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EX-10.9.1

 

Exhibit 10.9.1

EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

This Employment Agreement between GLG Partners, Inc. (“GLG”) and Noam Gottesman (the “Employee”) is
made on this 2nd day of November 2007 (this “Agreement”).

GLG and the Employee hereby agree to the employment of the Employee by GLG on the following terms
and conditions:

	1.	 	Commencement of Employment; Term.
	 
	1.1	 	The Employee’s employment under this Agreement will commence immediately following the
closing of the acquisition of the GLG business by Freedom Acquisition Holdings, Inc. (the
“Transaction”).
	 
	1.2	 	The initial term of the Employee’s employment under this Agreement shall continue until
December 31, 2010, unless such employment is sooner terminated pursuant to the provisions of
this Agreement (the “Initial Term”). Upon the expiration of the Initial Term and any one-year
extension thereafter, the Initial Term or the extended term, as applicable, shall be
automatically extended for one additional year unless either party hereto gives the other
party at least twelve weeks of advance written notice that he or it does not want such
extension to occur (a “Notice of Non-Extension”), in which case the Initial Term or the
extended term, as applicable, will not be further extended. Notwithstanding any extensions
beyond the Initial Term, the Employee’s employment may be sooner terminated pursuant to the
provisions of this Agreement. Hereinafter, the period of the Employee’s employment under this
Agreement, including beyond the Initial Term if applicable, will be referred to as the “Term.”
	 
	2.	 	Duties.
	 
	2.1	 	The Employee shall, during the Term, serve GLG to the best of his ability in the capacity of
Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer. The Employee’s duties shall include, but not be
limited to, those typical of a chairman and chief executive officer of a financial services
company, and such other duties as may be required by GLG’s board of directors (the “Board”)
from time to time consistent therewith, or where not, by agreement between the parties hereto.
	 
	2.2	 	The Employee shall:

	 	(a)	 	at all times and in all respects conform to and comply with the lawful and
reasonable directions of the Board, and, to the extent applicable to the Employee,
conform to and comply with all rules or codes of conduct and statements of principle in
force from time to time and/or required by any regulatory body in relation to the
business of GLG or any of its subsidiaries (collectively, the “GLG Entities”);

 

 

	 	(b)	 	unless prevented by sickness or other incapacity, or otherwise as directed by
the Board, devote the whole of his time, attention, and abilities during hours of work
(which shall be normal business hours and such additional hours as may be necessary for
the proper performance of his duties) to the business and affairs of the GLG Entities
for which the Employee performs duties (including, without limitation, GLG Partners LP
and GLG Partners Services LP, by each of which the Employee continues to be employed
under separate employment agreements);
	 
	 	(c)	 	work at such place of business of GLG or any other GLG Entity as the Board may
reasonably require for the proper performance of the Employee’s duties, including
traveling frequently and/or for extended, reasonable periods of time for business
purposes; and
	 
	 	(d)	 	not, without the prior written consent of the Board, directly or indirectly
carry on or be engaged, concerned, or interested in any other business, trade, or
occupation that is in competition with the business of any GLG Entity, other than as a
holder directly or through nominees of not more than three percent (3%) in the
aggregate of any class of shares, debentures, or other securities in issue from time to
time of any company that is publicly traded on any recognized stock exchange.

	3.	 	Salary.
	 
	3.1	 	During the Term, GLG will pay the Employee a salary at a rate not less than the gross amount
of $400,000 per annum, from which tax and other withholdings will be deducted. This amount
will be paid to the Employee in equal monthly installments. The Board or its designee may,
but is not required to, increase the Employee’s salary from time to time, provided that no
such increase will occur before January 1, 2009.
	 
	4.	 	Discretionary Bonus; Equity Awards.
	 
	4.1	 	The Employee will, during the Term, be eligible for a discretionary bonus, payable, if at
all, by GLG on an annual basis, from which tax and other withholdings will be deducted,
provided that no such bonus will be payable for 2007. Bonuses are based on numerous factors,
including the performance of the GLG Entities and the Employee’s individual contribution, and
are not guaranteed. In order to be eligible to receive a bonus, the Employee must be employed
by GLG and not serving out any period of notice (such as the notice period given prior to
termination) on the date that bonus awards are paid. Any bonus will be paid in cash, in the
form of an equity award under GLG’s equity incentive plan as in effect from time to time, or
both, as determined by the Board or its designee in its sole discretion. Any bonus under this
clause 4.1 may be conditioned upon the achievement of performance goals.

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	4.2	 	The Employee will be eligible to participate in GLG’s long-term incentive plan (or any
successor plan thereto) and may receive such other equity incentive awards as the Board or its
designee may determine in its sole discretion from time to time; provided that no awards will
be granted to the Employee for 2007. Such awards may be conditioned upon the achievement of
performance goals, and may include, without limitation, grants of stock options, stock
appreciation rights, restricted stock, and/or restricted stock units. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary herein, upon a termination of the Employee’s employment by GLG other
than “for cause” (as defined in clause 6.3), all equity incentive awards will become payable
immediately, except that with respect to stock options and stock appreciation rights, all such
awards will become vested and exercisable immediately, and with respect to restricted stock,
all applicable restrictions on such stock will lapse immediately. For this purpose, GLG’s
delivery to the Employee of a Notice of Non-Extension under clause 1.2 will be considered a
termination other than for cause. The terms and conditions of each equity incentive award
will be set forth in a definitive award agreement to be entered into by the parties hereto
reflecting the terms of this clause 4.2.
	 
	5.	 	Expenses; Benefits.
	 
	5.1	 	GLG shall reimburse the Employee in respect of all reasonable travelling, accommodation, and
other similar out-of-pocket expenses wholly, exclusively, and necessarily incurred by the
Employee in or about the performance of his duties, provided that any expense claims are
supported by relevant documentation and are made in accordance with GLG’s expenses policy from
time to time in force.
	 
	5.2	 	During the Term, and provided that the Employee satisfies, and continues to satisfy, any
individual plan eligibility requirements, the Employee shall be entitled to participate in,
and receive benefits under, any employee benefit plan made available by GLG to its senior
executive employees. Any such plan may be amended, modified, or terminated by GLG from time
to time with or without notice to the Employee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Employee
will not be entitled to any employee benefits that are duplicative of the benefits that he
receives as a result of his employment with GLG Partners LP and GLG Partners Services LP.
	 
	6.	 	Termination of Employment.
	 
	6.1	 	The Employee’s employment may be terminated by the Employee giving not less than twelve weeks
of notice in writing to the Board, or by the Board giving to the Employee not less than twelve
weeks of notice of termination in writing, unless the Employee is terminated for cause under
clause 6.3, in which case no advance notice from the Board is required. The Employee’s
employment will automatically be terminated upon his death.

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	6.2	 	The Board is not under any obligation to provide the Employee with any work, and the Board
may suspend the Employee or place him on a leave of absence without duties, exclude the
Employee from all or any premises of GLG, and/or require that the Employee not contact any
colleagues or clients, not work on any GLG matters or projects, and not access electronic data
in GLG’s offices via home computers, modems, or otherwise:

	 	6.2.1	 	for any period in connection with any investigation into (a) any alleged
misconduct by the Employee or (b) any alleged action or inaction that may constitute
cause under clause 6.3; or
	 
	 	6.2.2	 	for any period not exceeding the applicable notice period after either party
has given notice of termination of employment;

	 	 	provided that throughout such period the Employee’s salary under clause 3.1 and benefits
under clause 5.2 shall continue to be paid or provided by GLG in accordance with such
clauses. The Employee acknowledges and agrees that during any period of suspension, all
obligations and duties of the Employee contained in this Agreement other than those
suspended as set out in this clause 6.2 will continue to have full force and effect.
	 
