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PCLN-2014.12.31_10K EX 10.8

        

 Exhibit 10.8
KAYAK SOFTWARE CORPORATION
2012 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
(as assumed by priceline.com Incorporated on May 21, 2013 and as 
 amended and restated as of February 7, 2014)

		
	1.
	Purpose

This Plan is intended to encourage ownership of Stock by employees, consultants and directors of the Company and its Affiliates and to provide additional incentive for them to promote the success of the Company’s business through the grant of Awards of or pertaining to shares of Stock.  If the Company obtains stockholder approval of the Plan, the Plan is intended to be an incentive stock option plan within the meaning of Section 422 of the Code, but not all Awards are required to be Incentive Options.  This Plan is hereby amended and restated as of February 7, 2014 to reflect its prior assumption by priceline.com Incorporated (the “Company”) pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Merger by and among KAYAK Software Corporation, the Company, and Produce Merger Sub, Inc., dated as of November 8, 2012 (the “Merger Agreement”), and to reflect changes to certain terms of the Plan authorized by the Board.  

		
	2.
	Definitions

As used in the Plan, the following terms shall have the respective meanings set out below, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

2.1.    Accelerate, Accelerated, and Acceleration, means: (a) when used with respect to a Stock Right, that as of the time of reference the Stock Right will become exercisable with respect to some or all of the shares of Stock for which it was not then otherwise exercisable by its terms; (b) when used with respect to Restricted Stock or Restricted Stock Units, that the Risk of Forfeiture otherwise applicable to the Restricted Stock or Restricted Stock Units shall expire with respect to some or all of the shares of Restricted Stock or Restricted Stock Units then still otherwise subject to the Risk of Forfeiture; and (c) when used with respect to Performance Share Units, that the applicable Performance Goals or other business objectives shall be deemed to have been met as to some or all of the Performance Share Units.
2.2.    Affiliate means an affiliate of the Company, as defined in Rule 12b-2 promulgated under Section 12 of the Exchange Act.
2.3.    Agreement means an agreement between the Company and the recipient of an Award, or other notice of grant of an Award, setting forth the terms and conditions of the Award.
2.4.    Award means any grant or sale pursuant to the Plan of Options, Stock Appreciation Rights, Performance Share Units, Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units, or Stock Grants.
2.5.    Beneficial Owner has the meaning set forth in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act.
2.6.    Board means the Company’s Board of Directors.

 

2.7.    Cause means (0) for Awards granted prior to May 21, 2013, with respect to a Participant, any one or more of the following: (i) failure or refusal to perform the Participant’s reasonably assigned duties to the Company or a Subsidiary; (ii) material breach of any employment agreement, any consulting or services agreement, any non-disclosure or non-competition agreement or any other agreement between the Participant and the Company (or a Subsidiary) relating to the Participant’s employment or other association with the Company and its Affiliates; (iii) embezzlement, misappropriation of assets or property (tangible or intangible) of the Company; (iv) gross negligence, misconduct, neglect of duties, theft, dishonesty or fraud with respect to the Company or a Subsidiary, or breach of fiduciary duty to the Company or a Subsidiary; or (v) the indictment or conviction of a felony, or any crime involving moral turpitude, including a plea of guilty or nolo contendre. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Participant and the Company or an Affiliate have entered into an employment, consulting or services agreement that defines the term “Cause” (or a similar term), such definition shall govern for purposes of determining whether the Participant has been terminated for Cause for purposes of the Plan.  The determination of Cause shall be made by the Committee, in its sole discretion; and 
(a)    for Awards granted on or after May 21, 2013, (i) the willful and continued failure by the Participant substantially to perform his or her duties and obligations to the Company or a Subsidiary (other than any such failure resulting from his or her incapacity due to physical or mental illness); (ii) the willful engaging by the Participant in misconduct which is materially injurious to the Company or a Subsidiary; (iii) the commission by the Participant of a felony; or (iv) the commission by the Participant of a crime against the Company or a Subsidiary which is materially injurious to the Company.  For purposes of this Section 2.7(b), no act, or failure to act, on a Participant’s part shall be considered “willful” unless done, or omitted to be done, by the Participant in bad faith and without reasonable belief that his or her action or omission was in the best interest of the Company or a Subsidiary.  Determination of Cause shall be made by the Committee in its sole discretion.
2.8.    Change in Control means the occurrence of any of the following with respect to Awards granted on or after May 21, 2013:
(a)    any Person is or becomes the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing thirty-five percent (35%) or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities eligible to vote for the election of the Board (the “Company Voting Securities”); provided, however, that the event described in this Section 2.8.(a) shall not be deemed to be a Change in Control if such event results from the acquisition of Company Voting Securities pursuant to a Non-Qualifying Transaction (as defined in Section 2.8.(c));
(b)    individuals who, on the Grant Date, constitute the Board (the “Incumbent Directors”) cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority of the Board; provided, however, that any person becoming a director subsequent to the Grant Date, whose election or nomination for election was approved (either by a specific vote or by approval of the proxy statement of the Company in which such person is named as a nominee for director, without written objection to such nomination) by a vote of at least two-thirds of the directors who were, as of the date of such 

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approval, Incumbent Directors, shall be an Incumbent Director; provided, further, that no individual initially appointed, elected or nominated as a director of the Company as a result of an actual or threatened election contest with respect to the election or removal of directors or as a result of any other actual or threatened solicitation of proxies or consents by or on behalf of any person other than the Board shall be deemed to be an Incumbent Director;
(c)    the consummation of a merger, consolidation, statutory share exchange or similar form of corporate transaction involving (i) the Company or (ii) any of its wholly owned subsidiaries pursuant to which, in the case of this clause (ii), Company Voting Securities are issued or issuable (any event described in the immediately preceding clause (i) or (ii), a “Reorganization”) or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the  Company to an entity that is not an Affiliate of the Company (a “Sale”), unless immediately following such Reorganization or Sale: (A) more than 50% of the total voting power (in respect of the election of directors, or similar officials in the case of an entity other than a corporation) of (x) the Company (or, if the Company ceases to exist, the entity resulting from such Reorganization), or, in the case of a Sale, the entity which has acquired all or substantially all of the assets of the Company (in either case, the “Surviving Entity”), or (y) if applicable, the ultimate parent entity that directly or indirectly has Beneficial Ownership of more than 50% of the total voting power (in respect of the election of directors, or similar officials in the case of an entity other than a corporation) of the Surviving Entity (the “Parent Entity”), is represented by Company Voting Securities that were outstanding immediately prior to such Reorganization or Sale (or, if applicable, is represented by shares into which such Company Voting Securities were converted pursuant to such Reorganization or Sale), (B) no Person is or becomes the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of 35% or more of the total voting power (in respect of the election of directors, or similar officials in the case of an entity other than a corporation) of the outstanding voting securities of the Parent Entity (or, if there is no Parent Entity, the Surviving Entity) and (C) at least a majority of the members of the board of directors (or similar officials in the case of an entity other than a corporation) of the Parent Entity (or, if there is no Parent Entity, the Surviving Entity) following the consummation of the Reorganization or Sale were, at the time of the approval by the Board of the execution of the initial agreement providing for such Reorganization or Sale, Incumbent Directors (any Reorganization or Sale which satisfies all of the criteria specified in (A), (B) and (C) above being deemed to be a “Non-Qualifying Transaction”); or
(d)    the stockholders of the Company approve a plan of complete liquidation or dissolution of the Company.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Person becomes the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of 35% or more of the combined voting power of Company Voting Securities solely as a result of the acquisition of Company Voting Securities by the Company which reduces the number of Company Voting Securities outstanding, such increased amount shall be deemed not to result in a Change in Control; provided, however, that if such Person subsequently becomes the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of additional Company Voting Securities that increases the percentage of outstanding Company Voting Securities Beneficially Owned by such Person to a percentage equal to or greater than 35, a Change in Control of the Company shall then be deemed to occur.

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2.9.    Change of Control means the occurrence of any of the following with respect to Awards granted prior to May 21, 2013:
(a)    a Transaction, unless securities possessing more than 50% of the total combined voting power of the survivor’s or acquiror’s outstanding securities (or the securities of any parent thereof) are held by a person or persons who held securities possessing more than 50% of the total combined voting power of the Company’s outstanding securities immediately prior to that transaction, or
(b)    any person or group of persons (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) directly or indirectly acquires, including but not limited to by means of a merger or consolidation, beneficial ownership (determined pursuant to Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the said Exchange Act) of securities possessing more than 50% of the total combined voting power of the Company’s outstanding securities, unless acquired pursuant to a tender or exchange offer made directly to the Company’s stockholders that the Board recommends such stockholders accept, other than (i) the Company or an Affiliate, (ii) an employee benefit plan of the Company or any of its Affiliates, (iii) a trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of the Company or any of its Affiliates, or (iv) an underwriter temporarily holding securities pursuant to an offering of such securities, or
(c)    over a period of twenty-four (24) consecutive months or less there is a change in the composition of the Board such that a majority of the Board members (rounded up to the next whole number, if a fraction) ceases, by reason of one or more proxy contests for the election of Board members, to be composed of individuals who either (i) have been Board members continuously since the beginning of that period, or (ii) have been elected or nominated for election as Board members during such period by at least a majority of the Board members described in the preceding clause (i) who were still in office at the time that election or nomination was approved by the Board; or
(d)    a majority of the Board votes in favor of a decision that a Change of Control has occurred.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Transaction or other event described in (a), (b), (c) or (d) above shall constitute a “Change of Control” for purposes of any Award which is subject to Section 409A of the Code and under which a “Change of Control” is a payment event, unless either such Transaction or event is also a change of control event within the meaning of Treas. Reg. § 1.409A-3(i)(5) or the Committee determines such a change of control event is not required to assure the Award’s continued compliance with Section 409A of the Code.

2.10.    Class A Common Stock means the Class A Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share, of KAYAK Software Corporation prior to KAYAK Software Corporation’s merger with the Company.
2.11.    Class B Common Stock means the Class B Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share, of KAYAK Software Corporation prior to KAYAK Software Corporation’s merger with the Company.

