EX-10.27



 Exhibit 10.27 
 ADDENDUM number 1 to the employment contract dated 04/01/1986 
 Between: 

TAMINCO NV – Pantserschipstraat 207 - 9000 Ghent 
 represented by M. Philips, Corporate Human Resources Manager, hereinafter called Taminco, on the one hand 
 and 
 VAN DEN BOSSCHE GUY (°07/13/1961)  

residing at RUE DE COQUIANE 188 7850 PETIT-ENGHIEN, hereinafter called the employee, on the other hand 

the following has been agreed upon: 

Non-competition stipulation 
 1.
Background 
 Taminco has: 
  

	•	 	 an international field of activity, or 


  

	•	 	 important economic, technical or financial interests on the international markets, or 



 

	•	 	 an own department for research or has a department that designs original industrial models. 



The employee can be set to work on activities that enable the employee directly or indirectly to obtain knowledge of practices specific to Taminco, and
of which the utilization outside of Taminco can be disadvantageous for Taminco. 
 2. Subject 

The employee, therefore, is committed not to perform any competition with Taminco in the case of termination of this contract. With this, no distinction
will be made between the fact whether this competition would be fair or unfair, whether it is conducted directly or indirectly, or whether it occurs at own expense or operating at the expense of a third party. All of these are prohibited.

 This commitment regards: 
  

	•	 	 activities similar to those that the employee performed at Taminco, under the additional condition that the activities performed at the new employer
are similar to those of Taminco; 


  

	•	 	 the Belgian territory and China, the USA, Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain and Germany; 



 

	•	 	 a period of one year starting from the date on which the employment relationship terminates. 



3. Terms and conditions of application 

This commitment, nevertheless, has no effect when the employee terminates the employment contract for an urgent reason due to Taminco. 

The terms of this stipulation are regulated by applicable Collective Employment Agreements. Parties agree that if a new Collective Employment Agreement
would limit the terms of this stipulation, this stipulation will be transformed within the bounds of this new Collective Employment Agreement. 

  

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 4. Neglect – compensation – sanction 

Taminco has the possibility to neglect the application of this stipulation in writing within the 15 days after termination of the employment contract.

 When Taminco does not neglect the application of this stipulation, then Taminco will owe the employee a single and flat rate compensation of
50% of the gross wage in accordance with the application duration of this stipulation. The gross wage of the employee at the time of the departure from Taminco will be taken into account. 
 If the employee violates this stipulation, he is held to pay the same compensation to Taminco as that which is stated above, increased by an equal sum under the title of damage compensation. Taminco has
the right to demand a higher compensation based on the actual damage that Taminco suffered and for which it provides the evidence. 
 Fair
competition 
 The employee is committed to not violate in any way the national and international provisions regarding the safeguarding
of competition, in particular, but not exclusively, the regulation of the EU or of the USA, nor to cooperate in this, whether this now occurs directly or indirectly, at own expense or operating at the expense of a third party. 

Under no single stipulation can the employee discuss price agreements or other sensitive matters with the competition, cooperate in the division of
markets or customers, or cooperate directly or indirectly on operations that hinder the free competition. 
 Each violation of this article will
be considered as an extremely serious shortcoming and justifies a dismissal for urgent reason. It has as consequence an immediate severance of the employment contract without notice or indemnification. 

If Taminco or other members of the Group suffer damage as a consequence of the violation of this article by the employee, they will be able to recoup
from the employee. Under this damage, the Group also includes the compensation and payments that result from any third party agreements to the Group as a result of the conduct or operations of the employee. 

The provisions of this addendum form an integral part of the original employment contract dated 04/01/1986 and replace the provisions in the
original employment contract with regard to the non-competition stipulation and the fair competition. 
 The other provisions of the employment
contract dated 04/01/1986 that were not changed by the current addendum, remain undiminished in effect. 
 Undersigned parties declare to
have received one copy of this addendum. 
 Created in duplicate in Ghent on 06/29/2007. 

 

							
	The employee	 		 	For Taminco,	 	
				
	/s/ Guy Van Den Bossche	 		 	/s/ Marc Philips	 	
	GUY VAN DEN BOSSCHE	 		 	M. PHILIPS	 	
		 		 	Corporate Human Resources Manager	 	


  
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