EX-10.16




 Exhibit 10.16 

FORTY SEVEN, INC. 

EXECUTIVE SEVERANCE AND CHANGE IN CONTROL
PLAN 
 ADOPTED: APRIL 12, 2018 

 

			
	 Executive Group
	  	 Executive Severance Benefits in connection with a Separation
from Service Following a Change in Control

	CEO	  	 •  18 months base salary + target bonus

•  18 months benefits continuation

•  Double Trigger full vesting acceleration

•  Modified economic cutback

		
	C-Suite	  	 •  12 months base salary + target bonus

•  12 months benefits continuation

•  Double Trigger full vesting acceleration

•  Modified economic cutback

		
	SVPs/VPs	  	 •  9 months base salary + target bonus

•  9 months benefits continuation

•  Double Trigger Full Vesting Acceleration

•  Modified economic cutback


  

			
	 Executive Group
	  	 Executive Severance Benefits in connection with a Separation
from Service Absent a Change in Control

	CEO	  	 •  12 months base salary

•  12 months benefits continuation

		
	C-Suite	  	 •  9 months base salary

•  9 months benefits continuation

		
	SVPs/VPs	  	 •  6 months base salary

•  6 months benefits continuation


 Definitions 

“Board” shall mean the board of directors of the Company. 

“Cause” shall mean your termination for any one or more of the following reasons: 

 

	 	•	 	your conviction of, or plea of guilty or no contest to, any crime involving fraud, dishonesty or moral turpitude; 










	 	•	 	your attempted commission of or participation in a fraud or act of dishonesty against the Company that results in (or might have reasonably resulted in) material economic harm to the Company; 


 

	 	•	 	your material breach of any material provisions of any confidentiality, proprietary information, invention assignment and similar agreement with the Company or this Agreement, which you have failed to cure 30 days after
written notice of such breach from the Board; or 

  

	 	•	 	your repeated conduct that constitutes willful and gross insubordination or habitual non-performance of your duties and that results in (or might have reasonably resulted in)
material economic harm to the Company, which you have failed to cure 30 days after written notice of such conduct from the Board. 


“Change of Control” shall mean (a) a consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other corporation or other entity or
person, or any corporate reorganization in which the stockholders of the Company immediately prior to such consolidation, merger or reorganization, own less than 50% of the voting power of the surviving entity immediately after such consolidation,
merger or reorganization, or (b) a sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company. A Change of Control shall not include any transaction or series of transactions principally for bona fide equity financing
purposes in which cash is received by the Company or indebtedness of the Company is cancelled or converted or a combination thereof. 

“Company” shall mean Forty Seven, Inc., or any acquirer or successor in interest thereof. 

“Double Trigger” shall be achieved if your employment is terminated by the Company without Cause or by you for Good Reason at any time
during the period commencing 3 months before the effective date of a Change of Control (as defined below) and ending 12 months following the Change of Control. 

“Equity Awards” shall mean any equity awards, including but not limited to options, restricted stock and restricted stock units. 

“Full Vesting Acceleration” shall mean the vesting of the Shares subject to any Equity Awards held by you on the date of your
termination shall be accelerated such that 100% of the then unvested Equity Awards shall vest and become exercisable effective as of your termination date. 

“Good Reason” shall mean if one of the following events occurs without your written consent: (i) a material reduction in your salary
then in effect, except to the extent the salaries of all other executive officers of the Company are accordingly reduced; (ii) you are required by the Company to relocate your primary work location more than 50 miles outside of Palo Alto, CA; (iii)
a material reduction in your duties, authority or responsibilities, but excluding any change in title that does not represent a material reduction in your duties, authority or responsibilities; or (iv) the failure of the Company to obtain the
assumption of this Agreement by a successor, which would constitute a material breach of this Agreement. 
 For purposes of clause (iii) above, for all
other executive officers, if the Company is operated as a separate subsidiary or business unit following a Change of Control, such executive officers will not be deemed to have suffered a material reduction in duties, authority or responsibilities
if such duties, authority or responsibilities with respect to such subsidiary or separate business unit are not materially changed following such Change of Control. In order to effect a Resignation for Good Reason, you must notify the Board within
30 days after the first occurrence of the event described above, the Company must fail to cure such event within 30 days after receiving written notice, and your resignation date must be no later than 60 days after the expiration of the
Company’s cure period. 
 “Separation from Service” shall mean any termination of employment is terminated by the Company
without Cause or resignation for Good Reason, whether or not a Change of Control has occurred, and such termination constitutes a “separation from service” (as defined under Treasury Regulation
Section 1.409A-1(h)). 
 “Severance Benefits” shall mean the acceleration of vesting,
continuation of benefits and base salary payments described above and below. 








