1999 Employee Stock Purchase Plan



 Exhibit 10.5 
 SVB FINANCIAL GROUP 
 1999 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE
PLAN 
 (AS AMENDED BY THE COMPENSATION COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF 
 DIRECTORS, EFFECTIVE AS OF JANUARY 1, 2010) 
  

	 	1.	PURPOSE. 

 (a) The purpose of
this 1999 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “Plan”) is to provide a means by which employees of SVB Financial Group (formerly Silicon Valley Bancshares), a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and its Affiliates, as defined in
subparagraph 1(b), which are designated as provided in subparagraph 2(b), may be given an opportunity to purchase stock of the Company. This 1999 Employee Stock Purchase Plan is intended to replace the Silicon Valley Bancshares 1988 Employee Stock
Purchase Plan. 
 (b) The word “Affiliate” as used in the Plan means any parent corporation or subsidiary corporation
of the Company, as those terms are defined in Sections 424(e) and (f), respectively, of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). 
 (c) The Company, by means of the Plan, seeks to retain the services of its employees, to secure and retain the services of new employees, and to provide incentives for such persons to exert maximum
efforts for the success of the Company. 
 (d) The Company intends that the rights to purchase stock of the Company granted
under the Plan be considered options issued under an “employee stock purchase plan” as that term is defined in Section 423(b) of the Code. 
  

	 	2.	ADMINISTRATION. 

 (a) The Plan
shall be administered by the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Company unless and until the Board delegates administration to a Committee, as provided in subparagraph 2(c). Whether or not the Board has delegated administration, the
Board shall have the final power to determine all questions of policy and expediency that may arise in the administration of the Plan. 
 (b) The Board shall have the power, subject to, and within the limitations of, the express provisions of the Plan: 
 (i) To determine when and how rights to purchase stock of the Company shall be granted and the provisions of each offering of such rights (which need not be identical). 
 (ii) To designate from time to time which Affiliates of the Company shall be eligible to participate in the Plan and any particular
Offering. 







 (iii) To construe and interpret the Plan and rights granted under it, and to establish,
amend and revoke rules and regulations for its administration. The Board, in the exercise of this power, may correct any defect, omission or inconsistency in the Plan, in a manner and to the extent it shall deem necessary or expedient to make the
Plan fully effective. 
 (iv) To amend the Plan as provided in paragraph 13. 
 (v) Generally, to exercise such powers and to perform such acts as the Board deems necessary or expedient to promote the best interests of
the Company and its Affiliates and to carry out the intent that the Plan be treated as an “employee stock purchase plan” within the meaning of Section 423 of the Code. 
 (c) The Board may delegate administration of the Plan to a Committee composed of one (1) or more members of the Board (the
“Committee”). If administration is delegated to a Committee, the Committee shall have, in connection with the administration of the Plan, the powers theretofore possessed by the Board, subject, however, to such resolutions, not
inconsistent with the provisions of the Plan, as may be adopted from time to time by the Board. The Board may abolish the Committee at any time and revest in the Board the administration of the Plan. 
 (d) Any interpretation of the Plan by the Board of any decision made by it under the Plan shall be final and binding on all persons.

  

	 	3.	SHARES SUBJECT TO THE PLAN. 

 (a)
Subject to the provisions of paragraph 12 relating to adjustments upon changes in stock, the stock that may be sold pursuant to rights granted under the Plan shall not exceed in the aggregate two million (2,000,000) shares of the Company’s
common stock (the “Common Stock”). If any right granted under the Plan shall for any reason terminate without having been exercised, the Common Stock not purchased under such right shall again become available for the Plan. 
 (b) The Common Stock subject to the Plan may be unissued shares or reacquired shares, bought on the market or otherwise. 
  

	 	4.	GRANT OF RIGHTS; OFFERING. 

 (a)
The Board or the Committee may from time to time grant or provide for the grant of rights to purchase Common Stock of the Company under the Plan to eligible employees (an “Offering”) on a date or dates (the “Offering Date(s)”)
selected by the Board or the Committee. Each Offering shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as the Board or the Committee shall deem appropriate, which shall comply with the requirements of Section 423(b)(5) of the
Code that all employees granted rights to purchase stock pursuant to the Offering shall have the same rights and privileges. The terms and conditions of an Offering shall be incorporated by reference into the Plan and treated as part of the Plan.
The provisions of separate Offerings need not be identical, but each Offering shall include (through incorporation

  

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of the provisions of this Plan by reference in the document comprising the Offering or otherwise) the period during which the Offering shall be effective, which period shall not exceed
twenty-seven (27) months beginning with the Offering Date, and the substance of the provisions contained in paragraphs 5 through 8, inclusive. 
 (b) If an employee has more than one (1) right outstanding under the Plan, unless he or she otherwise indicates in agreements or notices delivered hereunder, a right with a lower exercise price (or
an earlier-granted right if two (2) rights have identical exercise prices), will be exercised to the fullest possible extent before a right with a higher exercise price (or a later-granted right if two (2) rights have identical exercise
prices) will be exercised. 
  

