exv4w29




Exhibit
4.29



	 	 	 	 	 
	

	 	Suite 4, 20 Clifford Street 

Mosman NSW 2088

Australia P.O. Box 947

Spit Junction NSW 2088
	 	Telephone 612 9902 6002

Facsimile: 612 9902 6006

info@simsmm.com

www.simsmm.com





October 20, 2009




Mr. Daniel W. Dienst

Group Chief Executive Officer

Sims Metal Management Limited

110 Fifth Avenue, Suite 700

New York New York 10011



Dear Dan



I am pleased to confirm the following in respect of your remuneration:





	 	1.	 	This letter is to be read in conjunction with your employment agreement with Metal
Management Inc dated July 26, 2007 (the Employment Agreement), as modified and amended by
the letter from Sims Metal Management Limited (formerly Sims Group Limited) (SimsMM) dated
September 24, 2007, and the Code Section 409A Amendment dated on or around December 19,
2008.
	 
	 	2.	 	Your base compensation (Base) will increase to USD 1,250,000 to be effective from
January 1, 2009 when you assumed full global responsibility for SimsMM (with a catch-up
payment to be made in the next payroll run); for 2010 Fiscal Year remuneration, your STI
will increase to a target of 130% of Base with a threshold of 65% and a maximum of 260%;
your LTI will increase to 300% of Base and be allocated as to 100% in Options and 200% in
Performance Rights (with re-testing). The applicable SimsMM STI and LTI Plans are those
approved by the Remuneration Committee from time to time for Company senior executives.
	 
	 	3.	 	Your new remuneration package provides the basis for calculating other benefits (if
any) under your Employment Agreement including termination benefits.
	 
	 	4.	 	The next review of your total compensation package and its elements will occur so as
to commence and be effective from July 1, 2010. Although we have only recently established
a new peer group of companies for the purpose of benching the CEO’s remuneration, the
Remuneration Committee will subject that peer group and the resultant benchmarking to a
review to ensure that the membership of the peer group is still appropriate. That review
would commence no later than beginning of the fourth quarter of the 2010 fiscal year.
	 
	 	 	 	Please note that any review of your remuneration must comply with the then applicable
Australian and US laws, relevant listing rules and guidelines and shall
take account of ‘best practices’ as advised to us by our retained remuneration consultants.




 









 






	 	5.	 	Your Employment Agreement expires in March 2012. Subject to your continued employment
we will commence discussion with you of a new contract before the expiry of the existing
one in order for the term of the contract to be consistent with the Sims MM fiscal
periods, that is, to aim to be in effect from no later than the beginning of fiscal 2012.
We would thus envisage commencing discussions with you no later than the beginning of the
second quarter of fiscal 2011.
	 
	 	6.	 	Except as may be modified by this letter and the September 24, 2007 letter and the
Code Section 409A Amendment dated on or around December 19, 2008, all the terms of your
Employment Agreement remain unamended. You and SimsMM will bear your and its own costs in
this matter.




Dan, the Board and I look forward to working with you and supporting you to continue to develop the
world’s safest, largest and most successful recycling company for the benefit of all stakeholders.




Kind regards









Paul Varello

Chairman

Sims Metal Management Limited