EXHIBIT 10.16



 Exhibit 10.16 
  
 AMENDED AND RESTATED 
  
 RESTRICTED STOCK AWARD AGREEMENT 
  
 UNDER THE DIAMONDROCK HOSPITALITY COMPANY 
 2004 STOCK OPTION AND INCENTIVE PLAN 
  
 Name of Grantee: John
Williams 
 No. of Shares: 210,000 
 Purchase Price per Share:
$0.00 
 Grant Date: July 7, 2004 
 Final Acceptance Date: August
7, 2004 
 Amendment Date: March 18, 2005 
  
 The prospective underwriters by engaged DiamondRock Hospitality Company (“Company”) have requested that the employees agree to delay the vesting
of the initial grant of restricted shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, issued by the Company pursuant to the Company’s 2004 Stock Option and Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). The Company hereby amends and restates the grant
of a Restricted Stock Award (an “Award”) to the Grantee named above. Upon acceptance of this amendment to the Award, the Award shall have the restrictions and conditions set forth herein and in the Plan (the “Restricted Stock”).

  
 1. Acceptance of Award. The Grantee shall have no
rights with respect to this Award unless he or she shall have accepted this Award prior to the close of business on the Final Acceptance Date specified above by (i) making payment to the Company by certified or bank check or other instrument
acceptable to the Administrator (as defined in Section 2 of the Plan) of the Purchase per Share, if any, times the number of shares to be accepted, and (ii) signing and delivering to the Company a copy of this Award Agreement. Upon acceptance of
this Award by the Grantee, the shares of Stock underlying this Award shall be issued and delivered to, or otherwise registered in book entry in the name of, the Grantee, and the Grantee’s name shall be entered as the stockholder of record on
the books of the Company. Thereupon, the Grantee shall have all the rights of a shareholder with respect to such shares of Stock, including voting and dividend rights, subject, however, to the restrictions and conditions specified in Paragraph 2
below. 
  
 2. Restrictions and Conditions. 
  
 (a) Any certificates evidencing the shares of Stock granted herein shall
bear an appropriate legend, as determined by the Administrator in its sole discretion, to the effect that such shares are Subject to restrictions as set forth herein and in the Plan. 
  
 (b) Shares of Restricted Stock granted herein may not be sold, assigned, transferred, pledged or otherwise encumbered or
disposed of by the Grantee prior to vesting. 
  
 (c) If the
Grantee’s employment with the Company and its Subsidiaries is voluntarily or involuntarily terminated for any reason prior to vesting of the Stock granted 







 herein, the Company shall have the right, at the discretion of the Administrator, to repurchase such shares from the
Grantee or the Grantee’s legal representative at their purchase price. The Company must exercise such right of repurchase or forfeiture by written notice to the Grantee or the Grantee’s legal representative not later than 60 days following
such termination of employment. 
  
 3. Investment
Representations. In connection with the purchase and sale of the shares of Restricted Stock contemplated herein, the Grantee hereby represents and warrants to the Company as follows: 
  
 (i) The Grantee is purchasing the Stock for tile Grantee’s own account for investment only, and not for
resale or with a view to the distribution thereof. 
  
 (ii) The Grantee has had such an opportunity as lie or she has deemed adequate to obtain from tile Company such information as is necessary to permit him or her to evaluate the merits and risks of the Grantee’s investment in the
Company and has consulted with the Grantee’s own advisers with respect to the Grantee’s investment in the Company. 
  
 (iii) The Grantee has sufficient experience in business, financial and investment matters to be able to evaluate the risks involved in the
purchase of the Stock and to make an informed investment decision with respect to such purchase. 
  
 (iv) The Grantee can afford a complete loss of the value of the Stock and is able to bear the economic risk of holding such Stock for an
indefinite period. 
  
 (v) The Grantee
understands that the Stock is not registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”) (it being understood that the Stock is being issued and sold in reliance oil the exemption provided in Rule 701 of the Act) or any
applicable state securities or “blue sky” laws and may not be sold or otherwise transferred or disposed of in the absence of an effective registration statement under the Act and under any applicable state securities or “blue
sky” laws (or exemptions from the registration requirements thereof). The Grantee further acknowledges that certificates representing tile Stock will bear restrictive legends reflecting the foregoing. 
  
 4. Vesting of Restricted Stock. The restrictions and conditions in
Paragraph 2 of this Agreement shall lapse on the Vesting Date or Dates specified in the following schedule. If a series of Vesting Dates is specified, then the restrictions and conditions in Paragraph 2 shall lapse only with respect to the number of
shares of Stock specified as vested on such date. 
  