	 	5.	ELIGIBILITY. 

 (a) Rights may be
granted only to employees of the Company or, as the Board or the Committee may designate as provided in subparagraph 2(b), to employees of any Affiliate of the Company. Except as provided in subparagraph 5(b), an employee of the Company or any
Affiliate shall not be eligible to be granted rights under the Plan unless, on the Offering Date, such employee has been in the employ of the Company or any Affiliate for such continuous period preceding such grant as the Board or the Committee may
require, but in no event shall the required period of continuous employment be greater than two (2) years. In addition, unless otherwise determined by the Board or the Committee and set forth in the terms of the applicable Offering, no employee
of the Company or any Affiliate shall be eligible to be granted rights under the Plan unless, on the Offering Date, such employee’s customary employment with the Company or such Affiliate is for at least twenty (20) hours per week and at
least five (5) months per calendar year. 
 (b) The Board or the Committee may provide that each person who, during the
course of an Offering, first becomes an eligible employee of the Company or designated Affiliate will, on a date or dates specified in the Offering which coincides with the day on which such person becomes an eligible employee or occurs thereafter,
receive a right under that Offering, which right shall thereafter be deemed to be a part of that Offering. Such right shall have the same characteristics as any rights originally granted under that Offering, as described herein, except that:

 (i) the date on which such right is granted shall be the “Offering Date” of such right for all purposes, including
determination of the exercise price of such right; 
 (ii) the period of the Offering with respect to such right shall begin on
its Offering Date and end coincident with the end of such Offering; and 
 (iii) the Board or the Committee may provide that if
such person first becomes an eligible employee within a specified period of time before the end of the Offering, he or she will not receive any right under that Offering. 
 (c) No employee shall be eligible for the grant of any rights under the Plan if, immediately after any such rights are granted, such employee owns stock possessing five percent

  

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(5%) or more of the total combined voting power or value of all classes of stock of the Company or of any Affiliate. For purposes of this subparagraph 5(c), the rules of Section 424(d) of
the Code shall apply in determining the stock ownership of any employee, and stock which such employee may purchase under all outstanding rights and options shall be treated as stock owned by such employee. 
 (d) An eligible employee may be granted rights under the Plan only if such rights, together with any other rights granted under
“employee stock purchase plans” of the Company and any Affiliates, as specified by Section 423(b)(8) of the Code, do not permit such employee’s rights to purchase stock of the Company or any Affiliate to accrue at a rate which
exceeds twenty five thousand dollars ($25,000) of fair market value of such stock (determined at the time such rights are granted) for each calendar year in which such rights are outstanding at any time. 
 (e) Officers of the Company and any designated Affiliate shall be eligible to participate in Offerings under the Plan; provided, however,
that the Board or the Committee may provide in an Offering that highly compensated employees within the meaning of Section 414(q) of the Code shall not be eligible to participate. In this respect, the Board or the Committee may exclude highly
compensated employees with compensation above a certain level or who are officers or subject to the disclosure requirements of Section 16(a) of the Securities Act of 1934, as amended, provided the exclusion is applied with respect to each
particular Offering in an identical manner to all highly compensated employees the Company and every Affiliate whose employees are participating in that Offering. 
  

	 	6.	RIGHTS; PURCHASE PRICE. 

 (a) On
each Offering Date, each eligible employee, pursuant to an Offering made under the Plan, shall be granted the right to purchase up to the number of shares of Common Stock of the Company purchasable with a percentage designated by the Board or the
Committee not exceeding fifteen percent (15%) of such employee’s Earnings (as defined in subparagraph 7(a)) during the period which begins on the Offering Date (or such later date as the Board or the Committee determines for a particular
Offering) and ends on the date stated in the Offering, which date shall be no later than the end of the Offering. The Board or the Committee shall establish one (1) or more dates during an Offering (the “Purchase Date(s)”) on which
rights granted under the Plan shall be exercised and purchases of Common Stock carried out in accordance with such Offering. 
 (b) In connection with each Offering made under the Plan, the Board or the Committee may specify a maximum number of shares that may be purchased by any employee as well as a maximum aggregate number of shares that may be purchased by all
eligible employees pursuant to such Offering. Unless the Board or the Committee provide otherwise prior to the commencement of an Offering, no employee will be permitted to purchase more than 3,000 shares of Common Stock during an Offering. In
addition, in connection with each Offering that contains more than one (1) Purchase Date, the Board or the Committee may specify a maximum aggregate number of shares which may be purchased by all eligible employees on any given Purchase Date
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rights granted under the Offering would exceed any such maximum aggregate number, the Board or the Committee shall make a pro rata allocation of the shares available in as nearly a uniform manner
as shall be practicable and as it shall deem to be equitable. 
 (c) The purchase price of stock acquired pursuant to rights
granted under the Plan shall be not less than the lesser of: 
 (i) an amount equal to eighty-five percent (85%) of the
fair market value of the stock on the Offering Date; or 
 (ii) an amount equal to eighty-five percent (85%) of the fair
market value of the stock on the Purchase Date. 
  

