V of the Plan, “Good Reason” means separation from service
by the Participant of his employment with the Corporation after the Change in Control of the
Corporation upon the occurrence of any of the following events:




	 	(a)	 	Failure to elect or reelect or otherwise to maintain the Participant in the
office or the position, or a substantially equivalent office or position, of or with
the Corporation, which the Participant held immediately prior to a Change in Control
of the Corporation.
	 
	 	(b)	 	A significant adverse change in the nature or scope of the authorities,
powers, functions, responsibilities or duties attached to the position with the
Corporation that the Participant held immediately prior to the Change in Control of
the Corporation, a reduction in the aggregate of the Participant’s base and incentive




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	 	 	 	pay opportunities, any of which is not remedied within 10 calendar days after receipt
by the Corporation of written notice from the Participant of the change or reduction,
as the case may be;
	 
	 	(c)	 	A determination by the Participant made in good faith that as a result of a
Change in Control of the Corporation and a change in circumstances thereafter
significantly affecting his position, including without limitation a change in the
scope of the business or other activities for which he was responsible immediately
prior to a Change in Control of the Corporation, he has been rendered substantially
unable to carry out, has been substantially hindered in the performance of, or has
suffered a substantial reduction in, any of the authorities, powers, functions,
responsibilities or duties attached to the position held by the Participant
immediately prior to the Change in Control of the Corporation, which situation is not
remedied within 10 calendar days after written notice to the Corporation from the
Participant of such determination;
	 
	 	(d)	 	The liquidation, dissolution, merger, consolidation or reorganization of the
Corporation or transfer of all or a significant portion of its business and/or assets,
unless the successor or successors (by liquidation, merger, consolidation,
reorganization or otherwise) to which all or a significant portion of its business
and/or assets have been transferred (directly or by operation of law) assumes all the
duties and obligations of the Corporation under this Agreement;
	 
	 	(e)	 	The Corporation relocates its principal executive offices, or requires the
Participant to have his principal location of work changed, to any location which is
in excess of 25 miles from the location thereof immediately prior to the Change of
Control of the Corporation or to travel away from his office in the course of
discharging his responsibilities or duties hereunder significantly more
(in terms of either consecutive days or aggregate days in any calendar year) than
was required of him prior to the Change of Control of the Corporation without, in
either case, his prior written consent.





ARTICLE VI

ADMINISTRATION




     6.01 Plan Administrator. The Committee shall be the Plan administrator.



     6.02 Duties of Plan Administrator.




	 	(a)	 	The Committee shall administer the Plan in accordance with its terms and shall
have all powers necessary to carry out the provisions of the Plan including, but not
limited to, the following:






	 	(1)	 	Determination of Employees and International Employees who are
eligible for Plan participation; and
	 
	 	(2)	 	Determination of the Individual Awards to be paid to
Participants for each Plan Year.






	 	(b)	 	The Committee shall interpret the Plan and shall resolve all questions arising
in the administration, interpretation, and application of the Plan. Any such
determination of the Committee shall be conclusive and binding on all persons.




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	 	(c)	 	The Committee shall establish such procedures and keep such records or other
data as the Committee in its discretion determines necessary or proper for the
administration of the Plan.
	 
	 	(d)	 	The Committee may delegate administrative responsibilities to such person or
persons as the Committee deems necessary or desirable in connection with the
administration of the Plan.





     6.03 Claw-back and Forfeiture Policy. The Committee may cause to be forfeited any
outstanding Individual Award and may seek to recoup any economic gains from any Participant who
engages in conduct that was not in good faith and that disrupts, damages, impairs or interferes
with the business, reputation or employees of the Company or its Subsidiaries.



ARTICLE VII

MISCELLANEOUS




     7.01 Unfunded Plan. The Corporation shall be under no obligation to segregate or
reserve any funds or other assets for purposes relating to this Plan and no Participant or
International Participant shall have any rights whatsoever in or with respect to any funds or
assets of the Corporation.



     7.02 Non-Alienation. No anticipated payment of any Individual Award shall be subject
in any manner to alienation, sale, transfer, assignment, pledge, attachment, garnishment or
encumbrance of any kind.



     7.03 No Employment Rights. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as a
commitment or agreement upon the part of any Participant, International Participant, Employee or
International Employee hereunder to continue his employment with the Corporation or a Subsidiary,
and nothing herein contained shall be construed as a commitment on the part of the Corporation or
any Subsidiary to continue the employment or rate of compensation of any Participant or
International Participant hereunder or any Employee or International Employee for any period.



     7.04 Amendment of the Plan. The Corporation reserves the right, to be exercised by
instruction from the Committee, to modify or amend this Plan at any time.



     7.05 Duration and Termination of the Plan. The Corporation also reserves the right,
to be exercised by action of the Board, to discontinue or terminate the Plan; provided that, and
subject to all the provisions of this plan, any termination shall be effective only for all Plan
Years following December 31 of the Plan Year in which the decision to terminate occurs.





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