	6.3	 	The Employee’s employment with GLG may be terminated by the Board “for cause” only if (i)
such termination shall have been the result of (A) an act or acts of dishonesty on the part of
the Employee constituting a felony and intended to result directly or indirectly in
substantial gain or personal enrichment to the Employee at the expense of GLG, or (B) the
Employee’s willful and continued failure substantially to perform his duties as Chairman and
Co-Chief Executive Officer of GLG (other than any such failure resulting from his incapacity
due to physical or mental illness), after a demand for substantial performance is delivered to
him by the Board, which demand specifically identifies the manner in which the Board believes
that the Employee has not substantially performed his duties and he is given a reasonable time
after such demand substantially to perform his duties, and (ii) there shall have been
delivered to the Employee a copy of a resolution, duly adopted by the affirmative vote of not
less than three-quarters of the entire membership of the Board at a meeting of the Board
called and held for the purpose (after reasonable notice to the Employee and an opportunity
for the Employee, together with his counsel, to be heard before the Board), finding that in
the good faith opinion of the Board the Employee was guilty of conduct set forth above in
clause (i)(A) or (i)(B) of this sentence and specifying the particulars thereof in detail.
The Employee’s employment shall in no event be considered to have been terminated by the Board
for cause if the act or failure to act upon which such termination is based (i) was done or
omitted to be done (A) as a result of bad judgment or negligence on the part of the Employee,
or (B) without intent of gaining therefrom directly or indirectly a profit to which the
Employee was not

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	 	 	legally entitled, or (C) as a result of the Employee’s good faith belief that such act or
failure to act was not opposed to the interests of GLG, or (ii) is an act or failure to act
in respect of which the Employee meets the applicable standard of conduct prescribed for
indemnification or reimbursement or payment of expenses under the by-laws of GLG, the laws
of the state of its incorporation, the directors’ and officers’ liability insurance of GLG,
or any indemnification agreement between the Employee and GLG, in each case as in effect at
the time of such act or failure to act.

	6.4	 	The Board may, in its absolute discretion, elect to terminate the employment of the Employee
at any time with immediate effect by paying the Employee twelve weeks of his salary under
clause 3.1 in lieu of notice of termination, payable in a lump sum within thirty days of the
employment termination date, less such deductions as GLG may be required to make by law.
	 
	6.5	 	To the extent that any amount payable under this Agreement constitutes an amount payable
under a “nonqualified deferred compensation plan” (as defined in Section 409A of the Internal
Revenue Code) following a “separation from service” (as defined in Section 409A of the
Internal Revenue Code), including any amount payable under this clause 6, then,
notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement to the contrary, such payment will not
be made to the Employee until the day after the date that is six months following the
Employee’s “separation from service,” but only if the Employee is deemed by GLG, in accordance
with any relevant procedures that it may establish, to be a “specified employee” under Section
409A of the Internal Revenue Code at the time the Employee “separates from service.” This
clause 6.5 will not be applicable after the Employee’s death.
	 
	6.6	 	Upon the termination of his employment (for whatever reason and howsoever arising), the
Employee shall not at any time thereafter make any untrue or misleading oral or written
statement concerning the business and affairs of any GLG Entity.
	 
	7.	 	Confidential Information.
	 
	7.1	 	“Confidential Information” means any information that belongs to any GLG Entity, or any of
their clients or suppliers, including, without limitation, Intellectual Property (as defined
in clause 8), technical data, market data, trade secrets, research, business plans, product
information, projects, services, client lists, client preferences, client transactions,
supplier lists, supplier rates, hardware, technology, inventions, developments, processes,
formulas, designs, marketing methods and strategies, pricing strategies, sales methods,
financial information, transactional information, corporate and tax structures, revenue
figures, account information, credit information, financing arrangements, information
disclosed to the Employee by any GLG Entity in confidence directly or indirectly, information
that the Employee ought reasonably to understand is confidential, and information in respect
of which any GLG Entity is

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	 	 	bound by an obligation of confidence to a third party, and whether in writing (including via
email), orally, or by electronic records, drawings, pictures, or inspection of tangible
property.
	 
	7.2	 	The Employee acknowledges that, during the course of his employment with GLG and other GLG
Entities, the Employee has had and will continue to have access to Confidential Information.
The Employee agrees, both during the Term and following its termination, that he will hold the
Confidential Information in the strictest confidence, and that he will not use or attempt to
use, or disclose or attempt to disclose, other than in the proper performance of the
Employee’s duties, the Confidential Information except for the benefit of the GLG Entities.
	 
	7.3	 	The Employee shall use best endeavors to prevent the unauthorized publication or misuse of
any Confidential Information.
	 
	7.4	 	The preceding restrictions do not apply to any Confidential Information that (a) has entered
into the public domain other than by a breach of this Agreement or other obligation of
confidentiality of which the Employee is aware, or (b) solely to the extent and for the
duration required, is required to be disclosed under a validly-issued court order and which
disclosure the GLG Entities, following the Employee’s immediate notification to the Board or
GLG’s General Counsel of such requirement, are unable legally to prevent.
	 
	7.5	 	The Employee will be required, and hereby agrees, to execute any additional confidentiality
agreements with any other GLG Entity in such form as will be required by GLG or such other GLG
Entity.
	 
	7.6	 	Following the Term, or at any time during its continuance upon request by the Board, the
Employee will promptly deliver to GLG and not keep in his possession, recreate, or deliver to
any other person or entity, any and all property that belongs to any GLG Entity, or that
belongs to any other third party and is in the Employee’s possession as a result of his
employment with GLG or any other GLG Entity, including, without limitation, any Confidential
Information, computer hardware and software, palm pilots, pagers, cell phones, blackberries,
PDAs, other electronic equipment, records, data, client lists and information, notes, reports,
correspondence, financial information, corporate information, account information, files, and
other documents and information, including any and all copies of the foregoing.
	 
	8.	 	Intellectual Property.
	 
	8.1	 	“Intellectual Property” means any rights in or to intellectual property including, without
limitation, patents, trade marks, service marks, design rights, copyrights, utility models,
inventions, drawings, rights in computer programs (including both object code and source
code), and whether registered or unregistered, applications for registration

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	 	 	of any of the foregoing and the right to apply for them in any part of the world, and rights
of like nature arising or subsisting anywhere in the world in relation to all of the
foregoing.

	8.2	 	The Employee agrees that all Intellectual Property that the Employee creates or discovers
during the course of or as a result of his employment with GLG or any other GLG Entity, and
that relates to or is capable of being used in the business of any GLG Entity, shall vest
automatically in and belong exclusively to GLG or its nominee, and the Employee shall not have
any rights or licenses in such Intellectual Property except as explicitly granted in writing
to him by the Board.
	 
	8.3	 	If, at any time in the course of the Employee’s employment with any GLG Entity, the Employee
makes or discovers or participates in the making or discovery of any Intellectual Property
relating to or capable of being used in the business of any GLG Entity, then the Employee
shall immediately disclose full details of such Intellectual Property to the Board or GLG’s
General Counsel and, at the expense of GLG, the Employee shall do all things necessary or
desirable for obtaining appropriate forms of protection for the Intellectual Property in such
parts of the world as may be specified by GLG and for vesting all rights in the same in GLG or
its nominee.
	 
	8.4	 	The Employee hereby irrevocably appoints GLG or its nominee to be the Employee’s agent to
sign any instrument, or to execute or do any act, on the Employee’s behalf in order to give
GLG or its nominee the full benefit of this clause 8, and in favor of any third party a
certificate in writing signed by an officer of GLG that any instrument or act falls within the
authority of GLG conferred by this clause 8 shall be conclusive evidence that such is the
case.
	 
	8.5	 	The Employee hereby waives all of the Employee’s moral rights, if any, in respect of any acts
of any GLG Entity, or any party acting on its authority, in relation to any Intellectual
Property that is the property of or licensed to GLG, its nominee, or any GLG Entity by virtue
of this clause 8.
	 
	8.6	 	The Employee agrees that he has disclosed to the Board in writing, prior to his execution of
this Agreement, all Intellectual Property that was made or discovered by the Employee prior to
execution of this Agreement, or that belongs to the Employee either solely or jointly with
others (each such item referred to as a “Prior Invention” and collectively as “Prior
Inventions”). Other than as so disclosed, the Employee agrees and acknowledges that there are
no Prior Inventions. If, in the course of the Employee’s employment with GLG or any other GLG
Entity, the Employee incorporates a Prior Invention into any product, software, business
material, process, service, or machine of any GLG Entity, then the GLG Entities are hereby
granted a non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide license (with the
right to sublicense) to make, have made, copy, modify, make derivative works of, use, sell,

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	 	 	and otherwise distribute such Prior Invention as part of or in connection with such product,
software, business material, process, service, or machine.
	 
	8.7	 	The Employee shall keep and maintain adequate and up to date written records of all
Intellectual Property made or discovered by the Employee (either solely or jointly with
others) during his employment with GLG. The records may be in the form of notes, sketches,
drawings, flow charts, electronic data or recordings, laboratory notebooks, or any similar
format appropriate to the relevant Intellectual Property and/or required from time to time by
the Board. The records will be available to and remain the sole property of GLG at all times,
and the Employee shall not perform any action with such records (other than to maintain them
in an up to date state) without the express permission of the Board, such permission to be at
the sole discretion of the Board.
	 
	8.8	 	All rights and obligations of the Employee under this clause 8 shall continue in full force
and effect after the termination of his employment and shall be binding upon the Employee’s
heirs, assigns, and personal representatives.
	 
