SEC Contract Filing

Filing Date: 2016-02-25

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<a name="s5c249922409c451f94e0de882a0fb1ac"></a><div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:right;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;color:#acacac;font-weight:bold;">For Post 1/1/16 grants </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:right;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;color:#acacac;font-weight:bold;">NOT TO BE USED FOR US CITIZENS/RESIDENTS </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:right;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;color:#acacac;font-weight:bold;">WHOSE COMPENSATION </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:right;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;color:#acacac;font-weight:bold;">IS ALLOCATED TO THE HOLDING COMPANY</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div></div><br><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:right;padding-left:18px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">Exhibit 10.26 </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;text-indent:48px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:center;font-size:16pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:16pt;font-weight:bold;">AXIS Capital Holdings Limited</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:center;font-size:16pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:16pt;font-weight:bold;">2007 Long-Term Equity Compensation Plan</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">Named Executive Officer</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;">&#32;Restricted Stock Unit Agreement/Retirement Plan Eligible</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:left;text-indent:48px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">You (the &#8220;Participant&#8221;) have been granted an award of Restricted Stock Units (the &#8220;Award&#8221;) with a value based on ordinary shares, par value $0.0125 per share (&#8220;Shares&#8221;), of AXIS Capital Holdings Limited, a Bermuda company (the &#8220;Company&#8221;), pursuant to the AXIS Capital Holdings Limited 2007 Long-Term Equity Compensation Plan (the &#8220;Plan&#8221;). The date of grant of the Award (the &#8220;Award Date&#8221;) and the number of Restricted Stock Units</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;">&#32;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">subject to the Award (the &#8220;Award Units&#8221;) are as set forth in your restricted stock unit account maintained on the Morgan Stanley Benefit Access website or such other website as may be designated by the Committee (&#8220;Benefit Access&#8221;). This Award constitutes an unfunded and unsecured promise of the Company to deliver (or cause to be delivered to you) on the terms and conditions set forth herein the Award Units.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:left;text-indent:48px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">By your acceptance of the grant of the Award on Benefit Access, you agree that the Award is granted under and governed by the terms and conditions of the Plan and this Restricted Stock Unit Agreement (the &#8220;Agreement&#8221;).</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;">1.</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;">GRANT OF RESTRICTED STOCK UNITS.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:left;text-indent:48px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"></font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;">(a)</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;">Award.</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#32;&#32;On the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, the Company hereby grants to the Participant on the Award Date the Award.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:left;text-indent:48px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"></font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;">(b)</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;">Plan and Defined Terms.</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#32;&#32;The Award is granted pursuant to the Plan, a copy of which the Participant acknowledges having received. The terms and provisions of the Plan are incorporated into this Agreement by this reference. All capitalized terms that are used in this Agreement and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Plan.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12