EX-10.22



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 2013 DEAN CASH AWARD AGREEMENT 

 


 This AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), effective as of the date indicated on
the Notice of Grant delivered herewith (the “Notice of Grant”), is made and entered into by and between Dean Foods Company, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and the individual named on the Notice of Grant
(“you”). 
 WITNESSETH: 
 WHEREAS, the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company has determined to grant awards of cash (“Dean Cash”), subject to the terms and conditions as set forth herein to
certain selected Employees of the Company and any business entity in which the Company possesses directly or indirectly fifty percent (50%) or more of the total combined voting power (a “Subsidiary”); and 

WHEREAS, during your employment, and based upon your position with the Company and/or its Subsidiaries, you have acquired and will
continue to acquire, by reason of your position, substantial knowledge of the operations and practices of the business of the Company; and 
 WHEREAS, the Company desires to assure that, to the extent and for the period of your service and for a reasonable period thereafter, it may maintain the confidentiality of its trade secrets and
proprietary information, and protect goodwill and other legitimate business interests, each of which could be compromised if any competitive business were to secure your services; and 

WHEREAS, the Committee has selected you to receive a Dean Cash Award described in this Agreement and in the Notice of Grant.

 NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, and as an
inducement to you to continue as an employee of the Company (or its Subsidiaries), you and the Company hereby agree as follows: 
 1. Grant of Award. The Company hereby grants to you and you hereby accept, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, the amount of Dean Cash shown on the Notice of Grant,
effective as of the date indicated on the Notice of Grant (the “Date of Grant”). You must accept this Dean Cash Award in the manner designated by the Company in the Notice of Grant (e.g. electronic acceptance) not later than 90 days
after the Date of Grant, or



 
electronic notification of such Grant, whichever occurs later, or this Award will be rendered void and without effect. Subject to the provisions of Sections 2(c), 2(d), 3(b) and 7 hereof, this
Dean Cash Award is irrevocable. 
 2. Vesting. 

(a) Regular Vesting. Except as otherwise provided in your Notice of Grant or this Section 2, your Dean Cash Award will vest
in full on the date set forth in your Notice of Grant. 
 (b) Accelerated Vesting. 

(1) Unless otherwise determined by the Committee, or except as provided in another written agreement between you and your Employer, if
your Service terminates by reason of Death, Disability or Retirement prior to the vesting date of your Dean Cash Award set forth in the Notice of Grant, you shall be entitled to receive a payment in respect of your unvested Dean Cash Award
determined in accordance with this Section 2(b)(1). Such payment shall be equal to the amount determined by multiplying the amount of the Dean Cash Award set forth in the Notice of Grant, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the
number of your full months of Service completed beginning on the date of grant through and including the date of your termination of employment, and the denominator of which is the total number of full months that had been scheduled to occur during
the vesting period without regard to this Section 2(b)(1); provided that, for purposes of this fraction, a partial month of Service consisting of 15 or more days of Service shall be treated as though a full month of Service. For purposes
of this Agreement, “Retirement” shall be defined as your retirement from employment or other service to the Company or any Subsidiary after you reach age sixty-five (65). “Disability” shall be defined as your
permanent and total disability (within the meaning of Section 22(e)(3) of the Code). 
 (2) In addition to the vesting
provisions contained in Sections 2(a) and 2(b)(1) above, your unvested Dean Cash Award will automatically and immediately vest in full upon a Change in Control.


 


  
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 (c) Forfeiture of Unvested Dean Cash Awards. Unless otherwise determined by the
Committee, or except as provided in an agreement between you and your Employer, if your Service terminates for any reason other than Death, Disability or Retirement during the Restriction Period, your unvested Dean Cash Award held will be forfeited
and canceled as of the date of such termination of Service. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2, your rights with respect to any unvested portion of your Dean Cash Award shall in all events be immediately forfeited and
canceled as of the date of your termination of Service for Cause as defined in Section 3(b) below. 
 (d)
Repayment. Participant agrees and acknow-ledges that this Award Agreement is subject to any policies that the Committee may adopt from time to time with respect to the repayment to the Company of any benefit received hereunder, including
“clawback” policies. 
 3. Value; Forfeiture. 