	9.	 	Further Obligations of the Employee.
	 
	9.1	 	The Employee shall, during his employment and (where appropriate) after its termination,
comply (and, if applicable, shall procure that his spouse and minor children shall comply)
with all applicable rules of law, regulations, and codes of conduct of any GLG Entity then in
effect from time to time in relation to dealings in shares, debentures, or other securities,
and the Employee shall, in relation to any dealings in securities of foreign companies, comply
with all laws of any foreign state affecting dealings in the securities of such companies.
	 
	9.2	 	The Employee represents that his employment with GLG does not violate any prior agreement
with a former employer or third party. Should the Employee breach such representation, the
Employee agrees to indemnify the GLG Entities on demand for any and all damages (including,
without limitation, legal fees) that any GLG Entity incurs as a result of the Employee’s
breach of such representation.
	 
	10.	 	Restrictive Covenants.
	 
	10.1	 	For the purpose of this clause 10, the following expressions shall have the following
respective meanings:

	 	10.1.1	 	“Business” means the management, investment management, and investment advisory
businesses, and the business of structuring, establishing, marketing, distributing, and
managing investment funds, as carried on by any GLG Entity on the Employee’s employment
termination date.

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	 	10.1.2	 	“Intermediary” means (a) any person who, at any time during the two years immediately
preceding the Employee’s employment termination date, promoted, marketed, advised, or
arranged for investors in the services and/or products (including investment funds) of
any GLG Entity, (b) any person who, during such two-year period, was a partner, member,
employee, or agent of, or consultant to, such Intermediary, or (c) any person who,
during such two-year period, was a partner, member, employee or agent of a client or
prospective client of any GLG Entity and who was working in the capacity of an
Intermediary, and in all cases, with which Intermediary the Employee had direct
dealings on behalf of any GLG Entity in connection with such Intermediary’s promoting,
marketing, advising, or arranging for investors in the services and/or products
(including investment funds) of any GLG Entity.
	 
	 	10.1.3	 	“Key Individual” means any person who, at the Employee’s employment termination date,
is employed or engaged (including, without limitation, as a partner of member) by any
GLG Entity (a) with whom the Employee has had material contact during the course of his
employment with GLG, and (b) either (i) is employed or engaged in marketing services
and/or products (including investment funds), in managing fund assets, as an analyst,
or in a senior management position, or (ii) is in the possession of Confidential
Information, or (iii) is directly managed by or reports to the Employee; and in the
event that any person is found to have been solicited by the Employee prior to the
Employee’s employment termination date and such person would have been a Key Individual
on the Employee’s employment termination date but for the actions of the Employee, then
such person will also be considered to be a Key Individual.
	 
	 	10.1.4	 	“Prospective Intermediary” means any person (a) with whom or which any GLG Entity
entered into negotiations or discussions, or (b) on whom or which any GLG Entity
expended a material amount of money, in either case during the period of six months
immediately preceding the Employee’s employment termination date and to the knowledge
of the Employee prior to his employment termination date, and in either case, (i) with
a view toward securing introductions to others for the purpose of providing services or
doing business with such other persons, (ii) with whom or which person the Employee had
direct dealings on behalf of any GLG Entity, and (iii) which person does not
affirmatively indicate to the GLG Entities, prior to the Employee’s employment
termination date, that he, she, or it does not wish to become an Intermediary of the
GLG Entities.
	 
	 	10.1.5	 	“Restricted Area” means the United States, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern
Ireland, and any other country in which the Employee has

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	 	 	 	undertaken his duties for the GLG Entities, in any capacity (including, without
limitation, as a partner or member) to a material extent at any time during the
period of twelve months immediately preceding the Employee’s employment termination
date.
	 
	 	10.1.6	 	“Restriction Period” means the period of the Employee’s employment with GLG, plus (a)
the period of twelve months for purposes of clauses 10.3, 10.4.1, 10.4.3, 10.4.6, and
10.4.8, (b) the period of six months for purposes of clauses 10.4.2 and 10.4.4, and (c)
the period of eighteen months for purposes of clauses 10.4.5, 10.4.7, and 10.4.9, with
the time periods in clauses (a), (b), and (c) calculated from the Employee’s employment
termination date.

	10.2	 	The Employee acknowledges that, during the course of his employment with GLG and other GLG
Entities, he has had and will continue to have (a) access to Confidential Information, and/or
(b) influence over or connection with existing and prospective clients, Intermediaries,
Prospective Intermediaries, employees, and other service providers of the GLG Entities, and
accordingly, having had the opportunity to take legal advice or voluntarily having waived such
opportunity, is willing to enter into the covenants described in this clause 10 in order to
provide the GLG Entities with reasonable protection for those interests.
	 
	10.3	 	The Employee hereby covenants with GLG that he will not, for the Restriction Period, without
the prior written consent of the Board in its sole and absolute discretion, either alone or
jointly with or on behalf of any person, directly or indirectly, carry on or set up, or be
employed or engaged by or in, or otherwise assist or be interested in, in any capacity (except
as a shareholder or other equity owner of not more than three percent (3%) of the shares of
any company whose shares are publicly traded on any recognized stock exchange), a business
that is carried on in competition with the Business anywhere within the Restricted Area.
	 
	10.4	 	The Employee hereby covenants with GLG that he will not, for the Restriction Period, without
the prior written consent of the Board in its sole and absolute discretion, either alone or
jointly with or on behalf of any person, directly or indirectly:

	 	10.4.1	 	in connection with the carrying on of any business that is in competition with the
Business, have business dealings with, provide services to, or otherwise accept the
custom of any person who or which has at any time during the period of twelve months
immediately preceding the Employee’s employment termination date done business or dealt
with, or received services from, any GLG Entity as a client, and with whom or which the
Employee shall have had dealings during the course of his employment with GLG or any
other service relationship with the GLG Entities, other than clients that were clients
of the

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	 	 	 	Employee prior to the time he first provided services to any of the GLG Entities;

	 	10.4.2	 	in connection with the carrying on of any business that is in competition with the
Business, have business dealings with, provide services to, or otherwise accept the
custom of any person who or which is a prospective client of any GLG Entity, by
providing any service to, dealing with, or doing business with such prospective client
that is the same or substantially similar to services and/or products (including
investment funds) that had been or are being marketed to such prospective client by any
GLG Entity on the Employee’s employment termination date or during the period of six
months immediately preceding such employment termination date, and of which marketing
the Employee is aware prior to his employment termination date, provided that, prior to
the Employee’s employment termination date, such prospective client has not
affirmatively indicated that he, she, or it does not wish to become a client of the GLG
Entities;
	 
	 	10.4.3	 	in connection with the carrying on of any business that is in competition with the
Business, have business dealings with any Intermediary for the purpose of securing or
seeking to secure from such Intermediary the opportunity to provide to his, her, or its
clients or prospective clients any services and/or products (including investment
funds) that are the same or substantially similar to those provided by any GLG Entity,
or to place the business of any such client or prospective client with another business
that is in competition with the Business;
	 
	 	10.4.4	 	in connection with the carrying on of any business that is in competition with the
Business, have business dealings with any Prospective Intermediary for the purpose of
securing or seeking to secure from such Prospective Intermediary the opportunity to
provide to his, her, or its clients or prospective clients any services and/or products
(including investment funds) that are the same or substantially similar to those
provided by any GLG Entity, or to place the business of any such client or prospective
client with another business that is in competition with the Business;
	 
	 	10.4.5	 	in connection with the carrying on of any business that is in competition with the
Business, canvass, solicit, or approach, or cause to be canvassed, solicited, or
approached, for orders or instructions in respect of any services and/or products
(including investment funds) of a type offered or provided by any GLG Entity, any
person who or which at the Employee’s employment termination date or at any time during
the period of twelve months prior to that date is a client of any GLG Entity, and with
whom or which the Employee shall have had dealings during the course of his employment
with GLG or any other

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	 	 	 	service relationship with the GLG Entities, other than clients that were clients of
the Employee prior to the time he first provided services to any of the GLG
Entities;

	 	10.4.6	 	in connection with the carrying on of any business that is in competition with the
Business, canvass, solicit, or approach, or cause to be canvassed, solicited, or
approached, for orders or instructions in respect of any services and/or products
(including investment funds) of a type offered or provided by any GLG Entity, any
person who or which is a prospective client of any GLG Entity, to whom or which such
services had been or are being marketed on the Employee’s employment termination date
or during the period of six months immediately preceding such employment termination
date, and of which marketing the Employee is aware prior to his employment termination
date, provided that, prior to the Employee’s employment termination date, such
prospective client has not affirmatively indicated that he, she, or it does not wish to
become a client of the GLG Entities;
	 
