SEC Contract Filing

Filing Date: 2017-03-21

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<div><a name="s4A90AE44EDDD8F6EBD38DDA51296520C"></a></div><div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">Exhibit 10.4</font></div></div><div><br></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">KEANE GROUP, INC. EQUITY AND INCENTIVE AWARD PLAN</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;text-indent:96px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">Keane Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;">Company</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#8221;), by resolution of its Board of Directors, adopted the Keane Group, Inc. Equity and Incentive Award Plan (the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;">Plan</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#8221;) on January 3, 2017. The Plan became effective upon its approval by the Company&#8217;s stockholders on January 20, 2017 (the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;">Effective Date</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#8221;).</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;text-indent:96px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">The purpose of the Plan is to promote the success and enhance the value of the Company by linking the personal interests of the members of the Board, Employees, and Consultants to those of the Company&#8217;s stockholders and by providing such individuals with an incentive for outstanding performance to generate superior returns to the Company&#8217;s stockholders. The Plan is further intended to provide flexibility to the Company in its ability to motivate, attract, and retain the services of members of the Board, Employees, and Consultants upon whose judgment, interest, and special effort the successful conduct of the Company&#8217;s operations is largely dependent.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br> </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#010000;font-weight:bold;">ARTICLE I.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">DEFINITIONS</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;text-indent:96px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">Wherever the following terms are used in the Plan they shall have the meanings specified below, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. The singular pronoun shall include the plural where the context so indicates.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#010000;">1.1.</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;">Applicable Exchange</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#8221; shall mean the New York Stock Exchange or other securities exchange or national market system as may at the applicable time be the principal market for the Common Stock.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#010000;">1.2.</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;">Award</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#8221; shall mean an Option, a Restricted Stock Award, a Restricted Stock Unit Award, a Performance Award, a Deferred Stock Award, a Stock Payment Award or a Stock Appreciation Right, in each case, which may be awarded or granted under the Plan.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#010000;">1.3.</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;">Award Agreement</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#8221; shall mean any written notice, agreement, terms and conditions, contract or other instrument or document evidencing an Award, including through electronic medium, which shall contain such terms and conditions with respect to an Award as the Committee shall determine consistent with the Plan.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#010000;">1.4.</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;">Award Limit</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#8221; shall mean the maximum Award amounts set forth in Section 2.3.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;text-