(a) Payment Upon Vesting. The Company will pay to you (or to your estate in the event of your Death) the cash amount set forth
on the Notice of Grant that vested on such vesting date as soon as administratively practicable after such vesting date but in no event later than the fifteenth day of the third calendar month beginning after the calendar year in which the Dean Cash
Award shall have become vested. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, any Dean Cash Awards subject to this grant or any similar grants outstanding on the date hereof that become vested on account of your Retirement shall be paid to you
as soon as administratively practicable (but in no event more than 60 days) following the date of your separation from service from the Company, except that, if you are a specified employee (within the meaning of Section 409A of the Code), such
payment shall be made on the day following the six month anniversary of your separation from service. 
 (b) Forfeiture of
Shares. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if you are discharged from the employment of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries for Cause (as defined below), your rights in your unvested Dean Cash Award will be
immediately forfeited and canceled as of such termination date. For purposes of this Agreement, “Cause” means your (i) willful failure to perform substantially your duties; (ii) willful or serious misconduct that has
caused, or could reasonably be expected to result in, material injury to the business or reputation of an Employer; (iii) conviction of, or entering a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to, a crime constituting a felony; (iv) breach
of any written covenant or agreement with an Employer, any material written policy of any Employer or any Employer’s code of conduct or code of ethics, or (v) failure to cooperate with an Employer in any internal investigation or
administrative, regulatory or judicial proceeding. In addition, your Service shall be deemed to



 
have terminated for Cause if, after your Service has terminated (for a reason other than Cause), facts and circumstances are discovered that would have justified a termination for Cause. Your
unvested Dean Cash Award will also be immediately forfeited and canceled in accordance with Section 7 upon your breach of the provisions set forth in Section 7. 
 (c) Compliance With Law. The granting of this Dean Cash Award shall be subject to all applicable federal, state and foreign country laws, rules and regulations, and to such approvals by any
regulatory or governmental agency as may be required. The Company, in its discretion, may postpone the granting and payment with respect to the Dean Cash Award, and neither the Company nor its directors or officers shall have any obligation or
liability to you with respect to any Dean Cash Award that shall lapse because of such postponement. 
 4.
Stockholder Rights. Neither you nor any person claiming under or through you shall be, or have any of the rights or privileges of, a stockholder of the Company in respect of this Dean Cash Award. 

5. Tax Withholding. The Employer shall have the right to deduct from all amounts paid to you in cash any amount required by law
to be withheld in respect of this Dean Cash Award as may be necessary in the opinion of the Employer to satisfy any applicable tax withholding requirements under the laws of any country, state, province, city or other jurisdiction, including but not
limited to income taxes, capital gains taxes, transfer taxes, and social security contributions that are required by law to be withheld. 
 6. Transfer of Dean Cash Award. The Dean Cash Award granted herein is not transferable. 
 7. Covenants Not to Disclose, Compete or Solicit. 
 (a) You acknowledge
that (i) the Company is engaged in a continuous program of research, development and production respecting its business throughout the United States (the foregoing, together with any other businesses in which the Company engages from the date
hereof to the date of the termination of your employment with the Company and its Subsidiaries as the “Company Business”); (ii) your work for and position with the Company and/or one of its Subsidiaries has allowed you, and will
continue to allow you, access to trade secrets of, and Confidential Information concerning the Company Business; (iii) the Company Business is national and international in scope; (iv) the Company would not have agreed to grant you this
Award but for the agreements and covenants contained in this Agreement; and (v) the agreements and covenants contained


 