	 	10.4.7	 	in connection with the carrying on of any business that is in competition with the
Business, canvass, solicit, or approach, or cause to be canvassed, solicited, or
approached, any Intermediary for the purpose of securing or seeking to secure from such
Intermediary the opportunity to provide to his, her, or its clients or prospective
clients any services and/or products (including investment funds) that are the same or
substantially similar to those provided by any GLG Entity, or to place the business of
any such client or prospective client with another business that is in competition with
the Business;
	 
	 	10.4.8	 	in connection with the carrying on of any business that is in competition with the
Business, canvass, solicit, or approach, or cause to be canvassed, solicited, or
approached, any Prospective Intermediary for the purpose of securing or seeking to
secure from such Prospective Intermediary the opportunity to provide to his, her, or
its clients or prospective clients any services and/or products (including investment
funds) that are the same or substantially similar to those provided by any GLG Entity,
or to place the business of any such client or prospective client with another business
that is in competition with the Business; or
	 
	 	10.4.9	 	in connection with the carrying on of any business that is in competition with the
Business, solicit or endeavor to solicit for employment or for the provision of
service, or entice away or endeavor to entice away from employment or other service
relationship with the GLG Entities, any Key Individual (other than Leslie J. Schreyer)
who, on the Employee’s employment termination date, is employed or engaged by any GLG
Entity, or who was so employed or

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	 	 	 	engaged at any time during the six months immediately preceding the Employee’s
employment termination date.

	10.5	 	The Employee hereby agrees that he will, at the cost of GLG, enter into a direct agreement or
undertaking with any GLG Entity whereby he will accept restrictions and provisions
corresponding to the restrictions and provisions in this clause 10 in relation to such
activities and such area and for such a period not exceeding the Restriction Period as such
GLG Entity may reasonably require for the protection of its legitimate business interests.
	 
	10.6	 	The covenants contained in this clause 10 are intended to be separate and severable and
enforceable as such, and to be enforceable to the fullest extent permissible under the laws of
each jurisdiction in which enforcement is sought. If any restriction contained in this
Agreement is for any reason held by a court to be excessively broad as to duration, activity,
geographical scope, or subject, then such restriction will be construed, judicially modified,
or “blue penciled” in such jurisdiction so as to thereafter be limited or reduced to the
extent required to be enforceable in such jurisdiction in accordance with applicable law. If
any restriction contained in this Agreement is held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable
in any respect under any applicable law in any jurisdiction, then such invalidity, illegality,
or unenforceability will not affect any other provision of this Agreement or any other
jurisdiction, but such restriction will be reformed, construed, and enforced in such
jurisdiction as if such invalid, illegal, or unenforceable restriction had never been
contained in this Agreement.
	 
	10.7	 	The Employee acknowledges that the remedy at law for his breach of this clause 10 will be
inadequate, and that the damages flowing from such breach will not be readily susceptible to
being measured in monetary terms. Accordingly, upon a breach or threatened breach of this
clause 10, GLG will be entitled to immediate injunctive relief (or other equitable relief) and
may obtain a temporary order restraining any breach or further breach. No bond or other
security will be required to obtain such relief, and the Employee consents to the issuance of
such equitable relief. Nothing in this clause 10.7 will be deemed to limit GLG’s remedies at
law or in equity that may be pursued or availed of by GLG for any breach or threatened breach
by the Employee of any part of this clause 10.
	 
	10.8	 	The covenants contained in this clause 10 have been agreed by the parties hereto to be
reasonable. The business of the GLG Entities is highly competitive, the terms of this clause
10 are material to the parties’ willingness to enter into this Agreement, and the terms and
conditions of this clause 10 are not more restrictive than is necessary to protect the
legitimate interests of the GLG Entities.
	 
	10.9	 	In connection with the Transaction, the Employee has entered or will enter into separate
restrictive covenants apart from the covenants contained in this clause 10.

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	 	 	Those separate covenants are given in connection with the sale of the GLG business, whereas
the covenants in this clause 10 are given in connection with the Employee’s employment with
GLG. Each set of covenants will be separately enforceable, and no provision in either set of
covenants will be deemed to supersede or invalidate any provision in the other set of
covenants. Each set of covenants will be enforceable pursuant to its own terms.
	 
	11.	 	Miscellaneous.
	 
	11.1	 	This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and understanding between GLG and the
Employee regarding his employment with GLG and supersedes any other agreements, whether oral
or written, regarding such employment. This Agreement may only be modified or amended by a
further agreement in writing signed by the parties hereto. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no
agreement entered into in connection with the Transaction, including the restrictive covenants
referenced in clause 10.9, will be superseded by this Agreement, provided that all provisions
in this Agreement and any other Transaction-related agreement will be given effect to the
extent those provisions are not inconsistent.
	 
	11.2	 	The parties hereto acknowledge that the Employee is a party to separate employment agreements
with GLG Partners LP and GLG Partners Services LP. In the event of a conflict between this
Agreement and those separate employment agreements, the terms of this Agreement will control.
	 
	11.3	 	This Agreement is governed by and shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State
of New York without giving effect to its conflict of laws principles.
	 
	11.4	 	Any action by the parties hereto related to this Agreement may be instituted in any state or
federal court having proper subject matter jurisdiction located within the State of New York,
or in any other court in which jurisdiction is otherwise proper. Accordingly, the Employee
and GLG irrevocably and unconditionally (a) submit to the jurisdiction of any such court and
(b) waive (i) any objection to the laying of venue of any such action brought in such court
and (ii) any claim that any such action brought in any such court has been brought in an
inconvenient forum.
	 
	11.5	 	This Agreement may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be
an original, and all such counterparts when taken together shall constitute one and the same
original.
	 
	11.6	 	GLG shall be entitled, without notice to the Employee, at any time during his employment with
GLG and upon the termination of such employment, to set off and/or make deductions from the
Employee’s compensation or from any other sums due to the Employee from any GLG Entity in
respect of any overpayment of any kind made to the Employee or in respect of any outstanding
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	 	 	Employee. In addition, all payments made under this Agreement to the Employee will be
subject to applicable tax and other payroll withholdings.
	 
	11.7	 	Except to the extent that applicable law requires that any specific action be taken or
performed by the Compensation Committee of the Board, or to the extent otherwise provided in
this Agreement, any action to be taken or performed, or direction to be provided, by GLG under
this Agreement may be taken, performed, or provided by the Board.
	 
	11.8	 	Any waiver by GLG of any provision, or any breach of any provision, of this Agreement shall
not operate or be construed as a waiver of any subsequent breach of such provision or any
other provision herein.
	 
	11.9	 	Due to the personal nature of the services contemplated under this Agreement, this Agreement
and the Employee’s rights and obligations hereunder may not be assigned by the Employee. GLG
may assign its rights, together with its obligations hereunder, in connection with any sale,
transfer, or other disposition of all or substantially all of its business and/or assets,
provided that any such assignee of GLG agrees to be bound by the provisions of this Agreement.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	GLG Partners, Inc.	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	by:	 	/s/  Alejandro San Miguel	 	 	 	Date: November 2, 2007	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:
	 	Alejandro San Miguel	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Title:
	 	General Counsel and
Corporate Secretary	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Employee	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	/s/  Noam Gottesman	 	 	 	Date: November 2, 2007	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Noam Gottesman	 	 	 	 	 	 

15EX-10.9.2

 

Exhibit 10.9.2

AMENDED AND RESTATED EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

This Amended and Restated Employment Agreement between GLG Partners LP (“GLG”) and Noam Gottesman
(the “Employee”) is made on this 2nd day of November 2007 (this “Agreement”).

GLG and the Employee hereby agree to the employment of the Employee by GLG on the following terms
and conditions:

	1.	 	Employment Under this Agreement; Term.

	1.1	 	The Employee’s employment under this Agreement will commence immediately following the
closing of the acquisition of the GLG business by Freedom Acquisition Holdings, Inc. (the
“Transaction”). The Employee’s period of continuous employment for statutory purposes
commenced on 26 September 1995.

	1.2	 	The initial term of the Employee’s employment under this Agreement shall continue until
December 31, 2010, unless such employment is sooner terminated pursuant to the provisions of
this Agreement (the “Initial Term”). Upon the expiration of the Initial Term and any one-year
extension thereafter, the Initial Term or the extended term, as applicable, shall be
automatically extended for one additional year unless either party hereto gives the other
party at least twelve weeks of advance written notice that he or it does not want such
extension to occur (a “Notice of Non-Extension”), in which case the Initial Term or the
extended term, as applicable, will not be further extended. Notwithstanding any extensions
beyond the Initial Term, the Employee’s employment may be sooner terminated pursuant to the
provisions of this Agreement. Hereinafter, the period of the Employee’s employment under this
Agreement, including beyond the Initial Term if applicable, will be referred to as the “Term.”

