SEC Contract Filing

Filing Date: 2016-02-19

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<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:8.33%;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">This <font style="font-weight:bold;">Amendment No. 1 to Stock Appreciation Rights Agreement </font>between IMS Health Holdings, Inc. (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) and Ari Bousbib (&#8220;Participant&#8221;) is entered into as of this 31<sup style="font-size:85%; vertical-align:top">st</sup> day of December, 2015.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:8.33%;font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">WHEREAS<font style="font-weight:normal;">, the Company and Participant desire to amend the terms of the</font> Stock Appreciation Rights Agreement<font style="font-weight:normal;">, dated as of February 10, 2015, currently in effect (the &#8220;Agreement&#8221;), in order to provide for accelerated vesting in certain cases at or following a Change in Control or Covered Transaction, as such terms are defined in the 2014 Incentive and Stock Award Plan (the &#8220;Plan&#8221;).</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:8.33%;font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">NOW THEREFORE<font style="font-weight:normal;">, the Company and Participant agree that the Agreement is hereby amended as follows:</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:0%;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">1.<font style="margin-left:36pt;">Section 2(a) of the Agreement (&#8220;Vesting Schedule&#8221;) is hereby replaced in its entirety by the following (new language in </font><font style="font-style:italic;">italics</font>):</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:6pt;margin-top:6pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;">In the event there occurs a Covered Transaction, or Change in Control in which there is no assumption, continuation, substitution or cash-out of all or a portion of this Award (the &#8220;Terminating SARs&#8221;), the Terminating SARs will vest immediately before the consummation of the Covered Transaction or other event relating to the Change in Control that would cause the Common Stock to cease to be outstanding.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td></tr></table></div>
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