  
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in this Agreement are necessary and essential to protect the business, goodwill, and customer relationships that Company and its Subsidiaries have expended significant resources to develop. The
Company agrees and acknowledges that, on or following the date hereof, it will provide you with one or more of the following: (a) authorization to access Confidential Information through a new computer password or by other means,
(b) authorization to represent the Company in communications with customers and other third parties to promote the goodwill of the business in accordance with generally applicable Company policies and (c) access to participate in certain
restricted access meetings, conferences or training relating to your position with the Company. You understand and agree that if Confidential Information were used in competition against the Company, the Company would experience serious harm and the
competitor would have a unique advantage against the Company. 
 (b) For purposes of this Agreement, “Confidential
Information” shall mean all business records, trade secrets, know-how, customer lists or compilations, terms of customer agreements, sources of supply, pricing or cost information, financial information or personnel data and other
confidential or proprietary information used and/or obtained by you in the course of your employment with the Company or any Subsidiary; provided that the term “Confidential Information” will not include information which (i) is or
becomes publicly available other than as a result of a disclosure by you which is prohibited by this agreement or by any other legal, contractual or fiduciary obligation that you may owe to the Company or any Subsidiary, or (ii) is widely known
within one or more of the industries in which the Company or any Subsidiary operates, or you can demonstrate was otherwise known to you prior to becoming an employee of the Company or any Subsidiary, or (iii) is or becomes available to you on a
non-confidential basis from a source (other than the Company or any Subsidiary, including any employee thereof) that is not prohibited from disclosing such information to you by a legal, contractual or fiduciary obligation to the Company or any
Subsidiary. You agree not to engage in unauthorized use or disclosure of Confidential Information, and agree that upon termination of your employment (or earlier if so requested) you will preserve and return to the Company any and all records in
your possession or control, tangible and intangible, containing any Confidential Information. You further agree not to keep or retain any copies of such records without written authorization from a duly authorized officer of the Company covering the
specific item retained. 
 (c) Ancillary to the foregoing and this Award, you hereby agree that, during the term of your
employment with the Company or any Subsidiary and for a period of two years thereafter (the “Restricted Period”), you will not, directly or



 
indirectly, individually or on behalf of any person or entity other than the Company or any of its Subsidiaries: (i) Provide Competing Services (as defined below) to any company or business
(other than the Company or any Subsidiary) engaged primarily in the manufacture, distribution, sale or marketing of any of the Relevant Products (as defined below) in the Relevant Market Area (as defined below); (ii) Approach, consult, solicit
business from, or contact or otherwise communicate, directly or indirectly, in any way with any Customer (as defined below) in an attempt to (1) divert business from, or interfere with any business relationship of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, or (2) convince any Customer to change or alter any of such Customer’s existing or prospective contractual terms and conditions with the Company or any Subsidiary; or (iii) Solicit, induce, recruit or encourage, either
directly or indirectly, any employee of the Company or any Subsidiary to leave his or her employment with the Company or any Subsidiary or employ or offer to employ any employee of the Company or any Subsidiary. For the purposes of this section, an
employee of the Company or any Subsidiary shall be deemed to be an employee of the Company or any Subsidiary while employed by the Company and for a period of sixty (60) days thereafter. 

(d) For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated: 

(i) to provide “Competing Services” means to provide, manage, supervise, or consult about (whether as an employee,
owner, partner, stockholder, investor, joint venturer, lender, director, manager, officer, employee, consultant, independent contractor, representative or agent, or otherwise) any services that are similar in purpose or function to services you
provided to the Company in the two year period preceding the termination of your employment, that might involve the use or disclosure of Confidential Information, or that would involve business opportunities related to Relevant Products. 