	2.	 	Duties.

	2.1	 	The Employee shall, during the Term, serve GLG to the best of his ability in the capacity of
Co-Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director. The Employee’s duties shall include, but
not be limited to, those typical of a chief executive officer and managing director of a
financial services company, and such other duties as may be required by GLG from time to time
consistent therewith, or where not, by agreement between the parties hereto.

	2.2	 	The Employee shall:

	 	(a)	 	at all times and in all respects conform to and comply with the lawful and
reasonable directions of GLG, and, to the extent applicable to the Employee, conform to
and comply with all rules or codes of conduct and statements of principle in force from
time to time and/or required by any regulatory body in relation to the business of GLG
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	 	 	 	or the status of the Employee (including in particular the Financial Services
Authority (the “FSA”));

	 	(b)	 	unless prevented by sickness or other incapacity, or otherwise as directed by
GLG, devote the whole of his time, attention, and abilities during hours of work (which
shall be normal business hours and such additional hours as may be necessary for the
proper performance of his duties) to the business and affairs of the GLG Entities for
which the Employee performs duties (including, without limitation, GLG Partners, Inc.
and GLG Partners Services LP, by each of which the Employee continues to be employed
under separate employment agreements);
	 
	 	(c)	 	work at GLG’s offices in London or such other place of business of GLG in the
United Kingdom as GLG may reasonably require for the proper performance of the
Employee’s duties; and
	 
	 	(d)	 	not, without the prior written consent of GLG, directly or indirectly carry on
or be engaged, concerned, or interested in any other business, trade, or occupation
that is in competition with the business of any GLG Entity otherwise than as a holder
directly or through nominees of not more than three percent (3%) in the aggregate of
any class of shares, debentures, or other securities in issue from time to time of any
company that is quoted or dealt on any recognized investment exchange (as defined by
Section 285 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000).

	2.3	 	On occasion the Employee may exceed the 48-hour maximum weekly working time limit as
stipulated by the Working Time Regulations 1998 (the “Regulations”). By executing this
Agreement, the Employee consents to opt out of the maximum working time limit set out in the
Regulations. The Employee may withdraw his consent by giving three months written notice to
GLG. The Employee’s notice of withdrawal of consent and any subsequent reversal of this
decision must be given to the Human Resources Manager.
	 
	3.	 	Salary.
	 
	3.1	 	During the Term, GLG will pay the Employee a salary at a rate not less than the gross amount
of US$400,000 per annum (payable in equal monthly installment in UK Sterling using the
then-current conversion rate at determined by GLG in good faith), from which tax and other
withholdings (such as National Insurance) will be deducted. GLG may, but is not required to,
increase the Employee’s salary from time to time, provided that no such increase will occur
before 1 January 2009.
	 
	4.	 	Discretionary Bonus; Equity Awards.
	 
	4.1	 	The Employee will, during the Term, be eligible for a discretionary bonus, payable, if at
all, by GLG on an annual basis, from which tax and other withholdings (such as

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	 	 	National Insurance) will be deducted, provided that no such bonus will be payable for 2007.
Bonuses are based on numerous factors, including the performance of the GLG Entities and the
Employee’s individual contribution, and are not guaranteed. In order to be eligible to
receive a bonus, the Employee must be employed by GLG and not serving out any period of
notice (such as the notice period given prior to termination) on the date that bonus awards
are paid.
	4.2	 	The Employee will be eligible to participate in GLG Partners, Inc.’s long-term incentive plan
(or any successor plan thereto) and may receive such other equity incentive awards as the
board of directors of GLG Partners, Inc., or its designee, may determine in its sole
discretion from time to time; provided that no awards will be granted to the Employee for
2007. Such awards may be conditioned upon the achievement of performance goals, and may
include, without limitation, grants of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted
stock, and/or restricted stock units. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, upon a
termination of the Employee’s employment by GLG other than “for cause” (as defined in clause
10.3), all equity incentive awards will become payable immediately, except that with respect
to stock options and stock appreciation rights, all such awards will become vested and
exercisable immediately, and with respect to restricted stock, all applicable restrictions on
such stock will lapse immediately. For this purpose, GLG’s delivery to the Employee of a
Notice of Non-Extension under clause 1.2 will be considered a termination other than for
cause. The terms and conditions of each equity incentive award will be set forth in a
definitive award agreement to be entered into by the parties hereto reflecting the terms of
this clause 4.2.

	5.	 	Expenses.
	 
	5.1	 	GLG shall reimburse the Employee in respect of all reasonable travelling, accommodation, and
other similar out-of-pocket expenses wholly, exclusively, and necessarily incurred by the
Employee in or about the performance of his duties, provided that any expense claims are
supported by relevant documentation and are made in accordance with GLG’s expenses policy from
time to time in force.
	 
	6.	 	Pension.
	 
	6.1	 	The Employee shall be entitled to participate in the Group Personal Pension Plan operated by
GLG, subject to the terms of its trust deed and rules of the plan from time to time in force.
Further details of the Pension Plan are available in the Employee Handbook.
	 
	6.2	 	A contracting out certificate is not currently in force in respect of the employment of the
Employee, but the Employee may be able to contract out on an individual basis. Further
details are available from the Human Resources Manager.

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	7.	 	Private Medical, Long Term Disability, and Life Assurance.
	 
	7.1	 	Subject to the Employee complying with and satisfying any applicable requirements of the
relevant insurers and subject to the rules of the relevant scheme, the Employee shall be
eligible to benefit during the continuance of his employment from membership of such private
medical expenses insurance scheme as GLG may in its absolute discretion offer from time to
time. GLG reserves the right to vary or discontinue such medical expenses insurance cover.
Further details are set out in the Employee Handbook.
	 
	7.2	 	During the continuance of the employment, subject to the Employee complying with and
satisfying any applicable requirements of the relevant insurers and subject to the rules of
the relevant scheme, the Employee shall be eligible to participate in any Permanent Health
Insurance Scheme that GLG in its absolute discretion may provide from time to time. GLG
reserves the right to vary or discontinue such insurance scheme. Further details are set out
in the Employee Handbook. For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this clause shall fetter or
effect GLG’s right to terminate the employment in accordance with this Agreement.
	 
	7.3	 	GLG will provide the Employee with life assurance cover according to the terms and conditions
of the scheme that GLG chooses to operate from time to time in its sole discretion. GLG
reserves the right to vary or discontinue such insurance scheme. Further details are set out
in the Employee Handbook.
	 
	7.4	 	GLG will provide the Employee with critical illness cover according to the terms and
conditions of the scheme that GLG chooses to operate from time to time in its sole discretion.
GLG reserves the right to vary or discontinue such insurance scheme. Further details are set
out in the Employee Handbook.
	 
	8.	 	Holiday and Holiday Pay.
	 
	8.1	 	The Employee shall (in addition to the usual public and bank holidays) be entitled during the
continuance of his employment to paid holiday in each holiday year of GLG (which runs from
January to December). The entitlement to paid holiday increases in accordance with the
Employee’s length of service with GLG. Further details are set out in the Employee Handbook.
Subject to the provisions of the Working Time Regulations 1998, the Employee shall not be
entitled to carry forward or to receive payment in lieu of any holiday entitlement that has
not been taken in respect of any holiday year and unused holiday entitlement may not be
carried over from one holiday year to the next without the written consent of GLG.
	 
	9.	 	Sick Pay.
	 
	9.1	 	Subject to complying with GLG’s procedures relating to the notification and certification of
periods of absence from work, the Employee shall be eligible to continue to be paid his salary
under clause 3.1 (inclusive of any statutory sick pay

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	 	 	or social security benefits to which the Employee may be entitled) during any periods of
absence from work due to sickness, injury, or other incapacity according to the system set
out in the Employee Handbook. If the Employee shall be absent from work due to sickness,
injury, or other incapacity for a continuous period of 26 weeks, then the Employee shall
only receive such benefits (if any) as are available to him under the terms of any Permanent
Health Insurance Scheme under clause 7 applicable to the Employee.

	10.	 	Termination of Employment.
	 
	10.1	 	The Employee’s employment may be terminated by the Employee giving not less than twelve weeks
of notice in writing to GLG, or by GLG giving to the Employee not less than twelve weeks of
notice of termination in writing, unless the Employee is terminated for cause under clause
10.3, in which case no advance notice from GLG is required. The Employee’s employment will
automatically be terminated upon his death.
	 
