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Amendment No. 2 to Executive Employment Agreement

 Exhibit 10.1 
 EXECUTION VERSION 
 AMENDMENT NO. 2

 TO 
 EXECUTIVE EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT 
 THIS AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO EXECUTIVE EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
(the “Amendment”) is effective as of December 29, 2010 between Spark Networks, Inc. (the “Company”) and Adam S. Berger (“Executive”), the Company’s Chief Executive Officer. Capitalized terms used herein and
not defined shall have the meanings given to them in the Executive Employment Agreement, effective February 12, 2007, between Executive and the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Spark Networks Limited (formerly known as Spark Networks
plc, the “Subsidiary”), and which the Company assumed as the Subsidiary’s successor and assign in a reorganization as of July 9, 2007 (as amended December 29, 2008, the “Agreement”). 

NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties amend the Agreement as follows: 

 

	 	1.	Section 3 of the Agreement is amended to extend the Agreement for an additional term by adding the following sentence at the end of the Section:

 “The Extended Term shall commence on January 1, 2011 and continue until December 31, 2011.”

  

	 	2.	Section 6 of the Agreement is amended to increase the vacation rate by five (5) days and to adjust accordingly the limit on number of unused days Executive
can accrue at a time, notwithstanding the Company’s standard vacation policy provisions on vacation day accrual. 

  

	 	3.	 Each of Section 8.1, clause (a) and Section 8.2 (before the proviso) are amended to change the words “within thirty
(30) days” to “on the thirtieth
(30th) day”. 

 

	 	4.	Section 8.1, clause (y) is amended to add the following clarification at the end of such provision: “(it being understood that, in no event shall any
option remain exercisable after the expiration of the full stated term of the option)”. 

  

	 	5.	The following proviso is added to the end of clause (b) of Section 8.1 and at the end of clause (ii) of Section 8.5 to amend each such clause:
“provided, however, that if any plan pursuant to which such benefits are provided is not, or ceases prior to the expiration of the period of continuation coverage to be, exempt from the application of Section 409A under
Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-1(a)(5) or the Company is otherwise unable to continue to cover Executive under its group health plans without substantial adverse tax consequences, then an amount equal to each remaining premium payment shall
thereafter be paid to Executive as currently taxable compensation in substantially equal monthly installments over the continuation coverage period (or the remaining portion thereof)”. 

 

	 	6.	Section 8.4 is amended to add the clarification contained in new Section 8.4(d) to the end of such Section: 

“(d)        To the extent that any payments or reimbursements provided to Executive under
this Agreement, are deemed to constitute taxable compensation to which Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-3(i)(1)(iv) would apply, such amounts shall be paid in accordance with the terms of the provisions under which such rights arise, but no
event later than December 31 of the year following the year in which the expense is incurred (which payment shall be contingent upon Executive’s timely submission of proper substantiation). The amount of any such payments eligible for
reimbursement in one year shall not affect the payments or expenses that are eligible for payment or reimbursement in any other taxable year, and Executive’s right to such payments or reimbursement shall not be subject to liquidation or
exchange for any other benefit.” 
  

	 	7.	Section 14 is amended to add the clarification contained in new Section 14(h) at the end of such Section: 

“(h)        Any Excise Tax Payment that becomes payable hereunder by the Company to
Executive shall be paid by the Company in accordance with the terms of this Section 14, as provided above, but in no event later than the end of Executive’s taxable year next following Executive’s taxable year in which Executive
remits the related taxes.” 

 Except as expressly amended hereby, the Agreement remains in full force and effect in accordance with its
terms. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent that there is any inconsistency between the provisions of the Agreement and this Amendment, the provisions of this Amendment shall control. 
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Amendment on December 29, 2010. 
  

	
	
	SPARK NETWORKS, INC.
	
	/s/ Brett Zane
	
	By: Brett Zane, Chief Financial Officer
	
	EXECUTIVE
	
	/s/ Adam Berger
	
	By: Adam Bergerex4_1.htm

Exhibit 4.1

 

 

 

 

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The following abbreviations shall be construed as though the words set forth below opposite each abbreviation were written out in full where such abbreviation appears:

	
TEN COM

	
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as tenants in common

	 	
(Name) CUST (Name) UNIF

	
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(Name) as Custodian for (Name) under the

	
TEN ENT

	
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as tenants by the entireties

	 	
GIFT MIN ACT (State)

	  	
(State) Uniform Gifts to Minors Act

	
JT TEN

	
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as joint tenants with rights of survivorship and not as tenants in common

	 	  	  	  

 

Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

 

For value received the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto

 

Insert name and address of transferee

 

 

Shares represented by this certificate and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint

 

 

the attorney of the undersigned to transfer the said shares on the books of the Corporation with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

	
DATED:

	  	  	
 

	  	
 

	 	 	 	Signature of Shareholder	 	Signature of Guarantor

Signature Guarantee:

The signature on this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the certificate(s), in every particular, without alteration or enlargement, or any change whatsoever and must be guaranteed by a major Canadian Schedule I chartered bank or a member of an acceptable Medallion Signature Guarantee Program (STAMP, SEMP, MSP). The Guarantor must affix a stamp bearing the actual words "Signature Guaranteed".

In the USA, signature guarantees must be done by members of a "Medallion Signature Guarantee Program" only.

Signature guarantees are not accepted from Treasury Branches, Credit Unions or Caisses Populaires unless they are members of the Stamp Medallion Program.

Until the earlier of the Separation Time or the Expiration Time (as both terms are defined in the Shareholder Rights Agreement referred to below), this certificate also evidences and entitles the holder hereof to certain Rights as set forth in a Shareholder Rights Plan Agreement dated as of January 1, 2011, as may be amended or supplemented from time to time (the "Shareholder Rights Agreement"), between Provident Energy Ltd. (the "Company") and Computershare Trust Company of Canada, as Rights Agent, the terms of which are incorporated herein by reference and a copy of which is on file at the principal executive offices of the Company. Under certain circumstances set out in the Shareholder Rights Agreement, the rights may be amended or redeemed, may expire or may become void (if, in certain cases they are "Beneficially Owned" by an "Acquiring Person" as such terms are defined in the Shareholder Rights Agreement, whether currently held by or on behalf of such Person or a subsequent holder) or may be evidenced by separate certificates and no longer evidenced by this certificate. The Company will mail or arrange for the mailing of a copy of the Shareholder Rights Agreement to the holder of this certificate without charge as soon as practicable after the receipt of a written request therefor.

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