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2.12.    Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, or any successor statute thereto, and any regulations issued from time to time thereunder.
2.13.    Committee means the Compensation Committee of the Board, which in general is responsible for the administration of the Plan, as provided in Section 5 of this Plan.  For any period during which no such committee is in existence “Committee” shall mean the Board and all authority and responsibility assigned to the Committee under the Plan shall be exercised, if at all, by the Board.
2.14.    Company means priceline.com Incorporated, a corporation organized under the laws of Delaware, or any assign or successor thereto as provided in Section 21 hereof.
2.15.    Effective Date means July 25, 2012, which is the date on which KAYAK Software Corporation first sold shares of its Class A Common Stock to the underwriters pursuant to KAYAK Software Corporation’s initial public offering. 
2.16.    Exchange Act means the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and in effect from time to time. 
2.17.    Fair Market Value of a share of Stock as of a particular date shall mean the closing sales price per share of Stock on the national securities exchange on which the Stock is principally traded, for the last preceding date on which there was a sale of such Stock on such exchange.
2.18.    Fiscal Year means each fiscal year of the Company, as established from time to time by the Board.
2.19.    Good Reason means, with respect to Awards granted prior to May 21, 2013, in connection with a Participant’s termination of his or her employment or other association with the Company and its Affiliates, such termination occurring within thirty (30) days after any of the following events: (i) mutual written agreement by a Participant and the Board that Good Reason exists; (ii) a material violation by the Company of its employment, consulting or services agreement with the Participant that continues uncured for a period of thirty (30) days after notice thereof by the Participant; (iii) if such Participant is an executive officer of the Company, demotion of the Participant, without the Participant’s prior consent, to a position that does not include significant managerial responsibilities; (iv) reduction in the Participant’s base salary, other than in connection with, and substantially proportionate to, a general salary reduction program that applies to the Company’s similar class of officers or employees; or (v) a relocation of the Company that requires the Participant to commute to an office that is more than sixty (60) miles away from the Participant’s then current place of employment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Participant and the Company or an Affiliate have entered into an employment, consulting or services agreement that defines the term “Good Reason” (or a similar term), such definition shall govern for purposes of determining whether the Participant has been terminated for Good Reason for purposes of the Plan. The determination of Good Reason shall be made by the Committee, in its sole discretion.

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2.20.    Grant Date means (a) for Options granted prior to May 21, 2013, the date as of which an Option is granted, as determined under Section 7.1(a), and (b) for Awards granted on or after May 21, 2013, the date on which an Award is granted.
2.21.    Incentive Option means an Option which by its terms is to be treated as an “incentive stock option” within the meaning of Section 422 of the Code.
2.22.    Initial Award means, with respect to any Participant, an Award made prior to May 21, 2013 under the Plan to such Participant if, and only if, prior to the grant of such Award such Participant had not previously been granted (i) an Award under this Plan, (ii) an “Award” under KAYAK Software Corporation’s 2005 Equity Incentive Plan (as the same has been in effect at any time, including as amended, and as amended and restated, from time to time) and/or (iii) an “Award” under KAYAK Software Corporation’s 2004 Stock Incentive Plan (as the same has been in effect at any time, including as amended from time to time).
2.23.    Market Value means the value of a share of Stock on a particular date determined by such methods or procedures as may be established by the Committee.  Unless otherwise determined by the Committee, the Market Value of Stock as of any date is the closing price for the Stock as reported on the NASDAQ Global Select Market (or on any other national securities exchange on which the Stock is then listed) for that date or, if no closing price is reported for that date, the closing price on the next preceding date for which a closing price was reported.  
2.24.    Nonstatutory Option means any Option that is not an Incentive Option.
2.25.    Option means an option to purchase shares of Stock.
2.26.    Optionee means an eligible individual to whom an Option shall have been granted under the Plan.
2.27.    Participant means any holder of an outstanding Award under the Plan.
2.28.    Performance Criteria and Performance Goals have the meanings given such terms in Section 7.7(f).
2.29.    Performance Period means the one or more periods of time, which may be of varying and overlapping durations, selected by the Committee, over which the attainment of one or more Performance Goals or other business objectives will be measured for purposes of determining a Participant’s right to, and the payment of, a Performance Share Unit.
2.30.    Performance Share Unit means a right granted to a Participant under Section 7.5, to receive cash, Stock or other Awards, the payment of which is contingent on achieving Performance Goals or other business objectives established by the Committee.
2.31.    Person has the meaning set forth in Section 3(a)(9) of the Exchange Act, as modified and used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) thereof, except that such term shall not include (a) the Company or any Subsidiary, (b) a trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan (or related trust) sponsored or maintained by the Company or any Subsidiary, (c) an underwriter 

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temporarily holding securities pursuant to an offering of such securities, (d) a corporation or other entity owned, directly or indirectly, by the stockholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of shares of Stock, or (e) the Participant or any group of persons including the Participant, or any entity controlled by the Participant or any group of persons including the Participant; provided the Participant is an executive officer, director or more than 10% owner of Stock.
2.32.    Plan means this 2012 Equity Incentive Plan, as adopted by the Company and as amended from time to time, and including any attachments or addenda hereto. 
2.33.    Qualified Performance-Based Awards means Awards to persons who are or become covered employees within the meaning of Section 162(m) of the Code and which are intended to or at grant would qualify as “performance-based compensation” under Section 162(m) of the Code.
2.34.    Restricted Stock means a grant or sale of shares of Stock to a Participant subject to a Risk of Forfeiture.
2.35.    Restricted Stock Units means rights to receive shares of Stock at the close of a Restriction Period, subject to a Risk of Forfeiture.
2.36.    Restriction Period means the period of time, established by the Committee in connection with an Award of Restricted Stock or Restricted Stock Units, during which the shares of Restricted Stock or Restricted Stock Units are subject to a Risk of Forfeiture described in the applicable Agreement.
2.37.    Risk of Forfeiture means a limitation on the right of the Participant to retain Restricted Stock or Restricted Stock Units, including a right of the Company to reacquire shares of Restricted Stock at less than its then Market Value or Fair Market Value, whichever applies, arising because of the occurrence or non-occurrence of specified events or conditions.
2.38.    Stock means shares of the common stock, par value $0.008 per share, of the Company.
2.39.    Stock Appreciation Right means a right to receive any excess in the Market Value or Fair Market Value, whichever applies, of shares of Stock (except as otherwise provided in Section 7.2(c)) over a specified exercise price.
2.40.    Stock Grant means the grant of shares of Stock not subject to restrictions or other forfeiture conditions.
2.41.    Stock Right means an Award in the form of an Option or a Stock Appreciation Right.
2.42.    Stockholders’ Agreement means any agreement by and among the holders of at least a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the Company and setting forth, among other provisions, restrictions upon the transfer of shares of Stock or on the exercise of rights appurtenant thereto (including but not limited to, voting rights).

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2.43.    Subsidiary means any corporation, company or other entity in an unbroken chain of corporations (or other entities) beginning with the Company if, at the time of granting of an Award, each of the corporations or other entities (other than the last corporation or other entity in the unbroken chain) owns stock (or other ownership interests) possessing 50% or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock (or other ownership interests) in one of the other corporations (or other entities) in the chain.
2.44.    Ten Percent Owner means a person who owns, or is deemed within the meaning of Section 422(b)(6) of the Code to own, stock possessing more than 10% of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Company (or any parent or subsidiary corporations of the Company, as defined in Sections 424(e) and (f), respectively, of the Code).  Whether a person is a Ten Percent Owner shall be determined with respect to an Option based on the facts existing immediately prior to the Grant Date of the Option.
2.45.    Transaction means (a) any merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity as a result of which the Stock of the Company is converted into or exchanged for the right to receive cash, securities or other property or is cancelled, (b) any sale or exchange of all of the Stock of the Company for cash, securities or other property, (c) any sale, transfer, or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets to one or more other persons in a single transaction or series of related transactions, or (d) any liquidation or dissolution of the Company.
		
	3.
	Term of the Plan

Unless the Plan shall have been earlier terminated by the Board, Awards may be granted under this Plan at any time in the period commencing on the date of approval of the Plan by the Board of Directors of KAYAK Software Corporation and ending immediately prior to the tenth anniversary of the Effective Date.  Awards granted pursuant to the Plan within that period shall not expire solely by reason of the termination of the Plan.

		
	4.
	Stock Subject to the Plan

4.1.    Stock Subject to the Plan.  At no time shall the number of shares of Stock issued pursuant to or subject to Awards (including Incentive Options granted prior to May 21, 2013) granted under the Plan exceed 61,972 shares of Stock (including shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock issued prior to May 21, 2013 as adjusted by the conversion ratio set forth in the Merger Agreement); provided, however, that in no event (other than as contemplated by the immediately following proviso) shall the maximum aggregate number of shares of Stock exceed 61,972; and provided, further, that such maximum number of shares of Stock shall be subject to the other provisions of this Section 4 and to the provisions of Section 8 of the Plan. 
4.2.    Lapsed Awards.  For purposes of applying the foregoing limitation, settlement of any Award shall not count against the foregoing limitations except to the extent settled in the form of Stock and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing:

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(a)    if any Option or Stock-settled Stock Appreciation Right expires, terminates, or is cancelled for any reason without having been exercised in full, or if any other Award is forfeited by the recipient or repurchased at less than its Market Value as a means of effecting a forfeiture, the shares of Stock not purchased by the Optionee or which are forfeited by the recipient or repurchased shall again be available for Awards to be granted under the Plan;
(b)    if any Option is exercised by delivering previously owned shares of Stock in payment of the exercise price therefor, the number of shares delivered shall be considered to have been issued pursuant to an Award granted under the Plan; and
(c)    any shares of Stock either tendered or withheld in satisfaction of tax withholding obligations of the Company or an Affiliate shall not again be available for issuance under the Plan.
None of the foregoing provisions or the adjustment provisions of Section 8 shall apply in determining the maximum number of shares of Stock issued pursuant to or subject to outstanding Incentive Options unless consistent with the provisions of Section 422 of the Code, however. Shares of Stock issued pursuant to the Plan may be either authorized but unissued shares or shares held by the Company in its treasury.

		
	5.
	Administration

The Plan shall be administered by the Committee; provided, however, that at any time and on any one or more occasions the Board may itself exercise any of the powers and responsibilities assigned the Committee under the Plan and when so acting shall have the benefit of all of the provisions of the Plan pertaining to the Committee’s exercise of its authorities hereunder; and provided further, however, that the Committee may delegate to an executive officer or officers the authority to grant Awards hereunder to employees who are not officers, and to consultants, in accordance with such guidelines as the Committee shall set forth at any time or from time to time.  Subject to the provisions of the Plan, the Committee shall have complete authority, in its discretion, to make or to select the manner of making all determinations with respect to each Award to be granted by the Company under the Plan including the employee, consultant or director to receive the Award and the form of Award.  In making such determinations, the Committee may take into account the nature of the services rendered by the respective employees, consultants, and directors, their present and potential contributions to the success of the Company and its Affiliates, and such other factors as the Committee in its discretion shall deem relevant.  Subject to the provisions of the Plan, the Committee shall also have complete authority to interpret the Plan, to prescribe, amend and rescind rules and regulations relating to it, to determine the terms and provisions of the respective Agreements (which need not be identical), and to make all other determinations necessary or advisable for the administration of the Plan.  The Committee’s determinations made in good faith on matters referred to in the Plan shall be final, binding and conclusive on all persons having or claiming any interest under the Plan or an Award made pursuant hereto.