	 	7.	PARTICIPATION; WITHDRAWAL; TERMINATION. 

 (a) An eligible employee may become a participant in the Plan pursuant to an Offering by delivering an enrollment agreement to the Company within the time specified in the Offering, in such form as the Company provides. Each such agreement
shall authorize payroll deductions of up to the maximum percentage specified by the Board or the Committee of such employee’s Earnings during the Offering. “Earnings” is defined as an employee’s regular salary or wages (including
amounts thereof elected to be deferred by the employee, that would otherwise have been paid, under any arrangement established by the Company that is intended to comply with Section 125, Section 401(k), Section 402(e)(3),
Section 402(h) or section 403(b) of the Code, and also including any deferrals under a non-qualified deferred compensation plan or arrangement established by the Company), and also, if determined by the Board or the Committee and set forth in
the terms of the Offering, may include any or all of the following: (i) overtime pay, (ii) commissions, (iii) bonuses, incentive pay, profit sharing and other remuneration paid directly to the employee, and/or (iv) other items of
remuneration not specifically excluded pursuant to the Plan. Earnings shall not include the cost of employee benefits paid for by the Company or an Affiliate, education or tuition reimbursements, imputed income arising under any group insurance or
benefit program, traveling expenses, business and moving expense reimbursements, income received in connection with stock options or other equity awards, contributions made by the Company or an Affiliate under any employee benefit plan, and similar
items of compensation, as determined by the Board or the Committee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board or Committee may modify the definition of “Earnings” with respect to one or more Offerings as the Board or Committee determines
appropriate. The payroll deductions made for each participant shall be credited to an account for such participant under the Plan and shall be deposited with the general funds of the Company. A participant may reduce (including to zero) or increase
such payroll deductions, and an eligible employee may begin such payroll deductions, after the beginning of any Offering only as provided for in the Offering. A participant may make additional payments into his or her account only if specifically
provided for in the Offering and only if the participant has not had the maximum amount withheld during the Offering. 
 (b) At
any time during an Offering, a participant may terminate his or her payroll deductions under the Plan and withdraw from the Offering by delivering to the Company

  

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a notice of withdrawal in such form as the Company provides. Such withdrawal may be elected at any time prior to the end of the Offering except as provided by the Board or the Committee in the
Offering. Upon such withdrawal from the Offering by a participant, the Company shall distribute to such participant all of his or her accumulated payroll deductions (reduced to the extent, if any, such deductions have been used to acquire stock for
the participant) under the Offering, without interest, and such participant’s interest in that Offering shall be automatically terminated. A participant’s withdrawal from an Offering will have no effect upon such participant’s
eligibility to participate in any other Offerings under the Plan but such participant will be required to deliver a new enrollment agreement in order to participate in subsequent Offerings under the Plan. 
 (c) Rights granted pursuant to any Offering under the Plan shall terminate immediately upon cessation of any participating employee’s
employment with the Company and any designated Affiliate, for any reason, and the Company shall distribute to such terminated employee all of his or her accumulated payroll deductions (reduced to the extent, if any, such deductions have been used to
acquire stock for the terminated employee), under the Offering, without interest. 
 (d) Rights granted under the Plan shall not
be transferable by a participant other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution, or by a beneficiary designation as provided in paragraph 14, and during a participant’s lifetime, shall be exercisable only by such participant.

