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Exhibit
10.9


Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc.




2005 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Offering




Adopted by the Board of Directors                     , 2005




     In this document, capitalized terms not otherwise defined shall have the same definitions of
such terms as in the Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2005 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.



1. Grant; Offering Date.




     (a) The Board hereby authorizes a series of Offerings pursuant to the terms of this Offering
document.



     (b) The Initial Offering shall begin on [                    ], 2006 and shall end on [                    ], 2008,
unless terminated earlier as provided below. Thereafter, an Offering shall begin on the day after
the last Purchase Date of the immediately preceding Offering. The first day of an Offering is that
Offering’s “Offering Date.” Each Offering shall be twenty-four (24) months in duration, with four
(4) Purchase Periods each of which shall be six (6) months in length. Except as provided below, a
“Purchase Date” is the last day of a Purchase Period or of an Offering, as the case may be. The
Initial Offering shall consist of four (4) Purchase Periods, with the first Purchase Period ending
on [                    ], 2006, the second Purchase Period ending on [                    ], the third Purchase Period
ending on [                    ], and the fourth Purchase Period ending on [                    ], 2008.



     (c) Notwithstanding the foregoing: (i) if any Offering Date falls on a day that is not a
Trading Day, then such Offering Date shall instead fall on the next subsequent Trading Day, and
(ii) if any Purchase Date falls on a day that is not a Trading Day, then such Purchase Date shall
instead fall on the immediately preceding Trading Day.



     (d) Prior to the commencement of any Offering, the Board may change any or all terms of such
Offering and any subsequent Offerings. The granting of Purchase Rights pursuant to each Offering
hereunder shall occur on each respective Offering Date unless prior to such date (i) the Board
determines that such Offering shall not occur, or (ii) no shares of Common Stock remain available
for issuance under the Plan in connection with the Offering.



     (e) If the Company’s accountants advise the Company that the accounting treatment of purchases
under the Plan has changed in a manner that the Company determines is detrimental to its best
interests, then each Offering hereunder that is then ongoing shall terminate as of the next
Purchase Date (after the purchase of stock on such Purchase Date) under such Offering.



     (f) Notwithstanding anything in this Section 1 to the contrary, if on the first day of a new
Purchase Period during the Offering the Fair Market Value of a share of Common Stock is less than
it was on the Offering Date for that Offering, then that Offering shall immediately terminate and
that day shall become the Offering Date of a new Offering. Eligible Employees in



 









 





the terminated Offering shall automatically be enrolled in the new Offering that starts on
such day.




2. Eligible Employees.




     (a) Each Employee of the Company or of a Subsidiary incorporated in the United States on the
Offering Date of an Offering hereunder who has been an Employee of the Company or a Subsidiary for
a continuous period ending on the applicable Offering Date of at least ninety (90) days (an
“Eligible Employee”), shall be granted a Purchase Right on the Offering Date of such Offering.



     (b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the following Employees shall not be Eligible
Employees or be granted Purchase Rights under an Offering:



          (i) part-time or seasonal Employees whose customary employment is less than twenty (20) hours
per week or less than five (5) months per calendar year;




          (ii) five percent (5%) stockholders (including ownership through unexercised and/or unvested
stock options) as described in Section 6(c) of the Plan; or




          (iii) Employees in jurisdictions outside of the United States if, as of the Offering Date of
the Offering, the grant of such Purchase Rights would not be in compliance with the applicable laws
of any jurisdiction in which the Employee resides or is employed.




     (c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, each person who first becomes an Eligible Employee during
an Offering shall receive, on the day after the first Purchase Date during that Offering, which
occurs after the date such person becomes an eligible employee, a Purchase Right under such
Offering, which Purchase Right shall thereafter be deemed to be a part of the Offering. Such
Purchase Right shall have the same characteristics as any Purchase Rights originally granted under
the Offering except that:



          (i) the date on which such Purchase Right is granted shall be the “Offering Date” of such
Purchase Right for all purposes except for the application of the provision of Section 1(f) above
(the application of which shall be determined only by using the Offering Date of the ongoing
Offering), including determination of the exercise price of such Purchase Right; and




          (ii) the Offering for such Purchase Right shall begin on its Offering Date and end coincident
with the end of the ongoing Offering.




