SEC Contract Filing

Filing Date: 2023-03-28

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 <p style="text-indent:0.0%;font-size:10.0pt;margin-top:0.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:0.0pt;text-align:right;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:bold;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;">Exhibit 10.4</font></p>
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 <p style="text-indent:0.0%;font-size:10.0pt;margin-top:0.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;">GELESIS, INC.</font></p>
 <p style="text-indent:0.0%;font-size:10.0pt;margin-top:0.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;">2006 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN</font></p>
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 <p style="text-indent:6.667%;font-size:10.0pt;margin-top:0.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;">The purpose of this 2006 Stock Incentive Plan (the &#x201c;Plan&#x201d;) of Gelesis, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the &#x201c;Company&#x201d;), is to advance the interests of the Company&#x2019;s stockholders by enhancing the Company&#x2019;s ability to attract, retain and motivate persons who make (or are expected to make) important contributions to the Company by providing such persons with equity ownership opportunities and performance-based incentives and thereby better aligning the interests of such persons with those of the Company&#x2019;s stockholders. Except where the context otherwise requires, the term &#x201c;Company&#x201d; shall include any of the Company&#x2019;s present or future parent or subsidiary corporations as defined in Sections 424(e) or (f) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and any regulations promulgated thereunder (the &#x201c;Code&#x201d;) and any other business venture (including, without limitation, joint venture or limited liability company) in which the Company has a controlling interest, as determined by the Board of Directors of the Company (the &#x201c;Board&#x201d;).</font></p>
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 <p style="text-indent:6.667%;font-size:10.0pt;margin-top:0.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;">All of the Company&#x2019;s employees, officers, directors, consultants and advisors are eligible to be granted options, restricted stock awards, or other stock-based awards (each, an &#x201c;Award&#x201d;) under the Plan. Each person who has been granted an Award under the Plan shall be deemed a &#x201c;Participant&#x201d;.</font></p>
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