SEC Contract Filing

Filing Date: 2018-11-09

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<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: right; margin-top: 0px"><font style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt"><b>Exhibit 10.10</b></font></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE</b></p>

<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;text-indent:0pt;"><b>RETIREMENT BENEFITS AGREEMENT</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt;">This Supplemental Executive Retirement Benefits Agreement (this &ldquo;Agreement&rdquo;) is made effective as of the 1st day of January, 2016, by and between Michael D. Goodson, Jr. an individual (&ldquo;Executive&rdquo;) and National Bank of Commerce, a national banking association located in Birmingham, Alabama (the &ldquo;Bank&rdquo;).</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;text-indent:0pt;"><u><b>RECITALS</b></u></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt;">A.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Executive is a valued employee of the Bank.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt;">B.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Bank desires to retain the Executive as an employee of the Bank.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt;">C.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Bank desires to make available to the Executive the opportunity to earn certain supplemental retirement benefits, and the Executive desires to enter into an arrangement for such supplemental retirement benefits.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt;">NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto, for and in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual promises contained herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, intending to be legally bound hereby, agree as follows:</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt;">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<u>Supplemental Retirement Benefits</u>. The Bank hereby establishes an unfunded supplemental retirement plan for the benefit of the Executive, the benefits under which shall be paid from the general assets of the Bank. The Bank and the Executive agree that this Agreement is intended to establish an unfunded arrangement for the purposes of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the &ldquo;Code&rdquo;), and Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (&ldquo;ERISA&rdquo;), and is maintained by the Bank primarily for the purpose of providing certain deferred compensation benefits to the Executive as a member of a select group of management or highly compensated employees, (as described in Sections 201(2), 301(a)(3), 401(a)(1) and 4021(b)(6) of ERISA), of the Bank. Benefits payable under this Agreement shall be an unsecured liability of the Bank to the Executive, shall not be a deposit or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, do not constitute a trust account or any other special obligation of the Bank, and do not have priority of payment over any other general obligation of the Bank.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt;">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<u>Payment of Benefits</u>.</p>

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<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 90.9pt;">(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<u>Full Benefit</u>. If the Executive remains employed by the Bank or an affiliate thereof