  

	 	8.	EXERCISE. 

 (a) On each Purchase
Date specified therefor in the relevant Offering, each participant’s accumulated payroll deductions and other additional payments specifically provided for in the Offering (without any increase for interest) will be applied to the purchase of
whole shares of stock of the Company, up to the maximum number of shares permitted pursuant to the terms of the Plan and the applicable Offering, at the purchase price specified in the Offering. No fractional shares shall be issued upon the exercise
of rights granted under the Plan. The amount, if any, of accumulated payroll deductions remaining in each participant’s account after the purchase of shares which is less than the amount required to purchase one share of Common Stock on the
final Purchase Date of an Offering shall be held in each such participant’s account for the purchase of shares under the next Offering under the Plan, unless such participant withdraws from such next Offering, as provided in subparagraph 7(b),
or is no longer eligible to be granted rights under the Plan, as provided in paragraph 5, in which case such amount shall be distributed to the participant after such final Purchase Date, without interest. The amount, if any, of accumulated payroll
deductions remaining in any participant’s account after the purchase of shares which is equal to the amount required to purchase one or more whole shares of Common Stock on the final Purchase Date of an Offering shall be distributed in full to
the participant after such Purchase Date, without interest. 
 (b) No rights granted under the Plan may be exercised to any
extent unless the shares to be issued upon such exercise under the Plan (including rights granted thereunder) are covered by an effective registration statement pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended

  

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(the “Securities Act”) and the Plan is in material compliance with all applicable state, foreign and other securities and other laws applicable to the Plan. If on a Purchase Date in any
Offering hereunder the Plan is not so registered or in such compliance, no rights granted under the Plan or any Offering shall be exercised on such Purchase Date, and the Purchase Date shall be delayed until the Plan is subject to such an effective
registration statement and such compliance, except that the Purchase Date shall not be delayed more than twelve (12) months and the Purchase Date shall in no event be more than twenty-seven (27) months from the Offering Date. If on the
Purchase Date of any Offering hereunder, as delayed to the maximum extent permissible, the Plan is not registered and in such compliance, no rights granted under the Plan or any Offering shall be exercised and all payroll deductions accumulated
during the Offering (reduced to the extent, if any, such deductions have been used to acquire stock) shall be distributed to the participants, without interest. 
  

	 	9.	COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY. 

 (a)
During the terms of the rights granted under the Plan, the Company shall keep available at all times the number of shares of Common Stock required to satisfy such rights. 
 (b) The Company shall seek to obtain from each federal, state, foreign or other regulatory commission or agency having jurisdiction over the Plan such authority as may be required to issue and sell shares
of stock upon exercise of the rights granted under the Plan. If, after reasonable efforts, the Company is unable to obtain from any such regulatory commission or agency the authority which counsel for the Company deems necessary for the lawful
issuance and sale of stock under the Plan, the Company shall be relieved from any liability for failure to issue and sell stock upon exercise of such rights unless and until such authority is obtained. 
  

	 	10.	USE OF PROCEEDS FROM STOCK. 

 Proceeds from the
sale of stock pursuant to rights granted under the Plan shall constitute general funds of the Company. 
  

	 	11.	RIGHTS AS A STOCKHOLDER. 

 A participant shall
not be deemed to be the holder of, or to have any of the rights of a holder with respect to, any shares subject to rights granted under the Plan unless and until the participant’s shareholdings acquired upon exercise of rights under the Plan
are recorded in the books of the Company (or its transfer agent). 
  

	 	12.	ADJUSTMENTS UPON CHANGES IN STOCK. 

 (a) If any change is made in the stock subject to the Plan, or subject to any rights granted under the Plan (through merger, consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization, stock dividend, dividend in property other than cash, stock split,
liquidating dividend, combination of shares, exchange of shares, change in corporate structure or other transaction not involving the receipt of consideration by the Company), the Plan and outstanding rights will be appropriately adjusted in the
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the class(es) and number of shares and price per share of stock subject to outstanding rights. Such adjustments shall be made by the Board or the Committee, the determination of which shall be
final, binding and conclusive. (The conversion of any convertible securities of the Company shall not be treated as a “transaction not involving the receipt of consideration by the Company.”) 
 (b) In the event of: (1) a dissolution or liquidation of the Company; (2) a sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the
Company; (3) a merger or consolidation in which the Company is not the surviving corporation; (4) a reverse merger in which the Company is the surviving corporation but the shares of the Company’s Common Stock outstanding immediately
preceding the merger are converted by virtue of the merger into other property, whether in the form of securities, cash or otherwise; (5) the acquisition by any person, entity or group within the meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or any comparable successor provisions (excluding any employee benefit plan, or related trust, sponsored or maintained by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company) of the
beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act, or comparable successor rule) of securities of the Company representing at least fifty percent (50%) of the combined voting power entitled to vote in the
election of directors; or (6) the individuals who, as of the date of the adoption of this Plan, are members of the Board (the “Incumbent Board”; (if the election, or nomination for election by the Company’s stockholders, of a new
director was approved by a vote of at least fifty percent (50%) of the members of the Board then comprising the Incumbent Board, such new director shall upon his or her election be considered a member of the Incumbent Board) cease for any
reason to constitute at least fifty percent (50%) of the Board; then the Board in its sole discretion may take any action or arrange for the taking of any action among the following: (i) any surviving or acquiring corporation may assume
outstanding rights or substitute similar rights for those under the Plan, (ii) such rights may continue in full force and effect, or (iii) all participants’ accumulated payroll deductions may be used to purchase Common Stock
immediately prior to or within a reasonable period of time following the transaction described above and the participants’ rights under the ongoing Offering terminated. 
  