(ii) “Customer” means any and all persons or entities who purchased any Relevant Product from the Company or any
Subsidiary during the term of your employment with the Company or any Subsidiary and as to whom, within the course of the last two (2) years of your employment with the Company or any Subsidiary, (a) you or someone under your supervision
had contact and/or (b) you received or had access to Confidential Information. 
 (iii) “Relevant
Product(s)” means (i) milk or milk-based beverages, (ii) creams, (iii) dairy or other non-dairy coffee creamers or other coffee whiteners, (iv) ice cream or ice cream novelties, (v) ice cream mix, (vi) cultured
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cultured soy product, (viii) organic dairy products (including milk, cream and cultured dairy products) or organic juice, and/or (ix) any other product not listed above that was
developed or sold by the Company or a Subsidiary within the course of the last two (2) years of your employment with the Company or any Subsidiary. 
 (iv) “Relevant Market Area” means the counties (or county equivalents) in the United States where the Company does business that you assist in providing services to and/or receive Confidential
Information about in the two year period preceding the termination of your employment so long as the Company continues to do business in that geographic market area during the Restricted Period. 

(e) Notwithstanding the foregoing, (1) the restrictions of subsection 7(a) above shall not prohibit your employment with a
non-competing, independently operated subsidiary, division, or unit of a diversified company (even if other separately operated portions of the diversified company are involved in Relevant Products) if in advance of your providing any services, you
and the diversified company that is going to employ you both provide the Company with written assurances that are satisfactory to the Company establishing that (a) the entity, subsidiary, division, or unit of the diversified business that you
are going to be employed in is not involved in Relevant Products or preparing to become involved in Relevant Products, and (b) your position will not involve Competing Services of any kind, and (2) you are not prohibited from owning,
either of record or beneficially, not more than five percent (5%) of the shares or other equity of any publicly traded company. Your obligation under this Section 7 shall survive the vesting or forfeiture of your RSUs and/or the
distribution or forfeiture of the underlying Shares. 
 (f) Any breach of any provision of this Section 7 will result in
immediate and complete forfeiture of your unvested Dean Cash Award . In addition, you hereby agree that if you violate any provision of this Section 7, the Company will be entitled to injunctive relief, specific performance, or such other legal
and equitable relief as is needed to prevent or enjoin any violation of the provisions of this Agreement in addition to and not to the exclusion of any other remedy that may be allowed by law for damages experienced prior to the issuance of
injunctive relief. You also agree that, if you are found to have breached any of the time-limited covenants in this Section 7, the time period during which you are subject to such covenant shall be extended by one day for each day you are found
to have violated such restriction, up to a maximum of two years. 
 (g) You acknowledge that you have given careful
consideration to the restraints imposed by this Agreement, and you fully agree that they are necessary for the reasonable



 
and proper protection of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries. The restrictions set forth herein shall be construed as a series of separate and severable covenants. You agree that
each and every restraint imposed by this Agreement is reasonable with respect to subject matter, time period, and geographical area. Except as expressly set forth herein, the restraints imposed by this Agreement shall continue during their full time
periods and throughout the geographical area set forth in this Agreement. 
 (h) You stipulate and agree that one of the
purposes of this Agreement is to fully resolve and bring finality to any concerns over the enforceability of the Restrictive Covenants. You also stipulate and agree that (a) the enforceability of the Restrictive Covenants and (b) the
Company’s agreement herein to provide you with this Dean Cash Award are mutually dependent clauses and obligations without which this Agreement would not be made by the parties. Accordingly, you agree not to sue otherwise pursue a legal claim
to set aside or avoid enforcement of the Restrictive Covenants. And, in the event that you or any other party pursues a legal challenge to the enforceability of any material provision of the restrictions in Section 7 of this Agreement and a
material provision is found unenforceable by a court of law or other legally binding authority such that you are no longer bound by a material provision of Section 7, then (1) your unvested Dean Cash Award shall be forfeited and
(2) you hereby agree that you will return to the Company the cash value of any Award paid to you hereunder (less any taxes paid by you). The foregoing is not intended as a liquidated damage remedy but is instead a return-of-gains and
contractual recission remedy due to the mutual dependent nature of the subject provisions in the Agreement. 
 (i) If any of
the Restrictive Covenants are deemed unenforceable as written, you and the Company expressly authorize the court to revise, delete, or add to the restrictions contained in this Section 7 to the extent necessary to enforce the intent of the
parties and to provide the goodwill, Confidential Information, and other business interests of the Company and its Subsidiaries with effective protection. And, in the event that such reformation of the restriction is acceptable to the Company, then
the forfeiture and rescission (return of gain) remedies provided for in subsection 7(h) above shall not apply. 
 (j) The
provisions of this Section 7 are not intended to override, supercede, reduce, modify or affect in any manner any other non-competition or non-solicitation agreement between you and the Company or any Subsidiary, and instead are intended to
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 8. Assignment of Intellectual Property Rights. In consideration of the granting
of this Dean Cash Award, you hereby agree that all right, title and interest to any and all products, improvements or processes (“Intellectual Property”) whatsoever, discovered, invented or conceived during the course of employment
with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, relating to the subject matter of the business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or which may be directly or indirectly utilized in connection therewith, are vested in the Company, and you hereby
forever waive any and all interest you have in such Intellectual Property and agree to assign such Intellectual Property to the Company. In addition, all writings produced in the course of work or employment for the Company or any Subsidiary are
works produced for hire and the property of the Company and its Subsidiaries, including any copyrights for those writings. 