	10.2	 	GLG is not under any obligation to provide the Employee with any work, and GLG may suspend
the Employee or place him on a leave of absence without duties, exclude the Employee from all
or any premises of GLG, and/or require that the Employee not contact any colleagues or
clients, not work on any GLG matters or projects, and not access electronic data in GLG’s
offices via home computers, modems, or otherwise:

	 	10.2.1	 	for any period in connection with any investigation into (a) any alleged misconduct
by the Employee or (b) any alleged action or inaction that may constitute cause under
clause 10.3; or
	 
	 	10.2.2	 	for any period not exceeding the applicable notice period after either party has
given notice of termination of employment;

	 	 	provided that throughout such period the Employee’s salary and other contractual benefits
(save for any bonus under clause 4) shall continue to be paid or provided by GLG. The
Employee acknowledges and agrees that during any period of suspension, all obligations and
duties of the Employee contained in this Agreement other than those suspended as set out in
this clause 10.2 will continue to have full force and effect.
	 
	10.3	 	The Employee’s employment with GLG may be terminated by GLG “for cause” only if (i) such
termination shall have been the result of (A) an act or acts of dishonesty on the part of the
Employee constituting a felony and intended to result directly or indirectly in substantial
gain or personal enrichment to the Employee at the expense of GLG, or (B) the Employee’s
willful and continued failure substantially to perform his duties as a Co-Chief Executive
Officer and Managing Director of GLG (other than any such failure resulting from his
incapacity due to physical or mental illness), after a demand for substantial performance is
delivered to him by the board of

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	 	 	directors of GLG’s general partner (the “GP Board”), which demand specifically identifies
the manner in which the GP Board believes that the Employee has not substantially performed
his duties and he is given a reasonable time after such demand substantially to perform his
duties, and (ii) there shall have been delivered to the Employee a copy of a resolution,
duly adopted by the affirmative vote of not less than three-quarters of the entire
membership of the GP Board at a meeting of the GP Board called and held for the purpose
(after reasonable notice to the Employee and an opportunity for the Employee, together with
his counsel, to be heard before the GP Board), finding that in the good faith opinion of the
GP Board the Employee was guilty of conduct set forth above in clause (i)(A) or (i)(B) of
this sentence and specifying the particulars thereof in detail. The Employee’s employment
shall in no event be considered to have been terminated by GLG for cause if the act or
failure to act upon which such termination is based (i) was done or omitted to be done (A)
as a result of bad judgment or negligence on the part of the Employee, or (B) without intent
of gaining therefrom directly or indirectly a profit to which the Employee was not legally
entitled, or (C) as a result of the Employee’s good faith belief that such act or failure to
act was not opposed to the interests of GLG, or (ii) is an act or failure to act in respect
of which the Employee meets the applicable standard of conduct prescribed for
indemnification or reimbursement or payment of expenses under the partnership agreement of
GLG, the laws of the jurisdiction under which it is formed, the directors’ and officers’
liability insurance of GLG, or any indemnification agreement between the Employee and GLG or
GLG Partners, Inc., in each case as in effect at the time of such act or failure to act.
	 
	10.4	 	GLG may, in its absolute discretion, elect to terminate the employment of the Employee at any
time with immediate effect by paying the Employee twelve weeks of his salary under clause 3.1
in lieu of notice of termination, payable in a lump sum within thirty days of the employment
termination date, less such deductions as GLG may be required to make by law.
	 
	10.5	 	To the extent that any amount payable under this Agreement constitutes an amount payable
under a “nonqualified deferred compensation plan” (as defined in Section 409A of the Internal
Revenue Code) following a “separation from service” (as defined in Section 409A of the
Internal Revenue Code), including any amount payable under this clause 10, then,
notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement to the contrary, such payment will not
be made to the Employee until the day after the date that is six months following the
Employee’s “separation from service,” but only if the Employee is deemed by GLG Partners,
Inc., in accordance with any relevant procedures that it may establish, to be a “specified
employee” under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code at the time the Employee “separates
from service.” This clause 10.5 will not be applicable after the Employee’s death.

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	10.6	 	Upon the termination of his employment (for whatever reason and howsoever arising), the
Employee shall not at any time thereafter make any untrue or misleading oral or written
statement concerning the business and affairs of any GLG Entity.
	 
	11.	 	Confidential Information.
	 
	11.1	 	“Confidential Information” means any information that belongs to any GLG Entity, or any of
their clients or suppliers, including, without limitation, Intellectual Property (as defined
in clause 12), technical data, market data, trade secrets, research, business plans, product
information, projects, services, client lists, client preferences, client transactions,
supplier lists, supplier rates, hardware, technology, inventions, developments, processes,
formulas, designs, marketing methods and strategies, pricing strategies, sales methods,
financial information, transactional information, corporate and tax structures, revenue
figures, account information, credit information, financing arrangements, information
disclosed to the Employee by any GLG Entity in confidence directly or indirectly, information
that the Employee ought reasonably to understand is confidential, and information in respect
of which any GLG Entity is bound by an obligation of confidence to a third party, and whether
in writing (including via email), orally, or by electronic records, drawings, pictures, or
inspection of tangible property.
	 
	11.2	 	The Employee acknowledges that, during the course of his employment with GLG and other GLG
Entities, the Employee has had and will continue to have access to Confidential Information.
The Employee agrees, both during the Term and following its termination, that he will hold the
Confidential Information in the strictest confidence, and that he will not use or attempt to
use, or disclose or attempt to disclose, other than in the proper performance of the
Employee’s duties, the Confidential Information except for the benefit of the GLG Entities.
	 
	11.3	 	The Employee shall use best endeavors to prevent the unauthorized publication or misuse of
any Confidential Information.
	 
	11.4	 	The preceding restrictions do not apply to any Confidential Information that (a) has entered
into the public domain other than by a breach of this Agreement or other obligation of
confidentiality of which the Employee is aware, or (b) solely to the extent and for the
duration required, is required to be disclosed under a validly-issued court order and which
disclosures the GLG Entities, following the Employee’s immediate notification to GLG and to
GLG Partners, Inc.’s General Counsel of such requirement, are unable legally to prevent.
	 
	11.5	 	The Employee will be required, and hereby agrees, to execute any additional confidentiality
agreements with any other GLG Entity in such form as will be required by GLG or such other GLG
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	11.6	 	Following the Term, or at any time during its continuance upon request by GLG, the Employee
will promptly deliver to GLG and not keep in his possession, recreate, or deliver to any other
person or entity, any and all property that belongs to any GLG Entity, or that belongs to any
other third party and is in the Employee’s possession as a result of his employment with GLG
or any other GLG Entity, including, without limitation, any Confidential Information, computer
hardware and software, palm pilots, pagers, cell phones, blackberries, PDAs, other electronic
equipment, records, data, client lists and information, notes, reports, correspondence,
financial information, corporate information, account information, files, and other documents
and information, including any and all copies of the foregoing.
	 
	12.	 	Intellectual Property.
	 
	12.1	 	“Intellectual Property” means any rights in or to intellectual property including without
limitation, patents, trade marks, service marks, design rights, copyrights, utility models,
inventions, drawings, rights in computer programs (including both object code and source
code), and whether registered or unregistered, applications for registration of any of the
foregoing and the right to apply for them in any part of the world, and rights of like nature
arising or subsisting anywhere in the world in relation to all of the foregoing.
	 
	12.2	 	The Employee agrees that all Intellectual Property that the Employee creates or discovers
during the course of or as a result of his employment with GLG and other GLG Entities, and
that relates to or is capable of being used in the business of any GLG Entity, shall vest
automatically in and belong exclusively to GLG or its nominee, and the Employee shall not have
any rights or licenses in such Intellectual Property except as explicitly granted in writing
to him by GLG.
	 
	12.3	 	If, at any time in the course of the Employee’s employment with any GLG Entity, the Employee
makes or discovers or participates in the making or discovery of any Intellectual Property
relating to or capable of being used in the business of any GLG Entity, then the Employee
shall immediately disclose full details of such Intellectual Property to GLG and to GLG
Partners, Inc.’s General Counsel, and, at the expense of GLG, the Employee shall do all things
necessary or desirable for obtaining appropriate forms of protection for the Intellectual
Property in such parts of the world as may be specified by GLG and for vesting all rights in
the same in GLG or its nominee.
	 