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	6.
	Authorization of Grants

6.1.    Eligibility. The Committee may grant from time to time and at any time prior to the termination of the Plan one or more Awards, either alone or in combination with any other Awards, to (a) any employee of KAYAK Software Corporation or one of its subsidiaries as of May 21, 2013, or (b) an employee of the Company or any of its Affiliates who is hired by the Company or such Affiliate on or after May 21, 2013; provided that prior to May 21, 2013, Awards could be granted to consultants of KAYAK Software Corporation or any of its subsidiaries or to any nonemployee member of the Board of Directors of KAYAK Software Corporation or any member of any board of directors (or similar governing authority) of any Subsidiary of KAYAK Software Corporation.  However, if the Company obtains stockholder approval of the Plan and subject to the previous sentence, only employees of the Company, and of any parent or subsidiary corporations of the Company, as defined in Sections 424(e) and (f), respectively, of the Code, shall be eligible for the grant of an Incentive Option.  
6.2.    General Terms of Awards.  Each grant of an Award shall be subject to all applicable terms and conditions of the Plan (including, but not limited to, any specific terms and conditions applicable to that type of Award set out in the following Section), and such other terms and conditions, not inconsistent with the terms of the Plan, as the Committee may prescribe.  No prospective Participant shall have any rights with respect to an Award, unless and until such Participant shall have complied with the applicable terms and conditions of such Award (including if applicable delivering a fully executed copy of any agreement evidencing an Award to the Company).
6.3.    Effect of Termination of Employment, Etc.  Unless the Committee shall provide otherwise with respect to any Award, if the Participant’s employment or other association with the Company and its Affiliates ends for any reason, including because of an Affiliate ceasing to be an Affiliate, (a) any outstanding Stock Right of the Participant shall cease to be exercisable in any respect not later than 90 days following that event and, for the period it remains exercisable following that event, shall be exercisable only to the extent exercisable at the date of that event, and (b) any other outstanding Award of the Participant shall be forfeited or otherwise subject to return to or repurchase by the Company on the terms specified in the applicable Agreement. Cessation of the performance of services in one capacity, for example, as an employee, shall not result in termination of an Award while the Participant continues to perform services in another capacity, for example as a director.  Military or sick leave or other bona fide leave shall not be deemed a termination of employment or other association, provided that it does not exceed the longer of ninety (90) days or the period during which the absent Participant’s reemployment rights, if any, are guaranteed by statute or by contract.  To the extent consistent with applicable law, the Committee may provide that Awards continue to vest for some or all of the period of any such leave, or that their vesting shall be tolled during any such leave and only recommence upon the Participant’s return from leave, if ever.
6.4.    Non-Transferability of Awards.  Except as otherwise provided in this Section 6.4, Awards shall not be transferable, and no Award or interest therein may be sold, transferred, pledged, assigned, or otherwise alienated or hypothecated, other than by will or by the laws of descent and distribution.  All of a Participant’s rights in any Award may be exercised during the life of the 

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Participant only by the Participant or the Participant’s legal representative.  However, the Committee may, at or after the grant of an Award of a Nonstatutory Option, or shares of Restricted Stock, provide that such Award may be transferred by the recipient to a family member; provided, however, that any such transfer is without payment of any consideration whatsoever and that no transfer shall be valid unless first approved by the Committee, acting in its sole discretion. For this purpose, “family member” means any child, stepchild, grandchild, parent, grandparent, stepparent, spouse, former spouse, sibling, niece, nephew, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law, including adoptive relationships, any person sharing the employee’s household (other than a tenant or employee), a trust in which the foregoing persons have more than fifty (50) percent of the beneficial interests, a foundation in which the foregoing persons (or the Participant) control the management of assets, and any other entity in which these persons (or the Participant) own more than fifty (50) percent of the voting interests.
6.5.    Code Limits on Grants of Qualified Performance-Based Awards.  In no event shall the number of shares of Stock covered or referenced by either Options or Stock Appreciation Rights, or other Awards which are granted as Qualified Performance-Based Awards, to any one person in any one calendar year exceed 61,972 shares of Stock.  These limitations shall not apply prior to the date required to apply under the regulations of the U.S. Department of Treasury promulgated under Section 162(m) of the Code, however. Solely for purposes of applying the limitations of this Section 6.5, if in effect, any shares of Stock subject to Options or Stock Appreciation Rights which are canceled (or deemed canceled, as a result of repricing described in applicable regulations of the U.S. Department of Treasury promulgated under Section 162(m) of the Code) shall nevertheless continued to be counted even after such cancellation (or deemed cancellation).
		
	7.
	Specific Terms of Awards

7.1.    Options.
(a)    Date of Grant.  The granting of an Option shall take place at the time specified in the Agreement. Only if expressly so provided in the applicable Agreement shall the Grant Date be the date on which the Agreement shall have been duly executed and delivered by the Company and the Optionee.
(b)    Exercise Price.  The price at which shares of Stock may be acquired under each Incentive Option shall be not less than 100% of the Market Value of Stock on the Grant Date, or not less than 110% of the Market Value of Stock on the Grant Date if the Optionee is a Ten Percent Owner.  The price at which shares of Stock may be acquired under each Nonstatutory Option shall not be so limited solely by reason of this Section.
(c)    Option Period.  No Incentive Option may be exercised on or after the tenth anniversary of the Grant Date, or on or after the fifth anniversary of the Grant Date if the Optionee is a Ten Percent Owner.  The Option period under each Nonstatutory Option shall not be so limited solely by reason of this Section.
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In the case of an Option not otherwise immediately exercisable in full, the Committee may Accelerate such Option in whole or in part at any time; provided, however, that in the case of an Incentive Option, any such Acceleration of the Option would not cause the Option to fail to comply with the provisions of Section 422 of the Code or the Optionee consents to the Acceleration.
(e)    Method of Exercise.  An Option may be exercised by the Optionee giving written notice, in the manner provided in Section 18, specifying the number of shares of Stock with respect to which the Option is then being exercised.  The notice shall be accompanied by payment in the form of cash or check payable to the order of the Company in an amount equal to the exercise price of the shares of Stock to be purchased or, subject in each instance to the Committee’s approval, acting in its sole discretion, and to such conditions, if any, as the Committee may deem necessary to avoid adverse accounting effects to the Company, 
(i)    by delivery to the Company of shares of Stock having a Market Value equal to the exercise price of the shares to be purchased, or
(ii)    by surrender of the Option as to all or part of the shares of Stock for which the Option is then exercisable in exchange for shares of Stock having an aggregate Market Value equal to the difference between (1) the aggregate Market Value of the surrendered portion of the Option, and (2) the aggregate exercise price under the Option for the surrendered portion of the Option, or

(iii)    unless prohibited by applicable law, by delivery to the Company of the Optionee’s executed promissory note in the principal amount equal to the exercise price of the shares of Stock to be purchased and otherwise in such form as the Committee shall have approved, or

(iv)  by delivery of any other lawful means of consideration which the Committee may approve.

If the Stock is traded on an established market, payment of any exercise price may also be made through and under the terms and conditions of any formal cashless exercise program authorized by the Company entailing the sale of the Stock subject to an Option in a brokered transaction (other than to the Company).  Receipt by the Company of such notice and payment in any authorized or combination of authorized means shall constitute the exercise of the Option. Within thirty (30) days thereafter but subject to the remaining provisions of the Plan, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Optionee or his agent a certificate or certificates for the number of shares then being purchased or the shares shall be held at the Company’s transfer agent in book entry form with appropriate restrictions relating to the transfer of such shares.  Such shares of Stock shall be fully paid and nonassessable.

(f)    Limit on Incentive Option Characterization.  An Incentive Option shall be considered to be an Incentive Option only to the extent that the number of shares of Stock for which the Option first becomes exercisable in a calendar year do not have an aggregate Market Value (as of the date of the grant of the Option) in excess of the “current limit”.  The current limit for any 

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Optionee for any calendar year shall be $100,000 minus the aggregate Market Value at the date of grant of the number of shares of Stock available for purchase for the first time in the same year under each other Incentive Option previously granted to the Optionee under the Plan, and under each other incentive stock option previously granted to the Optionee under any other incentive stock option plan of the Company and its Affiliates.  Any shares of Stock which would cause the foregoing limit to be violated shall be deemed to have been granted under a separate Nonstatutory Option, otherwise identical in its terms to those of the Incentive Option.
(g)    Notification of Disposition.  Each person exercising any Incentive Option granted under the Plan shall be deemed to have covenanted with the Company to report to the Company any disposition of the shares of Stock issued upon such exercise prior to the expiration of the holding periods specified by Section 422(a)(1) of the Code and, if and to the extent that the realization of income in such a disposition imposes upon the Company federal, state, local or other withholding tax requirements, or any such withholding is required to secure for the Company an otherwise available tax deduction, to remit to the Company an amount in cash sufficient to satisfy those requirements.
7.2.    Stock Appreciation Rights.
(b)    Tandem or Stand-Alone.  Stock Appreciation Rights may be granted in tandem with an Option (at or, in the case of a Nonstatutory Option, after, the award of the Option), or alone and unrelated to an Option. Stock Appreciation Rights in tandem with an Option shall terminate to the extent that the related Option is exercised, and the related Option shall terminate to the extent that the tandem Stock Appreciation Rights are exercised.
(c)    Exercise Price.  Stock Appreciation Rights shall have an exercise price of not less than fifty percent (50%) of the Market Value of the Stock on the date of award, or in the case of Stock Appreciation Rights in tandem with Options, the exercise price of the related Option.
(d)    Other Terms. Except as the Committee may deem inappropriate or inapplicable in the circumstances, Stock Appreciation Rights shall be subject to terms and conditions substantially similar to those applicable to a Nonstatutory Option.  In addition, a Stock Appreciation Right related to an Option which can only be exercised during limited periods following a Change of Control may entitle the Participant to receive an amount based upon the highest price paid or offered for Stock in any transaction relating to the Change of Control or paid during the thirty (30) day period immediately preceding the occurrence of the Change of Control in any transaction reported in the stock market in which the Stock is normally traded.
7.3.    Restricted Stock.
(e)    Purchase Price. Shares of Restricted Stock shall be issued under the Plan for such consideration, in cash, other property or services, or any combination thereof, as is determined by the Committee.
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of Restricted Stock or the shares shall be held at the Company’s transfer agent in book entry form.  If certificates are issued, such certificate shall be registered in the name of such Participant, and, if applicable, shall bear an appropriate legend referring to the terms, conditions, and restrictions applicable to such Award substantially in the following form:
The shares evidenced by this certificate are subject to the terms and conditions of the KAYAK Software Corporation 2012 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended and restated and an Agreement entered into by the registered owner and KAYAK Software Corporation or priceline.com Incorporated, as applicable, copies of which will be furnished by KAYAK Software Corporation or priceline.com Incorporated, as applicable, to the holder of the shares evidenced by this certificate upon written request and without charge.