3. Purchase Rights.




     (a) Subject to the limitations herein and the Plan, unless a lower percentage has been set by
the Board or a committee thereof prior to the commencement of the Offering, a Participant’s
Purchase Right shall permit the purchase of the number of shares of Common Stock purchasable with
up to twenty percent (20%) of such Participant’s Earnings paid during the period of such Offering
beginning immediately after such Participant first commences participation; provided, however, that
no Participant may have more than twenty percent (20%)



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of such Participant’s Earnings applied to purchase shares of Common Stock under all ongoing
Offerings under the Plan and all other plans of the Company and Related Corporations that are
intended to qualify as Employee Stock Purchase Plans.




     (b) For Offerings hereunder, “Earnings” means the base compensation paid to an Eligible
Employee, including all salary and wages (including amounts elected to be deferred by such Eligible
Employee, that would otherwise have been paid, under any cash or deferred arrangement or other
deferred compensation program established by the Company or a Related Corporation), but excluding
overtime pay, commissions, bonuses, and other remuneration paid directly to such Eligible Employee,
profit sharing, the cost of employee benefits paid for by the Company or a Related Corporation,
education or tuition reimbursements, imputed income arising under any Company or Related
Corporation group insurance or benefit program, traveling expenses, business and moving expense
reimbursements, income received in connection with stock options, contributions made by the Company
or a Related Corporation under any employee benefit plan, and similar items of compensation.



     (c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the maximum number of shares of Common Stock that a
Participant may purchase on any Purchase Date in an Offering shall be such number of shares as has
a Fair Market Value (determined as of the Offering Date for such Offering) equal to (x) $25,000
multiplied by the number of calendar years in which the Purchase Right under such Offering has been
outstanding at any time, minus (y) the Fair Market Value of any other shares of Common Stock
(determined as of the relevant Offering Date with respect to such shares) that, for purposes of the
limitation of Section 423(b)(8) of the Code, are attributed to any of such calendar years in which
the Purchase Right is outstanding. The amount in clause (y) of the previous sentence shall be
determined in accordance with regulations applicable under Section 423(b)(8) of the Code based on
(i) the number of shares previously purchased with respect to such calendar years pursuant to such
Offering or any other Offering under the Plan, or pursuant to any other Company or Related
Corporation plans intended to qualify as Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and (ii) the number of
shares subject to other Purchase Rights outstanding on the Offering Date for such Offering pursuant
to the Plan or any other such Company or Related Corporation Employee Stock Purchase Plan.



     (d) The maximum aggregate number of shares of Common Stock available to be purchased by all
Participants under an Offering shall be the number of shares of Common Stock remaining available
under the Plan on the Offering Date. If the aggregate purchase of shares of Common Stock upon
exercise of Purchase Rights granted under the Offering would exceed the maximum aggregate number of
shares available, the Board shall make a pro rata allocation of the shares available in a uniform
and equitable manner.



     (e) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the maximum number of shares of Common Stock that a
Participant may purchase on any Purchase Date during any Offering shall not exceed Ten Thousand
(10,000) shares.



4. Purchase Price.




     The purchase price of shares of Common Stock under an Offering shall be the lesser of: (i)
eighty-five percent (85%) of the Fair Market Value of such shares of Common Stock on the



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applicable Offering Date, or (ii) eighty-five percent (85%) of the Fair Market Value of such
shares of Common Stock on the applicable Purchase Date, in each case rounded up to the nearest
whole cent per share.




5. Participation.




     (a) If an Eligible Employee intends to participate in an Offering, such Eligible Employee
shall elect his or her payroll deduction percentage on such enrollment form as the Company
provides. The completed enrollment form must be delivered to the Company prior to the Offering
Date of the applicable Offering, unless a later time for filing the enrollment form is set by the
Company for all Eligible Employees with respect to a given Offering. Payroll deduction percentages
must be expressed in whole percentages of Earnings, with a minimum percentage of one percent (1%)
and a maximum percentage of twenty percent (20%). Except as provided in paragraph (e) below with
respect to the Initial Offering, Contributions may be made only by way of payroll deductions.



