SEC Contract Filing

Filing Date: 2017-11-09

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<div><a name="sD9EC268D62CFD41014787E65567FDF8E"></a></div><div></div><div><br></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">To: Jeffrey Edison</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;text-indent:84px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">Re:&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Executive Severance and Change in Control Plan </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">This letter agreement (the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;text-decoration:underline;">Participation Agreement</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#8221;) will confirm that you have been selected to participate in the Phillips Edison Grocery Center REIT I, Inc. Executive Severance and Change in Control Plan (the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;text-decoration:underline;">Plan</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#8221;) as a Participant (as defined in the Plan). Your participation in the Plan and the terms of any severance benefits payable thereunder are governed by the terms and conditions set forth in the formal plan document, a copy of which has been provided to you. Note that the terms of the Plan, as well as your right to participate in the Plan, may be amended or terminated at any time, subject to certain exceptions as set forth in the Plan. </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">In exchange for the benefits and payments set forth in the Plan, you agree to the following restrictive covenants</font></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="padding-bottom:16px;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt;"><tr><td style="width:72px;"></td><td></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top"><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:12pt;padding-left:48px;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#8226;</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:top;"><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;">Non-Competition</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">. For twenty-four (24) months following the termination of your employment with the Company and its affiliates (collectively, the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;text-decoration:underline;">Company Group</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#8221;), you will not directly or indirectly, own, manage, operate, control, fundraise, consult with (as a consultant, independent contractor, or otherwise), be employed by or otherwise provide services to, or participate in the ownership, management, operation or control of a Competing Business (as defined below) in the United States. For purposes of this Participation Agreement, &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;text-decoration:underline;">Competing Business</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#8221; means a company with the following characteristics: (i) the primary and principal business activity of the entity is the ownership, management and/or development of neighborhood and community grocery anchored shopping centers and (ii) whose owned, managed or assets under development exceed $1 billion as of the end of the entity&#8217;s last fiscal year; </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;text-decoration:underline;">provided</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">, that nothing herein prohibits you from investing in mutual funds and stocks, bonds, or other securities in any business if such stocks, bonds, or other securities are listed on any securities exchange or are publicly traded in an over the counter market, and such investment does not exceed, in the case of any capital stock of any one issuer, three percent (3%) of the issued and outstanding capital stock or in the case of bonds or other securities, three percent (3%) of the aggregate principal amount thereof issued and outstanding.</font></div></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="padding-bottom:16px;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt;"><tr><td style="width:72px;"></td><td></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top"><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:12pt;padding-left:48px;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#8226;</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:top;"><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;">Non-Solicitation</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">. For twenty-four (24) months following the termination of your employment with the Company Group, you will not induce or encourage any employee of the Company Group, to leave the employment of the Company Group, or solicit, induce, or encourage any existing customer, client, or independent contractor of the Company Group, on behalf, directly or indirectly, of a Competing Business to cease or reduce its business with or services rendered to the Company Group.</font></div></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="padding-bottom:16px;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt;"><tr><td style="width:72px;"></td><td></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:t