(g)    Escrow of Shares.  The Committee may require that the stock certificates evidencing shares of Restricted Stock be held in custody by a designated escrow agent (which may but need not be the Company) until the restrictions thereon shall have lapsed, and that the Participant deliver a stock power, endorsed in blank, relating to the Stock covered by such Award.
(h)    Restrictions and Restriction Period.  During the Restriction Period applicable to shares of Restricted Stock, such shares shall be subject to limitations on transferability and a Risk of Forfeiture arising on the basis of such conditions related to the performance of services, Company or Affiliate performance or otherwise as the Committee may determine and provide for in the applicable Agreement.  Any such Risk of Forfeiture may be waived or terminated, or the Restriction Period shortened, at any time by the Committee on such basis as it deems appropriate.
(i)    Rights Pending Lapse of Risk of Forfeiture or Forfeiture of Award.  Except as otherwise provided in the Plan or the applicable Agreement, at all times prior to lapse of any Risk of Forfeiture applicable to, or forfeiture of, an Award of Restricted Stock, the Participant shall have all of the rights of a stockholder of the Company, including the right to vote, and the right to receive any dividends with respect to, the shares of Restricted Stock (but any dividends or other distributions payable in shares of Stock or other securities of the Company shall constitute additional Restricted Stock, subject to the same Risk of Forfeiture as the shares of Restricted Stock in respect of which such shares of Stock or other securities are paid). The Committee, as determined at the time of Award, may permit or require the payment of cash dividends to be deferred and, if the Committee so determines, reinvested in additional Restricted Stock to the extent shares of Stock are available under Section 4.
(j)    Lapse of Restrictions.  If and when the Restriction Period expires without a prior forfeiture of the Restricted Stock, the certificates for such shares shall be delivered to the Participant promptly if not theretofore so delivered or the shares shall be held at the Company’s transfer agent in book entry form with appropriate restrictions relating to the transfer of such shares.  

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7.4.    Restricted Stock Units.
(e)    Character.  Each Restricted Stock Unit shall entitle the recipient to one or more shares of Stock at a close of such Restriction Period as the Committee may establish and subject to a Risk of Forfeiture arising on the basis of such conditions relating to the performance of services, Company or Affiliate performance or otherwise as the Committee may determine and provide for in the applicable Agreement.  Any such Risk of Forfeiture may be waived or terminated, or the Restriction Period shortened, at any time by the Committee on such basis as it deems appropriate.
(f)    Form and Timing of Payment.  Payment of earned Restricted Stock Units shall be made in a single lump sum following the close of the applicable Restriction Period in accordance with applicable law.  At the discretion of the Committee, Participants may be entitled to receive payments equivalent to any dividends declared with respect to Stock referenced in grants of Restricted Stock Units but only following the close of the applicable Restriction Period and then only if the underlying Stock shall have been earned.  Unless the Committee shall provide otherwise, any such dividend equivalents shall be paid, if at all, without interest or other earnings.
7.5.    Performance Share Units.
(a)    Character.  Each Performance Share Unit shall entitle the recipient to the value of a specified number of shares of Stock, over the initial value for such number of shares, if any, established by the Committee at the time of grant, at the close of a specified Performance Period to the extent specified business objectives, including, but not limited to, Performance Goals, shall have been achieved.
(b)    Earning of Performance Share Units. The Committee shall set Performance Goals or other business objectives in its discretion which, depending on the extent to which they are met within the applicable Performance Period, will determine the number and value of Performance Share Units that will be paid out to the Participant. After the applicable Performance Period has ended, the holder of Performance Share Units shall be entitled to receive payout on the number and value of Performance Share Units earned by the Participant over the Performance Period, to be determined as a function of the extent to which the corresponding Performance Goals or other business objectives have been achieved.
(c)    Form and Timing of Payment.  Payment of earned Performance Share Units shall be made in a single lump sum following the close of the applicable Performance Period in accordance with applicable law.  At the discretion of the Committee, Participants may be entitled to receive any dividends declared with respect to Stock which have been earned in connection with grants of Performance Share Units which have been earned, but not yet distributed to Participants.  The Committee may permit or, if it so provides at grant require, a Participant to defer such Participant’s receipt of the payment of cash or the delivery of Stock that would otherwise be due to such Participant by virtue of the satisfaction of any requirements or goals with respect to Performance Share Units.  If any such deferral election is required or permitted, the Committee shall establish rules and procedures for such payment deferrals.

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7.6.    Stock Grants.  Stock Grants shall be awarded solely in recognition of significant prior or expected contributions to the success of the Company or its Affiliates, as an inducement to employment, in lieu of compensation otherwise already due and in such other limited circumstances as the Committee deems appropriate. Stock Grants shall be made without forfeiture conditions of any kind.
7.7.    Qualified Performance-Based Awards.
(a)    Purpose.  The purpose of this Section 7.7 is to provide the Committee the ability to qualify Awards as “performance-based compensation” under Section 162(m) of the Code.  If the Committee, in its discretion, decides to grant an Award as a Qualified Performance-Based Award, the provisions of this Section 7.7 will control over any contrary provision contained in the Plan.  In the course of granting any Award, the Committee may specifically designate the Award as intended to qualify as a Qualified Performance-Based Award.  However, no Award shall be considered to have failed to qualify as a Qualified Performance-Based Award solely because the Award is not expressly designated as a Qualified Performance-Based Award, if the Award otherwise satisfies the provisions of this Section 7.7 and the requirements of Section 162(m) of the Code applicable to “performance-based compensation.”
(b)    Authority.  All grants of Awards intended to qualify as Qualified Performance-Based Awards and the determination of the terms applicable thereto shall be made by the Committee.  If not all of the members thereof qualify as “outside directors” within the meaning of Section 162(m) of the Code, however, all grants of Awards intended to qualify as Qualified Performance-Based Awards and the determination of the terms applicable thereto shall be made by a subcommittee of the Committee consisting of such of the members of the Committee as do so qualify.   Any reference in this Section 7.7 to the Committee shall mean any such subcommittee if required under the preceding sentence, and any action by such a subcommittee shall be considered the action of the Committee for purposes of the Plan.
(c)    Discretion of Committee with Respect to Qualified Performance-Based Awards.   Any form of Award permitted under the Plan, other than a Stock Grant, may be granted as a Qualified Performance-Based Award. Stock Rights may be granted as Qualified Performance-Based Awards in accordance with Section 7.1 or Section 7.2, as appropriate, except that the exercise price of any Option or Stock Appreciation Right intended to qualify as a Qualified Performance-Based Award shall in no event be less that the Market Value or the Fair Market Value, as applicable, of the Stock on the date of grant, and may become exercisable based on continued service, on satisfaction of Performance Goals, or on a combination thereof.  Each other Award intended to qualify as a Qualified Performance-Based Award, such as Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units, or Performance Share Units, shall be subject to satisfaction of one or more Performance Goals except as otherwise provided in this Section 7.7. The Committee will have full discretion to select the length of any applicable Restriction Period or Performance Period, the kind and/or level of the applicable Performance Goal, and whether the Performance Goal is to apply to the Company, a Subsidiary of the Company or any division or business unit or to the individual.  Any Performance Goal or Goals applicable to Qualified Performance-Based Awards shall be objective, shall be established not later than ninety (90) days after the beginning of any applicable Performance Period 

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(or at such other date as may be required or permitted for “performance-based compensation” under Section 162(m) of the Code) and shall otherwise meet the requirements of Section 162(m) of the Code, including the requirement that the outcome of the Performance Goal or Goals be substantially uncertain (as defined for purposes of Section 162(m) of the Code) at the time established.
(d)    Payment of Qualified Performance-Based Awards.  A Participant will be eligible to receive payment under a Qualified Performance-Based Award which is subject to achievement of a Performance Goal or Goals only if the applicable Performance Goal or Goals are achieved within the applicable Performance Period, as determined by the Committee, provided, that a Qualified Performance-Based Award may be deemed earned as a result of death, becoming disabled, or in connection with a Change of Control if otherwise provided in the Plan or the applicable Agreement even if the Award would not constitute “performance-based compensation” under Section 162(m) of the Code following the occurrence of such an event. In determining the actual size of an individual Qualified Performance-Based Award, the Committee may reduce or eliminate the amount of the Qualified Performance-Based Award earned for the Performance Period, if in its sole and absolute discretion it deems such reduction or elimination is appropriate.
(e)    Limitation on Adjustments for Certain Events.  No adjustment of any Qualified Performance-Based Award pursuant to Section 8 shall be made except on such basis, if any, as will not cause such Award to provide other than “performance-based compensation” within the meaning of Section 162(m) of the Code.
(f)    Definitions.  For purposes of the Plan,
(i)    Performance Criteria means the criteria that the Committee selects for purposes of establishing the Performance Goal or Performance Goals for a Participant for a Performance Period. The Performance Criteria used to establish Performance Goals are limited to: (i) cash flow (before or after dividends), (ii) earnings per share (including, without limitation, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization), (iii) stock price, (iv) return on equity, (v) stockholder return or total stockholder return, (vi) return on capital (including, without limitation, return on total capital or return on invested capital), (vii) return on investment, (viii) return on assets or net assets, (ix) market capitalization, (x) economic value added, (xi) debt leverage (debt to capital), (xii) revenue, (xiii) sales or net sales, (xiv) backlog, (xv) income, pre-tax income or net income, (xvi) operating income or pre-tax profit, (xvii) operating profit, net operating profit or economic profit, (xviii) gross margin, operating margin or profit margin, (xix) return on operating revenue or return on operating assets, (xx) cash from operations, (xxi) operating ratio, (xxii) operating revenue, (xxiii) market share improvement, (xxiv) general and administrative expenses and (xxv) customer service.

(ii)    Performance Goals means, for a Performance Period, the written goal or goals established by the Committee for the Performance Period based upon one or more of the Performance Criteria. The Performance Goals may be expressed in terms of overall Company performance or the performance of a division, business unit, subsidiary, or an individual, either individually, alternatively or in any combination, applied to either the 

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Company as a whole or to a business unit or Affiliate, either individually, alternatively or in any combination, and measured either quarterly, annually or cumulatively over a period of years, on an absolute basis or relative to a pre-established target, to previous years’ results or to a designated comparison group, in each case as specified by the Committee. The Committee will objectively define the manner of calculating the Performance Goal or Goals it selects to use for such Performance Period for such Participant, including whether or to what extent there shall not be taken into account any of the following events that occurs during a performance period: (i) asset write-downs, (ii) litigation, claims, judgments or settlements, (iii) the effect of changes in tax law, accounting principles or other such laws or provisions affecting reported results, (iv) accruals for reorganization and restructuring programs and (v) any extraordinary, unusual, non-recurring or non-comparable items (A) as described in Accounting Standard Codification Section 225-20, (B) as described in management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations appearing in the Company’s Annual Report to stockholders for the applicable year, or (C) publicly announced by the Company in a press release or conference call relating to the Company’s results of operations or financial condition for a completed quarterly or annual fiscal period.

