SEC Contract Filing

Filing Date: 2018-05-08

Document Content:
<DOCUMENT>
<TYPE>EX-10.1
<SEQUENCE>2
<FILENAME>ex101timebasedrsuagmt.htm
<DESCRIPTION>FORM TIME BASED RSU AGMT
<TEXT>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
	<head>
 <!-- Document created using Wdesk 1 -->
 <!-- Copyright 2018 Workiva -->
 <title>Exhibit</title>
	</head>
	<body style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;">
<div><a name="s52d2c33a967a47128cef85fcece07f69"></a></div><div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div></div><div><br></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;">Heartland Financial USA, Inc.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">2012 Long-Term Incentive Plan</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">Time-Based Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">The Participant specified below is hereby granted a restricted stock unit award by </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">Heartland Financial USA, Inc.</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#32;(the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">Company</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#8221;), under the </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">Heartland Financial USA, Inc. 2012 Long-Term Incentive Plan </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">(as amended and restated, the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">Plan</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#8221;). The restricted stock units awarded by this Award Agreement (this &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">Agreement</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#8221;) shall be subject to the terms of the Plan and the terms set forth in this Agreement. All capitalized terms used in this Agreement and not otherwise defined have the meaning assigned to them in the Plan.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-left:0px;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;"><font style="text-align:justify;font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;padding-right:96px;">Section 1.</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">Award</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">.</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#32;&#32;The Company hereby grants to the Participant an award of restricted stock units (each such unit, an &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">RSU</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#8221;), where each RSU represents the right of the Participant to receive one share of Company stock (&#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">Share</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#8221;) in the future, subject to the terms of this Agreement and the Plan. For purposes of this Agreement:</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">The &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">Participant</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#8221; is </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">______________________________</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">The &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">Grant Date</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#8221; is </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">______________________________</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">The number of RSUs is </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">_____________________________</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-left:0px;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;"><font style="text-align:justify;font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;padding-right:96px;">Section 2.</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">Vesting of RSU</font>