	 	13.	AMENDMENT OF THE PLAN OR OFFERINGS. 

 (a) The Board at any time, and from time to time, may amend the Plan or the terms of one or more Offerings. However, except as provided in paragraph 12 relating to adjustments upon changes in stock, no amendment shall be effective unless
approved by the stockholders of the Company within twelve (12) months before or after the adoption of the amendment, where the amendment will: 
 (i) Increase the number of shares reserved for rights under the Plan; 
 (ii)
Modify the provisions as to eligibility for participation in the Plan or an Offering (to the extent such modification requires stockholder approval in order for the Plan to obtain employee stock purchase plan treatment under Section 423 of the
Code or to comply with the requirements of Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act, or any comparable successor rule (“Rule 16b-3”); or 
  

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 (iii) Modify the Plan or an Offering in any other way if such modification requires
stockholder approval in order for the Plan to obtain employee stock purchase plan treatment under Section 423 of the Code or to comply with the requirements of Rule 16b-3. 
 It is expressly contemplated that the Board or the Committee may amend the Plan or an Offering in any respect the Board or the Committee deems necessary or advisable to provide eligible employees with the
maximum benefits provided or to be provided under the provisions of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder relating to employee stock purchase plans and/or to bring the Plan and/or rights granted under an Offering into compliance
therewith. 
 (b) The Board may, in its sole discretion, submit any amendment to the Plan or an Offering for stockholder
approval. 
 (c) Rights and obligations under any rights granted before amendment of the Plan or Offering shall not be impaired
by any amendment of the Plan, except with the consent of the person to whom such rights were granted, or except as necessary to comply with any laws or governmental regulations, or except as necessary to ensure that the Plan and/or rights granted
under an Offering comply with the requirements of Section 423 of the Code. 
  

	 	14.	DESIGNATION OF BENEFICIARY. 

 (a)
A participant may file a written designation of a beneficiary who is to receive any shares and cash, if applicable, from the participant’s account under the Plan in the event of such participant’s death subsequent to the end of an Offering
but prior to delivery to the participant of such shares and cash. In addition, a participant may file a written designation of a beneficiary who is to receive any cash from the participant’s account under the Plan in the event of such
participant’s death during an Offering. 
 (b) Such designation of beneficiary may be changed by the participant at any
time by written notice in the form prescribed by the Company. In the event of the death of a participant and in the absence of a beneficiary validly designated under the Plan who is living (or if an entity, is otherwise in existence) at the time of
such participant’s death, the Company shall deliver such shares and/or cash to the executor or administrator of the estate of the participant, or if no such executor or administrator has been appointed (to the knowledge of the Company), the
Company, in its sole discretion, may deliver such shares and/or cash to the spouse or to any one (1) or more dependents or relatives of the participant, or if no spouse, dependent or relative is known to the Company, then to such other person
as the Company may determine. 
  

	 	15.	TERMINATION OR SUSPENSION OF THE PLAN. 

 (a) The Board or the Committee in its discretion may suspend or terminate the Plan at any time. The Plan shall automatically terminate if all the shares subject to the Plan pursuant to subparagraph 3(a) are issued. No rights may be granted
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 (b) Rights and obligations under any rights granted while the Plan is in effect shall not be
impaired by suspension or termination of the Plan, except as expressly provided in the Plan or with the consent of the person to whom such rights were granted, or except as necessary to comply with any laws or governmental regulation, or except as
necessary to ensure that the Plan and/or rights granted under an Offering comply with the requirements of Section 423 of the Code. 
  

	 	16.	EFFECTIVE DATE OF PLAN. 

 The Plan shall become
effective on the same day on which the Company’s shareholders approve the Plan pursuant to vote of the shareholders held at the duly noticed Annual Shareholders Meeting in 1999. 
  

	 	17.	CHOICE OF LAW. 

 All questions concerning the
construction, validity and interpretation of this Plan shall be governed by the law of the State of California, without regard to such state’s conflict of laws rules. 
  


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