7.8.    Awards to Participants Outside the United States.  The Committee may modify the terms of any Award under the Plan granted to a Participant who is, at the time of grant or during the term of the Award, resident or primarily employed outside of the United States in any manner deemed by the Committee to be necessary or appropriate in order that the Award shall conform to laws, regulations, and customs of the country in which the Participant is then resident or primarily employed, or so that the value and other benefits of the Award to the Participant, as affected by foreign tax laws and other restrictions applicable as a result of the Participant’s residence or employment abroad, shall be comparable to the value of such an Award to a Participant who is resident or primarily employed in the United States.  The Committee may establish supplements to, or amendments, restatements, or alternative versions of the Plan for the purpose of granting and administrating any such modified Award.  No such modification, supplement, amendment, restatement or alternative version may increase the share limit of Section 4.
		
	8.
	Adjustment Provisions

8.1.    Adjustment for Corporate Actions.  If subsequent to the Effective Date the outstanding shares of Stock (or any other securities covered by the Plan by reason of the prior application of this Section) are increased, decreased, or exchanged for a different number or kind of shares or other securities, or if additional shares or new or different shares or other securities are distributed with respect to shares of Stock, as a result of a reorganization, recapitalization, reclassification, stock dividend, stock split, reverse stock split, or other similar distribution with respect to such shares of Stock, an appropriate and proportionate adjustment will be made in (a) the maximum numbers and kinds of shares provided in Section 4, (b) the numbers and kinds of shares or other securities subject to the then outstanding Awards, (c) the exercise price for each share or other unit of any other securities subject to then outstanding Stock Rights (without change in the aggregate exercise price as to which such Rights remain exercisable), and (d) the repurchase 

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price of each share of Restricted Stock then subject to a Risk of Forfeiture in the form of a Company repurchase right.
8.2.    Adjustment of Awards Upon the Occurrence of Certain Unusual or Nonrecurring Events.  In the event of any corporate action not specifically covered by the preceding Section, including, but not limited to, an extraordinary cash distribution on Stock, a corporate separation or other reorganization or liquidation, the Committee may make such adjustment of outstanding Awards and their terms, if any, as it, in its sole discretion, may deem equitable and appropriate in the circumstances. The Committee also may make adjustments in the terms and conditions of, and the criteria included in, Awards in recognition of unusual or nonrecurring events (including, without limitation, the events described in this Section) affecting the Company or the financial statements of the Company or of changes in applicable laws, regulations, or accounting principles, whenever the Committee determines that such adjustments are appropriate in order to prevent dilution or enlargement of the benefits or potential benefits intended to be made available under the Plan.
8.3.    Related Matters. Any adjustment in Awards made pursuant to Section 8.1 or 8.2 shall be determined and made, if at all, by the Committee, acting in its sole discretion, and shall include any correlative modification of terms, including of Stock Right exercise prices, rates of vesting or exercisability, Risks of Forfeiture, applicable repurchase prices for Restricted Stock, and Performance Goals and other business objectives which the Committee may deem necessary or appropriate so as to ensure the rights of the Participants in their respective Awards are not substantially diminished nor enlarged as a result of the adjustment and corporate action other than as expressly contemplated in this Section 8.  The Committee, in its discretion, may determine that no fraction of a share of Stock shall be purchasable or deliverable upon exercise, and in that event if any adjustment hereunder of the number of shares of Stock covered by an Award would cause such number to include a fraction of a share of Stock, such number of shares of Stock shall be adjusted to the nearest smaller whole number of shares.  No adjustment of an Option exercise price per share pursuant to Sections 8.1 or 8.2 shall result in an exercise price which is less than the par value of the Stock.
8.4.    Transactions.
(d)    Treatment of Stock Rights.  In a Transaction, the Committee may take any one or more of the following actions as to all or any (or any portion of) outstanding Stock Rights.
 (i)    Provide that such Stock Rights shall be assumed, or substantially equivalent rights shall be provided in substitution therefore, by the acquiring or succeeding entity (or an affiliate thereof).

(ii)    Upon written notice to the holders, provide that the holders’ unexercised Stock Rights will terminate immediately prior to the consummation of such Transaction unless, in the case of Stock Rights then exercisable, such Rights are exercised within a specified period following the date of such notice.

(iii)    Provide that outstanding Stock Rights shall become exercisable in whole or in part prior to or upon the Transaction.

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(iv)    Provide for cash payments, net of applicable tax withholdings, to be made to holders equal to the excess, if any, of (A) the acquisition price times the number of shares of Stock subject to the Stock Right (to the extent the exercise price does not exceed the acquisition price) over (B) the aggregate exercise price for all such shares of Stock subject to the Stock Right, in exchange for the termination of such Stock Right; provided, that if the acquisition price does not exceed the exercise price of any such Stock Right, the Committee may cancel that Stock Right without the payment of any consideration therefore prior to or upon the Transaction. For this purpose, “acquisition price” means the amount of cash, and market value of any other consideration, received in payment for a share of Stock surrendered in a Transaction.

(v)    Provide that, in connection with a liquidation or dissolution of the Company, Stock Rights shall convert into the right to receive liquidation proceeds net of the exercise price thereof and any applicable tax withholdings.

(vi)    Any combination of the foregoing.

For purposes of paragraph (a) above, a Stock Right shall be considered assumed, or a substantially equivalent right shall be considered to have been provided in substitution therefor, if following consummation of the Transaction the Stock Right confers the right to purchase or receive the value (after the applicable exercise price) of the consideration received as a result of the Transaction by holders of Stock for each share of Stock held immediately prior to the consummation of the Transaction for each share of Stock subject to the Right immediately prior to the consummation of the Transaction; provided, however, that if holders were offered a choice of consideration, the relevant consideration shall be the type of consideration chosen by the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Stock; and provided, further, however, that if the consideration received as a result of the Transaction is not solely common stock (or its equivalent) of the acquiring or succeeding entity (or an affiliate thereof), the Committee may provide for the consideration to be received upon the exercise of the Stock Right to consist of or be based on solely common stock (or its equivalent) of the acquiring or succeeding entity (or an affiliate thereof) equivalent in value to the per share consideration received by holders of outstanding shares of Stock as a result of the Transaction.  In all cases, including in determining any acquisition price under paragraph (4) above, the consideration received in any Transaction need not take into account any contingent consideration except on such basis as the
Committee may determine. 

(e)    Treatment of Other Awards.  As to outstanding Awards other than Stock Rights, upon the occurrence of a Transaction other than a liquidation or dissolution of the Company which is not part of another form of Transaction, the repurchase and other rights of the Company under each such Award shall inure to the benefit of the Company’s successor and shall, unless the Committee determines otherwise, apply to the cash, securities or other property which the Stock was converted into or exchanged for pursuant to such Transaction in the same manner and to the same extent as they applied to the Award.  With respect to Awards that were granted prior to May 

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21, 2013, upon the occurrence of a Transaction involving a liquidation or dissolution of the Company which is not part of another form of Transaction, except to the extent specifically provided to the contrary in the instrument evidencing any such Award or any other agreement between a Participant and the Company, all Risks of Forfeiture and Performance Goals or other business objectives, where otherwise applicable to any such Awards, shall automatically be deemed terminated or satisfied, as applicable.
(f)    Related Matters.  In taking any of the actions permitted under this Section 8.4, the Committee shall not be obligated to treat all Awards, all Awards held by a Participant, or all Awards of the same type, identically.  Any determinations required to carry out the foregoing provisions of this Section 8.4, including, but not limited to, the market value of other consideration received by holders of Stock in a Transaction and whether substantially equivalent Rights have been substituted, shall be made by the Committee acting in its sole discretion.  In connection with any action or actions taken by the Committee in respect of Awards and in connection with a Transaction, the Committee may require such acknowledgements of satisfaction and releases from Participants as it may determine.
(g)    Effect of a Transaction which is a Change of Control.  By definition, a Transaction may or may not constitute a Change of Control.  That a Transaction is also a Change of Control shall not by itself limit the Committee’s discretion under this Section 8, but any Acceleration or other vesting of outstanding Awards granted prior to May 21, 2013 required under Section 9 shall apply prior to determining the action or actions available to the Committee in the Transaction under this Section 8 in respect of each outstanding Award granted prior to May 21, 2013.
		
	9.
	Change of Control/Change in Control

(k)    Except as otherwise provided below or in any applicable Agreement, with respect to Awards granted prior to May 21, 2013, upon the occurrence of a Change of Control:
(i)    the following provisions of this Section 9(a)(i) shall apply solely to Awards that are Initial Awards:
(A)  such Stock Rights not already exercisable in full shall Accelerate with respect to fifty percent (50%) of the shares for which such Stock Rights are not then exercisable;

(B) any Risk of Forfeiture applicable to such Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Units which is not based on achievement of Performance Goals or other business objectives shall lapse with respect to fifty percent (50%) of such Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Units still subject to such Risk of Forfeiture immediately prior to the Change of Control;

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Performance Share Units shall be deemed to have been satisfied as of the effective date of the Change of Control as to fifty percent (50%) of the shares as to which the relevant Performance Goals or other business objectives had not been achieved prior to the Change of Control and as to which the applicable Restriction Period or Performance Period had not then elapsed.  All such Awards of Performance Share Units and Restricted Stock Units shall be paid to the extent earned to Participants in accordance with their terms within thirty (30) days following the effective date of the Change of Control; and

(ii)    the following provisions of this Section 9(a)(ii) shall apply to every Award (whether or not such Award is an Initial Award) granted prior to May 21, 2013: with respect to any Participant, the Awards held by such Participant shall Accelerate in full (A) upon such Participant’s employment or other association with the Company and its Affiliates being terminated by the Company without Cause or by such Participant for Good Reason, in either case within one year after the date such Change of Control is determined to have occurred, or (B) upon the date such Change in Control is determined to have occurred if such Participant’s employment or other association with the Company and its Affiliates is terminated by the Company without Cause or by such Participant for Good Reason, in either case, within sixty (60) days prior to the date on which such Change of Control is determined to have occurred and the Committee determines, in its sole discretion, that such termination or circumstance giving rise to such Good Reason was at the request of a third party that took actions to effect the Change of Control or otherwise arose in connection with or anticipation of such Change of Control.
None of the foregoing shall apply, however, (x) in the case of any Award pursuant to an Agreement requiring other or additional terms upon a Change of Control (or similar event), (y) to any Award granted on or after May 21, 2013, or (z) if specifically prohibited under applicable laws, or by the rules and regulations of any governing governmental agencies or national securities exchanges.  Nor shall the foregoing apply in the case of a Qualified Performance-Based Award except to the extent the foregoing would not interfere with the qualification of the Award under 162(m) of the Code at any time prior to a Change of Control (so that, for example, if a Change of Control occurs but does not constitute a change of control within the meaning of Section 162(m) of the Code, there shall be no Acceleration of any Qualified Performance-Based Award pursuant to this Section 9, but if the Change of Control does constitute a change of control within the meaning of Section 162(m) of the Code, then the Award shall Accelerate to the extent provided above regardless of whether it thereafter ceases to qualify as a Qualified Performance-Based Award).