					
	 Vesting Date

	  	Percentage of Shares
Becoming Vested

	 	Cumulative Percentage
Vested


	 August 1, 2006
	  	66.6%	 	66.6%
	 July 7, 2007
	  	33.4%	 	100%








 Subsequent to such Vesting Date or Dates, the shares of Stock on which all restrictions and conditions
have lapsed shall no longer be deemed Restricted Stock. The Administrator may at any time accelerate the vesting schedule specified in this Paragraph 4, provided, however, that the restrictions and conditions in Paragraph 2 shall automatically lapse
upon (i) the termination of the Grantee’s employment with the Company due to the Grantee’s death or Disability (as such term is defined in the Employment Agreement, dated June 4, 2004, between the Company and the Grantee, as such agreement
may be amended from time to time (the “Employment Agreement”); (ii) the termination of the Grantee’s employment by the Company without Cause (as such term is defined in the Employment Agreement); (iii) the termination of the
Grantee’s employment with the Company by the Grantee for Good Reason (as such term is defined in the Employment Agreement); and (iv) a Change in Control (as such term is defined in the Employment Agreement). In the event of the Grantee’s
termination of employment with the Company (i) by the Grantee without Good Reason or (ii) by the Company for Cause, the Restricted Stock shall no longer vest and shall be forfeited. 
  
 5. Dividends. Dividends on the Stock shall be paid currently to the Grantee. 
  
 6. Incorporation of Plan. Notwithstanding anything herein to the
contrary, this Agreement shall be subject to and governed by all the terms and conditions of the Plan, including the powers of the Administrator set forth in Section 2(b) of the Plan. Capitalized terms in this Agreement shall have the meaning
specified in the Plan, unless a different meaning is specified herein. 
  
 7. Transferability. This Agreement is personal to the Grantee, is non-assignable and is not transferable in any manner, by operation of law or otherwise, other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution. None of the shares
of Stock now owned or hereafter acquired shall be sold, assigned, transferred, pledged, hypothecated, given away or in any other manner disposed of or encumbered, whether voluntarily or by operation of law, unless such transfer is in compliance with
all applicable securities laws (including, without limitation, the Act), and such disposition is in accordance with the terms, conditions and limitations of the Company’s Amended and Restated Charter and such disposition does not cause the
Company to become subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. In connection with any transfer of Stock, the Company may require the transferor to provide at the Grantee’s own expense an opinion of
counsel to the transferor, satisfactory to the Company, that such transfer is in compliance with all foreign, federal and state securities laws (including, without limitation, the Act). Any attempted disposition of Stock not in accordance with the
terms and conditions of this Section 7 shall he null and void, and the Company shall not reflect on its records any change in record ownership of any shares of Stock as a result of any such disposition, shall otherwise refuse to recognize any such
disposition and shall not in any way give effect to any such disposition of any shares of Stock. Certain but not all restrictions on transfer shall terminate upon the closing of the Company’s Initial Public Offering. 
  
 8. Tax Withholding. The Grantee shall, not later than the date as of
which the receipt of this Award becomes a taxable event for Federal income tax purposes, pay to the Company or make arrangements satisfactory to the Administrator for payment of any Federal, state, and local taxes required by law to be withheld on
account of such taxable event. The Grantee may elect to have the required minimum tax withholding obligation satisfied, in whole 







 or in part, by (i) authorizing the Company to withhold from shares of Stock to be issued, or (ii) transferring to the
Company, a number of shares of Stock with an aggregate Fair Market Value that would satisfy the withholding amount due. 
  
 9. Miscellaneous. 
  
 (a) Notice hereunder shall be given to the Company at its principal place of business, and shall be given to the Grantee at the address set forth below,
or in either case at such other address as one party may subsequently furnish to the other party in writing. 
  
 (b) This Agreement does not confer upon the Grantee any rights with respect to continuation of employment by the Company or any Subsidiary. 
  
 (c) The Grantee and any transferee agree, if requested by the Company and any
underwriter engaged by the Company, not to sell or otherwise transfer or dispose of any securities of the Company (including, without limitation pursuant to Rule 144 under the Act (or any successor or similar exemptive rule hereafter in effect))
held by them for such period following the effective date of any registration statement of the Company filed under the Act as the Company or such underwriter shall specify reasonably and in good faith, which period shall not exceed, in the case of
the June 2004 Offering, the time period specified in the offering memorandum relating to the June 2004 Offering or 180 days in the case of the Company’s Initial Public Offering. 
  

			
	By:	 	 /s/ William W. McCarten


	Name:	 	William McCarten
	Title:	 	Chief Executive Officer


  
 The foregoing Agreement is
hereby accepted and the terms and conditions thereof hereby agreed to by the undersigned. 
  

					
	Dated: March 18, 2005	 	 	 	 /s/ John Williams


	 	 	 	 	Grantee’s Signature
			
	 	 	 	 	 Grantee’s name and address:
  
 John Williams
 7013 Heather Hill Road
 Bethesda, Maryland 20817