	12.4	 	The Employee hereby irrevocably appoints GLG or its nominee to be the Employee’s agent to
sign any instrument, or to execute or do any act, on the Employee’s behalf in order to give
GLG or its nominee the full benefit of this clause 12, and in favor of any third party, a
certificate in writing signed by a Managing Director of GLG that any instrument or act falls
within the authority of GLG conferred by this clause 12 shall be conclusive evidence that such
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	12.5	 	The Employee hereby waives all of the Employee’s moral rights (as such term is defined in the
Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988) in respect of any acts of any GLG Entity, or any party
acting on its authority, in relation to any Intellectual Property that is the property of or
licensed to GLG, its nominee, or any GLG Entity by virtue of this clause 12.
	 
	12.6	 	The Employee agrees that he has disclosed to GLG in writing, prior to his execution of this
Agreement, all Intellectual Property that was made or discovered by the Employee prior to
execution of this Agreement, or that belong to the Employee either solely or jointly with
others (each such item referred to as a “Prior Invention” and collectively as “Prior
Inventions”). Other than as so disclosed, the Employee agrees and acknowledges that there are
no Prior Inventions. If, in the course of the Employee’s employment with GLG or any other GLG
Entity, the Employee incorporates a Prior Invention into any product, software, business
material, process, service, or machine of any GLG entity, then the GLG Entities are hereby
granted a non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide license (with the
right to sublicense) to make, have made, copy, modify, make derivative works of, use, sell,
and otherwise distribute such Prior Invention as part of or in connection with such product,
software, business material, process, service, or machine.
	 
	12.7	 	The Employee shall keep and maintain adequate and up to date written records of all
Intellectual Property made or discovered by the Employee (either solely or jointly with
others) during his employment with GLG. The records may be in the form of notes, sketches,
drawings, flow charts, electronic data or recordings, laboratory notebooks, or any similar
format appropriate to the relevant Intellectual Property and/or required from time to time by
GLG. The records will be available to and remain the sole property of GLG at all times, and
the Employee shall not perform any action with such records (other than to maintain them in an
up to date state) without the express permission of GLG, such permission to be at the sole
discretion of GLG.
	 
	12.8	 	All rights and obligations of the Employee under this clause 12 shall continue in full force
and effect after the termination of his employment and shall be binding upon the Employee’s
heirs, assigns, and personal representatives.
	 
	13.	 	Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures.
	 
	13.1	 	GLG has a non-contractual Grievance Procedure and a Disciplinary Procedure set out in the
Employee Handbook.
	 
	14.	 	Further Obligations of the Employee.
	 
	14.1	 	The Employee shall, during his employment and (where appropriate) after its termination,
comply (and, if applicable, shall procure that his spouse or partner and minor children shall
comply) with all applicable rules of law, regulations, and codes of conduct of any GLG Entity
then in effect from time to time in relation to dealings

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	 	 	in shares, debentures, or other securities, and the Employee shall, in relation to any
dealings in securities of overseas companies, comply with all laws of any foreign state
affecting dealings in the securities of such companies.

	14.2	 	The Employee represents that his employment with GLG does not violate any prior agreement
with a former employer or third party. Should the Employee breach such representation, the
Employee agrees to indemnify the GLG Entities on demand for any and all damages (including,
without limitation, legal fees) that any GLG Entity incurs as a result of the Employee’s
breach of such representation.
	 
	15.	 	Data Protection.
	 
	15.1	 	The Employee hereby agrees that GLG may from time to time hold personal data in respect of
the Employee that it may use for business purposes and in the discharge of its legal
obligations in relation to the Employee. Such data would include (but not be limited to)
salary, discretionary bonus, other compensation details, taxation and payroll information,
appraisals, business travel information, and career planning and training information together
with information necessary for global communication (addresses, telephone details, e-mail
addresses). GLG may also process “Sensitive Personal Data” (as defined in the Data Protection
Act 1998), for example, health and medical information utilized in connection with the
Employee’s employment and data in respect of racial or ethnic origins. Such data may also be
retained after the termination of the Employee’s employment for such purposes as maintaining
historic staff records and the provision of references and information to regulatory bodies.
The Employee acknowledges that his employment is conditional upon the Employee consenting to
the processing of such data for the purposes described above.
	 
	16.	 	Restrictive Covenants.
	 
	16.1	 	For the purpose of this clause 16, the following expressions shall have the following
respective meanings:

	 	16.1.1	 	“Business” means the management, investment management, and investment advisory
businesses, and the business of structuring, establishing, marketing, distributing, and
managing investment funds, as carried on by any GLG Entity on the Employee’s employment
termination date.
	 
	 	16.1.2	 	“Intermediary” means (a) any person who, at any time during the two years immediately
preceding the Employee’s employment termination date, promoted, marketed, advised, or
arranged for investors in the services and/or products (including investment funds) of
any GLG Entity, (b) any person who, during such two-year period, was a partner, member,
employee, or agent of, or consultant to, such Intermediary, or (c) any person who,
during such two-year period, was a partner, member, employee, or

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	 	 	 	agent of a client or prospective client of any GLG Entity and who was working in
the capacity of an Intermediary, and in all cases, with which Intermediary the
Employee had direct dealings on behalf of any GLG Entity in connection with such
Intermediary’s promoting, marketing, advising, or arranging for investors in the
services and/or products (including investment funds) of any GLG Entity.
	 
	 	16.1.3	 	“Key Individual” means any person who, at the Employee’s employment termination date,
is employed or engaged (including, without limitation, as a partner or member) by any
GLG Entity (a) with whom the Employee has had material contact during the course of his
employment with GLG, and (b) either (i) is employed or engaged in marketing services
and/or products (including investment funds), in managing fund assets, as an analyst,
or in a senior management position, or (ii) is in the possession of Confidential
Information, or (iii) is directly managed by or reports to the Employee; and in the
event that any person is found to have been solicited by the Employee prior to the
Employee’s employment termination date and such person would have been a Key Individual
on the Employee’s employment termination date but for the actions of the Employee, then
such person will also be considered to be a Key Individual.
	 
	 	16.1.4	 	“Prospective Intermediary” means any person (a) with whom or which any GLG Entity
entered into negotiations or discussions, or (b) on whom or which any GLG Entity
expended a material amount of money, in either case during the period of six months
immediately preceding the Employee’s employment termination date and to the knowledge
of the Employee prior to his employment termination date, and in either case, (i) with
a view toward securing introductions to others for the purpose of providing services or
doing business with such other persons, (ii) with whom or which person the Employee had
direct dealings on behalf of any GLG Entity, and (iii) which person does not
affirmatively indicate to the GLG Entities, prior to the Employee’s employment
termination date, that he, she, or it does not wish to become an Intermediary of the
GLG Entities.
	 
	 	16.1.5	 	“Restricted Area” means England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and any other
country in which the Employee has undertaken his duties for the GLG Entities, in any
capacity, to a material extent at any time during the period of twelve months
immediately preceding the Employee’s employment termination date.
	 
	 	16.1.6	 	“Restriction Period” means the period of the Employee’s employment with GLG, plus (a)
the period of twelve months for purposes of clauses 16.3, 16.4.1, 16.4.3, 16.4.6, and
16.4.8, (b) the period of six months for purposes of clauses 16.4.2 and 16.4.4, and (c)
the period of eighteen months for purposes of clauses 16.4.5, 16.4.7, and 16.4.9, with
the time periods in

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	 	 	 	clauses (a), (b), and (c) calculated from the Employee’s employment termination
date.

	16.2	 	The Employee acknowledges that, during the course of his employment with GLG and other GLG
Entities, he has had and will continue to have (a) access to Confidential Information, and/or
(b) influence over or connection with existing and prospective clients, Intermediaries,
Prospective Intermediaries, employees, and other service providers of the GLG Entities, and
accordingly, having had the opportunity to take legal advice or voluntarily having waived such
opportunity, is willing to enter into the covenants described in this clause 16 in order to
provide the GLG Entities with reasonable protection for those interests.
	 
	16.3	 	The Employee hereby covenants with GLG that he will not, for the Restriction Period, without
the prior written consent of GLG in its sole and absolute discretion, either alone or jointly
with or on behalf of any person, directly or indirectly, carry on or set up, or be employed or
engaged by or in, or otherwise assist or be interested in, in any capacity (except as a
shareholder or other equity owner of not more than three percent (3%) of the shares of any
company whose shares are publicly traded on any recognized stock exchange), a business that is
carried on in competition with the Business anywhere within the Restricted Area.
	 