(l)    Notwithstanding anything in the Plan to the contrary, with respect to Awards granted on or after May 21, 2013, upon the occurrence of a Change in Control, no Acceleration of exercisability, vesting or lapsing shall occur on a Change in Control except to the extent, if any, provided in the specific Agreement or as otherwise determined by the Committee or the Board.  Notwithstanding anything in the Plan to the contrary, upon the occurrence of a Change in Control, the Company or other person effecting the Change in Control, in his, her, or its discretion, deliver to the holder of an Award granted on or after May 21, 2013 the same kind of consideration that is 

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delivered to the stockholders of the Company as a result of such Change in Control, or, in the case of Options granted on or after May 21, 2013, the Board may cancel all outstanding Options in exchange for consideration in cash or in kind which consideration in both cases shall be equal in value to the higher of (i) the Fair Market Value of those shares of Stock or other securities the holder of such Option would have received had the Option been exercised and no disposition of the shares acquired upon such exercise been made prior to such sale, conveyance or Change in Control, less the exercise price therefor, and (ii) the Fair Market Value of those shares of Stock or other securities the holder of the Option would have received had the Option been exercised and no disposition of the shares acquired upon such exercise been made immediately following such sale, conveyance or Change in Control, less the exercise price therefor.  Upon liquidation or dissolution of the Company, all Options and other Awards granted on or after May 21, 2013 under this Plan shall terminate, but each holder of an Option shall have the right, immediately prior to such dissolution or liquidation, to exercise his or her Option to the extent then exercisable.
		
	10.
	Settlement of Awards

10.1.    In General.  Awards of Restricted Stock shall be settled in accordance with their terms.  All other Awards may be settled in cash or Stock, or a combination thereof, as determined by the Committee at or after grant and subject to any contrary Agreement.  The Committee may not require settlement of any Award in Stock pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence to the extent issuance of such Stock would be prohibited or unreasonably delayed by reason of any other provision of the Plan.
10.2.    Violation of Law.  Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan or the relevant Agreement, if, at any time, in the reasonable opinion of the Company, the issuance of shares of Stock covered by an Award may constitute a violation of law, then the Company may delay such issuance and the delivery of a certificate for such shares until (i) approval shall have been obtained from such governmental agencies, other than the Securities and Exchange Commission, as may be required under any applicable law, rule, or regulation and (ii) in the case where such issuance would constitute a violation of a law administered by or a regulation of the Securities and Exchange Commission, one of the following conditions shall have been satisfied:
(h)    the shares of Stock are at the time of the issue of such shares effectively registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; or
(i)    the Company shall have determined, on such basis as it deems appropriate (including an opinion of counsel in form and substance satisfactory to the Company) that the sale, transfer, assignment, pledge, encumbrance or other disposition of such shares does not require registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended or any applicable State securities laws. The Company shall make all reasonable efforts to bring about the occurrence of said events.
10.3.    Investment Representations.  The Company shall be under no obligation to issue any shares of Stock covered by any Award unless the shares to be issued pursuant to Awards granted under the Plan have been effectively registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Participant shall have made such written representations to the Company (upon which the Company believes it may reasonably rely) as the Company may deem necessary or appropriate for 

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purposes of confirming that the issuance of such shares will be exempt from the registration requirements of that Act and any applicable state securities laws and otherwise in compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations, including, but not limited to, that the Participant is acquiring the shares for his or her own account for the purpose of investment and not with a view to, or for sale in connection with, the distribution of any such shares.
10.4.    Tax Withholding.  Whenever shares of Stock are issued or to be issued pursuant to Awards granted under the Plan, the Company shall have the right to require the recipient to remit to the Company an amount sufficient to satisfy federal, state, local, foreign or other withholding tax requirements if, when, and to the extent required by law (whether so required to secure for the Company an otherwise available tax deduction or otherwise) prior to the delivery of any certificate or certificates for such shares.  The obligations of the Company under the Plan shall be conditional on satisfaction of all such withholding obligations and the Company shall, to the extent permitted by law, have the right to deduct any such taxes from any payment of any kind otherwise due to the recipient of an Award.  However, in such cases Participants may elect, subject to the approval of the Committee, acting in its sole discretion, to satisfy an applicable withholding requirement, in whole or in part, by having the Company withhold shares of Stock to satisfy their tax obligations. Participants may only elect to have shares of Stock withheld having a Market Value (or Fair Market Value, whichever applies) on the date the tax is to be determined equal to the minimum statutory total tax which could be imposed on the transaction.  All elections shall be irrevocable, made in writing, signed by the Participant, and shall be subject to any restrictions or limitations that the Committee deems appropriate.
10.5.     Company Charter and By-Laws; Other Company Policies.  This Plan and all Awards granted hereunder are subject to the certificate of incorporation and by-laws of the Company, as they may be amended from time to time, and all other Company policies duly adopted by the Board, the Committee or any other committee of the Board as in effect from time to time regarding the acquisition, ownership or sale of Stock by employees and other service providers, including, without limitation, policies intended to limit the potential for insider trading and to avoid or recover compensation payable or paid on the basis of inaccurate financial results or statements, employee conduct, and other similar events.
		
	11.
	Reservation of Stock

The Company shall at all times during the term of the Plan and any outstanding Awards granted hereunder reserve or otherwise keep available such number of shares of Stock as will be sufficient to satisfy the requirements of the Plan (if then in effect) and the Awards and shall pay all fees and expenses necessarily incurred by the Company in connection therewith.

		
	12.
	Limitation of Rights in Stock; No Special Service Rights

A Participant shall not be deemed for any purpose to be a stockholder of the Company with respect to any of the shares of Stock subject to an Award, unless and until (a) a certificate shall have been issued therefor and delivered to the Participant or his agent or (b) the shares are recorded by the transfer agent in book entry form.  Any Stock to be issued pursuant to Awards granted under the Plan shall be subject to all restrictions upon the transfer thereof which may be now or hereafter 

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imposed by the certificate of incorporation and the by-laws of the Company.  Nothing contained in the Plan or in any Agreement shall confer upon any recipient of an Award any right with respect to the continuation of his or her employment or other association with the Company (or any Affiliate), or interfere in any way with the right of the Company (or any Affiliate), subject to the terms of any separate employment or consulting agreement or provision of law or certificate of incorporation or by-laws to the contrary, at any time to terminate such employment or consulting agreement or to increase or decrease, or otherwise adjust, the other terms and conditions of the recipient’s employment or other association with the Company and its Affiliates.

		
	13.
	Unfunded Status of Plan

The Plan is intended to constitute an “unfunded” plan for incentive compensation, and the Plan is not intended to constitute a plan subject to the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.  With respect to any payments not yet made to a Participant by the Company, nothing contained herein shall give any such Participant any rights that are greater than those of a general creditor of the Company.  In its sole discretion, the Committee may authorize the creation of trusts or other arrangements to meet the obligations created under the Plan to deliver Stock or payments with respect to Stock Rights and other Awards hereunder, provided, however, that the existence of such trusts or other arrangements is consistent with the unfunded status of the Plan.

		
	14.
	Nonexclusivity of the Plan

Neither the adoption of the Plan by the Board nor any action taken in connection with the adoption or operation of the Plan shall be construed as creating any limitations on the power of the Board to adopt such other incentive arrangements as it may deem desirable, including without limitation, the granting of stock options and restricted stock other than under the Plan, and such arrangements may be either applicable generally or only in specific cases.

		
	15.
	Guarantee of Tax Consequences

Neither the Company nor any Affiliate, nor any director, officer, agent, representative or employee of either, guarantees to the Participant or any other person any particular tax consequences as a result of the grant of, exercise of rights under, or payment in respect of an Award, including, but not limited to, that an Option granted as an Incentive Option has or will qualify as an “incentive stock option” within the meaning of Section 422 of the Code or that the provisions and penalties of Section 409A of the Code, pertaining to non-qualified plans of deferred compensation, will or will not apply.

		
	16.
	Termination and Amendment of the Plan

16.1.    Termination or Amendment of the Plan.  Subject to the limitations contained in Section 16.3 below, including specifically the requirement of stockholder approval if applicable, the Board may at any time terminate the Plan or make such modifications of the Plan as it shall 

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deem advisable.  Unless the Board otherwise expressly provides, no amendment of the Plan shall affect the terms of any Award outstanding on the date of such amendment.
16.2.    Termination or Amendment of Outstanding Awards; Assumptions.  Subject to the limitations contained in Section 16.3 below, including specifically the requirement of stockholder approval if applicable, the Committee may at any time:
(a)    amend the terms of any Award theretofore granted, prospectively or retroactively, provided that the Award as amended is consistent with the terms of the Plan;
(b)    accept the cancellation of outstanding Awards or of outstanding stock options or other equity-based compensation awards granted by another issuer in return for the grant of new Awards for the same or a different number of shares of Stock and on the same or different terms and conditions (including but not limited to the exercise price of any Option); and
(c)    (i) offer to buy out for a payment in cash or cash equivalents, or in exchange for another Award, any Award previously granted or (ii) authorize the recipient of an Award to elect to cash out an Award previously granted, in either case at such time and based upon such terms and conditions as the Committee shall establish.
16.3.    Limitations on Amendments, Etc.
Without the approval of the Company’s stockholders, no amendment or modification of the Plan by the Board may (a) increase the number of shares of Stock which may be issued under the Plan, (b) change the description of the persons eligible for Awards, or (iii) effect any other change for which stockholder approval is required by law or the rules of any relevant stock exchange. Furthermore, except in connection with a corporate transaction involving the Company, the terms of outstanding Stock Rights may not be amended to reduce their exercise price, nor may outstanding Stock Rights be cancelled in exchange for cash, Stock Rights with exercise prices that are less than the exercise prices of the original Stock Rights, or other Awards, without stockholder approval.

No amendment or modification of the Plan by the Board, or of an outstanding Award by the Committee, shall impair the rights of the recipient of any Award outstanding on the date of such amendment or modification or such Award, as the case may be, without the Participant’s consent; provided, however, that no such consent shall be required if (i) the Board or Committee, as the case may be, determines in its sole discretion and prior to the date of any Change of Control that such amendment or alteration either is required or advisable in order for the Company, the Plan or the Award to satisfy any law or regulation, including without limitation the provisions of Section 409A of the Code, or to meet the requirements of or avoid adverse financial accounting consequences under any accounting standard, or (ii) the Board or Committee, as the case may be, determines in its sole discretion and prior to the date of any Change of Control that such amendment or alteration is not reasonably likely to significantly diminish the benefits provided under the Award, or that any such diminution has been adequately compensated.

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	17.
	Clawback Policy

Any Agreement may provide for an Award to be subject to any clawback policy of the Company that may be in effect from time to time or is required under any applicable law or rules and regulations of the national securities exchange or national securities association on which shares of Stock may be traded.  
		