 General 
 You
understand and agree that, in the event of termination of your employment with the Company, you shall not be entitled to any other severance pay, severance benefits, accelerated vesting or any other compensation or benefits other than as set forth
herein, or as required by applicable law. 
 You understand and agree that this Plan supersedes any and all other arrangements currently described in any
Offer Letter or other employment agreement with the Company. 
 As a condition of your receipt of any Severance Benefits or Vesting Acceleration as set
forth in this Agreement, you will be required to execute and allow to become effective a general release of claims in favor of the Company, with such changes as may be required due to intervening changes in applicable law (a “General
Release”) within 60 days following your employment termination. Unless the Release is timely signed by you, is delivered to the Company, and becomes effective within the required period (the date on which the Release becomes effective, the
“Release Date”), you will not be entitled to any Severance Benefits pursuant to this Agreement, and any Vesting Acceleration as provided in this Agreement shall not apply and each Equity Awards may be exercised following the date of
your termination only to the extent provided under its original terms. 
 The Salary Continuation will be paid in equal installments on the Company’s
regular payroll schedule and will be subject to applicable tax withholdings over the 6-month period (or 9-month period in the case of the CEO) outlined above following
the date of your Separation from Service; provided, however, that no payments will be made prior to the first payroll date following the effective date of the General Release (the “Initial Payment Date”). On the Initial Payment
Date, the Company will pay you in a lump sum the Salary Continuation that you would have received on or prior to such date under the original schedule but for the delay while waiting for Initial Payment Date in compliance with Section 409A and
the effectiveness of the General Release, with the balance of the Salary Continuation being paid as originally scheduled. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may pay the Salary Continuation in the form of a lump sum, which amount will be paid
on the Initial Payment Date, but such lump sum payment shall be made only if the Company, in consultation with its advisors, determines that such payment will not result in adverse taxation under Section 409A (as defined below). The Pro Rata
Bonus will be paid to you in a lump sum on the date on which the Salary Continuation commences. 
 Section 409A 

Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in this Agreement, if you are deemed by the Company at the time of your Separation from Service to be a
“specified employee” for purposes of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations and guidance promulgated thereunder (“Section 409A”) then to the extent
delayed commencement of any portion of the severance benefits to which you are entitled under this Agreement is required in order to avoid adverse taxation under Section 409A, such portion of your benefits shall not be provided to you prior to
the earlier of (i) the expiration of the six-month period 








 
measured from the date of your Separation from Service with the Company or (ii) the date of your death. Upon the first business day after such earlier date, all payments deferred pursuant to
this paragraph shall be paid in a lump sum to you, and any remaining payments due under this Agreement shall be paid as otherwise provided herein. For purposes Section 409A (including, without limitation, for purposes of Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-2(b)(2)(iii)), your right to receive installment payments under this Agreement shall be treated as a right to receive a series of separate payments and, accordingly, each installment payment
hereunder shall at all times be considered a separate and distinct payment. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, with respect to payments to be made upon execution of an effective release, if the release revocation period spans two
calendar years, payments will be made in the second of the two calendar years to the extent necessary to avoid adverse taxation under Section 409A. 

Section 280G 
 Notwithstanding anything in the
foregoing to the contrary, if any of the payments to you (prior to any reduction described in this paragraph) provided for in this Agreement, together with any other payments which you have the right to receive from the Company, any acquiror, their
affiliates or otherwise (the “Payments”) would constitute a “parachute payment” (as defined in Section 280G(b)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”)) and if the Safe Harbor
Amount, as defined below, is greater than the Taxed Amount, as defined below, then the total amount of such Payments shall be reduced to the Safe Harbor Amount. The “Safe Harbor Amount” is the largest portion of the Payments that
would result in no portion of the Payments being subject to the excise tax set forth at Section 4999 of the Code (“Excise Tax”). The “Taxed Amount” is the total amount of the Payments (prior to any reduction as
described in this paragraph) notwithstanding that all or some portion of the Payments may be subject to the Excise Tax. Solely for the purpose of comparing which of the Safe Harbor Amount and the Taxed Amount is greater, the determination of each
such amount, shall be made on an after-tax basis, taking into account all applicable federal, state and local employment taxes, income taxes, and the Excise Tax. If a reduction of the Payments to the Safe
Harbor Amount is necessary, then the reduction shall occur in the following order: reduction of cash payments; cancellation of accelerated vesting of stock awards; and reduction of employee benefits. In the event that acceleration of vesting of a
stock award is to be reduced, such acceleration of vesting shall be cancelled in the reverse order of the date of grant of your stock awards. The accounting firm engaged by the Company for general audit purposes as of the day prior to the effective
date of the Change of Control transaction shall perform the foregoing calculations. If the accounting firm so engaged by the Company is serving as accountant or auditor for the individual, entity or group effecting the Change of Control, or the
Company otherwise determines such accounting firm should not be engaged for purposes of making the determinations required hereunder, the Company may appoint a nationally recognized accounting firm to make the determinations required hereunder. The
Company shall bear all expenses with respect to the determinations by such accounting firm required to be made hereunder. The accounting firm engaged to make the determinations hereunder shall provide its calculations, together with detailed
supporting documentation, to the Company and you within 15 calendar days after the date on which your right to a Payment is triggered (if requested at that time by the Company or you) or such other time as requested by the Company or you upon
written notice that a payment related to a Change of Control of the Company has been or is to be made.