	16.4	 	The Employee hereby covenants with GLG that he will not, for the Restriction Period, without
the prior written consent of GLG in its sole and absolute discretion, either alone or jointly
with or on behalf of any person, directly or indirectly:

	 	16.4.1	 	in connection with the carrying on of any business that is in competition with the
Business, have business dealings with, provide services to, or otherwise accept the
custom of any person who or which has at any time during the period of twelve months
immediately preceding the Employee’s employment termination date done business or dealt
with, or received services from, any GLG Entity as a client, and with whom or which the
Employee shall have had dealings during the course of his employment with GLG or any
other GLG Entity, other than clients that were clients of the Employee prior to the
time he first provided services to any of the GLG Entities;
	 
	 	16.4.2	 	in connection with the carrying on of any business that is in competition with the
Business, have business dealings with, provide services to, or otherwise accept the
custom of any person who or which is a prospective client of any GLG Entity, by
providing any service to, dealing with, or doing business with such prospective client
that is the same or substantially similar to services and/or products (including
investment funds) that had been or are being marketed to such prospective client by any
GLG Entity on the Employee’s employment termination date or during the period of six
months immediately preceding such employment termination date, and of which marketing
the Employee is aware prior to his employment termination date, provided that,

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	 	 	 	prior to the Employee’s employment termination date, such prospective client has
not affirmatively indicated that he, she, or it does not wish to become a client of
the GLG Entities;

	 	16.4.3	 	in connection with the carrying on of any business that is in competition with the
Business, have business dealings with any Intermediary for the purpose of securing or
seeking to secure from such Intermediary the opportunity to provide to his, her, or its
clients or prospective clients any services and/or products (including investment
funds) that are the same or substantially similar to those provided by any GLG Entity,
or to place the business of any such client or prospective client with another business
that is in competition with the Business;
	 
	 	16.4.4	 	in connection with the carrying on of any business that is in competition with the
Business, have business dealings with any Prospective Intermediary for the purpose of
securing or seeking to secure from such Prospective Intermediary the opportunity to
provide to his, her, or its clients or prospective clients any services and/or products
(including investment funds) that are the same or substantially similar to those
provided by any GLG Entity, or to place the business of any such client or prospective
client with another business that is in competition with the Business;
	 
	 	16.4.5	 	in connection with the carrying on of any business that is in competition with the
Business, canvass, solicit, or approach, or cause to be canvassed, solicited, or
approached, for orders or instructions in respect of any services and/or products
(including investment funds) of a type offered or provided by any GLG Entity, any
person who or which at the Employee’s employment termination date or at any time during
the period of twelve months prior to that date is a client of any GLG Entity, and with
whom or which the Employee shall have had dealings during the course of his employment
with GLG or any other GLG Entity, other than clients that were clients of the Employee
prior to the time he first provided services to any of the GLG Entities;
	 
	 	16.4.6	 	in connection with the carrying on of any business that is in competition with the
Business, canvass, solicit, or approach, or cause to be canvassed, solicited, or
approached, for orders or instructions in respect of any services and/or products
(including investment funds) of a type offered or provided by any GLG Entity, any
person who or which is a prospective client of any GLG Entity, to whom or which such
services had been or are being marketed on the Employee’s employment termination date
or during the period of six months immediately preceding such employment termination
date, and of which marketing the Employee is aware prior to his employment termination
date, provided that, prior to the Employee’s employment termination date, such
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	 	 	 	indicated that he, she, or it does not wish to become a client of the GLG Entities;
	 
	 	16.4.7	 	in connection with the carrying on of any business that is in competition with the
Business, canvass, solicit, or approach, or cause to be canvassed, solicited, or
approached, any Intermediary for the purpose of securing or seeking to secure from such
Intermediary the opportunity to provide to his, her, or its clients or prospective
clients any services and/or products (including investment funds) that are the same or
substantially similar to those provided by any GLG Entity, or to place the business of
any such client or prospective client with another business that is in competition with
the Business;
	 
	 	16.4.8	 	in connection with the carrying on of any business that is in competition with the
Business, canvass, solicit, or approach, or cause to be canvassed, solicited, or
approached, any Prospective Intermediary for the purpose of securing or seeking to
secure from such Prospective Intermediary the opportunity to provide to his, her, or
its clients or prospective clients any services and/or products (including investment
funds) that are the same or substantially similar to those provided by any GLG Entity,
or to place the business of any such client or prospective client with another business
that is in competition with the Business; or
	 
	 	16.4.9	 	in connection with the carrying on of any business that is in competition with the
Business, solicit or endeavor to solicit for employment or for the provision of
service, or entice away or endeavor to entice away from employment or other service
relationship with the GLG Entities, any Key Individual (other than Leslie J. Schreyer)
who, on the Employee’s employment termination date, is employed or engaged by any GLG
Entity, or who was so employed or engaged at any time during the six months immediately
preceding the Employee’s employment termination date.

	16.5	 	The Employee hereby agrees that he will, at the cost of GLG, enter into a direct agreement or
undertaking with any GLG Entity whereby he will accept restrictions and provisions
corresponding to the restrictions and provisions in this clause 16 in relation to such
activities and such area and for such a period not exceeding the Restriction Period as such
GLG Entity may reasonably require for the protection of its legitimate business interests.
	 
	16.6	 	The covenants contained in this clause 16 are intended to be separate and severable and
enforceable as such.
	 
	16.7	 	The covenants contained in this clause 16 have been agreed by the parties hereto to be
reasonable. The business of the GLG Entities is highly competitive, the terms of this clause
16 are material to the parties’ willingness to enter into this Agreement,

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	 	 	and the terms and conditions of this clause 16 are not more restrictive than is necessary to
protect the legitimate interests of the GLG Entities.
	 
	16.8	 	In connection with the Transaction, the Employee has entered or will enter into separate
restrictive covenants apart from the covenants contained in this clause 16. Those separate
covenants are given in connection with the sale of the GLG business, whereas the covenants in
this clause 16 are given in connection with the Employee’s employment with GLG. Each set of
covenants will be separately enforceable, and no provision in either set of covenants will be
deemed to supersede or invalidate any provision in the other set of covenants. Each set of
covenants will be enforceable pursuant to its own terms.
	 
	17.	 	Miscellaneous.
	 
	17.1	 	There are no collective agreements that directly (or indirectly) affect the terms and
conditions of employment of the Employee.
	 
	17.2	 	This Agreement, together with those parts of the Employee Handbook stated therein to be part
of this Agreement and all documents referred to therein, constitute the entire agreement and
understanding between GLG and the Employee regarding his employment with GLG and supersede any
other agreements, whether oral or written, regarding such employment, including, without
limitation, the Employee’s prior employment agreement with GLG entered into as of September
19, 2000, as amended February 5, 2001. This Agreement may only be modified or amended by a
further agreement in writing signed by both parties, provided that the Employee agrees that
the Employee Handbook and the information contained therein may be amended by GLG upon notice
to the Employee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no agreement entered into in connection with
the Transaction, including the restrictive covenants referenced in clause 16.8, will be
superseded by this Agreement, provided that all provisions in this Agreement and any other
Transaction-related agreement will be given effect to the extent those provisions are not
inconsistent.
	 
	17.3	 	The parties hereto acknowledge that the Employee is a party to separate employment agreements
with GLG Partners, Inc. and GLG Partners Services LP. In the event of a conflict between this
Agreement and the separate employment agreement with GLG Partners, Inc., the terms of that
separate agreement will control. In the event of a conflict between this Agreement and the
separate employment agreement with GLG Partners Services LP, the terms of this Agreement will
control.
	 
	17.4	 	This Agreement is governed by and shall be construed in accordance with the laws of England,
and the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts with respect to
claims related to this Agreement.

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	17.5	 	This Agreement may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be
an original, and all such counterparts when taken together shall constitute one and the same
original.
	 
	17.6	 	A person who is not a party to this Agreement has no right under the Contracts (Rights of
Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any term of this Agreement.
	 
	17.7	 	GLG shall be entitled, without notice to the Employee, at any time during his employment with
GLG and upon the termination of such employment, to set off and/or make deductions from the
Employee’s compensation or from any other sums due to the Employee from any GLG Entity in
respect of any overpayment of any kind made to the Employee or in respect of any outstanding
debt or other sum due from the Employee.
	 
	17.8	 	Any waiver by GLG of any provision, or any breach of any provision, of this Agreement shall
not operate or be construed as a waiver of any subsequent breach of such provision or any
other provision herein.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	GLG Partners LP	 	 	 	 
	by:	 	GLG Partners Limited, General Partner	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	by:	 	/s/ Emmanuel Roman	 	 	 	Date: November 2, 2007
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:

Title:
	 	Emmanuel Roman

Managing Director	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Employee	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	/s/ Noam Gottesman	 	 	 	Date: November 2, 2007
	 	 	 	 	 
	Noam Gottesman	 	 	 	 

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