	18.
	Notices and Other Communications

Any notice, demand, request or other communication hereunder to any party shall be deemed to be sufficient if contained in a written instrument delivered in person or duly sent by first class registered, certified or overnight mail, postage prepaid, or telecopied with a confirmation copy by regular, certified or overnight mail, addressed or telecopied, as the case may be, (a) if to the recipient of an Award, at his or her residence address last filed with the Company and (b) if to the Company, at its principal place of business, addressed to the attention of its Treasurer, or to such other address or telecopier number, as the case may be, as the addressee may have designated by notice to the addressor.  All such notices, requests, demands and other communications shall be deemed to have been received: (i) in the case of personal delivery, on the date of such delivery; (ii) in the case of mailing, when received by the addressee; and (iii) in the case of facsimile transmission, when confirmed by facsimile machine report.

		
	19.
	Administrative Provisions

Nothing contained in the Plan shall require the issuance or delivery of certificates for any period during which the Company has elected to maintain or caused to be maintained the evidence of ownership of its shares of Stock, either generally or in the case of Stock acquired pursuant to Awards, by book entry, and all references herein to such actions or to certificates shall be interpreted accordingly in light of the systems maintained for that purpose. Furthermore, any reference herein to actions to be taken or notices (including of grants of Awards) to be provided in writing or pursuant to specific procedures may be satisfied by means of and pursuant to any electronic or automated voice response systems the Company may elect to establish for such purposes, either by itself or through the services of a third party, for the period such systems are in effect.

		
	20.
	Governing Law

It is intended that all Awards shall be granted and maintained on a basis which ensures they are exempt from, or otherwise compliant with, the requirements of Section 409A of the Code and the Plan shall be governed, interpreted and enforced consistent with such intent. Neither the Committee nor the Company, nor any of its Affiliates or its or their officers, employees, agents, or representatives, shall have any liability or responsibility for any adverse federal, state or local tax consequences and penalty taxes which may result in the grant or settlement of any Award on a basis contrary to the provisions of Section 409A of the Code or comparable provisions of any applicable state or local income tax laws. The Plan and all Agreements and actions taken thereunder otherwise shall be governed, interpreted and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to the conflict of laws principles thereof.

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	21.
	Successors and Assigns.

All obligations of the Company under the Plan and with respect to Awards will be binding on any assign or successor to the Company, whether the existence of the successor is the result of a direct or indirect purchase, merger, consolidation, or other event, or a sale or disposition of all or substantially all of the business and/or assets of the Company, and references to the “Company” in the Plan and in any Agreement will be deemed to refer to such assigns or successors.

-28-8-K 02.19.2015 Exhibit 10.1

Exhibit 10.1

KIMBALL INTERNATIONAL, INC.

PERFORMANCE UNIT AWARD AGREEMENT

THIS PERFORMANCE UNIT AWARD AGREEMENT (“Award Agreement”), dated the ____ day of ___________, 20__ (“Award Date”), is granted by KIMBALL INTERNATIONAL, INC., an Indiana corporation, (“Company”), to _________________ (“Employee”) pursuant to the terms of the Company’s Amended and Restated 2003 Stock Option and Incentive Plan (“Plan”) and the Company’s Total Shareholder Return program.

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors and the Compensation and Governance Committee of the Company (“Committee”) believe it to be in the best interests of the Company and its share owners for its officers and other key employees to obtain or increase their stock ownership interest in the Company in order that they will thus have a greater incentive to work for and manage the Company's affairs in such a way that its shares may become more valuable; thereby aligning the personal interests of officers and key employees with those of the Company's share owners; and

WHEREAS, the Employee is employed by the Company or one of its subsidiaries as an officer or key employee;

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of these premises and of services to be performed by the Employee, the Company hereby grants this Performance Unit Award to the Employee on the terms and conditions hereinafter expressed and subject to the terms of the Plan. 

		
	1.
	GRANT OF PERFORMANCE UNITS

The Company hereby grants to the Employee a total of _________ (__) Performance Units under this Award Agreement, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Award Agreement and the Plan (the “Award”).  Each Performance Unit represents the right to receive one (1) share (a “Share”) of Common Stock of the Company, previously known as Class B shares (“Common Stock”), subject to the eligibility, performance and other terms and conditions set forth in this Award Agreement and the Plan.  The number of Performance Units granted above will function as a target (the “Target”), with the number of actual Performance Units, if any, ultimately earned under this Award Agreement to be determined in accordance with the terms of this Award Agreement and the Plan.

		
	2.
	PERFORMANCE CYCLE

For purposes of this Award, the “Performance Cycle” is the __-month period commencing ____________ and ending _________. 

		
	3.
	SATISFACTION OF PERFORMANCE-BASED CONDITIONS

Subject to the eligibility conditions described in Section 4 of this Award Agreement, and the satisfaction of the performance conditions set forth in Section 5 of this Award Agreement, the Company intends to award Shares hereunder to the Employee at the end of the Performance Cycle.  Except as set forth in Section 4.C.(ii) and Section 7 of this Award Agreement, no Shares in settlement of the Performance Units shall be issued to the Employee prior to the end of the Performance Cycle. 

		
	4.
	ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS

		
	A.
	If the Employee remains in Continuous Service through the last day of the Performance Cycle, the Employee will be entitled to the number of Performance Units, if any, determined to be earned by the Employee under the terms and conditions of this Award Agreement and the Plan.

		
	B.
	If the Employee ceases Continuous Service before the end of the Performance Cycle for any reason other than Disability, death or Retirement, the Employee will forfeit all rights with respect to any Performance Units under this Award Agreement.  

		
	C.
	Disability, Death or Retirement.

		
	(i)
	If the Employee ceases Continuous Service before the end of the Performance Cycle by reason of Disability or Retirement, the number of Performance Units to which Employee may be entitled under this Award Agreement, if any, will be determined as of the last day of the Performance Cycle, but shall be prorated to reflect the portion of the Performance Cycle that the Employee worked prior to such Disability or Retirement.

		
	(a)
	Continuous Service, Disability and Retirement are defined in the Plan.  

		
	(b)
	To be considered a Retirement under this Award Agreement, the Employee must have incurred a Separation of Service, as defined in Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”).  “Separation from Service” shall mean a "separation from service" within the meaning of Code Section 409A(a)(2)(A)(i) and Treasury regulation section 1.409A-1(h) and shall mean with respect to an Employee, the complete termination of the employment relationship between the Employee and the Company and/or all affiliated employers within the meaning of Code Section 414(b) or (c), for any reason other than death.

		
	(ii)
	If the Employee ceases Continuous Service before the end of the Performance Cycle by reason of the Employee’s death, the Performance Cycle for purposes of this Award Agreement shall be treated as ending on the date of the Employee’s death.  In the event of Employee’s death, the Performance Unit Payout shall be at 100% of Target and prorated for the modified Performance Cycle.  Except as provided below, the Shares corresponding to such earned Performance Units shall be paid within thirty (30) days following the date of the Employee’s death.  

		
	D.
	Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in the Plan or this Award Agreement, the Employee shall forfeit any Performance Units awarded hereunder in the event that:    

		
	(i)
	The Employee is discharged by the Company from his or her employment with the Company for Cause.  For purposes herein, “Cause” shall mean, with respect to termination of the Employee’s employment with the Company, one or more of the following occurrences:  (1) Employee’s willful and continued failure to perform substantially the duties of Employee’s position or to follow lawful instructions of a senior executive or the Board of Directors, if such failure continues for a period of five days after the Company delivers to Employee a written notice identifying such failure; (2) Employee’s conviction of a felony or of another crime that reflects adversely on the Company; or (3) Employee’s engaging in fraudulent or dishonest 

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conduct, gross misconduct that is injurious to the Company, or any misconduct that involves moral turpitude;  or
		
	(ii)
	The Employee breaches any of his or her employee and ancillary agreements, including without limitation, any confidentiality or non-solicitation obligation documented by agreement (collectively, “Employee Agreement”).  In addition, for purposes herein, an Employee shall be deemed to have breached an Employee Agreement if the Employee seeks judicial intervention to limit or nullify the terms of such agreement. 

		
	E.
	In the event that Performance Units are earned by, and Shares are paid to, the Employee under this Award Agreement and within twelve (12) months after the payment of such Shares to the Employee, (a) the Company identifies facts that result in, or, in the event of payment of such Shares as a result of Retirement or Disability, would have resulted in, a termination for Cause, or (b) the Employee breaches an Employee Agreement, then, in addition to the forfeiture under Section 4.D. of this Award Agreement, the Employee agrees to repay the value of such Shares received under this Award Agreement within thirty (30) days of the date of written demand by the Company (“Clawback Amount”). 

		
	5.
	PERFORMANCE CONDITIONS – DETERMINATION OF TOTAL NUMBER OF PERFORMANCE UNITS EARNED AND VESTED

		
	A.
	Earned Performance Units will vest in full on the last day of the Performance Cycle and will be paid in Shares as soon as administratively practicable after the close of the Performance Cycle, but in no event more than 30 days following the last day of the Performance Cycle.  

		
	B.
	Subject to the eligibility conditions in Section 4 of this Award Agreement, after completion of the Performance Cycle, the total number of Performance Units determined to be earned and vested will be based entirely on the Company’s Relative Total Shareholder Return (“Relative TSR”), as determined in this Section 5.B., as of the last day of the Performance Cycle.  For purposes of this Award, Total Shareholder Return (“TSR”) shall be expressed as a compound annual growth rate as calculated in the following example, with the ##-month period representing the number of months of the award:

	
						
	TSR  =
	(
	Ending stock price + dividends paid
	)
	12
##
	– 1

	Beginning stock price
	 

		
	(i)
	“Beginning Stock Price” shall mean the average closing price as reported on the Nasdaq National Market (or such other principal exchange on which the Company’s Common Stock is then listed for trading), of one (1) Share of the Company’s Common Stock for the thirty (30) trading days immediately prior to the first day of the Performance Cycle. Should Company enter into a stock split or reverse stock split during the Performance Cycle, the Beginning Stock Price will be equitably adjusted in the calculation to address this change in shares outstanding.

		
	(ii)
	“Ending Stock Price” shall mean the average closing price as reported on the Nasdaq National Market (or such other principal exchange on which the Company’s Common Stock is then listed for trading) of one (1) Share of the Company’s Common Stock for the last thirty (30) trading days of the Performance Cycle.

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	(iii)
	“Dividends Paid” shall include all dividends declared, with an ex-dividend date within the Performance Cycle,  if any, with respect to the Shares underlying the Performance Units that are the subject of this Award Agreement.  

		
	(iv)
	To determine Relative TSR, a peer group of companies approved by the Committee will be used.  The peer group shall consist of those companies set forth on Exhibit 1 to this Award Agreement.  If any company in the then-applicable peer group declares bankruptcy, the company shall remain in the peer group.  However, if a company in the peer group undergoes a corporate transaction or other reorganization, such as a spin, split, or delisting, that company shall be removed from the beginning and ending calculations.  