     (b) A Participant may increase or decrease his or her participation level during a Purchase
Period. A Participant may increase or decrease (including a decrease to zero percent (0%)) his or
her participation level only once during a Purchase Period. Any such increase or decrease in
participation level shall be made by delivering a notice to the Company or a designated Subsidiary
in such form as the Company provides prior to the ten (10) day period (or such shorter period of
time as determined by the Company and communicated to Participants) immediately preceding the next
Purchase Date of the Purchase Period for which it is to be effective.



     (c) A Participant may withdraw from an Offering and receive a refund of his or her
Contributions (reduced to the extent, if any, such Contributions have been used to acquire shares
of Common Stock for the Participant on any prior Purchase Date) without interest, at any time prior
to the end of the Offering, excluding only each ten (10) day period immediately preceding a
Purchase Date (or such shorter period of time determined by the Company and communicated to
Participants), by delivering a withdrawal notice to the Company or a designated Subsidiary in such
form as the Company provides. A Participant who has withdrawn from an Offering shall not again
participate in such Offering, but may participate in subsequent Offerings under the Plan in
accordance with the terms of the Plan and the terms of such subsequent Offerings.



     (d) Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Offering document or of the
Plan to the contrary, neither the enrollment of any Eligible Employee in the Plan nor any forms
relating to participation in the Plan shall be given effect until such time as a registration
statement covering the registration of the shares under the Plan that are subject to the Offering
has been filed by the Company and has become effective.



     (e) Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Offering document or of the
Plan to the contrary, with respect to the Initial Offering only, each Eligible Employee who is
employed on the Initial Offering Date automatically shall be enrolled in the Initial Offering, with
a Purchase Right to purchase up to the number of shares of Common Stock that are purchasable with
20% of the Eligible Employee’s Earnings, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3(c)-(f)
above. Each Eligible Employee shall be provided a certain period of



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time, as determined by the Company in its sole discretion, within which to elect to authorize
payroll deductions for the purchase of shares during the Initial Offering (which may be for a
percentage that is less than or equal to 20% of the Eligible Employee’s Earnings). If an Eligible
Employee elects not to authorize payroll deductions, then the Eligible Employee shall not purchase
any shares of Common Stock during the Initial Offering. After the end of the Initial Offering, in
order to participate in any subsequent Offerings, an Eligible Employee must enroll and authorize
payroll deductions prior to the commencement of the Offering, in accordance with paragraph (a)
above; provided, however, that once an Eligible Employee enrolls in an Offering and authorizes
payroll deductions (including in connection with the Initial Offering), the Eligible Employee
automatically shall be enrolled for all subsequent Offerings until he or she elects to withdraw
from an Offering pursuant to paragraph (c) above or terminates his or her participation in the
Plan.




6. Purchases.




     Subject to the limitations contained herein, on each Purchase Date, each Participant’s
Contributions (without any increase for interest) shall be applied to the purchase of whole shares,
up to the maximum number of shares permitted under the Plan and the Offering.



7. Notices and Agreements.




     Any notices or agreements provided for in an Offering or the Plan shall be given in writing,
in a form provided by the Company, and unless specifically provided for in the Plan or this
Offering, shall be deemed effectively given upon receipt or, in the case of notices and agreements
delivered by the Company, five (5) days after deposit in the United States mail, postage prepaid.



8. Exercise Contingent on Stockholder Approval.




     (a) The Purchase Rights granted under an Offering are subject to the approval of the Plan by
the stockholders of the Company as required for the Plan to obtain treatment as an Employee Stock
Purchase Plan.



9. Offering Subject to Plan.




     Each Offering is subject to all the provisions of the Plan, and the provisions of the Plan are
hereby made a part of the Offering. The Offering is further subject to all interpretations,
amendments, rules and regulations which may from time to time be promulgated and adopted pursuant
to the Plan. In the event of any conflict between the provisions of an Offering and those of the
Plan (including interpretations, amendments, rules and regulations which may from time to time be
promulgated and adopted pursuant to the Plan), the provisions of the Plan shall control.




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