Global Amendment to Benefit Plans to Comply with EESA



 EXHIBIT 10.30 
 RESOLUTIONS 
 ADOPTED BY

 THE COMPENSATION COMMITTEE 
 OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF 
 SVB FINANCIAL GROUP 
 AS
OF NOVEMBER 21, 2008 
 (IN CONNECTION WITH
THE COMPANY’S PARTICIPATION IN THE 
 TREASURY’S CAPITAL PURCHASE PLAN) 
 AMENDMENT TO BENEFIT PLANS TO COMPLY WITH EMERGENCY ECONOMIC STABILIZATION
ACT 
 WHEREAS, SVB Financial Group. (the “Company”) has
entered or will enter into a Securities Purchase Agreement with the United States Department of Treasury (the “Agreement”) as part of the Capital Purchase Program under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (“EESA”);

 WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 1.2(d)(iv) of the Agreement, the Company is required to amend its
“Benefit Plans” with respect to its “Senior Executive Officers” (as such terms are defined in the Agreement) to the extent necessary to comply with Section 111 of EESA; and 
 WHEREAS, the applicable “Benefit Plans” are the plans in which any Senior Executive Officer participates,
or is eligible to participate, and the agreements to which any Senior Executive Officer is a party, that either: (i) provide for incentive or bonus compensation based on the achievement of performance goals tied to or affected by the
Company’s financial results (“Financial Performance Plans”) or (ii) provide for payments or benefits upon an “applicable severance from employment” within the meaning of EESA (“Involuntary Separation Pay
Arrangements”) Such Benefit Plans include but are not limited to the SVB Financial Group 2006 Equity Incentive Plan, 1997 Equity Incentive Plan, SVB Financial Group Change in Control Severance Plan, SVB Financial Group Incentive Compensation
Plan, SVB Capital Carried Interest Long-Term Incentive Plan, and any agreement and/or contract entered into by and between a Senior Executive Officer and the Company. 
 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that each Financial Performance Plan and Involuntary Separation Pay Arrangement is hereby amended
effective as of the date of entry into the Agreement as follows: 
 1. Compliance With Section 111 of EESA. Each Financial
Performance Plan and Involuntary Separation Pay Arrangement is hereby amended by adding the following provision as a final section to such arrangement: 
 “Compliance With Section 111 of EESA. Solely to the extent, and for the period, required by the provisions of Section 111 of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (“EESA”)
applicable to participants in the Capital Purchase Program 








 
under EESA and the regulation issued by the Department of the Treasury as published in the Federal Register on October 20, 2008: (a) each
“Senior Executive Officer” within the meaning of Section 111 of EESA and the regulation issued by the Department of the Treasury as published in the Federal Register on October 20, 2008 who participates in this plan or is a party
to this agreement shall be ineligible to receive compensation hereunder to the extent that the Executive Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company determines this plan or agreement includes incentives for the Senior Executive
Officer to take unnecessary and excessive risks that threaten the value of the financial institution; (b) each Senior Executive Officer who participates in this plan or is a party to this agreement shall be required to forfeit any bonus or
incentive compensation paid to the Senior Executive Officer hereunder during the period that the Department of the Treasury holds a debt or equity position in the Company based on statements of earnings, gains, or other criteria that are later
proven to be materially inaccurate; and (c) the Company shall be prohibited from making to each Senior Executive Officer who participates in this plan or is a party to this agreement, and each such Senior Executive Officer shall be ineligible
to receive hereunder, any “golden parachute payment” in connection with the Senior Executive Officer’s “applicable severance from employment,” in each case, within the meaning of Section 111 of EESA and the regulation
issued by the Department of the Treasury as published in the Federal Register on October 20, 2008.” 
 2. Continuation of
Affected Plans. Except as expressly or by necessary implication amended hereby, each Financial Performance Plan and Involuntary Separation Pay Arrangement shall continue in full force and effect; 
 RESOLVED FURTHER, that such amendments shall be effective as of the date on which the U.S. Treasury
purchases shares of capital stock of the Company pursuant to its TARP Capital Purchase Program.