		
	(v)
	Each peer group company’s TSR expressed as a compound annual growth rate (“CAGR”) will be determined at the end of the Performance Cycle.   The 80th, 50th and 30th percentile TSRs of the peer group will then be computed to determine the Performance Unit Payout as a Percent of Target in accordance with the following chart.  The TSR for companies included in the peer group shall be calculated using the same formula as for the Company, but using each peer group company’s own stock price and dividends. 

	
		
	Relative TSR
	Performance Unit Payout as a Percent of Target

	80th Percentile and above
	200%

	50th Percentile
	100%

	30th Percentile
	50%

	Less than 30th Percentile
	0%

For any Relative TSR between the 80th and 50th percentiles, or between the 50th and 30th percentiles, the payout percentage of the Target shall be interpolated.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Award Agreement and in accordance with the terms of the Plan, the maximum aggregate payout under this Award Agreement shall not exceed 200% of the Target.

Example:  An Employee is granted a target of 10 Performance Units for a Performance Cycle.  If the Company’s Relative TSR for the Performance Cycle positions the Company at the 65th Percentile of the peer group, the Employee would be entitled to receive 15 Shares (based on interpolating from the chart to a 150% Award payout).

Notwithstanding the provisions and chart above for determination of the Performance Unit payout percentage, if the Company’s TSR for the Performance Cycle is less than zero, the payout as a percentage of the Target shall not exceed 100%.  

		
	6.
	SETTLEMENT OF THE AWARD AND DELIVERY OF SHARES

The number of earned Performance Units shall be determined by multiplying the number of Performance Units granted in Section 1 of this Award Agreement by the applicable percentage from the chart in Section 5 of this Award Agreement corresponding to the Company’s Relative TSR for the Performance Cycle.  Earned Performance Units shall be paid in Shares, as soon as administratively practicable following the close of the applicable Performance Cycle, but in no event more than 30 days following the last day of the 

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Performance Cycle.  In determining the number of Shares to be paid to the Employee, the Shares will be rounded down to the number of full shares, excluding any fractional shares.

		
	7.
	CHANGE IN CONTROL

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Award Agreement, in the event of a Change in Control during the Performance Cycle, the Performance Cycle for purposes of this Award Agreement shall be treated as ending on the earlier of the last date of the original Performance Cycle in Section 2 of this Award Agreement or the effective date of the Change in Control.  In the event of a Change in Control, the Performance Unit Payout shall be at 100% of Target and prorated for the modified Performance Cycle.  Except as provided below, the Shares corresponding to such earned Performance Units shall be paid within thirty (30) days following the effective date of the Change in Control.  

For purposes herein, “Change in Control” means the consummation of any of the following that is not an Excluded Transaction: (i) the acquisition, by any one person or more than one person acting as a Group, of Majority Ownership of a Relevant Company through merger, consolidation, or stock transfer; (ii) the acquisition during any 12-month period, by any one person or more than one person acting as a Group, of ownership interests in a Relevant Company possessing 35 percent or more of the total voting power of all ownership interests in the Relevant Company; (iii) the acquisition of ownership during any 12-month period, by any one person or more than one person acting as a Group, of 40 percent or more of the total gross fair market value of the assets of a Relevant Company; or (iv) the replacement of a majority of members of the Board of Directors during any 12-month period, by members whose appointment or election is not endorsed by a majority of the members of the Board of Directors prior to the date of the appointment or election.  For purposes of this definition: "Relevant Company" means, with respect to Employee, Kimball International, Inc., any Affiliate that employs Employee, any entity that has Majority Ownership of either Kimball International, Inc. or that Affiliate, or any entity in an uninterrupted chain of Majority Ownership culminating in the ownership of Kimball International, Inc. or that Affiliate; "Excluded Transaction" means any occurrence that does not constitute a change in the ownership or effective control, or in the ownership of a substantial portion of the assets of, a Relevant Company within the meaning of Code Section 409A(a)(2)(A)(v) and its interpretive regulations; "Majority Ownership" of an entity means ownership interests representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the total fair market value or of the total voting power of all ownership interests in the entity; "Group" has the meaning provided in Code Section 409A and its interpretive regulations with respect to changes in ownership, effective control, and ownership of assets; and an individual who owns a vested option to purchase either stock or another ownership interest is deemed to own that stock or other ownership interest.

		
	8.
	SHARE CHANGES

If the Company shall at any time change the number of shares of its Common Stock without new consideration to the Company (such as by stock dividend or stock split), the total number of shares subject to the Award Agreement hereunder shall be changed in proportion to the change in issued shares.  If during the term of this Award Agreement the Common Stock of the Company shall be changed into another kind of securities of the Company or into cash, securities or evidences of indebtedness of another corporation, other property or any combination thereof, whether as a result of reorganization, sale, merger, consolidation, or other similar transaction, the Company shall cause adequate provision to be made whereby the Recipient shall thereafter be entitled to receive upon expiration of the Award Agreement, the cash, securities, evidences of indebtedness, other property or any combination thereof, the Recipient would have been entitled to receive for Common Stock acquired through this Award Agreement immediately prior to the effective date of such transaction.  If appropriate, the number of shares of this 

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Award Agreement following such reorganization, sale, merger, consolidation or other similar transaction may be adjusted, in each case in such equitable manner as the Committee may select.

		
	9.
	TRANSFER

Neither this Award nor any right or interest of the Employee in any Award under the Plan may be assigned, encumbered or transferred otherwise than by will or the laws of descent and distribution.

		
	10.
	VOTING RIGHTS AND DIVIDENDS

The Employee will not have any voting rights with respect to the Performance Units and shall not be entitled to receive any Dividends Paid or dividends declared with respect to the Performance Units subject to this Award Agreement.  The Employee will obtain voting rights and become entitled to receive any dividends only after any earned Shares are transferred to the Employee.  

		
	11.
	TAXES AND WITHHOLDING

Payment of the Award under this Award Agreement, under current applicable laws, will result in various federal and/or state taxes becoming due, including, but not limited to, income and social security. The Employee is responsible for the timely payment of these taxes, and provision will be made by the Company to satisfy these obligations by withholding of Shares equal in value to the minimum amount of federal, state and local taxes required by the taxing authorities. The value of the Shares withheld will be determined by using the appropriate method under applicable tax regulations.

		
	12.
	ADMINISTRATION

This Award Agreement and your rights under it are subject to all terms and conditions of the Plan, as the same may be amended from time to time, as well as to such rules and regulations as the Committee may adopt for administration of the Plan.  The parties acknowledge that the Committee or its designee is authorized to administer, construe and make all determinations necessary or appropriate to the administration of the Plan and this Award Agreement, in its sole discretion, all of which shall be binding on the Employee.

		
	13.
	AMENDMENT

In the event any new modifications or changes are made to existing laws that render any or all of this Award Agreement illegal or unenforceable, this Award Agreement may be amended to the extent necessary in order to carry out the intention of the Award to the Employee.  The Committee may amend this Award Agreement in other respects, without the Employee’s consent, if the amendment will not have an adverse effect on the Employee’s rights under this Agreement as in effect immediately before the amendment. 

		
	14.
	RESTRICTIONS ON SHARES

There will be no restrictions on the Shares of Common Stock paid to the Employee under this Award Agreement.

		
	15.
	CODE SECTION 409A

		
	A.
	The parties intend that the payments and benefits under the Plan and this Award Agreement comply with Code Section 409A, to the extent applicable, and accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted, the Plan and this Award Agreement shall be interpreted and administered to be in compliance therewith.  Any payments described in this Award 

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Agreement or the Plan that are due within the “short-term deferral period” as defined in Code Section 409A shall not be treated as deferred compensation unless applicable law requires otherwise.
		
	B.
	Notwithstanding any provisions in the Plan to the contrary, to the extent that the Company has any stock which is publicly traded on an established securities market or otherwise, if the Employee is a Specified Employee and Separates from Service, any payment of deferred compensation, within the meaning of Code Section 409A, otherwise payable under this Award Agreement because of employment termination will be suspended until, and will be paid to the Employee on, the first day of the seventh month following the month in which Separation from Service occurs. Payments delayed by the preceding sentence shall be accumulated and paid on the earliest administratively feasible date permitted by such sentence.  “Specified Employee” shall mean an individual who, at the time of his or her Separation from Service, is a “specified employee” within the meaning of Code Section 409A(a)(2)(B)(i) and Treasury regulation section 1.409A-1(i).  

		
	16.
	PLAN CONTROLLING

The Award is subject to all of the terms and conditions of the Plan except to the extent that those terms and conditions are supplemented or modified by this Award Agreement, as authorized by the Plan. Capitalized terms used in this Award Agreement and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Plan. All determinations and interpretations of the Committee shall be binding and conclusive upon the Employee and his or her legal representatives.

		
	17.
	QUALIFICATION OF RIGHTS

Neither this Award Agreement nor the existence of the Award shall be construed as giving the Employee any right (a) to be retained as an employee of the Company; or (b) as a shareholder with respect to the shares of Common Stock earned pursuant to the Award until the certificates for the Common Stock have been issued and delivered to the Employee.

		
	18.
	GOVERNING LAW

This Award Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Indiana.

		
	19.
	REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

		
	A.
	The Employee represents and warrants that he or she has received and reviewed a Plan Memorandum, which summarizes the provisions of the Plan.

		
	B.
	The Company makes no representations or warranties as to the tax consequences of and benefits vested or payable under this Award, and in no event shall the Company be responsible or liable for any taxes, penalties or interest assessed against the Employee for any benefit or payment provided under this Award.

		
	C.
	The Employee represents and warrants his/her understanding that the grant of the Performance Units by the Company is voluntary and does not create in the Employee any contractual or other right to receive future grants of Performance Units, or benefits in lieu of Performance Units in any circumstance.  All decisions with respect to any future awards will be made in the sole discretion of the Company.  

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	20.
	SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

This Award Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the successors, assigns and heirs of the respective parties.

		
	21.
	WAIVER

The failure of a party to insist upon strict adherence to any term of this Award Agreement on any occasion shall not be considered a waiver thereof or deprive that party of the right thereafter to insist upon strict adherence to that term or any other term of this Award Agreement.

		
	22.
	TITLES

Titles are provided herein for convenience only and are not to serve as a basis for interpretation or construction of the Award Agreement. 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused the execution hereof by its duly authorized officer and Employee has agreed to the terms and conditions of this Award Agreement, all as of the day and date first above written.
	
		
	The Company

	 
	 

	By:
	 

	 
	[Name]
[Title]
Kimball International, Inc.

	 
	 

The undersigned employee has read, acknowledged and accepts the terms of the Award, the Award Agreement, and the Plan.

	
	
	 

	Employee Signature

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Exhibit 1
Peer Group Companies

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