9. Miscellaneous. 
 (a) No Guaranteed Employment. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall affect the right of the Company to terminate your employment at any time, with or without Cause, or shall be deemed to create
any rights to employment on your part. The rights and obligations arising under this Agreement are not intended to and do not affect the employment relationship that otherwise exists between the Company and you, whether such employment relationship
is at will or defined by an employment contract. Moreover, this Agreement is not intended to and does not amend any existing employment contract between the Company and you. To the extent there is a conflict between this Agreement and such an
employment contract, the employment contract shall govern and take priority. 
 (b) Notices. Any notice to be given to
the Company under the terms of this Agreement shall be addressed to the Company at its principal executive offices, and any notice to be given to you shall be addressed to you at the address set forth on the attached Notice of Grant, or at such
other address for a party as such party may hereafter designate in writing to the other. Any such notice shall be deemed to have been duly given if mailed, postage prepaid, addressed as aforesaid. 

(c) Binding Agreement. Subject to the limitations in this Agreement on the transferability by you of the Award granted herein,
this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the representatives, executors, successors or beneficiaries of the parties hereto. 
 (d) Governing Law. The interpretation, performance and enforcement of this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of Delaware and the United States, as applicable, without
reference to the conflict of laws provisions thereof. 


 (e) Severability. Except as otherwise expressly provided for herein in
Section 7 above, if any provision of this Agreement is declared or found to be illegal, unenforceable or void, in whole or in part, then the parties shall be relieved of all obligations arising under such provision, but only to the extent that
it is illegal, unenforceable or void, it being the intent and agreement of the parties that this Agreement shall be deemed amended by modifying such provision to the extent necessary to make it legal and enforceable while preserving its intent or,
if that is not possible, by substituting therefor another provision that is legal and enforceable and achieves the same objectives. 
 (f) Interpretation. All section titles and captions in this Agreement are for convenience only, shall not be deemed part of this Agreement, and in no way shall define, limit, extend or describe the
scope or intent of any provisions of this Agreement. 
 (g) Entire Agreement. Except as otherwise provided for in
Section 7 above, this Agreement constitutes the entire agreement among the parties hereto pertaining to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings pertaining thereto. 

(h) No Waiver. No failure by any party to insist upon the strict performance of any covenant, duty, agreement or condition of
this Agreement or to exercise any right or remedy consequent upon a breach thereof shall constitute waiver of any such breach or any other covenant, duty, agreement or condition. 

(i) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, all of which together shall constitute one agreement binding
on all the parties hereto, notwithstanding that all such parties are not signatories to the original or the same counterpart. 

(j) Relief. In addition to all other rights or remedies available at law or in equity, the Company shall be entitled to
injunctive and other equitable relief to prevent or enjoin any violation of the provisions of this Agreement. 
 END OF
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