SEC Contract Filing

Filing Date: 2015-03-06

Document Content:
<DOCUMENT>
<TYPE>EX-10.1
<SEQUENCE>2
<FILENAME>brcd-10qxfy15q1xex101.htm
<DESCRIPTION>FORM OF RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT AGREEMENT FOR PERFORMANCE STOCK UNITS
<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 2015 Workiva -->
 <title>BRCD-10Q - FY15Q1 - Ex10.1</title>
	</head>
	<body style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;">
<a name="s7a7ea7effe90443b92e6870a0bf45cd5"></a><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;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">Exhibit 10.1</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:right;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">2009 STOCK PLAN</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT AGREEMENT</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">FOR</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">FY15 PERFORMANCE STOCK UNITS</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%;padding-bottom:16px;padding-top:16px;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">NOTICE OF GRANT</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:72px;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">[FIRST_NAME MIDDLE_NAME LAST_NAME]</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-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">You (&#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">Grantee</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">&#8221;)&#160;have been granted an award of market-based performance Restricted Stock Units under the Company&#8217;s 2009 Stock Plan (the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">Plan</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">&#8221;). The date of this Restricted</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">&#32;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">Stock Unit Agreement (the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">Agreement</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">&#8221;)&#160;is the Grant Date defined below. Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Plan or Appendix A, which are attached hereto and incorporated herein in their entirety. The principal features of this award are as follows:</font></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt;"><tr><td style="width:192px;"></td><td></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top"><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:11pt;padding-left:0px;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">Grant Date:</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:top;"><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">[_______]</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">&#32;(the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">Grant Date</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">&#8221;)</font></div></td></tr></table><div style="line-height:120%;padding-top:16px;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">Baseline Number of </font></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt;"><tr><td style="width:192px;"></td><td></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top"><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:11pt;padding-left:0px;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">Restricted Stock Units:</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:top;"><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">[_______] </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">(the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">Baseline Number of Restricted Stock Units</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">&#8221;)</font></div></td></tr></table><div style="line-height:120%;padding-top:16px;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">Maximum Number</font></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt;"><tr><td style="width:192px;"></td><td></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top"><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:11pt;padding-left:0px;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">of Restricted Stock Units:</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:top;"><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-s